but the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we inherited which it is our duty to transmit unshorn to our children. and what the rights mean here are they were the right to us right right and i was taught and still get we were not defending slavery we were just a fan dame hours from northern aggression the rest why. next we visit the statue of our common ancestor it's very painful to remember the legacy evidence right where the great grandmother was 2nd cousin or plopping me so is painful it's painful to know cham is not perfect right now a queen i would i would take him day on the defense of slavery was not. something to be honored. gary flowers is a local radio host and custodian of black history in richmond he wants to show me

a statue that he fought to get a wrecked in in 2017 so this is mrs maggie cleaned out walker. born to an insulated mother maggie walker was the 1st black woman to charter a bank in the united states the st luke penny savings bank. statues say to the community and say to the world this is someone whose fault to put on a on a literal pedestal that is a woman to be honored and that is a woman to be memorialized so that's what is so disheartening and despicable about the confederate statues because they fought for slavery. sedition secession and racial segregation and so those are not honorable virtues for which to fight nor are they american there is no other country on the planet that honors and

statuary the losers of a civil war itself that my ancestors who were burned be brutalized raped by a confederate confederate thinkers that is a constant symbol to me the confederate statues that we have now honoring a dishonorable man and a dishonorable cause and a dishonorable confederacy. statues mean so. there are others in richmond who are adamant the statue should remain the organization sons of confederate veterans has spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to prevent the removal of statues in charlottesville and elsewhere. oh mr morehead just again and andrew morehead thank you to me yes or welcome to richmond and hollywood cemetery a matter told you i'm a relative of robert e. lee absolutely and with the beard with the reddish beer and you look more like you

have stuart but that's excellent let's take a look at a few things you've read. these are the dead from gettysburg. we visit the confederate section of the cemetery with the graves of around 2000 soldiers who died in gettysburg a battle lost by robert e. lee in 1963 it was arguably the turning point in the war. heavy casualties. around 50000 soldiers from both sides died in that battle there are a lot of people that feel that those statues need to come down when you look at these monuments just on a pure abstract be they're beautiful works of art. beautiful works of art and then you've got the military brilliance of robert e. lee which is still studied by military theorists today the passion for this issue we is the sins of confederate ancestors they're our family

we review the fact that we feel in our opinion they fought for a noble cause. to overthrow it overbearing federal government would you want anybody to talk badly about your family just the notion of family you know brings up a lot of emotions in me but at the same time if there is a member of one's family that is doing something that you don't agree with you have a responsibility for them sure and we're responsible for the legacy of our ancestors as far as telling the truth as we see it robert e. lee didn't say i'm going to fight for slavery no what he said is i cannot term us a word against virginia so that tells you that the war was not about slavery there are some things we're not going to agree on i appreciate your time and giving us

your point of view absolutely. andrews' view that the civil war wasn't primarily fought to preserve slavery has been debunked by the vast majority of scholars. i'm curious to find out why so many millions of virginians still believe that all of this to an end it's a pleasure to. have a christy coleman is an expert on the american civil war and heads the museum in richmond specially devoted to the subject so christi here we are 150 years after the civil war it seems like a lot of the history and perspectives are still unsettled why is it still such a hot button to day. i think. part of the reason is that we've spent 150 years lying to each other about what this war was about. we spent 150 years lying and trying to reinforce the law and the truth is and i didn't daughters

of the confederacy and their historian of the organization a woman by the name of mildred rutherford makes it her business to frame the narrative that must be in every school or textbook and if it's not there she tells the me. you must reject it from your home and you must reject it from your school. and that's exactly what they do so if you wonder why america has such a de virgine view about this it was crafted that way the way i see it is that robert e. lee fought for slavery and that's what the civil war was about but. along the way in our i've heard an alternate opinion the reality is men women and children were bought and sold from their families by lee ok at arlington. and in the other properties that he owned he comes from a family that for generations has bought and sold human beings this way. but i'm

convinced that the weight of his choices. the death tolls and the casualties being so high i think weighed on his soul and i think that that is why he was so in his last years was so adamant. to tell others don't put up statues don't relive this let's just. let's just be you have the intensity that i see in his images with in your eyes i really like ike i think that might be a family trait it's probably just beard maybe it's very. good. to see what people think i look like he's got. my own view is that the statue should be removed because it glorifies

