on the ground by konami world to bring you food when documentaries and. sudan's army and opposition coalition agree on a 3 year transition period for transferring power to civilian rule. i'm sam is a down this is al jazeera live coming up russia's president meets the u.s. top diplomat but the 2 countries failed to agree on how to deal with iran. grow of violence against muslims in sri lanka 60 people are arrested in the last few days plus. i'm charlie rangel at the cannes film festival where some of the cinema

heavyweights will be competing with new talent. tree leaders have agreed with opposition groups to a 3 year transitional period as the country 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 the 2 sides say a final agreement on the makeup of the sovereign council will be struck within $24.00 hours. generally for the last hour from saddam's transitional military gal's was promised to work quickly to secure a complete deal with opposition groups i've done a lot 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 have morgan has more 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 set and they've erected barricades on new roads they've blocked streets some of the main streets in around the state of whom 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 to work 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 life and more than 200 protesters injured and as well as the security forces and military personnel so it did not come without loss of lives but then the protests that 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 hours before the final deal is signed but we're going to hear when and the protesters are also waiting to hear if that transitional 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. now russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state he thinks dollars wants to repair relations live in their home pay are met in the russian city of salt $2.00 men discuss washington standoff with iran their differences over venezuela steadfast in reports. that they disagreed on nearly everything but my compatriots visit to russia brought hope for a new start between moscow and washington mutual fishley in your stupidity you have

the impression that the president said for the restoration of russian american ties contacts and resolving problems together that are important for both sides for our part we have said multiple times that we would also want to regain full ties. it was the 1st high level meeting between the 2 superpowers since the miller report came out clearing trump from collusion with russia in the $2016.00 elections the only thing both nations agreed on was the fact that they want their relationship to improve on the iran nuclear deal their positions are far apart russia has raised concerns about u.s. military buildup in the persian gulf concerns bombadil not dispell the us secretary of state did not deny reports that the us wants to send 120000 troops to the region 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.

russia and the u.s. are also on opposite sides of the crisis in venezuela don't pay you urged moscow to stop supporting nicolas maduro russian foreign minister sergei laugh of replied democracy can be implemented by force and research with missiles or social we are threats from both the official representatives of the us administration and from mr quite though who constantly talks about his right to invite an armed intervention from abroad this has nothing to do with democracy. this by their 1st high level meeting in months the united states and russia are struggling to find common ground while no progress has been made to find solutions on a crisis in iran and venezuela or a new dialogue on arms control shows that their relationship has somewhat improved after the collapse of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty earlier this year the superpowers now aim to start a new discussion on arms control because as both laugh off and pompei o pointed out

if the u.s. and russia don't get along the world will feel it step fasten al-jazeera so i cheat . iran's supreme leader. has ruled out negotiations with washington over its nuclear program but he also said there wouldn't be a war. the u.n. is denying his country's involvement in an incident at the polls in the united arab emirates that left 4 cargo ships damaged. as well from to iran. in the immediate aftermath of a legit sabotage attacks on oil vessels at the foot your report in the united arab emirates like other countries in the region iran was quick to condemn the incident demand an investigation and offer support on tuesday 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 tension 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 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 clear and tensions are still specially with more american military presence in the region same for striving al-jazeera. but as well as supreme court has called for 4 more opposition m.p.'s to be stripped of immunity so they can be tried for treason police are also locked down the opposition controlled national assembly in the capsule caracas just minutes before opposition leader who was to lead the session officers cordoned off the building in several surrounding blocks after reports of a suspicious package. says the move won't deter opposition politicians. venezuelans have one problem the dictatorship and body by nicolas maduro of today kidnapped all of us we would show at 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 and coalesced stations tomorrow and the national assembly palace because they can't attempt to militarily occupy it. saudi arabia state owned energy company around co is stopped pumping oil through a major pipeline after a drone attack the government says 2 stations were targeted on the east west pipeline who 3 rebels in yemen say they launched the strikes to warn the kingdom to stop its aggression is that reply iraq in which they are 7 drones belonging to the air force of yemen attacked the pumping station 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 in the attack is seriously damaged the economy of the

