again have seen people coming out onto the streets and demonstrating demanding that president obama bashir a step down something he said he's not going to do now let's remember that these protests are now going into its fourth week the longest any government really and. demanding that's have done since its independence in one nine hundred fifty nine no government before had to face for its has this long demand that it's had done with the president said it is because it has been very defiant he said he's not going to step down and he said he was going to try to introduce economic reforms and improve the situation for the people the people have said that they've heard the promises over and over again they say that they think what he's going to do is something he's done before which has resulted in high inflation seventy percent one of the highest in the world and resulted in bread shortages and fuel shortages so they think that whatever he tries to promise will not bring about change and the only thing that could be done at the moment is he stepped down now there are concerns that people wou

this is the first foreign trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and heart to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example is invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qataris vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that of sudan as well speaking to our jazeera the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean from a as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests sort of taken place since she came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widespread condemnat

doesn't look like president obama bashir is listening to those demands just a while ago he spoke in the white snow the state south of khartoum and he once again denied that the government has killed any protest and his accused infiltrators among protesters of shooting on protesters to put the blame on the government and the mission that particular case of dr bao because i meet who was shot down on thursday the during a protest when he was trying to help some of the wounded and he said but the bullet that has been used to kill dr. doesn't even belong to any state apparatus and this has been a long going discussion claims and counterclaims accusations and counter-accusations as to who is who who is killing the protesters. the government is now using turbaned men men who whose faces are mosques and nobody knows where they belong and this is a this is a very serious discussion here in the country now us to what happened today as you said heavy to gas used by police once again in the city of on demand protesters there have been planning to converge on the parliament and to once again demand

this is the first foreign trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and heart to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example is invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qatar his vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that's of sudan as well speaking to our jazeera the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean been hammered as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests that have taken place since she came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widespr

this has been the scene in many parts of sudan people coming out to protest against president obama bashir is twenty nine year rule and demanding that he step down. i won't tell you whether we are under a dictatorship for thirty years they have used religion to stay in power now is the right time for people to come out and protest you can see them and they're firing tear gas you could even be a weird agent we citizens just want our rights to eat and drink and live with dignity like anyone else in the world. on wednesday thousands came out once again to protest in on demand as they attempted to make their wits religiously diverse templi to handle memo demanding that the president resign i i know the police responded to. tear gas was and live ammunition to disperse the crowd. a scene different than the one in the capital khartoum where the first pro-government rally was held since protests began in mid december president bashir addressed his supporters blaming the protest on what he described as external forces. we are all together hand in hand joining forces to maintain stability some are a

this is the first foreign trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and what to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example it's invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qatar his vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that's of sudan as well speaking charges here of the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean been from a as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests that have taken place since she came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widespr

it's his second visit outside his country in less than a week as to dance president obama bashir faces continuing calls back home to end his thirty year rule and step down calls that started six weeks ago and to which he has remained defiant to heed where with the early. on. there is a problem in sudan we cannot claim that we don't have a problem but some media take it out of size and dimension it is an attempt to close what is being called the arab spring in sudan it has the same slogans programmes and requests it also has the same use of social media however the sudanese people have learned the lessons they have seen what happened in some of the states that went through the so-called arab spring and its negative implications of covering the sudanese people are very alert and will not fall into anyone's trap to destabilize sudan. the demonstrations started in mid december in the city of odds over rising bread crisis it could spread to other parts of the country with thousands taking to the streets demanding that and bashir who's been in power since one thousand eight hundred nine and

this is the first foreign trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and what to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example it's invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qatar is vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that's of sudan as well speaking charges there are the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean been from a as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests that have taken place since she came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widesp

this is the first foreign trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and what to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example it's invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qataris vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that's of sudan as well speaking charges zero the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean been from a funny as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests that have taken place since it came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widespr

