by professionals of sudan does that give this protest more power. well yes i mean let's realize that at this point it's seems to be every level of sudanese communities we're looking at people who have been facing economic crisis lower class lower income people who are also looking at people from middle class and people who are well off there are protesting because it's going from the economy and our people are protesting the government itself that it's not just about the fact that the country is facing high prices and inflation they think it's the way the country is governed the fact that they can't express themselves freely you know journalists are being people can't come out and just express we've seen teachers yesterday just holding banners and being detained and beaten and arrested just because of that so it's not just about the fact that things are expensive in the market but there is no fuel and has quickly escalated from the economy to now the government and the fact there is so many restraints that the government is imposing so many restrict

what is it like being in sudan right now how are the protests impacting everyday life. i have a process now it's becoming a way of clients. it's talk to one month ago on the economic crisis it was pretty good that this is done but now that people are demanding for the government and the ruling party activists down. are marching peacefully but how about the government are you being forced again with lies i mean issues. rubber bullets tear gas not hundreds of people have me paying for should go the lot seeing some lasting disabilities so far more than fifty people have been killed being actual different from here i would like to extend my heart still come down and pull out the dogs and that many of our few who are paid the highest prize for our freedom but they will also the underdog i meant to call to use the i fear justice and freedom people so it's like i will actually be mounted on. a way of living and i think that is echoed here in this tweet from had them had some and then he says there are nine demonstrations and several neighborhoods of the capital hard to me and

wheat bread now accounts for two thirds of regular meals in sudan. just to give you an idea about how much bread an average family of five individuals in sudan need for the daily meals each individual that i'm here needs six pieces of bread if i try to put all the quantity they need in my hands. it's not possible this is just the shell of two people. the crisis got worse when sudan couldn't grow or buy enough wheat saudia an erotic companies grow millions of tons of wheat here on least or purchased land what they send it out of the country now sudan with its over two million hectares of fertile soil but even oil and the gigantic underground lake the newbie in basin is begging for outside help to satisfy its demand of wheat to feed the hungry population of nearly forty million. voters to say it's too late to calm these cards bread will overthrow this regime it happened before here in sudan i assume so these words is a code by these protesters david chump's. mohammed via. russia says a deal with turkey to create a deescalation zone in syria's it'll a p

what is it like being in sudan right now how are the protests impacting everyday life. i have a process now it's becoming a way of clients. it's talk to one month ago on the economic crisis it was pretty good that this is done but now that people are demanding for the government and the ruling party activists down. there are marching peacefully but how about the government are you being forced to again with lies i mean issues and. rubber bullets if you guys got hundreds of people have me paying for should go the lot thing some lasting disability so far more than fifty people have being killed being actual different from here i would like to extend my heart still come down and cool out with god and how many of our few who are paid the highest prize for our freedom but they will also the underdog i meant to call to you i hear justice and freedom prevail so it's like a way of living out. a way of living and i think that is echoed here in this tweet from hans m. had some and then he says there are nine demonstrations and several neighborhoods of the capital hard to me and a

the crisis got worse when sudan couldn't grow or buy enough wheat saudia and r.t. companies grow millions of tons of wheat here on least or purchased land but they send it out of the country now sudan with its over two million hectares of fertile soil that even oil and the gigantic underground lake the newbie in basin is begging for outside help to satisfy its demand of wheat to feed the hungry population of nearly forty million. just to say it's too late to come these cards whole bread will overthrow this regime as it happened before here in sudan. i. see a sense of his words is a code by these protesters david champs. mohammed via. khartoum. thousands of people are once again protesting on the streets of the french capital but this time the demonstration is against the ghetto rest movement which has been rallying against president back home their opponents have joined together to call for an end to the violence threats and verbal abuse which they say characterized the recent protests attash about reports now from paris. a new citizens movement in france created o

embassy in sudan also a former u.s. ambassador to ethiopia it's nice to have you with us the one thing which strikes me with these protests at this point is they longevity for five weeks they have gone all in now do you think they are making any impact but i would agree the longevity is a very critical factor here i was in khartoum in one thousand nine hundred five one the numeri government was overthrown by very similar protests on the street but they lasted for a shorter period of time they also were pretty much confined to khartoum in eighty five or as these protests are taking place various cities around sudan so it's a different situation there are other differences too however perhaps favor president bashir but it is a very dangerous situation now do you think there is any situation any way in which we would say almost all the shias step down as i pointed out he's been in power for thirty years he's not the type of leader who would you would think go anywhere but then in the past decade or so in the arab world we

