about 3 part people empower investigation into a complex, secretive world. 2 journalists go in search of the italian mafia dirty money. the launderer part one on a jazeera. ah. the 4th attempt to told him a c spy in sudan in 5 days of fighting has just come into effect, will be live from cartoon. and the sudanese army is seen celebrating as it takes over an international airport after days of fighting the rapids support forces. ah, bottom prego is the whole robin. this is out there a life from doha also coming up. taps run dry and tin is here. as the government turns off, water supplies during a drought southern asia as well as an a record breaking heat wave is cancelled

classes in some parts of india. ah, welcome to the frog or we start in sudan. we're yet another cease fire attempt is supposed to have come into force. just a few moments ago, the rapids support forces announced the troops earlier on wednesday, but there was no public response from the army. 3 previous cease fire agreements have failed to stop the power struggle between the army and the paramilitary group . at least 270 people have been killed and thousands injured in 5 days of fighting as cross over to him. morgan, who is falling of henceforth from khartoum. i suppose. everybody holding their breath right now here. better hope that this cease fire will hold i'm not sure if you can hear the sounds around me, but that's the sound of intense heavy artillery being fired. and this is the 1st

few minutes of the 4th attempt over the fire as the fire that the army, by the way, did not respond and did not say that they are taking part. and so obviously, despite the fact that the earth, if announced that there will be at 24 hour halt in fighting, there is still intense showing happening around the vicinity of the presidential palace and around the vicinity of the general command. now the army in the early hours of the morning announced that that's the scene of heavy fights in the vicinity of the general command. and it's been the scene of fighting for the past few days since the thought of the fighting on saturday. but in the afternoon, the unproductive statement saying that they are in control of the general command of the headquarters that's been bite upon by both sides trying to take control of the artillery exchange between the rapid support forces and a sudanese army ongoing around the vicinity of the presidential palace and around

the vicinity of the general command of the army headquarters. and this is the 1st few minutes again of a sci fi that was supposed to be happening for the 1st time and did not happen to cease fire that people have been waiting for because they've been trying to get out of their homes and try to get basic necessities, necessities that they did not have because they were not expecting the fighting to happen on saturday. indeed, and as we continue to hear that to artillery shelling periodically through the since the hippa with you. fighting has continued through the day and not just in the capital, but across the country. just bring us up to speed with sort of the salient hotspots of the day. while yes, while citing has been concentrated here around the center of florida and the capital city. there has been an intense fighting in b as city of meadows. this is where all these tensions started. the are army announcing early on that they have taken control of our meta, we air base there that has been exchanging hands between the army and the rapid

support forces over the past few days. but the army announced this afternoon that it has taken complete control of the matter we air base or in the northern part of the country, about 350 kilometers away from the capital. but there's also fighting happening in a da da for region. the western region of dar for which is already suffering from 20 years of conflict. our. we do know that in the city of nella, there has been intense looting and a lot of our fighting between the rapid support for us as anderson, denise army. we also know that there has been fighting in be in the northern part of our ford north and our for an old fashion. there has been fighting as well residency in those areas in the western region of dar for said they've already been displaced by 20th of conflict. and this is causing further trauma to them. following the war of dar for of 20 years. her phoebe just a short time ago that we can hear again yet more shelling, where you are. doesn't sound too good. a. just a few moments ago on the news are we spoke to martin griffiths, the under secretary for humanitarian affairs,

and the emergency relief coordinator for the you and talking about the problems that medical staff have tried to get to facilities or those that are stuck in or in locations where the medical supplies have run out, what are you hearing in terms of what sir medical staff are saying to you, what people are telling you about how difficult it is to get medical help. while the doctors are think it's very difficult to operate. they're saying that the situation has been quiet, died from the very beginning, that they were operating on minimum staff because most of the doctors had not arrived to the hospital when the fighting started. and that they were running out of basic supplies that they were already facing was it shows teachers l power cuts, and that the medical medicine that they need for the patient was running out over the past few days. now we have heard from some doctor in the past couple of days that some hospitals have been used by armed groups as a base. so they were forced to evacuate the hospitals, the hospital of fitzgerald,

