killis on the turkey syria border as far as we know zain or was it quiet there overnight. yes it has been quiet that ceasefire is holding no reports of airstrikes russian and syrian warplanes are not flying over southern and northern how much we've been in contact with syrians on the ground in rebel controlled towns like no man i'd be hard fans who are in towns really that were repeated lee targeted over the past 3 months people are out on the streets they welcome the ceasefire but they remain cautious it is a cautious calm across southern it live in northern hammer because people do not trust the syrian government they believe that this is just a short term arrangement they believe it's just a matter of time before the bombing resumes people really have suffered a lot over the past 3 months according to our monitors over 800 civilians were killed in the bombardment 216 of them children more than 400000 people displaced

and the people have still not started to return to their homes of course many of them don't have homes to return to they were destroyed but many others are still afraid to return and if it works will it work because the deescalation zone works because that's been such a difficulty it's been such a sticking point when it comes to setting them up and making sure that they are policed and implemented properly. it libya is supposed to be a deescalation zone but what happened was last year in september turkey and russia reached the so-called sochi memorandum agreement in that agreement demilitarized zone was supposed to be created around the southern edges of provinces zone free of fighters and free of weapons and turkey was given the responsibility to create this zone but it faced a lot of difficulties because there is a group especially the share which many in the international community believe is still linked to al qaida refused to withdraw its fighters have heavy weapons from

the area and turkey repeatedly told russia what do you want me to do if we force them to leave this will instigate rebel infighting and civilians will be at risk i need time to do this now russia didn't buy that argument it said that it's patience was wearing thin and that's why it supported the syrian government's offensive now we talk about a conditional cease fire that ceasefire is conditional on turkey creating that demilitarized zone we haven't heard from either side on any timetable given to turkey but the russian center for reconciliation in syria is mentioning 24 hours we haven't been able to confirm that but clearly this is a shaky cease fire and figure a cease fire but for the time being the guns have fallen silent zana thank you so much. measures to detect in the d.r. see the democratic republic of congo may only be identifying hall of those who are infected a congolese response coordinator is also warning that the epidemic could last up to

3 years 2700 people have been infected and the 2nd worst outbreak of ebola in history the virus has killed at least 18 people in last year health workers are trying to contain it spread in the eastern city of goma 4 cases have been confirmed there stephanie is live for us in the capital kigali good morning how is the d r c coping with this so far. well it's a real challenge and as you said they are admitting that they are perhaps only identifying around 50 percent of cases when you look at the numbers peter that shows you just how difficult it is talking about one man one of those 4 cases you mentioned while 2 others of those were his immediate family his wife his daughter they seem to be doing better they are quarantined but the numbers that we're getting in terms of who he may have come into contact with according to the officials in the d.r. see around 300 people where they vaccinated 240 of those people they'll be vaccinating the rest of them today the world health organization says because it is

a communal effort peter it is together with the authorities and aid agencies on the ground they say over 500 people when it comes to the primary and secondary contact and that is because this virus is spread through bodily fluids it is also swept this is an area where people when they greet each other they hug each other it's a very close if you will personal relationship so very very difficult also to figure out who came into contact with who also these areas are remote there are security issues and there's a lot of suspicion when it comes to people seeing foreigners come in wanting to vaccinate. so it's a very very difficult situation for everyone involved and as far as the seas neighbors are concerned they must be looking in literally across the temporarily sometimes border and sinking or what's coming our way. well i can tell you here in cali there are of course concerns that led as you mentioned to the border being closed for just

a couple of hours on thursday but that did give an indication of real panic certain people we've been talking to here said wow when they close that border we thought what is going on with this was done to beef up the medic medical check this is a very busy border area that area goma in the neighboring it's almost like one city peach when it comes to these 2 countries so that is how close it is divided by just a road which is the border so what is significant this time around because this is a crisis that's been going on for a year is because it's reached that border area massive there are over $2000000.00 people because of the cross border activity that there is having said that there's never been a case of a boat here and a wonder but the authorities are preparing they've trained medical workers they vaccinated medical workers they're carrying out it drills in the hospitals here so it does give you a sense how serious they're taking it it is of course something that comes with the stigma people are terrified of it this is a country that depends on tourism they do not want to see you know any kind of this

sort of p.r. coming out but at the moment certainly here no cases nothing at all but a concern of course of how they're going to contain it across the border stephanie thank you. plenty more still to come for you here on al-jazeera including arrests made before protests to be even started the police and russia's heavy handed response to moscow's planned rallies also bring you these live pictures more on this developing story keeping up the pressure in hong kong crowds gathering as we speak again this time in ca loot for another protest against the government the day after thousands of civil servants added their voices. hello there is not a particularly sunlight picture across much year for the moment we've seen cloud we've seen rain some strong thunderstorms on this more of that in the full cost as

