been here since the six of april and they're not ready to give up protesters have encircled the defense ministry the intelligence headquarters and the presidential residence in ca too they want to civilian government not the announce a couple of the military command council isn't enough. on friday the former right hand off also president bashir defense minister i want moment even though we've stepped down as the head of the transitional council after only one day as head of state. and two days later on sunday the army finally in the once away statement of a possible transition to civilian government whatever the matter with your god we want from you and we wish that everybody reaches an agreement in a short period of time we need to find in agree on an independent and a national figure to become prime minister. no timeline given no names in the ring the role of the army remains unclear instead the appointment of another military figure to a key position. the most out of them is the appointment of a new intelligence chief. booka mistah. on monday five thousand people blocked an attempt by the arm

been here since the fix a fake and they're not ready to give up protesters have encircled the defense ministry the intelligence headquarters and the presidential residence and. the tool they want to civilian government not the announcer sake up of the military command council isn't enough. on friday the former right hand off also the president of the shia defense minister i want moment even though wolf stepped down as the head of the transitional council after only one day as head of state. and today slater on sunday the army finally announce a way statement of a possible transition to civilian government whatever. we want from you and we wish that everybody reaches an agreement in a short period of time we need to find an agree on an independent on the national figure to become prime minister. no timeline given no names in the ring the role of the army remains unclear instead the appointment of another military figure to a key position. the most out of them notes the appointment of a new intelligence chief. must stop. on monday five thousand people blocked an attempt by the army to break up o

absent from view other russians who didn't make it back from syria the defense ministry says one hundred sixteen soldiers were killed in combat but it's not just ordinary troops who are deployed there human rights activists say private armies from russia are also fighting mercenaries who don't appear in any official figures. and once a big grazer. no one knows the exact number of private soldiers fighting in syria many of them die that. the families of some of the fall and mercenaries are trying to get compensation for the loss of their loved ones although these private soldiers fight alongside ordinary russian troops in syria the state has officially nothing to do with them not only that private armies are forbidden in russia. that is going into the war in syria has two sides one shows that russia is waging an official war on terrorism. the shadow side is the one we're not supposed to see russia has to expose it and come clean with its hidden nontransparent structures in syria. after cars on the syrian train is off to another city on its tour but as a symbol of a successful campaign aga

along with the speaker of the parliament's call for ninety days elections in ninety days the defense ministry has issued no statement supporting that so that's the big question right now is which way the defense ministry in the military is going to go and nobody wants to give up their seat and their perks so that's a big problem that said it's impossible to reform a system such as out years and place since one thousand nine hundred sixty two there can be incremental reform there can be move towards political liberalization and more freedoms but you can't start the whole system from scratch the military has a unified stance we don't see what's called fashion was ation in the officer corps entered internecine strife so there's been the protesters have been very peaceful and civil you haven't seen the internal security services fire on the protesters so i think there's going to be some jockeying for power granted says we want to see an explosion of violence as we've seen in other places in the middle east. sounds presidents on the increasing pressure as western nations add their voice to calls f

because this report which is based on these leaked to top secret documents from the defense ministry leaked to some journalists or to top media organizations here in france say that french made weapons used by saudi arabia by knighted arab emirates in their war in yemen are you being used not only for defense purposes now the french government has always maintained that the arms that they have sold to saudi arabia and u.a.e. are being used only for defense purposes and pose no risk to the civilian population but this investigation seems to completely contradict that it's quite detailed it talks about some of the arms which are generally sold to those two countries including things like mirage jets armored vehicles tanks and helicopters and gives these very specific examples for example saying that along the border between saudi arabia and yemen the saudis are using these french made cannon guns or seize the guns and that they have this range of more than forty kilometers and that means that civilians are at risk they also report also talks about the two french made naval ships being

