tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera April 16, 2023 6:00pm-7:01pm AST
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hello, i'm 0 then. yeah, it's great to have you with us. this is the news, our life from doha. coming up in the program today, the un says sedans, army and rapid support forces paramilitary group have agreed to a temporary pause and fighting on humanitarian grounds will be live in khartoum. at least 56 civilians have been killed since saturday, including 38 workers. the world food program holds its operations across sedans and a prisoner exchange between humans who the rebels and the saudi u. e. coalition comes to an end. nearly 900 detainees have been released. g 7 foreign ministers meet in japan to discuss the world's most pressing issues, including the war and ukraine. also support one of the favorites to win this year's n. b. a championship. the boston celtics begin their playoff campaign with a when we begin this news hour with breaking news from sedan. after nearly
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2 days of fighting between the army and the powerful paramilitary rapid support forces or r s f, the un says a temporary pause in fighting has been agreed on humanitarian grounds. sedan has seen a bitter power struggle since saturday, when the airstrikes and gun battles began. this has been the state of play. this is where things stand at the moment fighting began spreading across the country. the worst of the violence, however, has been centered on the capital cartoon, and on neighboring. i'm dorman, both sides have been buying for control of sudan state broadcaster of the presidential palace and the airport as well as multiple military bases. the army has now agreed to a safe passage car door for urgent humanitarian cases. however, aid workers are also risk and all of this the u. n. world food program says 3 of its employees have been killed. the wi fi is executive director has released a statement saying, while we review the evolving security situation,
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we are forced to temporarily hold all operations in sudan. wi fi is committed to assisting the sydney's people facing dire food insecurity, but we cannot do our life saving work if the safety and security of our teams and partners is not guaranteed. all right, let's go straight to him, morgan in khartoum. him what can you tell us about this cause in the fighting? has it begun? and is it holding well as for both sides, the sudanese army and their rapid support forces, it's a period of 3 hours where those who are in need and let's focus on that. those who are in need would be able to get out of their homes and out of the scope of her to city to be able to access facilities such as hospitals and health centers. so it looks like it's very targeted with regard that with regards to who can actually get on board and on that humanitarian corridor, it's not been specified as exactly where those corridors would be open and both
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sides. they said that they do reserve the right to defend themselves, should they feel that they're under attack. so it doesn't look like it's something that that would hold or would give to believe that lease some kind of assurance that they would be able to venture out industry, lots of concerns here. but there's also a bit of movement on the street of many people who are trapped here in our city when the fighting broke out in the early hours of saturday morning. and i was taking this time to get out of the facilities. there were traps in such a hospitals and schools around the vicinity of the presidential palace and the general command of the army and trying to make their way to safety. during the 3 hour period that was granted by both the rapid support forces and the army. after facilitation and mediation by the un. so just to be clear, who is this aimed at it? civilians who live in or near the fighting. is that right? it's aimed at the civilians who were trapped in areas of fighting places like
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schools around the vicinity of the presidential palace around the vicinity of the general command hospitals where people could not seek treatment or hospitals where people went for renal dialysis. for example, there have been people who are trapped in such health facilities and medics have been calling on both sides the r f and the army to open such corridors. so these are the people that those corridors are directed for. again, it's not specified which roots can take where they can have to. but the urgent issue here are the important matter here is that they should leave the vicinity of the fighting areas. areas such as the presidential palace areas such as the general command of the army headquarters in areas where their basis of the rapid support for those which have been facing airstrikes since the early hours of the morning. i have been morgan reporting live from cartoon. thank you. very much, now let's speak to hulu. the high, or he's the founding director at confluence advisory, that's a think tank based in cartoon as she joins us from cartoon right now. who's the 1st
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of all your reaction to this 3 hour pause in the fighting to allow civilians to get out of the most dangerous areas? i think it's a positive sign. it leads the general can come to some kind of arrangement. but as we speak, the timeframe is going to be from 4 to 7 pm and as we speak, i can hear shutting off from my house and both life and have the altima ridge in the background. so clearly one of 2 things, either the general misled or the un, which would be the 1st time, or they don't have as much control of the troops as one would hope. ok, that's really interesting because the this, this temporary, this 3 hour pause in the fighting is from $4.00 to $7.00 local time. and it's currently 5 pm local where you are, you're reporting that there is still showing going on. so we know that the pause in
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the fighting isn't completely holding, and you mentioned perhaps control of the troops is an issue. yes after this is i have heard some friends around the 50 that they have been able to move around. some degree and the shops are open, so people to be stuck. the problem, for example, independent. i'm not able to get access to it because pharmacies run out, talk you because the at the close of course, because of the things that are ripple effects to the border conflict that cannot be ameliorated by the 3 hour window. do you feel safe going out of your house right now, being in the street and cartoon will be doing what i can hear outside of my windows? no, not at all. a great many people will feel that that me, on social media. lots of people have been saying that they don't have enough to be at home, but i think part of it is also that many people trust the general abide by that.
