it's like that it kills people and it kills people. both fronts but the people. on. the protesters are demanding an independent investigation into monday's violence which killed 6 people. and this is out there on live from doha also coming up they met to bridge differences but america's top diplomats in the russian foreign minister don't see eye to eye on several issues including their own. security clampdown on venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly and accusations of crimes against humanity against. the 2nd night of nationwide curfew comes into force it's really like chris please try to predict this tension.

in sudan's protests need is it demanding an independent investigation into monday night's violence that killed at least 6 people demonstrators are reinforcing barricades on the roads of khartoum despite a warning from the military not to do so and the council is denying security forces used life and blaming what they call infiltrates is for the test let's go live to hit morgan in a bit take us through what's been happening. well at the moment make the square and front of the army headquarters where the sit in has been going on is very tense they're saying that because they've set up new roadblocks and new barricades to make sure that the army does not try to infiltrate or try to remove their barricades they worry that there will be further attacks but they are saying that they are also prepared just a few hours ago they held a funeral for one of the people who was killed last night in the confrontation

between the military and the protesters and the protesters are asking for accountability they're asking the military council if the military council knew that there were infiltrators like they say then why did they not take action to protect the civilians as well as the law enforcement officers who were killed so lots of questions from the protesters as to how and why this happened and why the military council did not take action and lots of questions from the opposition coalition themselves who are negotiating with the military council and they're asking if the military council will take action against those who opened fire against their protests as last night. our david thanks very much indeed for that. now the u.s. state of pump air has discussed a range of issues with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov both emphasized the relations between the 2 countries are improving but there were key differences on their own. we spoke

a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror alerts another state doesn't live for. us more about this meeting between the 2. yes it was definitely a rare meeting and it happened after a long year of increased tensions between the 2 nations especially because of the pending miller investigation into russian meddling into the us elections well after this report has been published this sort of has cleared this guy for this meeting to happen today but already there hasn't been much progress on a lot of issues and especially iran russia has blamed the u.s.

for putting themselves into this crisis with iran by a unilateral actions as. the russian foreign minister has called it and also on venezuela hasn't been any progress at all the united states has again said that russia should stop supporting me and russia they don't want to do that they said you can't force the mosque and democracy can be forced on the actually mentioned rock and the libya as an example but he also had some positive remarks here we have many differences but what that the fact that we talk about it will go on discussing this situation of course it gives us some hope that some agreements. maybe. well actually this is the positive outcome of this whole meeting all together the fact that the 2 countries are talking again and one of the main issues

that is still on the table arms control of the united states fold out of this very important i am after nuclear treaty and now there's only one treaty between the 2 superpowers which will expire next year so the fact that today that he is considering the united states is considering to extend that very important treaty and that there will be a dialogue held in the next coming weeks about this is also a positive effect of this meeting. reporting from. iran's supreme leader ali how many has ruled out negotiation with washington over its nuclear program but also said there would not be a war iran's ambassador to united nations has denied his country's involvement in an incident at a port in the united arab emirates for cargo ships damage that's enough. has more from tehran. in the immediate aftermath of a legit sabotage attacks on oil vessels at the foot your report in the united arab emirates like other countries in the region iran was quick to condemn the incident

demand an investigation and offer support on tuesday a carefully worded statement gave way to pointing fingers during talks in india iran's foreign minister left little room for doubt about who to consider is responsible. we discussed regional issues and the policies of extremists inside the us administration in the region who are trying to impose their policies we also discussed the concerns we have about suspicious. that are happening in the region that we had earlier predicted that they would carry out such measures. in the region. zarif comments followed a report attributed to an unnamed member of an american military team sent to investigate the alleged explosions and for gera. the initial u.s. assessment seems to say iran had a hand in the incident but no senior u.s. officials immediately backed up the report senior iranian parliamentarian say there

