rewind pencils and bullets. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. come on down jordan this is the out of their news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes the sudanese army and the opposition coalition have agreed on a 3 year transitional period. russia's president meets with the u.s. did not but the 2 countries failed to agree on how to deal with iraq. police blocked venezuela's opposition national assembly the government strips more politicians of immunity plus. i'm charlie rangel at the cannes film festival where some of the cinema heavyweights will be competing with new talent.

let's bring you more now with those ongoing developments from the opposition in the military have agreed on a 3 year transition period in the country let's get more now from he joins us live from the capital khartoum so some significant announcements heba from that press conference earlier what more do they have to say. well indeed there are a lot of significant points that have been said by both the opposition coalition and the transitional military council one thing that they have both agreed on is that the sovereign council which will be the supreme council will have members from both the transitional military council as well as the opposition coalition they've also agreed on the structure of the legislative assembly the military council so bad 67 percent of the seats of the $300.00 seats in the legislative assembly will

go to the declaration of freedom and change the bunch of the opposition coalition which includes the sudanese professionals association the body that has been spearheading calls for anti-government protesters december last year in sudan and they've said that the 33 percent will go to the non-signatory parties of the agreement that will be signed in the next $24.00 hours so that seems to be a lot of improvement from where they were just 10 days ago when they were having a hard time trying to are in the differences trying to figure out how much of presentation each side gets they've also agreed on forming an investigative an independent investigative committee to look into what happened on monday night where protesters were fired by military forces when they tried to defend their barricades both sides said that investigation is needed into what happened and that the protesters in front of the army headquarters must be protected. a show of defiance by protesters in sudan new roadblocks being set up old ones being reinforced and more people arriving to join the masterton outside the army

headquarters in her room that's despite what demonstrators say were members of the military unit known as the rapid support forces using live ammunition resulting in the deaths of several demonstrators on monday. we will either live or die here we are asking for a complete freedom our brothers who died yesterday aren't better than us our mothers are bereaved also have brothers stay here whatever happens. tensions are on the rise as protesters accuse the. military of attempting to disperse their state and they've been camping outside the army headquarters demanding the military council which overthrew the country's 30 year president ahmed and bashir to immediately hand over power to a civilian government the military council has denied it was involved in monday night's violence it's blamed what it called infiltrators for the shooting but the opposition coalition which is in talks with the council to form a transitional government has rejected the military's version of where i live. we

want the army to show us evidence that they were responsible because the injured people say that those who shot at them were in uniform and were driving armored vehicles they deny these allegations so the blame goes straight to the military council the military council has to do an investigation and tell us what happened we cannot accept their explanation that they were outsiders sowing discontent. wednesday is set as the deadline for the 2 sides to reach a deal on forming a transitional government but the protesters who are part of the city say those talks must be halted until those responsible for monday's filings are punished. for god that is not the whole why are they negotiating there is nothing called negotiations inside they negotiate with us and here they kill us so what are we negotiating alba she's regime still exists until this moment many here say if the old regime is not completely out of the picture there of olution is far from over and the protesters one of them are mates with the opposition coalition helping it

build pressure on the military council to hand over part with their failure to deal with the people on the streets of mexico i'll tell you the truth even if a deal is reached it's unlikely that the city will come to an end. so where does all of this now leave the protest movement and what happens next on the ground. well we spoke to protesters and activists this morning daryn especially after monday night's events and they're saying that as much as they want to see a civilian independent transitional government formed they will not be ending their state and they will not be returning back to the states of course a lot of people came from different states to participate in this setting and they're saying that that will not end until they are convinced of that transitional government we are yet to hear about who will be chairing that transitional government a very important issue and point of contention between the 2 sides so that's something they are also waiting to find out they want to know if that. sovereign council which will be overseeing the legislative assembly and the executive cabinet

if it will be headed by civilians or by the military and they want to know if it's a civilian majority executive council or if it's going to be. an opposition majority really in council so that's something they also want to find out a lot of maybe not a lot of things to discuss between the 2 sides but for the protesters these are the make or break points and this is what's going to make them decide if they will go home or not as well as institutions they want to make sure that the institutions which will be in place during the transition period are independent so as much as there is a breakthrough and lots of progress made between the 2 sides the protesters will be the ones to decide if that transitional government that will be formed is something they have been asking for or if there will be continue where they're sitting and making in making new demands just a final thought from you i mean how much pressure has the military been under over the past few days particularly in light of events yesterday with the violence on the streets how much pressure they've been under to do so this very short announcement tonight. well daryn over the past 5 weeks they've been under pressure

