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Dance carry is suspended flights are talks between protest groups and the military council have been deadlocked so far dennis traitors are hoping the strike will force military leaders into a new round of talks lets get the latest now from him but morgan who is in khartoum for so here what sort of effects is this strike likely to have on the military council what sort of pressure is going to put on them. What the opposition is hoping has them is that the military council wont come out and say that theyre willing to negotiate once again after more than a week of suspension of talks between the 2 sides now the military council and the Opposition Coalition are to a yet to agree on how the Sovereign Council should be composed and who is going to chair it theyve stopped talking for almost 8 days now and the Opposition Coalition is saying that this protest this strike that is nationwide is the only way to put pressure on the military council to understand the value of civilians and to hand over power to 3000000000 rule now the Opposition Coalition is saying that it is very late if the military council does not come to the negotiating table but that it is also open to talks to reach an agreement. With the know if we reach an agreement then all we want is the agreement and for us to work as partners in order to guarantee a smooth and peaceful transition to a civilian government if we do not agree as we said we will escalate things using our peaceful civilian methods which is strikes protests and civil disobedience we can use civil disobedience if we do not reach an agreement but we hope that we do not have to resort to open strikes and complete civil disobedience because for us that means many steps and it would only be in return for all our demands not being met not when our demands are partially meds now that the opposition and the military council are mulling early elections the military council is saying that if the stalemate continue between the 2 sides and if the other other parties that are not part of the Opposition Coalition do not join talks then they will call for early elections but the Opposition Coalition is saying that the country is now. Not ready for a nationwide elections partly because parts of the country like the Western Region and the Southern Region have been facing war and there have been displacement so people will not be able to vote so theyre saying that if the military council insist on having early elections they will escalate their protests they will be civil disobedience and more strikes and of course the sit in in front of the Army Headquarters that is in its 7th week people continue to protest think that they want a civilian government and they do not want the military council to rule them has them. Right here morgan live there in khartoum thanks about. Or Douglas Johnson is the author of the root causes of sudans civil wars and he joins us now from oxford in the u. K. Thanks very much for being with us. Youre welcome so i want to ask you 1st of all what do you make of this latest move by the opposition to kind of up the ante as it were. With this nationwide strike will that have any effect on the on the military leaders. Well right now the Transitional Military Council is sitting in power that has its hands on the levers of power and the only real pressure that the opposition can put on them is to mobilize and demonstrate civilian opposition throughout the country not just in khartoum but in other parts of the country now this is what they have done with the demonstrations the National Strike the general strike is another way in which they can put pressure on the military council and possibly begin to. Get some sort of response from other levels of the military and the police where you might begin to see cracks in the facade of the military as a lower level officers or the police an army to get out of this particular dilemma and meet some of the protesters demands what are the chances of that happening at this point i mean is that do you think is that what the opposition is banking on that there will be these possible divisions within the military leadership and that will perhaps force their hand. Well its hard to say at a distance but you have very high or various hardliners at the top level of the military for instance the deputy lieutenant general. Who was been involved in. Human rights abuses and war crimes in darfur hes mentioned in speeches to the police that tends to divide the military and draw. Between the military in the police so there obviously is some discontent in the army and in the Security Forces. But also as long as these demonstrations go as long as there are busy possibility of escalated National Strikes the military council is not going to be able to deal with the issues that confront them. The various issues that led to the demonstrations and strikes so theyre going to have to come to some accommodation with the demonstrators and with the opposition at some point if the country is to get out of its economic decline and the different simmering wars or the wars in the marginal regions are to be brought to a peaceful close lets talk a little bit more about some those issues that led to the demonstrations its worth reminding our viewers about this because these these protests have been going on for months now and i even this book the root causes of sudans civil wars what do you think are the root causes of these protests because it all started wasnt it with the price hikes. On basic goods and it just sort of grew from there didnt it. Yes i mean what you have to remember is that the indias regime of the National Congress party and well bashir has mismanaged the economy for 30 years and the price hikes of bread and of petrol are just the latest one elements of that mismanagement which put more pressure on ordinary people and which led to these demonstrations and strikes its been a very repressive regime. Who have outlawed or have put restrictions on unions which are now being lifted. So. They continue to have. They continue to have different civil wars i mean you have the war in darfur has not ended the war in Southern Kordofan has not ended the war in blue nile has not ended there are a number of people whove been displaced either into internal camps in the sudan or as refugees in ethiopia in south sudan and chad so it is. A complete mess in many ways. And also following what had been an islamic islamised gender as only added to the repression of ordinary people so these are all of the things that have come together its not just bread and petrol its or the combination of 30 years of misrule good to talk to Douglas Johnson thanks very much youre welcome. Has been more fighting around the libyan capital as those loyal to the u. N. Recognized government their battle with forces led by warlords despite the u. N. Arms in bargo and aljazeera investigation has revealed military planes in libyan air space supporting huffed are solid bellus reports. Libya divided. The hostages forces and the only 2 months into a push to take the capital tripoli from the u. N. Recognized government after his men have now reached the airport road just south of tripoli prices will see the government are trying to push them back my government articles no we have overpowered the enemy and we are now on the airport road we have overpowered them and they will return to where they came from. The Prime Minister 5 years alsa russias troops are not just bestselling haftar and his self described Libyan National army and aljazeera investigation has revealed several foreign owned military planes based outside the country have been supporting her the aircraft flown regularly between egypt israel jordan and libya the tracking devices were frequently switched off concealing their movements to and from Eastern Libya have to space private jets have also been used one carrying military equipment