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on the al jazeera, we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report are we brave bullets and bomb, and we always include the views from all sites. ah, trips on the streets of sudan fears a growing that fighting will intensify between the army and a powerful car military force. ah. hello there uninstalled the attain, this is out there at life from door. ha. also coming up. russian mercenaries threatened to withdraw from the ukrainian town of buck was, unless they get more supplies. the u. s. accuses china of harassing bit vessels belonging to the philippines and the south china sea and warns any attacks katrinka, u. s. response and paraguay votes to choose a new president and congress ascend to left coalition is hoping to end 7 decades of
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dominance by the government. conservatives, ah, all students, rival forces, are trading blame for the failure of another foreign broken sci fi. this latest truce as you to end at midnight local time, but a still a t is between the army and depart. military force of continued with shelling and gunfire, and courtroom on sunday morning. at least 528 people have now been killed and tens of thousands displaced in more than 2 weeks of fighting. victoria gayton. b reports . ah, nigerian students run for cover and hard to blow. like millions of others, they've been trapped in the city for more than 2 weeks. the united nations is warning, sudan is falling apart as the army in the paramilitary group, the rapid support forces battle for control. there were shortages of food, water,
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fuel, and medicine. an analyst on every little honest to god we work in difficult conditions . we opened the pharmacy, despite the sound of gunfire, for the sake of families and children, our problem is how to get stalk. the factories in the battery region were bombed. the interior ministry, his deployed extra police of susan horton to stuart looting. but what people really want is a permanent ceasefire so far several foreign mediated truces have barely held in the loop. so that when the know what these a soldier is near a bridge that connects how to north to the city of on demand, both are under heavy bombardment, as is the area around the presidential palace and army headquarters. the rapids support forces says it's destroyed a convoy of 200 army vehicles near their in recent day. every day, thousands of people decide it's no longer safe to stay. this rescue ship in port
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sudan is taking evacuation to saudi arabia. around 5000 syrian say they're being processed more slowly than other nationalities. what a fiduciary interim. and we've been here for 8 days. the evacuation of syrians has stopped the day before yesterday. only 27 people were evacuated. no syrians were evacuated yesterday. we do not know what is happening and no one gives us a clear answer in our gene on the egypt, sudan, border satellite images, show cues of bosses waiting to take people across others have flown home on the 1st 2 days of the war was action imported and look up the jets flying over and some bombs landing. but an important salt required. so obviously a lot of military action but no fight. but everyone seems to be on but. but even the sudanese level we work with wanted to go back to normal. as i just want the country to grow and prosper, hulu prime minister, abdullah ham dog,
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has added his voice to those calling for an end to the conflict. when he could deteriorate into one of the worst civil wars in the world, victoria gate and be al jazeera under there is heaven, morgan is in the capital cartoon with all the latest for us. while right now on the ground, both sides are claiming that they have the upper hand while civilian say they've been caught up in the middle in the city of them to remind for example, in the early hours of sunday there was heavy artillery strikes. the people there say that or at least in parts of on demand, say that they cannot see the fire holding on the ground. then there's the northern parts of the capital battery right now. they're plumes of most covering parts of the city of battery residency that they have been hearing some, some shootings, and some gunfire being exchanged between the rapid support forces and the food in these army. but in other parts of the capital, they say that it's been relatively quiet and giving them the chance to be able to go out and buy food or other basic commodities that's in the southern and eastern
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parts. but people are saying that there's the issue of cache, and they say that as long as the fighting continues, as long as the 2 sites continue to try to battle each other out to resolve their differences. they will be suffering mediation efforts, have not stop since the start of the fighting on 15th of april. but the 2 sites seem to have conditions on in regards to coming to. and he goes to the table and working out a deal or a cease fire agreement. now, the sudanese army, general, general abdel for the hon, spoke to a u. s. public broadcaster on friday. and he says that to negotiate with the rapid support forces, it has to include them being out of the military institution. then you have the rapid support for the thing that they will not negotiate unless the cease fire in place. let's see, is one of the countries meeting the piece, negotiations. it's foreign affairs minister says fighting isn't the solution all of a sudden and actually they want to finish the wall on the miniature. one should, should,
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should say that's the message we receive. but we cannot, as the region accept that that's happened that, that we don't know when this victory of one party on the other will happen. and until then the population in costume, the people of so than you know, are you something rally? i spoke to holly hassan, he's the acting sudanese ambassador to the u. k. he says the rapid support forces should stick to the commitment to integrate with the regular army. you know, when the men for this, for this company, is that the framework agreement course is isolated very well. well, it can be there. honda is the integration of the rabbits aboard courses into the army. i think mainly that it's not so much that they would need to convince
