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mozambique struggles with its worst cholera outbreak in 2 decades. what it faces a long recovery from the impact of cyclone freddie. ah, hello again, i'm adrian and again, this is l 0 alive from dough. also coming up, death, destruction and pumps of the us software. major storm and tornadoes sweep through the south of mid west no deal in suda military leaders and pro democracy forces to lay side to get agreement. to asha in the creation of a civilian government. don't lose your sense of agency. you can change any warnings of a mental health emergency of south africa blamed partly on the countries deteriorating economy. ah,
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for the 1000000 people in mozambique are facing a health crisis destination struggles to recover from cyclone freddie. it's now seeing the west cholera outbreak in 20 years after the powerful storm hit the country twice and late february or early march 11. other african countries also reporting wising cases of cholera. the u ends. children's agency is wanting to sit ration in the eastern southern regions of the continent are an emergency that it's not just africa. the world health organization says there's an exponential rise in the number of cholera cases globally. but a shortage of vaccines medicines and testing kits is forcing agencies to ration bosis lena, obliquely reports psycho on friday, battered mozambique twice in february and march, destroying more than $130.00 homes and displacing an estimated 184000 people, water facilities clinics, and medical centers were damaged,
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accelerating the spread of cholera, while the color of bricks, regularly grin was a big between october and april of every year, with more than 21000 cases. currently in 95 death, this is the largest outbreak in the last 20 years. it's not only cholera. the world health organization is also warning of looming hunger crisis. the u. n. estimates about 3100000 people are in need of food assistance, access to safe water and sanitation is the challenging. and about one 3rd of the crops have been destroyed ah, from us on beek climate change is not a future problem. the effects of prolonged severe weather patterns are ready, evident lena wallclear al jazeera sedans transition to civilian leadership, has been delayed. a final agreement was expected to be signed on saturday. it would have made the civilian government and paved the way for full transition from
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military rule but disagreements remain about the integration of the paramilitary rapid support forces into the army. out as here as heb. morgan reports from car through political parties in sudan were hoping to sign an agreement on saturday. that would end the terminal which started when the military took over power in october 2021. but that has now been a delayed to april 6th, due to differences between the army and the rapid support forces, the paramilitary group, which has been supporting the army since a former president obama was she was overthrown in april 2019. now the issue comes down to the integration of the paramilitary group, the rapids support forces, or r s f into the army. the army wants the group to be integrated into it by the end of the 2 year transitional period. they also want an assessment of the officers and the ranks off the officers. awfully rapid support forces saying that that needs to be reassessed because they have not joined at the military academy. and they have been promoted in a way, in standards that were not, are compatible with the standards of the army. then this,
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the issue of the investments of the are, is safa. the hours have have their own investment in various sectors, including gold and including of the sectors as well. now the army wants those investments to be integrated into its own investments, which in turn would be taken over by the transitional government. political parties have made it clear that they, on their side are ready and that they have agreed on majority of issues with the military issues such as a transitional justice issues such as are reforming the security sector and issues such as dismantling the former regime of our former president on martin bashir and when it comes to the issue of integrating the rapid support forces, which has been repeatedly thing that is, is part of the military that comes down to the military and ourselves amongst themselves. a technical committee is working to try to reach an agreement in the next 5 days, so that a final deal is signed by april 5th. he bo morgan al jazeera hot soon. so leaders of swept across 6 us states from the south and bit west leaving a trail of destruction. at least 7 people are dead on tens of thousands of people
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with our power. who michelson sheriff's reports the fierce trista making its way to little draw the capital of arkansas ripping away roofs and walls uprooting trees. and flipping over beetle authority said thousands of people are injured. some critically, a state of emergency is in place and tens of thousands of households are without power. the lights went out 1st and then as the lights were narrow, we are told to get hallway, but the hallway place is all our north window where we are going to the bathroom and say if you're in the airplane and, and had to take higher is like there about the blows. that's what it felt like. it was a lot of pressure. it was quick. less of 1520 seconds. it was
