i protest this but eventually they gave up mohammed atta as this reports that. the under the scorching sun they got up for friday prayers and to keep their protests alive i'm on. a special prayers say too for the dead who just days before the puzzle their movement the friday someone has political messages to me and calls for the protestors took hold down there and to military to. long walk the walk and it's compulsory on us to spec the security forces including the rapid support forces they're our partners in our struggle for change they protected us from the old regime when we needed their help they are from our families. that loud chants begin as soon as they have done with the press. doesn't know that but right here with us they chant 5 people were killed on more

than 200 injured when sudanese forces fought the protesters on the air this week. the last of the litter been done when the protesters were killed the military council came out and said they were upset that some of their commanders were not allowed to pass or checkpoints people have died yet there are more upset about access for their men they don't really care so much about the media we have achieved 60 percent of our goals our revolution is ongoing we will continue until we achieve key objective a civilian government and accountability for those who have committed crimes against humanity. the mood at these quaint cultural is far more conciliatory than before that. the protesters of accepted some of the demands of the military council and lifted most of the but it gets on the streets of the capital. the head of the transitional military council general abdul fatah $101.00 state suspended talks till all but it kids would have moved the protesters say the only body kids left so

far around the square and put there for their own protection and not any attempts to remove them would be met with with stiff resistance they say there is no one who can take them away from this square because abundant in that it will ition will be the death of sudan mohamad at all does it or don't. still to come on al-jazeera norway looks to bring both sides in venezuela's crisis together for mediation talks. to me robin ybarra not see why politicians are the final thing to the 7 days there really is a general election. there was a rather big interest we'll tell you more later on the program.

we've got a little rash of spring showers on the cost of parts of the middle east over the next couple of days iraq is said to see a little bit of wet weather from time to time more so over towards afghanistan pushing of it was northern parts of pakistan so a little more cloud here that feeds up into turkmenistan uzbekistan as well you see the showers they come back in behind isolated few and far between and some heat around into iraq baghdad at $41.00 celsius a rather more comfortable mid twenty's there for beirut and for jerusalem over the next couple of days. he could catch a little bit of shabby rain still a chance of one of 2 showers into that western side of iraq it should be a little drier over towards afghanistan and over towards the himalayan plateau a little bit of weather center possibility and see parts of the arabian peninsula eastern areas of saudi arabia you could catch a spotted sea of rain here that is the case to even into hot temperatures at 36 celsius and fully get up to about 34 on sunday so

a little on the he made side temperatures just pick back as a result of that but it should be largely try not to draw too across southern africa jealous of want to see showers just around the mozambique channel and pushing up into southern parts of tanzania.

the watching all jazeera reminds of the top stories this hour. a senior iranian official has called for urgent talks between terran and washington after weeks of escalating tensions. for how the show has suggested holding the talks in iraq or qatar. the u.s. humanitarian affairs chief has borne the security council the growing catastrophe in syria's province microcode said government forces had attacked refugee camps and hospitals in the deescalation zone. and protesters are back on the streets of the sudanese capital calling on the military to hand over power earlier troops from a military unit called the rock but support forces tried to remove barricades put

in place by protesters but eventually gave up and. was had told jerry and i were protesters are also back on the streets of the capital algiers they're demanding democratic reforms and the removal of politicians from former presidents of these beautifully because governments presidential elections already. expected in july the longtime leader was forced to step down last month and police have arrested several people for corruption. the palestinian foreign minister says the u.s. plan for ending the israeli palestinian conflict would be an unacceptable acts of surrender speaking in london we had mulkey said the plan that president donald trump calls the deal of the century is in fact the consecration of a century old ordeal for palestinians washington says the proposal could be unveiled in june but it's not revealed any more details israel has not officially taken a position on the plan this administration into preparing to give its stamp of

approval to israel's policies. the us administration has shown nothing but this regard. and for palestinian lives. for international law and the internationally recognized terms of reference unquote common sense and decency for us judges considering a bid to block president donald trump's plan to build a border war with mexico a group of states sent advocacy organizations a seeking an injunction after trump declared a national emergency to get more money for the wall in february congress approved more than $1000000000.00 in funding far short of his demands of nearly $6000000000.00 trump then transferred funds from other government programs to make up the shortfall well rob reynolds has been following the story he joins us now

