real reforms to improve living standards across the country a bit more than has the latest from khartoum. people seem to be mobilizing but other side is also mobilizing specifically the police we've been out in the streets about thirty minutes ago and everywhere you go around khartoum you would find a group of policemen carrying their batons ready for the protesters in case they come out in the streets as they have promised carrying their memos demanding the president to resign now let's remember they are going to march from a certain square not far from the presidential palace and then they would head on to the presidential palace to deliver a memo demanding president omar al bashir to resign they will not find him there he's one of the he's in one of the states in the central east of the country just zero where he's going to or he's planning to open a project so they will not find him but they have been protesting over the past seven days it started out as an economic protest over a shortage of fuel of a shortage of bread and over the rising cost of food commodities but it quickly esca

in khartoum tell us about what happened. well fully this is the seventh day of process it started last week on wednesday in thirty of our tara when the state basically said that they had not a single sack of wheat to be able to produce bread that made people angry they came out in the streets they said that they wanted bread and the fact that it was one loaf of bread was equal to one to do these pound was worth wanted respond that frustrated them then the government proposed that they want to hike the prices obviously that made them more frustrated so they came out in the streets demanding better economic situation demanding bread be available in the city and demanding lower prices basically that quickly escalated now we have people protesting against the government today's protest which i was and was quite significant you've seen we've seen hundreds of people coming out not just those from civil societies but it seemed like people on the streets who met the protesters just simply joined them and they were able to absorb the

if and in the capital khartoum police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators near the presidential palace the full story from shallop bellus. outraged over rising food prices sudanese march to the base of the slogan freedom protests of eruption emotional cities the largest store in the city of akbar was sudan is a flashpoint over rising inflation now at nearly seventy percent it's one of the world's highest i. purchased as chant people want the government down echoing the calls heard in the arab spring revolution seven years ago this has been sudan's long awaited out of spring because. the government has not been listening for quite a while but in the last few months they have also the economy has just gone downhill in the very bad way i mean the situation just exploded there have been on explosion point for a while now. a state of emergency was in force an app or a after the headquarters of the ruling party was set on fire the curfews in force and schools are closed. a few hundred kilometers south down the river nile protests are placed by queues and concern a lot of officer bon m

proposing to lift sanctions on the khartoum is that there has been an insistence on an improvement of the human rights situation and then the particular him insistence on the improvement of religious freedom this isn't happening so. certainly there are voices in congress that will prevent the united states from really. trying to throw a lifeline to to be sheer but whether there will be anything in the coming out of the us that would have a positive impact on the internal politics of sudan i doubt that very much at this point as a what do you say is happening next. and sit down. again a they said all the scenarios are expected. it depends on if the protests continue and i think they well i expect me intervene i think i mean today of course because it is not the working days whodunits not like yesterday did not like the deal before. new it is actually there is a demonstration in new cities in the north called the fun again in my denny. again how to miss a big car convening with was yesterday but is expected to be in the knives and i think all scenarios are expecting. also know it's not

sudan's president omar al bashir has this missed protesters rallying against him in the capital khartoum as traitors and foreign agents up. earlier riot police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds of thousands who were marching towards the presidential palace the demonstrators want to al bashir to step down and blame his government for economic mismanagement and rising food prices official government figures say that at least twelve people have died since the unrest began a week ago while international groups say the real figure could be as high as thirty al-jazeera is heba morgan ventured into the thick of the protests and here is what she saw. people in sudan have been protesting for few days now and behind me you can the amount of huge number of people protesting this saying that it's a peaceful protest they want the government to go they've been chanting things like down with the government this is the seventh day of protest against the government people are not clear concretely if it is going to end obviously there's a lot of confusion there's a lot of security concerns who have be

here morgan speaking to us there from khartoum thanks . syrian air defenses near damascus have opened fire on what state media is calling enemy targets blaming israel for an air raid the military sources saying several missiles were downed before they hit their targets and arms depo was damaged and three soldiers injured meanwhile the israeli military says its own air defense system intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired from syria in the past week israel's prime minister has said he plans to intensify attacks on a rainy and targets in the south of the country and staying with syria turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back a military equipment supplied to kurdish led forces this follows president donald trump's decision to withdraw all u.s. troops american soldiers have been supporting kurdish forces in the fight against isis since twenty fourteen the kurdish led syrian democratic forces control much of northeast syria including the city of men bitch sin and cos who has more from istanbul. turkish officials how wel

