alex if not omar al bashir then who. there is no clear leader. in matching head and shows about the others but what do what is quite striking i think is that a number of those who are being prominent in the islamist movement most of them to really have a quote presidential advisor leading islamist salaheddine are now aligned with the opposition and so i think what that is is it is the possibility of a very broad coalition government of national unity that in but actually brings into government not only those who are in the better in opposition who opposed the shift ollie's here but many of his former allies. as well as add and then bringing in most importantly the white iraq a. young people who are on the streets there is time for a real generational change in the leadership of what would that happen without and without the international pressure involved that we were talking about i think it would require some call of international mediated engagement and one of the reasons for that of course is that president bashir is reluctant to step down wi

alex if not omar al bashir then who. there is no clear leader. in matching head and shows about the others but what do you what is quite striking i think is that a number of those who are being prominent in the islamist movement most of them to really have a quote presidential advisor leading islamist salaheddine are now aligned with the opposition and so i think what that is is it is the possibility of a very broad coalition government of national unity that in but actually brings into government not only those who are in the better in opposition who opposed the shift all easier but many of his former allies. as well as added and then bringing in most importantly the white iraq a. young people who are on the streets there is time for a real generational change in the leadership of what would that happen without and without the international pressure involved that we were talking about i think it would require some call of international mediated engagement and one of the reasons for that of course is that president bashir is reluctant to step dow

cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protesters he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a process is and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are pretended to do something he said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of things and to put blame on the government. a spokesperson for zimbabwe's president. is warning that the police crackdown on protesters is just a taste of things to come at least twelve people have been killed during demonstrations against rising fuel prices police have made hundreds of arrests the u.n. human rights office is criticizing the crackdown local activists say seventy eight people are being treated for gunshot wounds with hundreds more suffering o

in sudan and unrest that's gathering momentum and more demands for the president to quit but omar al bashirhas ruled for thirty years and remains defiant so can the protesters succeed in the international pressure make a difference this is inside story. come to the program i'm richelle carey they are the longest and decades and the most significant in sudan's recent history nationwide protests have been taking place almost every day for a month they were prompted by a rise and bread and fuel prices at the demonstrators quickly turned their attention to other issues and called to overthrow the president omar al bashir is response has been a crackdown by security forces dozens of people have been killed and hundreds arrested in recent weeks has the latest from khartoum. it's been over a month now since these protests started here in sudan of the beginning there were a way to show popular anger against rising prices inflation and scarcity of some commodities but then they saw in developed into the months for the government of omar bashir to step down and this is the longest wave of protests ag

cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protesters he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a process is and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are pretended to do something he said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of things and to put blame on the government the television news cameraman has been killed in libya we haven't been highly fair worked as a freelancer for al-jazeera and other leading news organizations they said the five year old was hit by stray shell fire on saturday whilst on assignment following a libyan militia hundreds of people being killed in fighting between rival groups since the fall of moammar gadhafi seven years ago. and some news just in the tur

converge on the parliament and once again demand the government to step down and the president omar bashir but soon they were dispersed by security personnel using heavy tear gas or so in other parts of the man in the forty third street where i was there heavy to gas how it has been used and a cameraman working for dizzier has been as a freelancer has been apprehended and that's a part of a systematic you're cracking down on journalists particularly if they used t.v. cameras d.v. cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protests that he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the high heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a part of his and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are prevented recently said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularl

cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterate.

welcome to the news our sudan's president omar al bashir has held a meeting with cat hours i mean shake that mean bin hamad tiny in doha bush's visit to the gulf state comes during the longest anti-government protests of his time in office he's facing nearly daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year rule well covering this developing story for us we have a shell live for us in doha following the sudanese president's arrival now jamal obviously you know he's here for a reason it's certainly not a social visit he's got big problems at home and perhaps qatar might have some of the solutions for him. well that would be the insinuation in the sense that this is the first repeat strolls in to go on since those protests erupted around a month ago in that month so her obviously there are reports of at least forty people protesters being killed is widespread condemnation from human rights organizations the world over as to the heavy handed approach of the security services taken with the protesters using live ammunition using tear gas and other things as well these protests are

