now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons how to zero the vatican security forces in sudan's capital khartoum have fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters calling on president omar al bashir to stand down the continued violence follows bashir declaring a state of emergency across the country on friday he said he was the solving his government just that was later appointed six new ministers and eighteen state governors from the military is trying to quell weeks of unrest across the country which began over the increase in price of goods even morgan has the latest from khartoum. we've seen hundreds of people coming out to protest despite a state of emergency being enforced since friday by the president ahmed rashid now let's remember people have been out in the streets expressing expressing their frustration with the government saying that they want the presence of step down and basically they want to see an interim government that has been happening for ten weeks now and today it started in mid december over the the cost over

would say and repeat to him we're covering this global story with three correspondents we have rory chalons in moscow gabriel is on though is an ottawa that's where canada is hosting a meeting of latin american countries but we begin with these barker in london to tell us how close the e.u. is they have to having a unified position. well we wait to see exactly where we stand in terms of there being a unified e.u. position of course there's been a tremendous amount of momentum over the course of the morning you've seen big e.u. heavyweights like france the united kingdom and spain all furring their support behind being the interim president of the e.u. did set a critical time limit to saying that by twelve g.m.t. of roughly about an hour ago that it too would recognize as a unified bloc as the interim president of venezuela if it had not received any objection from any of its twenty eight member states but waiting really to see next what the e.u. has to say all about that but it's looking increasingly like italy could derail any kind of joint e.u. statement it's a coalition government it's p

withdrawal process rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. well listen speaks more about this to terry crowe fools the former head of the verification and security policy coordination office at the international atomic energy agency his line from vienna thank you so much for being with us this move by the united states was somewhat expected is it though in your view motivated by security concerns or by politics i think it's more emitted by both security concerns as well as politics on the security side as you were to reports have noted the u.s. believes that this nine m. seven to nine cruise missile which has been tested by the russians at ranges below five hundred kilometers from a fixed launch year for deployment on air and sea based systems and tested at a range above five hundred kilometers from a fixed launcher put together the u.s. believes that this is that. the russians do have a system that is in contravention of the i.n.f. treaty it's not very clear how this judgment has been achieved by the united states on the other hand eight of

my compare announced washington's move saying his country will give them six months to comply rory chalons has more from moscow. well russia pulling out of the i am after easy i would say was inevitable given that the united states made that same decision the day before you can't really have an arms control treaty just with yourself what russia did say what putin said was that he didn't want russia to get into a costly arms race with the united states that doesn't mean there won't be some sort of arms race but russia would like this to be kept essentially on the cheap. for years military modernization in russia has siphoned money away from social issues and adds to that the fact that the incomes of russians have been falling in real terms for five years in a row and it probably would not be a popular thing for putin to do given that its popularity is already sliding significantly to now plough more money into the military so what he's asked his defense ministry to do is to come up with ways of responding to the united states within the military budgets as they stand in two thousand and nin

now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons al-jazeera the vatican. not so the problems now confronting some of iraq's historical landmarks while republicans in the u.s. are getting behind the democrats. because.

now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons how to zero the vatican an explosive device has killed at least twenty four people in syria's central hama province it went off as a van packed with workers passed by syrian state t.v. says the device is one of the many left in the area by isis in gaza thousands of palestinian protesters have been calling for president mahmoud abbas to resign it follows attempts by a bass to pressure his rivals hamas with financial cuts has reduced the salaries of public sector workers in gaza over the past few months and protesters are demanding that full salaries be paid around five thousand palestinians have been. observers say as many as thirty five people were killed in election violence in a january hour on saturday votes are being counted in the closely for general election it's expected to be a tight race between president mohamed people hari and his main rival a key call apple back at john hollis following developments from the nigerian capital abuja. well the first official comment is out we

getting in the way of making real change it's a third day of an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse rory chalons reports from rome. watch bishops and cardinals talk in the vatican sexual abuse survivors have staged events like this and repeated that among zero tolerance throwing abusive priests and those that cover up for them out of the priesthood but a founder of the group ending tragedy abuse fears church politics might be getting in the way of something pope francis himself has previously called for two thirds of the bishops that are meeting there from the developing world mainly africa and asia and they are denying over minimizing the issue and they do not want a law on the books i asked liberia's mohseni a bishop whether african and asian clergy supported zero tolerance to share what we do we ought to yes but we have to define what zero tolerance means and i want to be well we. we have to decide where to zero tolerance means zero tolerance you know we stay discourse in that you know more rigid it's easy if you don't is zero tolerance mean one is means of the crimean getting. getting a pres

now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons how to zero the vatican. security and immigration are topping the agenda the first have a joint summit between arab league countries and e.u. leaders egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi governments to unite behind the goal of defeating terrorism leaders attending the two day meeting also discuss ways to tackle the migration crisis impacting several european countries britain's prime minister was also at the summit in egypt reset may says she won't be holding another vote on breaks it this week we're having a good constructive with the european union we won't be bringing them in if you go back this week but we will make sure that that happens by the twelfth of march it is still within our grasp to have a deal with the european union that enables us to be on the twenty ninth of march with a deal people in japan's okinawa prefecture have voted against plans to relocate a controversial u.s. military base the local government says seventy two percent were against the move while ninetee

jutting out of spain southern coast has long been disputed between spain and the united kingdom rory chalons as more details from london. so the government of gibraltar says that a spanish warship radioed commercial vessels anchored at gibraltar and told them to leave spanish waters now according to the governments of gibraltar these are foolish games only of nuisance value played by those who don't accept unimpeachable british sovereignty over the waters around her brother as recognized by the whole world in the united nations convention on the law of the sea now gibraltar is a british overseas territory and it was ceded by the spanish to the united kingdom in seven hundred thirteen in perpetuity so the british say it's ours now and it will be forever more but of course with the u.k. trying to leave the european union at the moment relations with spain are important and gibraltar becomes a pressure point essentially that the british fear the spanish are going to use because they've always wanted gibraltar back against the u.k. in its negotiations with the european union and century what it

