Government has accused southern separatists of an attempted coup after they took over its headquarters in fierce clashes in the city of aden at least ten people have been killed in the main airport will shut down now the group wants control of yemens Southern Region which was an independent country until one thousand nine hundred ninety the civil war has already torn the country apart after who the rebels seized control of the capital sanaa in two thousand and fourteen president are these government was forced to move to aden in the south adding to that tension the United Arab Emirates is arming the separatist fighters despite being part of the Saudi Led Coalition thats helping president how the battle the who these are some a binge of id report its. The. Yemens Prime Minister says secessionists have staged a coup in the southern port city of aden. Thats where the government had been based for the last few years there are reports of several people being killed in fighting between progovernment forces and separatists. This mobile phone footage appears to show people arriving in the city thousands of protesters have been gathering against the internationally recognized and saudi backed government the demonstrators are backed by the United Arab Emirates just supposed to be saudi arabias ally in yemen. Who. Is not necessarily in that situation. So you have very important country in yemen. You are now you were you are not creating new territory. And your if you. Will. Know that you have its own you have your own lives. And normal youre really a country and i think we didnt want to based on current situation. The conflict in todays yemen is complicated the country used to be divided with the north and south yemen until unification in one nine hundred ninety but the difference is never really went away since the fight the duties began in two thousand and fifteen the secessionists have fought for control over here in seaports of aden last week Southern Forces led by the man appointed by president of the rebel months who hired me as the governor of aden and i was to overthrow hardys government and i dont need general rules to be rejected the deployment of northern forces to the south there have been calls since last sunday so its been about a week for people to go down to the streets to protest and. Transitional council has been calling on had the head of government to dissolve and for a new government to be appointed and they are calling for independence as well as weve seen on the ground the crashes are continuing and the situation is developing very quickly now the future of president hadi is in question he has been based in saudi arabia along with this Prime Minister had been better who struggled to control southern yemen despite support from saudi arabia. Womens elected government was pushed out of the capital sanaa in the north and now it doesnt seem to have a place in the south as well as some of the jarvey the others there. Turkey says its taking control of a key mountain in Northern Syria as it steps up its offensive against kurdish fighters in the a free region these pictures a show Turkish BackedSyrian Rebels all mounted to syria turkey has accused the kurdish wife p. G. Forces of using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of keys. Meanwhile elsewhere in syria eight people including a child have been killed in the damascus suburb of eastern huta thats the spider suppose at ceasefire there are reports of heavy fighting shelling and the air raids in the area overnight. Russian Opposition Leader has been arrested along with dozens of people at antigovernment rallies across the country that rally was the tane while attending a demonstration in moscow a protest was in response to being barred from standing in the president ial election in march. Well those are the headlines coming up its part two of our special series on the history and modern politics of the river nile struggle over the nile is next. The nihil. The worlds longest river. A seven thousand kilometers a lifeline for almost four hundred Million People. Flowing north the nile runs through ten countries from the highlands in the heart of africa the shores of the mediterranean sea. A source of sustenance but also one of tension even potential conflict. These tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in the Nineteenth Century. Colonial decisions of the past. Are a point of bitter dispute today. And new political realities on the ground are increasing the sense of uncertainty over who owns the river nile. In september two thousand and five a team of explorers set off on a unique journey up the nile river. Like you say. The not to be can the longest running journey in the world. Led by new Zealand Adventure of. The team aimed at being the First Expedition to travel up the nile to its furthest source. The first stage of the trek through egypt and. Proved a breeze. But then the explorers encountered the sued the Worlds Largest swamp. And found. Some swamp area at one thousand kilometers long and three hundred kilometers wide is now helos east my jury he just did live and water its incredible. The sued means obstacles in arabic and it has proved just that a labyrinth of waterways that has hindered expeditions. Macleans team managed to navigate their way out of the swamp. Off to ninety days of travel overcoming tremendous obstacles they eventually arrived in rwanda. At a tiny spring which they determined to be the southernmost source of the nile. Is. Today but clay is settled in uganda where he runs a Whitewater