Taking on the champions empty asia we live with all the latest coming up. A very warm welcome to the program we begin in sudan where the countrys former ruler Omar Al Bashir has been found guilty in a corruption trial the 75 year old has been sentenced to 2 years which he will spend in a reformed since or rather the jail because of his age now the case centered around suitcases found in his home filled with notes of different currencies worth more than 130000000. 00 the courtroom erupted in chaos as the verdict was read out this year supporters started chanting that the trial was political and were ordered to leave but despite that they continued their protest site bashir was overthrown in april after months of demonstrations its the 1st of several trials hell face for actions during his. 30 year. Well have a morgan is in sudans capital khartoum hi there head we saw those chaotic scenes in court and now hes going to spend these 2 years in a rehab center and talk us through what weve been hearing from the judge. The judge started 1st of all by explaining that the president is facing if found guilty what he will be sentenced with now he has sentenced former president ahmed rashid to 2 years in a rehab a Detention Center but despite that his supporters and his defense team came out and said that the judge is biased thats partly because just before issuing the verdict the judge mentioned the much too much too much of my job is a young man who was sentenced to death by bashir is government when it came to power in 1994 charges of possession of foreign currency now when bashir came to power he made it illegal for many sudanese to possess quote foreign currency and most of my job was found in his house with possessing foreign currency which his family stay what was partly because of his role as a businessman a part of me as from his fathers parents and so because of just the judge mentioning with the money to buy the defense team and his supporters came out and said that this is a is a sham that the trial is unfair and that they will be appealing the british in 2 weeks time now his supporters have been taken to the streets in the hundreds these things that they reject to the trial they reject the verdict and theyve also accused the current Transitional Government which is only 4 months old of not being inclusive and trying to beat the country into chaos and the security was tight wasnt it i was cite the courtroom and on the streets in preparation for the reaction to this for ticked. Its not only the reaction that people worried about theyre worried about whats with the protesters who have called for demonstrations against the whole trial how they would react now the army put out a Statement Last night saying that all roads lead to the Army Headquarters not to the comforts of the town but in the hour of the states in sudan will be blocked and that is indeed what happened so down walk up to the military locking down blocking all roads leading to the Army Headquarters. And various other states there has been high tension and a lot of cautiousness about that about the reaction and also concern about how anti bashir protesters would react to even read that in sentencing that the team is too light and through fenians would result yes and to be cheaper just to stick it to the streets demanding a harsher sentence now lets not forget that these are not the only charges that former president almost bashir is facing since he was ousted in april hes also been charged with inciting and feeding of protesters since the demonstrations began the sempra last year and hes also been charged over his role in the 1989 koum that ousted a democratically elected government and brought into power so while a verdict has been issued today its not the end of former president bashir is legal problems people morgan there live from khartoum have a frank you. While saturdays trial was about corruption and illegal possession of foreign funds the share as you heard him say also faces additional charges and theres lots of them in 2009 the International Criminal court charged him with 2 counts of war crimes and 5 counts of crimes against humanity and that was for his role in the war in darfur which started in 2003 at least 300000 people were killed and the mother 3000000. 00 displaced a year later the same court in the hague brought 3 cramps of genocide also relating to darfur then in may this year after he was deposed sudans Public Prosecutor charged him with quote inciting and participating in the killing of protesters activists say at least 100. 00 people were killed and then in november he and several of his aides were charged for planning and carrying out the 1989 coup but brought him to power. Well it may be bo is the founder and president of this is an a policy form a working group the focus is on policy oriented reform in sudan and he joins us here in doha on the program while it may be able very warm welcome to the program lets not then by looking at the verdict they found him guilty but this has been reduced to just 2 years in this Rehab Facility do you think this will be seen as a kind of political verdict that is designed to appease both sides absolutely i think this verdict has only added insult to injury. If you look at the whole situation. Bashir of all what things he has committed yes so there are trials coming but obviously the day erection of things is telling us that its not what needs to be achieved but the direction in which things are heading is is not is not giving us the right signal there are constitutional issues as well as political issues if we go back to the whole constitution of the document we realize that the whole issue of legal