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way as any other form of assault once the activists are pushing for is passage of a bill early in the mexican congress which seeks to reclassify as of its acts as a distinct crime equivalent to attempted work. it passed the new law would increase the punishment for attacks using acid with up to 12 years in prison. ah ah. you're watching the news, our life from headquarters in ohio, getting an upgrade up coming up in the next 60 minutes scenes of devastation in a neighbourhood near har tomb sedans, army and the rapids. support forces, blame each other for the violence. a rush to escape the fighting on the deprivation more civilians on foreigners, flea the sudanese capital. russia's foreign minister tells the un security council
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. the world has reached a dangerous threshold and canyon police dig out more bodies of cult members who are told to starve themselves to death. hello on poll, resolve all schools including f, i cup history, stages set for 1st ever all munches to final. united looks at place against royal city. ah, hello, we begin in sudan where the humanitarian situation is worsening by the hour. millions of people are trapped in their homes with no access to food, water, or medical care with the fighting now in its 2nd week. so both sides accuse each other of committing war crimes. the rapid support forces say the air force as indiscriminately targeting areas in cartoon. while the army accuses the permits
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group of using civilians as human shields, thousands had been forced to flee the country. they're desperately seeking refuge and neighboring countries, and the chaos and sudan has also triggered the evacuations of foreign diplomats and their families. the u. s. u. k. france, germany and others have pulled their people out, or at least 420 people have been killed in 10 days of fighting so far. the recent relative, low and fighting hasn't come fears that the situation could still get much worse for hello mohammed reports. after nearly 2 weeks of fighting to dawn's most powerful paramilitary patrol the streets of cartoon field commanded say their forces control areas in the southeast of the capital. but it's difficult to verify information. the battle has intensified around hartman airport and the still being contested by army and paramilitary troops. and the fight for information has become just as crucial here. the rapid support forces, or
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r s f says it maintains its presence a is up to all those listening to any false rumors that are a so far you control of the general command or the airport. we are now inside. both facilities are divided. but so don's army denies giving a power food was no g, as you can see from the green square. up to this point, there is nothing but the army personnel there now combing the area for our i said, fought is the army released video celebrating the surrender of what it says, a rapid support forces fighters in al fresco, also gra, in the southeast. ah, and a general meeting troops in hard to earlier in the day and as strike hit several homes and calico south of the capitol to dance doctors committee is wanting of dozens of casualties. the rapid support forces is accusing the army of directly targeting civilians. but the army says the artist that troops are hiding in
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civilian areas and using people as human shields. the conflict has led to a major humanitarian crisis. millions of people in the capitol are trapped in their homes with power outages, no running water, lack of food, and an internet blackout with the chaos has spread to state prisons where hundreds of inmates from kobe and national prison have reportedly escaped. others from so bay prison were captured by r. s f paramilitary troops. while the fighting wages on those who can are trying to flee several countries including italy, france, germany, and jordan, are the latest to pull out their diplomatic stuff and foreign nationals with no one to rescue them. sudanese civilians are taking matters into their own hands to find safety. some travelling by boss to cross into egypt getting out of costume was definitely the most difficult part of this entire journey. i'm having to go through
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these chuck points where you don't know whether you're going to be robbed or killed or i'm just holding my mother's hands looking into my gramma's eyes just all holding each other's hands and praying that it all goes smoothly. there have been more international and regional calls for mediation. if you're p as prime minister is appealing for both sides to talk to glenn man. what do i ask? my brother albert han and my brother had made tea to stop the fighting immediately and adopted dialogue. but the 2 warring sides appeared, determined to fight on as to don, enters a new phase of war and a deteriorating humanitarian situation. where he le mohammed al jazeera, it's got to live up to it now with have a morgan. she's our correspondent joining us from cartoon so her by day 10 and reports of people in the capital going days without electricity or water, as the fighting really shows no sign of letting off a yes indeed. now,
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some people are trying to leave the capital along with thousands of others who've already made their way either to neighboring states like edge is either in the southern, in the central part of the capital or to i river. now state in the northern part of the capital, but the issue right now comes down to the issue of financial means. banks have been closed since the thought of the fighting online banking operations have also been stopped. because the many of the of the bank say that their facilities have been heads and they've not been able to allow their staff and because of fighting ongoing in the streets and their c, m. safety and fear for their safety. so for many people, they say that they want to leave because the situation has become untenable with no running water for 10 days. now, no electricity. and then there's the issue of getting commodities. they can't go to the markets because there is no market, many of the markets have been burned down. and where there are still standing. prices have increased and again people don't have the financial means. so they're trying to get out if they can, but they say transport costs and fuel costs have also more than tripled in some places going up to $10.00 times the price. so they say that they're just waiting
