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 in school that we were not defaming slavery we were just a fan dame hours from the northern aggression the rest why. next we visit the statue of our common ancestor through every painful to remember the legacy evidence right where the great grandmother was 2nd cousin or property we saw is painful it's painful to know cham is not perfect right our 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 if 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 statue 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 statue 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. mr morehead just again and andrew morehead hanging to me yes or welcome to richmond and hollywood cemetery i'm at a told you i'm a relative of robert e. lee absolutely and with the beard with the reddish beard 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 view 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. andrew's 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 a lot of history and it's easy to see. the christie coleman is an expert on the american civil war and heads the museum in richmond specially devoted to the subject so christie 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 lining and trying to reinforce the law and the truth is and it 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 and 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 to get us out and 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. 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 slaves by the the family 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. but 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 james i hope we got into something they had 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 on arrest 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 they getting better we have a white supremacist in office now may be just as bad as robert e. lee was and donald trump promotes and preys on the races ideologies that exist inside of american society you know we black people built this car. 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 drank here. actually that restaurant right there on 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. 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. or just 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 castillo 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 the same 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 and go more homes have the same access to quality of life that the people fells point. well it seems to me like before we can fix anything we have to acknowledge the truth of the situation more than acknowledgement there has to be some type of compensation is 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 oppressed and slave those. are 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.

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a full hour of news for you in a little over 25 but it's about us here let's get you back to correspondent. 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. brick 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. housing projects is primarily black ok out of you know thousands of people maybe like 10 white people that live in the projects. it's no resources you have a city you have a saw story it. someone you know they call you know.

this jane i've missed. 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 with the legal hassles all right and you know lieberman 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 for a year 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 sorry to hear he says as the president. was a boss we've been a man i miss my homeboy good to be just. what would you like for this community all these kids take them up the trips and sprays more stuff that's all you know right here so. it was all of the product of the environment i mean like i think that could lead to future of all those. there were. a lot of problems in muddy 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 mine. which i need to see how you don so this is this is james to lose the town 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 then now here i am i one of them. i'm so sorry for your loss thank you so much thank you thank you appreciate it. there were 343 homicides in baltimore in 2017 more than 90 percent of these people were black. chan 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 black men and by the time i have to photograph printed and ready to give it to them they. now have the sound i went back to go give them a copy but you don't. weave and doors so much pain and have these moments where we didn't have anybody to tell you no 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 envision in 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 to 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 punished them we still live on the street. there's many quoted who have served time in prison one in 3 black men in the u.s. it's a felony conviction. just over 7 prison brought up and is. what i was forced to come out of this is trying to. provide a way from our. c.e.o. sam a little brother but we were forced into this we don't have. the right to tell you

. the forces on the street. nobody every day for a 5th of our kids is there a pay phone with i'm not even. 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 turned to me i don't think so but that's just like him and then think about his fall from then his father it always was this event right so for a black person pieces who's really. true i give something back about a bit of a child not to think about it we just want to force more some are the 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 come over so scar we've askey to speak out because a surprise that 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're afraid of 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 fight it down matter we don't really talk about it because it happens so much it's not news it's not new. i know he didn't want to say that stuff over a long time we've got kids because 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 in. 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 today 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 for really 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 up 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 black 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

a 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 by 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 benefited 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 up the states was 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. it's 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 your family has referred to her by any other in the affair that were direct about 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 by alliance against whites and police. yakin in 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 going on i grew up in virginia so yeah yeah i've shot counts of the right yeah i don't own any myself right really and you know i'm 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 determining. the polies out here killing our you know people at home 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 and stuff like that when we deal with young boys these days in the households will single mothers and things like that you have a mom yeah yeah yeah i'm a numbers now so that's what we do and i have a couple already know the new chicks out i don't think it's the lowest but it seems like when you come out here people are pretty interested in what you're doing 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 on here so we are just there would always help but they never thought oh we're told within our legal rights we're not going to draw 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 the hope care stay long don't have an a 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 a 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 soft 3. these were let go 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 so just 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 you want to live separate do you think we're like totally out of our mind that 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 just some point it's

not. and be 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 change 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 after me well look at me 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.

