plans to change the age of retirement. the big reasons why. you don't have to count the cash you don't have to reconcile the cash and a new trend in the u.s. with some stores are taking cash out of the equation but what do you do if you don't have a debit or a credit card. hello again we are looking at a lot of warm air across much of the area where we are going to see temperatures almost getting to 50 in some locations quite city here on sunday 48 degrees few baghdad at 47 degrees but by the time we get to monday coate city up to about 49 degrees and a lot of gusty winds across much of the area very dry conditions as well we could be seeing lower visibilities in some areas over here towards kabul though it is going to be a nice day at about 30 degrees there here across the gulf though we are going to be

seeing our temperatures rising and then it is going to be a problem as we go towards beginning the week as well we're going to see some clouds here on sunday with the temperature here a hindu about 42 degrees but by the time we get towards monday we will also be going up to about $47.00 and also some windy conditions there over towards miska the clouds are finally going to be clearing because that storm out into the arabian sea and you should be seeing a temperature of $37.00 degrees and then very quickly across much of southern portions of africa dry conditions across much of the region we are going to be picking up some clouds so here across parts of mozambique over the next few days not a lot of rain in those clouds but the coastal clouds will bring those temperatures down just a little bit harare though at $22.00 degrees there but as we go towards monday more rain showers across the region and durban a temperature of $22.00. told to al-jazeera. we're probably. i'm so besides the instability is corruption we

listen since i hadn't been so who are pushing the united states and president trump into conflict we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter just 0. here with al-jazeera and these are our top stories this hour hong kong suspending its plans for a new bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland china its chief executive kerry lam made the announcement after meeting legislators for several

hours sudan's former president omar bashir could be brought before a court within weeks the chief prosecutor says pressure will be sent for trial unless he files an appeal in the next 7 days and iran's president hassan rouhani says his country will continue to pull back from its nuclear deal commitments and as other countries protect it from american sanctions. mexico's migration chief resigned on friday without giving a reason to your departure kansas mexico is stepping up security along its southern border the white house of course has been pressuring its neighbor to do more to stop the flow of people from central america heading into the united states john holeman has more now from mexico city. after a report that showed convoys of trucks heading through most nights from a very specific area of the guatemala mexico border and those trucks controlled by people smugglers taking hundreds of central americans through mexico to the u.s.

border we asked president lopez all over a daughter of mexico why that had been happening for what locals told us was more than a year and why the government seemed not to have noticed or done anything to stop it this was his response to goose we have identified $68.00 border crossing points and in all of them there is going to be vigilance that's what i can tell you it's a plan to have control on the border so not really a clear answer there but president lopez obrador saying that in 68 border crossing point security is going to be increased we're already seeing that across the country makes creates a really on the pressure from the united states to curb the amount of central american migrants coming from honduras el salvador guatemala fleeing poverty and violence that ending up on the u.s. border to the north and it's say said already that if mexico doesn't do that there

would be terrorists mexico is a verted that threat for now but the government said from the u.s. that in a month and a half if it doesn't see concrete results and those results will be judged by president trump then there will be further actions. protesters in brazil kept their promise to go on a 24 hour strike can continue demonstrations into friday night they're angry about a proposal to raise the age of retirement protests brought parts of brazil to a standstill with many walking off the job the government says the changes are needed to stop the country from sliding into a recession. though with the support from sao paulo. new trains today much of the extensive metro system remain closed a show of defiance by the trade unions and inconvenience for many passengers trying to get to work but why yes we just saw numbers on us a shift here we called our manager and asked if they could send a car to take us to the office if we don't make it to work they'll be a deduction from our salary telling but thanks for the money it's important to

protest against the pension reform but they should plan something that won't disturb everyone. bankers teachers and all workers also join the industrial action in towns and cities across brazil going something to the total we are fighting for our futures and for the next generations future we want to retire with dignity. to love you that's ok well i don't think we know the government is not sensitive to this kind of protest but we want politicians to hear us anyway. roads were blocked here in law as well as in rio de janeiro in cities in the north the strike better observed in some places than in others. resident both from outer came to office 5 months ago promising radical reforms of 1st brazil's ailing economy sacrifices he said would have to be made bears the brunt of those sacrifices is what this dispute is all about that. these workers rather meant it should not be them the rich and