which is around the vicinity of the general command of the army, has suffered intense shelling on tuesday for think them to evacuate their patients as well as doctors leaving the ones in intensive care unit. behind they say that they are running out of water, that they, that the fuel for the generators, but better operating or operating at critical levels. and some point they're going to need more fuel. but that would not be possible. then there's the issue of south themselves. they say that they're also running out of staff to care for those who are left behind the patients left not intensive care units and neonatal intensive care units and of the renal dialysis centers. so the, the need for human and the medical needs is quiet dyer. many hospitals have gone out of operation at least 19 hospital in the capital over $35.00 around the country . and medic said that that number will increase as fighting continues. and as more and more hospitals become targeted, hipaa, thanks very much for the update. of course, we'll continue to chat with you when it's safe to do so. throughout the day. thank you. i will, has hippa just mentioned, where are we international airport in the north sit on has been one of the front

lines and the fighting. we all be has now taken control of the facilities colleges, arrows a salma, emmett has more. no, not a lot more thought mother. we are the only we are inside a middle we international airport where there have been fierce confrontations between the sudanese army and the rapid support forces. people to the army has confirmed it is in full control of the airport. the only, as you can see, the soldiers are showing us. some of the military vehicles destroyed in the fighting. the 2 sides of used all sorts of weapons in their confrontations. windows and doors were shattered by gunfire. all the middle we international airport has strategic importance. it is a civilian airport, but also host a military base now which destroyed and communication has been interrupted. all navigation and communication systems that linked to the airport to the outside world have been completely destroyed. the finding incident threatens to worse waters already being a dire situation. the un humanitarian office as about 15800000 people, roughly

a 3rd of the population will need assistance in the country this year. there are 3700000 internally displaced. people who need help around 4000000 children under 5 and pregnant women are acutely malnourished. and as many as 11700000 people don't have enough food to eat. well, alley martin griffiths, who's the under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, who i just mentioned to hippa says that they've had to shut down a program that provides humanitarian aid to 16000000 people. people are moving supplies are being looted. we don't know what stocks left we've all heard about, the terrible situation move frontline hospitals, 16 down and in khartoum. 60 more. ready to to shut down to which you know, what i want to say very strongly today. is this? yes, we want to get back to the humanitarian aid program, but right now,

the focus has to be relentlessly and with anger. on the fact that people are forced into this lockdown across the country. i cannot begin to imagine the circumstances that those people are facing. what degree temperatures ramadan, fasting, close to eat? food stops, running out. no medical supplies says father, don't work. as one message that we all believe i am sure to take from that is these 2 gentlemen. the 2 generals in charge of these 2 battling forces need to knock it off and they need to do what they say they want to do, which has to respond to the needs of that people. and without that, without that, what credibility can they have? we've learned about 60000000 people who we know where they were before saturday and we knew what they needed before saturday. now we don't know what is available to

supplies that they need. nor do we know clearly whether they have moved, which is what people do in their distress. well, joining us live now from call to miss dr. isa. how many he's the secretary general of the sudanese american physicians association. could tell me where the live on the program. can you just tell us exactly where you are in car to me and what sort of situation your in thanks for having me. i currently am in the southern area of to him city. just around the sports city where all the classes adopted initially on saturday morning. the situation now unfortunately continued to be dire, continue to stream the bag. the crashes between the air from the, from the st. continue on daily basis despite the agreed upon 24 hours to

fire that it started yesterday. we continue to hear the sounds of heavy machinery and fight strikes, getting in the morning of today. so the situation is continued to be guarded and great. unfortunately, in terms of the medical facilities that you have seen or been at all the medical personnel that you're talking to, what sort of injuries are they experiencing in terms the people coming to the facilities to those hospitals or clinics. and i'm back a do worse to situation right now, is the medical situation. the injuries are different starting from this superficial increase. i don't feel boats going all the way to say to injuries from bumping from fighters jed from attack helicopters, or don, tie fighter jets missiles, the situation. the medical facilities in the hospital is extremely bad to today

