against what it calls unruly elements at the protest site the council has also ordered the office of the al-jazeera media network in khartoum to be shut down giving any reason at all well david shinn is a former deputy chief of mission at the us embassy in sudan he joins me now from washington via skype what do you make of these developments that we're seeing in syria and the fact the process camp which has been there for many weeks now has no been described as a danger. well the 1st time in the post you're the eldest there office i'm a cartoon that is a setback for freedom of the press i think that is reflective of gulf state politics and the fact that sadam has been the beneficiary about $3000000000.00 financial aid from saudi arabia the united arab emirates as far as the ongoing demonstrations and khartoum are concerned this is only one of

a long series of incidents that have occurred sense the demonstration broke out on april 6th i would indicate i would suggest that it is a setback but probably not a serious one both the transitional military council on the one hand and the protest group led by the sudanese professionals association on the other have gone through a number of these episodes of both are both are any committed for the long term this is not going to change the position of the protesters they are absolutely going to see this through and one hopes there will not be any additional deaths or injuries as a result of something like this but it is not going to am the protest by any means is it not a danger in that case that both sides are so deeply entrenched that this could

spiral and saw a much more concerning situation. it could be on the other hand it's my understanding that talks have been going on constantly silence the 6th of april including and over the last 24 hours and some of these are merely some. they are not ending the actual talks 2 sides of not yet reached agreement on how to divide up our or indeed what even the time frame would be for turning power over to civilian authority but the fact that the tops are ongoing i knew because a relatively positive development money in the final analysis they have they actually will be successful but does this not indicate in some way a return to. the concierge him if you like we are starting to see the coup of the quarter of all just sierra. also designates in this protest camp as

a danger to the country could it not that it's a not a fear this could be interpreted particularly by the protesters who are wanting a fresh starts that this is a return to bashir era clomping day. i don't know if you will see a return to the sheer or i think that those finish the greater concern here would be at least some of the individuals or ball in the transitional military council over asserting their authority. assuming they can outweight the protesters and i think they're wrong if they are making that assumption so there could be some miscalculation going on in the week 2nd but again in the final analysis i think both sides will understand that they really for the good of sit down they have to reach some kind of accommodation in the coming weeks

ok david chad we'll have to leave it there thanks very much though for bringing us your thoughts david shinn deputy chief of mission at the u.s. embassy a former chief of mission rather at the u.s. embassy in sudan thank you very much at this was more still to come on the news hour including a new effort see identify the victims of a mass killing in central bosnia and herzegovina we have the latest on the investigation into the sinking of a bit a pastor's boat which at least 7 people died plus. i'm a welling's at the oval cricket ground in london where the world cup is on the wife of the hosts of started with a with. turkey's president stretch up tayyip erdogan says fighting in northern syria must be put on hold to stop more civilian deaths in a conversation with his russian counterpart flounce mir puts in he said

a cease fire in its lip would also stop refugees fleeing to turkey it comes as rebel fighters hold 8 against government airstrikes with the number of dead rising cena how to reports from beirut's. policy ally she prayed that his children and. child will be pulled out alive from underneath the rubble of what was their house. they were at but i. more than 250 syrians have been killed in russian and syrian air and ground attacks in recent weeks opposition controlled towns across southern italy northern and western aleppo in the northwest are under attack. every day people are dying under the rubble here in providence. conditioned rooms children women and the elderly a dying look around this is becoming a reality the united nations says further escalation with threaten humanitarian

assistance for the region's residents some 270000 people have been displaced since late april. only 30 percent of those in need are receiving aid because the number of displaced in the past month drastically increased the intense bombardment is preventing aid workers from reaching some areas. it's been a month since the bombardment began a cease fire agreed by russia and turkey last year has all but collapsed straining their alliance in syria turkish authorities say there are efforts to revive that deal. was that we asked and are waiting from our russian partners who we are in close contact with to use their influence on the syrian regime in order to stop the leaden air attacks on it live as soon as possible. the russian backed offensive is seen as military pressure on turkey to force the rebels to create a demilitarized zone around it lip and open highways that run through the province . share.

