farms economic future as well as china. plans and the v.a. live on through have sent them and bugs that the authorities have been known for a long time using india all of supporting b.l.m. and such are the separatists groups by giving them training arms and gashes cetera . because that there is of course that will forward. dynamic here the 1st is of course the. separatists and fighters with the facts on the state and the 2nd is the indian chinese that rivalry in the region and back you saw now being there is a. very clear and very formidable political and economic ally of china in the region is obviously something that box any state thinks needs to be. addressed so clearly. the symbolism of this attack is plain for everyone to see but is the message aimed at the relevant authorities because this province has been unsettled

for a long long time now or is the message aimed at the chinese. well i think it's a message. to both to both the fuck you son state and the chinese state to get given. if you don't join. the pack and betancourt initiative i must also add that you know a few years ago pakistani authorities both thought rested. and indians who had crossed over into below just started from iran and he still happens to be dark science comes to do you he was also sentenced by a court. challenge in the international court of justice so you know this big big clearly has been this proxy of warfare going to only in this region but really . you know through the p.l.o.

had such of their troops against china and its pakistan and certainly just linked to the larger geopolitical situation but i think for now i luckily this attack was spoiled by a by the pakistani security forces a very brave security guard died while stopping b.'s attack. on the security forces moved in and therefore it will be the you know terrorists i think that devoted a lot of guys will to you. damage that could have been done. to the fun and to the chinese confidence in pakistan so i think this is something that parks and china would have to work together specially pakistani state to. this problem from the region mr i mean thank you. it was. talks between the opposition groups and the country's military rulers deadlocked it's been a month since the president bashir was in

a military coup following months of street protests he was replaced by a transitional military council which is resisting. to hand over their power to civilians. in the capital. sami mahmoud looks at photos from home and is reminded of when the word arrived on his doorstep his from the nuba mountains in southern sudan where he saw sudanese where planes dropped bombs on his village some fellow farmers were killed and others were forced to escape. the government forces dropped bombs from ime to nerves and other kinds of planes and didn't distinguish fighters from civilians they dropped bombs indiscriminately it was a massacre a genocide against the people of new bam mountains. the farmer says knowing what the military can do to civilians is what brought him to join the massive army headquarters and the 5 week long sit in followed months of anti-government protests demanding president already and his 30 year rule. he was ousted in april 11th by

military commanders the transitional military council has been in control ever since despite demands for civilian rule opposition parties and the 00s at the city are demanding the council transfers power to. the nuba mountains area and southward to find is just one of several regions that were in sudan others in the southern region and the western region for many people have fled those areas due to military operations some led by commanders in the military council sudanese refugees in the capital and have been able to join the sitting here in front of the army headquarters they want to leave until power is handed to government. but it's a stalemate in talks between the 2 sides with the military council threatening to hold early elections if no deal is reached within 6 months the opposition coalition says it wants to end the deadlock but won't back down. it's demand for civilian government. that he had the legitimacy the military council his lading on comes

from the people who forced the military to overthrow bashir so the talk shouldn't be about power sharing or delegating and the military should not want to chair the sovereign council and have authority to appoint members of the transitional government it should hand over power to the people to form a civilian government of. sudan has been under military rule for much of its existence since independence from britain in 1956 protesters here say when they forced the military to overthrow bashir a month ago they discovered how much power they have and know it can also be used to force the military to hand over power to the people people morgan to say or how to. douglas johnson is a historian and author of several books on sudan he says the opposition hasn't been able to form a united front so the military says that they must stay in control for the security of the country but militarily areas where there is insecurity where there has been

i've seen in the blue no in the nuba mountains and who are these conflicts were initiated by the military so the armed opposition unfortunately hasn't been able to coalesce to concern to united front but if there is some real violence against demonstrators in the major cities of sudan this might bring the armed opposition and the civilian protestors much closer together and you could see an escalation of violence in other parts of the country. and not necessarily just the terms and not necessarily in the areas that are currently in conflict with the government. we have plenty more news and the sports coming up here on the news hour we're also covering these stories undeterred venezuela's opposition leader keeps up the pressure on president to step down. and we'll hear from the families of those accused of involvement in sri lanka's easter sunday

