separate from sudan and south sudan as large the effort. as opposed to the north which is more more muslim err so the south is more predominantly african in christian and and they very much have a thing. ailing of of of one country unfortunately not long after they after their independence they break down with then some of the structural problems with a society political but also tribal brought about the civil war and spain it's been the civil war that has been predominant since 2011 for the last 8 years and yet this is a multiethnic society obviously it has 75 percent of the former united. so oil resources do you really believe that 99 percent of the people voted for this independence in south sudan today looking at all the violence the mon nutrition the violence against women and so forth do you believe there figure now looking back i certainly i can't get out of the figures i was i wasn't here but i think. the they did the consensus at the time and certainly people that i've spoken to here saw themselves very much as an independent as pe

so the oil of the front line if you like with the boundary the border between south sudan and sudan now runs through the middle of those oil fields south sudan uses a sudanese pipeline which it rinse and pays for each barrel of oil through it pays money to the sudanese government in order for that their oil to be pumped out and at the red sea in port sudan so it is in a funny way that although they. have been in conflict with each of the 2 countries they are now at peace and they're both reliant on each other for what they are for their. for their economy in terms of the corruption yes there's corruption that i mean transparency international rights south sudan has been the 2nd most corrupt country in the world. our role here is very much and in terms of the conflict some of the domestic saying that it's precisely that oil infrastructure the alliance with sudan proper as it were. and that could mean peace because both have to learn to don't depend on each other but where is the money coming for the guns one swiss n.-g. o. is hedging their money from oil is being put into guns again

since independence from sudan 8 years ago the people of south sudan have hardly seen peace millions have ended up in refugee camps because of fighting between government forces and rebel groups. these are the men who can help bring peace president salva kiir in the hat and rebel leader rick machar the peace deal they signed is supposed to unite their fighters longtime enemies into one army but a lack of funds has delayed that plan as they also postpone forming a joint government. i know they're going to give you a tour and. god help. you are suffering. something. we've tried. the. generally very. interview to be the war has kept development away so south sudan depends on the outside world international partners keep sending aid but they remain doubtful about the political will amongst this nation's leaders until that commitment is evident south sudan's road to recovery remains rough. a lot of bull has done extensive reporting on south sudan's conflict is also specializing in security issues across the continent so why can't solve it here and implement the peace deal that they've signed w

and in sudan, it's really, really straightforward, as an objective, which is that it sudan, sudan in order to eventually become eligible for any support from the international financial institutions, because it's sitting there with a $60 billion debt that has to get cleared in one way or another, it's a country that has to go from running itself off budget to on budget. we have the same issue with somalia. steve schwartz here who is ambassador there knows this. now, in order to do that we need our friends in the gulf to help in making sure the country gets on budget. in said duncan 60, of the official budget is related to anything related to security, and that probably is just the tip of the iceberg of the way money flows in sudan. we need to work together so that sudan against to demonstrate that it is managing its economy in such a way that is transparent and certainly meets the standards of people who understand economics a lot better than i do. so that's point number one. in order to do that, the first thing they would have to be achieved in sudan is to get a peace agreement. the

sudan, sudan in its wider setting. as it develops, it has become called thehis region horn, one, begins to resolve its internal national dispute that it has, of which there are a number, and we will go into that , the relations among the countries, and the most recent challenges situating and helping a region navigate its way into a completely changed geographical landscape, the dynamics coming from the indian ocean, from the gulf. totally altering the balances from a european point of view. as europe -- this is the sort of soft underbelly of europe. it is immediately below north africa. is on one side of the red sea, where a lot of our trade goes through. are we in this changed global setting? given what is going on in the region right now, going to become spectators, or how do we engage and how do we define our interests as you rep in this change setting? there is a lot of firefighting and occasional attempts to be prophetic and translate that to some kind of longer-term policy. ms. ashton: i told this story before a

sudan is the same. ethiopia today, it is how do you move beyond an ethnic federal country to something else? kenya has its own version, and they created counts and the like. you have different views on this. does that mean 48 point of corruption or 48 points of accountability? usually it is both anywhere, not just kenya. there is a whole debate going on there. if they can take this to another level where they begin to create a greater cohesion within the country, that will make kenya an absolutely solid platform to be able to play, i think, a really important role in a region which as i say is otherwise changing incredibly rapidly. in terms of its role in the region, it stradsles the horn. the horn has been more a security concern and kenya has a role to play. at the end of this week there is going to be a summit of egad, the regional organization, and it is very possible that at that summit, ethiopia will hand over the chairmanship to kenya. that is an assumption that people make away from the european

