President ial debates mikes will be muted so cut out interruption. And nasa prepares for a touchdown on an asteroid to unlock some of the secrets of our universe. And. All the sport that is cowboys suffer a crushing defeat against the arabs on a cart and still remain top of the division. How are we begin the news hour with sudan that could be about to end more than 25 years of International Isolation and boost its transition to democracy the us President Donald Trump says hes ready to remove the country from a list the state sponsors of terrorism thats likely to bring an injection of International Investment and allow urgently needed debt relief will speak to. Correspondent had a morgue and a moment but 1st heres her report. This is one of the events that have kept sudan on a u. S. List of state sponsors of terror and kept most Foreign Investors away for more than 25 years. In august 1908 truck bomb attacks on the u. S. Embassies in kenya and tanzania killed 224 people and injured more than 4000 sudan was accused of providing a base for the bombers then president ahmed had already been accused of offering sanctuary to the likes of al qaida and its leader osama bin laden. But after you have negotiations by the Transitional GovernmentPresident Donald Trump says hes ready to restore sudans International Status in a tweet he said sudan had agreed to pay 335000000. 00 compensation and once deposited he would remove it from the list. The road ahead of us is long and we have to have a serious plan and Work Together to benefit from the supper to nitty we promised people and we work to achieve our promise with no agenda except the interest of the nation together we can achieve the impossible being on the list has meant sudan has struggled for investment resulting in a hard currency shortage that led to inflation that 1st rose slowly then steeply the countrys pound has lost more than 50 percent of its value against the dollar in just the past 2 months because strapped government is struggling to pay for stuff lies of lead fuel and medicine all items it subsidizes resulting in shortages sudans removal from the u. S. List would allow it to be relieved of its that by the International Monetary fund that will still take months but the country needs help now some analysts say that may mean a move to normalize ties with israel which comes with an economic assistance package could still happen i suspect however that we will see in the coming days or weeks an effort towards normalization on the part of the sudanese because washington at the end of the day needs to get some kind of political. And i think its a sad commentary for washington and for the german ministration that it isnt a sufficient enough win for them to point to a Success Story in the horn of africa where there wasnt one before this is a region you know beset with political problems and economic problems and for us to be able to point to a Success Story should be a sufficient Foreign Policy win through his administration that it should want to try and trumpet that when. And while President Trump seeks a Foreign Policy when so dance Prime Minister abdullah him too says the delisting would open paths for sudans economic improvement crucial for its transition to democracy and lets not bring in her but she is joining us from khartoum so whats the reaction over there still have a. While during the announcement by the u. S. President donald trump has been welcomed by the sudanese Prime Minister abdullah as well as the head of the Sovereignty Council of the fact that. Now among sudanese here the reactions have been mixed some have welcomed the decision saying that it was a long time in waiting and that after months of negotiations its only fair that the u. S. The lists of them off the list of state sponsors of terrorism others however have condemned the fact that sudan has to pay 335000000. 00 when the country is effectively cash strapped and broke and in desperate need of economic help itself more than 60 percent of the 43000000 population there in live below the poverty line according to the World Bank Many of them have suffered as a result of the inflation and able to afford basic commodities and basic needs to be able to survive and weve seen the rate of the people who are facing hunger improve increase according to the u. N. World food program so people have been criticizing this government saying that instead of paying that some of the 335000000. 00 to the u. S. And to the victims of the terror attacks on embassies in in 1809. 00 this money should go to try to solve the current economic cry. But according to the minister of information who is also the Government Spokesperson saying that money would open more opportunities more Economic Development and more growth which is why they see that its only a fair deal to be made and for sudan to pay that amount to the victims and to the United States or some over in the u. S. Are still hoping that this move will encourage sudan to establish official diplomatic relations with israel of course there were reports that that might happen. Is normalizing relations with israel still on the table then. Well thats one thing that the sudanese Prime Minister up in the hands of was very sure to to make sure to make sure of that these 2 issues the issues of delisting and normalizing ties with israel is the links now it looks like with the with the tweet from President Trump that the issue has been indeed linked as per the request of the sudanese Prime Minister who says his government is not mandated but the sudanese a spokesperson also said that the government is still under immense pressure to normalize ties with israel especially because the countrys Economic Situation is in need of assistance now should the government agree to normalize ties there will be an economic assistance package offered to the government thats something that so the needs of a child who spoke to him just they were confirmed and they say that the countrys economy economy needs that assistance and thats because of course like i said thats because of the inflation because of the shortage that the country is going through but right now it seems that the focus is on transferring that 335000000. 