activity attracted regional international and internal palestinian attention. that. they have. been that. the. heck are you. for that. to develop their guys feed the palestinian authority decided to do an exclusive deal with the british gas. it would have been normal business a practice to invite international tenders to encourage competition and to get the best deal for gaza and the palestinians. say. i asked why he thought the palestinian authority decided to do the british gas deal. that i

walked in on that. i cannot be and yet the word. to him. while he was on and her and looked up with. my own father started. the project known as gaza marine took this unusual do diction writer from the start what's more it emerged that in public it's made him miss how. to negotiate with the british guests . but behind the scenes other palestinian authority members were holding separate secret negotiations with the same company but under different conditions. that i had no. back then the friend. that we had

back at home matters yet for now we go forward i like to have an. economic yanni who would get. well before. they have a shot at all or. on the 19th of october 1909 the palestinian authority there be a signed a contract with the british gas. but the deal terms it contain for all 4 signatories were quite controversial. the contract said that the british guys would receive 60 percent of the gather even use the the consolidated contractors companies would get 30 percent but verver palestine investment fund would get only 10 percent.

the palestinian authority also gave the developers exclusive rights for the discovery exhibition and marketing of the oil and gas in the gaza offshore area. what the 3 got further can to oversee was another close. which said that the palestinians were obliged to inform them of any oil and gas exploration and production in the palestinian territories. this contract was never submitted to the palestinian legislative council or published in local newspapers. but yasser arafat signed the contract. as did my head of mussy then minister of economy and iterate and how to be some sort of the new chairman of the palestinian petroleum authority. i don't.

act. i called both model muscly and how to be so sure to ask for more details. we did send text message but unfortunately he didn't reply. at the for. us what. some call for. a letter that sort of.

mean. the solar to let you put a hot minute amount of whole lot of it british gas is now owned by real dutch and ask them to comment on the negotiations and contract with the b. this is chill could not advice on our questions above that in 2018 it had reached an agreement with the palestine investment fund the p.i.a.f. to divest its entire interest and operate a ship in the gaza marine license offshore palestine. then you are called has been working at the middle east since 22014 when i was working on this investigation 2015 the palestinian authority didn't seem to want to talk to me about this topic i called up several different places i called up the palestinian vestment fund and i tried to figure out who was in charge of this file even i i had trouble even finding out who was in charge of the gas strategy my sense of why they didn't want

to talk to me as a couple of sources told me this topic is very sensitive you know it's very touchy don't touch it nobody's going to want to talk to you about it. but. over the course of reporting the story i didn't really get the sense that actually it was it was sensitive it was more that i don't think anybody actually knew what the strategy was and therefore nobody wanted to take responsibility on the record for what they were or weren't doing in relation to marry. the man at the had that i. had it with the poppy and i think. the. layout of shape. was out of the because of the war on. bobby let alone for he was about to behead the. law might have he said. that all of the men had a detrimental young and had that particular sadness to occur is that i'm a sailor instead of mohamed morsi. to her.

this is my mother she also known as her. his name is in the british gas contract as the only representative of the palestinian authority. this is clause in the contract says that rashid who was the economic adviser to yasser arafat was the only person who could act on behalf of the palestinian authority on anything relating to the guy's agreement for the duration of the contract. the developers were also blushed to cuba she didn't formed of their activities. giving muhammad though she the ex occlusal fry to handle everything in the contract was controversial. there'd be a accuses him of wasting millions of dollars money laundering and in busy linked public funds while he was head of the palestine investment fund and if then the

fact the political party means that the she does know a close ally of the deposed leader mohammed dahlan who lives in abu dhabi. in february 29000 the arab interior minister's council issued an international arrest warrant for mohammed the sheet but he still moves if really between me and. i asked her i mean abdul both mohamed nasheed and the split in fact. there are none but you know what i have them her mother she had another world that's none of her mother's she but the earth use a lot of color for that and i feel that a lady had what i have. left but you know what a birth. and i don't have a deadline or in order to have that and. i said betsy a c.e.o. has so much of a lot of you know how deep and well how the facade how p.t. what and that was so what in the other my left that the that what i had gotten her

