the world i cover foreign policy, national security, this is a political em half. here's the conflict. are we telling a good story? we're really interested in taking you in to a place that you might not visit otherwise. and to actually feel as if you were there ah. ready sedan c spy is repeatedly broken in many areas, but the country's military leader says he's ready for talks about another one, long queues for bread and fuel. as some sudden these try to take advantage of alarm in the fighting to stucco. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is out as they are alive from dela, also coming ukraine's president names a new and basset to beijing. off for

a long phone call with china's leader, the 1st talk since russia invaded his country asia to 179215. the bill is wow, house republicans when a 1st skirmish, what promises to be logging back in the u. s. dancing ah. faltering ceasefire in sudan between the army and the paramilitary rapid support force is supposed to end on thursday, but our regional african block is pushing to extend that true sound. avoid another flare up in the balance. more than 500 people had been killed and the 4000 injured during 12 days of fighting. i guard or the inter governmental authority on development has invited the warring sides to south so downs, capital juba, for talks. the army says it'll send delegation, but the rapid support forces have not yet responded. well, south adams,

acting foreign minister, says regional leaders must push the warring factions to negotiate. since there is no appetite, a direct talks between themselves. these next it as the us. if this group is talk with gene to build and bottom, and the mid t that may not happen during the war. but the initiative of having taught between this may not be possible. it is a state artist, arizona morgan, as in the 70s capital cartoon with more on the new cease fire initiative, well, is, seems different than the other sci fi initiatives in a sense that it was mediated by the regional by the eguard. and his includes sending envoys to the south in east capital, juba. now the question is, will that cease fire hold? because many residents around the capitol, hot zoom in various parts were able to heavy to hear heavy artillery during the previous cease fires. and so they believed that there was no way for them to leave the capital, or to be able to get out of their homes to get basic necessities. so it really

comes down to the issue of implementation. both sides have repeatedly stated that they will commit to any cease fire that they agree to as long as the other sides do not perform any military activities and do not attack the other. so it's not clear yet. if this is fire, which is due to thought after the current one ends on thursday, also will hold or not. now again, the only difference is this time the 2 sides, or rather, the sudanese army has agreed to talks. it's a vast shift from what the army general said at the beginning of the fighting 12 days ago when he said that he will not be negotiating with the rapid support forces and declared it a rebel group. this is of course, a car coming in light of did a dire humanitarian situation here in the capital cartoon, and around the country with people trying to leave. and others caught up here in the capital houghton. the humanitarian situation in sudan has been deteriorating rapidly since violence broke out 12 days ago. people fate, they're running out of food, water and medicine burner will her go 9. we are really suffering. green mills are

closed and we cannot grind our stock of wheat. most basic commodities are absent and if they're available to prices are very high. iowa robin living conditions are very dire for every one. prices have sword, images of transportation almost gone. people are really suffering a, it's not only sudanese, these are hunger, refugees, fled persecution in man, mar, they now find themselves in the middle of another conflict, but with the surgeon. because me or suggestion is very good. when you fighting to go to school. the anyway, i need to save. some people have managed to escape a both carrying 1600 citizens of 50 countries has docked in cheddar in saudi arabia . and benighted nations says at least 20000 people have arrived in chad. the number of those slang for them is expected to reach up to 200000 in the coming days. as more and more people try to find a way out,

those who remain behind say it's not only the deteriorating humanitarian conditions they are worried about. but also the security situation in the capital the weekend and meets escape from global prison in the capital. a high profile detainee who served in former president omnibus years government announced he had left the prison. i am at heart on is wanted by the international criminal court on charges of crimes against humanity in dar for the army says this year is being held in a military hospital. the rapids support forces posted a video on social media thing. it had taken over a major oil refinery and power plant, about 70 kilometers from when we are in full control of the refinery. we believe in action not empty words. there's enough time for their nonsense. we control the majority of the country north, south, east and west. we have 200 percent control over sedan. despite this, the army says it's in control. why wouldn't you? i mean that the out the it is the pride of the sudanese army that we have not