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similar scenes and i was there. motorists and kilter captured this video on the national weather service was tracking it. he's 36 unconfirmed. nader reports in arkansas, tennessee, illinois, and i was in the evening, the storm rolled through illinois. the roof of the phone appeared to invent the day collapsed during the concert. tomatoes are common in the u. s, especially in the center and south of the country, but scientists say the common storms are unusually intense. this is the 1st time i believe more than 10 years that we've had 2 areas of high risk. that's very uncommon. typically, the atmosphere likes to focus on one particular area, but in this case today we have 2 areas of concern and
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a broad area of what's called a moderate risk, which is 4 out of 5 on the, on the scale. so this, this was a pretty widespread, severe weather, its rods with a large area of concern for tornado. the severe weather comes as preston joe biden was visiting mississippi. they at least 26 people died after a monster tornado battled through this state last week. may consume sharif anxious . eva donald trump. visitors will appear in a new york course on tuesday, where he'll become the 1st form, a u. s. president to face criminal charges. the details had not been made public bumped the grand jury. the voted for the indictment was investigating a payment made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 2016 presidential election campaign. gabriel, arizona reports from new york. a handful of protesters came out friday at trump tower, new york. as news of the former president's indictment filtered through about 6
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kilometers to the south outside the manhattan district attorney's office. the anticipation among the world's media is also building as a date with history draws closer. but back in florida, donald trump's plain remains firmly on the tarmac, the man himself staying behind closed doors through most of the day, leaving his supporters to do most of the talking for him. i think these charges. a are not legitimate charges, i think what is happening right now in our nation is very sad and i feel that the direction that we are headed is very dangerous since the manhattan district attorney's office, confirmed trumps indictment over hush money payments to a former adult film star speculation has mounted over how trump's arraignment will play out. they've got nothing and its potential effect on the country. trump's lawyers say bill vigorously fight the charges and framed the indictment as
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political persecution. it's believe trump will surrender on tuesday, and it's expected he will arrive here at the district attorney's office, where he will have his photograph and fingerprints taken. he will then walk down a long hallway to make his 1st court appearance at an arraignment when he is free to leave. the big question then is, will trump come outside to address the media? one person, apparently unwilling to be drawn into the debate, current u. s. president joe biden. ah, i don't know. i know momma outside the district attorney's office. the week is on now just days away from a former president to show up and surrender to face the judicial system that is waiting for him. gabriel's dondo al jazeera new york, the international monetary fund has approved
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a $15600000000.00 loan for ukraine. the package will be used to stabilize the economy during the conflict. the installments will be released in the next 4 years with the 1st going towards changes in the energy sector. in return, ukraine will have to increase its tax revenue and strengthen anti corruption efforts. a slap in the face. that's how you crane is describing rushes, presidency of the un security council. moscow has taken up a rotating row, but keep once it removed from the council altogether, or to put about to get it a james base reports from the un. every month, the presidency of the un security council rotates among its 50 members. today, russia is assuming the presidency for the month of april, that's deeply controversial because when russia had the presidency last year was february, the month that they invaded ukraine, there are people calling for russia to be kicked off the security council or kicked out of the united nations, but if you look at the rules and you look at the un charter, those things are not possible. what we do know is that later this month,
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the russian foreign ministers live rockers will be here in new york. you'll be sharing a number of meetings including one in defense of this document. the you n's, founding charter, other diplomat say that is very cynical when it's russia that is currently breaching this charter with its ongoing war. james bays al jazeera of the united nations pakistan's army says the government of killed 4 of its soldiers to have a border with iran. the attack happened in catch district and southwestern pakistan . the military since the troops came under attack by a group of course, terrorists from the iranian side during a border patrol. it's the 2nd incident of its kind of the region within 3 months. the funeral of a 14 year old boy who died in the stampede stampede rather has taken place in pakistan. it was among at least 11 people who were crushed to death in a rush to collect free food at a ramadan distribution center on friday. or many people in pakistan have been