almost forgot about those original demands and now they demand nothing less done for president obama bashir to step down we have seen president bashir seek support outside of sudan he's traveled to qatar notably how much is this helping him back at home i mean are people aware that you know he's seeking support outside and how much influence can this have on the demonstrations. yeah once again the demonstrators are not listening to those moves or watching those moves with high expectations they talk to us about this they say this has been going on for a long time now the government reaching out to allies to neighbors for help but there is no expectation that this is going to solve the problem or ease the crisis anytime soon the president has been in qatar yesterday and the qataris expressed their willingness to support sudan and to support its unity and stability or we haven't yet of a specific package of help to be given to sudan but there is also a delegation from saudi arabia arrived today they're going to meet president bashir there are no details about what level is that delegation and

today is the for pro-government rally that has been organized since protests against president obama bashir and his rule broke out three weeks ago now the people have been mobilized by the ruling party and the government and they say that they want to show the world that the president is not on one side as people have been demonstrating against him over the past two weeks but there is also another government rally that is being organized today and people say that they will try to proceed on to the national display to assembly to submit a memo saying that they want the government to step down in an interim council be formed and still elections are held now the president has repeated over and over again including today and said that he's not going to step down he said if people want him to basically hand over power to a new government that has to happen after twenty twenty one elections are held people are saying that they will continue to demonstrate and they will continue to make their voices heard today is in a way a reflection of the state of sudan with people one on one side saying that

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reaching the presidential palace it is the latest in continuing demonstrations against president obama bashir began nearly three weeks ago anger over rising food prices and government corruption of more calls for bashir to step down after nearly thirty years in power at least nineteen people have died since the unrest started with some rights groups putting the figure much i am here morgan is in the capital hard to. anti-government protests are in its third week once again you've seen people marching out and streets demonstrating against the rule of president obama and bush are they saying that they want president obama to shoot to end his twenty one year rule and step down something he said he's not going to do so people are saying that they will not stop protesting and demonstrating in the streets and so the president gives into their demands now we've seen people being separated from the crowd in protest using live ammunition and tear gas something that has happened over and over again during the previous protests and certainly something that has happened today people have the police have

on the home of vile has more from khartoum president obama bashir seems to be sending two messages one of them is to the region he has been in egypt for the last few days and immediately after that visit we see him opening the border with it we are one of the countries that have sided with egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates and behind in the blockade against qatar internally we see that this is a very important message for the people of on the border with eritrea last year in june when the border was closed after the ports that it and egypt were organizing the military exercises their populations on both sides of the board to help tremendously suffered because their livelihood depended on exchange of commerce and also on movement between the two sides between the two countries now on bashir it has been touring in terms of the regions in sudan after this wave of protests trying to send messages from the government that the government is trying to help people the government is going to ease the economy of the population and this decision today comes in that context as well. let'

step down now this has been going on for more than a month the biggest challenge to president obama bashir since he came into power nearly thirty years ago and there doesn't seem to be any end to it but people have been very concerned about how security forces have been responding to the wave of our protesters they've the people who are demonstrating say they're very peaceful there are armed and all they're trying to do is to get their message across to across the government that it should step down and hand over power to the interim independent council and to elections are held a car bomb has exploded in letter carrier syria the blast comes just days after another explosion hit the mascot's apparently targeting security officials zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing security forces of systematic torture after recent protests that turned violent president emerson mango is calling for a national dialogue to address the protests over rising living costs used twitter to condemn demonstrations which he said were not peaceful the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar has be

hundreds coming out into the streets and for the tomb protesting against the rule of president obama bashir has been returning the country for twenty nine years the demonstrators have been chanting slogans like peace justice and freedom and they say that they want president almost here to end his rule and hand over power to an interim independent counsel twenty four people have been killed so far in the protest since his target in december according to the government but human rights watch and amnesty international and other rights groups with a number at least fourteen while activists in sudan who have been tracking the death toll say at least fifty five have been killed now the opposition have also come out some of the opposition groups have lent support to the people who have been demonstrating and say that these people have legitimate reasons to be demanding that the president step down and some people in the national government as well have been questioning the way the government has responded to the people who've been demonstrating and demanding that the president step down. and these