live from the sounds of this tell us more about this legal challenge to holt's the wall how is it progressing. well right now as of this hour paula there is a hearing under way in the courtroom here in california that would. hear that where a judge will be hearing arguments from plaintiffs including more than a dozen states and several environmental and civil liberties groups there arguing that president donald trump's declaration of national emergency in order to build his border wall is both illegal and unconstitutional you will recall as you mentioned that this all stemmed from trump's demand that congress approved money for the border wall congress did not approve it so the president then said he would get it by declaring a national emergency and taking it from various funds approved for the department of defense but he said even at the time i don't need to do this but i can do it

this way and get it done much more quickly so the plaintiffs are arguing that that is far from a national emergency in that the president's own words betray that fact they are asking for a temporary immediate injunction against a using this money to build any of the wall they're trying to convince the judge that their case will prevail under further court proceedings and that any construction of the wall would cause immediate harm now the justice department which is representing of course president trump's position says that the president is well within his rights and that congress has a random president's broad authority to declare national emergencies and for all put about the people who are making their way to the us mexico border so what's the latest that. well the number of people who are making their way to that border is still very heavy there were nearly 100000 people in the month of april

and we have learned just this week that 2 year old child died after being apprehended with his mother at. the border near el paso texas a child that died in a hospital after several months of treatment he was 2 years old a 2 year old boy and this is the 4th child to die after being apprehended by u.s. customs authorities border authorities. the child died apparently of pneumonia like symptoms according to the guatemalan consul and the cause of death is under investigation. reynolds said lifeless in the sounds us thank you very much. a mediation talks about some pain in norway between the venezuelan oil governments and the opposition they were aimed at ending the country's 5 month long paris struggle representatives of opposition leader one quite so have no left norway of venezuela's foreign minister thanked his norwegian counterparts for what for

helping with what he called a dialogue our latin american editor newman has more now from caracas. there is a tremendous amount of secrecy surrounding attempts to bring about some kind of a negotiated settlement to this ongoing conflict we do know that conversations that took place with representatives of both the government of president hugo last mughal and of opposition leader in all slow norway have ended their representatives have returned here to the capital we don't know whether those talks were stalled were ended or they were going to be resumed nope nothing has been said about that all we know is that the foreign minister has thanked norway for its efforts to mediate or rather to do was about a dialogue while one wide also said there is no dialogue only mediation he's being very very careful not to make it sound as though he is negotiating with the government and this is because he is under tremendous pressure from some sectors

more hardline sectors of the opposition who say the time for talking is over that the only way to dislodge president nicolas maduro at this stage would be to have some kind of international foreign military intervention. across party talks in britain aimed at striking a compromise on to resume is brics a deal have failed labor leader jeremy corbyn says discussions have gone as far as they can the 2 sides have tried to for weeks to agree on terms for the country's exit from the e.u. for some more stooge to leave on march 29th but so has been so late until october 31st or brennan has the latest from london. no surprise really that the 6 weeks of talks between the government and the opposition labor party have failed to agree a compromise position on how best to proceed with the 2 sides simply too far apart and 2 main sticking points where labor's demand for a permanent customs union that is uniform tariffs or lack of them within the

european community that was a red line that the conservative leader recently was simply not prepared to cross and the other issue that was the sticking point according to those involved was the idea of having another referendum even a confirmation a referendum looks to be too much for the conservatives and indeed labor is also conflicted on the idea of putting the whole british you back to the people for another vote so where does that leave us well short of time frankly the european elections european parliamentary elections take place next week both the conservatives and labor are expected to get a hammering from the electorate because of the perceived incompetence over the way that the 100 but immediately after those parliamentary elections parliament's goes into recess it sits again until the week of june the 3rd at that point we're looking at potentially the prime minister bringing back the withdrawal bill for another formal vote and it's looking increasingly likely that she will lose that