by the protesters in front of the army headquarters to hand over power but that comes nothing that doesn't come any anywhere close to the pressure that they have been facing over the past 48 hours we've seen the protesters escalating. their methods of trying to put pressure they have reinforced their barricades on the roads that lead to the army headquarters to. erect barricades on new roads they've blocked streets some of the main streets in or around the state of the tomb they were saying that if they do not make the military council realize the power they have then the military council is not likely to make an announcement or deal with the opposition coalition and it seems likely to work daryn because when they started the escalation on monday that's when we started seeing the military council and the opposition coalition coming together making progress in their talks of course it was not easy monday night has seen loss of lives and more than $200.00 protesters injured and as well as security forces and military personnel so it did not come without loss of lives but then the protesters have been saying that they

know they're the pressure cards that the opposition coalition has for the military council to hand over power but then again that power has not been handed we're going to hear from the transitional military council and the opposition coalition to morrow they said that it's going to take another $24.00 hours before the final deal is signed but we're going to hear when you and the protesters are also waiting to hear if that transition period will be headed by the military or by the civilian or from the from the opposition coalition that is going to be the decisive factor on whether it's and this revolution is over or not already here in the sudanese capital khartoum thank you or just bring in hala ta he's a sudanese academic and to this joins us via skype from richmond virginia so a 3 year transitional period how significant is this announcement what does it mean on the ground. it is very significant that at least they came to a conclusion that it's not 4 years ready and it's not 2 years and the money and by the transition military council significant bet they already came to

a conclusion or at least came to an agreement that yes there are some points that we ready can come to an agreement with unlike what they used to say about the of the year their forces of freedom and change they are just adamant about what they already ready had in the curation ready of freedom and change that agreement between the 2 actually leads the way to much better english edition specially in the next $24.00 hours ready to ready come where they're going to talk about their. own authority and as defined the president of their 3 year transition period and that's the big problem because they haven't said who is going to lead that transitional council will it be the military or will it be the civilian. that's what we don't know yet the main or the important point in this case is now not who is going to lead but there are issues that council and the number of people in the council even though most of the authority is going to be in the in the permanent

which is consists of like 100 seats 2 thirds of them are going to be for the forces of freedom and change and the other 3rd will be in an agreement with the force of the freedom and change with other horses and that in itself is ready going to lead the way ready to much better civil society and civil governments in the future to come and that is going to actually i think people are going to accept this kind of a conclusion including the military this is going to benefit the military itself especially with the too many problems we have is learning there for blue nile nuba mountains and and many other regions not only that ready but we are just basic high how to let's just talk about the those dramatic events of yesterday i mean the protesters are calling for an independent inquiry into the deaths of protesters yesterday i mean the military says they will establish a committee to do exactly that but is that likely to put the protesters do we think

. that's actually going to be because we don't know and now the investigation that is needed but they don't i think nobody can blame them that the 1000000000 the transition military ready council itself if the council is responsible for the security of those people and now you say we know everyone is denying all these attacks yes supporters of the former regime may have all of they have done or any other forces but at least we say that the blame is to the transition military council and the blame but yes mention yes applying a lot of force on or pressure on the transition the consul and the forces of freedom and chain to come up with good reman and maybe a quicker agreement. khalid as we're talking to you we're seeing pictures live pictures on our screens here of protesters on the streets of khartoum let me just

talk to you about the army i mean sudan's military has traditionally been extremely powerful in the country what are your thoughts on what's going to happen to them once power is finally handed back to civilian control because the army is far too entrenched just to go away silently isn't it. this revolution is different from all busy of the region where evolutions and the previous resolutions as you know if you don't you through to 64 85 ready and ready 131 is a different one that is actually it sets the goals higher used all or learn the lessons from the previous relations and the neighboring pollution the strain and all that brought together so that we can reach. this level of. civilian government so that it will lead the way to a better sudan that would have even it will be much better for the army so that was

leading many military. since the independence let me get a final a final thought from you khalid i mean what about the impact of foreign powers in so that i mean we constantly hear that various regional countries have their own agendas in sudan and they wield considerable influence i mean how is that affecting events on the ground do you think. it's actually has been affecting it for the last maybe 5 month but clearly it was very clear after every one of after this we've heard many many reports about some of them are open and some of them are not . specialists on neighboring countries of course if they throw in the military council through the media through the financial aid through all this and what the people on the ground on arm are really caring about all that they have specific points they want to reach they want to down to have as serial government to have