abu jinzir square, and the downtown area of khartoum. injured. pope francis has stressed the need for love between people of all races, nations and religions in his traditional christmas message. addressing the thousands who gathered in st peter's square, he appealed to worshippers to embrace other cultures and to celebrate diversity. the pontif also spoke about the world's humanitarian disasters. james reynolds reports from rome. cheers and applause on christmas day, a pope can often enjoy the luxury of the world stage largely to himself. at midday, in blinding sun, vatican bands heralded francis's entrance onto the balcony of st peter's basilica. the pope addressed the pilgrims and tourists in the square below. he called for a resolution of conflicts in the middle east, africa, latin america and asia. he also sent a message to minority christian communities. translation: a particular thought goes to our brothers and sisters who celebrate the birth of the lord in difficult, if not hostile, situations. especially where the christian comm

the downtown area of khartoum, there have been reports of casualties and many injured. the protest started, they started early in december but december 19 was the biggest protest that took place, ina was the biggest protest that took place, in a northern city, when high school students were protesting the price of bread which had tripled from £1 to £3. but the demands are now much higher. they are calling for regime change. they are using the same slogans of the arab spring, that the people do manned the fall of the regime. they want president bashir, after 30 years, to resign. it is interesting, isn't it, i understand that one of the senior military officers has made a rare public intervention, saying to the state news agency that the government has to provide a decent living to the people. how much of a concern will it be for the government that there has been this intervention from a senior military figure? yeah, that is a very interesting point. mr hameti, the person in charge of the rapid defence forces, made a speech to his troops, and he was critical of how the g

this is one of the main markets in battery north of the sudanese capital khartoum shoppers here see all the produce for sale have one thing in common good news here but for more than bombs you know prices are high tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it cost forty pounds. everything is expensive the prices have been going up and there are so many things you can buy and then there is the bread crisis. there bread prices sparked protests around the country when the government announced its plan to raise the price of a loaf from one to the nice pound to three when there were demonstrations the government reacted by announcing a state of emergency in some cities curfews in others and it tried to block social media platforms including facebook twitter and what's happened dozens of people have been arrested. the protesters are not just frustrated at the rising cost of bread in the past year inflation has risen to almost seventy percent in january the dollar was worth thirty sudanese now it's almost worth if this is in these pounds which means higher market prices and people have to queu

this is one of the main markets in the north of the sudanese capital khartoum shoppers here say all the produce for sale have one thing in common i do know a ship of the mountain behind saying across is a hive tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it cost forty pounds i was like i want everything is expensive the prices have been going up and there are so many things you can buy and then there is the bread crisis. their bread prices sparked protests around the country when the government announced its plan to raise the price of a loaf from wanted a nice pound to three there were demonstrations the government reacted by announcing a state of emergency in some cities curfews and others and it tried to block social media platforms including facebook twitter and what's happened dozens of people have been arrested. the protesters are not just frustrated at the rising cost of bread in the past year inflation has risen to almost seventy percent in january the dollar was worth thirty pounds now it's almost worth it's this it is pounds which means higher market prices and people have to que

morgan is with me now live from the capital khartoum good to have you with us so. this is now day eight of the demonstrations tell us how things have been panning out. well sami obviously this is something president bashir has never had to face during his twenty one year rule protesters coming out his his head protesters before the economy over basically it's always been a few days or so but this time around it's quickly transformed from about the economy to the fact that they want him gone they say that has been around for too long now the protesters have not been organizing themselves by they were not organized by an opposition or any other party they've been basically very sporadic they've been organizing themselves in neighborhoods whether it's in some basically sports club or so they would come together they would decide that they want to protest and they would go out the last to protest that besides yesterday that happened in khartoum was after a football match as people would be at for do put all stadiums once they're done with the football they would come o

the protests were triggered by a shortage of bread and fuel ever morgan has the latest now from khartoum. there's been five days of protests across the country and more protests are expected today the doctors' union also issued a statement last night and said that they are going to hold a general strike and that they calling for people of other professions to join in on a nationwide strike the terms of fifth of december now it's not clear yet if this strike will happen it's not clear if the strike will take place but what we do know is that last night after a football match people came out of the stadium and protested against the government they've been chanting slogans like down with the government we don't want the government anymore we want a new regime so it's very obvious that what started i was at was started out as an economic protest has turned into political protests that started all last week in the city of daraa in never in our state but that quickly escalated and went across the country now we've seen people protesting from different parts of the country and including the cap