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the government or they should look down there on joint forces and they get a mist either of me under president people vision in any other part of the country. life is normal, but it's very difficult of people to go in, you know, maybe seeing what i'd like to see. but the government is trying to do it and this would be in dent life up to normal as soon as possible. we have senior center that one is on the ground. i'm not able to start trying to get the needs for the near shops
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laboratory like getting buckets not meanwhile, the wild faint program is wanting the fighting. and you don could plunge the entire east african region into a humanitarian crisis. and there's a 3rd of student population with starving, even before 5 and broke out. now there are shortages of food and prices, a soaring there have been similar, price rises to a neighboring south. you don and chad, which of each taken in thousands of refugees. a correspondent, amid address is in the border kind of address and chat with people are still coming . what know the foster camp set up by the international organizations like the united nations. i had more than 4000 refugees will been registered for many, 100 small, still looking in trying to register themselves and their families in that particular camp. and yesterday we moved to a different camp, which is much gilda at there. we found between 404-502-5000 refugees in
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that particular camp. and we also understand not far from where we are right now. a, some people have sort of moved to their families, especially women and children and allocated inability just close by. yeah. we'll go, there is no presence of 8 organizations in the place. so we expect hundreds more are located in that community and they are spread within families and also spread under trees. and in the open space is basically the united nations and other agencies who are trying to help this refugees project in to help at least 20000 refugees in the past one week or so. but what we're seeing right now, the refugee numbers could go much, much higher than that already. the amount of food being delivered is not sufficient enough to last your family for 5 days. so what we're looking at probably, unless food a derived you will have significant issues. yeah. health issues, malnutrition issues, already the united nations children find is talking about dia,
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situation for children. ah, russia, wagner, mercenary group is threatened to pull out of ukraine's and battle city of fuck, what if moscow doesn't and more ammunition the head of the group you have getting. corrosion says that without proper supplies, his troops withdraw or die. fighting for control of back watson, eastern ukraine has now last month. he says it remains in control of a key supply route into the city. yes. you now author to still show that when we have enough munitions, we have x people killed. but when we don't have enough ammunition, we have x times 5 deaths. so this is what i think i'm all but ready to write up a big report to the prosecutor general's office or the investigative committee, to look into this and find and hold those responsible for the deaths of thousands
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of russian men. journalist julie, i suppose oliver explains why provision has been so critical of russia's defense ministry. in the few months provision, i have openly come into contact with the russian defense ministry. in particular, he's in the military leadership of deliberately the shipment bookshelves and munitions to mastery. and additionally, he was cut off from hiring prisoners and russian jails. those prisoners, they replaced the most important parts of the tactics that allowed the bombs in the area. they would have to be thrown into that sold in order to reveal the farming positions or beyond forces of ukraine and also on the full chance of april regarding quote, for b o stores he's in for scientific home. today, it is necessary to put some kind of stop and the conflict and ideal option in his opinion is to proclaim russian victory announced the end of this special
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operation according to you get a creek ocean. meanwhile, at least 4 civilians have died and southwest and russia as a result of shelling by ukrainian forces. lots according to the local governor. do you talk happened in a village in the brown region. a residential building and houses were destroyed. emergency services continued searching for survivors that under the rub a voting to elect a new president and congress are currently underway in paraguay opposition leader friend the leg rain caused his ver is a short while ago. his center left coalition is mounting a strong challenge against the governing conservative colorado party corruption and organized crime. have been some of the main issues for voters after a string of high profile killings and political scandals. a latin america edison, you seen human reports from the capitol, asencion it's the final rally of one of the most fiercely for
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elections and para gloves. short history of democracy and the south american countries. largest opposition party is confident of capitalizing on a wave of discontent, against corruption, and soaring poverty. i'm, we're not gonna, we need so many changes. it would take me till dawn to list them all. we need security and safety medicine. everything little got young education is the most important thing. without it, nobody can wake up and demand their rights after 2 failed attempts, opposition leader and presidential candidate if it ain't a lady, seems confident he'll be 3rd time lucky. his campaign slogan is a choice between the mafia or the nation. paula, we're going to defeat the potter guar pablo escobar and we are going to launch the real part of why the powder g y of hard work of the family of patriotism. that's our paraguay. who's the paraguayan pablo escobar? i asked what i said when was that? what are your manuel cavities?
