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national banks and the proceeds of organized crime in 10th was his baggage. pierre lay valenzuela orders from the both of you by female friction is obviously a remarkable 3 part people empower investigation into a complex, secretive world. 2 journalists go in search of italian mafia dirty money. the longer a part to on a jazeera ah diplomatic staff leave. sudan is fighting between the army and rapid support forces shows no sign of ending shortages of food, water, and fuel. in cartoon, many shops are closed and there are cues outside the few that are open. ah, i'm cyril venue. it's great to have you with us. this is al 0 live from do. also
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coming up, police in kenya investigating a cult. after examining the bodies of church followers suspected of starving themselves to death and a difficult homecoming peruse. former president alejandro to later returns to face corruption. charges will be live in lima. ah, so we begin in sudan where civilians are fleeing the capital cartoon is fighting between the army and rapid support. forces continues for 2nd week. now a convoy of buses was seen heading to court sedan on the coast. several countries including the u. s. the u. k. france and saudi arabia have evacuated diplomatic staff, while china, iraq and jordan say they are doing the same. but your case, foreign secretary says moving staff to safety will allow them to focus on helping to end the fighting. we have taken advantage of a,
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a temporary, lo are in the are a violence that we're seeing and sued on, but we remain absent, committed to support british nationals in sedan. we will do so in close coordination with her as national partners. but the best thing that we can do to support british nationals, and indeed every one in sudan is pushed the generals involved in this conflict to bring it to an end. and that will remain the priority of our diplomatic focus in the region. rayleigh mohammed reports on how those unable to flee the conflicts or coping people in khartoum, a living in the middle of a was own. what was once a bustling market is now piles of rubble. buildings and homes are in ruins, this burritos for here. i need our from here, my house here. and hunter body are suffering of lack of food local for if the hittie lack of florida, we don't have it the city for 3 days. now,
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i'm also gonna have, ah, existing order people say, well it says i'm missing, but they can't go out and search for them as they're too scared to leave the house . doctors have described the situation as catastrophic visits, a lot a little, much a lot of the hospital east till operational, but not to the full capacity due to the shortage of medical equipment. let alone difficult to the medical st. her face to get to work with the fighting in the capital is centered around the presidential palace and the army headquarters. this video appears to show members power military rapid support forces with the commander general mohammed hum don douglas in the area, but it's not clear when it was filmed long, but across the nell river in the city on dorman, some people are bearing that dead. this home was hit by shelling while the family was asleep. i know what i li, i like more. i like i said at the i have bins on my body and i couldn't stand up,
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but god helped me. many shells came into my room and i collected them, they hit the rumor and came through the window that they broke the glass. i was lying in bed and when i stood up, i fell to the ground. oh, in dar duke, north of cartoon, there are pockets of resistance. some people took to the streets in protest on saturday, calling for an end to the violence. analysts say, sedans, lung away to transition to civilian rule. a prospect that seems imminent a few weeks ago is moving further out of reach for as long as general douglas and army chief identify to oper hahn refused to back down. one of them needs to win so that he could claim power. this is how they see it from was and i ultimately they have no problem in my opinion. sacrificing what it takes like compromising or just providing the security of the home country. and all the while
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sudanese live in fear as more of the country is destroyed in a battle for power, for healing mohammed al jazeera. wow, yeah. let's go to heaven morgan in khartoum here, but we're getting footage of the vehicles buses leaving the capital. tell us how the evacuations are going. while the evacuation of the you and staff started in the early hours of this morning and they are going to make their way to the eastern city of port sudan. that's a trip that on a normal day would take about 12 hours from cartoon to the eastern city. but because of the checkpoints, because of the stops and because it's a large convoy, it's latin that the convoy will not make it at by the end of the day, we'll have to stop somewhere. people who is full to say that they have there been very cautious on the streets. they're not sure when they're going to actually make it to their destination. and not all of them will be evacuated when they get to the city of fort sudan bay. some of them will be remaining,
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it's only the non essential you and staff that will be evacuating out from the eastern city of port sedan. they are other and international, and your staff were still here in the capitol still waiting for evacuations. there are also other foreign nationals here waiting for their embassies to give them a sign that things are clear and that the route is safe for them to make it to their destinations where they're supposed to be taking off or evacuation. but many, many people say that they just waiting for more loads more a longer period of cease fires and truth between the 2 sites. so that they can make it out of their homes to places where they can evacuate out of the capital and then eventually out of the country hebert. if i could get you to comment on a tweet by the head of the or assess this morning mohammad, i'm done doug low. he tweeted this and you will be familiar with the wording that the are as if he said, are ready to quote, employ all available resources to transport, sudanese citizens and foreigners to their desired destination. so is the, are a surf really helping these evacuations?
