, sudan in its wide assessing. and as it's developed, it's really come about about how this one called the horn begins to resolve the dispute. and we'll get into that. and the most recent challenge is situating and helping a region navigate its way into a completely changed geographical landscape. the dynamics coming from the indian ole ocean from the gulf totally altering the balance. and our challenge is just to say well, are we as europe -- this is the sort of soft underbelly of europe. it's just immediately below north africa. and it's on the -- the -- on one side of the red sea where a lot of our trade goes through. are we in this changed global setting and 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 in europe in this changed setting? so there's a lot of firefighting and a occasional attempts to translate that into some kind of longer term policy. >> i told this story before, a few times in my life. but when somalia got to t

sudan, south sudan sudan in its wider setting and as things have developed it really has become about how this region called the horn one begins to resolve its internal national disputes that it has of which there are a number and will go into that the relations among the countries in the most recent challenges situated in helping a region navigate its way into a completely changed geographical landscape the dynamics coming from the indian ocean, from the golf totally altering the balances in from a european point of view and i'll just conclude on that our challenge then is to say are we this is the soft underbelly and is just immediately below north africa and it's on one side of the red sea where a lot of our trade goes through. >> are we in this changed global setting and given what is going on in the region going to become spectators or how do we engage in define our interests as europe in this changed setting. so there's a lot of fire fighting and occasional attempts to be prophetic and translate that into some sort of longer term policy. >> i told this story before a few times i

support within sudan and and at the same time you know the military retains a lot of supporters then c.p.s. has had to. bust in many of its. supporters from the countryside into khartoum for for this to in a bit of a show of force to show that they're not indeed a spent force and in sudan but yes i think the financial crimes version of this of the sheers trial here is is is perhaps a way to front load some of the some of the less controversial charges that that bashir faces but does does it give them a starting point then a jumping off point for going after the bigger things maybe not going right to you know charges of genocide in darfur but escalating the charges to to progress of the big things. yes i mean 1st of all i think you know the main the main political moment here is is is the transition and the government is taking care of that this conviction itself will provide some momentum to the transition it's been needing a win for a long time if it's been somewhat stagnant the economy has has continued to shift on a downward spiral essentially and people in the street. really need

we want freedom sudanese call it was sudan's young people who became the driving force in the uprising at the forefront women. in december $2800.00 they took to the streets across the country as a huge increase in the price of bread and sudan's daya konami situation became too much to stomach. the protests the 1st of their kind went on for months and the regime's response was brutal. but despite efforts to quell the demonstrations bashir was ousted in april ultimately by a military coup d'etat. demonstrators unhappy at the prospect of military rule then took to the streets again sparking fear of mess of bloodshed more than $100.00 people were killed in clashes 5 months later the military civilian representatives and protest groups agreed on a 3 year power sharing deal former african development bank economist abdullah became prime minister. freedom peace justice and the revolution is the people's choice freedom peace justice and the civilian government as the people's choice. but tom ducks tast a huge with many old faces clinging on to power. and many protesters feel former leaders are

i mean joy just listening to this reports as if you know when you think about this nation south sudan the youngest nation in the world there's then famine and there's been disaster political instability fighting one wonders if things can get worse for the people of sudan but how do they see things well it really struck me in the conversations with the people that is how little and how unable people are planned to plan for the future. and the people i spoke to i think about the next few weeks the next few months how to feed their family but there's very little and people can do to think about how they can build on their lives and how they can improve on their lives so i really feel like all of that to change there needs to be real long term peace and security. that's journalist joya foster thank you. the west african country is one of the poorest places on earth there are few hospitals and the health system barely functions yet atlantic for rehabilitation there has become a rare beacon of hope for people with disabilities and mobility problems funded by the international committee of t

the war between sudan's government and the s.p.l. and north erupted after the government refused to allow the states of south kordofan and blue nile a referendum on whether to be part of sudan or the newly created south sudan as part of a 2005 peace deal the s.p.l. and north also accuse the government of impeding democracy in the united nations says more than 2000000 people have been affected by the conflict with more than have a 1000000 displaced several rounds of peace talks between the s.p.l. and north and the previous government of ahmed rashid collapsed when they failed to agree on many issues including humanitarian access. since the was also more than 8 years ago yeah both have been cut off from the military angle problems of people but they bring. but many remain behind what missing the horrors of the civil war now with aid coming in for the 1st time they're waiting to speak up for all of these years things are really starting to change the. most trouble held areas in the country are nearly impossible to access from the capita