mother she had left what and then i cut the deficit a little for us the new year and warm and at the end of a lot of you also get a lot of. english to try to conduct muhammad rashid inviting him to respond to the allegations made by the palestinian authority it during his time in charge of the palestine investment fund. she didn't reply to our message. however he did the response to the arabic version of this phone. a palestinian news website. he denied what he called the false allegations made by you. he said. i challenge anyone to prove there was a new corruption because they're going to deal i was the negotiator and no one else of a concert at the palestinian governments and international organizations couldn't find

a single corruption point and the deal. israel was not a signatory to the contract but seems to have been if it is from it considered a pretty elusive place of course we have a duty for the election when aircraft how to. shop for the stinney. look to solve the you know what you want to have a little economic repeating it difficult year in an animal yet don't keep a list of shelf and yet you must can you spot and you. can even in the near philistine your hardest with callao off well come on in italy. soon after the contract was signed there were negotiations between british gas and israel about buying gaza from the gaza marine project. israeli guys and energy expert i meet more was among those who advised the israeli government over 30 projects to develop

gaza. that was 336 kilometers off shore gaza gaza city. in water depth of 650 meters was to develop a subsidy but in pipeline. to ashkelon in israel and in ashkelon there is area of a lot of very large area. british girls plan to do a gust treatment facility in ashkelon and they feel it could have been remotely controlled for. gas is measured in d.c. and billions of a cubic meters it is important to no. forward. viable development of a marine to market a fretless to b.c.m. period should be. should be developed so because otherwise. there was no thought such economic the ability to develop this field no such

a market does not exist in the palestinian authority the market even. today the palestinian authority is very very small very very limited maybe half a b.c.m. of perspective power station engineering in other words. 0 point one p.c.m. for a power station in gaza all together it can sum up to about one c.m. of gas so the market for this gas is basically israel. on the 27th of september 2000 palestinian president yasser arafat gave the green light for drilling to start of the gaza cost. the next day the right wing israeli politician ariel sharon's approve accretive visit to the aqsa mosque compound it triggered violence which he quickly lit to the 2nd intifada. 5 months later sharon was elected the prime minister and the next few years so

there's really palestinian relationship deteriorate badly the peace process is stalled completely. but the gears of continued behind closed doors. the palestinian the regime minister as a michele one held secret talks with his israeli counterparts yousif but it's. a show as currently chairman of the palace then when a 3 authority. i tried to contact him but he refused to talk about his role in gaza money. and he was not. all the palestinians i contacted whose names came up in research into the gaza marina project declined to be interviewed for this approach. however we did manage to speak to the

former israeli minister of infrastructure and then he or she does it but it's. he spoke about his secret negotiations with as. i had negotiated in this with mr i was on the show from the family from the tribe a show of very prominent known in gaza he actually risked his life to negotiate with be honest at the high base of being a father he came to jerusalem east jerusalem but then at least we consider it as one city to negotiate with me and to keep on developing the field because he thought that it was good politically for him. i'm telling you he risked his life i have no doubt i i was know it for effect because we have to guard him not from us from extremist in the arab world in the palestinian world and he did whatever he could in order to develop. but it's good eliza's how sensitive this whole

subject is for palestinians. we said that we had it right to speak to us from a show where mohammed and other be a figures but that they had all refused to be interviewed i think they're free fall from extremists that would extend to us was to expose the story and i think they are afraid. after 7 the rounds of secret negotiations israel and that be a reach an initial deal guess for electricity. i reached a deal with the palestinian authority mind you at that time goes i was ruled by fatah not by hamas and i reached a deal with the we the israeli we shall not pay money for the gas to them we shall use their share a. to reduce the debt they owed the israeli electric company they