reform was completely left out. We dont know if this was done intentionally or not there are. The other lady who was helping him. Or intuition and i think its more of more like of intellectual incompetence than it is intentional mystic but the problem is there are lawyers very distinguished and prominent sudanese lawyers who have tried to bring in a lot of legal reform that would take care of the loophole in the document. Of the most prominent among whom is if you dont have a number and he has thrived in. Every pretty mean to a to introduce this legal reform document but so far apart from the Prime Ministers Office which overwhelmingly approved it. I think the military council did not approve it at the time and here is where we have the loophole that those who are. Passing a judgment against or moderate bashir are the ideologues that he himself has put in place so where do we go from magical i suppose my next question and leads on from that quite neatly because im guessing its a fine balance between delivering on this accountability thats required has been spoken about so much but also not creating instability on the streets or as you say hi how do we make a move forward from here. I think the polluted political maneuver that needs to be done by duke even though he has approved of the law of legal reform he needs to get in get in political bargain with the military officers its not out of a Team Relationship or team loyalty that they are being lenient to is the support thats over what had been an order but he himself they are afraid for their own source so he has to get in serious and good we invite again with them what is it exactly that they want i mean if its giving them immunity. And bringing them as witnesses in court when we will entice them to help facilitate Legal Process then be it because otherwise theyre going to block. Whichever a lot of legal reform introduced to take care of the loopholes remember that they have already rejected some very prominent lawyers who are normally needed for the legal Justice System and for other branches of the legal system mainly jets are the guardian my humble government of the heart felt. Immediately rejected those prominent figures in an industry of resisting them forces of freedom and change. Immediately give in to the request brought other names who proved to be. Evolutionary least for a very words they are complying with the demands of the previous military council will leave medical founder and president of this exam policy forum thank you very much sir for joining us. And over a controversial citizenship laws brought Family Friends of people onto the streets across india now the bill allows tens of thousands of people from nearby countries to pride for citizenship but it doesnt 1 include miss them now thats triggered anger in west bengal where protesters set fire to railways demonstrators say that they are the law will mean an influx of immigrants from bangladesh will take jobs and discriminate against muslims well that sentiments been shared also in mumbai protesters from the eastern us some regions say the law will heighten linguistic differences between the native assamese people and bengali settlers meanwhile in the countrys capital delhi exams have been canceled at a university where students clashed with the police during a demonstration on friday where also in indias capital rallies been organized by the Main Opposition Congress party against that system chip law so he is there. Thousands of people have gathered to cross india to protest the citizens here in new delhi belly have gathered not just here. But theyre making their way to the main area where they expect to hear political leaders and Civil Society denounce the b j p government signed into law. The act as many see is discriminatory on many levels whether it be culturally socially or on religious grounds and for that reason Civil Society and the opposition led in this particular case by the all India Congress are suggesting to the public at large that if you do not agree with the secular india or if you agree with a secular india then you have to come out onto the streets because our constitution is under threat thats the message that the opposition are trying to get out and that message is being replicated across states such as carola punjab and in west bengal the west bank or on sunday were expecting a very large gathering of Trinamool Congress supporters led by the band the g. The chief minister that also denouncing what the Central Government in new delhi want to implement a soon as they possibly can for the moment it seems that the government will have a much longer fight on their hands so i am reporting there until local reports now from the city of guwahati and the state of asked some where 2 people have died in those protests. 17 year old musician was killed in Police Fighting in go hearty in the capital of assam where thousands have come out on the streets to protest against Indian Government citizenship Amendment Act his family is in tears they say while they have lost their son a nice become a martyr in the largest struggle to protect assamese culture that by ensuring that no more migrants get indian citizenship and settle down in assam they dont want anybody else to protest the last all young men to stop the protests this incident has impacted the nature of protests in assam they have shifted from tire burning and rule blocking to more peaceful gatherings. 