we start the beginning of the weekend now there's a bunch of clouds here and actually some warnings in place across is the tickler region of europe as we continue through friday into saturday for more of these a strong thunderstorms not do much damage is a little bit lower but it's not exactly cold but it is a very very unsettled picture where it is rather cool is that they can see what western russia moscow 17 degrees celsius is about 5 or 6 degrees below the average for this time of year meanwhile across the northwest but a break on friday look at this by saturday the rain and the back in the fork all standing right there way across the channel on into northern and western areas of the france on ascent of patients sunday so although i'd be particularly wet it will be a cloudy and pretty fitting quite humid to the high of 26 in london sunny skies safe madrid at 36 but that rain working its way further eastwards so we'll see quite a line of rain quite heavy at times and thunderstorms in there working the way through ukraine and again pushing up into western areas of russia so that 15 degrees is the best you'll see in moscow than we had down into northern africa it's fine and dry no sign of any rain here tom which is typically around the low to mid

thirty's to encounter on suffer day and then on sunday was the 36 in tunis. following 2 fatal crashes in the past year boeing decided to ground a brand new 7 for 7 x. but this wasn't the 1st time they're grounded a new craft back in 200787 dreamliner ran into trouble when a barrel caught fire that is out of the u.s. investigative unit discovered there was more to the problem than just smoking batteries. rewind of broken dreams the boeing 787 on al-jazeera.

welcome back let's just recap your top stories for you so far today sudan's military council and its main opposition coalition of finalized a constitutional agreement for the future control of the country that deal paving the way for the formation of a transitional government and elections in 2022. a conditional cease fires in place in northwest syria after weeks of intensifying airstrikes on the province of it lip that truce was brokered during peace talks in kazakhstan the opposition says it will stick to the deal as long as the government doesn't violate it and measures to detect ebola in the d.r. see may only be identifying half of those with the disease at least 2700 people have been infected in the 2nd worst ebola outbreak in history congolese officials are warning that the epidemic could last for up to 3 years. crowds are gathering in the district of hong kong today for one of 3 more protests this weekend let's just

show you live pictures from omaha where protesters are trying to keep up pressure on the government there demanding the withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill and an inquiry into the police hand. in a weeks of protests on friday thousands of civil servants rallied for the 1st time despite the government warning them they should remain politically neutral under thomas was there on friday night. the been a lot of protests in recent weeks have a perhaps none as significant as this one because things people are real civil servants they would pull the government the government their employer that they have come out to protest against and that is despite an open letter published on thursday by the government to carry land saying the civil servants should not take part in this protest or any other so as to preserve their impossibility but they come out the next means of thousands. filling this square hundreds of capacity over the main roads around here are blocked with crowds hundreds of feet as well people

i've spoken to here say that they felt they had to come out to show their support for protest as they say it has nothing to do with their employer the government what they do in their free time i spoke to a math teacher i spoke with translates up to this is well say the least he's moving full frankly to what they do day to day in terms of working for the government now this cycle has been a completely peaceful protest or a more right test planned over the weekend to on saturday a further what on sunday and on monday calls for a strike right across from. him and susie rebels have for the 1st time released images of the ballistic missile system they've used to target saudi arabia the fighters say the medium range brooke on missile is domestically produced in yemen they say they'll continue launching attacks until the saudi coalition stops its air strikes. puts a rico has sworn in a new lawyer as its new governor ted rupie a louis seize appointment still to be confirmed by the u.s. territories senate crowds have been celebrating on the streets since recalled to

resell ows stepped down from the job he was forced to resign following a scandal opening text messages on corruption allegations. has more from san juan. while a new governor has been sworn in in puerto rico this is an island that is still very much in a constitutional crisis that's because the new governor. was sworn in but he was only confirmed by the house of representatives in puerto rico and not by the senate so it's very unclear from a constitutional standpoint if he can actually be governor even though he was sworn in we expect that there could be lawsuits in the coming days there could be injunctions filed by opposition political parties here in puerto rico so while there is some sense of normalcy here on the streets right outside of the governor's mansion behind me there is still very much a lot of uncertainty here this was a protest that went on for more than

a month to get rid of the previous governor he is now out of office but now they're in training into a new phase of uncertainty on what will happen with the new governor here the new governor is pretty well respected many people say he's very competent and capable he was puerto rico's representative to congress in washington d.c. for several years but many of the people here on the streets the protesters say they have a newfound energy and they are willing to go back on the streets if necessary to protest if he does not deliver on some of his promises such as health and education improvements here on this island that is a u.s. territory nevertheless we'll have to see in the coming days how this all shakes out because still his future the new governor is still very uncertain in his constitutional craig. this puerto rico still faces. more than 1400 people have been diagnosed with dengue fever in a single day in bangladesh the country is facing its worst ever outbreak of the

