it covers the way the news is covered to suppress moderate, and in some cases amplify the confound. you feed on your terminal. the lifting post on out is era. ah, the diplomatic push to renew a ceasefire in conflict hits to don a country teetering on the edge of war. the focus of again is on extending the cease fire and making sure there is, am i trying to access all this? i made an unfolding humanitarian crisis. tens of thousands of sudanese people seek sanctuary in neighboring countries. ah, i'm north taylor. this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up. iran says it has seized an oil tanker in the gulf, following a collision with one of its vessels and looking to space to so some of earth's

toughest problems. african scientists chart future in the final frontier. ah, hello, we begin in sudan where the city is army has targeted the paramilitary rapid support forces with air strikes in the capital, hot tomb and deadly fighting continues. during the final hours of a 3 day cease, fod, let cease fire set to end in 3 hours at 2200 g m t the u. n. is leading last minute diplomatic efforts to extend it. the leader of sedans, army, general abdel fat elbow han has agreed to extend the fragile truce response from the rapid support forces is at this stage unclear, at least 512 people have been killed since violence broke out on the 15th of april, according to health ministry figures or the 4000 people have been injured. the trina of casualties is likely to be much higher on the worst of the balance is

centered on the capital. it's also flat in other provinces, particularly down for some people fled to neighboring chad, while others are locked up in their homes. afraid to go out for supplies, while enduring, severe food, water, and electricity shortages as a bag of votes. moving through the aftermath of battle in what used to be a market place now, ammunition shells lit the streets. the situation remains dire for sudanese, trapped inside a city, turned battleground but never gotten was good at live in crisis is big. the situation is very tough on those difficulty in internal movements. we often stand in long queues to get bread happened many times where we got bread, but never the amount that my family need well and what they lamented. the damage has his everything. both of them are fighting each other and we the people will be the biggest losers and the most affected law. the where's the 2 parties did a conflict, mainly albert han and meet the de, showed the sudanese people 10 percent only of the care and attention they gave to

foreign countries through safe corridors to evacuate their nationals from the country. we need to take our sick people to hospital and to remove the dead bodies from the st. to the emergency. services have been stretched beyond capacity and are pleading for help. a doctor from these scenes at a heart to him hospital advisors either there are still injured people in the hospital. medical supplies are very scarce. no medical teams have managed to reach us due to lack of security and safety on the roads leading to the hospital. the injured are still coming to hospital because of the current battles. it's a fighting wasn't enough, some fear armed looters even more. cctv footage captures men dressed in military fatigues and carrying weapons breaking into shops. it's not clear who these men are or which side they belong to. both the military and rapid support forces accused each other of breaking law and order elsewhere in the country that harrigan in and

near the border with chad has seen intense battles. the area has witnessed ethnic conflict in the recent past. now the sound of gunfire can be heard as locals run for cover. there are reports, the city has no electricity and very limited form connectivity. countries continue to evacuate their people from sudan aid workers arrived in jordan on thursday. i think all of us feel very relieved, but all of us are very, very mixed feelings also weakness. we leave our sydney's fear behind. the sudanese army has denied reports of possible talks with the r s f. it said in the statement of the rapid support forces have no choice but to surrender will perish. i said beg, i'll g 0. your sex or say, antony blinkin says washington is focused on extending the seas farms. you don, we are very actively working to extend the the seas far. we've had a 72 hours cease fire, which like most, she's fires is imperfect but nonetheless has reduced violence. and that's obviously

created somewhat better conditions for people in sudan as also enabled some humanitarian assistance to continue to move round. but we want to make sure that um it possible this is extended, we're very actively engaged on that ice, hoping expect more information on that in the coming hours. and the focus, again, is on extending the cease fire and making sure there is you measuring access. rescue live to have a morgan in the capital, how to ebay, so that cease fire due to expire. what, what's the mood in county now? while people are divided into 2, they are those that are concerned that with the expiry of the 72 hours, he's 5 period fighting will intensify between the rapid support forces and the sidney's army. and they said that's because they've been able to witness what was unfolding during the previous 72 hours or so. they were able to witness the artillery stripes,