vote again it will be the 4th time that she's lost where then well it's anybody's guess looks like if she loses it she will be forced to step down sooner rather than later but where does that leave bracks it well again very short of time there's no prospect i don't think labor indeed saying that they will not pass the legislation before the end of july that means parliament will go into the summer recess and remember the deadline for it is the end of october if we come back early september and still no firm idea as to how to tie up all these new sense. then we really are going to be very much up against it again to meet that deadline set by the e.u. . or india's near 7 week on the election is drawing to a close official campaigning ends on friday with the 7th and final phase of voting

to be held on sunday the governing b j p s campaign has been highly focused on prime minister narendra modi he's seeking a 2nd term in office the opposition though has accused him of stirring up hindu nationalism so he'll raman reports from vajra nasi one of the prime ministers strongholds. it's loud it's passionate and it's drawing crowds to the city of byron are saying they've come to see priyanka gandhi from the indian national congress party drum up support her party wants to unseat the incumbent m.p. that's prime minister narendra modi for the moment it's more about political celebrity and less about politics. but analysts say a resurgence of the opposition is countering modi's record his personality and hyper nationalism what has happened is an modi has projected himself as a personal figure who represents india india's national interest where is everyone

else to seem to be coming short of what might be nationalism in this country as a result the campaign is incredibly vitriolic incredibly personalized. on the other side of our nazi supporters of 2 other major regional parties a somali unbutton so march parties have joined forces to take on voting locations like these are in the final stages of the election. crisscrossing takes a constituency in the trying to win the every single vote. general election has been described the most divisive and the most polarized india this thread. of the use a members of the public agree with i could see friends becoming enemies within families that have been divisions and talks of talks on religion in the muslim and these things have never happened in the past we're doing together regional party leaders like says the cult but failure to deliver on its promises of people dressed

in favor of nationalist fervor they're not talking about extras where they're not about and then ordered. by the asian advantages they're not talking about how d.s.t. has worsened the business of local businesspeople so they're not talking about the relevant issue there only about national issues that is only because they're talking about terrorism. the state of west bank goals all campaign related violence of choose date night injuring several people the election commission and did campaigning of thursday evening but not before the privatised spoke. you have all seen what's been happening in west bengal the criminals of the ruling t.m.c. have made the state into a living hell the type of war that has spread across this region is a stain on democracy. as the campaigning for india's weeks long general election and many are now looking forward to the final phase of voting but some here wonder

if democracy is reputation has already been damaged so he'll robin al-jazeera varanasi. the tributes have been paid to one of the world's most renowned architects ion pay he died at the age of $102.00 some of his most recognizable works include the louvre in paris and the $76.00 story bank of china terror in hong kong the museum of islamic arson qatar's capital doha was one of his last major projects. this is and these are the top stories a senior iranian official has called for urgent talks between tehran and washington after weeks of escalating tensions to a father had a has suggested holding the talks in iraq or qatar same striving has more from

tehran the story for her to share it with sudhir a member of parliament we've been elected official and the chairman of the national security and foreign policy commission limited to significantly strong institution within the parliamentary structure roosevelt of the few bodied whose members regularly are able to recruit people going to abuse to local and foreign press and so who are in a sense one of the firms of our troops for the establishment for the government to communicate its message to the wider public to the international community. the un's humanitarian affairs chief has warned the security council of a growing catastrophe in syria's it live province michael cox said the government forces have attacked refugee camps and hospitals in a deescalation zone protesters are back on the streets of the sudanese capital call them on the military to hand over power or their troops for a military unit called the rapid support forces tried to remove barricades put in

place by protesters but eventually they gave up. protesters are also rallying again in algeria as capital there are demanding democratic reforms and the removal of politicians from former presidents are these beautifully because government presidential elections are expected in july. the u.s. judge is considering a bid to blog president donald trump's plan to build a border wall with mexico a group of states and advocacy organizations is seeking an injunction after trump declared a national emergency to get more money for the war. and mediation talks of wraps up in norway between the venezuelan government and the opposition they were aimed at ending the country's 5 month power struggle representatives of opposition leader one quite oh i have no left no way of venezuela's foreign minister thanks his norwegian counterparts for helping with ports he called a dialogue well that's you up to date certain stay with us here on al-jazeera the

news continues after inside story see you then. 10 years since sri lanka's civil war ethnic and religious tension is running high again buddhist groups are accused of attacking muslims want tamils demand justice over alleged war crimes can sri lanka ever achieve lasting peace this is inside story. we're going to. we're we will. come to the program fully back to sri lanka

