on al jazeera roman, good yet he says, he's dear, is that the sky every day in search of signs of rain? he has lost nearly all of his soul. you having crops, se crippin drought conditions affecting the south american nation. the drought is having an impact on across argentina. this is a field of corner. you can see it's try and it's already been lost. producers telling us that because of the lack of water, they have started to notice the different types of insects they had never seen before in big stream weather conditions have also cost sure to have grass, grain and water to view the impacting the captain of men. farmers in the area, ah, sedans, military launches, air stripes targeting is rival powder, military force as fighting rages on for a 2nd day. 56 civilians are killed in 2 days. the u. n. and the african union

called for an immediate de escalation, ah, i'm robot this, and this is all to 0 live from dough. have also coming up g 7 foreign ministers meet in japan to discuss the world's most pressing issues, including the war in ukraine, plus a, the longest running stage musical and broadway history. the phantom of the opera is falling silence. ah. but a bit more air strikes near sedans, capitals haul to me for a rival military leaders, a jostling for power, throwing the nation into chaos. bees, a live pictures from the capital cartoon. at least 56 civilians have been killed.

the urines world food program says 3 of its employees were killed and had stopped operations here in the country. this is the state of play in sit down at the moment fighting no spread across the country. but the worst of the violence has been centered on the capital cartoon. and neighboring undermined both sides have been vying for control of city and state broadcaster, the presidential palace. the airport and various military bases are healing. mohammed's reports, plumes of smoke rises above cartoon as fighting between sedans, army, and the biggest paramilitary group enters a 2nd day. from above, fight jet circled the capital while the military, wounds people to stay in doors. the 2 sides of fighting full control, the military and the rapid support forces both claim to be in control of important locations around the country. ah, but in some pots, the army says it's gained ground,

taking bases run by the paramilitary forces. the rumble of gunshots, echoing the streets, while many civilians trying to find safety. area of heavy fighting, then it blocked off by soldiers and there's gunshots and snipers. and i'm from here. you can't see any, any debt by you, but i have i, i friends who are in that zone and they can't leave their house. the fighting has spread to the cutlery province. port suit on, on dorm on, and bari, disrupting energy and water supplies. hundreds of people have been injured. hospitals are locked down sorts. if i don't to work in the area, the doctor is going to leave the hospitals. i don't reach the hospital, even in the ambulance, even the humblest and look move in the streets. the violence began on saturday after weeks of tensions between ami chief of those fata albert han and his deputy mohammed hum done,

douglas commands of the rapid support forces. each leader is accusing the other of starting the fight and refusing to negotiate the united nations african union and the united states and regional leaders are calling for an end to the hostilities. there are concerns, it could become a full scale war and spill over into neighboring countries around the min per to dr . does really our see should by all of the region of county is to prevent this from moving into bear a full blown civil war with most of that well, well no, no, no, really at that point, yeah. because because it's going to show what i was down, the know that the device vision of a civil war will lead to so many issues on illegal migration, or if you just flowing out of, into countries that's already been from countries for you to be out of issues in it as well. despite the growing international pressure to stop the fighting, it's unclear if these 2 military leaders are willing to put aside the differences

and commit to talks. rahile mohammed al jazeera was closer to him, morgan, whose life isn't cartoon hair. but we've got foreign governments calling for an end to the fighting with the egypt and started on offering to mediate. but it looks as though there's no end to the fighting at the moment. yes indeed. and from the very 1st day of the fighting on saturday, we heard from both sides, from the commander of the army, saying that as much as they did not want a war. they have branding the r s f as a rebel group, as will not stop until they are completely disbanded and dissolved. and we also heard from the commander of the rapid support forces describing the head of the army as a criminal, and that he is going to pursue the head of the army and present him to justice. so it doesn't look like both sides are ready to sit down and talk to each other. and this having a great a. this is reflecting on the ground here in the capitol on the 2nd day of the fighting. we can see air, a fighter jets around hovering around the skies. we can hear air strikes in various

