reserves went with that and so this is a struggling economy and people just don't believe that omar al bashir can do anything at this stage to change that around and they think new ideas need to come in by the way of a new government how much pressure is omar al bashir under right now and we saw people come out in two thousand and thirteen and that was really the last time we saw crowds of this size and scale but that was also in response to a measure of price increases ok so a mild but she came out and said you know prize the price of fuel was going up and people responded to that this time it's morphed into anti-government sentiment and that is a real concern because it's the first time we've seen this kind of anti the message went against of. it is worrying and you can see in the sense how he's responded the security forces amnesty international says about thirty seven people have been killed by security forces and they believe that number is going to rise and so yet this is the first time he's faced dissent of this sort christine one vive thank you very much for joining me in studio. that

government and its twenty one year rule and step down the government which is led by president omar al bashir has responded using tear gas and live ammunition. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters in tuesday hickeys the protests as of being influenced by external h.d. the feeling. that as a. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support a new clues he hasn't which is your response to every foreign trade to outlaw 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 and. thousands came out to protest in the capital anyway some opposition groups have voiced support to the protesters they say the people have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into a political crisis for the government but the being as we cannot at this moment lower our demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge if you will and financial instability however they are now demanding the toppling of the regime and ch

riot police dispersed thousands of angry protesters in sudan as president omar al bashir this misses them as traitors. hello i'm barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up turkey says the united states has agreed to disarm kurdish fighters in northern syria u.s. president donald trump warns the government shutdown will last until he gets funding for his controversial border war with mexico and the search goes on rescuers think for survivors in indonesia following saturday's deadly sin of. 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 morg

riot police the spurs thousands of angry protesters in sudan as president omar al bashir dismissing dismisses them as traitors. hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up turkey says the united states has agreed to this armed kurdish fighters in northern syria u.s. president donald trump warns the government shutdown will last until he gets funding for his controversial border war with mexico and the search goes on rescuers think for survivors in indonesia following saturday's deadly tsunami. we start the program in sudan where riot police have the sparse thousands of protesters trying to march on the presidential palace in khartoum the demonstrators are angry at rising food and fuel prices and blame president omar bashir is government for economic mismanagement but despite promising reforms earlier this week the longtime ruler has now the smiths the protesters as traitors and foreign agents our correspondent hiper morgan has more now from hard to. this started by protesting against shortage of credit and rising inflation but seven days on the demand has

and which is led by president omar al bashir has responded to using tear gas and live ammunition. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters in tuesday hickeys the protest says of being influenced by external agencies. as a. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support and enthusiasm which is a response to every foreign agent traitor lauren 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 protesters they say the people have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into a political crisis for the government but the as we cannot at this moment lower our demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge fuel and financial instability however they are now demanding the toppling of the regime and changing it the masses of realize that there is a strong relationship between the economy

omar al bashir becomes a leader to visit damascus since the syrian war began nearly eighty years ago. i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead. it. thousands out on the streets in hungary protesting against prime minister viktor orban and calling labor reforms slave law all. day on the outskirts of the many poor city of. song on tuesday and cuban filmmakers push boundaries despite the challenge of censorship. a president accused of war crimes has become the first arab leader to visit syrian president bashar assad in damascus since the beginning of the war nearly eighty years ago say media code sudan's president omar al bashir expressing his hope that syria will recover its important role in the region as soon as possible syria was expelled from the arabic shortly after war broke out in twenty levon the assad government has been accused by the un and rights groups of committing multiple war crimes and it's not just sudan several other countries have recently indicated they may be willing to normalize relations with the syrian government in early october president

