Members of the Sovereign Council or except the bios the formation of the Sovereign Council comes after a power sharing agreement was signed between the coalition and the military on saturday after months of protests it had been a point of contention between the 2 sides with disagreements over its role and who will have a bigger say now the council will be led by the military for the 1st 21 months of the transitional period and by a civilian from the forces of freedom and change coalition for the remaining 18 months it will have the role of overseeing the executive council and Legislative Assembly in which the opposition will have a majority or a presentation of the forces of freedom and change has been representing the protest movement and the talks to form a Transitional Government and all its institutions now people on the 3 feet will be keeping an eye on that coalition and the institutions including an independent judiciary to make sure that their demands for justice and accountability and Better Living conditions are met. The week now is for the next steps in the journey to democratic rule i think one of the interesting things here is that we are now actually expecting a fairly technocratic cabinet to be in ours during the transitional period and the Political Parties themselves will take their place within the Legislative Council which will be for naught and 90 days so while there might be some you know it is issuing that happens within the next 3 years im certain there will be within by the military figures and if it is within the executive it is in some parts offset by the structure of the Transitional Government. The Sovereign Council is set to be a test in the power sharing agreement between the military and civilians sudanese see if at the end of experience the military does hand power to a civilian government thats when they will know that they are on the right track to democracy people morgan ill just be around. Weve got a lot more to come here it out to syria including find out why indonesia has shut down the internet and sent hundreds of soldiers to its west papua region and the german chancellor the challenge is britains new Prime Minister to come up with a new vet said brian in 30 days. Hello good to welcome back to you in a National Weather forecast well this morning we are seeing some severe storms pushing across parts of bill roos you can see the line right there of clouds and in those lines we are seeing some severe activity with some hail gusty winds as well the potential for flooding is not going to be ruled out across much of this area but the good news is by the time we get to the afternoon and evening timeframe this area of High Pressure is going to be moving in so much better conditions there where we are going to be watching today is down here across much of the northern coast of turkey for also some severe storms as well now these could also produce the random tornadoes so were going to watch in this area very carefully so for ancora expect to see a time to there of 27 degrees were going to be seeing a problem is over here across parts of the northern section of the u. K. Coming into arland as well and into Northern Ireland some gusty winds could be a problem here on friday but watch what happens to the temperatures across much of western europe they are on their way up so for paris we do expect to see a temperature of 29 degrees here on friday but by the time we get toward saturday temperatures go up to about 31. 00 normally for this time of year we would see about an average high of 24. 00 degrees and then very quickly across the northern part of africa clear skies for many locations but for tunis expect to see a high of 35 in for tripoli 29 degrees for you. Sponsored. Over 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can drama in the 2nd episode we explore the lasting effects of this agreement that there is a regional set to 6 because its at those borders were drawn with consulting the people who have to live with the. Speaker. In the sun. To take a look at the top stories here in secondary School Students are rallying for political reform in hong kong as a protest Movement Continues to keep pressure on the regions government the School Year Begins in september and some students are calling for a 2 week boycott when classes begin turkey in the u. S. Have begun to work out plans for a safe zone in Northern Syria after months of dispute over just how big it should be and who controls it would eventually see joint patrols of turkish and u. S. Soldiers in the region sudans new leaders have taken office after months of Political Uncertainty general. Was sworn in as head of the president ial council for the 1st 21 months the new Prime Minister abdullah says hes ready to work on the economy. And the floods of inundated villages in northeastern pakistan as the water levels of the river pledge continue to rise after india released water from a. Diam at least 3 towns are completely under water in Punjab Province lets go live now to Osama Bin Laden the suffered about that pakistan administered kashmir and. A summer. Is pakistan directly blaming the release of dam morses by india for the inundation of these villages. A martini top and every year the monsoon rains bring with it floods and with these floods come the accusations that india did not give proper warning to pakistan when it believes the flood waters from its gates at the river jhelum right now which is slightly higher than usual and thats what we see during this year when glacial ice melts and rainfall is abundant so this this hundreds of thousands of 6 of water which to pakistan from india was as a result off this natural phenomenon that has been some rain as you been reporting in the last couple of days as well on the indian side and now this water is moving downstream and as you said in the Punjab Province the province that gets its name from the 5 rivers 3 of its rivers are at the