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after 4 decades of her historic struggle against the establishment, the nomadic sammy, people now faced their greatest threat. climate change. witness ditches for sub me on al jazeera. ah no food, no water, no electricity, no internet. the situation in sudan gets worse with the fighting. now in its 10th day, ah, i'm calling so you, this is all to their life and doe whole. so coming up, police in kenya examine the remains of follow as of a christian call to they believed would go to heaven by starving to death.
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ah, rotting to pressure fashion, johns and the government about workers safety in factories in bangladesh and mexicans set out on a mass track, calling for action after deadly fire at a migrant detention center. ah, internet connection on mobile networks are nearly completely down in sudan on the 10th day of violence between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces. the fighting has cut off access to electricity, food and clean water, much of the population. at least 420 people have been killed and thousands forced to flee their home since the violence began. as go straight to him. morgan, who is live for us in khartoum. hipaa. so as we've been hearing internet is down
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communication issues. what is the latest on the situation in courtroom while we can still hear heavy artillery being fired in the direction of the northern part of the capitol? that's where there has been in times, fighting between the rapids support forces. embassy, nice army, sometimes leading up to direct confrontation between the 2 sides. now, there are also 5 jets flying overhead in the eastern part of the capital. but many people say that because of the communications issue, because it's been a breakdown in communication with many, many networks now out of service. they say that they don't know what's happening to their relatives. the situation has become quite dire for many people, leaving the capital is also becoming challenging because many say they can't find fuel to operate their cars. and even for transportation, for transport, cars such as buses, out of the capital cartoon. there is also ongoing fighting in the eastern part of the capital between the rapid support, 4th and 5th news army, that's where there's
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a lot of presence of b r s f. in those areas, the eastern and southern parts of the capital. many people say that it's about the 10th day without electricity, without running water, and without basic commodities as chops remain closed for the 10th day. now. and even those that have been broken into our out of commodities situation is quite dire. even more for people who need medical assistance, hospitals remain out of operations for nearly a week. many say that they do have injured people in their homes, but they cannot assist them and they can take them out of the capital because of the transportation issues and the lack of fuel to be able to get out of her to me. okay, thank you for that update. hip morgan le, 1st in current to me? well, the fighting is exhausted, basing unworthy, difficult humanitarian situation ensued on the on humanitarian office says about 15800000 people, which is roughly a 3rd off the population will need assistance. this year, they are 3700000 internally displaced people who need help around 4000000 children
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under 5 and pregnant women are acutely malnourished and need life saving services. and as many as 11700000 people and have enough food to eat more than 10000 of them have crossed into neighboring chad. wells. food program says that number could rise to 100000. john, as calvin loud says, charge on relief, organizations of racing to cope with the influx, getting it clicking very rapidly. we don't know yet exactly how many they are because they're counting them that according to local sources, down already more than 20, talking to them and they are surviving. the desperate condition it's, it's a region. so you have to imagine it's a very, very dry place. it's almost almost no shade, no place to center. the pictures the right above 44 degrees, so the refugees there they are lacking everything. basic know food, know what to do in addition. and the only place to get water is on the other side
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of the border. so they are currently sitting in the box and it be excited me here to protect them and they are you and they are struggling to help them. but they really like me to do so they need absolutely the new found to mostly find me. many, many, many, many children. on the story the told me mainly about the fear when they started and fighting around the homes that you see because you didn't get me all me in the region left them behind. they flew and cross the boat to chance and get back on the police station told me about lou teams and also there was one village. what birds noon of the basset less the dawn for egypt on saturday,
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she described what it was like, fleeing 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 to my sister's number, they are trying to re sit down right now is, i mean, you need to be brave. please take care of each other. don't carry too much money or to any clothes pack. likely. make sure you have them. you would plenty of thinking what in the journey is really, really long. and when you think about it, just go for it. don't think of the what ifs. just please try to get out and be safe. getting out of the bomb was definitely the most difficult part of this entire journey. having to go through the checkpoints where you don't know whether you're going to be robbed or killed or on just holding my mother's hand. looking