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for this, fighting to, to and, and they're trying to live with the situation. but many of them say that they're in desperate need of water. they're in desperate need of electricity. but most the vol there in desperate need of medical assistance because they do have people who are injured, but hospitals have gone out of operations due to ongoing fighting and are to lose strikes on medical facilities. okay. have a thank you so much. have a morgan reporting for us from how to tune. so as we mentioned, fighting north of the capital has intensified in the last few days, civilians living in hard to say that airstrikes have been launched near the state broadcasting center and m demand fighting has also escalated between the army and the robin support forces in and around the area of body joining us on the line from port sir don, is dalim humbug abdullah man, i'm who's a civil activist who's just arrived from hard to indict him from. and thanks for speaking to us. can you tell us about your journey from hearts room to ports you don? oh hi. thank you for having me. it literally took its actually 24 hours. we left
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noon yesterday and we arrived at 2 pm this afternoon and we tried to take the safest route possible. i have been, i've travelled on saddam, but i was the 1st time i've seen some of the roads and the travel pack that we took . so we, they did. what did you see on the way they were here? so we got to see, what did you see on the way there did you encounter any? we only encountered army on the now we only encountered army convoys and army out post, you know, they check the come on the bus and that ask i, we also need to know if there's any foreigner and, and where are we going? and they were very civil, there was nothing undone, it was very straightforward that wish as well. and then we just move on. but i
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think we thought we were stop something like maybe 7 to 8 times, which is fine. i mean, i guess we're in the stage where securities are the high premiums. so what about, i mean, we only have one piece. what about the situation currently in ports to don, you feel completely safe there? well posted on right now is turning into an evaluation hub if we caught up with the united nations convoy that was leaving. so our in the sending gets a lot of the n g o, the new folk will be, will be leaving from 4 to the what methods of trouble that we using. i don't know that they'll be going by sea, or i've also been told that posted on airport will be opened to facilitate those who are traveling or leaving. it's so far, it's good. it's safe. i mean personnel was, was in under the army control, i think by the 1st day. so it's pretty safe and it is a poor city,
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so it's more open. they know. we know the train hasn't stopped. and they know it's mainly cartoon that has been paralyzed, but what's been happening, all the other cities. we passed through the doris and through cash and we spent the night there. they all seem fine though, you know, functioning as normal. it's only done, but it's on the sorry, on the cartoon that actually hasn't been, it's like a standstill, so to speak. right. and you got out of cartoon, but obviously, i mean, you must know a lot of people that are, that are still in hard to some people can get out. some people can, some people want to, some people don't want to, these are very difficult decisions to make. i suppose how, how difficult was it for you to make it was very difficult because it's never easy choice to make to be of your own home and to the bureau city. but you reach a point where you decide what the probability of danger is higher,
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is it higher to stay, or is it higher to the? and we decided to but it's all, we're better off taking the risk of leaving. and you also have to put into consideration, you have elderly or you have people who need medical care and staying and cartoon was no longer an option whatsoever at the same time. like i guess when supply and demand, the prices for you know, ticket for bus that coach tickets or car hire shock up. so those who are able to leave cards to me unfortunately are those who can afford to do it. the vast majority of sooner than the vast majority of those who reside in car to cancel. so you know, they have no choice in the matter. they're forced to stay in cartoon. so it's just, it's a matter of luck. it's a matter of faith. i mean, i don't, i mean, i still have family members fucking cartoon. i have family members stuck at the board of the agent. i have family members stuck in other cities, sudan,
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but they all have the old trying to get out there, trying to find the safe way out. and if they can do it, those who can find something that just pop in the bus and they hop on the car and they leave, right? we really, it's, it's, it's much like for death. do you stay or do you leave it? we have no choice in the matter dynamic. when i'm, we really appreciate your time with us on al jazeera. thank you so much. more than 210000, excuse me. people have now fled to fighting and sudan, and they've crossed into neighboring charge for the world. food program says that the number could rise 210-0000. the refugees are in dire need of essentially as you've been hearing, including food, clean water and shelter. the un secretary general has warned the violence in sudan could engulf the whole region. speaking at a security council meeting antonio terrace, urged members to help pull the country back from catastrophe. since the started
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fighting on 15 april. and that is, if people had been killed and thousands injures the violence must stop it, risks a catastrophic conflagration within sudan. that could then golf the all region and beyond. i strongly condemned in this can read one bar amount of civilian areas including healthcare facilities. and they call on the parties to stop combat operations in densely populated areas, and to allow and either the many serenade operations or get more from either from our to get our james base, joining us now from the united nation. so what else did mr. gutierrez? how to st. james? well, clearly a dar warning you her there about what could happen beyond sedan and affecting the entire region. the un deeply concerned about that deeply concerned about its staff . it has a inside sedan. you've seen lots of evacuations of countries at taking their nationals,
