and against the dignity of the citizen and the honorable people of sudan we are now starting a phase of building a new sudan where everyone will face a transparent procedure and the law will be above everyone. opposition leaders say the deal announced the military will be finalized on monday they have been holding a series of public meetings to explain why they signed the agreement which has been met with by celebration and skepticism alexia bryant reports. from early morning until late at night and main squares mosques and on street corners. sudanese people came together. facing the drums of change and chanting civilian revolution. hailing what some say as the 1st step towards ending decades of dictatorship. but i think that i am telling the youth that the revolution is not over the revolution has just started with the

internet shut down by the military jump to news of the day and spread mostly by word of mouth and in public meetings held by opposition leaders. the agreement will be signed off to its final laws and some heads of state from different countries will be attending the signing we are expecting this to take place within the upcoming week before says of the freedom and change have already picked their candidates for the announcement of the sovereign council and the prime minister the sovereign council will include 5 military and 5 civilians plus an additional civilian agreed by both sides the council will 1st be led by the military will hand over to civilians and just under 2 years they'll leave it until elections june and 2022. now we've started a new era in the history of sudan that we all have to join and accept we all have to bring stability and in the long suffering of the sudanese people. there are mixed feelings and sit down to some the details of victory for others it's

a surrender. still have demands and these demands have not yet been met we have the blood of the martyrs in the main city. we still want rights that haven't happened yet. part of the deal includes an investigation into a violent crackdown by security forces which saw more than $100.00 protesters code . amnesty international says this agreement must be judged by how those in power now live up to their responsibilities to respect people's fundamental rights something the sudanese people have been deprived of for well over 3 decades amnesty called the deal a taste a moment to the resilience of ordinary people who chose to stand up for the rights alexia brian al jazeera if the rebels say they've attacked warplane highness in southern saudi arabia yemeni media have reported a drone strike on an airport saudi arabian officials are yet to confirm the

incident but it is the latest in a string of attacks with whose leaders claiming another strike on thursday meanwhile demonstrators have rallied in yemen calling for an end to saudi arabia's presence in interference thousands took to the streets of in the country's east they want to take back control of the region's ports borders and airports the conflict between who's the rebels and the saudi an emirate he led coalition started 5 years ago tens of thousands of people have died and millions have been displaced about russian and syrian government warplanes are continuing to launch airstrikes in rebel held a live province this is the last opposition stronghold in the country and was heavily bombarded early on saturday rescue teams are searching for survivors at least 13 civilians including 7 children have been killed in the strikes in the last 36 hours. opinion polls show greece's ruling party faces a major battle against the conservative opposition in sunday's general election the

anti austerity so it's a promise to soften the euro zone strict standards on spending but ended up adopting them instead and that looks set to cost them the vote as john psaropoulos reports from athens. this charity shop in the center of athens has more and more pensioners as customers under the city's a government they have had their benefits cut twice despite it promising it wouldn't follow the austerity policies of previous administrations after 49 years of work and that is going to received a pension of $1600.00 a month that is now down by a quarter but when you're familiar. i used to buy a newspaper i stopped that i used to go out for coffee with friends i stopped it i used to buy a packet of cigarettes a week i cut that now i just sit locked in my home pensioners one of the most hard hit constituencies of the greek crisis and they helped elect cities in january 2015

to endorse geraghty in july that year in a referendum 62 percent of greeks voted against further austerity instead cities are capitulated to greece's 3rd emergency loan and harsher spending cuts we about turn was unpopular but it balanced the budget and kept greece in the euro zone there are many people who voted series in. because syria series that had been promising them. unrealistic. achievements they're voting them out because. they did the right thing they did what was product pragmatic and practically feasible. last year greece's eurozone partners who were its main creditors said it was no longer dependent on their emergency loans and was fit to return to the markets series or pronounces it a victory. for them we came to unite all greeks we combined our stream without

this unity we would not have emerged from our stare at the austerity policies it was so unpopular opposition parties could not resist attacking them that's why a conservative government unfreeze it a socialist one and was in turmoil unseated by serious political parties failed to form a national front to face the national emergency for the past 4 and a half years it has seemed that caesar was immune to the political cost of will stir because it was a new political force having never held power before it wasn't responsible for bankrupting the economy but now that greece has graduated from its state of emergency greeks appear more willing to accept that they too were to blame for overspending their way into debt and ready to come to terms with the global economy again jobs are open al jazeera athens the. rescue ship with 46 migrants