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and the, as i receive it, because of the secretary general focus that, that about the sort of temporary court said that this is the gentleman to be based on trust. my device is supposed to be on there. what has given any kind of indication why the, as you already know, the dental to not keep that much. i think that lack of trust me that many people don't feel any better home. where do you see this going? well then the disease from the general, the part that is the 48 hours doesn't indicate that they are willing to take it down and then kind of permanent way. i think they have been using pull them up again to try and brain their actions as being self defense and secondly,
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independent of the need democracy. and so, you know, agreeing to a temporary buy in order to avail safety quote on moving to the ploy to get to frame their action as in the humanitarian and democratic way. i don't think that will carry much favor or in the get much traction with many of the needs that this isn't the case. i was in an anxiety and been at hulu high or founding director at confluence, advisory and cartoon. thank you so much for joining us. a solid say it mid has more now from midway in the north of the country, we've been hearing gunfire, both light and heavy weapons which was likely to signal renewed, fighting within the vicinity of our airport. soon, it all came to a halt. and what remains is the plumes of smoke from the vital installation within
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the facility close to its control tower. as you can see, this is the aftermath of the fighting that began a short while ago. the rapid support forces had said they had seized control of them at our airport claims denied by senior sources. we contacted in the sudanese army here in the northern province. they confirmed the airport is under the army control as the armed forces deal with what they're calling a small pockets of rebels. an apparent reference to the rapid support forces for the integration of the rapid support forces into the regular army has been one of the main demands of pro democracy groups for civilian transition. last month talks between the paramilitary unit and the army failed to reach an agreement. however, the unit says it needs 10 years to transition to integrate the army. but the army wants it done in to mom vall explains how the paramilitary force was formed. that
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off the support forces upon military fight, as merely from dot for the 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. but the origin of the false goes back to 2003. that's when president of the she had created an arm of the tribal militia to crush a local rebellion in the west. a force became known as the janitor with saddam's cotton trula general update. the data behind was instrumental in creating and training both agenda wheat and later the us f. he worked in the field for jazz with his now dead zone i from 100100 glue known as hannity, the commander of the outer stuff in 2019 the 2 men joined forces to overthrow
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models. the shit. hon headed the transitional, military concert and hands on douglas, except as his deputy. but the out assess, continued to grow in both sites and we buy some estimates. it now both $100000.00 test on it. it took on several roles including border security and maintaining law and order costs are activists accused out of 5th of participating in the killing of $120.00 city pro democracy professors in june 2019. but it's him at his aspirations for a rival, political leadership in cartoon that led to discord with his ally, elbow han, and paved the way for the current situation. difference over the terms of integration of the other stuff into the army intensified after the signing of a framework agreement that lay the foundations for the transitional period in december, 2020 to the failure of talks on the and other issues. finally,
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led to what observers have been warning about an all out military confrontation practice group was warning. i just hate years ago. you know, while by sheer was still empowered that if he ever left our, one of the big concerns would be that he left behind such a mass in terms of the military insecurity. that a huge risk was that these parties would themselves turn on each other. as ever, it's the civilian population will pay the price. there's a palpable fear of the current conflict may prove more deadly and more destructive than any sudan has witnessed in the past 105 of jesse. let's continue that discussion with mom and vow who's with us onset. now you've covered sedan extensively. how are you looking at this truce? that's the major development just in the last 60 minutes or so. the both sides have apparently, under the umbrella, the un agreed to stop fighting for 3 hours where we're now one hour into it. i think it's the 1st positive sign or gesture. since yesterday,
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since the start of his, of his conflict or the population was desperate, they were trapped in their homes. are casualties in the, in the, in this fighting. and now at least there is a little bit of hope that was the 1st that there is some kind of communication going on. or starting between the warring sides via the mediators. immediate as have been complaining yesterday and earlier today that they couldn't reach out to the, to the watering sites. so now if this is a proof that they are reaching out, or some of them, the un, it's a, it's a, it's a good gesture towards the people of sudan to these are fighting, you know, being trapped in their homes. as i said now they can go out, at least for 2 or 3 hours to shop or to, you know, visit, or relatives or to take the injury to the hospitals. ah, it,