disease at least 14 people have been killed and 17000 affected the outbreak began in the capital dhaka and it spread across the country and the philippines is considering reintroducing a controversial dengue vaccine after the break which has already killed $450.00 people there this year the vaccine program was stopped in 2017 after several children died this year the philippines has reported more than 10100000 cases of dengue fever. japan has become the 1st country to approve the long term growing of human organs in animals scientists say human stem cells will be grown in mice rats and pig embryos they will then be transplanted into surrogate animals and brought term it's hoped that will create a supply of human organs for use in transplants japan and previously banned developing animals with human embryos beyond 14 days taylor is a post-doctoral research fellow at the francis crick institute she says there will

be some ethical issues here. and the ethical dilemma is that this sort of work creates mostly focuses around the fact that people feel quite uncomfortable about it i think but. none of the sort of most ethically challenging organ systems will be researched at present so for example the central nervous system the brain. and the germ cells which will contribute to the eggs in the sperm they are not systems are people who we will be researching essentially so we're hoping to avoid basically too many of the deeper ethical pitfalls the ultimate aim of this research is to try and create donor organs that are effectively fresh that are. built for purpose. and so it's the difference between potentially in the future being able to use stem cells that have been derived from the patient themselves such that they can have organs that are actually their own that have been built

essentially hosted in a different organism while they're being built for them and you know it means the difference between having to wait for it. transplant list for years. the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson has a new challenge just 9 days after sweeping into downing street his governing conservative party has had its majority in parliament cut to just one after losing a byelection in wales and that may make his brags that promises harder to fulfill from london here's rory chalons jean guards is duly elected member of parliament for the said constituency was the announcement was made in an echo we haul in mid wales but this results will be heard very clearly in london the liberal democrats have taken this seat of brecken and ravisher from the ruling conservative party here whittles boris johnson's parliamentary majority down to just one m.p. the new leaders pre-vote visit to wales wasn't enough to prevent the chances of

a couple one collapse going up barely 9 days since he took over as prime minister this is why this by election was so significant because we're looking at general election very shortly and it really shows some of the key factors that are going to be at play in that in that election i was surgeon were made a vote under the liberal democrats and also bracks a party to contend with. the liberal democrats newest m.p. was clear about what she thinks this results means and here we stand. this day was john says. in the 1st week it was premonition. and here we are thank you very. much i was just here. will not tolerate a new right. but some voters do want to know deal breaks it and although nigel farage is bracks and party didn't perform quite as well as they might have hoped with 10 percent of the vote they still arguably cost the conservative m.p.

his seat by splitting the preprinted vote although local issues are often important for by election results this one could also be seen as another example of how breaks it is rewriting the balance of britain's political system with supports for smaller parties like the lib dems and the bracks it party on the rise at the expense of the big 2 labor and the conservatives. when parliament returns from recess at the beginning of september it will have less than 2 months till breaks it day and boris johnson the man who said he will deliver it come what may he's clinging on to power by his fingertips rory chalons how to 0 under. this is al jazeera you're watching from doha i'm peter davi these are the top stories to dan's military council and its main opposition coalition of finalized a constitutional agreement now that deal paving the way for the formation of

a transitional government until elections in 2022 it also strips powers of the paramilitary rapid support forces have been blamed for killing dozens of the protesters. were a delegation of the forces of freedom and change and the transitional military council met on the constitutional document and i'm very pleased in the name of the african mediation and to respect the delegations to declare to the sudanese people and the international community that the 2 delegations have fully agreed on the constitutional project they are continuing their meetings this evening to make the technical arrangements for the signing protocols in the presence of all the sudanese people and our international friends are going to cease fires in place in the northwest of syria after a week of intensifying airstrikes on the province of it live the truce was brokered during peace talks in kazakhstan the opposition says it will stick to the deal as long as the government doesn't violate it and harder has more now from kilis on the

turkey syria border. it has been quiet that ceasefire is holding no reports of airstrikes russian and syrian warplanes are not flying over southern and northern hama we've been in contact with syrians on the ground in rebel controlled towns like modoc no man id her hand she her own towns really that were repeated lee targeted over the past 3 months people are out on the streets they welcome the ceasefire but they remain cautious it is a cautious calm across southern and live in northern how much because people do not trust the syrian government. crowds are gathering in the district of hong kong for one of 3 more pro-democracy protests this weekend these in one call where protesters are trying to keep up pressure on the government demanding an inquiry into police handling of weeks of protest. yemen's who the rebels have for the 1st time released images of the ballistic missile system they've used to target saudi arabia to see the medium range missile is domestically made in yemen the news

continues. so that with 30 minutes of al-jazeera world news we'll see you bet. counting the cost this week we're on patrol off the coast of west africa as a nation is deploying naval forces to account for the scourge of piracy and hostage taking after 6 years of treading water gold prices are on the rise plus how iraq plans to cut its gas if it's counting the cost on al-jazeera. is the war on germany finally changing the hoodies have been ramping up attacks on the saudi led coalition both in yemen and saudi arabia itself while the saudis part of the u.a.e. is gradually pulling out of yemen and reaching out to iran so what now for the coalition and is there any room for diplomacy this is inside story.

