3 days from us out of there is monitor in khartoum for us thank you well now we can speak to ellen tauscher avnet who is the spokesman for the few needs professionals association which is the leading these protests he joins us live now on skype from lipstick and germany this hour made it does appear as our reporter has just told us that some of the barricades in khartoum are being removed is this a concession to the military council actually before even the military council that started this point we have been telling we have been following things that there are some surrogates out of the area of assistance are have been made through some of the even the old regime instruments so busy. the point was to put the governor on on the political negotiations that have been taking place for the past days the most important thing that we have been committed to our peaceful movement since the middle of december last december and there is nothing new in our

path. and we have took an oath to all our people that you will never leave the bar of peaceful so even even though the military council took this action from the only side to stop the negotiations we are still committed to the negotiations and realistic committed to the peaceful even our. evil committed to the earpiece of course sessions such will be considering stores hours in these day on the days i. will say those talks are meant to resume in 3 days is that likely and in your mind what are the key sticking points now that you would particularly like to see movement on. i think putting this $72.00 hours period for for for adjusting the situation. is on on it's

on the military council from our side as they told you we have already adjusted our situation since yesterday even before their announcement and also we busy regarding the training that busy they're talking about there is an open path for the train to the last minute 6 of. therefore even though the line of the trains that they're sucking about toward the west is already there is already. repairs on it since last. november 2018 but still we open it and we have arranged through a mediation committee between us under railways somebody into the. common task after that from the sudanese professional association speaking to us from jenny thanks for being with us on out of there. well lots more ahead for you on this news

hour including the final days of campaigning for india's long and staggered to general elections plus. we saw men with guns. before was before. why these kenyans say they were tricked into fighting for al-shabaab. and in sports we'll show you how i axelrod's up defense stocks double in 17 years. well iran's foreign minister says u.s. sanctions are unacceptable and uncalled for but insists his country is committed to the 2015 new kid deal the reef is in tokyo for a meeting with prime minister shinzo all day japan is a u.s. ally that depends on a rainy and oil of this month the u.s. government ended waivers that allowed japan and others to buy oil from iran

washington has tightened sanctions on tehran and deployed warships to the gulf region in recent days meanwhile the commander of iran's revolutionary guard is warning of in the confrontation with the united states major general hussein salami says the u.s. escalation in the region represents what he calls a decisive moment for the islamic revolution well zain bazarov is live for us in tehran saying it clearly seems like things are heating up in tehran should we be concerned about what we're hearing from the revolutionary guard. well a lot of what he has said in statements that were broadcast on state media are harsher more heavy ways of reiterating the same point that leaders have been making this whole time he said that the that iran is on the verge of a full scale confrontation with the supreme leader a few days ago or a few weeks ago has warned the iranian people that a war with the united states could happen though he has said that military intervention is unlikely now mr salami also said that the united states is behaving

in an ostentatious way the supreme leader has said that this uproar that the u.s. is trying to create in the middle east these are all intimidation tactics now what he did say that was interesting to have sort of tactical angle was talking about how the enemy has come to the battlefield with all of their capabilities now the middle east has seen american buildup like this before but this is the 1st time in recent memory words so focused on iran specifically and so that is why the head of the islamic revolutionary guard corps was trying to make the point that this is a decisive moment in iran's history however leaders have continued to say that this is largely psychological warfare we had a reinforcement of that just a few minutes ago the isna news agency was quoting a statement by the permanent mission of iran to the united nations in new york that this is just come out they've said response to america's move of pulling people out of their consulates and embassies in iraq the iranian representatives at the u.n.

in new york say iran is not a threat to anyone in iraq or in any other place and has no intention to attack anyone in any location and the mission there saying that this is all part of america's propaganda war well then we've also been seeing iran's foreign minister make the rounds to oil clients in day on monday japan as we had on tuesday what's he telling what the it is now. well these are some of the most important countries as far as america iranian oil sales are concerned those sales of obviously been hampered by american sanctions and the expiration of oil sanctions waivers that these 2 countries had been allotted serve rons government has been trying to reach out to traditional trading partners to make sure that they understand that at some point things will likely hopefully go back to normal they are trying to communicate to their trading partners that they need to wait out this administration of u.s. president donald trump and hope that economic ties between iran and other countries