defense ministry is heavily criticised after claiming it has evidence of only one civilian death from seventeen hundred of its middle eastern bombing raids more on that after the short break. what politicians to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. let you go right to the press this is like the three of them all the people that. i'm interested in the water. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides clearly a dramatic development the only person i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back britain's armed forces minister is facing a backlash after some thought he implied that only a single civilian death was caused by seventeen hundred u.k. air strikes in syria and iraq mark lancaster rushed to clarify his position claiming that he was misunderstood. it was not our position that that has only been a single civilian casualty as a result of a

do that and our defense ministry and the russian defense ministry together continue to. work there. trying to cheer results as you know we're not only talking about here. there's also the memory. and. there is a roadmap and a planned school but. this is probably going to take longer. than that but what i can say. is that. the call to ration between russia and turkey is playing a very important role here the remote the terrorist corridor that they try to create there and also it's very important to keep the territorial integrity in syria. we have to keep and maintain that cooperation and continue to work. with there is some tension on the eastern bank of you freydis and there is still a threat coming from that area from that region and there are some the process is a very important step in settling that. and the main avatar's of that process is turkey and russia. and iran being the main actors that are working hard. can also include some other states in this process and we discussed this today. we're not talking about excluding somebody the most important thing is to ask to clarify y

hours how the transitional period should be led the military council as you've said once the defense ministry and the interior ministry and the political parties want a purely civilian government but one of the main points of contention between the two sides is how the transition period should be run the military council wants to be the one supervising the transitional government until elections are held in two years to a time now most of the political parties are saying that this is not something they want they want to be an independent transitional government they want to be the ones running their own affairs deciding what happens with the country and of course we have the sudanese professional association which is not a political party but it was the one that was hit spearheading the calls for protest and still as it's made it very clear that people should continue to protest and till the military council agrees to hand over power to an independent civilian transitional government until elections are held so at the moment there's a bit of a division about not just how long the transitional

defense ministry is heavily criticized after claiming it has evidence of only one civilian death from seventeen hundred of its middle eastern bombing raids more on that after a short break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you there. a number. they matter to us is over one billion dollars that's more than ten white collar aren't happy. even five percent of both of you want to be. eight percent world market. some with one hundred forty three for such a person and this one rose to twenty thousand. china's building two point one billion dollars a are you. but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need remember one. org committed one and only my i. welcome back britain's armed forces minister is facing a backlash after some thought he implied that only a single civilian death was caused by seventeen hundred u.k. air strikes in syria and iraq like lancaster rushed to clarify his position claiming that he was misunderstood. it was not our position that there has only be

that ok well since then the defense ministries been speaking to you hasn't it and it said there is a link now where they are linking these attacks in sri lanka but the ones that took place just a month ago in new zealand what exactly is being said well exactly like you said before they're investigating the possibility that this attack was a retaliation for the christ church shootings in new zealand and to bring our viewers up to speed on march fifteenth it was a mosque and islamic center in christchurch new zealand that was shot up by someone that the media and some have called a white supremacist so let's take a look at some of the details of what happened. this is one of new zealand's darkest days. we've also seen haven't we linking these attacks similarities and how social media has been used in the wake of this attack drawings that have been made yeah absolutely well in the case of christ church the shooter put up a startling manifesto for the world to read before the. actual shooting all over the internet and then he live streamed the first part of his terrorist shooting of the

defense ministry is heavily criticized after claiming it has evidence of only one civilian death from seventeen hundred of its middle eastern bombing raids or and that after a short break. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to. let you go right to the press this is like the three of them all the people. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the. city. you know world of big partisan movies. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. come back britain's armed forces minister is facing a backlash after some thought he implied that only a single civilian death was caused by seventeen hundred u.k. air strikes in syria and iraq mark lancaster rushed to clarify his position