anti-government demonstrations are now into the eighth day morgan has the latest from sudan's capital khartoum. process against president bashir is not taking form of only people going up the street and voicing their demands that his government step down a new government being formed we've seen people also calling for strikes now today medical students and doctors in the state of good areas and the city of hadera where medical where a state of emergency has been declared have called for a strike they are also interim strike and they're calling for people of other professions to join them on the strike now let's remember that this protest started last week in the city in the city of the tomorrow on wednesday but when i started it was completely different from what it is now now the government has been criticized for using brutal force against people against protesters and this international and foreign governments have been calling on the government for using live ammunition and tear gas to try to disperse the protesters we've seen that yesterday when we were at the protest live ammunition and

as the president's convoy through the streets of khartoum one woman channeled the anger. at a packed christmas day rally president omar al bashir clutching his walking stick struck it's a fine note. our tell you all those who oppose our country are traitors. outside the presidential palace protest was met with punishment police fired live i'm going to a machine violently beating protesters. according to amnesty international dozens have been killed or injured in the cracked. under the country's military dictatorship dissent has been quashed with opposition leaders forced to continue to fight for change in exile. we want a democratic pluralistic city it the plans for a new government new laws and a new transitional constitution have begun. as economic charge takes hold i'm frustration grows protesters have vowed to keep going until bush has gone even in the face of tear gas. now to a unique music project called violins of hope restoring violins that survived the holocaust and israeli violin maker brings the instruments back to life to be heard as concert halls around the w

people morgan has the latest from khartoum. there's been five days of protests across the country and more protests are expected today the doctor's union also issued a statement last night and said that they are going to hold a general strike and a big calling for people of other professions to join them on a nationwide strike the terms of fifth of december now it's not clear yet if this strike will happen it's not clear if the strike will take place but what we do know is that last night after a football match people came out of the stadium and protested against the government they've been chanting slogans like down with the government we don't want the government anymore we want a new regime so it's very obvious that what started i was at what started out as an economic protest has turned into political protests that started all last week in the city of ajdabiya in the states but that quickly escalated and went across the country now we've seen people protesting from different parts of the country and including the capital kh

leader of the opposition who's been out of the country for at least a year is his reappearance in khartoum having any impact on these demonstrations which you say. what one father of my do returned last week he was welcomed by a large crowd but they were not protesting they were basically there to welcome him i think what happened is after he arrived a few days later on saturday he held a press conference and he said that he was siding with the protest and he's also for a new government he wants to see a new government as well but he basically said that this protest is something very temporary you say he's saying that it probably will not last and that basically made the protesters not support him any more if it were supporting him in the first place so it's article had he had any impact on the protesters to begin with his statement on saturday seemed to make it clear to the protesters that he is not siding with them and they basically decided that he's not going to present them if there is a new government to be formed if this government ever goes in the first place all right morgan lives

omar al bashir to resign police have fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowds in the capital khartoum so far the president refusing to apologize for the sake of affairs in his country and his criticize these protests which started out against rising food and fuel prices let's go live now to our cars from him all that she is there in khartoum how many people how many people are braving the wrath of the security forces. well martin when we were out on the streets of seeing hundreds and hundreds of people out marching and protesting they were saying that they were chanting things like down with the government that they want a new government and that there was they were basically saying that the protests were peaceful but despite saying that and despite it being peaceful we've seen police firing live ammunition in tear gas to try to disperse the crowd now this is not the first protest to happen in fact today's day thirteen of protest against the government it all started like you said with with protests and demonstrations against the rising prices of living and food commodities but then i

as the president's convoy through the streets of khartoum one woman. who's. part christmas day rally president omar al bashir clutching his walking stick struck as a fine note. i tell you all those who oppose our country are traitors. outside the presidential palace protest was met with punishment police fired live i'm going to. violently beating protesters. according to amnesty international dozens have been killed or injured in the crackdown. under the country's military dictatorship dissent has been quashed with opposition leaders forced to continue to fight for change in exile. we want to democratic pluralistic city it plans for a new government new laws and a new transitional constitution have begun with this. takes hold i'm frustration grooved protesters have vowed to keep going on top. even in the face of tear gas. and i'm joined now by my colleague christine one of our studio for more on this story now christine obviously the protests have morphed into calls for a new government and the opposition has voiced their support for this would you say that t