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he is the pablo escobar of paraguay, and his hand picked candidate santiago. penya is al chilly. it's gabbard as a right hand man. he's referring to former president or as juke out of this one of paraguay wealthiest and most powerful men who was sanctioned by the u. s. in january for quote, rampant corruption that undermined democratic institutions and alleged ties to drug trafficking and his bola. oh, he is also the president of the colorado party that has dominated paraguayan politics for 7 decades and the political patron of its current candidate, former finance minister, santiago pena. the presidential hopeful told me that his mentor, who denies the charges of corruption, has the right to defend himself. but he also insists he's his own man. nobody can claim that i nod proper to we birth. yeah. nobody can claim that i don't have the
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expertise on public policy and nobody can point to myself that i have any case of corruption luhan. my service in the polygon is racial until recently, victory for the powerful colorado party was seen as a given. but not this time. oh, i legged it has chosen a woman as his running mate, a 1st in paraguay. the opposition candidate has a lot of advantages. i recently put this in behind him, but also the very 1st line is 7 decades. here you have more money to bring out the number of people. by contrast, the un sanctions against the incumbent parties leader has made it more difficult for to access bank loans and other funds. still, the colorado party has a long track record of staying in power. pulling it off again, is not out of the question. despite the odds you see in human al jazeera assume sun
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. well, versus the news becca star, non casting ballots there and a constitutional referendum. the outcome of the vote could allow president shove, got mis a yo, you have to stay in power until 2040. the referendum includes guarantees of grace of freedoms and human rights. but it also extends the presidential term limits from 5 to 7 years till a head here on out 0 mm. seeking re election after 20 years and power. the turkish president faces his toughest test yet apropos and tens of thousands of israelis protests against the government plan. legal overhaul before cabinet reconvene. ah hello, that was not in south asia where we're seeing unusual weather across the region with temperatures. it's sitting well below the average for india and pakistan and
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some wet weather, particularly heavy thunderstorms and showers what eastern areas on monday and pushing down into the south places like carola and some will not do seen those intense thunderstorms. this isn't a story for sri lanka, we've got warnings out of severe lightening over the next few days, and the wet weather picks up across more more than areas thundershowers for new jetty. we'll see the temperature continue to fall through the week and it's a similar story for northern parts of pakistan. places like the whole scene. those temperatures come down from the storms and lasting through to wednesday. and we had to east asia. it's a lot quieter. of course, much of china that weather system pulls out for the east, away from japan, leaving a legacy of showers in places like a condo, an hon shoe much clearer for the korean peninsula. the temperature here continuing to pick up places like so. 8 you can see that wet weather starting to work its way in across most central areas of china over the next few days, much dryer and haul to up in the north. but we will see temperatures come down in
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ah, back to watching out of there i'm this tells you, hey, here in doha, that's from what you've on top stories to don's rival forces or trading blame to the failure of another foreign broken ceasefire. as late as truce is due to end at midnight, local time fighting between the army and a power military force is now in that. russia's wagner mercenary group is threatening to pull out of bach modern eastern ukraine at moscow doesn't. and warren, the initial fighting for control of the city has lasted from verging to elect a new president. and congress has underway in paraguay finance, minister, and presidential hopeful santiago penya caused his vote there. and the capitalist, since young is conservative, governing party is facing a strong challenge from the center left coalition. on more now on our top story, the conflict answered on some sudanese, wanting to leave the country had been unable to do so because their travel
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documents are locked up in abandoned embassies or he'll or mohammed has moved some sydney say they are trapped and cartoon without their passports, tens of thousands of people are fleeing to neighboring countries. dozens of foreign governments have flown out their citizens and diplomatic staff. but for some sudanese leaving is not an option as they travel documents are locked in. shattered embassies or we spoke to sudanese residents, still stuck in the capital of the failing to retrieve their passports. i, jane of marsh i have applied for the visa to south pasadena by the date of 18. so every, after 3 days of course talking most of people, much different emphasis, stop what you buck with and so i couldn't reach my passport. so i can go anywhere. i didn't get any response from the embassy nor and i was meaningful phone calls. even no direct messages. i applied for the shingle, be the embassy and i didn't get my passport back because the,