allow political parties to decide on a civilian prime minister but it wants the interior and defense ministries to be led by the military and our other headline story today libya's u.n. back government says their military has shot down a fighter jet belonging to the wall flee for half the his forces have been advancing on the capital tripoli. military sources in libya say that a group of fighters loyal to have to have surrendered to the government with their weapons and vehicles. the stories we're following closely the u.s. secretary of state has been in peru shoring up regional support for president trump . hardline stance against the venezuelan president nicolas maduro one player says he hopes that there will be change in venezuela soon so that migrants who fled into neighboring countries can finally return home brew is third leg of a latin america tour that's already taken him to chile and is expected to arrive in the colombian autistic border city of could time very soon well venezuela's opposition to one is in the oil rich state of xenia where there been demonstrations against power outage

last month that's according to an initial probe into the weekend's atrocity by the country's defense ministry the shrine can authorities have apologized meanwhile for failing to prevent the attacks after receiving several warnings. don't measure the intelligentsia against you see i've been on the for the very international intelligence agencies informed us that such an incident could take place there detailed reports named christian churches and tourist destinations as the main targets as the government we are responsible for all we have story and we apologize to everybody. on monday there was a further explosion in the capital colombo special forces had been trying to defuse explosives there in a van used by the attackers it's not clear whether anybody was hurt here it came after police discovered almost ninety detonators at a bus stop in a city. now the new zealand mosque shootings claimed the lives of fifty people back in march with two mosques targeted this is how those events unfolded. this is one of the new zealand's darkest days. are following the attack social video companies were sev

the defense ministry says one hundred sixteen soldiers were killed in combat but it's not just ordinary troops who are deployed their. human rights activists say private armies from russia are also fighting mercenaries who don't appear in any official figures. for months a big gray zone but no one knows the exact number of private soldiers fighting in syria many of them died there. the families of some fallen mercenaries are trying to get compensation for losing their loved ones although these private soldiers fight alongside ordinary russian troops in syria the state has officially nothing to do with them not only that private armies are for putin and russia. that is going into well it's a war in syria has two sides one shows that russia is waging an official wooll on terrorism. the shadow side is the one we're not supposed to see russia has to expose it and come clean with its hidden nontransparent structures in syria. after cars on the syria train is off to another city on its tours but as a symbol of a successful campaign against terrorism it leaves many questions unanswered. when t

step the demonstrators say that they won't be moved from their sit in in front of the country's defense ministry they want the military to hand over power and mediately choice civilian government also coming up officials in south east africa plead for more aid after side tone is die a month after the storm the u.n. says that hundreds of thousands of people are still oppress and the squalid conditions facing towns timmy and refugees in jordan that's had cuts to u.n. funding by the trumpet ministration to decimate services on the ground plots the return of television's most epic fantasy series the award winning game of thrones hit screens for its final season of our t.v. critic has a spoiler alert for the lowdown on what to expect from buster rose this winter. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program will have all those stories and more but before we get started we have some breaking news to bring you here on d w german prosecutors have charged volkswagens former c.e.o. martin winterkorn with fraud that is all. for his part in the diesel admissions test cheating scandal that engulfed a volkswagen an

time leader a model to share the military council wants to hold all men to the interior and defense ministries in any transitional. arment and says that political parties can decide on a civilian prime minister morgan joins us live now from part of two so we had another round of talks taking place today appear to be perhaps looking into the future of these two bodies forming with the military council and the civilian government but the key thing for the opposition is whether the civilian government we will be truly independent have. yes mary m. we heard from the spokesperson of the military council just a few minutes ago and he came out of the talks and he said that the military council was optimistic those were the words he used this seems to be some conflict concessions offered by the military council one of the things that the political parties wanted was a reform in the national intelligence and security services institute which are protesters and sudanese are saying has been behind the targeting of dissidents and trying to clamp down on the protests so the military council said that there

the defense ministries chief of staff colonel teo nest bagosora refused to hold talks with the r.p.s. and a powerful group of hutu extremists led by the president's wife worked hard to keep the tutsis from having a share of political power. came. to negotiate the final details of all twits a government presence in place. distills . didn't want to change anything. what happened was an ugly a shop by ford in the us that's what the coolness. undoubtedly still. needed teddy. but you could. do into negotiations with the losing the. us will. soon still melt a little she's from the russia that's what he told us. is going to. cuddle. up eclipse. the inca tourney scored an impressive diplomatic victory they were assigned fully one half of the officers in rwanda's new army and forty percent of the rest of the troops. and they managed to secure a total of four ministries in the future a national unity government. but. i don't get. it but it. was shot down was six hundred in qahtani soldiers were sent to the new parliament in kigali to protect the tipsy politicians. oh my gummy remained at his he

