announcer 1: on june 4, it will be 40 years since the chinese congress party sent armed troops into tiananmen square where pro-democracy students were peacefully protesting, calling for political reform. chinese soldiers killed hundreds, possibly thousands of people, mainly students. to this day, china does not commemorate what happened at tiananmen square. meanwhile, a state department spokeswoman is calling for those who have been jailed because of protests to be released. when we take you back to president george h.w. bush walked into the white house briefing room to announce the u.s. response to the killing of protesters in china. during the past few days, elements of the chinese army have been brutally suppressing popular and peaceful demonstrations in china. has been widespread and continuing violence, many casualties and deaths. we deplore the decision to use force and i now call on the chinese leadership publicly, as i have in private channels, to avoid violence and returned to their previous policy of restraint. the demonstrators into tiananmen square were advocating for basic human

>> i guess i would preface my comments by saying the congress party is not a party given to true and deep self-reflection and introspection. so the same questions we're giving about congress are the same questions from 2014, and they relate to two things, which is a deficit to leadership and a deficit of idealogy and sort of what is their affirmative vision? i'll begin by saying why i'm skeptical. i put the graph up there on the all-indian vote share, so there is still a base across the country, although in more limited pockets, around 10 to 20%, the population which still remains with the congress. but even beyond that, if you look sub-nationally, there are enough states in india present which are two-party states which feature bipolar competition between the congress and the bjp. so these are states like dagrad, like chechiska, several states where the congress actually did quite well in the reelection. so to the extent there is a subpoe suppository of votes, the congress is the only one that can explain that vulnerability. the congress is really the only other game in town. that in

the longest a stronghold of the opposition malawi congress party they say last month's presidential. the election was rigged and they've been robbed of their victory clashes have spread to the 3 main cities opposition groups vow to keep pressure on the government i want to join my audience because malawi is across this country are there they're angry and disappointed that a matter in which they in management of the election results were conducted and we want everyone involved in justice to resign and get out the opposition has filed a challenge to the election results with the colts and civil rights activists say the electoral commission has not dealt properly with more than 100 different election related complaints they demanding the dismissal of the electoral commission. we are not siding with anyone who wants a model wheels to help democracy model democracy i don't know if there was little i don't know are answers i could also model car my mother load how to load or am i going to do a little of why i want to live i thought why the entire united motherlode all who design where did

our massive row there but no money isn't alone in his mistrust of the government the opposition congress party has called the bill glass discrimination against muslims by the hindu nationalist government of prime minister narendra modi . others are more clearcut on what modi is doing the real purpose is to send a big political message to the hindu community especially the the poor in the main that we are fixing them slave man the muslim man has a certain image needed sexual jealousy towards a muslim man because he's allowed to marry more than one time he can very easily get out of a bad matters where is the man does not have these privileges. disloyal can't come in fast enough as a muslim woman who force tradition and religion to restore dignity she knows which side of the debate she's on. to neighboring pakistan next when one of its remotest regions a group of women is setting standards empowering themselves nestled within the karakoram mountains the horns of valley is known for its rugged beauty you may think gender empowerment is low on the priority list but things are beginning to change.

choose a successor to underway on this and that that requires a party congress such a party congress has originally been scheduled for later in the year it's now likely to be pushed forward in the year possibly during the summer already and once that congress has truth in the new leader the party can decide whether or not it's going to stay in this coalition under or not as was the leader of the party that very much promoted participation in this grand coalition she in a sense pushed her own party into this coalition with her gone all those factions in the party that want to leave the coalition want to be on the want to go into opposition likely to gain the upper hand and it seems very likely that by the end of the year this coalition will no longer be in existence but in the meantime as we look at the party itself the ask the board has just announced that an interim trio will leave the party tell us a little bit more about this decision and the impact that it might have on the national level. well what the party is trying to do at the moment is simply to kind of find its feet to res

