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true, so how quaint in the number of very well so their ecosystem is full that see uncertainty here every time the number for the research is, i'm for the curious friendly and that watching over ah, a state of emergency is declared in cartoon with the humanitarian situation getting worse, markets in ruins and essential goods are defined. those who have the means are leaving the country thousands arrive by ship and saudi arabia, while others board of french frigates in port sedan. ah, i am sir o van. yeah, it's great to have you with us. this is elisha 0, live from door. also coming up the u. s. plans to send nuclear armed submarines to dock in south korea for the 1st time and more than 40 years. ukrainian president
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bullet, amir zalinski has his 1st phone call with chinese president choosing ping since the start of the war in ukraine. ah, a state of emergency has been declared in cartoon with tens of thousands of people trying to leave sedan as there is no sign that the fighting his east. both the army and paramilitary rapid support forces say they are in control, 8 agencies or warning of a humanitarian crisis. as sydney's cross into neighboring countries, i said, beg, begins, are coverage. the humanitarian situation incident has been deteriorating rapidly since violence broke at 12 days ago. people say they are running out of food, water and medicine, and they will hug i, we are really suffering. green mills are closed and we cannot grind our stock of wheat. most basic commodities are absent if you and if they're available to prices are very high. i a lot by,
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by robin living conditions are very dire for every one. prices have sort, it means of transportation almost gone. people are really suffering route and it's not only sudanese. these ringer refugees fed persecution in myanmar. they now find themselves in the middle of another conflict. i will need the federal because he, i think, is better when he be fighting with to go. we're good school or anywhere near to sib some. some people managed to escape a boat carrying 1600 citizens of 50 countries has a doctrine. jetta in saudi arabia and the united nation says that these 20000 people have arrived in chad at the weekend in may escape the colder prison in the capital, a high profile detainees. he served in former president omar the she has government and nancy had left a prison. i met her own is wanted by the international criminal court and charges of crimes against humanity and are for the army says she is being held in the
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military hospital. despite this, the army says it's in control. why not put you on into the out? the it is the pride of the sudanese army that we have not touched a single facility or any infrastructure. the rapid support forces that destroyed them. this war will come to an end very soon and you will listen to the final statement and all of the main facilities are operational. and in order, including the electricity and water supplies. but the rapid support forces posted the video on social media. same gets, had taken over a major oil refinery and power plant, about 70 kilometers from the capitol hotdog. when we are in full control of the refinery, we believe in action, not empty words does not the time for their nonsense. we control the majority of the country north, south, east and west. we have 200 percent control over sedan. the united nation said there is no sign. the warring parties are ready to negotiate and has warrant of further suffering. as long as the fighting continues. i said bake of dessert. these
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students from other countries are stuck inside cartoon, and they're pleading for help. this is an appeal by the many students in sudan to charity and relief organizations to benevolent because we are living under the brunt or shelling and gum fi helpless and defense. we are left with no options. we have sent similar messages. government, as you can see, the students are left with shelter. almost like every day. we weren't. what i did, i guess it was more than these online. we expect them hey, morgan is live in car to may have just described this. i don't know if you've been able to to stick your head outside where you've been reporting from the last 12 days. but what is it lake on the streets of cartoon right now? well, it depends on where and how to mir and the southern and eastern part of the capital . people say that it has been relatively calm and they taking this opportunity to
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try to leave the capital. they say that there has been an increase in price, but they're trying to manage their way relatives gathering together to find the nearest bus to take them either to neighboring states like to 0 and the central part of the country, or reuben l state in the northern part and they say if they manage settled there, then they will otherwise i'll try to take it further and try to cross into egypt or try to go to neighboring countries like if you and south for them and chad and that's in the places where it's quiet and other places like the northern parts of the capital, people have been without electricity and running water for 12 days now. and they said the situation is quite dire, but they're also running out of money as prices of commodities continue to increase . and while they get there late in the situation is really di. business has come to a halt at the central market. people are really suffering as many have lost the income as many have flipped their home. it will not allow because we are suffering a lot, especially the lack of electricity and water supply. bakeries are also closed,