and there's been demonstrations across sudan in support of and against president omar bashir in the city of them don hundreds marched in the national parliament to demand bashir his resignation police used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse them three demonstrators were killed at the anti-government protests began three weeks ago over the rising cost of food and fuel and bashar remains defiant he addressed hundreds of his supporters in the capital khartoum and rejected calls to step down. that you know. we are all together hand in hand joining forces to maintain stability however some are adopting foreign agendas being operated by outside forces to the saddam however we reiterate to those who are seeking power they are welcome however there is only one route to grab power it is the ballot box it is only through transparent free elections and it's up to you the sudanese people to decide. about morgan has more now from khartoum we were at both rallies both the pro-government and anti-government rallies or we've seen is police using tear gas to try to disperse protesters now have hund

was these protesters were initially on their way to the presidential palace to demand president omar bashir to end his nearly three decades in office. but the latest victims bodies were brought here so they change their path. freedom peace and justice is their slogan and these people are not showing any signs of going away on thursday demonstrators clashed with police yet again in the capital hard to well believe me here still more otherwise with our demands of the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue in a group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in the right direction. soaring inflation and high unemployment have led to these protests that are fast becoming the most sustained challenge to the rule of omar bashir in three decades. without going to the will he remains the fire ant for now saying they are being organized by external agents and ordering his security forces to use tear gas and life and the mission against the crowds both the e.u. and the un have urged restraint it will be we reaffirm that we care about the young and their concerns we call

turkey as anti-government protests continue across the country in outspent was made as president omar bashir met him in shape to me funny in doha they miss said he supports sudan's unity and stability. said this report from the office of kut as amir in doha. 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 have a strong history between them. sponsored and a 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 charges here of the sudanese foreign minister 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

no ruler should be in control for thirty years so i'm really calling now for omar bashir to step down. is a dictator that has been exploiting and oppressing the people for for many years and estimated forty thousand rangar muslims have taken refuge in india but india's nationalist hindu government says ring they have no right to demand refugee status since december india has deported at least thirteen hundred to bangladesh the talks are going to a much more from cox's bazaar in bangladesh for one hundred twelve dollars a head smuggler in india promised a way out of the fear that had begun to suffocate shame she died and her family when one of his disdain in london for hangings i hated and abused in india. they were among forty thousand rohingya refugees in india human rights groups say in recent years the government's welcoming policy has shifted to a hostile one in october india deported seven rohingya men back to me and mar a country b. un is accused of committing genocide against the persecuted muslim minority since december the refugee relief and repatriation commission says india

arrived in qatar in the middle of the longest anti-government protests of his time in office omar al bashir was in doha for two days of talks he's using meet the qatari i'm a shock to me banana death any in the coming hours back in dando bashir was facing daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year long rule rights groups accuse the government of cracking down on demonstrators they say at least forty people been killed since the protests began well sudan's labor minister says the government is working to start a dialogue with the demonstrators. we are required to exert more if it's in the coming days and this should include a teams to find common grounds with the youths protesting it is known that they took to the streets as a spontaneous response to the government's failure as they have no clear cut political affiliations it is the for at g.t. it's a state authority to find channels of communication with them to find common solutions even morgan has more from the capital khartoum. people incident have been demonstrating for five weeks now and they say they want the president

cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protests that he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a part of says and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are pretended recently said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of things and to put blame on the government tax president tired added one has told a u.s. president that turkey is ready to take over security in member agents syria without delay at all one says an attack that left four u.s. troops dead last week in man page was an act of provocation aimed at affecting donald trump's decision to withdraw from syria mendacious controlled by a militia allied to the u.s. backed kurdish y.p. gene the u.s. has previously said it wants

no ruler should be in control for thirty years so i'm really calling now for omar al bashir to step down. is a dictator that has been exploiting and oppressing the people for for many years. the trafficking agency says it's found thousands of missing girls and women in southern mali many have been sold as sex slaves in a gold mining camp serves the robber tween twenty to forty five thousand kidnapped women in mali recently raised a problem ten years ago and says plans are underway to return the woman to nigeria this go elsewhere exploited by virtue of the have only really believed to be from the blue our communities in various parts of nigeria six different states to be precise and tricked into going into mali giving the impression of doing to be getting jobs in the hood and the usual story some of them are actually we're actually a doctor that the arabs the idea of school uniforms on their way to school or back from school to a snatched by the kid not possible trafficker. president nicolas maduro says he's older a vision of diplomatic ties with the united states that's in response to u.