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struggling with surging food prices and an increasing number. now rely on humanitarian aid. dozens of people injured in friday's crush. as vincent monahan reports, he, us fusion and panic. the injured and dead are everywhere. money and food has been distributed to poor a tradition during ramadan with them p broke out as this site in karachi was overwhelmed by crowds of desperate people. mormonism, i did, it allowed to 0, but get a dead. those behind us didn't stop, they kept pushing. i was crushed to the last thing i remember is that my sister fell on me. i tried to find my sister, but i couldn't. when the cried cleared, i saw both of them. my sisters lying dead. women and children were killed as the crowd got out of control. thereupon other stampeded food distribution centers this week, but this was the deadliest site in york. i like i thought i had not been money was
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being distributed among the poor today. a large crowd had gathered, which resulted in a stampede efforts to control the crowd, made things worse. some people drawn to a nearby stream, others were trampled underfoot to be muddy inflation. is it a 50 year high and families are struggling to survive? because to basically like flour of sword, nearly 50 percent this past year, families of the dead say they're tired of political infighting and or demanding solutions. millions of women have been forced to leave their homes to get some free feed. why? because of the government, the prime minister. keep blaming form alida emron comp. every thank con is not responsible. he is responsible. there is no gas, no electro tina wash. everything is so expensive, they should die of shame. please have sealed off the area. they've already arrested several people. the organizers are being blamed for failing to inform local authorities about the event. but so long as pakistani families remain in dire
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conditions, more tragedies like this one could be difficult to avoid. vincent monahan al jazeera still to come on out as here, are concerns about fake accounts with blue ticks on twitter, 0. musk ends free, verified checkmarks, for some uses. ah, hello, there will start in south asian things are looking largely settled across western areas of india. we've still got the possibility of some thunderstorms breaking out in the south, touching up across the eastern coast of india and of course will fear storms affecting shrill lanka, but much of the wet weather can be found in the northeast pulling across northeastern areas of india into bangladesh, but it will start to dry up in darker and instead it's going to be the north west
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that sees more in the way of wet and wintry weather, with heavy downpours across more than the areas of pakistan as that wesley disturbance moved its way further. east now was we move east to east asia, we're going to see more in a way of a very heavy rain across central parts of china. you can see that front with a bit of a wintery edge to it's very northern flank. that's going to bring some rain into beijing dropping temperatures. here we'll see that mass across more central areas. we're getting cloudy conditions into shanghai know ahead of that. lots of sunshine coming through for the korean peninsula and japan, 18 degrees celsius in tokyo. it will remain largely fine and dry here, but we are going to see some of that rain start to move into beijing by tuesday. only 15 degrees celsius maximum high. that weather. ah. in 543, he won a fraud, takes on the big issues. this isn't a one off,
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he's talking about a systemic issue here, black gloves and don't really matter in the police. world unflinching questions is war with lawanda minute rigorous debate. people who are dying because of lack of medical treatment, challenging conventional wisdom. the fact that people are starting to get angry about this is in itself a sign of progress. join me more polite hill for upright. what al jazeera. ah ah. hello again, this is 0. let's remind you of the main news. the saw a vaccination campaign supported by the world health organization is underway in mozambique. the country is facing its worst cholera outbreak in 2 decades driven by
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the flooding caused by cyclone freddy. tornadoes of swept across 6 us states in the south midwest, killing at least 7 people, and leaving a trail of destruction. tens of thousands of without electricity and an agreement to transition saddam from military to civilian leadership has been delayed until thursday. the final deal was supposed to be signed on saturday, but disagreements remain over security refers, ecuador, constitutional court has given the go ahead for impeachment proceedings against president gable law, so he's accused of embezzlement. the decision does caused a political crisis. as alesongo amputee reports, ecuadorian president guillermo last, so looks increasingly eyes of lady that he begins the latest fight for his political life. he surrounded self with supporters, then his wife, as he rejected the 2nd impeachment trial against them in less than a year. this time for allegedly embezzling, make fun stuff. he insisted he is