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into my gram as i just all holding each other's hands and praying 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 in the last few days. people have completely run out of food, clean drinking water. the hospitals are almost at 0 capacity. they're completely not waking. there is no patrol. 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 on that needs to be stopped as to why needs to be put into place and the people have said, i need to be evacuated safely. the fighting is also triggered the evacuations of
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foreign diplomats and their families. planes carrying french, german, italian and spanish nationals have already left and more countries of announced evacuation plans for the coming days. ah, the 60 people have been killed in an attack in northern booking of fossa authorities say about a 100 men wearing what looked like military uniforms rated the village of commer india tango province. the attack comes just after the government mobilized thousands of people to help fight on groups linked to al qaeda. and i so no group has claimed responsibility. police and kenya have exude at least $47.00 bodies, including those of children, from graves in a forest outside melinda, in the east of the country. the victims allegedly, from a religious called starve themselves to death after following their past as
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instructions to stop eating. police investigating the cults which one enjo says husband operating since 2019 shavon. so castle 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, son and parents in law disappeared, leaving everything behind he saw and i get such off. when i said san juan, i stood down dahlgren to seduce us. so then i trucked our flight, it's only book a long way. tickets to my lindy, we should have already contacted park to nairobi. this is the man accused of luring them to melinda. i paul mackenzie and pain gay as 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
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arrested before i went to children, died, there wasn't enough for me enough. i couldn't cool, you know, keeping behind by that shows the coast trade. so yes, people are angry, but kill, you know, give, have 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 january my bombing, it'll make. 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 i remember what it so does our to on very, in whom i'm to see what is going on here on the people who i've been coming year i can,
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i can't see. none of those are similar relative products does find nearest kin, more people unseen more groups. mckenzie is now in custody. pathologists are taking samples from the victims to determine the cause of death. javan silk. alger 0. protests have been taking place in bangladesh to mark the 10th anniversary of the collapse of a factory which killed more than a 1000 people. the 8 story, ron plaza, on the outskirts of the capital doc, us of a sudden, structural failure with the 3000 people inside the building. at the time. the government has made some reforms and protect workers in the us and the site hasn't been enough salvage address is not the size of the form of factory. the walker say the look not enough has been done in terms of wages comfort in the factory. although i know this has the largest green factories in the world in this sector, but the wages are very minimum sense, append to high inflation and the living costs going up. many of the workers say
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that we need at least $200.00 a month right now. they're only getting very little as $95.00 a month. ready to live up to a living wage in this high inflation era. many of the big factors are not within the range of that card on that line. whether they actually violate is hard to say depending on the inspection. but if you don't made that compliance spend that you will be fine and you will be shut down. so there is a danger, much has improve, i must say, but the government's manufacturers are saying that look, if the supply chain rep responsibility. many of the big international global buyers do not pay the adequate amount or cost of production. sometimes they have to work on just break even production costs with hardly make some money and said, we'll be willing to pay that way at a higher rate and better condition. but the international buyer of the responsibility, because up competition around the world, longer there's been the 2nd largest governments manufacturer and i guys,
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economies uppercase. this is a government manufacturer to pay as i'm going to do this production as little as possible. so much needs to be done in that area. also end up supply chain. australia has launched its biggest defense shake comp decades is looking to transform its military, which the government says is no longer fit for purpose and its flag long range, precision strike weapons as one of its priorities. the defense review says intense competition between china and the u. s and the asia pacific is raising the potential for conflict. this represents a document for to die, and tomorrow it is the most significant work that's been done since the 2nd world war looking in a comprehensive way at what is needed. it demonstrates it in a world where challenges to our national security are always evolving. we cannot pull back on old assumptions. we must build and strengthen,