a shameful cause the fight to preserve slavery. over 700000 soldiers died in the american civil war the equivalent of 7000000 today. i guess it gives me some small comfort to know that my ancestor also didn't want any monuments to this dark period in our history. it's time for me to face up to the sins of my ancestors. this church in peter's ville maryland was built by black people my ancestors and slaves. my grandmother used to bring me here as a child. i've come to see 2 of her friends i've known them since i was young lord have mercy or where she may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our own we're going to everlasting life. clarice in a stellar both descendants of the people my family and slaves i want to know how they feel about that it's not something my family ever discussed.

i feel uncomfortable about bringing up the subject of enslavement i don't want to upset them. cleary some i'm wondering if you could tell me about the picture on this book here this is my mom. madeline. and i'm claire is this. and she was the nurse of this little girl and mom's mother used to work for the least so your mom's mother was born in slave by the chief and yes. ochoa how'd say he was a slave my great grandfather of the leap property i feel kind of strange about that someone earned how how you feel about that i just live in the present time and i know that i can go anywhere i want to go and do anything i want to do

and i don't have to bow down to nobody see that that's me in this present time and that's where i am what i wanted to do was go on you know a journey that where i figure out what i can do to make sure that you know we don't start slipping backwards you should just try to make sure that you treat people right don't don't harbor thinking about what your great great grandfather did so i don't have no hard feelings with you but i'm proud that you want to do something. make sure you do something i don't know what you're going to do. if if you

win the lottery you can give me a couple adult ok i could do that. but other than met you have. to help you and in your endeavor if you really had it i hope i have because i think you've got a wonderful family. i feel humbled that a sterling priest don't hold any grudge against my ancestors for what there is and are but i want to honor their call to action. i need to know how much closer we are to racial equality than in my great grandfather's day. baltimore the largest city in maryland is just one hour away. it has a population of 3000000 with a high proportion for black. 2015 there were

street protests in baltimore. triggered by the death of a 25 year old black man. freddie gray spine was severed while in police custody no officer was ever convicted. i meet up with kwame rose a young political activists who hit the headlines during the protest. kwame was filmed in a well known t.v. host for failing to report the underlying race related issues fueling the honor asked i want you and fox news to get out of baltimore city because you're not here warning about the boarded up exterior of the black right where you. think things are are better are they getting better we have a white supremacist in office now may be just as bad as robert e. lee was when donald trump promotes and preys on the races ideologies that exist inside of american society you know we black people built this car. from on our hands our blood sweat tears and we haven't got one ounce of compensation reparation

or even acknowledgement of the contribution we did what is it that i should know about baltimore what people should know about baltimore is that we are majority black population. 63 percent black most of our elected officials are black but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america. this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. kwame wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. ate here. you know drink here. actually that restaurant right there during opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing and i love making people

uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks of this neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the street standing on a corner the police are there you know come out and disperse a crowd. it's kong right and there's nothing wrong with that the fact that this city is 63 percent black and the amount of people represented in certain communities like this aren't right here. i'll take you to a part of baltimore. it's pretty great grew up. in what's across the slightest sensually you'll be able to tell the difference from where we just came from. you notice all the vacant businesses vacant homes. there are over 30000 vacant homes in baltimore

the majority concentrated in black neighborhoods. the inequality in wealthier stock 3 times more black people than white live below the poverty line and blacks are 4 times more likely to be unemployed. this is america. richest nation in the world right. now this is going more homes this is where freddie great. so this is a neighborhood. flooded with poverty and adequate public housing lack of opportunity and jobs for pretty much of your born in this community you're stuck here. most kids that grow up in poverty in baltimore city don't have the chance to leave within 5 blocks of there. where they were born to really. what's the situation with the police and you can be someone like philander castille who had a weapon that was legally purchased and still killed even though he followed all

the rules you can be afraid of gray who ran away as so many examples of black people who did nothing wrong but just were killed because they like ice cube said their skin was their center in the united states black people are 3 times more likely than whites to be killed by the police. how do we make sure these people in your homes have the same access to quality of life that the people fells point have . it seems to me like before we can fix anything we have to acknowledge the truth of the situation what an acknowledgment it has to be some type of compensation as of which surely the greatest nation on earth when the people who made the greatest contribution should have access to a quality of life for those who are oppressed and slave those. on the right. i've never really taken the idea of reparations seriously before that meeting with kwame has made me reconsider. i need to learn more about the inequalities that black people continue to experience i'm ready to face more uncomfortable truths.

