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tries to wear the grassy coming in to hide for a time with the deep sea mining to provide the minerals needed for a green energy transition. in the 1st of 2 special reports, $1.00 oh, $1.00 east investigates what it means for the pacific ocean on al jazeera. ah. to dawn's army agrees to evacuations of foreign nationals as a fighting answers a 2nd week. constant bombardment shots, many hospitals across to dawn. we visit one of the few still functioning ah, on carry johnson. mrs. al jazeera live from doha. also coming up is riley's rowdy
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against the government's plan to overhaul the judiciary. for 16th straight week we report from television 9 people are killed in an attack on a military camp in central molly close to where at 500 un peacekeepers of based ah, to dawn's army has agreed to help evacuate foreign nationals from the country as gun foss street battles and s tribes continue in the capital. a call to fighting between sedans. army on the rapids, support forces is now into its 2nd week. several cease fires. have failed, including one that during ede heber morgan reports from a cartoon. the area around the presidential palace and the army headquarters to is the focus of intense fighting. as the army and paramilitary group the rapids support forces battle for control of food and many of the cities. $6000000.00
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residents are trapped in their homes with power outages, a lack of running water and dwindling food supplies. they're angry that a 72 hours. he's fire for the muslim holiday of april, hasn't held. i want to say to the both side. we are the civilians, we are paying the price. we not supposed to live in this situation. we have panicking. we are panic. we are struggling. is too much for us. both sides say they're aware of the impact on the, for the nice people. the commander of the rapid support forces says he's on the u. n for help. and has spoken to secretary general antonio terrace about the humanitarian truth safe passage of residents who want to leave and the protection of 8 workers. even though both sides agreed to 72 hours, the fire people in part of hard to say the fighting on saturday was the words
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they've seen. and some say they've given up on talking up on basic goods and are waiting for a chance to leave i. it's not easy to get a clear picture of the situation. both sides accuse each other of bumping residential areas. the what is clear is that the united states and other countries are preparing for the evacuation of their citizens and embassy staff. we have no higher priority than the safety and security of u. s. government personnel, their dependence, and private us citizens abroad. and we have made very clear to both sides that any attacks. threats are dangerous, posed to our diplomats are totally unacceptable. more exclusions were heard on saturday night. both sides seem determined to fight on leaving millions of food, a nice fearing for their lives. people, morgan august 0 to me. are countries are making arrangements to get their diplomats
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and citizens out. 2 ships carrying stuff from saudi arabia's embassy have arrived back home, engender reports done also on board diplomatic officials from other countries in the gulf corporation counsel. the u. k. france and china are also arranging for their embassy stuff and citizens to be evacuated as our iraq and jordan. when mr. abraham is an i, jerry and medical students studying in sit on, he says he's been unable to leave the country since the fighting broke out. and food is running out. yes. turned it into then. because the trouble is i can describe it. so it was on especially because we don't have it to be honest. there is no touch of drink and we don't. the electricity is on my list right now. the student we're going outside the rest. they have to migrate from the
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private men in to the student campus where they have access to. so drinking water and food to eat because outside the shows all close. if you have money, you cannot get access to food because there is no way that is no security. i was just coming out of a house. we're just kind of looking forward to doing all the clothes they were closed. and then as i was trying to look for some people like to me and they took my phone, my money in from you from the school compass. so to do most of the university around $550.00. that was very, very good. i like a very loud extent, like some of the students that have tried to run up hazard, not knowing what direction which direction they have into place. like that's a very scary leave because it's like it's unexpected at night in the morning,
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even in the afternoon. any time you been here to find a doctor, then sit on the say, the fighting has created what they call the catastrophic situation and forced many hospitals to close across the nile river from the capital one hospital in on demand is doing what it can for the car reports usa was brought to undermine hospital last week. he wasn't involved in the fighting between the army and power military rapids support forces. but he's one of its many casualties. you know, i arrived here during the month of ramadan. i can no longer work or move easily. i was hit by a stray bullet. i don't know from which direction i came across the room. solomon described the severe wounds. he suffered from bullets and shrapnel and lit up some of them. i was hit twice and fell to the ground. i was hit in my hand and in my