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asked security by seeking to shape the future. rather than waiting for the future to shape us. g 7 agriculture ministers have called for the extension of the ukranian grain export dale. the agreement broken by the un. i'm ticky a loss. july allows keith to export grain from a number. if it's black see ports. russia has indicated a won't allow the deal to continue be on may 18th and says conditions to facilitate its own exports have not been met. or the extension of the great deal will be on the table in russia's foreign minister, a lover of chairs, a un security council meeting in new york. later this monday to discuss the principles of the un charter or diplomatic editor james space has more from the un . the russian foreign minister will preside over 2 meetings of the un security council. these are the signature events of the russian presidency. and traditionally, when this happens,
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ministers attend from other security council nations. however, on 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 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 will show us that the initiative is implemented on was next because there are 2 tracks of these initiatives. know the green initiative for your grade. and the memorandum of understanding between the russian 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, is making one of the 2 meetings that mr. lab ruffle chat is about the defense of
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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 bass al jazeera of the united nations. still ahead on al jazeera, a cautious old between neighbours, south korea and japan restart their trade relationship. ah, ah. and we're up and running with your world's weather update beginning this one in australia, and we've cut a cool feet of air into w a. so, per se, i think you're gonna max out at 18 degrees, compare that to adelaide at $27.00,
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while above average for this sum the years we do approach may still, this onshore breeze could give us a few showers, sydney, brisbin, and cans on tuesday for new zealand hits a windy pitcher across both islands, wind gusts, about 90 kilometers per hour. getting clips with some rain for the southern tip of the country. to indo china we go some daytime heating storms are wrapped in here, so that will help lower temperatures. a little bit, bangkok, 36 for you on tuesday. meantime, the cool air in china has spread as far south as one g province. so greatly and 18 degrees, most of the wet weather will be locked up against the pearl river valley. but we've got spells of heavier rain coming into japan, the island of que issue also for southern honshu as well. we'll see those winds whip up. i think it's just going to clip south korea is fault in time for northern china. not too bad in beijing. little bit of a breeze there, but you've got to have 22 degrees and wall to wall sunshine on tuesday. that's a snapshot of your weather. we'll see you soon. take care.
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oh, come back. he watching al jazeera reminder for top stories. this hour is a near total shot down of internet and mobile networks and see don on the 10th day of violence between the all me and the power military rapids support forces. the fighting has cost of access to electricity, food and clean water, and much of the population. and the chaos in sudan is triggered the evacuations of foreign depth amounts and their families, the u. s. the u. k. france, germany and others help pull their people out. we can speak now to dr. side mohammed abdullah. he is the president of su, dawn, doctors union the candidate division. he joins us now from cairo. thank you so much sir, for taking the time to speak to onto 0. so as a member of the sudanese doctors union, what are you hearing about the latest situation in sue don? the situation. thank you for having me. this situation is very there.
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it is so bad, especially at the and we are having about 69 percent of our hospital at the conflict. they are totally look where i think i was where i was 79 hospital only to divide being out of and the those left to in to do those where king are. so just working for most, most of them are just for the 1st the and we have about 19 have been falsely evacuated from the and we have been used as the military. they both visions and
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apologies dog se if i get you to repeat yourself because the line is not very clear how, how many hospitals are actually available as we speak, the people can access for health care. yeah, not only do any 2 hospitals in this conflict of 79, right. these are not working fully fully where because of the shortage of the clean or the outage of the electricity. and we have about 19 hospital that has been for the vacuum bang being used as the military boys. right. so they're actually been years years by the military as basis. and what is your understanding of the latest casualty figures from the fighting?
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yeah, you know we, we already receiving it pulls from the bali, the civilian though so far until yesterday we have having about 273 civilian and we are having about $1579.00 engine are not included. those who cannot see these. right. so the figure couldn't military. okay, now i believe you have family in su dawn who are in the process of fleeing to join you in egypt. are you in touch with them? we understand communications, a pretty much non existence. so if, if you are talking to them, what are they saying to you? can you repeat again the last part of the question? i believe you do have family in c, dawn, are you in contact with them?