in 2008 raggy traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be american 1st i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim the deal like to the united states congress. rewind islam in america on al-jazeera. cricket's biggest photo it has come to england the miles 6 weeks 10 times 11 venues. can australia the friend of a trifle will a good funding win a world cup tie with al-jazeera for all the lightest of the 29 say cricket while call. global food production is wasteful and it's straining our planet.

but pioneers are adapting with new food sources jellyfish is delicious with a very light seafood taste and a texture. and innovative production techniques i've seen. a vertical farm before i would never in a restaurant have to see this is great earthrise feeding the 1000000000 on a just you know. hello i maryam namazie and on was just a quick look at the top stories saddam's opposition has accepted ethiopia's prime minister as a mediator to try to end the political crisis after a deadly military crackdown on protesters this week abi ahmed has held talks with the ruling military genter and pro-democracy leaders and hard to meanwhile the u.n.

is calling for the urgent deployment of a monitoring team to sudan. to form the government gives you any human rights. into the country as quickly as possible. but one thing the other thing is to rainier in the records of course. immediately is this group has a very very checkered history. and has to be the center of the violence as we. the u.n. says at least 4000000 people have now fled venezuela because of the western economic and political situation all but 700000 of them have left since the end of 2015 u.n. aid agencies say the figure is alarming and they're calling for immediate help from other countries to host the displaced especially in latin america. u.s. president donald trump says there is a good chance a trade deal with mexico will be reached after talks wrapped up for the day in washington the white house has threatened to impose a 5 percent tariff on all mexican goods from monday and it says that could increase

each month until october if mexico does not stem the flow of migrants. well the u.s. is saying it will launch a formal diplomatic protest with russia over a near miss between that will ship in the east china sea both countries are excusing each other of unsafe actions after the ships came within 50 meters of crashing thousands of people have been protesting against the president in liberia's capital as he struggles to revive a sinking economy organizers say georgia where a footballer turned politician has failed to improve the lives of liberians came to power 18 months ago promising to create jobs and fight corruption and the british one is the trees of maize for me step down as leader of the ruling conservative party 2 weeks after announcing her intention to leave she said that she regretted not being able to deliver breaks it she will stay all know as caretaker prime minister while the party chooses her replacement well that brings you up to date

with the top stories but i'll have more on everything for you in the news hour 2100 g.m.t. in about half an hour's time a c.n.n. . in baltimore maryland black people are 3 times more likely than white to be living in poverty. i want to know what that means for the people living. rick fontayne works for the city he grew up in a public housing project and has been helping disadvantaged youths in baltimore for over 10 years. among. the housing projects is primarily black ok out of you know thousands of people who maybe like 10 white people that live in the projects. as no resources you have a city you have a saw story it. someone you know they call it you know. i

saw. this james it was a tough one of mr rich toughest soldiers. some like his squeegee and they earn money that way but a lot of kids on they sell bottled waters and bottled drinks for a dollar i mean on the bottom yes thank you thank you he he with the legal hassles all right and you know i'm only women sometimes i just pull kids off corners i mentor them i help them get. rick takes me to the parking lot where de'monte howard a youth he mentored was shot dead just 2 months before. a lot of the drugs and activity happens right here and it's this parking lot and this is where unfortunately a lot of the homicides are robberies to please the c.r.p. diesel baby that was the a monster his nickname his mother was struggling as a single mom 3 children by herself and he did the fastest thing to help her and that was get involved in drugs or here he was just good enough to help his mom and

