speech. the main groups behind to dance revolution have insisted they will remain peaceful and not give up their demands for freedom despite the violence general strikes like zombies are an example of peaceful resistance but in a country with a history of conflict in a region where revolutions have tried into civil wars there is genuine concern for sudan's future. i'll just 0 well now let's take a closer look at the demands of the opposition they want to clear admission and apology for monday's crackdown in khartoum which according to syrian is doctors killed 117 people there also demanding the release of all political detainee's on friday 5 opposition members were arrested soon after holding mediation talks with ethiopia's prime minister protest leaders also want all internet and media restrictions lifted there's been a complete mobile internet blackout since the crackdown and last week the military genter close to al-jazeera offices in the capital and withdrew accreditation for

other media outlets and they want a guarantee of public freedoms like the right to assembly and the freedom of speech well earlier i spoke to me who is a sudanese human rights activist she thinks the silence from the international community has allowed the military agenda to act with impunity. this is a real peaceful revolution and a peaceful movement and it will never result to violence the problem what they're doing this and don't they're trying to justify their killings because they feel backed they're backed by sudan by saudi arabia they're backed by u.a.e. they're backed by the us their pact also by the european union everyone in this world has packed this ready before and embolden it to this extent that they started to commit massacre they're trying to cover their crimes they're already closer to 0 because it was covering this nonstop life feeds they already closed down the internet they're doing that intentionally because they have something to hide if it wasn't for that they would not put us

a lockdown but we will not be silent the sudanese people will not be silenced not in sudan and not i promise we are not going to be silent let me ask you more about that because we're hearing about the protesters preconditions for talks which have been suspended for some time where all there is now preconditions are not they should not be even a partner to this transfer of power they are criminals like to ask you about a potential resolution where you see a potential resolution to what's happening here because the violence has been going on for some time now we're hearing demands from the protesters talks have been suspended where do we go from here they want to kill everybody they have not stored one act that can make up what them or they did not show any act of remorse or any act of for ignition of the crime we cannot trust them what do you what do we need more to recognize that these are criminal host taking the people of sudan hostage

and they're committing war crimes they say that they want the people to go back to normal life we can't there's tanks and captured cars and guns every single every street you look around even when people don't go out of their houses they break in a lot of them and i'm talking only about a couple that has relatively a crock of them for me. ition leaking but we're know what's happening in other cities and this is not new it happens in darfur and everybody was watching we documented so many crimes everything that happened in darfur is happening now in sudan countrywide if you did if you fail to stop the 4 you have a chance now to make this right and correct your mistake i have no idea what can the international community do but since this is their mass they need to clean it 1st starting by cutting any aid any aid jailor t.m.c. any aid they're doing they need to cut it to t.m.c. money anything do not recognise them they failed to do that time and time again

look where this got us the need to recognise that g m c gentle we are not trustworthy in any political solution or any peaceful solution any delay or recognizing this fact just make it harder. has plenty more ahead on this news hour including. i anger against corruption drives thousands of protesters back onto the streets of haiti. the best place of civilization iraqi archaeologists struggle to preserve awesome facts from what the ancient kingdom of babylon. and unspoiled with peace or what have the accent as india prays to god 1st training at the cricket well. now police and protesters have fought in kazakhstan on election day cousin drama

talking on course to be the 1st new president and 30 years but some opposition groups say the vote was unfair and should be boycotted at least 500 people were arrested robin forrester walker reports from the capital from the capital and. i this was no it's the electorate turned out the authorities wanted disorder in kazakh stones capital. and 2nd city. where we caught the vote protestors croyde because they did not believe this election office them a real choice. some said they supported the democratic choice of. the political party. was for i'm not afraid because i've had enough i've been living without a home in temporary accommodation for 13 years i'm fed up of this said they wanted freedom to demonstrate because unsanctioned protests are illegal in the past it

started only just election is unfair it's all been decided already it's not like the term choices as they are all. it's all like a circus. the bright police now are working their way down the centuries street the protesters in front of me they are trying to stay ahead of the police. in the future crowds are being seized and it's really getting it's a good if the situation. was good that. this was the image the authorities wanted to project an orderly participation by the electorate in a peaceful transition of power. as a boy of the man who ran kazakstan for nearly 30 years has stepped into retirement