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the market is open, but movement is very slow and most commodities are absent. sharla, we hope they reach an agreement in the interest of the people. my, we hope patient security restored soon by sell movement is very slow. we are doing our best to help each other. that is why we even handout goods to those without money prisoners leaving their jail cells in droves. however, how is that happening? do we know who is behind that? while both sides, the rapid support forces and the food in these army are trading accusations, with regard to who is responsible for the print them breaks the latest was of course, colbert national prison in the northern part of the capital. and that's where hi, i was senior officials of the former ruling party were held over their role in the 1989 that brought them to power under the leadership of former president thomas bishop. now we know that the former president bashir is in the military hospital in the city of undermanned, but the senior officials who have been,
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who managed to break out of prison along with thousands of others, include estimate how own. and he's wanted by the international criminal court for work crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of dar for a word that started in 2003 unless it up to 2018. so there are concerns about what role the former ruling party has, has played in the conflict right now between the rapids support forces and the food in these army. and there's also concerns from civilians. they say that right now, there are about 20000 prisoners who've been freed from 5 different presents in the capital to him. and that is likely to add to the insecurity they already are living . and due to the conflict between the rapid support for this and the for denise army, hip morgan reporting from cartoon, thank you. the united nation, the special representative for sedan was recently relocated from cartoon to port sedan. and he says basic facilities are almost destroyed in the city from airport is reportedly now operational. but it's a prince are damaged residential areas near the headquarters
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of the army. and the airport have come under press system attacks. home shop school, it's water and electricity installations. most hospitals and other health facilities have been damaged or are now fully disjoint. and l 0 mohammad and tie up is that a fuel station in the south of cartoon. here is his report. low molars, the lack of fuel has become a huge problem here in the south and south eastern parts of cartoons. the majority of petrol stations, like the one behind me, i shut down. tanks are very empty and the station is out of operation. getting your hands on fuel has become extremely difficult. this has led to horizon, the cost of transportation and subsequently food supplies. this is one of the major petrol stations on at 16th street, which close its doors after the fighting began. the sorting price of oil has had an impact on every aspect of life and her thought lays. it also affected the
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evacuation operations. even the movement of the displaced, the price of food supplies brought from outside the capital has also gone out. and this crisis is likely to get worse if fuel is not made available soon. some are taking advantage and selling fuel on the black market at higher prices. for example, a gallon of gas or just under 4 liters has risen from $8.00 to nearly 80. and is expected to rise even more, making it too expensive or for most people here. when we spoke to grosses butchers and other shopkeepers, they told us they are facing great difficulties in securing their supplies to what the lack of fuel also means. many people can't move around by car, which is why fuel has become an urgent matter in this humanitarian crisis. amen address is following the exit us on the chad sedan border. many of them are telling us that they haven't eaten for for the past few days. and the situation is getting
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more and more desperate. yeah. fortunately, you know the ages. yeah. they worked for program tonight. technicians. hi comes in for refugees. just arrived this village which is just a few 100 meters away from the sudanese border. so basically what they're saying is that they don't have enough food to eat. and over that right behind me, hundreds of them i gathered as the united nation agencies are trying to distribute food items, just a few 100 tons of food items for hundreds and hundreds of suit and refugees of cross the border into todd and desperately looking for shopped. out looking for accommodation and some of them looking for medicines to help their young children. i can tell you right now that most of the people we see women and children who look very anxious and we spoke to a few of them who say they're not hopeful of returning to with them because she keeps getting desperate. and just like every now and ukrainian president holiday
