. >>> a violent crack down isn't stopping anti-government protests in sudan. protesters have been defying security forces for weeks, that despite beak shot at with tear gas and live ammunition. >> the demonstrators are angry about food prices. they're angry about fuel shortages and also about efforts by this man to stay in power. the president has ruled there for three decades. many sudanese say 2019 is the year that comes to an end. >> will that be the case? let's get the latest. always glad to have you with us. is there any sign the government is willing to give in to some of the protester's demands? >> reporter: well, natalie, it's quite difficult to pinpoint what exactly the protesters demands are. there's a variety of things. remember this began as a protest over the price of bread. that's very basic politics of this kind of stuff. there's no bread, no fuel. and of course now that has turned into real demands against president omar al-bashir, and that coupled with the government's response over 40 people have been killed. so whether the government is will

. >> police in sudan fired bullets and tear gas to break up crowds of protestors sunday. crowds were chanting for freedom and calling on the president to re-sign. he's been in office for 30 years. dozens of people have been killed in weeks of unrest there. >>> divers have found the cockpit voice recorder from the lion air flight that crashed off indonesia in october. all 189 people on that flight were killed and this recorder was arguably the most important piece investigators were hoping to recover. >> the flight data recorder had already been found on november 1st. it showed the pilots had fought to override a safety system which kept pulling the plane's nose down. cnn's ivan watson is following the developments for us in hong kong for us and what will investigators be listening for as they decipher what's on the cockpit recorder? thank goodness they found it. >> those are divers celebrating what has been a 2.5 month effort to find this critical piece of equipment to hopefully explain more about why a brand new plane crashed so soon after take off with these 189 people

>>> there's been no let up in the violent anti-government protests taking place in sudan. police again fired bullets and tear gas to break up crowds of protesters sunday. >> crowds were chanting for freedom and calling on the president al bashir to resign but quickly grew into a larger movement against the president. dozens of people have been killed in the unrest. >>> u.s. and latin-american officials condemning the detention of venezuelan opposition leader. intelligence agents stopped his car and briefly detained him on sunday. days afterward he said he was prepared to temporarily replace the current president nicholas maduro. >> he was later released and appeared at a political rally. his party called the detention a kidnapping. a swvenezuelan official says th agents who saw him acted on their own. >>> divers have found the cockpit voice recorder from a lion-air flight which crashed in indonesia in october. all 189 people on that flight were killed. now, this recorder was arguably the most important piece investigators were hoping to recover. >> the flight data recorder