hello again you're watching reminder of our top stories this hour the african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to postpone the announcement of its final presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote courses due to a veil on friday. the protests are expected following. friday prayers and through dawn to demand the resignation of president omar al bashir nationwide confrontations between police and protesters on thursday killed three people. and u.s. president donald trump says he wants to explore space based on weaponry that could shoot down missiles he made the announcement unveiling a new defense ops the pentagon. let's get you more on the scene now and chris bowen says offer of congo's violent peace is also an independent expert on the conflict security and democracy in central africa and joins us live from ghent in belgium good to have you with us how interesting do you find this call from the african union the final results of the democratic republic of congo's elections be delay. i think it's. very important only one historical. e

the real winner of this presidential election now the african union is sending a delegation. to kinshasa and these delegations mission is quite tricky -- there will have to make sure that the results reflect the people's choice butut at the same time they will have to avoid. the cancellation of the whole election because this would lead to joseph kabila staying in power. tell us they come up for is that in kinshasa. next presidential electionss in algeria ougught to o be d on the eighteenth o of april ththis year but it isn't yet clear whether or not president abdelaziz beautifully go will be standing. the eighty one year old is ready being seen n in public sisince he e suffered fromma stroke in twenty thirteen but his supporters of non the l less cold on him to stand in the election. any challenges need to regigister before ththe ful. five bo is to stay behind bars of the judges of the international criminal court accepted a last minute request by prosecutors to keep him in jail. following a seven year prison term the full my forum leader was acquitted on crimes against huma

well the constitutional courts might not care about what the african union does or what the african union calls for africa the constitutional court you know will most probably you know act in insulation or isolation from regional factors and we know that these eight judges on that court and that that the court you know has no history or track record of being independent and that really is the concern the independence of those judges on the constitutional court who were all appointed by president kabila and you know they seem to be his alter boys well if that is the case then where does that really leave the electorate across the d r c over a million the were excluded from the boat from the vote to the east of the country because of the bowl of virus an area that scott still ongoing and many now on the streets waiting now for weeks to for a result the result that they hoped that would see their candidate take the top job it's sort of a limbo is it not for a country that needs stability and needs it no. it certainly is a limbo and it's very difficult right now to predict a positive outcome

as part of an african union peacekeeping force. behind tuesday's hotel. where for gunmen on a suicide bomber killed twenty one people five suspects appeared in court on friday in connection with the tuck police say all but one of the five gunmen who cut it out. and something that is raising the threat of homegrown terrorism. he blew his horn of africa security and joins us from washington d c. first up the point of these attacks is this american attack is to weaken is it effective. it is effective too to a degree however what we need to realize is that we cannot. way out of soling the if that price is. right. for quite some time now whether on the ground by african union forces from the air the u.s. security forces has been under cush but dot hasn't prevented the group from crying out some of these you know. i visibility and high casualty attacks and i just inside somalia but also outside in places like kenya so how strong. this still spread throughout the rural areas but how strong. as a political military force so it's about is fairly weak and it's not

in a rare intervention the african union calls on the d.l.c. to delay the announcement of its final election results citing serious doubts. and of them or a kyle this is a line from doha also coming up. thousands of people protest outside a hospital in the sudanese capital following the killing of a doctor and a child. our goal is simple to ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the united states anywhere anytime anyplace u.s. president outlines his new space based missile defense system. and the winner of one of the toughest events on. trial they rally for a third time. the african union has the democratic republic of congo to postpone the announcement of its final presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote and the provisional results were released last week the declared runner up candidate who had fled a court challenge demanding a recount insists he won sixty one percent of the vote in contradiction of official results which declared feelers to the winner. although the situation on

stop attacking kenya if kenyan troops pull out of you know the african union force that that a pot of in somalia is that likely. that's probably a false call by al shabaab and remember that kenyan defense forces have been operating in somalia since two thousand and eleven so here we are eight years later and al shabaab is only now trying to persuade kenyan defense forces to withdraw but on the other hand the african union mission in somalia has tried to press for a drawdown in military operations in somalia and some have even gone so far as saying that there should be a drawdown by july of this year kenyan defense forces on the other hand have said let's hold on a little bit let's not make a premature withdrawal from smally until we're certain that that the country's security and stabilization is assured before we do withdraw the estimated four thousand forces that kenyon does maintain in somalia and the meantime can the kenyan government what can the kenyan government do to actually stop the same in a random attacks cannot protect its people was this a failure by the cat kenyan gover

