with. a 2 year sentence following a corruption trial for former strongman these are all model bashir causing controversy in sudan. some of 6 them chilling with all of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. anger spreads across india against the citizenship law that discriminates against muslims. climate talks are a dead loss in madrid as several countries are accused of tracking their feet. and we'll tell you why plans for a massive new train system in mexico could derail indigenous communities.

warm welcome to the program the corruption trial of sudan's deposed president has ended in a guilty verdict all my album was sentenced to 2 years for illegally possessing and smuggling foreign currency the judge said the 75 year old will serve his sentence in a reform center because of his age the courtroom in the capital cotton descended into chaos when the verdict was read out al-jazeera is head of morgan is in khartoum and she says the judge on the case went out of his way to make a particular point. well the judge 1st of all outlined the charges against him and the actions that will be taken once those verdicts are issued if he's found guilty and he did indeed issue a guilty verdict against the former president i'm going to share but before issuing that verdict he mentioned. that that is the name of a young man who was charged for illegal possession off foreign currency. in 1989 by

bush's government when he came to power no opponent mentioning the need to bush's defense team accused the judge of being biased and a basically meaning towards the forces of freedom and change core mission that is the coalition that has been leading anti-government protests that eventually led to the ousting of all president obama it was shoes but they were not people only ones angry on both sides provence here and to bashir there is an anger to be felt on the streets progress here are supporters came out demonstrating saying that the judge has been biased that the trial is a sham and that they also condemned the transitional government for dismantling the former ruling party 2 weeks ago meanwhile and came out after bashir protesters came out saying that this is not another thing that's that he should be charged for other crimes and even in this corruption trial he should be charged with he should be sentenced with a harsher verdict. well while sas it is trial was about corruption and illegal possession of foreign funds bashir also faces additional charges in 2009 the

international criminal court charged him with 2 counts of war crimes and 5 counts of crimes against humanity that was for his role in the war in darfur which started in 2003 not least 300000 people were killed and another 3000000 displaced a year later the same court in the hague brought 3 counts of genocide also relating to darfur and then in may this year after he was deposed sudan's public prosecutor charged him with inciting and participating in the killing protesters activists say at least 100 people were killed and then in november he and several of his aides were charged for planning and carrying out the 1989 coup the brought him to power well who is the founder and president of the sudan policy forum that's a working group that focuses on policy oriented reform in sudan he says fundamental changes need to be made to the constitution before meaningful change can happen. this verdict has only added insult to injury if you look at the whole

situation. overall what i think he has committed yes there are trials coming but obviously the direction of things is telling us that it's not what needs to be a t.v. but the data action in which things are heading is is not is not giving us that light signal there are there are constitutional issues as well as political issues if if we go back to the whole constitution of the document we realize that the whole issue of legal reform was completely left out and we don't know if this was done intentionally by. the other lady who was helping him. or an intuition and i think it's more like of more lack of intellectual incompetence than it is an intentional mistake.

anger over a controversial citizenship laws brought thousands of people onto the streets of india's capital new delhi a rally has been organized by the main opposition congress party the new law allows minority religious groups from neighboring countries to apply for citizenship but it excludes muslim so hill raman explains. they gathered across the capital and other states into their message loud and clear the citizen amendment at all to see a as its note has to go the president of india gave his assent to the cia on thursday the controversial law allows citizenship to be granted to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but the opposition says it discriminates on religious grounds and goes against india's secular constitution this bill is undermining our language and culture and i didn't deal in the northeast. we have come here to save

the constitution one of india's opposition leaders described the bill as dangerous . prime minister narendra modi and home minister don't care this citizenship amendment bill they brought in recently will shuttle the soul of india what is happening in assam and the northeast states of the country. in the days leading to the new law being approved protests erupted across the country the most violent in the state of a sob in the northeast several people killed a car set on fire and government buildings attacked. political leaders in the states of carola punjab and west bank said publicly they would implement the law leading to a potential conflict with new delhi. it is the beginning of something very personal for us you know you 1st put a star then you put people to a ghetto then you finally pick them to then point out this unfortunately could be the beginning of what could result in. disenfranchisement of