their trading partners include the armed forces of sudan. sudan is a country designated by the u.s. government as a state sponsor of terrorism. hutson: one particular former lra fighteter said that he was with a group who shot six elephants on kony's orders, and they hand carried the tusks through centntral african republic. and they went to the kafia kingi enclave on the border of sudan, and there in the presence of joseph kony, they soldld the ivory to a sergeant in the sudan armed f forces. narrator: garamba is a converging point for military units from several countries looking to kill elephants. hutson: so you've got the lra rebels, you'veve got armed forcs from sudan, from south sudan, and from uganda all competing with fardc, the congolese forces to poach the last wild elephants that remain in the park. narrator: these units come armed with satellite phones, night vision goggles, and ak-47s. elephants are also shot from helicopters, as was the case with 22 elephants killed in garamba in march 2012. hutson: we do know for certain that the elephanants were killed from a helicop

south sudan's leaders have agreed to delay forming a unity government in order to prevent violence sudan and uganda are mediating emergency talks between south sudanese president salva kiir and opposition leader bashar to decide how they should cope govern as part of a 28 peace deal. cambodian acting opposition leader sam rainsy says that he's been prevented from boarding a flight from paris to bangkok renzi is trying to return to cambodia to leave protests his deputy who was detained in the lazy about a since been released. the international criminal court has sentenced a former congolese rebel leader to 30 years in prison or. was convicted of 18 war crimes including murder rape and using child soldiers in the democratic republic of congo zeros catherine sawyer reports from the east of the country. model rape and conscripting children a soldier has offenses committed by post contact and that along with other war crimes have led to him being sentenced to 3 decades in prison he ordered fighters to carry out attacks in the tora province over to yes in 200220032 drive out one ethnic communi

south sudan's leaders have agreed to delay forming a unity government in a bid to prevent violence sudan and uganda a mediating emergency talks between south sudanese president salva kiir the opposition leader. to decide how they should go as part of the 2018 peace deal they agreed to extend the november 12th deadline by $100.00 days giving both sides more time to resolve outstanding disputes that the world is reports from caught. after hours of meeting between south sudan's president and the opposition leader recommend char facilitated by uganda's president and the head of sudan suffering council of them for a dam would harm the 2 sides agreed to extend the preplan sessional period to $100.00 days after starting from november 12th now this brings the pre transitional period after the peace deal which was signed in 2018 to 17 months before a government of national unity is formed and the 2 sides say that is to try to resolve outstanding issues those issues being the number of states in south sudan let's go back to october 25th and when south sudan's president increased the number of stat

party left scars that many continue to feel from earning sudan 20 years of u.s. trade and economic sanctions following accusations of supporting terrorism abroad to dividing a nation that was once africa's largest country it now remains to be seen how straightforward eradicating it from sudanese political life will be people more going on to their own pockets and. the activists and member of that's a nonviolent resistance movement hoping to organize the protests in sudan he joins us from carson it's good to have you with us the 1st thing that that occurs to me is almost 30 years of. rule to unpack here how do you go about that just how far down the list of his party do you go to exclude people from from taking part in politics. so the 1st thing we are actually really excited about this will it was like finally coming we were expecting it months ago and now that it's happening this is the one thing that was all uniting us on october 21st we went into big protests and the main aim was dismantling the national congress party and to us this is an end of an era just h

the nile river is here up here has been building the so-called renaissance dam near its border with sudan for 8 years but egypt fears the dam will reduce the flow of water along the river which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its supply michaela reports from washington d.c. the u.s. treasury department an unlikely mediator in a decades long conflict in a region thousands of miles away a new party attempting to resolve the dispute over a multi-billion dollar water project being developed on the nile river as it flows through ethiopia neighbors egypt and sudan have been deeply concerned that the consequent impact on their own water supplies this round of negotiation flowing from a meeting between u.s. president donald trump and is a gyptian counterpart abdel fattah el-sisi at which the us leader was asked for help in resolving the bitter dispute between the countries. and this week the 2 presidents held a follow up phone call after which the white house released the statement president trump expressed support for egypt ethiopia and sudan's ongoing negotiations to reach a collaborative agr