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left side, i was brought to the hospital. thank god almighty, because now i'm okay. dozens of sick and wounded people have come here to the undermanned teaching hospital. but it's struggling to cope. fighting has prevented staff from reaching the facility. it's now operating at just 20 percent capacity. there is a huge shortage of medical personnel. those who are now treating the sick and the wounded or the medical staff who arrived at the hospital last saturday and there is no longer any way to bring other medical staff from their homes or areas to the hospital. here, of course, the doctors and nurses who have been here since last saturday are completely exhausted. the student needs dr. syndicate says about 70 percent of hospitals close to the fighting have had to show us. and the ambulances have come under attack. to dance health system was already in crisis before the fighting medics or warning it no risk collapse, just as people needed the most pretty
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a car which is 0. when a bass edition is a doctor and vice president of the sudan doctors union, he says hospital staff are struggling to care for the injured on this equation involves the tenant commands very, very great. because i mentioned yesterday that 70 percent of the hospital in the city under the cover up areas around the function and the remaining hospitals are overrating on functioning with minimum capacity. the streets are people who are not able to get out and move when i try to get out of my house this morning. i couldn't get out because the shilling was taking place in the street. i've been speaking with my colleagues who had been
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working round the clock, the very exhausted i had depressed. and you can imagine they seem to be working round the clock. the number of the stuff are very limited. people are working there. even some of the people who volunteers who managed to get into hospitals, some of them are not trained to come out with major life sitting patients and limited relations with the current situation that we make our facilities which we have had by tomorrow. we may not be able to come out to what we had been doing and people have been rallying in the city of dar dirk, north of cartoon calling for an end to our still it is. oh, protest is march through the cities market district on saturday night. they say sedans, army and the rapids support forces should immediately lay down their weapons and
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work towards a solution for peace. the deputy chief of staff for the sudanese army says the cease fire was broken before it started. he blamed the rapids support forces for breaching the truce about in our leadership, considered the humanitarian situation of people in hospitals, children, and infants. the rapid support forces said that a truce can only happen for humanitarian reasons, and they breached it before it started. they are known for betrayal, cowardice, and aggression. they have no religion or morals. the scenes you see on social media are for people serving foreign agendas, and now foreign countries have abandoned them and said it is a terrorist organization, or a group of thugs and thieves. or more than 10000 people have fled sudan and crossed into neighboring chad. the world food program says that number could rise 210-0000 . the refugees are in dire need of essentials, including food, clean water, and shelter. piano that is the world food programs,
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country director for chad. he says, even before the latest fighting child was struggling to help refugees from sudan, you know, we have already 400000 on his record. genes in focus, jumps alongside that boulder. so we've got new in flux and we've absolutely no funding for the 400000. you know how all we're going to do 400000. we've just managed some few shipments of all day that we are loading our trucks. now some trucks already deposited yesterday. more going to be done tomorrow to the border for the, for the tradition because those people are reading really. but we need support because definitely with the big caseload now. i mean the, the governmental job meets people who host or those people. we need to be extremely fast also because of the rain for them 2 months. we won't even manage to cross all those wedding and to go to the ball though. but if we don't, you know, every time it's a month being selected, it's terry, it's a terrible, well,
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you know, you need to find the poorest among the pool for now we don't have anything. so we really need reading now support from the nurse was, gosh, it's gosh, in order for us to buy food locally. it's cash or so for the others like the unit she are getting on all other angels to buy, you know, those trying to get stuck. we get to record you when they arrive and lost everything. so it's basically, yes, it's cash in order to buy quickly. we won't have much time down to bring anything into and bought anything from abroad. so it's really about local bill chase and to make sure that we can ship them very quickly. so those are the supports, james marana has served as e u. m. bassinger in the gulf and north africa. he's experienced evacuations in libya. he says, the situation in cartoon poses an even bigger chinese diplomatic missions. the 1st target is to make sure that your, your staff will be safe as you move them from one place to another. in the case of