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 escalated into a protest where people have been demanding the government to go and they've been demanding a new government the government is saying that they are not trying to attack the protestors they're not trying to respond to the protesters what they're trying to do is to make sure that these protesters do not harm public properties let's remember that the headquarters of the national congress party the ruling party around various states have been burned to the ground which is why they are curfews and states of emergency in various parts of the country which is why universities an

thousands of protesters trying to reach sudan's presidential palace as calls grow for omar al bashir down. below and barbara starr you're watching live from london also coming up in the program turkey says the united states has agreed to this armed kurdish fighters in northern syria rescuers expand their search for survivors of last week's deadly tsunami in indonesia as authorities warned of more high tides to come and the rats shrinking christian community celebrates christmas with the government declaring it an official public. hello thank you for joining us we begin the program in sudan where police fired tear gas and live ammunition to the spurs crowds of protesters in the capital to. thousands are attempting to reach the presidential palace as they continue their call for longtime leader omar al bashir to step down they blame his government for economic mismanagement and rising food and fuel costs official government figures say twelve people have died since the unrest began a week ago the international groups say that the real figure to be as high as thirty seven allowed to see

the protesters were marching towards the presidential palace to demand omar al bashir step down the president has vowed to implement what he calls the real reforms three improve living standards al-jazeera is here to morgan ventured into the thick of the protests here's what she saw in car too. people instead of having to seek first few days now if you see behind me you can see soon to mount a huge number of people protesting this saying that if the people force as they want the government to do the thing chanting things like down with the government this is the seventh day of protest against the government people in the kerry campaign a different is going to and obviously there's a lot of confusion among three the concerned police have been firing tear gas while watching this they've also fired a lot of the fire a lot of poor guys they've been firing they've been threatening process of having some of them to leave but they are still there this will put something out of turning out to be a huge crowd maybe probably much larger than the crowd was expecting it's not clear if this government is

see dons omar al bashir becomes the first arab leader to visit damascus since the syrian war began nearly eighty years ago. and i'm just audio tape and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. on the streets in hungary protesting against prime minister viktor all band and calling and label reform slavery. twelve dead and fighting on the outskirts of the yemeni port of data ahead of a cease fire set to start on tuesday plus. i'm scott either in bangkok's chinatown were group of performers trying to keep the centuries old art form of chinese opera a la their story coming up. a president accused of war crimes has become the first arab leader to visit syrian president bashar al assad in damascus since the beginning of the war nearly eight years ago state media acquired sudan's president omar al bashir expressing his hope that syria will recover its important role in the region as soon as possible syria was expelled from the arab league shortly after war broke out there in twenty eleven the assad government has been accused by the u.n. and rights groups of committing multiple war crim

street protests public anger is growing in sudan all the rise in food prices so the president omar al bashir survived what is the out to offer and this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey sudan lost most of its oil reserves when the south seceded in two thousand and eleven ended a struggle to recover and glacial rates have skyrocketed prices have more than doubled the value of the sudanese pound its plunge protest against the worsening situation 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

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 world as reports from the german city of. their witnesses of history these violins belong to european jew

they were demanding the resignation of president omar al—bashir.vely. he gave me more details about what happpened today. there was called today by the professionals association, which is an assembly of trade unions, independent trade unions, out of the, different from the sudanese government sanctioned saddam trade unions federation. —— sudan. hundreds if not thousands took to the streets in khartoum, with the intention of delivering a memorandum calling for the resignation of president omar al bashir. they were met with tear gas and bullets in different parts of khartoum, mainly downtown near the main square. the downtown near the main square. the downtown area of khartoum, there have been reports of casualties and many injured. and is it clear specifically what the protesters want? well, in the beginning, when 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 whic

president omar al bashir has ruled for almost thirty years he's been reelected several times most recently in twenty fifteen when most opposition parties boycotted the vote now some opposition groups are calling for a change in the way the country's government eat. his lunch we need a new type of for regime a new system a new leadership the issue here is not who's ruling sudan but how to govern this nation first we need a new recipe for peace we need a national transitional unity government real consultations when it comes to the constitution. to protest on a scale not seen before dear time as president sudanese people seem to have lost patience and want to see an improvement in their living conditions sooner rather than later morgan al-jazeera. a group of protesters have attacked police offices during demonstrations in the french capital paris fighting broke out when demonstrates a started throwing objects at the officers one policeman took out a gun to disperse the crowd but at the opposite effect a crowd surrounded the offices who were forced to flee on their motorbikes the so-called ye