attacks that killed more than 250 people and in the sports news a place in the finals of the madrid open is up for grabs peter we'll have the details in a little under 30. south africa's president several roma posts is calling for unity after his passes poorest showing ever in a general election the governing a.n.c. has critically one weapon states parliamentary election but with historical low vote share it won with just over 57 percent of votes fatsis worst performance in the 25 years since the end of apartheid while the reelected president cyril ramaphosa has called for unity just moments after those results were announced but 90 minutes ago i salute each and every one of you and i thank you for making it possible for this election to be resoundingly expression of the will of the people

of south africa we can declare with certainty that democracy has emerged victorious in our country our people have given all of the leaders of this country a fair mandate to a bird a better south africa for all let's go to malcolm webb live for a seat on the news hour at the national results center in pretoria malcolm in a couple of weeks time when he's sworn in again does he have to temper his central message given how the arithmetic broke to get him back into office. definitely the supporters would say that this is a success a victory for him one of the things they would point to would be 3 years ago in elections in some parts of africa the a.n.c. actually got less than 50 percent. and then opposition coalitions even took over

some of those municipal or storage fees so now with 57 percent of the votes and the majority in parliament. oppose their supporters are going to say that means that he's on the whole to the decline of the party and that's going to give him a mandate to push through the anti corruption drives that he's promised to the list of candidates that was submitted from the a.n.c. to the electoral commission he's parties have to submit parliament you can that is the list that they submit before the elections included many people on it who were implicated in those past corruption scandals of the past 10 years or so certainly that parliamentary list didn't suggest any enormous spring cleaning but now he's got this majority 57 percent south africans will be waiting to see if there's really going to be wind in the sails of that promised and to corruption and right on the campaign trail malcolm was that he did badly or did the opposition do well.

still has many more votes than even the opposition party in 2nd place that's the democratic alliance and they actually had a slight drop in their vote share from about 23 percent 5 years ago to just over 20 percent this time the da had capitalized a lot during the tenure of president former president jacob zuma on criticizing the a.n.c. a lot of holding them to account for corruption so it's possible that. seen as friendly to big business maybe seen to people who some of you might have supported the da as a much more viable option than his predecessor jacob zuma the economic freedom fighters that was the party was founded just 6 leaders were former a.n.c. politicians who were pushed out so they set up a party that's promising radical economic changes promising to address the gross inequality in south africa which prevails particularly along racial lines so they

won about 6 percent of the vote in the last election in the use of seats in parliament to disrupt proceedings to hold the a.n.c. to account for corruption. for delivery of public services and now they've got more than 10 percent of the vote so certainly for the 30 percent of the vote but it's an increase they'll be considering that result a success malcolm thank you. to venezuela where the opposition supporters gather in the capital caracas for another day of protest against president nicolas maduro but it was a smaller turnout for. who called for nationwide demonstrations against a government crackdown on opposition politicians. his deputy. was arrested and later sent to a military prison for taking part in last month's failed coup attempt to raise a boy who was at the protest in caracas and sent us this update. we're here in this last hour for why they all spoke to all of the population that gathered here to

listen to him just until some minutes ago he's been talking about the possibility of cooperation with the united states southern command he asked people to be patients that they need to continue the pressure against the government of nicolette moda white all had called for this demonstration basically to demand the release of every got to somebody and he's the vice president of the national assembly but unlike previous demonstration this one has been a small one mostly because many are becoming increasingly frustrated they're struggling with their daily lives but in spite of this why there has asked people to continue keeping up the pressure also the opposition is being extremely careful went calling on demonstrations because they don't want to be responsible for any more deaths we have seen a government that has been very tough on demonstrations 5 people lost their lives last week after an attempt to cool that's what the government has against the administration and that's why they want to be careful and to think of the next steps further unequal as mother who has already accused the united states of