started over the economy but quickly morphed into a process people saying that they want president obama bashir to resign and his twenty one year rule something he said he's not going to do as you said there will be another anti-government protest that's going to happen in a few minutes people said that they will try once again to submit a memo to the assembly and demand that the government basically step down and hand over power to an interim council. the government rather due to start about an hour these going to keep up momentum is a pressure going to keep on building they say they are not going to stop make they said that they will continue to demonstrate they will continue to lead their demands be heard and tell the president step down as i said that's something that he is not going to do until elections come in twenty twenty now there are concerns that more lives would be lost amnesty international says thirty seven people have been killed since the protests started in on december nineteenth of and there are concerns because the police have been responding by using what some government so

force people are saying that the government should be a little bit more lenient now president obama bashir has spoken before about the police response and and yesterday the local authorities and said that they will investigate what's happening on hospital where police barge into the hospital and fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters they say that they will investigate all these but the fact is that protesters continue to me to come out in the streets out in the streets and demonstrate so their concerns that these investigations will not happen until the protest stop and to be honest it doesn't seem like it's going to stop anytime soon ok have a thanks very much for the update there from car too. including hundreds of thousands of civil servants going without pay. the partial government shutdown in u.s. history. and migration and the rights of the british and. the british public continues the debate ahead of next week's crucial vote. request d.n.a. from the world's biggest football star not accusations of great have all the details in sports. in the u.s. hundreds of thousands of

make sure are credible free and fair are held and that a new government is formed now president obama bashir has been defiant he said he's not going to step down until elections are held next year and there is a possibility that the constitution may be amended for him to run again the government says at least twenty nine people have been killed but activists who've been tracking the death toll since the protests started in december nineteenth say that that number is not the reflective it's not reflective of the reality in that at least fifty one people have been killed since the protests began sudan's government have been also criticized for using what some foreign governments like the e.u. the u.n. and the u.s. have termed as brutal excessive force they say that the protesters who've been protesting peacefully and an armed have been met with tear gas and live ammunition resulting in deaths now today the opposition leader assad the go ahead he has also joined the coalition of our opposition groups and civil societies that have been calling for the government to step down he said he and other

established in one nine hundred forty five it's leading members see the government led by president obama to bashir who has been in power for nearly thirty years needs to step down and they're not going to wait for elections scheduled for next year to see it happen and we have been leading the the month of the people. of the step down of this until this year because as you know he's he's failed all through the last thirty years in all aspects of life in sudan so there is no need for. in an sensical elections which is lacking any freedom or any integrity in it as happened in the previous. election of twenty sixteen and the one before. the party is not the only group into then demanding the government step down since mid december thousands have protested on the streets the demonstration was sparked by an economic issue that's quickly morphed into a political crisis for the government with a slogan similar to those chanted by protesters in the arab spring the revolutions that brought down regimes in neighboring countries they too have been demanding the government and its rule but officials here accus

step down now this has been going on for more than a month the biggest challenge to president obama bashir since he came into power nearly thirty years ago and there doesn't seem to be any end to it but people have been very concerned about how security forces have been responding to the wave of our protesters they've the people who are demonstrating say they're very peaceful they're on armed and all they're trying to do is to get their message across to across the government that it should step down and hand over power to the interim independent council and to elections are held to zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing security forces of systematic torture of the recent protests that turned violent president emerson non-god war is calling for a national dialogue to address the protests of a rising living costs he used twitter to condemn demonstrations which he said were not peaceful global leaders are in davos for the world economic forum as the i.m.f. warns of a global worldwide slowdown us president donald trump is one of several leaders who stayed away to deal with domestic is

this is the first foreign trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and heart to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example is invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qatar his vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that of sudan as well speaking to our jazeera the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean been hammered as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests that have taken place since she came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widesprea

this is the first foreign trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and what to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example it's invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qataris vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that's of sudan as well speaking charges there are the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean been from a as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests that have taken place since she came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widespr

