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from working for the un. former us vice president mike pence appears before a grand jury investigating donald trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. thus, this line is over 300 vehicles in it and it's over kilometer. will tell you why cubans are being forced to q for days to fill up their cars. ah. to dawn's army and power military rapid support forces have agreed to extend the seas fought, which was to expire at midnight local time. the truce will be extended by further 72 hours. the you and the african union and the u. s. have all welcomed the move, saying they hope it will lead to talks and a permanent end to hostilities. i'll just hear him. morgan begins are coverage from cartoon. while the focus right now by the international community and regional body

seems to be on getting those 2 sides to stop pointing before turning to any site, any chances of talks. now the initiative or read the proposal by the regional into governmental authority for developmental for both ties to send envoys to the south to denise capital, juba and try to reach some kind of an agreement that would result in a permanent fire. but the 2 sides are yet to both agree to that the food in these army agreed to send an envoy, but the rapid support forth is easy to agree to it. but both agreed to the 72 hours . the fire that has been proposed by the united states, the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united nations. and they are confirmed, especially after the 1st few days of fighting when both sides made it very likely that they did not want to talk. and it looks like those who are trying to mediate between the 2 sides are having issues bringing the 2 sides together. but right now people in the capital are focused more on whether this the fire that the 2 sides agree, agreed on, will hold the theme, the previous, the fires, they were able to hear the artillery strike. they were able to see the fight,

the jets and the air strike in their residential neighborhood. so they're concerned that this upcoming seas far that both sides agreed to would not hold and that they would continue to suffer as a result. moving through the aftermath of battle in what used to be a marketplace now amunition, shelf, litter. the 3, the situation remain sire for denise trapped inside. a city turned battle ground, but maybe it's going to be in crisis is big. the situation is very tough and there's difficulty in internal movement. we often stand in long cubes, get bread happen many times where we get bread, but never mind that my family need. and what them about the damage has his everything. both of them are fighting each other and we the people will be the biggest losers. and the most effective law, the we're is the 2 parties stood a conflict, namely, albert, hon and committee. to show the sudanese people 10 percent only of the care and attention they gave to foreign countries to safe corridors who evacuated their

nationals from the country. we need to take our sick people to hospital and to remove the dead bodies from the st. emergency services have been stretched beyond capacity and are pleading for help. a doctor filled these scenes at a harder to hospital, provided either. there are still injured people in the hospital, medical supplies of 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. if the 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 army and rapid support forces accused each other of breaching law and order elsewhere in the country. the town jenny, not near the border with chad, has seen intense battles. the area has with miss ethnic conflict in the recent

past. now the sound of gunfire can be heard as local to run for cover their reports. the city has no electricity and very limited form connectivity, concerns of return to civil war are high for many in dar for the previous were a loss, had nearly 20 years and pitted arab tribes against ethnic dar for ease. the fighting in recent days has again highlighted bad division. countries continued to evacuate their people from sudan. 8 workers arrived in jordan on thursday. i think all of us feel very relieved, but all of us are very mixed feelings also because we leave our sydney's funeral behind on linda. the sudanese army has denied reports. it will enter into direct talks with the iris f to dance. foreign ministry said in a statement, the rapid support forces have no choice but to surrender or perish. he by morgan, alta 0, how to monitor the album. in other words, is a journalist. an analyst ensued on. he says previous c,

spies haven't changed. the situation on the ground is the 5th time. now, the mean has been announced in and if you assume column days of the or it's in or and in the it's been 2 hours. i seen 4 times the 2 sides in order to do the position actually. and we see that my troops from the neighborhood states from other places. so i keep going and nothing is going on the ground and it's been it, it, it, it. and we can not get anything because of us

don't panic, everything is close in the shops and then the be the power water. everything is. it's very random situation. and what of what people expect is the worse actually the fuel to get out of the houses is to go outside. it's why when the lean, where are tens of thousands of susan, these are fleeing the violence. the u. n. is preparing for at least 270000 people to flee into neighboring countries. awkward interests reports from a village near the chad sudan 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 at the village, not far away from cooper on the way it is a major distribution center for the welfare program and other ages. we realize that dozens of people who fled the situation is with don. and i come out here out in the open in makes your structures have not been registered and therefore couldn't access some of the aid being delivered to refugees who 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 tied earlier this morning today,