sudan's president omar al bashir has become the first arab leader to visit syria since the beginning of the war almost eight years ago he met the syrian president bashar al assad in damascus both leaders stand accused of war crimes linked to conflicts in their country. thousands of people have been protesting in hungary as capital budapest it's the fourth demonstration this week against prime minister viktor orban and his controversial laws that have been passed by the right wing government bowie chalons reports. for the fourth day now protesters have been on the streets of the hungary in capital budapest recent law changes abroad thousands of people out to denounce prime minister viktor orban right wing government you know it's been a long void i think that this content is growing and with this not only anger and frustration but also those voices which would like to make change. i do not again banish an answer and again when i'm mad at bashing look i have had enough and so have my friends this is now not about opposition politicians about who stands on which side but this is about th

a mistake and doha and these are all the top stories sudan's president omar al bashir has become thefirst arab leader to visit syria since the beginning of the war nearly eighty is a guy state media quite special expressing his hope that syria will recover its important role in the region as soon as possible turkey is the last major backer of the syrian opposition helping them hold part of northern syria boss its foreign minister says ankara is prepared to engage with damascus if the assad government held and one free and fair elections. everybody should be able to walk the eligible ones. and also the few including the refugees in might be a neighboring country is running other countries resettled in the last seven years and it has to be a very credible one transparent democratic going for elections and then at the end . people will decide who is going to rule the country after this election if it is democratic elections and if it is a credible one then everybody should consider that. saudi arabia has denounced a position by the u.s. senate accusing its crown prince of ordering the m

president omar al bashir has ruled for almost thirty years he's been reelected several times most recently in twenty fifteen when most opposition parties boycotted the vote now some up official groups are calling for a change in the way the country's government eat. his lunch we need a new type of for regime a new system a new leadership the issue here is not who's ruling sudan but how to govern this nation first we need a new recipe for peace we need a national transitional unity government real consultations when it comes to the constitution. to protest on a scale not seen before dear time as president sudanese people seem to have lost patience and want to see an improvement in their living conditions sooner rather than later. while the government has also called for an emergency cabinet meeting to try to find a way out of this crisis they've also imposed a nationwide school ban so basically schools universities are not allowed together people are not allowed to go to schools and universities because of the state of emergency in some places the curfews and others and because of the suspe

omar al bashir. needed to visit damascus. to go. i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead. thousands out on the streets in hungary protesting against prime minister viktor orban and calling labor reforms.

again calling for president omar al bashir to. police have fired tear gas to try and disperse the crowds of the capital the president is refusing to apologize for the political turmoil and has slammed recent protests against rising food and fuel prices. al-jazeera has. killed. carrying bags suspected of containing his remains the video shows the team arriving at the general's residence and. democratic senator elizabeth warren has taken a major step towards running in the twenty twenty presidential race. that she's forming an exploratory committee raise money and find formally launching a presidential bid. to yemen the people in the port city of her they say shelling is continuing despite a u.n. backed truce well the fight has agreed to hand over control of her day there to a local. the same by the u.n. as part of a recent data but the government backed by the coalition say they aren't holding true to their word. reports in her optimism however cautious it may have been has turned into confusion despite the truce there are reports

able to afford daily goods and go on with their lives here morgan for inside story so who is omar al bashir he came to power in a military coup in one thousand nine hundred ninety. israel sudan with an iron fist since then he's been reelected president several times and most recently in two thousand and fifteen when most opposition parties boycotted the vote this government signed a peace deal to end the twenty one year civil war between north and south in two thousand and five and he oversaw the secession of south sudan into an independent state in two thousand and eleven faces to international arrest warrants and a travel ban on charges of genocide and war crimes and there are four region despite this he's made several diplomatic visits and was the first arab leader to visit syria since the war began there. let's bring in our guest now from khartoum feisal mohamed salah a political analyst and former director of programs at the press here in doha. elephant a professor of politics at the doha institute and in oxford in the u.k. douglas johnson author of the book south sudan a new history f

government and its twenty one year rule and step down the government which is led by president omar al bashir has responded using tear gas and live ammunition. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters in tuesday he accused the protesters of being influenced by external agents. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support and enthusiasm which is your response to every foreign agent traitor lauren destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the traitors and 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 protesters they see the people have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into political crisis for the government but the being as we cannot at this moment lower our demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge fuel and financial instability however they are now demanding the toppling of the regime and changing it the masses of realize that

government and its twenty one year rule and step down the government which is led by president omar al bashir has responded using tear gas and live ammunition. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters in tuesday hickeys the protesters of being influenced by external a challenge i think you should. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support a new three zero which is a response to every foreign agent traitor lauren destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the traitors 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 protesters they say the people have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into a political crisis for the government.

hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has this miss protesters rallying against him in the capital khartoum as traitors and foreign agents. earlier riot police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds of thousands who were marching towards the presidential palace the demonstrators want 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 but after initially promising economic reform on monday addressing a group of supporters the president remains the find appealing you should. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support and enthusiasm which is a response to every foreign and traitor and destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the traces of foreign agents i support you and with your support i would be back here next year well just morgan ventured into the thick of the protests and here is what she saw. people in

they were demanding the resignation of president omar al—bashir.covered sudan extensively. he gave us more details about what happpened. there was a call today by the sudanese professionals association, which is an assembly of trade unions, independent trade unions of the — different from the sudanese government—sanctioned sudan trade unions federation. and hundreds, if not thousands, took to the streets in khartoum with the intention of delivering a memorandum calling for the resignation of president omar al—bashir. they were met with tear gas and bullets in different parts of khartoum, mainly in downtown, near the abu jinzir square, and the downtown area of khartoum. there have been reports of casualties, and many 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 di

know i'm fully back to bill with a look at our main stories here on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has become the first sad leader to visit syria since a beginning of the war nearly eight years ago state media coast fresh air expressing his hope that syria will recovery's important role in the region as soon as possible syria was expelled from the arab league shortly after the war broke out in twenty lebanon turkey is the last major backer of the syrian opposition helping them whole part of northern syria but its foreign minister says ankara is prepared to engage with damascus if the assad government held and won free and fair elections everybody should be able to walk the eligible ones in syria and all sides of syria including the refugees in my country and neighboring countries and in other countries who were resettled in the last seven years and it has to be a very credible one transparent democratic and fair elections and then at the end syrian people will decide who is going to rule the country after this election if it is a democratic elections and if it is a credible one the

government and its twenty one year rule and step down the government which is led by president omar al bashir has responded using tear gas and live ammunition. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters on tuesday he kills the protesters of being influenced by external agency. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support and enthusiasm which is a response to every foreign agent traitor lauren destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the traitors 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 protesters they say the people have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into a political crisis for the government but the as we cannot at this moment lower our demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge fuel and financial instability however they are now demanding the toppling of the regime and changing it the masses of realize that there is

well now the sudanese president omar al bashir has met with syria's president in the capital damascus he was warmly greeted by bashar assad at the airport upon arrival but here is the first arab leader to visit since the start of the syrian war in twenty eleven the leaders held talks in the presidential palace about developments in the region and also inside syria a sad said his country would remain committed to its arab identity despite many other arab nations distancing themselves from the syrian leader since the revolution in two thousand and eleven the arab league suspended syria seat in response to the government's attack on pro-democracy protesters well now thousands of hunger areas are protesting in the capital budapest against controversial new laws passed by prime minister viktor all bans right wing government earlier this week one of the reforms which critics have dubbed the slave lore extends maximum annual overtime hours to four hundred hours and enshrine khurana wickramasinghe has been reappointed prime minister nearly two months after his dismissal set off a political cr

in the center of the city for a soccer match they chanted freedom songs calling on president omar al bashir to step down several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand a change in government the protests are now into their fifth day forcing schools and universities to shut down across the country and doctors have now gone on a definite strike heaping more pressure on the government here morgan reports from . driving his minivan is the only way. to 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 work 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 few months the sudanese have been forced to line up in front of a.t.m. machines for what little cash is made av

the protesters were marching towards the presidential palace to demand omar al bashir step down the president has vowed to implement what he calls the real reforms three improve living standards al-jazeera as head of morgan ventured into the thick of the protests here's what she saw in khartoum. people in sudan have been present before three days now and behind me you can be a huge amount of huge number of people protesting they think that if the people they want the government to go there.