owed a lot of money i think. for delivery of electricity and b. what we will do is we should build a substation near the border of gaza and against the gas will supply electricity. there be a agree to the israeli temps even though they didn't favor the palestinians after all the gaza was in their waters but sharon rejected the deal because the palestinians he claimed might use that even you to support what he called terrorism . the british guys realize the deal with the israelis would not be easy. in 2003 a british gas announced that israel was love the only player of the table and that it was also talking to egypt about the transporting gaza from gaza through its

sports. but egypt was also holding its own secret talks of the same time with other companies about selling egyptian gas to. the results and egypt is a. shadow on the new blocked all means for the palestinians to extract gus in the gaza mud in project. ready has drinks containing. ready and usually end up as garbage. in a nuisance but for a select few old bottle service the building blocks of a better life. ready and a stepping stone to owning a family how. do you find a lot in america is in bolivia and downs into the well you have got a child. on al-jazeera. to work can be

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in 1900 yards was discovered in the eastern mediterranean of the coast of gaza. the palestinian authority there be a signed a contract with the british gas for the company to exploit and so they got us in a project called gaza money. untamable miss how to fill jazeera arabic and i'm asking why this gas has not been exploited for 20 years and why the subject has hardly had any international coverage. one possible market for the guys was as a rule but the prime minister ariel sharon it looked the deal because he was

concerned about the palestinians making it even you out of it. then it go to more complicated. british guys to try to do a deal with ease. egypt to distribute the gaza gas via pipelines. not knowing that egypt was doing a separate deal to sell its own guys to israel be in gyptian deal quote unquote was presented as one time deal the prices were very low and the quantities were actually unlimited which was. looked unrealistic at 1st place. for us leaning. if not had he amalie our money that the fold had that it would it. must really cause the little guy as of the year in journalists or anyone who are not for him feel very can look at mumbai that offer for the new obama not

offered only in no one at the will bomb i can be more plain jamelia pulls the trigger as a philistine of a terrier letters but they have this a lot of television as bucky happy. to mystify them and. it was now that the british guys and the b. realize that they had to guess that they couldn't sell. if you don't have as long as you don't have markets for these gov so the value of these guards is merely is almost 0 and the fact is that we have seen you know 18 years following their discovery in this field was not discovered. a man in the world for them was the least little of all that of what you can pick him up for the people putting on a year in january 2006 and a shadow and suffered a stroke and went into a coma. you had olmert became acting israeli prime minister.

meanwhile i must warn the palestinian legislative council elections and form the government this complicated things on the international stage. how mass was asked to recognize the state of israel and all the peace deals done by the. but how mass refused and israel and egypt and both sanctions on the peace in the west bank and gaza. the use of elements and there was a previously a palestinian unity government in gaza and there was back from march to june 2007. use a film and see was communications minister and i asked him if he was told about the guess the. even was that.

and then. also half a year ready. were you could know. the palestinian unity government ended in a split in the p. in june 2007 and how mass took full control of gaza. and israel huge almost popularity fell as israeli prime minister but on the gaza front he decided to hold his own negotiations with the british gas without any involvement of the palestinian authority. in the u.k. british guys was experiencing it's only frustration with the gaza project it was

entitle to a 60. percent share of revenue and its deal with the period but was not it extracting any gas and israel had no plan. of the gas field you almost irish talks with the british gas for the u.k. government under tony blair. well the talks failed and the british gaza closed down its offices in israel. when the british of us thought it he says that israel has the palestinians have been on the gaza many universes that would have been there was a freedom of information act that was submitted with their u.k. government by an organization i think tank called a shop aca which is a palestinian virtual think tank the freedom of information documents that have come out actually showed that israel had commercial reasons and it said that they