there were reports of skirmishes across the border, not a 35 kilometers from the town of denison town of address, where people local law reporting, hearing gun fine explosions, not far away in the town of janina which is of course being contested by both parties in the conflict and so that i did, nation security council has unanimously condemned the tell about administration enough ganna stone for banning women from working for the you in the security council has called for swift. reversal of the decision are different. i forget it. james bass has more. this sends a clear message to the taliban unanimous vote by all 15 members of the security council condemning the taliban policies towards women. and in particular,

the taliban ban on female un workers. this resolution was negotiated over some weeks by japan and the united arab emirates. afterwards their ambassador is addressed reporters. they said that this vote would help the secretary general, who be convening a meeting of special envoys from key regional and international countries that starts on monday in kat. but they were concerned that not everyone in the taliban would be listening some, you know, players. and if again, if not very decent to us, whatever we may say, but it is not because of that we should give up, you know, or reaching out to them. i think we need to keep on reaching out to them so that some part of enough going is the main reason if thought to resonate. what we see, i think that really requires a kind of patience on our part. yes. we think this resolution reinforces that the work that the sex general plans to do and convening the envoys retreat and the hon

. all member states are who are attending that are very supportive of the sex or general general efforts and the un engagement on the file. so i think this resolution sends a clear signal going into that meeting of the position of the international community of international law and of the security council on the central role of women and girls and the role they play in every society, including enough chemist on this boat come with just days before the united nations needs to make an important decision about his operations in afghanistan, the u. n. a set a date of may, the 5th to review its humanitarian operations. looking at what to do now, the taliban says female un work is a band. james base al jazeera at the united nations, former us vice president, my tense has appeared before a grand jury investigating the journey. the 6th insurrection. agent shall inquiries looking into former president donald trump's efforts to overturn the results of the

2020 election. adam fisher has more from washington dc where we know that this appearance comes just about 24 hours after donald trump field and another legal effort to try and stop might pence testify. pants himself wasn't keen to testify. he tried a number of legal maneuvers. he even said that there was a clause that said that legislators can't give evidence about legislation. they're talking about. and this was legislation. a federal judge ruled that that was the case in certain circumstances. but it didn't stop might pants giving evidence against donald trump on what could be potentially illegal behavior? no, we know that a fleet of su these arrived at the court house in washington dc. just around 9 o'clock this morning. they left about $430.00. of course the big question is, what did mike pence say to the grand jury? will grand jury proceedings are in private so we won't know exactly. but certainly speaking to a couple of legal analysts than the last couple of hours, they've told me that they'll probably say to mike pence,

you've got to tell us what was said between you and the president, particularly about january the 6th. and you rule in certifying the results? what was donald trump state of mind? did donald trump understand that he'd lost the election? but we're still pushing forward with this idea there. just 3 of the areas that could have been covered. now mike, pensa said that when he was on the stand, he would be completely truthful and he would follow the law. that was his intention . a group of mainly venezuelan migrants has broken through police lines to force their way into peru. i demanding to be allowed to travel north from kitty, for tens of thousands had sought a better life in recent years. but is unemployment rising on the venezuelan economy showing some signs of improvement and he now wants to return home. wednesday, the peruvian government declared a state of emergency on its borders. bug me april. i'm not going to go through the

desert and i'm not going to run away because i'm not criminal as a human being, i deserve the opportunity to reach my destination. my country, nobody can deny me the right to go back home. federal court in brazil has banned the export of live cattle. the routing has been hailed as historic by animal rights activists. the industry contributed $190000000.00 to the economy last year. the government hasn't announced if it will appeal the verdict in cuba, motorists having queuing for fuel sometimes for days at a time due to crippling shortages. the ordination is highly dependent on energy imports and present. miguel diaz can no blames supply countries and augustine reports from havana, empty fuel pumps, and cues of vehicles that stretch for blogs. the latest chapter in cuba, long economic crisis, cadillac, and there is no fuel. we spent 3 days driving around were been to 6 or 7 gas

stations, and the cues are never ending. president miguel diaz canal says the country is only receiving 2 thirds of the petal it needs. he's blamed supply nations. why is a canadian ingle, the countries that have commitments to us, to suppliers with gasoline based on the agreements that we have with them, have also been in a complex energy situation and have not been able to meet those commitments at so dr as are organizing themselves into lines and using whatsapp groups to find out where and when tankers are arriving some find ways to while away the time to go or if it doesn't arrive to day, it will arrive to morrow. but i've got to be here. i go to my house. i shower, i eat, i come back with my guitar and continue composing cubans a used to spending time in cues. but the something almost surreal about this, this line is i have a 300 vehicles in it and it's over a kilometer long. last week the government started rationing. how much petrol and