the armed opposition is holding its ground believed to be backed by turkey which gives it a strong position on the table but turkey's participation in the russian led after they go to track may be more important for russia than it live as it seeks to drive the political process to end the war so for their own people. the u.s. president or trump has announced he'll tax all goods from mexico to push the government to take action on illegal immigration at the same time he posted this video on twitter said to show a 1000 migrants trying to cross the border trump says the 5 percent tariff or be enforced from june 10th and will be increased every month until something is done

they will get the reaction from manner of follow in mexico but 1st let's cross to heidi joe castro in washington d.c. and how is it just how significant would you say these tariffs are. well they would be very significant if they are implemented and it would go from just painful to catastrophic the economic impact on both sides of the border if this threat is realized through october at which point that 5 percent tariff would jump to 25 percent an all mexican goods exported to the united states now that accounts for $346000000000.00 in mexico mexican goods that was imported last year alone and half of that were auto parts and machinery both absolutely vital to the manufacturing sector and u.s.

workers who trump has said he wants to help so what is startling about this too is that for all of the years of negotiations it took the united states mexico and canada to come up with the region drafted nafta now called the us mexico canada agreement it appears that in a single day the white house's unit unilaterally threatening to tear up that progress by imposing these these tariffs and it's also ironic that on the same day that the white house sent the plan for ratification of that trilateral agreement to congress to consider for ratification that just a few hours later this new threat linked to immigration. if you think this is law suits the word sued to slow the traffic avoidance. that all depends i suppose on whether this is a bluff or a real less stick threat that was the exact same question we asked ourselves a few months ago when if you'll recall trump threatened to close the entire

southern border in response to the migrants coming over all that never happened but trump spunked that as a political win claiming without offering evidence that mexico had responded by deporting more central americans so now that threat has shifted from closing the border to imposing these dramatic tariffs and it's telling that in this announcement from the white house today this ultimatum to mexico does not say anything about what it actually needs to accomplish to avoid the tariffs there isn't anything in here like a quota or percentage of illegal crossings that this we need to decrease by rather than ousmane says that compliance will be completely subjective to the trump administration in its sole discretion and judgment in other words this leaves open an easy out for the trouble ministration to not impose a chair us if it so chooses and yet still claim a political victory which he certainly is hoping for as the president heads toward

another election. live in washington d.c. thank you let's get the reaction from the mexican side over the border mundo republic joins us now from mexico city in the money what was the reaction been from mexican officials. the reaction in mexico to these renewed threats from president from has been quite measured one of the 1st responses that we heard was from mexico's deputy foreign minister for north america has he was one of the 1st response saying that such a measure would be quote disastrous he went on to say that the appropriate response from mexico would be all hope means eye for an eye this is of course as heidi mentioned not the 1st time that we've heard these sort of veiled threats from the american president toward mexico it was only last april when president from to close the us mexico border if if mexico didn't do more to stem the flow of migrants

this may be one of the reasons why we're not hearing more of a response maybe one of the reasons why so many other officials haven't seemed to take the threat these were new threats very seriously and president trump is saying that mexico could be doing more to stem the flow of migrants but is this the case. it's interesting the president would say that mexico is not doing enough given that mix the mexican government has even departed from its own policies departed from its own mandate to provide more assistance under the new mexican administration to central american migrants they've increased the tensions at mexico's southern border with water malo they've. been forcing u.s. policy accepting central american asylum seekers back into mexico to await the asylum process here instead of providing that assistance that the mandate called for under the administration of of president lopez obrador as well as

as departing away from talking about the president united states has failed to talk about the root causes of immigration which is skyrocketing violence increasing in poverty and political instability that is what's actually driving central american migrants from their homes forcing them to flee the area of central america known as the northern triangle predominately from from honduras but also from el salvador and to a certain extent from guatemala ok we'll have to leave it there but thanks very much for bringing us the view from mexico city now the u.s. government says the 1st lease is for oil exploration in an alaskan wildlife refuge will be sold this year the bluefin sea coasts had been off limits to oil and gas drilling until the trumpet ministration pushed approval through congress and 2017 environmental groups and worried about the impact on caribou polar bears and other