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while both sides at this point are claiming that they are the ones coordinating, they evacuations with before and embassies here in the country for an embassy, of course, have to talk to both sides because as much as they are also commanders in the field, they're also soldiers on the ground belonging to both sides. so to ensure that the safety of their national they'll have to talk to both the sudanese army and the rapid support forces. now, the sudanese army accused the rapid support forces of firing at the convoy of french national too were trying to evacuate. the french embassy confirmed that yes, they have been shot at, but they did not confirm whether it was the rapid support forces or the food in these army. so it is quite a dangerous route to take to get out of the capital because of the ongoing fighting and the ongoing exchange of fires between the 2 sides there also, they also have to pass through residential areas 5 of heavy heavy arthur, artillery shelling and fighting between the army and b r s f. and it's clear that it's not an easy trip for those who are trying to make it out of the capital to say
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for locations to get out of the country. all right, so a mixed murky picture at best look, we're also hearing about a potential prison break, but it's, it's early. we don't have much information on that. can you tell us more? what are you finding out? while what we do know is that a cobra present, which is in the northern part of the capital, was broken into and the prisoners were released. well, the prisoners also said that the situation, the humanitarian situation is quiet, dire, or was quite or inside the prison. and which is why they assisted in breaking the breaking of the prison and fled from from those walls. now this is a situation that has been going in it's going on in various parts of the capital. many people say that the humanitarian situation is getting dire. many people trapped in their homes for days and the prison area is no different. there's been calls to try to offer them assistance. but it's also not the 1st for them to be broken into the heart of the conflict. in fact, it's the 4th for them to be broken into and effectively. right now there are no
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prisoners in the capital to me because of best like latest breaking of prison. people are quite concerned. they say that they already have to face arms. men on the street, they already have to face a fault as they go out as they try to make their way out of the capital. and now they have to be concerned about the prisoners who broke out of prison. tell us a little bit more about daily life for the civilians. i mean, you just painted a pretty bleed picture, but what's it like right now de 9 of this conflict? let's just put it this way. 10 days ago, people were imagining a different way that they would be celebrating they either eat, some of them were hoping to make it back home to their families in their various countries, 5 and state. others were hoping to travel out of the country to meet with relatives . and they said that they were, they were planning to go shopping. the normal family gatherings that they celebrate every year this year was quite different for people in the capital and the states. because the states had received refugees here in the capital, people have been without water and electricity for nearly 10 days. now we spoke to
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some of them and this is what they had to say. offending of local food there go for if to city lack of florida. we don't have it physically for 3 days for life in we're on a on in one or cathedral than moya. we are suffering a lot. you to the wall shortage. all the residents here suffering from the water issue. we also did not have electricity. we got power back 3 days ago, i photography mortgage and the big heavy, the post price tickets nearly $50.00. those are incredible prices. and this regular bottle of water costs $500.00 sudanese pounds. the conditions here a very bad, very serious. so for many people, this whole fighting situation happened without their expectations. they did not taken into calculations many families who was able to say they do want to make it out of the capital. but because of the high costs of getting out of getting transport, of getting fuel and because of banks being closely to the fighting, they don't know how to move on for ways. lots of uncertainty here in the capital
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people thing. they're just waiting to see how this will be resolved and how they will be able to make it out safely, whether it's to another state or another country. hebron morgan and your team. thank you for your coverage, out of the sydney's capital cartoon. and is not just in the capitol more than 10000 people have fled the fighting in sudan and crossed into may bring chad the world. food program says that number could rise to a 100000 hundreds of people are also fleeing to neighboring south sudan. but the ongoing fighting is making it difficult for them to move. now police have exude at least 27 bodies from graves at the sight of a church in the eastern kenya, victims allegedly starved to death after following beer pastors instructions to stop eating. shavon silk has more they believed they would meet god. they ended up in a shallow grave, outside a coastal town in eastern kenya, victims of a suspected cult leader of us our days wife,
