health crisis? first, beyond our borders tonight: two former senior editors for hong kong s stand news in jail tonight after being charged with conspiring to publish seditious materials a day after police raided the pro-democracy media organization forcing a shut down of its operations. the pair was denied bail. western governments are now criticizing that move as a sign of further erosion of press freedoms in the region. tens of thousands of protesters marching through sudan s capital met with stun gas and grenades as forces crowd. demanding the military play no role in the government during a transition to free elections. thursday was the 11th ground of major demonstrations since an october 25th coup. and iran sends a rocket with a satellite carrier bearing three devices into space without specifying if any of the objects have entered earth s orbit. it remains unclear exactly when that launch happened or what
under house arrest. for weeks it was not clear where he was. six weeks ago he was reinstated. that gave the military rulers some small drop of legitimacy. all of that is now gone. this is how he explained it when he gave his resignation last night. translator: even after the october 25th coup we signed a framework with the military in an attempt to get back on track with the democratic transition, to put an end to the bloodshed and safeguard what had been achieved in the past two years and to adhere to the constitutional declaration that governed the transition. reporter: there s a great deal of concern within sudan and what this means. the leaders should set aside the differences and come together. they have a plan here. there is supposed to be a democratic transition in 2023. whether that will happen now is a big question mark. who becomes a prime minister is
significant. we audience that ousted sudanese prime minister met with sudan s military chief, general abdel fattah into the wee hours of sunday morning, and they came out of the political agreement that would seal abdel reinstated as a prime minister and the transitional government that was led by civilians go back in effect. we re hearing this according to m madowi ibrahim. so among the things that official boarhahn and former prime minister agreed on is that all political detainees would be reid. since the october 25th coup, several members of the former transitional government, politicians, ministers were detained. there have been politicians and other protesters that were detained since then. they will all be released. and they have agreed that general borhan would restore the council of ministers that