some guys from another neighborhood came here to rob them and ended up killing a really good kid old man always is trying to do better we got. i'm in wilberforce college and the day we were supposed to present him with his certificate to go to college he was he was murdered right here really started here he says as the president. was a boss we've been to and i miss my homeboy good to be just rob lowe. what would you like for this community all these kids to take them up the trips to the springs more stuff that's all they know right here so. it was all of the right in the environment i mean like i think the kids need a feature of all those. a lot of problems and lot of these kids feel like they're forced to do that to survive they're not doing it to be driving

a mercedes in bentleys and things like that they're doing it because if i don't do this. people in these neighborhoods are not asking for anything but opportunity the same playing field that the rest of america gets i don't. this is. what you need to see how you don so this is this is james to lose that and. you know i always see how you know you know the little thing that we're doing and how you know they've everybody feel so safe passage is their babies especially to the streets and now here i am i one of them. i'm so sorry for your loss thank you so much thank you could appreciate. there were 343 homicides in baltimore in 2017 more than 90 percent of these people were black. shann wallace is

a baltimore photographer who uses her craft to combat racial stereotyping so i use photography as a form of activism my black lives matter and this what we are this is what we are outside of the gaze of whiteness. this guy right here i see black men all the time but i see how the world continues to perpetuate that these moments moments like this don't happen sometimes i photograph a black man and by the time i have the photograph printed and ready to give it to them they block that you have the sound i went back to go give them a copy but you don't sometimes. we endorse so much pain and have these moments where we didn't have anybody to tell you know but a lot of people tell me about those moments when i take their photograph and talk about our trauma and talk about the injustice. what can i do what can white people do to kind of shift the way that they think and i think that for white people it starts with just simply care about black people and envisioning more

equal society allies i don't think that an ally job is to go in and dig and tell people what to do and give directions this is listen and take notes. she has arranged a photo shoot in the area of baltimore where she grew up. she photographs her brother does many cousin quoting in front of. 2 generations punish them we still live on the street. does many quoting have served time in prison one in 3 black men in the us it's a felony conviction. over 76 year prison. i was forced to come out of this trying to. provide a way from. 0. but we were forced into this we don't have. the right to tell you. the forces of

history and basically no difference there for. is there a pedophile with i'm not even the press. it was darker bring my son. is community my family my whole family stuck in this community when you look back across the generations the advantages that white people have put in position for themselves and all black people and then the disadvantage as i might be was mommy just because you're white you should never bet up there and to me i don't think so but that's just like him and then think about his fall from his father it always was this event right so for a black person pieces us was really. true i give something back about a child and i think about it we just want to force more from our to put the spotlight on us and give us a little bit of help and then but i was determined what we will do with the help we

don't weigh it out that soon however so scott we've askey to speak out because a surprise we portrayed him is as if we cool with it but we're not we so scarred that we don't even want to speak out because we are free to the next person to look at. you guys are going to take this with me you know trying trying to spread the message. i mean i came here to listen and to learn you know and it seems like such a small thing. just to hear these stories. is it's not small because quality he got emotional and even my brother got emotional because they have people listening to him you know people really find it down matter we don't really talk about it because it happens so my just not news is not new. i know he didn't want to say that stuff over a long time we got kids the guy family you know and they all live in poverty it is

the as though living in poverty is this is not the dream for us. i later discover that the continuing existence of rich white neighborhoods and poor black neighborhoods in baltimore is not accidental but a legacy of decades of deliberate racial discrimination. in the mid 1930 s. the us government was encouraging people to buy their own homes by offering federal loans however most black people were systematically refused mortgages. in addition government and financial institutions to up maps disqualifying some areas for subsidies readline zones usually defined as neighborhoods where black people live. this deliberate denial of equal opportunities for black people to buy real estate is a major reason for the wealth gap between blacks and whites that exist today. my

efforts to educate myself in america's hidden history lead me to 2 academics who have spent years researching the racial wealth gap in america and the reasons for it hello i'm james. person what does that inequality look like in the aftermath of the civil war blacks may have less than one percent of the american wealth. what's particularly striking and disturbing about that figure is that if we look at the comparable measure to the it's about 2 percent so we have a wealth position for black americans today that in a relative is not very different from what it was at the end of slavery is there an unpaid debt that is still to to black people in america yes the estimates can run as high as 17 trillion dollars there was an opportunity to reverse the consequences of slavery instead formerly enslaved folks never received the 40 acres