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Minute he was just 17 was he a criminal he was on his way back from the protest but then the shot him just like that why did they shoot him who gave them the right to shoot him these students are sitting on a day long Hunger Strike and such protests are going to become routine at least that seems to be the strategy of the biggest Student Union in assam thats behind the movement these students say that theyve been betrayed by the them or the that Hindu Nationalist Party and that they may have made a mistake by watering the party to power they feel that the policies of this party and this government is against their interests that government is not big and had to decimus people because they know they have their own whats done so both Illegal Migrants do it we dont want banks and they dont bit of it were getting above our sentiments our want to be sure that thats what it would say that we didnt miss a beat up in golf kept us in the dark they betrayed us people are queuing up outside to stations and cash machines the government has relaxed the curfew as most shops in the city of gaudy have now reopened but the governments of the United States the United Kingdom and canada have issued a travel warning to their citizens against traveling to the region the internet in assam still remains suspended people here on the ground say that while they want to go back to work and send their kids to school in their resistance is only going to grow. Plenty more ahead on the new salary including too far to the left should u. S. Democrats play colson attention to neighbors crushing defeat in the u. K. Election. Syrians that are still struggling after barely escaping the last rebel held province. And in sport its been another dramatic day of the gulf president s car all the action coming up later by. North koreas armed forces a warning the u. S. To refrain from any provocations if it wants to see a peaceful new year he did kim jong un has seen the 2nd weapons test within a week in a rocket test site state media says the aim is to both defenses against u. S. Nuclear threats north korea has given donald trump a u. N. Deadline to drop demands for the unilateral denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has visited areas of Northern England the backed his conservative party for the very 1st time after decades of continuous support for the Opposition Labor Party johnsons party was swept back into power in thursdays election with a large majority it is it is said shield the constituency previously held by former Prime Minister tony blair of the labor party here he promised people that his government would deliver. We are the servants now we are the servants you know as our job is to serve the people of this country and to deliver on our priorities and theyre proud of our produce and their priorities are the there goes that getting wrecked but it is also delivering on our National Health service our education safer streets better hospitals a Better Future for our country that is what we are going to deliver. Well Paul Brennans been following the election in london and weve seen this visit to the north of england where boris i suppose wanted to give that personal touch if we could call it. You could call it the ass you could also say hes twisting the knife in a can in a constituency that was previously held by tony blair with a labor majority of some 20000 now overturned and turned conservative blue by the results of this general election so it depends on which way youre perspective is but certainly i think it was important for Boris Johnson to go to the northeast it was the cradle of all of the conservative revival in this 29000 election and i think its also important because of what Boris Johnson is now saying to those northern seats which chose to move away from labor and go to war to the conservatives he wants to say that he can be a one nation Prime Minister one nation conservative Prime Minister not just governing for the bankers and for the metropolitan elites but also for those working class northern towns which he admits perhaps their hand would have wavered their pencils wavering over the ballot paper before they choose chose to move from a votes a conservative and now he has to show that the trust was not misplaced that was a phrase that hes been using several times since the early hours of friday morning that the trust will not be betrayed that he will govern in the best interests nevertheless you know its going to be a tall order because he is going to have to balance the kind of desires and requirements of those constituencies Better Public Services for example bus services not traditionally things that the conservative party are seen to deliver from a public set from a public sense. Brain and there and joins us live from london paul thank you. Some senior democrats in the us have been paying very close attention to labors worst general election defeat since 1935 like President TrumpBoris Johnson is a populist who put delivering bricks at the center of his his campaign as well as immigration carbons crushing defeat raises questions as to whether left leaning president ial candidates in the us like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will be able to defeat trump in 2020 or pushing radical policies such as universal health care for all but the front runner of the democratic nomination joe biden says labors defeat should actually serve as a warning not to move too far to the left and another hopeful Michael Bloomberg says candidates need to appeal to all americans wellington mitchell is a political analyst and professor of Political Science at Columbia University joins us by skype from new york and mr mitchell very warm welcome to the program and what you think the lessons are if there are any indeed for for us parties to learn from the recent u. 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