would not allow palestinians to access their resources until the palestinians can guarantee that they would sell gas to israel at about a 3rd of the price of the gas on the international markets so they were essentially seeking or trying to force a passing about $2.00 per and then b. to you rather than $65.00 to $7.00 which is where was the price of gas at the time and for b.g. which is a private company that wouldn't have been profitable so essentially there was no commercial. viability for the project anymore because of the restrictions that israel put on. with a change of government in egypt in 22 of its borders with gaza would open this enabled how must reform its 2nd government and revisit the gaza guys project. these pictures which are made public for the 1st time. in 22 by

a local gaza company attacks applauding the guys feet using the list of liberty of technology. divers spotted this under the sea but. the believed they were from the gas field so samples were taken for further examination. he was involved in this a project and says that the local company could told of maps and other data about possible new gas fields of gas but this was why this really gyptian blockade of the 30 was tightening. most of.

ringback us out of. almost all the. rubbish. story in. the community and. what american. this was the equipment used to try and tap into the gas field. service i just said that gas lay at around 600 meters below the sea but it. has not gotten of a. dude in kenya to do the job or that was he. couldn't she couldn't afford for succor know her. thoughts

on north. korea been many many emitted it was the most wonderful for me automated. and a couple of hours. couldn't hurt at all of course we. had for his nerves. these attempts only lasted for a few months as israel and egypt tighten the blockade on gaza even further. and the mother is. the one who had the worst going to have to stand. going to put on the. iraq war. feel for what i have

a tosser you can to get a bunch of the homeowner. brother nor that an affair and that will cost won't that look in her. business and that i would not only. look in her to learn. the matter and not. new york or in a shop. more recent research suggests that the number of gas fields and the quantity of gas in the gaza field could be greater than the official figures. as i asked then you are as if she thought there might be more fields than those in the original gaza marina project. so you're asking is it only the 2 hours yet no it's possible there could be many other wells i've read in places from experts that it could be up to $88.00 wells and the pattern is that the area can't be explored

at this point given the the limits that the israelis put on the maritime territory for the palestinians. looked at ibrahim's safe is a former jordanian minister for energy and mineral resources. he was a member of the official team that helped talks with the palestinian authority about buying and importing into jordan. in the head with fear i asked him if he thought there were more gas fields waiting to be discovered because it can really afford the time and i'm going to have. a new team is. probably plagiarism and i like to show. you love so much a matter with an egypt or be labeled as a player. but it is about it i have

a few months of i have to meet have you. should get out of here and work with that . because. i'll have. to feel it was the 2nd or. so you know not there are at least 8 gas fields of gaza but no one knows the exact number. is there as currently takes all the guys available and then the national community appears to take no action. there is evidence that by 2012 israel extract it 42000000000 cubic meters from the muddy b. fields leaving it severely depleted. that would have supplied the palestinians with enough gas for 15 years in may 2017 the center for social multi-national corporations saw more based in

amsterdam published a report about the activities of noble in a regime called beneath the troubled waters. noble in the regime is based in houston texas and is extensively involved in the development and exploration of israeli licensed off shore gas fields in the eastern mediterranean very port is extremely detailed but one of its conclusions is that the company has potentially contributed to a violation of the collective right of self-determination if palestinian actual gas was indeed drained from the border field due to gas extraction from the noah field it could be argued that noble energy participated in an act of pillage in violation of international humanitarian and criminal law which could also incur criminal liability. al-jazeera asked nobody in the regime to respond to these

allegations very blight seeing their video petitions comply with their own code of conduct and the laws of the united states and the governments where they operate. we are confident we have not extracted gas from outside our israel easy license areas or had an adverse impact on the ability of others to develop their resources . what kind of report. i can give you any report you all very well know from. you know why by the way. look here look at the geological lier. now let's assume here is the geological layer ok full with gas now i pump here this is my territory and the palestinians are here now when i pump here of course the layer begins to dissolve now