it's his second visit outside his country in less than a week as to dance president obama bashir faces continuing calls back home to end his thirty year rule and step down calls that started six weeks ago and to which he has remained defiant to heed. there is a problem in sudan we cannot claim that we don't have a problem but some media take it out of size and dimension it is an attempt to clone what is being called the arab spring in sudan it has the same slogans programmes and requests it also has the same use of social media however the sudanese people have learned the lesson that they have seen what happened in some of the states that went through the so-called arab spring and its negative implications wedding the sudanese people are very alert and will not fall into anyone's trap to destabilize sudan. the demonstrations started in mid december in the city of odds over rising bread prices it quickly spread to other parts of the country with thousands taking to the streets demanding that and bashir who's been in power since one thousand eight hundred nine and his rule security force

it's his second visit outside his country in less than a week as to dance president obama bashir faces continuing calls back home to end his thirty year rule and step down calls that started six weeks ago and to which he has remained defiant to heat. there is a problem in sudan we cannot claim that we don't have a problem but some media take it out of size and dimension it is an attempt to close what is being called the arab spring in sudan it has the same slogans programmes and requests it also has the same use of social media however the sudanese people have learned the lesson that they have to see what happened in some of the states that went through the so-called arab spring and its negative implications wedding the sudanese people are very alert and will not fall into anyone's trap to destabilize sudan. the demonstrations started in mid december and the city of over rising bread prices it quickly spread to other parts of the country with thousands taking to the streets demanding that and bashir who's been in power since one thousand eight hundred nine and his rule security forces

becoming the longest since a gang gained independence and the biggest challenge to president obama to bashir since he came to power twenty nine years ago morgan caught on. whether is next but still ahead on. demonstrators.

becoming the longest since a gang gained independence and the biggest challenge to president obama to bashir since he came to power twenty nine years ago morgan caught on. still ahead on al-jazeera a nation in mourning after a car bomb attack on a police academy in colombia killed ten people. sorry. but. only just learning to read why a twelve year old from honduras who tried to get into america is desperate to have another go. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. and we're watching some very active weather make its way across the middle east at the moment has that system that brought us all rain and snow from turkey down towards egypt actually and is now edging its way towards the east still bringing us some heavy rain and snow and some pretty strong winds as well as it gradually makes its way towards the northeast it's also having an effect on the weather for the south though even way you don't see the rain and snow is bring you some pretty strong winds as well so for the southern parts over around here expect it to be pretty dusty over the next fe

becoming the longest since a gang gained independence and the biggest challenge to president obama to bashir since he came to power twenty nine years ago morgan al-jazeera caught on. still ahead on al-jazeera a nation in mourning after a car bomb attack on a police academy in colombia killed ten.

protesters opposition does activists and journalists were detained after calling for president obama bashir to step down. lawyers in zimbabwe are demanding free and fair trials for hundreds of anti-government protesters there but they fear the ruling party and security forces could interfere in the court process which also has more from her. lawyers in zimbabwe say they know they are taking a risk protesting two weeks ago security forces are fighting dispersed demonstrators infuriated by rising fuel prices some lawyers representing zimbabweans arrested jerry and after the protests are demanding security forces and politicians don't interfere with the judiciary believe that the question is supreme like the military therefore we will fight for the rights of accused persons no matter what the cost is tossed. the lawyers also want the government to respect the rights of the more than one thousand people arrested in the past two weeks then thought if taking place in our country in the past two weeks have been quite disturbing in terms of the risk that. turpin and don must arias the must the fast

very defiant they say that they will not stop doing street on the streets and tell president obama to bashir steps down now the rights groups have come out and said at least forty people have been killed since of course as began on december nineteenth the government is disputing that figure and they're saying that twenty two people have been killed while over one hundred eight hundred have been arrested a lot of people have also been missing since the protests began and there are concerns about their safety and well being from relatives and from rights groups they're saying that there are concerns that the government would use torture to try to get these people.