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a victim of a conspiracy against them. main nice becky, i am outraged by this attack on my integrity, my reputation, and also that of our home. with my hand on my heart, ecuadorian, i reiterate to you, i am innocent. this week the country's constitutional court gave the go ahead for the impeachment proceedings against the conservative former banker. the court accuses him of allowing corruption in the country, state oil companies. and it comes as less of struggled to tackle a surgeon violent crime and worsening economic problems. he now faces a vote in a hostile congress, an abysmal approval ratings. even conservative observers in the country say it has become increasingly hard for any political sector to defend them. what was that was your political? should i mail you this impeachment? trial is happening after law, so suffered heavy defeats and local elections and in a referendum last month, among a worsening security crisis. there is also
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a crisis in the health system yet, and i think the generalized discontent might play a role in pushing legislators to make a political decision more than a simple judicial one unless somebody and that's without the national assembly as up to $45.00 days to investigate the charges, housing laughter will require $92.00 of the assemblies, a $137.00 votes. other political experts feared a removal could impact ecuador is already weak institutions, but insist the president as only himself to blame on the plan as he gets picked up about the matters douglas is bullied. one could worry about the comic and social effects that this political crises could have in ecuador. but the reality is that it's the economic and social crisis and the country that brought us to this point. this impeachment trial is nothing else than a way of trying to solve the whole settle failures of last was administration with data. if the vote to remove and passes lhasa would be replaced by based president alfredo bought rate or a former medical doctor and a political novice,
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valesa could instead choose to the south congress before the vote triggering fresh elections that given the president's approval ratings. most believe he would certainly lose allison gonna be at the and just either taiwan president is on the tor in central america. but she tries to hold on the dwindling allies in the region saying when has met the guatemalan president, guatemala and belize of the early nations in the region that maintained diplomatic relations with taiwan. a truck comes off to honduras, cut ties with type, pay, and recognized china. what am i, what am i, la, is a powerful ally of taiwan. and in recent years, we have continued to deepen our relations a few years ago with president yamato take. we signed an agreement that will allow for further diversification and innovation in technical cooperation between our nation was february. here i'm waiting for guatemala. this is
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a significant visit to renew and reaffirm the full support of time one year to rating the re, recognition of taiwan as an independent nation. as the one true china with which we share democratic values of mutual respect and historic ties of brotherhood voting for another place of recover the bodies of 8 people, including 2 children who died while trying to cross illegally from canada. it's the united states. the bodies were found in the marshy area of the st. lawrence river in arkansas, snake police. so they were of romanian and indian descent there. still looking for a 9th person who was last seen driving a boat found near the bodies. angry protesting, surrounded the cause of mexico's president under as manuel lopez opened a door when he visited sir, that was on friday. earlier this week, 39 people died in a fire at a migrant detention center in the city, which is close to the us border investigations on the way into why 68 men appear to
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have been left locked to not sell. while the 5 bond 5 people have been arrested, john holden reports from mexico city, president under his man will lopez over a door of mexico on friday. visited c at at quad is a town in which at least $39.00 migrants died in a fire that broke out in a migrant detention center in the town a monday night. but his visit wasn't actually to investigate, would happen to see the survivors perhaps in the hospital. it was pre raised and it was local with local state officials. and the president actually didn't go anywhere near those survivors. obviously wary of a photo opportunity of, or of any sorts of publicity around this case. what has happened after the events of monday night is that some officials security guards a migrant himself who was accused of starting to fight have been arrested. a commission has been announced by the president looking into human rights,
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the migrants in the country. but the big question is whether this negligence, perhaps even homicide of migrants who change the big picture in the way that met her treat. people are often going through here and trying to get to the united states. at the moment. the policy is heavily into prevention. there's a militarized pools, the national guard that seeks to stop them getting to the buddha with the states that also detention centers, not just the qualities, but across different parts of the country. that being compared by some migrants to over crowded prisons, will any of that change? that is a question that has yet to be answered by anger. refugees and bangladesh are struggling to make ends leads to the un cut back food aid. because a funding shortfalls, accounts coincide with the muslim fasting month of ramadan and their trout chaudhry has more. from cox's bizarre o whitfield russians from the un food agency had been cut many in this can fear they'll soon go hungry. cramped in