launched by the rapid support forces. they were able to see the as strikes launch by the sudanese army and they were able to see the fighter jets flying overhead. and they said that if this is what's happening during a period of a ceasefire, they can imagine what would happen when there is no. his fire and the 2 sites confront each other on the ground, while civilians are caught in the middle than the others. who said that it doesn't matter whether there's a cease fire in place or not, because the fighting is still ongoing between the rapid support forces. anderson denise army, especially the residents of on demand and cartoon north, who witnessed intense fighting between the rapids support forces and the army in the early hours of this morning and the residents of booty who witnessed the intense fighting in the late afternoon of thursday. so they are concerns by some of that, even if there is, this is fine place because it is not being implemented, it doesn't make a difference whether it's extended or not. and to tell us more about to the, the parties involved in trying to extend the trish while several sides are trying to get the sudanese out worrying parties to actually

extend this truth, including the inter governmental authority on development. that's the regional body . i got the regional east african body and they have been trying to reach the rapid support forces because they say that they were able to reach the commander of the army, general abdel for the hud brohannon. he has agreed that the army will abide by another 72 hour period overseas fire, but that the rapid support forces were unreachable. so that's one party that is trying to not only get an extension of truth between the 2 wearing sides, but also trying to get the 2 sides to meet each other. now, the sudanese army agreed that they will send an envoy to the southward in east capital, juba to negotiate some kind of a permanent ceasefire. but also the rapid support forces is yet to respond to that . then there are other regional countries in international countries and bodies like the united states and the u. n. all trying to get the wearing sides to end the violence even if briefly for him in his terran assistance to be able to come into those who need it. just more heber, about the conditions people are facing now well

many of them are starting to give up hope that they'll be able to get any humanitarian assistance in time. people have been trapped in their homes for nearly 2 weeks now, many of them without running water and no power, and saying that they don't have the cash bags have been closed since the beginning of this fighting. and even if it is open, when people say that they will have not earned their salary, when does fighting thought at so many of them like the financial means to be able to support themselves. and by basic commodities, commodities which have increased in price as since the fighting started because of its scarcity. and because of the looting that has been happening in the capital hot assume. so people say that they want to see some kind of not only when it's aaron, a pathway or corridor opened, but they want to see market prices going down so that they can afford tickets or fuel to leave the capital hot room. because they're not sure when they will be permanent stability in the country than there are those who need medical assistance . hospitals have been saying that they're running out of surgical kit. somebody have to recycle, and that the situation is quite dire. so overall,

in hot soon people say that these past 2 weeks have been very intense for them and has made life very untenable in the capital harpoon. hip morgan, thank you very much indeed. many market since you dont capital have been destroyed and unexpected munitions pose a danger to those who remain to the city out of theirs. i've had fidel has more from northern cartoon. natalie natalie, lottie, it's him that he might have a form that we are in the suburb if shamburger north of cotton valley, this part of the main fruit and vegetable market was the scene of violence. fighting between the sudanese army and the rapids support forces on saturday. and as you can see, the damage is evident. this frog was carrying ammunition and it exploded. during the confrontation, the shrapnel flew everywhere. the biggest danger now is that not all ammunition has exploded. this presents a threat to pedestrians and cause bearing in mind that some trade is on custom as abra, turning to the market. the ammunition is scattered around this area. these munitions

could explode that any time due to the high date temperatures or of cars run over them, or people step on them. these buildings where police officers used to live as well as the market, have been severely damaged and the explosions and the fighting, which is considered some of the most violent in this area. given the situation, authorities needs intervene quickly and bring in teams to dispose of the explosive ordinance safely because people have started using this road again. bob halligan, tens of thousands of sudanese are fleeing the violence. the u. n. is preparing for at least 270000 people to flee into neighboring countries. chad has reported the highest number of refugees so far. at least 20000 people have crossed a trad sudanese border through dower for you and says they expect to 100000 people will make that journey on 3 and a half 1000 to fled south east and crossed into neighboring if you pier, which already has millions of internally, des,