joy how is the political instability in south sudan affecting the situation. well the country's been in war for many years thousands of people had to flee they lost their livelihoods and they were already credibly vulnerable the fall of the flooding that was a peace agreement signed last year and by and large there hasn't been much fighting but a lot in security and people i'm sure whether this piece is going to hold a line for a unity government has been pushed several times the deadline is not temporary but it's unsure whether the government will be standing by then or whether they'll be new fighting so there's a lot of security a lot of areas are still not very easily reachable fortunate erin workers and many n.g.o.s have told me that the government isn't providing a lot of the services that people need and a lot of these things schooling roads medical services are being provided by u.n. agencies and n.g.o.s. i mean joy just listening to this report if you when you think about this nation south sudan the youngest nation in the world there's been famine and

parliament debates a citizenship bill that many say discriminates against muslims rights group says sudan's rapid support forces are a threat to its emerging democracy plus. i'm robin 1st to walk in where power is the river system here in danger of going past. of all k. now off the coast of new zealand erupted while a group of tourists was visiting its crater at least 5 people have been killed on white tile and many more are still missing al-jazeera mohammad as the latest. thick smoke and ash rises thousands of meters into the air as the white island volcano also known by its indigenous madi name as for caare erupts 50 kilometers off the coast of new zealand releasing toxic fumes of sulfur and chlorine dozens of tourists were on the island some seen walking on the crates of floor moments before the eruption police said more than 20 people managed to get off the island some in boats others including some of the injured by helicopter volcanic ash is now hampering rescue attempts to get to the island so unfortunately i can confirm there are 5 people now deceased from the eruption. a number of

and can sudan move forward to the next stage without international finance i think sudan this estate is morally bankrupt not economically bankruptcy than is a very. nice 80 percent of the national g.d.p. goes to the army so without the restructuring the army you can put your financial statement in order but in order. to convince the army to restructure itself. they need some assurances especially the top ranking of fischer's i think. is. is wrong in the sense that he thinks that sudan's problem is primarily economic it is primarily a political problem so far no attempt has ever been done by himself or by us law. colleagues in the busy cabinet to do to handle the issue of the. crimes that have been committed again is the mountains and south kordofan for what lead my david thank you very much indeed thank you. there are almost 3000000 people are currently affected by flooding across a whole region of east africa at least 160000 of them are in kenya then there's djibouti 2 years of rainfall fell in just one day and that triggered flash floods in somalia and in sedan the figure is close

ridden parts of sudan he's also attempted to get sudan removed of a u.s. list of countries sponsoring terrorism. while the government has been focusing on the regional and international community to support its home challenges are piling up it's a former legislative assembly for the transitional period and just in the last few weeks there's been sporadic fuel shortages a lack of public transport and the economy is still in freefall that's what triggered last year's protests that brought this government to power. the economy is a concern for many inflation continues to rise in a country where more than half of the 14000000 population live below the poverty line. there's no improvement in the economy and are getting more and more expensive every day the ministers haven't been focusing on the internal issue of the economy which is hurting us citizens and those who wants chanted for freedom peace and justice feel the government's shortcomings elsewhere. the government has yet to hold to account any member of the former regime to deliver justice for those who h

week long assault that's forced a mass exodus. 10 years after international calls for a genocide trial sudan's new government says it will investigate what happened in darfur. also ahead how donald trump's border war with mexico could be pushing centuries old native american sites at risk. anger is growing against india's controversial new citizenship law but the prime minister narendra modi is showing no signs of backing down he's blaming the opposition for inciting protests against his government huge rallies subpoena held again in the capital new delhi and several other states on sunday the demonstrations and into the 2nd week and more are likely in the coming days rights groups are accusing the police of using disproportionate force against the protesters sabinus restaurant was at the rally in the capital. it's the greatest challenge india's prime minister narendra modi has faced since he came to power 5 years ago dozens of people have been killed during protest against a citizenship law which meant. discriminates against muslims addressing thousands of his supporters at an election rally