in the region can normalize to where these economic partnerships can once more be fruitful for iran he also reiterated iran's point that the 2050 nuclear deal to join comprehensive plan of action iran remains committed to it but of course his comments come the day after the atomic energy organization of iran confirmed that it was beginning to abide by president hassan rouhani his orders to begin non-cooperation with the nuclear agreement so iran sending the message that even though it's beginning to roll back some of the details some of the cooperation that was participating in with the j.c. the ranch committed to resolving the matter but the international community needs to step up and try to help resolve some of the issues with relation to american sanctions against iran. for us in tehran thank you saying well russian president vladimir putin says the united states will be responsible if the iran deal collapses. but it would freeze we didn't this is a limit we regret that the deals killing of our position is known to all our

partners including the americans we've advocated maintenance of the agreement after the signing of the agreement iran was and still is the world's most verifiable and transparent country in the american solution to go americans have withdrawn the deal is coming apart and the european countries can't do anything to save it and can't really cooperate with iran to compensate their economic losses but as soon as iran makes its 1st steps in responding announce its withdrawal everyone will need to be forget that it was the u.s. who initiated the collapse and everyone will end up playing it all on iran. now the rights group amnesty international says it has evidence war crimes may have been committed in libya the warlord calif i have to has staged a 6 week long offensive to capture the capital tripoli from the un recognized government amnesty has gathered witness statements and compiled satellite images which it says reveal unlawful rocket attacks on a neighborhood of tripoli the group is calling for an international investigation tree lanka's government says hardline but a scripts are being investigated for anti muslim attacks at least 31 people have

appeared in a court for a wave of violence and which mosques and muslim owned businesses were targeted curfews have been put in place in 2 provinces. ensured that those people who are behind these were arrested and today yesterday also last night the day's peace in this country nothing as a. whole that we feel that these are all the nased attacks on. business houses premises that are happening and we will ensure that business happen. now sri lankan soldiers and police patrolling affected areas and religious leaders are appealing for calm as bennett smith reports on it here. an appeal for calm from one of the 9 mosques attacked in a wave of violence across northwestern sri lanka this week. and from these catholic

priests a show of solidarity with they told us their 1st visit to a mosque 3 weeks ago on easter sunday suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels in sri lanka killing 253 people. so said that the thing like this had happened you know for the church had been digging. a lot of steps in order to the previous working in this day it's become that people don't you can never know. there are certain groups you know we don't leave you more do you say no and but the government months put a stop to these sri lanka's minority muslim population is now living in fear they break the ramadan fast behind drawn curtains. there's no visiting friends and neighbors a curfew empties the streets the mosques usually busy in this muslim holy month a closed. we're not sure what will happen we're hearing reports of attacks in

different places and we don't know what to do we don't really trust any government witnesses described what they called mobs of sinhalese young men smashing up shops in and around 30 towns and villages the businesses in this town are owned by sinhalese people who are mainly buddhist as well as muslims 100 jessamy watched helpless as bricks rained down on this mosque there and these people who are blames the government there might but it turned out a military one really we knew this was coming and the government warned there would be atrocities but they wanted this to happen to us the government thought we'd leave these areas so those goons could unleash mayhem it. true lanka's prime minister says the country will be destabilized if sectarianism escalates more than 70 people have been arrested and are in custody facing charges related to this week's violence nightly curfews have been keeping a lid on the violence here and there'll be another want tonight it's wednesday but

they're only a short term measure the much greater challenge is repairing the entire community relationships which have been so badly fractured by the easter sunday bombing. burnitz with al jazeera northwest intra lanka. now it's the 2nd last day of campaigning for the 7th and final leg of india's parliamentary elections the election commission ordered campaigning in the state of west bengal he wrapped up a day annie after violence as a rally on tuesday more than 900000000 people are eligible to vote over a 6 week period across the country the last round is on sunday may 19th prime minister narendra modi is hoping for a 2nd term while our so hell run is in the city a very nasty in the northern states which have pradesh so here you are very much in modi territory now how's campaigning been going that.