a very significant population in india oh i don't know. the numbers here may present the indian prime minister didn't remotely with his biggest challenge since august the 5th when he stripped indian administered kashmir the only state in india to have a population of its autonomy that in november his government won a historic court battle between hindus and muslims ownership of a disputed religious site i tell you with a potential and now this the see a muslims are the only ones that the law also provides inducement tumbles. that's provided from gaining citizenship critics say secular protections ingrained in the indian constitution are now under threat and it seems that a long political social and cultural fight is on the cards for prime minister the interim o.t. and the indian government so robin al jazeera new delhi. un climate talks are continuing into the weekend in spain after negotiations failed to agree on major

points it is a been deadlocked over emissions reduction targets and how much money poorer countries should receive to cope with the image of climate the impact of climate change that talks of the cold 25 summit in madrid were due to wrap on friday our environment edison a clock is at a conference and explains why n.g.o.s are not happy with the text coming from delegates. well when you get to this point of the conference after 2 weeks and they go see asians it's all about wording and vocabulary and it sure applies this time right now remember this conference is all about nations coming here and being prepared to in homes their ambitions sharing and willing to enhance their ambitions for next year's conference in glasgow when the parents really really kicks in so last night's there was a draft text issued it wasn't perceived to be strong enough it was felt that the united states and brazil in japan had watered it down too much so they go chasing teams are sent back to the drawing board they worked at it all night and enough the text was produce 8 o'clock this morning but again it wasn't enough because it only

called for nations to offer to in holland's commitments to reduce carbon emissions as opposed to calling for them to reduce carbon emissions this is a very small issue semantics but that has enraged the ngos if they've said it's completely unfair it's unjust it's immoral it's pouring petrol on the fire of more in the environment you can watch our show panic s.o.s. here on the right in 25 minutes time a 730 g m t. file incentives share and other neighboring countries in the sahara wage and has forced mali to launch a national debate aimed at finding a solution mali's lost control over large parts of its borders while its military suffers repeated ambushes by armed groups hundreds of soldiers have been killed in the region in recent weeks despite a french led operation with lee general military to cam to those attacks well in one incident 71 soldiers were killed in an attack on an army base in the share on

tuesday the president mamadou issue who awarded them the cost of coverage the government also declared 3 days of mourning to commemorate the deadliest assault on this year's military in living memory and i saw a link group claimed responsibility for the attack on the remote base in him that's his that's close to the molly border. this is a man that is i have come here to express my feeling of revulsion on behalf of all my compatriots in the face of the war imposed on us by an enemy who has addressed us with nothing but aggression in a violent and treacherous manner this enemy took 71 of the nation's valorous children. well the hell with forests of the vast area covering western and central africa the military is a 5 countries in that region mauritania mali. and chad make up the sahara 5 joined force it aims to maintain regional control against the. clock with idris is in mali's capital bamako he says on groups are not represented at the summit. where

basically officially the talks are under way after the been declared open by president because. the puppets of peace was to bring. all functions. together to talk about peace rather than fighting each other and that organizers of the summit believe will pave the way for a united front to take to what some of the shows described as external aggression remember the north of the country is still volatile and that is violence in the center of the country due to ethnic violence now the tory rebellion in the north east still simmering as we speak now some of the armed groups. causing trouble in mali are actually not represented at the opening ceremony but the organizers hope that the message or the resolutions of the conference will reach them so that they can lay down their arms and peace is achieved in mali but looking at the wider context the whole region is actually burning they sent up to us in most of the

countries of the cell in all west african countries affected by boko haram so experts are warning that in the next few months we may still see rising violence in this region whether or not the summit in mali is able to deal with the problem in the north of the country in other parts of the country it's a matter of time. still ahead here on al-jazeera di conditions we meet the syrians struggling after barely escaping the last rebel held province. thousands packed into rome city center can the saudi king movement push back against its lease far right meter all that more when we come back. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast or here across much of

the levant it is going to be a messy scenario now not looking too bad as we begin but a lot of the clouds are going to be coming out of the north and moving quite rapidly coming down towards the south baghdad it is going to be a partly cloudy day 20 here on sunday but notice as we go towards monday we do have a developing system across much of southern iraq that is going to draw in the moisture bring a lot of rain showers as well across much of the area kuwait city they expect to see some thunderstorms by the time we get towards monday with the temps if you of $21.00 degrees now that same system will be affecting us here in doha clouds are going to be the prominent feature here as we go towards sunday expect to see thunderstorms in the afternoon but by the time we do get towards monday and into tuesday things will be improving so here's a 3 day forecast watching those storms coming into place sunday night and into monday and tuesday temptress about $24.00 that's average for this time of year but we do expect to see more sun in the forecast and then very quickly across parts of southern africa not look too bad for cape town over towards durban though in