tear gas fired by police at hundreds of protesters who blocked a road in the center of the capital khartoum reports on how see john got to this point. driving his minivan is the only way out the living he says taking passengers around used to bring in enough money but with the fuel crisis in sudan that's no longer the case. we can stay from the day before till the next day waiting for fuel with the fuel shortage sometimes you have to look for fuel in the black market for a higher price and even then you can't find fuel easily unless you know someone who can direct you to find around two gallons just so you can drop people off. fuel isn't the only thing scars in sudan this is a shortage of money too over the past few months the sudanese have been forced to line up in front of a.t.m. machines for what little cash is made available queues also appeared in front of bakeries as the shortage of hard currency mentalists wheat to make bread the proposal by the government to lift subsidies on wheat and human prompted protests in many parts of the country last week as a result curfews and emergency r

streets speak to him or morgan who is in khartoum forest day to day how are the demonstrations about while falling let's remember that when the protests started obviously started over the economy but now people are protesting saying that they want the president to go and it's not just people marching out into the streets the doctor's union the peril of doctors union have called for protest and strike indefinitely now today we've heard about dogs in qatar of state and medical students also on strike there saying that they do not want to go back to work they don't want to go and basically help the government and revenue they're saying that they will not go back to work until president omar bashir resigns and as you've said he said that he's not going to resign but the strike is the ongoing the protests aren't going in different shape and form people are saying that they will use whatever way they can to protest the government and till it goes away so what could happen next any that well the government toughened its response or are they likely to back down now because of all the interna

police have used tear gas to disperse the latest on thai government protests in sudan's capital khartoum. crowds wanted to march towards the presidential palace demanding an end to the twenty nine year old of omar al bashir they are unimpressed by the president's promise to step up reforms that he says will make people feel better the government says twelve people have died since the unrest began over rising food and fuel prices but amnesty international bodies a number of deaths could be as high as thirty seven algeria's heba morgan ventured into the thick of the protests area here's what she saw in car too. people in sudan have been persistent for three days now and you can see behind me you can see a huge amount of huge number of people protesting this saying that it's a peaceful course cuz they want the government to go they've been chanting things like down with the government because the seventh day of protests against the government people are not clear come clear that it is going to end obviously with a lot of confusion is a lot of pretty constant police have been firing tear gas

in khartoum heba thank you for that now gunman in between a facet of ambushed and killed ten policemen their convoy was attacked near the border with mali air has been repeatedly attacked mostly by fighters linked to al qaida over the last three years. now in the democratic republic of congo a general strike is being held in opposition areas excluded from sunday's presidential election workers walked out in the northeastern city of beni police of fired tear gas protesters and arrested some of them in goma one officer has been injured there a shortage of voting machines in the capital kinshasa is concerning election organizers will our correspondent malcolm webb joins us live now from kinshasa malcolm so what's the response been to the call for this general strike. started in the eastern city of shut down shops and businesses closed turned into street protests and in eastern city of december both areas blocked from voting in the presidential elections and also the eastern city of goma there hasn't been blocked many people there for the same opposition candidate martin three of those cit

are preparing for an eighth day of protests riot police opened fire to disperse the mass rally in khartoum want to choose day the president says the protesters are trying to. syrian state television is reporting that government to air defenses near damascus have shot down israeli missiles the israeli military says it's the air defense system intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired from syria. for the second time this month i got a modern child has died while in u.s. custody border agents said the eight year old boy showed signs of sickness the cause of his death is being investigated. japan has announced it will withdraw from the international whaling commission and resume commercial whaling next year as a member of the i.w.c. japan hunted whales in the antarctic for what it calls scientific research the government says it will only hunt in its territorial waters it joins iceland norway greenland and the faroe islands as the only place. in the wild by commercial whaling is permitted nicholas bannan is a spokeswoman for humane society international she believes japan is returning to an e