that are 174, dest. i'm about a $1041.00 cases of injury, money civilians that's on the civilians, not included the ones from the army. today that i stated that just today i was 59 may get on the since you last, but i was going to my nobody states that i 9 out of service. that is 66 percent of the major hospital facilities are out of service completely for various reasons. out of those 9 hospital 9 would attack and bon bonded and 16 were forced to shut down due to lack of medical supplies, medical personnel and led to the city. that is no guys for the gym at a physical. those hospitals are mobile. megan hospitals had expected probably to shut down in the next 24 to 48 hours that

a 5 ambulances that have been attacked, and we're not allowed to transfer the injury to the hospitals. so that's the biggest news right now is for medical personnel say 5 for the medical supplies. and also the same for the egypt themselves to go to these hospitals. we spoke to martin griffith just a short time ago who is the under secretary general for humanitarian affairs. he's talking about trying to get aide into the country. if you're talking about the fact that medical facilities having a problem even trying to get the injured to hospital, it seems that those supplies will run out soon. if they don't come in from another source. absolutely, absolutely. that's the major concern. you know, there are some supplies in various, you're starting across her to state or even outside of cartoon estate city, the medical physician association,

that we have close to 1500000 worth of supplies and ports to that right now. however, we cannot get them to, to the state because of the safety issue of time as part of the supplies. so even if we get this applies to her issues, how we can distribute them safely to these hospitals and ensure that they won't get attacked while bad on the way to the hospital on the same applies to the injured to be medical personnel that a fate of the lives to go to the hospital, some of the medical personnel that i know personally, they have been locked in that hospital or medical facilities for 4 days right now. they were not able to leave the hospital. unfortunately, ultimately they would get exhausted and they were burned out and they won't be able to provide any services today. unfortunately,

will continue to monitor what happens with the it's very good to speak to you and get a 1st hand account of what's going on right now. dr. isa mohammed, thanks so much. to out there. a senior political analyst. well, bush, ara says, the fighting is self serving with civilians paying the highest price. we are at a crossroads again, whereby the military is now facing one another. and by the way, we've seen that also over the last many decades, is when there is a coo and a successful. they become distrustful of each other and they turn against each other. we've seen it before. i mean, behind the tragedy is a bit of a travesty of repetition of more of the same as if anything will change when we all know it will lead to more of the same bad results for the country. so they squeezed that the civilians out, they trying to take it on to themselves. now they're fighting it out. and in the process, we know for

a fact that they have no vision. they have 0 vision for the country. none of them have presented anything over the past 4 years. not even like there for the assessors in sudan and in different parts of their world. when, although they were military and they did not do well, at least they had a vision of sort. what is the vision of generals amid the, and general eberhart? none. so really in fact, even when this fighting ends and hopefully it will end soon because otherwise the country will implode. that so done will need a truly national army, many one that represents the people. and one if that is subject to that dick that stood the governing to the ruling of a civilian government as it should be. ah say that he's known the united nations plans to hold tools to discuss grunting

recognition to have got his old taliban. you and deputy secretary general amena muhammad says that engagement could lead to holding the group accountable for its actions. james base has more from the united nations. one woman's rights activist has told me she's seizing about the latest developments. so european diplomat said, this is not what they understood was the you ends position. what we know is that there's going to be a meeting of special envoys to afghanistan that will take place in doha, in the next couple of weeks. and that meeting is going to be chaired by the secretary general of the united nations, antonio terrace. we also now know from a speech that was made at princeton university by the deputy secretary general abena mohammed that there in the early stages of discussing the idea of offering recognition to the taliban. we hope that we will find as baby steps to put us back on the pathway to recognition. is it possible and no recognition of the taliban. a

principle recognition. in other words, there are conditions. i mean, you know, let's see. let's see what that does because that discussion has to happen. i mean, there are some that believe this can never happen. there are others that say, well, it has to happen a recognition. yes. the taliban clearly want recognition. and that's the leverage we have. the recent decision by the taliban to ban female you and staff from working afghanistan, has caused a real concern here, united nations headquarters. and it's interesting, in addition to the comments from the deputy secretary general, the head of the u. n. development program recently raised the prospect of the un pulling out completely from the country. james bay's outages era of the united nations well still had here on al jazeera why the site of beach humpback whales is becoming more common along the atlantic coast.

