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launder hot one on a, j 0, a condo course. his mother hasn't worked for years. he's also employed as a family to look after. we already have to share with the promises that have never been meant, not even one kid striving our youth to depression. depression that is leading to attract addiction. so africa has one of the most, i'm equal societies in the world and the gap between the rich and poor is growing. millions are trapped in poverty. many desperate and discouraged young africans say the government need to seriously address an employment, otherwise they'll be forced to remain idle and unproductive. ah, fierce fighting continues incident between the army and the countries biggest paramilitary force. after
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a brief humanitarian pause. diplomatic pressure mounts on the rival, forced to stop the violence that's already killed. 97 people ah, ontario johnston. this is al jazeera alive from demo. also in the news anguish in the us state of alabama. after 4 people are killed in a shooting at a teenagers birthday party. on a french court is set to rule on whether f france an air bus were guilty of manslaughter, over the crash of a passenger paying 2009. ah . people in see dog, i've been joe the 2nd day, a fist fighting between the army and the countries biggest paramilitary force. earlier on sunday, they had a brief respite from the violence during
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a 3 hour humanitarian pause. well, this is the scene right now in cartoon. fighting between the army and the rapids, support forces began on saturday. medical sources say at least 97 people have been killed and hundreds injured since then. the violence was sparked by disagreement over their parmelee to groups integration into the military as part of the transition to civilian rule. well, this is the state of play in sit down with fighting now spread across the country where the worst of the violence has been sent in the capital cartoon, and the neighboring city of on demand. both sides have been vying for control of the states. broad cost to the presidential palace, the airports and various military bases of correspondence. have a morgan has more from cartoon in the capital there. so conflicting reports with regard to who controls what we do know that there are f f troops around the
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presidential palace. it's not peer, they have full control of that. and the, even that it's symbolic bear, the presidential palace is where the offices of the president are the head of the ruling council as where his residence as then there's the issue of the general command of the headquarters in the early hours of sunday morning. there was heavy bombardments and heavy fighting around the vicinity of the general command. and even now, more than 12 hours later, we can still hear the sound of 5 egypt flying over the skies of her whom we can still hear the sound of anti aircraft missiles being fired and not pier from which direction they're coming at. but it's clear that the sudanese army is continuing to launch asked right against the recess and the rest is continuing to try to counter those attacks. this is the situation around the capital. many people are in panic on the 2nd day of the fighting between the recess and the armed forces. smoke rises above her tomb as fighting between sedans, army,
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and its biggest paramilitary group entered its 2nd day from above fighter jets circle the capital. while the military, once people to state indoor the 2 sides are 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 parts the army says it's gained ground taking basis, run by the paramilitary force it on sunday afternoon. both sides agree to a cease fire for 3 hours on humanitarian grounds, starting at 4 pm local time. that was violated, an hour later. the pause in fighting targets of those who have been trapped in places like hospitals and schools since saturday. many were cut off from food and drinking water as fighting between the army and the rapid support forces killed dozens and injured hundreds more. fighting also took place in residential areas, area heavy fighting, then it blocked off by soldiers and there's gunshots and snipers. and i'm from
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here. you can't see any, any dead bodies. but i have, i, i friends who are in that zone and they can't leave their house. the fighting has spread to the east them city of port sedan. i'm to man and body disrupting energy and water supplies. hospitals are in lockdown with him or new source if it don't work in the even the doctors probably the hospitals i dont beat reached the hospital even in the ambulance, even the humblest and look move in the street. ah, the violence began on saturday after weeks of tension between army chief i've been for the humble hon and his deputy mammoth hum dan douglas, commander of the rapid support forces. each leader is accusing the other of slotting the fight and refusing to negotiate the united nations african union. the united states and regional leaders are calling for an end to the hostilities their concern. it could become a full scale war and possibly spill over into neighboring countries. the main
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priority that, that's really shared by all of the country is to prevent these from moving into. is there a full blown civil war? we are close to that one? no one, no really the point here because because it's going to show what i was so don't, didn't know that the devastation of a civil war will lead to so many issues on illegal migration, on our if you just flowing out of into countries that's already been for countries, for b, it's u. p. issues in egypt as well by the growing international pressure to stop the fighting an attempt at the fire. it's unclear if these 2 leaders are willing to put aside their differences and commit the talks. he, bill morgan ultra 0100 to me. a video blogger who's traveling in sudan has said his experience of what's happening in cotton. when they opened the window, i could see the black smoke on the l. a lot of people they are going by walking.