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a makeshift tank with 9 other family members mala, bono, mrs. are home in may on march. she left everything behind during a crack down by the military. done and at the last i did like that right now we are facing difficulties in getting adequate amount of ration. sometimes we have to buy items from outside with what i have a savings. we have back home, our family will pharmacy. so it's much easier to manage our life unlike hair because we had a number brick when incidence of fire violence and threat of flood. and landslide during monsoon season makes life challenging. here for ranga taylor, it's hard living here, but somehow we are managing during ramadan with the limited ration as we guess, but it's just not enough for a large family like ours. many rowing i said they were used to receiving different types of food aid during ramadan and previous year. but that stopped export things . the ration been provided or insufficient. and any further decrees that posed
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grave health problems for the ringer in the am home of elliana mother marshall, bishop edition and mother. the recent kirk and rations is worrying. people being, as most don't have any other income source in the bottle here in the mosque. we don't even have an after meal arrangement for the community like unlike indira hind state in the grandmother. ah, none of their shows more than a 1000000 drawing of muslims, but it's government is gradually losing patience with the international community, saying it's failing to help resolve the crisis. and the ali, month of ramadan, most growing are rapid. they say they are thankful that they are safe here, but they're like still remain a daily struggle. i made all them from iron tribulation, most still dream of returning home one day. bernard shaw j algebra. cox's bazaar, south africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. nearly a 3rd of its workforce is out of a job. economic stagnation of rolling power outages have made the situation worse.
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a recent study concluded that one in 4 south africans is probably depressed. one psychologists spoke about how the crisis piled upon crisis is impacting people's mental health. i'm professor sat scooper clinical psychologist based in johannesburg, south africa. i think the situation is swan off, cravings, i and t and depression. it cause people feel totally helpless in a situation of crisis upon a crisis. no people, no individual can continue with a state of psychic emergency that applies in conditions like this. so in that sense, we have been experiencing the same effects of a country that may have been at war, but effectively is at itself. helpline increased with people are
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calling out for help and assistance. and it may not be an understanding that this is what's causing but the numbers arising and it's at the tail end of a devastating cove with 19th pandemic as well. so all of that had all of these factors have conjoined to create this psychic emergency condition. where we simply have if it's not one crisis today, something else tomorrow's and faith in leadership has been added to the lowest ever in our society, the psychological society, other groups like that and explain something to people. and there's free online webinar does this help or lessons. nobody who calls the
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psychology society, he's just turned away. yes. who may be despondent, but we have resilience. we've shown we have resilience in the past. more recently, we have survived tremendous cost and we can do it again. don't lose you since you can change the deadline to pay for twitters new account. verification system has arrived starting april 1st. individuals and companies have to pay $8.00 a month for the blue. took a symbol of account authenticity to the c o e long mosque. since the subscription service will reduce the number of fake accounts, but many big names and organizations, so they won't for count the cash. catalina, go and talk is an associate professor in private blog technology at utrecht university. she says there's a trend among social media platforms to find new sources of revenue. and what we're
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seeing here is a shift in social media. business models are the whole industry is doing, there's not just twitter and they're exploring content monetization, namely they're trying to find new ways for users to create to, to actually pay for their products and twitter blues only one example. another example of that we can think of is also from twitter is the fact that they're planning to charge around $42000.00 per month for industrial access to their data, such as the twitter api i. that's a whopping half a $1000000.00 for per year for services that used to be really partially free. so what i think is really changing here is that we're really getting to see the true nature of social media. it's not a public square that we all thought it was, but a shop where we increasingly have to pay money for digital products. and we're not just being with our data. on the one hand, twitter does have the right to change in service. however, the blue badge started out is something completely different, not just something that you would pay for. but actually this identity verification mechanism and what is important to hi.

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