is remembering a decade since the end of its civil war hundreds of thousands of people were killed over 26 years as a government for an ethnic minority tamils who wanted to create their own state but he was returning to the country attacks on churches and hotels killed nearly 260 people on easter sunday last month eisel claimed responsibility but the government blamed a little known homegrown armed group mosques and muslim owned businesses were burned down this week in revenge attacks the government is blaming what it calls hardline buddhist groups it says the situation is now calm enough to lift a nationwide curfew but the united nations is warning that the violence could undermine peace efforts now the civil war ended in 2009 let's take a closer look at what's happened since then in 2012 the government rejected a un resolution urging it to investigate crimes committed during the last few years of the conflicts but in 2015 months the promise or the scenery pace mind the

rajapaksa as president and pledge accountability over civil war atrocity. last year sarah scenery plays a prime minister with rajapaksa and his old parliament by the supreme court ruled against this and reinstated the former prime minister to end the political crisis and in march the un approved another extension to set up a credible war crimes investigation or will bring in our guests in just a moment but 1st now for 9 days reports from kilinochchi and northern town that was ravaged by the civil war and where people are trying to rebuild their lives. ship docked a tangle to subtlety has worked hard since the end of the war in 2009 to put the brutal conflict behind him he's one of 5 doctors who treated civilians caught between government and tamil tiger fighters mother and father brought to till then so the one was hidden does not call them. the in the

road the next one the next. and they told of this one also going today. they were crying. at least one arrested by the government questioned and released after the war he quickly returned to his job he now uses he spent time to teach young people how to make the best of their education 10 years after the end of the war dr south of the hopes programs like these will give students more opportunities to build a better future. it's an option that may have kids can learn from joining the tigers when he was 16 years old today his battle is to provide for his family after spending 3 years in prison i got conditional bail and have to go and sign in every month this is a must no matter where i work i also have to attend court hearings the 3 years that

i was in prison we got into a lot of debt. that's a common feature in most households here in the formal war zone many families struggle to make ends meet these people who are devastated during the war who could not earn a living for many many years even over the last 10 years are still in an economic crisis of saud's and. to see how we are going to get them out of this high rates of unemployment have not helped the aftermath of the war has left households struggling to cope financially with a few opportunities and many have lost family members or wheaties the news of the still missing. government troops battled a 26 year war with the tamil tigers who fought to win their rights against what they described as discrimination by should learn to sing in these majority successive governments could not defeat the tigers until president mind the drug

packs it took power he won the war but many say he lost the peace and alienated the tamil people i made serious allegations of human rights violations both the government and. or accused of committing war crimes but only the government has faced pressure to answer for its actions so far a senior government official in the north says the government could have done more if real life calm and everyday life need to be on 3rd and without which we can move forward i would a mark of if you move forward without answering i would have a call to review and i believe won't be any justice for that and i'm standing for that dr southam of the hopes those pledges will be honored till then he's concentrating on helping young tamils better their lives and their philander's al-jazeera killing archie northern sri lanka.

let's bring in our guest now for today's inside story in. dublin tamil and anti vinaya gun lecture and international law and griffith college joining us on skype from london cero a lot to hong an associate fellow a champ house and chair of the board of trustees of the sri lankan campaign for peace and justice thank you all for being on inside story charo if i can start with you in london 10 years since the end of the civil war has there been closure. i think the most clear and decisive oncet would be nil. not for the tamil community not healing and no real recreative process has been put in place you know not just in terms of judicial accountability which is a far cry i think in terms of really an outlet to sealing on so those 2 there are many questions. questions about the thousands of people the timers who've been disappear. questions about continuing militarization and military

presence in the northeast which is a very stark reminder that the time of a brutal end to the conflict so no really there has been no q. but presence there is seen a insists the country is on path to a consolation chair or what concrete lee has been done since 2009 to bring about reconciliation and unite communities well the measures that have been put into place you know the office of the missing person and very fledgling attempts at transitional justice mechanisms have really not borne any fruit so far you know the measures have been taken as a response to international pressure dehydrate to the human rights council a resolution on sri lanka which called for ringback these measures to be put in place and accountability to be measures of accountability to be put in force. these