00 so thats listed ok thank you very much for that update from hard to lets stick with the story and speak to whos an activist and a filmmaker he is joining us from khartoum as well thanks for your time whats your reaction to this multimillion dollar payment sudan is going to pay to the u. S. In compensation. I mean the 1st thing my 1st reaction is reparation is reparation to families who got their loved ones killed so im happy that they feel reparations and i think its good to remember them before we Start Talking about Economic Situation and how were feeling so its good that people who are part of supporting terrorism realize that you have to even if after revolution so to me its good and all lot of these families are actually african and that will be. So hopefully theyll feel that we have sudanese paid our dues for having such a government although its a government be overturned we ate it a government that killed a lot of sudanese but we have to pay and i feel like this is a good strong message for everybody in the world that if you are part of this youll pay so how significant is this when it comes to the economy though when it comes to the economy for the people for people like you who are living in sudan and also how significant is it for the government whos been accused of not being able to get the economy going. This game at the perfect time is going to not come at a better time tomorrow is the 21st of october its a day of revolution for us because its an anniversary which an off 64. 00 and we were going out in the street because our Economic Situation is horrible the streets theres lines for petrol those lines for gas theres lines or bread people have reached their limit and we needed a good we need it could use and this happened at the perfect time today my mother woke me up early in the morning at 6 am being like oh dear the news so people are excited that now we have some good news although it is going to take months before we see the economic turn because of this but we needed that we needed to feel on hold for the future economically so this came at a perfect time do you believe that the government in sudan however is still under pressure from the u. S. To normalize ties with israel and this issue is not going to go away in fact it will come up but whether its in a few weeks or a few months time. So one of the best things about how this turned out is that how doc and this is 1000000000 government stood the ground on on not giving up our moral support for the Palestinian People and refusing to just give in which this is the military. Part of our government wanted to so i think this was a winning one for the civilians and 2 for sudan to be like you know we stood our. Ground and this is something that for their evolution is really important because this is their revolution of ethics and morals before it is a revolution off needing food and needing Economic Development so to me this was great and i feel like this is such a win and its important how we wanted we wanted by sticking to our ethics and morals so i think its really important and i hope. In a civilian government stick to their grounds that theyre not going to give in to normalize issues relationship until. Democracy and its something that the parliament should actually decide on and sudan and sudanese people as a whole the to decide on and right now it feels really good to actually stick to the rights of the Palestinian People all rights has sousa kuka thank you for speaking to us from khartoum thank you Human Rights Watch has released video it says sos fighters from a congo these armed groups meeting civilians getting support from the military the leader of the group has been on the run for more than a year malcolm webb reports. She may write hes wanted by prosecutors in the democratic republic of congo. Action recruiting child soldiers and the crime against humanity of rape he leads an armed group called n d c r its fighters are notorious for torturing and executing civilians they controlled a larger area than any other militia in eastern congo until the group split 3 months ago. Some of the fighters surrendered to the government. Remains at large in spite of a warrant for his arrest and its widely believed that a lot of his weapons ammunition and uniforms have come from Government Army officers who supported him to fight other armed groups denies it and denies committing right to be says then. The in d. C. Does not have any collaboration with the Congolese Army when were in confrontation with other armed groups we find heavy weapons ammunition and Congolese Military uniform. International rights group Human Rights Watch has released videos that it says show otherwise they will film secretly by local residents this one appears to show fighters collecting illegal taxes and shows people who cant pay being beaten. Punishment a brutal for anyone who doesnt comply. One of the fighters says you know. And one of the armed groups commanders. And the congolese government soldier one with him and my family have a reason. Well that is there. Some things have recently changed. Peoples deputies turned against him. He has been fighting him sids school. Those who say there may be a certain collaboration between the army and should bring evidence we are actually in military operations against collaboration would be against the nature of our mission which is to track down all armed groups. People in eastern congo have suffered in brutal conflicts more than 20 yeahs Human Rights Watch says. He supported him people to Justice Malcolm webb aljazeera elsewhere in the eastern democratic republic of congo armed men have freed around 900. 