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ah, gunshots and explosions are heard across it on morning eve festivities after another cease fire fails to hold. thousands, continue to escape, the violence within sid on 2 neighboring chat. others are tramped without food, water, or electricity. ah, clubs, the horrible watching of his era life while headquarters here in doha also coming up the u. k. deputy prime minister seps down dominic rob was under investigation into accusations of bullying and climate activists called for 4 days of protest in the streets of london trying to force the government to go green . ah.
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bucket of prego. we begin in sudan where eat festivities have been marred by fighting after another cease fire, fail to hold. these alive pictures from khartoum. smoke now dominates the skyline of sedans. capital people have been advised to stay in doors as the fighting between the armed forces on the paramilitary continues for a 7th day. more than 400 people had been killed and at least 3500 are injured. victoria gave b begins our coverage. o, the muslim holiday, the ead, marked by soldiers on the streets of cartoon cheered on by their supporter. oh, the you and his gould for an immediate cease fire between the sydney's army and the paramilitary group, the rapid support forces. i thought there's been no confirmation from the army
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methuselah. the war i love you loading a hug along our beloved citizens. this year we receive eat, were all countries bleeding because of this bleeding. we have that people la injuries that separated families and destroyed houses and institutions into our, this destruction and sound of gunfire. i did not leave room for happiness that our beloved people deserve. the r s f says it's ready to observe a 70 to our truth and blamed the army for the continuing violence. it's tweeted at this moment when citizens are preparing to receive the 1st day of eat al fitter the neighborhoods have caught him or waking up to the bombings of aircrafts and heavy artillery in a sweeping attack. that is directly targeting residential neighborhoods. 330 kilometers north of the capital in mary, people are hoping to celebrate the end of the fasting month of ramadan, as they usually would with large family gatherings. they too have been caught up in the violence,
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but the army says it's now in control of the airport and the military base attached to it. i am the lad and god, the country is safe, the situation is stable and the shops have reopened and we were able to bring the children to the market for eat clothes and hopefully we were able to make them happy. days of fighting have left many sudanese, desperate, and afraid tens of thousands of people have left the capital. many have already arrived in neighboring chad. a vast majority of these people are women and children with huge humanitarian needs. they lab seemingly, you know, overnight with, with nothing. and we know that the urgent immediate needs are what you would need if you had to clear house, ah sudan. there's a sense of unease and fear, but also of resilience and little certainty about how things are going to move forward. victoria gate and be al jazeera. but heaven, morgan is in call to whittemore. for many people here on the ground,
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the cease fire is more of a word by both 5 than actual implementation on the ground. the army did not respond to the 72 hour period overseas, fired that the rapid support for the savior, initiating because of the holidays and on the ground. there has been intense fighting in several residential areas around the capital to including the northern part of the capital harpoon in the city of battery, where they were direct compensation between the rapid support forces. embassy needs army for the 1st time since the fighting started last saturday. people were able to see the cities army troops on the ground, directly fighting with the rapid support forces in residential areas. and some of them say they could hear heavy artillery, forcing them to find a safe corner in the house to be able to escape any mortar or any shilling falling on them. and then getting hurt. there was also fighting in the southern parts of the capitol into fighting, leading up to the road to maddening within it is where a lot of people fled from the capital to,
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to just the state seeking safety. so despite the fact that sci fi was initiated by the rapid support for the on the ground, there has been continuous, intense fighting between the 2 sides with civilians. because up in the middle, the many sydney's living and cartoon say their plans for eve have been ruined by the fighting. i was how and this is the worst eat i've experienced because i'm away from my mother and father and feel like there's no reason for that. the distance between us is 18 kilometers. i used to go to my town and come back on the same day. and so there's a feeling of helplessness that the circumstances are bigger than you, that you can't bypass them. you feel restricted. and then for the, the bed little book with diamond, i'm usually the past and in my family who gets excited and encourages others to our new clothes and to enjoy you. but this is completely different than because i am responsible for my sibling. i have been very tense the past couple of days to provide stuff and find
