sudan's government says it's being offered economic support from the u.a.e. russia turkey and qatar to help ease antigovernment protests president carter's shaky timing been hammered out danny on wednesday its precious first trip abroad since protests started last month demonstrations began over living costs and have widened to call for an end to bashes thirty year rule russia's president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart reza topper one have met to coordinate their moves on syria putin welcomed the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria and said his country will deal with any groups that may fill the void created by the withdrawal all right you're up to date with the headlines here and i just got more news coming up after inside story. italian leaders attacked the french president over immigration in recent days two senior politicians have called on a terrible president and accused impoverishing africa so what is behind this dispute and is it politics at play this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey italy and france have l

hit another government stronghold in damascus the wife of a ninety government activists arrested in sudan and sold out zero she's had no word on her husband's whereabouts sudanese american rued one diode was detained six days ago once downward is in the u.s. to help free him. zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing security forces of systematic torture after recent protests that turned violent president amisom men on guard is promising an investigation the u.s. senate is likely to vote this week on bills that could if passed in the month long possible government shutdown the competing proposals by republicans and democrats would see several federal agencies react it's a long this government shutdown in u.s. history with hundreds of thousands of workers going without a paycheck may scares president has responded to last week's pipeline blouse with measures to improve living conditions the program focuses on jobs and chins in credit for farms ninety three people were killed trying to take fuel on friday. that's it son fair game his coming right up i don't know. a colleague must much

and an anti-government activist in sudan has gone missing sources have told. was arrested by security agents he was last seen on wednesday when he went shopping in the capital zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing security forces of systematic torture after recent protests turned violent president emerson mongo is calling for a national dialogue to address the protests over rising living costs but i goggled condemn demonstrations which he said were not peaceful but he also criticised the police response. well he made those comments just hours after cutting short his trip abroad way he'd been looking for foreign investment shah bellus reports. zimbabwe's president emerson men and descended the steps of his least seven eight seven digit this is one of the world's most luxurious private planes he had used it for a fundraising mission to russia kazakhstan. took off ten days ago just hours after stunning zimbabwe ends with the news he was doubling fuel prices due to an economic crisis on the tarmac the man he had left in charge vice president general const

only one other place in the world where there's anybody that level of food insecurity and that south sudan but there are ten times as many people in yemen at that catastrophe level so reaching them is absolutely a first priority the stories my colleagues tell me of what they're seeing on the ground what i've seen for myself seeing starving children in hospitals all the evidence is clear this is a really big problem and we need to scale up our assistance now that peace agreement. the first steps have been taken should help us with that but we need some other things as well we need all the parties on the ground to make it easier for the aid workers to get to the most vulnerable people we need to pump more money into the economy we do need to ask for more money for our appeal the u.n. appeal last year we also had two billion dollars this. we needed three billion dollars we got most of that next year though we need four billion dollars because what's happened during the course of twenty eighteen is that millions more people become vulnerable when you come to run those operations where the situ

coast more than two thousand people drowned or went missing while trying to reach europe last year in sudan more protests are expected over the next few days demonstrators are planning to hold a march to the parliament this was the scene in the northern region of my house on saturday villagers chanted slogans calling on president omar al bashir to step down what began as an outcry over the rising cost of bread has turned into the biggest challenge to bush's twenty nine year rule several people have been killed in the government crackdown over the past few weeks. tens of thousands of women have taken part in rallies around the wilds to mark the second anniversary of the fast women's monch the movement of volved in response to the election of president donald trump and calls for more equality the main event was held in the u.s. capitol hill elizondo has more from washington d.c. . thousands of women here you know central washington d.c. all of them with a very big big message that they want to move forward with a new agenda for america i want to step out so you get a sense of the thousands of

the top stories while it says erupted between police and anti-government protesters at a funeral in sudan's capital hard to. thousands of turned up to mourn the death of a six year old man who was shot by officers for offering refuge to demonstrators. north korea's leader go shake her nuclear diplomacy has held talks with the u.s. president donald trump and the secretary of state might pay a can young child arrived in washington on thursday and two leading democrats a vow to investigate claims that u.s. president donald trump instructed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress a buzz feed news website is reporting that cohen was told to deny he'd been in negotiations with russia to build a skyscraper in moscow. well in all the stories we're following the democratic republic of congo is rejecting the african union's call to delay the final result of last month's disputed presidential election a you won't see announcement to be postponed because of concerns of electoral fraud provisional results declared opposition need to fix this you katie the winner but they are being challenged

in sudan the death of a doctor or a child killed in ongoing confrontations between police and protesters triggered a overnight sit in by hundreds of thousands of people hundreds of. hospital the capital khartoum three people died on thursday when thousands marched in cities across the country for yet another day of anti-government demonstrations. gas to disperse the crowds. least forty people have been killed since the unrest began a month ago. val is live for us in khartoum and. of anger over these deaths over night. in the right the police have issued a statement or so acknowledging the deaths of the. he was among the protestant yesterday and according to my sources our sources and some some of the people who want to do the protests would not. suit our police but it was not intended and those where we need to move on to the government has acted according to the low end of the it is not part of the mission to protest and sit in the city because of the slant the news of the death of a child or a fourteen year old child was professes one goes from yesterday's happy use of us who might hav

at least three people have been killed and more in the government demonstrations in sudan protests as angry about rising food prices and the unstable economy they want president omar al bashir to step down but he remains defiant morgan is our correspondent in the seventies capital. was there. for three weeks now this has been the scene in many parts of sudan people coming out to protest against president obama to bashir is twenty nine year rule and demanding that he step down. or work out of whether we are under a dictatorship for thirty years they have used religion to stand power now is the right time for people to come out and protest you can see them firing tear gas you could even be a weird agent we citizens just want our rights to eat and drink and live with dignity like anyone else in the world. on wednesday thousands came out once again to protest in amman as they attempted to make their with deliberately diverse templi to handle memo demanding that the president resign was was the police responded using tear gas was an live ammunition to disperse the crowd. as seen different

there are more a car and these are the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has been addressing a pro-government rally in the capital called to try and counter mass protests against him but there is a few step down as it continues to blame sudan's economic problems on years of international sanctions that morgan is in khartoum today it is the first pro-government rally that has been organized since protests against president obama to be sure and his rule broke out three weeks ago now the people have been mobilized by the ruling party and the government and they say that they want to show the world that the president is not unwanted as people have been demonstrating against him over the past few weeks but there is also another and to government ready that is being organized today and people say that they will try to proceed on to the national this latest humbly to submit a memo saying that they want the government to step down and an interim council be formed and till elections are held now the president has repeated over and over again including today and said th

by professionals of sudan does that give this protest more power. well yes i mean let's realize that at this point it's seems to be every level of sudanese communities we're looking at people who have been facing economic crisis lower class lower income people who are also looking at people from middle class people who are well off there are protesting because it's going from the economy and our people are protesting the government itself it's not just about the fact that the country is facing high prices and inflation they think it's the way the country is governed the fact that they can't express themselves freely you know journalists are being evil can't come out and just express we've seen teachers yesterday just holding banners and being detained and beaten and arrested just because of that so it's not just about the fact that things are expensive in the market but there is no fuel this thing has quickly escalated from the economy to now the government and the fact there is so many restraints that the government is imposing so many restrictions