touched a single facility or any infrastructure that is 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, the united nation says there is no sign the wearing parties are ready to negotiate and has weren't of further suffering as long as the fighting continued. he but morgan august 0 for leaving cartoons are difficult and dangerous mission. the u. k . has flown some people out from a military base north mechanical, but it can take several hours to travel the 20 kilometers from the capital to that one. the seed. net base, saudi arabian india among the countries that have evacuated people from ports down some 850 kilometers or a 13 hour drive east of cartoon. some are making the treacherous journey to the border with egypt, a journey of about a 1000 kilometers. while others are taking the even longer journey about 1500 kilometers west to the border with chad. avenue address is navy chance had an order

where sudanese refugees are pouring into their neighboring country. the refugees, mainly women and children crossed over from sedans, da, 4 area into this part of charge. the united nations high commissioner for refugees say they have registered more than $4000.00 refugees in could run alone under a hundreds and hundreds more. who are yet to be registered and do hope to accomplish that in the past in the next few days. now what the, the situation here in this particular camp is desperate. none of the refugees have any permanent structure over their head that are no structures, no tense, and some of them are virtually living under trees. and they're telling us of the situation here is desperate. a lot of them say they haven't eaten over the past few days now on this particular day, the united nations and it's agencies deployed to this particular area to see the situation for itself. it brought along tons and tons of food items to be distributed to the refugees. and what,

let me show you in particular what they are for for them. now these are sacks of grains rise as well as oil that would be distributed through the refugees all across this particular region. what is not clear is what happens to the other refugees, port number in their hundreds. why yet to be registered by the united nations agencies? or relief ages this year. now, when we plan the camera to decide this particular family has just received its own share of our grains. we can see it like, well, that's weeks and as you are stuff like cooking oil pump oil grounded oil. so flour that could help the family get along until such a time that things improve in this particular camp. now the united nation, the walford program is telling al jazeera that they have deployed, ah, a lot of food items that will take, therefore only $20000.00 people. and the situation right now in this camp is that

there are, it's put to more than $20000.00 people in the days to come. the united nations has projected between 120002 up 220-0000 people. crossing from done into this part of china, which means that the united nations and its agencies and other relief agencies need to step step up their act in order to get of all these refugees. ah, not ukraine's president is named a new ambassador to beijing after a phone call with china's leader. it's a 1st time vladimir zalinski and she should ping have spoken since russia began its invasion of ukraine last year. lensky describe the conversation as long and meaningful. while she call for talks between moscow and keith, in february, beijing release recalled piece proposals for ending the war, which included calling for cease fire, an offer to mediate key to kiddos he uniquely at home on china will send special

representatives to the chinese government figuration affairs to ukraine and other countries, and have in depth communication with all parties on the political settlement of the crisis. mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is the political foundation of china. ukraine relations. china will continue to facilitate peace talks and will do it share in ceasing hostility and conflicts and restoring peace as soon as possible. or various chance stratford has more now from keith. there's no denying that this telephone conversation between president zalinski and president g is not highly significant. the 1st conversation that they've had, we are still a long way off in certainly in ukraine and amongst many of ukraine's western backers. out of china being seen as an honest, neutral arbiter in potentially trying to bring a lasting piece to this crisis. interestingly, we had already comment from zalinski on his telegram channel and he said that there

was no peace would be found at the expense of territorial compromise. he said, no one wants peace more than the ukrainian people we are on our land and we are fighting for our future. and interestingly, he said that during this conversation, particular attention had been paid to ways of possible interaction with the aim of establishing a just unstable piece. now of course, china has put together a 12 point so called piece plan that was made public in february, and zelinski was very quick to denounce that, not calling it a plan in any way towards piece. it's all to do with territory still for the ukrainians. zelinski repeatedly says that until russia withdraws from all the occupied lands including crimea, he is not prepared to sit down, at least with the russians, and talk about a lasting solution. so as i say,