on board has defied italian authorities and docked in the port of lampedusa this is the 2nd vessel in a week to go against an explicit ban on rescue ships entering italian ports malta offer to accept the migrants when italy refused but the true said it was too far for them to travel. as had been rescued from a rubber dinghy on thursday off the coast of libya. african leaders are meeting in asia to move forward with a joint free trade pact aimed at creating the world's largest trading bloc the african continental free trade area agreement aims to unite all 55 members of the african union into a single market of 1200000000 people the agreements designed to boost trade between african countries by removing tariffs taxes and other barriers and allow african businesses to grow by giving them access to new markets in neighboring countries the pact was 1st proposed in 2002 and was given a boost this month when nigeria which is africa's biggest economy committed to

signing up at the summit. but his address reports in the capital neon made fighting in various african countries threatens the success of the equipment could scare off potential investors. stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent from both to south east to west i mean the hurt of africa 2 governments are struggling to contain communal closures and violent extremism. african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps fuel the fighting. experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that as national organized crime criminals could take advantage of this free movement you know to through from one country to another and it is killed just as or to perpetrate their nefarious activities so definitely do looking for the for the chink in the armor you looking for the weak

link if the countries do not have you know security architecture that at some countries risk becoming safe heaven for you know or terrorist or criminal or organized criminals governments say they're working to stop that from happening. we have decided to escalate our security approach in dealing with these attacks and violence so that's africa union will come in and take charge. this way the cell region will be safer and all the flashpoints can be contained in the solved by africans themselves. leaders from a police $53.00 of the continent's $55.00 countries are due here to ratify the deal that could be implemented as early as next year the african continental free trade agreement is expected to create the walls the largest single market in the continent is home to one and a quarter 1000000000 africans leaders hope that the free trade agreement will help

create jobs and spurgeon to growth but it's not clear whether investors will overlook the internal strife in many african countries and bring in the much needed capital to boost production of goods and services. african entrepreneurs say the agreement could be the answer to the continent's many problems but the truth is we do have chance. to get the kind of returns when you 1st need to get in with them so you are confident investors will come to visit all we need to do. to develop policies create jobs i live in poverty there are also fears that corruption and we can force majeure some countries could model success of what's being billed as a historic free trade agreement but you crease al-jazeera there may be share. i want to turn to developments in northeast syria now where experts from around the world are actually meeting with people with

a 1st hand experience of fighting the armed group i sell now the form is the 1st of its kind and it's addressing one major concern and that's despite myself defeat its ideology is still very much alive and growing i still was formally defeated in syria in march in the town about whose truckloads of civilians were ferried to safety and thousands of i saw fighters surrendered to western back forces the s.t.'s. those who surrounded a being held in camps described as ticking time bombs places where the i.c.l. ideology continues to be cultivated and dissent and disseminated experts say a gin action must be taken to bring eisel fighters to justice including an international court based in northeast syria there is also the call for the autonomous administration of north and east syria commonly known as ri java to be given formal political status a move they say would prevent a resurgence of violence in the region over. as

a journalist and analyst he's attending the conference and joins me now via skype from. northeast syria thank you for taking time out to speak to us about this. i understand the aim of the forum is to look at that the defeat or the survival of isis i mean we often hear about the formal defeat of isis don't we but the problem is this is something that is very difficult to prove yet of all our says lost its territory in march 2009. there are still a lot of sleeper saw attacks in the northeast of syria princes. grounders on so that's one of the us that coalition is in a statement a few weeks ago that isis is not defeated but they just lost their territory. what about this suggestion that urgent action needs to be taken to bring. i still fight is to justice now what would that process involve. well the

reason for that is they're out there like thousands of isis women children and also are on 1000 to 2000 isis form fighters there are being held here in ne of syria on the local authorities they don't have the financial ability to deal with this issue and that's why they want to set up an international art tribunals but that's quite difficult to set up because this local region here is not recognized by the mosque because they don't have a legal status and that's why they are calling for more international recognition because that will solve their legal problems here in the northeast of syria it is very difficult because you are. contending with a this is a very contentious issue the idea that if you were to give ridge of the area that is known as your job a formal political status. and that would help in the situation i mean that there may be practical a practical rationale to that but i mean really the government in damascus would never agree to such