much better progress in that regard regardless of their neighboring countries or the regional other forces busy what they are going to do i mean you have neighboring or regional forces that are going to have support to a military that is actually rejected by the ready sudanese people there is no way that they are going to succeed simply because now the word is to the sudanese people so they need people who are going to actually sign this and now i'm glad that they came to a conclusion with the emitter council and the horses of freedom and change so that this is going to lead the way that only mean it is going to come easy especially in the next 3 years or maybe even more than 4 years it's not going to come easy that we'll actually ready we have to have it makes it harder for us now to have serious societies to support this and protect this is going to be brutal it's not going to be an easy thing to process should keep going and maybe even harder in the next few

years to come all right thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera less just take you back now to those live pictures on the streets of the sudanese capital khartoum protesters there quite happy with the announcement about 1520 minutes ago that there will be a 3 year transitional period announcement was. by the transitional military council on the opposition coalition spokespersons they came up and said that they had now agreed after the dramatic events of last night where 6 people died in violence on the streets that they will now be a 3 year transitional period still waiting to hear of course as to who will lead that transitional council that supposed to be announced in $24.00 hours or so but let's just leave it here for a 2nd with live pictures coming to us from the sudanese capital khartoum let's move on to some other news now because russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses donald trump wants to repair relations the comments followed talks between vladimir putin and the u.s.

secretary of state in sochi on tuesday the kremlin says it's repaired to set a date for the next meeting between the russian president and donald trump earlier might bump a hotel the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov that america does not want war with iran but he also said the terror must be prevented from threatening its neighbors. 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 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. a lot more still to come here on the news hour including

a 2nd successive night of curfew in sri lanka as fears grow of more violence against muslims. this legend of italian football is forced to walk away from the club that he loves fall explain why in sport a little bit later in the program. saudi arabia's state and energy company around stopped pumping oil through a major pipeline after a drone attack the government says 2 stations were targeted on the east west pipeline it's a crucial supply line that transports saudi oil from the eastern province of the young blue port on the red sea who the rebels in yemen say they launched the strikes to warn the kingdom to stop quote its aggression. is the group by iraq in which they are 7 drones belonging to the air force of yemen attacked the pumping stations related 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 the attack is seriously damaged the economy of the enemy and even brokered talks between who the rebels and representatives of yemen's government are taking place in jordan the u.n. says who the rebels are withdrawing from 3 major ports partly as agreed by a cease fire signed last year this began on saturday it's part of what is known as phase one of the peace efforts to end the 4 years civil war let's talk to you about he's a middle east analyst and joins us live from washington d.c. so we now have these new u.n. brokered talks between the who thing is and the government taking place in jordan but in the past though who these are refused to be the capital they've refused to give up their weapons so what are these talks going to achieve. well right now the timing is really crucial which is that we are seeing that iran tensions are at a peak and even though towards the end of the day we saw some reductions in

tensions but as you reported the us iran tensions saw coincided with the who being able to carry out drone attacks really several 100 miles into saudi territory which so far for who things has been president that and it underscores that they who have now been able to escalate their capabilities and target critical infrastructure in saudi arabia so these 2 developments really underscore. both who theses and saudis are now logging heads on over how to. influence one another when it comes to this latest round of peace talks that underscores the point you just made the it's clear that the who with these are not about to give up their military gains all their military assets so what is the end game so good remind us about what they're trying to achieve here. well i mean let's

let's take a quick look. where to who originally come from and that they come from the northern parts of yemen especially the sabah governor on this saudi border and because of various events the who things were able to take control over saw in 2014 late 2014 and one state did that that was seen as a provocation from the saudis and that's when launched air their infamous war in march 2015 so ever since then the war has been a stalemate and even though the international community is unified in its quest to to deescalate the situation and to prevent the humanitarian catastrophe which has now. targeted the country and to bring that to an end there have been technical difficulties between the end and the saudi led coalition to to

