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and hospitals are struggling to treat the route. ah, hello, i'm adrian finnegan. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up the head of june, as he is biggest opposition, party is detained at its headquarters. read it. it's the latest cracked out on the president case science. suppose china's economy heaps up just months of the country, abandoned. it 0 cove, it strategy plus, oh wow. protests in from the president delivers his birth the rest of the nation. since raising the retirement age. ah, that's been more fighting overnights in sudan where rival forces remain locked in a power struggle despite international calls for
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a cease file. ah, the u. n says that more than 180 people have been killed in more than 3 days of fighting between the sydney's army and the country's largest paramilitary force, a fall, the 1800 have been injured in the violence in the capital under the cities. the u ends envoy to sue don says the warning, boring parties don't seem open to peace talks. hospitals, homes and power stations have been shelled. al jazeera hippa, morgan is in khartoum, harder to me, airports and the areas around it were battle grounds on the 3rd day of fighting between for dance army and the biggest and most powerful paramilitary force. exclusions as strikes and gunshots are heard across the capital. as both sides claim they're making advances in strategic areas. but details on the ground or unclear for they released by the for denise military shows
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a number of rapid support for his troops to rendering their weapons and equipment. and to me, the army says it's resumed control of state tv and will use it to update the public . it also says it's 3 taken meta, we airport in the north, but that conflicts with claims by the iris f, which says it's meant still control the facility. what is that? this message is for all those who are seeing that middle, the airport is still under the control of the sudanese army. right now we're inside metal here. port. as you can see, there is a plain kind us and we are station here until the victory. the r s f also says an army lead battalion handed over vehicles in the eastern nile. far as of harpoon, dan has been brought to a standstill after attempts to open a humanitarian corridor field. fighting destroyed her to the main water station, raising fears of widespread food and water shortages. only one till water was left . this is a warm and only one. hand, everything is empty. you know,
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the water bottles sexual look. so i'm deep hole the water, whole milk, everything is empty here on the refrigerator. everything is nothing left for so given and hospitals have become targets. shilling on a lab and this clinic left several people injured and many to evacuate. doctors fate, they're running out of medical supplies. medic said, the reported numbers of dead are enjoyed the do not reflect the reality on the ground. that because fighting on the street makes it hard to reach hospitals or count the dead civilians remain trapped in their homes waiting for the fighting to and so they can feel safe again. a power struggle between army chief general abdel han and his deputy mohammed handed the commander of the recess, triggered the outbreak of fighting on saturday with neither side, willing to back down. while air strikes continue and the wearing sides show no
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desire for talks. it's the people of sedan that are paying the heaviest price. he bill morgan ultra 0, park home. the colleague shy business, these attorney who was involved in drafting the interim constitution in august. he says that boring parties are trying to make gains before negotiating. is the situation or for a complex for, for both part is very complex for the sudanese and no science in both parties of being willing to negotiate. i think it's the whole never gets to, to, to achieve quick quinn's will be able to a better position to negotiate. so that is the situation right now. we're seeing the seas fire for whom we try and pass. it didn't go well for 3 hours. each party is accusing the other that you know, they did intend to do it on the agreement. so i think it's a bit premature to our, to our, you know, to conclude that negotiation on a permanent file will be in place. but the loss of course was for the 2nd these people, for now we've seen talked reinforcement coming to her to him,
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hopefully by tomorrow, i guess the all the new to get control of some of the areas that you know, the, the support process the are controlling charging her too, but i think it's not, it's not safe. you know, some of the big just the main bridge it to her to hurry and tomato controlled by the sudanese what for says. and again, there's no contract or statements on both parties or the army thing that, you know, the dismantled to, to, they're controlling some of the areas and then the level of workforce is there again, you know, claiming that the, the claims some of the areas. so i think it's a leak now. us secretary of state entity, blank and spoken directly to the leaders of saddam's rival forces calling for an end or still it is at urging them to ensure the safety of civilians and aid workers . earlier the un secretary general antonio content as condemned to violence warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. diplomatic editor james bay's reports the un security
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council is calling for an urgent c spar. although behind the scenes there are certainly divisions about how to proceed. the council was brief, but the un stop official in cartoon vall capacitors after that close meeting of visibly todd. mr. pathos, spoke to reporters at un headquarters by video link as the 2 sites who are fighting and are not giving us the impression. that's a want mediation for peace between them right away. our mother, they are calling on the other side. you too well? ah, yes, i took it out to slender. oh, the other site to be disbanded? so does that doesn't sound very much. happens to an event, you are an our media shortage to seat on short notice. mr. pathos says it's too dangerous for him to travel around cartoon. but he's in touch by