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it's a, it's a, it's a good sign. i think i but it is a little bit, but yeah, it is a little achievement that can be, you know, built on. and let's, let's observe now and see if it will be successful. i have seen in the background of our correspondence in costume. what looks like the beginning of a normal traffic, at least for these 3 hours, or in some parts of cartoons. of course, she mentioned that there is traffic and people are going out. but, but we also just spoke to a guest who told us that the she has heard shelling in the last of our so of course it's impossible for these 2 armies to, you know, reach every single member of their fighters and, and, and, you know, to tell them to, you know, to 2nd or to, i mean to comply it. tell us, tell our viewers a little bit more about that. you've covered conflicts, and of course, when you have these decisions that come from the top down, we're going to observe 3 hours of a sci fi or a truce, whatever we call it out. that doesn't necessarily trickle down to all the fighters and on the front line. yeah, that's, that's probably why the, the guest talked about some sporadic, you know,
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and gunshots and so on. because it's difficult in the, in the framework of say, look in the context there with the communication not, not top, you know, in cartoon and across to then it's difficult for the top leadership to reach every individual soldier or every individual fighter in time to tell them about the truth . and also remember that yesterday we were talking about the possibility or the likelihood that why all this fighting started, probably because some elements were completely opposed to any, any kind of the peace talks on kind of solution. so, i mean, i mean there are no guarantees that everyone is on board on this side, on this side for what for peace and, and peace talks and a piece for a solution. for this, there will always be a rogue members, both in the army and in the heiress f, who are completely against any tools. and they think that the only solution for this is war and the continued continuation of fighting until a total defeat of the of enemy does either side whether it's the army or the r s. f
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does either side half popular support. well, the aero seth is clearly a, an alien force in the are for and in most of sudan because the hail from the saw southern region of da for like the dot for is in the west. but they are from southern doubtful. they are not even from north and off for or west and are for it's a tribal force. it mainly now they have probably recalls from other tribes because they are a lot of money. they can do that. but it's the core units of this, a force are from one single type, and that makes them are less likely to have the support they need in khartoum and in other slides of in other parts of sudan. unlike the army, the army is seen by everyone, almost everyone as the national army. it's not based on tribal affiliations. and it is a very old army, goes back to the,
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to the carried out of to late late 2021. the they carried out of coo and clearly they were not beloved by pro democracy act. look, there is a melissa that is or is this love hate relationship. with our on the one side, they accused the army or being behind all the troubles in sedan. since the 1st cool in the country, the history of country, and this is also the feeling in other african countries like the army, is always behind the troubles. because army armies are not made for maintaining democracy, or at least for exercising democratic governance. got to govern us. they are made to secure the borders to defend the nation and so on. but in africa, most african countries, the assume the political leadership and so on. and that's a criticism in all countries of africa. most of them in sudan is the same. they accuse the army of been behind the troubles being behind the lack of development because they don't know how to run the country. but at the same time, they look at the army as a, as a source of pride for the nation and defense of the nation and so on. and when things become really chaotic, they think the army is the only party that can maintain lot. all right,
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ma'am. well, thank you very much. always a pleasure having you and said thanks for sharing your insights. as to dan's national army is considered one of the strongest in the horn of africa, but the r s f. the rapid support forces is also a powerful paramilitary group as mohammed with explaining. so just how do they square up? well, the sydney's army has about $205000.00 personnel in its ranks, including some 100000 active duty soldiers. and its air force has 191 aircraft, one of its most important strengths. we saw those plains deployed over cartoon yesterday. there is no confirmed information about the strength of the rapid support forces, but it is estimated. it has 800000 troops. and about 10000 vehicles, mostly 4 wheel drive carrying weaponry like anti aircraft guns. and canons. that brighten is a strategic advisor at han research, a think tank focusing on politics and security in the horn of africa. he says the violence will affect the entire region. there really doesn't seem to be any
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indication from 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 that tensions in the build up this conflict. now we're sudan to descend into full scale civil war. then the entire horn of africa, region, ethiopia, the, the most populous country in the region will be heavily affected south sudan, which is in crisis. egypt, which is one of the keep backers of the regime in cartoon. chad which has been hosting student is refugees many years, all would be heavily effected. and so there is a scramble, including an african union emergency meeting this afternoon, or today in added sub about to try to respond to the crisis. but for now, what's happening, incident seems to be moving beyond anybody's control. i don't think there's any