this isic significant, this conversation that's been had, but there is still a lot of work to be done. and it's going to be interesting to see how the european community and the white house, how the us really flesh is over this conversation. and way that they interpreted in trying to form some sort of solution to at least get some potentially present zalinski and president putin one day sitting at the same table the us house of representatives has voted to raise the level of a government's debt. the republican bill increases the debt ceiling to $31.00 trillion dollars. the bill has conditions to limit government spending. now goes to the senate for approval, but president biden has already threatened to veto. without agreement, the u. s. credit rating could be downgraded, decreasing a cost of boring rules in the house. republicans just passed the only bill in washington that lifts the debt limit ins, wasteful washington spending and puts america back on the right. economic path that

we're gonna limit the growth in the future. we're going to save by pulling back this unspent, coven money. we're going to grow this economy by making us energy independent. again, getting more people, encouraging them back to work. the sad part here is now the democrats need to do their job. the president can no longer ignore my not negotiating or my can of joins us live now from washington dc. mike, so just talk us for exactly what this republican boat was all about. well, it certainly is a tactical victory for kevin mccarthy's. demonstrated that he can cobbled together very desperate a republican party within congress. he managed to get the boats where many doubted that he could given the antipathy of some hard line republicans. and now he's pastors bull, which essentially in addition to raising or ring to raise the debt ceiling limit, also attempts to roll back many of precedent biden's legislative accomplishments

over the past couple of years. so it's a double barrow bull. now the thing is that this will go to the senate and it will be rejected by the democratic lead senate. however, what he has now done is fired. the 1st salvo in what is likely to be weeks may be months of discussions or argument with the bite and administration in terms of republican involvement in the legislative agenda at mike, as he say, this bill is dead on arrival in a democrat controlled senate. so why goes through the motions then? once again, the coffee is trying to use this to leverage involvement with president biden and also cause to roll back many of bite in the presidential achievements in this bill . you see are ripping away clean energy tax breaks, reducing all we're moving completely biden's attempt to, to guarantee student loans. so there are many elements in this which are basically

attempting to strip down the biden agenda. now, what a coffee has done by getting this bill passed even the fact that it's not going to go through the senate, and even if it ever did it would be vetoed by president biden himself. he has opened his elbow, he's now trying to put himself in a position where republicans have the onset to the debt ceiling problem. now it's up to the democrats to compromise, to come along and to talk with the republicans about war. what was must be done in terms of raising that debt ceiling limit, president biden, for his part says there should be no conditions attached to raising the debt ceiling limit, just as they weren't on the number of occasions that it was raised during the trump administration. president biden says he is willing to talk future budgets with the republicans, but he is not prepared to discuss past budgets, which is essentially what raising the dead sea level feeling is attempted to deal

with. all right, my kind of life was there in washington, dc. might thank now the share price of 1st republic bank has continued to drop on wednesday and had fears. it could be the next us bank to collapse. the san francisco based lenders stock price plummeted more than 20 percent in morning trade . on tuesday, its value sank nearly 50 percent on the news that depositors withdrew at least a $100000000000.00 in the 1st quarter. the official break here now to 0, when we come back guns and gangs in haiti un says it's meeting the levels of a wasa, and in kenya, more bodies. i recovered a victims of a cult leader, lead to stop themselves to death. warn those things. ah, now the risk of big thunderstorms has been in texas no blow last day or so,

but this risk is traveling east was through the southern states. as you can see, the orange job would suggest big thunderstorms and tucking behind it as yet more winter is coming out of canada that through montana on the venture down the plain states, taking snow into probably new mexico. on the tops, at least this is during friday buzz. i'm that happens. we've fed the shower east was again, the orange top suggests severe thunderstorms curling up to be well right into new england. even nearly in toronto. and that cold then is coming down into northern part of texas. so it might start to repeat the process all over again. by the end of the weekend, the pacific coast looked fine. most mexico is fine. but coming out of south america, we see a massive cloud which is producing pretty heavy down poles recently in places i said, lucia was warming out for potential flooding in trend bay. go. but i think the shower will be pretty discreet and tend to die down the next day or so. you know where the heavier stuff is, just coming down off the edge of mexican mex, gets over said looking quite nice. are in south america. we supreme examples

