the great wales numbers have gone down by almost 40 percent. according to the national oceanic and atmospheric research administration, the u. s. agency. there's a phenomenon called skinny whale in which you start seeing that their body condition is getting worse. they're getting better. it's because they're not getting enough food. climate change can be both isn't so pressure to produce in the late 1980 and a gaming. millington, millington, miller. there was a big drop in way. one of those scientists believe that there's a natural po point in the number of very well. so very quick system school. does she uncertainty here every time the numbers for the researches i'm for the curious friendly and they're watching over for hospitals and other critical building since sedan come on,

the fire as the fighting between the army and a powerful power military group. escalades situation is already left to win those loss of life, including many civilians. the un secretary general appeals for an immediate halting the fighting calls for dialog. ah, times, sammy's a band. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up emotional reunions and hopes for a lasting pace. hundreds of prisoners return home to yemen. optimistic the is long war is coming to an end. and rush in opposition activists levy mid cap model say sentenced to a quarter of a century in prison. charges are linked to criticism of the war, new crime. ah,

violence continues in sudan where civilians have been caught up in fighting since saturday. critical buildings have been in the firing line. the sudan doctors syndicate says a number of hospitals are out of service across the country, and patients have had to be moved. power has been caught in several areas of khartoum and other regions. officials also say the main water station in the capitol has been severely damaged, resulting in water shortages are halo mohammed reports. plumes of smoke rise along the tarmac at cartoon at port on a 3rd day of fighting between sedans, army, and the biggest and most powerful paramilitary force. explosions, airstrikes and gunshots. a hurt across the capitol as both sides claimed their making advances in strategic areas. but details on the ground are unclear. footage released by the sudanese military shows, a number of rapid support forces,

troops surrendering their weapons and equipment in khartoum. the army says it's resumed control of state tv, and we'll use it to update the public. it also says it's re taken morrow. we airport in the north, but that conflicts with claims by the r s f, which says it's men still control the facility. what is out of me with this message is for all those who are saying that middle, the airport is still under the control of the sort of means army. right now we are inside metal. we are put, as you can see, there is a plane behind us, and we are stationed here until the victory. the iris f also says an army lead battalion handed over its vehicles in the eastern. now, part of cartoon, state sudan has been brought to a standstill after attempts to open a humanitarian corridor failed, fighting, destroyed cartoons, main water station, raising fears of widespread food and water shortages. only one still of water water left. this is a more manly one and everything is and you know,

the water bottle structure looks so empty holder water, whole milk, everything is empty here on the refrigerator. see everything is carlos. nothing left foot stroke is not available while airstrikes continue. and the warring side show no desire for talks. it's the people off sit on that paint the heaviest price for healing mohammed al jazeera. it's go live now to him, morgan in khartoum, and have a fighting continues. is it any clearer at this stage if anyone is gaining an upper hand while both sides are making claims and counter crit claims with regards to which facilities and institutions they have control over? you have the army or no. and now really is in statement that they are in control of the areas around the vicinity of the general command of the army headquarters,

which were, which was a scene of heavy fighting in the early hours of monday morning and going into monday afternoon. and they're also in charge of this day television that was under the control of the rapid support forces on saturday and sunday. but then you also have the rapid support forces claiming our control of other territories. this are the fighting between the 2 sides. have taken a turn where it looks to be more of a, for a battle of claims more than i am more than any other battle, especially comes to the news that is coming out to a media outlets the but then we can also hear the air strikes being launched, ah, by um, by the sudanese armies fight fighter jet targeting locations of the rapids support for says we can hear sounds of fighting going on on the northern side of the capitol. it's a little bit quiet on the southern side. that's where heavy facing was going on in the early hours of the morning, but it's still not clear who has the upper hand, especially when you take into account what's happening in the other parts of the

country. and huber. there was reports of people being trapped in their homes in the universities. how much of a dire situation are people facing now? they 3 people did not expect vesa fighting to happen when it started on saturday. sammy, so people did not take precautions. they did not store extra food, they did not stir at water in case of emergency. so when this fighting happened, shops closed bakeries closed fuel stations close at people try to seek safety where they were able to seek safety in for many people around the capital. hot on that meant inside their homes and they can't go out because of the presence of, of fire. the rapid support forces are in some parts because of the continuous our air strikes on the other end and in other parts. so all of that is now resulting in people facing food shortages, facing water shortages, and those who are able to leave their homes on saturday to go to places like in