enemy. and un brokered talks between houthi rebels and representatives of yemen's government is taking place in jordan the u.n. says houthi rebels are withdrawing from the 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 year civil war so good now bar is a middle east analyst he says the talks are part of a broader geopolitical game. the us iran tensions saw coincided with the who the speaking able to carry out drone attacks really several 100 miles into saudi territory which so far for who these has been president that and it underscores that the who have now been able to escalate their capabilities and target critical infrastructure in saudi arabia so these 2 developments really

underscore that. both who thesis and the saudis are now logging heads on over how to. influence one another when it comes to this latest round of peace talks if you for instance look. at the prospect of direct talks between the united states and iran that would enhance u.s. pressure on cider arabia and the united arab emirates to. be more accommodating to works a peace solution with the with the who have these on the other hand we're also seeing that oman has significant leverage over who these speak to who think spokesman up to 2 salam is based in muscat and he's traveling from there to jordan to participate in the peace talks so mom is able to pressure the who takes 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 face will be. well still ahead of al jazeera we'll tell you why people in mexico city have been warned to stay indoors. and how wild south voice calls may have been gentle with israeli spy well one in the hospital in follows. the latest batch of severe weather over north america is trying to clear away it has been over the east coast here but most of that has now worked its way away from it we're still seeing this churning mass over the eastern parts of canada there and with still see some more wet weather here as we head through the next few days they will notice is more in the way of unsettled weather making its way on to the west coast so lots of heavy rain here and the temperatures really dropping as well still

looking fairly miserable as we head through thursday with the rain pushing all the way down towards al a bit further towards the south as we know it's of sharri weather over parts of florida those showers are moving their way southward so we'll see more of them in cuba and across the bahamas as well for wednesday i don't say they will just be pushing a bit further towards the south elsewhere though we are plenty of showers for the west as well those working all the way down through guatemala and through panama as well as we head further south for rio it's looking pretty west over the next couple of days the showers look like they're going to stay over the top of us as we head through wednesday and thursday probably into friday as well to the north of that there's lots of showers as you would expect but for the south there's more in the way of drawing sunshine now ascension should get to around $25.21 is ari's even in chile santiago looking very nice 20 to.

in 20080 documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ready 10 years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super 30 announces iraq. i'm back here watching i'll just time to recap our headlines now 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 sovereign council will be struck within $24.00 hours russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state he senses the u.s. president wants to repair relations between washington and moscow that a mere person held talks with mike pale in. saudi arabia says it's east to west oil pipelines being bombed by unmanned aerial drones yemen's both the rebels say they were behind the attack. donald trump insists economic talks to china have not collapse 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 if china wants to strike a deal new tariffs imposed by both washington and beijing of 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. where having a little squabble with china because we've been treated very unfairly for many many decades for actually a long time and it should've been handled a long time ago and it wasn't then 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. the u.s. state of alabama has passed a bill that would outlaw all abortions including in cases of rape the measure was approved by the state so it will now go to the government to be signed into law away she's expected to give her approval legislation to restrict abortion has been introduced in 16 states this year it's part of an effort to have the supreme court's reconsider the coast situational right to abortion or the joke from

washington d.c. . this measure passed by the alabama legislature on tuesday is by far the strictest of these anti-abortion laws passed recently by conservative states this rule and particularly would outright ban abortions for almost every instance except for when a woman's life is in danger notably it makes no exception for cases of rape or incest and it would punish a doctor who performs an abortion in alabama with 99 years in prison now opponents to the law have have been very vociferous in their outcry saying that this would punish rape victims and it would push women to seek abortions underground in unsafe procedures even supporters of the laws of though say that they doubt this will ever take effect why because they expect to be challenged to have this lobby challenge