freedom peace justice and the overthrow of president omar bashir are the main slogans being chanted by these sudanese protesters but at the root of the demonstrations are demands for basic life necessities but old stations ran out of fuel inflation rates soared bank coffers were empty people stopped deposing money with banks and those who did face limits on how much cash they could withdraw most dangerously bakeries ran out of floor of all the other needs bread can be seen as the main symbol of the crisis a burst the demand was a journalist during the one nine hundred seventy s. at the time of former president maybe his life now may symbolize the slow descent of sudan from relative ease to utter this to tuition. everything was much better they mary was a strong leader we had a great culture to certainly span was equal to four dollars but now it's crisis everywhere and people have nothing to eat who don't want to know. the origin of that crisis the sudanese government agrees was a shift the country made from agriculture to oil during the one nine hundred ninety s. the hustle and i mean

turkey as anti-government protests continue across the country announcement was made us president omar bashir but catches a mere shake to me funny in doha the emir said he supports saddam's unity and stability a shares facing almost daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year rule there is that this report from the office of his emir in doha. 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 th

sudan's president omar bashir rally his supporters in khartoum as countrywide protests to bring him down continue. live from london also coming up u.s. president donald trump calls illegal immigration a humanitarian crisis as he demands funding for the border war the democrats accuse him of fear mongering. the u.n. . security council on his latest efforts to end the four year war as the continuing violence puts millions of yemenis on the brink of famine. and from flexible t.v. screens to intelligent devices we check out what's on offer at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. and demonstrations across support of and against president bashir in the city of hundreds marched to the national parliament to deliver a note demanding russia's resignation and he's used tear gas to disperse them before they could deliver their message anti-government protest began of three weeks ago over the rising cost of food and few that bashar remains defiant he addressed hundreds of his supporters in the capital khartoum and rejected calls to step down that you know. we are all together hand in hand joi

president omar bashir has flowed to catarrh for talks as demonstrations continue against his thirty year rule student activists in the capital khartoum are demanding a share resign protesters blame government forces for the deaths of several demonstrators and doctors in recent days there have been almost daily protests in sudan for more than a month. problem and activist a critic of the government has gone missing in sujal sources have told al-jazeera the good one was arrested by security agents he was last seen on wednesday when he went shopping. let's go to calls him and speaks out a series here but more going on here but first will give us the latest news on the whereabouts of. well felicity up until this point his whereabouts are unknown asked for the u.s. government embassy here and as for his family now we spoke to his family earlier and they said that with the understand is that he's being held by national security the location of where he's being held is not clear but they know that he is in desperate need of medical condition and they know that because some activists who were al

cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protest that he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a process is and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are prevented recently said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of things and to put blame on the government well david shinn is a former deputy chief of mission that the u.s. embassy in sudan and he says it's unlikely these protests will lead to president bush's resignation. i was in khartoum in one thousand nine hundred five on the numeri government was overthrown by very similar protests in the street but they lasted for a shorter period of time they also were pretty much confined to khartoum and eighty five whereas these prote

was these protesters were initially on their way to the presidential palace to demand president omar bashirto end his nearly three decades in office. but the latest victims bodies were brought here so they changed their path. of. freedom peace and justice is their slogan and these people are not showing any signs of going away on thursday demonstrators clashed with police yet again in the capital heartiness the. activists say at least fifty people have been killed since the protests began on december nineteenth that's when the government decided to raise the price of bread but the authorities say that number is twenty eight well believe me here still more i don't know what our demands are the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue in a group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in the right direction. soaring inflation and high unemployment have led to these protests that are fast becoming the most sustained challenge to the rule of omar al bashir in three decades. without going to the will he remains the fine for now saying they are being organized by ext

was these protesters were initially on their way to the presidential palace to demand president omar bashir to end his nearly three decades in office. but the latest victims bodies were brought here so they changed their path. of freedom peace and justice is their slogan and these people are not showing any signs of going away on thursday demonstrators clashed with police yet again in the capital hard to know. the activists say at least fifty people have been killed since the protests began on the summer nineteenth that's when the government decided to raise the price of bread but the authorities say that number is twenty eight well believe me here still more either with our demands or the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue in a group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in the right direction. soaring inflation and high unemployment have led to these protests that are fast becoming the most sustained challenge to the rule of omar al bashir in three decades. without going to the will he remains defiant for now saying they are being organized by externa