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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 cartoon. other gulf states also have stakes. and the united states has been trying to exercise some diplomatic leverage in the last year or so. plenty morehead, on this news hour, including orthodox christian worshippers in ukraine and russia, celebrating easter, despite the divisions in the church over the war. ah, i will tell you why the curtains are coming down for the last time on broadway. the longest running stage musical and the star is a fierce g. take
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a step closer to winning the french title, football action coming up later this our ah belief in india or investigating the killing of a former politician and his brother who were shot dead on live tv at teak and ash rough mud were targeted while under police escort in tar prevent pradesh province on saturday. they were on their way to the hospital when 3 gunman pretending to be journalists fired at them at close range. the suspects are now in custody. a teak whose son was also recently shot dead, was a convicted criminal, jailed in 2019 for kidnapping of the people who killed abroad for medical checkups as per the mandatory legal requirements. and they were members of the media around who are interviewing them. according to primary information, 3 men came posing as media personnel and started firing. 3 people have now been
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arrested and they'll being interrogated. and artic and usher of died in this incident. that sounds like a poor, the editor of hard news magazine. he joins us from new delhi sunjay help us understand why this happened. you know, this has been a most horrific of crime that i've seen as long as i've been a journalist. press conference, basically, areas of better with the presses they normally don't see much crime. this is the tv of a different kind of ticket i slide last night and i was shocked to be on the way to recover from that. you know, the fact is the manner in which it was done shows that there were certain gaps in policing. percy, these people, the more work, most of them will be not choose for that part of the murder of, from each bar. they will make walking distance and open them to any attack that they have. they can send me on hindsight, we can see that the could have been pre planned. but the fact of the matter is that both of them are can know for the long,
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long list of kinds of committed specially with k appeared quite a bit and nobody's really shedding tears for them. in fact, the chief of the state has been to the invitation for taking on the muslim mafia. but this is a major set back to his impression that he's protecting law and order. really, that is a sense that you learn to justice is being celebrated, which is pretty really wrong because just to mr. yogi was the chief minister, a spies bell or has dreams of becoming the prime minister of this country. and this will not go down very well with what happened. look, 3 members of the same family were shot dead in 2 days. so this requires context. give us a bit of background on who was a tica might and you just touched on this i think i'm a has be, i think post grimy, committed over the age of 16. 17. he has been a bit of a rock neck guy in p r. garage i have attended public meetings of his he came out
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from the jail just to attend one. he was fighting the election and he was like, made his crowd the absolutely static when he said that he's in jail. primarily because he is a protector of the faith, protected of the religion protector of the people who believe in him. so that ways, you know, this is how we position himself. and but the fax is that he killed the whole lot of people. he never got thankful that he had the support of the political party, the off position party, which party and opposition to then followed in the summer to the party and a few other people still remember that he was one of the n. b, 's was a need from jail at the time and the you united, the progressive alliance government of this to my monitoring was seeking reward for the guy for nuclear deal in 2009. and his ward was very crucial. so he was also a shepherd into working for that moment. so in a certain way you have these can, those who can be manipulated and they of enjoy the protection of the whatever the
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bar will be, should be around who had submitted a point of fighting the mafia which is in a certain way or directed against the minority religion that they have, they know, you know, in a very difficult we could in fact have been on the run for quite a while. they've all right. and captain, good deal and the peer that he bought because we need to be our grudge, right? sanjay cup or editor of hard news magazine joining us from the daily. thank you so much. thank you so much. taught diplomats from g 7 countries of met in the japanese city of calories our on day one of the 3 day gathering the war in ukraine. china is growing influence in the region and north korea's missile tests are high on the agenda. that talks are in advance of g 7 leaders summit to be held in hiroshima next month. rob mcbride reports from car is our the work of this gathering a really getting underway this sunday evening with a working dinner. the subject to which there be discussing is the influence of