pay they need to. want to get us here and they may live thank 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. and. 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 that 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 tonearm 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 and conniving and destructive of plots implants 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. absolutely cannot agree more

. could you follow us please. 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 south of 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 the 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. thing. 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 in 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. it was the year of the futuristic bullet train that 1st drew me to japan almost 2

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military arrests opposition leaders who took part in the ethiopian prime minister's mediation efforts. demands in the u.s. for the white house to clarify its policy on libya. sri lanka's president as a top intelligence official and says that he would cooperate with part of its investigation into the easter sunday buildings. and going against the tide guatemalans continue to cross into mexico despite its deal with the us to block migrants. and then for defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors pushed to the brink of defeat they were beaten by the toronto raptors on home court again the raptors now take a commanding 31 lead in the finals. sudanese protest leaders are accusing the military of rejecting mediation efforts

after 5 members of the opposition were arrested they were detained hours after taking part in talks led by ethiopia's prime minister. visited khartoum days off to security forces stormed the city and killing more than $100.00 people there as latasha going to name reports. mohamed asked matt when from shaking hands with ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed to a jail cell in one day the sudanese opposition leader was part of a delegation that met with ahmed after he arrived in khartoum on friday to act as a mediator as met the rest is expected to hamper efforts to reopen talks between the opposition and the military earlier this week more than 100 protesters were killed in a crackdown by the military hunta. the opposition has issued a list of demands including restoring freedom of the press and access to the internet before they were turned to negotiations. first the military council needs

to recognize that a crime was committed secondly there needs to be an international investigation into the dispersal of the sit in thirdly all political detainees and all political prisoners held by the previous regime need to be released. the transitional military council hasn't said whether those demands will be met with the president of the transitional military council. confirmed that the council is open for negotiations and reaching a solution at any time and god willing mediation will have a good result. protesters have called for the immediate withdrawal of the paramilitary group the rapid support forces they are accused of raping and murdering protesters including children but some doubt that's possible i do have hope but i'm also willing to take a. sudan has been suspended from the

african union the un wants to send a team into the country as soon as possible to investigate and monitor events want accountability. and also. we want and your military. mission to hand over. civil suits. forces. a general strike is planned for sunday despite the internet blackout and restrictions on journalists protesters are pushing out videos on social media to ensure the rule gets a clear view of what's happening in sudan natasha going to else is euro. area greaves is sudan research and senior fellow at harvard university he joins us now from northampton massachusetts good to have you with us again sir what do you make

of these arrests of the prominent opposition figures just hours after those mediation meetings with ethiopia's prime minister out of to make sense of it i think we make sense that only by understanding that the transitional military council is not really serious about negotiating with civilians this could not have been more thumb in the eye and that opposition and it certainly air lysis any effort to move forward in negotiations that transitional military council did however achieve one thing and that is probably there's a division now in the civilian opposition between those who will allow to go shake with the t.n.c. under any conditions and that decision by some to reengage the t.m.c. but with conditions that effectively removed the t.m.c. from power in sudan it's a very confusing situation

a very divisive situation not only benefits the t.m.c. is the military council though unified in its approach here to what extent is there a split was bad possibly mediating with with the wrong person notably the deputy of the military council the guy who's in charge of the rapid defense forces he wasn't there perhaps he's the one that ethiopia's prime minister should have been talking to. they are certainly trying to make sense of the absence of lieutenant general how messy. and there have been reports of splits within the transitional military council others dispute that this is the case. that makes for an even more confusing situation and one that frankly or the civilians trying to negotiate with. the army. an almost impossible situation if they can't be sure of that rapid support forces are agreeing to anything that's negotiated then those