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libya, some years ago when i was involved, and it was pretty catastrophic, but in a sense, not quite as serious as the situation and cartoon in so far as that everybody was on the coast. and it was possible to use ships get people out and there was a lot of coordination between european embassy is the u. s. and china to put a big role back then in getting citizens and diplomats out of the country. situation cartoons, obviously very different. it's a long way from the coast, and you have anarchy raining in the town. so securing that airport and making sure that the wrong way is good enough to allow a military plains to land. and i think it will be been a true place to be used in most cases to get people out of doing that is priority number one. so you're going to have to depend here primarily on it. as we know, the airport is not secure right now. no wonder that the americans and others are skeptical about getting their people out right now until and unless that airport is
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secured, ah, thousands of israelis are protesting for a 16th straight week against plans to overhaul the judiciary. prime minister benjamin netanyahu paused the proposal last month to negotiated with the opposition . the changes would give government more control on the appointment of judges and curb the power of the supreme court. the bill will be brought to parliament when peace reconvene at the end of april. manage um june has more from tel aviv. this is the start of the 4th month. the protest against the government plan, the overhaul, the judicial system. the protesters that have come out here tonight and television are opposed to the planned foot board by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and his bar, right, coalition partners land that would give politicians more power to appoint supreme
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court judges. and plans that have to pass into law would also give parliament the authority to overturn the supreme court decision. everybody that we've spoken with here tonight will they say that this is dangerous? it bees became law that they would push israel way from democracy toward autocracy. going to be a big deal with government and endless the power to do whatever they want. and we cannot let it allowed needs to happen. these protests and a general strike lead prime minister netanyahu to put a pause on the proposed legislation in late march. he also promised to work with opposition parties to find a compromise. but most of the demonstrators that are out here tonight, don't believe any, any explanation that he's making and, and excuses and stories that he's slowing down or negotiating. it's all in order to, to, to prepare for the next step. i think, i think his side are very determined. but we are also very determined organizes
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that these demonstrations are going to continue to mobilize people to come out and do the 3. tell the proposed legislation it's craft, we're good. how much i'm doing? what does it give you? a head hair on al jazeera moments of happiness in war torn countries. the festival of each brings welcome rest by facing constant hardship. also. i'm hiding jo. castro in a city known as a green energy innovator and other cities follow and it's can ah hello, we have simply contrast to the weather across sea stays at the moment for japan and for the korean peninsula. his pleasant spring, sunshine,
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fairy different story across china. laura cloud showing up here, good deal cooler than it has been recently in the snow on the northern edge. they attempt to struggling to get into double figures in one or 2 spots here as well. but the weather weather will be at the central and southern parts of china, and that will continue to drive its way further. reese was rolling out of that. a society, china. shanghai thinks rather heavy rate for a timing while he stays fine. dry and study hasn't sunshine there once again into the crane peninsula ad across a good part of japan, sunshine and showers me while across southeast asia. a little more cloud, few more showers there into indo china and scattering showers. i suspect the heaviest ones will be across southern and western parts of borneo. so marcia, seeing some lavish hours in a fair bit of wet weather there too just around the malay peninsula. that better wet, whether to just take cross at east side of india at the moment. lancaster some lavish as, as we go on through the next couple of days, i think we'll see the where to whether making its way across or bangladesh into the
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far north east of india. which is starting to fall away quite nicely. but staying rather wet towards the south, ah, a meeting of minds all over the world. we have this rise over even polarize the climate catastrophe. where do you put the resulting anger? well, i'm hoping we can use it as the fuel to change society for the better musical innovative brian, you know, meets renowned economist hygiene chang parties. i pulled myself out of the funniest economies in the world. yeah. i don't have any competition. few gy unscripted on al jazeera. ah ah!
