they were in office obviously in the run up to and when those attacks happened so they have some key information to pass on on a different level the criminal investigations department the terrorism is missed a geisha and department are obviously following up on leads we heard that there were almost 2000 telephone conversations that would being pushed you do we're looking into information and details there are hundreds of people that are under arrest as the authorities try and piece together the pieces of this puzzle that led to that carnage on easter sunday show us the latest out of colombia thank you iran says a new sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the u.s. isn't serious about its calls for renegotiating the nuclear deal the sanctions target terrence largest petro chemical group which provides billions of dollars to the islamic revolutionary guard corps austin's brand of the elite military unit a terrorist organization now this comes a week after my palm peo announced the u.s.

is ready to sit down with tehran depart joins us live from there now so door so these new sanctions tell us more about what they actually mean. well richelle they mean that this firm and 39 of its subsidiaries are now under heavy u.s. sanctions and anybody who wants to do business with them faces possibility of heavy fines by the u.s. government and that all their assets have been frozen in the u.s. now this is because the u.s. government believes they provide financial support to the economic arm of the revolutionary guard that's a french company known as the tamil mbia and now this company is known in iran to be responsible for building all the main roads and highways and bridges and accord the government in 2018 proportionately awarded 10 projects to them worth over $22000000000.00 so they're very well known company and now with this designation in these sanctions they're under further pressure from the united states government so

tell us more about the reaction from tehran the today about this well the foreign ministry spokesperson has said that this is economic terrorism and said this is another example of how this u.s. administration is trying to pressure iran and isolate its economy and really attack the country the nation and their livelihood by putting these economic sanctions on iran we've also heard from the oil minister who said that any talk of anybody else any other countries such as saudi arabia and the u.a.e. making up all the loss of supplies in the oil market is absolutely not true it's false that nobody can replace iran when it comes to filling up the world's oil supplies and that any talk of iran leaving opec is absolutely not true at this time dorsetshire bari live in tehran doorstep thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera saudi

arabia faces global outrage after sentencing a teenager to die for attending anti-government protests a story collection and. we'll tell you why voters are feeling influence of the man who led them for 30 years. there's been a lot of heavy rain recently in parts of japan to his south it's on its way out not mostly and although it's the went time the year we've got an effect effectively a gap a sunny spell if you like fact a fairly sunny day to be honest most of sudden home sure's bit cloudy for the north and tokyo and beyond but doesn't particularly when the wet weather is in the yellow sea on its way through the korean peninsula having left northeastern china the particular picture from monday isn't widespread rain showers but the sunshine low

to middle twenty's but you're in beijing quiet weather here and 33 and rather stuffy that we have seen heavy rain to the south and that is performing of course flash flooding as you might expect in southern china the forecast to sunday takes that rain back over to the yangtze valley going up towards shanghai allowing a few showers maybe in the early human hong kong and then that concentration comes back down again is typical for this to wave at this time of the year and it produces flash floods all of the guys it is the wet season after all there is a bit of a gap in the forecast the shuttle place in thailand through malaysia but still the concentration the heavy stuff appears to be showing every now and again in indonesia which sort of weighs the a point of focus possibly rather disappointing me. a journey of personal discovery my great grandfather he was a slave of the leave property al-jazeera is james garner and expose these families

legacy of slave ownership you don't like my family status and wealth has benefited from your choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some over so sco even scared to speak out because it's a problem. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. watching out there let's recap the top stories right now protest movement is accusing the military ever ejecting mediation efforts after a protest leader was arrested ahmed ressam out was detained just hours after taking part in talks led by the ethiopian prime minister that. president has sacked his