plotting a coup against his own or if he's the administration but in spite of the why though has said that that was not a cool that any mother with us presidency is illegitimately he was elected in a fraudulent election last year. and the ripples of the political standoff in ben israel are being felt in cuba where the economy is suffering because of u.s. sanctions the government says it will begin rationing food and basic products to stop orders from selling goods on the black market victoria has the story. the queue for fresh chicken stretches outside the supermarket in havana poultry and many other items are often in short supply and shoppers have just heard there's been a delivery. they'll have to wait several hours to be served notice that there's now a limit on how much they can buy. for you when we sell items such as chicken sometimes there's not much available so we've been told to limit the amount

customers can buy. kiba imports up to 70 percent of its food and is struggling to pay the bills because the government's receiving less aid from venezuela which has its own crisis to deal with. communist leaders are starting rationing meat eggs rice beans and other essentials such as say. i thought i wanted to say the life it will pass i think rationing is the only way to stop people hoarding food people need to buy less say that everyone can get and it'll bit like the government says the main reason for the future is because of u.s. sanctions donald trump has reversed the thaw in relations when barack obama was president is it's a year ago that we depend on imports that come from the united states and that has meant that we've had to look for alternatives to be able to secure the products in the market however our mission is to fracture all the measures the euro as government imposes. keep has been andrzej us

economic embargo with almost 60 years but with the economic and political crisis in say she list venezuela cubans are preparing for more tough times ahead victoria gates and b. algis they are still to come for you here on the news hour rival politicians in hong kong come to blows over controversial amendments to the extradition laws. plus leading the charge an island in south korea where traditional cars are running out of road. also had the defending n.b.a. champions golden state warriors make the conference finals peter will be here with all the action in the sports news in about 20 minutes to. fill our game it's good to be back where we are seeing some very heavy rain showers right now pushing across parts of turkey now those going to be quite heavy at times

and. could cause localized flooding you can see the rain showers right there making their way over here across the eastern sections of turkey a little bit cooler for at for 1000 degrees they are down here towards a level though it is going to be $28.00 degrees and as we go from sunday to monday those showers start to make their way towards the caspian back who rain in your forecast as well as down towards tehran with the time to them of about $29.00 degrees well here across the gulf it is going to be quite warm temperatures are expected to come up as well we do have some clouds pushing through the gulf right now and here on sunday in those clouds we could see rain shower to bill we do expect those to be quite light for doha on sunday $37.00 degrees but as we go towards monday it is going to be $39.00 degrees with riyadh seeing a high temperature there about $36.00 degrees and then very quickly across much of southern portions of africa we are looking at dry conditions across much of the area even over here towards madagascar things will be quite dry for you with enter the river at about $26.00 degrees there down towards cape town though on sunday it

is going to be a cloudy day and those clouds will continue here on monday up towards your hints for of though plenty of sun in the forecast at $23.00 and durban a nice day a $25.00. subzero temperatures extreme altitudes that. this is where the hard part of the extraordinary journey from polish to tajikistan braved the ordinary joins us or you were too high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all kurdistan on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told was out right with exclusive interviews very dangerous for journalists to editors

publishers all around the world and in-depth reports are real be important they win out as iraq has teams on the ground typing on the world to bring you more award winning documentaries and live nice. welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news out on pieces these are the top stories so far to see rebels in yemen of started pulling back forces from 3 main ports in who data the pullout is expected to continue for several days under u.n. supervision but the yemeni government says that you see move is just a ploy. 3 gunmen have been killed in an attack on

a luxury hotel in pakistan southwest a security guard was also killed as they stormed the pearl continental hotel in the port city of water a separatist group called the blotches star liberation army claimed responsibility . but other headlining story in south africa president several around the poster has called for unity moments after his party the a.n.c. mystically the winner of the weapon states general election won with more than 57 percent of the votes but with historically a low vote share. let's return to what's going on in sudan where the economic crisis there that spurred the anti-government protest has taken a toll on the people queues for food fuel and cash are common basic commodities are in short supply as the political crisis grinds on. following the overthrow of president omar al bashir mohamad has more from khartoum. more produce queue up for fuel in khartoum seems like these on our common site in most