a loaf has tripled in some areas and they are brit and fuel shortages nationwide in the capital khartoum some queue for hours outside bakeries government leaders announced their twenty nine hundred budget this week including one point four billion dollars of subsidies for fuel and brit but shopkeeper hussein osmonds says people need help now but what they're gonna be when the situation used to be good in the purchasing power people had was reasonable but conditions are bad now the groups are expensive and so people are unable to buy them the sudanese economy has struggled since the succession of south sudan in twenty eleven sudan lost three quarters of its oil output accounting for ninety percent of export revenues it was a crucial source of foreign currency the crisis is deep into this year after subsidy cuts and the devaluation of the sudanese pound now it's an anxious whites to see the true cost of this crisis charlotte ballasts al-jazeera. let's now speak to john tammany his director of the africa program at the independent watchdog organization freedom house thank you very much for

from the people as opposed to from opposition parties here morgan with the latest there for us from khartoum he was always thank you and i just cook at is a film director and member of jerry thena a nonviolent resistance movement taking part in the protests he says today's demonstration in khartoum marks a turning point. protests started as an economic condition but then it went escalated to now about only demand is for this government to leave and to have a transitional government and this is a build up of things that have been happening sudan for a long time i mean we do have and military slavek dictatorship have been in power for thirty years they believe genocides they create all this so people are angry and what happened was now we have a reason where people just lost their fear and our industries but this is a definite accumulation and right now the protest is about the government leaving and that's our only demand right now so these are protests that be called for by professionals doctors engineers different unions today the turning point up to this week there would be like small cour

one the stats to have a woman who's in khartoum so the doctors are striking and calling on people from other professions to join them how does this protest against russia's rule shaping up so far well and what we've seen so far is that people are not satisfied with just marching up to the streets demanding that the president resign and that his he and his twenty nine year rule we've seen people doing basically they were seen people protesting in different ways. of today for example doctors issued a statement saying that they are on strike they're not going to go to work they don't want to work for a government that basically they see is oppressing them and is not giving them any benefits especially comic benefits now they were able to mobilize medical students also to go out and strike against the against the government they've also called on people of other professions not just in the state but around the country to join them on a nationwide strike it's not clear yet if people would actually follow through on that one but people are saying that they're not going to be satisfied with j

better life for the people of sudan more now from our correspondent who's in the sudanese capital khartoum him orgon. there's been five days of process across the country and more protests are expected today the doctors' union also issued a statement last night and said that they are going to hold a general strike and a big calling for people of other professions to join him on a nationwide strike the terms of fifth of december now it's not clear yet if this strike will happen it's not clear if the strike will take place but what we do know is that last night after a football match people came out of the stadium and protested against the government they've been chanting slogans like down with the government we don't want the government anymore we want a new regime so it's very obvious that what started i was at what started out as and economic protest has turned into political protests that started all last week in the city of bar in there in our state but that quickly escalated and went across the country now we've seen people protesting from different parts of the country and including t

started on wednesday in the eastern region quickly spreading across the country into the capital khartoum the government of omar al bashir reacted to demands that resign by imposing curfews and state of emergency he morgan has where from khartoum if the fall of protests in sudan and today people have come out in the southern state of south kordofan they've burned down the party's headquarters the national congress party's headquarters have been burned down to the ground and people are once again protesting the same thing they're protesting vacant on the crisis the protesting the fact that there is no bread in bakeries and that the government is trying to increase the price of bread when there is no bread to begin with they also protesting the fact that they have to wait in line at and who up at a.t.m.'s and banks to be able to access their own money and that they have to queue up at fuel stations to access fuel and also vans economic situation has been determined rather quickly. with a hospital mom in january the dollar was one one dollar to thirty pounds but this but today this morning i

state of emergency is being enforced in the cities of up power and get out if and in the capital khartoum police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators near the presidential palace the full story now what shall i tell us. outraged over rising food prices sudanese march to the beat of the slogan freedom protests of erupted emotional cities the largest store in the city of akbar was sudan is a flashpoint over rising inflation now at nearly seventy percent it's one of the world's highest i. purchased as chant people want the government down it coing recalls heard in the arab spring revolution seven years ago this has been sudan's long ago if you die out of spring because. the government has not been listening for quite a while but in the last few months they have also the economy has just gone downhill in a very bad way i mean the situation that you just explode they have been on explosion point for a while now. a state of emergency was in force and after a after the headquarters of the ruling party was set on fire because he's in force and schools are closed. a few hundred kilometers s