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phone with the 2 rival generals who believes a boast in the city. i will be just saying it in public love in new york, the un secretary general has also had talks with each of the 2 men, as well as with regional leaders. the situation has already led to were and those loss of life, including many civilians, any further escalation could be devastating for the country and the region. i urge all those relief once over the situation to use it in the cause of peace, to support efforts when the violence is thought ordered and returned to the best of transition de meditating the situations to learn was already pre carriers and is now catastrophic. the african unions call for an immediate cease whereby the 2 parties, the 3 african countries on the security council of called for sedans, air space, to be reopened, right? so that mediators can travel there. the eguard group of regional countries wants to dispatch a delegation,
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the peace and security council of the african union planning a field mission, and the chairperson of the african union, muso, fac, he wants to go to cartoon to mediate. but for now, sedans, borders are closed, and in recent days, the airport has been a battlefield. for now, the u. n believes it's best hope is to expand its humanitarian pauses, and eventually turn them into a durable cease far, james bay's al jazeera of the united nations. the ear opinions ambassador to saddam has been attacked in hot soon. you foreign policy chief yourself, burrell. treated that the assault happened at 8 no horace home but gave no further details. and he, you spokespersons said the ambassador was okay. ah, police of right at the main headquarters of chin is his biggest opposition party. it came just hours after an after party leader rashid gunners. she was arrested
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really say he was detained for questioning on the orders of the public prosecutor garage. he is a main opponent of president k. a sired den folk am near a large number of police officers friendly merricks of our ina showed up and took rashid galucci, president of the movement, another and president of the parliament. there was a search of his house where william laurence is a professor of international relations at the american university and a former u. s. diplomat to to nicea. he says that you know, he and president is expanding his crack down on the opposition. and those who criticize him, mrs. the 10th time its been held and interrogated. since the crew of the summer 2021. the question was you know, how far would they going to go this? we are hearing, they shut down the party headquarters and evacuated it. and this was all precipitated by a speech he gave pensively on sunday night in which he said that shutting down the
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political opposition was tantamount to starting a civil war. and they're making that comment that he made into an active site. and that's what they brought him in again for the 10th round of questioning, but in a much more direct union way. on the 27th night ramadan, they came to his house before they were coming in the day and arresting them respectfully. this is an affront. and this is to, to trigger and to instill fear in the political opposition, which is trying to get organized around losing the president, the president, to that parliament. and he has more power of the constitution than this president will only had to portfolios defense and foreign affairs before he did the clue to take over. not only all of the executive portfolios but the entire lar, entire legislative function and all of the judiciary. so he grabbed it all for itself and again, taking away those powers from the parliament, which itself was a product of years, a deliberate calibration between the 2 region part parties. this new constitution
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was written basically by one man to make himself all powerful. china's economy grew at a faster rate than expected in the 1st quarter of this year. government data shows that gross domestic product grows 4.5 percent between january and march compared to the same period last year. that's half a percent. more than analysts of forecast. china's economic recovery has been under scrutiny of the government abruptly lifted its strict 0 covey, pandemic restrictions. andrew calia is the managing director of orient capital research, which conducts independent research on china. he says that many structural problems remain which could stifle china's economic growth. is quite healthy, but most of that increase was due to people leaving their homes post covered and going out dining in various places, their actual sales of hard goods, like autos and things like washing machines has been pretty weak. the other part of the story that is worrisome is that a lot of this is being driven by
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a debt raised by local governments. their expenditure was up 6.8 percent, but their actual revenue was up only owe point 5 percent. so they're borrowing money from the banks. the property market has been ok. that's been the one slightly bright markets. it's now in positive territory after being in negative territory for a long time. but i'm still worried it under the cover, there's a lot of structural problems in china. i don't trust their g d p number anyway because most of that is pretty heavily manipulated in beijing. so i look at what's going on at the one good figure was apparent oil to demand was up 9.5 percent, which does suggest that there are some economic activity out there. but i'm beginning to think that a lot of that i could to activity was driven by additional debt fuel by local government investment in infrastructure and other areas. because i'm not seeing a lot of private activity that's growing. unemployment among youth is up to $99.00 over 19 percent. it's actually rising. so underlying economy is still fairly weak.
