and similarities of culture across the world. so no matter why you call hand al jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that mattie's out is there. ah a another attempt that a sees foreign sedan with the army and the country's largest power, miniature group a battling the power. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is officer a live and go are also coming up escaping the violence in saddam's capital. thousands trying to get out a car to the fighting continues. a stampede and the yamani capital kills at least

76 people gathered to receive food and donations. and survivors of the worn ukraine tested why, of the u. s. capital as politicians hold a hearing on allegations of russian products. ah, people in saddam not bracing for another night of violence as the latest cease flaw agreement falters thousands and a capital law fleeing for safety as a power struggle between the army and the power military. rapid support forces continues. at least 270 people have been killed and thousands injured in 5 days of fighting, even more than wraps up the days. events. explosion and gunfire shake hard to despite, as he's far announcement the fighting between the sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forth, it shows no sign of the thing. the humanitarian cost is rising. hundreds of

people have been killed and thousands are injured. health care services have been brought to a standstill. after heavy bombardment, hospitals and clinics are closed, leaving patients, untreated ambulances have been targeted, preventing them from reaching the wounded and special of darma had though the doctors had to evacuate all the cases except the cases inside the intensive care units. there was a shortage of stuff medicine and oxygen. the hospital is witnessing a shortage in many things. even the doctors we have left the streets are eerily quiet. people say they're afraid to leave their homes. they've been dealing with straight on fire. others have been assaulted. honda dos, man's mother was killed by shrapnel. it was i should have had a house in the living room trying to take shelter over there. when a sudden mercer of land, they're dry dock side their house, and she she call one of the shop knows that came from the mortar and died

almost immediately with no pos to the violence. sudan could face a growing hunger crisis. 3 attempts at her cease fire for people to be able to leave their homes and stock up on basic necessities have failed. and in the 1st hours of the 4th attempt, heavy artillery fire can be heard in parts of the capital. many have lost hope of the fighting coming down soon and are now focused on finding ways to leave her to him to safety. those who do venture out are trying to talk up on basic necessities . the violence is a power struggle between army chief i've been for the hon and ma'am attendant, a gallow who commands the rapid support forces once allies. now the 2 generals disagree about when and how the paramilitary units will be integrated into the armed forces. the last barrier in the ship to a civilian lead. government model got a little how long the dust all the dreams of the youth and the sudanese,

that evolution illusion that started peacefully. his now became a fight. i'm disappointed both general say they're committed to the transition agreement and are blaming one another for the escalation. just 2 weeks ago, there was a sense of hope that long running negotiations had succeeded. but now sudan once again faces an uncertain future. hey, bill morgan, all to 0 to me. entrepreneurs, mom at the time has more now on the situations in the streets of come to where the fighting near hard to the airport has subsided. after explosions and heavy weapons were heard in areas for do away. like here in this street and the atmosphere is lively, as many people come out to buy goods coming down. the street is also used by some to get out of hard to reach the state of medina. and while usually full of people in market many now want to leave this area. when many people who live in the

neighbourhood have been forced to move to other neighborhoods, such as almo mora and southern cartoon when i come, however, fighting is getting more intense in some areas, such as around the university far to students and professors have asked to be rescued and evacuated to safety and to see the new army says have done. but in other nearby areas, the sound of military operations can we heard along with bullets being fired. most people are moving in back street is they're afraid of coming onto the main ones. we saw one of the rapid support forces vehicles in some of the sudanese army in strategic military operations during the last 2 days have mainly been carried out in the evening of if that's because they are trying to avoid staging operations during the day. as the sudanese armies air force is superior people in hard to fear for their lives and are afraid of falling victim to looting or being killed by a stray bullet. but they're clearly,

we're angry about the situation here and wanted to and as soon as possible for being a sharman is from doctors without borders. she says they're struggling to treat the injured at this moment. so it must have been sudan providing life saving, impartial, medical care. but at this moment our team cannot move. we are just stuck in the conflict as it confirms also there is looting in one of our premises in for on 16th of april. so we don't have any supply at this moment that we might have around the week of supply to run our hospital. but after that we don't have any other supplies. there is no possibility to move. there is no possibility to move supply as well as our team is quite dark. we are all ready to respond. but at this moment, due to insecurity, our team is not able to move at all. also in our shop we received around 220 wanted patient, you know, our hospital among the 34 unfortunately died. yeah,

