khartoum will never fall. protesting. >> reporter: calls for freedom, peace and justice is growin gro, and they're having a hard time containing them. they announced that they would step up street pressure. >> we agree the revolution will continue. we've set guidelines for protests. we have new means for social disobedience and we're devicing a plan for a constitution. >> reporter: thousands of sudanese took to the streets after the government's decision to cut fuel subsidies. 60 people were killed during a crackdown by security forces. hundreds remain detained. >> reporter: they have never faced such a serious challenge to the government since he took power 24 years ago. the opposition to his rule is no longer coming from the streets any more but within the party. >> they sign adler calling on the government to implement reform. the memorandum was seen as a warning to the government stating that it's legitimacy has never been put into question as it was today. the government was quick to dismiss the initiativ

was going to fall, but khartoum will remain and khartoum is still strong. he also said in the end that he was saluting the youth, those working on our project as he put it. those are pure youth, not the agents and traitors who went down to the streets. >> fighting words there. how do you think people will respond to this speech? >> reporter: i don't think people will be very surprised, because al bashir is known as a man with a feisty rhetoric. there's a back fwround to this. a few days before the protest started, so a few days before actually the government announced these cuts in subsidies, he had actually had a press conference that many sudanese were angered by. they thought he berated them. at the time he said i don't know what people are complaining about. sudanese have never eaten hot dogs before i came to power. i think this is very much in tune with what they know about their president. now, the protestors are those who are calling for peaceful protests, those calling for change. i think they will be quite disappointed. i think that the wedge and t

when south sudan won its independence, khartoum lost three-quarters of its oil reserves. it can't afford to lose more. >> this is a senior member. referendum committee and believes disputes over resources can be resolved. >> it is the presence of khartoum forces in the oil area. that's the only source of security. otherwise the rest continues to come and go back. >> but there is still deep resentment among the herders who see the know mads as a threat to grass and water >> given the result was a foregone conclusion and neither the north or the south recognise the referendum, let alone the result - what was the point? >> well, when you ask that question here, people give you the same answer - that this really is about applying political pressure, saying the basic principle of democracy is the will of the people. they are trying to put pressure on the government of the south sudan, and the international community to recognise - if they don't now, they will in the coming day, weeks and months. a leader we spoke to said as far as they are concerned this is part of their marke

al jazeera, khartoum. >>> the u.n. is talking about a plant for a joint mission to syria with the organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons. the proposal would see the u.n. take care of security and logistics. an advanced team of 20 inspectors from already in syria and have begun the task of destroying the chemical weapons. the inspectors have about nine months to complete their mission. >>> the u.s. is denying reports that hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance could be withdrawn from egypt. it's been reported that the obama administration has been considering this since the military coup in july. meanwhile, protests against that coup have continued. more than 1,000 students rallied at cairo university. >>> argentina's president is recovering in hospital following surgery to remove a blood clot from her brain. it's thought she may have sustained the brain injury after a fall a few months ago. we have more from buenos aires. >> reporter: i'm outside of the hospital where the president is recup

no one knows how much is here, but three years ago khartoum lost three oil reserves. they can't afford to lose more. >> it is the continued presence of khartoum force notice oil area. otherwise, the rest they continue to go back. >> reporter: but there is still deep resentment among the herders. the nomads are seen as a direct threat in their own endless search for grass and water. >> now, u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon has criticized israeli plans for more camps in the west bank. it comes hours after israel freed 26 palestinian prisoners. >>> an u.n. report has named two international companies it says could be held criminalcally responsible in relation to settlement building. we're joining by the author of that report, mr. talk, human rights in the occupied palestinian territory. richard faulk, good to have you back on the program. does this add new significance to your report that international companies have been involved in illegal settlement building? >> i think it does. it's a provocative coming especially at this time where there is an effort to resume and

there are fresh protests in cartoons in recent days -- in khartoum in recent days. the movement appears to be waning. according to hospitals at least 210 demonstrators have been killed in the sudanese capital since the start of this spontaneous or test movement over hikes in fuel prices -- s pontaneous protetst movement over hikes in fuel prices. a pharmacist who was killed is being held up as a symbol of the process movement and the deadly crackdown by the omar al-bashir government. thousands have joined the facebook page that is a tribute to the young pharmacist who came from a well-off family and was extremely active in helping victims of the severe flooding that hit sudan in august. some have even compared him to a street vendor whose suicide sparked the tunisian revolution. alarmed by rising crime rates and a growing number of burglaries, and the police's seeming inability to bring the problem under control, residents of oakland have decided to take a problem into their own hands and have been turning to the web for help. one resident launched a campaign for on

the people, so we don't care if the governments in khartoum accept it.suffering. we have lost our children and our husbands. we have come back to this land to determine our future. this is our own will. >> this is my homeland. so if the north comes to attack, i am ready to sacrifice my life. >> reporter: nobody is doubting the significance of this day. but it is a moral victory in practical terms it changes nothing. it has no legal weight. this is a stage in the process, not an end in itself. the party continues, but once the dust settles, the leaders will have to convince the world that this referendum is a historic turning point and not just a gesture. peter, al jazerra. >>> presidential elections in afghanistan are less than six months away. but if this pile of fake voting cards is anything to go by, there could be problems ahead. we have a special report from kabul coming up in the news hour. >>> in court in cambodian two aging leaders denies causing death in the killing fields of the 1970s. >>> a day after one the top teams in russia is punished ove