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the stuff simply upper left complete disregard just just of us in different you embassies, certainly it's possible. and then they've been a lot of money on the migration, the legal migration when it gets even come up with an admissions like this happened in the spanish embassy multiple times. and i called them multiple times. but when they found that that was in spanish, they hung up without any explanation me and my family for the white house, and as it was no longer as if my family scattered me and my brother came to port to them. but he put on the faith agenda, my mother, my sister, i thank in the gibson bullet, thank the postal egypt, and i'm here not knowing what i would be doing next was you can imagine a lot of people are trying to figure out what's happening with their papers, some a contacting governments on twitter. the dutch foreign ministry recently replied to
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a visa query, confirming that a number of sydney's passports had been left behind at the embassy. it's advises people to apply for a new passport with local authorities. another criticism of foreign governments is automated responses. dozens of people are sharing their frustrations online as well . now, some countries are trying to work around those changes on the ground, the swiss embers. he says it's working hard to find options for people to collect their passports. and the chinese embassy says sudanese residents can now collect their documents in khartoum. now with so many people in limbo, you may be wondering what are the legal implications said on has signed a number of treaties, including the international covenant on civil and political rights. it states, every one lawfully within the territory of the state, shall within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement. and to every one shall be free to leave any country, including his own rights group, say governments can be held liable for not doing enough to return passports to visa
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applicants. moving on and the united states as a, choosing china of harassment and intimidation. a philippine vessels on the south china sea and comes ahead of a missing between the u. s. and philippine presidents. last week there was a near collision between chinese and philippine coast guard ships and disputed waters. china claims most of the south china sea has its own, and its been expanding its presence there in recent years. that's despite an international court ruling thing. the claim has no legal basis. jessica washington has more from beijing. well, the timing is certainly interesting, but analysts say we really shouldn't read too much into this. that the fact that this particular moment intentions relating to the sounds chinese see is sort of flaring up as the philippine president makes his way to the u. s. and the reason for that is, well, this is a, a regional flush point in the tensions sort of fluctuate. we see these skirmishes at these confrontations happening every few months between relevant countries
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between china, whether it's china, philippines, of china and vietnam, that's simply a reality of the region in terms of the strategic significance of the visit itself . it's certainly an important one. this is the 1st visit for a philippine president in, in at least 10 years. and it's also in the wider geopolitical context if we take a wider lens, not simply looking at this particular moment of tension in the south china sea. if we look at this wider geopolitical shift for the philippines, since we've seen a president, but in reading and marco's take office, we've seen a return to seeking closer ties with the u. s. and that's certainly a deviation from the path that his predecessor, rodrigo rodrigo, to touch i took, as he saw closer relations with china, with russia. and so to sort of minimize the philippine reliance on the u. s. also at a time with the philippines is also seeking at close economic ties with china, but it seems to be strategically in terms of its defense aligning more with the us
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. it's worth noting, of course, president marcos was one of this visited to china earlier this year. he met with president, she didn't thing and only a few weeks after that visit, he announced a closer defense cooperation with the us in 2 weeks, nearly $64000000.00 eligible voters and to kia will decide on the next president and parliament. ah richard typo on taking another term of office after 20 years and paula his return to attending some campaign rallies after brief illness alley of the week at one squaring off against an opposition alliance of secular conservative and nationalist factions. the vote will take place on may 14th and 0 correspondent bethesda has no there have been are all these issues around the airlines health. however, i did his aid and the tim office from the 1st minute on have release statement of the statement that it is simply, he called he got