adversity. and schools are still trapped because most of those, the schools and universities, especially those around the vicinity of the fighting zones, are the general command of the army and the presidential palace. those are the fighting. so, and so people in those areas they can't go out. they can step out, they're trapped there and have been trapped there for the past 3 days. and they've been making appeals to try to find some kind of humanitarian corridor to be able to go back to their homes. but so far with the ongoing fighting with the ongoing air strikes and heavy artillery are shelling, it's not clear if they will be able to get out. all right, thanks so much. have a morgan, they're now leaders at the united nations have been discussing the situation in sudan, secretary general and tony, but others as condemning the violence situation has already led to renders loss of life, including many civilians. any further escalation could be devastating for the country and the region. urge all those with influence over the situation to use it in the

cause of peace, to support efforts to end the violence res thought ordered and returned to the breast of transition. the military was, situation should learn, was already pre carriers and is now catastrophic as bring in our decline together to james phase. now he's at the united nations headquarters. so james, as you probably heard there plenty of calls, condemnation, strong words. where is the security council ultimately heading on this or security council is going to now meet to discuss the situation that meeting will be taking place in the next hour or so they're meeting right now, or they had an open meeting on yemen. they're now having a close meeting on yemen, and that'll be follow by the meeting on saddam, the council is already issued a statement calling for an immediate cease far calling for a return at 2 piece in khartoum and across sudan, ah, but what else?

the security council can do is really not clear even getting that statement i'm told took a lot of negotiation and there was arguing over some of the words we spoke to ambassadors as they arrived for this morning's meetings about the situation among those we spoke to was the british ambassador, who called the meeting, but also the russian ambassador, who is the current president of the security council, who only had some very brief comments. we, of course, deeply condemn her. the finance that erupted over the weekend, and you'll have seen that the council came together at for a statement over the weekend. oh, the most regrettable thing i think is the more than a 100 who have innocent civilians who have lost their lives. and so what we want to do this morning is here from the sr s g soccer parties about the situation and be clear in what we can do to support the a you and i got in trying to return to the peaceful transition to democracy, which we all very much hope to see we are concerned who was the, the,

the garages to resolve that soldiers. well the security council meeting will take place behind closed doors and they're gonna hear from the un special representative of oak peppers who is in khartoum about the situation on the ground. 80 will be buying close doors, but we're told that after that meeting he is going to brief reporters by video link here at un headquarters in new york. so hopefully we'll get some more information from that. all right, thanks so much, james. based there are a 104 detainees have been transferred from santa rabbit to yemen on monday, in addition to a 3 day long prisoner exchange between who the rebels government forces the release so far of nearly 1000 detainees has raised hopes of an end t emmonds long run in conflict and run con reports.

it's all hugs in relief. it's in our airport as a prisoner exchange comes to completion after 3 days. but it's taken months of negotiation. yolanda i miss my mom and dad, my kids and my entire family. this was broken by the un involved the release of over 700 detained, who fees and more than a 180 other prisoners, including saudi soldiers and suit niece troops fighting with the saudi that coalition. the iranian bout who these took snow in 2014 st. paul king, a wool and the involvement of saudi arabia and allies, such as the u. e, trying to restore the internationally recognized government a deadlock and fighting lead to what's been described as the world's worst humanitarian disaster. with a 150000 people did the prisoner exchange is a vital pulse with deal to revive expired. see spot and embark on talk susceptible conflict. but with allegations of mistreatment and told you on both sides, there's still a long way to go before peace can come the subtly own. today we are receiving

a new batch of our heroes, our prisoners who are coming from our province. we have received the 1st batch and we are waiting for the 2nd mad at more than a 100 prisoners. it may be a 108 of our heroes who up endured in the field and in captivity, despite the tortured that they were subjected to. as we were told, the man yeah, the dean includes high profile prism both sides, a sign of how seriously each side is taking the move toward piece. this is the largest prisoner exchange since october 2020, and boats. i say they will continue talking after the upcoming iep holiday m. ron con houses still had on al jazeera, so back at jones, poland, and hungary, in restricting impulse of cheap ukrainian grain to protect its farmers. i'm out china in the libyan capital tribute and i'll show you how recent renovation have we new life in the old city. ah,

believe it or not, no is still falling in parts of pakistan. hey there. thanks for joining an we've got rain in his la, but there's that snow up against the foot hill of the himalaya. we did have quite the dust storm just outside of what's the other day. this was basically a wall of dust. all has to do with this westerly disturbance. let's talk about that heat rate now in india and the heat wave alerts have expanded from b, har westbank all now into entrepreneur dash states, and that's as temperature is cross 40 degrees over this wind. it's scooping up the humidity off the bay a, been gauls shoving it on shore. so at one point on monday, calcutta felt about 50 degrees with the humid ex se, stager, the rain is still falling, just not as intense as frequent as we would expect. this some of the years that band of rain lifts toward the north. so we pick up this story there as some brain

