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Some weapons makers didnt even wait a few months. Time mentality germany 2nd biggest defense contractor apparently devised a strategy for getting around the back. Behind me time executive refused to answer requests comments. The information came out by accident discovered by a former italian and. 29th 2015. P. D. And a colleague were getting ready to take off from calgary airports. Say a medicine man. Meant better over. The side of the. Beetle the bomb that. Was the bomb but. Then more on the. Internet able to document the government theyre going to starve and. Were going to. Go. But. Even then it. Depends. On the. Stuff to be complete got to be stop a quest. For of course i went i meant that. He then discovered that more bombs were about to be shipped out this time and both belonging to the body shipping company which belong to saudi arabia. To contain aerial again we dont know. Every go to a container. Entering shayna visually for. He filmed more than 20 of these convoys where. He also made a key discovery the bombs are manufactured by an Italian Company that belongs to germanys a fine mattel group. They are encased series bombs identifiable by the code stamped on them during manufacture 84447. With this code a link was made to a war crime committed against civilians in yemen. In october 26th the saudi and u. A. E. Led coalition bombed the house where a couple and their 4 children lived. The strike killed the entire family. The bomb remnants found in the ruins carried the high nitel subsidies town home. For forests and. They ski lift for the oil they provoke little sort of. Saying the. Saudi. Women to. Their sky aint that. The investigation prompted germanys Peace Networks to take action. It confirmed the findings of arms expert next hour he spent the past 2 years investigating the arms exports which is fine mittal channel to saudi arabia through its alyan subsidiary. Nominees of defense im on this one if me on all of them are fundamental in forgotten and yeah but talked on south nonsecurity one oil. Mentality for us. On thats how they think this rig or mean for that union alls legal flag that you see in the audience have been have most of us i would you have been a fool and. With politicians feeling to stem the tide of arms flowing to saudi arabia some activists have turned their efforts to the courts. Among them a team in the group enid by andrew smith and experts with the campaign against arms trade. In march 2017. 18 filed a complaint contesting the legality of u. K. Arms sales to saudi arabia it worths 1st. The recently to cool legal action is because we believe fees arms sales are not just a mortal we belief it also illegal you cant export criteria is very clear it says but if there is a clear risk that weapons might be used to commit a serious violation of International Humanitarian law. An arms sale should not go ahead the case brought several classified emails to light like this one consider the defense secrets. In it the head of the export control joints units a Government Organization expresses doubts about the legality of the arms shipments concluding. To be honest and i was very direct and honest with the secretary of state my gut tells me we should suspend. The n. G. O. Lost the 1st round in the case but was allowed to file an appeal. On june 20th the u. K. Court of appeals ruled on the case declaring british arms deals to saudi arabia for use in its war in yemen unlawful. The u. K. Government has halted licenses for weapons exports to yemen while it appeals the ruling. This victory has provided fresh hope for human rights advocates in yemen as they push forward to relentlessly with their investigation. Despite the chaos they have not given up hope thats one day the perpetrators of these crimes and their accomplices will be brought to trial. 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Below sudans it military joint and protest groups are finalize the constitutional agreement for the countrys future the 2 sides are hoping to sign a final deal soon it follows months of unrest over who will rule sudan following the removal of former president on one of bashir shala better supports. In the early hours of saturday an announcement that sudans military giunta and the Opposition Coalition had agreed on how to govern the country they fleshed out the details on the makeup and functions of a Transitional Government until elections in 3 years in an illicit im very pleased in the name of the african mediation and to respect the delegations to declare to the sudanese people and the International Community that the 2 delegations are fully agreed on the constitutional project. Was. The reaction was immediate on the streets of carter. Announcing the deal African Union envoy mohamed has on the bot gave no detail about the contents of the declaration he said talks are continuing on how and when it would be signed. During the negotiations the military council ceded to demands for justice over the killing of at least 6 people including 4 schoolchildren at a protest earlier in the wake of 9 soldiers were detained was a victory for tains of thousands of sudanese who had marched demanding justice for the deaths they get if i get that and that it was certainly a horrible massacre we pray the situation improves and that the right of the students are not neglected blood for blood and punishment is a must was the protesters have been flexing their muscle since december. Restoration started with the economy president Omar Al Bashir was in the cross his the number of protests grew along with their demands until bashir was removed in a military coup in april general says off the military council the protesters demanded civilians take the lead in the transition they start a decision outside the army he calls his forcing military rulers to begin talks over how to share power. On june 3rd Security Forces raided that demonstration they killed more than 100 people and injured many more talks resume to months later mediated by the African Union any theo pierre the 1st breakthrough came on july 17th leading to the signing of the political agreement between the military and the Opposition Coalition they agreed on and live in person Transitional Council with representatives from both sides and a rotating leadership ah. The disagreements have remained over the wording of constitutional changes now with the details agreed and a signing imminent sudanese people have a roadmap to a more peaceful future shallot ballasts aljazeera. Or so far the 2 sides have agreed on a stablish 3 governing bodies and heres more about how a Sovereign Council will run the government it will have 5 members from the Opposition Forces for freedom and change 5 for the military and then 11 of independent civilian and executive council will