parts of the capital hotel room, and we can see smoke rising from various locations. we can also hear anti aircraft missiles and artillery being fired from the city of undermine. so it looks like this by the calls are from the various international community, from the various organizations and from all sides for both the r s f and the army to end the fighting because of fears of a full scale civil war. no site is listening to all these calls and books. i seem determined to andy over here, but we've also had stories are all for medical workers who are not able to get to their hospitals to be able to treat people which heard about school children being trapped in their schools since the fighting began. how is this affecting people in sudan and their daily lives? people were expecting best that way and for, for cough on saturday morning they thought it was going to be just another day. so nobody took precautionary measures. rob, people do not have extra food stamps in the house. people did not go to the banks

ahead of time. because the 4th or something like that, despite the fact that there was tension between the head of the r 70 army for weeks . now people had cautious optimism, especially because both sides said that they were ready to de escalate the situation just hours before it's kicked off. so many people now say that there was a shortage in their neighborhoods. there is power outages and the fact that they cannot access medical facilities, many of them injured and trapped inside their homes because of the security situation on the streets, preventing them from accessing hospitals. and when they do get to the hospital, there's a shortage of medical personnel doctors and nurses can't get out of their homes, can't leave their homes and go to the hospitals where they needed. so the situation is 10 for the civilians were caught up in the crossfire between the 2 sides of the r f, f and the food in these army. so, but thank you very much indeed as have a morgan talking to us from call to or the integration of the rapid support forces into the regular army has been one of the main demands of pro democracy groups for

a civilian transition. last month talks between the paramilitary unit and the army failed to reach an agreement. the unit says it needed 10 years. but the army wants it done in $200.00. vall explains how saddam's most powerful potter military force was formed. that up its support forces are pa military fighters, mainly from dot for the. our safe was created by former president omar bashir in 2013, to stabilize the war torn region in western sudan. and more broadly to consolidate his personal grip on power. he was concerned about any security institution being strong enough to overthrow and challenge him. so he allowed, you know, he allowed, basically a proliferation of different armed groups and centers of power within the country wasn't what the origin of the force goes back to 2003. that's when president till the she had created and armored a tribal militia to crush a local rebellion in the west. a force became known as the gentle we tend to dance

come trula general of the for tat behind was instrumental in creating and training . both a done to wheat and later the ourself. he worked in the field for years with his now deadly arrival, hammered hampton, douglas known as ha metty, the commander of the alice f. e. 2019 the 2 men joined forces to overthrow a model. the ship, it were hand headed the transitional military council and had done douglas served as his deputy. but the other theft continued to grow in both sides and means by some estimates it now boss, 100000 toughs on it. it took on several rolls, including border security and maintaining law and order cross sudan activists accused ourself of participating in the killing of $123.00 pro democracy protest as in june, 2019. but it's him at his aspirations for rival political leadership in cartoon that led to discord with his ally, elbow han,

and paved the way for the current situation. differences over the terms of integration of the reception to the army intensified after the signing of a framework agreement that lay the foundations for the transitional period in december, 2022. the failure of talks on this and other issues. finally, led to what observers have been warning about and all our military confrontation practice group was warning. just 10 years ago. you know, while bus year was still in power, that if you ever left power, one of the big concerns would be that he left behind such a mess in terms of the military insecurity. that a huge risk was that these parties would themselves turn on each other as ever to the population. but the price, palpable fear of the current conflict may prove more deadly and more distractive than any. so that has witnessed in the past 100 fine. just sedans, national army is considered one of the strongest in the horn of africa. but the

rapids support forces is also a powerful part of military group. so how do these square about? well, the sit in the army has about $205000.00 personnel in his ranks, including some $100000.00 active duty soldiers. and its air force has 191 aircraft . that's one of its most important strengths. there's no confirmed information about the strength of the rapid support forces, but it's estimated it has 800000 troops and about 10000 vehicles, mostly 4 wheel drives carrying weapon, really like county across guns and cannon's mom. brian, as a strategic advised that it's a 100 research, it's a think tank focusing on politics and security in the horn of africa. it says sudan is close to a full scale civil war. there really doesn't seem to be any indication for me. the side that there is a, an option of negotiation. both are seeking total victory. and i don't think that's a surprise for anyone who's been following the tensions in the build up this