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a key call to call and its not something serious that will prevent him from performing his duties on the other hand are some of the strategies that they have told to the said that probably everyone has used this as an opportunity or so to emotionally be connect with some of his supporters. so he turn that into an advantage. that's also one of the oppose here, because now we know that there is a loss of resentment among the, the, the, the supporters of album. so and in turkey, there are still a significance amount of the waters talking about 8 percent of the workers that still didn't decide for whom to walk. and the said that this could be a part of the election strategy. it was called, it was in an illness. however, he has been trying to turn that into an advantage. but since yesterday they want to have seen him at hand in the rallies and the city of isn't there. and also take more rest, which is now very popular in turkey. israel's justice ministers vowing to push
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through the prime minister's planned legal system overhaul as members of parliament prepared to reconvene on monday on saturday. a protest, as you see then took to the streets for 17th straight week, calling to the changes to be abandoned. benjamin y'all. he puts the plans on hold a month ago, but no agreement has been reached in that time with the opposition nama jam. dream has more from outside the connected in west treutlen. at a time when israel is seemingly more deeply divided than ever before, all eyes now are on the parliament. the canary reconvenes for it's summer session. after a month long break, it's expected that the 1st priority will be the countries budget, but many are wondering what exactly is going to happen next with the proposals put forth by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and his far right coalition partners proposals that if enacted into law would give politicians more power to appoint supreme court. judges and proposals that if enacted into law would also give
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parliament the authority to overturn supreme court decisions. this is part of a judicial overhauled plan that has been proposed by the government here. it's caused a huge amount of anger for the past 17 weeks. you've had massive demonstrations. protesters coming out saying that if these proposals were to become law, that would mean that israel would be pushed away from democracy and toward autocracy. now in the past month, late last month, prime minister benjamin netanyahu because of these protests and also because of a general general strike, put a pause on these plans. he promised to try to seek compromise with opposition partners. and indeed there have been negotiations ongoing that have been mediated by israel's president. it doesn't seem though that they have yet yielded any results. it's also worth noting that just a few nights ago you had a massive demonstration by right wing protestors. they had come out a. 1 surrounded the connected and demanded that these laws,
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these proposed laws actually be passed. so it's a very tenuous time here in israel. many people wondering what exactly is going to happen next, how aggressively the prime minister may try to put forth these plans, these proposals to overhaul. israel's judiciary management room al jazeera western islam to as president says, as, as ministration is working every day to secure the release of an american journalist from a russian prison. joe biden was speaking at the white house correspondents in an annual gathering of the u. s. media. evan gasket, which is a reporter for the wall street journal. he's been charged with spying after he was arrested last month. he denies the changes to evans perch. oh, my girl, sister, dad. you know, as i told you in person, we not just me. you all stand with me while i was remember for amazon. oh, jewel my understand. we see them. there are not for god. i promise you
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are working like hell to get them home. now, heat wave had swept across pumps of northern africa and southern europe. breaking temperature records for the month of april, fain, portugal and dora and morocco registered new temperature highs with challenges to records and algeria to nicea and france. extreme heat is also set to continue prompting wild fi warnings and p as of western drought conditions. ah, hello, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. so don's rival, 4th of the trading blame for the failure of another foreign broken seas 5. this latest truce is due to end at midnight local time. fighting between the army and a power military force is now in its 3rd week, had been morgan reports from the capital mediation efforts have not stopped since the thought of the fighting on 15th of april. but the 2 sides seems to have conditions on.
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