today a bit more than has the latest from khartoum. it's obvious now at this point at the protests it's more about the fact that the government is still in power then as well as opposed to what it started with which was about the economy where people were complaining about the fact that they don't have they couldn't afford bread they couldn't afford fuel they couldn't even afford to get their own cash out of a.t.m. machines and from banks this is going to be today is going to be the seventh day of protests something president bush has never had to deal with throughout his nearly thirty years of rule over sudan japan's main stock market the nikkei has fallen five percent japanese investors reacting to wall street closing on christmas eve at a record low shareholders are worried by donald trump's criticism of the federal reserve along with the u.s. government shutdown and trade tensions with china israel's government has called elections for april seven months earlier than expected the announcement follows a deadlock over a controversial

imagine cyril and demonstrations spread to the capital khartoum on the. schools and universities are closed and at least five states have a morgan has the latest from cutting back so that has been a pretty quiet today compared to the past three days where it's been seeing protests in several parts of the country including the capital khartoum several people have been injured and more than and at least one have been killed so far it's not clear yet how the day will play out but the government yesterday came out in a very rare press conference and called. socom they've also accused our former rebel movements to be behind the protesters and trying to get them to overthrow the government and seen people who have been protesting calling for a change in regime calling for an overthrow of the government calling for different economic policies now the government is worried that the opposition will take advantage of the current situation what is it to ation the situation is that a lot of people in sudan can no longer afford bread and there is shortage of bread in

step down the protests were triggered by a rise in the cost of bread and fuel to morgan now from khartoum. there's been five days of protests across the country and more protests are expected today the doctors' union also issued a statement last night and said that they are going to hold a general strike and a big calling for people of other professions to join in on a nationwide strike the twenty fifth of december now it's not clear yet if this strike will happen it's not clear if the strike will take place but what we do know is that last night after a football match people came out of the stadium and protested against the government they've been chanting slogans like down with the government we don't want the government anymore we want a new regime so it's very obvious that what started i was at what started out as an economic protest has turned into political protests that started all last week in the city of our endeavor in our state but that quickly escalated and went across the country now we've seen people protesting from different parts of the country and including the capital kh

proposing to lift sanctions on the khartoum is that there has been an insistence on an improvement of the human rights situation and then the particular him insistence on the improvement of religious freedom this isn't happening so. certainly there are voices in congress that will prevent the united states from really. trying to throw a lifeline to to be sheer but whether there will be anything in the coming out of the us that would have a positive impact on the internal politics of sudan i doubt that very much at this point as a what do you say is happening next. and sit down. again and they said all the seniors are expected do it depends on if the protests continue and i think they well i expect. i think i mean today of course because it is not the working days whodunits not like yesterday did not like the deal before. new it is actually there is a demonstration in new cities in bradley north called the fun again in my denny. again how to miss a big car converging with was yesterday but is expected to be in the nice and i think all scenarios are expecting. also no it's not subjectiv

fuel prices let's go now to our correspondent haber morgan she is joining us live from the capital khartoum no i do apologize we've lost our connection with her we will try to get her back because those protests actually we're not sure if we have hit us so let's try him but can you hear me yes i can hear your list all right so we do have him on the go and protests have are they are continuing while we wait for president bashir to address the country. yes so people have been outed industries there are some people still are protesting surrounded by police who have earlier fired tear gas and live ammunition we've seen live ammunition fired right when we were there with the protesters some of them reportedly injured it's not clear yet if there are fatalities are there some people who died in this protest we have already known from amnesty that at least thirty seven people have been killed in the protests let's remember that's been going on for thirteen days now it all started over the economy and rising food prices but people have been saying lately that they want president obama and bashir to

president bashir hiper morgan has been following this for us now and she joins us from the capital khartoum so what is the latest there. well as you have said has them right now the death toll stands at that temp people killed and dozens injured but the state of emergency is not just in the cities of and and and a lot of but they also have the whole state of white now state which is in the south of of the country under emergency rule there are also several other cities that are under curfew where which means that basically once the sun sets people are not allowed to move shops have to be closed the government is quite worried that people will try to mobilize themselves and that has indeed happened today this is the fourth day of protests not in the capital khartoum as much as places like for today and in place lexan are and places like northern kurdistan where the ruling party's headquarters was put into the ground and basically the governor and the commission were forced to basically as the protection from the police to avoid being heard by the protesters is getting a bit tough with the pr