in the courts almost immediately now the goal here of the drafters of this alabama law is for the u.s. supreme court to use this as a test of roe versus wade that is the law of the land for the most for the last 40 years in the united states that gave women the constitutional right to an abortion now the drafters of the alabama law is seeking to overturn roe versus wade and they are among. long this wave of conservative states that have tried to push abortion back into the supreme court since the supreme court became more conservative thanks to the appointment of 2 judges by u.s. president donald trump and brett kavanaugh 2 justices that have moved the balance of the court further to the right however if this alabama law does reach the supreme court there is still no guarantee that it would overturn roe versus wade in

february notably the supreme court struck down a louisiana law that made abortions more restrictive that's because the chief justice john roberts who was once a more reliable conservative has moved more to the center now and he voted with the liberal wing of the court in that case now the drafters of this alabama law that would outright ban abortion again in all cases except for when a woman's life is in danger have said that they wrote this specifically to challenge roe versus wade and they believe this is their best chance yet to make abortions illegal all across america at least 60 people have been arrested after a wave of attacks against muslims in sri lanka so far one person has died the united nations is worried the unrest could spread all this comes in the wake of last month's bombings targeting churches and hotels during easter but often on this

as well from colombo. in recent days groups of people have attacked museum homes businesses and set fire to vehicles. this is what's left of the factory that produced. police age was destroyed by what they called. one man was killed in the violence one another is critically injured and being treated in hospital the catholic bishop in vallance mendis visited the area on tuesday 1st. make sure that. maybe. because the common feeling that. people. in the dark. my personal. understanding. may be afraid.

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 as a responsible for the attacks the. good man you 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. the monk as muslim community makes up less than 10 percent of the country's $22000000.00 population political leaders here warning the violence will not only increase tension but could also hinder the

investigation into the east as sunday bomb attacks that killed 250 people there fernandez al jazeera. has referred a security breach in its software to the u.s. justice department the company discovered a vulnerability in its messaging service that allowed phones to be infected with sophisticated spyware companies owned by facebook it says it's fix the issue and is investigating who is responsible under schapelle 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. and quality levels in mexico city have reached the unhealthy levels in recent days people say wildfires in the southern part of the country of the reason the air is so bad the mexican football league decided to postpone the 1st leg of the semifinal al-jazeera. reports. a nightmarish haze has taken over the skies above mexico city authorities say the dense cloud of toxic air is the result of dozens of wildfires burning in southern

mexico and central america is it's the season for high temperatures and this year has been especially hot on the other hand we've all seen periods of prolonged drought. the air quality in the city has gotten so bad the local government has urged people to stay indoors as the air outside is unsafe to breathe apart from breathing it really stings your eyes it's very annoying see isn't that a light it's incredible you can see it in the air the air looks cloudy the amount of pollution you can see is amazing for. the mask because of the smart it's painful to inhale it i re days i have stark levels of pollution. more than 20000000 people live in this metropolitan area making it the most densely populated space in north america. exhaust from the nearly 6000000 vehicles that regularly transit the city isn't making things better. but some people are taking matters into their own hands

been out of the world recently won a lawsuit against the city after proving air pollution from hydrocarbons is causing medical problems among residents will never work as an actor because i mean there's no doubt this is an environmental crisis by any standard there are so many air pollution particles in some parts of the city that this would be considered a high contamination of fine particles. mexico's capital was once known as the most contaminated city in the world and although improvements have been made. the city appears to be struggling to curb back pollution this lookout would normally guarantee a beautiful view of the mexico city skyline instead what we can see today is little more than a smoky haze you can even smell it and it could still be several days before the air quality begins to improve. the smoky air has turned the sunsets over the city blood red and with wildfires continuing to burn in surrounding states the problem appears to be far from over. mexico city.

now 2 very different types of comedy films are premiering at this year's cannes film festival in france famous directors will compete with promising newcomers for the big prize the palme d'or charlie rangel reports from county. 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. john or 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 could screen at cannes . once upon a time in hollywood is a black comedy set in 1960 s. los angeles and fight 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.