responses these small initiatives we're really a response to exactly but actually in reality not a single case has been dropped against you know a house in the house lights were lots of civilians were killed and indeed as egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed but all sides all parties. but none of this. country's accountability map so when we talk about the current season another thing to consider is a recent. easter sunday attack and i think they would also bring to this the fault lines that sit on. society i think it's very important that you point out there that both sides in the civil war have been accused of committing crimes it's not just the government at the end of the conflict but also the tamil

tigers that's wrong in tamil in dublin tunnel you wrote recently in an article that sri lanka might be post war but not post conflict and set media events of the past few weeks isa sunday bombings the religious tensions the political climate have raised concerns about the future but is another conflicts really likely i mean many sri lankan is that we spoke to have been speaking to say you know never again. thanks very much for having me yes indeed i wrote in a recent article is. a country that of course war but certainly not post conflict and as you said i. the recent developments in the country especially in light of the anti muslim sentiments that are now emerging i see a new conflict coming to the forefront we have seen already the signs in 20142018 at the recent into religious riots that had happened in the

country. and we also have to stress that. is at the end of the day still a country that has never gated since this post colonial times within a prescriptive parameters of single leave buddhist nationalism and we have to understand that any kind of an intervention on behalf of the minorities in those countries is seen largely with suspicion as i have also pointed out in my recent book. that is dealing with the human rights and gauge went of sri lanka with the united nations so yes to answer your question there is a conflict looming and we have to be highly vigilant to encounter the rising nationalist threat towards any minority in the country while let's take a closer look at sri lanka's population it's largely divided into 2 ethnic groups

the sinhalese buddhist majority any minority tamils who are mostly hindu buddhist account for 70 percent and dominate the political and military establishments while just over 12 percent of the population is hindu muslims make up 9.7 percent and christians round up the number at nearly 7.4 percent so you know when you talk about the current tensions tamil are they religious tensions or ethnic tensions are both. well i think it's a mix of many things that have accumulated all over the years of course colonial governance in the country and different legislative measures have actually paved the way before a narrative that has fostered the attitude that it's the country of the single least buddhist. many scholars have written with with.

many research indications that. is a country where the single leaves are living with a minority complex they are the majority of the minority complex and. this is kind of an attitude that was carried from pre-colonial times already. where. certain leaders of nationalist religious movements like that of a ball or had infuse politician a lead singer leaves politicians with this ideology where she should be only governed by the singhalese and minorities are just subjugated to then in the tarot during the civil war muslims were also targeted by the tamil tiger rebels there and suffered at their hands what has the government done to restore confidence among young muslims following the recent attacks by by some members of the majority thing

halle's buddhist community as a government done anything to address the grievances of the minorities whether it's the muslims or the temples i mean so far we've seen sort of quite a strong reaction in terms of decoration of hume's and emergencies and. we've also seen that. the narrative from the state is is quite an ambiguous about not tolerating violence which is always a good. however you know the risk to be here is that there are elements very strong national nationalist elements within the political system and they're excellent the does have a very strong history of tallie retaining attacks on minority communities you know that what we saw on easter sunday came as a huge shock but it is sort of it has a relevance and to it has they was a resonance to what happened in 2012 what has happened you know in 2014 you know

the continuous pockets of attacks that have happened against the muslims were not addressed and indeed there was complete impunity and complete lack of state accountability in terms of investigating these attacks and holding the perpetrators to justice and so that sort of has bred an environment in which the minority can be attacked and there is a feeling of deep insecurity within the minority community i would like to make a very quick point about the city state the sri lankan state which is above this state you know also with me say that it has operated as as you know my majority area with this and ashley lism is in you know is it has been the norm this is entrenched in the constitution of the country so and it has been politically manipulated and utilized and acts of terrorism are acts of violence only so to

perpetuate and strengthen the hands of matches who we know you talk about these to sunday bombings and i want to come back to that economy lot of people by surprise do you think they are some elements within going to side here right now who are wanting to take advantage of the current instability to perhaps create more trouble and who would be those elements precisely. well i think it's quite clear that any sort of destabilization of the government and the fact that because of. the. information about that that intelligence was in should be different between the prime minister's office for instance had no clue the fact that you know there is there is a history of complete political breakdown recent political. all

