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was a main bank roller or opposition to clock back to campaign against the climate. do you think that's a bad thing? more sure to invest with. sure, sure, absolutely. on, on, jesse, this is a region that is rapidly developing, but it's one also that is afflicted by conflict, political upheavals, some of those we talked to elsewhere as saying that they fled after hearing that other villages had been attacked. what we do in al jazeera is try to balance these stories, the good, the bad, the ugly, tell it as it was, and leave the people who allow us into their lives, dignity, and humanity. asked you to tell their stories. oh, i a 4th day of fighting into dawn despite several international appeals for a fire. more than
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a 180 people have been chosen saturday. ah, you're watching the 0 light from a headquarters and i'll find daddy navigate. also coming up. criminal video shows president putin visiting russian control regions and eastern ukraine. g 7 foreign ministers, coal for a united front against moscow. china's economy rebounds more than expected after lifting its strict proven 1900 measures. picking up the pieces, restoration begins at the mouth compound after violet raised by its really 4th ah hello. there has been more fighting overnight in sudan where rival forces remain locked in a power struggle despite international calls for a cease fire. so you went to saying that more than
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a 180 people have been killed and more than 3 days of fighting between the sudanese army and the nation's largest paramilitary force, nearly 2000 people have been injured in the capital har tomb and other regions. you and envoy to saddam says the warring parties are not open to talks. fighters have shelled hospitals, homes and power stations. and we also have satellite images that show the extent of destruction for airports and government facilities. that's for to international airport right there, which is sustain some of the worst damage from the conflict at the airport, which also has a military wing. at least 20 aircraft have been damaged. that includes a mix, a civilian and military fighter jack on helicopters. and at bad military air base, which also has a civilian wing images show at least 4, destroy the aircraft. on the tarmac, including 3 fighter jacks through dan's military, jets have been bombing positions of the rapid support forces at the but are we
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airport in the north, including a hanger? i fear base a man in the center of the capital her tomb. smoke has been seen rising above the intelligence building. the ministry of education, as well as a train station will get a live updates with hipaa. morgan join handsome hard to have a day for. what are you seeing and hearing on the ground? well, we can hear a lot of fights, egypt flying overhead around the central parts of the capital for tomb. and we can hear as trucks being launched towards the vicinity of the presidential palace, where they are from the foot age of their presence, as well as the vicinity of the general command of the army headquarters. now that is a scene of heavy fighting over the past 4 days for control from both sides. the rest have claimed that it has control of the general command of the army, and the army says that that is not true, but that there is fierce fighting around the facility. so most of the heavy smoke that is coming out from the sort of central parts of the room is around that area.
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the area of the general command of the army and the presidential palace. but there's also fighting ongoing and the other parts of her to me as well areas of reality areas. and these are residential neighborhoods in the southern parts of the capital. and that's where there is also our presence and where the army is now trying to target them residency that they can see tanks. they can hear the heavy artillery striking positions. and it's not clear who is striking, who they do know that the fierce fighting is still ongoing. and many of them say they can't leave their homes. right. and how about how prepared were people to deal with this type of situation and fighting? and what about the hospitals in the health care system? how's it coping well, the health care system in sudan had its own issues even before this fighting and people were not prepared for such confrontation, such military compensation,
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especially in the capital. so many healthcare's are have been targeted by shillings and hospitals have been out of operations as a result of the fighting. but they're also hospitals where even if doctors are prison and even if they are open, they're not enough medical personnel to assist those in need. and they're not enough medicines and the adopters union, the da at a sidney's doctors committee put out a statement saying that some of the hospitals have been used by on the groups as an operation based. they did not specify whether it's the sudanese army or the iris f using all the hospitals as, as an as operation basis. but they did say that they were forced to evacuate hospitals because of presence of aunt groups. so it's very clear that even those who are injured and are stuck at home, or even those who do manage to leave their homes to access medical, her hospitals or medical facilities will not be able to receive the attention because of the challenges that the medical sector is facing at during these times. i bye. thank you so much. have a morgan reporting for us from her tomb. well,
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meanwhile the u. s. secretary of state says that an american diplomatic convoy came under fire and sudan on monday, and he described it as reckless and irresponsible. antony blinkin is urging both sides to reach an immediate cease fire this morning. um i made calls to a general so brohannon a medi urging them to agree to a 24 hour ceasefire, to allow sudanese to safely reunite with their families and to obtain desperately needed relief supplies. i also, and gordon both calls the responsibilities that sydney's fighting forces there for ensuring the safety and security of us, another diplomat to a resident in sedan as well as for you and staff and other humanitarian partners. each trip down south sedans say that they've been in regular contact with the warring sides and are prepared to mediate if i had a message to deliver. and i have said this to president silva here of south sudan. we are both ready to play a mediation role between our brothers and sir don in order to reach