conflict. now worse to down to a descendant, to full scale civil war than the entire horn of africa region. if yoga the, the most populous country in the region will be heavily affected. south sudan, which is in crisis in egypt, which is one of the key backers of the regime in cartoon. chad which has been hosting sudanese refugees for many years, all would be heavily affected. and so there is a scramble, including an african union emergency meeting this afternoon, or today in at is about to try to respond to the crisis. but for now, what's happening in sudan seems to be moving beyond anybody's control. i don't think there's any single actor that has the leverage with both sides. the united arab emirates has leverage, has, has been engaging with both sides in the build up to this conflict. egypt is of

course, a major backer of the government in, in khartoum. other gulf states also have stakes and the united states has been trying to exercise and diplomatic leverage. and the last year or so. you know, i just want to bring you a line that's coming out from the reuters news agency. 8 is saying that sedans army has agreed to open what it's calling safe passage for urgent humanitarian cases. for 3 hours, starting $1600.00 local time, that's brought about probably about 12 minutes ago or so. as a start, a sense of a statement from the army agreeing to open those, those passages for urgent humanity in cases we don't have any more details on that . we don't know where they are. we don't know what they would consider as humanity in cases and how that we would be policed. obviously, the more information we get on that we'll be bringing it to you as soon as we can. now the warning sides and the conflict have released more detainees for the 3rd and

final day as part of a large scale prisoner exchange. this is the latest group of who the prisoners to arrive in the rebel controlled capitalists, and dozens of troops from the saudi. u. e coalition are also being released. red cross says more than $900.00 prisoners from both sides, are being freed in the operation. the exchange as part of a broader diplomatic effort to end the a 2 year long conflict. top diplomats from g 7 countries have met and the japanese city of kerio saw on day one of a 3 day gathering the war in ukraine. china is growing incense from the region of north korea's missile. tests are high, and the agenda, the talks are in advance of g 7 leaders summit to be held in the semen next month. rob mcbride reports from colorado. the work of this, sir, gathering a really getting underway this sunday evening with a working dinner. the subject to which there be discussing is the influence of china in this region and the wider world and also north korea. all the participants

have now arrived out. we saw from james cleverly, the british foreign secretary, he posted a selfie of himself and his 6 colleagues arriving on the specially chartered m. a shin cancel the bullet train coming from tokyo. it is all smiles, no st hint of any ad disagreement, but we do know that there have been tensions in particular in the approach of the g 7 towards are china and especially on the, in the wake of the emanuel macro. the french president visit to bay ging seen by many of his g 7 colleagues has been just a bit too overly friendly with t. jim ping. given that said the u. s. wants to try to rally the allies to counter the growing influence of china in this part of the world, which is not seen as a good thing by the united states. and but sir, so we're seeing from the a french foreign minister, kathleen colonna, a damage control of this sunday evening moving forward. she is having to outline the frances position when it comes to dealing with china that her,

as she is and that they are not, are breaking away from the other european allies in particular from the united states. in fact, she has been tweeting that all of the g 7 are united when it comes to supporting a free and open indo pacific that's taken as being aimed at china and at china's intentions. in this part of the, the world and started held on al jazeera filings and india investigate the killing of a former employee who was shot dead on live tv. plus i'm rob reynolds and los angeles . will take a look at how this city would fare if it were hit by an earthquake of the same magnitude that struck turkey and sir, ah, ah, ah, hello, we got a chance to some where to where the coming into the south west of china over the

next couple days we have had wildfires causing problems here where to weather at the moment in the process of pulling across japan. but this weather system just about trails back into west central part of china to go through the next day or so . monday sees range is pushing in across that southwestern corner, gathering towards will hand and then pushing further eastward, some really heavy downpours coming through as we make a way into the middle part of the week. so that is likely to cause some localized flooding, say something to keep an eye on by this stage where to where the retarding to japan sheltered by the mount is not bad in tokyo. $21.00 celsius here is 70 in fahrenheit, not too bad to across the korean peninsula and northern parts of china. not too bad across southeast asia as well. we have got some heavier rain pushing into our indo china, one or 2 showers coming in here over the next couple days. northern parts of the philippines lose on, in particular, seeing some heavy rain in than usual scattering a showers there across a good part of malays it down into indonesia. now for india,