bets the fact that any instability when. those who support a more right wing. call right now asked miss sent and so they will be a political faction in the country with food stamp again. and charo i want to bring in a 3rd guest now who has just joined us from colombo. who now our dana is an advisor to the sri lankan prime minister and former director of the information department thank you so much for joining us we're already started a conversation and cero and tommo both think that today is at a very. precarious position in a very precarious position at a crossroads if you will and that they could meet could be more instability in the country because of what we see in the recent months and recent weeks what is your take so where is she lanka today as

a country since the end of the civil war in 2009. thank you for having me. actually we have been trying to consolidate. since last he went on to coliseum situations where sri lanka government was actually given more time to perform and fulfill their obligations so like i was looking good and we have managed to start developing our own national institutions especially the transitional justice institutions we have established office of the missing persons also office of a petition so we were actually looking good come to the menu at the mission which came across the judicial spec these but there soon or in 21st of a pill that something unexpected happened where suicide bombers blew

themselves in sri lanka so we beat off an uncertain situation but i can tell you all now as of today after 3 weeks off the situation we managed to bring the situation under control and we. tried to celebrate the festival that we use the most important day for the bloodiest in the country from to morrow and day after ok let's allow tamil to respond to that tamil. says said that the government has been trying its best the office of missing persons has been set up as a state body to look into those who disappeared during the civil war also alarmed reparations is being worked on a slow growing certainly but it's working is it not. well things. well i when i heard the comment of so the russian i had to smile

a bit because we are hearing the same narrative over the last 6070 years that we need more time and that we have a special case intra longa and that also needs to establish its own indigenous. institutions to address the concerns of the country however we need to understand that after the end of the war there was the infamous special session in 2009 at the united nations human rights council that was a rather applauding the sri lankan government for what has happened and then moving on a certain evolution until 2015 and an immense pressure by the united nations and the international community as such for long to create transitional justice mechanisms and helping them also to pave towards that goal yes i acknowledge that that we have an office for missing persons and i do acknowledge all of that however even after 2015 there the movement towards fully reconstituted

a country is not moving very much forward rather the contrary in my eyes we are entering the united nations you mentioned the united nations salman and it's true that after the war ended there were quite a lot of efforts by the u.n. to bring about justice but do you think the u.n. is vested and is committed to bringing about justice today than it was a days after the war ended. well i think after the retreat of the united states which was a country that was very much pressing on accountability in the country and given the fact that under the obama administration that was the predominant foreign policy in so they show and now under the trumpet mr a should we see a retreat of the united states. from the international fora body especially from the united nations human rights council as such i see there is a lick of momentum. i see that the international community is not asked committed

as it was say 3 or 4 years ago however in the last report of generally 2018 though a high commissioner for human rights of the united nations has stressed again that trunk a must follow ready the path of transitional justice and was very much concerned about the level of violence in the country and was very poignant in that aspect to say that this kind of violence that we have seen against the muslims in spectacular in 20142018 comes in a in a continuous cycle of 10 years right and the reason is why right well let's let's ask mr sudarshan in colombia about that why this continuous violence and you know with the new elections that are planned in november a lot of people are wondering you know what the current power play between the president and prime minister whether the political whale is really there to to bridge these their friend says and you know to heal the wounds of the war.

this government actually came into power in 2015 with the promise of good governance and conciliation saw the promise is still valid and we have come a long way especially by it doesn't the democracy differently and also creating the independent constitutional institutions such as the constitutional council and with that consulates appointing the members to the independent commissions and so on and so forth nawa yes we are looking forward the next addiction possibly in november. and having a government habitation government it's very natural to have tensions and also it's so the 1st time we know history like in history that 2 major parties come together but i must tell you that at this point at this national tragedy what