bursa. brain to go across into china, showers up and down the philippines from devout rate to log on tuesday and get down with rain in between the yangtze and the pearl river valley. this extends from blue han to grey lin certainly running the risk of some flooding hears that band of rain moves to the east, and almost all of japan is under a heavy rainfall alert as this batch of what weather pulls in on tuesday could see some thunder downpours in tokyo as well. see in a bit, ah, on counting the cost of the world bank is about to have a new president. will he ramp action against climate change weeks? little how the world went from a semiconductor shortage to a glut at nigeria. this cash crunch is slowly easing the process of the financial system has declined. counting the cost on al jazeera. i am holding the powerful to account as we examine the ulysses rule in the

world. on al jazeera lou. ah welcome back to watching al jazeera time to recap all headlines now. fighting between sedans, army and its biggest power military force has intensified on the 3rd day of a deepening crisis, the military has threatened to launch more, strikes against powerful rock and support forces. un secretary general antonio gustavo, she has condemned the violence in sudan, he, southbridge monetary and situation in the country was already precarious. now it's catastrophic. there have been international efforts to push both sides to find the

resolution and end the fighting sought a higher alt has more now regional and western powers are trying to stop the fighting through negotiations. the un security council has been meeting to discuss the latest developments, un secretary general, and tony the terrorist has called the death of civilians including walls, food program work, because appalling. he's already reconfirmed with the african union doing support to restore a democratic transition in sudan, while the a huge chairman is off to travel to hard to for talk. i'm the regional block, known as i got plans to send presidents from south sudan to booth c, as well as kenya to mediate. and here's what his spokesman told al jazeera earlier . did you notice both the nice lead us very, very well on the quest until you engage us with then present the murder smile or gayly is just if mind of the region,

highly experienced are also in mediation with respected within the region and presenter router. so these 3 lead us will have already started engaging this and he's a political elite and we hope about that is illusion on the phone. most importantly is to push these 2 parties to dialogue. and then you have president bob. then there has si, fi from egypt as well as salva came from south saddam, both offering their assistance to stop the fighting there. oh, the fighting in sudan is catching in its cross fire a lot of critical infrastructure including hospitals. joining us now talk more about that is dr. atman, i beacham, the vice president of the sudan doctors union joined us on the phone from cartoon. good to have you with us. first of all,

how much damage is being done to the medical sector? one. unfortunately, during the last couple based the measure of teaching has to be in boxes. they have been damaged, then that's the position of the morning people anymore. besides the remaining or my functioning. because the follow up might have been so usually all the medical functioning people were hearing about rising civilian

casualties. where does that leave people who show up at the hospitals even if they are open? are they able to assist people who need urgent medical help? you know, because there's a doctor. the other medical questionnaire will not reach the hospital on medical because the major on my so i don't pretty primitive and maybe some of them die besides the fact that people have been caught in between the shooting and they have been killed by the roads. some of them

on both of them, then what you can reach me as well. i was going to say how concerned are you about the spread of disease? now this point then we might be concerned about the situation in the company because you may know that the the health sector generally has been deprived from financing. but nevertheless, we may because they have been operating in the, in the last few days. now we a building for you. all

right, thank you so much. talk to the bush, amber from call to ration opposition. activism. prominent kremlin critic has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a court in moscow love you may have cut. melissa was convicted of treason and denigrating, the military who was arrested a year ago after he denounced russian president vladimir putin invasion of ukraine . motor car melissa has a long history of criticism of the leadership. take a closer look at him. then. when he began his career in journalism before making the jump to politics, cut him off, the became an adviser to prominent russian opposition leader boris themselves. now and then south was shot dead in moscow in 2015. and he play the key role in passing

the magnet ski act in the us. the legislation helps invoke sanctions on the legend . human rights abuses in russia. he's lived through 2 suspected poisoning attempts in 20152017. he moved temporarily to america to recover and cut a motorcycle now being found guilty of treason and spreading false information for criticizing rushes. invasion of ukraine. jabbar is following developments from moscow. his attorney upon hearing of this sentencing, she was in court with him and she related how he felt after he heard of his fate. and she said that he felt proud that he believed he did everything right. as a result of that, he received the maximum punishment. according to his attorney, he believes that his trial was a sham one. he compared it to the trials that took place in the style of error in

the 1900 thirty's in russia. and he said that they were show trials and we also have heard a number of people reacting to this verdict because 25 years is the maximum. and his attorney believe that if there was a longer period of time, he would've, he could have gotten, the courts would have had that that down. but according to i'm to see international, this is yet another chilling example of the systematic repression of civil society . this is certainly going to serve, not only as a warning, but as a reminder to the critics of the government. here are that any kind of criticism or discussion about what is taking place in this country will not be tolerated. the us ambassador to russia has visited detained wall street journal reporter, even gusher, which in moscow prison. it's the 1st time in american official has been committed to visit him since he was detained more than 2 weeks ago. he's facing espionage