and a mule that they were promised if that type of land reform it actually taken place it would have completely altered the trajectory of wealth inequality by race in the united states we got the destruction of black communities that had developed some measure of prosperity through white massacres that took place from the period of about 880 through about 1940. the midwestern community of greenwood in tulsa oklahoma was the most affluent black community in america with over 300 black owned businesses known as black wall street. in main 1921 the whole 35 block neighborhood was obliterated by a white mob triggered by a false rumor that a black man had raped a white girl homes businesses schools and churches were burned and by and over 100 people died. while

a massacre after another in this sort of rolled across the country all of these riots where thousands of black people were killed if you study history you see that this is been a continuous. a continuous assault on black people yeah we we think there is a giant. and we think it needs to be met because i think it is a just response to america's history my family's. you know status and wealth as as has been has benefitted from from their choice to enslave people the total number is staggering of whites only at least one black body you know would have at least half at least half of the those things probably a good white population i actually met recently the descent descendants of one of the people my family enslaved and found out that i had actually known this this

woman a stellar who's 90 years old now and most of my life is her full name. her name is. sorry i'm blanking on her last name stella. telling you know that she's many years your senior and yet you refer to her by her 1st name right. there it is right there i mean i don't mean any disrespect. to check. well apparently no one else in their family has referred to her by any other in the affair but were direct about yeah yeah yeah no you're absolutely right i think it probably made both of us uncomfortable you know for you for you to call me out there. maybe medvedev and maybe not to protest.

i had no idea that the wealth gap between whites and blacks is still so huge today . sandy and kirsten have convinced me that the case for reparations is overwhelming . i wonder if more white americans would agree with me if they knew how much of their wealth advantage is stalling and honor and. i mean houston texas to meet a group of people whose views i'd like to understand black separatists have. not been the thing that i think. the new black panther party has been described as a fairly racist organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites and police. yacking and binya one of its former leaders is now chairman of a new organization the people's new black panther party that claims to disavow hatred. is that right here. you you should not just

know one thing by gum i grew up in virginia so yeah i've shot counts of the right yeah i don't own any myself right really and you know and a gun for 10 years. with the panthers are planning a patrol in the southwest of the city where there have been some recent shootings you read a road map. we don't like the police come to town i would neighborhoods patrol and i would neighborhoods and so we should give an example of how we can be self-determined in. the polies out here killing our you know people and all and we were patrolling our own neighborhoods we wouldn't have these situations occur so. we have a message of separation we don't want to continue to live with white america hating boyd hasn't worked out we've tried everything we've worked we've served we've been

you know for equal rights and we continue to be in the same situation all right so this is the group for tonight. how you both of. you know do anything is going on without people who will want to call the police on one another stuff like that when we deal with young boys these days in the households will single mothers and things like that we have a number yeah yeah yeah right number down so that's what we do and i have a couple. but no to me joe i do think it's a level of 0 but it seems like when you come out here people are pretty interested in what you tell us we come out in the community and people see us it excites them and of course they go to police now yeah yeah we got a call in here so we are just there would always help but they never thought all we told would be not legal rights we're not going to we have peace and all right you have a good day all right all right. we're going to do a quick safety check. take this is an open carry state laws don't have any felonies on your record or anything like that it's ok for you to open. hair is

legal in. the huey p. newton gun club is the defense arm of the party there's a lot of different ways to to fight racial injustice why do you think you know armed patrols this is is the way to go we had bustling black towns and we were very strong economically but what happened was we lacked a weapon and we're going to have to defend ourselves and this that's the bottom line self-defense what role do you think white people have been. in working towards more equality a lot of people who are afraid to say this word reparations is a bad word is going to be associated with things like welfare and government handouts and stuff like that is not a government handout i think reparations as well overdue all right let's go ahead and move out. a few weeks ago materials call for compensation man surprised me

but i'm starting to notice a pattern amongst a diverse range of activists softly. but grow but. not as a white person i'm way out of my comfort zone but. i don't agree with their separatist message in armed patrols but i don't feel any hatred from black to throw don't look too strong suggest to be clear those those views hate against whites and tyson anti-semitism you don't identify with that no no no we're different organization we want a different leadership we're not a hate group we don't hate anybody our way actions show we don't hate anybody so how do you feel about that how do both want to live separate do you think will i totally out of my own will you think we can all get along. i have got hope that we can get along you know especially if white people are going to come around to the idea of reparations and and you know trying to make a more fair and equal society because if this doesn't change at some point it's not