space people from years of its own conflict and some 16000 people across the border from she dawn into egypt. or 14000 have been crossed into egypt, are sudanese citizens at the auction. crossing families have spent nights outside in the desert waiting to be let through. some say they've been there for several days. majority people playing the violence, as we mentioned to fled to chad. i'm going to do reports from a village near the chance to don border. it's a difficult situation for hundreds and hundreds of refugees who are yet to be registered by the united nations high commissioner for refugees and other international don't. just as we just to village not far away from cooper on the way it is a major distribution center for the was for program and other ages. we realize that dozens of people who fled the situation is done. and i come out here out in the

open and makes your structures have not been registered and therefore couldn't access. some of the aid being delivered to refugees will fled the crisis in sudan. now basically, the situation is such that the united nation has only organized or other budgeted for at least 20000 people in terms of food supplies or food assistance. however, with the current situation, it looks like the agencies yeah, the united nations as well as other organizations, like the world foot program, don't have enough to feed the expected number of people who are crossing over from sudan and into china. earlier this morning today, there were reports of skirmishes across the border, not a 35 kilometers from the town of denison town of address, white people, local law reporting, hearing gunfire, explosions, not far away in the town of janina which is of course,

being contested by both parties in the conflict so that malcolm web is following the evacuation efforts of several countries you sent this update from g. booty airport is here on the tarmac of diabetes international airport where plains have been landing, carrying people evacuated from su, dawn as well as the neighboring military air base. to beauties the hub for these air evacuation operations because it hosts the militaries of several foreign powers including the us, china, france, and japan. and they are among countries that have been evacuating 1st, that diplomats and government workers and then also some citizens. so, but actually it sounds like thing and the bombs logins everywhere all the time. we can't sleep, it's really, it's verifying with the people benefiting from these air. evacuation programs

belong to a relatively fortunate minority as many thousands more trying to flee, sued on by land into neighboring countries. malcolm web al jazeera in debussy. ah, a ron's army has seized a marshall islands, flagged oil tanker in international waters. the u. s. navy reported the seizure of the ship in the gulf of oman and satellite tracking data showed it to be just north of must catch on thursday. your ons, army says the seizure followed a collision between one of its vessels and the turkish managed tanker advantage suite injuring several crewmen to still missing particular hain as war from washington dc. well, as always, when it comes to stories that come out between the u. s. at around, they're telling very different stories. so from the u. s. navy perspective, they say the 5th lead her to distress call at $115.00 local time and that the crew

said that the ship was being sees being forwarded. they later put up a poseidon and they said that they believed it. it was the rainy and maybe the did that now ran for its part. it said the night before, one of its ships collided with an unnamed ship ad server. 2 of their sailors were missing and 3 were injured. so not exactly clear cuz the timing doesn't line up and the events don't seem to line up either. we don't know very much about the ship. we know that it's called advantage suite. it's flagged in the marshall islands. it's believed that it was managed by a turkish company, potentially owned by a chinese firm. it was seized in the gulf of oman, a had just been in kuwait, it was headed houston, texas. c and we don't know anything about basically how much oil was in it. we believe that it was chartered by chevron and add the u. s. navy is calling on a ran to release the crew and the oil tanker. they said this is the 5th commercial

vessel that's been seized by iranian navies in the last 2 years. south korean president units hercule has told the u. s. congress that so will respond firmly to north korean provocations. but he said the door will remain open to dialogue with pyongyang. on wednesday, the u. s. and south korea unveiled a nuclear deterrence plan to boost corporation in the face of threats from north korea. use state visitors the 1st met kind by a south korean leader in 12 years. i cannot, has more from washington this was a truly bipartisan occasion. the south korean president was formally invited by the speaker of the house, but also by other senior republican and democratic leaders. he received a rapturous welcome good as the 70th anniversary of the alliance between south korea and the united states. and the south korean leader made clear the critical support that the u. s. has offered in the ongoing confrontation with north korea.

and north korea has abandoned freedom and prosperity and dismissed peace. north korea's nuclear program. and mr. provocations, all are serious. a threat to the peace on the korean peninsula and beyond. to deter is rac lease behavior. the ally us must stand united with determination. the president speech was interrupted by applause on no less than 40 occasions. and if he came here with the intent of increasing us support for his country, he leaves congress with the knowledge that its mission accomplished. mike hannah al jazeera washington, still to come around to 0, facing an influx of migrants heading north to the us. peruse, president declares a state of emergency at the border.