and aid reaches a remote pocket of sudan for the 1st time in 9 years. because the usual heavy showers across much of southeast asia southern parts of the philippines think will break down poles the unusual heat of the day showers there across malaysia coming down into indonesia so we got the shall assess them heavy ones to nudging a little further south with scale still could catch one of 2 showers more likely in ceasing a pole in the city has gone through the next couple of days we will see some increase in the wet weather just pushing into the good parts of indonesia java turning on increasing wet as we go on through the next day with more of those lively shall we could really say with some useful showers into a stride of course some of this band of clouds want to see showers on that we still some showers pushing through weapons very western side all victoria moving across melbourne it isn't it introducing the slightly fresh arad slightly less hostile it's cold at that and that's going to continue to drive its way further east which as we go on throug

sudan's road to reform the u.s. announces it in the point and i'm absolutely confident the 1st time in more the 2 decades. and i'm legal experts called by us democrats have testified the president trump has committed impeachable offenses in statements to the house judiciary committee they were among 4 leading experts on constitutional law or 3 were caused by us democrats and one were somewhat trying to talk to the republican. party who are slipshod and rushed as accused of abusing his power to push ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden why did your question has more. swear under penalty of perjury some of us constitutional scholars have weighed in if president trumps ukraine scandal is an impeachable then nothing is and professor gerhardt did president trump command. impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power we 3 are unanimous yes the 3 law professors called by democrats rein in unison alarm bells that the country's democracy is under threat by the president's actions are like what

its people which is theft by them they grow up all the sudan is. under saddam is pork so now we just they are crying for the world and the us it's that should be taken back from them as are so that is. saddam is well how how does mr abbott what we're seeing now affected the transition process in sudan could could it cause more division. i don't think mo view support thoughts of formal bushehr of the m.c.p. the motion of congress part of the no they have become something of the past very we'll move out of the port again because the pseudo newspeople served there would i was the fully they would not come again but they are thrown through murk some obvious thoughts on the with of the transitional government until morning ability for their lawyer and activist thank you very much sir for joining us. now anger over a controversial citizenship laws brought thousands of people onto the streets across india the by the bill allows tens of thousands of people from nearby countries to apply for citizenship but it doesn't include muslims well that's triggered a

following a corruption trial for former strongman these are all model bashir causing controversy in sudan. some of 6 them chilling with all of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. anger spreads across india against the citizenship law that discriminates against muslims. climate talks are a dead loss in madrid as several countries are accused of tracking their feet. and we'll tell you why plans for a massive new train system in mexico could derail indigenous communities. warm welcome to the program the corruption trial of sudan's deposed president has ended in a guilty verdict all my album was sentenced to 2 years for illegally possessing and smuggling foreign currency the judge said the 75 year old will serve his sentence in a reform center because of his age the courtroom in the capital cotton descended into chaos when the verdict was read out al-jazeera is head of morgan is in khartoum and she says the judge on the case went out of his way to make a particular point. well the judge 1st of all outlined the charges against him and the actions that will be taken once those ver

the war between sudan's government and the s.p.l. and north erupted after the government refused to allow the states of south kordofan and blue nile a referendum on whether to be part of sudan or the newly created south sudan as part of a 2005 peace deal the s.p.l. and north also accuse the government of impeding democracy in the united nations says more than 2000000 people have been affected by the conflict with more than have a 1000000 displaced several rounds of peace talks between the s.p.l. and north and the previous government of ahmed rashid collapsed when they failed to agree on many issues including humanitarian access. since the was also more than if years ago yeah both have been cut off from the military angle problems of people but they bring. but many remain behind what missing the horrors of the civil war are now with it's coming in for the 1st time they're waiting to speak up for all of these years things are really starting to change the. most trouble held areas in the country are nearly impossible to access from the

to sudan security forces this challenge by the disarming of certain groups. the army says that our forces are running out today when i was telling everyone in a public event that the lit up assad forces are part of this alone as army and by law you know the nominee and those are those arguments clearly that apparel army i don't expect they would be aware of why the civilian government do this on the younger we need however there are provisions in the constitution a chart of that governs a transition to form the security sector in that case when that there are a lot of clamor cares it's expected that there will be only one sudanese national army rather than to put our hands of the situation is kind of i would really attention it to this detriment of the year particularly in the realm of the international criminal court and for the security guards the last big issues to interest to acknowledge that there have been generally changes to that and that there prosecutor office of the i.c.c. is willing to give sudan some time but we'll be watching very carefully when