it is largely dry and boys hot northern parts in particular, but we have got some wet weather should offer some relief into northern parts of pakistan as we go for monday and tuesday, pushing towards the far northwest. ah ah t a ah

ah ah, you're watching all 0 reminder of our top stories. this are at least 56 civilians have been killed and saddam in fears. fighting between the army and the largest part of military group. the surgeon violence is the latest set back for the nation's transition to civilian rule. this is the scene in the capital call too much of the violence has been concentrated, but i'll report so. so don's army has agreed to open safe passage for humanitarian cases. have been calls for restraint from the international community. united nations secretary general, antonio gonzales and his special envoy to sedan have condemned the violence. i'm called for an immediate end to the fighting. the out of leave is urging all sides to protect civilians and prevent any further escalation. and the african union is

pushing for an end to the fighting. and i return to the negotiating table. well, earlier we spoke to dr. ala dean, you're good, his. the spokesman of the sudanese professionals association, my colleague nick clark asked him for the latest update on the ground. last night. there is a lot of bomb being in the cities, especially number man in the not performed man with the biggest military press and immunity college and so on in the 1000, under my. ready most are near to down to their headquarters of the medical military areas. and that's, that's yeah, that's it is it is collecting throughout the night. and also i would say in this case, in your body also in india, south in the middle 9 states in, in casela. so again,

den fired her mom being is escalating the situation between dad and are all right, legal setting was c t, m 60600 in get people and aid. so as things are escalades here, what, what about daily life within the city, in terms of, you know, electricity supplies and so forth. that net many places days shut down of del, exist city and there's no water supply in many places, in many neighborhoods in their, in the hospital mar the capitol, or there in actual north battery or on demand or, or her doing itself in there. many of the people are complaining of dish and donald electricity and the water supply. is it safe to go outside or stay in there? how this is easily is it safe to go outside? no, no, it's not different on to well say. even into a real, a doctor's gonna be the hospitals i donald did reach the hospital and what about

getting food supplies and water supplies? even even the ambulance, even the ambulance don't look, move in the streets. beds are very big miss or is something that's horrible? really what's happening right now in sudan and caught them and we said in the f, c and d and s be able, he said that dad, dad, the body to cook process is the way to get the country out. but nobody was listening deputy as muslim brotherhood to add a, waiting for a new situation that's happening right now. the weird day have a media campaign for this to happen for this war to happen between the artist if and the army. and now they succeeded at the end of the day. so what do you think can be done to try and resolve the situation? i think good bear bear, bearable should continuum between there to talk between the 2 generals. those

doctors use via nice aren't they just continue. our hor, dad, i and most people think that the muslim brotherhood should be being pointed that they are the cause of it. and the as the only benefit and been officially more the from what's happening right now and there. and this was what they are planning on for a long time. is there are pretty much agreements and do you find out what the deposit started? that muslim brotherhood are behind this. and they have some people in debt in the military and they have some people in there in the security forces. what i'd like making the atmosphere are favorable for agen choir and for the or so i think i did a trial to come back to the show and to come back to ruling. ah, his death was behind all this in india, my former politician and his brother have been shot dead on live t v by gung and pretending to be journalists. i think in our shop ahmad,

we're target as well under produce, escorted or to per dash problems on saturday, or on their way to the hospital. 3 suspects are in custody. the state government ordered an investigation into the killers, i think who sung was also recently shot. that was a convicted criminal, jailed in 2019 for killer. and really the people who were killed were brought from medical checkups as per the mandatory legal requirements. and they were members of the media around who were interviewing them. according to primary information, 3 men came posing as media personnel and started firing. 3 people have now been arrested and they are being interrogated. and artic and usher of died in this incident. and he's 16 people have died in an apartment building fire in dubai. the blaze swept through a 5 story building in the us neighborhood, which is home to many migrant workers. the civil defense is that it appeared the structure was not compliant with safety regulations. migrant workers often live in