Rafting business in the city of. Jinja here on the nile when youve done your life and its good. That im. Just a few kilometers away from the clays business stands this list a monument to a past mile adventurer john manning speak. Speak was a british explorer who arrived here almost one hundred fifty years earlier eighteen sixty two he came in search of the answer to an age old question where is the source of the nile. The Royal Geographical Society in london was established in eighteen thirty. It houses the maps navigation tools and personal belongings of famous explorers from the Nineteenth Century. Men who were in the grip of a romantic obsession to discover the source of the nile. For europeans the exploration of the mile is probably the biggest goal drives their enterprise in one thousand century because its seen as the largest the most important river and also because there is this long heritage or History Associated with it. Rather than trying to cross the so area in southern sudan explorers in the mid one thousand nine hundred. Another passage via the island of zanzibar. During the Nineteenth Century zanzibar was an arab kingdom controlling the trade route from india into africas interior. And these arab traders facilitate european exploration its the year of this the arab traders for example who began first to report that there are great lakes or a great like in the interior of east africa. Based on this information the Royal Geographical Society sponsored expeditions into the heart of africa. In eight hundred fifty seven using zanzibar as a starting point john hanning speak cross to east africa and ventured into the hinterland where he found a huge lake he believed to be the source of the nile. Three years later on a new expedition he travelled around this lake today known as Lake Victoria to discover the nile flowing out from its northern side and. A roll call of famous explorers ventured into the continents interior to build on speaks discovery. Men such as samuel baker David Livingston and Henry Morton Stanley helped complete the picture about the true source of the nile. Back home they were lauded as heroes with monuments built on of them but others saw them differently it was mistakenly called to discover that you know most of the books in the plus they use it speak to discover the night as if you was a fust you might have been through the night when actually. He was a fussy european to see this as of the night but a bit to discover it because he was even so and this is also denied by the africans yet. The Royal Geographical Society helped push the boundaries of exploration and empire. But this age of exploration is seen by many as a precursor of colonize a ship. Most of that is most of these people were explorers but Intelligence Services in their own countries made use of their experiences for them that. They were not only british but also belgians and french. Theyve served the people and the situation in these areas if. They then pass this information on for colonize ation and as it has. Armed with greater information the age of exploration began the scramble for africa. The continent was up for grabs. To divide the spoils european nations convened at the berlin conference in eight hundred eighty four where they sliced up the african continent into spears of influence. Britain had formally occupied egypt two years earlier in eight hundred eighty two to control the suez canal the strategic route to india the jewel in the crown of the british empire. In berlin it was decided the nile basin region would fall under british rule. When the british to control you to night it did to their very soon realized that they had become rudeness of a society that a totally depend upon the nile so they understood from the very beginning that the Common Development of political stability to depend upon my control. To assert control upstream the british established what it called the east africa protectorate in one thousand nine hundred five comprising what is today kenya and uganda. The next step was sudan a territory ruled by egypt since eight hundred twenty. With their domination in egypt the british persuaded the egyptians to sign an agreement in january eighty ninety nine for joining rule of a sedan. In reality joint rule was a fig leaf for british command. Here in the president ial palace in khartoum to this day a museum houses portrayed of former governors of sudan. The paintings are testament to a time of british dominion. In our world in fact the british master the art of ruling sudan they completely sidelined the egyptians or is it your whole being gillies the governor general was british the commander of the army was british and so were all the high ranking officials in the administration. Controlling the Great Lakes Region source of the white nile the british next turn their attention to ensuring hedge of money over the blue nile the rivers of a source originating in the ethiopian highlands. In may nineteen zero two the british signed an agreement with emperor men like the second of ethiopia in which he promised not to build any dam that might affect the flow of the blue nile to egypt. Feeling they had secured the full length of the nile britains Decision Makers in london began to put in place the next phase of their master plan economic gain. From quite early on the british also decided to transform egypt into a cotton farm where the textile industries are like us here in the. British reliance on egyptian cotton began to increase. To boost the harvest the british set out to revolutionize