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you're watching, i'll just hear a reminder of our main stories. so don's army is assisting in the evacuation of foreign nationals as gunfire st. battles and s tribes continue in the capital call to. fighting between 2 dawns on the and the rapid support forces spills into a 2nd week. tens of thousands of sudanese have already from that the country across the border to neighboring chad. the world food program says it's expecting that number to increased significantly is the fighting continues. thousands of israelis have demonstrated for the 16th straight week against the government's plan to overhaul the judiciary. prime minister benjamin netanyahu paused to propose in march to negotiate the opposition. the changes would give politicians more se appointment, judges, and curb the power of these supreme court. at least 9 people have been
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killed in an attack on a military camp in central molly, 3 simultaneous explosions, hitler, city of sever ray, the un peacekeeping force in the area says it repelled the assault. nicholas hark has the details. an attack at dawn, sending many people in the city of savari from there, sleep into a panic. these explosions are part of what molly's military say was a sophisticated attack on the main airport in the region of a suicide car. bomb was used in the assault, but shells also mounted on people's homes in the city center. people here tried to pull out survivors from under the rubble, the man filming on his cell phone says 20 people from one family were trapped here . all are dead now. after several hours of heavy fighting, un peacekeeping soldiers from senegal repelled the attackers, trying to capture the airport. shells landed on
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a camp housing russian fighters from the wagner group. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it has the hallmarks of arm groups linked to isolate that are active in the region into the al qaeda affiliate jermanti satellite slam one mostly mean, also known as jim. everything is pointing toward the jenny, because this is the type of attack they will do. and they have been clear over the past few months that they will not tolerate the presence of russians. among the molly and official, never around the russian for the sofa bringing the training. but more and more reports are coming out that is saying that the russian fighters, after the battle from the military, says its troops are coming, the city, looking for enemy combatants. but some people are taking justice into their own hands at this man is suspected attacker and appears to have his hands and feet
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tight. they ask him, where are you fling? where are the others? this was supposed to be a day for people to celebrate the muslim festivities of eat. instead, it's a day of bloodshed. the governor of savari says, blood donations are needed urgently. hospitals are overwhelmed by casualties. and the people of savari are trying to make sense of the violence and continuing to look for survivors under the rubble. nicholas hawk al jazeera 21 bodies have an exuberant eastern tenure. as officials investigators suspected cult, please say the victims which include 3 children were members of the good news international church. the church leader allegedly told his followers to starve themselves in order to meet jesus. the preacher, paul, mackenzie and tenga, has been arrested. there are millions of muslims around the world have been celebrating ead, but for many facing economic crisis and war, the festival isn't
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a ton of ch him as where he lived. mahonnan reports ha, among the rubble and derelict buildings. a splash of color to mark the muslim holiday of he does fitter. this makeshift amusement park brings joy to these children in the syrian rebel held town of den dairies. 2 months after a major earthquake. many were born into war, but for now, they have a chance to forget where they are about why ruba writing in the democratic republic of congo between m. 23 rebels and government forces has led to millions of people fleeing their homes. many are now living in refugee camps like this one in gama mesa. abdul was thankful to have escaped with her life. she says she gave up celebrating the eat holiday because she didn't know where her next meal would come from. until now, volunteers are changing that by handing out food for every one here is are global
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theater. we are happy because they brought us food. if by degrees of god, the feast of eat will take place, then we will eat a good meal to close this month of ramadan. enjoy a shed hot meal of rice, beans, and fish. in the gaza strip street and markets are bustling. but 17 years of blockade by israel has pushed prices up, more than 80 percent of people here depend on aid according to the un. and while it's a tradition to give to those in need. and when you codes many shop, a say they can't afford to buy, eat presence of asunder and most of them with a southern accent. i came to the market to buy each supplies. but unfortunately with the economic environment and look down, we can't afford it. despite the conditions, we still have to buy something. oh god. oh, in afghanistan, prayer provide some with a feeling of peace and serenity. nearly 2 years since the taliban took over, the country is facing sanctions cuts in 8 insecurity and