it will solve a perennial problem, a problem of flooding of the farmlands in sudan.of the nile water is to be reduced by only 2%, nearly 200,000 acres of land could be destroyed. the prime minister also says the country is already suffering from water poverty. egyptians warn the ethiopians to fill the dam reservoir quite slowly, over nearly ten years or so, so that egypt's share of the water won't be affected. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: australia's women's football team, the matildas, strike a landmark deal which will see them earn, equal pay to their male counterparts the israeli prime minister, yitzhak rabin, the architect of the middle east peace process, has been assassinated. a 27—year—old jewish man has been arrested, and an extremistjewish organisation has claimed responsibility for the killing. at polling booths throughout the country, they voted on a historic day for australia. as the results came in, it was clear. the monarchy would survive. of the american hostages, there was no sign. they are being held somewhere inside the compound, and stu

it will solve a perennial problem, a problem of flooding of the farmlands in sudan.early 200,000 acres of land could be destroyed. the prime minister also says the country is already suffering from water poverty. egyptians warned the ethiopians to fill the dam reservoir quite —— quite slowly, over nearly ten years or so, so that egypt's share of the water won't be affected. we will let you know how that goes. the actor emma watson has re—ignited a conversation about what it means to be single. or to use the phrase she used: ‘self—partnered'. the harry potter star is about to turn 30, a time when, as she noted wearily, women start getting a lot more questions about when they might ‘settle down‘. in an interview with british vogue, she said she'd long resisted any pressure or expectations about marriage and babies but then, suddenly, at 29, became stressed and anxious. lisa bonos has written for the washington post about these issues. we asked her about "self—partnered." the world single sometimes doesn't convey the richness and fullness that can happen in a single per

it will solve a perennial problem, a problem of flooding of the farmlands in sudan.be reduced by only 2%, nearly 200,000 acres of land could be destroyed. the prime minister also says the country is already suffering from water poverty. egyptians warn the ethiopians to fill the dam reservoir quite slowly, over nearly ten years or so, so that egypt's share of the water won't be affected. more than 1,000 people were forced to evacuate a london theatre on wednesday evening after part of the ceiling collapsed during a show. emergency services were called to the piccadilly theatre in the west end, which was packed for a performance of arthur miller's play death of a salesman. five people were treated in hospitalfor minor injuries. wendell pierce, who stars as willy loman, spoke to the crowd outside. i did not mean for it to go like this. i would like to thank you all for, one, safely evacuating. we apologise and we are glad that no—one is hurt and i ask you all to come back and see our production. we are so honoured that you came tonight. 0ne audience member who saw the r

sites on the controversial dam project on the river nile foreign ministers from egypt ethiopia and sudan all meet in washington mediation. or welcome to the program all top story this hour iran has started injecting uranium gas into centrifuges at an underground facility in the country's latest step away from the 2015 nuclear accord a facility will now be cost as an active nuclear site rather than a research plant the u.s. which pulled out of the nuclear deal last year has called the move a big step in the wrong direction the french president says it's a signal iran intends to quit the nuclear agreement altogether dosage of bari has more now from to iran. the foregoing nuclear facility near the city of call me is now fully operational according to iran's atomic energy organization just past midnight the uranium gas has been injected into centrifuges of that site and that is where the rains have said they will start producing. about 5 percent the rain in present has some rouhani said this measure has been taken this is the 4th step they are taking to scale back their commitment to the nuc

for sudan and egypt. and the the the a man disadvantage. when we have this. project stream sudan border it died there is an outside controller for the hotel really should run before that naturally we was in sudan to have a envisioning point the border of a sepia to operate our bomb or said is done for example now or as ruth said is dumb and other dams and all the downs along along the 9. would be controlled by the operation system of the that i mean by saying is the round as you been read it mr dum so the whole system will be controlled by a superior if there is no real as an imminent how to operate the begat in a way that. the other down sood be in it to be a put it in harmony with we see with gatt so it's controlling the whole world the whole thing's seeing downstream understood mr mayor good to talk to you thank you for your company here on the news of. a group of environmental activists known as extinction rebellion they have won a court challenge against the london police it was in response to a ban on protests last month the high court judge ruled the r