ah hello there. it's a scorching hot weather story for the south west of europe. that thanks to an unusually early heat wave, that swept into southern parts of spain and portugal and into the north west of africa with records broken in places like morocco. for april, we are expecting temperatures to come down across the country over the next few days. but they will be on the up, in the very south places like malaga and wallet staying, rather hot and dry. here we are going to see things turn wetter and cooler across the north as those rounds of rain start to pull their way further east. bringing some heavy falls to southern parts of france. no further north of this, it is an improving picture for the likes of the north west britain and the island of island and the low countries. as that wet and windy weather starts to skirt its way further east friday into saturday,

even more in the way of sunny spells. certainly in south of england, london, seen the temperature pick up to 18 degrees celsius. it's a similar story for, for berlin. 16 degrees celsius there on saturday. it's cooler up in the north, another wave of wintery weather, pulsing into norway also seeing some rain on saturday. but for that southeast corner, it continues to be largely unsettled. anchoring c, 9 degrees celsius only on saturday, but it's sunny by monday. ah, in 2018. a journalist lead 40 days of civic action against the armenian government . i'm president. soc, is younger group home power? i'm going to live with this, were a new documentary follows his nonviolent campaign to bring down a corrupt regime, astonishing outcome with i am not to mon

munious velvet revolution on al jazeera. ah ah. are the top stories here, which is era. the latest use, far in the sudanese conflict is due to end in a matter of hours. the un is leading last minute, diplomatic efforts to extend it. the leader of saddam's army, general abdel fargo has agreed to extend the truce. there's been no word from the rapid support forces, about $14000.00 sudanese citizens across the border into egypt at the ark. when crossing families are spent nights outside in the desert waiting to be let through . some say they've been there for several days. south korean president, unit 2,

p o is told the u. s. congress. that so will respond family to north korean publications. but he said the door will remain open to dialogue with young in your state, physicians the 1st of its kind by south korean leader in 12 years as by john is rejected french calls to remove a checkpoint on the only road thinking the country's ethnic armenian enclave with neighboring armenia, between could and i was the 1st for mr. to visit echo in 6 years. russia which broke sees foreign, 2020, to end the war between armenia and john, over the region of canada accuses france and the us of undermining its role as mediator. armenia says the russians, a fading to protect ethnic armenians living in the breakaway region. but a smith has more from back who as there is a, put a check point up on there. they say because armenia is running weapons to car about charges, of course, armenia denies,

but they've done this under the nose if you like. of russian peacekeepers have been there since 2020 while the russian peacekeepers of that. it's the french foreign minister with us backing. who's here in back, who leading diplomatic efforts to try and resolve this latest flare up armenia. really suspects that as a by john is trying to essentially take over the rest of the car back by stealth as a by john, in the last war between the 2 sides in 2020 took back control of huge amounts of territory around the main urban area. of kara back, the main city can candy is what the as aires call it for the armenians. it's upon occurred ethnic armenians in there. and they want to remain they sort of separated from a as a by john. it's internationally recognizes every territory, but it is essentially disputed and this is why this conflicts been so long running because we haven't resolved the final status of this area about john says it's

offered armenia, jewel control over this road. i mean here is it says, i mean it hasn't taken up that offer and that's why these aries put it in this checkpoint. but the french said today, captain colona said she does not believe this checkpoint should be that it could lead to further flareups of violence on the russians also had a couple of days ago. they don't believe either side should be taking unilateral actions. the room president dina blew out a has declared a state of emergency it borders own areas to curb illegal migration. the decision will allow police and military to carry out operations and increased migration control in several provinces. so case limits on the constitutional rights of freedom of movement. hundreds of migrants would be making their way from chile after the government there tightened immigration policies. mario sanchez has a more from the border with of from talk that was on the board actually. so man and what's the situation where you want to that's right, lauren stuck nice