hello everyone come on santa maria welcome to inside story it has been more than 4 years since the coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. launched a ferocious air campaign to remove iranian backed rebels from yemen the effect as we know has been devastating tens of thousands of civilians killed and as many as 85000 children who may have starved to death but there are 2 things going on right now which just maybe have the potential to change the course of the war one is the increased ability of the hutus to hit back on thursday they claim 2 major attacks against saudi emirate he backed forces 1st medium range ballistic missiles were fired at a base used by m.r.c. trained forces in the port city of aden at least 36 people were killed including a senior military commander but i also find a long range missile across the saudi arabian border targeting

a military base in demand the capital city of the oil rich eastern region so that's one element but perhaps more significantly in the long term at least is the u.a.e. drawing down its military presence in yemen that started a few weeks ago and for the 1st time in 6 years m r r t officials met an iranian delegation in tehran this time they discussed the strait of hormuz and signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation on maritime border security but really the mere fact that they met in the 1st place is a significant step. that you are meeting was practical with the aim of coronating between iran and the u.a.e. for border security one of the important points we agreed on is to hold meetings between leaders of border guards from iran and the u.a.e. we will also strengthen communication between our boarders in emergency situations . so is this a fracture in the coalition will 1st of all we should really define the coalition

because remember there were actually 10 countries which joined the air campaign against the rebels back in march of 2015 they included most of the gulf countries as well as egypt sudan and malaysia but really the whole thing has been driven and executed by the saudis and the iraqis who then removed from that coalition after the blockade was imposed 2 years ago they've also been supported by the u.s. the u.k. france turkey and belgium not official members of the alliance but they've been selling weapons to saudi arabia despite international condemnation and on the flip side china russia and of course iran to voice their opposition to military action in yemen beijing and moscow have vetoed un resolutions against iran's military assistance to the who. so that's the situation let's bring in our guests now in lancaster in the u.k. we've got simon move on who is a senior lecturer in international relations at lancaster university in sun up

hussein the a pro who journalist and yemen affairs specialist and in beirut is rami a senior public policy fellow at the american university of beirut gentlemen welcome to you all i think that the bulk of our discussion is going to be about the state of the coalition the state of the war the recent moves by the u.a.e. bartz i do want to deal with these attacks that we've seen from the who these most recently and i think hussein the is a good place to start in. these are increasing and by these larger scale attacks and particularly the attacks which actually go over the border into saudi arabia how are they managing to do this. today the yemeni. army spokesperson is on our hands at least footage of the missile that has targeted at the moment called. 31 of the upgraded missiles from the stockpile that. yemeni regime had from russia or from north korea this attack actually it was i

think the fattest inside saudi arabia and it target which is in the rich area in saudi arabia and they believe that this is a kind of a strong message to saudi arabia that that saying that your oil infrastructure is under our coverage on as well tonight out of the emirates which i believe is the same distant. that i thought as well on the saudi backed forces in aden i believe we all have heard the news from united arab emirates that they are withdraw and there was no official statement from united arab emirates and they believe this will be the fittest withdraw in history without releasing an overzealous statement that just some kind of leaks united arab emirates into some media outlet and i think they want that by that is to stop any attack on united arab emirate that's why this attack on a den. base as well i must tonight out of him of that that is not about your existence in yemen you have for many militia recruited many yemenis in the south

and those base are actually used to fight the yemeni army and people of committee who are loyal that's why all united out of iraq or other groups under them they will be and that i'm saying would you go as far to say that these are are turning the tables are are succeeding almost against the saudi arabia. yes of course i mean if you see the course of war and the 1st 3 weeks the former spokesperson of the coalition. they say that they have destroyed most of. what you called at that time houthi. missiles but now we see that yemeni army actually is upgraded. kopi and some of the missile that they have they are making new drones that have reach the united arab emirates and many areas in saudi arabia and still saudi arabia with although i visit all the battery of the latest but it missile they have

they could not stop any most of this attack so this show you a total failure on one hand you see yemeni army. is getting stronger and on the other hand we see that the saudi backed forces they fighting each other as well is failing to defend its border that they are using yemeni and some medicine that is from sudan to defend their border and they begin this war as they say to protect their country are now is exactly the opposite there was no threat against saudi arabia but now there is a huge threat against saudi arabia and of the world against the existence of the saudi royal family source simon in lancaster how is it. important the saudi arabian military with its money and with its hardware is not able to repel these attacks point layman's view of the situation things that the saudis should be able to contain this sort of thing. yeah you think but i guess the nature of the conflict in yemen means that traditional traditional military approaches to