well can paling is certainly loud it's noisy it's exciting for those involved and those that are watching of course were very nasty as you say because they're under modi holds this particular seat a little cause there are some pretty big political guns that want to unseat him or look the 19th of may and they include priyanka gandhi who's also fighting for the sea she was here less than 24 hours ago in a road show thousands of people phoning around we were there as well certainly trying to sway the minority groups certainly in this city but the congress party other party to vote for but behind me in front of the party headquarters for one of the 2 major state parties the s.p. and a killer she had the we spoke to earlier in the day he hoping that like his counterpart mayawati from the b.s.p. they will be linchpins king pins in any potential coalition government they have been turned paving. wanting the electorate to vote on the policies and not on the

personality politics she was very famous for in 2040 look people have been listening they are concerned about unemployment human rights. communalism. as well as a whole range of the issues and of course they have until the 19th to vote in this city. and somehow in west bengal the violence there this week was sufficient to cut campaign short talk us through the significance of the status of west bengal. states including west bengal these are huge huge problems is in the age of every one of the over 30 states that there are and voting has been in phases so certain parts of the states have voted in west bengal we've seen that as well over this 6 week period however as we come up to the final vote on the 19th of may it seemed that the j.-p.

supporters brought in and those living in west bengal were supporting i'm in charge the president of the party was brought in to talk to the masses clashed with the state's own indigenous support as you might say from the to them all congress led by month she's another name and a face to look out for when it comes to the vote count on the 20 election commission very worried about these clashes wanted to you might say kill them before they actually get started i've decided to stop all painting by the end of the day which is 1630 g.m.t. 2200 hours local time this isn't your e 8 to the opposition parties because the rental mode is supposed to speak on thursday the election commissioner allowing him to speak before bringing in the end of campaigning in west bengal yet in auto production the campaigning will continue until friday evening 2200 hours so controversial the election commission of many complaints set in front of the table over this particular general election they have

a lot of explaining to do when this vote is over when the results are announced and how they themselves conducted the election will be analyzed in that but for the moment that's the situation why west bengal will be ending their paintings in just a few hours' time so how around and watching the interaction for us today environ i think thank you sam. well in a few minutes we'll have the weather with everton but still ahead on al-jazeera. china hits back against what it calls a unilateral u.s. action against tech giant huawei. and in sports things go from bad to worse. as he prepares for the indy 500. the web sponsored by the time. well i we've had some rather lively showers across

parts of central gapes it's little clutch of storms around italy pushing over towards the balkans or even have a little bit of snow into corsica for good measure that is rare for the month of may lots of clouds showing up it's essential in the eastern parts of you have you see these distinct areas of low pressure just down around central areas of the med that's where we're going to see the worst of the weather this is as i said the situation in corsica could dusting of snow around 25 to 30 centimeters of snow over the high ground ok when we're talking over a 1000 meters but that is rare even at this time if you're in cold because the mediterranean of course we expect see lovely warm sunshine not too much of that on the cards here not see much to into sicily southern areas of italy pushing over the aegean sea i am you see pushing across into greece will the way across towards the black sea some wet weather there we've got the showers here just around powder and

in germany they gradually started to feed their way further west was filtering a little more cloud into northwestern parts of here but a bit of wet weather some well windy weather too just on the western side of the med as we go on into friday so we can look into pretty in here will clear out for the iberian peninsula as you go on into saturday attorney somewhat drier and brighter but much of it. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. is his home. in northern iraq his timeline. from which he ran. camera in hand he returned. to film diaries his tiny ties to iran. a story soon transformed by a chance encounter. the gal who saved mine i witnessed documentaries on how to see. russia has jeopardized the united states security interest we. no

what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. good marks the picture from the inside. as think russia's foreign policy is too soft going to be a most russian goals have really achieved. peace in. russia on al-jazeera. hello again i'm not starting a tale and a reminder of the news this hour at least 6 civilians have been killed in saudi

u.a.e. coalition air strikes on yemen's capital sana media say 2 military positions were targeted residential areas were also hit. talks between sudan's opposition coalition and the military council have been suspended for 3 days this follows an increase in violence the negotiators are trying to decide who should head to the council that will oversee the transition. and sri lanka's government says hardline but his troops are under investigation over a recent wave of anti muslim attacks at least 31 people have appeared in court in connection with the attacks. let's return now to our top story the saudi u.a.e. air strikes in yemen at least 6 civilians including women and children have been killed. as more. for the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen the series of strikes was a successful operation targeting the military installations in the capital sanaa.