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son and parents in law disappeared, leaving everything behind you. so when i get to such off, when i said someone, i stood down dahlgren to see jesus. so then i checked our flight. it's only book along with tickets to my lindy, which she should have already gone to cut back to nairobi. this is the man accused of luring them to melinda. i paul mackenzie and thing. gay is the leader of the good news international church. he apparently promised his followers they would meet their creator if they starved themselves to death. was wanting to sierra he had been arrested before i went to children, died wouldn't laughing for me enough. i didn't have to, you know, keep him behind by. that's just because trade. so your people are angry, but kill, you know, if you've had gone before police believe dozens of victims may be buried in the forest. several children are among the dead and there are fears. many more could be
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missing. the la danya my moment gentlemen, we visited holmes in villages in the area and we spoke to parents whose children had all died. some families have lost up to 5 children. and in some cases the parents have died as well. some members of the church were rescued from the preachers property alive, but weak relatives at the exclamation sites are holding out hope that they're missing. loved ones have survived the moment one that so does our to on very in who mind to see what is going on. here are the people who are been coming year i can i conceal normal voice arsenal. are relative, body or dose, find nearest kill more people unseen. more groups, mackenzie is now in custody. pathologists are taking samples from the victims to determine the cause of death. shavon, silk al jazeera environmental activists are taking to the streets of london for a 3rd day of demonstrations. the protests coincide with the london marathon. demonstrators want politicians to step up the fight against climate change and stop
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using fossil fuels. on saturday about 30000 protesters gathered outside parliament before setting off on what the group called a family friendly march. the dean baba has more from the sidelines of the marathon . will. this is an unusual london marathon because not only have you got thousands of spectators, members of the public out here to cheer own the runners. but you've got large numbers of climate change. protest is on the streets here as well. part of 4 days of action by extinction, rebellion and that group of actually provided hundreds of stewards in pink bibs around the root here in central london to make sure that there's no disruption to the marathon. they're very keen to work with the marathon organizers. they say that they are actually in tune with, for example, runners who are raising money for climate causes environmental causes. but beyond, but they have actually signaled a shift in their approach. in recent years,
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they have disrupt ada areas of central london with citizens in the light. but now they're saying they're trying to push more for dialogue with the general public. the politicians are not doing their job. they are not keeping a site. we need to get involved and take back the reins with citizens assemblies. that's what this is about. so, so the way not hypocritical, we extend to rebellion want to get the public involved into how we take, actually in the future who we target, how we target them. so that's going to be arrived that through public assemblies and discussions and deliberative democracy for this event to the london marathon has been a, a chance for extinction. rebellion really to interact with the public and try and explain what they're trying to do. but they have made demands of government if they don't to commit by the end of monday to stopping new oil and gas projects. they say they will actually step up their actions,
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which could include more disruptive st events. and of course, just a point are also saying that they'll continue their campaign even if it turn some of the public off. they say the issues need to be kept in the public high through the media. and multiple tornadoes have touched down in oman, and the twisters struck mostly in the bunny blue. a li reach, reach, spinning speeds of 200 kilometers an hour, killing life, stock damaging property and cutting power supplies. amman civil aviation authority has issued weather warnings, including heavy rainfall for the capital mascot and surrounding regions. still ahead on al jazeera after a month long manhunt police in india, arrested prominence. seek separatist leader. ah, the who's the
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here's her forecast for monday, right across asia is always great to have your long ok, this one off in boxes start not much going on. temperatures are closing in on 40 degrees in new op shot. and in her out, i've got to stand at $33.00 that is above average for this time, the year. but wait till you see the heat in thailand, we'll get there in one sec. got to talk about that storm threat through india. that storms move from dish into entrepreneurs that leaks intended tamil nadu and careless states, could see some hail storms here as well. off to southeast asia, we go. biggest bursts of rain will be west and central column antenna on borneo island and some pretty good pulses of rain. not too far away from today. promise we talk about that heat in thailand. we've been setting records now for heat index in bangkok, 54. so i don't just want to talk about it, let me actually show you. it's been hot, humid and hazy. we're talking our warm moist and humid air from the gulf of thailand. so that's what's causing this. we will see some daytime heating storms