by professionals of sudan does that give this protest more power. well yes i mean let's realize that at this point it's seems to be every level of sudanese communities we're looking at people who have been facing economic crisis lower class lower income people who are also looking at people from middle class people who are well off there are protesting because it's going from the economy and our people are protesting the government itself it's not just about the fact that the country is facing high prices and inflation they think it's the way the country is governed the fact that they can't express themselves freely you know journalists are being evil can't come out and just express we've seen teachers yesterday just holding banners and being detained and beaten and arrested just because of that so it's not just about the fact that things are expensive in the market but there is no fuel this thing has quickly escalated from the economy to now the government and the fact there is so many restraints that the government is imposing so many restrictions

sudan meanwhile sudan says it will accept assistance including fuel and wheat from the u.s. russia and turkey. thailand's king has issued a royal decree endorsing the first general election since a twenty four thousand military coup noting has been delayed several times by the military which is clamp down on dissent and free speech it's got hardly reports from bangkok. protests on the streets of bangkok calling for elections picked up over the last several months as frustration mounted for after repeated postponements the date for time which general election was finally announced march twenty fourth that they. should be. who everyone can. that is the main reason why. that day was five times dates were set and then postponed by the military government this is spending the last five years. in the years after the two thousand and fourteen military coup overthrowing the democratically elected government of. the military leaders have imposed strict laws over political gatherings and muzzle dissent the government also rewrote the constitution so a military backed assembly will hav

has been concerned for many years about the state of sudan and he has been trying to bring change. the voice of all the sudanese are really crying for freedom for peace and for justice. 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 s

the family of a missing activist in sudan is appealing for u.s. help redonda out has joined sudanese and american citizenship his wife says he was arrested last week as he was preparing to attend an anti-government protest. i do hope that they will put pressure on the sudanese government to be able to assist in his release definitely counting on them with any leverage we have with the sudanese government to make sure that that happens as quickly as possible along with the release of all of the other political detainees he's always been a peaceful protest or he is. has been concerned for many years about the state of sudan and he has been trying to bring change to the voice of all the sudanese are really crying for freedom for peace and for justice. 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 a car bomb has hit the syrian government stronghold of law to keep a second device was defused one civilian was ki

has been concerned for many years about the state of sudan and he has been trying to bring change. the voice of all the sudanese are really crying for freedom for peace and for justice. no ruler should be in control for thirty years so i'm really calling now for omar bashir to step down. in the dictator that has been exploiting and oppressing the people for for many years while thailand's king has issued a rule degree endorsing the first general election since a military coup in twenty fourteen now 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 scott hartnell picks up the story for us from bangkok and scott it's been a long time in coming but finally that sort of long awaited announcement. absolutely so he and it was a two announcement actually coming out on wednesday and he said it's been a long time in coming five years the military government has been in power there have been five delays for announced election date so yes this has been a long time in coming as you menti

sudan is in the same situation as it is now economic at the. caring and isolated they will be in the same position of the current government they wouldn't be able to feed the people there wouldn't be able to do much so they they would like some some supporter of our side on this but if you yes if you go to your question yes. they use the movement interestingly there's quite a large number of among the people arrested themselves the children of people who are in the regime including in the army and the party so it is a there is a feeling that this government has lost touch with the people i think this is very clear. president bashir was speaking today although he was speaking in a rally in the in the white nile province he was nobody has. speech doesn't resonate with anyone he's speaking about it will be the people who are killing that the ministration will be a vision of the government or the military or the police but he is not saying that who is then frary in the government itself has been the security forces have been even entering a norms o

sudan's president rallies supporters against protesters declaring a massive new push to bring him down. and this is also coming up. and thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now president has appealed to fear not facts uses a televised address to demand money for his mexico border war as democrats accuse him of holding americans hostage. the taliban calls off told with the u.s. prompting afghan and pakistani officials to consider the next move. north korean leader kim jong un wraps up a visit to china a day ahead of schedule. 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 n