there is limitation of supply. we could not do any supply for us. due date yesterday we managed to do some stocking, but it is not adequate enough. we need our supply, we need safety for staff to able to move and go to the head. when he says at this moment is not possible. so if it continues, we don't know how the future looks like. we have a limited stop. we could run at least our, some of our premises, but we don't have unlimited storage. my drawn out in a day or 2 at this moment is not very clear. but how many follows from the terrific institute for middle east policy? he says many people in the capital trying to flee to safe a part of the country. we sometimes need to move out how to, to go to a nearby to get looked at. because we have not worked in the pipelines, i've been cars for the past in the past. have been cut for the full base as we need to go out and get that in addition to food supplies. and so,

and i would have been seeing a lot of vehicle with, with people and some clean the city of high school, but also people on foot. people just getting some lily and walking and trying to find a way to transport, to city. we have also videos, i knew so many families who are too many of them managed to need safety but a lot with. c you know or even as they. busy types of people are trying to get to a neighboring states as well to downtown, to know who would even say where these to say anything to me at face the pool. and there isn't as much as i think going on as the movement of your me or the thing is since july, you know, and i was location i like we mentioned as the military and courses

and locations. busy where the support source is, i mean the g location. we've been to that for it also seems a lot of a violence these days. but people yeah. trying to get to neighboring states that anything for them at the moment, for the fight against the down is threatening to worse and already dire situation. the un humanitarian office has nearly 16000000 people will need assistance this year. that's about a 3rd of the population. and more than 3000000 who have been forced on their homes need help about 4000000 children under the age of 5 and pregnant women are acutely malnourished. and as many as 11700000 people don't have enough food to eat. well, martin griffith is the un under secretary general for humanitarian affairs. he says they have to shut down a program that provides a to 60000000 people. people are moving supplies are being looted. we

don't know what stocks are left. we've all heard about the terrible situation in the front line, hospitals, 16 down in khartoum, and 16 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, a program, the 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. 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

lock it off and they need to do what they say they want to do, which is to respond to the needs of the people. and without that, without that one credibility can they have. we learned about the 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 in terms of the supplies that they need. nor do we know clearly about whether they have moved, which is what people do when they're in distress. ah, more than 70 people died in a stampede during a charity handout in yemen, capital hundreds of people in santa had gathered to receive financial help and food over crowding. then lead to a crush authority, 5 shots to disperse the crowd, which witness to say it a nearby generator causing an explosion. after months of lobbying, ukraine has received its 1st

u. s. made patriot missile system. ukraine's defense minister says the delivery will make it skies more secure with the ability to defend itself against russian ass strikes. patriots can target aircraft and missiles distances up to 150 kilometers. both chambers of the u. s. congress have been holding hearings to discuss allegations russian troops have committed war crimes and ukraine. cranes, prosecutor general, and that cost in testified that ukraine has registered almost 80000 cases of war crimes committed by russian troops torture chambers. we have discovered approximately 20 such locations and even more a local detention facilities. all were 1000 torture chamber survivors submitted their evidences, survivors to report that russian forces subjected them to different forms of abuse . including beat inc with sticks and robert bade dunce use of electric shocks. what a boarding, stripping them make it threats of death or mutilation,

and others political hanging as more on those hearings from capitol hill. a fairly unusual hearing here at capitol hill because it began by showing a video from ukraine, interviews from people impacted by the war, and some rather graphic video, the carnage in the streets of ukraine. now, this is happening on the house of representatives. this is a part controlled by the republicans. they called this hearing. now it's interesting because while the vast majority of americans say they support giving continued, hg crane in some republican circles that started to waiver. so this could be seen as a sign that some republicans are try to send a message to their own membership and their own voters. the most powerful testimony came from a woman of 57 year old accountant from ukraine. she detailed for the committee members. what she says happened to her in care san put yamuna, belatedly. usually they took me to the torture chamber. i had kept me there for 5

days. this was terrible. i was beaten. they forced me to undress, cut in my body with a knife, and threatened to rape and killed me. the committee also heard from my ukrainian lawyer who was representing a 16 year old boy, and she says was forced into russia eventually, making its way his way back. she said about 20000 children have been forcibly displays from ukraine into russia. now the committee also heard from the prosecutor general detailing what he says is going to be about 80000 documented cases of war crimes that he says he's going to need help prosecuting in the years ahead. and some of the members of this committee also took the opportunity to say, this is the time for the bite administration to give ukraine heavier weapons. and they can all not only just site the war, but actually when it calling what's happening there, a genocide particle haine al jazeera at the u. s. capital. russian state media is reporting that ukranian forces of killed 20 civilians and back moot where fierce

