wasn't where i wanted to streets and there's been an incident shut down in sudan since trying. to get the minutes radio gentle has topped out to syrup or to me if i just a few days before the attack the 6 in front of me headquarters but no sudanese professional service just issued a body that has been spearheading calls for protests directing the protests in some key to head to the presidential palace there saying that protesters have to go there with their demands for civilian government and that they should demand the military council 1st of all to head up to civilian and to hold those who attacked the protest as a lot of the army had which is unchanged accountable and is this nationwide here because we do focus obviously a lot on cartoon. right i think we've lost our connection with juba there with. him morgan yeah we lost him but luckily we've got what they've been able with us here in the studio here with the founder and president of sudan policy forum now i know you have been in touch

with people in khartoum tell us what they've been telling you because you were talking earlier about this being a $2000000.00 plus 2 and a half 1000000 plus possibly. i think now it's sort of and that is to meet here because. what i'm hearing from the people of course there is no internet. connectivity here but at least we are successful in reaching people by phone and it's demonstrations are all over the nation and it seems that. i mean let's let's just go back a little bit because if we remember i mean the t.m.c. thought that the protesters in the city where is standing in their way to i mean claiming power and assuming full control of the public is feed so they went ahead killed those $114.00. protest that is of course that's sad and that is timid because there are people who are lost. we don't know about. about their

whereabouts so anyhow after that of that they killed those $114.00 protesters they moved on and thought that they can use all sorts of techniques to i mean claim power and it's you for control of the public is feed it didn't wait that didn't detail of the sudanese people even made them i mean it even on the contrary made them more detailed i mean to put objectives albeit in a civic piece one mother says a lot about the strength of the movement doesn't it because if you go back a month and consider what happened then when over a 100 people were killed that could in many cases scare a lot of people off and they would think no i think i don't want. i risk my own life as you say perhaps the opposite has happened it's the anger but fortunately it is not it is not an emotional i would bear this. i mean.

pushes people into. using violence to very. very peaceful demands and it is of course we make it differentiation between anger and emotion and i would miss near the very angry but they realize that it is only through peaceful and civic democratic means that they can put an end to the control of this autocratic regime and they know as well because the military has been very clear that if. they will not tolerate any damage or destruction this time and i mean. you don't want to be threatening your own people but they are making it very clear and i guess that is in the back of the support as much as they realize that whatever directives they received from regional powers which made them. 29th overall more done he didn't wait it out it seems that those regional powers don't understand the psyche

of the sudanese people don't realize the the moron. to which they have reach that the d.m. has a spare no effort to. cause some sort of divisiveness in civic polity it didn't where it attempted to discredit the forces of freedom and change he didn't wear recently we've heard yesterday that they have used a company just to. i mean it's a canadian company that they used to. enhanced or improve the image of the team see that propaganda. approach they didn't wear so all sorts of political gimmicks. firing back on the transition and military council. is short route to the heart of the studies people. keeping an eye on the protests in sudan

with money thank you so much. here is what is coming up for you on this news hour. i'm going to win in front of. the room. in the atacama desert and this is becoming flashpoint in the venezuelan migrant crisis also japan set to resume commercial whaling but its people may have lost their taste for it and in sport the hosts facing a big fight to stay in contention at the cricket world cup. revenues in the afghan taliban says it's killed 8 election officials in an attack in the southern kandahar province it took place as people were registering to vote at a government office in the murder of district local elections underway in albania as well despite a presidential pleas or have been postponed and an opposition boycott the

opposition accuses the ruling socialist government of corruption and wants a general election instead the leader of the opposition democratic party is describing the voting for municipal leaders as a fast and says the one sided result could spark civil unrest so here's john psaropoulos now in tirana the albanian capital on a fraught alexion process it sounds like john the socialists essentially standing unopposed then what happens. that's right well i'm standing at the olympic center a sports complex that the socialist municipal government built here of which they are particularly proud behind me you can see the 2 ballot boxes the yellow ballots for mayor the green ballots awful party you get to take one of each so you could technically pick a socialist mayor which is likely the most prominent candid it here in toronto there are $44.00 opposition parties but they are all either are known or poll