his life now they symbolize the slow descent of sudan from relative ease to utter the situation. everything was much better they miri was a strong leader we had a great culture to sit in the span was equal to four dollars but now it's crisis everywhere and people have nothing to eat we 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. but the hustle and i mean some of the model who indeed it's called the dutch disease when easy only revenue shift attention away from traditional resources such as farming we've had it in sudan but now we are addressing the problem through new strategies and more focus on agriculture. in two thousand and ten sudan exported nearly half a million barrels of oil a day but a year later south sudan gained independence and took most of the oil fields with it by then the iconic cultural sector was already suffering from neglect and there was another shift happening the moment. in the past sudanese households relied mainly on sorghum for food

by professionals of sudan does that give this protest more power. well yes i mean let's realize that at this point it's seems to be every level of sudanese communities we're looking at people who have been facing economic crisis lower class lower income people who are also looking at people from middle class people who are well off there are protesting because it's going from the economy and our people are protesting the government itself that it's not just about the fact that the country is facing high prices and inflation they think it's the way the country is governed the fact that they can't express themselves freely you know journalists are being people can't come out and just express we've seen teachers yesterday just holding banners and being detained and beaten and arrested just because of that so it's not just about the fact that things are expensive in the market but there is no fuel and has quickly escalated from the economy to now the government and the fact that there's so many restraints that the government is imposing so many restrict

the crisis got worse when sudan couldn't grow or buy enough wheat saudi and r.t. companies got all millions of tons of wheat here on least or purchased land but they sent it out of the country now sudan with its over two million hectares of fertile soil that even oil and the gigantic underground lake the newbie in beijing is begging for outside help to satisfy its demand of wheat to feed the hungry population of nearly forty million. does to say it's too late to come these cards bread will overthrow this regime as it happened before here in sudan. the essence of his words is a code by these protesters david chumps.

two hundred thousand people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state even this remote town and looked to be a bad hospital for all their medical needs they would has destroyed almost the infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer. almost always including my little sister living in the presence of who you know vision of the military working to their capacity that they're supposed. oh what you all just there i'm still robin and these are all top news stories sudan's president omar bashir is held a meeting with candles and here to mean been home in the tiny in doha as part of a golf tour over several days but his visit to the gulf state comes during the longest antigovernment protests of his time in office he's facing nearly daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year rule stance foreign minister 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 will qatar is now up once more bringing

to the program i'm richelle carey they are the longest in 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 against the sudanese government since the independence of this country dozens of people have been killed the government statistics talk about twenty four people killed activists talk about fifty people killed during these protests and there is a claim and

people in sudan are saying they will not stop demonstrating against president bashir until he actually steps down again that is something he has repeatedly said that he will not do until elections come in twenty twenty and even then there is a chance he might run again there's already a proposed change that is stable in front of the parliament to try to amend the constitution so there bashir could go on for another term but people are saying they don't want him to continue running for be under thirty years that he's already been in power they say that during his term in office the country has been ruled with corruption and that the economy has been in a downward spiral now the process started on the nineteenth of december because of lack of bread in the city of ice water but that quickly morphed into calls for the president to step down the rights groups say at least forty people have been killed but the government is disputing that figure they see that people have been killed so far is at least twenty seven there are also concerns about activists being arrested in the process the gove

a call for more demonstrations in sudan with anger growing over the crackdown on protestors. this is live from doha also coming up. zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing police there of brutality joining protests the president wants a national dialogue. hundreds of thousands of refugees wait to be moved to their new home the u.n. is finally allowed to visit the place that's been compared to a prison. and the race is on to find out who's in the running for this year's academy awards. a lot of protesters are back on the streets in sudan as anger is growing over the government's crackdown the student activists in the capital khartoum of demanding president bashir step down the opposition says forty seven people have now been killed since protests began last month when the government raised the price of bread president bashir is expected to arrive in qatar later on tuesday and to government activist in sudan has gone missing sources tell al-jazeera that ward was arrested by security agents he was last seen on wednesday when he went shopping in the capital. the home of dr