find common ground including when it comes to withdrawing from the western part of who died which they had agreed to under the stockholm agreement in december and as you just mentioned sigurd we see the who things coming out these acts of sabotage most recently attacking a major saudi oil pipeline with this drug and all sort of message are they sending and do they do this to perhaps leverage their political position within the negotiations. yes absolutely it's absolutely tied to a leverage and durable political position but at the same time. only control certain parts of yemen including the western port of her diet which is the only port that is open for humanitarian aid into yemen and under the stockholm agreement who had theoretically agreed to leave the poor it and let the port be under u.n. supervision so far we have not seen any indications that they have been willing to

follow through but what i do think is happening is that the united states and iran are logging heads that will potentially have ramifications for how the deal internally. there. were to other tribes and with saudi arabia in particular so this is absolutely taking place as we speak so let me let me get a final thought from you that i mean what about these you know the wider international stakeholder issue i mean as you say we have rising tensions between the u.s. and iran and much of what happens also depends on the saudis and the rockies so what all the pressure points briefly for international play is. well absolutely if you for instance look at the. prospect of direct talks between the united states and iran that would enhance u.s. pressure on saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to. to be more

accommodating towards a peace solution with the with the on the other hand we're also seeing that oman has significant leverage over who these speak to who the spokesman up to do salam is based in moscow at the end he's traveling from there to jordan to participate in the peace talks so so mom is able to pressure the who these on there and so this is really part of a broader strategic game that is really playing out between the united states iran and riyadh and we don't quite know what the next phase will be so good news about thank you for talking to al jazeera. with pleasure venezuela's supreme court has called for 4 more opposition m.p.'s to be stripped of immunity so they can be tried for treason police have also locked down the opposition controlled national assembly in the capital caracas just minutes before the opposition leader one who i do was set to lead a session offices cordoned off the building and several surrounding blocks also reports of

a suspicious package. donald trump insists that economic talks with china have not collapsed calling the trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies as a little squabble the u.s. president says a trade agreement is still possible if china wants to strike a deal new tariffs imposed by both washington and beijing have rattled global markets the last round of talks between china and u.s. trade officials and that on friday when the 2 sides are able to reach a compromise. where 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 it was it did why handle it now i think it's going to be i think it's going to turn out extremely well we're in a very strong position we are the piggy bank that everybody likes to take advantage of or take from and we can't let that happen anymore meanwhile china's foreign ministry has again worn the united states not to underestimate his determination to

protect its assets asian stock markets took a hit on opening up to the escalation in the trade dispute asian brown reports 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 the 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 there was a 2nd night of a nationwide curfew in sri lanka as security forces attack on a wave of violence against muslims so far one person has died in the rioting and the un's worried the unrest could spread the wealth around it has more now from colombo. here in sri lanka is northwestern province there's

a police curfew in place for a 2nd night. in recent days groups of people have attacked was in homes businesses and set fire to the eagles. this is what's left of a factory that produced past police say it 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 mendis visited the area on tuesday 1st use to make sure that no or maybe. because the common feeling that. people. in the dark of what is. my personal. understanding is that it is better that maybe our freedom is. 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 outsiders are responsible for the attacks the young. good men 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 sardine became ready and they were armed with swords and holes all ready to attack. throughout his muslim community makes up less than 10 percent of the country's $22000000.00 population

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either. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera sudan's military leaders have agreed with opposition groups to a 3 year transition period as the country slowly moves closer to civilian rule the 2 sides say a final agreement on the makeup of the legislative council will be struck within $24.00 hours. russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses president trump wants to repair relations that putin has no talks with my pump aoe in city of sochi. and saudi arabia says it's

east to west oil pipelines been bombed by unmanned aerial drones humans who the rebels say thing yet. but let's return to those dramatic developments out of sudan where the military and the opposition have reached a landmark agreement on how to proceed with the country's transition. to morgan joins us again live from khartoum heber so some significant announcements from that very short press conference earlier what more do they have to say. well daryn the most significant points the most significant points that we have from that presser is that a lot of progress have been made between the 2 sides have agreed on a legislative assembly and its composition the military council said that it will be a $3300.00 seat legislative assembly 67 percent we can will go to the opposition coalition and 33 percent will go to the non-signatory parties were talking about parties that have not been negotiating with the with the military council for the transitional

