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we have an extensive network of bureaus around the world. we have many, many correspondence in all corners of the globe. if you really want to know what's happening in the world right now, you need to be watching al jazeera ah . as foreign nationals rush to escape the fight against the down many civilians remain, tramped with no basic supplies. we hear from those caught up in the crossfire and more countries are evacuating their citizens from saddam after a week of fighting which delayed rescues. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is out as they are alive from go are also coming up. peruse from a president is held in jail just hours after being extradited from the united states to face corruption charges and police in kenya exam, $47.00 bodies,
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they investigated cult, who believed they would go to heaven, they starved themselves to death. ah, we begin in sudan, wet fighting between the regular army and rapid support forces is raging for a night's bay. thousands of people are fleeing the violence of more than 400 have been killed. many neighborhoods have been left without access to food and clean water. and the country is experiencing and the total intimate blackout. rena mohammed begins are coverage. ah, people in cartoon, a living in the middle of a was on what was once a bustling market is now piles of rubble. buildings and homes are in ruins, this burritos for here. anyhow, my 0, my house here in front of him body of the are suffering aflac or food for if to hit the lack of would, that is the city for 3 days. now,
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i'm also gonna have an existing order people say, well it's, it's a 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. this is a lot of the hospital east til or peroration, but not to the full capacity due to the shortage of medical equipment. let alone difficulties the medical st. her face took it toward the fighting in the capital as centered around the presidential palace and the army headquarters. this video appears to show members of our military record support forces with the commander general mohammed. hum don douglas in the area, but it's not clear when it was filmed law, but across the nell river in the city of om dorman. some people are bearing that dead. this home was hit by shelling while the family was asleep. i was i, li, i well, 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 big of it, and when i stood up, i fell to the ground. i oh, it our duke, north of cartoon, there are pockets of resistance. some people took to the streets in protest on saturday, holding for an end to the violence. analysts say, to dance long away to transition to civilian rule, a prospect that seemed imminent a few weeks ago is moving further out of reach. for as long as general douglas and army chief adult fighter oper, hon refused to back down. one of them needs to win that he could claim power. this is how they see it from was and ah, and, and, and ultimately they have no problem in my opinion. sacrificing what made it a slight compromising,
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jeopardizing the security of the hall county and all the while sudanese live in fear as more of the country is destroyed in a battle for power, for healing mohammed al jazeera. wow, well after a week of battles, that delayed rescue, as many countries are now scrambling to evacuate their citizens and diplomats for jordanian plains landed on military airport. carrying more than 300 people from ports about spain, germany and france also pulled up hundreds of their citizens on sunday. and more countries of announced evacuation plans in the coming days in morgan has more now from cartoon. while there are 2 kinds of active evacuations happening here in the capital hotel room, there's the evacuation of foreign nationals with the help from their embassies and allied countries here in the, in the capital. many of them making their way to the eastern city off port 2 than just like the un mission here in the country and puts down is a city that's about 800 kilometers away from the capital. so that's a trip on a normal day that would take about 11 to 12 hours. but because they would be
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checkpoints on the route because it's a large convoy, it's likely take longer than that. and those are the foreign nationals evacuating. then there's the local, the residence of her to themselves, who are doing their own evacuations. mapping out their own ruth, outside the capital, to make it to safe places. places like i did either in the central part of the country or river. now, in the northern part of the country, there are also some students who are trying to evacuate the country completely, not just to neighboring state. they're trying to neighboring countries like egypt. if you are chad and south for them, they're simply looking for ways depending on where they are, depending on the fighting at the time that they're trying to move, to make it out of the capital, whether that be to a neighboring state or a neighboring country. and be, and let's not forget that this is the 1st time for them. if i could actually witnessing a displacement. hutton was not a city that had, has witnessed conflict despite the fact that put on has had numerous, we're going on within its borders, but never in hard to me. so people are very and used. the situation for noon of the
