newly appointed prime minister abdullah chose south sudan's capital juba as his 1st foreign visit accompanied by 4 ministers from his cabinet he met his hosts south sudan's president salva kiir to mark the start of a scheduled 2 day visit. leave after i have been sworn in that my friends visit will be talking about here today. looking for a very strategic. distinguished relationship between the 2 nations. while him took health talks with his host his ministers met their style sudanese counterparts topping the talks were economic and trade ties south sudan seceded in 2011 with most of sudan's oil facilities they once brought in more than 60 percent of the country's revenues but sudan's pipelines and ports are needed to export south sudan's oil the 2 also share the longest land border in africa and parts are yet to be formally demarcated more than 80 years after south sudan's

independence that's caused tensions in the past and was discussed in the talks we have discussed many bilateral issues concerning outstanding issues in the peace agreement not the reason one but the comprehensive peace agreement where the issues of borders issues of operations issues of economic and political issues seem to be discussed and those weren't the only things brought up over the discussion table the prime minister has repeatedly stated he aims to achieve peace in conflict areas within the 1st 6 months of the transitional period on wednesday a coalition of sudanese armed group signed an agreement to start talks with the sudanese government mediated by south sudan on thursday how much with those groups to see how he can achieve what he terms as his top priority the armed groups have expressed reservations to and some outright projections of. the agreement signed

last month that led to the creation of a transitional government in sudan and while they have agreed to talks to end conflicts they see achieving that will not come easy one of those telling us. whether the current government in khartoum. the ability to overcome the. difficult. because. that has been designed by the beacon signal text in a way that a lot of difficulties for the peace process the voice mostly. is only starting his job as prime minister but the country has been marred by conflicts and a troubled economy and it seems that he's looking to sudan for the neighbor to help find some solutions for the challenges he faces he will morgan on to 0 juba. sudan has been plagued by various conflicts over the last 16 years after decades of bloody war with khartoum a south sudan split from the north in 2011 but just 2 years later it plunged into

its own internal conflict between rival ethnic groups over control of the new oil rich country the blue nile and south kordofan regions fought alongside the south for independence but then they were left north of the border after the split and have continued their own insurgency against the sudanese government the country's longest conflict has been in its remote western region of dollar for rebels there have waged a long war over marginalization accusing the government of oppressing the non arab population this week in south sudan's capital the revolutionary front that's an umbrella organization representing all the armed groups fighting khartoum agreed a road map for peace talks with the government to begin next month. well david hoyle is the rector of the africa research center and he joins us now from great at the mill in essex here in england sir thank you so much for joining us here on

al-jazeera will sudan's new prime minister doc when he arrived in south sudan already said the sky was the limit for ties between the former foes what do you make of that optimism if we can call it that and how important do you think the momentum in a sense that we're seeing in sudan could be when it comes to sorting out a lot of the issues within sudan and of course within south sudan. well that is a very optimistic approach. i think any any attempt any movement to deescalate the the tensions and conflicts actually between sudan and south sudan you know must be must be welcomed. there has been very bitter a. number of years of of conflict shooting that the 2 countries and to an extent also continued off to the independence of saw sudan and in 2011 and the reality has been

that both countries have been harboring rebel groups of the opposite country in in their own territories south sudan has been harboring rebel movements actually from darfur and south kordofan and bruno and. a number of the rebel movements will militias in south sudan have also from time to time being be harbored in the in the north what's now actually sit down and itself so any attempt any any movement to actually close that gap i think has to be welcomed and of course is a very very important issue for the new the new regime and in khartoum it's actually very much a untested government it's in its very early days of attempting to govern which is always a difficult thing in in khartoum. and yet they've really put this front and center of their agenda. saying you know trying to achieve peace is one of their main main aims and want to try to achieve it within the 1st 6 months of the