a thing. and i may not sure if you can still hear me i don't know if we will know it so i was just asking you about the to give you were just mentioning that to give a job the legal status would help in the process of holding to account eisel fighters but that is something the government in damascus would never concede. yeah that's true but there are other alternatives like for instance having this international court in the northeast of syria so there's no need ready for a mission of the last us but france is they could find legal ways to put these fighters on trial on hold for instance here or what another option is if they cannot do an international tribunal what they also can do is that to give much more assistance to the authorities here because they have not enough financial resources

because they're on the blockade from the musketeers and it's very difficult for the u.s. and other western countries to bring a tear so what they can do is to give the syrian kurds with a look at the situation here and more financial support to put these isis fighters here on trial and then to hold them in prisons there for that they need much more support of the promise says of this far and rather narrow because it's not just that the presence of ice in the country will sound good like. well as the general conference is not just about isis is the general front of jihad his groups like al qaeda affiliated groups it live but it's also focused for instance on isis victims and also focus on other solutions like for instance we have lawyers that are tending to form to talk about the situation but there's also like like fighters that contributed in defeating dots here in syria and there's also a local politicians that are talking about potential solutions for instance they're

talking about improving their economy to prevent people from joining terrorist groups thank you very much and i demand that them back. and laid that preaching time. there's much more still ahead for you on the program we're in the unique weapons of southern iraq where the livelihoods of farmers in what the marshes found millennia is under threat. to its government in exile and tibetans around the world praise their spiritual leader as the dalai lama celebrates his 84th but today. and they're up to stand on the move raul has the details of a big change in the n.b.a. .

we got a real change in the weather for some across parts of europe sadly in the northeast is freshening up going to feel a little chilly there i say further south it does stay warm this is where we have the warmth in place right across the mediterranean but to the north quite a brisk northwest leeway into rolling out to scatter may v.s.e. them all see right across into the baltic states in between this is where because it's very breakdown in our weather them that cold air on the cuts the warm the air rises very quickly and we get some big storms bring up the grass you think that way further south where it's still pretty fresh with that cool breeze are rolling through as we go on through monday with as i hate to the south and still getting up into the mid thirty's or 33 there for rome going to around 31 in madrid and notice by monday we could see a few showers just rolling in here 21 in london and a 25 in paris meanwhile across northern parts of africa that cloud that we have across the western side of the mediterranean mark just produced a few spots of rain to northern areas of algeria the sunday maybe pushing

a little further more tenacious as we go on into monday $38.00 celsius in she eunice meanwhile we come across the sahara where states dry and we run into those equitorial showers right across it here pia. the term pre-crime comes from this movie minority report in which a predicted is to be made about something in the individual has not yet done but is going to do and a preemptive arrest is made of someone before they perform the act if you would have asked me 37 years ago if we would have gunshot detection or video cameras in neighborhoods or be able to predict what crimes occur i would have said you're crazy pre-crime coming soon on al-jazeera. mexico's most loved soap exposes the reality of more than live through fiction. soap box

reveals the drama behind the camera this week the producers focus on the difficulties facing indigenous women and the power superstition still holds over a large section of society oh oh i'm going to be a couple 2 worlds at his own 3 of soapbox mexico only al-jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the headlines french president emanuel macron is find his iranian counterpart has an rouhani to convey europe's continued commitment to the iran nuclear deal which is teetering on the edge of collapse iran had set a deadline of sunday for europe and other world powers to act and protect it from

u.s. sanctions. dozens of delegates for talks between afghan political figures and the taliban have arrived in doha a 2 day meeting in the country capital will be attended by u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad and is due to be. and the head of saddam's military gentil says he will protect and implement a power sharing deal with the opposition general abdul fatah al gore hahn says the time has come to rebuild the nation after months of political crisis. to algeria now where national figures have been meeting with opposition parties youth movements and non-governmental organizations to discuss the political crisis there the pro-democracy protests began in february led to the resignation of longtime president. now they're calling for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite victoria gate and the reports. that in the seaside resort of. politicians academics and journalists met with the aim of finding a solution to algeria as political crisis talks discussed interim solutions such as