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a truce. this is still going on and we have endless caused between the student is armed forces and the rapid support forces. we are in constant contact with them to encourage them on a cease fire, an end to the bloodshed of the sudanese people and reaching negotiations that leads to restoring stability once again. ah, g 7 for a ministers of included there are 3 day meeting in japan by promising to stand against war crimes, including russia's invasion of ukraine. their final communicate is the documents used as a template for next month, g 7 liter summit. that highlights a commitment to enforce tougher sanctions on moscow and prevent china from any similar action against taiwan. while the kremlin has broadcast the video, showing president vladimir putin visiting 2 army posts in russian control areas of ukraine, the footage was broadcast on state television showing,
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put in speaking to military leaders about the combat situation in southern hassan. moscow says he was then flown by helicopter to eastern guns to hear reports from commanders baron, bringing dorothy jabari. she's joining us from moscow. so the trip is the 2nd visit by put into russia. occupied areas in ukraine isn't and as many months door. so what is the message that's being sent out? well 1st there in this is the 1st time that we've seen the commander in chief of the russian on forces. paying a visit in person to the troops. the visit he had last month was to the residence in the city of mary pool, and she took her trip in the cover of darkness where he drove himself in or around that city and made surprise visits to ordinary citizens there. but this is a very different one. clearly conveying a message of someone who was very sure of himself and very much in command of the situation of his troops in ukraine,
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as well as trying to boost the morale of the russian army that is currently fighting in ukraine. we saw the 70 year old. glad you're coming down from a helicopter in her song region where he met commanders there and he said that he's there to listen to them and to exchange ideas. he then later moved on to visit the headquarters of the national guards and the guns region that is in don't bass. and there he presented officials there with a gold triptych. and he said this was a present for easter, which people here celebrated on sunday. the orthodox easter and he said that this trip once belonged to one of the greatest russian defense ministers in the country . empire, clearly a message to boost morale and also to show strength. and that he currently still believes that this board that he's a launch that can be won, won by his troops. ok, there is a thank you sir. by reporting from moscow,
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china's economy has rebounded more than expected in the 1st quarter of this year. government data shows its gross domestic products, rose 4 and a half percent between january to march, and that's a half percent more than was initially forecast. china's economic recovery has been under scrutiny after the government abandoned 0 covered strategy. andrew coal. yay! is the managing director of orient capital research, which conduct independent research on china. he says that many structural problems remain that 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 a debt raised by local governments. their expenditure was up 6.8 percent,
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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 gdp number anyway because most of that is pretty heavily manipulated in beijing. so i look at what's going on and the one good figure was apparent oil. the 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 the underlying economy is still fairly weak. exports has been decent that that could help them,
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but the global economy is looking weeks. i'm not sure that's as good as sustained for the rest of the year to is released have been injured in a shooting and occupied east. jerusalem is where the police said the suspect that attacker open fire on a vehicle in the shaft, shut it off neighborhood. that's where there been tensions between palestinians and israeli settlers on the is really forced to say that they're now searching for the suspect. they've surrounded a building and checks out of where they said the weapon used, and the shooting was found. police have rated the main headquarters of tennessee as the biggest opposition party. and it came hours after and not the party needed a sheet of a new. she was arrested at his home, so they said he was the chain for questioning on the orders of the public prosecutor. a new she is. the main opponent of president crisis, hired was been accused of orchestrating a power grab after he suspended parliament in 2021. william laurence is a professor of international relations at american university. and the former us
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diplomat engine is he says, the tennessee president is expanding his crackdown on opponent mrs. the 10th time he's been held and interrogated since the crew of the summer. 2021. the question was, you know, how far would they going to go? this by we're hearing, they shut down the party headquarters and evacuated it, and this was all precipitated by a speech he gave a sensitively on sunday night in which he said that shutting down the 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 closing the president,
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the president of that parliament. and he has more power to the constitution than this president will only had to portfolios defense and foreign affairs before he did the crew 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 nation park party. this new constitution was written basically by one man to make himself all powerful still has announced sarah howard defamation case in the united states is highlighting the controversial role of fox news during the 2020 presidential election school is outside for millions of children. it must be after recent tropical storms destroy their classrooms. ah,
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it's tuesday, april the 18th. let's go with your weather update. we'll start off with this. this was a big deal for the 1st time. this year. we hit 20 degrees in the u. k. the scottish highlands are all the hora. 20.2. the question now is, when will one didn't have its 1st 20 degree day of the year? by the way. it's been about a 170 days since london last hit 20 degrees. i don't think it's coming anytime soon . here's why we got this pesky easterly wind feeding in some cloud cover. so a top temperature of 12 degrees in london on tuesday that's below average for this time, the year. central europe, we got this weather maker here. chuck and rain around italy and the balkans at times are will be some heavier bursts of rain. it's also extends into greece and the western side of searcy a so overcast conditions with sun showers and it's stumble 16 degrees. but look at nicko see at 34. that is 10 above average. temperature is also 10 above average in