know again you're watching out of there as reminder of our top stories this hour the african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to postpone the final announcement of its presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote constitutional court is due to reveal its decision on friday. more protests demanding the resignation of the sudanese president are expected in the coming hours earlier mourners pay their respects at the funeral of a doctor who died in violence on thursday. says at least forty people have been killed since protests against price rises and the president began last month. and u.s. president donald trump says he wants to explore space based weaponry that could shoot down missiles made the announcement while stumbling a new defense strategy at the pentagon. who the rebels have rejected the role of an expanded u.n. group of monitors to oversee the ceasefire in yemen a un team tasked with supervising the truce came under fire in the city of her data on thursday they were leaving a meeting with the yemeni government delegation when t

that's a big question you know this isn't by the african union to to ask for a suspension of the results and to say that they would send a delegation that was very unusual i've never heard of the african union do that and i think most of these rulers you know in angola and zambia and in run there are very concerned about increasing study looting and so you know they do certainly have their doubts about the results now what can they do about this could be that was very short of moving forward as soon as possible and have the results and forest you know this supposed to come to can shots on monday with a delegation that was meant to bring all the actors together and see if they could do a resolution of the problem but now they might be there for two security integration instead so i think this is a big concern to them i'm not sure what the reaction i don't know what they can do frankly and go that could you know england is probably the most liable to the consequence of instability in congo having a very large border with congo and many refugees crossing back and forth and so they have a lo

tangay says the crisis is not for the african union to solve. actually we're not even in a constitutional crisis we and our management crisis is a political management issue and now we are told these can take up process of the election now we're out with very poor results being contested by everyone and head of state from all of africa and all of the world the media putting. even more on the table today when a celtic situation i think when it was turned away and leave things but try to find solution because the risk is very very odd to go in a very serious scare in the congo we don't want a leader again you don't want something similar i think we need to try and see what the cheapest way to get out of this situation which is strictly cultic when you take a statements from these states separately and when you see them by little groups and when you see them and you say it shows that there is no vision it's all at that level of african management of the conflict and i think we should try and leave these still got its hands and let them find solutio

multilateral institutions as their views that are going community and indeed the african union have been growing there that there has been a claim for ownership of african multilateral institutions undergoing this conflict which is an african conflict and disclaim has been successful they have the ear of kabila when men did give stigall spivey that exact into consideration because it includes countries like angola who saved his regime at several occasions. in sudan further protests demanding the resignation of president omar al bashir are expected following friday prayers nationwide confrontations between police and protesters on thursday killed three people that included a child and a doctor death triggered a sit in at a hospital in khartoum or mourners have been paying their respects at the funeral for that doctor abdel-hamid who died on thursday and says that forty people have been killed since protests against price rises and the president began last month. and speak now to mohammed val our correspondent who joins us on the line from khartoum and mohammed we're getting reports o

for quite some time now with up on the drawn by african union forces from the air by the us security forces also bob has been under kush but not hasn't prevented the group from crying about some of these you know low take high visibility and high because it's at odds not just inside somalia but also outside in places like kenya political and military force so it's about is fairly weakened but that doesn't mean that these group doesn't have the capacity to inflict the kinds of damages that we've seen the group being capable of doing it inside kenya our shabaab ha's been able to top into the you know the the long ranging and marginalise ition discourse both you know margin and real they have been able to recruit they have been able to equip they have been able to what the group also publishes an online magazine called a guide even tinier which means terrorists. terrorists in which you know sections of that report of the magazine is dedicated to the kenyans and it's done in swahili language in some of its videos increasingly the group is also using kenyan so kenya has suddenly become an