the formation of a new cabinet made up of independent professionals as well as the establishment of an independent election commission once formed and visited a presidential election would take place within 6 months. we agree to have these presidential elections that we all have accepted in order for our people to be able to have the 1st democratically elected president in a transparent white the presidential elections will grant a strong legitimacy to the new president so as for him to categorically bring the change. for 5 months hundreds of thousands of protesters have demanded a complete overhaul of the leadership entrenched in power for the past 57 is to tell gerry's independence from friends on wednesday interim president abdel kouddous ben salah called for a national dialogue about ranging a presidential election but didn't set a date for when that might be and lists

a protest as a likely to continue to reject elections if that organized by the ruling elite as they have the old people in the street yes and that's when you react. that they want a clear and transparent elections. some opposition leaders say the interim president needs to do more to gain the trust of protesters. laws lot are the release of prisoners of conscience is considered one of the most important steps to prove the sincerity and seriousness of those who are now in charge of the nation but all topics that help achieve the demands of the people should be discussed. whatever is decided at this conference may serve as a roadmap to resolve the armrest but for some in the opposition what's being suggested is a compromise too far and they won't be satisfied until those in the establishment play no part in algeria. victoria gates and be algis they were. people have

been paying tribute to hong kong woman who fell to death this week one of 3 apparent suicides linked to ongoing protests in the territory candles and incense have been placed at temporary memorials in a square in the center of the city the protesters who are concerned about the erosion of freedom and the semi autonomous chinese region say hong kong leader kerry lamb has not shown empathy for the victims meanwhile thousands of mothers have marched in support of their children's right to protest. emergency workers in california are assessing the damage from the strongest earthquake in the state for 20 is 7 point one magnitude quake damaged buildings and roads and sparks fires from gas leaks no fatalities or serious injuries have been reported it's the 2nd major quite in successive days in the u.s. state and follow as hundreds of aftershocks as john hendren now reports.

the biggest earthquake in 2 decades struck california's mojave desert it rattled chandelier this year and was filmed by news presenters 250 miles away in los angeles to get on the path all right we're going to go to break we'll be right back while it came a day after a magnitude 6.4 quake along the same fault line shaking buildings and shutting down a highway strewn with rocks so the focus growing we brought here to peace in the 1st earthquake we should have bit more on the 5.4 this morning or more rupture and more now it is moving towards the northwest away from the metropolitan area as far as we can tell the u.s. geological survey says there's a 5 percent chance a bigger quake will follow this is another earthquake everyone has a chance i'm trying to think if we've ever seen a situation with the 6.47 i meant something even bigger and i can't think of one the epicenter of the southern california quake was in the city of ridgecrest halfway between los vegas and los angeles we're gathering intelligence and we're

taking action on multiple structure fires we're gathering information we've got our helicopter in the air doing our work on a sense of the city of ridgecrest and the surrounding areas. we got. reports of tremors came from as far away as sacramento an 8 hour drive to the north and several hours to the south in mexico leaving 1st responders in the desert community scouring the area for damage and anyone injured by the quake john hendren al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump says he might use an executive order to get a question on citizenship added to the 2020 census the supreme court rejected the argument for adding the question critics say a citizenship question would discourage immigrants from taking part aiding to inaccurate results congressional seats are allocated according to population and census results and i used to determine the number of seats. tom wolfe is counsel

with the democracy program a brennan center for justice he joins me live via skype from new york 1st of all can president trump use an executive order to override the supreme court president trying to use an executive order through. the congress that are in which is in charge of the census as they always seem to rule was that all it will ultimately be census is a creature of commerce the president's what then is the legal way forward for the justice department on this there is no way for the citizenship question the administration starting with the obama and you there they've come up with a new excuse which is just another kind of pretext that the supreme court said last month was illegal what we're trying to do mystery she embraces there is no reason for the question which is to increase the political power republicans and in the words of a republican leadership in consultant non hispanic weights in other words it's racially discriminatory and that's unconstitutional the citizenship question should