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southern spain, in seville, with a high 32 degrees. a south wind in egypt is pumping up the temperature and pyro enjoy. well, you can, i think, or squeeze out one more nice day. before those wind shift around to northern leaves and not knocked down your temperature to 28 bits going in the northern cape, providence means we've got an extreme wildfire danger threat here on tuesday. and now you're up to date. ah, the jump into this dream head percent of the population globally is responsible for about 15 percent of carbon emissions joined the debate. people have already lost their life. people, how close to that culture, the people, how traditions have your say, want to broaden this conversation by bringing more voices into it. live on you to people commenting. i want the whole world to know that jackie foreign not headed directly over the street with the powers that be how this stream on al jazeera
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lou. ah, hello again. the top stories on al jazeera rival forces, and so dawn are fighting for 4th day despite international calls for a cease fire. and satellite images show extensive destruction to airports as well as government facilities. the kremlin has broadcast the video showing president vladimir putin visiting to army post in russian controlled areas of ukraine. he spoke to military leaders and southern her san before traveling to easter lou guns, china's economy has rebounded more than expected in the 1st quarter of the year. government data shows its gross domestic product, rose 4 and
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a half percent between january to march beijing abandoned at 0 coven strategy in december. will work is now underway to repair the damage to the centuries old. ok saw mosque and occupied east jerusalem. there had been violent confrontations and the compounds when is really forces beat worshippers. that happened earlier this month without been hamid has more from occupied east jerusalem. oh, during these last days of ramadan, an oxer compound becomes a beacon of quiet a place where palestinians loved to worship or just spend the day. it's been 4 years since only hope was lost here. read an acronym on $911.00 when one of our if it didn't come here unless we get to permit and it's not easy. last time the soldiers came in and they were clashes with the men we had to leave. it was also ramadan. i get that when i see the soldiers beaten people, i can't explain the feeling inside. in the cone of the compound restoration work is
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underway, fixing disdain, glass windows, that were broken during an incursion by israeli forces to evacuate the mosque. this video shows how they 1st break the windows and then loves them. grenades at the worshippers. below. fragments of colored glass flying over their heads is really forces come in with their ladder climb onto the rooftop, and in a matter of minutes, the windows are shattered. now to repair any damage is much trickier because even if jordan is the custodian of the site, israel controls the type and the amount of raw material allowed into the compound at any given time. a seminar had that was the team for 6 hours for attempting to fix at tile in the courtyard. he's the director of the restoration committee, and the bus does look public. if i'm a toil sherman, anything,
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i notify the occupation forces that wrote the guys for security reasons. but each time there are obstacles. the 1st answer, we came to wait until i evaluate that can take an hour several days or sometimes our request is refused. help on. this is not the 1st time the windows need to be replaced. the ottoman era originals were destroyed in a fire in 1969, but the replacements will also broken during prior rates. it will now take 6 months to repair each of the 3 windows. this troy dis, month. in a few days. axis for non muslims will resume ultra nationalists, israeli. jews will return to the grounds here, surrounded by police in full riot gear. the count, palestinians are enjoying now could end at any time picking up to pieces. restoring what has been broken has become an old too familiar part of the religious practice and daily life for palestinians. here had up that hamid al jazeera in occupied east
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jerusalem. the french president monro my craw, has defended controversial pension reforms in his 1st address to the nations and signing them into law. on saturday, there were demonstrations in several cities during his speech. i call says he understands people's anger, but insist but raising the retirement age by 2 years to 64 is necessary to keep the system afloat. natasha butler has more from paris. i'm just afraid to be no on the street ever since parsons in my old michael gave is the speech a little bit earlier. the police are asking for is they trying to move them? they're trying to make them mean 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 a. 6 6 pension reform, they say that even though it has been signed in to know that they will continue to
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pay, i gave a speech in which you need to re, to why you decided to push this placement. right. i tend to refer, you said it was necessary to people who are known god from 60 to think people could live in. but he said that he was french people to move on. but he doesn't really look at the thought we did to do that to me, not from the recent opinion pulling that some 3 quarters. the french people support with. 6 such a popular era, a defamation lawsuit against fox news will be again on tuesday in the u. s. state of delaware. so the closely watch case was brought forward by dominion voting systems which are seeking $1600000000.00 in damages. it's accusing fox of airing false claims that it's voting machines were used to rig the outcome of the 2020 election in favor of joe biden. my kind of reports as lawyers gather, there's