diesel drive is? can buy issue is album. they cannot over more. so this will allow us not to touch 0 and to cover vital services such as ambulances, natural logical services, and transporting potatoes to the market, which requires diesel. one economist says, the main reason for the shortfall is the cash ranch to canada. campbell taylor without fear for tractors, harvests are smaller. if workers comp make it to the factory, productivity is lowered. if there is one sector that the rest of the economy depends on its fuel rider lobrado and his family have been waiting around all day and have a long night ahead. on regard, my tank only has a space for 35 liters. so i drive for 2 days and then have to come back to sleep outside a new petrol station. in the short term, it means long nights and dreary days. in the long term, it means more price increases and an economy that produces even less. ed augustin al jazeera has an still to come here on al jazeera, rebuilding

a war torn countries ukraine appeals to investors, promising to consign corruption to the past and catching a glimpse of the demilitarized south korea opens you hiking these trails for tourists. ah hello there. let's have a look at the weather across north america and winter is still clinging on across central areas of the us, bringing some snow to the likes of colorado. on friday, the temperature in denver however, set to pick up rather dramatically by about 10 degrees celsius as that wet and when to where the pushes its way further east, over the next few days, leaving behind lots of fine and dry conditions for western parts of the us and canada, the temperature continuing to rise in the south west places like california los

angeles, seen 28 degrees celsius on saturday. not the worst of the unsettled weather can be found in that northeast corner. we've got some wet and windy as what is wintry weather, pushing across the great lakes, bringing some thunderstorms to the east coast, places like new york city, washington dc, seeing the wet weather over the weekend, but temperatures here still on the up. we'll see the worst of those severe storms intensifying across the gulf of mexico over the next few days. and they will bring some heavy rounds of rain to the north east of the country, tripling down the east coast, but lots of sunshine to be found on the west coast heat coming through for the yucatan peninsula. wet weather, further south of this in the form of showers temperature, certainly on the rise of places like water. marla, for the caribbean, lots of sunshine and showers. 32 degrees in havana. ah ah, a

lou ah la watching. i'll just reminder about top storage to dawn's army on power military rapids support forces have agreed to extend the ceasefire bought for the 72 hours

the un, the african union, and the us have all welcome saying they have which will lead to a permanent end to hostages, united nations security council has unanimously condemned a ton about the situation in afghanistan, for banning women from working for the un. security council is called for swift reversal the decision on former us vice president mike pence has appeared before a grand jury investigating the johnny, the 6 insurrection, the traditional inquiries looking into a former person. donald trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election ukrainian media reporting explosions in keven at least 4 other cities. arrayed alerts were declared throughout the country. the military says anti aircraft units on operation in the capital. explosions have been reported in central ukraine on the southern nikolai of the region. there are reports of 2 people killed in dundee. pro ukraine has tried to reassure investors

that the reconstruction of the country will go ahead. he is urging them to invest even before the war ends. the country is still struggling to overcome its deeply corrupt past. shall stratford has more than from keith. russian forces withdrew from board young care and april last year. large sections of the town of half hour drive from keith line ruins while fighting continues in the east. and despite there being no end of the war, in sight, reconstruction of towns like this one and the rebuilding of vital infrastructure fall from the front lines is already on the way the host of the work so far is being paypal would ukrainian cash reserves. but what's being described as the largest rebuild in europe since the 2nd world war could cost a trillion dollars. as the minus reconstruction process starts and the money starts flooding in, there are still serious concerns about corruption. in

a report compiled by the un, along with the organization transparency and national, they say that these long entrenched problems include whole governance, the influence of oligarchs on parliament, low integrity in the private sector, and a compromised judiciary. and this means that keeping this reconstruction process clean is a huge challenge. while ukraine's international corruption racing has improved in recent years, it remains dismal. only russia was worse in the region, according to transparency internationals, 2022 corruption index. we need to improve the transparency where our security risk are mitigated because of the russian war. this is number one and other we need to continue doing the reforms, the diesel reform. we need to start the reform, the audit and the count in timber of ukraine. and of course, in the long term we're looking into into monopoly quantity changes in order to