johannesburg we have seen some clouds pushing through we do expect to see more clouds there in durban at about 24 degrees but for cape town expect to see some windy conditions with attempt a few of about 20 degrees. our planet is warming as never before with profound consequences for all life on earth but the world's leading scientists say that is still time to act planet s.o.s. sets out the facts on the science behind the issues affecting our planet and brings you what people across the globe are doing to turn the crisis around planet earth on al-jazeera.

you are watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of our top stories this hour sudan's former president omar al bashir has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in a reform center trial centered around suitcases found in his hall filled with notes of different currencies who are worth more than a $130000000.00 students in the northeastern indian state of asmer on hunger strike in protest against a new citizenship law it allows 6 minority religious groups from neighboring countries to apply for citizenship but it excludes museums anger over the law has led to protests across india. u.n. climate talks remain dead lots of the cop 25 summit in madrid he does remain at loggerheads on emissions reduction targets and how much money poorer countries should receive to cope with the impact of climate change. tens of thousands of

supporters of the so-called siding movement of filling the center of room to rally against italy's far right be there is the latest protest against former its former deputy prime minister of material south and his populist politics what abdul hamid is and will wear the protests are taking place she says the sardine rallies have quickly become fire only. i think even the founders of this movement have been taken by surprise about how quickly their message really spread across italy and how much it resonated amongst so many italians for additional people from the left who have been voting for leftist parties and who maybe now do feel that they're not very much for presented at this particular time especially that they feel that the traditional left the studies are not very strong when it comes to countering the laws of the fire right and targeting specifically one person. who is the leader of

the. leak already but he was also deputy minister of interior minister in this country just a few months ago. by the looks of it but what we witnessed the whole afternoon surgeon is a lot of people are here a lot of people hoping that you know there is some sort of political renewal here in italy especially that this landscape that has been dominated by the right over the past few years will now have an overture to the left out the issue is where the movement go from here will they be turning to a political party what is the next step what is the strategy that is something that is not clear to anyone you speak to but the message in itself is something that many in braced. britain's prime minister boris johnson has visited areas of northern england the back to his conservative party for the very 1st time after decades of continuous support for the opposition labor party johnson's party was

swept back into power in thursday's election with a large majority he visited said feel that's a constituency he this be held by former prime minister tony blair of the labor party here he promised people that his government would deliver. we are the servants now we are the servants you know as our job is to serve the people of this country and to deliver on all our priorities and they're proud of our proteins in their approaches are the search for their cause that getting wrecked but it is also delivering on our national health service our education so it was streets better hospitals a better future for our country that is what we are going to deliver where paul brennan has been following the election in london he says boris johnson's visit to northern england is important because he wants to prove that he can be a one nation conservative prime minister. certainly i think it was important for boris johnson to go to the northeast it was the cradle of all of the conservative revival in this 29000 election and i think it's also important because of what

boris johnson is now saying to those northern seats which chose to move away from labor and go to war to the conservatives and he wants to say that he can be a one nation prime minister one nation conservative prime minister not just governing for the bankers and for the metropolitan elites but also for those working class northern towns which he admits perhaps their hand would have wavered their pencils wavering over the ballot paper before they choose chose to move from able to conservative and now he has to show that the trust was not misplaced that was a phrase that he's been using several times since the early hours of friday morning that the trust will not be betrayed that he will govern in the best interests nevertheless you know it's going to be a tall order because he is going to have to balance the kind of desires and requirements of those constituencies better public services for example the bus services not traditionally things that the conservative party are seen to deliver

from a public set from a public sense well johnson's election victory will have major implications for the future of the united kingdom particularly in northern ireland and sonia gago reports from belfast whatever brics that deal is done will affect the relationship with our land which remains in the european union and a warning this report contains flash photography. the u.k.'s election results have marked a historic change for irish nationalists never before have their representatives been elected to parliament in westminster in such numbers overtaking the unionists in an unprecedented outcome. for an election born of breck's it most believed northern ireland was always going to vote against prime minister boris johnson's mantra of get breck's it done this is largely remain country even for the brics it supported minority johnson's withdrawal deal that would place an economic border in