00 prisoners from jail the jailbreak happened in the city of beni its mayor is blaming the allied Democratic Forces armed group the u. N. Says the a. D. F. Has killed more than a 1000 civilians since the start of last year aid agencies are pushing for a stable ceasefire nagornokarabakh so help can be given to those forced out of their homes the International Red cross says so far its only been able to provide limited aid there are reports that shelling is continuing days after azerbaijan and armenia agreed to a humanitarian cease fire. In armenia civilians are volunteering to help soldiers on the front line for many the fighting is different from the war in the 1994 a challenge explains from the capital here of on the strip by strip not by not theyre hoping to save lives the women and teenagers in this year of an school are making camouflage netting to send to the front lines theyre volunteers part of armenias home front war efforts and there are scenes like this all across this small country respond to battle plan from every single set fatal flaws and a great source told to roll hall of the cross if i want to stay here i dont want to do more. The further is there and its obvious why everyone is affected by this war in some way here is a translator and teacher and asked her students who they knew at the front there this one i guess. Brothers fathers uncles cousins friends childhood friends colleagues and every day we come to class their eyes i read my friend i had my brother that we had one of or one of my students died that although they insist on media wants peace and will ultimately be victorious theres a sense here that things arent going well people in armenia are aware the conflict has changed since the war after 990 s. Many of see those videos of drawings picking off groups of young soldiers i dont even know whether these nets can protect their troops against such things but they are hoping. Armenia and azerbaijan are supposed to be respecting a humanitarian ceasefire but azerbaijans president said on monday that is very forces had regained 13 villages near the azerbaijan iran border from armenian control and azerbaijan said armenia shelled a factory in the town of terror well beyond the new going to karabakh line of conflicts hopes for peace rose late on monday when a leader and armenias Prime Minister nicolas passion agreed in principle to meet in moscow. But the fight over nagornokarabakh has deep roots. Is one of many armenian artists raising money for the disputed region by setting their work. During the 1st war my sons were small 10 to 11 years old now they are mitchell men and now motherland is still in the same fatal situation im an optimist but when evil wants to end even i sometimes lose my optimism as a boy john says its fighting to expel all media from azeri land on media says its fighting to protect an ethnically armenian nagornokarabakh either way most say theres more fighting to be done. Yet of all media plenty more ahead on the news hour including hacking the Winter Olympics and the elections in front of us we have the latest on the involvement of the russian Intelligence Officers plus. Im joined here in the suburbs of minneapolis one of the many suburban belts in swing states where the u. S. President ial election will likely be decided. On sports news we look ahead to the return of the Champions League with 2 with europes biggest club set to face off on tuesday. But 1st organizers of sundays president ial election in guinea have dismissed the main opposition candidates victory announcement so supporters celebrated in the capital. And else has when president alpha conde described as irresponsible and dangerous official results arent expected for several days for more on this lets bring in Nicholas Hock his following the developments for us from the car thats in neighboring senegal so it looks like guinea is heading towards a post electoral crisis. Thats right i mean after this announcement made by jello. Before the Election Commission had to say anything well that really has sparked jubilee of jubilation is on the streets but thats also has support for the government to deploy but with the military and Paramilitary Forces on the streets of cannot create elsewhere in the country the party said weve done jello. Came out late last night saying that 3 of its Party Members had died in clashes with Police Officers with police and the military firing tear gas rubber bullets so situation volatile and the Election Results are still not out now the Prime Minister has also come out saying like no one should be adding fuel to the fire only the Election Commission can announce these results the Election Commission itself has come out again to say we will and that was those results on wednesday so theres a lot of pressure on this so why did jello. Anticipate the election result and announce it well because 2 times be