intelligence chief to syria mendez that's after mid us told a parliamentary committee that the easter sunday bombings could have been prevented president mother policy the same as says he will not cooperate with the investigations and iran says new u.s. sanctions are evidence washington isn't ready for negotiations the u.s. is targeting terrence largest petro chemical group which provides billions of dollars to the revolutionary guard. amnesty international is urging saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy 18 year old montage aquarists has been detained for the past 5 years for taking part in anti-government protests is awaiting his next trial session for alleged offenses dating back to when he was. just 10 years old saudi arabia has a long record of imposing the death penalty including against children which is illegal under international law amnesty international says 149 people were put to death in 2018 and this year that figure is already more than $137.00 mostly shia

men were killed in a public execution on terrorism related charges 2 were publicly crucified at the amnesty international human rights watch oppose saudi's use of the death penalty saying many confessions are extracted under torture. mad as director of the gulf affairs and to to pay raises quite serious concerns about the saudi justice system . this saudi government has executed children before including. in the past few months. and it has done that over the years i have recorded many cases of that moving the cases of these 7 mostly young. men who were executed as syria 2013 and many of them were were nothing anyone and they were and when they would be it would have miners much here is one of the youngest to the. sentence or. ready so

sought to be executed we had another child executed in just one. how can be his last and he was executed when he was 14 years old so this is nothing new to this so the court system which does mother. hold minimum national standard when it comes to. the seizures of protection that the international community has said. and the u.s. is spending plans to impose tariffs on all mexican gets which were due to come into effect on monday due countries that reached a deal on migration after day some negotiations migrants who are who are in the u.s. awaiting asylum will now be sent back to mexico until their cases are resolved robert also reports in washington d.c. the u.s. threat to impose punitive tariffs on mexico led to a week of intense negotiations ending in a last minute accord president donald trump announced in

a tweet the united states of america has reached its signed agreement with mexico the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border this is being done to greatly reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from mexico and into the united states mexican foreign minister marcello ever ards said the 2 sides reached a compromise but he said it was i think it's a fair balance because the u.s. had more drastic proposals at the start and they have reached a middle point that they agreed to support mexico's proposal to support the central american countries. mexico had already agreed to send troops to its border with water mala to control the flow of migrants seeking asylum in the u.s. it's now also agreed the u.s. could send asylum seekers who entered the united states back to mexico to await

legal rulings on their status. but the u.s. had to give up on its earlier demand that all guatemalan asylum seekers be deported to mexico and that honduran and salvadoran asylum seekers sent to guatemala the agreement also calls for the u.s. and mexico to work together to improve economic conditions and security in impoverished crime ridden central american countries the root causes of migration the deal is a political victory for trump who has made stopping migration the central pillar of his political brand and who had faced opposition from within his party to the proposed tariffs rob reynolds washington farnsworth as vice president for the council of the america he said the shift in political dynamics allowed for a diplomatic breakthrough between mexico and the us but seems to be the immediate condition for why this occurred was the presentation of the us southwest border to

the city of el paso of approximately 1000 migrants and it seemed as if they had just. the president on this course but i think that what changed the dynamic was 2 things number on the government of mexico presented itself as very willing to negotiate it did not cut fight back it did not push back and take a nationalistic stance and said ok we understand this we're going to try to work together to resolve it that was the 1st step the 2nd step which the president of the united states only heard negative responses to his initiative the response was uniform from the business community which rejected this many in congress including republicans said this is not the way to proceed so he really in some ways needed to have a solution to this because many people who would normally be supportive of some of the white house in the shadows clearly were not on the side so i think the politics someone's well. that even as well as ruling socialist party says his government

won't agree to new elections as a precondition for more talks with the opposition. made the comments during a visit to cuba on friday it says president nicolas maduro is reelection and last year was fair and transparent the u.s. and around 50 other nations have recognized the opposition leader won by joe is in his way less legitimate president and are calling for a new vote kazakhstan's presidential race is coming to an end with polls set to open on sunday or sultan was in charge for 30 years before stepping down in march and his chosen successor is favored to win robin forestay walker reports from the newly renamed capital or sultan. god 2 men now appear to run kazakhs down the official leader of the nation nelson 10 as a boy and his appointee interim president kasim your marked talk i am not sure the army is going to shit our main task is to realize the strategy of the leader of the