the benyamin people live in eastern sudan and also parts of neighboring eritrea but for decades other tribes have viewed them as outsiders and they accuse them of backing sudan's former government ousted in april after months of anti-government protests and while that government may have gone the rivalry hasn't sudan's new transitional government says it's working to resolve the problem but it will take time. for now we are focusing on the security solution because of the regular outbreaks of fighting between the tribes but the solution to the long term solution has to be political and that would need all sides to sit down and dialogue so while we were working on the political solution we were addressing this by securing an increase in forces in the state to contain the situation. how much says he hadn't expected to see such violence but he wasn't surprised it happened and he worries that have no political solution is found there will be more are bricks of violence and more lives lost people more going on just 0 or to down. elections and burundi are 6 months away but there are concern

and tribal trouble in sudan's red sea state as a curfew fails to calm tensions. oh the u.s. state department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine they were made public after a lawsuit by an ethics watchdog the documents confirmed multiple contacts between ukraine sector state. and president all trumps personal lawyer rudy giuliani it supports testament at the impeachment inquiry that senior officials were in the loop on efforts to pressure kids into investigating trump's presidential rival joe biden john hendren has more from washington. the cast of president donald trump's ukraine pressure campaign grows ever wider 100 pages of newly released state department documents show that secretary of state mike pump aoe spoke to president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani twice in march that was shortly before u.s. ambassador to ukraine maria vonn of h. was removed from office scott lucas says it's not hard to win for when they were talking about but the day before pompei 0 2nd call with giuliani there was a time line prepared which set out all of the mate

party left scars that many continue to feel from burning sudan 20 years of u.s. trade and economic sanctions following accusations of supporting terrorism abroad to dividing a nation that was once africa's largest country it now remains to be seen how straightforward eradicating it from sudanese political life will be people morgan al-jazeera puppets and. rebels in yemen say they've shot down a helicopter and killed 2 pilots it happened near the yemeni saudi border the saudi u.a.e. coalition now in its 5th year of fighting with these isn't commenting the funerals of people killed in protests in eastern democratic republic of congo have been perspire and because of security concerns crowds have gathered in a village there demanding that the military leave that area after rebel groups killed 28 people earlier this week they say the army hasn't done enough to protect them from armed groups which are behind the latest round of violence catherine soy has more now from goma. what this is one of the areas where police have been battling protest is all morning and this i

form in sudan people are guarding this. revolution and then there are a very aware of everything so i am not at all already and those people is that dog and his cabin is qualified and capable for this story or stonings democracy by the laws and by any other or ok we'll leave it there isn't for gary thank you so much for joining us here on the news hour on al-jazeera from khartoum. lots more still to come on this program for you including your guy has a young new president will take a closer look to see if he can deliver on his election promises. taking action against climate change a new round of global protests kicks off at a un climate conference. and in sports the fighting takes over from football to the southeast asian games we'll have more on that for you in about 30. with the rebels in yemen say they've shot down a saudi helicopter and killed 2 pilots it happened near the yemeni saudi border the saudi u.a.e. coalition now in its 5th year of fighting that lucy's isn't commenting. iraq's top shia cleric has condemned th

have been hardest hit in south sudan a civil war had already devastated the country and more recent days been recovering from a prolonged drought now the rains are making things and focus to see this more rain to come. water to the horizon entire villages have been submerged aid workers say they're among the worst floods in the areas history south sudan has declared a state of emergency rising waters have pushed out more than 400000 people but not everyone can leave easily. though this is so hard for disabled people like me that everyone is trying to save themselves 1st. but are not all of the water is getting deeper every day and i can't fall in it. we need help to improve the situation here. for the u.n. and aid groups providing relief in south sudan poses a huge challenge a brutal civil war has already worn down the country's infrastructure and health system and as waters rise so does the risk of disease. this situation is so bad spent now we're living with dead animals waste and garbage all submerged under the water where afraid of catching diseases and getting hurt we need help