period so they're saying that that is one of the things they have made an improved progress on the other thing that they've agreed upon is how long that transition period should be of course both sides have their own demands the military council wanted a 2 year transition period and the opposition coalition wanted a 4 year transition period so they seem to have worked out that the average is best for all that they are saying that the 1st 6 months of that transition period will be dedicated to ending wars in several parts around the country like the western region of darfur and the southern regions of south kordofan and blue nile they're also saying that they will be opening in an independent investigation into what happened on monday night when protesters were fired by what seemed to be members of the military or a faction of the military known as the rapid support force they're saying that both sides have agreed to open an independent investigation and to find out what's happened on monday night so a lot of things they have made progress on but one thing that remains is who is going to chair that transitional period that's something that has been a point of contention between the 2 sides so they're going to have to go back again

sit down together and decide if that sovereign council which will be the supreme council and be overseeing be the one overseeing the transitional government and the legislative assembly and the executive branch will be headed by the military or whether it will be headed by civilians so where does this leave the protest movement then i mean presumably justice will be happy at least happy with announcement of the transitional period. or just a few minutes ago we've heard sounds from. the sitting area which is just about 300 meters away and they seem to be a lot of excitement and the protesters seem to have to be feeling some kind of victory but they have been saying for since the press in the city and started in front of the army headquarters on april 6th that they will not feel that their revolution is complete and till power is handed over to an independent civil in transitional government so both sides the opposition coalition and the military council said that within the next $24.00 hours a deal will be signed and a transitional government will be formed but for the people in front of the army headquarters even with the announcements made even with the progress that seems to

be made between the 2 sides they say that if they don't see that council that transitional government formed and if they don't see the institutions that come along with that transitional government and they're not sure that that those institutions and the transitional government is actually independent and not under their control or influence by the military council or by the transitional government then they will not and there is a lot of them came from various states they've been escalating their pressure or adding pressure to the military council and the opposition coalition to try to reach a deal they've added more roadblocks we've seen more people joining the protest over the past few days so they say that if they're not sure that what they have been demanding for is actually achieved they will not call an end to the revolution and there are certain as we're talking to you we're seeing live pictures on our screens of those protesters very calm mostly happy with that announcement of the transitional period on the streets of the khartoum where you are a very different picture from the scenes we saw last night with the violence how

much pressure has the military been under to reach the point where they've made this landmark announcement. well there and it's not just the military without was under a lot of pressure the opposition coalition was also on under a lot of pressure from those protesters let's not forget that both sides are not elected now that a transitional military council nor the opposition coalition are elected to do not have a lot of legitimacy protestors are saying that they think they're the ones who will grant the legitimacy to either side and at the moment they gave their legitimacy to the opposition coalition because they feel that they are represented by that coalition so they have been putting a lot of pressure on both sides the side said they believe represent them and the military council which they say has has been trying to rob the revolution to try to sort out their differences to iron out their differences and to form a transitional government they've been escalating their protests we've seen more people arriving from various states to join the states and over the past few weeks we've seen more roadblocks on the meat on the major streets of khartoum which

basically is their way of saying that they have the ability to bring the whole town to a standstill to hold it to a standstill if no deal is reached so a lot of pressure on both sides the military council and the opposition coalition to reach a deal and we're going to have to wait for the next 24 hours to see if that deal is what they have been calling for or the escalation will continue. in khartoum thank you now what's referred to a security breach in the software to the u.s. justice department the company discovered a vulnerability in its messaging service that's allowed phones to be infected with sophisticated spyware the company owned by facebook says it's fixed the issue is investigating who's responsible and the chapelle 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 call 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 phone's 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 in 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 to seize says the company's list of clients includes governments known for what it calls outrageous human rights abuses well let's talk to john scott railton he's a senior research with among school of global affairs and public policy at university of toronto and he joins us live via skype from there what's up says it has one of the hov 1000000000 users around the world so just how serious is this security breach and how worried should we be. i think at this point the message is

one sam spotted something and reacted fairly aggressively to close that vulnerability down the message should be users should immediately update their whatsapp application if they haven't already that said there's another message which is there's an industry that's finding these vulnerabilities and then selling them to be used to target people yeah that's an important point to make because i mean i was going to ask you how much does highlight that no matter how much these app developers say their apps are totally secure but the hackers were always exploit vulnerabilities in their software and so one way to think about this problem is since we know that there will be people looking for vulnerabilities it's important that we really shine a light on the companies in the industries that are trying to exploit those in ways like target ing activists and others and we know that the israeli company n.s.a. was behind the development of such surveillance software in the past they've been accused of allowing this software to be used to attack the phones of several prominent world leaders and as you said journalists human rights figures so so