avoid any violation of the competition law. experts say ukraine has cleaned up its act in some sectors, including banking and health care, but pressure from civil society organizations and digital all the ting of politicians and company assets must be ramped up. it meets time, it's a huge system. we need to recruit more than 2000 judges. it's a huge challenge. that is one another one let strengthen the capacity of vendor corruption institution. they need more investigators, they need more prosecutor, they need more more judges. grain, foreign minister, reassured potential investors at a conference on reconstruction held in rome. you will hear how much we are doing to make our country economically viable and attractive for trade and investment. but the opportunity here and now you don't have to wait for the end of the war. ukraine's progress to fool you. membership from its candidacy status granted in june is dependent on reforms. many focused specifically on corruption. on the

right track, say western bankers, but big questions remain on just how cleanly their reconstruction money will be used. shall stafford out 0. give 3 prominent newspapers in the us are seeking support from the biden ministration for the release of an american journalist from the russian prison. the new york times the washington post on the wall street journal have jointly run an advert. coring for yvonne goes, cabbages release. he was arrested in the city of a catherine book last month and charge a spine discussion which denies the charges. as about john has rejected the french calls to remove a checkpoint on the only road linking the countries. i think i'll be an enclave with neighboring armenian french for minister catherine colona visited buck who to discuss the situation. russia accuses france on the us of undermining its role as

mediator. moscow broke a ceasefire at 2020, to end. the war between armenia and us about sean over the dispute is going to come back region. i mean, yes, says russia is fighting to protect ethnic armenians living in the break way region . but it smith has more from bucket. as aires a put a checkpoint up on there, they say because armenia is running weapons to counteract charges. of course armina 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 county is what the as air is call it for the armenians. it's upon occurred ethnic armenians in there. and they want to remain, they sort of separated from a, by john, it's internationally recognized. this is very 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. as 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 in this checkpoint. but the french said today, catherine 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, although as president has a keys rusher of meddling in the countries internal affairs, my son do says many of those running and a regional election of kremlin agents,

moscow denies allegations of interference ties with russia have been strained in recent years as well over 6 e. u and nato membership. iran's army says it has, sees an oil tanker that collided with one of its vessels in the gulf of a man. earlier, the u. s. navy reported the seizure of a marshal islands flagship. the advantage suite in the region around says 2 of its crew are missing after the collision. satellite tracking data showed the turkish managed tanker was just north of a man's capital moscow on thursday afternoon. the ship was bound for houston, texas, south korean president, you in stock, you will, has addressed the u. s. congress at the end of his state visit saying soul will respond firmly to north korean provocations. but he said the door will remain open to dialogue with young and wednesday, us and south korea unveiled and nuclear deterrence plan to boost corporation in the

face of threats from north korea. our new trails have been opened up for visitors to get a close up look at the demilitarized zone at separate north and south korea. the initiative is designed to promote the idea of peace. a comes after months of increased tension between con young and salt, while mcbride went to part of the frontier and ganga county which borders north korea. a media talk to a part of the border previously off limits that now will be opened up to visitors. the idea for the so called peace trails is to remind the world of the deep divide that still exists. 70 years after the end of the korean war, i think the demilitarized, so it was a good place not only for the untouched nature, but also the division and security situation of the 2 korea. north korea is just a little less than 2 kilometers away across the han river on the opposite bank.

groups of workers clearly visible and beyond them, fields and farms for south koreans and the growing numbers of tourists coming here . a glimpse of a society even more isolated. after several years of the corona virus, pandemic defectors and families displaced from the north by the war, live in many of gung while county's towns. now 83 kwan gray ha was brought here is a 10 year old and doesn't know if he has any family left to call her father. we have a nephew here, but i don't know if any relatives are still alive in the north and the influx of so many displaced. families probably makes these communities more open to visitors, says businessmen, choice song ho, whose father was a refugee guy organ on more than one to recall. the villages welcomed the refugees and gave them a home. it's a cozy place that has no problem with visitors. the creation of these piece trials

began during the period of summer diplomacy several years ago, but was interrupted by fears of spreading swine flu and then kobe 19. after such a mix, stop, start history. all 11 trails are finally being opened to the public, but a project that was conceived during a time of storing tensions is coming to fruition just as north south relations across these heavily fortified border have once again deteriorated to their worst 18 years. for many visitors that tension is part of the appeal adding to the fascination of one of the world's most intriguing frontiers. rob mcbride, al jazeera ganga county, south korea ah.