big business they say should pay their taxes they were mothers are mothers we work a 44 hour week one of the highest in the world also in many poor regions of brazil life expectancy is 6364 years old they want to rise the pension age to 65. but many will be dead by the end that's why we're against this proposal. the government says reform is essential to modernize a bloated financial system and make brazil more competitive. the unions say those cuts will hit the public sector the workers hardest with brazil heading for recession they say this is a fight it's only just begun. their al-jazeera. rescue efforts are underway in chile to free 3 men trapped in a collapsed mine specialized rescue teams have been deployed to the scene and talk appear the mine collapsed on thursday all of the miners are bolivian citizens in a trap to the depth of nearly 70 meters the bolivian president evo morales tweeted

about his concern and praised those involved in the rescue. philippine president rhodri go to turkey is demanding an investigation into the sinking of a boat by a chinese fishing vessel $1122.00 filipino fishermen floating at sea before they were rescued by a vietnamese boat and it is the latest incident between manila and beijing over the disputed south china sea jamila undergoing reports now from the home of the fisherman in enduros central philippines. for many years this boat has provided a livelihood for more than 20 filipino families but not anymore. this is all that is left of it it was wrecked in the reback a full of the maritime territory in the spratly group of islands in the south china sea. the fishermen say they'd anchored overnight and were asleep when a chinese vessel rammed the rear of their boat. according to them the chinese

vessel turned flashed its lights and sped away leaving them clinging to wreckage on the open sea. some of us got on the small boat and. were bird grateful fisherman. are we with. the scene told through a sketch of the chinese vessel he says it was a 3 times bigger than their own boat in 2016 the philippine government won a landmark case against china at the international tribunals in the hague china's so-called 9 dash territorial claim has been declared invalid the philippines president with regard to terror to considers china his government's closest ally and is refusing to implement the court's ruling the chinese foreign ministry says what happened at the reed bank was

a maritime accident and according to its embassy in manila a group of filipino boats prevented the chinese vessel from helping the fisherman boat owner. says he feels devastated. that the boat. we are being treated as if we are slaves. if. it took 4 days at sea to wanted to traumatize fisherman to tractors and a determined community for a damaged fishing vessel to be returned to where it 1st came from and fishermen here tell us they will rebuild this boat and they will have out to sea again. the philippine foreign ministry says it's filed a dip. mattick protest against china but filipino fishermen say they've been reporting harris meant at sea for years and that's not enough they say what they

want is the philippine government to act with dignity and defend the country's sovereignty. dog and occidental minbar all central philippines. health officials in democratic republic of congo have suspended vaccination campaigns for measles and other diseases in the north east but is because there is of course struggling with an outbreak of ebola other than 5 cases of the city of near the border with uganda health services so they will prioritize the apollo vaccine until it is eradicated the world health organization has decided against declaring a public health emergency. to the lives of their health officials have just informed as about the measles vaccination cancelation in this region because of cases we wondered about the situation as the number of cases of this epidemic is growing even here in this camp kids are suffering and dying from measles we need more medical support now. so iraq's vast oil wealth once paid for some of the best

health services in the middle east but the decades of conflict and political unrest there have contributed to what the government admits is a crisis in its hospitals as child strapped for their reports things are particularly bad in bus or province where people have long complained of government neglect. fatima who there was diagnosed with leukemia 11 months ago. she is 4 years old. her father brings her to this government cancer hospital in basra for kiba therapy treatment but the drugs needed to keep her alive are often in short supply. we don't know whether she will get better i'm very afraid because i see many children who come to this hospital dying of cancer the number of chemotherapy sessions varies each month but sometimes we have to delay coming because there is no bed available. around 70 children are being treated for cancer

in buses children's hospital. experts say pollution from surrounding oilfields is one of the reasons why basra has the highest rate of cancer in iraq in. to have some of the best hospitals and medical expertise in the middle east but decades of war conflict and political instability means those days are long gone the situation at this cancer hospital is so bad that doctors here say they have to rely on cash donations to buy up to 75 percent of the chemotherapy medicine they need every month. patients a health services are particularly bad in southern iraq basra is the largest oil producing region in the country but there's little sign of petro dollars spending at hospitals like this one people in basra have along the complained of neglect of what they say is corruption and financial mismanagement by the federal government in baghdad protests to set fire to the provincial council building during

