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is delta 0 world tells the story of edgy her architect of the modern lebanese state, the soldier statesman, honor jazeera. under cover reporting, i worked with exclusive stories, explosive results, al jazeera investigations. ah, several hospitals are forced to close and so don's fighting takes a heavy toll on health facilities. doctors say they are struggling to treat the injured ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up at least 29 people. mostly patients are killed and a fire at a beijing hospital. 12 people are detained as the cause has investigated. a record
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breaking hate. why is affecting large parts of asia from india to china. to thailand's today represents a ringing endorsement for truth. and for democracy and fox news settles a defamation lawsuit filed by voting machine company ah, the fighting in sir dom that spilled into a 5th day despite a cease fire is taking a heavy toll on medical facilities. hospitals have been destroyed, people can't access doctors, ambulances can't move safely, and basic drugs are hard to find. sedans, health ministry says 16 hospitals have been forced to close in khartoum state. it's warning the number is likely to rise. some clinics have been bombed, while others have close due to a lack of supplies. sedans,
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doctor's committee says it's struggling to treat the injured special apartment. had this i had with the escalation of violence and security tensions. the doctor had to evacuate all the cases except the cases inside the intensive care you saw that there was a shortage in stock medicine and oxygen. the hospital is missing a shortage in many things. even the doctors we have left let's go live to have a morgan in cartoon for us here, but we'll get to the damage done to the health infrastructure and just a moment. but 1st can you just bring us up to date with, with the fighting? is that this morning has that face fire been completely ignored at the stage? while in fact, from the very early hours of wednesday, we were able to hear heavy artillery being fired. we can hear 5 projects flying overhead. and just to give you an idea of how intense the fighting is right now,
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we're seeking shelter in the basement of the building because of the heavy to artillery that's being fired around the central part of the capital tomb. the sudanese army released a statement in the early hours of wednesday saying that the fighting is mostly concentrated around the vicinity of the army headquarters, the general command of the army. but that's been the scene of heavy heavy fighting for the past 4 days as well. it looks like, while the army says it is in control of, of those major facilities. the command of the, of the, of the army looks like the rapid support forces are also trying to gain control. then there's the airport to the scene of heavy fighting from the very 1st day from saturday in the early hours of the morning, a fuel vapor at the airport was truck. and many residency they can see black smoke rising from around the vicinity of the airports. flights have been cancelled at the aerospace have been closed since saturday. many people in the country say that they want to leave, but they don't know where to go to because of the intense fighting which is right now, mostly concentrated around the capital, hurt on this is obviously having
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a massive impact, like we've heard on the health facilities they can you give us an idea of just how dia it is for the doctors and nurses simply trying to do their job and save as many people as possible. doctors and medic, schools have been giving update on what's going on with it with regard to the medical facilities from the very 1st day of the fighting. now we know that over 180 people have been killed since saturday over a 1000 and have been entered. but many people can't access medical facilities because they can't leave their homes. but when it comes to the structures themselves, the medical facilities, the doctor's group say that some of them have been occupied by our groups. and so they cannot operate. they were forced to leave patients and intensive care even if they were forced to leave. most of their belongings and come out of the hospital because of our armed groups occupying them. then there's the, there, the hospitals that have suffered intense shelling hospital like unfair bail, which is at the heart of the capital her to me and not very far from the vicinity
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of the general command. now the hospital said in late hours of tuesday, that it had sustained a partial shilling and that most of its patient had to be evacuated. but the critical cases that they cannot evacuated, but they're out of medicine. they're running out of basic medicine that they're running out of fuel because they're operating on generators, and that they need medical staff to come and assist them because of the huge needs that the hospital is facing. this is just one hospital in the capital. how to several other hospitals have reported that they have sustained shelling and that they can no longer attend to the patient in need of medical assistance or in the same. so thank you so much about that. have a morgan for us and hop tune a holiday. osman is an engineer who lost his mother, doctor nog, holly hum out and how to me when fragments from shelling hit her home. he joined us from silverspring, maryland. first of all, i just want to pass on el, sincere condolences to you and your entire family, and thank you very much for joining us on al jazeera. first of all, can you just tell us a little bit about the circumstances of your mother's death?