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a safe place in the house. i'm also hesitant whether to leave the house and the seat has been totally different. i haven't been able to do anything because what has been the fighting started talked at the de la tia is the spokes person for the sit on doctors trade union. he says only a few hospitals in the capital are still functioning and they're being pushed to the limits. most of the hosp man hospital, now it's out the safest way to bought it more back because the hospitals out of service and more than 14 hospitality directly attacked by both by both group in fact, also we have 11 medical stuff we're di saturday in fact now the number of the main hospital also use now with is our service men might be hosting on demand. now it's out of a hospital now it's only have 23 hosp huffman across sudan,
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providing safety and most of them are going to stop due to lack of supply difficult to difficult access for medical stuff to the hospital. thousands of sydney's all scrambling to escape the violence, but agency se neighboring countries are unprepared for a new influx of refugees fence. a mother who has more people in cartoon are desperate to get out gathering whatever they can carry their seeking safety wherever they can find it. many have already crossed into chat more or likely to follow. we would week next week the defenders and the people that there had jumped into that particular you were were be like to deal names and the time to chat whenever yeah, let me know. you know, maybe got saturdays or nothing. chat has its own problems. conflict in climate
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change have left more than 2000000 people struggling to get enough to eat. and it's already hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled conflicts in the region . agencies fear that won't be enough to go around just this morning. we'll dispatching convoys of fool date 410000 people only for 2 months or 20000 people one months. and it's very complex. we are boring for projects on them. and, but we really support. we cannot continue like this back into don. the violence isn't escalating and both sides are refusing to talk. those being the fighting have no way of knowing if or when they'll see their homes again. centered monahan al jazeera, the winds migration agency says one of its staff has been killed in the fighting in sudan. the international organizations migrations as the humanitarian work vehicle was hit by cross by the l. a bade paul dillon is the spokes person for the
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international organization for migration, he gave us more details about the death of his colleague. are a staff member or his wife and a newborn child. got into a private vehicle headed south to relocate to a safer place south of the city and about 50 kilometers outside of l. bye. they found themselves in the crossfire between 2 factions. the staff member was, was critically injured. despite his injuries, he managed to drive the car some distance away to the health clinic. but sadly, he died from his injuries under the current circumstances to save his places. you know, hunker down in your residence, not. i mean, this is a, it's a very dangerous situation. not just in the capital and in points in dark floor, but in cities like the lack of drinking water, the lack of food,
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electricity out in many areas, adding to the compounding the misery, experienced by civilians. last count we had 413, confirmed dead over 3200 people injured many of those civilians. and of course with the tax on health centers and the desperate situation for the doctors and nurses who are trying to attend to people. they are very real concerns for the, for the future. ah, the u. k. has a new deputy, probably mr. oliver has been named as the replacement for w rob. he resigned earlier on friday, but he'd been under investigation following formal complaints about his behavior. rob was accused of bullying, dating back to where he served as for minister and justice minister. he's the 3rd senior minister to leave prime minister. she students cabinets in the past 6 months
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. soon it says he's accepted the departure with great sadness. while in the resignation letter, rob submitted to the u. k. prime minister, he says, he felt duty bound to accept the outcome of the inquiry, but he points out that it dismissed all. but 2 of the allegations leveled against him. rob goes on to say that he believes that the findings flores and such a dangerous precedent for what he calls the conduct of good government. sonya guy ego has more from london. this is really months if not years, a combination of for allegations against dominic, rob, and of course that 5 month long investigation, which was instigated by rob himself, political reasons, of course one could, one could argue, but sir, make no mistake. this is quite a resignation letter. i mean, it may be that he's trying to sort of state that he is willing to continue to give
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his support to the prime minister wishes to not. but there is an under turned that certainly of his frustration with the process. of course he is sticking to the fact that he is residing because he himself made the promise that if any counts of bullying and intimidation were up hell than he would resign. so 2 counts of those have been upheld and now he is forced to abide by his own word, but certainly the tone of that reflects his eye. you could even say anger with the fact that he believes that it was perhaps his right to be able to pursue certain tactics in the workplace. well, still had here on al jazeera, ukraine is still standing strong commercial port coach, not worry. you estimates agree, lloyd austin meets western allies in germany to discuss support for you. craved understood holiday of eve is underway. boats many living into cues. earthquakes soon have little to celebrate.
