saddam's army and opposition coalition agree on a 3 year transition period for transferring power to civilian rule. on down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up russia's president meets with the top u.s. diplomat about the 2 countries fail to agree on how to deal with iran. a 2nd successive night of curfew in sri lanka as worries grow of more violence against muslims plus. i'm surely at the cannes film festival where some of the cinema heavyweights will be competing with new talent.

saddam's military leaders have agreed with opposition groups to a 3 year transition period as the country slowly moves closer to civilian rule the military council on coalition for freedom and change held a press conference to announce the agreement after weeks of deadlock both sides say a final agreement on the makeup of the executive body will be struck within $24.00 hours well less than in general yes from sudan's transitional military council has promised to work quickly to secure a complete deal with opposition groups. we pledge to our great people that our agreement will be completed and we will achieve the ambitions of our proud people within less than $24.00 hours god willing so that our proud people will celebrate the victory achieved by the people and the army in order to achieve the goals of the great revolution the movement has more now from khartoum. 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 that then they've erected barricades on new roads they've blocked streets some of the main streets in around the state of the tomb they were saying that if they did not make the military council realize the power they have then the military council is not likely to make an announcement or a deal with the opposition coalition and it seems like it works because when they started their 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 of 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 processes have been saying that they know they're the pressure cars 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 tomorrow 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 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 opposition coalition that is going to be the decisive factor on whether this this and this revolution is over or not. well hala tom has a sudanese academic an activist he says significant progress has been made between both sides. that agreement between the 2 actually leads the way to much better english immersion ready ready specially in the next $24.00 hours ready to come where are they going to go but. not so pretty and. if i know president. 3 year from very name or the important point in this case. who is going to lead but the real issue is that council and a number of people in the council even though most of these going to be in in the early which is consists of light 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 horses and that in itself is ready going to lead the way ready much better civil society and civil governments in the future to come russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses donald trump wants to repair relations the commons followed talks between vladimir putin and the u.s. secretary of state in sochi on tuesday the kremlin says is prepared to set a date for the next meeting between the russian president and trump an earlier my pompei are told the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that america does not want a war with iran but he also said the terror on 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 alba will go on discussing this situation of course it gives us some hope that some agreements may be reached steadfast and has more now from such a. very rare but very important meetings here in sochi between my compare and the russian foreign minister and after that with vladimir putin basically the leaders now want to improve the relationship which has been very bad between the united states and russia and one of the reasons that they can do this is because the report has basically officially cleared the collision allegations that were made between the campaign and the russian authorities put inside that that was an objective investigation and basically now it sort of clears the way to have an

order changing situation between the 2 nations as he described it but then there's of course all these differences that the 2 superpowers still have they have different opinions on iran on afghanistan on syria and also on venezuela on iran had hoped the russian foreign minister that you could give him more guarantees on too profound a military operation in the gov region which couldn't get the united states want russia to stop supporting nicolas maduro in venezuela that also something that last laugh of couldn't guarantee but then there were some baby steps some small progress on other issues like north korea where both nations the united states and russia support a dialogue with north korea also afghanistan there was some progress and most importantly on the arms race the arms control after the important intermediate

nuclear forces treaty collapsed earlier this year there's only one significant nuclear treaty in place which is the new start treaty that one will expire in 2021 well both nations now seem to agree to continue dialogue on having an extension or a possible different agreement on nuclear forces because they. despite differences the 2 still need to get along to have a better situation in the world iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali hominidae has ruled out negotiations with washington over its nuclear program but he also said there wouldn't be a war zone as robbie has more than 10 rounds. in the immediate aftermath of a legit sabotage attacks on oil vessels at the port 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 consider is responsible. we discussed regional issues and the policies of extremists inside the us administration and 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. 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 still

vacant but it seems there are some in the region that want to drag it into a war 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 who have a stands behind this is pushing for failed. 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. really are 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 power forward is still here and tensions are still specially with more american military presence in the region same with robbie al-jazeera from. saudi arabia state and energy company around co has stopped pumping oil drum 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 port on the red sea the rebels in yemen say they launched the strikes to warn the kingdom to stop its quote aggression fis that group by iraq in which they are 7 drones belonging to the air force of yemen attacked the pumping stations relating

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 un brokered talks between hoofy 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. signed last year this begins on saturday as part of what is known as phase one of the peace efforts to end the 4 year civil. donald trump and since the economic talks with china have not collapsed calling the trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies a little squabble 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 chinese and u.s. trade officials ended on friday with the 2 sides unable to reach

a compromise. having a little squabble with china because we've been treated very unfairly for many many decades for actually a long time and just 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 china's foreign ministry has again worn the united states not to underestimate his determination to protect its interests asian stock markets took a hit on opening day after the escalation in the trade war agent 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 when to fly apply 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 trying to short break here al-jazeera when we come back they will not put us down then as well as opposition leader remains defiant after being shut out of parliament. and how what some voice calls are used to inject israeli spy ware on one and a half 1000000000 phones more and that stay with us. the web sponsored by cattle. hello there we've got lots of wet weather over parts of