news hour i'm fully back to headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes saddam's omar al bashir becomes the first arab leader to visit damascus since the syrian war began nearly eighty years ago accusations of indifference saudi arabia rejects the u.s. senate resolution blaming the crown prince for the murder of jamal khashoggi also this hour. thousands on the streets seen hungary protesting against prime minister viktor all ban and calling a labor reform slave law plus. i'm scott either in bangkok's chinatown the work group of performers is trying to keep the centuries old art form of chinese opera alive their story coming up. a president accused of war crimes has become the first arab leader to visit syrian president bashar assad in damascus since the beginning of the war nearly eight years ago say media co sudan's president omar al bashir expressing his hope that syria will recover its important role in the region as soon as possible syria was expelled from the arab league shortly after war broke out in two thousand nine hundred eleven the assad government has been accused by

see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles to saudi arabia sudan's president omar al bashirhas become the first arab leader to visit syria since the beginning of the war nearly eight years ago state media quite special expressing his hope that syria will recover its important role in the region as soon as possible syria was exparel and from the arab league shortly after war broke out in twenty eleven. at least twelve people have died and twenty five others have been wounded in the latest outbreak of violence around yemen's port city of her data the fighting between her few rebels and saudi backed government forces comes two days before a un brokered cease fire is due to begin. thousands of people have been protesting in hungary's capital budapest against what's been called a slave law it's the fourth demonstration this week against the employment reforms of viktor or bans rightwing government. persons government insists it has no plans for a second referendum on bret's it despite reports some ministers are looking into the option prime minister to resign may return from brus

sudan's doctors are voted to go on an indefinite strike i mean protests calling for longtime leader omar al bashir to step down at least ten people have died since the protests began on wednesday the demonstrations have been spawned by the rising cost of food and fuel as well as corruption here morgan has this report from car too. it's 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 trying to increase the price of a loaf of bread from once a nice pond to three sudanese pounds which to them is already an affordable and they don't want to see mor

least thirty seven people in the past five days demonstrators are calling on sudanese president omar al bashir to step down. syrian state media say the country's defenses have opened fire on quote enemy targets west of damascus witnesses there and the syrian border told international media that they'd heard explosions and planes overhead no further details were available but israel has been blamed for past strikes that targeted iranian forces fighting alongside the syrian government at least two people have been killed after a suicide bombers stormed foreign ministry in tripoli three of the militants also died ten people were injured in the attack that began with the ministry libyan security authorities a. so-called islamic state fine the foreign ministry is internationally recognized government. a journalist working for the associated press now joins me from benghazi in libya rami thank you for joining us there any more details that have emerged about this attack. the attack was this morning around nine thirty when a car bomb went off near the ministry of foreign affairs in tripoli. signaling

thirty seven people in the past five days the demonstrators are calling on sudanese president omar al bashir to step down. and in turkey an austrian journalist has been released after three months in detention twenty nine year old. has written pieces critical of turkish president. publications he was charged with membership in a terrorist organization a coach in ankara ordered his release but imposed a travel ban on him the next court date is in april. since these mt volcano has been spewing lava and ash after a new fracture opened in the base of one of its creator as observers say the volcano is just being unusually high levels of seismic activity airport has reopened a day after the ash for state to shut down. now he's two people have been killed after a suicide bomb a strong foreign ministry in tripoli three of the militants also died ten people were injured in the attack that began with a car bomb blast near the ministry of security authorities are blaming the attack on so-called islamic state fight as the foreign ministry is internationally recognized government that is based in tripoli

now to some of the other stories making news around the world sudan's president omar al bashir has made a short visit to syria he was welcomed to damascus by syrian leader bashar. al bashir is the first arab leader to go to syria since the country's civil war erupted nearly eight years ago. french authorities say a fifth person has died of wounds sustained in the christmas market attack in the city of stress birch the paris prosecutor's office identified the victim only as the polish national police killed the gunman on thursday night after a two day manhunt. more than forty people are reported injured after an explosion at a restaurant in the japanese city of support for most of the injuries were minor the one person is said to be in a serious condition the cause of the blast is under investigation. around forty same sex couples have staged a mass waiting in the brazilian city of sol paulo the participants tie the knot fearing brazil's new hardline president elect ableson our route could order a crackdown on gay weddings next year one new way it has been ordered a court actual resistan

