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results. united nations security council unanimously condemns the taliban for banning women from working for u. n. q one and ready for lift off african countries looked to space exploration to improve knives by corner. ah, to don's army and power military rapid support forces have agreed to extend a ceasefire, which was to expire at midnight local time for the truce will be extended by further 72 hours. you end the african union and the u. s. have all welcomed the move saying they hope it will lead to talks on a permanent end to hostilities. well, this is a scene right now in the capital a car team, whether unease continues thousands of tried to flee. since the conflict started nearly 2 weeks ago. al jazeera is here,

morgan begins our coverage from cotton. while the focus right now by the international community and regional body seems to be on getting those 2 sides to stop fighting before turning to any site, any chances of talks. now the initiative or read the proposal by the regional into governmental authority for development was for both 5 percent envoys to the south to denise capital, juba and try to reach some kind of an agreement that would result in a permanency fire. but the 2 sides are yet to both agree to that the food nice army agreed to send an envoy, but the rapid support forces 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 sudanese, trapped inside a 50 turned battleground. but maybe good news, good at the 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 through 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 for advisors 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 still coming to hospital because of the current battles. if the fighting wasn't enough, some fear on polluters 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 and are for the previous were lasted 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 we have very mixed feelings also because we leave our sudanese people behind. the sudanese army has denied reports. it will enter into direct talks with the iris f sedans. foreign ministry said in a statement, the rapid support for states have no choice but to surrender or perish. he by morgan, alta 0 or 2 on exploded munitions. suppose

a danger to those who remained in sedans capital. i'll just hear as awkward. fidel has more from northern cartoon. natalie, nati lafayette, him back, she medical form, but we are in the suburb of shamburger north of crampton badly. 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 excluded 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 caused bearing in mind that some trade is on customers are returning to the market. the ammunition is scattered around the 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, bring in teams to dispose of the explosive ordinance safety because people have started using this road. again. how much of what? tens of thousands of sudanese are fleeing the violence u. n is preparing for at least 270000 people to flee into neighboring countries. offered 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 down. 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 that budgeted for at least $20000.00 people in terms of food supplies or food assistance. however, with the kind of 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 child. earlier this morning today, there were reports of skirmishes across the border, not 35 kilometers from the town of garrison, town of address, white people, local law reporting, hearing guns, fine explosions, not far away in the town of janina, which is of course,

been contested by both parties in the conflict and so that malcolm web is following the evacuation efforts of several countries in djibouti. it's here on the market debate, these international app or where plains have been landing, carrying people evacuated from food on, as well as at the neighboring military abbe deputies, the hub for these areas, occupation operations. because the whole military of several foreign powers, including the us, china, wrong and japan, and there among countries being evacuating that the government workers. and then also this isn't actually all of the lighting and the bomb explosion everywhere all the time. we can please read the flying the people benefiting from these everybody to

ation programs belong to a relatively fortunate minority as many thousands more trying to flee food on by land into neighboring country. malcolm web, i'll just sierra in typically more than 200 iraq is evacuated from saddam flew back to baghdad on thursday. the whoa had, has more from baghdad, international airport. oh, these are iraqi nationalists were stranded by the fighting in that capital harpoon and sudan. these were evacuated by iraq's foreign ministry, among more than 230 iraqi nationals where repatriated voluntarily as the iraq's for a ministry says they were evacuated by iraq's, for a mystery or a board to military air crafts that took off from baghdad. international airport in

the early hours of a thursday, they say that it was a difficult journey for them from the sudanese capital cartoon to put sudan where they were picked up by iraqi air crafts. they say that they left behind horrible seas. yeah. and they had well that with it's a nightmare. they dead body sky to everywhere in the straits for straight dogs to wait them. and the humanitarian situation is dial other. most hospitals are not functioning, but no medicine service, no water, no electricity. you also say that they left behind other iraqi nationals who haven't been able to reach out to the rescue operation. these iraqi nationalists are among more than $230.00 people, including at 16 city and nationals. these measures have been taken by

iraqi authorities following the death of an iraqi national by the fighting in that capital cartoon a few days ago. ah, ukrainian media reporting explosions and keep in at least 4 other cities. air raid alerts for declared throughout the country. the military says anti aircraft units are in operation in the capitol. explosions have been reported in central ukraine on this suddenly calliah regional. the mayor of denise pro says a young woman and the child had been killed. former us vice president mike pence has appeared before a grand jury investigating the jeremy, the 6 insurrection, judicial enquiries 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 in another legal effort to try and stop might pence testify. pence 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 mike pence 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. the left about $430.00 of course. the big question is, what did mike pence say to the grand jury? well, grand jury proceedings are in private, so we won't know exactly. but certainly speaking to a couple of legal analysts in the last couple of hours, they've told me that they're probably say to mike pens. you've got to tell us what