leaders we know the african union is unhappy with the electoral process so far but leaders from the southern african development community issued a statement saying that the people of the sea should be able to resolve the crisis foreign country should not interfere and people. wait for an outcome from the courts we know that eight constitutional judges i mean to make an announcement on the way forward they could i the say that. means he will be sworn in as president in a few days time they could order a recount or they could say the whole process was a mess. again which could take months maybe even years and that means it could be the remains of president and. the opposition leader of the catholic church says one by sixty one percent if he's unhappy with the outcome from the court. to go onto the streets and protest is no guarantee. it could be over the weekend or sometime next week. courts ruled five suspects. must be held in custody including a canadian national they are suspected of helping. them killed twenty one people. it was behind the. prosecutors say the investigation is co

top stories this hour the african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to postpone its final presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote constitutional court. decision on friday. activists say three more people have been killed in confronting police and protesters thousands of people. demanding president omar al bashir resignation. and u.s. president donald trump says he wants to explore space based weaponry that could shoot down missiles. at the pentagon. the chairman of the u.s. house intelligence committee says allegations donald trump instructed his former to lie to congress is one the most serious accusations against the president so far buzz feed news is reporting trump told michael cohen to lie about a building project project. democrat adam schiff says his committee will do all it can to find out the truth. examining whether a chance campaign colluded with russia during the twenty sixteen presidential election bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general and joins us live from washington d. c. the how potentially de

just and go and also a level of situation as you probably know on the a you the african union wasn't too happy with the code and the european union also and that they made also its statement are essentially so i mean do is it any values i can see like that what people see and hear some of you think katie and for you too and also a good liberal. so it's a split in the country as you were saying tom you know for mr is this the end of the battle for him over the election outcome or is there a way for him to fight back. because i you know actually if you read take don't you then they got a point of view i think every sunday and he did it because the work to do so no cold war did last. week that would be people like waiting for go now here in this country everything at the national level and the liver everything and but the price you want to call that yesterday the president credit i mean besides that waiting for david agus and the african union so maybe they wait when these people are waiting for them he has to morrow we are waiting to see what the african you know you say but here we al

government officials in kinshasa have told the african union that this is a sovereign country no one should interfere no one can tell the d.l.c. how to run the elections they also say they can fees because they getting mixed messages from african leaders we know the african union is unhappy with the electoral process so far but leaders from the southern african development community issued a statement saying that the people of the d r c should be able to resolve their own crisis foreign country should not interfere and people in space in its national committee should wait for an outcome from the courts we know that eight constitutional judges are meant to make an announcement on the way forward they could either say they feel it is the katie won the election which means he will be sworn in as president in a few days time they could order a recount or that could save the whole process was a mess and she be held again which could take months maybe even years and that means it could be the remains of president until those elections are held all eyes of course will be on martin fire you

and staying on the continent the african union has made a surprise intervention in the democratic republic of congo's disputed election saying it has serious doubts about the vote and it was the final results announcement due on friday to be for stones but the government has rejected the call congolese political analyst says the crisis is not for the african union to souls actually we're not even in a constitutional crisis we and our management crisis is a political management issue now or we are told these can take process off the election now we are very poor results being contested by everyone and head of state from all of africa and all of the world the media. even more on the table today when a celtic situation i think we need to turn away and leave things we try to find solution because the risk is very very to go in a very serious scale in the congo we don't want in the congo we don't want something similar i think we need to try and see what the best way to get out of this situation which is strictly cultic when you took a ten months from these and all states separately and when yo

what the african you know we say but here we've always been a does tools. and for myself i will i mean fight for these elections. thank you that was the w.'s wendy bash concetta thank you. and we turn to northern ireland where a car bomb rocked the center of the city of london derry also known as derry on saturday night there were no reports of casualties police say two men have been arrested and suspect the blast was carried out by a dissident irish republican group known as the new ira leading politicians have condemned the bombing fears have been rising that the political turmoil surrounding bricks it could lead to a return to widespread sectarian violence in northern ireland it was ended by a nine hundred ninety eight peace deal known as the good friday agreement now joining me in the studio to break this story down for us is reporter pablo foley welcome tell us about the blast first off well the latest information that we have is that two men and their twenty's have been arrested by the police in northern ireland the police there said that a pizza deli