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basset escapes for them for egypt on saturday, she describe what it was like. fling the violence with her family getting out of sudan was not an easy decision to make. it was not an easy journey. what i would recommend my sister's number, they are trying to trace it on right now is, i mean, you need to be brave up, please take care of each other. don't carry too much money or to any clothes pack lightly. make sure you have plenty of wood, plenty of drinking water. the journey is really, really long. and when you think about it, just go for it. don't think of the what if just please try to get out and be getting out of the bomb was definitely the most difficult part of this entire journey. having to go through would be checkpoints where you don't know whether you're going to be robbed or killed or i'm just holding my mother's hand looking
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into my graham as i just holding each other's hands and paying that it all goes smoothly. i would say that even though it was the shortest part of the chip, it was definitely the most nerve wracking. the situation has just gotten so much worse than the last few days. people have completely run out of food, clean drinking water. the hospitals are almost 0 capacity. they're completely not waking. there's no petrol people can't move around. even evacuation like when we evacuated, it was way much easier. i was even at the border. there weren't that many people, but now these borders are filled with so many people. and it is draining into a full blown herana chain crisis. and that needs to be stopped. he's why needs to be put into place. and the people have said, i need to be evacuated safely. and more than
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a 150 students from the international university of africa in car, to our, in our doris, in se sedan government source. there's that being taken out. it's not about and from there to their home countries, but many are stuck in desperate conditions down to zeros, heads, managerial student in khartoum, who's calling on her government to help. everyone has been trying that there is no hope of survival. everyone is just around and held k to looking for show to, to survive these, these people this size, they don't value human lives. they bring care of our we are on the breakers since there is no electricity berries lot and i was having some little water left with me. the
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money in the water. i cannot for 2 days, i can shower. there is no water to drink. there is no 4 to drink. you cannot go out to the street to buy food. there is no use, there is nothing you can buy and even the cash is not that the soldiers roaming about everywhere. and you don't know whether you're going to do the left because the me, those, you know, they just drop in lasers close to the place where i was saying there was a bomb blast. and so i was going through the window to look what is happening now. and suddenly civilians are fleeing the violence in multiple directions. hundreds of people have reportedly arrived in south for dan. more than 10000 people are crossed into neighboring chad. the world food program says is preparing to process these 100000 people. others that headed north to egypt. cake
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man, a volley as cans, east and central africa regional director. she says the violence is worsening. sedans, humanitarian crisis. one of the things that we always conscious about this year is that women and girls and children are always the most is the push to violence. and so some of the realities with his journeys as they leave it think this is actually going to be your girl. i still little 19, not concerned about what's going on to me for women and then how to them. we also know that to don in itself from a include army from an economic point of view. when you think about what do you think of this when you when the social social is not to this price, is your current bond and deepens unwritten receiving money. when g and quite it in a country that was already struggling economically with lighting food prices,
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the pursuit in floods, disease outbreaks, and experience has shown that those who are already highly vulnerable had very few coping mechanisms. and so right now, with this conflict with a few coping mechanisms that they had, the, are left with none. this is the young see, for those who are standing cartoon were those who raised the conflicts. and for those who are now tracking to to the border, ah, not police and tenure zoomed at least, 47 bodies, some graves in a forest outside melinda, in the east of the country. the victims allegedly, from a religious cult, starved themselves to death. after following their pastor's instructions to stop eating lease or investigating the colt, which one enjo says has been operating since 2019 shavon silk has more they believed they would meet god. they ended up in a shallow grave, outside
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a coastal town in eastern kenya, victims of a suspected cult leader of us our days wife, son and parents in law disappeared, leaving everything behind you. so when i get to such off, when i said san juan, i stood down dahlgren to see jesus saw it, and i trucked our flight. it's only book a long way. tickets to my lindy, we should have already gone to get back to my adobe. this is the man accused of loring 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 going on in this area. he had been arrested before i went to children, died, there wasn't enough in for me enough. i didn't have to, you know, keep him behind by that shows because trade. so your people are angry, but kill,
