A civilian who is agreed upon by both sides lets go live now to him morgan our correspondent in khartoum and hear both so effectively the t. N. C. The Transitional Military Council which weve now become familiar with effectively becomes obsolete but its members are transferred on to the new joint council. Yes indeed marquis not all of its members will be part of the governing council which will be shared between the military and the Opposition Coalition and the forces of freedom and change only 5 of the 10 members who are in the military council will be included in the new Sovereign Council now that covering council has been a point of contention between the 2 sides the reason why negotiation can talk between 2 sides a lack of real time big think about the role of that council and they disagreed about the composition how many representatives each side should have and who will headed. What this comes down to in this deal that was signed on back today is that for the 1st 21 months it wil
A. Member of the opposition in the 18 Member Executive Council before he presents it to the council to be rubber and then for now hes supposed to be doing that before the 1st of september and some clear if he would be able to reach that deadline but because there has been delays and the swearing in of the suffering council theyre saying that theyre very confident and every optimistic that the swearing in of the Sovereign Council is the 1st step to a democratic transition in sudan many thanks. The most Senior Member of the Roman Catholic church to be found guilty of sex offenses has lost his appeal against his conviction Cardinal George pell a former vatican treasurer was jailed in march for abusing 2 quiet boys in australia 20 years ago his alexia brian. Arriving at court Cardinal George pell was taken in through a door away from the wasting crowds there was no room inside for everyone the court packed with other survivors of abuse by the Catholic Church and tell supporters. Oh oh you
This case but theyre relying on the Opposition Coalition which will also be appointing to the judiciary during the transition period to have members who will be independent and impartial to look into what happened during the june 3rd act as well as into jaffery conflicts and then to be the one responsible for delivering justice and accountability right here thanks for that have a malls and live in khartoum. Protesters in hong kong have gathered in front of the british consulate to appeal for the release of a man detained in Mainland China earlier Chinas Foreign Ministry confirmed that simon chang an employee of the u. K. Consulate is in custody saying he violated the law the ministry added that hell spend 15 days in whats called administrative detention chang went missing on all the same nights whilst on a business trip to the city of shenzhen. Well beijing hasnt provided any more details than about his detention but the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Says the u. K. To stop stirring up tro
A document from the holy see saying that its mandatory reporting in the church for anything that happens in terms of abuse and and also to follow all the civil rules of denouncing abuse to the civil authorities so that it can be dealt with so weve moved on from there. The u. S. Envoy to north korea says his country is prepared to resume Nuclear Talks visiting south korean stephen by going said theyre just waiting to hear from the north discussions have been stalled since the u. S. President Donald Trumps summit with kim jong il and vietnam last february china says it will consider imposing sanctions on u. S. Companies selling arms to taiwan now thats in response to the u. S. State department approving a plan to sell the island state 8000000000. 00 worth of f. 16 fighter jets beijing strongly opposes any arms deal with taiwan which it considers a breakaway province has that story from washington. Weve been hearing rumblings for several days now about this possible arms sale to taiwan bu
Dialogue with the u. S. On how we can develop our cooperation and deal with the many common challenges we are facing. Well for more on this lets bring in the White House Correspondent Kimberly Hall could kimberly our julie this is quite a measured response both from donald trump and from the Prime Minister as a self herself in terms of a diplomatic incident is this really a big thing are we making more of it than than actually is. I think the initial shock led many people to believe this was perhaps a larger diplomatic spat but the bottom line remains that this is an important strategic relationship for the United States as well as denmark and so as a result given their partnership particularly when it comes to nato that this is something that i think the 2 sides will be able to weather through but it certainly did catch a number of staff at the white house off guard including the u. S. Ambassador because this was a scheduled meeting set to take place september 2nd a 3rd of the prepara