demonstrations last year at least 30 people were killed during the un rest against the lack of services doctors say they often can't provide the basic needs. we're facing a crisis in so many levels become provide chemotherapy fast enough it's not always available it's expensive and getting it involves a lot of bureaucratic red tape we also need more trained medical staff that the regional government says federal government leaders in baghdad must do more they 7 with their own local there hasn't been enough financial support from the federal government for many years this year we were allocated 2.8 percent of the federal budget and that's nowhere near enough and we need a better share of the revenues or things won't improve on a wall in the hospital is a mural called the tree of life showing photos of children who were treated here and survived the government in baghdad which in recent years has struggled to cope

with the battle against eisel has promised to do more to help. doctors say that if it doesn't then many more cancer victims like fatima will die chance trafford al-jazeera. moldova's new prime minister maya son do is promising to strengthen ties with the e.u. to do away with corruption in her country she took over after the caretaker government resigned on friday ending a power struggle triggered by an election that failed to give any clear majority to any one party the democratic party stepped down to make way for sunday's new coalition government but not before calling it illegal and demanding a new election san francisco has become the latest city in the u.s. to ban stores from refusing cash retailers say these exclusively digital payments are good for business but others a card only is discriminatory everybody's on the explains. this coffee shop in new jersey might have a distinctly retro vibe. but when owner travis clifton grew tired of the daily

grind of dealing with cash he decided it was one blast from the past that needed a modern solution going cashless the big reasons why. you don't have to count the cash you don't have to reconcile the cash i don't have to put pressure on library system a sure that the tills match up which means they can focus on given the customer the best service. he became one of a growing number of store owners across the u.s. recall fusing to accept cash customers instead paying by cards or through their cell phones but the move to digitize payments ended up being as short lived as a morning express so this year new jersey state legislature banned stores from refusing cash and over the state line new york city's council is also considering banning cashless stores following the footsteps of philadelphia and san francisco

but critics say digital only payments discriminate against the poor listen to this statistic the u.s. government says there are 8000000 families in the u.s. they don't even have a bank account or a credit card and another 24000000 families that are under banked which means they might have a checking or savings account but rely on cash to survive people like barbara vasquez who has a learning disability and closed her bank account after getting hit with high fees she experienced 1st hand the humiliation of being refused service when trying to buy a $4.00 ice cream with cash it was. absolutely modifying. especially since there was eyes on me and then there was a line behind me one of the groups pushing to stop no cash stores is the retail action project its director rachel le forrest says that with out action the move to

ditch dollar bills could spread to half of all stores in the u.s. in the next 10 years the key word there is access that yes this is all part of the expansion of the digital age but there's a huge population of people who don't have access to digitizing their lives in that way the battle over cashless stores is not over until then your dollars are still good just not everywhere. gabriel is on doe al-jazeera new york. these are the headlines this hour on al-jazeera hong kong's plans for a controversial new extradition law are being suspended after a week of mass protests and the threat of more territories chief executive kerry says legislators have considered widespread public opposition to the proposal which would allow the suspects to be extradited to mainland china. i feel deep sorrow and

regret that the deficiencies in our work and various other factors have stirred up substantial controversies and has built in society following the relatively calm periods of the past 2 years this appointing many people we were dropped the most sincere and humble attitude just sapped criticisms and make improvements so that we can continue to connect with the people of hong kong. sudan's former president omar bashir could go before a court as early as next week or so and chief prosecutor says bashir will be set for trial unless he filed an appeal in the next few days before my leader is facing corruption charges he was of course forced to step down after months of protests against the government iran's president hassan rouhani says his country will continue to pull back from its nuclear deal commitments unless other countries protected from american sanctions he was speaking at

a summit in tajikistan where heads of more than 30 countries are discussing economic and security challenges in the asian region 2 separate car bomb attacks in heavily congested areas of the somali capital mogadishu 1st one happened at a checkpoint near the parliament building killing 8 people the 2nd targeted a roadblock leading to an airport the rebel group has claimed responsibility and in kenya county near the somali border 6 police officers have been killed and 6 more i'm missing a vehicle struck an improvised explosive device kenya began deploying its troops to the border with somalia in 2011 the tried to combat armed groups including al shabaab and protesters in brazil kept their promise to go on a 24 hour strike they're angry about a proposal to raise the retirement age and brought parts of brazil to a stand whole standstill with many walking off the job that's a look at the headlines inside story is coming up next.