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thank so much for your thoughts. words and my mom. my mom passed away on the 16th of april the morning of sunday at about 7 36 in the morning. she was actually housed in the living room, trying to take shelter over there. when i started mercer land, they dried oxide their house, and she she called one of the shop nills that came from the water and died almost immediately. my dad was with her at that moment and he's a doctor as well. he is a guy in ecologist and he was trying to perform 1st aid on her sadly sh. our head was to severe as her injuries are still severe to say and she passed away immediately. i'm so sorry to hear that if you will, father gone back to work because we know that there, you know, this is turning into a health emergency as much as anything else with
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a shortage of doctors and facilities to actually care for, for others. do you know what he is doing at this point in time? that's what i keep hearing as well, but it is, it was almost impossible for my dad to bring my moms body. i thought of the house of the hospital because they never just showed him people randomly over there as much as i heard my dad. it was like his house with the windows broken and everything. i'm glad somebody shattered it. couldn't leave the house with because my brother, my sister is over there as well. and we're not able to leave the house at all. then we heard your mother was an extremely generous a woman. can you explain what type of doctor she was and how her patients will remember her? my mom, my mom was an angel. she was, she was so compassionate. she loved her patients. she loved everyone. she never spoke ill of everyone or anyone. one day i was with her in the hospital
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and i remember one of our patients not just want actually several of them. they didn't have enough money to pay for the consultation or anything. so they would just bring her small bags of gift of like lemonade or, or glove or, or any kind of fruit or like just a single item. she would never turn away and the patient and she always like worse and patients with a smile. and she was, she was so kind, she would get to the friend angel and go in through twitter on the social media. and just in the words of the people that wrote anything about her, there was just a lot of people. i didn't even know their models that i said, don't know them, but they would get a lot of people say in their condolences. yeah, to my mom. thank you john. thank you so much for joining us. and once again, our sincere condolences to you and, and your entire family. thank you. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i just want to remind people to stay safe in charlotte and they indoors. i my mom was
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a martyr and hopefully and shot unless you will be in heaven right now. okay. holly osman, speaking to us from silverspring, maryland. thank you very much. which was in use and a hate wave is moving across southeast asia, pushing temperatures to record levels. in india, at least 11 people died of heat stroke. this week, schools and colleges and some provinces have been closed, or bangladesh is seeing its highest temperatures in almost 60 years and seasonal rains have so far failed to appear. regions across china are reporting record i pro highs and many wild foss with the hottest mumps of the years. still to come in thailand, the mercury surpassed $45.00 degrees celsius for the 1st time ever. on friday climate experts there will need extreme hate and trout may last for months. we're going to go to tempe chantry who is coming to us from the bank, the dish,
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a capital of deca. and is there any respite at all there? at this point in time 10 piss well, the web notified really there is no rain. the monsoon season now officially started in the middle of this month, april and there is no site of rain except for a little bit of rain. and i'm not this of the country other than dan, it's been dry, heat wave all across the country for last 2 weeks, temperature raising, as you just mentioned, over 40 degrees in some parts of the country. the capital city itself experience $41.00 on last sunday, which was one of the highest since of almost 60 years. now this is a month up or i'm done in a muslim majority country, most people are fussing from duster done, and it's become very challenging, particularly for the working people. those working as rich tripler day laborers and in the industries. also people living in the slum with chain wrote a lot of internal migration due to the impact of climate paper from coastal areas
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migrate to the urban areas. that's a major challenge in the urban city like doc off, which has grown grown since $198.00 is, is to be 17 parson greener is now it has barely 2 percent green. it is in the city . lot of it is man made intervention. lot of the canals on the wetlands are grabbed by land grabbers for river surrounding the city are narrowed down to grab by land grabbers making the climate much more eventful because of this and heavy traffic concrete building and paper radiate hates making it extremely difficult. now, because of the monsoon people load normally get respite during this time, but we haven't seen that. the farmers are worried because there's no rain that could threaten their agriculture production. the government said that by 2040 the total working hours could be lost as much as 5 percent cutting into 4.9 percent of the g d p. so it doesn't recognize by heat stress is a major challenge,
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particularly in the are been areas. almost majority of the people by 2050 would be living in cities across in bangladesh. so the climate change does have an impact. we have seen died in recent years. i have your psych long's, and wrapped frequent flood in the country. so much challenge ahead for the country to deal with climate impacts. okay, thank you so much timothy it. it's tended chantry for us in the banquet ish, capital deca. but for more on the gateway this spring, an al jazeera meteorologist road macau. we know the worst over things just facing out. i think you got an id from tanveer. it's gonna get worse in some places, but i should big place. i mean we expected the pri monsoon heating in india anyway . in fact, india and pakistan will see temperature rise, but not as fiercely this year as i did last year. by the dash was the surprise in that it hit 40 degrees for the 1st time in about 58 years, 40.6 in fact. and you don't expect any relief from the rain just yet. but wait till