thousands have joined demonstrations across the sudanese capital khartoum calling for president omar al bashir to step down oh test broke out in sudan earlier this month first against bread and fuel prices since then demonstrators have begun directing their anger at president bashir. yemen's rebels have started to leave the red sea port of data the withdrawal is part of a u.n. sponsored peace agreement signed earlier this month in sweden with data as a key point of entry for food supplies millions of yemenis are on the brink of famine. fights that hung over airport in germany have but the man thought he was doing egyptian authorities say security forces have killed forty suspected terrorists following a deadly attack on a tourist bus near the giza pyramids this a day after the roadside bomb killed three vietnamese tourists and their local guide so far there's been no claim of responsibility ahead of new year's celebrations and next month orthodox christmas security forces remain on high alert for further attacks. this is egypt's response forty two suspects these pictures are from the interior

the sudanese capital khartoum over the soaring price of bread protests challenging president omar al bashir has ruled and now into their fifth day sudan's opposition says twenty two people have now been killed in the so-called red. courting. and maher has heard arguments in the appeal of two reuters before just sentenced to seven years on charges of breaching the country's official secrets act they were jailed while covering the revenge of crisis and have already spent more than a year behind bars the case sparked international outcry from human rights activists. in the bundesliga hoffenheim made it six straight draws on sunday after stalemate at home to mines around a form which has left them out of contention so far for european qualification spots. the hosts took and i believe when stephen sober found him and demi bay and mocked the goal make six the german internationals a fourth of the campaign but the lead was short lived as mine struck back just after just five minutes later john philip met at a scoring one all the final result. but it's christmas eve and millions of children around

protesters who were plotting to march on the presidential palace and the government demonstrators want omar al bashir to step down a crowd gathered in the capital khartoum confronted by riot police who blocked them . the votes from sunday's presidential election are counted wellens of people took part in an event that could see the first peaceful transfer of power for decades but questions over elections fantasy with accusations of delays and irregularities especially in opposition areas. thirty years in many parts of congo returned to polling stations today to study lists of initial results posted outside provisional nationwide results are not due out for another week. day was playing by technical problems and allegations of vote rigging. i don't think the elections were credible too many people found their names won on the electoral lists they were told to go to other centers and even there they didn't find their names so as a result many didn't get to vote. scenes like this one in the letter district of contrasts are not uncommon long lines formed as voting machines malfunctioned. we've been here

protesters who were planning to march on the presidential palace anti-government demonstrators want omar al bashir to step down crowds gathered in the capital khartoum and they were confronted by riot police who blocked the much. brazil will have a new leader with the new year but then otto takes office activists fear his policies could have disastrous consequences for the already depleted was in rain forest fire sent out who insists he will not let protecting the environment stand in the way of economic progress. smoke rises on the front lines of an environmental war the battle here is all but over once again humans have overcome nature and driven back the rain forest but it's hard to speak of winners here in the east of the amazon jungle. all this has to go so that cows can graze here this worker tells us then he wants us to leave before his boss sees us what they're doing here is illegal journalists and environmentalist are not welcome forrester and remember his shot though not for the first time. to meet the pit anna i feel a great sense of loss i work so hard to protect the rain forest it's s

the sudanese capital of khartoum over the soaring price of bread protests challenging president omar al bashir is rule are now into their fifth day sudan's opposition says twenty two people have been killed in the so-called red protest. archeologists in italy have uncovered a petrified horse with harness and saddle in the ruins of ancient pay the remains of other horses were also discovered in what appears to have been the stables of rome of a roman general pompei was buried in volcanic ash in seventy nine a ten year option by the nearby mount vesuvius the israeli government has decided to call an early general election for april ninth the move comes after a dispute within the coalition of a controversial legislation affecting conscription the governing party is divided over a new law extending the military draft to ultra orthodox jews israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he'd like to see a similar right wing coalition following next year's vote. correspondent some so-called joins me now from jerusalem with more on this story thank you for joining us so many of our viewers might not