by the sudan congress party and it was the crackdown on the protesters. no. no no. no. no no no no no. no no no. no no shouting that you're hearing that killing us they're killing us we have the right. how do you have talks. with the. military council that is responsible to doing that to protest us. actually. i don't think it will all and they. were. responsible. for. the use responsibly she. ringback appears. to want to. picture. it gave them. hope. so i want to show this week from josh lambert who says our research and he links to it here in this tweet suggests that when regimes feel threatened they often use violence to repress civilians in the capital the post-coup sudan regime is still feeling threatened even when nonviolent look for protests to be dealt with harshly and so of course is directing us to the violence that we just saw that left scores dead. your point of view what do you make of this idea that this regime is feeling threatened and that is why they acted out. well so let for me this big game is a continuation of a man and machine no one from the of pos

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the civilian rule it's all but the 30th anniversary of the fall the ruling party the national congress party which was established under former president on the issue to protest the part of the belief that that party has not gone away despite the military council saying that most of the members happened to smith and have been arrested they think that's the military council selves what are some of the former regime therefore the best system is still very much in place and they won best. there ought to be sending the country basically. on june 3rd on the 2nd point of contact closer to going on for 2 months. all right i'm here. i'm afraid i'm afraid we're going to have to move on because according to you the line was too bad but that was a bit more than giving us the very latest from juber in south sudan well. in this whole sudanese uprising has been really really important in driving it and in britain there is a demonstration taking place in london in support of what's going on in sudan itself our correspondents is there sanya. yes martine it began outside the sudanese embassy and made its way

don't know we uses the youth organization we've pushed for the evaluation of the coalition at our party congress in december so i think we need to pull that forward and do that earlier this year actually we need our party congress earlier than december we need to reelect and off the party board and we need that relation of the grand coalition really soon because honestly it's a grand coalition if we look at the polls if you look at the results of your projection is not a grand coalition anymore the people expect us to do more than what we're doing right now and i think it's just we're just not going to be able to fulfill what we need to do with conservatives what happens to the s.p.d. now because i mean your party is bleeding voters not only on the german level but also you know generally speaking on the european level as well and especially to the green party yes that's true because the climate change is the biggest win in topic at the moment and i think the social democracy was not able to push that topic as much as we would have needed to do that and to also make it a social question to clima

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without massive round about no money isn't alone in his mistrust of the government the opposition congress party has called the bill glass discrimination against muslims by the hindu nationalist government of prime minister narendra modi others are more clearcut on what moody's doing the real purpose is to send a big political message to the hindu community especially that we can do mean that we are fixing the muslim man the muslim man has a certain image need to. secure jealousy towards the muslim man because he's allowed to marry more than one time he can very easily get out of a bad marriage where is a man is not have these privileges. coming fast enough as a muslim woman who fought tradition and religion to restore dignity she knows which side of the debate she's on. and there it goes this was the moment that 20000 cubic meters of steel and concrete were demolished in genoa italy a series of controlled explosions ball the last 2 pillars of them are on the motorway bridge may remember that bridge collapsed without warning last august 43 people were killed the bridge is a key piece of infrastr

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listening this video is very disturbing it's very violent but it was taken on june 3rd by the sudan congress party and it was the crackdown on the protesters. no. no no. no. no no no no. no no shouting that you are hearing is that killing us they're killing us we have the right. how do you have talks. with the. military council but his response was to protest us. actually. i don't think they were all in there and they. were. those people responsible or. irresponsible she. ringback spoke or some of the military council appears yesterday. tried to monopolize ringback media and. her picture once. gave them. hope. so i want to share this with from josh lambert who says our research and he links to it here in this tweet suggests that when regimes feel threatened they often use violence to repress civilians in the capital the post-coup sudan regime is still feeling threatened even when nonviolent look for protests to be dealt with harshly and so of course is directing us to the violence that we just saw that left scores dead. your point of view what do you make of this idea that this regime is feeling t