nation in order to strengthen the potential of our state i firmly believe and the success of on the noble endeavor. took i have has government resources to boost his chances stadiums filled with students the state controlled mainstream media was staged were was there were good citizens i was it's good to see it was because it was the season. when as a boy i've resigned in march to a kind of renamed the capital after him some saw that as a sign of subservience. it was all done you want god knows the time is not my town i have a choice said this activist. others have called for

a boycott of the vote seeing talk i have as a stopgap that the gnostic succession. as senate leader now survives daughter is next in line for the presidency. on friday police raided homes and detained several activists the authorities are on high alert so i want to know for the 1st time in almost 3 decades the voters will have a choice or an appearance of choice at least but failed to show up at this t.v. debate a sign he doesn't take the competition seriously. if he were competition does include a genuine government critic i mean. may take a share of the vote but he isn't optimistic we could see that we would put this new credit some voters will boycott the vote but not those who support to carve i'm afraid these votes will be taken from me by those who are organizing the boycott

today i ask people to boycott the boycott. of students may vote just as they were required to attend the rally off camera one used to organize a put it this way failure to comply means failing your exams that is the kind of pressure that will benefit so kind of at the ballot box robin 1st year walker al-jazeera no sauterne lawyers for russian investigators are no less than go in and say he's been charged with attempting to deal large amount of drugs and supporters say officers planted the drugs on him to stop him from the porting about corruption there were protests against his arrest outside moscow's police headquarters on friday when i was arrested on thursday while traveling to meet a source a palestinian photojournalist arrested by the israeli government is due to hear whether he'll be deported rights groups say mr arafat is being punished for his work but officials argue he's in occupied east jerusalem illegally or false reports . 6 years ago. appeared in

a documentary describing the difficulties of living stateless and under occupation in east jerusalem doesn't for us if you have no idea the euro nobody. now is families in east jerusalem have been celebrating the muslim festival of ied. his wife to mom and their daughter without him as they have been since january when he was arrested and threatened with deportation before the home of or. his psychological situation is really bad he's refusing to communicate with anyone he's allowed to use the telephone but he's refusing to talk to his friends his family colleagues and even his mother he just calls make sure a see is ok. arrest followed a long battle over the legality of his status in occupied east jerusalem our host palestinian father brought him here from algeria when he was 12 years old but delays in applying for and processing family reunification papers meant that his

case wasn't considered until he was an adult he's been living here on humanitarian visas since but in late 2015 he was informed the interior ministry was considering rejecting his latest renewal request over security concerns. the ministry cited the nature of some of the images he was posting on social media and alleged links to hamas which are horrific denies he's long been a well known figure at the mosque compound volunteering as a medic and an activist before his growing focus on photography so him hired full time last year by turkey's an adult agency. lawyer has taken his case to the supreme court arguing the security concerns are a pretext to get rid of a journalist whose work the government doesn't like we see a straight line connection between his walk with join least to the fact that he annoyed the israeli authorities and to the current situation where he is under bars and we think it's illegal. to to keep him under arrest. israel's

interior ministry declined our request for a statement saying only that our roof was arrested due to an illegal stay in israel it still intends to deport him to jordan he has no right to citizenship there and his legal team says jordanian officials have indicated they would reject such a move for his wife to mom deportation is the biggest fear the prospect of his living in a country where she and their daughter have no right to live not knowing when if ever there in forced separation would end ari forces al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. on our web site as al-jazeera dot com is from all over the world updated throughout the day for you al jazeera dot com keep it or. i'm richelle carey with the headlines on al-jazeera protest movement is accusing the military of rejecting mediation efforts after a protest leader was arrested. was detained hours after taking part in talks led by

