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whenever chance my destiny, never be afraid to put a hand up. last question. i think that's what i've already done. we asked the question for people who should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. ah, scenes of devastation in a neighbourhood near har tunes who don's army in the rapids support forces, blame each other for the violence and a rush to escape the fighting and the deprivation more civilians and foreigners, fleet, the sudanese capital. aah! you're wanting out, is there a life or my headquarters in delphi? i'm getting obligated also coming up. russia's foreign minister tells the un security council. the world has reached a dangerous threshold canyon. police take out more bodies of cult members who are
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told to store themselves to death and long tracked to the us border by migrants and mexico aims to highlight unsafe conditions. are detention centers ah hello. we begin incident 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 that the air force is indiscriminately targeting areas in the capital. khartoum or the army accuses the paramilitary group of using civilians. as human shields, thousands have been forced to flee the country. they're desperately thinking refuge in neighboring countries. the chaos in sudan has also triggered the evacuations of foreign diplomats and their families. the u. s. u. k. france,
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germany and others have pulled their people out at least 420 people had been killed and 10 days of fighting so far. the recent relative, low, low and fighting hasn't come fears that the situation could so that much worse. for him, mohammed reports after nearly 2 weeks of fighting sedans, most powerful paramilitary patrol the streets of hard to 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 har tomb airport. and the still being contested by army and paramilitary troops and the fight for inflammation has become just as crucial here. the rapids support forces or r s f says it maintains its presence or use on 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 due by the data, but so don's army denies giving up power. another good was no g,
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as ye can see from the green square up to this point, there is nothing but the army personnel. then al, combing the area for arisant fought is the army released video, celebrating the surrender of what it says, a rapid support forces fighters in al fresco. i'll soccer in the southeast. ah, and a general meeting troops in hard to earlier in the day and as strike hit several homes in columbia, south of the capitol to don socked as committee is wanting of dozens of casualties . the rapids support forces is accusing the army of directly targeting civilians. but the army says the iris f troops, a hiding in civilian areas and using people as human shields. 5 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,
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lack of food and an internet blackout. when the chaos has spread to state prisons where hundreds of inmates from cobra and national prison have reportedly escaped, others from sold a prison were captured by r s f paramilitary troops. mm. while the fighting wages on those who can trying to flee several countries including italy, france, germany, and jordan, are the latest to pull out their diplomatic stuff and foreign national. with no one to rescue them, sudanese civilians are taking matters into their own hands to find safety. some travelling by bus to cross into egypt getting out of the bomb was definitely the most difficult part of this entire journey. having to go through the checkpoints where they don't know whether you're going to be robbed or killed or on just holding my mother's hand, looking into my gram as i just all holding each other's hands and praying that it all goes smoothly. there have been more international and regional calls for
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mediation. if you're p as prime minister is appealing for both sides to talk to them. and what do i ask? my brother albert han and my brother humidity to stop the fighting immediately and adopt the 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, la mohammed al jazeera or fighting north of the capital, has intensified in the last few days. civilians living in cartoon se airstrikes have been launched near the state broadcasting center. an on demand fighting has also escalated between the army and rapid support forces in and around the area of body. so with no sign of an end to the hostility is more people are trying to get out of su, done. but as hip morgan report some count the for to leave. some people are trying to leave the capital along with thousands of others, have already made their way either to neighboring states alike. edge is either in
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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 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 suit and 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 gone up to $10.00 times the price. so they say that they're just waiting for this, fighting to, to and, and they're trying to live with the situation. but many of them say that they're in
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desperate need of water. they're in desperate need of electricity. but most of all, they're 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. will dr. so he had a mohammed, abdullah is president of the sudan doctors union canada division. he says the doctor is on the ground or under huge strain. they need the personnel, 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 electricity . i have been talking in 2 days with one of my colleagues. they are sometime operating using the lights of their mobile phones and they are using very primitive ways do this impact like these,
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the cleaners and everything. and so they need everything. you can imagine they need clean water or electricity. they need the medical personnel to replace those who are working on by the way. i appreciate what the, the, the be great with my colleague and all the medical stop doing, despite all these their situation, the un secretary general has warned that the violence since dawn could engulf the whole region, seeking a security council meeting and on the terrace urge members to help pull the country back from catastrophe seems to start the fighting on 15 april. and that is if people had been killed and thousands injured. the violence must stop its risks that get the traffic conflagration within sudan. that's good in gulf the all region. and beyond,
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i strongly condemned the indiscriminate mon bodamer of civilian areas including oscar facilities, and they call on the parties to stop combat operations in densely populated areas and to allow and even though the many serenade operations also at that meeting, which was chaired by russia, tara said moscow was causing massive suffering and devastation in ukraine and speaking just after him, the russian foreign minister, sir galahad, rob accused the west of abandoning diplomacy in the conflicts was re mcculloch movement. cook of good to followed me wearing the distinguished colleagues that should go just like in the years of the cold war. we have reached a dangerous, possibly even more dangerous thresholds where the situation is worse and with the loss of trust and multilateralism. when the financial economic, aggression of the west is destroying the benefits of globalization, when the us and its allies are abandoning diplomacy and demanding to sort out differences on the battlefields. all this is happening within the halls of the un, which was created to prevent the horrors of war, who screw, or
