outside there there has been firing according to the sudan doctors association 2 killed and many injured been take to several hospitals to those hospitals apparently have been either stormed all surrounded by military troops of course we will keep in touch of what's going there of course there is the political response and diplomatic response coming out in france of the is from the british embassy i believe in khartoum he is tweeting extremely concerned by the heavy gunfire i've been hearing over the last start from my residence and reports that sudanese security forces are attacking the protests sit in site resulting in casualties no excuse for any such attack this must stop now that's from a representative in france of the crime the british embassy in canton we already heard also from congressman jim mcgovern in the u.s. he's a democratic congressman from massachusetts and obviously a word is now getting out to the higher levels of politics we expect him or not let's come back to. me sudanese human rights activist who's been commenting and analyzing what's been going on for us via skyp

bring you a news coming out of sudan from the professional doctors association there they are telling us through independent sources that 3 civilians have been killed in this day of civil disobedience of course the streets of car to many outlying cities and towns are observing this call for civil disobedience by civil society groups in opposition groups to counter the sudanese military's aggression over the past 6 months and certainly the last week where we've seen as many as up to 60 people dead in the capital khartoum we'll bring you more that as we get it. now the venezuelan government has reopened a border crossing with colombia present nicolas maduro closed at 4 months earlier saying that aid that the u.s. and opposition leader one go i don't want to bring in undermined his country's sovereignty. thousands of venezuelans lined up to cross the simone boulevard bridge into colombia was a rare chance for these people to purchase food medicine and other commodities no longer available or in extremely short supply in venezuela only pedestrians are allowed to cross back and forth into

in the cartoon without giving a reason and the very latest is we've heard now from the doctors association in sudan that there have been 2 deaths now a many people have been injured many of those have been quite seriously injured some are being described as critically injured right as me is a human rights activist and she's joining us from washington d.c. thank you again for joining us so that death toll has risen the violence now seems to be pretty sustained you must be very worried for the face of your fellow sit in nice. words. it's quite disturbing to see that. and it was very sudden you're in and aware learned about it i was watching and i think there and then all of a sudden they were singing they were chanting and then they start running and that was like gary said i didn't see that i literally felt like i was danger and this is i don't i still cannot understand what is the rationale behind this but again if we look at it i think it's an imam at the mosque it is just falling i think the military is not any different from the government before and i think it's it's it's not what it said it is

sudan doctors union the u.k. and spokeswoman for the sudanese professionals association joins me now from norwich via skype in theu.k. good to have you with us miscible julie we just begin with the fact that sort of it's difficult to be specific as you just sort of don't want to jeopardize your contacts on the ground but how well observed all successful has this day of sort of civil disobedience been and what areas seem to have been most affected. information that you are getting as you said there's a lot of obstruction because of that and the security austerity measures but it's very different sectors and despite all of the effort yesterday. and about threatening a lot of the professionals how of the ground realities affected the work of medical professionals and also for the public who are trying to gain access to the facilities jury in this day of civil disobedience should they need medical care. we are very concerned it's not about about the civil disobedience at all this has been going since the 3rd of june that there has been abstraction for medical care 1st of all for those who are injured in this it and t

doctors says at least 5 people have been killed while many others a critically injured security forces have surrounded 2 hospitals and stormed one of them one of the main protest groups the sudan professional association says the ruling genter will be held accountable for any bloodshed. they're calling for people to march into the city center to support and overthrow them thousands of protesters have been blocking roads and burning tires in sudan's 2nd largest city on demand just over the river from khartoum and. has the very latest force. a raid at dawn with a protest is least expected it oh so downs dropped support forces and the police moved in. shots were fired as unarmed protesters dive for cover. for more than 2 months they have protected the city and outside the army headquarters. the symbol of their defiance and their evolution but 1st advance military genter it represented a threat. or even like that they gathered from the army. because when a life well it's been stuck in the perimeter or the army base the army the right. weren't going to be accorded the video but now we have been shot right there are going to argue that nothing. coming from different side streets and the like. where we're be

doctors in sudan saying that some some bodies that they found were burned potentially intense around around that a military headquarters. and this is the same. this i'm in the sudan professional association which is the civil society wing all of the forces for change and freedom instead done has also raised those claims of those bodies found in tents bombed by the top could support forces i love to done the cartoon some 10 days ago and about time the protest outside this the squire. outside the military headquarters was beaming with hope that the talks between them and transitional military council were on the verge of a breakthrough now seems to have been thrown out of the window where the transitional military council would say it's not willing to talk to the protesters and forgetting all about the protests that led to the eventual toppling of the model but she is actually what necessity to these change that we are seeing in sudan and we're seeing a situation where this hopelessness all all around when they are speaking about this going to hopelessness outside the military headquarters but now people aren't allowed to even gather there is there a place for people to try to come togethe