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they are going with their bag, many of the people they are loading the stuff from supermarket. they are going in their car. many of them they are, he taking in and another of a goes to escape. the city has also been fighting in the city of marijuana which lies northwest to have cartoon with a battle for control the airport and an air base. i'll just here as a summer side is there caliah. so here we've been hearing gunfire. both light and heavy weapons which was likely to signal renewed, fighting within the vicinity of them at our airport. soon, it all came to holds. and what remains is the plumes of smoke from the vital installation within 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
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army here in the northern province. they confirmed the port is under the armies control as the armed forces deal with what they're calling. there's a small pockets of rebels. an apparent reference to the rapid support forces. original bulk of nations is planning to send the presence of kenya south sit on angie booty to mediate that. well, the inter governmental authority on developmental ega says leaders will be heading there as soon as possible. the african union has also called for an end to hostilities. its chairman will also be going to cartoon to discuss an immediate cease fire. and the arab league has held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation. well, not bryden is a strategic advisor at the han research, i think tank, focusing on politics and security in the horn of africa. he says the violence could destabilize the entire region. there really doesn't seem to be any
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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 we're sudan to descend into 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, a 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
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think there's any single actor that has the leverage with both sides. the united arab emirates has leverage, 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, ah, the war in ukraine and tensions on the korean peninsula or a topping the a general, the g 7 foreign ministers meeting in japan. the ministers are holding talks in the resort town of carries our and also discuss china and its recent miniature exercises around taiwan. but mcbride has more now. foreign ministers here have
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wrapped up the 1st main session of this main day of talks of focusing on the indo pacific region hosted by you or she. massa hi. ashy, the japanese foreign minister issuing a statement at the end of it saying that the g 7 members are fully supportive of a free and open indo pacific. and also supporting an, an issue initiative by japan which plays a pivotal role here. being the only asian g 7 member to collaborate with india with as the and that to southeast asian nations and also pacific islands as a away of a countering, the expanding influence of china. in this region. there's a real concern here about the china threats to taiwan. but also about the way that china has very successfully been a forging closer ties with a pacific island nations and pulling them into its orbit. there's a real feeling here amongst our g 7 members that they should be out there trying to pull those same a pacific islands back into their own or but also beyond that,
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china's influence in the so called and the global south, the developing nations of the world where china has been in recent years be making big inroads. and there is a, i think, an acceptance here as they've been referring to in their talks that the g 7 members should be taking a far more proactive role in engaging with those developing a nation's china. says it's a willing to have close a strategic communications with the russian military, where the pledge came from beijing's defense minister at lee shameful, who met to russian, the president that in their pu 10 on sunday, it follows a state visit to russia by chinese present changing ping, last month when leaders disgusted beijing's piece plan for ukraine. gunman in that burkina faso have killed at least 40 members of the conscious security forces . the attack on a military unit happened in the north. soldiers and civilian volunteers are among the dead, akin afar. so has been battling armed groups linked to al qaeda and i. so for years
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the violence which triggered to military coups last year has killed more than 10000 people and displaced 2000000 more. it's a thank either hosted to similar. it's a constitutional framework that gives more power, more authority to the government to create, organize, and direct the means to face a danger. in this case was the terrorist danger. as for the impact on individual freedom, it must be said that the international covenant of civil and political, vice of which burkina faso is a member of which we have ratified, provides that in the event of acceptable danger of a threat to the existence of a nation the state may take measures required by that situation. so the leaders of this state can take measures required. and of course, there's a difference. what can and cannot be done. yemen at warring sides have completed a large scale prisoner exchange, which has raised hopes of an end to the countries long running conflicts. while
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sunday was the 3rd and final day of the operation, the red cross says at least $860.00 detainees have been released since friday, mostly from the iranian back in feet. rebel group. thousands of troops from that saudi u. e coalition. also freed under the u. n that broke a deal. shaw river out, i'm going to hammer out a feel of overwhelming happiness as you can see. i thank god for this happiness. i feel as if i am born again. i'll be back in my country and to summer, my walk home is a big speak tree, the biggest pride and the biggest freedom which alamahood. i thank god to have reunited me with you. and with my family, even or to in iran has sentenced 10 members of its air defense forces to prison for the downing of a ukrainian passenger plane 3 years ago. all 176 people on board died when iran's revolutionary guard shot the air craft down over to run at a time of increased tension with united states. the association of victims families