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around the northeast of laos, pushing into northern vietnam not too far away from hanoi, but even by night time, not much relief, bangkok at 29 degrees. it is a saga pitcher in china and cool air has now spread, as far as south is gray land with a daytime max of 15. that's it. we'll see you soon. take care with breaking down the headlines to exposing the power that counting to finance reporting. what did you do, what to, to investigate? why didn't you off the fact that there are many during that fence or people have, but you think effect on subsequent stories? the listening post doesn't cover the news. it covers the way the news is covered to suppress moderate, and in some cases amplify the content you see on your timeline, the listening post on al jazeera lou
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ah, watching al jazeera our headlines this, our civilians are fleeing the sudanese capital cartoon as fighting between the army and rapid support forces continues. convoy of buses was seen heading to port sedan . u. s. the u. k. france and saudi arabia have already evacuated diplomatic staff. the violence has not stopped in spite of a ceasefire. agreed for eat. video footage appears to show the rapid support forces leader mohammed. i'm done, doug low him cartoon with his fighters. however, it's not clear when that footage was take and several neighborhoods in the capital are seeing shortages of food, water, and fuel. some shops are closed residents having to q outside others. some
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pharmacies have shut their doors while others are running out of medicine. peruse, former president has arrived in his home country after being extradited from the united states. alejandro to later will face corruption charges. he handed himself in 2 authorities in california on friday. he is accused of excepting more than $35000000.00 in bribes during his 5 years in office. the 77 year old former president denies any wrongdoing. arianna sanchez explains the background to this case. in 2001, alexandra, the little rooster power. as beetles 1st miss diesel precedent, a champion of democracy, a liberal economist, he quailed at deadly political insurrection, and finished his 5 year tenure with one 3rd of peruvians supporting him. he then moved to the united states as corruptions, candles began to emerge, into the lyla, denied any wrong doing wasted mil. oh, shami one just one piece of evidence,
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just one. and i will be the 1st to step out of politics. oh, prosecutors accuse him of collusion and money laundering for taking nearly $35000000.00 in bribes. construction brazilian giant olive bridge in exchange for contracts and public works is well known of castle muscle. it is one of the most solid cases in judiciary ac, is that the root of the moneys tut from other bricks accounts get into the account of a need friend and partner with you, and then to accompany gov to rica. that money then brought a $5000000.00 home and an office in beryl. yes. a little for extradition to play do since 2018 arguing he was politically persecuted, a victim of racism for his indigenous heritage. his defense suit the state department to stop the process, but it was unsuccessful. the leader was a great success story, a shoe shine boy from a poor village in the an this who reached the presidency, but political allies and follower st. delivered to seat them, betrayed them,
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ill give you an area. why are hall you again, the one who comes from the bottom and carries out the dream of being able to grow and reach the top and betrays the essence of the fact that a person like him who represented the hope of peru to move forward has been mocked because so many people believe deeply in what he represented and at least waited for him to live up to those hoaxes. and of course, he did not sit around sorry. yeah. now he will face up to 20 years in prison. this is where authority said the lyla will remain during the trial. the jail is currently shared by former precedents. i'll read before you, marty, and belittle gusty. you. as nearly olive peters, former precedence are under investigation or jail for corruption. this facility is expanding. they're convicted, they will likely also end up here with alejandro toley though. as its latest tenant mary anna sanchez, i'll just eat a lima and marianna is at the horrified chavez international airport. that's in co
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near the capital leila, that we're also be former president landed marianna tells us those what's going on now. and also what happens next to the former president that's like 0 pretty them arrive about just 2 hours ago. and he was brought escorted by us marshall's and her room interval police. and they were brought here right in here to where we are at the police area, the police space area of the airport where apparently don't have already looked at him and certified that his health is fine. and there was a 1st initial plan to take him over to criminal court room and just center of the capital. but apparently he's going to remain here and faced prosecutor here, i think his rights to be read and then be flown over to,
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to the base where he will be a jailed. a small group option for 5 years. arrived about an hour ago. they were not allowed to get close to the door by the police people carrying up white flags. that was the symbol of the see me or possible hardy of the little, very small group about 20 people saying that it was the best for you then the economy did so well that they could buy 10 pieces of bread with one sword, which is about to miss, i'm $0.30 of a dollar, and now that is impossible. and so they came here to support in support of the rescue did. but the former president, but in general there's a lot of this disenchantment by she may have done a very government bob to the level of corruption of his government, his field. and that's what he's she will have to answer to prosecutors. now,