which countries or state taxes have been accused of using this software maliciously then well research has come out of citizen lab in partnership with my colleague to mars act has shown that it is that saudi arabia is a major user the government of mexico as well citizen lab as well as in international and others have documented dozens of cases of abuse journalists their family members researchers even a nutrition activist targeted with this government great surveillance power. a final thought from you john i mean what's referred this security breach to the u.s. justice department but is the d.o.j. likely to do anything given that this is an israeli piece of software and that the israelis themselves may be developing surveillance software for the americans anyway. well it's a good question i mean it's clear that this violated what sam's terms of service in all just getting seen what comes of this what i will say is it's a fairly unprecedented move for a company like whatsapp to lean this far into talking about human rights concerns

and in fact they actually contacted human rights groups before the public announcement which is pretty rare and i think it sends a strong signal that platforms like whatsapp are getting pretty tired of this kind of abusive behavior john skelton thank you for talking to us thanks very much now the world should cut financial ties with me and mars military that's according to a united nations fact finding mission a panel has completed another trip to countries in the region that found evidence of continued violation against the ranger earlier the mission concluded that me and mars general should be prosecuted on charges of genocide. arise attacks by boko haram has forced tens of thousands of people from their homes in the jav over the past few years the un refugee agency is warning of a growing humanitarian crisis. reports people in one community near lake chad in the differing are struggling to survive. lake chad is shrinking which means today's catch will be a small one but at least for now these men can fish legally in 2014 the governments

of new j.n.r. and gerry and chad banned fishing on the lake to try to prevent the armed group boko haram making money from the lake and its surroundings that restrictions have recently been eased. the government's decided to lift the ban on fishing growing paper and exporting fuel into clinics for 2 lies as at the time these things have been banned years ago it was the biggest beneficiary yeah that was his 5 year ban has taken its toll on those who live around the lake and boko haram remains a constant threat it's always been tough living in one of the poorest regions in the world it's even more so now as parts of its fights against the armed group the government stepped up security which includes a curfew. before book ahora everyone used to go to the lake but not anymore the government has banned vehicles from being closed and the fish isn't enough to sell . one feeling red pepper industry is

also struggling these peppers are turned into chili powder and sold all over west africa and although farmers are again allowed to grow them finding a market is not so easy the movement of goods between a geron neighboring countries is difficult because of boko haram attacks. these women are preparing incense as favorites in gulf countries where many of their customers are based there used to be a thriving trade but now only a handful of people buy their products at this local market in the us and i am in the podium industry was profitable in deferred before the war because of the closure of the road between us and my degree we have to wait for months to get hold of the raw materials we rarely make sales. the number of boko haram attacks has increased this year triggering a major exodus never southern border with nigeria there are now 250000 displaced people in the different region of southeast asia more than 800000 have arrived

since march with the ongoing conflict overcrowding and poverty aid agencies are warning the humanitarian crisis here is only going to get worse so to hide out al-jazeera north korea has demanding the return of its cargo ship seized by the united states pyongyang says the seizure goes against the spirit of the recent summit between the u.s. and north korea the vessel was detained in july last year and towed to americans on saturday washington says the vessel was carrying coal in violation of sanctions against pyongyang from a bright as more from the south korean capital seoul. the cargo ship the wise honesty is one of north korea's largest and it's now been towed to the u.s. 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 so it's seizure comes as

a major blow your korea's foreign ministry has demanded its immediate release saying that its 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 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 protesters in israel are calling on people to boycott this year's you're a vision song contest these are the scenes in the city of tel aviv earlier on tuesday they say israel is using the event to mosque rights abuses against palestinians in the west bank and gaza artists and broadcasters have now come under pressure to withdraw from the contest.

welcome back time for the sport now his poll. thank you very much tiger woods has been named in a lawsuit over the wrongful death of an employee it comes as the american golf it returns to action for the 1st time since winning the masters last month woods had a practice run a new york ahead of the 2nd major of the year the p.g.a. championship a monday he was listed as a defendant in a legal action filed by the parents of a man who worked at one of woods's restaurants they claim their 24 year old son nick emmitsburg was allowed to drive home drunk after finishing work in december and allege that stuff served him excessive amounts despite a history of alcoholism and drink driving in his budget died and a crush after leaving the woods restaurant in florida. talked to yesterday in

