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another attempt at a ceasefire in sedan with the army and the country's largest power, miniature group of battling the power. ah hello, i'm darned. jordan, this is al jazeera alive from della also coming up escaping the violence in sedans . capital thousands tried to get out of cartoons the fighting continued stampede and the yamani capital kills at least 70 people gathered to receive food and donations and survivors of the one ukraine testify at the u. s. capital politicians hold a hearing on allegations of russian warcraft. ah, people in savannah, bracing for another night of violence as the latest cease fire agreement fault,
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it's thousands in a capital law flew inc. a safety as a power struggle between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces continues. at least 270 people have been killed and thousands injured in 5 days of fighting. even morgan wraps up the days of s. explosion and gunfire shake hard to despite, as he's far announcement the fighting between the sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces 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
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units. there is 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 really quiet. people say they're afraid to leave their homes. they've been dealing with streak on fire. others have been assaulted high, the dos man's mother was killed by shrapnel. it was i should i had house in the living room. try to take shelter over there. when a sudden mercer of land, they dried oxide 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 violin. sudan could face a growing hunger crisis. 3 attempts at a 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
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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 rapids 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 higher, the dust all the dreams of the youth and the sudanese, that evolution illusion that started peacefully. his now became a fight and 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. andrea mama,
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the tire has more now on the situations in the streets of car to where the fighting near, hard to main port has subsided. after explosions and heavy weapons were heard in areas for do away. like here in this street, the atmosphere is lively. as many people come out to buy good, the street is also used by some to get out of hard to him and reach the state of medina. and while it's usually full of people in market many now want to leave this area. when many people who live in the neighbourhood had been forced to move to other neighborhoods, such as on mom, laura and southern are to him when i come. however, fighting is getting more intense in some areas, such as around the university far to him about students and professors have asked to be rescued and evacuated to safety. and to see the new army says has guns. but in other nearby areas,
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the sound of military operations can be heard along with bullets being fired. most people are moving and back st. is they're afraid of coming onto the main was 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 heart to him fear for their lives and are afraid of falling with him to looting or being killed by a stray bullet. but they are clearly, we're angry about the situation here and wanted to and as soon as possible, sabrina sherman is from doctors without borders. she says they're struggling to treat the injured at this moment. so m as had been sudan providing live, saving impartial medical care. but at this moment, our team cannot move. we are just stuck in the conflict him as if confirms also
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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 stock. we are all ready to respond, but at this moment, doing security team is not able to move at all. also in our shop we received down 220 wanted patient, you know, our hospital among them. 34 unfortunately died. yeah, there is limitation of supply. we could not do any supplies for us today. yesterday we managed to do some stocking, but it is not adequate enough. we need our supply. we need safety of our staff to be able to move and go to the premises at this moment is not possible if it continues. we don't know how the future looks like. we have
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a limited stop. we could run at least our, some of our premises, but yeah, we don't have unlimited storage. my drawn out in a day or 2 at this moment is not very clear. well sorry, the little cottage from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. he described the humanitarian crisis unfolding incident. this was unimaginable. we cannot proceed. neither do we believe it is happening. the currently, the humanitarian challenge is that the current conflict is causing, is unimaginable. you have a population of almost 6000000 in hard to my lawn that, that now stuck in their houses with very little, very little water and lack of access to health system. and this is basically, people are in their houses with families that it cannot even feed or provide for daughter. provide health services in a small way able to support like volunteers who are trained and able to do walk or currently supporting within their vicinity where they can be able to. but most of
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the the communities of people calling for support, calling for evacuation. we are not able to reach them because of lack of security and putting both. the volunteers is south of the red, red crescent, but also the people they want to help patrice to say the to, to they help system. i stick in a big, i mean for me, of course, just coming out of it before that there was demonstration before that there was the notion. so the health system has been constantly put under pressure w, just supporting and others supporting. but at the moment, weight is going, you have a health system that is already over, but then you have stuff that are not feeling secure and the what and you have a health system that is not properly fine and provided with adequate medical supplies. the lack of water, electricity, no doubt. so you have a system that is totally over straight. and if it does not get the necessary
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assistant to support, it will collapse. ah, 2 months of lobbying, ukraine has read this 1st us made patriot missile system, ukraine's defense minister says the delivery of patriots will make ukrainian skies more secure, with the ability to defend itself against russian air strikes. patriots can target aircraft and missile the distance is about 250 kilometers on both chambers of the u . s. congress. holding hearings to discuss allegations that russian troops committed war crimes in ukraine, grains, prosecutor general, and that i crossed and testified that ukraine has registered almost 80000 cases of war crimes committed by russian troops torture chambers. we have discovered de approximately 20 such locations and even more unlawful detention facilities. all