to see what the african you know you say but here we all did make us cool. and for mike to say who i mean don't cry for the nation. ok thank you that was the wendy in concetta thank you. and there's been a day of upsets at the australian open including that of defending champion roger federer the thirty seven year old swiss man lost to twenty year old stefano city pass a greek player with a big following in melbourne because of that city's huge greek speaking population and germany's own city cavite was knocked out of the terminal terminal tournaments by american danielle collins cowbell won the tournament in two thousand and sixteen and was the second seed this year and australia is celebrating ashley barty's three set win over maria sharapova bharti is her country's top ranked women's tennis and cricket player to germany's going to sleep in now and with second place by our new nick winning on friday night the pressure was on dortmund to win last night at leipsic even without the presence of team captain marco royce the league leaders got the job done. a co

the saying that it still has serious concerns and that was also the last word from the african union saying that it would at some time send a high level delegation to the d.r. make looting of the president all ground up. that little happen given that the constitutional court has ruled on the election results essentially the r.c. defying the a you making that ruling now going ahead with the inauguration because the a you had said that the court's ruling should have been suspended the un special rapporteur on human rights and me and my young he leader is due to visit cox's bazaar in bangladesh that is of course where are the seven hundred thousand refugees live since escaping a military crackdown in rakhine state and me in my government refuses to cooperate however with me and has barred her entry. from cults is bizarre. the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar has been shut out by me in march the government won't allow her access to the country and is not cooperating so her work is confined to neighboring countries and bangladesh factors in greatly the u.n. says there are

in the democratic republic of congo since presidential election results were released last week the african union has cast serious doubts about the vote it was the final results announcement to be persones but the government has rejected the call the provisional results which declared opposition leader feelies should take care day the weather are being challenged in court his chief rival is martin failure and accuses him of plotting with outgoing president joseph kabila to rig the outcome. memphis's you see that although the situation on the ground has fortunately remained it generally comes so far it remains highly worrying to put it bluntly we have serious doubts about the results in the democratic republic of congo where the election delayed several times since twenty sixteen was beset with problems including the exclusion of about a million voters in the east where there isn't a bowler break uncertainty about the winner threatens to spark violence in the country hoping for its first peaceful transition of power since independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty let's cross over to he

union mission in somalia has tried to press for a drawdown in military operations in small area and some have even gone so far as saying that there should be a drawdown by july of this year kenyan defense forces on the other hand have said let's hold on a little bit let's not make a premature withdraw from smally until we're certain that that the country's security and stabilization is assured before we do withdraw the estimated four thousand forces that kenya does maintain in somalia. still ahead on the bulletin brazil's new president says on the good guys and a country with staggering violent crime and a new mike on coulomb names on the list but not everyone is hoping to get to the united states. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. more clouds swept rain across iran and pakistan actually occasional light showers mostly further north through afghanistan and beyond and they'll be a little bit more to come as you can see from the forecast but the concentration once again the heaviest rain in the snow well on wednesdays as far south a

union peacekeeping force al-shabaab says it was behind tuesday's hotel attack in nairobi where four gunmen on a suicide bomber killed twenty one people five suspects appeared in court on friday in connection with the tuc police say all but one of the five gunmen who carried out the haka and something that is raising the threat of homegrown terrorism mohammed all the while jazeera nairobi still ahead here on al-jazeera democratic republic of congo's opposition leader calls for a nationwide protests of the top court declares his rival the winner. by the sky nine if. or off the coast of the italian riviera. howlers bit more winter rain to come in interior of china you think it's come from this strip of cloud here and you'll be largely right because left behind a bit of a pole so the rain is back in you nine higher ground of course is its own snow cooled down a bit in hong kong and nineteen degrees is the forecast max for monday shanghai a bit lower than that and come tuesday although the rains disappeared north not much else has changed but more sunshine temperatures in all the same li