recently in french garner garner itself and serena and certainly in the northern part of brazil, it still looks pretty wet ah, [000:00:00;00] with

lou ah, welcome back and picked them out of top stories here at this hour. a regional african block is pushing to extend a ceasefire and saddam that's meant to expire on thursday. the ami sans it'll send a delegation for talks with the rapid support forces have not yet commented. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is named the new ambassador to beijing off the phone calls with chinese president shooting thing is the 1st time the 2 leaders of spoken since rushes invasion of credit on the us house of representatives has voted to raise the level of a government's debt republican bill increases the debt ceiling to $31.00 trillion dollars because limits on spending. the president biden has threatened to veto the armed gangs in haiti have been steadily expanding their influence since the

assassination of president java voice nearly 2 years ago. the un says violence, the capital owe to france a similar to that in a war zone. in october, eighty's and battle government requested foreign military assistance. but so far there's been no intervention. so he's a boat reports. they're getting more powerful every day. armed gang members in can n on the outskirts of port a prince. they un estimates gangs now controlled 80 percent of the haitian capital . but gang members say you're the least of hades. many troubles of oliver. people say, gangs like ours other countries biggest problem will do that. where do we find all these weapons people, even areas we had food, water, roads, and hospitals in the accuses of be in the countries problem that we needed for the state to. i'm certain as a law, he has been in the middle of an economic and political crisis for years, with violence spiraling out of control following the assassination of president job

in illinois in 2021 was alex henry, my candace house was set on fire by armed groups, trying to take control of another part of the capitol, your salvage, if without, as you can see, all these are people who burned inside the house very could not be served during the invasion. so many people died. this is a terrible thing that happens in the country. thousands of people have been displaced because of the violence. many are living in shelters, often unable to go back to their homes. francesca, me, sions, husband was executed by gang members. milo, while my husband was trying to enter the house, they took him, shot him and burnt him with his motorcycle. that's why i came to the shelter with my children. when i returned home, our house was completely burnt. i didn't say anything. my husband was a motorcycle driver. he was the one who took care of all the family. he lacked the

train security force as needed to help the state regain control over last territory . 6 months ago, the government requested international military assistance, but nothing so far has come to the appeal reef and leaked us intelligence documents show that russia's wagner group was offering help in fighting the gangs. annalee say that's not the answer to the country's problems. i think that we need to fight also who says ourself. and i think those if, if to be more broadly in helping us on what we, we think we need to work with the da da sprawled international committee entity to find a solution. the white liberal from russell has it has its reputation. we've seen some videos. this is not something that we're looking forward to. well, international community tries to find a solution. thousands remain trapped in they calles that has taken over their daily lives. pity several. i'll just sita. meanwhile, the humans news, special representative,

the haiti has warned that an increase in gang violence inflicting terror on the country's population. gang violence is expanding at an alarming rate in areas previously considered relatively safe, import the brands and outside the capitol. the horrific violence in gun ridden areas including sexual violence, but t calorie against women and girls is emblematic of the terror afflicting much of haiti's population. for brazilian president, j bowles and arrow has testified to federal police as part of an investigation and to post election riots. thousands of his support of attack government buildings in january after he lost the presidential election. hundreds of them are expected to stand trial. walton are left the country after his defeat and was staying in florida during the attacks. he has denied any involvement in them. monica market rather than falling developments from brazilian, from a president shavelle. so now to testify for almost 3 hours here at the federal

police headquarters and the capital brazilian, he's being investigated for allegedly inciting the january 8th riots on january 8th. also not a supporters stormed the supreme court presidential palace and congress, asking the military to oust president wheezing law suit. mueller, the silver wed, just taken office a week before they made unfounded claims. that lula had won the election just because it had been rigged. now before that while he was still present, also, nato had repeatedly said that the electronic voting system, which has been used in brazil for over 2 decades, could not be trusted. and what the federal police wanted to know was, why did he continue making these unfounded claims by sharing