the opium prime minister. oh well 1st the military council needs to recognize that the crime was committed secondly there needs to be an international investigation into the dispersal of the sit in fairly old political detainees and old political prisoners held by the previous regime need to be released there needs to be freedom of speech and the media the military needs to be pulled from the streets and the internet ban needs to be lifted until all the demands are met we will not hold talks on a future political process. as president has sacked and tells and chiefs asaram mendez after an emergency meeting on friday and has told a parliamentary committee investigating the easter sunday bombings in april that those attacks could have been prevented also when the president for not having regular security meetings present mother policy says he will not cooperate with the parliamentary investigation up on the market i will not send anyone who is currently working for the defense ministry or police department before the select

committee and i will take primary responsibility because revealing intelligence chiefs intelligence directors and criminal investigation chiefs through the media is not something that is done anywhere in the world iran says new sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the u.s. isn't serious about its calls for renegotiating the nuclear deal the sanctions target terrence largest petro chemical group which provides billions of dollars to the islamic revolutionary guard corps washington's branded a military unit a terrorist organization and this comes after us secretary secretary of state my pompei o announced the u.s. was ready to sit down with tehran. mexico has agreed to a deal with the us to avoid import tariffs on all its goods it was a ploy additional troops at its southern border to block migrants from going to the united states washington will also send asylum seekers to mexico while their applications are being processed as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera

for news throughout the day we have another update at the top of the hour and the main time inside story is up next. say done under pressure the african union suspends khartoum over its violent crackdown on protesters and the the opium prime minister is in the country to try and diffuse the tension is but with us old word and how much power is the military ready to give up this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm hala my he had seen with more than a 100 protesters killed in the past week international pressure is growing on sudan's military jointer to compromise with its opponents ethiopia is leading mediation efforts to end the standoff prime minister abu ahmed says in khartoum where he's juta meet both sides the goal is for the military to hand over power to civilians but after this week's violent cracks are in the process they to see little reason to trust the army they have refused further talks and say they'll continue their demonstrations. while the african union has suspended sit on over the cracks and it won't be allowed to take part in the regional bloc unless civilians are put in charge they use says this is the only way of the crisis

but the military has been sending mixed messages on wednesday it said it was open to negotiations with the processors. when a 100000000 as we in the transitional military council open our hands to negotiation with no purpose but the interest of the nation through which we can complete the establishment of a legitimate authority that expresses the ambitions of the sudanese revolution in all its varieties but this came just one day after they ruled out its any further talks and states calling for elections within 9 months in the service are either a legitimate mandate can only made through the ballot box as a result the military council is to tight the following counseling what has been agreed and ending negotiation with the declaration of freedom and change forces secondly a call to general elections within a period that does not exceed 9 months from now with international and regional monitoring creating a necessary environment for this. well let's introduce our panel joining us from london adama ghai author all to morrow

the new africa and former information director for eco us and florence they have. you robert schumann fellow and former african union official and back in london john a professor all of anthropology at bard college and phones are over rift valley institutes a research body operating in east africa welcome to you all if i could start with you adama guy how significant would you say ethiopia's intervention in this crisis is. at least we see africans trying to help other african countries in need so this is a welcome development that the prime minister be mohammed let's prove precisely attempts to mediate this as he is tried to do between kenya and somalia

and between djibouti and i think that's something that is to be looked at but defunct also is that utopia is a frog in the country and it cannot be the one that will be fixing do or problem of done you know that there are other big players behind the scene for instance a saudi other bia immunity it's. egypt egypt too that is ordering at the moment the chairmanship of the african union so those are important players and beyond them you have the african union you have the united nations and the of western countries that in korea of course china that me have a seat because it has been a major player in supporting the regime of president bashir there collapsed on april 11th so i think that is an attempt which is good to salute but you need to expand it and ensure that there is students behind the diplomacy that is undertaken

by mr ok it is another danger though that we do have too many cooks in the kitchen at this point says atomic i was mentioning we did have this you to promote sic turkish from the african union as certainly ethiopia has has got in there straight off the bat but there are other countries who have an interest and a very significant stake in here given this situation today tomorrow do you think that. the african union's intervention at this point is not going to be enough given there are so many other regional powers up play. i think the quantity of mixing is correct for the fact that the whole makeup the time now is a proxy. for many are too many artists too big ones to be easily heeding to unified voice from africa or the horn of