still isn't enough information about what happened. what happened at the pole to project is still begun unclear but it seems there are some in the region that want to drag trump into a war and we are dealing with the issue with a strong mind towards our historic responsibilities i think the talk about explosions in just a hasty scenario and it suffers many shortcomings who have a stands behind this is pushing for a failed plan after a closed session of parliament on tuesday morning another senior m.p. said israel may also be behind the alleged attack as a sort of false flag operation to turn up the heat on iran. neither side has offered any evidence of their claims and this is all happening as iran and the united states exchange strong words but prepared. earlier this month president hassan rouhani announced iran's plans to roll back

cooperation of the 2050 nuclear deal as well as look at restarting enrichment activity at various nuclear sites his move came after the latest round of u.s. sanctions that targeted iranian nuclear activity allowed as part of the nuclear agreement itself to her on continues to call out to regional capitals to say that the united states is an outsider and that it is up to the countries in the middle east to maintain their own security and stability together while iran's neighbors seem reluctant to have more conflict in the region the path forward is still here and tensions are still specially with more american military presence in the region same. to venezuela now where police have locked down the national assembly just minutes before want to go out o. was set to leave an opposition gathering offices have surrounded the building of reports of a suspicious package well i'm just international says that venezuelan government is responsible for crimes against humanity a new report says the death of $47.00 people during

a 4 day protest in january was part of a planned attack by government and security forces the report says it has shown a history of executions arrests and excessive force against his opponents going back to 2014 i miss international ones the un human rights council to form an inquiry to hold the government to account but speak now to a latin america tennessean unit joins us from caracas tell us more about what's happening right now. 5 the opposition but it's safe to strip the power superceded by body created by the president we can ask you to call the constituent assembly from early this morning when this national assembly was expected to meet it awoke # with purity could be.

psalms 1 surrounding the building not allowing anybody into the national the sense the this has been going on for hours now the opposition was trying to figure out what to do whether they could meet in an alternative venue or just a few minutes ago they left the administrative building 5 following to meet again tomorrow 1 to try to make it into the right forum now the interesting thing is that that same building was supposedly there is a promise is the one that is supposed to be used in an 9 hour's time by the government deputies from the constituent assembly who are supposed to meet to strip 3 of the opposition parties of them of their legislative immunity at the same time we understand that the supreme court is also meeting at the top 1 to. the increase of this opposition deputies that they say should be tried and who presumably would also have their. immunity taken away from them by the constituent assembly so there are a lot of moving parts at times but in this is what's happening is that why all of

the main support base his deputies are being cornered more and more and part of the moving parts we know about this this less of a one and why those opposition has written to the pentagon but i understand we now know about its contents hello. need to know him me just tell us more about the letter that the opposition is written to the pentagon. he has thank you nic i'm sorry we have a little bit of a bad connection. the. fact that all of the family designated as isn't back to the united states was granted to get in touch with think of the u.s. southern command that the u.s. military charge of this in the here and request and who basically quarter any action another reason it took them can it requested by the u.s. military here is that it's clear that that is the period of the model of government they have they call that anything from which we can live through 0 an affront to

diplomacy and i think that some of the opposition the reason why the national assembly basically locked down today what you heard on that they say that it was all a ploy that there was never a quantity of what that they are basically flexing their muscle because they're very angry that quote why don't we a call a quote. quite openly military help from the united. you very much. still ahead here on al-jazeera china. and the markets react to have the latest on an escalating trade war with the united states. and the u.n. calls to end so all financial relations with me in moscow. hello there we're still seeing new york showers across parts of the middle east

look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud hit doesn't look too impressive but it's given a few showers over parts of iran and that will be gradually drifting its way eastwards as we head through the next few days say for some of us in afghanistan those are the rain he will be intensifying and that will drag down the temperatures as well so next time i'm in kabul just of 19 degrees on thursday they want to be a few showers a bit further towards the north as well so you may just catch one. well marty towards the west here it's looking a bit drier or to back that right up to $42.00 degrees and force an anchor will be at around $27.00 with a decaying system working its way across us so expect a fair amount of cloud and an increase in winds as well as further towards the south and here in doha is just hot now it's 40 degrees will be our maximum temperature on wednesday the winds are coming down from the northwest so at least it's a dry heat that does change a little bit as they so the temperatures not quite as high just to a little bit more in the way of humidity a bit further towards the south and for many of us here there is dry following

weather as well but we are seeing more clouds just to the north there just in the northwestern part of our map you can see that area of cloud over the northern parts of angola that's where the wettest weather is but the still some cloud around the southern parts too. in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2. 20 years. in science circumstances which applies. in about. 20. starts. to see you around.