although he retains significant powers as chairman for the life of the country's security council his chosen successor. talk i have his own course to take over what is your specific message to those individuals who are campaigning for democracy and rights in this country those individuals who've been detained are advised all the law enforcement agencies to be tolerant. society restraint but any serious violations of our laws of course will not be tolerated but at the same time i urge all the young people. on the same level. to exercise restraint to be tolerant to the power through the government a rare acknowledgement that because it's deserved more political freedom i know that didn't stop the tensions as it stands has never seen an election day quite

like this before robyn for a steelworker al-jazeera that's not so tired. now many people have been killed and 5 others injured during anti-government protests in haiti's capital port au prince . demonstrators set up roadblocks and torched buildings and cars they want prison juvenile moyes to resign after accusing him of stealing money from an oil aid program there been demands for an investigation into suspected corruption involving the petro caribbean oil program under which haiti received cheaper venezuelan oil. well syrian government forces say they've captured a village on the border between how managed province's government tanks and soldiers have moved into town merely president bashar al assad's forces launched an offensive to recapture parts of helmand province is in april at least 300000 people have been displaced and hospitals have been attacked since the beginning of the

offensive and thousands of mourners gathered in southern turkey for the funeral of a prominent syrian opposition figure who was killed by regime forces on saturday. a former football star from homs was famously known as the singer of the revolution latest elites body was carried in a procession across the border into syria province. the u.n. refugee agency says the risk of people dying while trying to get to europe is at its highest ever the u.n.h.c.r. says without intervention in the mediterranean there will be a sea of blood this comes as the libyan coast guard says it's rescued more than 500 refugees trying to reach europe in just the past 9 days most were brought ashore off the coast of the libyan capital tripoli and taken to government shelters or some turn up from doctors without borders says the number of crossings across the mediterranean is much lower than last year but refugees are taking more risks. the

absolute number of people who are fleeing across the central mediterranean is much lower this year than it has been previous years but the key point of concern is that whilst over the same period last year the chance of dying in attempting to make the journey was one in 59 over the last 5 months the chance of death during the course of all of that journey is now one in 15 there are many factors that drive people to take this desperate option one of those factors is the recent conflicts in tripoli in northwest libya that has destabilized a large region had a massive impact on civilians in and around that city but it is also likely to be pushing people to take options that otherwise might not well top including crops in boise well there's a new bipartisan effort in the us congress to block the sale of weapons to saudi arabia senator chris murphy a democrat and senator todd young a republican want to force a vote on

a bill bell introduced on monday both men have long been opponents of u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen the measure would have to pass the senate and the house cattle says there's a disconnect between palestinians and the u.s. over a proposed american plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict donald trump's son in law and white house adviser jared kushner is believed to be driving those patterns last week in an interview with u.s. media cushnie said palestinians deserve self-determination expressed on 70 over their capacity to govern themselves later this month there's expected to be a conference in bahrain to help the palestinian economy but it's likely to be shunned by many in the arab world. cast as prime minister mohammed bin at the raman al tani told reporters in london our position remains very firm we're going to support any plan that the palestinians are willing to accept if the plan is rejected by one of the parties it means the plan is either unfair or just not

realistic the best scenario is either that both parties accept it or that both parties reject it while i spoke to an rabbani who's the coeditor of dalia an online magazine focusing on the middle east he says the opinions of white house staff all over the place on this issue every single thing about this current and that american administration has leaked and somehow supposed to believe that this metadata peace plan is the one thing that hasn't leaked so quite clearly the only logical inference is that it doesn't exist you have most recently the us ambassador to israel daniel 3 saying he supports israel you have x. a cell of the some parts of the west spared you have a jury questionnaire saying statement shouldn't really be on the agenda and employing a classical colonial trope saying that the prosecutors are incapable of governing

themselves in other words not ready for independence as we see here all over asia and africa in the fifty's and sixty's and it's kind of one new brainwaves a minute all going absolutely nowhere there is a very clear u.s. policy which has been an embrace of the most extreme israeli agenda and implementing this on the ground through various and this it has that it ready been taken that is what we should be focusing on rather than awaiting some kind of document which again i'm absolutely convinced has not been written and waiting for that to be unveiled at some point in the future. now a rocky exploring the ancient kingdom of babylon say they need urgent support to preserve all. of conflict the biblical city is the best place of the wilds fest complex communities charles stratford went on to find out. on the capital city of an empire that reached its peak on the king neb you could never