high point that it. Has inundated a number of going to defend what it what happens if you look at the geography of the river its snakes through pakistani and indian territory so as this hundreds of thousands of you 6 of water travels downstream villages and towns are coming in its the pakistani authorities have been telling us that they have established despite the heightened tensions the communications between the Flood Commission is not like a son and they are getting regular updates with them and there are people who are going to be in the path of this deluge are being moved to see if a place is but there is a lot at stake for these people because crops are ready to be harvested and there is hundreds of thousands of livestock that is there so it is going to be a tough few days for these people and as were hearing multiple hecht is have come under water and rescue efforts are underway and so the pakistanis then do they believe that that Communication System that had been established which was supposed to help everybody deal with these annual. Do they feel that that communication was a system was abused or neglected by the indians in order to to perpetrate a sort of hostile acts against the pakistanis. Well everything between these 2 countries have been weaponized and that includes water thats why there were Bilateral Agreements that are in place to make sure that because pakistan. On the receiving end stem from the indian side to make sure that there is regular communications practiced on the ledge that when india released water according to protocol is india should have given a 4 warning to pakistani authorities that it is releasing this amount of water and people should be evacuated and efforts should be put into place to make sure that there is no damage and that was not that was not met after that in the last 48 hours when you saw these heightened accusations from the pakistani side now the the Communications Link have been established they are in regular contact and now these accusations of some say that the authorities here in pakistan concentrate on making sure that people are safe and their livelihoods are protected osama thank you for that to some a binge of aid in the south and about. There was friction remaining in some parts of indian administered kashmir almost 2 weeks after india revoked the regions autonomy tensions remain high in sugar the main city where people have barricaded areas to keep the Security Forces out as jamil reports these barricades have been placed in the srinagar neighborhood not by the Security Forces to control peoples movements but by the residents themselves to keep the Security Forces out tensions have been high all over the Kashmir Valley since the regions autonomy was revoked and restrictions put on communications and movements locals here say these barricades are a form of protest against those restrictions but for them its also a form of selfdefense. In new bootleg song. Boys a big big dope and we have no clue from then on how many have been big youve seen us how many distinctions so that they dont let anyone out of the neighborhood people here arent shy to show their anger towards the authorities area has already been the flashpoint for several protests this month locals expect the Security Forces to eventually return in larger numbers and tell us what happens after that is in gods hands indonesia has cut Internet Access in the west popular region in a bid to contain protesters of 10 violent a 1000 extra Security Forces have already been sent to the area demonstrators accusing indonesian government as treating ethnic. Government Buildings Police cars and parts of an airport have been destroyed since the protests began on monday. Iran has unveiled what it says is a domestically built. To air Missile System as military tensions in the region continue to rise state t. V. Show president rouhani attending an unveiling ceremony for the long range system tensions between the u. S. And iran escalated last year after washington withdrew from the 2015 Nuclear Agreement and as weve been reporting and iranian flag tanker has been released from the british territory. Iran correspondent. Is in the strait of hormuz where a british fly and oil tanker seized by a terror on a month ago remains detained. The british flag stand in peril was seized by the revolutionary guard last month for what they say were violations of International Maritime regulations they say the vessel had changed directions in the shipping lanes it collided with a fishing boat but also tracking systems to avoid Iranian Forces and iran says the seizure and release of this vessel has nothing to do with the iranian vessel that was seized by British Royal marines of the coast of japan although a Foreign Ministry spokesman said a few days ago that he hoped that the issue would be in front of the court and that the ship would be released very soon now we are told that the crew are in good health and they are still on the boat but there is a concern about the military buildup in the region that the u. S. United states is putting together a Naval Coalition to what they say is to protect the freedom of navigation in the strait of hormuz iran says that any Foreign Forces are a destabilizing factor in the region and the countries in this area of free capable of providing security and stability for all shipping 20 percent of the worlds oil passes through the strait of hormuz and there is a concern that with the increased tension there is an increased likelihood of a conflict. The United Nations is warning that 22 lifesaving aid programs in yemen will be forced to shots within a couple of months unless the world does more to help fund them in february countries pledged more than 2000000000 dollars that less than half of that money was actually received tens of thousands of people have been killed in yemen civil war millions of people are facing starvation the u. N. Has called it the