wildlife in the area. $21.00 people or so missing after the 2 boats carrying south korean to risk capsized and sank in the gehring capital budapest of the 7 tourists are confirmed dead and search operations continue under schapelle has. a final voyage of a sightseeing cruise and the moments before disaster c.c.t.v. footage shows 2 boats colliding on the danube river the smaller vessel just ahead was carrying more than 30 south korean tourists every telekinetic now total we can see on the footage that the small boat the men made as silent north as the biggest ship the viking when they reached the margaret bridge the mermaid turns in front of the viking for some reason and as the fighting touches the men made it gets turned on its side and within about 7 seconds it sinks in. the mermaids wreckage has been found on the river bed rescue teams are facing high water levels and

a fast current the result of a month of heavy rain but not the most we found some people with serious injuries in a critical condition there was some who got lightly injured and some needed to be resuscitated . the captain of the larger vessel has been taken into police custody accused of reckless misconduct the mermaid was a 26 meter boat used for sightseeing that could hold 60 people the south korean tour agency which organized the trip says relatives of the tourists will arrive in budapest on friday south korean president moon j n has sent foreign ministry officials to hungary to help. gun control law i urge you to make use of all diplomatic channels to work with the hungaroring government so search and rescue operations take place as fast as possible and if there are not enough personnel or equipment i ask you to coordinate with neighboring countries are hungry to find ways of bringing more rescue experts and additional equipment or abuse. the search

for survivors has been extended far downstream into serbia as hungary and police continue their criminal investigation and are schapelle al-jazeera. austria has announced a successor to sebastian kurtz who was i sit as chancellor in a no confidence vote on monday because he does beer line is a constitutional judge and is set to become the country's 1st female chancellor courts was forced to step down as leader of the far right freedom party after a corruption scandal involving a former coalition partner with the expander julian assange has missed a court hearing in london his lawyer says he was ill the 47 year old is fighting an extradition request from the us over charges related to leaking government secrets he had been gizzi appear at the hearing via video link from a high security british prison songes serving a 50 week sentence for skipping bail but faces decades in prison if convicted in

u.s. courts wiki leaks says it has grave concerns of boats assad his health so it's come on al-jazeera the government of gerry bolsa naro faces one of its biggest challenges today we'll tell you why these protesters are so angry. when a father continues his search for justice 10 years after his son was killed is for lanka's civil war and in sports a scare for the women's a world number one at the french open. the wedding sponsored by qatar airways. hello the raid in china particularly southern china is popping up again the satellites bright white top shows big shasta's near vietnam cross hard and up towards hong kong germany covering quandong

that's where you might expect to find the rain so no surprise that's where it is it also runs up in to unite but notice that those quite draw in shanghai west was to chengdu nothing much in the sky but the humidity is high and the rain is going to develop i think from hong kong and then further inland these are going to have a circulation here and that's pretty likely to be flooding weather i think they will see some footage of flash in the next couple of days south of this to where it's effectively a wet season throughout relays year in the philippines all southeast asia good part of jobs in bali east which is now dry not sure blessid relief so forecast wise if you're in singapore kuala lumpur showers seem unlikely event bangkok also and those masses of cloud with the course a rather more humid feel to it but i have to say up in lose all of it doesn't look particularly wet at the moment as for india pretty monsoon heat has led to some of

the time the heat warning in much of pradesh there are a few showers around but as yet the rain from the monsoon is a long way south. the weather is sponsored by always. risk in utah. coming. on the altitude sierra everywhere it's a devastating impact on. fridays explore some of the efforts to recover what was lost from this. syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important southpaws and we have to make sure they are surviving to the

refugees striving to co-exist with nature ok so what's going on there simulating what happens when an elephant life on to conflict on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories for you this hour gulf nations have called on iran to respect international law and stop interfering in other country's internal affairs after a series of emergency summit held in saudi arabia qatar as prime minister has become the will senior qatari official to visit the kingdom since the start of a society led blockades 2 years ago. the us president said has announced

a tariff on all kids from mexico to push the government take action on illegal immigration mexico is calling the move disastrous and is vowing to respond vigorously. and sudan's a transitional military council says a protest camp in the capital khartoum is posing a threat to the nation its board action will be taken against so-called unruly elements demonstrations want the generals to hand power to civilians. now less than 2 months after its last election israel is gearing up for another after prime minister benjamin netanyahu fails to form a coalition government parliament voted to dissolve itself after the deadline passed at midnight on wednesday the country will return to the polls in september you know while mr yahoo met with c.e.o. . white house adviser jared kirshner talk about trump's peace plan for the middle east or palestinian leaders have rejected the u.s.