parts of the city mall to say sometimes they spend the entire day waiting to fill up their vehicles. the fuel crisis shortages of bread and electricity outages are posing a major challenge for the country's transitional military council moderate men on the run and everything is as before there is no difference between the old regime and the military council we still have shortages and queues for bread and fuel go. back used to for money at banks and the few tele motions that still hold koch under the sea adding hit dozens of people wait patiently in line to get money out one of the most out of interest of and it may take us up to a month sometimes to withdraw full salaries treat government imposed limits it's ramadan and people are fasting it's unfair to wait for this long to collect our own money our own right according to bungle fish oils it's been taking an average of 6 hours for the few a.t.m.'s that are talked to be emptied. the financial ecosystem

they say house quite simply seized up. yet since that immobile of a model bashir from office the sudanese palm headley strengthened against the dollar on the black market sulfides it again almost a 3rd of its value but that is yet to fully convert into law prices for basic commodities. wildlife. oil prices had begun coming down but have once again risen due to the mess of demand for commodities during ramadan we can only pray that things get better for us. a decision to cut food and fuel subsidies i did last year increased discontent with the government and 3 protests in december that ultimately led to 2 more from office the protests. the people of saddam i used to making do with a little. thing of coming together to find new ways to

make it. so many years of political isolation that i think to break. the law does it or. done. 3 of the 4 hostages rescued by french special forces. arrived in france the french president emmanuel macro welcomed them as an air base near paris to french soldiers were killed during the rescue operation on thursday night. the world health organization says more than 450 people have been killed in the battle for libya's capital tripoli the un security council has called for a cease fire as the warlord after his campaign to capture the city shows no sign of stopping the red cross says residential areas are gradually turning into battlefields with almost 60000 people now having been displaced aid agencies are warning hospitals they're struggling with power cuts and chronic medical shortages

. rebel groups in the northwest of syria are fighting to recapture villages seized by government forces this week rebels launched a counter of fence of to reclaim kufa. and other enclaves captured by government forces in hama province there a new government campaign against rebels in both hama and provinces has killed more than 100 people and forced 150000 from their homes. some. u.n. security council members say they are deeply concerned that a full scale military operation in italy may lead to a humanitarian catastrophe diplomatic out of the james bays now from u.n. headquarters in new york. there have long been fears of a final offensive in it it is one of the last strongholds of the opposition to a sad aid workers have been concerned about an all out attack the population of the province has swelled to more than 3000000 people after many fled here from other parts of syria. russia is strongly suspected of carrying out some

of the recent bombing the targets of included medical facilities attacks that some experts believe could amount to war crimes as the security council gathered european ambassadors expressed deep alarming we are extremely concerned about the violent escalation in the region a new alipore must at all cost be prevented in need live there is only a political solution and the military solution that apparently is being sought now is not a it's not a viable one the meeting didn't take place in the main chamber of the council where open sessions are held but instead in the smaller room near it where meetings are conducted away from the cameras there was deep division and it was on display at the end of the meeting when 11 of the 15 members made

a joint statement 4 countries south africa indonesia china and russia did not sign up to these words we express deep concern. of a potential humanitarian catastrophe in the event of a full scale military operation in italy so on the statement did not mention the assad government or russia can you be clear which countries are carrying out the bombing thank you for now even some of russia's harshest critics on syria were not prepared to condemn the country in public medical facilities have been attacked in it who do you think is responsible. will make medical facilities appear to have been targeted from the air. there aren't very many options for who can target from the air in this part of syria many security council members want to

stop the bombardment but they're also aware of russia's record of intransigents on syria it's used its veto 12 times in the security council that's why they're doing things behind closed doors at the moment their next step of course is likely to be an open meeting calling russia out in public james out his era of the united nations. from the world food program says poverty is the enemy for many war weary syrians. after 8 years of crisis in syria the needs are strike staggeringly high is specifically an invalid because of the latest escalation we know that there is from 150-002-1800 extension 00 people who have been displaced from north and. southern parts of it live to the northern camps where we've been receiving them and providing food assistance and humanitarian aid however more needs to be done since 2014 the world food program and the entire u.n.