hunger on the rise in south sudan the u.n. warns that millions of the country face a critical lack of food this despite a peace deal following the country's civil war so what should be done to stop the disaster and who or what is to blame this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan a record 7000000 people in south sudan

a facing severe hunger according to reports by its government and 3 u.n. agencies that's more than the heart of the population a lack of rain an ongoing economic crisis and years of civil war are being blamed for the worsening situation here's how one of the authors of the reports leigh sales wait from the world food program described the extent of the crisis every year hunger reaches higher levels in south sudan with millions of people unsure when they'll next be able to eat food shortages usually peak between may and july when the reports stop short of declaring a famine but says nearly 2000000 people go without meals for long periods and suffer acute malnutrition and that's leading to many deaths over the past 2 years the number of people needing food aid increased by 2000000 and if the lack of rain and poor harvests continue 21000 people could suffer famine. on top of natural

disasters years of political unrest and civil wars of pushed south sudan into crisis the country became the world's youngest in 2011 when it gained independence from neighboring sudan that followed a peace deal that ended africa's longest running conflict but the country descended into war 2 years later when president salva kiir accused his former deputy and former rebel leader of plotting a coup the violence left 3 180000 people dead and displaced about $4000000.00 it wasn't until september last year that president kier agreed to set up a unity government with mashallah but that's been delayed because the government says it's unable to disarm and integrate rival forces. so let's bring in our panel for today's discussion joining us now from juba in south sudan pierre voted who's the deputy representative of the un's food and agricultural organization in south sudan from nairobi we're joined by alan boswell

who's a senior analyst at the international crisis group and from syracuse in upstate new york joke joke who's the co-founder of the institute which is a think tank focusing on south sudan gentlemen welcome to you all pierre let's start with you the u.n. has stopped short of declaring a famine in south sudan how far away from that the way could it become a famine. then you're a father mandatory but we have to see with the recent analysis we provided. yesterday after it's we had the impression of the situation is more they were known it was one year ago. this is due to the fire about to despite the fact that these mortgage board according to the a.b.c. the analysis has been done recently there is less people who are needing assistance so we have the impression that the situation is getting better of course we are in

wait with conditions for the months there is it's due mainly according to the united states again if you manage the fact that there is a massive imagine a substantial schools with our stance says in decisions a number or the activity or so we starting to earth develop in they're going to need them of activity for resilience and budget glory and i'm sure your bid the production the crop production has met and or saw a bit of access in the country so the movement of the british and is better than it was one notable this is also arguing with the disagreement effect that it's true the man is improving ok. there is a very french not stable pair or that the situation is stable slightly better but it is as you say still dire what happened to bring about this current situation ok well there what decisions in fact what we are going through and what we did since the ins and outs before you are suited to walk and it's

a conjunction of different of different different effects the 1st one is that once again there is a massive humanitarian assistance and that is to still going on still very massive . there is food distributions dawn in the very large scale still in the country it's improved in term of access just to get the since last year out but also it's complemented by a number of actions middle the regime but there's been do. by the un in the engineers in the ground in order to provide us dance quicker and more efficiently in them of rapid response that the slowing down of complementarity was different axis or so emoting this us with those in the response by increasing the pollution and increasing. the culture of the fish except they are the soon to mount is of course it's the beasts at the moment to destroy but there is this time it is asians and they're going to various lists fight but we have to be very cautious about what because we are so arise and got the rusty recently in but another one with the what

it does are and more so in a barn one jungle so this is the situation but despite the fight there is a beast there is still a large number of people is going to because it's us with our witches or source but in the threat on the on the civil predation there so this is a bit where we are the month situations is that is that is getting slightly better it's true but we have to keep in mind that the number of the board in anger is still expanding so while there we are out we have is that it is asian the action has to be completed with more durable actions but a ground we need 2 of the peace agreement or the end progressing and reaching to a concrete actions in the should in order for us national of or in on the other side we need to why we continue absolutely need going to new that you mentioned assistance dissolution of foods but also to pass through on activities more rated resilience so trying to build the capacity of the south sudanese to produce a for themself to sell the food they producing in the market in the to benefit all

the other nice ok alan boswell in nairobi how did south sudan a country rich in mineral resources come to this who or what is to blame is it all about climate. yeah i mean this is obviously not a climate related drought this is one that is incredibly manmade and honestly is one that you know the fingers can be pointed in and many and all directions on i mean south sudan was was born in 2011 i was there at the time from 2010 living in the country and there was a lot of hope for this country but in 2013 basically the leaders of the countries started squabbling over who would leave the country and then it fell into this horrific civil war and even from the beginning of south sudan i mean it was a country which was the basic services were basically all provided by outside