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when he's taken to the police base in that, in about an hour away from here, where former students and dental marty, i'm the are there and he will be joining them for at least 18 months. that investigation and the preparation of the trial it takes place and that time could be extended after that, if you're not interested, if you haven't been sentenced by then it's a long, it's a long road ahead for a long process. and i want to talk about the case a little bit with you. we saw in your report, there was an extradition lawyer saying he felt there was very solid evidence against the former president. how strong is the case against him? i think that's right. it's very solid. because prosecutors had been investigating since 2017, and they were able to,
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to interview and to have the testimony of what was the superintendent of all it. but it's the man who paid the money, the money, who gave the money and they were all so if they were also able to talk to just my mom and you can really approve what, what not best friends, who, who said that he was the one who we feel like somebody just my mom died a few years ago, but before the prosecutors have the testimony and they have the roots of the money that went from, from the hands of just my mom. and i'm sure, but it was somebody that's a 2nd case is we have a case of non, we're don't know why and mothering the are involved. and there's a 3rd case, medical case, another construction company, other than the big, the old apparently paid money to about right now. he can only be tried for
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the next phase of job or car wash investigation. extradition have only room, dobbs, in order to be tried in other to, in the other 2 cases, she just in the united states must approve the expedition be, extend that and he, and he can be tried in those states that in any case he would be facing it up to 20 years and only for the love of job. so for that love adolfo case, and if he could get benefits. but even if you get benefits, people experts are saying maybe 14 years in prison, maybe a little bit less. but that means of the 77 year old president convicted. he would be in jail for a long time. he will be out of jail, was over 19 years old. remarkable story. marianna, thank you very much. the former head of state of peru then in
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a facility at the prison where he was where he arrived about 2 hours ago. arianna, thank you. hundreds of protesters took the streets of columbia capital to protest against proposed social and economic reforms. congress is debating a raft of proposals by left as president. gustavo petro include changes to health care and the pension system, and reducing the working week from 48 to 42 hours. critic say will affect jobs and public finances. a seek separatist leader from the northern indian state of punjab has been arrested after a man hunt that lasted more than a month. emerett pow sing rose to prominence earlier this year with his call to the creation of a separate seek homeland sing and his supporters rated a police station in punjab. in february, after one of his aides was arrested, police then tried to arrest thing, but he escaped on a motorbike all subject poor as a journalist and the editor of hard news magazine. he says things detention has increased pensions in the already unstable punjab state. it didn't really create
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the kind of tension that whoever was behind it, really respected. in fact, in punjab itself, there was a great demand earn the people there that nothing should be done to upset the piece that had returned to this very state which has been experiencing great them under double and all these years. so they didn't want mr. bumble policy to do anything more than what has what he had done and in a certain way didn't really cause a tell me what is expected of his at s. now is significant because he is going to be taken to the northeast, the state of us, and that is where he will be interrogated, is rather strange that he was allowed to carry on for about $36.00 days. that will reduce that to come on tv, showing him that he is in some other diet or the other used to sometime western clause. he would go around on a more bike. so it's all very, very strange how he is phenomenal is built up and subsequently how he's been
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arrested agriculture ministers from the group of 7 industrial nations have called for the extension of a ukrainian grain export deal. the agreement, broken by the u. n. and turkey. last july allows ukraine to export grain from a number of its black seaports. russia has indicated that it will not allow the deal to continue beyond may. the 18th, off co says conditions to facilitate its own exports have not been met. and more than 3000 people evacuated from the russian city of belgrade, are returning home after authorities detonated, unexploded munitions, a russian fighter jet mistakenly dropped the bomb on the city earlier this week, injuring 3 people. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. civilians are fleeing the sudanese capital cartoon as fighting between the army and rapid support forces can
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