it may all seem calm here in the sudanese capital khartoum but the doors of the school behind me tells of a different story itself the story of a country that has been forced to issue a nationwide suspension to schools high schools and universities to try to prevent people from congregating because they're worried that there will be for the protests on top of the five days of protests that it's already witnessing over the past few days people have been going out to the street they've been complaining and protesting against the rising prices of market commodities against the fact that the government has been planning to increase the price of a loaf of bread from one to the new spawn to three sudanese pounds which to them is already an affordable and they don't want to see more price hikes but they've also been protesting about the government and its comic policies and reforms that hold the ground for the economic situation in sudan and deteriorating living conditions and high prices no bread no fuel no medicine and all that has led to the protests in different parts of the country the p

a loaf has tripled in some areas and they are brit and fuel shortages nationwide in the capital khartoum some queue for hours outside bakeries government leaders announced their twenty nine hundred budget this week including one point four billion dollars of subsidies for fuel and brit but shopkeeper hussein osmonds says people need help now but what they're gonna. situation used to be good in the purchasing power people had was reasonable but conditions are bad now the goods are expensive and so people are unable to buy them the sudanese economy has struggled since the succession of south sudan in twenty eleven sudan lost three quarters of its oil output accounting for ninety percent of export revenues it was a crucial source of foreign currency the crisis is deeper into this year after subsidy cuts and the devaluation of the sudanese pound now it's an anxious whites to see the true cost of this crisis shiela ballasts al-jazeera all song sudanese government critics calling the unrest sudan's arab spring earlier i spoke to john temin director of the freedom house africa project he says t

not going to back down well we'll leave it there for the of course fall over this with you from khartoum. the african continent because of nigeria boko haram fighters have a turn to military bases in the fight for control around lake chad the intense fighting in the fishing town of bugger falls to nigeria and all the soldiers to retreat large quantities of weapons were stolen but herat has increased attacks on military posts recently over the dress has more. suffices to set around by getting around for a number of hours some are talking about more than twenty four hours and battle is ongoing in that area the army can only confirm that yes there's been some fighting but it has not lost control of this town of buy gas which is a fishing community but some residents who have fled the town are saying that book why don't fight is why deep inside the town one particular. resident was saying that they even led morning prayers this morning and by get time by the military is not giving so much details on the controlling that one person was killed and that they have on a search and rescue in such

morgan in khartoum when the democratic republic of congo a general strike is being held in the opposition areas excluded from sunday's presidential election workers was walked out in the northeastern city of beni and police fired tear gas in goma one officer was injured there a shortage of voting machines in the capital kinshasa is concerning election organize our correspondent michael ware joins us now from kinshasa so mark on what's been the response to the call for a general strike. in the sense is the fairly what had started as a peaceful shutdown erupted into street protests and police there we've heard have been struggling to control those protesters the protesters surrounded the private residence of the police commander and. then proceeded to the residence of the mayor police were able to disperse the protesters from there with live bullets and tear gas but then they proceeded back to hospital and since then i was pleased to still struggling to break up groups of protesters throughout the city in some other recent sounds and one of the town the office of the ruling party was burned

this is one of the main markets in battery north of the sudanese capital khartoum shoppers here see all the produce for seal have one thing in common. process is a hard tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it costs forty pounds or less and i will everything is expensive the prices have been going up and there are so many things we can buy and then there is the bread crisis. the bread crisis sparked protests around the country when the government announced its plan to raise the price of a low from wanted a nice pound to three there were demonstrations the government reacted by announcing a state of emergency in some cities curfews in others and it tried to block social media platforms including facebook twitter and what's happened dozens of people have been arrested. the protesters are just frustrated at the rising cost of bread in the past year inflation has risen to almost seventy percent in january the dollar was worth thirty cities now it's almost worth if this is a nice pounds which means higher market prices and people have to queue at banks to get their cash which with the i

the police who have been out in the street about thirty minutes ago and everywhere you go around khartoum you would find a group of police men carrying their batons ready for the protesters in case they come out in the street as they have promised carrying their memo is demanding the president to resign now let's remember they are going to march from a certain square not far from the presidential palace and then they would head on to the presidential palace to deliver a memo demanding president omar al bashir to resign gunman and a suicide bomber in libya have attacked the foreign ministry headquarters in tripoli initial reports say one of the attackers blew himself up in the compound the attackers killed at least two people turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to take back weapons given to kurdish rebels in northern syria turkish and u.s. troops began joint patrols last month in the area around the city of miami beach that was part of a deal known as the man big road map for the withdrawal of the kurdish why b.g. rebel group who helped the u.s. fight i saw in china at least

emergency the cities of director are under emergency rule and demonstrations spread to the capital khartoum on thursday schools and universities are closed in at least five states given morgan has the latest from khartoum sudan has we're going to require to be compared to the past three days where it's been seen protests in several parts of the.

