i'm. protesters in sudan block roads and demand an investigation after 4 people are shot dead during anti-government demonstrations. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up russia's president holds talks with america's top diplomats just hours after the 2 countries failed to agree on how to deal with iraq venezuelan troops blocked access to the opposition controlled congress while the government is accused of crimes against humanity and what's up with whatsapp why the world's most popular messaging

service once it's $1500000000.00 users to download an urgent update. and for joining us we begin the program in sudan where protest leaders are demanding an independent investigation into violence that claimed the lives of at least 4 people activists are reinforcing barricades on the streets of the capital car to the spot a warning from the military not to do so 3 demonstrators and an army major were killed in gunfire on monday night outside the military headquarters protesters have gathered gathered there for weeks calling for a transition to civilian rule the military is the 9th claims that security forces used live fire and are blaming what they call infiltrators for the deaths. omaha to do is live for us in khartoum a so mohammed the opposition are calling for an independent investigation how likely is that to happen

one of the moment the military has not responded to the requests from the protesters for an independent investigation but many people feel about it will be very unlikely for the military to sign off on such an investigation because they're insistent from the also that this was the work of people who walk or even infiltrators who have gotten access to the square and then say they are the ones who've short the people of course this is being denied by the protesters and the porters leaders vosh and of events all supported on the our own today by a statement issued by the u.s. embassy in khartoum which saved the violence that's happened on monday night of the spoils the work of the transitional military council and the aim was to import its will on the protesters the protest leaders saying this is not going to go away

they're not going to let it go they want an investigation and as soon as possible and they've been pointing fingers at the sudanese. support forces and mohammed just on monday night i guess before all of this came out if there had been a bit of a glimmer of hope in the sense that the protesters and the military council had come to at least the initial agreement without hammering out the details now the protests is a claim it is going to be no more talks after tomorrow is this an empty threat is this the end of any kind of negotiation. well know because they resume talking once again today and in the next few moments or in the coming within the hour or in an hour or 2 the specter to hold a joint press conference before position movement the transitional military council

so they are back of the talks but we don't know whether they lost the whole of good today discussing the events of yesterday when they're on a very tight schedule that given themselves 72 hours to come to a conclusion on all the pending issues but given the fact that there's so much pending including the transitional period how long it will be and that was really divisive point in the negotiations as well as the role of the military whether the military would just be relegated to security and defense matters and not have an active role during the transitional period or they will have an active role now plus a new constitution force a done a new suit done so so much needs to be achieved but the protesters are already. saying for example that they would not allow any negotiations beyond wednesday which is the deadline that the 2 parties have given themselves when they resume

talks on monday and they are saying that by the end of wednesday the transitional military council should be ready to hunt of a power to some sort of civilian authority know how to deal with the latest on that developing story from khartoum mohamed thank you. russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses president donald trump wants to repair relations between washington and moscow flavor putin is holding talks with michael pale in saatchi's let's go live to step vasant who is there for us says so what do we know about the talks going on between putin and. well after all matt with a laugh of russian foreign minister he had a meeting with vladimir putin and indeed putin sat that he hopes that there's now a changing situation as he described it between the united states and russia he mentioned that the report he considered it as objective had concluded that there

was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia so basically this sort of clears the sky for a future relationship a better relationship between the united states and russia but of course the talks also between the 2 foreign ministers but also with putin still dominated by the differences between the 2 countries the 2 superpowers but they have decided that for basically world peace it's better that the 2 the united states and russia get along not about any potential disagreement on iran more do we know about that well that's one of the key issues that's where they have still many differences. of us hoping to hear from peo that there's not going to be any military intervention in iran that he also could give some more information about these 120000 u.s.

troops that were allegedly being sent there no clarification no guarantees were given by peo of course russia is an important ally of iran and they have a lot of military and economic issues at stake so at the moment that's not going to be solved there's also a lot of differences on venezuela that's another issue that they didn't make any progress on but there are some progress things to be made to be mentioned on north korea on afghanistan and also on arms control. and with the latest there from sochi with that meeting is taking place that fast and thank you. the united states military is investigating an alleged attack on for oil tankers off the coast of the united arab emirates this comes as iran's foreign minister said his country had anticipated event that would escalate tension in the gulf region 4 ships were damaged on sunday in what an iraqi officials called an act of sabotage same reports

from tehran. in the immediate aftermath of a legit sabotage attacks on oil vessels at the food 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 carefully worded statements gave way to pointing fingers during talks in india iran's foreign minister left little room for doubt about who to iran considers responsible. but we discussed regional issues and the policies of extremists inside the u.s. administration and in the region who are trying to impose their policies we also discussed 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 vague unclear but it seems there are some in the region that want to drag trump into a war and we're 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 whoever 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 prepare for

a fight. 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 with ravi all to syria from. saudi arabia says its main east to west oil pipeline has been bombed in a raid by unmanned aerial drones the who the rebels in yemen say they were behind