african union with their position but they've also got a statement from the southern african development community leaders there who issued a statement saying they feel that the people are the ones to resolve this crisis and then once the people of the diaz the and the international community to wait for the announcement will come from the courts we got an idea of how divided african leaders are when they saw over the weekend that get issued a statement saying they support a recount by the inside that's again a few hours at least a own statement saying that is not because they actually encouraging everyone to wait for the courts to make this announcement so certainly it does appear that in terms of the ask your leaders they are divided and want to do with the d.l.c. words from the constitutional court because that's where you are right now we were expecting to hear from the. people on the way and they could be waiting a long while a lot of people expected today on friday that that would happen it could be over the weekend or maybe even next week that if the judges don't this into the afr

the democratic republic of congo is rejecting the african union's call to delay the final results of last month's disputed presidential election a you won't see announcement be postponed because of concerns of electoral forward provisional results declared opposition leader felix to she katy the winner but they are being challenged by his rival mata for you knew who accuses tisha k.t. of rigging the outcome with outgoing president joseph kabila arm which also has more now from the capital kinshasa. government officials in kinshasa have told the african union that this is a sovereign country no one should interfere no one can tell the d.l.c. how to run the elections they also say they can fees because they getting mixed messages from african leaders we know the african union is unhappy with the electoral process so far but leaders from the southern african development community issued a statement saying that the people of the d r c should be able to resolve their own crisis foreign country should not interfere and people especially need to be made to wait for an outcome from the court

african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to postpone the announcement of its final presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote the government has rejected that. a leading u.s. politician says a new allegation about donald trump is one the most serious so far as president is reported to have told lawyer michael cohen to lie about a building project and. john of the house intelligence committee says he will do all he can to stop the truth. and investigative journalist to help expose corruption in african football has been shot dead in gone as capital hussein was part of an undercover probe to expose corruption and by award winning journalist and us army your investigation led to the resignation of the head of the gonna football association i'm a bartender reports from across. relatives and friends gather at the family home of the murdered journalist ahmed hussein. he was shot multiple times just outside his home in accra and what appears to be a targeted killing almost all do is from the north the other families were from this place is

the african union says it's postponed a high level visit to the democratic republic of congo this comes as the opposition leader martin for you know challenges a final ruling from the top court declaring his rival feelings to be the winner of the presidential election major miller has more now from can show us. the highest court in the democratic republic of congo announcing the next president felix. the. constitutional court judges dismissed an appeal by his rival martin for you who alleged widespread vote rigging on polling day last month. for you accused me of making a power sharing deal with the outgoing president joseph kabila both deny that by you lose refusing to accept the court's ruling and is urging everyone to reject. i consider myself the only legitimate president of the democratic republic of congo i call on the congolese people not to recognize someone who would take on that role illegitimately nor to a by orders coming from him. well for you know call for peaceful protests the streets of the capital kinshasa appeared as they would on any other sunday calm and quiet. unlik

government officials in kinshasa have told the african union that this is a sovereign country no one should interfere no one can tell the d.l.c. how to run the elections they also say they can fees because they getting mixed messages from african leaders we know the african union is unhappy with the electoral process so far but leaders from the southern african development community issued a statement saying that the people of the d r c should be able to resolve their own crisis foreign country should not interfere and people especially its national committee should wait for an outcome from the courts we know that eight constitutional judges are meant to make an announcement on the way forward they could either say the feeling is the katie won the election which means he will be sworn in as president in a few days time they could order a recount all they could say the whole process was a mess of the ditch and she be held again wish to take months maybe even years and that means it could be the remains of president until those elections are held all eyes of course will be on martin fi

a signal from the regional only since you know african union the arab league goal coordination council all from the major powers in europe in a bubble united states everyone has been pretty much silent about what they would like to see. and i think if i could just real quick because you're you're bringing up a point that i just want to add to what you're saying and i want you to finish your thoughts been nicholas kristoff wrote in the new york times he says and that the united states has joint statements with britain norway and canada calling on bashir to release detainees and recognize the right a peaceful assembly but there should be a much sterner warning to all security forces that they will be hell personally accountable for atrocities it does to your point it does seem that there has not been a lot of attention from the international community why. i think that the main reason it is attention isn't for folks at very obvious reasons and also there's a sheer of what might happen next there's a fear that there could be something worse than that than bashir and that is take for examp