plan with prime minister mahmoud abbas telling arab leaders earlier it undermines international law the abraham has more from ramallah palestinians have stopped engaging with the u.s. administration ever since the u.s. president donald trump said that he's willing to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem which he eventually did last year the palestinian officials would tell you that the americans have become part of the problem and not part of the solution and not only do they to jack the u.s. peace plan but also the sort mediation of america in the peace process as to the economic workshop that is due to be held in the next month ballasting ians it is that they haven't been consulted in that conference and they're not going to be joining that position has been debated he did by palestinian president mahmoud abbas who was met at a special envoy by the king yesterday he told him that the palestinians are not going to be joining in response the invoice said that is simply hosting the

conference and not organizing it palestinian officials have repeatedly said this is that the solution to the palestinian cause is not just economic it's political they talk about the end of occupation as well as having is jerusalem as the capital of the future palestinian state. kosovo's foreign minister says your band visit spies serbia in the serbian prime minister accusing her of making racist comments is just the latest flare up in tensions between belgrade serbia already has its troops on high alert softer kosovan police launched are a result in a predominantly ethnic serbs area in the north or has more from crushing itsa in kosovo. it was a message of hope the new born sculpture in pristina was created in 2008 to mull kosovo's independence from serbia but 2 decades after conflict tore the 2 sides apart rivalries between serbs and albanians in kosovo still threaten peace the

sculptor is now an m.p. he says belgrade is destabilising kosovo by fuelling nationalism among its minority serbia and serbian politics and those belgrade's. involvement in. in in the affairs in kosovo has made this impossible for the last 20 years so serbia has to accept the fact that they have a minority here which. will be treated as equal citizens of course or so be a refuses to recognize kosovo the tensions are preventing both sides from joining the european union e.u. leaders are calling for reconciliation deal one proposal would be to reach your borders carving up kossovo along ethnic lines would be controversial the cost of an president's chief advisor says a solution must be found assuming that there can be some sort of a correction in the end of the talks. forever remain multiethnic as it is today

because nobody will ever accept any borders among their clients and this is not at all the intention the intention is to camargue come up with a final deal between the 2 countries there are reminders of ethnic divisions everywhere in kosovo and echoes of the past some course of an albanians want to join albania others say kosovo should stays that is this is gretchen it's a predominantly ethnic serb municipality just outside pristina most serbs here say they live alongside their albanian neighbors without any problems and if course of i was to be divided along ethnic lines people here say they would. to leave this farmer's family has lived here for generations and ethnic serb he says his grandchildren's future is here but. there needs to be an agreement and then everyone will calm down we don't have problems between albanians and serbs it's

politicians feeling a tool of kosovo was born out of conflict and it remains fragile until pushed in and belgrade can resolve their differences uniting everyone under the same flag could remain elusive for kosovo's leaders natasha butler al-jazeera. kosovo tens of thousands of students and teachers in brazil have rallied for the 2nd time this month against plans spending cuts in education local media say demonstrations were held in more than 80 cities the government wants to partly freeze spending in public universities in the coming months but critics say it's an assault on education. is at a demonstration in sao paolo. the government of president job also not all says that the cuts to the education budget are essential if brazil is going to be able to afford what he says is major reform of the pension system coming up while the country is heading for economic difficulties the economy has contracted

a bit many people here say that the cuts will disproportionately affect the working class people at the bottom end of political society and that will make life very very difficult for them it's only this about jenna's actions over the years many people like myself coming from the lower middle class have gone to university i'm now a professor in a public university who have the opportunity to study but instead of pushing to improve the education system to have more equal growth in brazil the government sees education as a threat to monitor something suitable i think and so i think i will never be able to pay for private education i want to be a lawyer and go to $1.00 of the best public universities in brasil but i'm $100.00 that might not happen. tonight. although the protests are only likely to get bigger more than a 1000000 people marched across brazil in the middle of may when the cuts were announced many more marching across the country today the president himself is