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in some cases they're diplomats and other cases out of sudan. while the u. n. has been doing the same. we don't have any precise figures. what we know is that hundreds of un staff have been relocated, some of them outside sedan and the secretary general, making it clear that his authorized. this is a temporary relocation, but he says the united nations is not leaving. sit on our commitment to the sudanese people are, is there, we will stand with them at this terrible time. so the you and i think that we're looking at, it's at staffing in their temporarily because of the safety, but saying that they will not be leaving a full time. i can tell you that the start of this conflict started as crisis. the u. n. had 4000 staff across sudan, 800 of those were international staff. all we know right now is that hundreds and that's the only figuring given have now been relocated. and james, that meeting at the un security counseling chair by ross,
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are the signer annually heard from the russian foreign minister, sir, elaborate as well. yeah, this is the russian presidency of the united nations. this is one of their signature events. they've called a debate of the security council about the un charter and defense of the un charter . now that has been attacked by many other diplomats who say it's very cynical because they say russia is the one that's violating the un charter with its invasion of ukraine. and we've heard, i think very different competing world views are the us ambassador to the united nations hasn't actually spoken in the security council meeting yet. we're expecting her to speak in about 20 minutes or so. but she spoke to reporters outside, and you contrast that with the words of the russian foreign minister, russia, the convenor of today's meeting, invaded his neighbors in ukraine and struck at the heart of the un charter and russia time and time again has violated universal human rights and fundamental
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freedoms both outside and inside its own borders. that includes arbitrarily detaining political activist journalists and opposition leaders, as well as the wrongful detention of american citizens. was re mcculloch move him of cook of good to followed me way me distinguished colleagues. as was the case in the cold war, we have reached the dangerous possibly even more dangerous threshold. the situation is worse and with the loss of trust multilateralism. when the financial economic, aggression of the west is destroying the benefits of globalization when the united states and salazar bandon diplomacy and to pan demanding a clarification of relations on the battlefield. and this is all done in the halls of the united nations, which was created to prevent the horrors of war. his he will be it's worth telling you that around the security council to day, yes, a formless elaborate is chairing this meeting at foreign minister level. but most
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other countries have not sent ministers. the only 3 that have are the united arab emirates, gabon and ghana they've sent deputy foreign ministers. the rest are just ambassadors . so that i think is a snob to the russian presidency. and to mister latter, often a particular, i think a deliberate snub from those nations also worth telling you the u. s. ambassador has sitting next to her elizabeth whelan. she is the sister paul whelan has the u. s. citizen who's been held in russia for more than 4 years. and at this security council meeting will continue for some hours because there's a lot of speakers on the list to speak. but at the same time as elaborate will be lip nipping out of that meeting. and i'm his ambassador will be taking the seat because he has an important meeting and a couple of hours time with you and secretary general. and i think the key focus of that would be the black c grain initiative, which russia a sounding like it doesn't want to continue. it's certainly saying that it's not getting any benefit from that. in fact, i spoke to the russian deputy foreign minister a few days ago and he said
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a very negative about the idea of russia renewing that agreement. of course, humanitarian agencies, the well through program and others say that if that was to stop that it would mean the grain that's coming out of ukraine would stop completely, and that would make the world crit food crisis. so much was all right, thank you so much. or a diplomatic editor jones maze reporting from the un sensor more had only as iran as our, including report on the plate official in the eastern philippines whose livelihoods are threatened by chinese military vessels. and looking good for the front open. carlos alters racks up another victory on play that's coming up with her. but 1st 9 more bodies have been found in eastern kenya on land owned by the leader of a religious cult. it brings a total number of victims found by police to $58.00 authorities say the people
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stormed themselves after being told to stop eating in order to quote me jesus, the pastor is in police custody hath and sawyer in the village of ro carney. thus, near the town of melinda where those bodies were found. now the police and the investigators are now concentrating on this particular area. they have found several mass grees. you see those markings there. those are bodies that they are trying to retrieve so far as several people i, several bodies have been retrieved. this is very shocking. a lot of people are wondering what happened or how did you know, administration, their local administration here, dropped the ball. how did people know that these has been happening, or we have spoken to the inspector general of police. this person in princeton of anton that is with that national police service,
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got interested in his activities. and we honest had him not once on a number of occasions and you have presented before the court of law. ah, he says that they are looking at her for the relatives who had been presenting themselves. they're trying to look for their loved ones. are there also are the some of the people, one not did not just starve to death, others will, could have been suffocated. so this situation is ongoing or the man in question. a pol mackenzie is still in police. cassidy. ah, we have been told i that some of the people who have been rescued basically are in a rescue center. they are also refusing to eat so. i mean, some of them are very traumatized, but then also they're saying that they will not eat and till they finish their