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china in this region in the wider world and also north korea. all the participants have now arrived. we saw from james cleverly, the british foreign secretary, he posted a selfie of himself and his 6 colleagues arriving on the specially charted shin, cancel the bullet train coming from tokyo. it's all smiles knows to hint of any disagreement, but we do know that there have been tensions in particular in the approach of the g 7 towards china and especially on the in the wake of emmanuel macro. and the french president's visit to beijing seen by many of his g 7 colleagues have been just a bit too overly friendly with g, g, and ping. given that the us 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. but so we see from the french foreign minister kept green color, not a damage control of this sunday evening,
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moving forwards. she is having to outline the frances position when it comes to dealing with china that she isn't, that they are not 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 china as intentions in this part of the the world. still ahead on al jazeera i rob reynolds in los angeles, will take a look at how this city would bear if it were hit by an earthquake of the same magnitude that struck turkey and seared and in sport. real madrid follow at their mid week when the champions league with another impressive performance details coming up late in the south. ah
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hello still no let up in that heavy rain across sir western parts so booked for ruby. see more heavy down pulls their radical switch to sort of the amazon, that wet weather cease pockets are very heavy right up towards ecuador pushing down to southern parts of venezuela as well. same line of showers that runs down across paraguayan to the southeast of brazil more the same as we go through monday. and again, you will see some localized flash floods as a result of these big and heavy downpours which you never really too far away. a few more showers coming into northern the central parts, argentina over the next hour. se temps is about where they should be. fema showers coming in across cuba. hispaniola over the next couple of days at a much to the carrier. it is fine and dry more, very pleasant sunshine coming through central america faring quite nicely as well. just notice where to where the coming down towards yucatan peninsula into cuba. as
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we go through sunday. and monday, slipping a little further east with some really heavy showers there into the bahamas. as a result of that same system which will also affect the southeast of the u. s. t. and there we go. is moving for a couple of days ago, we were getting up to 31 celsius in minneapolis sunday which struggling to get to 3 degrees. a snow setting in, thankfully it moves through quickly with brighter glasgow weather behind. ah. the climate has changed every year for millions of years, decades of talk. but the little action is all about distract, create confusion to crate, smoke and mirrors. the shocking truth about how the climate debate has been systematically. so for just the oil industry was a main bank roller or opposition to climate action. the campaign against the climate. do you think that's a bad thing more to to and did was curious if it's, if absolutely. on. on jesse
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says a temporary pause in fighting has been agreed on humanitarian grounds. at least 56 civilians have been killed. the un world food program says 3 of its employees were killed and it has stopped operations in the country. nearly 600 people have been injured since the fighting began on saturday and thousands are scared to leave their homes where he live. mohammed reports. plumes of smoke rises above cartoon as fighting between sedans, army, and the biggest paramilitary group. and his 2nd day from above fight a jet circle to capitol, 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 echo
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in 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 it, 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 doom 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 lead the hospitals. i dont 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 abdulla fata, albert han and his deputy mohammed hum, done, douglas commands of the rapid support forces. each leader is accusing the other of
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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. the men per to that, that 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 very fragile countries. for b, u. p. issues in egypt 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 at a warring sides in yemen,
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conflict have released more detainees for a 3rd and final day as part of a large scale prisoner exchange. let's look at the latest group of hooey prisoners to arrive in the rebel controlled capital. santa dozens of troops from the saudi u. a coalition are also being released. the red cross saying more than 900 prisoners from both sides have been freed in the operation exchange as part of abroad, a diplomatic efforts. the end of the 8 year long conflict. for 2 months after, from the international committee of the red cross has travelled on the flights with the released prisoners and she says it was a moment of pure joy when they arrived to the airport. it's such an amazing momentum. it's such a beautiful moment of happiness and joy that we can witness a big deal course every time. and if it's needed it to the whole. and you know, those felicia,
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the whole bedroom is fine. so this week version 900. where with, which was over thousands of people would be able to get there this year. our goal here as being national company, just beyond taking the changes from a to b over here is also the action mandate with me that my critics, which is we're able to visit with you in private before the record of the place recently for treats with one of the conditions and during those visits, we were able to check if they had any special needs. if they were aware just to explain to them the creation and also to make sure that they were, will pay to be. and then when they arrived, we also would give them the trinity to call their families and they offer get a small dock for to bring the new india will soon become the world's most populous