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you know, if you 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 missing. the la jenny, my ball, my little man. we visited homes 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. so does our to on very in who mind to see what is going on here on the people who are been coming year. i can, i can't see. none of those are similar relative padia does find nearest kin, more people on seen more groups. mckenzie is now in custody. pathologists are taking samples from the victims to determine the cause of death. shavon, silk al jazeera. at least 60 people have been killed in an attack in northern
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burkina, faso authorities say about a 100 men wearing military uniforms. right at the village in comma india, tango province. the attack comes as the government conscripted thousands of people to help fight arm groups linked to al qaeda and i so no group has yet claimed responsibility. peruse. former president has been transferred to prison as your weight's trial on corruption charges. alejandro to later was serve a pre trial, the tension of 18 months after being expedited from the u. s. he's accused of accepting more than $35000000.00 in bribes during his 5 years in office. marina sanchez reports from legal, handcuffed and escorted by us marshall's former precedent valley 100 lou leanne that he too early sunday, after losing a final deed to present his extradition. ah, a few supporters weeded. i'd say it no more than you. 2 0 boy, yeah, we came to support our leader because he was the best president he left the economy
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stable. we used to have 10 pieces of bread for a few cents, and now we can't support anything. after a health check up the 77 year old former leader. mit be loose, top prosecutor, but the 7 o e this her team has been pursuing the littles extradition to face charges since 2017. then his 1st appearance in court. soon pros order rosario or i am an economics and international education professor at stanford university. currently retired, a little was read his rights and charges, pollution and money laundering. he faces up to 20 years in prison quantities there was husky of his brother. luckily, this is public opinion has already condemned him. syndic, let us officials are giving statements as if he was already sentenced. a government minister has described president toleta as a criminal. that is a pre judgement. witnesses have told prosecutors. delilah received $35000000.00 in
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gripes. in exchange for public works contracts charges he has denied oliver says he will die if he goes to prison. he wants me to do this story to allow him to remain under house arrest. but prosecutors here say in a fugitives since 2017, and they believe he will try to whisky. alejandro. the lyla now joins 5 former precedence under investigation for corruption. for now, from prison sale, the innocent just, i just need a lima. not also to come here and how does air, including stepping up security and schools. brazil moved to stamp out a recent surge and gun attacks on american demonstration by climate protest. as coincides with one of london's biggest sporting events more that sailors ah,
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here's your forecast for monday, right across asia is always great to have your long, okay. this one off in pakistan not much going on. temperatures are closing in on 40 degrees in new object. and in her outs, afghanistan 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 sock about that storm threat through india. this storms move from a dish into entrepreneur dash that leaps intend tamela, do. and careless states could see some hail storms here as well. off to southeast asia, we go. biggest bursts of brain will be west and central, calla montana on borneo island and some pretty good pulses of rain. not too far away from the deck. promised speed 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 tugging up warm moist and humid air from the gulf of thailand . so that's what's causing this. we will see some daytime heating storms around the
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ne of louse 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 socket 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. ah . in 20 a journalist lead 40 days of civic action against the armenian government, and president sockets yann's great home power. i'm going to liberate this where a new documentary follows his non violent campaign to bring down the corrupt regime tonisha outcome with i am not alone on mimi is velvet revolution on al jazeera. ah
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ah, welcome on to good remind about top stories here. this, our fighting in saddam between the army and rapid support forces is raging from 90 day thousands of people are fleeing and more than 400 of been killed as a near total intimate blackout in many errors without access to food and clean water. and many countries now scrambling to evacuate their citizens on diplomats from sudan. jordan is the latest to fill out $300.00 people. spain and germany also flew out hundreds of their citizens on sunday. and kenyon police dug up the bodies of 47 people on land owned by the leader of occult the victims allegedly starved themselves to death after being told to stop eating in order to meet jesus hostages