also the government and did thic republic of congo rejected an african union request to suspend the announcement to final results for the disputed presidential elections. and as many as 1.2 million french women experience some form of sexual abecause or assault in 2017, but they were just -- there were just four convictions. this according to a new report. >> breaking news coming out of the hague. major decision from the international criminal court has just ruled to keep the former ivory coast president and his youth minister in custody until a new hearing in february. the judges ordered they should be freed immediately, but a day later the prosecutors filed a last-ditch attempt to keep them bind bars arguing they might abscond. the charges against humanity, in connection with disputing a 2010 election that left 3,000 people dead and more than half a million people displaced. the first former head of state to go on trial at the i.c.c. get more from frank. frank, what's the reaction where you are to the court's suspicion? -- court's suspension. >> very much breaking news here in after cafment st

it's also regularly targeted neighboring kenya which sent troops to somalia as part of an african union force it says it was behind tuesday's attack in nairobi when four gunmen and a suicide bomber killed twenty one people at a hotel and office complex on friday five suspects appeared in a court in my row be in connection with that attack the day al-jazeera. has mohamad though in nairobi now has been investigating the background to that and tac in kenya last week talk us through that ahmed. well yes the tug the somali army base was cut it out according to some of the government officials by. al-shabaab fighters who have always used such kind of a tox on the somali national army bases and also the forward bases of african union peacekeepers themselves ever since they lost the seaports all. about what's been facing difficulties in getting on a tactic they have used is targeting these bases and then looting what. and i mean they can lay their hands on this time around while they were not successful with those. u.s. a taco bell coped is. targeting them as they were leaving with those loaded

for quite some time now on the ground by african union forces from the air the us security forces has been under cush the dot hasn't prevented the group from crying out some of these you know. high visibility and high causality attacks not just inside somalia but also outside in places like kenya political military force so shabaab is fairly weakened but that doesn't mean that these group doesn't have the capacity to inflict the kinds of damages that we've seen the group being capable of doing it inside kenya. been able to top into the you know the.

union the government to delay the final results citing serious doubts the electoral commission declared felix's it said kerry the winner of last month's vote but another opposition leader mohsen failure lou posed a legal challenge in the court calling it an electoral crew out as he has for me as a mellow joins us live now from the capital kinshasa for me to walk us through what the court is thinking about today. decides. well this is a very important decision for the constitutional court because there was great expectation that this would be the first of possibly peaceful democratic transfer of power but we know that it's essentially a political crisis for the d r c as you mentioned there we have little bodies like the african union wanting to intervene saying that these results should be suspended the ruling from the court could have been final and no appeal allowed should be suspended but that the r.c.c. responded saying well the government here saying that the a you has no place in dictating to the courts here what to do this is an internal process we also heard from these of an afri

field but the african union claim that this is a political price a lot of concerns when they do about it about what might happen are all of the what many would consider controversial constitutional court ruling. a pia angle but is a professor of international relations upon a college and he says many people are likely to heed for eunice calls for protests the decision by the court is not that surprising the court is widely understood as being popular with judges loyal to the president a few months ago back in two thousand it teenie appointed new judges and people cite that as a strengthening of the court his favor but you know when you think about it the brilliance of the arrangement that they have is that now you have the supporters of the the president of self and the supporters of the security being in favor of the decision and therefore we split the opposition and your people and can just celebrating because the laws of your d.p.s. the security support is there and that that puts for you to a new supporters in the position of being one versus two and that's going to be a big issue

for quite some time now with on the ground by african union forces from the air the us security forces has been under cush adot hasn't prevented the group from crying out some of these you know. high visibility and high casualty attacks not just inside somalia but also outside in places like kenya political military force so shabaab is fairly weakened but that doesn't mean that these group doesn't have the capacity to inflict the kinds of damages that we've seen the group being capable of doing it inside kenya. has been able to tap into the you know the long ranging marginalization discourse both you know margin and real they have been able to recruit they have been able to equip they have been able to at tuck the group also publishes an online magazine called a guy named tani which means terrorist. terrorists in which the you know sections of the report of the magazine is dedicated to the kenyans and it's done in this way the language in some of its videos increasingly the group is also using kenyan so kenya has suddenly become an effective cog in the group's propaganda recruitment an