conflicts are not going to be a political there's no there's no very clear battlefield away from urban spaces and that makes it really difficult for the saudis to combat the threat posed by the who are these which is one of the one of the reasons why we've seen such devastation in yemeni cities and yemeni urban areas as the saudis have tried to cattail that threat posed by the who these but it's of course had a devastating impact on the people of yemen on yemeni society as we've seen as we've heard in all these various reports that have documented the devastation that emerged from the coalition so it's really difficult i mean it's not an impossible for the saudis to stop someone hiding in in the streets of a city and then launching a missile so so it's really difficult for the saudis to stop this and spite of all of that vast technological capabilities it's incredibly difficult to know where all the individuals are who might be involved in this and then stop individual actions

and now to add to that you've got the situation of saudi arabia starting to maybe lose some support from its closest ally run a hurry let me bring you in on this one what is the u.a.e. up to at the moment drawing down its forces and. shock of all shocks talking to iran as well. i think the u.a.e. is really reacting to a series of developments that are taking place simultaneously the most important one probably as they have started to realize which they did about a year ago when they started to really turn over the fighting to the troops the 90000 yemenis and others that they've trained in in the south part the southern part of yemen mostly they realize that they're actually quite incompetent at warfare in other arab countries the saudis and the and that are these are very daring very bold very ambitious very boastful of their capabilities and they're willing to defend themselves but but really heroically incompetent at doing it when

they're fighting in another country and i think the ember out is have to be given credit for realizing that i'm saying look we better get out of here especially when the american congress is passing you know if you know majority votes to prevent americans sales of arms to the image that these and the saudis and 2nd afford you've got the europeans now the germans the french and others who are refusing to get involved with the american call to get an armada of international navies to preserve free movement through the strait of hormuz. the siege of kut that has not worked at all so the iraqis are really getting terrible press all over the world so i think they're starting to turn around their policy and realize that what they've tried to do as they say to push back the iranians has totally backfired and hasn't creased iranian influence in the amman and other parts of the region so it's

really all of those things happening at the same time and it's one of the few areas few times i think we can say the him without the leadership is acting quite sensibly and realizing that his policies are not working and trying to turn them around is that not a big risk there romney you know in and incurring the wrath of saudi arabia for going against them. well they really don't have much choice the saudis are going to have to do something similar and the answer to all this of course is if you really are worried about the iranians most of the accusations they make about iran are exaggerated but there are some genuine concerns that people have with iran arabs and foreigners and others but if you are concerned then the way to deal with them is the way that obama did which is negotiate with them and come to an agreement so i think what we're starting to see but the. move to talk about fishing and maritime stuff they're now starting to explore the waters for

a negotiated process rather than a military one and sanctions and all that the only answer in that region is a regional security framework that all of the countries and iran and maybe a few others work on together in the saudis have to be a part of that process to hussein how do you think the who will view this sort of pullback if you like from the united arab emirates i'm sure they'd be pleased with it but also maybe a bit suspicious i mean after 4 years of war and suddenly they decide oh ok maybe this isn't working we're going to get out. yeah i think this is they look at it as suspicious and i believe that the attack or. yesterday on base because those forces that have backed by united arab emirates and it's a clear message tonight that a bit of that is not about your own troops is about the troops that you have recruited the militia that you have. created in in aid and we know that united arab emirate all the forces that backed by them in the south they didn't even have

a look at the so-called legitimacy they didn't allow the government to go to war from aden and i think this is one of the biggest mistake that the united arab emirates has done because they only focus on controlling the cutter island. state on some key island in that it's easy but on the other hand they haven't given a good example if they have for example from the beginning when they have invaded even if they have like brought back the so-called legitimacy to aden you know made security really safe there you know help the people to rebuild the country i think they could have actually made a good. example to bargain about but they did exactly the opposite because they don't want anything for yemen only to be to stay fighting each other and to control the main area as i mentioned the island that was closed and i believe that many yemenis now hospitalized and i just want to mention that the top commander that was killed yesterday. in that attack in aden because he was the right hand man of the

united arab emirate in setting up secret prison torture assassination abducting many yemeni civilians on most of them that are like the united arab emirates like from the muslim brotherhood on the show you that they're not out of him but it actually doesn't want to help yemenis but they want actually to reach their interests in yemen only simon michael let's bring you back in at this point the other. issue i mentioned is the fact that the united arab emirates not only drawing down but talking to iran yes they were talking to iran about the strait of hormuz which is technically it's another issue it's a big issue for the gulf but the fact that they're talking. why are they doing it and b. how is saudi arabia going to react to its ally having across the strait in talking to iran. yeah i think it's a really important issue in a really delicate moment for now i think to understand we need to go back to yemen we need to go back to the amarok involvement in yemen and one of the reasons for