what is it like being in sudan right now how are the protests impacting everyday life. i have a process now it's becoming a way of clients. it's talk to one month ago on the economic crisis it was pretty good that this is done but now that people are demanding for the government and the ruling party activists down. are marching peacefully but how about the government are you being forced again with lies i mean issues. rubber bullets tear gas not hundreds of people have me paying for should go the lot thing some lasting disabilities so far more than fifty people have been killed being actual different from here i would like to extend my heart still come down and pull out the dogs and how many of our few who pay the highest prize for our freedom but they will also the underdog i meant to call to use the i fear justice and freedom people so it's like i will actually be mounted on. a way of living and i think that is echoed here in this tweet from has them had some and then he says there are nine demonstrations and several neighborhoods of the capital khartoum and a complet

sudan's president has 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 sa

people in sudan are saying they will not stop demonstrating against president bashir until he actually steps down again that is something he has repeatedly said that he will not do until elections come in twenty twenty and even then there is a chance he might run again there's already a proposed change that is tabled in front of the parliament to try to amend the constitution so that bashir could run for another term but people are saying they don't want him to continue running for be under thirty years that he's already been in power they say that during his term in office the country has been ruled with corruption and that they commonly has been in a downward spiral now the protest started on the nineteenth of december because of lack of bread in the city of ottawa but that quickly morphed into calls for the president to step down the rights groups say at least forty people have been killed but the government is the feeling that figure this day that people have been killed so far is at least twenty seven there are also concerns about activists being arrested in the protests the gover

to sudan where more protests are planned on thursday against president omar bashir as he reaches out for support from our allies on wednesday bashir met qatar as a man i mean bin hamad out funny in doha it was russia's first trip abroad since the demonstrations started last month let's speak to mohammed yvonne who is in khartoum for some odd more demonstrations expected today tell us about the momentum that's growing around these protests and what we can expect from today's demonstrations fully momentum is the word the organizers of these protests trying to keep and create more of it today they haven't asked they have called for seventeen locations in where protests should take place and thus a modest number of locations since the beginning of these several weeks of protests against the government also in all major cities in sudan today expected more protests i mean the word as you said is momentum they tried to keep the pressure on the government the government has. tried during the last several weeks to respond to some demands and they eased a little bit with regards to the crisis

by professionals of sudan does that give this protest more power. well yes i mean let's realize that at this point it's seems to be every level of sudanese communities we're looking at people who have been facing economic crisis lower class lower income people who are also looking at people from middle class people who are well off there are protesting because it's going from the economy and our people are protesting the government itself that it's not just about the fact that the country is facing high prices and inflation they think it's the way the country is governed the fact that they can't express themselves freely you know journalists are being people can't come out and just express we've seen teachers yesterday just holding banners and being detained and beaten and arrested just because of that so it's not just about the fact that things are expensive in the market but there is no fuel and has quickly escalated from the economy to now the government and the fact that there's so many restraints that the government is imposing so many restrict

alone barbarous i read this is al jazeera live from london also coming up sudan says it's arrested more than eight hundred people since anti-government protests began last month president trump is to address the nation and visit the border with mexico is the heels in over funding for his war and greece asks in citizens to contribute to the cost of new warships for its aging fleet. thank you for joining us we begin with the government says it's retained control of the country after an attempt to overthrow president bungle was undergoing medical treatment in iraq soldiers took over the state radio station in a dawn raid but security forces stormed the building and killed two of them resting in the coup leader and four other alleged plotters nicholas hawke has more. lieutenants who all do what from the presidential guards burst into the national radio and television center calling for a popular uprising against iran's president. on the eagerly awaited day has a right when the army has decided to put itself on the side of the people in order to save kaplan from accounts if you're eating sto

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

and an anti-government activist in sudan has gone missing sources have told. was arrested by security agents he was last seen on wednesday when he went shopping in the capital zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing security forces of systematic torture after recent protests turned violent president emerson mongo is calling for a national dialogue to address the protests over rising living costs and i got condemned demonstrations which he said were not peaceful but he also criticised the police response. when he made those comments just hours after cutting short his trip abroad way he'd been looking for foreign investment shah bellus reports. zimbabwe's president emerson man and dog were to seemed at the steps of his least seven eight seven digits this is one of the world's most luxurious private planes he had used it for a fundraising mission to russia kazakhstan. men and dog were took off ten days ago just hours after stunning zimbabwe ends with the news he was doubling fuel prices due to an economic crisis on the tarmac the man he had left in charge