the irish sea has angered many pro british unionists here fearful of irish nationalism many now believe northern ireland's identity is being sacrificed for an english cause they are concerned very very concerned because the demand for the norm on it is already seeing a shift towards more people who identify as nationalists compared to us i think they're also very very upset very very annoyed with them because it for them he did people say throw them under the bus at the last in order to get his deal he sacrificed the peace concerns on the altar of getting a deal so that he can to this election with a deal in the bag and sapir to deliver bricks or bricks that isn't a potential collision course with the delicate fabric of northern irish society and maintaining a borderless crossing between the north and the south is crucial to keeping stability where according to the good friday agreement. for decades since the 1960

s. protestant unionists and the mostly catholic nationalists were at war with each other but the good friday agreement in 1999 bought an end to that underpinning that was the removal of border infrastructure allowing people and goods from the north and south to travel freely between the 2 for unionists brix it has ushered in fears that the province could be permanently bound with the irish republic further removing it from britain adding to this the northern irish assembly hasn't sat for almost 3 years following a political crisis but with breaks it now a clear u.k. policy talks between its. parties are due to be held on one day to try to restore the power sharing government and with more power now in the hands of the nationalists they could also lead to a new push for a united ireland so a new variable urges era belfast north korea's armed forces are warning the u.s.

to refrain from any provocations if it wants to see a peaceful new year he did kim jong un has seen the 2nd weapons test within a week and a rocket test site state media says the aim is to boost defenses against new u.s. nuclear threats north korea's given donald trump a year end deadline to drop demands for the unilateral denuclearization of the korean peninsula the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack in afghanistan the events ministry says 9 soldiers were killed on friday it happened in the care about district of gaza a province several other attacks were also carried out there. bombardment of a blimp province by the syrian army artillery and russian air strikes is displacing many people syrians who fled their homes in the last remaining rebel held areas described the offensive as indiscriminate michelle says in homes and hospitals how minute 0 has their story. on his family fled aleppo which was serious

largest city and commercial capital 6 years ago now they've been forced to escape again this time from the promise syria's last remaining stronghold has been bombarded by is to live fire and russian as strikes. we thought we were safe this time and we didn't have to flee again and then suddenly the bombs started falling we just escaped to save our souls the latest sort of freak is the house on a makeshift company of the tuckers border now they're in relative safety his wife would need a ton tension to the rest of us from. all our assets our family is not together some are in lebanon while some escaped by boat to germany and norway those in lebanon are suffering they have to renew their papers and the government keeps on turning them down their electively will run comes near the turkish border so the new display such as the will how we end family false will settle in unofficial comes with a deliveries few and far between the rain and cold weather is making life was for

the displaced in the nearby killing comrade the situation at the camp is miserable it's beyond description it rains throughout the night and floods the teen's water is also getting into the teens from the roof which means beating and blankets are all soaked and the winter is setting in temperatures dropping to below 0 and pretty long periods of snow expected last winter at least $29.00 children a newborn babies died in subzero temperatures of the fleeing from villages in isn't syria controlled by i still fight is many here are dreading a repeat of the extremely cold war with mohamed atta while just stumble. well asia's prime minister says u.s. sanctions on iran violate international law speaking of the doha forum here in qatar mahathir mohamad says that they've led to malaysia losing access to their indian market washington reimpose the measures on tehran after withdrawing from the

2015 nuclear deal malaysia and many others lost a big market when the us asian is a ploy a gives iran malaysia to not support that the imposition of the e.u. new lead to satan by the us to give iran says they clearly violate the united nations charter and international law. libya's foreign minister is also attending the doha forum and earlier he told al-jazeera that the un backed government will never allow a warlord how the 4 half hour to take the capital after announced a new offensive to capture tripoli on thursday has been renewed clashes with his forces near tripoli airport in recent days the power when. qatar is still trying to accelerate its steps to invade tripoli our troops supporting the government of national accord will never enable him to do so we are firm on the