extremely low figures there isn't a substantial opposition causley and you could technically pick an opposition party which elects advisors to the municipal council but what we're most likely to be seeing here is socialist party supporters 900 of 900 residents registered here to vote about 270 of them have shown up that's roughly consistent with the numbers we've heard from other polling centers the numbers on the low end and monitors here are expecting more people to come there are still 4 hours to go but it is a question of legitimacy the voter turnout and legitimacy is the key quality it in question for the government in these elections because they not only wants to have a high voter turnout even if it is only of socialist party supporters across the country but they also want to be see they also want these elections to be seen as having been carried out fairly the problem of legitimacy will be most acutely felt

tomorrow monday when 24 opposition mayors who have not been allowed to stand for reelection around the country and who dispute the validity and legitimacy of these elections will likely refuse to stand down what will happen then i put that question to prime minister. be sure that this will be ok with you i don't wish them to become. too to ridicule themselves to a point but if you would do it would be their problem you know they have to finger but of the recovery they have not come clean about how deep or they can get in the whole body we opened for the country and now they're all we and if you hear from the opposition as well john. that's right because the opposition of course is the key missing player in all of this the opposition has also withdrawn

from parliament its $43.00 m.p.'s almost all of them resigned their seats and even burned their mandates which meant that the move was irreversible some of those seats have been refilled so the opposition is now a party that essentially holds no institutional power positions of power the opposition did take to the streets as a way of reaching the people instead to protest against the government of any roma there was fear of violent reactions of obstructionism to this weekend's election there were international pleas to allow it to go ahead despite the doubts that exist despite the presidential cancellation of it and the leader of the democratic party which is the key opposition party has assured us that he is doing everything in his power to keep his supporters from causing any violent incidents today here's what he had to say. albanians are shocked by the non reaction of the international community to mr ramos now proved connections to organized crime for which he gained

power in 2017 this is a very dangerous situation and it could potentially lead to civil unrest social unrest come monday if there is not a clear condemnation of the farce that has already happened. of course mr bush is saying that he is keeping his people in check until monday he doesn't want to mar these elections he doesn't want to my the image of albania abroad but he says albanians themselves may take their fortune into their own hands he may be unable to prevent their reactions if at some point after these elections are over the international community doesn't intervene to help sort out whether they're going to be respected as legitimate. covering the elections in iran and other new thank you now the lack of jobs in government services in a province in eastern syria is causing increasing discontent there as on it is

controlled by an alliance of mainly kurdish fighters backed by the united states and identified in our reports there is fear an ethnic divide could lead to further unrest shops closed as part of a widespread general strike in the syrian province of there is a sewer frustration is growing among the mainly arab population towards the u.s. allied to kurdish back to syria democratic forces opposition activists film in secret because the media is tightly controlled there have been weeks of protests against as the f. leaders syrians and there is accuse them of stealing the province's oil wealth as well as oppressive measures such as arresting many over suspected links to ice. the people are demanding better living conditions and a decision making role in a region they say traditionally belongs to arabs we've seen how the instability and both political repression and economic. and

enormous problems have created a situation and there is or were radical groups of qom in the past for decades there is or was marginalized by the syrian government leading many to join the rebellion against president bashar assad in 2011 government forces were forced out from there is who are eventually filled the vacuum until separate offensives defeated the armed group but that battle left the province divided the euphrates river separates territory held by the syrian government and iranian backed militias from areas under as the control neither seems to have widespread support of the people there you. are. basing. this side also your.

or your on. or. i sold remains a threat in the province continuing to target government and as the f. positions there is also competition for territory the syrian government wants the oil fields that are in s. the f. controlled areas there is or is a geo politically important province the s t f benefits from its oil reserves which the government wants to support its domestic needs the province also borders iraq which allows iran to complete its land corridor or from to her on to beirut the s.d.f. is accusing the syrian government of trying to create unrest the people of there is who are deny that they say they don't want to live under president bashar assad and want an end to s t f rule the risk of further unrest to seen as a growing possibility in what has long been known as the forgotten corner of syria senator bayh toast. the heat wave in germany is expected to set