that was to counter iran was to prevent iran from from getting a foothold on the arabian peninsula but of course that came at a massive price and recently the deputy prime minister of the u.a.e. has made several remarks about the expense of the emirates the engagement in yemen costing millions every day hundreds of millions a day and he's asking to what extent are we getting anything but for this so there's an economic dimension we know that the emirates has struggled we know that tourism has dropped dramatically so there's an economic dimension that and the economic dimension is sitting against this security debate about how best to curtail iranian influence across the region and this goes back to what romney was saying about dialogue i think the emirates and realize that perhaps the best a way of addressing this iranian question is through dialogue i think as well that using this as a moment to test the waters there were a little bit concerned about the policy which is similarly to push for regime

change in tehran whereas the emirates want of a form of policy change they were concerned that the sanctions are getting tighter and tighter with little scope for dialogue and diplomacy so this is an opportune moment for the emirates to test the water to see what scope there is for dialogue what scope there is to actually improve relations across the gulf now saudi arabia is obviously going to be a little bit concerned about this we know that the saudis have got a longstanding rivalry with iran it just depends as to whether there has been a degree of communication between the or the not with dobby whether m.b.'s the crown prince has given permission or at least acknowledge that it's ok for the emirates to reach out to tehran and see see what the what the climate is like whether there is scope for dialogue if that hasn't happened. and then it could well be that we start to see real tensions emerging between the saudis and the m.r. artes of course if it has happened then we could see a bit of a sea change and we could see in merging scope and possibility for dialogue between

the various rivals rami do you suspect that is the case that mohamed bin someone has been speaking to the immoralities and saying ok you can't do this because again i don't want to belabor the point too much but i just keep thinking about the potential blowback they could be for the u.a.e. for going. to be against saudi arabia. further you aid definitely has been consulting with saudi arabia talking about these issues they don't necessarily need to get a total green light i mean saudi arabia doesn't control the u.a.e. in fact it's the other way around most observers who know the area well think that it's the u.a.e. leadership that has influenced the soda leadership on some of these reckless and totally failed adventures in qatar and lebanon and syria and and yemen and maybe libya even too so the likelihood is they are consulting with each other they have to work closely together the imminent he is on the saudi leadership's

about 2011 when they are of uprisings broke out and you started getting elections and just 0 was all over the place and greater than ever with people hearing real journalism free expression all over the place elections muslim brothers winning the presidency in egypt that's when they have it out there in the saudis freaked out and they decided we've got to put a stop to all of this and they came up with their strategy and it has been a total failure so they have to stick together because their their fates are really entered intertwined i would just add another point to the image out these are not totally abandoning said yemen they're pulling out most of their troops from direct fighting but they're still funding and arming and training and equipping 100000 more troops they still got alliances with with various people like the tata sala the nephew of the former president they're still making deals with people tribal leaders and others and they still control certain areas including support the

island and others so there's they want to keep a strategic foothold there because as part of their whole regional plan to be able to have ports and facilities all across the red sea even going up into libya they would try one day to do but this is not going to work they can this is way beyond their capabilities as a small little come. and i think we're starting to see the 1st signs of the realism in the foreign policy good point to make that you know something gentleman i have a question on my my list here one of the last questions or bullet point if you like saying is that sort of the beginning of the end of the coalition i'm going to change that now because i think from listening to all 3 of you you've all talked about dialogue and i'd like to get your thoughts simon i'll start with you then i'll come to hussein and rami your thoughts on what dialogue might look like because after you've had 4 years of war you've had tens of thousands of people killed it's difficult to sit around a table and suddenly start talking. about peace you want to talk about peace but

it's a difficult thing. yeah it is and dialogue has to go hand in hand with trust you need trust to have a serious dialogue but you also need dialogue to have trust you need to build that trust but trust takes time as you say it's difficult to trust someone when you've been on opposing sides of a conflict when you've been you've had a long period of time of hating up person of of dehumanizing that person through being on the other side of a conflict so you have to build that trust you have to reach humanize you have to start to empathize with that grievances you have to be aware of the issues that are a play and this applies equally to to the yemen conflict but also to tensions between the saudis and moralities and the iranians and others you have to have empathy you have to build trust that comes through dialogue that comes through signaling trust and once you've got that trust you can start to have more serious dialogue but you have to have a degree of dialogue to build the trust so it's

a cyclical process it's a slow difficult process but it's absolutely essential to actually make things well make things better to get conflict resolved and same with your knowledge of the who these in this situation do you think they would be open to dialogue and to what conditions when they come to the table yes i believe they have been open for a diet of from the beginning they have went to the one gentleman saudi arabia to kuwait to all negotiation but that i think. to be successful in any dialogue should be a dialogue between all yemeni parties we should but the so-called legitimacy aside because had he was a president on this and you have no power over yemen i mean this is years in the thought so i died of thought between yemeni parties and as well just this would be. told between the whole between saudi arabia if they are not going to do that then we're going to see another. agreement

which now been acted by this i would be back towards it even though. jose under the supervision of you and has withdrawn from the tea party that's why we don't we do want to be that direct dialogue. on outside of those he has offered many times that they will stop attack in saudi arabia using drone on ballastic me this was days before. the so-called agreement and they stopped that for about 7 months and so he has not even apply to that. i mean request from and that's why i think the they should just put everything aside and sit directly on told with. our leadership here and i will leave the final word. from hussein mentioned in passing on the 2nd agreement struck on talks is that where it could go back to is a stance in point for any future talks any future dialogue from from all parties.