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a diplomatic editor james base has more on the meeting. 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. it's worth telling you that around the security council to day yes, formalist elaborate is chairing this meeting at foreign minister level. but most 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 oliver often knew a particular, i think a deliberate snub up from those nations. 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 the lab roof will
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be lip nipping out of that meeting and i am, his ambassador will be taking the seat because he has an important meeting 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 a very negative about the idea of russia renewing that agreement. of course, humanitarian agencies, the well food 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 tennessee. yes, coast guard says it's recovered. 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 se, fax to women and 2 children are among the dead. the number of migrant boats from tennessee i'm heading towards the italian coast has increased sharply in recent
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weeks. more than 3000 people are marching north through mexico. there one of several large groups of migrants 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 of on week reports, ha, 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 marble w. okay, how did i keep way we didn'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 further,
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we have to move and keep him for our dream because i left with a dream. my life was 4 months pregnant. this is my dream to arrive in the united states and give it all to my build. this group has mercy venezuelans, who flew to panama, costa rica. then it's the long journey north, on foot. they're aiming to reach mexico city in around 10 days. but this is not just the search will beta opportunities. these people are angry about, the fire at the detention center and mexico last month that killed 14 migrants. now they carry crosses and banners to remember those who never see the us. but i see him how to get a little point now we have decided to move forward in this journey because of to, for 2 people who died there who are set on fire officials are murders. they don't want to migrate from our countries, and we want justice. i even if they make it to the us border,
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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 from al jazeera to us media report say that president joe biden is expected to announce his re election bid on tuesday. he's already the oldest president in us history, but the 80 year old has brushed aside concerns about his fitness for a 2nd term. the former president, donald trump, is a current front runner to challenge bite and in 2024. fox news host tucker carlson is leaving the u. s. t v network. carlson was one of the channels top stars. his last show aired on friday. his departure comes days after a fox news reached a $787000000.00 settlement over a defamation case lawsuit related to the networks reporting of the 2020 election.
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still a heads on al jazeera will tell you why australia's armed forces are set for major overhauls. we report on the plane of fishermen and the eastern philippines to say bare livelihoods are threatened by chinese military vessels. ah, with i'm now for your weather report across asia. great to see you again. so we've got a front smoother cross seed ron. that's going to knock back the temperature in tater, on tuesday into wednesday. so you're down to $23.00, which is below average for this time. the year. also seen some activity pop up through afghanistan and the southwest corner of pakistan. here's how the story goes for india. this breeze off the bay bengalis going to induce some showers entrepreneur dash tamela do into careless well,
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said this for central parts of the country. so for example, talent gonna state. we could see some severe thunderstorms here, se, asia, the concentration of rain is west and central color, montana are borneo island. and for that west coast of sumatra, island around the dang, as well. he'd of the day storms for indo china. we know it's been hot there right also humid as well. this will help lower the temperature, for example, in bangkok to 36 degrees for china that cool air has slipped into one g province so . so temperature is in grey lin 18 degrees, but by tuesday most of that rain is falling across the pearl river valley dowse with rainbow for japan with this batch of what weather. moving into que shoe island and also the southern portion, honju island, just clipping the korean peninsula. a wet day and cargo shima with a high of 15. see you later. ah. a weekly look at the world's talk business stories,
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thousands of people go on strike. i had high hopes of living from global kits in economy. small businesses, the export restrictions really impacted side as it told me to understand how it affects counting the cost oh, now jazeera holding the powerful to account. as we examined the u. s. his role in the world on al jazeera, ah ah ah, hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, the rival sides, and sir john are accusing each other of committing war crimes. the rapids support
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forces say the air force is indiscriminately targeting areas in cartoon. while the army accuses it of using civilians as human shields, russia has been chairing a meeting of the un security council, a move condemned by even bassett us are cynical, speaking before the russian foreign minister, surgeon lab rav un secretary general antonio gutierrez, did else what he called the devastation of ukraine. the u. s. sexual state anthony blinkin is meeting kenya's foreign affairs minister alfred. that's how i would sued on top of that agenda. both men have been pressing military leaders and her to to renew and expound a recency spire. we have been in touch repeatedly throughout this crisis with her, with a variety of them. i've spoken directly to counterparts of saudi arabia in the united arab emirates, other members of our team who are spoken to, to egypt and other countries, the united kingdom, all to the same end,
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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 of interrupted derailed that effort. rosin jordans joining us now from the state department. so how is the state department assessing the violence in khartoum and, and where is it with the evacuation that are taking place? well, the situation is this back in august of 2021, the u. s. government put out her travel warning for sudan, basically telling americans don't go and if you do your taking a lot of chances with your life, if you do so, primarily from the threat of terrorist activity from the threat of kidnapping from local political violence. obviously the situation in the past 9 or 10 days has a really made things very much of top concern. so much so that on saturday,