n.g.o.s and governments and as this war has continued that it's only increased to the point now where we have really over half the population almost and semi-permanent you know close to starvation and in serious need of food aid at such a state so how much of the blame for what's happened in south sudan and for the suffering of its of its people currently to the countries that played a role in helping south sudan gained its independence that. i mean like i said there's lots of blame to go around and i think definitely a lot of blame needs to fall on the u.s. and its allies as well as the regional countries who supported the peace process and of course you know the south sudanese elites you know hold the most direct responsibility for what's happened to their country but you know i was i was there when south sudan was leading up to independence and the the sort of optimism and

blueprints for this new country were completely out of whack with the reality and i think a lot of the tough conversations that need to be had with the political elite weren't happening at that time and sadly there are you know plenty of people who sort of predicted that a crisis like this might happen although the scale of this has been you know truly atrocious i mean but it's not only bent just the civil war in as much as people fighting rebels i mean several of the areas which are most in need of food are you know areas i don't even have any rebels fighting the government it's just that the government control has completely collapse i was in a place called room back a couple years ago where you know this is a place where there are no rebels at all it's completely government controlled and you had fighting spilling into the town itself to the place where to the point where you couldn't leave the hotel and you know because that's how that insecurity was you can imagine trying to plant and you know and raise your your life stuck in such an environment joke not

a joke and sort of cues where do you stand on this who's to blame for what's happened in south sudan where the. good things as be upset good the extent that these crises escalates to a point in all. it's got to hit all family in my job that would be true human action or inaction. the fact that this south sudanese this day. has not lived up to its promises to take responsibility for the welfare of its people is primarily the reason why south sudanese are still unable to make their ends meet. but also because particularly this year if this if this iteration is going to come to a point where people die of starvation. and to the extent that it can be blamed on

nature what is going on now is that rains have delayed it which means that whatever. remain in august from last year will fall short of to concur in the people for the next harvest so that. a bit that can be blamed on the environment climate and the delay of or of rains but overall. the south sudanese a state. as a state won a war and continue to live in war. everything that has happened to deny or deprive the south sudanese of their capacity to continue to occur themselves is to be squarely put at the doorstep of the south sudanese leadership if that is so i did think ok what is your knowledge of what

about the the the international community the question that i put to alan a few moments ago about the countries who helped played a role in helping sudan achieve some standard cheviots independence should the international community have been paying more attention doing more trying to head off this crisis was or was to a certain extent it inevitable because there's a there's a an element of of of whether involved here of climate involved. no there is as alan said i think there has to be a recognition of the failure at the outset to. combine state building which a lot of countries like the u.s. the u.k. norway were engaging in in 2011. with nation building which was to try to focus on recounts island south sudanese because again like islands that even

when there is a civil war the the war that mocha makes the most damage is they in turn seen the ethnic relationships between the dinner and then various communities up into between this and that it is they are they the failure of the south sudanese state to build a sense of collective nationhood that has caused the most damage as well as the international community can be blamed i think. it is only that disconnect between state building and nation building which they have failed to invest in an ak and say that the coming of independence the succession that sas with amateurs we. can only it would if anybody has to be blamed for it and i don't know why we should blame anybody because the south sudanese themselves who for and achieve that independence the countries that assisted in that process. are now

being distracted by their own concerns the united kingdom is dealing with it the bracks it sound the united states is distracted by its own politics of isolationism. and america 1st kinds of politics so will south sudan cannot year after year expect the world to bail it out from its own tail and. actions that are attributed to drool believe that country will come back to the points that you have you made there just just a moment but i want to go back to appear. to talk more about the the un's work in south sudan at the pier how many people are you currently aiding in the country. because i think if you were for example we are seeing it. in moscow just for the from coming in but just for just reduces into these 450000 our force you need to

basics you have the number so it's all a masterful to put on the little british and we can do that and millions will for i'm just a routine around 280 morning as johnston of of 80000 tons of foods so it's in these millions of people and we are sitting at the moment together with unicef 2 in the other organizations i want us to start on the fact that we are walking a lot with the insurers international n.g.o.s all n.g.o.s managed by this us learn as in the field in scoring or the country if you look at them up of the months their critics were expanding before ever any area where there is no war and i was a little bit or saw in 2 and 5 and 6 just after the peace agreements and then we were already having the for their security in this area it's almost everybody that it was affected by that by the by the by the by the by the starving so the program off of us would understand the why are these

