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yes, ma'am, informed opinions 5 administration are very concerned about this development especially are what it means for china's power on the world stage, critical debate and are only both the legal route or do they see that we have to think about in depth analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera, ah gunfire and explosions in sedans, capital despite the ceasefire. you just started an hour ago. i personally preferred that we platform hogan. we die from but it's in from our bumps people in khartoum sheltering in basement says the fight for control raged on above them. ah,
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i'm sorry then. yeah, it's great to have you with us. this is elisha 0, live from doha. also coming up in the program, bail denied us journalist evan gosh, cubic news is an appeal against his pre trial detention at a hearing in moscow. and an under c journey into the past. scientists to reveal an undiscovered reef of ecuador galapagos islands. ah, it has just passed $1700.00 g m t and a ceasefire. and sudan is supposed to have started an hour ago after 4 days of violence killed more than a $185.00 people watching live pictures of the capital cartoon. where gunfire and shilling are still being heard, the army and the country's largest paramilitary force, the rapid support forces, say they have agreed to a 24 hour pause in the fighting to earlier attempts at maintaining a ceasefire between the rival forces had also failed him at morgan,
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his live in khartoum. hebert were an hour into this official window then for the cease fire has fighting stopped while from the very 1st few minutes of the seas fire, we were able to hear heavy shelling, heavy artillery being fired and we can hear the sound of anton of planes flying overhead, and this is while we are in the basement of the building where we've been seeking shelter for the past few hours because of the heavy air strikes. the intense abstracts are visiting these armed forces against our positions in the central parts of the capitol. hot tomb now we just a few minutes ago we were able to hear more artillery being fired. we can still hear an antenna plane flying overhead and we've spoken to many residents around her to me and across the river. now in the northern part of the capitol and many of them say that they are able to hear the sound of every artillery that they can hear, the sound of fighting gunfire being exchanged. so it doesn't look like the fire
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specifically is holding. this is supposed to be a period of 24 hours where people should be able to go out and get their basic necessities and medical assistance. but so far it doesn't appear to be taking effects. well, so about the residence then of cartoon. you know, we've been speaking to civilians here at al jazeera all day long. what's, what's it like for people now people are describing to us that they have, in some cases, no water, no electricity, and running low on food. the yes indeed, because when this fighting pocket infected in, nobody was expecting it, people did not store extra food for these kinds of these kinds of situations. so many of them say that they're out of food. they're out of running water because most of the fighting, many of the locations where the fighting happened. there are around residential areas. so facilities such as the electricity stations, power stations, water station have been, had many residential neighborhood said that they've been out of power for 4 days
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now. out of running water, they're running out of water to drink. many of them also say that they can't get to the hospital or to any hospital to be able to seek medical attention. so it is quite a dire humanitarian situation for those civilians were caught up in the middle and the battle between the rapids support 4th and the food in these army. can you tell which side is winning between the army and the rapids support forces? well it's very hard to tell. both sides are claiming that they have the upper hand . when you look at the areas where the fighting is happening, the very strategic locations, including the general command of the army and the presidential palace. both sides claim to have control over it, but we've seen the rapid support for releasing, for a showing that they are inside the airports. that's some of the area where there's been intense fighting over the past 4 days. there's also the rest of the country to look at the rapids. support forces were in control of matter. we air base, but this morning the army said that they were able to weekend control. that's
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another area where there's been intensify. thing that looks like, while one side is gaining grounds and getting the upper hand, the other side is making gains in other parts of the country. and it's very hard to tell at the moment. who exactly is the winner? right. have been morgan reporting from cartoon. thank you very much. shortly after that cease fire was supposed to come into force the un under secretary general for humanitarian affairs, martin griffith, sweden, the targeting. if humanitarian workers and facilities continues in sudan, we are receiving reports of attacks and sexual violence against aid workers. he added, this is unacceptable and must stop. misread the same lives in cartoon with her husband and with her young baby. and she told elza beer that she has not left the house since the fighting began. a lot of houses around us, including us, are running out of supplies and, and food, especially that most of the food that we keep in fridge went off. it's 40 something
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degrees here and living for 4 days or no, you never know hope for true. just revived. we are all now sitting in a room. the reason of the house where it is almost no windows. that's why it's really dark and her floor for the babysitter. so it's really disturbing for their mental health because they keep paying a bumps we keep running around the house and it's the 4 day for the day we're, we are, you know, come person quarantine actually with, with extra worried that like jumped over house to cause it happened in many cases where they just throw a bump and it missed the target and went into someone's house. there is a lot of going where both major doors are saying