they're calling it a turning point for sudan 29 members of the security forces are sentenced to death for torturing and killing a protester. walls of fire in new south wales and tens of thousands urged to leave their homes and victoria as australia's bushfires worse. tit for tat expulsions over a runaway president the escalating dispute between spain bolivia and mexico. a powerful shia group is vowing retaliation for u.s. airstrikes on its camps in iraq and syria hezbollah has promised revenge for what it calls the aggression of evil american raven's sunday's bombings targeting 3 of us bases in iraq and 2 in syria at least $27.00 fighters were killed and $51.00 were injured when the strike sparked protests in kirkuk and basra and iraq's national security council says it's reconsidering its relationship with the u.s. led coalition against eisel the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei are called the strikes a decisive response to threats by iranian backed forces against u.s. personnel as want to further action to protect them if necessary. we'll have an update from washington in a momen

ridden parts of sudan he's also attempted to get sudan removed of a u.s. list of countries sponsoring terrorism. while the government has been focusing on the regional and international community to gain support at home challenges are piling up it's a formal legislative assembly for the transitional period and just in the last few weeks there's been sporadic fuel shortages a lack of public transport and the economy is still in freefall that's what triggered last year's protests that brought this government to power. the economy is a concern for many inflation continues to rise in a country where more than half of the 14000000 population live below the poverty line. there's no improvement in the economy and are getting. more and more expensive every day the ministers have been focusing on the internal issue of the economy which is hurting us citizens and those who wants chanted for freedom peace and justice feel the government's shortcomings lie elsewhere. the government has yet to hold to account any member of the former regime it's to deliver justice for

country is at risk of famine if no military assistance is given to millions so many people in south sudan continue to wait for peace to come so that they can feel political humanitarian and economic stability for a position politicians in venezuela will go on trial accused of. these and other crimes the country's top court which is loyal to president nicolas maduro alleges they tried to seize military installations deny the charges the government has tightened the noose on rival stripping many of parliamentary immunity it's also open criminal investigations into opposition leader on. top in a field thanks to the cooperation between the civil military and intelligence agencies we managed to detect in time who is behind this conspiracy a fascist monster leopoldo lopez a fascist monster a psychopath who has in the past 20 years been behind all the clues and violence he carries violence in his veins he is a mentally ill person a violent and a thief leopoldo lopez i say and who else is behind this his subordinate one but he was also behind this the government of the united states. more strikes

and our intake of this is our 0 live from london also coming up 29 members of sudan's security forces received death sentences for torturing and killing a protester. a firefighter dies as heat wave conditions exacerbate the difficulties in tackling australia's catastrophic bush eyes. and a gesture of political goodwill for a jailed cattle and leader spain is a state attorney to recommend release of. iraq's national security council has condemned american airstrikes on a powerful shia armed group and has warned it will rethink its relationship with the u.s. led coalition fighting eisel american warplanes hit 3 cut type hizbollah camps in iraq and 2 in syria killing at least $27.00 fighters and injuring $51.00 the group is allied with iran and has vowed revenge and all that if we are warning the united states as we warned before that there are legal presence means they are standing against the iraqi people and the iraqi people have the right to confront them with all types of resistance iraq's prime minister has called the attacks a breach of sovereignty when iran says its terrorism typ

population displaced and more 300000 people killed in the civil war so people in south sudan are waiting for a peace to come to them so that they can feel some kind of stability more than their joining us live from constant. at least 12 people have been killed in a rebel attack in the eastern democratic republic of congo it happens overnight on monday in the territory of watter linger just a day earlier 32 people were killed in another attack in bedding the eastern region seen a wave of attacks by rival group called the allied democratic forces at least a 179 civilians have been killed since october when the government launched an offensive against the rebels opposition parties in the gambia rallying against president a damn about they want baron so although his promise to step down by the end of this year he made that commitment in a deal to form a coalition government 3 years ago but has since changed his mind saying he'll serve his full 5 year term beryl's 2016 election victory ended the 22 year rule of former leader. nicolas huck is in banjul where protesters say president barrel has