a southern mo c t they do. it's near a very near the border with t me and we are now at the center of the cap of the regional capital, where some people have come out here. some of them have been here for some time because there's been people trickling through the, the border from t. this is they do for some time now. but in the last 3 weeks, there's been much, much more people coming to trying to get in to prove the story stuff a lot of police in, in, in the border. and it's been very difficult for people to cross. we have seen this morning, a lot of tension between the migrants. most of them are from venezuela, some of them from katie, a lot of tensions with the police. people desperate to cross many families, many was very small children. at some point people were so for the baby to drop their belongings, i'm sorry, walking in the desert,

applying to evade the running, even children carrying bags to help their parents. it was a terrible situation. eventually, all of them were captured. they were brought back to the same point of men, both between 2 and did one through going authorities are not allowing that they, they are being told that they need a visa to come through. but many people don't even have the money to get a passport. and many are undocumented and they can't go back to they can't come into, into plato. so what many are doing them? and the court is believe they're anywhere between $5.00 to $15000.00 people coming across into they do. they have to walk in the desert and this many, many kilometers from the border only to reach this city about 60 kilometers and to see where they are. would be going from here, but may told us they did not want to stay in. they do, they just want to go back home and they want

a boss to pick them up from the border. they want to pay the ticket and they want to be shuttled all the way to the northern border with a while or well, we still don't know what will happen with those more about the government's response to all this well, printed in the know a lot of the last night announced that the that would be but there is a state of emergency now that the army would reinforce not only the border with sheila, but every single border to support the police. but one of the reasons i think that she's doing this is because there are more and more reports in the local news that there's a lot of violence and that many non peruvian nationals of the as they put it, we know they're talking about venezuela, our delinquents there's a lot of shootings as a lot of robberies and show. she said that most of the people who are committing the wines were were my grims. so also cor,

stigmatizing the said, these people because you know, families have live in a way that i have met a piece and they have to find somewhere to, to find jobs for their children. and for, of course. c the a lot of people also here in the capital, the regional capital also stigmatizing. they don't want to have them around begging or staying here in a park like they have to come out. so sure, thank you very much. a conference has begun in ivory coast aiming to present space exploration as the key to unlocking social and economic transformation in african countries. the goal is to make space programs a larger priority across the continent. it was hack report, senegalese astrophysicist saw muscle eyes searching for solutions to some of africa's most pressing challenges. but looking into space is not enough. she says,

yeah, i lived on it. i would like to go to space because if i can go to space, i can gather precious information that will be useful for generations to come. it's essential that my book, since the 1st man in space in 1961, hundreds of astronauts have blasted off. but a black african is yet to make the journey by casa guys, scientists from burkina faso says it's about time vis changes. she sing part in the new space, africa conference in ivory coast, where scientists, companies and investors gather hoping to change perspectives of space, research, suffer produce, wasn't that book enough or so has been independent for more than 60 years. and yet we struggle with the same problems, hunger, lack of water and agriculture. we waste of money when we should invest in space research to find long term solution. hurry to or in april, kenya launched its 1st satellite joining the few african countries that have space programs,

the images that generate support conservation efforts by anticipating weather patterns such as droughts. they can even help protect boarders by monitoring the movements of arm groups and the sale. some of the components of satellites are precious metals and minerals found on the continent, but they cause to hundreds of millions of dollars and take years to build. omari chad, they canyon start up. has the solution nano satellites. this america, you thought, well maybe because this is, is it is rely for clickable functioning satellite. it is affordable. i. it is modular. and what to do is in this prison is, is short in the launch windows periodic sticks. we're going to submit any country to a few miles on a meteorite for mars. research is discovered, traces of zirconium, mineral sound in abundance and synagogue priscilla. this is no coincidence with only 4 percent of the universe known to humans. she says,

africans have an important role to play in discovering what's out there, and how it can be used to improve lives back on earth. nicholas hawk al jazeera. ah, this is out there. these are top stories. the latest cease fire in the studio conflict is due to ended a matter of hours. the u. n. is leading last minute diplomatic efforts to extend it . the leader sedans army, general abdel theater as well. hon has agreed to extend the fragile truce as be no official comment from the permanent treat rapid support forces. morgan has more from how to well, several sides are trying to get the sudanese are worrying parties to actually extend this truth, including the into government.