the attack on that the saudis are calling terrorism and that act of sabotage the drones hit to oil pumping stations on the pipeline near riyadh a 1000 kilometers north of yemen the pipeline is owned by the saudi oil giant aramco which says it's halted supply cornelia my as an economist specializing in the oil and gas industry she doesn't believe the drone attack will have a major impact on the saudi economy. it's not that significant because you know for the next few days they can happily you know load. in 2 ships but what is significant is that the at the east to west pipeline was actually built during the iran iraq war precisely to make sure that if things going got tough and arabian sea and the and on the in the gulf of gulf and the straits of hormuz they would have another evacuation route. through. the red sea so in that

sense this is one of the main arteries but i'm course very competent and they will fix the issue quickly but it is certainly optimal and it will get it will have an adverse effect on the oil price oil will go up because of the current uncertainty. so we have to see how does develops what what what worries me is that we just from the grandstanding we've now come to to actually you know actions. with regard to do all supply is so that's not a good sign that this is this region is a powder keg if anything we want to avoid more more war things that could could make lead to major eruptions the united nations says the whose it was draw from sri major ports in yemen is being carried out partly as

agreed the redeployment of fighters began on saturday as part of a un brokered deal the current withdrawal in her data is part of what's known as phase one of ongoing peace efforts to end the 4 year civil war u.n. brokered talks are currently taking place in jordan between who's the rebels and rival government parties. you're watching al-jazeera life from london still to come on the program economic upheaval or just a little squabble on some plays down the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies and the 2nd successive night of curfew in sri lanka as worries grow of more violence against muslims. hello there we've seen a lot of severe weather over parts of europe recently we've seen winds gusting well

over $100.00 kilometers per hour and we've seen a lot of heavy rain as well this is some of the wind damage that we've seen in croatia trees down then and some homes broken as well we're good to see yet more wet and windy weather as we head through the next few days actually the winds a slight easing so although it will still be incredibly windy it won't be quite as bad as it has been the rain is also easing off a fraction as well but still this whole region is looking at some pretty wet windy and cool conditions as we head through wednesday look at the top temperature in vienna just 8 degrees at best now all of this miserable weather pushes a little bit further northwards as we head through the day on thursday so there's that leading lawing of heavy rain so the southeastern parts of europe then still looking miserable for thursday for the west it's a few dry and fine london should see it's up temperature of around 17 degrees on thursday but look at the temperatures in madrid all the way up at 31 a very hot day for us now a few thunderstorms have been skirting across the northern parts of africa to have seen a couple in parts about geria and chuni zia those showers should be trying to pull

away as we head through the day on thursday so it should be dry ahead june it's getting to a pleasant 21 degrees during the day. name a law that i was born in the same year as is why horses i feel as though the state is my mother should be taking up a cause of celebration for some a catastrophe for the nakba is still going on they put my sons in jail so every day i feel disgust for a few twice over al-jazeera well tells the stories of palestinian and israeli women born in the same year but on opposite sides of this divide born in 48 on al-jazeera world.

welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera protest leaders in sudan are demanding an independent investigation following the deaths of 3 demonstrators and an army major outside the military headquarters russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses president trump wants to repair relations between washington and moscow but the new putin is holding told is holding talks with michael. and saudi arabia says its east to west oil pipeline has been bombed by unmanned aerial drones yemen's who the rebels say they were behind the attack. dollars lump insists that economic talks with china have not collapsed calling the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies a little squabble the u.s. president says a trade agreement is still possible of china wants to strike

a deal this is new tariffs imposed by both washington and beijing continue to rational global markets to go see asians between chinese and u.s. trade officials have stalled we're having a little squabble with china because we've been treated very unfairly for many many decades for actually a long time and have been handled a long time ago and it was. i think it's going to be i think it's going to turn out to really well we're very strong. we are the piggy bank that everybody likes to take advantage of or take from and we can't let that happen anymore well meanwhile china's foreign ministry has again warned the united states not to underestimate its the terminations to protect its interests asian stock markets took a hit on opening after the escalation in the trade dispute adrian brown has more now from beijing. 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. venezuela's supreme court has called for 4 more opposition m.p.'s to be stripped of immunity so that they can be tried for treason police have also locked down the national assembly in the capital caracas just minutes before the opposition leader one way though was set to leave a session officers cordoned off the building and several surrounding blocks after reports of a suspicious package the national assembly is opposition controlled and has been

marginalized by president nicolas maduro his government if this comes as the human rights group amnesty international says venezuela's government is responsible for crimes against humanity and wants the international criminal court to investigate their new report says a quote systematic policy of repression was used by security forces during 4 days of protests against president maduro in january in which at least $47.00 people were killed and is the says motherhood or has a history of executions arrests and excessive force against his opponents. well as an american agency and human joins us now on the line from the capital caracas let's start with the top line and that is what's going on outside the assembly what more do we know the. you know barbara well that's a done deal now the morning began with the lock down in front of the national assembly where the opposition was to the need in fact they need there every single