country is at risk of famine if no military assistance is given to millions so many people in south sudan continue to wait for peace to come so that they can feel political humanitarian and economic stability. dozens of buildings are feared damaged or destroyed in a huge brush fire northwest of sydney australia firefighters worked through the night on monday to try to contain the gaspers mountain blaze which is almost $400000.00 hectares in size it's one of dozens of bush fires burning across new south wales firefighters are struggling to contain them because of hot dry and windy conditions. he has a new political capital which is out and is in government says its central location will make it easier for people to access services but critics argue the move is not economically viable may be politically motivated catherine sawyer reports from the new capital city this is bill rooney's new political capital the tega is in the middle of the country and was once a capital of the brewery and more nikki until the kingdom was abolished in 1966 the reason moved became official at the beginning of

so sudan's deposed president omar bashir has been found guilty of corruption he was given a 2 year sentence to be served in a reform center the courtroom was in chaos when the verdict was read out any thoughts or in the case centered on suitcases found in his home filled with around 130000000 dollars 75 year old denied corruption and said much of the money was actually a gift from the saudi crown prince bashir you remember was overthrown back in april following months of demonstrations which ended his 30 year rule ok morgan in khartoum with the latest for us he's found guilty great for the people who opposed him but only 2 years. that is not going to make people who have been protesting against his will here happy now people have been demanding accountability for not just corruption charges but for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the west or and the. output of the fact that the former president obama. if you will be moved to a rehab and center and not prison is something that is not going sit down well with protesters and many in sudan as well they've been saying that the former p

it's being called a turning point for sudan 29 members of the security forces sentenced to death for torturing and killing a protester. thousands of people are trapped on a beach in australia as bushfires across the states of victoria and new south wales get worse it's now the late afternoon of the town of balad kuta that's cut off from any help emergency services are preparing to evacuate people by sea or homes on the edge of moloch already burning residents were told to head to the waterfront several hours ago the town is a popular holiday destination. we've been running community meetings so everybody knows that the system was that we activated soren into that community once we're aware that that far i was about to hit the town. early this morning and when i leave that i had o'clock this morning the saw and were activated so everybody in that community that had a plan to go to the or at the bridge we are aware is the permits that some people have chosen not to take that it dos and reminding their heinz is also by the communities we won't be putting trucks into those areas i would

again is it hard to neighboring sudan she says the humanitarian situation is critical. the sanctions by the united states on to south sudanese officials comes just 6 days after the united states sanctioned 5 other south sudanese accusing them of human rights violations and committing atrocities now the 2 new people to be added to the list cabinet affairs minister martin morell who the united states accuse of recruiting local militias to fight in south sudan's conflicts the other person to be sanctioned is defense minister called my young jew who the united states accuse of not implementing the security arrangements from the government side asked for peace agreements signed between south sudan's government and various other groups here in the sudanese capital how to more than a year ago now ask for that peace deal there should be a certain amount of government soldiers and opposition armed opposition soldiers in the capital and various other states before the return of the opposition leader rick machar to form a transitional government now that deadline passed the initia

the figure is close to a 1000000 and it's been a similar story since june in south sudan priyanka gupta has our report. they were displaced by 6 years of civil war and now they are again forced out of their homes this time by floods which in south sudan have destroyed crops homes and livelihoods people say they haven't seen such devastation in more than 20 years during your go along when we were displaced by the flooding we felt sad because we had to leave everything behind we need shelter we need food now we're not getting those things because we had to leave our homeless. it's rainy season in east africa but the downpours have been unusually heavy this year nearly 3000000 people are affected by floods across the region most in south sudan last month the government declared a state of national emergency aid is pouring in but that's not enough. yes we can provide emergency support now but these people relied on are going to rely on have been relying for years and years of us. like to be badly affected so there's going to be list food are they going to grow themselves and therefore they

for starters protesters who have been leading sudan's revolution and since last year have been saying that they are also concerned about the role that the deputy head of the sovereign council hamid to here is the head of the irish have is playing to end a transitional period there is thing that they're concerned he's trying to whitewash his image with global witness is think that they're concerned about the economy about his source of income and that he's using natural resources from the country to fund his militias which according to the head of the sovereign council for double what is the commander in chief says that the ourself and the sudanese military are one and that they have the same budget but that report says that no what is happening is that the aristide has its own source of income from gold mines in the western region of darfur as well as the southern region of south kordofan so there are concerns that with the rapid support forces forces that have fought rebel groups for and that have been accused of work crimes and crimes against humanity and atrocities that this transi