that they don't want new promises they don't want new reforms what they want is for president obama and bashir to step down and try to pave way for an interim government until elections are held that we've also seen police fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters to try to disperse them that hasn't stopped them and they say that they will continue to protest as president bashir says he's very defiant he's not going to bow to their demands and step down and he hasn't to those demands for i mean he's been in power for more than two decades so where does the situation go from here the protesters say they won't settle for anything less than him stepping down he's very unlikely to do that . well he says he wants to negotiate but the thing is that these protesters don't have a certain body backing them up the have backing from certain opposition groups but they seem to be largely the people's protest the people's revolution like they like to call it they don't want the president to negotiate with them what they want is for him to step down so it's not very clear where this would end today an

one hundred val has more from khartoum president obama bashir seems to be sending two messages one of them is to the region that he has been in egypt for the last few days and immediately after that visit we see him opening the border with it we are one of the countries that have sided with egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates and behind in the blockade against qatar internally we see that this is a very important message for the people of on the border with eritrea last year in june when the border was closed after reports that it and egypt were organizing military exercises their populations on both sides of the board to help tremendously suffered because their livelihood depended on exchange of commerce and also on movement between the two sides between the two countries now omar bashir has been touring in term of the regions in sudan after this wave of protests trying to send messages from the government that the government is trying to help people the government is going to ease the economy of the population and this decision today comes in that context as well. at least t

fifty have lost their lives in the month long protests demanding the resignation of president obama and bashir the government total is much lower protests started when the government announced a rise in the price of bread the outcry spread to other towns and cities nationwide police have repeatedly fired bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds hospitals and doctors have been attacked by security forces for treating protesters. demands to end bush years thirty year rule can be heard in every protest march. it's been one month since people started protesting to demand change people have been expressing their frustration at the way president bashir has been running the country for the past thirty years despite the use of live ammunition and tear gas the protest seems to be gathering strength and for weeks on the president remains defiant. president bashir describes protesters streeter's influenced by foreign agents as a criticism by the e.u. and the un of attacks on unarmed protesters sudan's government lawyer is promising to investigate. we will be looking into the deaths that occurred during th

becoming the longest since a gang gained independence and the biggest challenge to president obama to bashir since he came to power twenty nine years ago people more going on to their own cotton still ahead on al-jazeera a nation in mourning after a car bomb attack on a police academy in colombia killed ten people. so. while. i was just learning to read why a twelve year old from under us is trying to get into america is desperate to have another go.

becoming the longest since a gang gained independence and the biggest challenge to president obama to bashir since he came to power twenty nine years ago people more going on today are caught on. doctors in zimbabwe say that they've treated sixty eight people for gunshot wounds after days of violent protests there over the sudden rise in fuel prices state t.v. says six hundred people have been arrested since monday including labor leaders and prominent rights activists human rights watch has accused supporters of the rulings on the p.f. party of beating activists and handing them over to police alexey o'brien reports. with broken limbs and bruised faces this group waits for treatment outside a clinic in harare. soldiers broke into a house in the middle of the night destroying property in the process they took turns to beat us in our own was full of blood to. it happens during demonstrations against president innocent men and god was moved to double fuel prices to counter a deepening economic crisis the security forces responded with what rights groups say was an unprecedented use of excessiv

becoming the longest since a gang gained independence and the biggest challenge to president obama to bashir since he came to power twenty nine years ago morgan of his era caught on. so ahead on al-jazeera a nation in mourning after a car bomb attack on a police academy in colombia killed ten people. and a country try ever comes out on top of the shirt stuck around and crude. hello there the weather is certainly ramping up over parts of north america for take a look at the satellite picture we can see the latest area of cloud of rain that's making its way in from the pacific that's already given us some heavy rain for many of us in the western parts of the u.s. and in the western parts of canada that system or edge its way eastwards you get more rain and spring there as we head through the day on friday but it's this system that's making its way across the plains and got to watch because as that one edges its way eastwards is really pulling itself together we'll see a lot of heavy rain all night in the southern parts of the u.s. and then on the north and pas that's where we'll see some snow