charges, which both he and his employ of all repeatedly denied the binding ministration says gosh, which has been wrongfully detained to the news now like it has joined poland and hungary in suspending grain and other food imports from ukraine. they say cheap, ukrainian grain is driving down local prices. european union officials have now announced they'll be meeting this week to discuss ukrainian grain export issues in the block. the polish band followed protest by farmers there and the resignation of the agriculture minister. charles striped has moved from give it's a complex process and certainly an indication of mounting pressure on ukraine by it's european partners that up until now have done so they say everything that they can to try and help ukraine in its war with russia. and this deal unfolded as a result of some black see ports being blocked off to russia's invasion,

which of course stops the export. all millions of tons of ukraine's grain and, and food products to it, sir, markets around the world, the poles. now the slovaks also the hungarians and the romanians now also romanians intimation that they may do the same because apparently, so much of this ukrainian grain has got stuck in bottlenecks, logistical problems as it's been exported via the land roots out of ukraine. it is seriously depreciated, the prices of local grain and food products in their neighboring allies in ukraine's neighboring allies. a, we've seen protests in poland, the resignation of the polish agricultural minister. and we understand that there are ongoing talks between an ukrainian officials, ukrainian agricultural minister and officials in warsaw. ready as they try and

negotiate a reopening of this transit route, now this is a temporary band. we understand certainly according to the polls, they're saying this is a temporary band until june. the 30th g 7 foreign ministers meeting in the japanese city of condos. our have said they will prevent russia from accessing weapons from 3rd parties. they've also addressed tension in the indo pacific and the fighting in sudan. rob mcbride reports posing for the traditional family photo . the top diplomats of the g 7 still firmly committed to supporting ukraine in its war with russia. they agreed to keep sanctions in place and to stop moscow from trying to get weapons from the countries after accusations north korea is already supplying them. and fears that china might start with family, reject any you need to attempt to change the status quo by falls or rushes

aggression against clain. as well as the threat of use of nuclear weapons. the foreign ministers criticized rushes decision to station tactical nuclear weapons in bella ruse as the only country in the world to be attacked with atomic bombs. japan has condemned russia's repeated nuclear rhetoric and it's g. 7. presidency culminates with the lead to summit next month. in hiroshima, the location of the 1st nuclear attack, the foreign ministers also reaffirm that commitment to a free and open indo pacific scene as a pushback against china's growing power and influence in the region. and an answer to the continuing threats by beijing against the island of taiwan. but the ministers have also been dealing with the growing crisis incident with us secretary of state hansley, lincoln calling for an immediate cease by also strongly go across

all of our partners on the need for an immediate she's bar and return to talks. talk standing very congress and putting down on the past to a transition to civilian government. the fighting incident will likely continue to feature prominently in discussions until this meeting ends on tuesday. rob mcbride, al jazeera cairo is our japan libby as historical science have suffered from decades of neglect and recent renovations of breathed new life into triple. these old city malik trainer has more house visuals that are pushing to attract more visitors. oh, yeah. the old city of tripoli, like it's never been seen before. the ancient city is thousands of years old. the arch of marcus aurelius was built by the romans more than 1800 years ago. it was neglected for decades, but a recent government campaign to renovate the city has changed that the senora

medium square has recently reopened to the public. no, i am so happy. the whole city is much better off when you enter the alternate field . the history of there are the historical houses, the bank of the church, when a foreign person visits, we can all be proud to take them to the old city for them in the cities. historical and cultural significance has earned it a unesco world heritage site status. but because of the war in libya, it's one of 5 sites in the country that's on the endangered, lynn and melinda for the, the old city of tripoli is not just a monument for libya, but for all mankind. it has a deep history. various civilizations rolled over it, like the romans, the spanish and the turks. the old city is a symbol of our shared history. every night during ramadan, people come to listen to hack o r t, a traditional form of storytelling that dates back centuries. it's part of

a month long government program in the old city that commemorates the holiest month in islam. a calendar padded to join him. we have various programs for every one, economic, cultural, and political workshops, among others. our program has been very successful and you can see that in people's faces. heidi biddy was born in the old city and owns a coffee shop here. oh, it's like a dream coming true. it's amazing. seeing thousands of people come visit every night. i mean, people from eastern and southern libya, people are coming from all over. i'm very happy. libya has been engulfed in violence for more than a decade. what has seemed relative call? since a nationwide cease fire was signed in 2020? that's allowed local authorities to breathe new life into the old city and given people here.