africa or mediation by one. clearly the 1st one. with the last. unified voice unified all vision from the un from out there after the european union united states and so on which is playing actually a different kind of role this will be. less likely the. elites seeing this country initiative will work generally speaking it so well some. of the african union has. voiced its polish him and he is attempting this part but this country would be after the axis is you don't want to ask too big too many and they asked you his attorney i'm not going to he

said i've done to sorry to cut you off my heart john royal if i could turn to you know would you agree with this assessment there are good intentions from the african union that essentially this problem is now too large and too international in scope well i think you would look at the afternoon is record i mean it's it's obviously correct that they should have suspended saddam from membership and they've done this before to other countries with mixed results but not a mouse quite right in saying there's an awful lot unpack in terms of the national interest both of the neighbor countries and member countries of a you and international players and i think that. we are made is one leader in the region who has credibility because of the astonishing transformation under his leadership in ethiopia but whether he can do the same thing in sudan i think it's symbolically important that he's gone and we await to see what he said both to

the leaders of the transitional military council and to the leaders of the civilian movement a response to me with well interestingly that you've raised that point joined while there has been much made of the situation particularly on social media that's a b. ahmed's has indeed met with leaders of the transitional council but one key leader of the transitional council was not there we are of course talking about mohammed's drug lord or head as he's known the. individual he's deemed to be the real person in charge she certainly has these rapid support forces under his command general what would you say this signifies in terms of. a realistic way forward through dialogue if this individual was not present at these talks. well i suppose the hope is that the other members of the

transitional military council are attempting to militarize him and possibly to blame the rapid sport forces for the violence which they were indeed the main perpetrators of but it may just be seen as tact he may have refused to meet them i think we really can't possibly know but what is undoubtedly true is he is the leader of the r.s.s. the rebels forces they were not the only but the main perpetrators of the massacre earlier this week which was an act of really unusual violence i mean a lot of people were killed we know at least a 100 people were killed many women raped people with one of the nile this is actually a body count higher than that of many of the insurgencies elsewhere in the region although of course it's eclipsed by the history of this regime or it's because the regime in darfur itself where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed over

the last 20 years down a guy what are your thoughts of the likelihood of. sitting down to dialogue do you think this is likely perhaps behind the scenes he may turn back to mediators such as the theory of prime minister. i 3rd spec that. this person who has been behind atrocitus t.v. it is not just in death food but this past week on monday when almost over 100 people it has been said have been killed after a peaceful demonstration in the name of democracy that this person is out of the game because sudan is a country that is known for in a meeting in a minute imported to leaders who are problematic and you recall that mr bashir has

been ousted after. 30 years in power and nobody is talking about him anymore i think that the dissolution would come from balls were not dented by blood and the busy fact 2 that the met busy has met the person with no means of the . do one leaving the country. is not to be is not something that should be considered as busy secondary i do believe that you need to have a partner with whom you can talk and discuss reach a solution and. a way forward that will be agreeable by the international community many will not want to talk to this criminal who have killed the people so being a rough person even though you may have the support of egypt and other alternative religion is not the way forward and last one to do this i do believe mr ahmed as a lot of stake in this mediation that is doing because with what he has achieved in

the id court i have met him 2 years ago who during the turn of forum we have seen the thought formation if he pulls this crisis out and fix it and appears as the one with given a chance for the military to exit which is the right way forward i do believe we may be considered as a party. sure winner this year of the nobel prize it will at least vote for it because it is middle lot of inroads in democracy and opening up is country and in playing regional rule i think that that does perhaps somewhat far away to talk of nobel prizes given that certainly we're still waiting on hearing what's come of these efforts but i mean realistically where's the incentive for b r me to step back and say ok we'll hand over power i guess we've we've heard there have been these atrocities committed certainly a very.