and it is increasingly discouraging him from giving up power to other younger talents within the ncp. so that alone is indeed a major problem and would make it difficult for him to step down. >> and his acceptance speech when he was put forward he did announce his proposal, off the national dialog. so with his running for re-election, what does that mean between him and the opposition? well, it doesn't mean much. the die lock has been received with different feelings within sudan. a number of leaders were quite optimistic at first, but as time went down, that optimism waned. because the promised that were with made to take this dialog seriously were not met with real action. and that by the way, the promised that bashir has been making about not running is something he has been doing for the last eight years. when he signed an agreement, he made a promise that he was going to step down. >> any other attempts being done, are basically strategying to continue the length of power. >> and when it comes to south sudan, do we expect relations to just continue and stay the same? >> it is lik