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mirror, zelinski says he's had his 1st phone call with chinese president shooting thing since the beginning of the war and ukraine. lensky described, the conversation is long and meaningful. she met with russian president vladimir putin in moscow last month. beijing claims that his maintaining neutrality and the conflict. as charles stratford reports from key details of the call have been released by the chinese ministry of foreign affairs. president g commanded zalinski for his a want full while actual relations. the real emphasis though is on the wall as a very interesting points made. and he said that to the ukraine crisis was evolving in a complex way with huge international ramifications. he said that china's coal stance is to facilitates a peaceful solution. he went into details as well about china's neutrality in this will something that beijing has been very keen to stress since the beginning. and
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he's widely considered that this 12 point plan that china put together and released in february was very much weighted in russia's favor and up until very recently has certainly been m not taken very seriously at whole by president zelinski. he refused to actually colie a piece plan at all. now, with reference to these kind of things, this press statement from beijing was saying that it's china didn't create the ukraine crisis, nor is a polity to it. and is a huge un security council member. china will not sit idly by, nor would it do anything to fuel the fire of the conflicts or exploit the situation for any self gain. the segment also said that china wanted dialogue, negotiation as being the only viable way forward. and all relevant policies must stay calm and be rational. use restraints in thinking up the best ways of creating the conditions for some sort of meaningful dialogue to end this crisis. jail,
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the russian opposition leader alex st. devali has called the latest case against him. absurd. he was in court on wednesday in the early stages of a new trial and extreme isn't charges. he's already serving 11 years in a maximum security prison and says that all charges against him are politically motivated. nevada was taken to hospital earlier this month with his spokesperson saying that she could not rule out poisoning as the cause of his illness. brazil's former president show you both scenario is testifying to federal police as part of an investigation into post selection riots in january, thousands of both in our supporters stormed government buildings after he lost the presidential vote. monica yanna kit is following developments from the capital brazilian. he's testifying at the headquarters of the federal police, which is the building, which is behind me. ah, he's being investigated for allegedly inciting the riots of january the 8th on
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january, the 8th, our little over a week after president reasonable of the super took office. also now to supporters of stormed out through the presidential pal, is the supreme court and congress breaking everything, destroying things, and calling for a military to, to oust lula whom they say, had been, ah, an elected in election, which they said who had been rigged. there no proof that it had been reg whatsoever . ah, but this is something that bull sonata had stated before. when was president that he was, he kept on doubting the system, the electronic voting system, which was in use in brazil for over 2 decades. and what they're investigating now is our he put a post on facebook 2 days after when he was already in the united states that he left before even handing over the presidential sash to lula, went to orlando,
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and he posted something on facebook saying that the elections had been rigged and he took it down 3 hours after. but basically, what dogs were federal police and odd the judiciary system are investigating is that he is endorsing the rioters who have been saying that they were acting to stop president from, from being arm from taking office since they thought the elections had been rig. and we want to take you to washington now for a live events. we're at the white house where you're stuck. you'll the south korean presidents is arriving for the 1st state visit by south korean head of state in the us, the 12 years us president joe biden will be welcoming him officially in just a matter of moments. all right, let's go live there. a white house correspondent kimberly he'll get you're watching your life pictures. kimberly we're seeing and i think you can see them too. we are
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seeing what i assume is about to be the south korean president. there we are officially hosted by joe biden. kimberly, i think you're just on the other side of the building from where those pictures are being filled. that's right. that is the south lot of the white house i am located on the north line at the white house and unfortunately because of secret service jamming my cell phone right now, i can't see these pictures unfortunately, so you'll have to guide me through them. but i have a pretty good idea of covered a few estate visits here and there. what we do know is there is a lot of pageantry that takes place in these visits. i've been listening to the marching band warming up in anticipation of this arrival. and this is no accident that there is a bit of a presentation that is going on. and that is really to show a demonstration if you will, of the alliance that exists. and we should point out that this is the anniversary.