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in police custody and have been arrested twice. brazil government does launched a campaign aimed at improving safety in schools after a series of shootings are now more security patrols outside schools and $300.00 people suspected of planning further. attacks have been detained and recent weeks. monica do not have reports from re edition era. bear forever. when we looked at your she lives you, brazil's president losing mass to lula. that's uva, cheer did, emergency meeting for aimed at preventing violence in schools. in march, a 13 year old student stabbed and killed a teacher with a knife. then this month, a 25 year old man wielding a hatchet, broke into this preschool, killing 4 children between the ages of $5.00 and $7.00. must you call me a deal most rosy, dodgy? it's a monstrosity that all of us who are father's mother's grandparents, uncles could never imagine would happen. at the meeting,
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the government announced it would be spending $625000000.00 to re enforce security in the schools. but the president and his closest aides also blame the spread of hate speech on social media as the contributing factor in the search of school violence. justice minister flavio g l o said social media websites would be monitored as part of the operation to prevent new school attacks. f fall regulating and monitoring the internet does not. while it are freedom of speech to protect those rights. we need rules to cub hate videos and messages which are being published every day. instigating violence. school attacks are a new phenomenon in brazil. but some specialists believe the surge of violence could become as common as in the united states when boys new even chip toys that though he needs in the 20 years before last year we had 11 school attacks. but in just the past 10 months, we've had obtained these numbers can't be compared to those in the us,
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but the shop increase in a country that is not used to dealing with this kind of islands. think happy looking up at su audrianna. sylvia is grateful to see security measures are finally being taken seriously. for more than a decade, she's been pushing brazilian officials to focus on school violence in 2011. her 14 year old daughter and 11 other students were killed in the handling massacre. the deadliest school attack in brazil, history will fit as well. i not only lost a daughter, but saw my family being shattered. my husband and father both suffered strokes. my son had to cope alone with the pain of losing the sister and seeing his parents plunge in despair. it's a feeling that only those who have suffered at 1st hand can understand this month. police patrols in front of schools have increased thought, but at the d. m, like many brazilians feel that more needs to be done and that families, teachers, and psychologists must be better prepared to deal with this new threat. the statues
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of teenagers running as if they had their futures ahead. of them represent the 12 students who were killed during brazil's deadliest school attack, a reminder by parents and advocates that unless serious protection measures are taken, innocent lives will continue to be at stake. monica cannot guess, i'll just 0 re edition ero, more than 3000 people are on the march, nor through mexico in the latest in a series of migrant caravans. the heading towards mexico city would eventually and of reaching the border with the us. caravan consists of mainly venezuelans, but there are people for me as far as china and other asian nations. many on the march rule for demonstrating up to 40 people, died in a detention center fire, and mexico last month. almost done the protesting before to death, to demand the closure of the national migration institute to demand mexico's president, operate all pay attention to our good course to demand the remove of the migration
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of actor coffee centers of the concentration camps of this century. we don't have any other alternatives in leaving from yen to keep moving forward. we won't give up . we all want to go to the united states. i'm fighting for better for my daughter here. and another one i left and honduras agriculture and it says from the g 7 nations of call for the extension of ukrainian grain export deal. the agreement broke by the human and turkey aloft july allows ukraine to export grain from a number of its black seaports. but russia is indicated that it won't allow the deal to continue beyond may 18th. it says conditions to facilitate its own exports, have not been met. for the extension of the great deal will be on the table when russia has foreign minister, love ra, travels to new york this week, rushes also scheduled to hold a un security council meeting on monday to discuss the principles of the un charter as the fame charter was accused of violating with its war on ukraine. diplomatic
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editor, james bates, had more from the us. the russian foreign minister will preside over 2 meetings of the un security council. these are signature events of the russian presidency. and traditionally, when this happens, ministers attend from other security council nations. however, this occasion i'm told, most of the security council will be represented by ambassadors rather than ministers. while he's here in new york, miss elaborate will also meet with the secretary general of the united nations. antonio could terrace, and their discussions will focus on the black sea grain initiative, which russia says needs to be renewed by may. the 18th, when i spoke though, to the russian ambassador to the united nations, he told me that russia's not happy at all with the way that deals operating. we did not see progress that would, that would assure us that the initiative is implemented on was tracks