was said between you and the president, particularly of january the 6th, and your role 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 . united nations security council has unanimously condemned the taliban administration in afghanistan, for banning women from working for the un. security council has called for a swift reversal of the decision or diplomatic editor james base has more. this sends a clear message to the taliban unanimous vote by all 50 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 catoosa. but they were concerned that not everyone in the taliban would be listening some, you know, players. and if again, if and 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 mayor isn't 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 secretary 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 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 canister on this boat can 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. it's 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. as a by john has rejected the french calls to remove a check point on the only road thinking the country is ethic armenian enclave. with neighboring armenian french, 4 minutes to catherine colona visited buck who to discuss the situation. russia accuses france and the u. s. a. undermining its role as mediator. moscow,

bro could a ceasefire in 2020 to end, a war between our media and the by sean. over the dispute is now going to come back region armenia says russia is fighting to protect ethnic armenians living in the breakaway region. bernard 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 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. 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. so it's a couple of now just her migraines, confront police on the board of her roof, has thousands of venezuelans try to return home and rebuilding

a war torn country ukraine appeals to invested promising to consign corruption for the past. ah ah hello. that will start in the middle east and levant and the weather continues to look unsettled across northern parts of the region. one system after another, bringing an unpleasant spring to turkey, wet and windy weather, working its way from west to east. through the we can knocking temperatures down and bringing that wet a weather further south into israel and the occupied palestinian territory. now, temperatures are going to drop south here, but as we work our way south across the gulf, temperatures will be on the up for pots of saudi arabia, as well as could talk about 3 degrees above the average. for this time, if you are lots of fine and dry conditions here,

little bit cloudy towards the southwest corner with the rain around coastal areas of the red sea. now as you move to the north of africa, temperatures are continuing to come down to parts of egypt like cairo 25 degrees celsius there on saturday. the also get cooler across parts of morocco. the dissing record breaking heats in april, but they'll be on the up in algeria coastal areas thing. a lot of heat here which are across that central band of africa was set to see the rain pick up the tanzania over the next few days, much twice. further south of this largely cool and cloudy in cape town through friday. that sure weather update. ah, jump into the stream and percent of the population globally is responsible for about 15 percent of carbon emission joined the debate. people have already lost their life. people, how close that cult just people, how traditions have your say want to broaden this conversation by bringing more

voices into it. live on you to people commenting. i want the whole world to know that cherokee are not headed to refugees. always read this with history on al jazeera lou . ah, do without, is there a mind of our top stories? this are sedans, army and paramilitary. rapid support forces have agreed to extend a ceasefire by further 72 hours un the african union, and the u. s. civil welcome them saying they hope it will lead to a permanent end to hostilities. nomination security council has unanimously

condemned a terrible administration in afghanistan for banning women that from working for the un. security council has called for swift reversal over decision and air raid sirens have been sounding across ukraine. explosions have been report and keep in at least 4 other cities. the mayor of the pro says, a young woman in the child been killed. now 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, and the country is still struggling to overcome its deeply corrupt past shall strap for reports from keith roshan pool. she withdrew from burrard younger in april, last year. large sections of the town, a 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, the rebuilding of vital infrastructure fall from the front lines is already on the

way. most of the work so far is being playful with 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 county chamber 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 top. 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 u. s. saw seeking support from the biden administration for the release of the american journalist from a russian prison. the new york times washington post on wall street journal have jointly won an advert coin for yvonne gush kawisi his release. he was arrested last month and charged with spine gush cabbage denies the charges. 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 the city where tens of thousands had sought a better knife in recent years. but to the unemployment rising and the venezuelan economy showing some signs of improvement. many now want to return home. wednesday the proven government declared a state of emergency senses as more nor from tack, nor on the peru chilly border. we are in a park in the center of the figure back now, which is the other most city of bay do close to the border with gina. and this is one group of migrants from venezuela. they are here the patient here for a few weeks now. but the situation is really moving. no one really knows how many why grants have been working from there are numbers from, from,

from between 5 to 2000 and, but we are seen mostly in the park in big words. and then people that are in the border itself in the future, asian of lynn book. no, we are not allowed to cross been there is a police coordinator there that they have the important knowledge and don't can go back to it. so they are basically, they should there with not even have some lag kids there be putting up. there's a lot of teachers, 14 kids in the day and it's very cold at night. they're, most of the migrants are bent as well. and there are some limitations as well. people who have other measures you mentioned by rental. they told me to do. i'm mainly are said, but they don't want to stay in bed. all we have more than 1300000 visits. when i'm

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it is affordable i. it is modular. and what to do as well as prison is, is we shortened the launch renewal theory, as is to explore into something in the country to optimize on a meteorite. for mars. researchers discovered traces of 0 con, a mineral found 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 to sarah and these are the main stories. now, sedans, army and power military rapids support forces of agreed to extend the ceasefire are further 72 hours. the un, the african union and the u. s. have all well.