south sudan became independent in two thousand and eleven there were morgan has the latest from khartoum. so that has woken up pretty quiet today compared to the past three days where it's been seen protests in several parts of the country including the capital khartoum several people have been injured and more than and at least one have been killed so far it's not clear yet how the day will play out but the government yesterday came out in a very rare press conference and called for calm they've also accused our former rebel movements to be behind the protesters and trying to get them to overthrow the government we've seen people who have been protesting calling for a change in regime calling for an overthrow of the government calling for different economic policies now the government is worried that the opposition will take advantage of the current situation what is it to ation the situation is that a lot of people in sudan can no longer afford bread and there is shortage of bread in bakeries not only just bread as well but there's also shortage of liquidity of cash that people would l

loaf has tripled in some areas and they are brit and fuel shortages nation weiss in the capital khartoumome queue for hours outside bakeries government leaders announce their twenty nine thousand budget this week including one point four billion dollars.

loaf has tripled in some areas and they are a bridge and fuel shortages nation weiss in the capital khartoum. some queue for hours outside bakeries government leaders announced their twenty nine hundred budget this week including one point four billion dollars of subsidies for fuel and brayed but shopkeeper hussain osman says people need help now they're what they're gonna. situation used to be good in the purchasing power people had was reasonable but conditions are bad now the goods are expensive and so people are unable to buy them the sudanese economy has struggled since the succession of south sudan in twenty eleven sudan lost three quarters of its oil output accounting for ninety percent of export revenues it was a crucial source of foreign currency the crisis is deeper into this year after subsidy cuts and the devaluation of the sudanese pound now it's an anxious whites to see the true cost of this crisis chela ballasts outages there are a judge in new york has costa request to dismiss a sexual assault case against the disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein the sixty six year o

have entered this second week in sudan hundreds of people have once again rallied in the capital khartoum but riot police have been heavily deployed to stop them from marching to the presidential palace there were similar scenes on tuesday when police dispersed thousands of protesters with tear gas and live ammunition to say they treated at least nine people for injuries following those demonstrations one of the mist in a critical condition the demonstrations angry at rising food and fuel prices and blame the government for economic mismanagement there's a hippo morgan has the latest from khartoum. what we've seen so far is that people are not satisfied with just marching up to the streets demanding that the president resign and that his he and his twenty nine year rule we're seeing people doing basically they were seeing people protesting in different ways. of today for example doctors issued a statement saying that they are on strike they're not going to go to work they don't want to work for a government that basically they see is oppressing them and is not giving them any benefits esp

fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters it blocked a road in the capital khartoum the protesters gathered in the center of the city after a soccer match they chanted freedom songs calling on president bashir to step down several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand a change of government the protests into their fifth day forcing schools and universities to shut down across the country and doctors have now gone on indefinite strike heaping more pressure on the government here reports from car to . drive in his minivan is the only way. to living he says taking passengers around used to bring in enough money but with a fuel crisis in sudan that's no longer the case. we can stay from the day before till the next day waiting for fuel with the fuel shortage sometimes you have to look for fuel in the black market for a higher price and even then you can't find fuel easily unless you know someone who can direct you to find around two gallons just so you can drop people off. fuel isn't the only thing scars in sudan this is shortage of money too over the past

police fired into the air when demonstrators tried to march on the presidential palace in the capital khartoum there demanding president omar al bashir step stile after twenty nine years in power al-jazeera has have a more than is there. they started by protesting against shortage of credit and rising inflation but seven days on the demand has completely changed they're now demanding the government and its twenty one year rule and step down the government which is led by president omar al bashir has responded to using tear gas and live ammunition was i. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters on tuesday he accused the protesters of being influenced by external agents. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support a new clue zero which is a response. to every foreign agent. and destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the churches in foreign agents i support you and with your support i will be back here next year. thousands came out to protest in the capital anyway some opposition groups have voiced support to the prote