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because there are 2 tracks of these initiatives. know the green initiative. we agree that the member hon understanding between the nation un, which provides for the export of the russian grains and fertilizers which is not being implemented despite all the efforts. the secretary general is, is making it one of the 2 meetings that mr. lab ruffle chat is about the defense of the un charter. of course, that's the very same un charter, the organizations pounding document, which many countries and the un secretary general have said russia violated by its invasion of ukraine. james bay's al jazeera of the united nations. there's been a low turn out for local elections in northern customer, author calls for a boycott from the largest serbian party ones, cost of those ethnic albanian leadership to give the mainly ethnic sub region more autonomy elections, or balance cars from just over 3 percent of registered voters, sub officials from the area resigned in november over a government plan to replace con,
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license plates with those issues in cost of multiple tornadoes of touch. down in amman, the twisters struck mostly in the instant bonnie to alley region spinning speeds of 200 kilometers an hour, getting livestock damaging property and cutting power supplies. amman civil aviation, all thought is issued whether warnings for heavy rainfall in muscat and surrounding regions. thailand is seeing record breaking temperatures speak than the capital of bangkok being urged not to go out. doors temperatures reached 42 degrees celsius on saturday, combined with humidity that felt like 54 degrees. a police officer directing traffic collapsed and died of heat stroke. earlier this week, by mental activists took to the streets of london for a 3rd day of demonstrations. the protest coincided with the london marathon that were fierce. the activists would disrupt the event in the end, it went smoothly. thanks for change and tactics by protest is letting baba explain why they're in to the final mile of the london marathon. cheered on by thousands of
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spectators, but sundays event was different because climate change activists extinction rebellion orrick saw. we're also eating the streets. they had be phase of disruption, but exxon brought in hundreds of stewart's to make sure nobody tried to stop the runners. at he and stuart is a former olympic champion canoeists now dedicated to climate campaigning. to all right here is to connect with the many, many thousands of people that are out there that we know are seriously concerned about if i'm emergency, but i have no path to action. a wag invites to people to calm down experience what it is like to be a part of a massive group of people who are seriously concerned. in recent years x r has been known for direct action, including citizens bringing traffic to a halt in central london. they now say they favor a different approach. another group just still poil recently targeted the well sneaker championships here in the u. k. i am a civil engineer from london to a fair activists have just been jailed for climbing,
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a major bridge over the river thames forcing police to close it to traffic. but they say they're still committed to disrupting public events as a way to keep the climate crisis in the news. our government, this response, their, their response to the climate crisis is to put people in jail. that's not the right way to solve the climate crisis. who saw the climate quasi by dressing the issues and the issue is no new oil and gas extinction. rebellion for their part, want ministers to and funding for new oil and gas projects and set up emergency citizens assemblies to address the climate crisis. one of the slogans extinction rebellion are using for today's event is run out of time and they'd given the government a deadline of monday beyond which they say they'll be increasing their actions. we're definitely gonna continue targeting and trying to disrupt the oil industry. financial institutions that are financing the oil, industry,
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insurance companies that are ensuring polluting industries. all these things will, will continue. but it's going to be targeted. so different priorities perhaps, but as they race to push the politicians to deliver on their own climate promises, we can expect more eye catching events. nadine barbara al jazeera london ah, type a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera fighting in sudan between the army and rapid support forces raging fine nights. day. thousands of people are fleeing and more than 400 have been killed. as the near total internet blackout and many areas are without access to food and clean water. but many countries now scrambling to evacuate their citizens and diplomats from sedan. jordan is the latest country to find out 300 people from ports about spain and germany also flew out hundreds of our citizens on sunday. even.
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