ah ah, i think we'll have a few more days of big shout developing again in java insurmark trip and it's amazed. malaysia. and, borneo, this is correct for this time. the air but the, the depths of the shower, the heaviness of the moving around. it looks a lot try now you'll notice in the philippines and apart from one or 2 showers in thailand, laos and cambodia still fairly hot, and schubert heartland human and more human than it should be. but the rains come in for china. go shore during thursday, so it'll go through hong kong. concentrate in taiwan. then curled up towards the far south of japan where it just catch you may be. but for the most part, it's warm and sunny in japan as it is in pleasure. malisha has been a cold or wind come across beijing, beijing's down to 15 degrees, and that's generated rain all way down through western china. not everywhere. and

touches in beijing would probably rise after friday, but in the southwest corner where you see couldn't means forecast temperatures 30, that's near a record high. and that heat exists right across as you know, into bangladesh in the northern point of india. but it's now being tempered there are showers slowly building to clean bangladesh will eventually become quite big. but the immediate future for the nolan plane of india and northern pakistan, these showers both understood to be around for 2 or 3 days and will bring the temperatures down. ah ah fit them and i got a bit of the whole result that. ah,

lou ah, look back here watching old is there with me, the hell robin. a reminder of all top stories, gun foreign explosions, continue to be heard in the sudanese capital call to despite the announcement of a new c spar that was supposed to begin this hour, at least 270 people are being killed and fighting between the army and the power military rapids support forces. the violence is taking a heavy tome of medical facilities in the capital that he 9 out of 59 hospitals in and around coffee have been forced to close. over 2600 people have been injured in

the pharmacy in the united nations plans to hold talks on discussing grunting recognition to i've got a sounds taliban government. the or the deputy secretary general says engagement could lead to holding the group accountable for his actions. both chambers of the u. s. congress are currently holding hearings to discuss allegations of war crimes perpetrated by russian troops in ukraine. patty calhane has more from capitol hill. it's been a fairly unusual hearing for capitol hill. it began with the committee playing a fairly graphic video with interviews from people from ukraine video showing dead bodies. and they did warned that it was going to be very hard to watch. and in fact, it was then they heard from the witnesses, the 1st was a 57 year old ukranian woman and accountant. she said she tried to open up a small hotel into your san when the invasion happened. she said she was in her home, and russian soldiers came and took her to what she called

a torture chamber. here's a little bit of what she had to tell congress. she, she, she teacher horrible. in january of this year, they came from me that took me to that torture chamber and kept me there for 5 days, cutting my body with a knife and threatening to raped me and kill me. she also went on to say that they took her into the back field at put a gun to her head and actually made her dig her own grave before releasing her. and she was able to escape too occupied at ukrainian occupied territory. another thing that somewhat unusual about this hearing is where it's being held. the support among americans is very solid for aid to ukraine, but it has begun to falter in some republican circles while we're on the republican side of the capitol. they control what's heard here. so this could be seen as the republicans sending a message to their own as to why this aid needs to continue. that it is in government has been shutting of water supplies, the capital on several other cities in an effort to conserve water. now the country

is suffering from a severe drought. the water levels of dams is shrinking in a barclay has more this has become part of so may have been on the la daily routine. the government has switched off the water supply overnight in an attempt to reduce consumption. though in a mom to have a tank to face water and i put buckets in the bathroom and kitchen. look what i do when i want to do the dishes. i fill bowls with water and use it, but what to someone who doesn't have a tank to it's part of tight restrictions, including a ban on the use of drinking water for irrigating farm, land or garden, that are expected to last until september. for the past 5 years to nadia has battled a severe drought. the ministry of agriculture and water resources says, not one of the country's 30 dams is even a 3rd full authorities. estimate water levels in some dams have dropped 60 to