a post on facebook that said just that that the electoral results had been tampered with. now his lawyers said that he had shared that post accidentally, i suppose, thursday proven for me you will gather this post was published unintentionally the proof is that a soon as he was warned, 2 or 3 hours later he took the post down speaking to the press after bull sonata testified, his lawyers explain that at the time that he shared his post was in a hospital in orlando florida. and that he was being treated in the united states for an intestinal occlusion. so yet shared that post accidentally and taken it down . 3 hours later, when he realized what he had done, his lawyers also said that he had nothing to do with the january 8th riots that he had condemned them publicly. and that for him, the october 30th elections, which she lost to rule off were over. and that is something that he would not

revisit anymore. now both scenario is under a lot of fire and the investigation will continue monica, you're not, you're all just sarah, brazil, ya, brazil. now the us in south korea had agreed to significantly strengthen their deterrence against north korea, including increased nuclear corporation. the announcement came during the south korean president's 1st state visit to the us and 12 years president joe biden greeted us appeal at a ceremony in the white house rose garden. i'm here to read. the treaty is iron clad, and that includes our commitment to extended to turns and, and that includes the nuclear threat nuclear deterrence. there are particularly important in the face of dpr cage, increased stretch in a blatant violation of us sanctions. i mean,

i'm going to kind of go sheet our countries have agreed to presidential consultations in the event of north korea's nuclear attack and promise to response swiftly or well mainly and decisively using the full force of july and including the united states nuclear weapons article jailed russian opposition lead alexson valley has called the latest case against him. absurd. he was in court on wednesday in the early stages of a new trial unexcused him charges. the volunteer is already serving 11 years in a maximum security prison. he says, all charges against him are politically motivated. the volunteer was taken to hospital early this month, so the spokesperson saying she could not food poisoning as the cause. julia shove, alova has more now for moscow, the hearing was held behind closed doors. it was close to the media coast because when i restricted alex st until may, the 5th for reviewing the 196 volumes of the new case on the

article called extremism. so he has just 10 days to review the information, 196 volumes of his new case. according to his team and a facing new criminal charges. see him sentenced to to years in prison, and the case will be transferred to a military court. now, during the year in the investigation that also stated that 11 other people were wanted as part case in september 2021, a criminal case against him. and his associates will crating and needing an extremist community, a pacing and an extremist community. and now that he had been charged with creating an extremist grievance, calling for ron is a few months later, another criminal case was opened against the opposition politicians on calls for

terrorism. and the rehabilitation of not says, now to 60 people have been found dead in the democratic republic of congo. no keyboard province authorities say their bodies are found in 2 villages in the richer region. the m 23. our group is being accused of killing them. or since late 2021, the group receives large areas of north kiva province close to the regions capital goma. the fighting has forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. but i've told from a religious colton, kenya that practice starvation has risen to at least 98 a group say that number could rise even further with more than 300 people reported missing authority to say the victim stop themselves to death after their pasta former told them to stop eating. if they wanted to meet jesus public's acts, public access to the site has not been ban. like little i'm gonna you like my children a did i know that the sure. the young men who told me about my children had been

living in the forest since 2021. they told me the names of my children and they did not even know made it any, but they told me my children had been starved to death. now, tourists in the spanish capital, madrid briefly had an unexpected extra attraction. this week one with a controversial political slant, a statue appeared in the center of the city showing former king juan carlos aiming a rifle at the landmark bronze figure of a bear shaking a tree. one carlos is well known for big game hunting. one of the controversies leading his application 9 years ago, ah, type picture of the headlines here, this, our original african block is pushing to extend a ceasefire in sedan that's meant to expire on thursday. the army says it'll send a delegation for talks for the rapids, support forces have not yet commented. now the question is, will that cease fire hold? because many residents around the capitol, hot in various parts,

were able to heavy to hear heavy artillery during the previous. these flyers and so they believe that there was no way for them to leave the capital or to be able to get out of their homes to get basic necessities. so it really comes down to the