a program that absence of infrastructure is incapacity to connect the cities between them said the source or major issues the fact that the control for speeds there between the north and the sun or sort handed a lot of treats between the north and the sultan budget gaza most of traits from disaster unoriginality the south sudan is where the readers of livestock will sort after later on and got to him and then the sword was a big part of the big big markets of the system this is finished now because of all this is these groups and there is an immense other hans there is a. of action that you can imagine see immediately sports but also what we're trying to do is to reduce for the reason yes it sure ain't to use the suite of peace in order to be able to as much as we guns like them for us to join a little improved food storage super lucian's an exchange between the meter in between we want a. joke but a joke was was making the point that the rains this year have been delayed that that's prevented. people planting so you know we may get the same as we had last

year with with a poor harvest does the situation improve or worse this the fact that people are angry does it improve a worsen in the rainy season in south sudan. yes so much of what we have to understand is. still dated been and from the rain in the crop production in the coalition is a main source of food of course in south sudan to be there was livestock and and shish and the problem is with bartering it's a look at the stroke because everybody's depending so at the moment to destroy where there is a delay and when certain areas surely to make an assessment on the final production in the final hours it goes again are a phenomena of up are meaning but the plant is going to take although or so on plantings we just finishing the 1st season in what the way out so in the southern part of south sudan mines greed and. the disease of the plantations are starting

right now but it's true there is a delay and it is an issue you know already about we have some impacts some are some jobs starting at midnight eastern that all of our africa so all usually star sudan is only affected in the stomach what the us or on the extreme on the very bottom not bought close to it your p.r. and and and the seri are usually the rest of the countries not directly affected but this year we have to watch and it's a risk that we can now we will have to fix a alan going back to what jock not a jock was was was saying if a few minutes ago about sudan's problems ultimately being a failure of leadership you've met both president salva kiir and. what did you make of them. well as you know they signed a peace deal in september 2800 so some 9 months ago. and they

had agreed to form a unity government this is the 2nd time they had agreed to do this but they agreed to form a unity government that was supposed to form and may. last month they were reaching up to that deadline and they decided to extend it another 6 months after some to go she asians an atlas of about. i had a chance to speak with both of them separately of course in may last month and i'd say the calculus on president kiir side is very much in terms of a delay that you know this preserves the status quo for him so it's kind of an easy thing to agree upon for reactor machar the rebel leader who's supposed to come back in form the vice president you know he faces a more difficult difficult set of calculations really because 1st of all the sudan was sort of his backer and interlocutor in the regional peace process that was president obama bashir and of course he's fallen from power recently so he faces

a lot of regional uncertainty and you get a strong sense from him that he's really waiting for things to sort of settle out the other thing is the way that the peace deal was structured. basically had to produce all of his opposition fighters which are then to be integrated into the national army before this unity government of informed the truth is a lot of the rebel army at this point has actually been demobilized and has gone home or to refugee camps so he's also just facing an issue of actually remobilization this army so the way to peace deal sequenced has become a problem but overall i just say from from both leaders there is not a strong urgency to sort of implement this peace deal and the real question is how long can the ceasefire that we currently have between those 2 sides continue to hold if we don't start to see some form momentum on this peace deal joked with the old guard in suits and south sudan need to to make way for younger leaders if this is a failure of leadership people who are less bogged down by the past. or more certainly

i think there has that is that is has there's a lot to be said about the change of guard but that is not for anyone to say but the south sudanese themselves the young people or the people who are outside government has to articulate this to themselves so that they can organize a rally around the need for a drastic shift in the way the country has been governed. saw it is up to the south sudanese to find ways to navigate this is a delicate situation because right now the fact is that there is a very restricted civil environment. that makes it extremely difficult for any kind of civil the committee to be organized around this idea of the need for change. and so then again i think it's now going now going back to implementation of the peace agreement which will then have an interim period

after which there would be elections as in that that's the only way that change can come at the moment but it is up to the south sudanese themselves to decide there's no question that the state has failed to uphold its responsibilities to the extent that there is any kind of health. food security to the extent that there is education much of it up to 90 percent of it is being paid for through international action so all the countries that are contributing money u.s. u.k. norway european union and all these other countries that are paying for their humanitarian action. also have to try to figure out if they should follow that financial support of to the south sudanese with the kind of political action by way of of diplomatic and other kinds of pressures so that this accident is that begins to do one had knowledge that there is a problem and. 2nd begin to show how the south sudanese