again you want a reminder about top stories this hour and sudan's protest leaders are demanding an independent investigation into monday night's violence that killed at least 6 people are also threatening to end all talks with the military council hands over how to. please investors wailer have locked down the opposition controlled national assembly just minutes before position one quite of was set to leave the gathering offices have surrounded the building of reports of a suspicious package. top diplomats from the united states and russia have tried to mend fences in a meeting in sochi you're sexual states and the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov emphasized improving relations but major differences differences still remain over iran. for more on that meeting between proper number of joining us here

on set is nicholai cause enough visiting associate professor at cass university's golf study center welcome to the program. tell us more about this meeting despite the usual niceties very little agreed on it seems well. nothing should be expected from this meeting because it's the 1st meeting in. the reset russian locus so its main priority was to determine actually the point of divergence and convergence so from this point of view this meeting this goal. tensions in the region re iran very different positions that. russia and iran strategic allies united states an escalating things there if you like what's your sense of how important it is that this this triangle. russia the united states and iran are going to play out well i would say 1st of all we need to use the word allies a very cautious where because in some of the cases iran and russia has to work

together but obviously in different conditions they would prefer different partners so given the necessity to cooperate on syria given the necessity to loke on energy market they need to talk from this point of view definitely russia has far less. era from when you were than the united states in the question of the nuclear program though russia doesn't the would like to see iran armed with a nuclear war more leaving the way yeah and given this latest news that the iran's supreme leader ali khamenei has ruled out negotiation with washington. but has said that is they won't go to war over this dispute. how can russia play act as a mediator and will weigh definitely more is not interested in iran turning in another hot poor and near to the borders of the porcelain space that russia trade already is now right now yes but it is not. in a state of war in the instability in terms of comparing with other region and still

kind of a stable poor and and moscow would like to preserve these terrorists as it is. stable. at the same time i guess it's also you need to resolve for the uranium little to avoid military confrontation the corner of this country is in a very bad shape the stability or the political regime is also quite on the question in terms of the domestic situation so from these people into a few they would prefer to avoid any military confrontation they might end up not in a very good situation for their both of. referred to the wish the desire to develop normal dialogue between russia and the united states how can that happen and is it even possible well. on the one hand i would definitely different need to say that before these meeting you saw that the russian propaganda machine started to be

a little softer than russian your relations unknown those concerns that moscow has about the u.s. it was definitely a sign that russia would like to have a certain improvement in the dialogue yet at the same this corporal for difference is the number of differences that exist between the 2 countries they do not allow us exposure to expect any substantial improvement anytime soon or at nickel and close enough thanks a lot. to sri lanka where sri lankans are under a nationwide curfew for a 2nd night says security forces attacked a wave of violence against muslims one person was stabbed and killed during rioting there's been attacks on mosques and muslim businesses in many parts of the country in recent weeks the united nations has expressed concern the unrest could spiral tension remains high since bombings killed more than 250 people 3 weeks ago on easter sunday when elephant and it's reports now from colombia. we did hear that 9 people had been arrested earlier in the day they had been produced before

a magistrate and reminded also several other address being carried out throughout that region where the violence sort of occurred over the last 48 hours there are a number of people eyewitness accounts as well as community leaders who have suggested that this was not just an outpouring of anger and frustration it wasn't a spontaneous sort of an interruption of violence of christians against muslims or retaliations against such attacks against christians but that there was an orchestrated organized campaign to create this violence that is backed up by the fact that if you look at even the curfew that was in place in the northwestern province today there eye witness reports that there were groups who were traveling around the region you know hitting places which were left unguarded obviously the police and the armed forces it's literally