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informed of yourself and behind it. i think are the limitations are making of the year unless we really pieces fire. i love think we will be moving out. i personally prefer that we live from hunger and we die from bullets and from their bumps and normal home. and she is the spokesman for the executive secretary of the regional block. he gad, he's calling for a cease fire. and for dialog, you got to read that with the united nations and they become new and rick update to try and make him that has been trying to facilitate talks in sudan. and this talks have always been attended by, by all disadvantages tickled us, including the outage stopped. so there's nothing new here under saddam, if the chair or gutters are very special and important member set
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that to do, you're going to addition feels very strongly about about being done with the people who don't. so it's not the interference. we are very optimistic and this lead us high in touch with us in capital. so it's just a question for a time and to know that, you know, we're talking about, she's fire sufficient or facilities protection or for should be just i'm re time to dialogue here we are not condemning anybody. does any good lead us? i just working in the interest of the people so that the interest of the region and global this. ah,
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the other news now us journalist evan girl coverage has lost an appeal against his pre trial detention hearing in moscow. the wall street journal reporter was arrested last month by russia security services on espionage charges. washington says he's being wrongfully detained. dorsen jibari reports from moscow. the 31 year old made a court appearance here in the capital earlier on tuesday, and his attorneys were hoping that he would be able to be released on bail. but so the judge denied that request. now he's been taken back to the 4th to vote detention facility where he will remain until his trial proceedings begin. the lawyer for evan curse, cabbage pointed out that they will continue to fight, to try and get him released on some kind of a bill. even a house arrest would be something they were willing to consider as well. they say that he's maintaining his optimism wall in prison and that he will continue to
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fight and maintain that he's innocent. and he's pleading not guilty to the charges he could face up to 20 years in prison. here, if he is found to be guilty, and russia has opened up a new criminal case against the opposition leader and criminal critic alex, they devonie. this is the 10th criminal case, filed against him on the as already facing up to 35 years in jail. the new case accuses him of disorganization of penitentiary institutions. after a confrontational confrontation in his cell, the valley was taken to hospital last week with his spokeswoman saying that she suspected a slow acting poison was behind his severe stomach pains. poland says it has reached a deal with ukraine to restart the shipment of ukrainian grain into its territories . the 1st batch of green imports is expected to arrive on friday. several european nations including slovakia and hungary, half suspended grain and other food imports from ukraine. they say cheap,
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ukrainian grain is driving down prices for local farmers. police engine as you have arrested, 3 prominent officials of the main opposition party hours after detaining its leader and raiding its headquarters. as she knew, she is a main opponent of president case said, who has been accused of orchestrating a power grab after he suspended parliament in 2021. iran con has more hastily arranged news conference denounces the arrest of rashid galucci. he's one of the most vocal critics of tennessee and present case side gunner, she is an order party, has joined forces with others in opposition to call for his release. oh, the congress, others love the rest of russia. the new she is an intensification of the policy of abuse and targeting of political opponents. and this is one of the many stages that preceded it, including targeting activists and politicians. his daughter says the arrest is a political witch hunt since the crew. my father has it and he says 9 times,
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some for interrogation, which you willingly accented himself. i. 9 times for lake re key, literally motivated than happy get charged. and the rest warrant accuse is glenitia what it calls inciteful statements. he was brought in for questioning, while police searched his home on the orders of the public prosecutor. several senior opposition figures had been arrested in recent weeks. they accused president side of a qu after he suspended parliament in 2021 and moved to rule by decree. before rewriting the constitution, 81 year old rashid gunners, he had been in exile in the 19 ninety's and returned during the turn is in revolution of 2011. since then, he's faced repeated rounds of a judicial questioning for party finances and allegations of foreign terrorism charges he and his supporters deny him wrong. hon. oh, dessert still ahead on al jazeera,
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you're watching l 0 reminder of our headlines at 24 hour c spire between the warring sizes sedan was supposed to come into effect an hour ago. but there is still gun fire and shelling in parts of the capital car to both sides accuse each other of breaching the cease fire and civilians in the country have been painting a dire picture of the humanitarian situation. hospitals are overwhelmed with the injured and running out of supplies. food and water are also becoming difficult to source. us journalist haven't got a convention last in appeal against his pre trials attention that i'm hearing and moscow the wall street journal reporter was arrested last month. they rushes security services on us charges. now a defamation lawsuit against fox news has started in the u. s. state of delaware. the closely watched case was brought by dominion voting systems. it is seeking $1600000000.00 in damages. the company is accusing fox of knowingly erring false