. being pretty it's going good bad to a point where we begin to some point to race wars when we end up breaking up and just a point i was going to get to now is give me hope because nothing is changing and hopefully you see that i'm coming from a good place and i just want what's best for my children and my grandchildren have come in after me well look i'm and i think there's a couple things that we don't agree on but i think upstart understand where you're coming from or how we both learned some things always try to take things away from a conversation. that broke. not far from houston is where the last american slaves were finally freed in 865. it's depressing to realize that after 150 years some black people feel so let down that they think separation is their only option. making a difference seems almost impossible. but i'm determined to do something and.

pay the need. for it because here. with a little thing you thank you for coming to need invites me to the national gathering of coming to the table where this year's theme is reparations. is. over the next 2 days i attend several discussions on what white people can do to help. these range from scholarship funds for african-americans. to tips on how to talk to other white people about racial inequality. the conference gives me a lot of good ideas to take away. but there's someone from the coming to the table gathering that i want to meet again. i need to apologize for something thoughtless i said earlier i meet up with stephen at a historic house in harrisonburg virginia stevens trying to raise the funds to save

it of the hands that constructed his hall or hands the will formally held in bondage. we were talking and you said you know that's what it's like being a black man in virginia and i said i could imagine. and mediately felt pretty foolish for saying that and i don't think you could even imagine what it's like to be a black man in the state of virginia i have to be mindful of every single thing that i say every single place that i go every single thing that i do my body language my you know your mannerisms my tone arm i mean you know it's it's not lost upon me that i have never experienced with a truly means to be free black people in the united states of america or anywhere near free. when you consider. that with one force more. that with one. violation of the fragility of the

feelings of white people. very lives could be taken away from us and ended in an instant when else can you know a white person like me do i want you to see. that despite the best efforts of your ancestors. despite. the most cunning in conniving and destructive of plots and plans that were devised by your ancestors my ancestors overcame what i'm same as i'm hoping that you can recognize then that we are equal. because there was a time not that long ago but where your people didn't see mine that way i think it's up to people such as yourself and myself us together to try to do whatever is necessary to make sure we don't perpetuate these lies. would you agree absolutely

cannot agree more. could you follow us. on the last night of the national gathering do need to ask me to join her at the james river in richmond to watch the same trail as her enslaved ancestors. lived in the. us to. feel like the folk lore society are staging a reenactment specially for coming to the table dolly by. africans captured traded dragged from their motherland and odor after now i 10 weeks at sea so i felt fit this concealed cargo disembarked only at night to the

crack of the whip in the shadows and same. name. ha. ha. oh my oh what shall. you. know mouth shut you know now let's go out now. for over an hour i walked the same dirt path that hundreds of thousands of the slave driver cans were forced to follow. as i think about the magnitude of their suffering and sacrifice i feel a deep in sense of shame and sorrow that their descendants have never received a formal apology or a penny of compensation from the u.s. government.

so that was really intense it was absolutely humbling. and i just kept thinking about everything that had been taken away from the people that arrived on the shores. and how there's no way that that could ever be given back to them. i decided to join the fight for reparations. not just because of my ancestors. but because morally it's the right thing to do. all of us must take responsibility for repaying the vast debt owed to black people so that future generations can finally have an equal share of the opportunities and wealth of this nation it works.

