The sudan is celebrating another major step toward democracy the countrys ruling military reaches a firm deal with civilians that should eventually lead to elections. And tensions in moscow as police try to fend off the baycol an unauthorized opposition rally with dozens detained this just a week after Security Forces arrested more than a 1000 people turned testing a ban on some opposition candidates in city elections. I am. Told. By my ash waiter its good to have you with us another mass antigovernment rally in hong kong is growing increasingly tense this is the 9th straight weekend of protests thousands of demonstrators have blocked a major road in the city center despite Police Appeals to clear the area. Hong kong has seen months of unrest triggered by a controversial extradition law the unrest has now evolved into a Wider Movement for further democratic reforms the past 2 weekends have seen a surge of violence from both protesters and police who have fired rubber bullets and tear gas. To. Among the protesters in hong kong as the protests got underway earlier heres what she had to say thousands are back on the streets of hong kong today and today is going to be extremely pivotal in these weeks of protests and that is because this is the 1st big public march thats taking place since dozens of people were charged with rioting earlier this week now rioting is a charge that carries 10 years in prison now clearly the stress of police arresting people on those charges hasnt put people off here who are marching behind me at the moment oh theyre chanting the hong kong carry on keep going theyre also encouraging people to take part in a general strike that is happening on monday now at the moment things still are peaceful weve seen children on the streets here taking part in these rallies but the fear is of course it things could start to descend into violence theres been a trend here that off to the main protests has taken place small pockets of angry demonstrators with their faces covered armed with with headgear have clashed with police weve seen tear gas rubber bullets as well on the streets of hong kong and theres a real concern here that this evening it could descend back into that violence we could possibly even see more arrests people here very angry about the Police Response to the protests that have happened so far. There was. No reporting for us in hong kong meanwhile in sudan the Ruling Military Council has reached an agreement with a prodemocracy coalition to form a Transitional Government this is meant to eventually leave the country toward Holding Democratic election. This still follows weeks of negotiations led by the African Union at the same time protesters held regular demonstrations demanding civilian rule some of which ended in deadly violence. And. Celebrations on the streets of khartoum its almost 4 months since longtime leader Omar Al Bashir was ousted during that time many sudanese feared another strong man would simply take his place but last night came the announcement that the military and civilians had reached a firm deal to lead together and move the 2 delegations have fully agree on a constitutional document. The. The agreement is expected to be signed in days it will start a 3 year period of transitional rule leading to elections during that time power will rotate between a military and civilian leader with a cabinet of technocrats to manage the country Details Remain to be finalized but sudanese are hopeful. They can remember that has been reached today is a chance for a new beginning to take sudan into the place it deserves and it should open the door to the modern civilian future of sudan that we have been looking for for her i mean we are very happy about that because for 30 years and have been living in death darkness marginalize ation and killing well when anyone came out to express their opinion bullets would follow you after 30 years god has answered i pray. Amid the celebrations some hold the last images of those who lost their lives in the struggle more than 100 people are believed to have died in crackdowns against protesters according to doctors several soldiers. Now been detained over the recent deaths of 6 demonstrators giving sudanese hope for justice and peace. The reporter for him is with me in the studio now you were in sudan when the protests 1st started a while back and youve been following these developments so is this agreement a significant step forward in resolving this political crisis in sudan its at the very least a necessary step for any hope of this political crisis coming to an end in the near future this this is the constitutional declaration this is the defacto 2nd part of the power sharing agreement between the forces of freedom and change which is a coalition of opposition groups and military leaders this is the 2nd part that was signed back in mid july and it outlined the sort of general terms of the transitional period that it would be 3 years that there would be a Sovereign Council with leadership that would rotate between military and civilians and now this this this constitutional declaration is significant because it gives more detail it also tries to address that support forces this Paramilitary Group that has allegedly been terrorizing civilians on the streets of close to him since the removal of on one of bashir back in april and now they will be falling under the military command although there are some suspicions of how much this would rein them in since they were always officially under the command of the military and whether they would stop acting like a private militia essentially and weve heard a lot of these announcements happening sense the military Transitional Council took over is this one any different from these earlier ones that were also cast as these big historic announcements correct so i mean you know the the military has been in negotiation with civilians essentially since april and there were many moments where they would come out and said theyd reached an agreement and then these womens would sort of fall apart of the very last minute before signing. Violence would be good would come in the way the significant thing about these 2 agreements so to speak or this 2 part agreement is that its mediated by the African Union there is this general sense from the people ive spoken to that theres theres a frustration with the fact that the country has been at a political