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may we have a look at that in just a 2nd. but the real he that she's been around for a bit longer and a bit further east in for example, talking thailand on a friday on saturday. i think it's probably been saturday. the 45 for the full 1st time ever been recorded in the country and he's not just thailand, is true in me and mark as well. it's also been reported this morning as of yesterday, that louse has reported this highest every temperature, 42.7 old time national record. so this part of asia has been extremely hot and that spread across into china. now last year, china had virtually no significant rates as a drought problem. however, dr. problem may be relieved in place has been given that the, you see, the clarity is to the east and this is flooding is result in food young. but rain is not falling where the heat has been, which is basically just is to see a few more showers built in the sky. and i have to say, tom in may, you get huge thunderstorms in bangladesh as will be cooler. but they're dangerous
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thunderstorms, of course. thank you so much. thanks for all at least 29 people have died in a fire that in gulf part of a hospital in beijing. on tuesday, some patients had lucky escapes from the flames. many took refuge from the blaze on air conditioning units outside of high level windows. the fire broke out in a wing, caring for the critically ill and chang thing. hospital. the cause of the fire is not yet clear, but an initial investigation points to flammable painting material. 12 people including the hospital director have been detained. or still ahead on al jazeera, we hear from exiled nicaraguans as anger grows of a president annual or take his crack down on opponents. plus the palestinians band by israeli forces from worshiping at alex and moscow pounds without a court decision. ah,
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with and the coal when the still blowing in northern europe off the dorsey bring in this cable, which means for england is disappointingly cloudy. most of the time after say, scotland gets the best of the weather. and this is true of all of western europe when the winds in this general direction. clearly in central eastern europe, it could have a different story anyway, greatly of cloud and the blue represents rain is quite a strong wind into northern partisan northern germany. but there are areas opening up in the middle. so 11 degrees in vienna, for example, will change the animal will much 16 or 17 the next couple of days, as the breeze lightens in the skies open. 17 is the average for vienna never goes in closing on this. the opening up means that the weather's moving away from vienna . and his co incidentally going to produce a lawful of spring snow in the alps or rain. if it low levels, for example in midland. but all this time go wants exists in spain and portugal,
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particularly southwest and spain. civils not as high as it has been, but it still well above average, only slowly cooling. as the rain comes in by saturday. life have consequences. over 2 years ago, a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm to dominion in the country. today's settlement of $787500000.00 represents vindication and accountability. fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion that cause enormous damage to my company. our employees and the customers that we serve. nothing can ever make up for them. there was no immediate comment
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from the fox lawyers. the company instead released the statement saying, we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false. this settlement reflects fox's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. foxes avoided what could have been an embarrassing cross examination of its high powered anchors, who dominion claimed knowingly supported baseless lies. the chairman of fox, rupert murdoch, who in private emails acknowledged that his network had in his reporting, was also spared the possibility of having to admit this in the dark and $7000000000.00 in damages and a public acknowledgement that the network knowingly lied. mike, hannah, august era, washington, the united nation says is concerned about reports the us spied on key you in officials including secretary general antonio, antonio. good,
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cherish the you in says such actions. go against basic obligations for all members really of this month. and the end of the us, if for the national guard, was accused of leaking top secret, military intelligence records online. the documents detailed the extent of us spying on it. severe threes and allies knew what moscow court is to choose day to consider an appeal against the 8 and a half year prison sentence of russian opposition. activist i la gaston, he was convicted of this criticism, the russian army under a law introduced after the invasion of ukraine nations sentence centered around the series of social media posts on alleged atrocities committed by russian soldiers in the town of bush at last year. the russian and ukrainian presidents had visited some of their forces with both sides, ready for a potential spring. an automatic weapon fire, the sound track to a city back moot still on the sea. is fitted released by ukraine's small remaining