mark de the sudan congress party is also in the coalition along with the influential communist party there's a 2nd block of 80 political parties called the national dialogue initiative they're seen as being allies of bashir and they've been rejected by the protesters right we can speak to. who is the representative of the sudanese professors association in london she's joining us on the phone thank you very much indeed for talking to us 1st of all give us your. assessment of what was going on in the last couple of hours in sudan. what's happening at the moment is another massacre in the city and in front of the army headquarters very concerned about the safety of the civilians we are aware at the moment that even doctors in the clinics are being set out. we there are a 100 casualties. you know unfortunately we have lost lives at the moment about 2 to 3 fourths of the. shooting to kill you know our civilians and that's not acceptable right now why do you think the our s s are there the rapid support for physical. units of the military why do you think it's decided to act today they ha

organized protests call elections on their own terms probably using the their hours in the national congress party which was part of this regime the big issue regime. and hold basically false elections and claim that they were supporting democracy. the only thing that the protesters didn't you were the opposition can do is to keep up the pressure of a general strike of protest not just in the 3 towns on demand khartoum you nor i didn't know the provinces as well in terms of the the argument that the military has which is about the transitional government and what its makeup should be and who should lead it it's they who should lead it that's the big issue here is it really an issue anymore because the 2 sides seem so polarized that there seems to be no middle ground that they can actually meet to discuss anything and certainly with what the military is saying now they said we have no intention of talking. well the current leadership of the military are hardliners like committee. and they clearly just want to stay in power there might be other people in the military who would prefer a. a broader co

who decide the election or how the election is run and of course the 2 hours with the national congress party or. skill are really no action so it won't be free and fair and won't represent anything other than cosmetic form of keeping the military regime in that service is the misnomers in our did do you see that the military itself clamping down even harder if the civil society movements continue their call for civil disobedience on a national scale and on a scale that will disrupt the general movements and makeup of sudan's daily life. well right now it seems that the deputy leader who's in charge of the rapid defense forces or loser a former gender we leader it looks as if he is ascendant in the military council and of course the former journey to weed the route of. support forces. were raised specifically to shoot and kill civilians. who are then in blue nile and the nuba mountains and now in khartoum they have no compunction about doing they have no connection with the civil society throughout sudan and as long as that faction of the military is in control that will be what they will be

is congress no longer operates as an independent branch. the president's party in congress is now an appendage of the negative branch, whether obama, trump, clinton, bush. ec members of that party protecting that president, trying to make sure that president is protected, because voters react that way, voting party, not person. minorityher hand, the hand of congress no longer sees itself as a minority shareholder. they tend to see themselves as the opposition party. the end result is the resident's party tends to under investigate, the opposition party over investigates, and this is evolving for 20 years. i think every president takes it to a new level. the end result is congress does not operate as an independent branch anymore. it is operating like a parliamentary system. host: i think the count is 20 some different investigations conducted by different house committees. this term, bipartisan legal advisory group, what is that? guest: we will find out. what the democrats are trying to do is build up some popular pressure for the investigations they are trying

period of a couple of months at least until before the social democrats can set up a special party congress to choose a new leader if they don't decide for instance to have the leader chosen by the rank and file which would be a new procedure for them so they're leaving very much i up and very much up in the air very much in the open open and basically that gives anglo american a little bit a little bit more time so did feel all 3 intelligent interim leaders of the s.p.d. address journalists today. yes they did address journalists but they were not really prepared to say anything particularly specific there is no question no indication of who the new leader mind be there is in fact no indication of how this new leader might be chosen there might possibly be even 2 leaders that would be chosen that would be appointed but leaving all that open they're basically playing for time and they're trying to see that possibly within the next couple of weeks and months they can sort of regroup group of party and maybe re strengthen the party i think in the end that is a vain hope but i think that's the