tuesday and they were going to discuss precisely what they regard as a persecution of opposition deputies eventually they left and in the afternoon we believe the constituent assembly which is controlled by the by the government supporters was supposed to meet that hasn't been confirmed yet but it is that constituent assembly which would need to formally lift the legislative immunity that is afforded to deputies including the made his peace corps which include neagle the saddle who is one of congo idles closest closest aides and so this takes to 14 the number of opposition deputies that the supreme court has accused of treason and subversion and the whole of the constituent assembly which was created basically to supersede the some of the national assembly the only institution controlled by the opposition would have to confirm that in apparently that will happen if not today tomorrow barbara ok will definitely try to confirm that but on

a 2nd point we've had this report by amnesty international accusing the over a systematic policy of repression any reaction to it. there hasn't been any reaction from the president mahmoud or from other high ranking members of the government but i think it's safe to say that they will dismiss this as propaganda and international intervention because that is exactly what they've been saying up until now when the human rights of united nations. commission of course human rights for example issued a report a month ago saying more or less the same thing they didn't they rather dismiss these charges they say they're not true and they are very likely to say the same now while the opposition has long been claiming that they are victims of the government present shushan and what they call fines against humanity barbara so these are going to be an agreement on that the sea in human are latin america

editor of the thank you north korea is demanding the return of its cargo ship that was seized by the united states kyung says the takeover. goes against the spirit of the recent summits between the 2 nations the vessel was the taint in indonesia last year and towed it to american samoa on saturday washington has accused north korea of using the ship to carry illicit cold in violation of international sanctions drop of pride has more now from 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 earner 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 beasley has been in seoul trying to organize a food shipment for north korea but finding problems with moon j.n. 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. sri lankans are under a nationwide curfew for a 2nd successive night as security forces tackle a wave of violence against muslims so far one person has died in the rioting and the united nations is worried that the unrest could spiral in elfin and fernandez reports now from colombia i hear injury lanka's northwestern province there's a police kill few in place for a 2nd night. in recent days groups of people have attacked was lim homes businesses and set fire to be close. this is what's left of a factory that produced past police age was destroyed by what they called one man was killed in the violence while another is critically injured and being treated in hospital the catholic bishop in chilo vallance mendez visited the area on tuesday

1st use to make sure you know or maybe. because. common feeling that. people. in the dark of what is. my personal. understanding. maybe. the truth. police say the 3 worst affected districts north of the capital colombo young people together in what appeared to be planned attacks muslims and christians in sri lanka have lived peacefully for generations and many say the recent backlash against the muslim community appears to be an orchestrated campaign to create division they say the government must act to stamp it out. some people in the violence hit areas see

outside isn't responsible for the attacks the young. men i can still live peacefully with people in this village it's not the people here that attacked us we don't know who they were but they were all from the old sari became ready and they were armed with swords and holes all ready to attack. through love as muslim community makes up less than 10 percent of the country's $22000000.00 population political leaders here are warning the violence will not only increased tension but could also hinder the investigation into the easter sunday bomb attacks that killed 250 people. if you're one of the 1500000000 people around the world who use whatsapp it may be time to update the application on your phone is the messaging service has accused an israeli firm of a sophisticated surveillance of pac and says you need to download the latest

version of what's up to protect yourself the company has referred the breach to us authorities and has 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 annecy international other civil rights groups and israeli citizens are asking the ministry of defense to cancel inus export license and the seas says the company's list of clients includes governments known for what it calls

outrageous human rights abuses. well you can find out much more on that story and everything else the we have been covering on our website the address on your screens right now al-jazeera dot com. and i reminder of our top stories protest leaders in sudan are demanding an independent investigation following the deaths of 3 demonstrators and that army major outside the military headquarters activists have reinforced barricades on the streets of the capital khartoum despite the military warning them not to do so for testers have gathered there for weeks calling for an immediate transition to civilian rule mohammad it though has more the military has not responded to the requests from the protesters for an independent investigation but many people feel about it will be very unlikely for the military to sign off on such an

investigation because that is says that from the also that this was the work of people who walk calling infiltrators what gotten access to the square and then say the other ones who are short the people of course this is being denied by the protesters and the porters leaders. russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses president trump wants to repair relations between washington and moscow that he were putin is holding talks with michael paling soft cheek earlier from pale told the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov that america does not seek war with iran. the u.s. military is investigating an alleged attack on 4 oil tankers off the coast of the united arab emirates that's as iran's foreign minister said his country had and to survey to an escalation in tensions in the gulf region saudi arabia says its main east to west oil pipeline has been bombed in

a raid by unmanned aerial drones the who the rebels in yemen say that they were behind the attack that the saudis are calling an act of sabotage the drone sit to oil pumping stations on the pipeline near riyadh 1000 kilometers north of yemen. and police in venezuela have locked down the national assembly in the capital caracas after reports of a suspicious package it happened just minutes before the opposition leader who was set to lead a session venezuela's supreme court has also called for 4 more opposition m.p.'s to be stripped of immunity so that they can be tried for treason. those are the top stories i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour stay with us coming up next it's the screen thanks for watching by.

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