gas begins to move from this side to that side because if i pump here then this side is getting deployed do i pump. palestinian gas or at the gas good question depends who we are asking depends what kind of answer you want. if you're a palestinians of course it's another part of the of the occupation of the terrible things in the horrible atrocities we committed against them if you're an israeli of cause you don't peoples geological layers do not know borders borders do not exist in geological layers i mean you play you play geologic you play geology and geology is you know they don't know borders. this map was drawn by jim sister and the department of international affairs at the trinity washington university in the us. it shows the authority of the waters of

the coast of gaza and israel. since 1909 the palestinians have only been allowed to explore the small the green area. is the current argues that the international maritime you know gives the palestinians that i took the border they're much bigger area and that. this potentially contains further gas fields which would be of huge benefit to the palestinians if they were allowed to exploit them. the mary b. field is an example of why it is important for the palestinians to take steps to declare an exclusive economic zone it isn't that could possibly allow it within the palestinian exclusive economic zone. however because the palestinians did not make a claim to it israel was able to start production and essentially deplete the field if the palestinians do not take steps to claim an easy it's possible that other

areas of enormous economic value could be innocence claimed by israel. and once the resources are gone they're not coming back. coming from so many been. elected and one completely mine at the now as your team shill i mean. if you're. even getting the. speed to campaign i mean they will do a lot for us then you have to have to shovel for the thing if you had a bit of a levy is develop a 2nd coming. of the so i mean you have to put a vessel for this we needed to be a shuttle for the really think about was that had been going on but what it had done became you could get a shovel full of any well you models and probably have a ship with. a shovel for the fleet if you could. live in sin is a large natural gas field in the military of the coast of israel it used to come

online later in $29000.00. and what would have been an extraordinary deep in the $24000.00 that palestinian authority announced a plan to buy gas from. so back in 20152014 before the p.a. had agreed to buy gas israeli gas from leviathan which was an interesting prospect given the gas that was already in gaza marine and the deal was eventually called off under i think i believe under pressure from from the b.d.s. movement who were quite upset that the palestinians would buy israeli gas when they had their own gas just sitting off the coast. i think it was something that the p.a. decided decided against because politically it just wasn't palatable and it put them in a bad light and other the jordanians did and find catherine a riot and so and why did why did it happen i think public say that he was under

pressure from the israelis to fire what it was it called after b.d.s. movement pushed against it. i think the issue is very sensitive. for the palestinians to discuss. i think it's. in the hands of. of. and his the head of the palestinian investment fund so none of the. politicians always of the professionals in palestine are willing to discuss the issue it is a sensitive issue in this respect. in february 26th the real dutch shell the british gas and so technically became the new developer of the 2 gaza marine gas fields. but in march 20th dean announced it was giving up its stake in the undeveloped gas field of gaza.

i tried to get an interview with someone from sion to ask why they had pulled out from the gaza money indeed. but chill declined my request. so what next for the girls feel discriminated to continue 28000000000 cubic meters that's the total consumption of frisbee in for an entire here. so it's my understanding that shell had a 55 percent stake in gaza marine so now the palestinians are left trying to find a company to pick up this 55 percent of the guys in marine park. is the kind of like us to why did you wait when i did either. but would you do.

what i did i'm just. really friendly. if you was over there when you were saying than i care to. share the. liberal book or go on me at least picture for a while is to give them is to really value. are we going you want to be have. the or and you want a pound of women shake out of the harbor to the wild take over deliver us from our family that we have it when can we want you to have a few bit of you hello. this is a palestinian government document dated june 2015. it gives the minister of foreign affairs the power to contact the russian and the chinese companies to vegas feed. you and him committed to freedom to contact. them while the has it done and to do