the democratic republic of congo is rejecting the african union's attempt to intervene in the disputed presidential election the a u is calling for the announcement of the final result to be postponed election fraud concerns provisional results which to opposition a definitive katie the winner all being challenged in court by his rival lost him. yes president donald trump has denied reports that he directed his former personal lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow the office of special counsel robert muller who's investigating the chung campaign's alleged links to moscow has cost doubts on the report a buzz feed publication says standing by the story like hannah reports. the claims made against president trump are explosive and if true could lead directly to impeachment for suborning perjury that's the precise phrase that was used in the impeachment of president clinton the report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress according to the report trump wante

but the african union is sending a delegation to kinshasa, the capital, here on monday. it's unclear what exactly they will be able to achieve because the court's decision is irrevocable. louise dewast in kinshasa for us. with the brexit deadlock continuing, the former british prime minister sirjohn major told the bbc that the house of commons should be given a vote on all brexit options. the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, said only two "credible" options remained — close ties with the eu based on a customs union, or another public vote. our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. when it comes to brexit, there are strong arguments on all sides but, as yet, no agreement. some think one way through would be a series of votes in parliament, testing the different options to see if mps can get behind one. the prime minister still needs a deal. if she cannot deliver one that parliament accepts, then she needs to become a facilitator and mediator to find out what parliament will accept. and i personally would hope she would put down a series of motions, so

the african union claim that this is a political price a lot of concerns when we do about it about what might happen well i mean what many would consider the controversial political court ruling. apia angle but is a professor of international relations at pomona college he says many people are likely to answer for you those calls for protests the decision by the court is not that surprising the court is widely understood as being popular with judges loyal to the president a few months ago back in two thousand and eight teenie appointed new judges and people saw that as a strengthening of the court his favor but you know when you think about it the brilliance of the arrangement that they have is that now you have the supporters of the the president of self and the supporters of security being in favor of the decision and therefore rescript your position and your people and can just celebrating because the laws of you d.p.s. the security supporters there and that that puts for you to a new supporters in the position of being one versus two and that's going to be a big issue going forward

and the priority of being head of the african union and also those guns the chances to achieve cooperation between egypt on drugs to give moments of the development efforts in the african countries i have assessed my firm stand firm stand to the political efforts. the regional disputes to maintain their sovereignty. of contrails and not to allow any foreign interference in order to. bring this ability to this region of this part of the world to accident say you're most welcome here in egypt are you once again express my appreciation to the support being given by france to our country and our relations are being so great in all many fields spank you very much and allow you mr president to give you the floor please the float is use thank you very much president thank you for your. welcome your hospitality you my companion to me and to my wife and to tell occasion accompanying me here that the. president since he came to paris in the autumn of twenty seventeen invited just today kyra now and of course we have had a number of telephone conversations since that time. with regard to the internat

southern white civilians, african-americans, union i will use george quimby as an example of the way march.s viewed sherman's dozens of travelers from the 1860's to the present have retraced sherman's march and in the 20th century, there has been a voyage of self-discovery along with it. sherman at the way that has been portrayed as the architect of total war and debated whether he was a war criminal. i delved into fiction and film, music, poetry, photography, art. i cast a really broad net, basically. just to kind of set up what we're talking about, it is the fall of 1864, late in the war. grant and lee are outside petersburg, where we are exactly. sherman's army took control of

the african union has stepped up its diplomacy on the d.s.c. in recent months it wants to dispatch a high level delegation next week to kinshasa that's provoked an angel of reaction from congo who accuses him union of failing to recognize the independence of the country's constitution and. the call to set tool on an appeal by the defeated candidate in the simplest presidential ballot. has demanded a recount of all moves here not just elections front and they become deal between declared winner of it it's just a kitty and the current leader joseph can't be the. question of how well have the last ten years treated you in terms of looks sorry to hear about this week the ten year challenge are spread across social media like wildfire with users and scilab digging into their archives to share photographs of themselves side by side one from ten years ago and one from now for most it has been an excuse to shock off how well they have aged but the hashtag is also being used for something all the more serious actors are trying to use it to raise awarene