a new record on sunday however people in france the u.k. and spain might be getting some relief finally firefighters are still battling the wildfires in catalonia and close to the spanish capital madrid soaring temperatures in europe are blamed for at least 8 deaths this week there was a new record high as well just under 46 degrees celsius which was set in southern france on saturday rob mccallum he is a weather expert he is our in-house meteorologist needn't be far more detail than that i guess the important thing is there is some relief on the way for some at least here there is the forty's just about right now i'm watching germany moment 37 science but not over 40 could be a record yesterday's temperatures were enough up in the thirty's to give belgium heat wave warning under the official criteria london he's 33 or 34 sort of order not record breakers are pretty darn close and we had 243 up in the northeast has been 41 down in southern france that's where we broke the records on friday but.

there's been some relief because of the tides has been tumbling in the east for a long time the cold front that produced some thunderstorms you see these white clouds here has introduced slightly cooler air to this part of europe which means temperature today just about below 30 in paris and below 40 in a good part of spain so we're below the forty's of those 4 but every it's been pushed a little bit further eastward so we've still got a heatwave risk at its highest in western potent today not far away from the journey as watching as 10 in council india and the northeast corner of spain the oranges a lower risk still showing temps she's getting up towards the record values but as you can see in paris barsoum are way down to rain on that cold front and 27 and it stays below the 27 mark next couple of days and 27 in berlin the hint is it's got colder in this direction too it has also the air is up to 36 even here he will be driven out of the way by tuesday now they thank you for that rob still. ahead for

you on this news hour going wild world look at why some farms in the u.k. letting their livestock roam free as the land turns back to nature. land. july on al-jazeera will the conservative new democracy be victorious in the snap elections we bring you the latest as greece votes a new documentary examines the use of modern technology and policing its impact on individual rights and civil society on the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 lunar landing we look back at the 1st human steps on the moon and an ancient statue of apollo disappears in gaza a stunning archaeological mystery unfolding witnessed the 2nd round of democratic presidential candidate debates in the u.s. will be in line in detroit july on al-jazeera.

this is the news from al-jazeera and these are the top stories donald trump has become the 1st sitting u.s. president to set foot inside north korea it happened at the demilitarized zone which separates the north and south during their meeting donald trump and kim jong un agreed to restart the stalled talks on denuclearization of the korean peninsula

trump also invited him to the white house in the future. and at least one person's been killed north of the sudanese capital khartoum demonstrators defied threats by security forces to rally across the country they want the military to hand over power to a civilian led government this is the 1st major demonstration since the military killed more than $100.00 people at a sit in earlier this month. the palestinian authority has condemned plans by u.s. diplomats to attend the inauguration of an israeli archeological site some israeli activists and palestinians are also protesting this move it's called pilgrimage road a tunnel located in east jerusalem which has been under israeli occupation since 1967 it lies beneath the neighborhood and has been excavated over the last 6 years by the israeli antiquities authority they believe it's a holy site in judaism palestinian officials those think it's an attempt to remove their hopes for a future capital in east jerusalem bernard smith is there for us and so on tell us

more about the location bernard. well let me explain the geography so you can all this is behind me is still one and down the hill is where the u.s. ambassador david friedman the white house the middle east and boy jason green blocks are at a ceremony in or grating a tunnel that goes from civil civil while they discover this time about 6 years ago it goes right on the underneath where i am and it comes out on the other side of the warm side of that wall is the western wall that's the wall many jews believe protected the 2nd temple and just for geography purposes you just see the al aqsa mosque compound there now why this matters is that these it says that these 2 u.s. representatives are in what is widely considered to be occupied east jerusalem but we know that the american the trump administration is recognized the whole of jerusalem as the capital of israel and this the palestinians see as really

a further endorsement of that by the u.s. representatives being in east jerusalem they're not recognized recognizing the palestinian claim to this area and really internationally israel is not supposed to do anything in east jerusalem that affects. what happens to east jerusalem is supposed to be the discussion because it is the area of the palestinians want alternately as a capital east jerusalem of a person. how significant is it bernard that those 2 top u.s. envoys are attending this inauguration events i mean u.s. support for israel and what they want to do in the region is not a great surprise. you know it's very significant because there. david friedman is the u.s. rep and bus today here in israel and this is a u.s. endorsement essentially of the fact that israel is recognized by the americans as the capital the jerusalem that your partner is recognized as the capital of israel