the crisis got worse when sudan couldn't grow or buy enough wheat saudi and r.t. companies got all millions of tons of wheat here on least or purchased land but they sent it out of the country now sudan with its over two million hectares of fertile soil that even oil and the gigantic underground lake the newbie in beijing is begging for outside help to satisfy its demand of wheat to feed the hungry population of nearly forty million. say it's too late to come these cards bread will overthrow this regime as it happened before here in sudan. i. assume so these words is a code by these protesters david chance. of just. another weekend of protest in paris people who oppose the yellow vest antigovernment movement a gathering in the french capital they call themselves the blue vests the red scarves and say the yellow vests have created a violent and destructive agenda as for the yellow vests they marked eleven straight weeks of demonstrations on saturday they first rallied in november against a proposed increase in fuel taxes that was they just scrapped it since grown i

weeks of straight protests across sudan and the president remains defiant. the largest opposition b bloc is calling for r an immediate transition toward democracy. govovernment does not have the ability to overcome the economic crisis because the economic crisis is basically a politicacal crisis and its solution is a political one. must bee, a new regime created. >> the opposition submitted to sudan's leader a list of demand including the dissosolution of parliament and the forming of an interim government to hold early electionons. to tatakell on the e armed the side of the people to be able to achieve a peaceful political -- to prevent bloodshed. has ruled thent country with a benign fist since 1989. on new year's eve he admitted sudan was facing challenges due toto rising prices and soaring inflation. he is determined to hold onto power and quell the unrest. several opposition figures have .een arrested infor more on the situation sudan, i am joined by an activist. tell us a bit more about the mamain grievanceces of the protesters who have been out for tw

as sudan is in the same situation as it is now economic at the.current and isolated they will be in the same position at the current government they wouldn't be able to feed the people there wouldn't be able to do much so they they would like some some supporter of our side on this but if you yes if you go to your question yes. they use a movement interestingly there's quite a large number of among the people arrested themselves the children of people who are in the regime including in the army and the party so it is a there is a feeling that this government has lost touch with the people i think this is very clear. president bashir was speaking today although he was speaking in a rally in the in the white nile province he was nobody has. speech doesn't resonate with anyone he's speaking about it will be the people who are killing that the ministration will be a vision of the government or the military or the police but he is not saying that who is then frary in the government itself has been the security forces have been even entering in the norm

the obaid is a senior member of sudan's ruling national congress party. is an activist stand out as a reporter i would use a hipper morgan hello everybody is really good to have you here here you've reported on sudan for a very long time these protests what makes them different as far as you're concerned. well i think the fact that it went on for so long was quite interesting we've seen protests over the past few years twenty top twenty thirteen beginning of january twenty equal have been protesting all all the signs over the park the economy about the rise in bread prices right and food i want to see prices but this what went on for more than three weeks actually not three weeks right now as i don't think and the response you know usually people are afraid once they are live ammunition and tear gas but this time they seem to be very determined. you've been out in the streets you have been protested you've even been detained what happened to. well firstly i would like to come back to the point why it's different it's actually different because the stone t

here has manipulated a lot of what happens in south sudan he has been accused of basically exploiting an ethnic and racial differences between people how is that contributed to the state of things now. yes i think just before that about the international position that is an interesting convergence of stances in the region for example the coalition the so the coalition which is fighting the war in yemen its support of bashir for two different reasons first they. sent an army to help them in yemen and secondly i think together with egypt are very worried about any revolution succeeded i think the whole society you know of the gulf states especially the antique out of correlation is that they don't want any democratic uprising anymore that they feel that if they succeed that's what we have to lead to their own stability so they don't want any democratic uprising to succeed and so they are supporting obviously but even the other side that also say they seem to see. more favorable to. them than the us. about the racial differences yes the government has actually its right. from the very be

people have been killed in wednesday's antigovernment demonstrations in sudan riot police fired shotsat crowds and to disperse what they say was an illegal gathering police confirmed the deaths there but they did not say what caused them protesters are demanding president on modern bus your step down he held a pro-government rally in hearts and blame the protests on what he says are external forces demonstrations began in december over rising prices and food shortages well for a country that hasn't had much internet service since these protests social media has played a vital role to get information out of sudan sorry you have that story from yet it's not in a lot of parts of saddam but if you want to find more about the protests and see what people are actually saying in the country then these are the sorts of key words that you're looking for in english sudan uprising revolution and this is the hashtag both boats and that more than most of them front pictures of those being killed rather that was killed on wednesday are being shed on social media and these are actually the latest vi