39 month transitional period i mean ultimately do you think that even if it's just the symbolism of the fact that there is a different regime main charge in khartoum you think that that might be enough to properly move things forward. i think it's a very welcome move absolutely right the difficulty is that it's as mentioned a very untested new government in in khartoum and i think. this is a a very clear history of peace agreements not being on it in the north and in force your see in the west now south sudan and some of the rebel movements have actually used peace talks and peace agreements as a continuation of conflicts in effect the other sad thing of course is that there have been a number of groups you haven't been party to that that process. insaaf

sudan. links into that also of course you know the fact that there are a number of forces sort of city regionally and actually within countries who who. are carrying on with the process of destabilization within the country so you know it's actually a very welcome move but there are many many problems ahead i'm afraid david hall director of the africa research several joining us from 6 in england sir thank you for sharing your views with us thank you. dozens of people are feared dead in the democratic republic of congo after a train derailed in the eastern province of tanganyika estimates of the number killed vary from 10 to 50 because the freight train was carrying illegal passengers at the time of the crash coming up on the news hour from london. but.

this time he got really upset because of the tactical. russian security forces carry out mass raids on the homes and offices of people linked to the opposition leader and let me joe biden prepares to go head to head with bernie sanders and for the 1st time elizabeth warren in the latest debate between the democrats trying to snatch the white house from donald trump and in sport it's gone from bad to worse for the usa at the basketball world cup will be here with that story. but. now there is some relief for the embattled british prime minister boris johnson a court in northern ireland has ruled that leaving the european union with no deal would not undermine the region's 1998 peace process but johnson has been forced to deny lying to the queen about his reasons for the current 5 week suspension of

parliament and with exactly 7 weeks until the shed breck's it date the e.u.'s chief negotiator says there's no sign of any workable proposal for a deal jonah hole has the latest. piece of being forced into recess but football is johnson the battle has shifted to the courts judges in northern ireland have joined those in england in declining to rule the prohibition of parliament illegal but scottish judges on wednesday said johnson's advice to the queen to suspend parliament had been unlawful and motivated by a desire to my. mazel parliament did you lie to the queen when you advised her to provoke to suspend parliament absolutely not. and indeed i say that the high court in england plainly agrees with us but the supreme court will have to decide opposition m.p.'s meanwhile a clamoring to return to work after succeeding in forcing the government to release

its internal operation yellow hammer report it contains worst case scenario predictions for a no deal breaks it clogged up ports fresh food and medicine shortages price rises and civil unrest but of course no house of commons to scrutinise its findings that's why you know that's why i was so angry that parliament was perot's because i should be in parliament at the moment with the ability to interrogate the prime minister and ministers now approach we can do that and the prime minister again this is a worst case scenario which civil servants obviously have to prepare for but in the last few months particularly in the 50 days since i've been prime minister we'd be massively accelerating our preparations boris johnson says a no deal breaks it is not his desired outcome he says he's doing everything he can to reach a new deal with the european union at an october leaders summit just

a few days after parliament is due to return. no mention of the new law requiring johnson to seek a break city extension if no new deal emerges nor any detail on water a new deal may look like and again no parliament to ask any questions it's all pretty b. will during when viewed from brussels i think that is all plan is to take the u.k. out of the european union without any deal but busy at the same time being in a position to blame the european union for inflexibility all eyes on the supreme court next week then with the government in the meantime giving its very best impression of being entirely unmoved jonah how al-jazeera london. russian security forces have carried out mass raids on the homes and offices of opposition figures such as were carried out in more than 40 cities and towns targeting associates of prominent kremlin critic. the authorities say the crackdown is part of a criminal money laundering investigation set fast and has more now from moscow.

the scale of the rate is unprecedented in more than 40 cities across russia officers slain to the country's main opposition figure alexina folly was searched and employees detained like here in st petersburg and you've got to remember documents and a u.s.b. drive for confiscated this is when it was proposed that my daughter called me and said the police came to search the apartment actually they cheated their way into the apartment because she opened the door for a neighbor to novell me it is clear they raise our president putin's revenge for the loss of the ruling party in sunday's elections but. this time he got really upset because of the tactical voting as his offspring his sweet child i would say the united russia party has been busted in moscow and seriously beaten in the regions after opposition candidates were banned from