al jazerra, khartoum. >> just ahead on al jazerra, at least seven people are dead, but scores managed fire. and a clothing factory in bangladesh. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good to have you with us, these are the top stories on al jazerra. leaders from the asia pacific region have arrived for annual aseen summits. dispute over territorial waters are expected to dominate the first day the talks, the u.s. president has told opposition politician to his stop holding the economy to ransom, but says he's willing to negotiate to end the deadlock which has shutdown parts of the government for morning a week. and sudan says its freed most of prisoners did he find during fuel protests last months, 50 people were killed in what became one of the biggest challenges for the president's 24-year rule. at least seven people have been killed in a garment factory fire in bangladesh. the blaze engulfed a warehouse and two other buildings. it's the latest in ray string of accidents in the country's garment factories. here say report. >> reporter: it's happened again. this time it's a clothing factory. 40-kilometers no

filming protest in khartoum when surrounded and thrown in a pickup truck.y said she was beaten and falsely accused of being a reporter. >> they were telling me that i was filming the scandals here and sending them abroad, and i was committing a crime against omaral bashar. >> live with us from london, the sudasudanese government came don hard on these protests. now they have released some of them. >> it's a classic techniques. first a very hard line move and then easing off at the release of protesters at the announcements that they'll ease off on some of the things they've done in the last few weeks. >> do you see this as tactics were too heavy handed? >> well, they're unlikely to concede that they were too heavy handed but there is a realization that there is a cost to continuing a very hard, heavy techniques, and of course killing people is the harders thing they can do. having sent that message it's not necessary no for them to continue in the protests themselves. it's clearly not necessary to be as hard line either. >> tell us what is going on at the m

this is about the self determination of the community, whether khartoum recognizes it or not, they will have to, somewhere town the track, governments will have to accept the reality of the situation here. >> well, we thank you very much indeed, peter greste . >> an so far at least 15 people have died and hundreds have been wounded. the bangladesh nationalist party wants a care taker to oversee the general election due in january. >>> a u.s. study has found that serial rapists are responsible for nearly 9 out of 10 rapes on university campuses. researchers behind the reports said they met many men eager to brag about their crimes. chris bury reports on the incidents of rape. >> ooccidental campus in new york. >> i ended up walking back to his place with him. once we were there he rairpd me. >> this -- raped me. >> this woman now a junior says she was raped in mer first year -- her first year. her outrage grew after she learned the college disciplined the offender for his first offense. >> he wasn't suspended or expelled? >> no. >> three or four women coming forward and alleging that the

for people that go to the camps that are just on the border between khartoum and sudan it's a precariouslace and there are kidnappings and people disappearing from there and there is nothing for people. it's the oldest refugee camp in the world and it's a complete dead-end. anyone that for either protection reasons or if they want to make anything of their life can't find any hope there. many cross the sahara desert which is an extremely dangerous journey. many people have died there as many as have died in the mediterranean. and they end up in libya. libya for years was under quadaffi and they had no refugee law and no way to protect refugees and migrant detention centres. and now you have a failed state which is incapable of providing any protection and many of those same detention centers are under control of the militia centres that are hostile to mig migg mi. many go to israel and israel has now built a fence and they get stuck in the sinai and it's a battle ground of insurgency and a place where traffickers have held them for ransom and held guns to their heads and tortured them an

al jazeera, khartoum. >>> it's been just over a eek now since the westgate mall attack in kenya that left 67 people dead. many of those victims were of indian origin. we visit the area which has long had ties with east africa and where locals an ocean away feel the effects of this tragedy. >> reporter: they were beloved members of his extended family. he often spoke to them on the phone, but it was another call that he received on september 21st that he's still trying to cope with. >> translator: my older brothers were finished. i asked how it happened. he wouldn't say. >> reporter: the two women were shopping at nairobi's westgate mall when it was attacked by al shabaab gunmen. the women's families got out alive, but they didn't. he used to live in nairobi himself but came back in 2000 because he said it was too violent, but he never expected anything like this. >> translator: in the 18 years i was there, i never heard of such a brutal attack. it shouldn't be like that. >> reporter: mr. shaw is a business leader. he believes trade between india and kenya will suffer. >> there will b

to give one example, the battle of -- [inaudible] which is a sister city of or khartoum in sudan, in 1898 the british army lost in one morning 47 dead while killing 10,000 of the enemy. and the reason they were able to do that is because the enemy were on horses carrying spears, and they had machine guns. so what especially with the scramble for africa, it really infused all of europe, all the european empires with this amazing sense of both churl and racial -- cultural and racial superiority. and so as they jockeyed for position locally in europe, they're also looking where could they go next. what was left in the world? east asia had been colonized, the brush had india, africa had been colonized, the americans weren't going to let the europeans into the western hemisphere in any significant way because of the monroe doctrine. so what was left was, essentially, the middle east. and the ottoman empire. by the outbreak of the war in 1914, the ottoman empire had been in a long state of eclipse. the different european powers, and every european power with the exception of germany had ta

you could not have negotiated if your knowledge of khartoum was zero. let me tell you, you would not. but you would not have negotiated with rafsanjani if you'd never been to bazaar. and this is what happened. everybody at a different way to, you know, if you talk to me and you speak -- [inaudible] just because my name, you would be mistaken. you would be wrong. because since my childhood empire was connected with the hungarian reality of my family. so you see, the basic things of how does my mind work, is my mind worse in my own way? on top of that, my god, the revolution is going on from the -- [inaudible] to the hindu kush, and we don't seem to talk about. something -- i want to scare you now to understand what we have to take into account, the reality on the ground. not the blah blah. does anybody realize the importance of 1534 in the sheer narrative? i'm sure everybody knows about it here, so i'm sorry if i asked. it's a very bad, important point. the world five centuries ago which we change now, but who change it back? this country change it back.