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ah hello. we will see a big change in the weather across china as we go through the next couple days. the cloud is gathering over across western parts, sliding towards i central areas ahead of that. we got some where to weather off shore pulling out of the way bright find whether coming in across a good part of japan and the korean peninsula getting up into the twenty's here. but we're struggling to get anywhere near 20 in we'll hand fast. they off know, up until recently we're getting into the low 30, so that is a big change. go on into sunday that cloud on right. still very much in evidence there and i me, 30 degrees. will hon on sunday afternoon, could well see some localized flooding across southern most past. meanwhile, to the korean peninsula, add for japan. it is fine, dry and sunny. still
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a fair amount to sunshine ensue were indo china water to showers in place here. just trying to not the edge of those temperatures and very high temperatures that we have seen recently. good scattering of showers across southeast asia, southern bornea, seeing some big down, poor, smarter. pushing up towards them, a lay peninsula as well, and some larvae showers to make in the way. across the northeast of india, we will see some pretty wet weather for time eating across bangladesh into the far northeast of india and turning increasingly wet all the way down to the south. ah, inequality corruption, repression and range to political. it just decided to cut to the piece of cake. i'm sure it won't be a joke. he meant reeves lose the desperate states of democracy in lebanon. ah,
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through the eyes of those who are losing hope, every day o dreams are becoming blue. democracy maybe democracy for sale on al jazeera lou . ah, look like he was able to say with me. so he'll robinson, doha reminder of our top new story, the you and his calling for an immediate humanitarian. c siren sit on over the eat holiday. the rapid support fall says paramilitary groups says that it has agreed to a 3 day truce. but there's been a confirmation from the sudanese army. many civilians are trying to escape violence, some author into rural areas across the country, while thousands of crossed into neighboring chad and military agencies there say
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that running out of resources. you k deputy prime minister dominic rob has resigned t speed under investigation falling complaints about his behavior. rob was accused of bullying when he served as foreign minister and justice minister. now the u. s. is hosting a meeting of western allies at its ramstein air base in germany to discuss further military support for you, craig, you craig is pushing for we'll fight to jets in ammunition. ahead of its long, long expected spring counter offensive. washington is promising to support key for and we quote as long as it takes our collective effort shirt made a huge difference on the battlefield. and now in just a few short months, the contact group has delivered more than 230 types. more than 1550 armored vehicles and other equipment and munitions to support more than 9 new armored brigades. we've also expedited our m one abrams timelines
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to supply ukraine with more armored capability and becoming much. and the m one set the ukrainians will use for training arrive here in germany in the next few weeks in all of this is huge progress. i said in kiev yesterday, that the ukraine, so future is in the atlantic family. an all new dollars have agreed that the ukraine will become an 8 member. but the main focus now is of course, on the, on how to ensure that you're creating a praise. because without the sovereign independence ukraine, there's no meaning in discussing membership truck strap. it has more keith will the coals from ukraine, i have become in recent weeks, increasingly loud and frustrated. every body from the president laudermill zalinski
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too many of his military officials, people here basically saying that they need more weapons and they need those weapons fast. and that's in preparation for this long awaited and expected what's been called a spring counter offensive. but there are some very real things that ukraine in say they need chief of which are things like air defense. there are concerns that if this counter offensive, when it does start and cities across the country could become exposed to for example, russian air strikes. and then of course there's the coal for more tanks. we know that around about 8 countries of already committed the german lepper, 2 tanks, and we know that the u. k. also has, as donated or is donating 14 challenger tanks. the americans are saying that 30 abrams tanks are expected, but so those abraham's unexpected to be here, for example, until august. and they involve a lot of training and there are going to be colds for more ammunition,