meanwhile tunisia's defense ministry says as many as thirteen people who were obs and carrying friendship them out of passports tried to cross from libya into neighboring tunisia before being dissolved the french embassy in tunisia says there were security guards for the ambassador and the polls have closed in indonesia's presidential and parliamentary elections nearly two hundred million people were a little to vote it's a repeat of the twenty fifteen vote with the president joe pa we don't know facing another challenge from former general balls. more now on our top story and the conflict in libya a country split between two rival governments the u.n. recognize administration is based in the capital tripoli western nations including the us and it's the recognized this government as do kata and turkey that should be administration manages eighty billion dollars in oil revenues and foreign reserves the other government is into broke and it's supported by warlords twenty four half ton and have to has the. king of egypt saudi arabia and the united arab emirates france and some other western

has issued no statement supporting that so that's the big question now is which way the defense ministry in the military is going to go and nobody wants to give up their seat and their perks so that's a big problem that said it's impossible to reform a system such as out years and place since one thousand nine hundred sixty two there can be incremental reform there can be move towards political liberalization and more freedoms but you can't start the whole system from scratch the military as a unified stance we don't see what's called fashion was ation in the officer corps entered internecine strife there's been the protesters have been very peaceful and civil you haven't seen the internal security services fire on the protesters so i think there's going to be some jockeying for power granted to seize but we want to see an explosion of violence as we've seen in other places in the middle east saddam's president is under increasing pressure as western nations out there have voiced a kohls the political change for a fourth day protest is of continued a sit in outside the compound housing o

leadership after toppling president omar al bashir demonstrators held a certain outside the defense ministry compound in khartoum the ruling military council said it will appoint a new chief of staff of the army after several delays the u.n. on war to yemen says the internationally recognized government and the rebels have agreed to withdraw troops from the port city of the day they're both sides have said they'll pull back several kilometers qatar and italy have called for new political talks as libya's two viable sides remain locked in a military confrontation over the capital tripoli italy's prime minister has called for a cease fire. and the two reuters journalists who've been jailed in myanmar have won a pulitzer prize and choice who have won the prestigious on a for an investigative report about the massacre of ten one hundred men i mean mass security forces well those are the headlines on al-jazeera witness is coming up next thank you very much for watching. counting the cost big on symbolism big on rhetoric but what has brazil's president got to show for a country struggling to recov

allow political parties to decide on a civilian prime minister but it wants the interior and defense ministries to be led by military personnel. and in libya the u.n. back government says that their military has shot down a fighter jet belonging to the warlord khalifa haftar its forces have been advancing on the capital tripoli. well it's been five years since two hundred seventy six school girls were abducted and northeastern nigeria by boko haram fighters some have been rescued all freed but many still missing diane how small. zaineb doesn't know if her daughter is alive ever so often she sorts through the books in homework how wants her to school on the day she was abducted five years ago over the years her daughter's absence has weighed on the entire family. today our you know she's the only female of our family and my other five children are all boys i hope the government has pity on us. her daughter is among the two hundred seventy six schoolgirls who were kidnapped by boko haram fighters on april twenty fourth team. the military has rescued or found one hundred seven of the kidnapped gir

russia and some of his closest associates including two of his brothers to the crowds outside the defense ministry return to civilian rule is a minimum demand. and so done slowly gets used to the idea of a life without. the people of zimbabwe are still getting used to life without rabbits the former president and revolutionary leader was forced out of office by the army in twenty seventeen he was replaced by innocent non-government today as a bobby and small thirty nine he is since the end of colonial rule based growing anger over the fate of the often end economic disaster next by mugabe and the tough line taken by the government against recent protests of a fuel hikes was no less brutal and the excesses of the mugabe era. so is the human rights situation any of base and now all that it was and that mugabe my guest today made headlines in two thousand and sixteen when he sent the former president robert mugabe every other provocative birthday present it was a prison uniform mocked crimes against humanity he was suggesting will have a should be jailed for human rights violations so the activists a