egypts irrigation system a system dating back thousands of years. They gave a oddity to the vote countries deny countries their old engineers what the plan is remain down from the colonials so this and teed. Experienced guys give them a lot of songs not a Political Freedom so that they really can take the nile in hand. The british came up with the idea for a dam in southern egypt to hold back the nile flood and use its waters for irrigation. Construction on the ass when low dam began in eighteen one thousand nine. It was officially opened three years later at the time it was the largest stone dam of its kind ever built. Britain wanted to ensure the full flow of the nile reached egypt to maximize cotton production. No one else upstream was allowed to siphon off any of the river. For have some strict orders were laid down regarding the use of the nile water because the british were concerned about egypt money all island for example they banned sudanese farmers to using it water pumps unless they obtained permission from the egyptian irrigation authority. In. Britain discriminated in favor of egypts claim over the nile. The british expected the egyptians to be thankful but they were to have a rude awakening. In one thousand nine hundred nineteen following the end of the First World War the egyptians revolted against British Occupation and demanded complete independence. They were led by a fiery nationalist called saad zabulon. With such sentiment on the rise. The british looked for a way to cower the egyptians into submission. The river nile egypts lifeline was an effective political weapon and the british had in mind a Perfect Place to use this weapon. The get zero region in sudan between the blue nile and the white nile was an area with the potential to become the largest cotton growing region in the world. They had to dance to motives of two main strategic and is that they can see us again or wrong to increase the cup. Production in sudan for the benefit of the british taste of history secondly this hue if it is not really in control of the now is really through saddam and his power and. The bit it has a power in saddam. British attempts to intimidate the egyptians only further inflamed nationalist sentiment. A crisis point was reached when in november one thousand nine hundred twenty four so least stack commander in chief of the Egyptian Army and governor of sudan was assassinated while driving through the streets of cairo. The assassins were arrested and sentenced to death. But the murder of the british official was a turning point london now found its reason to implement the good sirus scheme. What they did was that ok you killed the go in general then the will take more work from the nile as a punishment so this was the first time in practice that stream power punished. Dunston power needed for the vote with. Britains trump card was the center dam completed in one thousand nine hundred twenty five. Built on the blue nile in sudan it would help the irrigation of the goods here area. But it also delivered an ominous signal to the egyptians for the first time in their history a dam built outside of egypt but affect the flow of the nile into their country. Nationalists however continued to mobilize Popular Support against the British Occupation. Cooler heads in london began to realize that relations with egypt were deteriorating fast. Something which could threaten british control over the suez canal. As before the river nile became a useful Political Tool this time for compromise rather than coercion. In maine One Hundred Twenty Nine notes were exchanged between the british high commissioner in egypt george lloyd and the egyptian Prime MinisterMohammad Mahmoud pasha. This diplomacy led to a landmark agreement in which britain awarded egypt exclusive control over the full course of the nile waters from egypts point of in the night to twenty nine agreement also calls. And the tree because here the british said that well the nile is an egyptian. And it has a with a right to stop its upstream if they dont want it. By signing the nine hundred twenty nine agreement the british sought to coopt the egyptians. No such consideration was given to the Indigenous Peoples upstream who were not consulted. Even though the river originated in their lands. By the early one nine hundred thirty s. Britain was becoming increasingly concerned with a growing menace closer to home. At the end of World War Two one thousand nine hundred forty five britain was no longer the mighty empire that could claim control of a large parts of the world such as the nile basin. After the Second World War britain came out of the will inject brits economy came out very much a device that it and the us now that came with the world of. The United States stepped forward to assert itself move boldly on the world stage in places formally controlled by the old then piles. In one nine hundred fifty three u. S. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles became the first time ranking american official to visit cairo. Dulles offered Financial Support for the construction of a massive new dam on the nile in southern egypt but three years later the of was withdrawn. The americans had become suspicious of egyptian president abdul nasser as nonalignment policy. At the same time the withdrawal of the office provided an opportunity to undermine british influence john thousand dollars on the American Government that understood quite in that one way or crushing. The influence of the british imperialists in this area was to make them powerless when it comes to the now question became clear that everybody. That was of the americans decide it and the bids had to just fall off as said prior to. Despite the withdrawal of Financial Support for the construction of the ass one high dam nasa chose to push ahead. In july one thousand nine hundred fifty six nationalize the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the project. The takeover stun british and french shareholders in the swiss company. The british still ruling parts of east africa at a secret planned retaliation. The plan would involve using the unfolds dam in uganda to cut off the flow with the nile upstream in an attempt to force nasa to give up the suez canal. The scheme was never adopted since the ensuing drought would take too long to have its effect on egypt. Britain wanted more immediate action so they reverted to a more obvious method boots on the ground. In one thousand nine hundred fifty six britain and france with israeli collusion invaded egypt in a bid to seize back the canal. The americans publicly distance themselves from the aggression. By the states but not consulted in any way about any way that these actions nor whether we informed them in it but. It is our hope and intent this matter will be brought before the United NationsGeneral Assembly there with no veto operating the opinion of the world can be brought to bear in our quest for a just in to this plan mentee from. The United Nations declared a ceasefire. So as crisis ended with a humiliating withdrawal of the invasion forces from egypt it was to prove a seminal moment in modern history. The sun was setting on the british empire. Colonialism was on the decline. In africa nations began to gain their independence among them nile upstream countries. The winds of change were blowing creating new states and new demands for a share of the waters of the nile. It was oriol upon which modern day venezuela was established. For over a century this lucrative resource has divided the people less than those with the Worlds Largest reserves. Charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today. The big picture the battle for venezuela coming soon on a just zero. Zero explores prominent figures of the Twentieth Century and how influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution coming his own way feel castro is a feudal eastern not a communist im just really into this country and International Revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. And fidel castro face to face at this time on aljazeera. Hello im Barbara Starr in london these are the top stories on aljazeera yemens Prime Minister says an attempted coup is underway in the interim capital separatist fighters who want an independent state in the south have attacked several of the governments buildings at least ten people have been killed in fighting yemens internationally recognized government moved to aden after losing control of the capsule sunda to a Different Group of rebels in two thousand and fourteen. Turkey says its taken control of a key mountain in Northern Syria as it steps up its offensive against kurdish fighters in the a free in the region these pictures show Turkish BackedSyrian Rebels on mount. Turkey has accused the kurdish y. P. G. Forces of using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of keys meanwhile elsewhere in syria eight people including a child have been killed in the damascus suburb of eastern huta the spider suppose its ceasefire there are reports of heavy fighting shelling in the air raids in the area overnight. Russian Opposition Leader like seventy has been arrested along with dozens of people at antigovernment rallies across the country the rally was the tame while attending a demonstration he had organized in moscow the protest was in response to being barred from standing in the president ial election in much. Im not ready to make peace with this eighteen year old regime and i dont want to be prolonged for another six years so i just want to go to the street myself to get to the protest and whether i get detained or not and i can tell my children that i was there. One of hong kongs leading prodemocracy activists has been barred from standing for election the government says agnes child cant be a candidate because her Party Supports selfdetermination for hong kong chowders and call for independence from china but says hong kong should have more say over how its run and seven people have been found drifting at sea a week after a ferry they were on this appeared near the Pacific Island nation of key bus they were found in a lifeboat on sunday about fifty people were on the ferry when it went missing there would be no signs yet of any other survivors well those are your headlines were going to have the aljazeera news hour for you in less than half an hour stay with us though struggle over the nihil continues next thank you for watching us hope youll join me soon of i. Khartoum capital of sudan. The Meeting Point of the white nile from the Great Lakes Region and the blue not from the ethiopian highlands. Hamdi is a resident of tutti island where the two niles converge. He explains to his son the difference in the color of the waters. The white nile on the left and the blue nile on the right and how they join here to form one river flowing northwards to egypt. Again thats how you may need money the most beautiful thing distinguishing us from the rest of the world is the mind we do not love in all there is no other river like it its a great river heavenly and the life