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nation. yet the exact figure won't be known for at least a year. it's once in a decade. census was due in 2021, but then that was delayed by the pandemic. and now it is depriving those who should be eligible for critical aid. michael apple report domingos rose value i you having her children try and learn on an empty stomach is one of this mother's greatest bed crowded together in their home and slum and south daily. she scrapes together what little she can to keep her family fit for baby. davy is a domestic worker earning $50.00 a month. she applied for a ration called 2 years ago, but she's one of nearly 300000 applicants who haven't heard back from me today. about the whole day, if we start getting russians, we'll be able to save some money. my children will be able to eat properly. they'll be able to continue to study. this is the difficulty that we face. we need to
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rations and the my kids do not sleep hungry. you can see the impact of inflation. the food rations are issued using figures, last updated in 2011. god like it may be this activist says the indian governments policy to tackle this problem won't be effective unless the true population size is known. the only way of ration cards can be enhanced under the national security act. so can be in taking place. offenses doesn't say that is no way that you want to connect the names of people. there is no way that they connect under the national nearly 70 percent of indians, or 813000000 people are meant to receive a food subsidy allocated to different states on
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a quote basis. as the n g o population foundation of india points out, it's a quarter that simply hasn't kept pace with the numbers. selecting the beneficiaries, photo range of schemes is done on the basis of census. and if you don't have census, your planning can go wrong. your budget allocations can go wrong, but most importantly, people who deserve and need the social services do not many are likely to not be included in the net for debbie. it's an unsure future. she tries to raise the next generation on an empty belly. mike lebel, al jazeera orthodox, christian worshippers have been gathering in occupied east jerusalem for easter celebrations. after weeks of violence in the old city, which is home to christian muslim and jewish holy sites is really police are restricting access to the area. in previous years, up to 10000 people pack the church of the holy supposed and its surrounding. that's
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now been limited to under 2000 in russia and ukraine. festivities come at a time of war, deepening a growing rift between the 2 churches retrieve the mid the demco has more. oh, the bells chime and rushes most of in celebration of orthodox easter as worship as flocked to prey and have the traditional painted eggs and easter bread. blessed many had the war in ukraine on their mind. i have a lot of relatives in ukraine and a lot of them have died. it is scary to talk about it because i might be persecuted for what i'm seeing now. it's very scary stuff like we did. but it was a, really, there's a war between good and evil going on, and we understand perfectly that evil wants to win. nobody likes our orthodox world . everybody wants to destroy, it. was in moscow, president putin attended east
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a service, led by patriarchy real. the gold plus soon after russia launched its invasion of ukraine, the russian orthodox patriarch announced his church as support for the war. the ukrainian orthodox church already at odds with moscow, after the annexation of crimea, responded by announcing it would cut all ties to the moscow. patria kate the ologist, andrei cries, says the russian church still hopes, not all is lost as the muscular of money with some which moscow schooling itself and thinking that those people are its followers. and this is all new. we've already seen moscow making a mistakes. were thought that once russian tanks, if you're in ukrainian borders, there will be greeted with flowers by orthodox ukrainians of the moscow patriarch at cross. they did not go where the war in ukraine. one soldiers marked the holiday with food sent from home and donated by locals. the church and keith
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also encouraged worshippers to celebrate up there. so heroku yaki amend lydig this year like the previous year we celebrate easter, to the sounds of cannon fire. but no sorrow or tragedy can overshadow the joy of the holiday ahead. the resurrection of christ is the victory of divine love of a human malice god of light, over darkness senior restore it as the fighting continues in ukraine. many pray for the violence to be over to me, to med vanco al jazeera. let's go back to our top story, the conflict in sudan after nearly 2 days of fighting between the army and the paramilitary group known as the rapid support forces. the un says a temporary pause in fighting has been agreed on humanitarian grounds. the sudanese ambassador to the arab league says sudan should be wary of international involvement. if allah allow that, we have to affirm that what is happening in c down is an internal issue. and at the