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yes, i do from time to time. and some of them are leaving to get including my nephew and some friends formulas. and how do they intend to reach egypt? because i understand it's quite difficult now to even to, to leave the country. yes. living by buses or my car's spitting loss was one, you know, these one, so the board, the house to the smart city, big that the area go there. they can approach the only way they can reach get and just returning to the situation regarding the medical facilities in the hospital. as you say, even the hospitals that are open don't have access to water and so on. what is it
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that they desperately need? what is it that those facilities need that could allow the situation to improve a little bit? yeah, they, they need, they need the medicine, medical personnel because those who are been working they have been working for for many days. and they have been exhausted. and they need to be replaced, thats the verizon but unfortunately there is no guarantee that they can reach safely. the 2nd thing is the they do the outage of i have been talking in 2 days ago with one of my colleagues. they are sometime operating using the lights on their mobile phones and they are using very primitive ways do this impact like these, the cleaners and everything. and so they need everything. you can
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imagine they need clean or are they need electricity. they need the medical personnel to replace those who are working. i'm by the way, i appreciate what the, the, the great with my colleague and all the medical stuff i'm doing despite all these, their situation. indeed a very difficult situation. i really hope your family get safe back to you in egypt . good to speak to dr. side mohammed dela, president of the su, don, doctors union the canada branch. thank you. thank you for having me and thank you for south korea has restored japan to a list of countries. it prioritizes for trade, o downgraded, took year 3 years ago in a diplomatic dispute. but it's both countries look to deepen cooperation with washington on security. i've been working to repair that relationship, rob mcbride hospital. this is one of the most heavily policed parts of sol. it's
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the location of the japanese embassy and often the scene of anti japanese demonstrations, giving an indication of the long and troubled relationship between the 2 neighbors . going back to the last century, 2 world war 2 and 2 decades of colonial rule. it was during a particularly bad downturn in relation several years ago that south korea japan off a so called white list defrosted trading pot. and that was seen as retaliation. and the trade dispute with japan, sparked by a court case against japanese companies, are using war time, korean force labor. since the current conservative administration, the president took y'all, has been in power. big attempts have been made to try to restore relations partly to help trade, but also partly for joint security given the increased rates for north korea,
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and also the expanding power of china. as president human begins a state visit to washington. all of this improvement in relations certainly has the approval of the united states as it ties in nicely with its geo political goals. indo pacific. not so popular though, amongst ordinary koreans given the troubled relationship with japan as sole draws closer to tokyo. so president humans, popularity continues to plummet in the polls, but it does seem to be a price he is willing to back. robert bride al jazeera, so brazil's government has launched a campaign aimed at improving safety in schools after a series of shootings. there are now more security patrols outside schools want to yanna key reports now from rear diginero. the bear fuzzy will be able to just live brazil's president lucy not to let us uva, cheered an emergency meeting for aimed at preventing violence in schools. in march,
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a 13 year old student stabbed and killed a teacher with a knife than this month. a 25 year old man wielding a hatchet, broken to this preschool, killing 4 children between the ages of $5.00 and $7.00. moscow called me a deal more draws it 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, 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 jello said social media websites would be monitored as part of the operation to prevent new school attacks. at fall regulating and monitoring the internet does not violate our freedom of speech. to protect those rights. we
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need rules to cub hate videos and messages which are being published every day. instigating violence. school attacks are new phenomena in brazil, but some specialists believe the surge of violence could become as common as in the united states. going to his new ethan shatoya that though he needs in the 20 years before last year we had a live in school attacks. but in just the past 9 months, we've had obtained these numbers can't be compared to those in the us, 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 he had language massacre, the deadliest school attack and brazil's history will fit with my not only lost a daughter, but saw my family being shattered. my husband and father both suffered strokes. my
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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 bar, 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 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 lifes will continue to be at stake. monica knock if i'll just 0 rio de janeiro. ah,
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