around it is unique really want. In this small truck each day hamdi delivers vegetables across the river to the market of miles. Away. And the. Idea of the nile they take visible that girl here to the market how would they live otherwise and liberals way even with i will be buried by the live in. Sudans road to independence started in the middle of the Twentieth Century. In one nine hundred fifty three britain and egypt joined rulers of a sedan for more than fifty years. Signed an agreement giving the sudanese people the right to selfdetermination. Two years later in one thousand nine hundred fifty five the Sudanese Parliament unanimously adopted a declaration of independence rather than unifying with egypt into a single country. On january the first nine hundred fifty six the sudanese flag was raised for the first time and khartoum. The largest country in africa was born a country flowing sixty percent of the entire nile basin area. Sudan had enormous agricultural potential but there was a drawback. The one nine hundred twenty nine anglo egyptian agreement allotted only four billion cubic meters of nile waters to the sudanese territory. Compared to egypts forty eight billion cubic meters. The newly independent sudanese were not happy inheriting this colonial legacy. That this agreement reinforced gyptian dominance over the nile the me and my and gives who done just a token amount of. What was that is the home of the chaff most sudanese believe that the knowledge agreements were unjustly set and that distribution of the water should have been based on the size of the country iceland missa sudans share should have been much more than what was agreed upon because its far larger than. The nine hundred twenty nine agreement had also given egypt the right to monitor the nile flow beyond the egyptian territory. Under so that i remember when i was young in geneva. I moved to the center not my room mate was an egyptian engineer this was and his sole job was to check the amount of work that he then took from the night and to ensure that so then didnt take water during the drought these were your ideas but in the end. Keen to assert its newly won sovereignty the Sudanese Government declared it was no longer bound by the one nine hundred twenty nine agreement. By nine hundred fifty eight relations between sudan and egypt had deteriorated. So dans foreign minister travelled to cairo for urgent meetings. The two peoples had often described themselves as brothers of the nile valley but now there was a growing rift. But dramatic events in khartoum brought a sudden end to tensions in november one thousand nine hundred fifty eight the Sudanese Army staged a coup detat overthrowing the government. General Ibrahim Abood took the reins of power. Looking back on events some see the hand the venue gyptian president Jamal Abdul Nasser behind the coup. Jamal abdul nasser like a military coup and it. And Lieutenant General abboud was close to the egyptian regime in. A year after the coup a sudanese delegation arrived in cairo to sign a new nile agreement. The nine hundred fifty nine full utilization of nile waters agreement allocated a new share of the river ahead of the completion. But the us one high down in egypt. Once constructed the dam was due to save over thirty billion cubic meters of floodwater annually. Egypt share of the nile increased by several billion cubic meters sudans limited share more than quadruple. The nine hundred fifty nine agreement between egypt and sudan consolidated a renewed alliance. Muscle issue that egypt and so then formed a joint committee this once and for monitoring that of that in the two countries looked at that and increasing its water flow was the ad that it allowed. One way to increase the nile waters was to resurrect a plan dating back to British Colonial times. Over twenty billion cubic meters of the nile waters carried downstream from the Great Lakes Region a last buyback aeration in the huge swamp area of southern sudan known as the suit. The plan was to dig a canal diverting the nile to bypass this area reducing the water loss it was cooled the jungle a canal. There was one problem. Sedan was far from stable. The nation had been born with a dangerous fault line between a predominantly arab and muslim north and a mainly christian and animist south. Chief dummy and is a village leader on the outskirts of juba. Of southern sudan. He remembers the mood of secession in the south during the early one nine hundred fifty s. But wondered whether because we were used already by arabs as second men in the government we want to get it. Get it but at night i thought up what didnt mentally im not going to im as good as ive got i. Am going to have a gun. In all this nine hundred fifty five the first sudanese civil war erupted between north and south. Fighting raged for seventeen years. Eventually a peace accord was signed in one thousand nine hundred seventy two in. The end of fighting meant that plans for the jungle a canal in southern sudan could now be brought back off the shelf. Egyptian president anwar sadat and his sudanese counterpart just a mary did exactly this and in one nine hundred Seventy Eight work started on the three hundred sixty kilometer canal. But the southern sudanese viewed the project with suspicion. The main tribes of the region such as the new heir and dinka made a living by grazing their cattle across the sued. The jungle a canal threatened to dry up significant parts of this wetland. From the start it proved harmful for the tribes and their livestock. I know that