so by going to a ceremony in occupied east jerusalem he's essentially not recognizing the difference between east and west jerusalem the palestinians already know of course that they don't the policy is wrong to say they don't trust the u.s. to be impartial negotiators between them and the israelis over the final status of this area and that is further confirmation of that and they say it's all part of an attempt really to erase their parts in the history of islam this city of course important not just to jews but to christians and to muslims as well equally important to all of them but they say that by doing this by sort of imprinting israel on east jerusalem it's a raising the palestinian attempting to raise the palestinian history in this area thank you ben it's a myth. one other note from the region israeli forces have now released the palestinian minister of jerusalem affairs after arresting him early on sunday had them he was detained at his home in occupied east jerusalem police haven't

explained why he was being questioned but his lawyer says it was in relation to a visit by the chilean president at least 10 others were arrested in different parts of palestine. more now on the fallout from the shooting down of a u.s. spy drone last week remember president ordered a retaliatory strike and called it off while iranian celebrated what they hailed as an important show military strength has more on that from terror. in the days after iran shot down an american surveillance drone u.s. leader said there had been no air space violation to warrant such an attack while the 2 sides argued about where it happened military strategists were likely discussing how the global hawk is jet propelled expensive and one of the most sophisticated drones to take to the skies. iran's military commander said it was flying higher than a commercial airliner when it was brought down by a surface to air missile made in iran iranian leaders said it was a significant display of military know how to read. from

a military point of view the detection of a drone is not easy the radar the missiles it was hit with were all iranian made those who are military experts they know how significant this is iran's arsenal is a patchwork of bought and borrowed technology upgraded over the years before 979 the united states helped iran develop its air defense system after the islamic revolution iran purchased missile systems from countries including russia and china and worked with north korea and syria to develop targeting technology and boost its domestic military production. when george w. bush was u.s. president drone technology remained secret barack obama expanded drone flights and made them a more conventional weapon of war. for donald trump and his successors having eyes in the skies over hostile lands will come with the risk of countermeasures. these after the. suiting down fishermen were still pulling wreckage out of iranian waters and state media highlighted other u.s. drones that iran claims it either shot down or hacked into landed and copied

reverse engineered iranian drones are almost identical to american ones iran's military has taught itself how to build them and perhaps more importantly how to break them and it says if it has to do it can do it again these 2 pieces of technology the radar the mesan they show that iran owns a very advanced and sophisticated technology once the global hawk was shut down that was exactly the moment i believe they put a very fair i'm a hold on any kind of invasion 2 or so on but. it was a warning to americans that we have the capability to target those ships submarines and drones and secondly it was a warning to some countries of the persian gulf that any bases used for american forces will be considered enemy territory and will be targeted on friday the united states deployed a small squadron of stealth fighters f. 22 raptors to the other day and air base in qatar home to u.s. central command. iran has acquired some u.s.

stealth tech over the years but how iranian defenses will fare against some of the most lethal manned fighter aircraft in the american arsenal is a question world leaders calling for a scaling down of tensions are hoping remains an answered in iran the downing of an american drone is being seen as a deterrent reducing the risk of an all out american invasion but iran's predicts might say could make things worse president trump said he called off or retaliatory strike to spare iranian lives with the stakes so high it may make it difficult to do that a 2nd time same bus ravi old. chile is closing its borders to venezuelans escaping the economic and political chaos many have already been given shelter but the chin and government's change its rules now to stop more venezuelans arriving as tourists as a latin america as in the sea and human are reports from the desert border between chile and peru some venezuelans are now resorting to walking through minefields to find sanctuary. they're cold hungry and desperate to get to chile where many have