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a crippled economy. millions of afghans are out of work or are being paid much less than they once were. but for some the eat holiday is helping evoke a sense of appreciation for simple things. so yes, the, some people say that there are economic problems and there is no work and no business, but i'm driving taxis in the city. and i will say that containment and gratitude are important. despite the hardships they face, people are coming together, sharing moments of happiness and a respite from any troubles, if only for a short while. really mohammed al jazeera, more than 3000 people, evacuated from the russian city of belgrade, are returning home after authorities detonated an unexploded munition. a russian fighter jet, also mistakenly dropped a bomb on the same city earlier this week. in during 3 people, brazil's president lewis and i saluted the silver has called for a negotiated settlement between the cave and moscow. he was speaking in portugal at
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the start of his 1st visit to europe since taking office in january. the trip has been overshadowed by comments he made recently about the war in ukraine. lewis said keith shares some blame for the conflict. the main at political party in northern kosovo has called on a serb minority to boycott. local elections on sunday is the latest sign of a growing rift between the serv dominated north and cost of those ethnic albanian leadership. serb officials from the area resigned in november and for a government plan to replace serb car license plates with those from casa hunters of protests, as in columbia have rallied against proposed social economic reforms. congress is debating a raft of proposals by left as i sent the stuff of petro includes changes to healthcare pension system, and reducing the worker from 48 to 42 hours. critic say they will negatively impact
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job creation and public finances. i for my last, i lose pretty much what the health reform is terrible because the traverse is what's really working in columbia a 30 year regression in health care. if we let them take the private health care providers away from us, this is going to the bus, the same with the pension reform, everything petra is proposing as non size is on, you know, it was all, we cannot start to change the way governments rule as this is affecting us now and come back to democracy because they're forbidding us and they are limiting a lot of freedoms now, which other people around the world have marked earth day, calling on politicians to step up the fight against climate change. in london, environmental activists demonstrated for a 2nd day extinction, rebellion protest group, who wants an end to the use of fossil fuels or tackling climate change requires making clean energy accessible to all. but in the us,
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most low income households don't have the resources to utilize renewable energy. but now a growing number of communities are coming together to build shared. so their projects, hardy, jo, castro, has more way sheena roscoe says, it feels good to now be part of the battle against climate change. the 59 year old washington d. c. artist, known for her sewing designs and eclectic style, says she used to think green energy was only for wealthy homeowners, a star sandy's things on top of people roof. i was like them for the people who had the houses. it doesn't concern me because i'm in apartment rosco is enrolled in a city program for a low income residence to receive discounted electricity powered by solar energy. originally, my bill would be a $100000.00 is down to $12.00. green power will come from these $4000.00 solar
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panels, installed a top and underground water tank that holds municipal water. bracken. hendricks is the solar projects li developer. all of the energy flowing off of this project is given away for free. and that's going to equal a reduction of energy bills, electricity bills for $500.00 families in washington dc. the project costs $5000000.00 covered by investors and government grants. hendrick says the system will eventually pay for itself through the sales of renewable energy credits to the power company. remaining profits will go to a housing charity that co owns the project. we're building clean energy projects in community. we're taking the, the wealth created by that energy installation, and we're making sure that it's flowing back to the community itself. if all goes according to plan, this field will generate green energy, solar energy for washington, d. c, for the next 2 decades. this is a city that is
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a leader in green energy using renewables to meet more than 60 percent of its energy needs. now the challenge is to have more of this in more places, every community and every family can help to save the planet and save money to boot. congress recently passed climate legislation that includes billions of dollars for clean energy projects with a focus on disadvantaged communities. the goal is to cut u. s. carbon emissions by half by 2030, and roscoe says she's glad to have been drafted. i feel like i'm a part of something heidi joe castro al jazeera washington. ah, they're watching al jazeera. these are the top stories. so don's army is assisting in the evacuation of foreign.
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