excessive force the demonstrations have become the longest and most sustained against president omar al bashir they want him to resign blaming him for the weak economy and rising prices sudan's government says twenty four people have been killed. since the unrest began four weeks ago but rights groups put that figure more than forty on her spot of mohammed well as in khartoum mohammed just bring us up to speed on what we know about these demonstrations because they have really extended beyond the capital. both sides so it's been now described as the longest wave of protests against the government in sudan since the independence of this country remember it started on the nineteenth of december and it is approaching the completion of its first hmong now something that has never been seen in this country and today the there was supposed to be the biggest turnout of four testers in khartoum and eight other cities some of that has actually happened but they failed to exactly you know create the momentum they wanted inside khartoum particularly at the center of the city because they wanted to march

no ruler should be in control for thirty years so really calling now for omar al bashir to step down. is a dictator that has been exploiting and oppressing the people for for many years. nigeria's anti trafficking agency has found tens of thousands of missing women in southern mali many have been sold as sex slaves and gold mining camps at least twenty thousand have been taken many from rural areas and are being kept in appalling conditions in some cases as many as one hundred fifty girls a crammed into just one hot the agency believes there could be others in neighboring countries as well as plans to go to ghana and senegal next. where exploited by virtue of the ability from me through our communities in various parts of nigeria six different states to be precise. tricked into going into mali giving the impression of doing to be getting jobs. and the usual story some of them are actually docked it. back from school snatched by traffic. zimbabwe's president is about to investigate accusations of assault and torture by his security forces and a synagogue was calling for a national inqu

police and fire tear gas and stun grenades as protests against president omar bashir continued by anger over price rises in government corruption. as the russian orthodox church celebrates christmas it faces its biggest split and for centuries of ukrainian church acquires independence. a disappearing sound at the desert has given a lifeline thanks to the internet. national security advisor says u.s. troops will not leave syria until i saw was defeated in the region john bolton was speaking in israel where there's been concern over president tunnel trumps abrupt announcement in december that american forces are to pull out alton says there is no timetable for the withdrawal which was initially expected to take weeks at a press conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he also said he doesn't want turkey to take military action against kurdish fighters in syria who backed by u.s. forces. we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw but to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated and is not able to. revive itself and beco

sudan's president omar al bashir has flown to qatar for talks continue against his thirty year rule student activists in the capital khartoum are demanding that bashir resign protesters blame government forces for the deaths of several demonstrators and doctors in recent days have been almost daily protests in sudan for more than a month morgan has more now from khartoum. what happened is of students from the university of what to me are here in front of them came out early this morning and protested against president obama who as you said is not currently in the country but they were very keen and very determined to continue protesting if not for the response to buy the probe by the security forces tear gas was once again fired at the students inside the university campus and they were complaining about difficulty breathing something we've heard from protesters who have been demonstrating over the past four weeks people have been saying that secreted forces were responding using excessive brutal forest and we've seen live ammunition and tear gas being fired at protesters to try to disperse

qatar and what says first trip abroad since violent antigovernment protests began last month omar al bashir was in doha for two days of talks he's due to meet the qatari emir shift i mean been hammered out there any in the coming hours meanwhile back in sudan bashir is facing daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year long rule rights groups accuse the government of cracking down on demonstrators at least forty people have died since the protests began but sudan's labor minister says the government is working to start a dialogue with the demonstrators with my views and if you are new we required to exhibit more if it's an. coming days and this should include a teams to find common grounds with the youths protesting it is known that they took to the streets as a spontaneous response to the government's failures they have no clear cut political affiliations it is the for judy it's a state authority to find channels of communication with them to find common solutions. morgan joins us live now from the sudanese capital khartoum heber so the sudanese president is now in qatar but