you know there is a problem in sudan we cannot claim that we don't have a problem but some media take it out of size and dimension it is an attempt to close is being called the arab spring in sudan it has the same slogans programmes and requests but it also has the same use of social media however the sudanese people have learned the lesson they have seen what happened in some of the states that went through the so-called arab spring and its negative implications of god willing the sudanese people are very alert and will not fall into anyone's trump to destabilize sudan well it's the sheer second trip abroad since the process erupted almost six weeks ago they were triggered by bread shortages as mohamed fahmy reports not from khartoum. freedom peace justice and the overthrow of president omar bashir are the main slogans being chanted by the 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

has been concerned for many years about the state of sudan and he has been trying to bring change. the voice of all the sudanese are really crying for freedom for peace and for justice. 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 so he just hearing this from would one would hit his wife nancy how much concern is there about how the government is cracking down on activists protesters. what we spoke to the family yesterday and they said that they have not seen and heard one diode but would they do know from people who were with him when he was arrested other activists who were later released they understand that he has been beaten severely and that he is injured on his head and on his back and he is in desperate need of medical conditions so they're saying that he needs medical access but they're also saying that they've heard about other activists as well and we've spoken to people who have been arrested and later released reported that th

on iran when you want your desire alive my headquarters here in doha also coming up sudan's president visits qatar as antigovernment protests continue in this country . also after several perspire months thailand announces it will hold its first election since the twenty fourteenth. and why does nigeria have one of the highest rates of poverty in africa despite being the continent's biggest oil producer. welcome to the program there's been an explosion in the northern syrian city of our freend it happened near the base of a rebel group that's backed by turkey at least three. fighters were killed this is the latest in a spate of attacks since president donald trump announced that he plans to withdraw all the two thousand u.s. troops that are on the ground well the pullout is expected to be a topic of discussion during a meeting going on right now in moscow between the turkish and russian presidents the northwestern city of idlib is another challenge for the two leaders the kremlin has warned of the situation that it's rapidly deteriorating. chalons is in moscow when a putin a meeting w

for sudan so for him to try to introduce economic reforms is not going to produce as much results as he would like to see because there is simply no way for sudan to try to bring in more hard currency to try to sustain its economy people are also criticizing the government for the use of what they have termed as excessive brutal force the protesters who have been out in the streets demonstrating so they came out in peace their own armed and they're trying to voice their demands or their frustration against the government but instead have been met with tear gas and live human emotion now people are saying despite the security threats and that they're putting their lives at risk to the will continue to demonstrate until the president steps down something he said he's not going to do until elections come next year. thailand's king has issued a royal decree endorsing the first general elections since the twenty fourteen military coup elections will now be held on march twenty fourth voting has been delayed several times by the military which has come down on dissent and free speech it's

it come from eritrea sudan and other subsaharan countries it was an economic hardship. but the israeli government caused the fifty thousand migrants who crossed into the country through egypt freighters the foreigners may not be legally deported the government refuses to grant them refugee status. meanwhile the new generation of migrant children is growing up and being educated in israel their hopes to be granted a secure place in a country built by refugees. we feel that as long these children are in santa they are being taken care of we know what's going on with them we see them twenty four seven we know where they go when they come back we take care of all their needs once they are eighteen and to go outside. to the real world we say it's a jungle for them. when they first came here you start to ask about the army can they go to army when they finish and we explain and it's not possible because you know it's complicated in israel and we scared of someone who's defending us but after a year i stopped here and there you know asking for it. you know how is it going and

people born in sudan make up zero point one percent of victoria's population but account for one percent of the state's alleged criminal offenders. young sudanese males are overrepresented insertion violent crimes allegedly committing close to ten percent of aggravated robbery in terms of numbers overall numbers for that hard crime. high impact crime the numbers are quite small when you look at youth crime in particular we have the second lowest crime rate in a stronger productivity commission measures victoria now as the most fearful state in the nation why are people feeling so scared if crime is dropping yeah i think that's really interesting when i was certainly you know one of the one of the things the victoria police and the cumi really need to focus on. to people have to be a scythe i have to feel saif so there's a lot of perception issues i think that we need to deal with as well. are all the bodies brought aboard. the. nineteen year old a dean came to australia from south sudan with his brother when he was just three. he's not seen his mom or dad since. i had to grow up myself a