body has been able to reach the north west of syria through our cross border operations via turkey. alone is able to reach just a bit over half a 1000000 people on a routinely and regular basis however we have had to stop some of our assistance to parts in southern italy due to the fighting we've spoken through our partners to some of these families the happened to be the families who were unable to provide transportation for themselves it's a long road from the southern parts of it led to the northern camps and so they've ended up being stranded we're doing our best to reach them and in fact our partners tell us that as of last evening we've managed to reach all of them with food assistance and shelter it's also important to recognize that after 8 years of crisis all lot of people are tired it's not just the folks in it live who are now under fire but also the 75 percent of syrians who are living in areas that have

been settled but they are facing a new enemy that of poverty. thousands of protesters in albania want the prime minister to step down this was the scene in the capital to run protesters log fire bombs at the police the country's center right opposition accuses the prime minister's government of corruption and of having links to organized crime drama denies the allegations and has refused to step down. the president says he doesn't consider north korea's latest missile tests to be a breach of trust and has conducted 2 drills in less than a week mr trump has told the american website politico p thinks the missiles are quote short range and very standard stuff and have risen following the failed hanoi summit between mr trump and the north korean leader kim jong un in february in hong kong pro-democracy politicians have come to blows with those loyal to beijing over

the government's bid to allow extradition to mainland china. some try to stop others debating amendments to the extradition will changing the law would allow suspected criminals to face the national security charges in china opponents say it is another roshon of hong kong's independence from china as guaranteed in the 1997 handover from british rule. sri lankan investigators are trying to work out if the alleged mastermind of the easter sunday attacks and blew himself up they're going to carry out a d.n.a. test to see if mohammed's a leader of a local group blamed by the government was one of the suicide attackers in the tunnel common i mean elf amanda has met some of the families of the other suspected attackers mom it was and his mother mother struggled to explain what happened in sri lanka on easter sunday order the emotion actually i don't have words because. everything is gone my sister lives and britain is gone she is pregnant

and she has to keep. his sister who's in custody was married to ahmed ahmed. police killed me as well he was defending people involved in the attacks in this safe house 5 days after the easter sunday bombings twin craters formed by some of the explosions ripped through this house inside the mother in cullman in there were 15 people including 6 children who were killed here authorities say that if the safe house hadn't been found there's no telling as to the damage the people here could have caused yes his family paints a different picture of the man. here is really kind everybody knows. everybody ignores him carter is a very kind of a loving. peace of mind and he has

a very good connection with his family. i don't know what was his mind i think actually he has. been brainwashed. so some people. doesn't think a number of those involved in the attacks related and lived in this street cut down pretty all within a few 100 meters of each other we also met the mother in law of one of the easter sunday bombers in a twist of fate her daughter was killed in the signed about a degree. a sister in law of another bomber also spoke to us they both said they did not know of the plot. mohammad zahir and seen here just before he detonated his bomb at the shangri-la hotel was the leader of a local group linked to i still police told al-jazeera that his wife who survived the sign the model to read is being questioned by investigators with advice from

doctors who are treating her. she has admitted to being among this group of 3 women buying clothing at this department still a few weeks before the attack members of the muslim community here say the killers have no place among them are going to. they're not muslims those involved are not muslims and we have proved that we don't accept their bodies there's no connection between islam and suicide and i'm going to go forward the relatives of the killers say they did not know of their intentions not everyone here believes them but lankans will now have to find a way to move forward without creating further division 11 and as al jazeera east in sri lanka. still to come for you here on the news hour in the sports news it's a juggling act and the world relationship that's coming up with peter when we come back.

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