was seen in 3 libyan cities and a pro then tracked flying from egypt meringue huffed as advance towards tripoli on the 10th of may. And an Egyptian Military cargo plane flew west out of egypt on the 15th of april before we talk to right just off the libyan fronts over the last few years a lot of countries have been supplying have done it without which he would not never have been able to dominate the eastern part of libya primarily it is the u. S. That has been pointed out throughout the last 3 years or 40 years by the United Nation and multiple reports that it is the primary its a supplier of weapons and munitions and so on to the hopped up side. Last week the u. N. Special representative for libya haas and salami called for immediate action to cut off the flow of arms saying many countries were sending weapons to libyas warring parties the country is under a u. N. Imposed. Both sides are violating their weapons and bargo and there are many countries supplying weapons to both sides but the primary. Country for furnishing arms to have to are in the east is and the primary country supporting the defense of tripoli in the west is turkey. This recent escalation in libyas 5 year civil war has killed more than 500. People and forced more than 60000 from the us Prime Minister. After have agreed National Elections are needed but critics say with 3rd party supporting the conflict theyre not the only ones at the table. 0. Schoolgirls have been killed and injured in a stabbing attack at a bus stop in japan bystander was also killed before the attacker committed suicide when hey reports from the scene. The attack happened just before 8 in the morning in this usually quiet suburb of kawasaki city as children were waiting to board a bus to go to a nearby private Catholic Elementary School a man attacked a group of girls with knives it appears he deliberately targeted the students but some adults were also caught in the violence eyewitnesses say the attacker was carrying 2 knives the latest stabbed himself and died in hospital not the 1st. I saw kids screaming and crying other kids in people at the scene looked too shocked to do anything i didnt know what i could do for them. Medical staff say most of the wounded being treated at several hospitals are children among those killed an 11 Year Old Girl an attack like this mainly against children is particularly shocking in japan which is regarded as one of the safest countries in the world with one of the lowest murder rates in july 2016 there was another mass stabbing in the same prefecture on that occasion 19 people were killed in a home for people with disabilities by a former employee as the scene of this attack was cleaned investigators were trying to find out why children may have been the targets of such violence wayne hay al jazeera kawasaki japan we got plenty more ahead on this news hour more violence in brazils prisons just 24 hours after 15 inmates were killed in a riot in the north. Will tell you how the violence in yemen is keeping a generation of children away from school. Later as for more bad news for neymar on whats not been the best year for the brazilian. Have a 1st mass arrests in forced disappearances an extra good. Killings just some of the allegations being leveled against the Egyptian Security forces in the sinai in a new Human Rights Watch report thousands of soldiers have been waging a military campaign against isolette groups in the region since 2013 there are now at least 40000 soldiers operating in sinai and the report says the military and police have made more than 12000 arrests Human Rights Watch says detainees often face abuse and as many as a 1000 being held without trial at one of 3 secret sites the report adds the violence in the Sinai Peninsula has forced tens of thousands of people to leave it blames both sides for rights abuses against civilians amounting to war crimes or since the fighting egypts arms imports have grown by 215 percent making it one of the biggest arms importers in the world on to maggie is a middle east and north Africa Research and Human Rights Watch he says abuses highlight highlighted in the report are widespread. We believe that many of these abuses are systematic and widespread. Which means that it cannot really be. Just. In the basket or some bad officers acting on their own to have. And we also say. There could be a response but if the for commander of the senior commanders and also civilian officials in the Egyptian Government who knew or should have knew about should have known about these abuses and should have stopped it and we called for accountability for all of these officials because of the failure of. Government to really be in the loop in the abuses or even just like nodded in your own doing in the Sinai Peninsula we actually call on the United Nations Human Rights Council to stop this independent inquiry of. Independent commission of inquiry and also similarly the African Commission to do the same and we call on countries to use. Domestic loads of universal jurisdiction to actually pursue any officials involved in war crimes in the sinai region israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says hes doing everything he can to build a coalition and avoid another election thats off the parliament passed a motion to dissolve itself less than 2 months after elections seem to offer netanyahu a new mandate he has just 48 hours now to form a government potential ally Avigdor Lieberman says a new law extending mandatory military service to also also also docks main should be part of the government but netanyahu is ultraorthodox want the draft exemptions to state. The flow of this is a lot can be done in 48 hours the voters which is can be respected a strong right wing government can be established we can bring stability and a Good Government to israel i hope people come to their senses and do the right thing or china and russia will not attend the u. S. Sponsored summit on palestine in behind the next month the Palestine Liberation Organization has also said it wont be going to the United States government is expected to unveil its interpretation of the economic benefits of ending the Israeli Palestinian conflict and try to attract investment. The Chinese Ambassador to venezuela says foreign sanctions are partly to blame for the current humanitarian crisis that came as china is delivering its latest shipment of medical supplies as part of an aid agreement and its way in Health Minister says u. S. Sanctions have created a criminal blockade essential medical supplies are at a critical level in most of the countries hospitals in colombia and peru have called on the International Community to commit more aid to help with the flood of migrants fleeing venezuela colombian president even do k n his and peruvian president martin this car say their countries are facing the worst migrant crisis in latin americas recent history duquesne warned that it will continue if the venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro remains in power. A serbia has put its troops on high alert in the semi autonomous kosovo region on the border reports a heavily Armed Kosovo Police made several arrests in the north of the territory which is dominated by serbs kosovo says its police were targeting organized crime but belgrade it says they were trying to intimidate the serbs serbia does not recognize kosovo as declaration of independence as more on this now from mark who joins us from belgrade so mark help us make sense of this whats happening there. Doesnt the high tensions that recur in last year over the dispute of course of war between dispute between serbs and albanians now called many people with the Police Intervention the northern part of course after the war and or the by the court in pristina with. 23 people were arrested mostly the serbs and mostly the Police Officers in northern part of course of all in pristina capital of course all of