according to freedom house of the 11 sub-saharan african countries that were surveyed ethiopia and sudan ranked the worst with 100 points being the perfect school not some bob way was also singled out in the report it's a country that has lost rules making it legal to monitor people's online activity where government critics have been charged and the fake news and hate speech laws and way of the internet has been shut down but people they say a major the. to internet freedom is that costs are so high the price of daisies is fodder for each for the evidence about when it's now in legs you know we have good bread and bust but the issues. buying now seems just like you can you can you can do without it prices rise daily but people salaries don't go up in tandem so there's a lot of restrictions in terms of the internet access that people have this is what was one of the countries where the data is exposed and the way that the government always demonizes anything that comes out of social media in terms of deters people from expressing themselves online is no freedom because you find that once

and sudan as well as more people in tanzania and uganda so there are hundreds of thousands of people who are being displaced who have lost their homes who have lost their livelihoods we've got many reports of thousands of livestock killed across these countries by the floods was referring flooding and flash flooding and of course we've got roads down and we've got access challenges to get to people in meat right talking about those access challenges how are you getting the aid into those remote parts where bridges have been swept away and roads as you say. so in each of the countries across the region the humanitarians are scaling up as rapidly as they can where using helicopters in many countries in south sudan and somalia for example in other countries where using boats to try and get to people in need and in other places you see humanitarians literally walking the last mile to reach people who need assistance and those if it's must be commended him or we are talking about a situation where we can expect at least from what we're hearing from the full cost is that these heavy rains

and aid groups providing relief in south sudan poses a huge challenge a brutal civil war has already worn down the country's infrastructure and health system and as waters rise so does the risk of disease. the situation is so bad that now we're living with dead animals waste and garbage all submerged under the water where afraid of catching diseases and getting hurt we need help people are hungry all our supplies have gone with the water we are appealing for urgent support we need tents food and places to sleep. east africa is no stranger to cycles of drought and floods but experts say climate change is making oceans warmer and weather extremes worse the indian ocean which sends rains to east africa is unusually warm right now that means up to another 6 weeks of heavy rain for a region already under water. the german capital is marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on the night of november 9th 1989 these journeys communist regime reopen the border the announcement allowed its citizens to safely cross to the west for the 1st time in 30 years it turned the hated and deadly

this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hoping to raise traces of ousted president bashir sudan's new government passes a law to dissolve his party and dismantle his regime. a new political era uruguay a conservative wins the presidential election ending 50 years of leftist rule. that people have. and they would stop if. we talk to ugandan pop star turned opposition m.p. bobby why are you seeking the country's top job. after weeks of stalled talks preliminary negotiations between the u.s. and the afghan taliban have resumed the taliban has told al jazeera some meetings have taken place to pave the way for the resumption for formal talks president donald trump canceled negotiations in september following the death of the u.s. soldier but he told troops on a surprise trip to afghanistan that he believed the group was willing to strike a deal roslan jordan has more. the u.s. commander in chief celebrates thanksgiving with troops at. air base in afghanistan a tradition going back to the start of the conflict against the taliban in 2001 but after 18 years it's a war washington is strug

united arab emirates routinely and sometimes blatantly supplied weapons and soldiers from chad and sudan deployed on the ground both sides in the wall received foreign help the un recognized government in tripoli and forces loyal to world khalifa haftar the experts say it's highly probable that a jet from a half to our like launched the air strike that killed 53 refugees it's migrants sent to new tripoli in july the report doesn't name the country box both the u.a.e. and egypt have will play in supporting hafta. a sudanese military spokesman denies the findings of the reports. there are none of our armed forces in libya the report mention the name of the leader of the rep it support forces which is part of the sudanese military and answers to its general commander the sudanese military forces cannot participate in any neighboring country without an official order which is a sovereign assured the decision to go to war scene troops outside can take place by a sovereign order or presidential order from the head of states this report when it speaks about the participation of a force from our

sudan's transitional government has approved a decree to dismantle the regime of former president bashir and dissolve his national congress party the country's prime minister says the decision was not an act of revenge but aimed at preserving the dignity of the sudanese people. from office in april after months of anti-government protests. the morgan joins us from khartoum so happen if as significant is this decree. well aren't it is quite significant there's the krege basically embodies the demands of the sydney's people since december last year when they took to the streets demanding a change in governance demanding that former president i wouldn't be here as parts each be removed from power now that is something that we have seen repeatedly over the past few months specifically on the 21st of october when people took to the streets even after a transitional government was bombed and people saying that members of his following are awesome and now astrid is the greek members of the former ruling party cannot stand in a political position for the next 10 years and all assets that were on