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a lot at stake. not just the $1600000000.00 damages claimed by dominion, but also the nature of the protections afforded by the 1st amendment, which provides will freedom of the press. in focus of the decades old supreme court rulings which provided sweeping protection for media companies. even when they disseminate false information, it's not enough for dominion to prove fox was wrong and it's allegations. it also needs to prove that the media company knew the claims are wrong, but continue to broadcast them regardless. they would have to show, 1st of all, in terms of liability that fox acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth. and then secondly, if the jury satisfied as to that, that there's been proof of the actual damages that were incurred by the point. so both those 2 things would have to be found by the dirt. already thousands of
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internal communications within fox had been made public and legal documents. these appear to show that the company's hosts like laura ingraham, what privately skeptical of the vote rigging allegations as what other network heavy weights like sean hannity and tucker carlson, who in private emails describe donald trump's claims of vote rigging, as disgusting dominion alleges that despite these private opinions, fox continued to publicly and actively support trumps baseless claims of both rigging and dominions alleged role in that. the reason says, dominion the media network did not want to alienate the significant number of trump supporters who us villas, delaware superior court judge eric davis, has already ruled that fox on air personalities and executives,
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will have to testify, including the company's c. o rupert murdoch and his son and fox, co chairman laflin, who dominion alleges new the claims to the false, but did nothing to stop them being broadcast. the trial is expected to last 6 weeks, but the potential consequences to the application of the 1st amendment could last very much longer. by cana jazeera washington, the f. b. i has arrested to us citizens on charges of running a chinese secret police station in new york. investigators say the men had been prosecuting people that beijing sees as political dissidents. dmitri man, danco has more. this building in manhattan's china town advertisers and acupuncture clinic and raman delivery. but f b i investigators say in 2022. it also housed a secret police station for china's ministry of public security. the m p. s lou
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jang wang and changing ping. both us citizens were arrested on monday on charges of helping establish and run it. the employer's offices who have been charged to day are not focused on preventing crime. rather, the complaints charge these impious officer with engaging in trans national repression schemes, targeting members of the chinese diaspora community in new york city and elsewhere in the united states. the u. s. justice department says that in at least one case, lou and chen track down a chinese pro democracy activist and california under the direction of the chinese national police and the men admitted to delete and communication with a chinese official. this time on monday, prosecutors also unveiled charges against dozens of chinese officials for allegedly operating a troll farm harassing dissidence on line. the chinese communist party was attempting
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to censor politically sensitive topics that are unacceptable to the p. r. c. government, including the te, hanniman, square massacre, thought the charges come as the d, o j ramps up probes and to what it cools transnational repression by overseas governments to intimidate political opponents in the us. we cannot and will not tolerate the chinese government's persecution, of pro democracy activists who have sought refuge in this country. in november, beijing denied claims of running police stations in the u. s. saying these are volunteer run organizations, helping chinese citizens with procedures like renewing drivers, licenses. a spanish civil rights groups safeguard defenders claimed last year that there were dozens of secret chinese police stations in cities around the world to be she met vanco al jazeera. rescuers are still looking for at least 4 people in
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the northern indian city of colonel there believe to be trucks under the debris of a collapse building. so these are saying at least 4 people were killed and more than 20 others injured. when the 3 story race know, caved it around a $150.00 workers were inside the building. when it happened, 2 people had been killed and more missing. after a landslide in northern focused on a highway west, up a shower near the town of telecom was hit before dawn on tuesday, several trucks were buried with firefighters on rescuers trying to save drivers and others official. say the landslide that happen near the afghan border was triggered by lightning strikes. agencies are saying that millions of children and mozambique have had their education disrupted by the most recent tropical storms. at these 1500 classrooms were either destroyed or damaged by cycling. freddy from the miller has more from bull on in southern mozambique. one months after flooding
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his one year children, a catching up on their school work. the flooding disrupt their education week? my monkey. i've never seen flooding like that before that i've heard it last happened. 50 years ago, the nearby river made it worse, and it's difficult for us to put measures in place because we cannot predict how bad these natural weather events will be across, mustn't be schooling for close to 5000000 children has been affected. more than 800 children that this who had just thought of this, julio and psych, i'm pretty, did the subbing impacted the already limited resources. and now exams of had to be phones while agencies have 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 waves of farms were washed away,
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which the united nation says is likely to lead to food shortages. the children who all ready vulnerable to mouth nourishment and diseases like cholera and malaria. well, i think for country like mozambique, which is year after year by these tropical storms, tropical fight lens of country where many, lots of the infrastructure is, is not particularly strong. and 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 term, the value of that investment pays off. for now, the un says it needs $809000000.00 to respond to the immediate education and health needs of children affected by the most recent flooding. in the long term, they're worried that worsening weather conditions will impact years worth of education for millions of children from me to mala al jazeera one wasn't beek. ah.

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