worlds worst humanitarian crisis she have returns he has been following developments from the u. N. The u. N. Security council received a disturbing briefing on tuesday about yemen because humanitarian efforts there are only 34 percent funded in the coming days Water Treatment would be stopped in various areas of the country putting some 300000 displaced people of risk of cholera now on wednesday and even more dire warning of whats to come because of that funding shortfall unless the funds promised at the february conference are received in the coming weeks food rations for 12000000 people will be reduced least 2500000 malnourished children will be cut off from services which have been keeping them alive some 19000000 people will lose access to Health Care Including 1000000 women who depend on the un for Reproductive Health clean water programs for 5000000 people will shut at the end of october and tens of thousands of displaced families made themselves may find themselves homeless and what we keep on hearing is although most donors have stumped up the money that they promised in february for yemeni humanitarian efforts its saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates whove only paid a modest amount of the 750000000 dollars that they each pledged for yemen humanitarian efforts brazils president has dismissed criticism of his Environmental Policies after being blamed for a Record Number of wildfires in the amazon around 75000 this year both are not or says. To blame. The british Prime Minister is getting mixed messages from european leaders about the brics it process the french president emanuel says europe will not be held hostage to the ukase democratic crisis and warns of the no deal scenario is the most likely outcome Boris Johnson and president mackerel are expected to meet today in the coming hours the german chancellor meanwhile angle or merkel has been more optimistic in talks on wednesday she gave mr johnson a 30 day deadline to find an alternative solution dominic kane reports. Incoming to meet Angela Merkel in berlin Boris Johnson brought a message one of her desire to compromise where possible if his host would do likewise we in the u. K. Want a deal we seek a deal and i believe that we can get what we can do this up in the us i think is that is the phrase but clearly. They clearly we cannot we cannot accept. The current withdraw agreement. Unfazed by hearing her own catchphrase used to her angle america went straight to the heart of the matter the contentious irish border backstop the size the banks of the backstop has always been a fallback position if one is able to solve this conundrum if one finds the solution and we said we would probably find it in the next 2 years to come but we can also maybe find it in the next 30 days then were one step further in the right direction and we obviously have to put our all into the darkness and balance constraint thats because were at but in another question for the German Government is what sort of Prime Minister they are dealing one analyst says ministers here question course johnsons sincerity that his journey to berlin was more about posturing than politicking we are talking about a blame game hes coming here to demonstrate at home once he returns ok i did everything i offered. Our willingness to negotiate to renegotiate i made clear this is not acceptable and i got just a no and then he will follow up on what he started already saw to blame it all on the e. U. On brussels berlin and france. And then we and most likely no deal scenario to avert that the Prime Minister will have to give ground Boris Johnsons brings that mission is very clear take it to the key european capitals where the Decision Makers in his opinion are based in on wednesday and im going to marco 1st day the french capital and president kong and of course mr johnson is clear he wants movement on the backstop dominic came out is there a. Time for us to take a look at the top stories hear it out is there a secondary students a rally for political reform in hong kong as the protest Movement Continues to keep pressure on the citys government the School Year Begins in september and some students are calling for a 2 week boycott when classes begin. Turkey in the u. S. Have begun to work out plans for a safe zone in Northern Syria after months of dispute over just how big it should be and who controls it the plan would eventually see joint patrols of turkish and u. S. Soldiers in the region so then cause yolu has more from istanbul there is a question about the details the framework of the save some because turks have claimed that us President Donald Trump has approved lets say has promised at 20 mile which is 32 kilometers deep safe zone this is what turkey has been demanding since the beginning however on the other side and we are not hearing the similar the similar statement by pentagon yet but we are hearing from the court kurdish Fighter Group the y. P. G 8 leaders that they and they have agreed on a 5 kilometer deep safe zone sudans new leaders have taken office after months of Political Uncertainty general abdul fatah al gore harm was sworn in as head of the Sovereign Council for the 1st 21 months the new Prime Minister says hes ready to work on the economy floods of inundated several villages in northeastern pakistan as water levels of the river river saw pledge continue to rise of the india release water from a dam at least 3 towns are completely under water in Punjab Province into these areas restricted internet in the west region in a bid to contain protests that have turned violent a 1000 extra Security Forces already been deployed to the area demonstrators accusing in the xeon government of mistreating ethnic papillon students government Buildings Police cars and parts of an airport have been destroyed all right up to date coming up next its the stream. The leaders of the 7 most powerful economies in the world need to be rich