when they dont like an animal being open i would still a young man and we saw stock in the stock of kept on coming from the east going to deny to bring water and a guess when even they perished because of the b. Bank and that was. Oppin he was a blues machine. A campaign against the jungle a canal project gained momentum reaching far and wide. With me who will be homeless i was the dumbly can and was met with a hostile campaign but you know yeah but i was minister of education and i received letters from japan from environmentalists asking me why we would want to dry the wetlands in southern sudan and create a desert with title x. Hardly a letter from someone in japan who wasnt even living here and had no rights to this food harmless what it was part of the campaign of negativity aimed at creating instability in our area. Others said well. By the early one nine hundred eighty s. The project almost two thirds complete had become the focus for suspicion and wild rumors. Well there was politics and you know politicians can create they can create stories to frighten people one of them was that probably there were a lot of a distance coming to start a locker on the canal. That was not true but of course in the absence of proper information anything could be billy. Relations between the north and the south began to deteriorate once again. In one thousand nine hundred eighty three a group of southern sudanese soldiers mutiny refusing to obey orders from their northern commanders. An officer by the name of john garang joined the mutineers. He led them into the bush to start a Guerrilla Movement which came to be known as the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army or s. P. Away. Theres sudans people Liberation Army was not against the jungle canal perfect as such turned out im the leader its been a written his ph d. This is by the way on the donek now his problem was not the person itself but his complaint was the southern sudan. Also needs water and even not just be set aside a little bit. The project provided one of the very first targets for the s. P. L. A at the beginning of sudan second civil war between the north and the south. And. The canals giant excavator lays in the spot where it dug its last home a rusting destroyed drink. Eat eat eat eat the fighting lasted for twenty two years. Two Million People died and four million became refugees. Get out you know well it was. Just after a series of talks the Peace Agreement ending the civil war was signed in january two thousand and five in ny vashon kenya changed. The accord stipulated a referendum to be held throughout southern sudan on independence by january two thousand and eleven. The referendum resulted in southern secession. A new country was born. And a new question erodes. With a new country abide by previous water agreements allocating a share of the nile flood. Even before the announcement of the referendum result the opinion from the south was clear. We must advise of those agreements. Because saddam didnt become a different state then these must be device and those items wouldnt you know dont they. Look good in that i get. A new nile basin country in africa rejecting that the liberty of old agreements. A new nation looking to secure its own share of the rivers waters something similar has happened before. In the one nine hundred sixty s. With european colonial powers declining a number of african nations gained their independence among them upstream states on the river nile. Soon after they announced they would not abide by the one nine hundred twenty nine anglo egyptian nile agreement which had given egypt exclusive control of the river. At the fourteen day of one thousand internet agreement he states very clearly that most states sell be able to utilize the nile river what us or that he was feeding their mates or the lakes wheat fields that he remained without the approval of the dance of they give him a government that alone gives veto to egypt or i doubt he put in states. The two agreements from the previous century from one nine hundred twenty nine and one thousand nine hundred fifty nine lie at the heart of todays struggle over the nile. Egypt and sudan on one side see the agreements as historical legacies to be maintained. When i close some of the thought of so we must uphold agreements and treaties hold up was that the this is a logic that applies to National Borders to me and hold them no you cant just change the borders of african countries because the demarcation had been rectified in preindependence treaties their manner let you and so you can just demand new stipulations in the agreements especially since this is a crucial case reading to our livelihood then i want out of such a case egypt doesnt have any other. Water source problem here. On the other side upstream countries see the past agreements as colonial relics and demand their own rights to a share of the nile waters. We are aware that the argument on the usage of they made what. Was signed where back in the tank. And since then i notice things have happened and therefore there was need to review the alchemy itself and how the countries. Through which the nail growth can benefit could have been. In an effort to resolve the growing dispute in one thousand nine hundred nine the ministers of Water Resources from all the nile basin countries met here in Dar Es Salaam tanzania. The socalled Nile Basin Initiative was launched aimed at promoting joint projects and reaching a new agreement over the sharing of the nile. But the mood of camaraderie at the