florida a lawsuit was filed against you so if your girlfriend and your restaurant over the wrongful death of an employee his family holding a press conference about that right now how do you feel about it well we're all very. that nick passed away it was a terrible terrible night a terrible ending. and just. we feel bad for him and its entire family and it's. very sad. english premier league title winners manchester city have hit back at reports they could be banned from the champions league city are alleged to have broken financial fair play rules set up by the european governing body you wife city released a statement in response to a new york times article which claims investigators feel wife want to ban city from european competitions for its claim the club falsely overstated the amounts they received from sponsors based in abu dhabi. sports correspondent lee wellings says the legal process is likely to drag on well this. could be

a few months or even longer because where we've got so is a leak of the reports the intention that the chief investigator for your wife the term actually wants a season long ban which wouldn't necessarily have to be next season it could be the series and after all we know that there is that failing your wife or that manages the city should be punished but that's just a recommendation even when it's confirmed then you've actually got to put into place an actual ban from your wife when that would come into play i inevitably what would happen is it would end up at the cost of arbitration for sport yes another case where we've seen some very high profile ones were recently a manchester city would fail we can already say they have a case by can defend there will be defending it with extremely good lawyers have already hit but quickly you can see how engaged and productive they are in this the statement you referred to i was interested in the law in the new york times citing

people familiar with the case that's extremely concerning really they're referring here to discretion and fairness this is going to be something that you for won't be easily resolved and we'll see if measures as you are actually banned from cycling part or not champions. one of the longest single club careers in european football is coming to an end the russy is leaving roma after 18 years the midfielder announced on tuesday he'll be leaving after his contract expires at the end of the season he wants to continue playing but roma only offered him a director's role with a. little of the i'm nearly $36.00 and i'm not stupid i have been living in the football world for a long time i understand if no one called the for 10 month offer a full year about a hypothetical contract that's the direction they're going in that i've always talked little partly because they don't like to partly because there was nothing to say and partly because i didn't want to make a noise that could have distracted the team the fans and everyone was the

australian tennis player nick carey are says angered some fellow players in the past for serving underarm but that hasn't put him off he's taken it a step further in fact serving underarm in the very 1st point of his match against danielle medvedev at the italian open when the point is well curious not opting to show too much respect for a man ranked 22 places above him with some extravagant shots are out. even chose not to attempt a return in this point perhaps lucky that the ball was well wide of him and he went on to win it 633663 to earn a place in the 2nd round. yes well you know i think it's a good tactic in some of you doesn't it doesn't work people just. you know just play every shot he needs really so. you can be the. cricket world cup house angle and are looking impressive ahead of the tournament which begins in just over 2 weeks they've taken a 2 nothing lead over pakistan in their 5 much warm up series jonny bairstow

starred with one $128.00 runs in bristol england chasing down pakistan's $358.00 with more than 5 overs to spare they were looking to win the world cup for the 1st time that story sport for now will have more later on. thank you very much indeed now to very different types of comedy films are premiering at this year's cannes festival in france so you must directors will compete with promising newcomers for the big prize the palme d'or the reports. film stars flashbulbs festival magic. can is a celebration of cinema like no other and in its 72nd year it is still surprising audiences. this year its opening with a zombie comedy. packed with stars directed by jim the dead don't die seems an unlikely choice for the prestigious festival but the american director has used the genre to sneak in big ideas that they sometimes get buried under all the bodies the

festival's directed. explained his choice. general cinema is important for cinema for many artists especially in the era of big studios it was a way for them to express themselves within a defined framework and today john are cinema continues. a man of many genres is director quentin tarantino who rushed to finish his new film screening. once upon a time in hollywood is a black comedy set in 1960 s. los angeles the go to jail is called manslaughter many more heavyweight directors will walk this red carpet over the next 11 days including ken loach. terrence malick and. but they'll also be flanked by newcomers that critics anxious to see i want to see what massive i mean it's kind of ridiculous that this is the 1st black woman to ever be composition as a director. to see what women. men because i feel

like. parents that. we kind of know their work and we know that for. i'm going to solve it are they really going to surprise us can is dedicated to cinema survival but in doing so it lost out to new films for martin scorsese and steven soderbergh this year that's because they were produced by netflix who refuses to screen in cinemas before going online but netflix now attracts the biggest names it spent $12000000000.00 on content and it's unclear how long can will be able to hold back is changing tide charlie and al-jazeera can. only news of course on our web site there what is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. and that's it for me down jordan for now i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news all the latest with ongoing developments in sudan about announcement of a 3 year transitional period but i'm going to. in

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