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mission. and their mission is unlike their leader told them, add that they are will continue fasting and teel as they meet the creator. at least 60 people have been killed in an attack in northern burkina faso authority say about a 100 men wearing what looked like military uniforms rated the village of karma, india. tango province. no group has claimed responsibility. nicholas hark, falling developments from senegal, capital the car. so what more can you tell us about this nicholas? well another loss of lives. hundreds of people in this cell region. that's bordering molly, the molly burkina faso border were talking about inside that happened on thursday. early in the morning, at 7 30 am men in uniform encircled this village in the region of y, e. greer, a village at about 200 kilometers,
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2 kilometers in radius. and so when these men in uniform and circled that village, villagers thought that they were there to protect them, to rescue them. but what followed was hours of carnage and gunfire. villagers that we have spoken to say that half of the men in the village are now dead. people being shot children and men and women trying to flee the scene. now, the area and where you via is a base of it, is the center of a big security force compound from the burkina faso forces. so either they are involved in this attack and mistakenly attacked villagers or arm groups using the uniform of soldiers launch this attack. why? well, that's because just a few days ago, before this attack, a camp, a military camp was attacked by armed groups linked to al qaeda and i sell. but no matter what, this is another day of violence in this a hell. there was an attack just across the border in molly, where hundreds of people had died in the region of savory during yes, so nicholas,
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how is that fight against armed groups going in burkina faso? well it's getting from, i mean the armed forces are going from losses to defeat and it feels like as the a walker who is a military gentle leader, captain abraham ter says that he's lost control about of half of the countries is in the hands of armed goose, now this is a country that's roughly the size of the united kingdom. imagine of scotland and wales were no longer in the control of london. well, that's what's happening in bertina fossa. so they've organized that mass conscription asking anybody above the age of 18 where the men and women to join the fight to try to regain loss territories. and there is some coordination made between the molly insecurity forces and bertina foxes forces to try to stem out
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attacks of arm groups in that border, which is frankly no longer in control of these respective countries. the reason why we're seeing an uptake of attack according to analysts is because they no longer can rely both molly burkina faso on the french forces that had a heavy present as their 4000 soldiers that used to help them both in ariel tactical a. m. m. gathering and as well as troops on the ground. so with that shortfall, they looking at their own population to try to protect this country. and let's not forget that the humanitarian situation there is dire during 45000 people in that board area, or at the risk of famine and 2000000 people displaced. thank you. nicholas hock, reporting from the card of the if you can rebel group, the aroma liberation army says the government has accepted its terms for peace talk set to begin in. turns in the year on tuesday, they'll be the 1st talks between the governments of prime minister abbey ashmond
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and the group which has been fighting the state on an off for decades. the lay split with the formerly band opposition party, the aroma liberation front when it returned from exile in 2018 b. o l. a's grievances center on the legend, marginalization of the aroma people, tennessee and coast guard says this recover 31 bodies of african migrants who drowned while attempting to cross the mediterranean to reach italy. the bodies were found off the coast of the city of facts. 2 women and 2 children are among the dead . the number of migrant, both from tennessee are heading towards the italian coast has increased sharply in recent weeks. more than 3000 people are marching north through mexico. and they are one of several large groups of migrants. we're trying to reach the u. s. border. they're also demanding justice for migrants who died in a fire at a detention center last month. andrea van white reports had ha,
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ah, they had walked long distances through some of the harshest conditions in the world . no matter how difficult they journey these migrants marching across mexico, say they determined to stop only once they reached the united states. a highly ducky way. we don't have any other alternative than leaving from here and to keep moving forward. we won't give up all of us want to get to the united states to fight for a better future for my daughter here. and another one i left in honduras ah, lean violence and poverty in central america. thousands of migrants walked together for safety to reach mexico each year. i go on, so we have to move and keep payment for our dream because i left with a dream. my wife was 4 months pregnant. this is my dream to arrive in the united states and give it all to my build. this group has mostly venezuelans who flew to panama or costa rica. then it's the long journey north on foot. they're aiming to
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reach mexico city in around 10 days. ah, but this is not just a search for better opportunities. these people are angry about a fire at a detention center in mexico last month. that killed 40 migrants. now they carry crosses and banners to remember those will never see the u. s, but i see him hollins having a failure. who's a little one now we have decided to move forward in his journal because of to, for to people who died there who were set on fire. my officials are murders, but they don't want to migrate from our countries, and we want justice. ah, even if they make it to the us border, entering the united states is not easy. tough immigration policies are making it harder for my grants to claim asylum. and after spending days and weeks on the road, these children and their families may well be told to go back. andrea conveyed al