it in more or must live on but then after that and. the left. you have a 2nd can you do like a thought of middle of the 1st thing you have. michael merely kabir. and that they would let them. do want to hold shock. shock at 1st i mean so what went on with them at the moment of foresight. unfortunately for the past and hands in gaza if you look at the past 2 decades if that's any anything to tell us what the future is going to be like i think we're in a waiting in a waiting period where people in gaza are going to be in the dark looking out into the ocean at gas flames coming from from the fields that they could be producing on and they're not and that's purely because i don't think that this gas will be produced until there is a political agreement between the israelis and palestinians and between hamas and

fatah. that if between fatah and hamas shows no sign of being resolved. as for israeli palestinian politics the picture is no brighter. in average 2019 a coalition led by binyamin netanyahu the right wing likud party won the israeli parliament 3 elections this is not good news for the palestinians. have a better life now is the us with the advisors their approach to the region is based on what we have seen so far. it's hard to see how the dormant in the resource in the east room with the theory and can't benefit the palestinians in the near future anymore than it has in the past 20 years.

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it's been sydney where we've seen most of the fog has disrupted the flights there and caused a bit of problems on the roads as well you can see the tops of the buildings that just poking out of that fog i don't think there's going to be quite as much over the next few days that's thanks to more in the way of a wind and more cloud around at the moment to that cloud it's giving us a few outbreaks of rain most of it over parts of queensland but we're seeing more wet weather here over parts of south australia and into western australia as well and this whole region still looking pretty unsettled as we head through the day on sunday on monday it will be working its way eastwards we'll see more rain there over parts of tasmania and in the west will get ready for the next a weather system so generally speaking it's all quite mobile at the moment towards the east and we've had some pretty violent weather over parts of new zealand recently but things are now trying to calm down we've got an area of high pressure in charge so it's mostly fine and settled i do think for the north island on monday though they'll be a good deal of cloud around making things here rather grey the brighter weather is

likely to be over parts of the south island further north and the still quite a large amount of cloud over parts of northern asia a few showers around as well and some of those could turn out to be rather heavy. this is al-jazeera. hello everyone i'm felicity barr and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes 5 members of sudan's opposition are

arrested after taking part in talks led by ethiopia's prime minister the military is accused of carrying out a campaign of intimidation. venezuela's president reopens the border with colombia giving fowles us the chance to access desperately needed food and medicine . albania's president cancels upcoming local elections after thousands gather again in the capital for mass anti-government protests. and the voice of the revolution now silence the former footballer and prominent syrian activist who has died fighting government forces. in sport has won her 1st ever grand slam title the australian beating markets of under show over in straight sets in the final of the french open.

palo sedans protest leaders say the military is employing widespread intimidation to break up the civil disobedience campaign targeting workers in banks elect. christie companies and ports that are also refusing to negotiate with the military off the 5 officers and figures were arrested if well as a military crackdown on monday when security forces stormed a citizen adult to say more than 100 people were killed that's going to. mohammed went from shaking hands with ethiopian prime minister abi to a jail cell in one day the sudanese opposition leader was part of a delegation that met akhmed after the arrival in khartoum on friday to act as a mediator he is one of several opposition members arrested during saturday morning raids their arrests are 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'll return to negotiations 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 thirdly old political detainees and old 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 abdel fatah or han confirmed that the council is open for negotiations and reaching a solution at any time and god willing this mediation will have a good result. protesters have called for the immediate withdrawal of the paramilitary group the rapid support courses they are accused of raping and

murdering protesters including children but some doubt that's possible i do have hope but i'm also worried because. 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 annual military. mission to hand although it. will. force. 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 al-jazeera let's get more on this now because joining us live from philadelphia is a lynn young who's the director of african a studies at drexel university thanks for being with us on the program so by arresting those opposition leaders just hours after they've had a meeting with the ethiopian prime minister so what extent does that suggest the military council basically isn't prepared to resolve the situation with the help of any african nations or indeed any international countries. i think that's exactly the signal that the military council in sudan is trying to give i think they were disappointed what. suggestions for instance the idea that the civilians would still have the majority on the sovereign council and i think they're trying to break the will of the forces for freedom and change ahead of the possible civil disobedience and general strike that's been called for tomorrow the