take to the streets of the sudanese capital, khartoum, demanding the resignation of president omar al—bashir report from gaza on the hospitals facing possible closure because of shortages of fuel and medicine. hello to you. prince philip, the duke of edinburgh, has been involved in a road accident close to sandringham, queen elizabeth's estate in eastern england. the queen's husband, who is 97, was driving a land rover, which collided with another car and overturned. a statement from the royal family says he is unhurt. two women in the other vehicle suffered minor injuries. caroline rigby reports. smashed glass and a broken wing mirror, discarded on the road. evidence of the crash which happened shortly after 3pm on thursday afternoon. the duke had been at the wheel when his land rover rolled over. he was helped out of the vehicle by passers—by. according to one witness, he was conscious but very shocked. the land rover was on its side, on the drivers side actually, it would be on his side it were. there is quite a bit broken plastic and glass in the car and in the hedge. 68 ordinary cars or

cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today also president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protesters he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a party says and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are prevented recently said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of things and to put blame on the government. a strange shell fire in libya has killed in news cameramen who work for engineer and other leading media organizations thirty five year old mohammed bin khalifa died on saturday while on assignment with a libyan militia fighting between rival militias there has killed an injured hundreds zimbabwe's president emerson manana will skip the world economic forum and return home the number of demonstrators killed by security force

skepticism with regards to riyadh's true intentions remains extremely high sudan's president omar al bashir has promised economic reforms as he battles calls from protesters and the opposition to step down two parties have withdrawn from the national coalition government the red ongoing demonstrations but the president remains defiant here morgan reports from the capital khartoum for more than two weeks his opponents have been calling for him to step down but only bashir says he's going nowhere amid a crisis he blames on international sanctions. we are under siege we face war we have lost our main revenue which was the south's battle but we still stand firm we are suffering but we still stand firm and we are working hard to sort out all the problems. the protests in sudan started over the state of the country's economy with people complaining of bread shows weakness and high prices these complaints then escalated into calls for the president to resign curfews and emergency rule were imposed in some cities with some social media platforms blocked by the government the sudanese authorities sa

bin how middleton he says he supports sudan's unity and stability as he met sudan's president omar al bashir in doha bush's visit comes during the longest anti-government protests of his time in office sudan's foreign minister says the protests were the focus of discussion for omar al bashir and sheikh to mean. it's important to point out that the visit by president bashir to qatar comes in a much wider and complex context than passing crises personally i've been a party in the organization of this visit from an early stage way before this crisis well and regardless of this i can tell anyone who is wondering about the timing of this visit and it is not extraordinary for one to seek a dialogue with friends and brothers only when there is a crisis or economic pressures to find solutions to these crises. thailand's king has issued a royal degree endorsing the first general election since the twenty fourteen military coup the elections will be held on march the twenty fourth voting has been delayed several times by the military which has clamped down on dissent and free speech now is the second

disperse anti-government demonstrators who gathered after friday prayers protesters want president omar bashir to step down they're angry over rising prices and government corruption at least nineteen people have died since the unrest started last month. and the southwest of colombia community leaders and human rights advocates are being killed at a rate of one every three days being targeted by armed groups fighting for control of land to cultivate drugs but the rate of killings as increased since the government signed a peace deal with rebels two years ago. port some kalka. hundreds of the indigenous people attend the funeral of. a young community leader he's the late is the founder of human rights shot dead in the coca region of colombia his brother says it's only seen with speaking out he made a strong statement against armed at a community meeting and sentenced himself to death as they say they were there that day but who knows which ones they were they could be any of seven different criminal groups dissident rebels paramilitaries and other gangs fighting to control this land for the luc

so sudan's president omar al bashir is addressing a pro-government rally in the capital khartoum trying to counter mass protests against his rule and the demonstrations has spread across sudan since mid december and began over the rising cost of food and fuel and government corruption payments meanwhile are organizing what they say will be another massive push for to resign let's bring now to the moment he joins us live from called team and pro-government rally ongoing right now and the president keen to demonstrate the support that he has. yes nick he did speak to protesters a few minutes ago and he basically sang the armed forces for standing by his side and he said that sudan has been quite well off and that if people continue to protest then there would be destabilizing sudan his words and say he said it was going to be like revolutions in countries like yemen and syria where people have been basically forced to leave their country and come to seek refuge in other countries including sudan but he's been very defined over the past few weeks he said he will continue to rule to them an