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jazeera filipino says so men are increasingly running into chinese coast guard vessels and what they describe as their traditional fishing grounds. philippine relations with china are under strain after the u. s. military was recently granted access to for new military bases in the country on below reports from civic bay. a busy weekend for these fishermen as day work against an impending fishing bad. the philippines and u. s. military's are set to hold drills in waters nearby, but they say they've got nothing against the americans, the real threat to their livelihood. stacy, are chinese vessels on identity. now. the chinese are constantly petroleum. if you try to enter the shoulder, it's more efficient bullets. their rubber boats will cicily. though neither what audi a commercial fisherman is referring to the resource rich scarborough shoal into disputed self at china sea. just 120 nautical miles or about 222 kilometers from where we
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were speaking. due to the lack of fishing opportunities. if these commercial fishermen are forced to sail beyond coastal waters, the bas scarborough shoal kilometers away, where there is conference patients with chinese coast guard vessels that control the area. these clips shot in november by marauders, his crew show at least 3 chinese vessels blocking the entrance to the lagoon. one of them clearly marked chinese coast guard. the phone they used was provided to them by the philippine coast guard, which has been patrolling parts of the south china sea within the philippines. exclusive economic zone more frequently says president ferdinand marcus junior took office will always have to involve the united. marcos has also agreed to allow us forces access to for more military basis to go 3 of which are close to taiwan. a move that prompted china's ambassador to manila seed, yet to quote advice the philippine government to oppose taiwan independence if it
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genuinely cares about overseas. filipino workers are always double use in taiwan remarks that many filipinos didn't take lightly. the message of this action is to lead to point for daddy calling of their ambassador long because of the problematic statement that he had, he should, which had the effect of reckoning, or issuing a whining through a 1000 self always w, currently deployed in by one. it was all smiles, however, between president marco's and chinese foreign minister, chin gung when they met in manila last saturday. in a statement after the meeting, marcus said that reasons statements by both countries might have been misinterpreted, and the chance visit was useful to be able to talk things through barnaby low al jazeera, so big be the philippines. still had only i was there a news hour will tell you why australia's armed forces are set for
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a major overhauls or even sport. the edmonton, oilers, time defense into offense. it's high there, playoff series against at les. ha ha, ha, ha ha sports ah, das with rain for a southern florida. hey, they're great to see you again. this is not good news because fort lauderdale, not too far away from miami, is recovering from extreme flooding just a few weeks ago. so more rain will be falling over top of this area. also got a lot of what weather in the gulf of mexico. the bay of can patchy that's going to slip into central in southern areas of mexico. but i think this batch of what weather on the gulf of mexico as going to break apart. so just a few showers for the yucatan peninsula as we go to the great lakes. us certainly chileya in play here. single digits in toronto,
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8 degrees. it's got some showers stretching into the northeast as well, but a different story for the west coast. but not quite right now until temperature is 12 degrees in vancouver gloomy conditions. but check out by the end of the week, dark of the orange, the higher that temperature, portland, or closing on 30 degrees to the desert southwest. we've got some showers in nevada and new mexico round albuquerque with a max of 23 degrees and to the top end of south america. with that rain clearing away, we set a record temperature in french, diana for the month of april, 30 to $33.00 degrees. meantime, from the papists to patagonia, there's winds coming out of the north. so temperature is above average and by it. blanca and coma doretha davia with a high of 24 degrees. ah. but the climate has changed every year for millions of years. decades of talk. but little action is all about distract create confusion to crate,
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ah, ah. hello again. the top stories on the al jazeera is our, the rival size and suit on our accusing each other of committing war crimes. the rapids support forces say the air force is indiscriminately targeting areas and her to the army accuses it of using civilians as human shields. russia is chairing a meeting of the u. s. security council. a move condemned by e. u ambassador is asked, cynical, speaking before russia to foreign with the russian foreign minister, sir, your lover of the un secretary general, antonio terrans denounced what he called the devastation of ukraine. now the u. s. sex your stay dancing and blinking is meeting kenny as foreign affairs minister. alfred, mature with sudan on top of that agenda. both men have been pressing military leaders in khartoum to renew and expands
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a recent cease fire. we have been in touch repeatedly throughout this crisis with her, with writing them. i've spoken directly to counterparts of saudi arabia in the united are remotes. other members of our team has spoken to, to egypt, and other countries, the united kingdom, all to the same end, which is trying to get a cease fire trying to get more sustainable cessation of hostilities and then trying to get the country back on track to the transition to a civilian government that it was on before the violence that erupted derailed that effort. so from the state departments we have with us rosalind jordan. so rosen, how was the u. s. assessing the violence in our 2 men, and where is it with b evacuations? well, the evacuation of the 70 or so us diplomats, of and other personnel from the embassy took place on saturday,
