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

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

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

has warned against the use of excessive force in sudan as reports continue of live ammunition being fired by security forces have also used tear gas on demonstrators who are calling for president bashir to step. ten years the red cross says everyone missing after tuesday's attack in nairobi has been accounted for at least twenty one people were killed says this in retaliation for u.s. president's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. of the british prime minister treason is having talks with opposition party leaders in the hope that they might work together on a deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. the government survived a no confidence vote called by the opposition on wednesday. but human rights watch says the reputation of saudi crown prince mohammed bin has been wrecked over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in its latest report it says the case has exposed a pattern of lawless behavior by the saudi leadership which he calls autocratic and specifically criticizes the u.s. u.k. and france for refusing to stop arms sales to the kingdom the report documents