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claims that is voting machines where use the rig the outcome of the 2020 election in favor of joe biden. mike hannah reports. as lawyers gather, there's a lot at stake. not just the $1600000000.00 damages claimed by dominion, but also the nature of the protection supported by the 1st amendment, which provides will freedom of the press. in focus on 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 in its allegations. it also needs to prove that the media company knew the claims the wrong, but continued 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,
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if the jury satisfies 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 internal communications within fox had been made public in legal documents. these appear to show that the company's hosts like laura ingraham web, 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
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supporters who us villas, delaware, superior court judge eric davis has already ruled that fox on air personalities and executives will have to testify including the company c o, rupert murdoch, and his son and fox co chairman laughlin, who dominion alleges, knew 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 out 0 washington. i want to take you back to our top story now the fighting in sudan all day. we have been speaking to civilians, especially in the capital cartoon to paint of accurate picture as we can of what is happening there. well, how lead side lives in court to me and he joins us now. he has the fighting stopped, where you are, how you doing. it's now i have
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a message blackout since 2 hours now. even if i can join you to do or video goal. so this is a situation for the bus 40. we are going to have even the basic needs. we don't have the troll, we don't have water, we don't have electricity. it's, it's, it's a, it's massive a common carrier need. you can describe the feel in the eyes of the civilian. so you can't imagine how is it so beautiful? and are you, are you close to the fighting? is there a fighting going on around? you? are you here? 5 is a fire maybe from way where i leave it. it's only 500 or 4 kilometers from here. you can all day, you can hear the gun fires. you can hear the cross holding above you. there was the seas fire for the next 24 hours. it should be started. am local time,
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6 pm. but now you can still now we can hear the aircraft hoping and there is a gun, fire fired and bonding. it's, i don't know, they didn't respect what, what they said. i understand you told our team that you ventured outside your home to try and get water. can you explain to us what that was like and i know you sent us the video. yeah. we, we have yeah. send the videos. this is the regular time, regular process. we don't know days. we have to go through the lion. it's kilometers from here. and we have to collect a 2 tanks. we can collect water from team, from wealth neil, denial. and then we go back to the neighborhood and we distribute them to the civilians and did a charity we did you feel safe doing that? what did you say when you were doing that?
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we do. we do it only on the daytime. we can do it like it's safe and the civilians uneven. how do you get civilians to distribute the water? this is a, this is a neighborhood. so we call them before we go there, and they bring their there and they will bring the water to then we call them the forward so they will find them ready to collect their water. and is it fair to, is it accurate that people no longer have running water? i assume that's why you're doing the for how long for the for days we don't have water now. is this all of core to more? is it just certain areas? most most living in hotel north or to north, we don't have water for it last saturday. what are you doing for food? food, we have reserved food, but some of the market it's open and they open only on the daytime. but
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our, there is a problem with the bread because they don't have life feet. i don't know how long it's going to hold it. how do you get information on what is happening around the city? so the social media, we are totally isolated all the day. we are sitting in the, in our home with our children, and we can hear only through media and social me, social media, even. we don't have the local tv. we don't, we don't have any media. holliday. thank you so much for sharing your story with us . and we wish you, well thank you. thank you very much. lebanese security forces of fire and tear gas to disperse protesters outside government offices in beirut. hundreds of demonstrators including retired soldiers rallied for better pay as the country
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grapples with a years long economic crisis. the value of the lebanese lira dropped to an old time low last month. the government is now expected to discuss raising pensions in tuesday's cabinet meeting. a serious president, bashar assad has met with the saudi foreign minister fi. so been $400.00 sold in damascus, prince by sales visit is a significant step towards ending serious decades long regional isolation. this is the 1st by a saudi official since the start of the country civil war in 2011. last week, serious foreign minister pfizer mcdonough visited saudi arabia, replacing human workers with robots equipped with artificial intelligence. that's the theme at one of the world's largest trade fairs. the hanover method in germany . companies see it as a solution for current labor shortages. but concerns are also being raised a steadfast and was there to find out more neat spot, the robotic dog, who can save lives in disaster zones where humans can go, are you me