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some 48 hours ago. and so the u. s. embassy in khartoum is closed until further notice, the usaa state department is trying to work with those some dozens of people with us citizenship who have reached out about possibly a leaving the country. but because the airport in khartoum is closed, the u. s. has stressed that people need to stay in their homes and not go out because of the security situation. and it is worth pointing out that since august of 2021, the u. s. has strongly urged americans to not go to sudan because of the political instability. and now because of the violence with the u. s embassy closed, it's pretty much a very, very difficult, if not nearly impossible mission, to try to get those u. s. citizens who want to leave the country out of the country because there's no way that the u. s. can guarantee the citizens safety. okay,
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thank you so much. rosen. jordan reporting from washington d. c. now u. s. media report say that president joe biden is expected to announce his re election bid on tuesday at age 80. he's already the oldest president in us history, but he's brushed aside concerns about his fitness for a 2nd term. abide n is also expected to name senior white house adviser julie chavez rodriguez to oversee his campaign. our white house correspondent kimberly hallett is danielle. so what does the signal by tapping someone like rodriguez to manage his campaign? well, 1st of all, what it signals is that there are a few vulnerabilities that the white house has identified for joe biden, in his reelection effort that they want to 0 in on. then namely the fact that this is potentially where voters could lean towards republicans could go to a 3rd party or even not vote at all in that in
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a rage or razor thin margin type election could really be due for the u. s. president, reelection effort. so they want to try and target this. it really comes down to 3 areas. the latino vote. 1 the progressive wing of the democratic party and also the labor vote. so the reason that they've tapped to julie chavez rodriguez, 1st of all, when it comes to the labor vote, has to do with the fact that as some of them have been leaning towards the republican party in recent years, they want to bring that back. the fact that her grandfather is a revere labor leader is certainly no accident. the fact that also he is a well known for his work with migrant right. standing up for farm workers. and the fact that she herself has been active in sort of harnessing the latino vote is also no accidents. so tapping into that latino vall, that again, has been leaning to the republican somewhat, but still majority democrat is significant. and finally, the fact that progresses are felt that the president biden has simply been to
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centrist. the fact that julie chavez rodriguez has graduated from the university of california berkeley has been active in progressive causes is also significant. not to the progressive wing that the president is listening, he feels these are important ingredients in order to win reelection right. and when we expect them to make got announcements on re election. we've been hearing it this week, but it could be as early as tuesday. we know that it's likely to come in the form of a video announcement, but as you were mentioning that the president does have some challenges given the fact that he will be the oldest president to win reelection if he does when the fact is on election day he will be 82 years old, so there are already questions about his fitness for office. in fact, there's a new pull out here in the united states that has 40 percent of the voters that voted for president biden back in 2020 or saying that they don't think he should run again. so that's a big problem for joe biden. still his,
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his own campaign staff, although it is a informal at the moment, is saying that he is going to finish the work that he started. but as you can see, there are going to be some challenges. yeah, sounds like it. okay, kimberly, thank you so much. kimberly. how's that reporting from the white house for potential u. s. presidential candidate at rhonda santas is in japan on a 4 country tour as he tries to boost his international profile. the florida governor is expected to be the main challenger to donald trump for the republican nomination. desantis met with the japanese prime minister and foreign minister, regional security on trade were on the agenda. we were able to discuss some the challenges, the security challenges in the region, and we discussed obviously japan moving to to bolster defences. we got a great assessment from the prime minister about different key points in the region . and i think it was very, very informative. and then we also just discussed some economic opportunities i,
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i was able to educate a little bit on what's going on in florida. and he was very a very, very impressed with that. and i think that there's going to be a lot of opportunities moving forward. and i'm a law families of palestinians killed by is really, forces are protesting. they're highlighting the case of other are non a palestinian inmate who spent 8 years in prison. he's been on a hunger strike for the past 70 a days. a non was refuse bail by an is really military court on sunday. but he has more on the story. i'm none is a prominent leader in the slamming you had party while this is his 87 they undergoing a hunger strike. this is not his 1st hunger strike. maybe we're talking about 5th or 6th person who has spend more than 8 years in israeli jails. he has been going through several hunger strikes. and what is interesting is that he spent 67
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days of hunger strike in 2012. and at the time, he was kind of the pioneer of using hunger strike as a way to kind of get palestinian prisoners to get these really for the service to meet their demand, particularly when it comes to detention without charges. because this isn't really practice. now we're talking about $4900.00 palestinian prisoners in israeli jail, but more than $1000.00 of them on held without charges. so either it's a secret trial or so the person themselves do not know what they're being held for and they can be held. and extended in jail indefinitely when, while israel's foreign minister has spoken out after the arrest, the fed jordanian member of parliament, my mind and one was detained on sunday, accused trying to smuggle weapons on gold and to the occupied west bank. so on twitter, eli cohen tweeted this: the smuggling attempt by the jordanian m. p is a serious incident. he must be brought to justice and must pay the price for the