80 percent. cd solemn, the largest is only 17 percent full weather had in the currently we have reached the red line or the danger line in terms of water casting. the dams are almost empty. some to new genes blamed the government for not raising awareness about the importance of saving water. i have actually should i take them after shutting off the water for 6 to 7 hours a day. information should have been published, a book consumption storage, and the amount allowed to be stored. the restrictions have prompted farming unions to warn of catastrophically poor harvest this year and are adding to the already tense situation caused by poor public services, high inflation and a weak economy. lena wallclear al jazeera, no heat wave is making a se, asia in india, schools and several states have been placed. while in thailand,

health officials have issued warnings to people to stay at home to avoid heat stroke. teddy chang has more from bangkok. ripple is in bangkok celebrate the tiny new year with water fights that tradition amongst the beginning of the rainy season. but this year brought record temperatures. 45.4 degrees celsius, a new high even for a country accustomed to hot weather. outside the grand palace, a temporary respite from the heat for the birds and lots of umbrellas, but not a drop of rain in sight. i think it is a little bit hotter this year. it's very hot this time of year and new way. the rainy season will come in a month or so, but this period is hotter than the rainy season. the heat ways being filled all across south and southeast asia, bangladesh, his capital duck reached temperatures of 42 degrees celsius hotter than has been in decades. not so bad for those who can afford to retreat and doors into the air

conditioning. but potentially life threatening those that count while millions across the region of feeling the heat, there's little governments can do knowing exactly where a wonderful bob lation is and how to create measures that reviews and mitigate. the impact that we have we have on them is actually quite difficult to do in rural india, average temperatures of 5 degrees higher than usual for this time of year. agricultural workers have little choice when it comes to working under the glare of the sun. and even if they can find some with a shelter, their land is baking. it is the temperatures have gone up considerably in recent years. earlier, it would never go above $37.00 degrees celsius. now it goes up to $45.00 degrees. the heat is extremely house. my body's d hydrated need water. so do my cross. the heat is so bad that even if you irrigate

them, they are still dry. with the mercury rising, everyone's watching the forecasts and hoping for rain here and bank all the temperance is of gone down through a relatively cool 37 degrees. the question now is going to be when the monsoon rain stars, if they don't come soon, it's going to be a long on some. tony chang out a 0 bangle. so scientists a baffled by a string of wild slowly us east coast. several massa, blaming offshore energy project projects. but marine biologists also show kristen salumi reports on from new york. it's an arresting sight, a $32.00 ton humpback whales stranded on shore. but what used to be a rare event is happening with increasing frequency on the atlantic coast. at least 16 have been found so far this year. 9 of them off the coast of new york and new jersey. that's a long list. and we normally get maybe one a month dr. joy ryan berg is an expert and well anatomy volunteers with the marine

mammal stranding network. they, under the auspices of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, examined the whales to determine their cause of death. researchers 1st began noticing an increase in hm bagwell das, back in 2016 of the ones they examined. human interaction could be blamed in 40 percent of the cases that includes shipping strikes and fishing that entanglements . the research is ongoing, but some local lawmakers have tried to blame seismic studies done for offshore wind development, which has been scaling up to reach the u. s. government's clean energy goals. one, where was the one who were as ru, oh, oh, oh, so i to pursue, ah, yes, 0. and really the problem with

that theory is that the whales that are washing up on sure don't have a game to sound. so the idea that the sounds with disorient whales is not, not making a lot of sense to someone who is biologist. nevertheless, she and others are still looking for evidence of everything from damage to wales, ears to toxic food sources, and changing migration patterns. notice how the fact is, live hon back sightings, have also been on the rise. widened. berg says an improvement in water quality may be bringing them closer to shore, and the increase in death may simply be the result of more whales looking for food near one of the world's busiest shipping port.