standstill essentially since december not even april when i met in bashir was was removed i think though that the real victory would be what would happen after this transitional period the fact that its 3 years is a huge win for the opposition they wanted it to be that long to extract the deep state of im going to share it a very major him thank you so much for coming in. And now well take you some of the other stories making news around the world 1st rico has a new governor lawyer who we see it was sworn in after weeks of protests forced his predecessor to step down the e. C. Said that the Island Senate will vote on whether to confirm his position hundreds of people chanted and ring bells outside the Governors Mansion to mark the change of leadership. The king of the indigenous maori people in new zealand has visited a plot of land thats been occupied by protesters here near auckland is considered sacred to mars and protesters are angry at plans to turn it into a Housing Development the maori king says he visited to try to help the protesters find a solution. Europes historic heat wave has now hit Greenland Ice sheets are melting at dramatic rates 11000000000 tons of ice melted on wednesday alone the biggest volume of ice lost in a single day this season Scientists Say the recent temperatures recent high temperatures have been exacerbated by manmade climate change. President s of indonesias java island have been cleaning up after an earthquake left at least 4 people dead the magnitude 6. 8 quake struck late friday prompting a tsunami warning structures as far away as internees just capital jakarta hundreds of kilometers away or affected. To moscow now where opposition protesters are again trying to hold a rally despite an official ban on the event and a sweeping Police Crackdown on previous marches the latest reports say police have to ploy to a Massive Force on the ground and have made almost 200. 00 arrests so far and Opposition Leader who called for the event is among those detained todays planned rally comes a week after russian authorities violently broke up a similar demonstration running up nearly 1400 people protesters are angry that several opposition candidates are. Barred from standing in upcoming local elections. And our correspondent emily sure one is in moscow for us covering the story and really whats the situation right now in the russian capital. Well as you can see my are there is a Huge Police Presence on the ground here in moscow all over the city center riot police are out in force weve heard Police Helicopters flying overhead kind of figuring out where to send forces and what the situation is around the capital theyre monitoring the situation the internet has not been working very well in in the center presumably also part of the polices strategy and theyve been clearing the squares including the square behind me of people and arresting people as well now the plan of organizers of this on authorized rally has been to walk along moscows boulevards and its actually been kind of hard to distinguish in some cases who is really a protester and who is just a passer by even though the protesters have been clapping and some of them have been shouting slogans as well but thats one of the strategies here in russia of protesters as freedoms of assembly here in russia have become increasingly restricted over the past few years they found different strategies to come out and protest anyway things have so far as you say around 200 just under 200. 00 arrests so far. A little bit quieter so far than last week i spoke to one of the protesters who was detained at last weeks rally and i think we should take a look back at what happened last week at those dramatic dramatic dramatic rallies last week. These were images that shocked russia during protests for free and fair Moscow City Parliament elections nearly 1400 demonstrators were detained a number monitors called. Unprecedented. Keeton was one of them this photo has made him a symbol of the protests. When they arrested me i was trying not to get hurt so i tried not to fall over because they were trying to knock me down onto the pavement i also didnt want to let them twist my arm they were trying to do that when they were taking me to the police van. Moscow officials have since called the Police Response at the unauthorized rally professional and reasonable monitors say the behavior of the author already is in the upcoming protests is hard to predict. Our expectations are often wrong we expect a crackdown and then it doesnt happen we expect the police tonight calmly and then they crackdown on protesters. In hasnt decided yet whether hell take to the streets he already expects to receive a fine for disturbing public order at the last rally and is weighing up the risks of potentially being arrested again. When it comes to the demonstrators it doesnt look like they will calm down so easily and even if there is a crackdown at the protests there will be a protest vote in september people will vote for anyone but the candidates connected to the ruling party. This week several protesters have received criminal charges but despite the recent crackdown thousands have announced their attendance for this weeks rally on social media and the opposition is already pushing for yet another rally the week after that. I. Am only last week we saw nearly 1400 protesters taint are we staring down the barrel of a similar situation here today. It does seem that the strategy of the off thora to use this week is similar weve just heard from one independent monitor just here on the square that actually those arrest numbers could be much higher perhaps closer to 400. 00 after all last week moscows mayor said again and gave a signal to the police that they had acted as he said reasonably at the last rally this week almost all of the independent candidates pushing to run in the septembers elections were put behind bars for. 10 days 30 days at least as long as it matters for them to be off the streets now so it seems that were expecting a crackdown to say it today and in fact that crackdown is already happening and emily sure win for us in moscow thank you so much. Youre watching news coming up next world stories of the week in reports including a look at germanys new decortication mosque and of course you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website. 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