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handle or to civilian rule as well as the 30th anniversary of the former in fact even national congress party which so people saying that this protest has significance and what's that depicted of the military council that said about holding people accountable that's something they're not going to believe and they're saying that they want to independent investigation into the killings that have happened in the protests just remind us as well because we did speak to you before we heard from the deputy head of the transitional council there just the update on what you were hearing about protests in sudan and even one reported death. yes indeed i won't protest there have has been reports of death and the northeastern states of ribbon are not going to specifically and there have been protests there have been reports of violence against protesters in several other parts of the country such as that because of the way people are reporting that the police and the rapid support forces which is headed by the deputy head of the chance to speak council just told that they're using us under needs to their

nearly every member of congress in both parties operate a leadership pac. and the majority of the money they are spending aren't going toward the original intended purposes of contributions to political allies. instead, we are seeing them being able to be used to pay for lavish expenditures, trips to five star resort, fine dining at some of the fence yesterday restaurant in town, buying rounds of golf at some of the most elite golf courses in the country, tickets to highly coveted events, often in the name of fundraising. but in many cases, it looks like aree leadership pacs being used as/funds to pay for one fundraiser in order to raise money for the next nancy fundraiser at the next location. host: an explosion of leadership pack. just 15% of sitting house members don't have a leadership pac. 82% of sitting house members have leadership pacs. report.g to your what are the rules that govern what you can spend money on, and how are they different from what we may traditional know of as a campaign committee, and the fundraising you do for that? guest: all po

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well in fact the social democrats have already scheduled a special party congress later in this year to consider exactly that question and the background to that is that there will be regional elections in germany later this year in the fall in baltimore and the social democrats are very likely to do very badly in those elections there is a very large faction within the social democratic party that has been fiercely opposed to participating in this grand coalition and in fact it was under way and not as who pushed the party into this coalition when she took over as one of the top leaders of the party so with her gone it's very likely that the faction that wants to get out of this coalition as quickly as possible make gain the upper hand and so it's very possible that by the end of the year this government will no longer be in existence andrea anonymous was the dry and all this was the 1st female later all of the social democrats and will come back to you both in a moment but 1st let's take a quick look at her career. hit was the high point of her career in april 2800 and to be anonym

soldiers we place great importance on ending the practice wherever it occurs some members of congress from both parties have moved to block $8000000.00 in u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia but what's happening in yemen is a humanitarian disaster that has been exacerbated by the very weapons we have been giving the saudis in order to fight this conflict in yemen and is create untold humanitarian disaster human rights watch says thousands of civilians have been killed in yemen and 14000000 people are at risk of starvation and death. there's no one counting of how many deaths were that of child soldiers with the u.s. state department now refusing to acknowledge saudi arabia's role in their fate. al jazeera washington all right still ahead when we come back 9 months off to the murder of saudi journalist. u.n. investigator will release a much awaited report. on the next round in the battle for number 10 boris johnson surging ahead in the race to become britain's next leader. the web sponsored by the time. hello again or welcome back what we are seeing continued rain showers and thunderstorms across parts of t

soldiers we place great importance on ending the practice wherever it occurs some members of congress from both parties have moved to block $8000000.00 in u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia but what's happening in yemen is a humanitarian disaster that has been exacerbated by the very weapons we. giving the saudis in order to fight this conflict in yemen and create untold humanitarian disaster human rights watch says thousands of civilians have been killed in yemen and 14000000 people are at risk of starvation and death there's no accounting of how many deaths are that of child soldiers with the u.s. state department now refusing to acknowledge saudi arabia's role in their fate hi peter castro al jazeera washington. systematic and structural failures fancy assessment of the us own report into its failure to stop the crackdown against rangar muslims in me and more the $36.00 pleasure paul says many agencies under the u.n. did not work together to reach of the unified strategy and that's because officials could not agree on whether to take a robust public approach or pursue quiet diplomacy with me and miles