unlikely to be swayed he's accused professors working in the public education system of indoctrinating students with left wing ideas and urged them to report their teachers to the all corot is a but many have said that this is a battle for the heart and soul of the brazilian society other protests are likely to go on with an increasing polarization of those who support president polls or not all and many of those who oppose him. the choragus government has released 50 more prisoners detained during process over the past year but a ban against public demonstrations remains in place for the opposition the only form of process is under the watch of faith leaders alexia bryant reports. police and armed paramilitary forces have spread out across much of the nicaraguan capital to enforce a nationwide ban against public protests or demonstrations that could be considered critical of the country's president daniel ortega

a lot i feel pain sadness and outrage because after one year we still don't have justice i i it's mother's day in nicaragua and protesters have gathered at the catholic church downtown demanding justice for the hundreds of men and women who've been killed by pro-government forces since the start of the political process more than a year ago this time last year hundreds of thousands of nicaraguan citizens were marching on the streets calling for the government to be held accountable for the deaths of unarmed demonstrators. at least 15 people were killed and 200 others injured when pro-government forces opened fire on protesters and water remembered as the mother's day massacre. i'd sat there over the past year the government stepped up repression of political dissidents and journalists. protests on the streets of the capital have become quite rare still there are those who

continue to speak out and i mean i think. the regime is taking control of the streets we live in a police state where we cannot even lift the national flag or have any sort of public demonstration they want to silence the opposition. and a show of good faith for the mother's day holiday the nicaraguan police released 50 political prisoners they were taking a government is also committed to releasing all political prisoners by june 18th elixir brian al jazeera. and your effort is underway to identify more than $100.00 victims from a $992.00 mass killing during the balkan conflict in bosnia herzegovina the current chani cliffs massacre somewhere than $200.00 civilians shot dead and dumped sinner of in by a serbian police units has taken nearly 3 decades to uncover many of the remains and return them to their families for a proper burial paul brennan reports in the garden of his home in turn

napoleon 78 year old passes his retirement in silence his 2 sons emin and amir were in their early twenty's when they were both killed a car a chinese cliffs after 27 years has now been told their remains have finally been found. burial tonight in a jawbone was found 10 or 12 years ago but they didn't know which of them it belonged to now the full remains were found in that musgrave i mean and they were exempt from a site known as the stone mass grave the corpses were hidden under a thick layer of rocks in august 1902 a group of more than $200.00 bosniak men were transported to the edge of the ravine made to kneel and then shot dead by police the corpses are only now being recovered burden's father ferritin was one of the victims who have now been identified he will be buried in july. evasion or simply the most part it's all about who is around and who wasn't have the people responsible for the crimes being prosecuted

why some didn't get more prison time those sorts of things haunt us taylor fix faces having to say goodbye to his brother all over again he already buried some of his bones found a car a china cliffs now a significant portion of the rest of the skeleton has been identified yet. it is not easy but this time around is stronger still i thought i was done with this 5 years ago i guess this time i'll get actual closure. on 6 umed the bones offer instantly examined at the center 112 sets of remains are currently awaiting final identification here the final number of newly identified victims will reach 18180 people whose relatives have spent nearly 3 decades wondering. what their thought we have here remains of slain sons and their parents siblings neighbors all kept it together this is in the way a unique situation you could say that this was

a family mass grave. each victim has a story who is a senator was a teacher. who teaches senator was killed by one of his former students and there was another one of his old students who found his remains committed the crime and the other one did a good deed. in 2004 the leader of the police unit which carried out the massacre was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 17 years in prison but it's only now that these victims can be properly buried that their families can have closure paul brennan al-jazeera so like a civil war and it's 10 years ago this month tens of thousands of people were killed among them 5 tamil students gunned down on a beach in the city of trickle molly 12 a special task force officers were arrested in connection to the murders but were later released. well. a father of one of the victims is vying to thank justice.