a state itself is going to take over what is essentially a responsibility of the state but has been complicit in the elected for the last 10 years eleanor will south sudan ever become a viable state. eventually i think it probably will be but that path might be very long i think you know no one should underestimate the degree of the structural challenges that south sudan faces it's a it's a place which essentially geographically exists as a bunch of ethnic enclaves the few towns which really were mixed in a sort of south sudanese nationhood sense of certain way and these are the places where actually the violence has been most intense and you've seen you know what we could be fairly characterized as that and cleansing in several of those towns at the beginning of the war so you're starting now from a place in terms of building a sow's in these identity that's even further back than than where you were when

this when the country was born and the other thing is just this is a place which where there's almost no roads leading outside the capital which are all whether road so for half the year huge portion of the country is basically out of reach except by helicopter that includes for the government itself so you can imagine the challenge of forming a state on a place where it where the government's not even able to access a huge portion of its country over time so so i do think there is some larger questions. of how we move forward in south sudan given the level of the challenges there and there is like several chicken and egg problems where it's difficult to move forward on state building for instance until you have a political settlement that looks viable in the country and we've had a hard time getting that political settlement gentlemen that i'm afraid we missed and a discussion many thanks indeed pia voted out of boswell and joke about it joke and as always thank you for watching the program don't forget you can see it again at

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the 5 though people often say this struggling to make landslides and just want a better life from around the world and obviously has been offered to those who rebelled against the government open except those involved in human rights abuses a war crime. stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives giuliano saunders on stand up with international borders is finally over separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism protesters complain about the underreported of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations with the listening post on al-jazeera in morocco unregistered and under-age marriages have caused problems especially for women and children i've been trying for years to get my daughter legally recognised by her father pressure

from lobby groups has led to changes to the madonna and the family code giving women greater rights in marriage while keeping the family at heart now the divorce rate has increased a lot mainly with our patients made by wives. al-jazeera world. this is al jazeera. from doha everyone on come on sons of maria this is the news from al-jazeera. we. hong kong's opposition say they'll keep protesting unless the chief executive kerry quits that's despite a decision to hold work on a controversial extradition law. also in the news sudan's chief prosecutor says

former president omar bashir could appear in court as early as next week to face several charges and iran's president renews threats to pull back from its commitments under the international nuclear deal unless we get some support from other countries against us such as. and i maryam namazie in london with the top stories from europe including. the. the great gothic symbol of paris held its 1st mass 2 months after being ravaged by a devastating fire. and sport australia have been to the top of the standings at the cricket world the defending champions beating sri lanka to secure their 4th win in 5 games.

we begin with the unprecedented resistance that led to hong kong's leader suspending her push for a controversial extradition law chief executive carol lam insists she has not caved in to protesters demands and could even introduce an improved bill at a later date but of course we all saw the mass protests in the street violence over the issue driven by fear laws could allow critics in what is a semi autonomous territory to be sent to mainland china for trial so activists say they will still go ahead with another planned protest for sunday more from rob mcbride in hong kong. after insisting for weeks that she wouldn't and couldn't back down hong kong's leader kerry lamb came out to say she was doing just that i now announce that the government has decided to suspend a legislative amendment exercice the government's attempt to push the legislation through hong kong's parliament the legislative council has led to the biggest

street protests this city has seen in decades and violence between a minority of protesters and police who on wednesday used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse a largely peaceful occupation of the streets. the 80 also injuries very minor care in general in minor injuries we have seen may be replaced by very serious injuries . to my police colleagues and to ordinary citizens whether they are very fierce protesters are just ordinary students joining a protest i don't want any of that injuries to happen critics argue the change in the law could be used to extradite opponents of beijing to the mainland where they could face summary trial in china's courts i love that. was that lamb insists the change in the law is needed her opponents are angry that the initiative is only suspended and not withdrawn altogether some say you know you

go on carry lamb says she will stop stabbing and she's refused to take out the knife and we know if she pushes the knife further she will pierce the heart of the hong kong people. they accuse lamb of being a puppet of the central government in beijing but china insists that hong kong matters are a purely chinese internal affair and not for outsiders to interfere in and lamb has its full support pro-democracy groups have called for her to quit especially because she has sided with the police whom they accuse of using excessive force to disperse crowds they have called for even more people to protest on sunday. than will be hoping the suspension of the controversial bill will reduce the level of anger and numbers of protesters. we will adopt the most sincere and