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mistake he committed. more on this will bring him home a jump to him. joining us from west jerusalem, what do we know? what more do we know rather how mad about this a legend smuggling? well that in this is the foreign minister here, eli cohen gave an interview to a local media outlet in which he confirmed a lot of those details that you just mentioned that namely that the jordanian member of parliament, i am at 31 was arrested sunday morning at the allan b crossing between jordan and israel, that he was arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle in, among other things more than 200 pistols and rifles into israel. and that he was caught as a result of intelligence information that is really security forces had received. now this is a very serious incident because of the fact that israel and jordan cooperate so closely on so many issues that they are strategic partners at. mr. cohen said that
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this was a serious incident, a he also said that he did not want to blame the government of jordan in the interview. he gave to the local media outlet that he also said that talks between israeli security forces and the israeli foreign ministry were ongoing. and that no decision would be made about this matter until the investigation is complete. this all seems to indicate that the foreign minister and the foreign ministry does not want to escalate this too much. that they do not want to enter into a diplomatic crisis with jordan, which as i mentioned before, they have a strategic partner with israel and jordan. cooperate on many issues among them. palestinians and also among them the alexa moss compound. of course. jordan is the custodian of that holy site. so a lot still to find out about what exactly is going to happen going forward. many people wondering if israel will eventually hand over mr. leonard, one back to the jordanians. but at this point, it's just unclear. we did get one more bit of information. it was reported in local media here that the jordanian ambassador to israel was going to try to meet with mr
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. that had won at some point today and then try to get news bactrim, mr. that once family and jordan that he, i had a mom and you'll keep us across the story, i'm sure. but let me ask you about another and said and because there's been a car ramming in jerusalem, what more can you tell us about that? well, that's right. that in that happen just as about 2 hours ago, a little over 2 hours ago. it happened according to his railey police. in west jerusalem is really police say that a driver hit pedestrians at the agree puts intersection and that as a result, 5 people were injured one seriously the rest with mild to moderate injuries. israeli police saying that the preliminary details thus far showed that the attacker was a resident of the bay itself off a neighbourhood that he is a man at was a man in his thirties based off off a neighborhood as is located and occupied east jerusalem. israeli police referred to the attacker as a terrorist and they say that a citizen who witnessed the attack was knee and was near the scene shot and
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neutralized the attacker. and that as a result, the attacker was pronounced dead at the scene later on. now this is all happening and is all happened on the eve of israel's remembrance day and the day after israel's remembrance, day is, is, is independence day in israel. so this is at a time when it's really security officials had already been concerned and had warned that attacks like this might be in the offing. in fact, prime minister benjamin netanyahu even made reference of this attack and remarks that he was giving at a ceremony in honor of the fallen of israel's was a little bit earlier in the day. so this is a time of tension, even though it is a holiday period, is really security forces are concerned that more attacks might take place as of as of now though, right now when it comes to this particular ramey attack could happen earlier investigation still ongoing and we're expecting more details in the hours to come that in magento for florida from western iceland. thank you. i'll stillia has
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launched its biggest defense shake up in decades. so it's looking to transform its military, which the government says is no longer fit for purpose. it's flagged 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 conflicts. this represents a document for to die. and to morrow it is the most significant at work that's been done since the 2nd world war looking in, i comprehend to why, at what is needed. it demonstrates it in a world where challenges to our national security are always evolving. we cannot fall back on ald assumptions. we must build and strengthen as security by seeking to shape the future, rather than waiting for the future to shape us. while the australian defense review prompt and this response from beijing wouldn't, how now the shoe,
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we are committed to maintaining peace and stability in the asia pacific region and the world. and we do not pose a threat to any country. we hope that some countries would stop using china as an excuse to boost their military and not high pop baseless chinese threat theories. so military spending across the globe has soared to an all time high in the steepest year on your increase since the cold war. last year, the world spent more than $2.00 trillion dollars on defense. the us, china, and russia accounted for more than half of that's europe spending went up 13 percent largely due to russia's invasion of ukraine. that's the biggest rise in 30 years. ukraine spending has jumped by 640 percent the highest ever a year on your increase for any countries since records begun. meanwhile, the asia pacific, china and japan lead the charge. the region as a whole is spending 45 percent more on security than it was