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has denounced the trial as a sham and want the case brought before the international court of justice. a french court is set to rule on a landmark case over the crash of an air france jet in 2009, 228 passengers and crew were killed when it plunged into the atlantic. yup, coming verdict will decide whether the plains, manufacturer, air bus or the airline itself will be held criminally responsible. hurry force, it reports. for nearly 2 years, while wreckage and bodies from france flight 447, had been brought to shore. the mystery of what caused the crash that killed 228 people remained unanswered on the atlantic sea floor. then in 2011 remote submarines at last discovered the flight recorders. they revealed a terrifying chain of events. i stop sensors, repeated alarms and apparent pilot error is the air bus
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a 330 plug it into the ocean. a 2019 ruling not to prosecute either air bus or france was overturned on appeal. last year, their trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter began. we lost our daughter julia and her fiancee bows. 29 years old. it was of course, a lot of suffering for our both of our families. but time heals rooms. however, we still feel justice is not done. the aircraft was approaching the equator when it flew into a severe storm. i sing up espied senses and disengaging the automatic pilot, the plane climbed steeply. lost speed, stalled and fell. nose up toward the atlantic. recordings showed the most junior of the 3 flight crew remained in control for most of the final minutes of the flight. as the 3 men tried in vain to understand whether the why the plane was going down.
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initially, magistrates attributed the crash to pure pilot error, but the victims groups successfully argued that both france and bus should be prosecuted for alleged failings and pilot training and plain warning systems. both companies did i man, sorta, if found guilty, it would be the 1st conviction of its kind in france. the maximum penalty for these corporate giants would be $247000.00 us dollars. harry faucet al jazeera, so, so come on, al jazeera war and mental health. we report on the psychological battle, facing millions of ukrainians. far from the front lines. and up to 35 years, the curtain comes down for the last time. on broadway's longest running musical. ah,
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here's your weather update in a minute. 15, nice to have your long. this one will start off in the middle east and still getting some bursts of rain across central areas of saudi arabia. let's give you an update now on that wind blowing down from iraq. this is a small wind and as strong as it has been over the last few days. a wind gusts in doha, on monday, about 30 kilometers per hour and re not too far away. for example, in reality that could shove a bit more cloud cover at times into the gulf. we are seeing a westerly disturbance swing into pakistan so far below just stand province. torrential downpours could see some hail storms and certainly running the risk of landslides as well. turkey. here we've got re moving into the western portion of the country. cloud covers showers seemed likely in istanbul with a hive 17 degrees. meantime, winds have shifted around in egypt that pumps up the temperature in cairo to $35.00, also high heat in banjo. the gambia, this is near record temperatures for the month of april central africa,
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looks like this. biggest downpours will be confined across the democratic republic of congo on monday. and it has been hot, dry and windy across the northern, the western and the eastern cape provinces in south africa. so we've got an extreme fire danger warning here in play on monday, susan. ah, who's breaking down the head lines to exposing the powers attempting to finance were horsing? what did you do? what to, to investigate? why didn't you off the fact the question. there are many during that felt fencer people have. but you think effect on subsequent stories? the listening post doesn't cover the news. it covers the way the news is covered to suppress moderate, and in some cases amplify the content you see on your part of the listening post on al jazeera, ah
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ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. this. there's been more fighting between rival forces ins to dawn after a brief humanitarian pools on the 2nd day of hostilities. medical sources, ty, at least 97 people have been killed in battles between the army and the countries largest power military group. international efforts have begun to trans stop the violence. a regional block of african nations is planning to send the presidents of kenya south see donna g boutique to mediate is an african union. chairman will also be great to courtroom to discuss an immediate cease fire. the war and ukraine
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intentions on the korean peninsula topping the agenda of the g 7, the foreign ministers meeting in japan. that also discussed china. it's recent military exercises around $21.00. 4 people have been killed in a shooting at a teenagers birthday party. the us state of alabama. i. a print job has been held for victims in the town of dade bill. 28 people were injured in the attack. asking to please keep our community in your prayer. i ask you to keep my police department in your prayers. and i also ask interviews. please do not live at this moment to find what you think about the city and able and are fine. think what we've dealt with is something that no community should have to.