now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons how to zero the vatican. still ahead on al-jazeera senekal votes on whether to give macky sall a second term as president after his biggest rival of the are banned from running. and an argentinean superstar reminds everyone that your dentist is more than just a one man show details coming up in the. hollow welcomes another look at the international forecast and we should see some dry weather just coming into the southeast of china over the next couple days been a little unsettled her recently disappointing so we say for hong kong where we got twenty one celsius or monday temperatures starting to edge their way up still a fair bit of cloud over towards the western side of the country could produce a few spots of rain for choose day but that is to the southeast is fire destroyed temperatures about twenty two celsius for hong kong at this stage quite keen northeasterly wind driving through should be lossy settles across in the china settle to into the philippines we've got the usual show

now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons how to zero the vatican. voting has ended in senegal as presidential elections president macky sall is seeking a second term and faces four main rivals since coming to office president sole has developed infrastructure projects and the economy is said to be booming but opposition candidates say ordinary people are suffering with poverty and unemployment rampant pushing many to leave the country out of there as nicholas hack reports from one of the polling stations in dhaka it's going on across fifteen thousand polling stations and we're in one of the polling rooms we've just seen earlier these officers taking each envelope. calling out the name of the candidate this in front of of observers from the political parties and from the election commission the election commission here says it wants to make the process as transparent as possible i mean this is democracy in action in senegal and cynical is one of the most stable democracies on the continent in much of it is to do with this ele

now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons how to zero the vatican. the un says a record number of afghan civilians were killed in two thousand and eighteen due to an increase in suicide bombings and aerial attacks a report shows three thousand eight hundred four civilians died in the conflict last year nine hundred twenty seven of them were children that's an eleven percent increase on two thousand and seventeen and more than any other year since the un un began keeping records ten years ago of those killed one thousand one hundred eighty five died in operations by pro-government forces their aerial attacks caused four hundred ninety two child casualties the u.n. says the taliban was responsible for one thousand seven hundred fifty one civilian casualties last year while i sold killed and wounded two thousand one hundred eighty one civilians in two thousand and eighteen the were in afghanistan has taken a terrible toll on civilians and twenty eight witnesses deplorable levels of harm inflicted upon. the us so the highest numb

on sex abuse within the church from francis called it an abominable crime which must be raised rory chalons has more from vatican city. in his speech at the end of this historic four day meeting at the vatican on sexual abuse in the catholic church pope francis said that abusers were tools of satan they were ravenous wolves and that we find ourselves before a brazen manifestation of the spirit of evil he said the abuse will be addressed with the utmost seriousness we can listen to a bit more of what he had to say right now. it is utterly incompatible with the moral authority and ethical credibility of those persons chosen by god to guide souls to salvation to let themselves be dominated by their human frailty or sickness and thus they become tools of satan well although these were undeniably straw. words they certainly didn't satisfy the survivors of sexual abuse who have been here in rome to see what's been going on they were very angry and after listening to it by francis they said that it amounts to a paedophiles charter that what they wanted to hear zero tolerance for abusive priests an

let's bring in rory chalons in moscow for us rory talk us through this russian message what are they saying what are they going to do. well i think one of the things.

now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice rory chalons how to zero the vatican the weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera senegal and it's on whether to give macky sall a second as president after his biggest rivals from running. and why the republicans are getting behind the democrats' climate initiative and it isn't because they're bream. hello welcome to another look at the international forecast that we should see some dry weather just coming into the southeast of china over the next couple days been a little unsettled her recently disappointing so we say for hong kong there we go twenty one celsius or monday attempt just starting to edge their way up still a fair bit of cloud over towards the western side of the country could produce a few spots of rain for choose day but that into the southeast is fire destroyed temperatures about twenty two celsius for hong kong at this stage quite keen northeasterly wind driving through should be largely settled across in the china settle to into the philippines the usual showers there into

this must not be allowed to stand in the way or slow down the reform that they're demanding now rory chalons al-jazeera right. still ahead on al-jazeera and force a big upset in the final of the championships that story coming up and if you like . much on al-jazeera maggi has done debates discusses and dissect the big issues of our times then head to head to thailand votes on march the twenty fourth and its first general election since the twenty four team military coup join us for special coverage in a powerful new film residents of occupy jerusalem share their thoughts on its past present and future deal or no deal what does the future hold for breadsticks we'll bring you the latest as the march the twenty ninth state lines of the u.k. to meet the new edges nira and we examine the development of an unusual alliance between radical buddhist monks and the military and me in ma ma. which on how does iraq. south africa's largest opposition party has launched it's not a fester the democratic alliance is a vote share has been steadily increasing since the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hu

initiate any talks on this issue let's wait until our partners open a dialogue with us let's bring in rory chalons in moscow for us rory talk us through this russian message what are they saying what are they going to do. well i think one of the things that putin stressed in the meeting that he had earlier on with sugar and sergey lavrov was that russia didn't want to get into what he called a costly arms race now that doesn't mean that there won't be an arms race it just means i think that in the interim at least russia will try to keep this within current defense budgets because for the last five years or so military modernization programs have been responsible for siphoning away from social spending a significant amount of cash and you know in. a couple weeks ago it was revealed that for five straight years the real income of ordinary russians had fallen five straight years of falling incomes for normal people so i think the message that putin will want to send to the population is that yes we can bolster our defenses but we're not going to be doing that with more defense cash so what that is g