but these pictures depict a reality residence of the attacks targeted by a list of brilliant areas and that an entire family was buried under the rubble. it is very clear that. this morning here in sanaa i was a response to the through the drone attacks on the on the oil facilities in riyadh it is a very clear but the. unfortunately it was. blind completely blind. because it is only in killing women and children in there is it until area the escalation comes a few days after the her theists attacked an oil pipeline near the saudi capital riyadh using 7 drones. it's the most daring military operation by the her theories since the start of the war 4 years ago and a sign of their growing military capabilities the saudi u.a.e.

coalition remains adamant its as its military campaign in yemen will continue until installations are destroyed thanks these are the fighters of the moment they opened fire on what they say was assad road they remain defiant despite the prolonged conflict rugs a large army will repair the drone and will hopefully flight once again over saudi arabia israel and the u.s. . on the ground hope generated by a healthy withdrawal from the border city of how data is fading this biting of the oscars of the city raising concerns of a deepening humanitarian crisis how did a border the main entry point for food imports and aid is a lifeline for millions of yemenis frightened by starvation. in the solve

there is more fighting around the city of by government troops backed by the saudis asked rivaling to push back with your. un envoy martin griffiths has warned the united nations security council the recent ask elation might damage if gyal peace deal. with the death toll from tuesday's ambush on soldiers from the share has now risen to $28.00 it's not clear who is behind the attack near the village of tongue or tongue or that's close to the border with mali but several armed groups are active in that area 11 soldiers were initially reported missing that their bodies have now been found. police in kenya have charged several suspects in connection with a january attack in nairobi in which $21.00 people were killed many of the accused kenyans involved with the somali based on the group al-shabaab al jazeera has spoken to other kenyans who've returned from somalia and say they were forcefully

recruited and used as fighters and sex slaves catherine sawyer reports from the coastal town of melinda. a mother's pain this woman whose identity with he on safety says her son disappeared 2 years ago was a casual work was promised a better job erik rutins. the offer was $200.00 a month 4 times more than he was being paid the next time she heard about her son 8 months later he was dead just thought he had been killed in somalia while trying to escape and al shabaab comp and i bet i knew. i wanted to bury my son but i could not even get his corpse that is what hurts me the most i wanted to report to deplete but i have seen how they had asked my neighbor whose son came back she's in a support group of mothers whose children joined the group some of the young women here have come home from somalia my red should be younger offers them counseling i'm sure you want to come. to associate with them if they feel isolated then there

will not be peace they potentially could be violent in another secret location we meet this man who say they're risking their lives just by talking to us they returned after 4 years they talk of combat training hard labor and sex slavery liberal who got cool as us and when they got there i saw men with guns they told me the job they'd called me for was to fight i asked about my from maybe they said they were to kill them and for sure the whole time i was there they were sent part of my story home but i later came to recruit but like many other retired nis there in hiding ignoring a government amnesty program that security analysts say has largely failed. many of those who have gone to somalia to join al-shabaab from areas such as this one articles they say they were promised good jobs and money some of those who have retired and have been rejected by their family most are in hiding human rights

campaigners say hundreds of kenyans have willingly or been duped to join al shabaab as. fighters porters and wives this was after kenyan troops went into somalia in 2011 to fight to the group as part of an african union force alongside somali security forces. since then also has carried out a series of attacks including this one on the hotel an office complex in nairobi in january when 21 people were killed were girl it's very difficult for our government to understand our stories that's why many of us will not surrender to the police if you report your presence you put a spotlight on yourself and if any crime like the dusit attack happens you'll be the 1st one they come looking for those we talked to in 1000000 d.c. life is tough they still have jobs and are struggling to deal with the horrors they say they witnessed in somalia while at the same time trying to regain the trust of relatives and neighbors catherine saw my lindy on the kenyan coast the