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exports has been decent that that could help them, but the global economy is looking weeks. i'm not sure that's good and sustained for the rest of the year. foreign ministers from the g 7 group of nations are expected to reaffirm their support for peace and stability across the taiwan strait as they hold a 3rd and final day of talks in japan. the meeting coincides with hyping tension with china following its military drills around the island last week. beijing sees the self governing island as a breakaway province. officer was wrong. mcbride joins us now. live from cutaways. awa robbed, the u. s. secretary of state spent speaking there at the meeting, what do they have to say? that's right. i mean, given the unfolding crisis in sudan, he actually began his closing statement and press conference right off the top. addressing that unfolding crisis said, talking about this fighting endangering civilian diplomats aid work is he says,
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also detailing the phone calls he's had with the generals of both sides. calling for a 24 hour cease fire as a starting point to try to re establish at peace saying that the civilians, the ordinary people, they want a transformation to a civilian rule. so he spoke about that, but then turned to the business of this g 7 foreign ministers meeting what they have been discussing here. i talked talking about the g 7 as the steering committee . he says that the world's advance democratic economies and talking about the need to engage with more actively on every continent, also with the global south, the reference to developing economies. because there is a feeling here that the g 7 is really being left behind to somewhat in many parts of the world by the growing influence of china. it's expanding influence, especially in indo pacific. blink and talking about countries should be free. he says from, from got co ocean unsustainable debt and the line influence. now he didn't name
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china directly by name, but i think there is a feeling amongst many g 7 countries that, that is the contribution china is making a to the world. i said there is a, a cold for china to follow a rules based order. and of course, a ukraine as well, has dominated to this session with, with blink and calling out rushes aggression, saying it will be held accountable for war crimes. with regard to the upcoming long anticipated counter offensive lincoln saying, we stand with ukraine. and what else came out of the meeting room? a, the actual communique was a 21 page communique that concluded this meeting. foreign minister, high ashy the host or foreign minister, a basically a, giving their main details of that. it was basically directed against russia, support for ukraine, specific proposals to try to stop russia getting any weaponry from 3rd party countries. and then as japan read reminded this meeting,
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it is the only asian g 7 country, it has a particular interest in this part of the world. and there was a concern here that and if a russia is allowed to get away with act with impunity in europe, then china might be able to do the same here with regard to taiwan. so how yeah, she very much confirming the support for taiwan and saying that no country has the right to independently. i try to change the status quo with a neighbor out there as rob mcbride reporting live for from calories are what many thanks, rob. still to come here on al jazeera, it's all crumbling critic has sentence to 25 years in prison after being convicted of treason. at least 11 people are dead, dawson is more or in hospital as the temperature and parts of india it's record highs. ah
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well, the turkish spring has not yet arrived. there was still looking distinctly unsettled . i'm coming to western turkey is more cloud and rain fell persistent. now admittedly, in the se is looking for a dr. denise at about 30 degrees and cypress is enjoying the sunshine, which is true all the way to answer the levant as well. recent high temperatures have dropped a bit in egypt because there's a wind direction already say we're in this forecast, and you'll notice showers in the blue bits on the higher ground. and particularly in saudi arabia, just inland from mecca. you could well see some big thunderstorms in the sky. a settled she made. 33 for dow harwich persists in to wednesday in the shower in the had to go to probably stay a far west as react. not really in the gulf states couldn't rote out there. good news, i hope, but i'm not sure the rain in somali, it's been gathering once more and it could both cause some flash flooding somewhere around market issue. been fairly wet for the west as well. in canyon uganda. but
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it's townsend here, where the persistence of rain has given cause to at least alert watch out. it's going to rain for quite a long time. now is crossing contrast rather drawing for the south in the western side of south africa. southwest botswana is particularly hot and the fire risk is flagged otherwise. enjoy the sun ah. on counting the cost, the world bank is about to have a new president school. he ramp up action against climate change. we explore how the world went from a study, conduct a shortage to a glut at nigeria. cash crutch is slowly easing the process of the financial system has declined. counting the cost on al jazeera. there is no channel that covers world use like we do. we revisit places the state i'm 0 really invests in that and that's a privilege. as a journalist, lou