hello there things are pretty wet and windy for us in australia at the moment all thanks to this weather system here that were to some strong winds and some heavy rain including force in perth but we saw around 30 millimeters of rain more than we saw in the entirety of may that system is working its way eastwards it is disintegrating as it does say but there is yet more wet weather following it so the looking rather unsettled here as we head through the next few days i think for sunday some of the wettest of the weather will be around the south coast of western australia but we'll also see some of that make it through south australia as well so it took temperature in adelaide just of 16 degrees further east it should be

brighter for say of brisbane up at $22.00 and townsville at $24.00 over towards new zealand certainly being stormy here over the past few days we've got a south westerly flow with us at the moment so that means it's pretty windy and we're also seeing plenty of showers in the windy weather as well say more showery weather is likely as we head through the day on saturday but it does try to calm down as we head into sunday because that little area of high pressure begins to build so it looks like the showers will become a distant memory further towards the north we've seen some heavy rain over japan but that clearing away the worst of it at least just a few showers behind. on the counting the cost the trump doctrine cherubs 1st negotiate 2nd who benefits as the global economy slows. what was behind fi its attempt to merge with run out and the shipping line that's going green counting the cost on al-jazeera.

well you. know there are some other like. the horrific crime that shocked the world 51 people killed at mosques in christchurch new zealand what i want to best to gay people or could have done more to prevent these massacres on 00. 0. 0 i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes he ended his own country's war with eritrea now ethiopia's leader ahmed

is trying to end the crisis in sudan off to monday's brutal crackdown. the u.n. says 4000000 venezuelans have now left their country as the economic and political situation deteriorates. and would you spend $58000000.00 traveling to a hotel with no atmosphere nasa says it's opening up the international space station to tourism. transport rafael nadal is inside to recall 12 where the french open the defending champion beating roger federer in straight sets in a 74. seat on the opposition has accepted ethiopia's prime minister as a mediator to end the political crisis that bought that have also been preconditions including an international investigation into the military crackdown

which killed more than $100.00 people be ahmed met a coalition of political. groups and parties representing the protest as early and hard to soon after 100 s. but one of the opposition leaders he met was arrested 100 also sat down with the ruling military gentle but no should be the head of the rapid support forces in deputy leader of the transitional military council mohamed hand on the gallows was not there the u.n. human rights chief is calling for the urgent deployment of a monitoring team and a world health organization says it's gravely concerned that security forces and not targeting medical staff treating the injured stephanie decker reports the picture is slowly emerging of what happened in sudan on monday the 3rd of june the grief fills this hospital room the bodies lined the floor the internet blackout imposed by the military council means mobile phone

footage has been slow to make it out. the but everything points to a gruesome bloody day a peaceful sit in that ended in this. with reports of rapes beatings and killings at the hands of the paramilitary rapid support forces were told many people are still missing. in an effort to resolve the crisis in prime minister abu ahmed arrived in khartoum on friday for meetings with the military council and protest groups the african union suspended sudan on thursday until the military hands over power to civilians the military council would have a stake in what happens in sudan in the future. many of these people who are now leading the transitional military council are people who have been leading the sudanese military for a very long period of time this is a military that has been involved in vi years atrocities various abuse particularly in darfur back in 20032004 there are questions of accountability there for you said

one of the strongest and loudest voices in. this process of transition and there are course already for accountability and for justice but for now there appears to be no accountability and no justice a general strike is planned for sunday the opposition wants change they don't want military rule an air of oppression hangs over the streets of khartoum that's how it's been described to us there is a sense of unease and fear but there is also resilience and little certainty about how things are going to move forward stephanie decker al-jazeera. well sudan's opposition laid out a list of conditions that must be met before protesters return to the negotiating table with the military council. first we want the military council to recognize the crime was committed secondly forming an international committee to investigate the crimes during the dispersing of the city and thirdly

to release all political detainees and all the sentenced who are opposing the former regime we want to public freedom and freedom of the media we want the military to be pulled out of the streets and finally lift the ban on the internet. well many see the ethiopian prime minister ahmed as someone who could possibly ease the crisis in sudan that's why he became africa's youngest head of state when he took office in april last year in just a few short months he implemented rapid reforms lifting a state of emergency releasing thousands of political prisoners and giving hoffa's cabinet posts to women ahmed has also allowed dissidents to return home and blocked hundreds of websites and t.v. channels but tis biggest achievement so far is ending the state of war with eritrea by agreeing to give up disputed territory on the border well joining me now is alex deval executive director of the world peace foundation he joins us via skype from

some avail in massachusetts and he has made great strides in his own country hasn't he could a prime minister and then possibly be the man to bring these 2 sides together in sudan where of course negotiations of collapse and we have seen a brutal crackdown in recent days. it's an exceptionally difficult task especially for someone who is. like prime minister of the atom and who may be accustomed to busy busy setting the political case in his own country but he's not himself an experienced mediator the certainly the number 2 in the transitional military council general and met he has made in south and his own actions the problem by launching this extremely bloody crackdown it's a very very hard to see the forces for democracy in saddam would be prepared to trust that the man indeed the men who just recently broken.

