food shortages really a very bad humanitarian situation particularly in south kordofan and blue nile but also for the future of the neighboring state of south sudan which the west has invested a great deal in ensuring its independence because there can be normal peace. as long we. call it inside let me jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on sudan and the arab spring day. and it. was the idea of multicultural society we were. sharing the motherland. download the official location to your i phone the i pod touch from the i.q. zaps to. life on the go. video on demand tease in line world calls and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. player. and a. player . welcome back to cross talk i'm going to mind you we're talking about whether sudan will experience the arab spring. led to a. plane. i'm in washington there's a lot of speculation that khartoum may turn its eyes to the south and start another conflict there to keep everyone's attention off to the economy what do you think the chance

it shattered their country their economy their life and the wars that continued in there for south kordofan and blue nile. enough is enough and those people are now trying to say that we got insurance or belongs to us we go to detroit about only do you agree with that characterization here. no i think the problems right now facing the republic of sudan. stem from a number of factors one of course is the sharp decline in oil revenue since the partition of the country in two thousand and eleven the majority of the oil resources of the country have been cut off largely as a result of the ongoing conflict and disagreement between the republic of south sudan as well as the republic of sudan seventy five percent of their earnings have been cut off as a result of these disagreements also you have ongoing citations on the part of the united states and other western powers who have never looked at the current government in sudan favorably this of course is combined with the overall economic crisis that is sweeping the world so what you see now is people protesting against the imposition of austerity