ground and the main objective is to protect the civilians tripoli with its 3000000 citizens is the capital city for all libyans and this is the reason behind our main goal which is to protect the civilians and prevent how tough from entering tripoli . the u.s. and china have and as the interim trade agreement the trumpet ministration called off a new round of tyrus that was due to start on sunday and will instead produce levies in return china's agreed to buy more american farm products and ease rules on u.s. companies accessing its markets. the mexican government is moving closer towards the launch of a multi-billion dollar rail system critics however warn of the potential negative effects the projects could have on indigenous communities and on kilometers of pristine tropical jungle. appollo has the story. southern mexico is world famous for ancient archaeological sites like by link it and. once the cradle of the mayan empire today southern mexico is considered one of the most

poverty stricken regions in the country now mexican president under this manuel lopez obrador has proposed lifting indigenous communities here out of extreme poverty it involves the construction of a railway cold but in my or my untrained intended to increase investment and create thousands of tourism related jobs putting a town in the state of competitive indigenous farmers like him no myleene lopez are skeptical but this is that to me this land is invaluable for one it's my fault as inheritance if this poorly named mayan train arrives i would feel invaded i would feel my space has been occupied because of a time if other people come they will want to displace us. much of this region remains a vast wilderness were ancient mayan ruins can be found scattered across the landscape and many here worry what it might mean for a railway to cut through more than 1500 kilometers of tropical jungle and the moment everyone talks about global warming and how we have to take care of trees and plant more trees will this mine train project will destroy many trees and bring

me my tourists more tourists means more garbage and more consumption of water that we don't even have today the president has consistently defended his proposal saying that any potential negative impacts resulting from the project will be minimal the bridge at this point portend this project is important and will not affect them violent or collage on the contrary what we want is for the people to learn about the great artistic and cultural interrupt of the city and to create jobs through to the. mexican president is over the order says that a final decision on construction of the mine train will ultimately depend on a regional referendum insisting that it will be the poorest communities who stand to benefit the most from the 7400000000 dollar railway project indigenous representatives from the 6 mexican states where the rail line will traverse say they haven't been given enough information from the government to make an educated decision. we have to be shown specific and clear studies of where the

archaeological zones are we cannot say this project is good or bad we have to analyze the mexican government says construction of the mine train will take 4 years and help bring hundreds of thousands of jobs to one of the country's most overlooked regions. mexico city. this is al jazeera and these are current top stories the corruption trial of sudan's deposed president has ended in a guilty verdict omar al bashir was sentenced to 2 years for illegally possessing foreign currency the courtroom in the capital caught in chaos when the verdict was read out the case centered around suitcases found in his home filled with foreign currency valued at more than a $130000000.00. students in the northeastern indian state of a some are on hunger strike in protest against

a new system chip law that allows 6 minority religious groups from neighboring countries to apply for citizenship but it excludes muslims u.n. climate talks are continuing into the weekend and spade after negotiators failed to agree on major points leaders have been deadlocks over emissions reduction targets and how much money poor a country should receive to cope with the impacts of climate change talks of the cope $25.00 summit in madrid want you to wrap up on friday britain's prime minister boris johnson visited areas in northern england the backed his conservative party for the very 1st time after decades of supporting the opposition labor party johnson's party was swept back into power in thursday's election with a large majority of conservative spent some of the regions of northern england that were until then consider strongholds of the labor party we are the servants know we are the servants you know as our job is to serve the people of this country and

to deliver on all our priorities are their program approaches and their approaches are that's right there goes that getting wrecked but it is also delivering on our national health service already cochon sacred streets better hospitals a better future for our country that is what we are going to deliver north korea's warning the u.s. to refrain from any provocations if it wants to see a peaceful new year he to kim jong un has seen the 2nd weapons test within a week at a rocket test site state media says the aim is to boost defenses against u.s. nuclear threats. yup today those are the headlines the news continues here on out is here after planet x. 00 s. we will see in a timothy sally. nowlan

next well bringing you the planets as well as from madrid in spain for the u.n. climate talks with thousands of politicians and then to casey aging teams trying to agree on how to deal with the pressing issues of climate change. principally altering the question how to cut greenhouse gas emissions and how to do it radically and fairly what assess what's been achieved and we'll look ahead to next year which is when the paris agreement that all nations signed up to 4 years ago kicks in. and we'll all see how much value there really is a huge cult.