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a decade ago. none. john is a senior researcher, it's supreme military expenditure and arms production program. he says the increase in global military spending is worrying. it really points to the un security perception that european countries see on russia, and that actually this has been justified in russia's actions in 2022. such that europe is looking for security through military strength, over negotiations, or dialogue. first of all, from a central and with european perspective, spending really thought to increase after russia annex a crimea, and 9 a, 2014. and there was a response really to really a built up the european military's in response to russia's threats. and of course, if we look at more from a east asia, also u. s. perspective on china, u. s. have all been looking to modernize its military since the early, 2000 and hence. and this will continue to all the way to the 20 forty's is simply
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very worrying that the region as a whole is increasing its almonds spending. a large countries even the, the small encounter such as indonesia, singapore viet nam and or increase spending as a response to china's increase. and it, so it's rather worrying that countries in the region are essentially increasing as allocation to the military over let's say more dialogue towards peaceful settlements on negotiations off the, the south east china sea green pieces china has approved a major surge and coal power this year. raising fears it will backtrack on its pledges to cut emissions a report by the environmental campaign groups as the push for more fossil fuel plants risks. accelerating climate change leading to more extreme weather. last year, china generated nearly 60 percent of its electricity using coal. while a climate activist in germany has super glued himself to a road during
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a nationwide day of protests. yes, police and berlin took more than an hour to free the demonstrator right there using drills and crowbars. it's becoming increasingly common tactic by climate activists in germany as they demand more government action to combat the global warming still ahead on al jazeera, sewing off on the slope, some of the world's best skiers on. so borders do what they do best in switzerland . ah ah
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hello again time for the sportsman's 1st all during thank you so much. the fake up final in england will be a month just adobe for the 1st time in the a 142 year history of the competition. manchester united will play manchester city on june 3rd before that's off to united beat brighton on penalties in sundays. semi sali march miss bright and 7th spot pick in a shootout. after extra time, had finished, colas, and united, sweetest offender, victor, linda lust sealed a place in the final for the manchester team. against that, like rivals mostly b, manchester city in distant her, of course had the feelings from the men united friends about it and how we will do everything i took gift in it in spain leaders. barcelona ended a 3 game when la street and took a step closer to the title. thanks for one. know when that time to let it go. you
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had been on a 13 game and beat and run boston out 11 points, clear of ro madrid at the top, and on track for their 1st title in 4 years. it's unlikely any one will stop runaway leaders, napoli in italy, they scored a stoppage time when at the event us jackman respiratory coming off the bench to fire napoli, 17 points clear. they could seal a 3rd. sorry, our title next weekend, 30 years after that, diego mar donna and spy triumph back in 1990 in argentina river plates have gone 6 points clear at the top of the premera division as equal barcode with the pick of the goals in a to know i went over independent a river plate and now on a 7 much winning street in the league. the boston celtics just one went away from reaching the next round of the n b a. playoffs. they beat the hawks in atlanta 129 points. 221 jason tatum and jaylen brown. h scoring 31 points in the process. they
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now lead the 1st round eastern conference series, $3.00 to $1.00. in the west, the minnesota timber wolves kept themselves alive against the top, seated denver nuggets trailing 3 nothing. they won game 41142108. and overtime. anthony edwards scored 34 points and i could still lead 3 to one. and the defending champion, golden state warriors just edged out the sacramento kings and game 4 steph curry rocked up 32 as they won by a single point that levels things up at 2 to the next game is wednesday in sacramento, player to the m h. o playoffs where the series between the edmundson oil is on ballet kings looks like it's going down to the wire. edmondson, had been to 3 down in game floor before forcing overtime. lynette stretch fast found zach highland to school to win out of nowhere. oil went full to 3, it's now tool in the series to tennis,
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and the 2 young rising stars of the men's and women's gain colors, alcaraz and ega. sri i'm tech both claim to tournament victories on sunday. when's was number 2 out. ross successfully defended his basile an open title. seeing of stefan a city passed in straight sets, the 19 year old us open champion is 123 is 25 matches this year. and women's number one eagles fan, took his hitting form ahead of her french open title defense. the po was up against bella. russian arena, sab, olenka, the wasn't of a 2. and the stood got open finals, frantic winning in straight sets after a golfer who collected her trophy wearing a dressing gown. american lily of who has won the 1st women's golf major of the season. the chevron championship fellow american angel yen. mister puts to win on the 18th and then made a mistake at the 1st extra playoff. oh, hello. coming up. short. finding the water which opened the door for though she
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held a birdie putts claim. what is her 1st major championship? she in her cutty then found the water as well celebrating with a traditional leap into the pond and walked away with $765000.00. the world's top cyclists. today's project car has had successful surgery after fracturing his wrist and a crush on sunday. it wasn't cultural camera but the to time to the front champion fell in the the as, based on the as one day race. the when instead it went to the belgian remco, ivana po for the 2nd year in a row. he's the 1st rider to win the racing consecutive years since michelle, but totally in 1998. and we'll leave you with some great pictures from switzerland . some of the world's top big as scares and snowboard has got together for it's described as an informal jam session on the slopes of the bernie's alps. each athlete need to tell them both a technical and style trick and as you can see, they didn't disappoint. oh i, that's all for now. we'll have more,
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