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ah, oh yeah, this is our 0. the main nears the saw, the u. n says that more than 180 people have been killed in 3 days of fighting between saddam's army of the country's largest power, military force, hospitals, homes and power stations windshield us secretary of state antony blinkin has spoken to the leaders of saddam's rival forces of urge them to call a ceasefire. egypt says it's also in contact with the warring sides. i was prepared to help with peace headphones. police were conducted rates on tennessee as biggest opposition party, and after searching its headquarters and arresting its leader. rashid galucci as a main opposite opponent of president kaiser science. a russian opposition activist
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and prominent kremlin critic has been sentenced 25 years in prison by a court in moscow flooded me. a cutter. melissa was convicted on charges of treason and spreading false information about the military. he was arrested a year ago after denouncing the russian invasion of ukraine. dorsal jabari reports from moscow. info with the lender, as the verdict was read out vladimir car more zealous and without any visible reaction convicted of treason spreading false information about russia's on forces and cooperating with an undesirable organization. his lawyer said kara moore's aside as a verdict on the justness of his cause. yet the thrash only, not this terrible, but very high assessment of laudermill work as a politician, as a citizen. this is how he perceived this verdict. when he heard it 25 years, his self esteem even went up. he realized he was doing everything right. yes. as
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hundreds of journalists packed a room where they watched the court proceedings on screen. reaction to the verdict came in swiftly. nobel laureate dmitri moreton, who was a witness in kara morris's case, told al jazeera, it was part of a dangerous pattern that's emerge in russia since the war in ukraine began. but he got water, but a teacher, jim's sentences for political prisoners are handed down in the same way they were handed down during stolen times. these are huge sentences, 25 years of the lifetime of one generation of people. we want to take an entire generation of the lives of russians who won't meet politicians like car mirza. the long time criminal critic was arrested last april under new laws passed 8 days after russia's invasion, restricting any criticism of the country's army. the russian british, former journalist and politician is the latest of several of president putin's upon and still have been arrested. kara more played an important role in persuading western governments to sanction russian officials for legit human rights abuses and
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corruption. plotting your car mores as attorney says, she'll be appealing this verdict, arguing that her clients have no previous convictions and a health condition. so he will not be able to serve his term in a maximum security facility. 99 percent of cases in russian course and with convictions. there was no expectation that this one would be any different. dorsey, of ari al jazeera, moscow, french president emanuel micron has defended controversial pension reforms in his 1st address to the nation since fighting them into law on saturday. ah, are the demonstrations in certain cities during the speech. the crone says he understands people's anger, but insists that raising the retirement age by 2 years to $64.00 is necessary to keep a system afloat, fantasies, months of strikes and demonstrations against the changes that reform idiolect have
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. these reforms been accepted. no, evidently, no event. despite months of dialogue, a consensus was never reached. and i regret it tickled all good. we must all learn lessons from this is warranty? they are serious. natasha butler reports from paris. i'm just a photo is healthy. no, on the street. ever since i sent in my all my all gave is the speech a little bit earlier, lee or i to force they're trying to move them. they're trying to make them lean so they can re open the roads. but this is just some of the anger, though we have been staying on the streets over the past 3 weeks and months since the beginning of i say that even though it is being signed in to know that they will continue to pay, i gave a speech in which you need to re, to why you decided to proceed with. he said it was necessary to people who have known god from 60 to 50 people because it didn't. but he said it was french people