african union of course has suspended sudar but there has been very little other concrete international effort has that just solve the crisis why is that i think also very interesting question i mean we've heard that united from the united states and the european union i mean condemning the military coup in sudan but at the same time while the african union has very strong principles against military coups we haven't seen the same kind of storm coming out from organizations such as the arab league we haven't seen clearer statements from egypt or some of the gulf states such as saudi arabia or the united arab emirates and given what's been happening certainly over the last couple of and also the breakup of the original demonstration the deaths that were involved in not how much support do you think the civil disobedience campaign is going to have sunday i think there's still a lot of potential for the civil disobedience campaign to have tons of support and

i think the military has been incredibly afraid of the strike movement i mean there are even been rumors for instance that the military has been forced to send soldiers to the houses of the heir of the employees of khartoum airport in order to keep the airport open and they're very afraid of a strike amongst the electrical workers strike some monks transport workers strike some of the oil and gas employees and possibly. strike some once doctors and other key services and is the opposition itself i think it's you know i see it's in the way forward given the crackdown there has been on those people who are prepared to go out on the streets is there a split about what should be happening now. i mean i think there's always tensions i'm trying to pull together a broad broad coalition but at the same time i think the military crackdown if anything has united the forces of the opposition prior to the crackdown part of the

opposition were willing perhaps even concede the majority of the military council to the military i think it was the actions on june 3rd and the massacre that occurred that is if anything harden the position of the opposition what about the o. me and i'm talking about the regular army here do you think individual offices individual soldiers all going to be prepared to go back out on the streets should that be this civil disobedience campaign and should people be out protesting on the streets again in huge numbers can the military council rely on the support of the regular army members that's one of the great unresolved questions at the moment where does this sort of these army stand i mean there have been reports that the perhaps the military council is actually afraid of its middle ranking army officers many of whom we have to remember that while there's always been wars in the sudanese periphery this kind of violence in

khartoum itself is rather unprecedented the only real precedent for it are in the early days of the 1990 s. right before right when the last regime when when al bashir was regime was 1st coming to power but some people have even said the scale of this is worse than that old and young your analysis joining us live from philadelphia thank you thank you again the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has authorized the reopening of the border with colombia the crossing near kuta thousands of people began the day in long queues many hoping to buy food and medicine because of shortages and high costs in venezuela and is on the ramp yet he has this update from. thousands of in a sweat and started lining up in the early hours of saturdays just hours after prison the collapse of my daughter and now it's the reopening of the bridges the formal crossings between colombia and venezuela we've seen long lines especially in

this city. main entry point into colombia where tens of thousands of innocents on a daily basis cross to try and find food medicine and axis medical services that they have a hard time getting back at home thousands of venezuelans were lying on illegal crossings on dirt paths that are controlled by criminal gangs while the border was closed so this is definitely. a very good this is definitely very good news for thousands of in use well and that need to cross into colombia daily bases in the meantime inside the. political fight continues between the government and the opposition we've seen doing rallies in and around us and the leader of the opposition plan way though those said that he's not interested in

continuing and they go she ations with the government that were attempted in oslo in europe as long as my daughter does not accept to put a date for early elections to try and solve this political crisis in venezuela. just today after a deal between the u.s. and mexico one time on immigration migrants are continuing to make the journey between what amala and mexico's southern border mexico has deployed 6000 members of its national guard to its border with somalia to try to stem the flow of migrants to the u.s. it has suspended plans to impose tariffs on all mexican goods as part of the deal well reynolds reports from 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 a 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 ard said the 2 sides reached a compromise almost but he said it was i think it's a fair balance because the us had more drastic proposals at the start and we have reached a middle point that he agreed to support mexico's proposal to support the central american countries. mexico had already agreed to send troops to its border with what amala 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've entered the united states back to mexico to await league.