running in the elections tens of thousands took to the streets in the largest protest in russia in years when the ban remained in place and i found he called for a so-called smart vote against united russia his strategy worked in moscow with the ruling party lost one 3rd of its seats mainly to the communist party 4 years alexina filename has been the subject of investigations and the tensions the most vocal critic of florida may put in has spent hundreds of days in prison in the last 8 years but never before he managed to hit united russia and indirectly with him as hard as last sunday now vali says he won't give up but looking at the rates today he could be facing some difficult times ahead that fasten al-jazeera. 145 chief executives from some of america's best known companies have signed a letter demanding government action to address gun violence in the united states in the letter the c.e.o.'s including the heads of twitter and goober urge senate

leaders to support gun laws already passed by the democratically led house of representatives it says doing nothing about gun gun violence is simply unacceptable . and the 10 u.s. democratic party presidential hopefuls leading in the polls are preparing to go head to head in houston texas in just a couple of hours the 3rd primary debate will be the 1st time the front runners joe biden and this both warren and bernie sanders hash the stage while previous debates saw a total of 20 candidates face off this time it's been limited to just 10. program is in use it and joins us from there now so the numbers will be a little bit different but does that mean that this debate could be a lot more significant than the previous ones. well it could be barbara because of some of the reasons that you mentioned namely that front runner for former vice

president joe biden is now on stage with his main rivals all of the same time including senator elizabeth warren no elizabeth warren has not been sharing the stage with biden before a biden is still riding high above the other candidates by fairly significant numbers a he was attacked very strongly in one of the previous debates by senator campbell harris over his past positions on bussing as a tool for school desegregation in the 1970 s. and eighty's but that didn't have much of a in effect and in fact hamil harris is poll numbers started to drop so we'll see whether whether warren and perhaps bernie sanders team up as the left wing candidates in this race to try and take a chunk out of biden and of course we will also be hearing. the democrats talk about their policy priorities including expanding health care reducing gun violence over overhauling the immigration system in the criminal justice system and much

more as you were just mentioning joe biden has endured of some attacks obviously in past weeks over the past positions and also some gaffes on his part. and yet he remains in the lead what explains is your ability to think. well i think that in large part it's simply his written name recognition of course he was 8 years as president obama's number 2 right hand man some would call him obama's wing man so that conjures up some very fond memories among the democratic electorate of the obama administration he is seen as well as the one candidate who can reliably reach out to voters in states like wisconsin and michigan states that went to president trump in 2016 by

a very narrow margins and that is really the key factor here because you'll hear a lot tonight about gun control about health care about a lot of other issues but poll after poll shows that the main concern the overriding number one issue for democrats in the 210-2020 is to defeat donald trump and drive him out of the white house and many democrats believe that joe biden is still the person best qualified to do that. reynolds with the latest there from houston texas rob thank you. lots more still to come this hour including a rout breaks out between robert mugabe's family and the zimbabwean government overshadowing the former leader is lying in state schools out for syria's school children as the struggle for survival in refugee camps sees education standards. and in sports will hear about the unlikely journey that's taken this call for to

the top of the women's game. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecast or here across parts of the iberian peninsula things are going to be looking much better than what they had been over the last few days we've been seeing a lot of rain across much of that area now friday will still be a rainy day across the area so flooding is still going to be a potential particular down towards the southern part of spain but watch what happens as we go from friday to saturday a lot of that rain begins to dissipate we're finally starting to see some better weather we did have a lot of flooding going on across much of the area there will be a few scattered showers across much of the region but nothing like what we saw from the beginning to the end of the week across much of that area with that stalled out area of low pressure across the region for the rest of europe it is going to be a little bit cooler appeared towards the northeast we have a front pushing through temperatures dropping into the high teens down towards the

south though we're into the thirty's low thirty's for many locations with rome seeing 30 degrees there bucharest at 30 a little bit cooler in athens with a temperature of 28 now we also saw a lot heavy rain here across the northwestern part of africa better conditions there but the temperature is on its way up in many locations so going to see algiers here starting the day at 29 degrees as your forecast high but by the time we go towards saturday temperatures are into the low thirty's tunis is going to see plenty of sun as well at $32.00 and over here towards tripoli we're going to see a northerly wind at $28.00.