president prime minister working closely know and there is no different set of opinions about how to address these and also both parties. made it very clear they are committed to it because national reconciliation so therefore i don't see that the the differences between parties and differences of opinion would not affect the agenda of national reconciliation at the clear indication was that even though there were many debates prior to the 2000. and 19 march when i was counseling sessions the government managed to send a unified delegation and of a foreign minister at the head of the liberation actually made comments and confirmed that 3 lanka is willing to continue in this part of the process not just is and the conciliation ok therefore i would like to assure that the government has

our intentions to address this issue because we want to make sure that country will not get back to the the past i chair oh there's been talk about a 2000 re consolation commission for sri lanka based on the south african model do you think that could work in sri lanka when certainly i mean it's a step in the right direction it's moved very very slowly it is field space but i think one important point to me is that true reconciliation and healing of those who lost and are in a state of trauma really over having suffered decades of conflict to reconciliation will come by. and small steps that mean the stop the servants on the tamil community decrease the militarization in the north ensure that people have an equitable an equal chance at employment and access to resources which is something

which is the driver of the conflict for all these years so you know it is setting up institution it's all very. but small steps which in the right direction need to be right thank you very much for a very interesting discussion. going our dana tunnel. and charulata holic thank you all for being on inside story and thank you as well for watching you can always washes program again any time by visiting our website at al-jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com for sasha a.j. inside story you can of course also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. insight story for me fully back in one whole team here in doha thank you for watching by the we. were we.

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and a senior iranian official has suggested talks be held between terrine and washington after weeks of escalating tensions are similar to the father had pca is chairman of iran's national security and foreign policy commission in a tweets he said the highest iranian and american officials have rejected the war option but there are 3rd parties who are rushing to destroy a large parts of the world there must be a table in iraq or qatar where the 2 sides can meet in order to end this tension well let's get more on this in basra joins us now live from tehran and see just who is this man and i went through and chillis iran. well mr foley happy she is an elected member of iran's party. it is a strong body he's won elections on 3 separate occasions he's a senior m.p.

a certainly a respected senior official he is a representative an independent politician from care much our province he survived an assassination attempt about 2 years ago and he has been more flexible on the issue of negotiations as a way forward to help resolve this current crisis so he's certainly not a small fish but at the same time we must take his comments there with a grain of salt the supreme national security council of iran which is headed by president hassan rouhani has released a statement not directly referencing mr bush is tweet but it's difficult to think that it could be anything else in that they've said in that statement that the personal remarks of an individual cannot be taken as a statement of some sort of policy and it reiterated the point that only the supreme national security council has the power in iran to dictate what kind of strategy or policy can be put in place on behalf of the government so

certainly his statement may reflect what many people within the parliament feel is the right way forward but again we have to keep in mind that his position is strong as it may be the foreign policy and national security commission can question the foreign minister and the president they can call people for an attendance to parliament to answer the questions of elected officials but at the same time they cannot set policy so really while he is a powerful figure at the end of the day a reminder from the federal body in charge from the president's supreme national security council a message that they are the ones to make the final decisions at the end of the day that may be the case saying but this is a significant statement is it not so what do you think you could be trying to achieve with this. absolutely this comes at a very sensitive time in iran the crisis with the united states the country's economic circumstances and that's really been a strain for the for the leadership here the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has

called for unity throughout this process so we will we can read this in 2 different ways this could be a sign of friction it could illustrate that parliament is trying to exert some authority to try to make some policy changes we have to keep in mind this is a strong parliament there is a of break up of power in iran and they have been able to go after romney before last year when you president donald trump the u.s. president pulled out of the nuclear deal sending iran's economy into a tailspin it was the iranian parliament that blamed the rouhani administration for not seeing it coming for not managing the financial crisis and did impeach a handful of his cabinet members so in many ways this could also reflect the fact that the hardliners are trying to go after president hassan rouhani once again i generally later when the country's in a very similar situation under american pressure under economic sanctions but then again mr is an independent so the optimist way of reading this would be to say that