this august the Climate Crisis high on the agenda. Trade names breaks it on the tension with iran will be vying for their attention how much progress might follow the g. 7 summit. Hi im femi oke a and you all in the stream and im only going to our black americans the true founders of us democracy that is the premise of the 1619 project and new series by the New York Times magazine. Black people responded to their slaves and by the manning of fighting not just for their own right but for universal rights they believe those words that our founders did not and from the moment when Crispus Attucks a man who in south was not free who was a fugitive from slavery died for the freedom of this new nation all the way to now we see the black lies matter protests and we must acknowledge that it is black people who have fought more than any other group to make the ideals laid out in the constitution of reality. The cornerstone of the series is an essay by Nicole Hannah jones so you just heard from and what she asserts the year 1619 is foundational to the american story as 776 the year the u. S. Gained independence why it was in august 16th that the 1st enslaved africans overall lived in what would become the u. S. State of virginia this is the 400th anniversary of the start of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in america the 6948 commemorates this Pivotal Moment and seeks to reframe history joining us to discuss this in new york activist educator but it in berkeley california Stephanie Jones rogers shes a history professor at the university of california berkeley and in nashville tennessee 10 wise hes an antiracism writer and activist welcome everyone to the stream i want to start with some of the feedback we got from people online when they 1st heard about this project and ill start here with someone on twitter who said i am brought to tears by the essay written by miss heneage jones i have never seen my own feelings about this country written so eloquently and yet it was full of facts i didnt know and i consider myself a fairly well educated on our history she goes on to say a colleague of mine left the country after trump was elected a daughter of chinese and german immigrants she lost faith in our democracy i never have i will fight to my death to perfect it its why i became a lawyer so clearly this resonates barry strongly with her brittany for you what was your reaction when you learned of this project and then began diving into the project and reading it. My reaction was very similar to the person who just tweeted i knew that we were going to be given an immense a gift and when i say we im talking specifically about black people who could finally see our stories and our Foundation Almost marriage is being shared in the paper of record but im also talking about a gift to this entire country a reframing of a conversation that should have happened years ago but that we continue to resist because it makes us deeply uncomfortable and forces us to look in the mirror at ourselves so im deeply grateful for this project every Single Person that contributed to it and im grateful for that conversation that its bird stephanie it feels like this is a National Conversation in the u. S. Right now people talk about race people talk about the last 400 years of American History as a historian what do you see happening what is happening here. Well i have to echo britneys comments and her feelings and sentiments about the 6900 its extraordinary its 8 masterful endeavor and i am so grateful to hannah jones and the other contributors as well what i think is really interesting about this moment is that we are in a trance era we are in the trumpet era an era in which White NationalismWhite Supremacy racial terror have. A mainstay had made it part of a facet of our everyday lives and so to be having this conversation in this moment a moment where you would think and conversations around these issues before closed is quite promising and its really an earring to me and really inspiring to me and motivates me to deeply invest in this project and make sure that it many people possible know about it too much i want to show some of our audience the essay titles that incredibly for vocative essay titles of the a part of this really making people think have a look a on my laptop this is the lead story the lead essay at democracies founding ideals force when they were written black americans afford to make them true im going to give you 2 more recreating educational malpractise why slavery is mis taught and worse in american schools is really shaking up the narrative of america and one more 400 years after enslaved africans with a sports virginia most Americans Still dont know the full story of slavery racism is such a major issue in the state its such an uncomfortable thing to talk about tim why do you think this project has claimed traction. Well because i think were at a Pivotal Moment in our history as a country right now where the combination of demographic and cultural change has brought us to point where people of color are thankfully in a position to demand that truth be told and those in the old guard who have been holding back that truth for their own reasons for a very long time are losing their ability to exercise that hedge amount of control over the narrative and thats an amazing incredible thing you know James Baldwin said something a little over 50 years ago that i think is still very important today he was talking about white folks when he said it he said these innocent people are trapped in a history they do not understand and until they understand it they cannot be released from it what he was saying was that white folks ability to lie to ourselves and to others about history has trapped us it doesnt just trap the victims of in slave mint and White Supremacy the targets of that system it also traps the practitioners and the beneficiaries in a false narrative that leads us