overcrowded subdivided departments seismologists and you are state of california a closely studying the earthquake that had took kia and syria in february, and hoping to land how their own quite prone region might fair if something similar happened. rob reynolds reports from los angeles, the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria is sending shock waves of concern half a world away to california. these workers are retrofitting an older residential building to make it more earthquake resistant. the main thing we're doing is we've installed this wide flange column and it's going to be connected to this foundation here. many such buildings were built without enough steel to reinforce concrete structural pillars and beams. they lack what engineers called ductile strength. so the word duct islet yet asked to do with flexibility, a building has to be able to move a little bit, and concrete is really strong,

but it's, it's a little brittle and it's not very flexible. and so having enough steel inside is what makes it flexible because steel is very ductile. the magnitude 7.8 turkey syria quake happened in a seismic zone. strikingly similar to the san andreas fault, which ones through los angeles county home to 9300000 people are actually very similar, quick zones. her falls on southern california is no stranger to large earthquakes. the 994 northridge quake was a magnitude 6.7. and it could happen again in los angeles. there are about $1200.00 older buildings like this one that engineers say would be heavily damaged if the city were struck by an earthquake of the same magnitude as the one that hit turkey and syria. the los angeles county board of supervisors recently voted to create new rules requiring retrofitting of older non ductile buildings,

and to create an inventory of vulnerable structures. experts who have modeled quake scenarios, say, loss of light in the event of a major l lake wake, would be much smaller than in turkey and syria because of better construction. nonetheless, there will be fossil life, and there will be some day of destruction and people gather, rebuild. it's gonna be a big hit. the worst part will be the aftermath with major highways, possibly severed electric power and water pumping stations knocked offline for weeks. los angeles is preparing itself, but the forces slowly grinding beneath the surface or unstoppable rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. the phantom of the opera is falling silent. the longest running stage musical in broadway history is going to take its final bow on sunday and allied. why was blockbusters shows thrilled, theatre funds for decades, but as gibber, arizona reports from new york,

the phantom couldn't survive covet. after 35 years on broadway, phantom of the opera is dropping the curtains for good. for most, it will be the last time they see the musical, at least here. we want to see the phantom one more time before it ends. sadly. phantom of the opera based on the french novel from 1910 1st day, viewed in london in 1986, 2 years later in new york city. since then, it has to world wide wheat and seen by a 140000000 people in 33 countries. ah, but it's here on broadway. that is often a highlight for theater fans. the musical has over a 130 cast crew and orchestra members involved in every performance. it's a full meal. when you walk into this theater, it's

a big orchestra. 26 pieces of metal. it's a big cas, beautiful costumes. i mean it's, it's, everything we offer is everything. almost $20000000.00 tickets have been sold to its showings, $13981.00 performances and $1300000000.00 in gross sales. 35 years on broadway. $1300000000.00. that's unheard of. but the coven pandemic force broadway to go completely dark. for nearly 18 months. the music stopped when broadway finally fully reopened in september 2021. audiences were slow to return. and the ones who did often book tickets for other marquis plays such as lion king, chicago, or hamilton ticket sales to phantom of the opera plummeted. and could not offset the rising cost to put on the production,

add it all up. and that's why producers decided their show could no longer go on, but not always last. phantom is still playing her majesty's theatre in london, and their plans for a mander inversion to open and shine it next year. gabriel is on dough. out in new york. all that i was christian worshippers had been gathering unoccupied to loosen them for easter celebrations after weeks of violence in the old city, which was home to christian, muslim and jewish, holy sides, israeli police, or restricting access to the area in previous years, up to 10000 people pipes, the church or the holy stuff, okay. and the surrounding be limited to $1.00 to $2.00 sizes. ah, this is all. these are the top stories, at least $56.00 civilians are being killed in sudan and fierce fight.