and who gave such a gravity crack down. mohamed had done the galo or a general he met a as you say head of the powerful pan military are assaf forces he was not present in the photograph that was shared by the office of the ethiopian prime minister what does that suggest to you how important is that. i think is quite significant i think this clearly a deep divide within the military elements. sunanda is not just one army it has multiple security forces and paramilitary which the rest support force the money and there is the most powerful and the army lawrence during long months protests against president bashir the army exercised its major restraint did not shoot from purchased and the army generals are profoundly on the with what is

happening and this is also mirrored by a straight within the middle east the objections are not the addictions not terribly program ocracy but they would like to see an established army in charge they do not want to see these paramilitary bagger vance run the show whereas the saudis in the end. our art is seen to of alignment cells and much more behind general i met humans records for forces who want to probably in yemen as part of their coalition fighting the civil war in yemen and i suspect they have somewhat miscalculated and in their estimate of the discipline and level of support that amenity and the r.s. . insert are in each. given how messy is growing in power within the country and he has some big back behind him could we see this sort of fracturing of the situation in sudan where possibly there is one track when it

goes shea sions take place and meantime you still have this paramilitary group continuing to function and and do whatever it wants you put your finger on it that is there a great danger the fragmentation of the security forces and fighting between them that senate i think we are now seeing an international consensus the african union very decisively suspended sudan from from the union in doing that it has all the support all of egypt and at long last the united states and the western countries that have been essentially interrupted by the last couple of months are beginning to wake up to the gravity of what is happening and a coalition between the africans including egypt and the western powers has the chance of bringing the our countries in into line and make it impossible for a method to act in its rogue manner but he is joining the mom appreciate your

analysis thank you for joining us on the news hour alex deval from the world peace foundation kirk. united nations says at least 4000000 people have left venezuela because of its western economic and political situation described the figure as alarming and says urgent help is still needed to host them in other countries latin america editor reports now from santiago chile. the overview of the numbers are staggering and unprecedented every day thousands of more than his wayland's join the exodus the vast majority by 1st crossing over into neighboring colombia which has already received more than 1300000 economic refugees and cattlemen is one of the newcomers in this un refugee camp give me. my children went 3 days about eating anything it's very difficult as a mother my mom isn't here she's over there suffering from hunger that's why i was

eager to leave and work to send her something. the u.n. predicts that before the end of the year the venezuelan exodus will surpass $6000000.00 the vast majority of whom are coming here to latin america. from colombia millions of impoverished in israel into moving further south especially to ecuador who rule and chile these countries social services are already strained to the limit this week bruce president announced he was following neighboring chiles lead by requiring the news whalen's to enter the country with humanitarian visa. starting in june the 15th and even as well into the possible and the corresponding visa into the country. it will be a requirement to enter peru with a humanitarian visa which will be processed over there in the peruvian consulate. this may slow down but not stop the stampede fueled by bin israel is increasingly

dire economic and political crisis which is why latin american governments are raising the alarm and asking the rest of the international community to share the burden of the biggest refugee crisis ever seen in the americas to see in human are just sida santiago. talks between the united states and mexico to stave off tower of said dragging on is a battle over the u.s. demands on migration president trump says there's a good chance they'll reach a deal but the white house is pushing ahead with a plan to impose a 5 percent towers on all mexican goods for monday and it says that could increase of mexico doesn't stem the flow of migrants over the border mexico has promised to deploy thousands of national guard troops along the border but u.s. negotiators say the 2 sides have still not reached an agreement talks are set to resume on saturday president trump has threatened to raise mexico.