some of. the stories generate thousands of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives and you hold to separate the spin from the facts. the misinformation from the journalism how careful must be your words but some tough stuff has to be said so some critics have to be a listening post on al-jazeera. a

reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. justice department says it will release the name of an individual sought by people who are suing the saudi government for alleged involvement in the september 11th attacks it follows intense lobbying efforts by the families of the victims the u.n. says more than 2000000 people face starvation in somalia after its driest rainy season in more than 3 decades it's calling on the world to act before it's too late and sudan's new prime minister and several armed groups are meeting in juba to formulate a roadmap for peace talks next on. the body of zimbabwe's late president robert mugabe has been lying in state at a stadium in harare a memorial service will be held on saturday but a route has broken out between mugabe's family and the government over where and when the he'll be buried her will toss of reports now from her either.

saying goodbye was too painful for some the body of roberts mugabe's above is form a lida lies in state at a far a stadium in the capital harare this is way he was sworn in as prime minister at independents in 108-0000 scan to pay their respects powered the with prince sultan loss of this a limb the film a rotten straight draw all who also were need to rained even to lord since i threw both found the the they was a stampede when some of the mourners try to jump the queue to viewable gardens body but most people waited patiently this is the only term though be allow to get this close and sake a bite is a bob is founded luda but there is still confusion of away mugabe will be buried some family members had made it clear they are still bitter at their way he was ousted from power by the army in $27.00 till that means the government's plan to

bury a month sunday might not happen the family says is body will be in zoom back his role the niche that day no we are north with innocent the burial and santi or what this supposed to africa sound the is that this supposed to food tree little of growth brings a for people with to me can pay their last respect until the disputed resolved regardless support a say they've come to say thank you to the man who liberated the country from white minority rule educated them and gate blaxxun bobby and land robert mugabe was a polarizing figure in lightning and in the slavery of the the mood is only a lord outside its complete or friends the stadium is i'm bad a township one of the oldest and poorest neighborhoods in harare like sever other places in the country many people don't have access to clean running water it was it is apply is erratic and is high and in planet time leg seen you

phil macgyver lease behind a legacy of disputed elections in trance corruption allegations of human rights abuses adoptions and disappearances of many opposition supporters in the early 1980 s. thousands were murdered in much bill and province for allegedly trying to remove him from power he called that period a moment of madness. right now $4000000.00 struggling economically just seems uncertain just like the location of mugabe's final resting place if established don't insist on a private funeral it's expected he will be buried at the here is it the same a tree in the capitol next his 1st wife sally who died in 1980 had. had. flooding has killed at least 57 people in the share months of heavy rain have destroyed homes and businesses in the west african state and this place tons of tens of thousands of people the country is still recovering from damage caused by

floods last year katia lopez hodder yan has won. entire streets in egypt's capital niamey are submerged heavy rain and floods proved too much for retaining walls or longer major river across the country more than 12000 homes have been destroyed those who refused to leave save what they can't. sandbags are filled to stop more water from flooding homes. a neighborhood watch keeps track of the river levels 24 hours a day but it will give or for a season people who lived along the river to prepare for the floods but many of us didn't know where we could go. more than 130000 people have been affected by the floods since june many displaced families are now living in schools but it's unclear how long they'll be allowed to stay they worry they won't have a home to go back to. some homes were flooded but haven't crumbled yet

and one day about 250 houses are totally demolished the rain keeps coming it will continue to destroy. crops have been destroyed and infrastructure damaged but the government says it can only offer a limited support. mountaineers are putting up tents for the displaced it's not meant as a long term solution for for those who've lost everything it's a lifeline congress. love. we're here to help build the tents and shelters for the victims of the floods these are people who had to flee the banks of the river so we just want to help our community. the country was already facing a crisis extreme weather has caused the food shortage in recent years violence linta buckle her arm has forced many from their homes more than 2000000 people are in need of humanitarian aid. the government says the worst of the rain is over with the threat to his population remains both from flooding and the ever present risk