humble attitude just sapped criticisms and make improvements so that we can continue to connect with the people of hong kong but many here believe kerry lamb is only backing down now because she's afraid of more violence they say if a 1000000 people in the streets can't change her mind they have little faith in the consultation process she's now promising rob mcbride al jazeera hong kong some analysis now from address fulda who's a senior fellow at the university of nottingham asia research institute he says china's policy to erode colonial laws over time may have backfired this time certainly i think what has happened over the past decade or so is that the transference party has really played a long game they knew that they couldn't change the system overnight so they have engaged in what would what i would call like selective decolonization so they changed the education system tried to push back the mostly christian groups that

were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of decolonization is that the political institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example she used to be a civil servant she was selected by the probating establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic consequences. to other news and sudan's former president bashir could be brought before a court as early as next week the chief prosecutor says bashir will be referred to trial unless he files an appeal the next few days the former leader is facing corruption charges he was deposed by the military in april after weeks of protests against the government. well the deputy head of sudan's military council meanwhile

is denying reports that the transitional council isn't willing to sit down and talk with opposition leaders who are pushing for a civilian run government and it's going to. be in doubt it was you know who on anyone who tells you that we did 3 additional military counsel are refusing to negotiate is line we are the ones who want to resume the talks but based on your conditions you know we get our power from you and you only there's no other one we can count on but q let me say it again we're not rejecting the resumption of negotiations is the other side with us on skype from kill in the u.k. our while our lowest senior lecturer in law at kiel university in an africa analyst . this idea that a former president could be before the court in a week i mean on the face of it it sounds like swift justice but we have had people telling us earlier on al jazeera they think actually this is a distraction just trying to make this happen and avert everyone's attention away

from the issues with the governments and the atrocities which happened last week. absolutely. you know the discussions are on the sheer form of a persistency ringback on ready trial at a time when ready the country is going so if ringback this is a certainty and destruction it is absolutely important that people who were involved in perpetrating that's what stephen kuti the former head of state should be electronically at some point in the future ones that look that's of ready interest and the sudanese people you know how did the opportunity to discuss debates us to how best to come to terms with the past because ready they had a. number of what happened who. who are violent. and he's. being very violent it was in history it was done and that kind of after the firing of the society and it's important for seduce to have their opportunity to

come together and i think one can see the discussion as to how best to deal with that situation and you know at this particular moment talking about putting a trial is simply a distraction and i think the main issue has to be about taking that entity forward . writing a political settlement and putting in place ready a transitional government and that transitional government of course can deal with these issues including to try our way ready there to put some kind of process in place and work and is there also an issue with how that any trial would go there are and this is what the opposition would say over and over again there are still so many remnants of the old regime in place in positions of power how do you hold someone accountable when their own people are still alive in the place. absolutely and i think one of the central problems in transitional society is it's you know if

you demand for accountability and justice it's strong then how will all individuals ready counter in ways that course address and say things fundamental structure which is the question of rendering the justice to individuals who have the night the vast majority of students people the kind of justice they deserve so ready i'll be here these. government for 17 years in that country and he is a one person who had a quarter of everything busy decided fatefully ready ready people but a sudanese society as a kind of seems to make it clear a stand still for them that even out of here get that distance and he deserves that he is trying fairly and impartially and i think at the moment what busy we see is it is there busy on the part. to use either our vision. or busy to present themselves. to usually quantity justice so i think i think

tried important than usual just try and or slow process and sort. ready of there has to be indisputable condition on that for the 2nd to. it's always a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time and human rights groups and activists are demanding an international investigation into the killing of dozens of protesters in sudan's capital only this month laura unmanly has more on that. people are demanding answers to what they're calling a massacre in khartoum that's after sudan's ruling hunter admitted as it made mistakes in breaking up the sit in the killed dozens this month amnesty international is urging the united nations and the african union to launch an international investigation into the military crackdown. protest leaders had the same demand in a statement they said the military council of knowledge meant of its responsibility

for the sitting massacre with the participation of security bodies makes a demand for forming an international inquiry commission by the united nations and african partners inevitable so far the military junta has rejected any outside interference. this moment in june this is marked in people's memories the last days of the muslim holy month of ramadan. gunshots rang out at security forces mainly from iraq with support forces of the hour a sad story the protest camp outside the army headquarters more than $120.00 people were killed more than $600.00.