he is the perfect candidate to sort of have a graceful avenue opening to a different way of dealing with this current crisis that we have to look at his tweet he did not say that you wanted to hold talks to renegotiate the nuclear deal leaders of both civilian and military have in many ways been painted into a corner and painted themselves into a corner saying that they will not negotiate the nuclear deal and they will not talk to u.s. president donald trump's administration but in this tweet he said that there should be talks to resolve the current crisis so this could be seen as a graceful opening to try to carry out some kind of dialogue to deescalate the current tension in the reason but we have to keep in mind that this still is a country run by a supreme leader the supreme leader is. his rule is in force and body is the islamic revolutionary guard. or so these 2 really empower each other these 2 institutions the supreme leader the i.r.g.c. and so he still reigns supreme in the country so if these comments are being made it could be said that they're being made under the auspices under that umbrella or

if going forward any policy that we can take is actionable policy will still come from the office of the supreme leader at the end of the day ok zain thank you very much send us arriving there reporting live from tehran well let's get the view now from the white house with our correspondents kimberly howard kurtz and can't believe it seems there is an appetite well in some quarters at least for talks with the states what's the response from the u.s. . you know we reached out to the national security council trying to get a response so far they have not replied to our e-mails but i can tell you the official position of the white house and from donald trump is that he is open to sitting down with iranian leadership we certainly seen him sit down with when it comes to north korea for example and did north korean leader kim jong un that he does favor trying to resolve escalating crises with dialogue but officially the united states does not have diplomatic relations with iran and that's where things

are complicated officially it is the swiss that handle the discussions back and forth they handle visa processing for u.s. citizens inside iran except for a it is notable that this week there swiss leader was here at the white house we do know that they discussed among other things the escalating crisis between the united states and iran and donald trump has even reportedly provided swiss leaders with a telephone number should iran want to reach out here's the problem within the trumpet ministration there remains division within his cabinet about how to proceed with iran well the president may favor a negotiated solution sees value in dialogue his national security advisor that continues to along with the u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 tends to be more hawkish in terms of continuing the maximum pressure campaign in its approach to iran so we're hearing that there is division within the trump

white house with regards to how to proceed and certainly we our effort in to try and find out how the united states might respond to suggestions of talks to resolve this escalating crisis whether it be in qatar whether it be in iraq so far the united states at least from the national security council has not responded ok can belief and i thank you very much indeed well let's stay with this moment is a professor of english literature and orientalism the university of tehran and joins us now law even for. the arabian cap but so. we've heard donald trump saying that he's willing to have a dialogue he's passed on his 4 number that americans are awaiting by the fraud and if there's no appetite for war why doesn't john just call the president trying to resolve this. well the supreme national security council issued a statement basically saying that nothing has changed any iran and of course the head of the supreme national security council is the president the foreign minister

and senior parliamentary officials as well as military officials are all present in the council the reason why they are unwilling to talk to trump is because the united states has exited the agreement and has left the table the iranians are saying that the we cannot trust a regime a government that does not abide by the commitments made by the state and if iran negotiate with the united states and has another karim an agreement hypothetically then he could tear that up to whenever he wants in addition the iranians are saying that by doing this they would only being be appeasing the united states and encouraging the united states to buy they'd agreements in future in order to get more concessions so the iranians are saying we were speaking to the americans at the negotiating table it was the americans who left in fact at the

beginning of the trumpet ministration rex tillerson the secretary of state at the time he was at the negotiating table but he left after trump ordered him to do so ok but. in terms of the statement from mr fall had the shape calling for talks there are still some clearly within iran he he wants a good sign a different route do you think this shows divisions emerging within the iranian government itself. no what he was alluding to was military tension he was saying that. the u.s. president and the iranian leadership they do not want war but there are people in the united states and allies of the united states by implication who do want war he was sort of referring to doctors that if our foreign ministers be team meaning bolton better netanyahu bibi netanyahu so when i am alone in there as i am so what

you know you are the ones who are fortunate or i'm sorry to cut you off when i have these talks and it's a fuse this tension and then deal with the nuclear deal separately it seems like a very high stakes game of chicken here and if you want talks to neither side wants to go to war why not in gauging the dialogue to dial it down a little bit. well negotiations are one thing and again the iranians are saying the americans have to go back to the nuclear agreement before we can talk there is no other way of doing this but with regards to military issues and tensions the united states has declared the iranian armed forces as a terrorist entity and the revolutionary guards as a terrorist entity and the iranians as in response to cent com a terrorist entity before the united states declared the guards as a terrorist organization of the iranian armed forces as a terrorist organization they.