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it's been time this only 2nd state visit for joe biden. the 70th anniversary of the alliance between south korea and the united states. and this is for jack deterrence to north korea as it has stepped up, its nuclear testing or missile testing rather than given the fact that it is also shown rather little interest in talks with regard to d nuclear i zation as so this is of grave concern to south korea and as a result it has a i articulated to the united states that more needs to be done it currently. oh, good choirs is protection under the so called nuclear umbrella, the united states. so what we have from these 2 leaders is what's going to be a signing of what's called the washington declaration. the united states will be stepping up. it's show a force for the 1st time in 40 years. it will be parking its nuclear subs in south korea, docking them their add to sure to project as show of strength in might to north
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korea. and in return, south korea will not seek to acquire its own nuclear weapons. we should very quickly point out though all of this comes at a rather embarrassing time for the united states given there have been some leaks if you will, a spy scandal in recent weeks. oh, that has shown that the united states has been spying on allies, including south korea, that kind of discussion is likely to happen in the oval office behind closed doors . right now what we're seeing is very friendly relations in order to reject to north korea, that this is a relationship of might, that extends not just between the 2 nations, but beyond the 2 nations and it really into the indo pacific. all right, kimberly how can thank you very much for your reporting and indeed we were seeing joe biden greeting the south korean head of state and the south korean delegation on the self lot of the white house. kimberly thank you. still ahead on now says 0
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fear is grow about the health of us lender 1st republic and investors appear to lose trust in the struggling bank. a japanese attempt to make the 1st private moon landing fails, but both private and state operators are planning new missions. ah ah. while our next weather maker is moving in so pockets dawn, hi everyone. we call this a westerly disturbance because it is coming in from the west anywhere from same province through to the capital territory in punjab as well. likely to see some severe thunderstorms here drop hail and that can certainly flattened the crops. we've seen this in the northwest of india is while we're storms are once again flaring up, more so toward the south. but look at this brisk when we have off the re be and see it's going to lift the sand in. does in rochester state, for example,
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on thursday as we hit toward indo china, thunderstorms, really the name of the game here. so that's breaking the heat in bangkok. finally, some relief your max out at 33 degrees on thursday. sundry downpours also for quality, poor singapore and jakarta in the mix on thursday, and then we got a slug of rain moving west to east across the yangtze river valley. it's going to drop more cloud cover and one g, for example, and showers never really too far away from hong kong. quite a soaker we had in japan the other day, but the bulk of that energy. well, that's now out over the pacific. so much calmer conditions. those clouds will lift throughout the day on thursday, but we're still dealing with a brisk wind for a whole cato island, including support. oh no max out at 14 degrees on thursday. that sure either updates via with the fake companies, fake passports, international banks,
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and the proceeds of organized crime interpret she's begging p a lay valenzuela order from the both of you who from fiction result is like in a remarkable 3 part people empower investigation into a complex secretive world 2 journalists, go in search of the italian mafia dirty money. launderer park to on a, j 0. lou ah, watching al jazeera, a reminder of our headlines this hour, the humanitarian situation in sudan is becoming more dire, has fighting between the army and the power military rapids support forces is in
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its 12th day. people are running out of food, water, and medicine. south korea's president, you and soak yo has been welcomed by us president joe biden to the white house. this is the 1st state visit to the us by a south korean leader in 12 years. and ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says he's had his 1st phone call with chinese presidents using ping since the beginning of the war. ukraine is lensky, described. the conversation is long and meaningful. the un security council is being briefed on the situation in haiti right now where rising gang violence has led to an increase in killings and in kidnappings. the 2021 assassination of elected president jovan l. movies created a power vacuum that benefited gangs 5 weeks after his death. a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit haiti, killing more than 2000 people in large, rising gang violence cause the un to call for an international military force to be sent to haiti to help the authorities restore order. take
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a quick listen into the proceedings at the un security council as they discuss the situation in haiti, house and will remain within mandates and means as its disposal. we will also continue to hold on. it will be no and the office of the f r g. our cooperation has been people developing effective interventions on border control, corruption, money laundering, criminal justice, and all of law interventions. as i thank the be no, i think this opportunity to welcome f r a g i l. i very much look forward to working closely with her. and i assure her that she will have the next hour will be speaking to diplomatic as a james bass at the us who has the following proceedings. another us bank appears to be in trouble. shares of the san francisco based lender 1st republic have plunged to record low share price dropped nearly 50 percent on news. the depositors withdrew at least a $100000000000.00 in the 1st quarter. last month's collapse of silicon valley bank