initial meetings soon changed and would then work in the kenneth. Id like it to be known that the relationship between us and them wasnt that amicable that he said they believed we were taking all of the water and that they were getting nothing when the. When there was a mess and from when we went for meetings in those countries they would say you are taking our water to have my up at the left because i dont want to say it was a hostile atmosphere but it certainly wasnt friendly for in. The upstream countries accused egypt of digging in its heels by refusing to consider relinquishing the agreements from the previous century. Negotiations continued over ten years. Attitudes hardened. Positions became ever more entrenched. The egyptians saw their share of the river flow as both negligible and nonnegotiable. Ignited the near the amount of rainfall in the entire nile basin area is one point six trillion cubic meters. But what arrives downstream is eighty four billion cubic meters only which means less than five percent is a fuck so where does the difference go its wasted in evaporation and swamps in forests and it is not used in upstream countries. Either therefore we should put aside the small quantity which is less than five percent leave it aside and focus on building joint projects between the nile basin countries this will save part of the last water then we can divide it in a fair way between the ten base and countries. Hold and i felt. The upstream countries rejected the egyptian arguments. Ethiopia was one of the countries which after years of being caught up in internal strife and tragedy was now pushing more forcefully for a greater share of the nile. When the whole is a not to be here to be negotiated because this is a visit on. The nature and it is a good and what are good in or that is not negotiated in any International Argument and thats why it is a demanding the ny what are the when or whatever the reason it instead of telling is it is a Natural Resource and enough not one of the sort of things that. The responsible for every. People. Things reached ahead in may two thousand and ten at a meeting in entebbe uganda when for upstream nations signed a new agreement nullifying older ones and setting up policies for a more. Dable share of the nile. To this date six countries are signatories ethiopia uganda rwanda tanzania kenya and burundi. Egypt and sudan were absent having refused to even attend the meeting. There was a mood of celebration among those who signed the socalled mild quarter Framework Agreement. I want to regulate ourselves. Having come its far. Less than that there but why its even more often said to make sure that all. The signatories believe egypt and sudan will have to come on board at some point and sign the new agreement all the time they walk out but they still come back because there is no in the at the source that they can be able to use and what we have been telling them the only simple way is probation with that at asians sure enough a few weeks later in june two thousand and ten the egyptians return to the negotiating table. It was a bitter pill for them to swallow. However they have yet to sign the entebbe agreement. For the egyptians at least for the time being facts on the ground are more important than the signing of any a cool must of. Egypt and certain neutral parties believe that we dont need to sign any agreement at the present time to add that there is no need for a Framework Agreement for the foreseeable future wouldnt have we believe what is important is what is happening on the ground especially the fact that there are no big dam projects at the present time that may affect egyptian interest. But the status quo is unlikely to hold. African upstream nations are increasingly demanding a larger share of the nile waters. Such demands are raising fears downstream. Fears stoked up by a history of suspicion and rivalry. Fears. About countries not. Even the great river itself. Hello there the rain is still falling for us in the northern parts of australia the satellite picture is showing plenty of cloud across the top end including for us in del when here over the last twenty four hours all say weve had one hundred thirty six millimeters of rain that brings all total for the month to six hundred thirty two and the average is usually for the entire month of january four hundred twenty four so clearly its very wet at the moment and more rain still to come and actually that what weather stretches all the way down towards South Australia here weve seen the color change fortunately in adelaide so he will get to around twenty eight degrees and then that cooler weather will say pushes its way across melbourne there on choose day so this time our maximum temperature will only be twenty so definitely tony coote a hair but if we had a bit towards the east here its pretty warm for us and weve also seen that will more than give us a few thunderstorms they could just be one or two more as we head through the next few days but i think for most of us well just remember the sunshine and the warm weather with all come there getting to around twenty five twenty six or twenty seven as we head through the next couple of days further towards the north and across the northern parts of asia the weathers quite quiet at the moment we do have winds feeding down from the northwest bringing a little bit of snow to the northwest in parts of japan and it looks like that will be a feature for all weather as we head into cheese day. 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