around 2600 years ago this road lead to the tower of babel archaeologists say the walls were once adorned with blue ceramic designs the babylonian god murdoch rides along the famous ishtar gate king maybe couldn't is his name is carved in qunu form a writing around 5000 years old and some of the bricks the southern palace was rebuilt on the original foundations and completed around 20 years ago but a lot of the restoration work is complicated to preservation efforts. concrete is forced moisture and salt up into the ancient foundations the water table is high because a tributary of the euphrates river is close by bricks late in the 1980 s. to reinforce some walls have made archaeological investigations difficult. balance problems include the shifting heavy populated areas close by we need

a vast plan of excavation the remaining archaeology needs sustainable preservation because the archaeological material is being heavily eroded rising above the site perched on top of a manmade hill is a palace built for a man who often identified himself with the babylonian kings saddam hussein's sama probably as is an eerie reminder of iraq's more recent past. the former dictator's faces carved into the palace walls. the great holes inside the empty marble walls are covered in graffiti humira on the ceiling seems the only thing not defiled it's saddam hussein was so obsessed with babylon that he built one of his policies here and it's from the palace walls that you get this incredible view of the ancient ruins it's believed that in the foreground here that's where the fabled hanging gardens of babylon were located and it's hoped that after years of

petitioning by the iraqi government this site is soon going to get world heritage status iraqi archaeologists say the government needs to demonstrate its commitment to the sustainable preservation of babylon conflicts and political instability has kept most international archaeological teams away for almost 30 years the importance of babylon goes beyond whether or not it's the world heritage property and that goes for many sites in this country the origin of civilization civilization itself of complex civilization the evidence of it is here in this country the origin of writing you know important governance itself the kingship and the temple complex evolving over hundreds and thousands of years according to the bible god punished the babylonians for trying to build a structure to heaven and this overgrown trench is where it's believed the tower of babel once stood experts say a star archaeological investigation of babylon in the surrounding area could take

centuries a site of a described as the birthplace of civilization in a country the struggling to recover from its violent recent past chance trafford al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera the human cost of a deal on migrants between the united states and mexico and what it means for families desperate to seek asylum. now their one of europe's chorused nations plunges into a new political crisis. and then sports winds and the like for portugal and the nations league final. the web and sponsored by cattle and ways. hello flooding is the order the day to be

expected and every show has got potential dropping between one and 200 millimeters of rain in its life and that could be 6 hours or so and this banded cloud will be moving size or north in the yangtze down towards hong kong throughout the next couple of months current focus is from fujian west was and you see that's in the forecast too so it doesn't capture that hong kong it probably means that shanghai along the yangtze various launch the dry come monday we're in a sort of stay that way because you see something developing in sichuan moving eastwards but the concentration is clearly further south and granddaughter piece we are focused from the dark green during tuesday obviously the feed is humid and the showers should have been anywhere from sudden china so the philippines down towards indonesia surprising the heaviest stuff recently has been around silly way z. and southern border and less so concentrated in the philippines but big showers around central thailand sudden vietnam and they'll carry on i think rather fewer to

the south so that they're dotted around malaysia indonesia but then they wold not so surprising they the heavy ones do seem to want to be in indonesia. monsoon is broken are in current us so it's catch year with itself and of course ahead of it is still very hot. the weather sponsored by cattle and weighs. a journey of personal discovery my great grandfather he was a slave of the lead property al-jazeera is james garner and expose his family's 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 some scar we even skew to speak out because it's a problem. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story as feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is

you know it's very challenging but in this particular because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues we are with the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mend it used to do you work in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior we're good all of us across the globe. and again i'm. reminded of the news this hour there have been violent clashes between protesters and police and what could be hong kong's biggest rally and 16 is protesters want an extradition bill which could enable suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial drops an editorial in the official chinese state newspaper

says foreign forces are trying to head beijing by creating chaos and hong kong. sudan's military just. says it will deploy more troops on the streets and that includes members of the paramilitary group known as the rapid support forces at least 4 more people were killed in the capital khartoum and neighboring on their money on the 1st day of a general strike called by protest leaders. and exit polls suggest talk they have has won kazakhstan's presidential election with more than 70 percent of the voters but there are concerns about whether the election was free and fair as $500.00 protesters were detained. u.s. president donald trump is pushing back against media reports that his latest agreement with mexico doesn't actually contain anything new the white house announced the agreement on friday trump threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from mexico unless it did more to stop asylum seekers from crossing into the u.s.