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same time, all efforts are needed from our worldly arab countries. in order to calm the situation in the country, we call upon this meeting to confirm this point and to recommend that the settlement be left to the sudanese, away from international interference with us. and our son, zacky is the assistant secretary general of the arab league, and he joins us from cairo. sir, is the arab league talking to either of the fighting groups right now? yes, actually. i think as we speak, all the effort needed to initiate the cause. you understand, of course, that it is difficult in these times for the 2 concerned parties, the commanders job on, on one side, on the other side. it's difficult to place because i'm stake them,
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but we are doing logistical terms. it's a bit difficult, but yes we are. we are trying to get these calls done before the end of the day. and we just heard the sydney's ambassador to the arab league saying that other countries basically shouldn't get involved in this. are they, are they taking your calls, you get a sense that they will be taking the lead calls at any point in the near future? yes we have, you know, believe that the what the bass is something that is relevant to the we understand their concern that they want foreign involvement in their own affairs because they are aware that such involvement may take shapes that will
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not be beneficial to their own security and stability. we heard them speak not only in the public part of the session, but also in the part that was not covered by the media. and we said things similar to that, but i was when it comes to the arab league, they know exactly what we, what we stand for. they do not have anything to worry about that as brothers to try to help them get over this very, very bump b temperament of the road and, and the military confrontation it, it is a fact that multiple countries in the arab league have a stake in what's going on in sedan with saudi arabia, the united arab emirates guitar. do any of these countries have leverage over the,
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the warring parties? me? the answer i would say is yes. various countries have various good relations with either party. that was not, that was not something to be, you know, ashamed of before now those to worry. but those 2 parties have started the war against each other. so this puts all the countries that have good relations on supposedly. but we know that our membership are not in favor of a war, and so then they do not condone such confrontations. they do not want to see those confrontations continue because they said the stability of the country
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and the political process. they said civilian. so we trust that our membership do not want to see this situation continue and i guess that they may be using their offices with the relevant parties in order to convince them not to continue with the current with the current situation and try to and, and this this escalation and not make it worse. all right, sounds jackie, you're the assistant secretary general of the arab league. thank you for joining us on the program. and just before we move on, it is currently 5 46 pm in khartoum, in the middle of what is supposed to be a 3 hour truce. but al jazeera can report that there has been schilling and fighting in the sydney's capital and mozambique has been effected by 3 major psych loans in 5 years. experts or warning, the country must be prepared for more extreme weather. i was 0, spent a day with
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a fisherman who says he's already feeling the impact of climate change. show me the my name is the stuff eat, i'm a fisherman at a fishing area and my poor taught mozambique and my border with the at all meant it. all right, now what i am seeing is because of the climate change before with our grandfathers and there was a loss of cash north despising nozzles of wars until i come from a family that relies on fishing. i'm also a fisherman and my children will probably be fisherman's hope, a and a guy man did these cycling some floods have reduced the amount of fish we catch. it's possible that when my children's time comes, they won't be any fit. joyce, guys enter barzyk, lonny chaise, whom the climate and floods is what's causing this says 2014, that has not been a lot of fish. it keeps on reducing. the problem is that the constant wind and the
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flooding in the sea means there is a lot of river water mixing with the sea water in that i know very much page by the commander ah, shaggy, basically the last floods in february there was a lot of river water. we stayed for long periods without fishing and even the days that we went got we came back without any fish. nose are fed up, we're going north, give them a shout. now basil is affects us because we make a living from fishing. when we returned without any fish, there is no money and we can't earn a living. still ahead on al jazeera, we've got sport with a round up of the 1st day of the n b a playoffs. we've got that and much more coming up after the stroke break. ah, each here european fishing vessels source at least half
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a 1000000 tons of fish from west africa. this is just to feed live stock in europe and asia. what the going by? what you know, if you do come with me and you'll be good to go over that. a serene and buy is a former senegalese fisherman and migrant rights activist in madrid. he runs in the regional elections in spain, a din seattle sack where the prescott k. no spaces, no fios, get it on faces. grandma sitting on my way to a mile, i hear call you but there was that i think your mother, if you did not get it as a newly elected m. p serene confronts policy makers at the heart of the european union with his findings. lou