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a virtual assistant for factory workers powered by to fit your intelligence? and then do this by unit pneumatic arm that can help patients. we have tape or assist the elderly, but mainly it's been designed to replace human labor. we are doing industry industrial automation. there's placing part from a belt into a pallet or something like this. easy, simple things in our world today, you don't find stuff anymore. it really cannot really replace a human being. but it relieves human beings that they are free for the more complex tasks which only humans are able to do. more than $4000.00 companies are displaying the latest inventions and innovation at the hanover, massive, large businesses and start ups are all competing to use the green sources of energy and most climate neutral technologies. this is the so called by you on excel factory. it's resigned using technology with natural processes. the machines take c
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o 2 out of the air and with the help of artificial intelligence, 1st that into a bio mass from natural l. u which then can be used, for example, as an energy source or as a food supplement. new technology is meant to make the world better and safer and many, using artificial intelligence like this vertical farm where a i, it's used to optimize the quality of every single leaf. but big conglomerates like german giant, siemens also have concerns about the rise of a. i especially for personal use, check up with you, but it's developing so far. we need to make sure that we also balancing the benefits and the dangerous. the good thing is if you apply a i in the industrial environment, it's not your personal data. it's, it's industrial data which you work with. so i think a i in the industrial space will be safer than actually in the consumer space. german chantelle love shown open to tracy. i got with indonesia,
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president joke. we don't indonesia, this partner country to attract german investors to produce batteries using it's large nickel reserves. summer we have discussed industrial downstream in an energy transition box with ports wagon and other general companies about green energy and direct your car batteries. battery technology is one of the fastest growing market worldwide and a dominating theme at the fear. but visitors are mostly captivated by the new developments in a i like this machine that can learn how to pick up any small object, a robot that can do what it's maker calls for ring work. step fashion, houses era hanover to the galapagos islands. now where there's been an exciting new discovery, deep under the sea, stephanie decker has more on that. a newly discovered ancient, under water world. it may not look like the vibrant, colorful coral of times past. but these are said to be in perfect condition and
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exciting discovery by a scientific expedition off the coast of ecuador as the galapagos islands. no m a think on throttle. we have not found reefs of this type in such extensive and developed deaths. they are at least several 1000 years old if not more, and are in pristine condition, which is very important on the global level. many of the deep systems are degraded for hundreds of years by different types of human intervention. the reef is around 2 kilometers long and 400 meters deep and hosts and abundance of marine life. the discovery was made with the help of this deep sea research submersible called alvin, which goes down hundreds of meters. now spend any day, sorry, martha said it's allows us to know more about these unknown habitats, as we all know, is very difficult to obtain information for more than 40 or 50, or even 60 meters. deep with these tools or this technological equipment will be able to access this information on the florida. the discovery is the 1st of its
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kind inside the galapagos marine reserve. it's believed this reef has been here for many centuries, supporting potentially unique marine life deep under the ocean surface. and far away from our damaging actions. stephanie decker algae 0. all right, and that is it from me, cyril vanya, you can buy more information on our website, alpha 0 dot com, next weather, and then inside story, which examines the political unrest in nicaragua, 5 years since the crackdown ah off we go with your weather update from the middle east and africa. thank you for joining in. here's his story in saudi arabia. impulses of rain toward the west, central areas, just the other night. we had sundry downpours in mecca,
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lit up the night sky. and i think we'll see that continue on wednesday when said backed off through the golf, but at times those winds are coming out of the east. so that is bumping in the humidity is feeling hot and humid in doha, on wednesday with the temperature of 31 degrees. landslide in northern pakistan. and still the rain is falling over top of that same area on wednesday. we've lost the showers though for kirsten. who's becker's stone and to g cost on so you're temperatures will slowly come up in the days to come in time. still showers in the mix for western turkey. that includes is stumble at 16 degrees and enjoy it. will squeeze out one more hot day in cairo. before those northerly winds knocked down the temperature by about 10 degrees. biggest pulses of rain, i think along the coast of nigeria, cameroon, equatorial guinea and gap on. as we go toward the south, a high fire danger through the northern western and eastern cape provinces in south africa. and we've got some showers pushing into that east coast of madagascar. also see some showers, an antenna, and a riva with
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a hive. 25 degrees on wednesday. okay, that's it for me. i'll see you next hour. take care. ah, the inequality corruption, repression and re the political. it just decided to cost to the piece of cake and sure. i want to get a job commentary to explore the desperate stage of democracy in lebanon a through the eyes of those who are losing hope every day. our dreams becoming blue, what democracy maybe democracy for sale on al jazeera charge per session is banned in nicaragua. the latest clamp down by president daniel ortega as the seats to prevent anti government on race opposed by the us and accused of human life exist. ortega has also moved closer to china and russia. so what's next.

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