and sudan for the protests demanding the resignation of president omar al bashir are expected following friday prayers nationwide confrontations between police and protesters on thursday killed three people including a child and a doctor their deaths triggered a sit in at a hospital in khartoum. mourners or pay their respects at the funeral for that dr baraka abdel-hamid who died on thursday. says at least forty people have been killed since protests against price rises and the president began last month u.s. president donald trump says he wants to explore weapons in space that could shoot down missiles made the announcement was done veiling a new defense strategy at the pentagon our goal is simple to ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the united states anywhere anytime anyplace we will recognize that space is a new world striding domain with the space course leading the way my upcoming budget will invest in a space based missile defense layer. new technology it's ultimately going to be a very very big part of our defense and obviously. offense. but also

again after friday prayers rallies have been ongoing for the past two weeks just as one president omar bashir to step down as anger about rising food prices and government corruption. i think nineteen people have died since the unrest started last month politicians from germany have been hit by a hacking incident. except. those are the headlines this. al-jazeera . was the worst performing stock market of twenty eighteen find out where china is headed in twenty ninety brazil's new president has an economic challenge. times for technology giants and from a profit warning from. counting the cost. c. m catherine. a year ago you were there you know. up until. today as a presidential candidate. with security forces using. the nation to disrupt. him from accessing some parts of the country. that he's the biggest threat to president joseph kabila and the. hundred. but can he win the election for you. thank you for talking to al-jazeera what. did challenge the organisation the question was. comparable to. the elections. send me. the willingness to organize the transparent and accountable elections tha

there are more a car and these are the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has been addressing a pro-government rally in the capital called to try and counter mass protests against him but there is a few step down as it continues to blame sudan's economic problems on years of international sanctions that morgan is in khartoum today it is the first pro-government rally that has been organized since protests against president obama to be sure 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 unwanted as people have been demonstrating against him over the past few weeks but there is also another and to government ready that is being organized today and people say that they will try to proceed on to the national this latest humbly to submit a memo saying that they want the government to step down and an interim council be formed and till elections are held now the president has repeated over and over again including today and said th

sudanese president omar al bashir is expected to address a military parade in the city where protests over rising prices and government corruption started three weeks ago the rallies have spread across the country calling for bashir to step down after nearly thirty years in power authorities say at least nineteen people have been killed in fighting during the protest rights group amnesty international has put the death toll at thirty seven well hundreds of people have been arrested since the protests began and journalists covering the unrest say they've suffered intimidation and violence is what morgan reports now from katu when she was told to cover anti-government protests for her nice paper rabbi knew it would not be an easy assignment she'd heard of arrest in previous protests but didn't expect it to be her turn and just for carrying out her work. i went to cover the protests when a pickup truck came and fired a protest people fled in different directions i ran into a hospital tear gas was fired into the building most men came in and started threatening people and when they found

president to go or began as no cry over the rising cost of bread has become the biggest challenge to omar bashir has thirty year rule morgan reports from the capital khartoum. haps brothers left home and ten days ago and never came back he joined anti-government protests in sudan second largest city on demand. we didn't realize he was shot while we were protesting security forces were coming at us and we ran for a bit and he said he couldn't feel he thought he twisted his arm then we learned he sustained a bullet wound we hid in a house and tried to give him first aid that's when we noticed that he was also shot in the back when we were able to get to the hospital he was weak and lost away an hour later three protesters were killed that day human rights activists say at least 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 and police have repeatedly fired bullets and tea

don opposition parties joined calls for president omar al bashir to step aside plus.why it's the last call at one of new york's most famous jazz venue. thank you for joining us chinese president xi jinping is not ruling out using military force against those who support independence for taiwan in his first major speech addressing the south island she said nobody can change the fact that taiwan is part of china he says people from both sides should seek peaceful reunification when samos forty years since beijing offered to open up communications with taipei after decades of hostility. well. we are firmly against any plans to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved a major victory in the fight against taiwan independence or separatist activities nobody and no party can change the historical and legal fact that taiwan is part of china and both sides of the strait belong to china on tuesday taiwan's president in wayne insisted the island's twenty three million people want to maintain south roll . or if you don't have a good highway i