a logistical issue they can be at every street at every junction but as as much as there was a little bit of a love law no presence there were cases not widespread but their work here says that despite the few that there was incidents of violence so very targeted very organized obviously this has to be investigated this has not been confirmed but certainly many people are tending to subscribe to that school of thought. china's foreign ministry is again warning the united states not to underestimate its determination to protect its interests asian stock markets took a hit song opening through escalation in the trade dispute between washington and beijing but it won't be affected in the united states which suffered its worst losses in 4 months on monday china has retaliated against america's spy imposing of its own on u.s. imports. from beijing. well both the stock markets here in china were down slightly on tuesday but the falls not as great as you might have expected in hong

kong though the fall was almost 2 percent that is a measure of the nervousness among investors in hong kong worried about where this trade war is now heading meanwhile the propaganda war has begun on the main bulletin on state t.v. last night the anchor read out a very strident commentary in which he essentially said china didn't want a trade war but it was now quite prepared to fight when he quoted president xi jinping saying that the chinese economy is not a pond but a sea a rainstorm can destroy a pond but not a sea we've also been hearing from the editor of the nationalist global times newspaper and he's saying that essentially it may be time for china to start selling the debt it holds in the united states in the form of u.s. treasury bonds and perhaps for china to start reducing its orders from aircraft

makers like boeing now the 2 sides still have a window for negotiation because the new tariffs that china has announced won't take effect really for at least another 2 weeks and of course the terrorists that president trump raised on chinese goods last week well those tariffs weren't a fly applied to goods that left china for the united states after midday last friday so there is still a glimmer of hope but the time for those talks to happen is rapidly beginning to run out north korea is demanding the return of its cargo ship seized by the united states john young says the seizure goes against the spirit of the recent summit between the u.s. and north korea the vessel was detained in indonesia last year and american samoa on saturday washington says the vessel was carrying coal which is in violation of sanctions against north korea bride has more from the south korean capital of seoul . the cargo ship the wise honesty's one of north korea's largest and it's now been

towed to the us territory of american samoa in the south pacific it was originally seized in indonesia for allegedly breaking sanctions against north korea by exporting coal which is one of north korea's biggest money earners so it's easier comes as a major blow to north korea's foreign ministry has demanded its immediate release saying that it seizure goes against the spirit of the summit in singapore last june between kim jong un and donald trump meanwhile north korea's a weapons testing and missile launches of last week seem to have put a strain on the whole process of dialogue and reconciliation the world food program's director david lee has been in seoul trying to organize a food shipment for north korea but finding problems with jay in south korea's

president coming under domestic political pressure not to give such a gesture to the north after north korea's apparent provocations of last week north korea's food problems meanwhile seem to be getting worse it was confirmed recently that last year's harvest was the worst for 10 years and choose days edition of wrong symon the official party news paper confirming that things are no better this year with the whole of the country suffering in the 1st part of this year very badly from drought. the world should cut financial ties with military that's according to a un united nations fact finding mission of the panel has completed another trip to countries in the region that found evidence of continued violation against the revenger earlier the mission concluded that generals should be prosecuted on charges of genocide kristie so duty is a human rights lawyer and member of the united nations human rights council's

independent international fact finding mission on them and his military is still the power behind the throne. we're not advocating financial cuts to me and as a whole in fact to the contrary we are arguing strongly against comprehensive national sanctions they didn't work in may and mar in the past they result was exactly as you described and that is that the people were impoverished the fact is that during the sanctions in the past the general still got richer we advocating stated not nation wide sanctions not comprehensive sanctions but carefully targeted sanctions against the military they're the ones who are responsible for the situation they are responsible for the massacres the rights of the human rights violations across the country and they are the ones that should bear the price of that and so what we were g.e. is disengagement financial disengagement political disengagement from the generals individually and the military as an institution and that manes as well all of the