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welcome back ok recap our top stories here this hour 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 executive body 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 between washington and moscow president putin has held talks with mike pompei o in sochi. and saudi arabia says its east to west oil pipeline has been bombed by unmanned aerial drones yemen's who the rebels saying today on the it. was a 2nd night of a nationwide curfew in sri lanka security forces attacking a wave of violence against muslims so far one person has died in the rioting and the united nations is 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 still few in place for a 2nd night. in recent days groups of people have attacked was in homes businesses and such 5 acres. this is what's left of the factory that produced past police aid 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 chile vallance mendis visited the area on tuesday 1st used to make sure that there is no or maybe. because the common feeling that various restrictions in. therefore my personal. understanding is that it is better that maybe our freedom is

given so that the truth. police 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 as a responsible for the attacks the young. 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 outside it became ready and they were armed with swords and holes all ready to attack. 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 east as sunday bomb attacks that killed 250 people. fernandez al-jazeera. what's a security breach in its software to the u.s. justice department the company discovered a vulnerability and its messaging service that's allowed phones to be infected with sophisticated spyware the company owned by facebook says it's fixed the issue and is investigating who's responsible. 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. the world should cut financial ties with me and mas military that's according to united nations fact finding mission the panel has completed another trip to countries in the region if found evidence of continued violation against the remainder earlier the mission concluded that mean miles general should be prosecuted on charges of genocide. north korea is 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 indonesia last year and towed to american some more on saturday washington says the vessel is carrying coal and violation of sanctions against north korea has more from 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 earner so it's easier 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. venezuela's supreme court has called on for more opposition m.p.'s to be stripped of the military so they can be tried for treason police have also locked down the opposition controlled national assembly in the capital caracas

just minutes before opposition leader one guy though was set to lead a session officers cordoned off the building and several surrounding blocks after reports of a suspicious package of one of those as the move won't deter opposition politicians . venezuelans have one problem the dictatorship embodied by nicolas maduro today they kidnapped all of us we would show our faces time and again and continue to do it if today they close the power limit to national assembly building we will continue to insist in coalesced stations tomorrow and the national assembly palace because they can't attempt to militarily occupy it. protesters in israel are calling on people to boycott this year's your vision song contest these are the scenes in the city of tel aviv on tuesday they say israel is using the event to mosque rights abuses against palestinians in the west bank and gaza. 2 cost as of now come under pressure to withdraw from the

contest force that has this report. this is the latest in a series of process that activists say going to be taking place throughout the week here in tel aviv tonight is also the 1st semifinal so coincides with that and more importantly the activists here it coincides with the 1st anniversary of the moving of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and the border protest that took place in gaza on the same day when within 60 palestinians were killed by israeli sniper fire the activists here saying that they want to make sure that that kind of message is attached to all the coverage of the evasion song contest it's an opportunity to a propaganda day from like mike it is well known as this pool here is more of a cultural european case where actually an apartheid state and posting it here is a political decision to their own rights device in the 1st innings the israeli government is doing all it can to counter this kind of messaging it's set up a website that directs people who are interested in the b.d.s.

moving boycott divestment sanctions something that looks like that but turns out to be about beautiful diverse sensational israel the khan public broadcaster which is in charge of the events as it wants to make the best eurovision in history and there are performers who are saying it is important to keep these cultural ties up with this kind of music event can be a bridge and it doesn't mean they aren't interested in palestinian rights however as far as a protest is a concern the whole of israel needs to be seen of the state of israel as an occupying force and it should be boycotted in its entirety and they say that these protests their voice will continue throughout these weeks ago us. now 2 very different. types of comedy films are premiering of this year's cannes festival in france famous directors will compete with promising newcomers for the big prize the palme d'or reports from cannes. 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 to sneak in big ideas that they sometimes get buried under all the bodies the festivals directed. explained his choice of 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 or cinema continues. a man of many genres is director quentin tarantino who rushed to finish his new film could screen at cannes . once upon a time in hollywood is a black comedy set in 1960 s.

los angeles unified to 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. i mean it's kind of ridiculous that this is the 1st black woman to ever composition as a director. to see what women. are more than the men because i feel like ken loach terence that. we kind of know their work and we know that film is going to be solid but 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. toss a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera sudan's monitor leaders have agreed with opposition groups to a 3 year transition period to come from slowly moves closer to civilian rule. the military council and coalition for freedom and change held a press conference to announce the agreement after weeks of deadlock 2 sides say a final agreement on the makeup executive body will be struck within $24.00 hours and general from saddam's transitional military council has promised to work quickly to secure a deal. we pledged to our great people that our agreement will be completed and we will achieve the ambitions of our proud people within less than $24.00 hours god willing so that our proud people will celebrate the victory achieved by the people

and the army in order to achieve the goals of the great revolution. russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses donald trump wants to repair relations comments follow talks between bottom and putin and the u.s. secretary of state in sochi on tuesday the kremlin says it's prepared to set a date for the next meeting between the russian president and trump earlier might compare told the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov that the u.s. does not want a war with iran but he also said that terror one must be prevented from threatening its neighbors like pompei originated to the russian foreign minister washington will not stand idle while the iran threatens nuclear ambitions. 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 saudi arabia says this east to west

oil pipeline has been bombed by unmanned aerial drones yemen's who the rebels say they were behind the attack. donald trump insists that economic talks with china have not collapsed calling the trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies a little squabble u.s. president says the trade agreement is still possible if china wants to strike a deal new tariffs imposed by both washington and beijing of rockall global markets the last round of talks between chinese and u.s. traded fissions ended on friday with the 2 sides unable to reach a compromise. so those are the headlines the news continues here on the al-jazeera after inside story states have done so much.

violence and death since your daughter's protesters demanding the ruling military council step down and agreement to hand over power to civilians has reportedly been reached but how much power can be on the give up and can a transition be smooth this is it's a story. hello and welcome to the program iran come on 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.