there's widespread anger in sudan against the government and its crackdown on protesters thousands rallied in on their month following the death of a student protest a twenty four year old trainee engineer died of his wounds after he was shot during protests on thursday the opposition says forty seven people have been killed since demonstrations began last month when the government raised the price of bread but he didn't move and joins us live now from the capital khartoum eba more demonstrations planned for today but how much concern is that now about the way the government's cracking down on protesters. well daryn since the start of the protests people have been objecting to the fact that police and security force have been responding using tear gas and live ammunition they say they've been protesting peacefully they've been demonstrating and armed and they keep repeating that they are an armed and they don't see the point of police and security forces responding using what they said was violence now that was also echoed by the e.u. and the u.n. and the united states they've said that th

the word that the people who were killed in sudan look killed because they did anything wrong look i think it's got broke and not a single house broken the people who are going out. to say you know if you screw it . i'm. a forensic expert says the doctor was shot from behind. we found pieces of metal in the room and in the lower part of his lung they'll be studied to determine the caliber and the type of weapon used a. sedan a security forces and police deny any role in the killing of protesters with the. us police never used any law of fire to any protest sites or any other occasion we never use live bullets in any situation. the same denials have been to eternity today by the head of intelligence and the target of the protesters anger president on bashir. we have now arrested people who belong to the abdul wahed had militia and they had knowledge they were given orders to mix with protesters and kill them in order to stoke conflict and destroy the country the governing security doesn't kill people the weapon that's been used to kill dr abdul baccarat abdul hamid is not any type tha

it come from eritrea sudan and other subsaharan countries it escaped war and economic hardship. but the israeli government caused the fifty thousand migrants who crossed into the country through egypt freighters the foreigners may not be legally deported the government refuses to grant them refugee status. meanwhile the new generation of migrant children is growing up and being educated in israel their hope to be granted a secure place in a country built by refugees. we feel that as long these children are being taken care of we know what's going on with them we see them twenty four seven we know where they go when they come back we take care of all their needs once they are eighteen and to go outside. to the real world we say it's a jungle for them. when they first came here you start to ask about the army can they go to army when they finish and we explain and it's not possible because you know it's complicated in israel and we scared of someone who's defending us but after a year i stopped here and there you know asking for it. you know how is it going and when is it going to

economy has been in a downward spiral since a south sudan says he didn't. and people have been protesting in twenty twelve twenty thirteen and the beginning of twenty eighteen also because of the economic conditions but now the demands have grown people are saying that the only thing they want to see is for the president to hand over power he says he's not going to do that he's going to wait for elections next year to hand over power but there are concerns by the people who are protesting that he will also run again and that he might win they're saying that the electoral commissions will not be independent and they will direct the vote so people are saying that the only way for him to step down is by going out to protest in the streets people are concerned that more lives would be lost that obviously with the use of tear gas i live in remission people are saying that this is not going to end well but then they're very determined just like the president is determined to cling on to power now in its second month it's not clear how this would end for sudan but

sudan's president is in qatar for meetings with the mayor as protests continue in his country. along down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after several postponements thailand announces it will hold its first election since the twenty fourteen coup. despite condemnation from human rights groups india's government continues to deport rangar muslims plus. comes and goes and sometimes when i used to be in school and i come here to get water for my family instead of concentrating on my school a water shortage in yemen so severe children at the drop out of school to provide for their families. sudan's president omar al bashir has held a meeting with the main been hammered out fanny in doha his 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. of a minister says the government's working to start a dialogue with the demonstrators who my friends and we are required to exert more if it's in the coming days and this should include a team

sudan's government says it's being offered economic support from the u.a.e. russia turkey and qatar to help ease antigovernment protests president carter's shaky timing been hammered out danny on wednesday its precious first trip abroad since protests started last month demonstrations began over living costs and have widened to call for an end to bashes thirty year rule russia's president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart reza topper one have met to coordinate their moves on syria putin welcomed the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria and said his country will deal with any groups that may fill the void created by the withdrawal all right you're up to date with the headlines here and i just got more news coming up after inside story. italian leaders attacked the french president over immigration in recent days two senior politicians have called on a terrible president and accused impoverishing africa so what is behind this dispute and is it politics at play this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey italy and france have l