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more artillery as well. so we expect to hear. yeah, a lot of focus on them on those kind of weapon systems that the ukrainians want, but it's going to be very interesting to find out whether we're going to see commitments or any kind of information as to whether long range weapons are going to be committed something that a huge controversial and is seen potentially as being very escalade tree for the russians. m 23 fighters are reported sir, withdrawn from parts or north. cheever, in the democratic republic of congo. we have these parts of the province since re emerging in 2021. but congolese communities have told al jazeera, the armed group are still present in some areas of catherine soil reports, canyon troops in cuba, enough cuba province. they're holding forth in areas from where the aunt group am 23 has withdrawn. regional, east african forces from kenya. uganda,
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south to dawn and bruni are here to enforce an agreement aimed at bringing peace to the region. hundreds of people have been called and up to 1000000 forced out of their home since the conflict started over a year ago. some congolese living in cuba say they are afraid to go back home despite m. 23 fighters pulling out. am $23.00 fighters are still lurking around the area. they have checkpoints isn't parts. they make us pay. taxes is $5.00 a trip indian we don't make any profit. the group has seeded strategic towns and roads, but fighting is still going on in some parts. one that has been accused by the u. n . the e u, and others of supporting the rebels. kigali denies this, according to an agreement signed by regional leaders, m 23 is to move to sub, been in the room mountains near the run the buddha. but the rebels have not gone
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there yet. the definitions of the agree, it is in line, the worth would likely of leader. but whether they are getting there until i get to that position, we want validate. then i can be able to tell you, okay, good. that was one that was reported by one of the regional forces were deployed a few months ago. they said they are here to facilitate a political process between kinshasa and m 23. but some analysts say that negotiations. oh, moving too slowly. and while everyone talks about a political truck and a military truck, ah, there is no clear understanding on what, what should come 1st are and how that should or evolve. m. 33 leaders say they want direct talks with the government. kinshasa insisted cannot negotiate. and till
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all areas controlled by the rebel fighters are vacated, that deadlock is unbroken. and congolese who've been forced out are now living rough in comes for the displaced and suffering. cat inside are 0. so lincolns of call for justice on the 4th anniversary of easter bombings that killed more than 260 people. the bishop of colombo held the service in the capital where he criticized successive governments. the failing to disclose evidence related to the attacks. the blas claim by i sole targeted 3 churches and 3 luxury hotels in 2019 muslims in many parts. the world are mocking either fitter with prayers and festivities. this was the scene earlier in mca islam. holy a site. the timing of ease is determined by the signing of the crescent moon. in some countries, the holiday will be celebrated on saturday. well that all the friends took place that i like symbol in occupied these teresa. during ramadan,
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tensions were running high as is ready, forces conducted rates at the compound and prevented thousands of palestinians from entering it celebrations have been muted in southern turkey and northwestern syria that he was still molding days killed in february earthquakes. that these 56000 people died and a 1000 more were left homeless. so because the glue repulsed from her to a province took its worst affected region. a low was in the simple prefabricated cabin in her tie. people gather for prayer to mark the end of month from august and the beginning of the period of feast 8. they live in a container city as their houses were destroyed or damaged after 2 earthquakes to southern trickier. in february, the kind of families among 350 others living here. to myself, he pulled the body of his son from under robles, and 13 days after the quake struck being sung. can they not dinner?