well the internal situation in yemen started as an internal situation in the various wars and separation and unity and so all wars and all these negotiations for a new constitution have these things are going on in yemen for about 30 years now and they're quite incredible in their scope and then you've got an always the saudis are involved and then you've got the image that is involved in a became a regional conflict on the image out there so they're saying we want to push back iran so it kind of got blown out of proportion there has to be a process to stop the fighting inside yemen and that can come simultaneously with any beginning of a regional dialogue or come before it could come after that's where the yemenis to decide themselves and they will find a way to do the serious issues the people in the south really don't like being ruled by people from the north and the boaties and others but they have to figure this out and they will but there is something really important going on the evidence is in their talks in iran started the talks

a few days ago about fishing fishing boats so then they started talking about the free passage of shipping so they have to pick one or 2 items to go under the time agree on something make sure that both sides see themselves as having equal rights everybody can fish everybody can export oil everybody can trade and that's how this process will finally expand and then you've got to get some sensible people and certainly not from washington because there aren't very many there but sensible people from around the world who can expand this into a real serious regional process maybe under the un's auspices rummy who are joining us from beirut always a pleasure to talk to you also hussein alba haiti in sanaa and simon my pond in lancaster thank you to all 3 of you and as ever thank you for watching 3 ways to check us out online one is the show you section and out as they were dot com where you can see this program or indeed any of our previous editions you can also find that facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story on twitter at a.j.

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and welcome on peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up more than a 100 civilian deaths in a week now a cease fire was agreed in syria's last rebel held province. fears the abode of break could last for years in democratic republic of congo officials say they may have found only hoff those infected. i'm a solid at it you see the refugee camp and i'll tell you what's being done to hold ice in the countable as the victims of war crimes still of it justice. sudan may finally be on the road to a new democratic future 4 months after the president omar al bashir has rule was brought to an end the military giunta that's ruled since april and the main opposition groups have now reached a constitutional agreement it's expected to lead to the formation of a transitional government to run sudan until elections in 2022 deals not yet signed

but the opposition coalition is expected to reveal more at a news conference soon a draft says the paramilitary rapid support force blamed for a crackdown against the protesters will be brought under the command of the armed forces if charlotte bellus. in the early hours of saturday an announcement that sudan's military giunta and the opposition coalition had agreed on how to govern the country they fleshed out the details on the makeup and functions of a transitional government until elections in 3 years in an illicit. i'm very pleased in the name of the african mediation and to respect to delegations to declare to the sudanese people and the international community that the 2 delegations are fully agreed on the constitutional project. was. the reaction was immediate on the streets of carter. announcing the deal african

union envoy mohamed has on the but gave no detail about the contents of the declaration he said talks are continuing on how and when it would be signed. during the negotiations the military council ceded to demands for justice over the killing of at least 6 people including 4 schoolchildren at a protest earlier in the wake of 9 soldiers were detained was a victory for tains of thousands of sudanese who had marched demanding justice for the deaths they get if i get it that it was certainly a horrible massacre we pray the situation improves and that the right of the students are not neglected blood for blood and punishment is a must was the. protesters have been flexing their muscle since december. restoration started with the economy president omar al bashir was in the

cross his the number of protests grew along with their demands until bashir was removed in a military coup in april general says off the military council the protesters demanded civilians take the lead in the transition they started a citizen outside the army he called his forcing military rulers to begin talks over how to share power. on june 3rd security forces raided that demonstration they killed more than 100 people and injured many more talks resume to months later mediated by the african union any theo pierre the 1st breakthrough came on july 17th leading to the signing of a political agreement between the military jointer and the opposition coalition they agreed on and live in person transitional council with representatives from both sides and the rotating leadership. the disagreements had remained over the wording of constitutional changes now with the details agreed and

a signing imminent sudanese people have a roadmap to a more peaceful future shallop ballasts al-jazeera. ok let's bring in our correspondent how to how it's reported extensively from inside sudan if there are sticking points here mo what are the main sticking points. well i think from now on the challenge would be how to put the whole thing into motion and get to a period of transition but there's a lot of work to be done before then the appointment of a prime minister which we are hearing there were great opponent but i'm not saying who it is and then there's also the divvying up of the slots in parliament 2 thirds go to the opposition who've been behind the protests a 3rd goes to sudan's constant opposition parties who have not been part of the protests process so the process itself is going to be a kimonos and again we're seeing for the 1st time a hybrid transition or 40 made up of both military and civilian members how they're