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group of fighters, now largely encircled by russian forces. an arrow so south ukraine's president, valero, may zalinski meeting and greeting exhausted men with military metals and heavy expectations. notably in them, she was watched. it is a pleasure for me to see you. shake your strong hands and know that you hold the future of ukraine in your hands with no grain lose his office also really ending on into a 16th month. oh, meanwhile, in russian released footage president vladimir putin greet subordinates flanked by security. no sign of either his defense minister or top general on this rare trip to russian occupied territory. security concerns kept them at home. the kremlin says to avoid tempting the enemy a command center, his makeshift meeting room, mat blurred and walls camouflaged. he tells senior officers he wants their feedback
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more than a year into a conflict where russian forces have publicly scale down several strategic goals. where for me, it is important for me to listen to you to hear your views, to compare notes. i would like to begin your report about the situation in care san area. there's a parisian area. see you later in the course on region reads the sign ukraine hope's a counter offensive in the coming weeks may precipitate a more permanent departure. the remarks al jazeera, a deal has been reached to resound, the transit of ukrainian ground through poland for export abroad. the 1st batch is a jew on friday and will be sealed and monitored to ensure they don't into the polish market. several european countries, including slovakia and hungry, have suspended grain and other food imports from ukraine. they say cheap grain is driving down prices for local farmers. hundreds of palestinians are not allowed to
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enter the alex and mosque compound because of ban orders. the forms are issued by israeli forces without a court decision. and human rights group say they are part of ongoing collective punishment against palestinians. missile soda reports from occupied east jerusalem . a sunny day in occupied east jerusalem. but the closest 100 the hell of on a can get to it is by standing behind is bimbo. her home has become hurt. prison. she is on the house arrest because he's read or told it is claim she protested. israeli occupation forces storm in alex on mosque. lennox unfolded. i was born in jerusalem. let us issue orders prohibited palestinians from entering alexa mosque without a court decision on what they say are security grounds. the benz cabdriver need an extend law which regulates a situations of occupation, is rarely forces put firm security measures around alex
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a compound in this last days of from them all. non muslims are bare. the access, many palestinians here are under constant surveillance. they say occupation forces not only restrict access to place of worship, but also deliberately undermined a sense of normalcy by imposing extreme measures. when older nationalists, israelis make incursions into alex almost compound there, protected by israeli occupation forces, who sometimes force palestinian worshippers out of the mars. those who do not leave orphan beaten and arrested to minimize such resistance. israeli occupation forces issue been orders. the 9 palestinians, the right to with alex, a mosque is lambs, turret, holy, a site, listen, selda al jazeera occupied is jerusalem. nicaragua has bought the e use ambassador after the block condemned water, cold, systematic repression of descent by the government. president daniel ortega has
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been accused of cracking down on opponents since 2018 when hundreds of people were killed and many more in prison during anti government protests. now, riots campaign a say he's using a new tactic to silence as critics al latin america editor, lucy newman, reports to me to, to get a hold flanked by chinese allies. nicaragua, as president daniel ortega mocked international critics, was on the eve of the 5th anniversary of a failed national uprising to demand his resignation. credit, which is not the eula they look now. they're inventing that there are more political prisoners. so i tell those governments, along with the united states, wasn't understanding least of the so called prisoners. and we will send them off to you, you know, in fact, many of the prisoners attended an anniversary mass in miami this week, or to have to let us go. but he's afraid he's afraid of our boys. he's afraid of our id. yes. and the only steve that he was able to do,
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because he had 2 winners to kilos. the only thing they do is it's, it's driven off from our nationality, big tourist non citizen, which is a measure that is 2nd only to, to death is actually civil that are data is now offering to send more political prisoners whom he calls terrorists into exile. several of them are catholic priests, including a bishop centers 26 years imprison, but who is refusing to leave. although i think i is a catholic, he suspended ties with the vatican last month. when pope francis referred to him as a dictator. even nuns, belonging to the order of mother teresa of calcutta, had been expelled, and more than $3100.00 and jose have been shut down. i tens of thousands of nicaraguans have also fled the country. this based on the resume brings the 1st memories, but also an amendment to go to meal for the struggles to liberate whilst and for
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all nica lamb bring democracy back. this will take appears confident that he can remain in power as he prepares to receive another powerful hour rushes for administer surgery lab rod, who scheduled to arrive in managua. laser this week. to see a newman al jazeera live and indonesian fishermen have been rescued from a tiny island office, tried us with coast after surviving almost a week without food or water. their boat was caught in a powerful fight loans 6 days ago and washed on to bidwell islands. a border surveillance plan spotted the group and lifted them to safety. another indonesian fishing boat court and cycling ayla sank in the same region last week, only one of his tin crews survived. a competent skeleton of a torino service ricks dinosaur has fish more than $6000000.00 at auction in switzerland. it's silly for me is high and made up of 3 different specimens found
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in the us. the fossil.

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