the democratic republic of congo is rejecting the african union's attempt to intervene in the. disputed presidential election the a.u. is calling for the announcement of the final results to be postponed because of election fraud concerns provisional results which declared opposition leader felix just a heavy the winner being challenged in court by his rival martin for use accusing to security of crossing to rig the outcome with outgoing president joseph kabila the white house is denying accusations from the house speaker the donald trump put troops and civilians working in afghanistan in danger by leaking information about a planned congressional trip there trump had cancelled their military flight on thursday citing the government shutdown but nancy pelosi is accusing the president of revealing information about the trip calling it very very irresponsible pelosi and trump are at loggerheads over funding for a us mexico border wall. but experts say if that political impasse continues it will have a serious impact on the u.s. economy but the more immediate effect of the shutdow

union and the southern african development community regional body are appealing to the people of congo to respect the eventual decision of the constitutional court judges and avoid a violent reaction. a saudi teenager who fled from her family over fears for her life has arrived in her new home country. flew from thailand to canada after an offer of asylum the eighteen year old won international attention when she launched ace social media campaign from her hotel room in bangkok pleading for help this government shutdown has become the longest and the country's history after reaching its twenty second day more than eight hundred thousand federal employees have not received their latest paychecks turkey has carried out military exercises at the border with syria head of an expected offensive on the northern city of mamby it's currently held by u.s. backed kurdish fighters there secretary of state might pompei o says he's hopeful an agreement can be reached with ankara to your protect kurdish troops as american forces prepare to leave syria there's been more violence in france during a ni

union has canceled a high level visit to the d.r. see it had wanted the constitutional court to delay announcing final presidential election results citing serious doubts about the vote opposition leader martin for you has rejected the ruling from the top court well those were the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story of that subject i think. saudi has never been a real easy still foreign investment how much are the reserves down through are they understated or overstated they own those shares your company for the people by the. protests in sudan unrest that's gathering momentum and more demands for the president to quit but omar al bashir has ruled for thirty years and remains defiant so can the protesters succeed in the international pressure make a difference this is inside story. to the program i'm richelle carey they are the longest in decades and the most significant in sudan's recent history nationwide protests have been taking place almost every day for a month they were prompted by a rise and br

african union representatives of canceled a visit to the democratic republic of congo which was aimed at resolving the dispute over last month's presidential election constitutional court judges declared felix should carry the winner despite an a year appeal to delay the announcement because of voter fraud allegations margin for us as he is the legitimate leader was last month's election was stolen from him which is that he is due to be sworn in on tuesday now the names of the five candidates who want to be the next president of senegal have been announced but missing from the list are two main opposition leaders because they abandon critics accuse president macky sound of silencing dissent so he can win a second term reports from dhaka. the decisions taken by the constitutional court behind me are usually a formality and go unnoticed but this year missing on her list of counter dates for this upcoming presidential elections are two heavyweights of the opposition the son of the former president of senegal karim wanted and the popular mayor of the car khalifa sol now they've both been

it's also regularly targeted neighboring kenya which sent troops to somalia as part of an african union force it says it was behind tuesday's attack in nairobi when four gunmen and a suicide bomber killed twenty one people at a hotel and office complex on friday five suspects appeared in a court in my road be in connection with that attack the day barker al jazeera. police in athens have used tear gas to prevent angry protesters from entering greece's parliament building thousands of people turned out for a demonstration against the proposed name change deal with the former yugoslav republic of macedonia. ok wants to change the country's name to the republic of north macedonia but many greeks and ject because macedonia is the ancient name of one of their regions the greek prime minister alexis tsipras has survived two confidence missions in parliament over the contentious. sudanese security forces have fired tear gas to break up protests in the capital khartoum and the city of durham on trucks carrying security personnel were deployed to man after protesters blocked streets demanding th