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to move on. but it doesn't really look as if we did do that to me. know, some of them are recent opinion, believe that some records of the french people support with the families of victims of frances was to add as austin's favor disgusted. ultra cort cleared at france. some plane maker, air boss of manslaughter, 228 passengers and crew died when the jet crashed into the atlantic in 2009 on its way from rio de janeiro to paris court found the mistakes made by the companies couldn't be proven to of course, the disaster in the u. s. a man in the state of missouri has been charged with 2 felony counts after shooting a black teenager. oh, wow. incident, smog processing, kansas city on sunday, the 84 year old white's homeowner shop,
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16 year old ralph yal twice after he rang his door bell. you all had gone to the wrong house to pick up his twin brothers 8 police officers. he shot and killed an unarmed black man in the us state of ohio, or not face criminal charges. a grand jury cleared them of wrongdoing in the death of jalen walker in june. the 25 year old was shot $46.00 times, including 5 times in the back. after a chase police say that he'd failed to stop after they tried to pull his car over for a traffic violation. the jury found that walker shot at officers 1st before exiting the car, unarmed at least 3 people have died and several others are injured after a storm hit southern thailand, the disaster agency says 10 provinces were affected. strong winds and heavy rain destroyed hundreds of homes and capsized fishing boats. parts of india are experiencing unusual heat wave conditions. at least 11 people have died and several
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others have been treated in the hospital after suffering dehydration of heat stroke on sunday. the weather service says the high temperatures will continue and the eastern and northern regions. lee, the other, are clear reports. this was supposed to be a fun, outdoor event where awards were given out. instead, it ended with the death of several people who suffered the effects of a heat stroke. more severe weather is on its way to parts of india. northwest india married them texas for about a year. the temperatures will increase and deli, punjab, haryana, and northwest india. in the coming days, an orange alert husband issued regarding a he driven rest rengal's. while some officials praised the crowd for coming out, despite the high temperatures exceeding 40 degrees celsius, others accused the government of negligence. and yet meteorological department is advising people to take precaution. to avoid heat stroke did was as elected as it
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is advisable to not to step out during the afternoon. and if it is necessary to go out, people must carry an umbrella or cover the heads from direct sunlight. in the eastern state of west bengal, schools have been closed for a week because of the excessive heat last year in your experience record temperatures and several regions. and as heat waves and other severe weather events become more frequent across south asia, signed to say, climate change is likely worsening the situation lena, barclays, and just either by jerry has become the 2nd country to approve a highly effect of malaria vaccine deliver in the u. k, but food and drug regulators are calling for an expansion of clinical trials of the our 21 job garner was the 1st country to approve the vaccine last week. globally, malaria kills about 620000 people every year. aid agencies say that millions of
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children in mozambique had their education disrupted by the most recent tropical storms, at least 1500 classrooms where they were either destroyed or damaged by cyclone freddy. formative miller reports now from the one in southern mozambique, one month after flooding his one year children are catching up on their school work . the flooding disrupted their education for weeks. ma monkey, i've never seen flooding like that before that i've heard it last happened. 50 years ago for the nearby river made it worse, and it's difficult for us to put measures in place isn't because we cannot predict how bad these natural weather events will be across mozambique schooling for close to 5000000 children has been affected. more than $800.00 children at the school had just started this julio and cycle really hit the flooding impacted the already limited resources. and now exams have had to be postponed. while agencies have
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assisted in building climate resilient classrooms, most schools don't have them. others have had to make do with temporary shelters in some busio province. more than 1000 classrooms have had their teaching disrupted. also, large swathes of farms will washed away, which the united nation says is likely to lead to food shortages. the children will ready vulnerable to malnourishment and diseases like cholera and malaria. well, i think for a country like mozambique, which is year after year by these tropical storms, tropical fight lands and country where many lots of the infrastructure is not particularly strong. like i said, it really shows the importance of investing it in climate resilient infrastructure, which will stand up. ah, it costs a little bit more in the short term. but in the long time, the value of that investment pays off. for now, the un says it needs $809000000.00 to respond to the immediate education and health .
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