the reality is now what congress is, a much more racial in congress of the democratic party in congress and out. the democratic party is the multi-racial party and joe biden, whose maydheyday is with white males and frankly, younger generations won't tolerate handshake deals. >> i think your points are right. i think today in the days of the old days you had to deal with the eastlands and mcclellans and fulbrights, a segregationist. today, you have a whole different reality of the democratic coalition and power coalition has shifted dramatically to people of color and to the left, actually. >> absolutely. what i don't understand, i agree with what everybody has stated including senator boxer, who said democrats need to figure out way to beat up on president trump and not each other. context matters. when you get to the senate, you're 29 years old, they're segregationist, that's who you have to deal with not because they're segregationists but senators. context matters and so does recognizing the change in the democratic party and our country. he could have easily said that was a differe

yes this is a decision that a trio will be the interim leadership on to a new party congress is going to appoint and finally a new party leader this trio consists of 2 women and one man 2 of these people are people that are not really. vicious they don't have any ambition to actually become party leaders they're simply senior members of great standing that are trying to reestablish some sort of calm and consideration within the party the 3rd person is also a woman who is a leader of the social democrats and one of the regions in germany and she might in fact be interested in taking over the leadership in the long term but this is something that is completely open to speculation at the moment there's no no definitive definitive new leader. there's ignited at the moment at the same time under an honest leader until today basically took a leave of the party today attended the meeting and then left it and ashley left she came where we journalists are waiting and gave a brief statement let's have a look at that. wouldn't talk to me she i have just said good bye to the s.p.d. national party

party. how would you come in as an outsider and get these ideas through congress, both parties, and then whatould you do about trying to get them through the united states senate, where mitch mcconnell has vowed to stop anything progressive that comes his way? ms. williamson: you know as well as i do that if i'm elected president, that means the american people are waking up and thinking in a certain way that will be reflected in who they like to congress and to the senate. m&m -- any democrat coming in is helping mitch mcconnell will not be the head of the senate at that time. however, because i am getting honest and not talking some moral equivalent stuff when people would have changed it by now, i will have already let the cat out of the bag. the american people will take it from there. follow-up, and i understand the discipline of listening, it is a powerful discipline. it actually says more sometimes than applauding particular ,ieces because the issue is thank you for the insights and the words. , but wetake the people and had to change pharaoh nebuchadnezzar. president to push those int

my concern is what does it do to congress, to the parties across the count, i think it is a flawed strategy. >> it is a dangeus strategy. emocrats have danger as well, with this huge deal that they have, what is the message? what is the attack on ump? what are the issues? we need to be talking about jobs, blue- collar workers, and trump may be moving toward anothei ele. >> it is very critical coal, the first debate. and how the candidates set t. themselves ap there are so many of them. she sets her self on the stage. >> it is up to her to set herself apart from those competitors. so far she has had mixed rece mixed reviews. she needs to have a breakout moment in the debate. >> there have ivbeen distinc differences. economic equality, miation and healthcare. >> this is the chance for all of these candidatto define themselves regarding differences. this is where harris has an joportunity. biden and bernie sanders go each other in these debates. and those leaders have to watch out. she s produced plans on a numer of issues, specific plans and she has been really good inoakland, recently. >> th

congress. >> both parties. >> both parties, right.ncentive for anybody in washington who has grown accustom to help businesses conduct in washington over the last 50 years which of course, works to the benefit of everyone who is here and by the way, not just the institutions of government, but i would say all of the knowledge industry that is established, the lobbyist, media, everything in the washington bubble. >> including, liberal and conservative think tanks. >> let me ask you this, is this one of the reason is not the primary reason while under why they are piling on donald trump. he is not one of them, their entrenched, establishment and maybe different poly under parties and ideologies, but same mindset when it comes to protecting what is theirs, their power. >> trump that from the very beginning when i saw it, i said this guy is a danger to this establishment into the whole washington establishment. partly because he is not an academic, he's not an intellectual, he does not have expertise in those areas where you define excess