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sadness begins when you bury your own child. the heartbreak never goes away. its fate. and patience is the only remedy i beg god to take me, not him. he says before the earthquakes, all his relatives and children used together at his home. this time only his grand, some is here. those will is a hybrid till gloves. there will be stuff we lost one of our sons, the other 3 today around the country. my son used to ask me to cook several dishes, now they get no one and i cried in the morning, the children left traumatized by the disaster. find comfort and games. months later, they're still unable to go to school. the province of hot i was hit the hardest by the disasters that claimed more than 50000 lives. in 11 cities, people are forced to leave or shelter in containers and camps. also remains
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devastated by dearth, quakes that struck in february. people have come to the cemetery to visit the graves of their loved ones, they loss to the disaster for them and many others. this youth, it will be marked by grief and mourning. this area of the cemetery has been left for those who didn't survive. the quakes that have been identified through fingerprints and dna matches and people are searching the headstones to find those they have lost and then tidy layer greys. they know they can't bring them back, but some find solace and prayer. scene anchor solo al jazeera hot, i southern turkey budgeting this president, alberto fernandez, is it else that he won't be running for reelection in october? it comes as the country face of the coin. inflation is thought to over a 100 percent. that is expected to get worse, ongoing droughts of cripple the agricultural sector, and as well as elected in 2019 emergency crews in columbia,
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hoping to rescue for trapped minus the buildup of gas is calls an explosion overnight. dropping the men and killing 3 others. katya lopez said, i am possible to coal mines are now the sight of a rescue operation in the columbian central town of coconut. bah, you know, no, not friends. and families are waiting anxiously, hoping their relatives survived the overnight explosion. when those on oil, when barzyk clarify the noise almost not males of bed. when all the mine it's told me that minute exploded. i was frightened because my co workers were working then. i mean, i was dramatic going down these mines, which one more than 900 meters under ground is a dangerous mission. authority say they detected toxic gases like carbon monoxide and methane in the shafts. 4 months earlier, government officials banned the mines from operating to the safety concerns. but they remained open miles or look while we're exploring different ways to use
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a tunnel so we can safely reach the missing minus of more than 150 people walking round the clock. i mean, colombia is latin. america's largest co producer accidents are common, especially in coal and gold mines, underground. explosions hills about a 100 people a year on average between 20112022. and now these families are hoping their relatives won't become one of those statistics. hello this with again al jazeera, the activists have begun for days of protests in london to demand urgent government action on climate change. the extinction rebellion, protest group, baldwin to the use of fossil fuels. it's cool on tens of thousands of people to join the demonstrations of their pocket was the rally and spoke to read to a doctor in climate health research it. yes to climate change is affecting her
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patients. climate change is a pressing reality across the worlds now. but we can't escape it even in london. so i work as a g p in east london where we have quite often illegal levels of app. and what that means for me as a doctor in practice, is that i'm seeing children with a 10 percent reduced lung capacity as a result of abolition across the country. what that translates to is $36000.00 cremmit shore deaths per year as a result of application. that's the same as a double decker bus worth of people every single day. and so taking action on the climate crisis. yes, it's good for future, but it's also good for the health of the population here today, 8 by 2, by the help of population, of course. so for people who have been following u. k. news medics have been out protesting recently over working conditions and so on and so forth. do you see the to being related to climate issue and also the issue when it comes to job and working with thompson working business? of course, i mean the health sector is under huge amounts of pressure. we have an aging
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population, have increasingly complex health conditions. but the launch one of the leading medical journals has had that the climate crisis is the greatest threat to health of this century. and i work as a t p, but i'm also a researcher and i'm really in the business of prevention. if we know that something is going to cause problems down the line, how can we begin st it today? and that's why, really all of this is very, very much into connected. i think we take action on climate to day that relieve some of the pressure on our health care system and ensure we can have healthy and flourishing population at large. he was whether agency says the world's glaze, he has all disappearing rapidly and saving them is a lost coals in its annual report. the world meteorological authorization says the melting of some european glaciers has been that we quote off the charts. the last 8 years had been the war best ever recorded. high concentrations of greenhouse gases have accelerated global warming.
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