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hardy. jo castro has more on the story from washington. d. c. police are offering very little information about the shooting in dansville that killed 4 people and injured 28. it remains unknown as a suspect was apprehended. the shooting occurred saturday night at a girl 16th birthday party held at a dance studio. her older brother, a star athlete who was about to graduate from high school, was reportedly among the victims killed. another mouse shooting in a crowded louisville park took the lives of 2 brothers just days after a mass shooting at a bank in the same city killed 5, president biden responded to the series of reason, shootings in a statement, asking what the nation has come to if children can't attend a birthday party without fear, and encouraging republicans in congress to agree to tightening gun control laws.
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heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington. the world health organization says an estimated 10000000 ukrainians have suffered from mental health condition as a result of the war. they include soldiers returning from the front lines and theirs don't hold reports from keith. that's causing social problems, including a rise in domestic abuse. still unaccustomed to these moments of calm sit lana and her 6 year old daughter melana are getting used to life away from their home city. of merrier poll, they reached the safety of keith just weeks ago, having endured 14 months of fighting and occupation for carrying the last on search up for everyone thought you were living in a dream. and that one day would wake up and all would be a good deal at the soon you could see left us among those still living there. she says there are high levels of mental stress and trauma. we just moved in there, but lonely people are angry. everyone is in it for themselves now, like on
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a battlefield. it is like another battle field for survival. spit lana receives psychological support at a reception center for displaced people. for her, it is the start of a journey for the psychologists, a well worn past customer medium from i am, of course we see p t s team. people who have experience extreme stress shock and who struggle to express in your book. listening to the consequence that i worry most about is that people are becoming used to treating violence, killing an explosion as normal. this is really scary. that idea of war becoming normalized in people's lives poses a real risk psychologist, say, to the entire hambrick of society. add to that the soldiers in their many thousands scarred and traumatized who will one day reintegrate into homes and families. and it's a risk that could well our lives, the war itself and the region,
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even a 3 year old child already understands, would have been after february money for it. so it will be generations, one person may need venues to recover another will need a lifetime. and another will only write their story at the end of their life. tatiana specializes in dealing with domestic violence, often aggravated by trauma, and says that shelters have seen a marked increase in calls to hotline numbers since the russian invasion last year . this woman was displaced from occupied her song and moved in with her daughter and son in law. one day she witnessed her daughter being beaten up. oh, he is here. he was aggressive, swore and talked with his face. she hid under the blankets, i ran into the room and when he saw me, he smashed the closet. i said that we would call the police and he threw us out on to the st. louis junia scot. this is some of the hidden damage caused by the war and ukraine that goes beyond the dead and injured the loss and
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conquest of territory. jonah, how al jazeera keith size mileage if in the u. s. state of california closely studying the earthquakes that it took here in syria, in february, hoping to learn how the own quake pro region might have something similar happened from reynolds reports from los angeles. the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria is sending shock ways 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 are doing is we've install 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 has 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
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a little brittle and it's not very flexible. and so having enough steel inside is what makes a 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 sounds. 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 older buildings like this one. that engineer 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 duct tile buildings. and to
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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. but nonetheless, there will be also life. and there will be of destruction and people are gonna have to rebuild its 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 operas records, broadway run has come to that composer andrew lloyd webber dedicated the final new york performance of the hit to
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school to his late son. sho, run for 35 years, goes to $1400000000.00 and sales. precisely. the cast of phantom of the opera has taken its final bow after 35 years here at the majestic theater. and more than 14000 performance says, attendance may have gone down after the pandemic, but it was a sold out show tonight, not an empty seat in the house. and even the esteemed composer himself andrew lloyd webber. tony award winner was in attendance. this show a gothic romance with haunting music and dramatic staging has a very loyal legion of fans. and before the show, i spoke to one woman who's seen it more than 50 times. it's. it's like the lightning in a bottle combination of the costumes in the designs by reappearance in the
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choreography by gillian lin. how prince is directing on the music of andrew lloyd webber. and charles hartford, you're still going to be your ex. it's just as perfect marriage of mystery and romance and sweeping melodies that you walk out of the state out of a theatre humming. and this magnificent to see there is no predictions. it's, you know, it's a classic classic old school broadway. this amazing show will go on elsewhere in the world in london. it continues to be stage in melbourne, australia. there's a show coming in china in the coming year, and a spanish version i'm told is in the works. but for here at the majestic theater, it's the end of an era kristen, selena al jazeera new york. ah .

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