fighting has taken place some months. rushing back forces claim retreating, ukrainian fighters attacked for residential buildings 2 days ago. the reuters news agency says it's unable to independently verify that port time for a short break here now to 0. when we come back beach museum, government cuts, public water supplies to deal with a severe drought. why some say the restrictions? let me add to the growing crisis, and we look at why the site of beached humpback whales is becoming more common from the u. s. atlantic coast mortgage status. ah ah, let's get going with your headlines for the americas. thank you for joining in while temperatures have fallen rapidly in the southeast of brazil, so weather alerts in play of which was how quickly temperatures have come tumbling

down. there has been flooding in ecuador pay, drew, and i think we may see some renewed flooding in columbia. we see that weather around the northwest corner of brazil, off to central america. and the biggest concentration of rain has really been centered along the bahamas rate through cuba. and haiti, and that is set to continue on thursday. check this out for the u. s. we've got this warm feet of air coming up through the gulf of mexico that's clashing with cold air, rushing off of the rockies. so we're going to see storms anywhere from texas right up to the mid west. and our biggest threats here will be some torrential downpours, running the risk of hail as well. and can't rule out a tornado. now to the west, i think we're going to get into some blizzard conditions here through north dakota . manitoba province in canada, could see about 40 centimeters of snow. by the time it's all said and done, it remains wendy. off the coast of the pacific northwest and western canada and for the desert southwest. here's a look at your forecast on thursday when the sun in los angeles with

a top temperature of 26 degrees. and now you're in the now we'll soon take care. ah, the latest news, as it breaks over the years from has been the target of numerous lawsuits and criminal investigations. but this time is different. we detail coverage, although many countries are speaking to do the defenders. of course, we all know jennifer want you to be independent from around the world. it's an indication of how relying benjamin netanyahu is on support. all right, the plans for the so called national guard have suddenly beat lou.

ah, welcome back. a quick reminder on top stories here, this another see why agreement in saddam has faulted the 4th one. since of bonham past couple began. gunfire and explosions were heard as the sudanese army and the rapid support forces are miniature group battle in the streets. and thousands of people in saddam now fling the capital seeking safety in other parts of the country . at least 270 people have been killed and thousands injured in 5 days of fighting . more than 70 people have died in a stampede. during a charity handout in yemen, capital hundreds of people have gathered to receive financial help and food authority spot shots to dispense the crowd, which witnesses say it a nearby generator causing an explosion? now saddam's army says it's taken control of the meadow away international airport to the north of capital cartoon. it's been one of the flash points and fierce fighting al jazeera as a sama army is bear with me. no, not a law mother,

we are the only. we are inside metal we international airport, where there have been fierce confrontations between the sudanese army and the rapid support forces labeled with the army has confirmed. it is in full control of the airport. nolly. 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. merrily international airport has strategic importance. it is a civilian airport, but also hosts a military base. now it's destroyed and communication has been interrupted. all navigation and communication systems that linked to the airport to the outside world have been completely destroyed. johnny's authorities say they detain 12 people in connection with a fire to hospital in beijing at least 29 people died. most of them elderly patients. jessica washington reports from beijing,

beijing people resort to extreme measures. to escape the fire that engulfed a private hospital. some climbed out of the windows using bed sheets as ropes, others balanced on air conditioning units clinging to the sides of the building. and those who were able, leapt on to nearby roof tops, as the flames got dangerously close. oh, oh, a fire broke out in the east building of the impatient department of beijing trunk flung hospital, causing significant casualties. and a we feel deep remorse and acute. most of the victims were elderly patients. the average age was 71. this is the worst fire in dating in decades. hospital say they're treating dozens of people for burns and smoke inhalation. with some in a critical condition, police are investigating the cause of the place. according to a preliminary investigation, the fire was caused by sparks generated during the renovation of the inpatient

department, the sparks ignited combustible paint at precise authority. say those responsible will be held accountable. ah, oh, after investigation 12 people, including the director deputy director and head of the general affairs department of beijing chaplain hospital. the person in charge of the construction company, the on site construction personnel, a suspect date of major responsibility accidents. the suspects have been detained for questioning, while police investigate held place that is meant to provide care for the sick and elderly, became so dangerously unsafe. jessica washington, out to sierra beijing. an elderly man in the us state of missouri has pleaded not guilty to shooting a black teenager. andrew lester is charged with 1st degree assault. an armed criminal action. prosecutor say he shot raphael in the head an arm after the 16 year old went to his house by mistake. rallies had been held in argentina's capital