but reports are emerged that the deal mostly involves agreements that were reached months ago from washington d.c. alan fischer explains what's different in the agreement. well there are some new elements to this 1st of all the idea that the national guard in mexico would be deployed to the southern border to stop people coming up through the country are partly in agreement was reached in december between the u.s. and mexico what we have now is a number around 5000 national guard troops will do that job and also a time scale mexico say they are moving on and they are moving on it quickly mexico is also going to make it easier for people to stay in mexico while the asylum claims are held in the united states know that whole thing is being challenged in the courts here in the u.s. so that might not become such a key issue donald trump has also said in a tweet on sunday that there is one big thing that wasn't unknowns when the news release about this went out on friday and that will become clear at the appropriate

time no idea what that could possibly be and also he is saying that mexico has agreed to buy a great deal of agricultural produce from the united states but that has left both people here in the u.s. and in mexico are scratching their heads saying there is no such agreement mexico has entered into no agreement about agricultural products what supporters of donald trump are saying is that the threat of terror undoubtedly made mexico come to the table because within hours of him saying that this was a possibility that the foreign minister of mexico was in washington discussing a deal this also gives donald trump a convenient political out if the situation on the border does not improve that he can say this is not a problem this is mexico's and he may well raise the issue of tired of sigyn because the talents for the moment are only suspended not completely canceled. now both the u.s. and mexico have hailed the agreement as

a success as is john heilemann reports from topic on mexico's southern border with many of those trying to reach the u.s. very different. from her the united states and mexico a bunch celebrating the new agreement mexico's avoided the threatens us terrorists the us has the promise mexico will tighten its borders. it's been sold as a triumph but those sites but there's bound to be a human cost and these people may be it central americans trying to get through mexico to the u.s. and cool it up in the crackdown the president trying to push pull in the couple of hours we spent at the mix can checkpoint 5 groups who are detained. many like honduran dudman well say that the end demick violence and chronic poverty in their homelands means there's little choice but to flee if you want to look at the kind of it's the situation here organized crime there's no work the americans the whole

lot we can do nothing but he and his family will now most likely be headed back home and this is just the beginning because national guard being deployed to the border to. mexico has rolled out that kind of blanket security before and it's led to migrants taking even more dangerous and isolated routes. what to mull until fellow is still recovering from his own taste of the people smugglers squeezed him and some 50 others into a truck standing up and drove it through mexico's mountainous backroads it plunged into a ravine killing 25 people on medicare when i woke up and heard that 6 of my friends from the community had died 3 of whom i had gone to school with i was very sad the solution many would say is to simply stay at home and the new agreement does include a plan for development in central american come. so the people don't have to leave

but the presidents of honduras el salvador and guatemala themselves have been virtually silent during this crisis and without their support their countrymen could be forgiven for thinking in this new deal they've been left on their own journey home and al-jazeera tapachula mexico. now moldova's interim leader has called new elections after the constitutional court removed the sitting president on sunday the court suspended is ordered and after he refused to dissolve parliament that reports. as moldova's political crisis continued members of parliament convened on sunday with some declaring that state and legal institutions have been seized the woman who in theory heads a new coalition government called on officials to work with her new administration it was only as i would say we addressed all the state employees and workers of the law enforcement institutions with a request to ignore illegal orders of those who try to power and stick to the side

of the people and legitimate authority parliament and government mulled over is one of europe's poorest countries in the populations broadly split between people who favor ties with russia and supporters of european union it's witnessed several political crises in recent years on saturday parliament finally approved a new government a day after a court mandated deadline it's one based on an unprecedented alliance between sunday's procure a p n akam bloc and the pro russian socialist party of outgoing president a go dot on the wrong. people who live in moldova differ in their views identity and geo political views but what happened in parliament today proves that we can find that which unite us. the formation of a government was meant to end months of uncertainty following elections in february but failed to produce a majority for any party. but after dawn refused to dissolve parliament this weekend the constitutional court ordered fresh elections in september and appointed an interim president from the democratic party which is led by this man vladimir