fugitive form a leader of the now disbanded basque separatist group has been arrested known by his alias who is here to naira spain's interior ministry says he was detained in a joint mission with france they had been looking for him since 2002 and he was eventually tracked down in the french alps he is accused of crimes against humanity the s i agree it killed more than $850.00 people during its decades long campaign for an independent states. well china has vowed to defend its companies after a u.s. government decision to place while way and 70 of its affiliates on a trade blacklist calling it unreasonable washington believes equipment produced by the chinese company could be used to spy on the u.s. while way has repeatedly denied the allegations al-jazeera is adrian brown reports from a text trade show intention. what you see here is at the heart of the trade dispute

between china and the united states the 2 countries are competing to be world leaders in artificial intelligence robotics and 5 g. technology. showcasing its achievements huawei china's national tech champions its expansion plans in the united states now see over after the us put the firm and its affiliates on a trading blacklist and issue too sensitive for this company official to discuss the market the country operates the company so sorry. but he's confident while way will still thrive in other markets so now laid her weave your fire level. we hope we can cooperate each other piece of the country while away officials had anticipated this move and on thursday the firm issued a statement saying the transactions wouldn't improve safety or security in the united states and would only harm consumers and companies it doesn't bode well for

the faltering trade talks between the 2 countries u.s. firms are present here the mood among one technology representative surprisingly upbeat is it very hard to sell u.s. technology in china today because of the trade move i don't think so it's only it's your chinese is open for the all the difference to you know the goods for darts here and our attorneys the customers who is with i think the. american. firm. this is one of. the theme of this exhibition is artificial intelligence in china the technology is widely used in surveillance and facial recognition cameras . especially in the far western province of shinji where they monitor track and rate members of a largely muslim group known as the week goes this company manufactures many of those cameras and has been promoting its expertise here but officials didn't want

to tell you the reason you can't even use the u.s. government has once more targeted one of china's most successful companies leading executives at other technology firms wondering who will be next adrian brown al-jazeera in t.n. jin ne china. former a straight in prime minister bob hawke has died aged 89 mr hauck led the country and the labor party from 1983 to 1901 his death comes just 2 days before the country's federal election. well hong kong's prominent pro-democracy activist has been sent back to jail after a court rejected his bid to have his prison term aquash. was sentenced to 3 months in jail last year for violating a court order and not leaving a protest site during the 2014 umbrella protests he's now adding supporters to strengthen their campaign against the government's controversial plan to extradite

fugitives to mainland china to stand trial sarah clarke reports from hong kong. joe show one with the most high profile activist behind the project ocracy protests here in hong kong in 2014 last year he was given a 3 month jail term for contempt of court for his role in obstructing a site during these demonstrations he's already served time for other convictions but he feels the high court to have this job turn porche to be arrived at court confident but the judge ordered he returned to jail to serve 2 months of his prison sentence no regret at all and now it's hard for us court to your our flights to our games or extradition law that extradition bill is being proposed by the government and would allow hong kong to extradite fugitives from hong kong to mainland china to stand trial. for the 100000 people marched against this bill last month is also being passions in the city's parliament over the proposed rules critics are concerned that their trials won't be guaranteed on the mind not just only. hong

kong is with the international community has very little to no trust nor confidence. over the hong kong china extradition business are the reason for us to be fear. because it's going to court. to prove kept us safe. but sides of politics are an impasse over who would chair this committee which will scrutinize. the extradition bill for the city's chief executive wants a vote by july. the philippines has taken drastic action over canada's failure to take tons of rubbish shipped to manila more than 5 years ago canada was given until may 15th to ship back more than 100 containers filled with household waste the philippines has responded by recalling that some bastard

a consul's in canada going to has more on the story in 2014 during the time of former president beneath your keno members of the bureau of customs the convert that there were more than 50 container vents containing toxic waste shipped from canada to the philippines says since then this is been quite an irritant issue between the 2 countries the beer of customs in manila sending letters to the canadian government appealing to find the solution to dispose of this trash when a canadian prime minister just introduced visited the philippines a few years ago he said it was not legally possible for canada to ship that trash back because of limitations of its laws that's changed last year when he said it may now be theoretically possible for a candidate to bring that trash back this has been quite an irritant issue between the 2 countries last month a deadline has been set with no less than president to be good at their day quicken

called threatening to go to war with canada if the trash is not shipped back.