going to walk together in is going to be. one thing that will be very interesting to watch but what the protest leaders are saying is they will be banking on public support the protests to come back again if they see the process not going their way and that's why they have been saying that they're not willing at this point to disband the structures and the pressure groups that were behind the posts for so many months now for the protesters primacy for them was people being held to account for what they did in the past under the umbrella of the regime have they had to row back on their desire to hang on to that no they haven't and again. it's been the most of the protracted negotiations in the past few days has been over this issue of giving immunity to the 5 generals who would be joining the sovereign council which is going to be the top organ of the transitional authority what has now been done and agreed the point is that this is

not going to be a blanket immunity that's going to be a punishment in case any of the generals is seen to have some or well me evidence of participating in the violence against the protesters then that immunity. who would believe that and that sort of sim stuff pos if i had the potus and proctors leaders if we'd been talking about the composition of the regime even 6 months ago how many people in the regime are still there today that maybe the protesters would like to have seen disappearing say 6 months ago or 3 months ago or most of the people they want to see disappear in the military component of what is going to be the transitional authority and. definitely they would want to see mohammed done duggal oh the man known as i mean he the 2nd in command of the transitional military council and most probably his going to be one of the generals joining these hybrid transitional or 40. there are many others but again it is

agreed upon that no one from the al bashir era is going to be joining and then again pulls 5 generals as well as the 6 civilians who will be part of the top organ of this transitional authority the sovereign council will not be allowed to run in elections in about 3 years time thank you so much. a conditional cease fire is in place in the northwest of syria after a week of intensifying airstrikes on the province of idlib the truce was brokered during peace talks in cassocks stan the opposition says it will stick to the deal as long as the government doesn't violate its under simmons is in norse all time. in accordance with a communique that didn't use the word ceasefire syrian state media had already announced a conditional truce demanding of the withdrawal of weaponry from a buffer zone in italy. the syrian government blames the turkish for not fulfilling

their role in the so she agreement last year. had been a muslim you term this has not materialized on the contrary the number of terrorists in and lead has increased namely foreign fighter terrorists in and leave . the opposition despite reservations agreed to a truce but accused the regime of violating the sushi agreement taking advantage of a withdrawal of fighters so they could launch what it called their cunning criminal attacks and their spokesman gave this warning. right now there is no trust and there will be no trust in the future when it comes with during the heavy weapons no heavy weapons will be withdrawn unless they're all written guarantee. but russia says the biggest fighting group brands as terrorists. h.t.s. must be eliminated turkey has an obligation according to such a memorandum to do it if they cannot do it alone can render them some help from us

. that's why we're talked also today with the opposition that if they are interested and if they need some help also from the russian federation to fight here and other rebels and in a glib zone then they can count we can do it no one could measure the depth of distrust between the warring sides after more than 8 years of war hundreds of thousands dead moment 10000000 people displaced then there's the differences between the guarantors of these talks iran and russia on one side turkey on the other each with their differing interests. nevertheless for so many traumatized civilians there's hope of some risk by from the bombing but no one needs reminding that deals done by leaders in high places have let the people of syria down so many times andrew simmons al-jazeera nursultan kazakstan. al-jazeera is

in a holder is in kilis on the turkey syria border she has this update. the ceasefire seems to be holding there are no reports of russian and syrian airstrikes targeting rebel controlled towns in southern adlib and northern how many are no reports of fighting along the front lines we've been in contact with syrians living in those rebel controlled towns towns like no man a horn that were repeatedly targeted over the past 3 months there is a feeling of relief but caution at the same time people do not trust the syrian government they believe that this is just a short term arrangement and it's just a matter of time before the bombing resumes that this is a conditional cease fire and the pressure is on turkey to fulfill its commitments under these such a memorandum this is what russia has been pressuring turkey to do for some time now that such a memorandum calls for the creation of a demilitarized zone that is supposed to ring the southern province of the southern

excuse me the southern edges of the province of idlib it's supposed to be free of weapons free of fighters turkey was not able to create these demille or to rise on because groups like it a sham which many in the international community believe is still linked to al qaida refused to leave the area now it's not clear how long turkey has to implement this agreement the russian reconciliation center in syria is mentioning a 24 hour deadline we haven't been able to confirm whether are not there is the 24 hour deadline but definitely it will be difficult for turkey to achieve the creation of a zone in just a few hours especially since h.t.s. high up that leadership and other opposition groups have not declared their willingness to leave this demilitarized zone measures to detect in the democratic republic of congo may only be identifying home of.