a highly controversial or legal he is one of the financier's and leading men of the democratic party and has been kind of the shadow ruler of malt over for quite a while now due to is both his influence over the party's influence over the media he is the richest man in mount over he's for been from holding any of the senior official positions to elements of his past allegations of corruption criminality. closer ties with the european union has been addressing supporters who set up tents in front of ministries and state institutions in the capital in recent years the e.u. has become increasingly critical of moldova's record on reforms and this latest down pass is unlikely to reassure the outside world. al-jazeera. albania's prime minister says this one so collections will go ahead as planned this after the president announced today area that they would be cancelled to reduce violence on

the streets reports from the capital tirana. protesters calling for the resignation of prime minister eddie roemer were met with a cannonade of tear gas outside parliament the opposition democratic party that held this protest didn't get to the general election it is askin for but the chief another goal albania's president has called for local government elections scheduled for june 30th to be cancelled saying current conditions don't allow for real democratic representative and inclusive elections opposition leader little seem basher was jubilant before his supporters. here. this is the result of your unyielding strength your stand your unshakable faith in european values of freedom democracy and human dignity. but prime minister eddie roemer insists the local elections will go ahead and has called an emergency cabinet meeting on sunday

there's no constitutional court to decide the issue because it's judges are under ethical review for possible bribery and corruption this puts albania in a constitutional crisis not only do the president and prime minister disagree the opposition democratic party refuses to field mayoral candidates in the country $61.00 municipalities it is doubtful what legitimacy the socialist party is man's would enjoy if elected unopposed this was the 8th anti-government protest since the opposition democratic party walked. out of parliament over 3 months ago and took its campaign to the streets to unseat the socialist government these protests a few by widespread perception of corruption the government was hit by a series of scandals suggesting roma was reelected 2 years ago thanks to help from organized crime it is. that he was not elected by the people it is real leadership it is a claim that he was elected by the. many albini and are disappointed at what they

see as a partisan economy he built this be when rama was elected in 2013 he said that every house in albania will be given a title deed because a lot of homes have been built illegally but when he became prime minister he gave papers to his supporters and others got nothing that's why i am here i work for 25 years in greece to build my house. the legitimacy of edgy rama's government is already undermined by the opposition's absence from parliament if from a insists on holding a local election with only socialist party candidates he is sure to face stiff opposition jumpstart oculus al-jazeera to run the. india's prime minister has become the fast foreign leaders a visit tree lanka since the easter sunday bombings and render modi paid homage to the victims and agreed to step up cooperation to prevent future attacks and elfin and as reports. a 1st hand look at one of the main targets of the easter sunday

bombings for indian prime minister narendra modi he's the 1st world leader to visit since the attacks and stopped at the number nice church in colombo on his way in from the airport worshippers had packed this church for easter sunday service on the 21st of april the 1st of 7 suicide bombers launched his attack here. within minutes 3 churches and 3 hotels had been targeted killing more than 250 people and injuring hundreds more 10 indians were among the 45 tourists killed. it's a 3rd visit here for the indian leader who had a ceremony and welcomed including a $21.00 gun salute despite the view reince india is probably going to take a more assertive role as far as its regional influence is concerned and this is part of. more he has said his visit is to express india's solidarity with sri

lanka's government and people in mind just be a force stop in sri lanka but analysts say prime minister narendra modi's visit sends an important message that things are getting back to normal 6 weeks after the easter sunday carnage politics is a different story present mighty by the city and prime minister brown has become a singer may have come together for more this visit but they continue to disagree on a number of issues their latest battleground the special parliamentary select committee set up to investigate the easter bombings the president has sacked his intelligence chief and says he want to allow any serving officers to testify before the committee the indian prime minister highlighted what he calls a neighborhood 1st policy by choosing the maldives and sri lanka for his 1st foreign visit after his reelection observers say it's a policy that is likely to shape region.