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were 1000 thought your chambers, survivors submitted their evidences, survivors to report that russian forces subjected them to different forms of abuse . including beating with sticks and robert bade dance use of electric shocks. what a boarding, stripping them make it threats of death or mutilation, and others particle haine as moron has 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 american 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
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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 you manette, blissfully you. they took me to the torture chamber and 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 kill me. the committee also heard from the ukrainian lawyer who was representing a 16 year old boy, which he says was forced into russia eventually making its way his way back. she said about 20000 children have been forcibly displaced 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,
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this is the time for the biding ministration to give you crane heavier weapons and they can all, not only just fight the war, but actually when it calling what's happening there, a genocide particle here al jazeera at the u. s. capital natalie 70 people of die than a stampede. during a charity handout in yemen, capital hundreds of people in santa had gathered to receive financial assistance and food over crowding. then led to a crush authorities fired shots to disperse the crowd, which witnesses se hit a nearby generator, causing an exposed will. mohammed al, our top joined us live now from summer mohammed. so what more details do we know about this stampede that is according to the ministry of health, the said that the at least $78.00 people got killed because of this time paid and also the electric shock. they also mentioned that the dozens of people been also
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injured. 13 of them have serious injury the require medical and vertical interventions. so this is a tragic incident. the, the, the ministry of health have sound ambulances along with the security forces in order to chick and, and also to inspect about the causes of this incident. the, the president of the supreme political council for the government said that the v a, he called for an investigation until the, the incident also he has called for preventing any, any, any future incidents forces similar to this one. so this is the, the, this is a travel incidence that happened to 8 o'clock in the night. people poor people got together in the, in the distribution center for distributing financial
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assistance for poor people. there were hundreds of people there waiting to receive their financial assistance. this, this is the really has plus sparks nationwide, angry among cable. this incident is the 1st of its kind to happen specially the, the last 10 days of the month of ramadan. and also i had of the aid for the federal mama just briefly. there are reports that some of the merchants who organized these challenges, handouts were detained. what more you hearing there? yes, according to this folks personal, the analyst, the interior ministry, he said that the 2 merchants have been detained. or because of this incident or the, the are calling on the mentions in order to in they, in case the want to distribute their financial assistance. they should go to the minute the government, a ministry,
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and that the to which is the one or who should distribute assessor to people. usually immersion, so distribute by themselves as the have the, the, like the trust of the government thereby themselves mostly there. they also divide the money between the government and also for money that the would like to distribute by themselves in order to reach the poor people and the people who are in need. so this incident, that sure would, would require wardwall sold to put her and maybe food as a candidate for distribution of a do that are around 17 peer 1000000 people are innate for assistance in yemen because of the die because of the ongoing war and yemen. ok, mom adela, up there in the jamini capital of summer mohammed. thank you. right. time for a short break here now to 0. when we come back, sweltering and record heat. global warming fuels higher than average temperatures across china and southeast asia and measuring the arctics melting. i scientists investigate just how fast climate change is impacting the north pole monitors.
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find explosions were heard of the sudanese army and the rapids or forces are miniature group battle in the streets. thousands of people in sudan are fleeing the capital, seeking safety in other parts of the country. these 270 people been killed and thousands injured in 5 days fighting a more than 70 people up died in a stampede during a charity hondo. from yeoman's capital, hundreds of people had gathered to receive financial help and food authorities spot shots to disperse the crowd. witnesses say it a nearby generator causing an explosion? now the united nations plans to whole discussions on granting recognition to the taliban in afghanistan, un deputy sector general. let me to, mohammed says engagement could lead to the group being held accountable for its actions. diplomatic editor james bass has more from the united nations. one woman's rights activist has told me she's seizing about the latest developments. european diplomat said this is not what they understood was the u. n's position. what we
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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. busy chair 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 of being in mohammed there in the early stages of discussing the idea of offering recognition to the taliban. we hope that we will find the baby steps to put us back on the pathway to recognition. is it possible and no recognition of the taliban. a principal 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 the police this can never happen. there are others that say well it has to happen. busy been one recognition? yes. the taliban clearly want recognition. and, and that's the leverage we have. the recent decision by the taliban to ban female,
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you and staff from working afghanistan, has caused a real concern here, united nations headquarters. and it's interesting this, 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. now record high temperatures have been recorded across southeast asia, china and other parts of the continent in india. schools in several states have been closed, and temperatures in thailand of chopped, 45 degrees. for the 1st time, health officials, they have one people to stay in doors to avoid heat stroke, turnage and reports from bangkok. o ripple as in bangkok celebrate the tiny new year with water fights, the tradition, the monks, the beginning of the rainy season. but this year brought record temperatures. 45.4 degrees celsius, a new high, even for