allow for emergency services to access civilians trapped in conflict impacted areas or tunisia's defense ministry says at least ten people who are carrying french diplomatic passports tried to cross its border with libya before before being disarmed the french embassy in tunisia says they were security guards for the ambassador. sudan's ruling military council has sacked the prosecutor general and a. protest demonstrations have continued their. transition must be made within the next fifteen. minutes by. the european union will trickle denies the legitimacy of the transitional minute at a concert but as soon as a civilian takes place the european union will be ready to accompany it both politically and economically. in twenty eleven nobody could anticipate that in just two years egypt would once again be under military dictatorship. an american egyptian citizen mohamed saltire got on a plane to cairo and quickly found himself at the front lines of the rebel. thousands of people gathered outside the presidential palace. i was crying my eyes out i thought for sure they were going to fire the we wer

let's not forget the ministry of defense actually only changed one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming you know the idea that you can know whether someone is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for one category of people to be identified but you do for another one i'm afraid is just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government i do think the figures would change i do think any figure that we've been given about our involvement in syria afghanistan iraq libya have been accurate because we just don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who retired getting the best thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and to british troops and british planes to come back to britain. the u.s. is developing a rescue plan for that as well as economy designed to pump cash into the country through banks smart phones and apps even though the trump administration isn't rushing to reveal the details the plan

according to the british defense ministry royal air force strikes conducted since two thousand and fourteen have killed more than four thousand islamic state fighters human rights organization amnesty international released a damning report earlier and march accusing the u.k. of being in denial of civilian casualties and mosul and rocca. the ukase claiming to have carried out massive aerial bombing of densely populated cities with virtually zero civilian casualties this beggars belief and shows just how deeply in denial the minister of the fast actually is over his role in the mass bombing of mosul and roc-a peace campaigner russell wedding says it's impossible to distinguish and i saw fighter from a civilian after an airstrike let's not forget the ministry of defense actually only trained one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming you know the idea that you can know whether someone is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for one category of people to be identified but you do for

about how the transitional period should be led the military council as you've said once the defense ministry and the interior ministry and the political parties want to appear in government but one of the main points of contention between the two sides is how the transition period should be run the military council wants to be the one supervising the transitional government until elections are held in two years to a time now most of the political parties are saying that this is not something they want they want to be an independent transitional government they want to be the ones running their own affairs deciding what happens with the country and of course we have the sudanese professional association which is not a political party but it was the one that was here spearheading the calls for protest and still as it's made it very clear that people should continue to protest and till the military council agrees to hand over power to an independent civilian transitional government until elections are held so at the moment there's a bit of a division about not just how long the transitional per

for you the developments that have taken place in sudan the army deployed troops around the defense ministry on key roads and bridges in the capital khartoum on thursday there are reports that the head of the ruling party and the former vice president have been detained thousands have flocked onto the streets of the capital and joined a sit in outside the military headquarters that sit in has been taking place since saturday state television said the armed forces would make an important announcement sparking speculation that a coup attempt could be underway against president omar al bashir these latest developments follow months of protests against his thirty year rule. as a sudanese activist in support of the protests and he joins us now via skype from khartoum thanks for being with us let me start by asking you how you're feeling this morning and what the atmosphere is like there in khartoum. already. you've been participating in these protests tell me a little more about what the atmosphere has been like outside the army headquarters over the last few days. it was like it was like a tiny

been here since the fix of april and they're not ready to give up protesters have encircled the defense ministry the intelligence headquarters and the presidential residence in ca too they want to civilian government not the announced shake up of the military command council isn't enough.