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ah, right, it's nice and sport now with arsenault having dropped more points as they looked at when a 1st premier league title for nearly 20 years. while they drew true, true away against west ham, who themselves earned a valuable point as they looked to avoid relegation. so hale malik has the action. why you got to what village the borders with manchester city winning on saturday. austin knew their match against west tom was a must win his eyes and was only a few minutes late. it looked like it would be a routine victory, soccer, gabrielle, jesus finished off a lovely move to give the gun as an early leave. a moment later, it got better,
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captain martin or the gods volleying in from close range to make it to nail in west term, however, did unfold. they want themselves, the penalty against which thy ben rama tucked home with either season any score against them. again, the pressure was now one off not to slip off, and they themselves won a spot kick early in the 2nd half for a hand balls. but because soccer usually so reliable fastenal from the penalty spot could not deliver things then got worse, or the gunners that i to pull out of it for a 2nd match in a row, they'd blown a to near, lead with jarred boat leveling the school. the gunners tried to recover the situation, but they just couldn't find a winner if finished to all mikella set aside dropping more valuable points,
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arsenal, and now just for points ahead of man city having played one game more. so hale malik al jazeera elleon, l massey, and barry selma have taken a massive step closer to winning the french league title. they beat their closest rivals. last 31 of the party pass. it means they are now 9 points clear at the top of the table, and that man, they are killing him up as well as leon l massey. they both got on the score sheet for the reigning champion. rail madrid followed up their impressive mid week when in the champions league over chelsea with a victory and la legal, they beat caddy to nil financial fernandez broke the deadlock in the 71st minute to put re our head just a few minutes later marco a sense jo doubled their advantage. reale trail leaders, barcelona, like 10 points, and it was a dramatic saturday and a bundis league, a title race leaders buyer unit, looked like they were on course to pick up all 3 points against visitors,
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hoffen heim, when does a map of our sport in the 1st half, but with less than 20 minutes left their left turned thomas to cool side conceding with the match, ending $11.00, and dorman, failed to capitalize on by and set back. they thought they had sealed all 3 points that stood guard when giovanni raina scored in salvage time to make it 32. but it was not to be the home side also bagged an injury time goal with the game finishing 3 all it a pill to swallow. adorned with their opponents playing most of the match with 10 men, a trail leaders byron like to point all right, time for the n b. a playoffs now which got underway. one of the favorites to be in the finals. that would be the boston celtics. they got off to a winning start beating the atlanta hawks in game one of their opening round series . jaylen brown put in an impressive performance as he does, he scored 29 points. austin winning the game. 11299 celtics a looking to win the championship for the 1st time since 2008 or redone has to keep
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the series so has been appointed emphasis. rose in every practice. try to keep those guys off glass on the young, athletic in a crash heart. ah, in that's gonna continue to be our challenge there in the series is keeping those guys off the glass. james hardon put in an impressive display as he came up against his old team. the beard, that's his nickname, sword 23 point says the 76 ers. eat the next by 20 points to take a one. nothing lead in the series. what about the cats? well, they suffered somewhat of an upset. they were beaten at home by the lower seated, new york knicks, jaylen brunson storing for the next with 27 points to visitors, winning the game one a 197. going one mill up in the series and the sacramento kings came out on top in a really, really tight game against golden state. the aaron fos got a game high,
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38 points as sacramento, 1126. so 123 or before we leave you this hour, the phantom of the opera is falling silent. the longest running stage musical in broadway history will take its final bow on sunday. andrew lloyd webber weber's blockbuster show his thrill theatre fancy decades. but as gabriel elizondo reports from new york, the phantom couldn't survive cove it after 35 years on broadway bank and the opera is dropping the curtains for good. for most, it will be the last time they see the musical. at least here wanted to see the phantom one more time before. sadly the phantom of the opera, based on the french novel from 1910 1st debuted in london in 1986, 2 years later in new york city. since then, it has to worldwide, we have seen by a 140000000 people in 33 countries. but here on broadway,
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that is often a highlight for theater fan. the musical has over a 130 cast crew and orchestra members involved in every performance. it's a full meal. when you walk into the theater, the big orchestra, 26 people throughout the big, beautiful coffee. i mean it's, it's, everything we offer is everything. almost 20000000 tickets have been sold to it's 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
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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, bantam is still playing at her majesty's theatre in london, and their plans for a mandarin version to open in china next year. gabriel's ando al jazeera your. all right, that's it for this news hour, but i am back in just a moment when more of your was news. ah ah.
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