friends or family but after traveling south for more than a week these venezuelans are stranded on the peruvian side of the border because chile won't let them in without a passport and residency visa. might be an assault or and her 2 small boys are now sleeping on the street and able to wash and like almost everyone here relying on charity for warm clothes and food for their saying. it's impossible to get a passport to venezuela i've been trying for 2 years until last week we could enter chile with our national id card to store. but no longer chilean authorities know. they can't continue to pretend that tourists the worst thing for migrants is to move to another country without being able to get a work permit or access to social services. this is the at that kind of desert where the sun is nursed. by day and the nights brutally cold. and the

venezuelans are being sent to the chilean consulate in the nearby peruvian town of fact not to apply for a visa families with small children are being given priority but most don't have the required documents and the process is painfully slow even chaotic. catalina and arrived more than a week ago from the once prosperous venezuelan city of monaco where now power fuel and food shortages are acute today that the physical men with physically and psychologically worn out with no more money and they're living out 10 but at least we have hope back home have no hope anymore that they'll be any change. but others have grown impatient it's easy to miss this tiny sign warning that beyond this point is a mine field mines on the chilean side of the border that have been left over from the days when they were hostilities with neighboring peru now smugglers and

undocumented migrants use this route to try to bypass the illegal entry points and on the venezuelans who can't or won't wait for visas to get into chile are using it to. most of the venezuelans aren't even aware of the dangers of walking through here. chile's jesuit migrant service is urging the government to relax rather than tighten restrictions but. there is now hundreds of more venezuelan stuck on several of our borders with bolivia too looking for other ways we need to be more flexible or there will be serious consequences. back intact join a lease and her husband have just arrived with their 2 small children who seem unaware of their protests surroundings. the situation in venezuela is getting worse by the day going back is not an option. as they prepared to spend the night in front of the consulate thousands of more than his wayland's are reportedly at the

ecuador peru border on their way to chile a wave of economic refugees that authorities may be trying to control but cannot stop. to see a human al-jazeera at the chile peru border in just a few hours fishermen in japan will resume commercial whaling after a down more than 30 years tucker says some species have recovered enough and it no longer needs to comply with an international ban but as many in a honda reports the decision to hunt whales for food may be made the palatable more profitable. for more than 30 years the international whaling commission has been locked in a fight its job is to protect whales pushed close to extinction it 3 countries norway iceland and japan have pursued the right to hunt them late last year japan argued there was scientific proof some species had recovered enough to allow sustainable hunting and it pushed again for the $9906.00 ban on commercial whaling

to be lifted when the whaling commission rejected japan's proposal japan withdrew and its whaling fleet is preparing to presume hunting minky as well as beat whales but when the fleet returns to the water some things will be different japan says it will only hunt in its territorial waters not the open seas of the antarctica north pacific where it has until now been hunting for scientific research and it's not clear whether they'll even be a market in japan for the whale meat the ships bring to shore consumption in japan has plummeted from around $200000.00 tonnes each year in the sixty's to just $5000.00 tonnes each year over the last 5 that could be due to the changing tastes of a new generation the changing attitudes to hunting whales a likely affected tune and things that the international whaling commission will also be different japan's departure has arguably lift it weakened but after

a more than 3 decades fight of a commercial whaling it's now free to concentrate on what it was originally formed to do commercial whaling is now back on the list of threats to the world's whales but there too is a climate crisis that's already adversely impacting the oceans and marine life within them a looming 38 that could well eclipse them all. still more to come on this news are including this. british rapper highlight some how politics is increasingly taking center stage in the country's music scene and in sport major league baseball makes a big impact on it's your opinion your opinion that debbie rowe hall will have that and the rest of the sports a little later. the

producers of mexico's most watched soap opera continue to talk of real women's issues and the audience is now reacting. emboldened by the show a woman freezing as hell from the horrors of sexual abuse. in a deeply emotional demonstration of the back and forth between reality and fiction bikies real stories played out on sacked episode 2 of soapbox mexico on al-jazeera . al-jazeera. where every.

there is growing concern among environmentalists in the u.k. that the country's desire for bragg's it could undermine efforts to stop climate change they point to the success of pioneering farming models which dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions but one farm in southern england is trying a different approach what's called wilding leaves livestock to run free or as the reports now from sussex. just south of london you find yourself in the wilderness this was a traditional farm but the owners decided to shut their eyes and see what would happen if they allowed nature to take back. the race at which it all group.