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a country customs to hot weather. outside the grand palace, a temporary rest buy 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 hot there this year is very hot this time of the year. anyway. they're brand new season will come in a month or so, but this year it is hot, they're down to rainy season. the heat ways being filled all across south and southeast asia, bangladesh is capital darker, reached temperatures of 42 degrees celsius hotter than its been in decade. 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, the feeling the heat. there's little governments can do knowing exactly re a wonderful population is. and how do i create measures that reviews and mitigate the impact of a heat wave on them is actually quite difficult to do in rural india,
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average temperatures a 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 somewhere to shelter their land is baking. it is again a present though 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 harsh. i bodies d hydrogenated only to water. and so do my crops. 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 of the temperatures have gone down to a relatively cool 37 degrees. the question now is going to be, when did the monsoon rain start? if they don't come soon, it's going to be a long of summer. tony chang, al jazeera bank. climate change is affecting the arctic quicker than the rest of
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the world does. according to scientists at the wells northernmost year round research station, a team is now a place to collect critical data on how glaciers are melting in the region. san diego reports. it is a race against time, and the elements. scientists are searching for clues on how the arctic is changing and what effect that will have on the rest of the planet. close to the north pole in the west, in small but archipelago. the effect of climate change is noticeable by the glazes melting ice cause. and the signs are a cause for concern. we do not expect per saw. so you to water flux coming out from the glacier. and this is a clear sky and know what's happening in this region saw there that the temperature rise in the glacial suffering. and div yeah, that is really, really said the town of ny allison is located in one of the harshest environments
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on earth. and is the hub for harvesting this information. 18 research stations from 11 countries are located here to collect data on how the arctic has changed over time. that's critical for providing information for international climate agreements and conventions. the camp set up to examine the ice score takes 3 hours to reach on snow rebel a journey complicated by increasing rainfall and there is an urgency to their work . the last time scientists drilled at a site was in 2005. the glacier was completely frozen. now water is much more evident. he saved his bibles, are destructive the ear at the moment of there's no for it is in the way how we can her for blazer, a kind of admission she between klemmer teens or and c o 2 or within the region
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is warming up 4 times faster. than the rest of the world in small bar, the temperatures are climbing even faster, up to 7 times the global average. last summer was the hottest on record, with temperatures reaching north point 5 degrees celsius and ny alison's. these changes are forecast to result in a very different talk take that in time will affect the rest of the world sonic i. angle al jazeera economic crisis in pakistan is hitting the charity sector, hod. fewer people can afford donations during ramadan, which is usually a generous time of the year. but children at an orphanage in karachi or taking matters into their own hands to celebrate the end of the fasting period of and got rebels preparations for e dot fitter a well underway. at this orphanage in karachi, the end of the fasting month of ramadan is cause for celebration,
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but with fewer donations this year, girls are selling themselves new clothes for the festivities, which lisa will be by banana, last year or received one dress and some fabric which we used to make clothes this year. we didn't receive any dresses, but the orphanage bought us fabric. so we are. so when our own close pakistan is in financial crisis. last month, food prices raised nearly 50 percent after the government depreciated the currency and canceled subsidies. the country's largest charity cast. what? $8000.00 orphans and vulnerable children. it says that economic turmoil is behind the slump, and donations are good luck, america, janet, or beach. listen in terms of cash donations. we have received about the same amount throughout the whole year that received in ramadan alone last year, due to inflation purchasing power has become very low. the value of money has almost huffed. pakistan is waiting for
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a $1100000000.00 learn from the international monetary fund. it's been delayed since november as the government failed to implement some of the bailout conditions . and the eddie foundation isn't expecting to nations to increase any time soon. ha, ha, ha ha, that we've been, we used to receive 3 truckloads of secondhand clothes, shoes, and other items a week at our centers in karachi. now we only get one truck lot weekly, so we are facing problems and we are worried. for now, the charity is dipping into its savings to insure children have something to celebrate this. eat barbara anger epa al jazeera. alas it for me, darn jordan, for now you can find more news on our website out 0 dot com. there it is on your screen. the weather's next, but it's, i story examine the political unrest in nicaragua, 5 years since. i'm so much the
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while heat wave alerts are beginning to fall off across india, those details in one sec. but 1st, let's kick off this weather story and pockets don just the other day and k p. k providence. we had a landslide still raining there also some heavy bursts of rain through the capital territory that's pushing into the northwest of india. so that's where some of the heat wave alerts have been dropped, for example in punjab state, but keeping it in therefore, or a con and be har state. but for what's been gall heat alert also drops. so we take a look at the 3 day forecast in calcutta for the 1st time in a week. temperature is dip below 40 degrees, but this is still all above where you should be for this sum of the year. it's been hot, humid in hazy, in parts of indo china. we're setting records here as well. so in northern laos, is it all time national temperature record never before?
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has the country seen a temperature this high? now here's our forecast. as we look toward thursday, also seen that heat filter into china's high 9 island, so high cou, a temperature of 36 degrees. there has been some flooding in the southeast of china dowse with rain and fuji, and province. i suspect we're probably going to see some flooding and taiwan is moving through japan's re who islands is while the check out what happens on friday is going to clip kyushu and chicago island. so something to be on the look out for the, for the 1st commander of the lebanese army after independence from france, who took over the president at the time of crisis in a deeply divided country. 50 years after his death al jazeera world tell the story of the edge you had.
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