as the unemployed and workers march to demand more subsidies on the national government comes as industry leaders in the country. se inflation. you could easily reach a 140 percent this year. what price is margin tina arising every day and people are struggling to cope. farmers are among producers scrambling to adapt to government attempts to prevent a deeper crisis to read a book report. this is held them i made this make their living him. when aside, if he exports goats to other parts of the world last month for the 1st time in 3 decades, the country's inflation rate increased more than 100 percent in a 30 day. that seals in there is lots of instability in the prices we pay and transport food and grass and different exchange rates. the government implements it gets very complicated. argentina has also been implementing exchange rate controls because of a shortage of dollars. people like this,

i paid at the official exchange rate that is much lower than the market value of the dollar. the government has been applying different exchange rates for different sectors to encourage producers to sell their products. the latest one is known as the dollar agro, that will benefit the rule in sector in this country. the main objective is to help replenish this countries impoverished coffers. but most people say that this is a temporary solution that won't solve argentina endemic economic troubles. bet this says the government measures are not enough but if he. a if he, i want to focus this only benefits a small group of people, there are so many dollars that i have lost track. it doesn't help small producers like us, but the big ones. and those involved in large agribusiness, the government is trying to grab dollars money in any way they can. i top exposure for in coin, the countries dealing with a historic drought. it is having a huge impact on the economy, complicating access to foreign currency,

enforcing yet another round of negotiations with the i m f over $44000000000.00 loan over there, mark, you know, there are problems that worry us very much and we inherited a huge debt with the m f, but we were conscious to include a closet if the coming situation changes for reasons outside politics. that we will have to rethink the program. and that's what we're doing now. with poverty rate on the rise and financial in the letty economy, see the situation could easily deteriorate in the lead up to the elections. in october, i see a risk of a situation getting worse, the like a finance, inflation brochures, their degree of distortions that the goring have to engage in order to postpone the adjustment has been getting deeper. argentina's productive sector is struggling to cope with soaring inflation, drought, and political uncertainty. for now, it seems no measure will have the impact that people in the country urgently need. that is, i will antecedent when aside,

as the french president has been heckled during his 1st public appearance since controversial pension reforms were signed into law. oh, during his visit to a factory, nelson region protest as demand that the manual macro resign some work as briefly cut power inside the facility. under the controversial pension plans which has spot fierce protests to retirement age has been raised from 62 to 64. beaches in government has been shutting off water supplies overnight in the capital and several other cities in an effort to conserve water. north african country is suffering from a severe drought and dam levels are shrinking. utley reports this has become part of somalia been up the love daily routine. the government has switched off water supply over night in an attempt to reduce consumption. though in the i have

a tank to save 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 does someone who doesn't have a tank to? it's part of tight restrictions, including a ban on the use of drinking water for every gating farm land or garden that are expected to last until september. for the past 5 years to nija 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 selim the largest is only 17 percent false. it was a head in the currently we have reached the red line or the danger line in terms of water cassidy. the dams are almost empty. sonton indians blamed the government for not raising awareness about the importance of saving water. i have us is that i

think them, you know, after shutting off the water for 6 to 7 hours a day, information should have been published about consumption storage. and the amount allowed to be stored. their restrictions have prompted farming unions to warn of catastrophically poor harvests this year and are adding to the already 10 situation caused by poor public services, high inflation and a weak economy. lena wallclear al jazeera, the european parliament is approved, abandon imports linked to deforestation. the landlord legislation includes coffee beef, soil, palm oil, and wood companies that sell goods and the e you will have to prove their products will not grow on land, deforested after 2020. the move has already spot a backlash from some countries, malaysia and indonesia to choose the u. a blocking market access for their palm oil . now, scientists baffled by a string of wailed debts along the us east coast. several males of blaming offshore

energy project saying the noise created by wind farms could be a factor. but marine biologists on so sure. kristen salumi reports from new york. it's an arresting sight. a 32 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 lot less. and we normally get maybe one a month, dr. joy ryan burke is an expert in whale anatomy and 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 hum 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 walk up or as a result of so nasty to pursue. oh, and really the problem with that usually is that the whales that are washing up on sure don't have a game south. so the idea that he sounds with the story of the whales is not so making a lot sense to some of his biologists. 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 much the fact is, live hot back sightings, have also been on the rise. widen. berg says, and 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 ports. kristin salumi al jazeera new york. ah, courts, africa took up the headlines on the al jazeera, another ceasefire agreement in sedan as faltered. the 4th one since a violent power struggle began. the sydney's army and the rapid support forces, power, miniature group of fighting in the streets. even morgan has more from cartoon from the very 1st minutes of this fire, which was supposed to thought that around 6 p. m. local time back.