be left in the grave of the supreme court of. but isn't that precisely what the government lawyers are trying to do now is to put together exploring legal options they're trying to find a new explanation for this would they then put that back to the supremes court. by all indications the lead attorneys at the department of justice and our karmas told the president last week that there was no way forward and so they were in stand questioning president term seems to have gotten into his head of. the bush war but all this back and forth was just it is the basic problem with the charge of minister she can't come up with a legally the sensible reason prangs question what about the legal process where both sides sort of look for information and conduct interviews on this isn't not already underway yes one of the downsides really troubled ministration but it's an upside for mary generally is because the administration has not agreed now stand

down on the census there are proceedings going forward in a district court tomorrow to determine more real reasons beyond question all of it is focused all these files that have come out to suggest that alternately the citizenship question is based on a partisan power play that's to suppress that certain races and ethnicities in this country that's illegal the administration could have avoided all that by standing down decided to go for him or they have to reap the consequences and i just understand i think as he was saying that the supreme court had sort of dug a grave effectively for this idea but i mean did they actually rule that. just maybe you can give us more context on this that that this was a political question and was therefore beyond the realm of the supreme court. what the supreme court said in their ruling was that a losing issue she gave to the question which was forcing the rights act was

a pretext all city or even a law and the agency was only us requires that urgency was and this is real reasons and reasons because. we court so they came up with good reasons tensioning for the question the problem is that there are no reasons or thank you very much tom wolfe counsel for democracy the democracy program at the brennan center for justice for sharing your thoughts on this with us. in esco the un's cultural and scientific agencies on val the 1st batch of sites that will be added to its world heritage list this year topping the list is the ancient city of babylon after 3 decades of lobbying efforts by iraq it was the center of the babylonian empire 4000 years ago party and grand day near the brazilian city of rio de janeiro have also been chosen for this they are recognized for both a natural and cultural significance iceland's advance and cool national park has

been picked for its stunning natural beauty and geothermal activity the area covers 14 percent of the country and includes help a nose melting glasses and explosive crate is china has also gained a listing its migratory bird sanctuaries in the east ingenue province on the list into title wetland contains 3 ecological systems and its home to 33 endangered species of 3 years ago another iraqi site was added to the wild heritage list but the people living in the marshlands of southern iraq the marsh arabs say the new status hasn't done anything to improve their livelihoods and as charles stratford reports government negligence and climate change add to that daily struggle. the sun rises over the marshes of southern iraq the what didn't region fade by the tigris and euphrates rivers. home to people as far back as the samarian this more than 5000 years ago in the early 1990 s.

saddam hussein ordered troops to drain most of the area as punishment for a tribal uprising against him around 75 percent of the 250000 people known as the marsh arabs fled. when the dictator was toppled in 2003 many returned and demolished the dams that have deprived their homeland of water for so long the use of violence oppression to the marsh arabs suffered under the former regime. but they say that repeated promises by government since the fall of saddam hussein over better access to services have never been kept they can live according to their traditions now but why fear is exceptionally hard. they're a big spread on a tiny island where her family raised buffalo she says she's seen no improvement to their lives in recent years that i was in a little hole that life is miserable because of the heat and the toil of looking

off town livestock bad for the buffaloes we are very unhappy but what can we do. experts say dams on the tigris and euphrates rivers in turkey and iran combined with frequent drought stew to climate change have increased the salinity of the marsh water this effects the health of the water buffalo and the quality and quantity of milk they produce. has lived on the marshes most of his life he says many marsh arabs like a much hole in between moving away hoping to find an easier life or staying and preserving their culture. during the summer it's especially hard fish die and the cattle eat less so they produce less milk for us to sell in the winter they separate viruses we have no veterinary services no proper electricity no schools no health services either. the iraqi government was proud when unesco made the marshes

a world heritage site 3 years ago this magnificent building built almost entirely from reaches calderwood dave. it's where tribal elders discuss issues affecting the community such as environmental problems and what many say is government linked. but we have seen no improvements since the marshes were listed as a unesco world heritage site there were hopes it could be a place for him to mental tourism but that hasn't happened yet it's estimated the marshes have shrunk to a 3rd of the size they were 100 years ago now the people with a unique culture living in a long suffering region of political violence say it's climate change and broken government promises that all the biggest threats to their lives. 0 in the marshlands of southern the rock tibetans around the wild a saying happy birthday to the dalai lama he's 80.