agreements with the meaningless. does the military council head actually have control over his deputy and where is this going to lead is there a danger that we could end up with some sort of. war within the military over the future of saddam that's unfortunately a distinct possibility one of the things i noted looking very very closely at sudanese social media is that the rapid sporthorse still do not have on the streets any heavy weaponry and i'm talking about real armored personnel carriers tanks mobile artillery those remain under the control of the regular army the s.a.'s. that would in any conflict direct military conflict between the r.s.l. and the regular army ensure that the sai would prevail and there are signs that mid-level officers majors colonels and then junior officers are very very unhappy

with the transition military council were long unhappy with the on the sheer regime they would form the backbone of a mess a resistance to the are a set up but at the same time again we're we're getting highly filtered and limited information there are some reports that these very mid-level junior officers have either been arrested sent out of khartoum. or otherwise prevented from commanding there there keep italians companies you know bill gates eric it's always good to talk to you many thanks indeed eric reeves that in the phantom best twosomes. a group of u.s. politicians is called on secretary of state mike pump to clear up the government's policy on libya they say the confusion over the white house's position on the issue is being used by armed groups to justify the fighting on friday the deputy prime minister of libya's u.n.

recognized government expressed concern over a phone call between the u.s. president and warlord khalifa haftar in april that took place soon after have to launched his military campaign to take the capital tripoli that's go live now to washington offices and he co hain is with us what are we to make of this past. well this is the democrats trying to make this issue an issue in the united states they've sent this letter to the secretary of state might pompei and say look you've got to come out and clarify what exactly the u.s. policy is on libya as you know it backed the u.n. backed government and then this phone call happened you know we're hearing from the guardian and yet again we have not been able to confirm this but we are trying to with the white house producer reaching out to his contacts that basically the egyptian president el-sisi asked the president to call him and that is why the phone call happened so this congressman are saying the readout of that phone call it was really showed confusion because in that readout it said the president spoke to him about this his significant role in fighting terrorism and securing libya's

oil resources and the 2 discussed a shared vision for libya's transition to a stable democratic political system in most of ministrations that would be clearly sending the signal that the u.s. backs his move to try and take tripoli state and department of defense for reportedly unaware that the phone call was going to happen so now this is members of congress saying look you need to clarify tell the world tell all of the players in libya where exactly the u.s. stands and the congressmen are and women are using the example of what happened with the islamic state in iraq and syria in the levant there basically say look if you want them to get another stronghold keep it up so this is try to put pressure on pompei o to bring this to the agenda because it really isn't right now but might it not suit the president to have 2 horses in the same race so-to speak. i don't know if the president is really all that tuned into exactly what u.s. policy is in libya since the u.s.

intervention it is completely fallen out of the headlines you're not going to see it on fox news he's not going to read about it really in the newspapers so it's not clear in many cases when this administration it's not clear if the president's direct in the foreign policy or for example in case of venezuela it's really being led by his national security advisor john bolton and then the president is sort of catching up that's what we've seen when it comes to foreign policy in the past but again this is unlikely unless it starts getting some media attention unlikely to really get the president's attention as well but even he thinks i was there is pretty coherent reporting live from washington. iran says that new sanctions on its petrochemical industry show that the u.s. isn't serious about its calls for renegotiating the nuclear deal the sanctions target to iran's largest petrochemical group which provides billions of dollars to the islamic revolutionary guard corps washington has branded that elite military unit a terrorist organization becomes a week of to mike pump a announce that the u.s.

was ready to sit down with to iran 0. reports from the iranian capital. well this move is being called economic terrorism according to the foreign ministry spokesman up us mousavi this is a continuation of the united states government's policy towards iran of putting pressure on the pressure on iran and the people of this country and that the suggestion last week by officials in the united states that it they were willing to talk with the iranians is not really a true one it's not they does not what they actually mean they're not true to their words that they cannot be trusted the iranian oil minister has also been speaking on saturday saying that iran has absolutely no plans to leave opec and the gap that's been created in the oil markets by iran being not being able to sell all its oil on the international market can never actually be filled by any of the countries such as saudi arabia and the u.a.e. so he's also reiterating iran's position that all these sanctions.