to places that make it impossible to build multicultural democracy so i think this series is absolutely a gift as as the others have said and i think not only for people of color but for white folks to finally well have to deal with real history not the not the nonsense about George Washington and the cherry tree and not telling a lie and ben franklin flying a kite and discovering electricity or whatever it was we were told as children but the actual story the good the bad and the very ugly that have brought us to this place that is something that i think anyone whos interested in history ought to be excited when i think heres i think its important about what 10 just said its not just about the story that has been told its about connecting the dots from the truth of all of the moments that were covered 1619 and so many that want to where that has brought us to now until we understand our history we will be doomed to repeat it and we absolutely. We are repeating it were repeating and extending the legacy of slavery through mass incarceration in the u. S. We are can we are continuing to extend the legacy of slavery through educational malpractise not just in how poorly we teach about slavery but also about how poorly we teach black children in this country there are so many ways in which the manifestations of slavery continue to haunt america and americans every single day and so this is not just about reckoning with our past its also clearly about reckoning with our president and to tims point when white people get ahold of this its about understanding the story and then understanding your current responsibility to be an antiracist so bringing understanding that if i want to give this you stephanie but i want to pick up on britneys point bad as another continuation and extension of that legacy into modern day life this is one of the point that people are picking up on so maureen says not only did in slave labor clear land and build infrastructure but the profits and business of slavery fed the shipping industry created the wealth of new england traders and later fueled the Industrial Revolution based on cotton mills someone else put it very simply almost summing up with that person said this is another person as our story on twitter who says the wealth of this nation and others would not have been possible without the use of slave so stephanie talk to us about the rim of the cations that were seeing in modern day life. Sure i mean i think its really important to understand that you know we we tend to think of slavery as a Regional Institution one that was a brutal institution but not necessarily connected to our nation more broadly and what historians of slavery and capitalism have been showing really since the 1930 s. The 1940 s. With. British caribbean historian Eric Williams that slavery was fundamental to the emergence of the development of capitalism and global capitalism so thats very much the case in the United States on as those wonderful tweets underscore slavery was fundamental to the development of industrialization in the north you have the cotton picked by and sleep people for example being put be shipped to the north in order to be processed and made into textiles in northern textile mills you have hot and being shipped to britain im in order to you know do the same exact thing so the the the labor and the products of enslaved people became fundamental to the development of industrialization and subsequently global apple is on i mean so i think our story im seems to be a uniquely american one but its very much im a global one and i think thats one of the things that 61000 project drives home guess what im not hearing here make the case for that 16 or until the founding of the founders of the United States should be sort of those black americans that built america i mean can he make that connection between slavery and where we are right now in the states but im not hearing you making that case to go ahead i what i was just out. If you dont understand that i could i would i would love to respond to that i absolutely i was really so wonderful question to you and to pose i meant to center this conversation the question on that that you let out what it. Which is should we think of African Americans or african descended people particularly those that that arrived in 69. 00 can continue to ride there after as our true Founding Fathers and mothers i would add and i would argue that they should certainly be counted amongst them and i say that because when you think about the things that make our Founding Fathers and mothers im remarkable all of those things African American african just that it people african captives began to do immediately upon arrival in in the United States or in the bay area that we would now to get to the United States they found that there were injustices perpetrated against the government they aired those grievances to that government to local and federal governments and then they face struck out they took up arms and they fought to secure their freedom in some cases they won in many respects they did not so i think the things that make our founding father jerome article are the things that african descent people have been doing since before 6900 but certainly within the context of slavery and in merican slavery have been doing since 61 things i think it is important to center im 61000 and that story of american democracy and also to recognize african descended people those who came in 61000 there after as are certainly of very important founders Founding Fathers and mothers right and i would just have to that you know if you if you go to the museum of africanAmerican History and culture in d. C. Theres a rather extraordinary point in the museum there are many of them but one of them is this point where there is a statue of Thomas Jefferson and behind him bathed in light is this granite wall right and has his famous words all men are created