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the u. s. government evacuated some 70 or so. diplomats and other officials working at the embassy and cartoon. and the embassy is now closed for the foreseeable future. now that said, the u. s. is aware of several dozen american citizens who are inside sudan, who are saying that they want to leave. it's going to be very difficult to try to get them out because the airport is still closed and trying to travel over roads is in itself a very dangerous operation. there have been attacks on convoys and people have been killed. that said, the u. s. government is going to try to work with these u. s. citizens to try to get them out safely as quickly as can be done. thank you so much. rosin jordan reporting from state departments. 9 more bodies have been found in eastern kenya on land owned by the leader of a religious coat. so it brings a total number of victims found by police to $58.00 authority say the people
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starved themselves after being told to stop eating an order to quote me jesus. the pastor is in police custody catherine sawyer, in the village of ro connie, that's near the town of melody where those bodies were found. now the police and other investigators are now concentrating on this particular area. they have found several mass grees. you see those markings there, those are bodies at 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, 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, the princess of anton,
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that is when the national parties service got interested in his activities. and we are heading not once on a number of occasions. and you have presented that 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 either will could have been suffocated. so this situation is ongoing or the man in question and paul 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 like their leader told them, add that they are will continue fasting and teel at they meet their creator. they if help in rebel group, the aroma liberation army says the government has accepted its terms for peace. talks that to begin in tanzania on tuesday. it's a 1st time the government, a prime minister. i me off my this holding dialogue with the group which has been fighting the state on and off for decades. the ole split with a formerly band opposition party, the aroma liberation front when it returned from exile in 2018. the overlays grievances center on the alleged marginalization of the aroma people. at least 60 people had been killed in an attack. a northern brick in a 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 has more from senegal, campus, older car,
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men in uniforms wearing the uniform of ricky fosset forces encircled this village close to eagerly. people thought they were there to celebrate the muslim visit festivities of ede. they cheered. but in fact, the men in uniform attacked them. so either this attack was done perpetrated by burkina faso armed forces or it were, it was that men arm goose perhaps link to all kite or isolate wearing the uniforms or became foxes armed forces. either way, it was a terrible massacre. according to the eye witnesses that we were able to contact were talking about 400 villagers, men, women, and children running in the field trying to escape the attacks. according to one eye witness, half of the men were all killed, shot down in what was what they describe or heretic. an unprecedented attack in what is an ethnic mossi village. there is such
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a massacre that really shakes people in bertina foster. now the news of this mouth, thicker is filtering down to the capital of walker walker, due to a group of coalition of civil society activists were highly critical of the young captain, captain abraham, char ray, and his inability to stop these attacks down these attacks have really increased in the last 7 months ever since he took power ever since the french, the former colonial power, who used to help them with troops on the ground, but also aerial aerial help. well, they've stopped the military cooperation. forgetting breaking news out of pocket on and dozens of people are sure to be killed in a blast. the attack took place at the police headquarters in cobble swan district that's in the north of pakistan. and that area used to be one of the strongholds of the pakistan itala by no claim of responsibility. as of now, we'll get more information, as i said,
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when we get it right here and i'll just moving on to australia and it's launched, it's biggest defense. shake up in decades and it's looking to transform its military, which the government says is no longer fit for purpose. so it's flying long range. precision strike weapons is 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 to morrow, 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 fall back on old assumptions. we must build and strengthen ass security by seeking to shape the future rather than whiting for the future to shape us. and that
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australian defense review prompted this response from beijing, was until now the she to we all 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. filipino fishermen are increasingly ruth's running into chinese coast guard vessels and what they describe is very traditional fishing grounds. so philippine relations with china are under strain after the u. s . military was recently granted access to for new military bases in the country. barnaby low reports from sue big 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
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try to enter the shoulder, it's more fishing. a bonus, better rubber boats will cicily. though neither what audi a commercial fisherman is referring to the resource ridge, scarborough shoal into disputed south china sea. just 120 nautical miles or about 222 kilometers from where we were speaking. due to the lack of fishing opportunities. if these commercial fishermen are forced to sail beyond coastal waters, the bas scarborough showed kilometers away where the risk 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 form that used was provided to them by the philippine coast guard, which has been patrolling parts of the south china sea within the philippines
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exclusive economic zone. more frequently since president ferdinand marcus junior took office will always have to involve the united marcos was also agreed to allow us forces access to for more military basis for you, which are close to taiwan. of a move that prompted china's ambassador to manila long cdn. to quote advice, the philippine government to oppose taiwan independence if it 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 the point for daddy calling of their ambassadors long because of probably mattie statements that he had, he should, which had the effect of threatening or issuing a whitening through a 1000 self. always w, currently deployed in by one. it was all smiles, however, between president marco's and chinese foreign minister,
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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. ah, hillary and the headlines on al jazeera, the rival sides, and sir john are accusing each other of committing more crimes. rapid support forced to say the air force is indiscriminately targeting areas in khartoum, while the army accuses it of using civilians. as human shields, un secretary general has worn the violence and so don could engulf the whole region . speaking to the security council, antonia terrace, or.

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