of a cholera outbreak katia locus of the young al jazeera at least 4 soldiers have been killed and 3 others injured in a suicide bomb attack targeting an afghan special forces base in kabul a minibus laden with explosives was blown up at the entrance of the base in charge of district the taliban has claimed responsibility it's the 1st major attack since u.s. president of trump canceled the secret meeting with taliban leaders last week syrian government warplanes have bombed villages in the province breaking a cease fire that was agreed just 2 weeks ago rights groups say that raids have intensified in the west of it live in the past 2 days the region enjoyed a lull in violence after the syrian government and its ally russia declared a cease fire at the end of august that followed months of bombing which the u.n. says killed hundreds of people or for thousands of children their war

is all they know hundreds of schools have been damaged by the ongoing violence preventing them from starting their education but a one refugee camp in a live children are banding together to learn seen him kosik who has more. no schools and no playgrounds and for fatima and other children like her no break from hardship and deprivation. here in atlanta in this refugee camp for syrians displaced by the war there is no start to the school year but that's not stopping fatima and her sisters from helping each other to get some of the education they haue missed out on. that either but as soon as our never left when i 1st started school we had to leave because of the asteroids and shelling i studied till 4th grade then the regime attacked our village again and we moved and then i couldn't go to school i wish i had and could become a doctor or nurse we need them to treat people here. for many are syrians the war

is their main memory of childhood and it is one without schooling. that when i said i was too young i can remember anything i want to become a teacher so boys and girls can learn i want to build hospitals and houses for the poor in the displaced when the war started for was was 4 years old now he is 12 and is unable to read or write and says there is little chance to remedy that here should. look like about how can we learn something even to wash our hands we need to go out it's all modern and asked when we return home with duty we wish we we're not like other children and started calling we play under the trees we're surrounded by 4 walls over the past 4 months fighting in the airstrikes have displaced around half a 1000000 syrians across many come here and there are more than 200 schools in northwest syria for the children being used as shelters and standards of living

have dropped so low that every day survival is increasingly people's top priority the numbers solo al-jazeera. the venezuelan government says it's deployed more than 100000 troops along the border with colombia for military exercises and new tensions between the 2 countries. the has more now from. a show of military might for the rest of the continent to see many as again the ploy that its army along the border with colombia this week for war games increasing tensions between the 2 troubled nations but those studying millis well and military say this is mostly posturing for political effect from an increasingly unprofessional force well the venezuelan military a squad of politicized force right you are promoted because of loyalty to the government and its military professionalism must suffer drastically the pedro marsh

element is visible and the fact that they have 2000 generals that is more than all the countries of nato combined. meet has been researching been as well as armed forces in their relationship with their ally russia he says that when commodity prices were high the oil rich country bought some impressive pieces of equipment such as 2 dozen state of the art jets but received little training on how to use them you know if you look at the winners will navy on the mountain ninety's it used to be reasonably sized force with somewhat of balance equipment and now we know that if 6 frigates 3 have sunk the pier and the other 3 might be moralists immobilised as well. as roughly 120000 troops less than half of the colombian army with the reasonable number of armed vehicles but no aircraft carriers or destroyers the government says 2000000 citizens militias have

been armed and trained to protect the country a number nobody can confirm. and while. high level officials remain loyal to president maduro the number of soldiers as deserted this year in an actual war scenario what you would see is probably the colombian navy blockading when its will on ports with ready probably great effectiveness and then the question is when will be united states will. they are ready to defend their homeland from an invasion even if we're not being a key moment in the venezuela has people who defend it with ideas with words with politics with diplomacy and with weapons. colombia told its citizens to remain calm has been carrying out the military drills along the border while the united states and other countries and ways they called for the activation of

a regional mutual defense pact in case of an attack on colombia something few believe possible allison that i'm just you know what that. the government in the bahamas is dropped the number of people missing following hurricane dorian from 2 and a half 10021300 the count fell after government checks at evacuation centers you fishel death toll though currently stands at 50 and the authorities do still expect a vast number to rise significantly the united states has announced $4000000.00 in new humanitarian aid for the country. hong kong protesters of made singing in their latest active resistance in their campaign for democratic freedom the. thousands of people belted out glory to hong kong that a shopping mall adopting it as their new anthem the lyrics reflect the

demonstrators vowed not to surrender with more protests expected this weekend police say they've arrested more than 1300 people since the protests began in june .