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and signature bank cause the biggest crisis, a crisis of confidence in the banking sector. since 2008. the u. s. federal reserve has previously said its prepared to provide support to struggling banks. as patty co have reports from washington dc, the argument is give us money now or risk a broader contagion to the banking system and we have seen money pouring out of regional bank into the bigger bank, the 100 $1000000000.00 outflow from the bank. now they made that up with loans from the federal reserve, but obviously deposits are much better thing for the bank to have them pretty heavy load. so there are reports that yes, once again, they're going to go back to the big bank that had already given them $30000000000.00 to try and sure of its balance sheet. so they're going to go back to the big banks and say, okay, now we need you to buy bonds at a loss. first, public bonds at a loss. if not, we could fail. and then you could see even more regional banks fail. and that could
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affect the broader banking system, so that officials here in this building are watching the stock market closely. these things can happen very quickly. so will be seen probably some action in the day ahead. just depending on what the market does, but it is a big concern to the fed. they're tried to stem inflation. to do that, they've been raising interest rates. now banks are collapsing, that's going to affect their plan. so it will have a broader implication, not just for the u. s. economy, but for the world academy as well. so, very tense situation right now for that bank 1st republic, we should see possibly, actually been coming hours. the death toll from a religious colton camera has risen to at least 89 and it's expected to rise as rights groups have registered more than 200 people as missing. authorities say the victims starved themselves to death after their pastor paul mackenzie told them to stop eating. if they wanted to meet jesus. police have been zooming bodies from shallow graves in a forest on land that mackenzie owns. the sights has been classified as the scene
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of a massacre. caffeine, soil reports from the town of melinda. the desk phone has been going up every day and with this begin to expect to see more bodies. now the police are now in another area. while we were seeing mass graves that has been assumed, but they have gone to another area in the same area and they expect to see more of bodies. so that is an operation that is going on. people are very shocked about what is going on, and we have been talking to the red cross which has a who have a set up are tracing center. and they said that up to $200.00 people have be declared or missing. we have spoken to some of their relatives who are saying that they are just a hoping that their loved ones are will be found safe and alive. we have been
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speaking to government officials who have been visiting the scene including and there's a secretary of interior who has said that basically what the police are trying to do is to make sure that this man is charged with how terrorism and it's going to be very interesting to see if these are charges will stick. iranian state media is reporting that a senior shia cleric has been killed in an attack in the city of babel saw near the caspian sea. according to reports, ayatollah abas elisa les money was shot during a dispute between the attacker and an employee, or a bank. police say they've arrested the suspected killer. so they money was a close adviser to ayatollah early harmony. the youth wing of the alternative, the germany party has been classified as an extremist entity. germany's domestic spy agency says it has been observing the groups in 21900. i believe it threatens
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democracy. the new classification could impact members employment and ability to obtain weapons licenses. the party is currently pulling just behind the ruling greens and the social democrats. japanese company i space says it's unmanned spacecraft probably crashed in an attempt to touch down on the surface of the moon communications with the craft will last just at the moment of the plan landing and engineers have not been able to re establish contact since monahan has more at this moment we haven't know able to confirm successful rounding on data, not office. it's not the outcome japanese firm ice space was hoping for. he is. it wanted to be the 1st private company to complete a successful lunar landing. but despite the setback, i space is optimistic. the journey began in december. miss space ex falcon, 9 rocket laughed off in cape canaveral, florida, carrying lander called the m one before our. it's taken 5 months for the craft to
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get into position and nominal d. m. on land or travel, there are 1500000 kilometers away from earth before looping back towards the moon. this longer, slower route, saved on fuel allowed to carry more cargo. one of the items on board is a small rover from the united arab emirates. long term companies are hoping to turn these munitions into business opportunities. there's a few different incentives for companies to land on the moon. some of it is mining access. there are some valuable minerals on the moon that companies would really like to exploit. some companies want to get there for defense purposes, kind of in preparation for maybe humans expanding to the moon. and then some companies have at least a little bit of a scientific exploration aspect to it. they want to learn more about the moon. that's generally something though, where the funding is coming from a government agency working with these companies rather than a company kind of proactively deciding they would like to support them for scientific purposes and has been working tirelessly to get ready for the stack. ice
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base says this is just the beginning, comple is planning more mission the moon for one as early as next year and utilize other companies are also likely to accelerate their efforts. as lunar surface looks set to become the new frontier fence and monahan al jazeera. ah, now this is al jazeera and hear your headlines. a state of emergency has been declared in cartoon. the humanitarian situation in sudan is becoming worse. as fighting between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces is in its 12th day. people are running out of food, water, and medicine. the united nation special representative for sudan was recently relocated from cartoon to port sudan and he says basic facilities in the capital or .

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