economic vehicles through which the military and the generals in the institution enrich themselves at the expense of the people the military were centrally engaged in planning and executing the violence that took place certainly in rakhine state against 0 hinge of people lighting 2017 but in fact throughout the period of military domination of me and my life so which walking about decades of the military have been behind gross human rights violations in all parts of me and ma and not only those in rakhine state against the robbing people. for roman catholic church members are being killed in northern bikini the attack happened during a religious procession and some tank a town in bam province it comes a day after gunmen killed a priest and 5 persons in a nearby town. what's referred to a security breach in software to the u.s. justice department the company discovered a vulnerability in its messaging services allowed phones to be infected with

sophisticated spyware the company owned by facebook says it's fix the issue and is investigating who is responsible under schapelle as more. nearly a 1000000000 and a half people worldwide use whatsapp and a few dozen of them at least appear to have been hacked by a military grade surveillance software prompting the company to encourage its users to upgrade their phones earlier this month whatsapp discovered hackers could use a vulnerability in its software to make a whatsapp voice call to a target's mobile phone and even if the cold went on answered spyware could then be installed on the device and the call log would simply disappear just like that emails text messages contacts browser history and location data could be extracted this software can also activate the phones microphone and camera for surveillance purposes now the company says it's fix the issue and wants users to update its application while saying the attack has all the hallmarks of

a private company that reportedly works with governments to deliver spyware that takes over the functions of mobile phone operating systems it's unclear how many phones have been targeted now one israeli firm called and it's so group has developed a cyber weapon called pegasus that we know has such capabilities it's been licensed in the past to governments which have used it to spy on journalists dissidents and activists from mexico to the united arab emirates it was also implicated in the murder of saudi journalists. now the company says that its software has saved thousands of lives and that it's not involved in operating or identifying of targets using its technology which is solely operated by intelligence and law enforcement agencies but that it will also investigate any credible allegations of misuse however and see international other civil rights groups and israeli citizens are asking the ministry of defense to cancel inus export license and to seize says

the company's list of clients includes governments known for what it calls outrageous human rights abuses. it's a little nudge in the direction of a website at 0 dot com is the address that attack on the iran k. pipeline is the need story all news and analysis right there how does your dot com . so this is out there these are the top stories and top diplomats from the united states and russia have tried to mend fences in a meeting in sochi u.s. secretary of state. and the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov emphasized improving relations but major differences still remain if iran. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle a survey with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not

threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror. here we have many differences but what that that the fact that we talk about it al bill go on discussing this situation of course it gives us some hope that some agreements may be reached. sodhi arabia state owned energy company aramco has stopped pumping oil through a major pipeline after a drone attack the government says 2 stations were targeted on the east west pipeline if the rebels in yemen say they launched the strikes to warn the kingdom to stop its aggression this a group by iraq in which they are that 7 drones belonging to the air force of yemen attacked the pumping station this relates to the strategic pipeline that carries oil from east to west in saudi arabia it was a successful operation we found assistance from people living in saudi arabia and we had excellent intelligence that the attack is seriously damaged the economy of

the enemy. sudan's protest leaders are demanding an independent investigation into monday night's violence that killed at least 6 people the ruling military council is blaming rogue elements for the violence on monday nights but many protesters are rejecting the claim. true lankans are under a nationwide curfew for a 2nd night security forces tackle a wave of violence against muslims in which one person has died have been attacks on mosques and muslim owned businesses in recent weeks after more than 250 people were killed in bombings that took place on easter sunday. all right up to date with the headlines here and on to syria got more news coming right up after the inside story of an.

violence and death since we don't as protests is to busy the ruling military council step and agreement to hand over power to civilians has reportedly been breached but how much can we only give up and can a transition be smooth this is it's a story. hello and welcome to the program. sudan's military rulers said they would not allow the country to descend into chaos but just hours after announcing a transition deal with an opposition alliance security forces were accused of firing on protesters on monday nights a number of.