mission of the government for president omar bashir to leave power after thirty years of rule in sudan for the moment when we leave it there of course and fall over and says you through that i think you know despite saddam's problems it's hosting rival leaders from central african republic for talks the country's been in the grip of crisis since twenty thirty when rebel fighters took over the capitol as well this is fourteen month old john dulled by hunger in a diet of boiled leaves john and the others now face death while rebel groups and muslims and christians fight each other children in the central african republic are suffering. the united nations fears the worst is yet to come the central african republic still didn't have been abandoned for too long they need attention they need it now they need it in the long run so that they can have a future they can look forward to that they can as i get. gunshots inside the parliament last october politicians continue to fuel hatred pitting christians against muslims twelve thousand un peacekeeping troops trying in vain to end the sectarian

was these protesters were initially on their way to the presidential palace to demand president omar bashirto end his nearly three decades in office. but the latest victims bodies were brought here so they change their path. freedom peace and justice is their slogan and these people are not showing any signs of going away on thursday demonstrators clashed with police yet again in the capital hard to know what all of me here still mourn either one of our demands or the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue in a group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in the right direction. soaring inflation and high unemployment have led to these protests that are fast becoming the most sustained challenge to the rule of omar bashir in three decades. without going to the will he remains defiant for now saying they are being organized by external agents and ordering his security forces to use tear gas and life and the mission against the crowds both the e.u. and the u.n. have urged restraint it won't be we reaffirm that we care about the young and their concerns we call

typical example as demonstrations over the price of bread became anti government protests president omar al bashir blocked access to social media platforms like twitter and whatsapp and also facebook that were then being used by the organizes and they've also been shut down as this week in zimbabwe as this activist told us the online space is the free space for expression in zimbabwe so by shutting down the internet the state stopped our handle open pylea and many other alternative media sources in zimbabwe from giving rolling coverage of the protests and the repression that subsequently happened the internet is now back but only partially and facebook you tube and twitter blocked so that's making us use alternative platforms to keep getting alternative information out there using platforms such as telegram. and one of the longest known shutdowns more than forty weeks in twenty seventeen and eighteen so place in cameroon as a protest movement gained strength in the countries in the speaking regions according to facebook's twenty eighteen transparency report and turning to asia china has long been

in sudan twenty two opposition parties have called for parliament to be dissolved and president omar bashir to step down following protests over the cost of living the body say a transitional government should be set up to pave the way for elections. internet services in the democratic republic of congo are expected to remain cut off until election results are announced on sunday and adviser to president joseph kabila says access was shut down to stop people speculating about the outcome of the vote several candidates had came to be in the lead in the lection to choose a successor to. the un special envoy to somalia has been ordered to leave accused of interfering in the country's internal affairs the government issued a statement saying nicholas hay some would no longer be allowed to work in somalia on monday hey some had urged the government to save god human rights he had written a letter demanding answers over a civilian deaths during a protest last month. and two indian women have defied a centuries old ban on entering a hindu temple in the southern state of caroline this comes after h

yet another day of anti-government demonstrations demanding the president's resignation that omar al bashirremains defiant that is her stephen morgan with more. freedom peace and justice these have been the demands of protesters for nearly a month along with a demand for sudan's president omar al bashir to end his nearly three decades in office and step down well golly even though you're still in one i don't know what our demands are the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue in a group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in the right direction we will go to the presidential palace we just want peace freedom and justice like the rest of the world. the protests began last month in the city off its bottom when the government announced it would hike bread prices in a country where inflation is a nearly seventy percent one of the highest in the world hundreds protested to voice their anger the demonstrations have since spread across many cities in sudan including the capitol hill tomb officials have shut schools and universities and cut off access to many soc

the headlines here in al-jazeera sudan's president omar bashir held a meeting with to me been hammered out that. his visit to the gulf state comes during the longest anti-government protests of his time in office. says the two leaders discussed regional issues come home to a lot of as it's known qatar at the moment is heading efforts to energize initiatives in darfur after many past successes that resulted in the doha agreement qatar is now once more bringing to the negotiating table those parties in dar for which did not sign the agreement last time will sudan this is one of the key issues that qatar is looking into achieving peace and stability in sudan as the wife of an activist arrested in sudan is pleading for the government to release a husband so it needs american right one would was detained by security agents a week ago in the sudanese capital khartoum his wife nancy told al-jazeera he was preparing to take part in a demonstration the very next day. thailand's king has issued a royal decree endorsing the first general elections and the twenty fourteen military coup elections w