have ministers mostly chosen by the opposition but the military will choose the defense and interior ministries both sides have agreed on a Prime Minister though no name has been given out and the Legislative Assembly will be dominated by the Opposition Alliance with remaining seats going to parties which were not part of ousted president autumn on one of bashir government or William Lawrence is a professor at George Washington universitys school of International Affairs he joins us now from washington to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us sir let me ask you then what do you think of this agreement as far as what we know about it. Well this is one important step forward in a many step process it stems as you said from the july 5th agreement which was concretized on july 17th and this is a little bit like the july 5th grima and then we have an announcement of a deal without many details and the details we do have were leaked to reuters and havent been hammered out yet and there will be negotiations tomorrow but just stepping back a minute and thinking about this its remarkable to me that no one elected any of these people and theyre working out a 33 month plan for a very elaborate power sharing arrangement and very elaborate schemes to rebuild the country and to make institutions and systemic change without any elections which happen more than 3 years 3 and a half years into the future and so its just its just very interesting to me that you know we have sort of breakthrough after breakthrough from these 2 negotiating sides usually prompted by violence and then announcements of steps forward that are often opaque and the process is opaque so while sudanese do have a right to rejoice here and they are moving you know towards peace and away from war i dont think this is really systemic change yet this is rather a sort of pact did transition toward something that isnt quite clear yet what do you make of the fact that the military i mean most of the ministers are going to be we understand picked by the opposition but did the military is going to retain control of the defense. Ministry and the interior ministry and in other words that theyre essentially controlling to the leaders of security what should we read into that. And in addition to that we found out to the Intelligence Services will be do reporting directly to the Sovereign Council and the former agenda we the rapid the Security Forces they will be reporting to the ministry of defense so under no kind of real civilian control or so then again thats thats not a very democratic or systemic outcome so all of this is sort of baby steps in and arrangements on the one hand do increase the role of civilians not in overstate but in participation in certain key kinds of Decision Making but also allow the military to protect its own assets and then in terms of the government if sovereignty is with this person Sovereignty Council then then and the cabinet would be sort of technocratic and then there would be this north sort of named legislature of whose powers would of course derive from this constitutional declaration we havent seen yet but also whatever the Sovereign Council gives them and so the personnel are very important this been an interesting discussion lately in sudan about who will be Prime Minister but i think the big question before that is what powers will the Prime Minister have and those have not been worked out yet. Good to speak with you William Lawrence thanks very much for being with us a pleasure. After months of bombing in northwest syria the government has announced a conditional cease fire airstrikes are stopped in italy province syrias last rebel stronghold the truce came during peace talks in kazakstan the opposition say they will stick to the deal as long as the government doesnt violate it Andrew Symonds was at the talks in. A communique that didnt use the word ceasefire syrian state media had already announced a conditional truce demanding of the withdrawal of weaponry from a buffer zone a little. The Syrian Government blames the turkish for not fulfilling their role in the so she agreement last year. How the muslim you term this has not materialized on the contrary the number of terrorists in and lead has increased namely foreign fighter terrorists in and leave. The opposition despite reservations agreed to a truce but accused the regime of violating the so she agreement taking advantage of a withdrawal of fighters so they could launch what it called their cunning criminal attacks and their spokesman gave this war. Right now there is no trust and there will be no trust in the future when it comes with during the heavy weapons no heavy weapons will be withdrawn unless there are a written guarantee. That russia says the biggest fighting group brands as terrorists. H. T. S. Must be eliminated turkey has an obligation according to such a memorandum to do it if they cannot do it alone we can render them some help from us. Thats why were talked also today with the opposition that if they are interested and if they need some help also from the Russian Federation to fight a sham and other rebels and in a glib zone then they can count we can do it no one can measure the depth of distrust between the warring sides after more than 8 years of war hundreds of thousands dead moment 10000000 people displaced then theres the differences between the guarantors of these talks iran and russia on one side turkey on the other each with their differing interests. Nevertheless for so many traumatized civilians theres hope of some with spike from the bombing but no one needs reminding that deals done by leaders in high places have let the people of syria down so many times hundreds simmons aljazeera nursultan kazakstan. Concerns remain about how long this ceasefire will last a honda has more from tab on the turkish side of the border with syria the guns have fallen silent but what happens next is not clear this is a very ambiguous ceasefire according to the Syrian Government is that it is conditional on the implementation of the sochi deal now the opposition saying that we wont withdraw our heavy weapons unless we have guarantees from turkey and russia and you have High Authority to share which is the main Opposition Group but the Strongest Group in saying that we reserve the right to retaliate if the truce is violated without without even mentioning whether or not it plans to implement that such a memorandum h. T. S. Was the group that refused to withdraw from a Demilitarized Zone making it very very difficult for turkey to create this cell and in fact this is why russia kept on criticizing turkey saying youre not fulfilling your commitments under the sochi deal will turkey be able to do that this time around so there is a lot of concern that this is just a short term agreement