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a humanitarian collapse with tens of thousands of civilians flinging their homes. ah, unrolled matheson and this is al jazeera alive from dough hobb also coming up several russian missile strikes across ukraine, injured dozens of people, including children and crowds gathering, sold to support workers rights mocking this years international labor day. ah. bit of an air strikes and explosions near sedans, presidential palace in the capital called to as despite the 6th ceasefire since the conflict began last month, 17 days of unrest and chaos. i've left millions of people trapped in their homes. as the humanitarian situation grows, more dark victoria gate begins, are coverage evacuees impulse. he dan say they feel
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a sense of shock at the sudden spiral into civil war. many have lived and worked in sudan for decades. so than i, israel looked thoughtful to don, is living through a moment of real terror. i'm talking about dead bodies on the streets. we smelled the dead bodies as we were coming to cartoon with the firing. the shelling to don is seriously in a state of real war love. it had a thought among these leaving assyrians, he fled to civil war in their own country and have now been up greeted again at the craven. how, while we are on 3 to 5000, the numbers large inside the ports, and also along the cornish people are sleeping on the ground widows, children, elderly, the ill, every one. the un says the scale and speed of what's unfolding is unprecedented in sudan and says, the humanitarian crisis is at breaking point. oh, the head of the army, general abdel fatter elbow hand is agree to extend to faltering cease 5 is 72 hours
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to allow civilians to leave and a to be delivered. the permanent to greet the rapid support forces is also agreed to a temporary truce. it on the ground fighting continues across the country, including in hot tomb and its twin city, alderman sudanese, you have citizenship or residency rights in the united states. wait to board a u. s. navy ship, ah, now we hope god brings peace through every once or down. we are sudanese. people residing in the u. s. people should not think that sudan has been destroyed. no things have happened, but we wish to state strong. this group of somalis arrived in mogadishu from put sudan online for her favor, had invoke olga. i am pleased that i have finally arrived in my country. however,
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what we have been through is unusual and hard to describe, but i am grateful for the opportunity to survive bought for millions of sydney's, there is no way to go that trapped by fighting in a country. the un says is falling apart, victoria gate, and be al jazeera, with a correspondence across all the developments in this story. hollywood tosses inserted on his capital, juba. first, we're going to go to hebert morgan and the capital cartoon ever. we've been seeing plumes of smoke in the skyline above cartoon. just talk us through what's happening well, just about an hour ago for the nice air force. so nice. i suggest belonging to the for denise army launched as strikes on 3 different positions in the northern parts of the capitol. hard to that's across denial from the center of the capitol, where there's also been artillery tracks around there for the city of the presidential palace. now the location that was truck appear to be our physicians because it's denise army says it targets are a physician and it's air strikes while they are assess. has that these are usually
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residential neighborhoods. it's not clear if they actually struck arthur physician, but the attack seemed to be coordinated 3 different tracks in 3 different locations in the city of combat. got 40 and eastern mile on the northern and north east, some parts of the capitol hotel, then a 4th attack in the city of connecticut, that's in the southern parts of the capitol cartoon. this is of course, happening despite a sci fi acreedo agreed upon by both 5. it's the fire that people say is only a word they hear, but on the ground they don't actually materializing. people happens thing in their home, especially when they hear the fight. they just overhead knowing that it's going to be another on the, i think, which means another round of them staying at home. i'm able to access basic commodities in the market or get medical attention should they need that. yeah, but let's talk more about doug. what kind of conditions are people know facing given the fact that these dis fighting has been going on for so long despite the extensions to cease fires that have been put in place?
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well, it depends on where the people are. when you look at the northern parts of the capital, people say that they try to make their way not to shops nearby or markets nearby because that has been completely destructed by the conflict. but across the bridge to the city and of undermine to be able to get groceries to be able to get basic commodities are to try to make their way out of the capital. they say that's the safest route for them. and that's where they can find commodities available, even if it's at higher prices than they normally would find them. prices have skype a skyrocketed since the thought of the conflict between the rapids support forces and the sudanese army. and people say they're running out of money. banks have not been operational since the thought of the conflict. many people say that the cash they have is and is finishing and that they cannot access online banking apps because the intimate is very unreliable. so they are having challenges there in the southern and eastern parts. people say that life is slowly returning to normal, especially where the central was. their police have been deployed, but people say overall they, i'm not sure how long this would go on because this is the situation. how to
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whomever had to go through before her. but thank you very much indeed that said morgan talking to us from a call to as good. an idea of the situation in neighboring south sudan mel corresponded polymer tosses. joining us from juba, that is one of the locations where there are crowds and crowds of refugees who are heading across the border to size to down to try to escape the fighting ensued. done or what a conditions like when they get there. ah, well the influence of people coming in to south done is putting a lot of pressure on limited resources to down. rudy had its own problem stays fighting, going on in some parts of the country. and agencies say that they simply is enough resources of money to help everyone. so what some locals, aaron, do, but the capital trying to do to help is there going shop to stop collecting supplies from food medicine. the thing goes to the a port as though that ought to cargo planes. that's known to the border with saddam help, thousands of people who are stuck the cells. he died as
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a very unique and close relationship with god. this used to be one country until 2011 without stud separated problems to died. engaged independence, but the 2 copies to look very closely together. i saw that here. outside leda. the president has said that he has strong relationships with all the warring parties in saddam. he says he's talking to them every day trying to get them to said represent, since he had to juba just face to face. talk slide is all the issues in saddam so if and when that happens, people await and see. the key thing now is a was all those thousands of people stuck along the border. we told about more than 12 points where people are trying to enter. they need food, water, shelter, medicine transport to get to where they need to go. some of them or most of them are from south to down to like assumed to go to stay with family and friends. still don't know or else go probably end up being one of the many camps. when tony displays, people scattered in are like most countries that taken refugees around the world,
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there will be a limit of course to what size to don is able to do to be able to help these and this influx of refugees. how are the agencies coping with the large numbers that are coming across the border? what is they trying to get at the stuff from other pos to well do on perhaps is busy to come in to the time to help amanda carrion is that how, for example, those who can, i'll provide a cross plains helicopters will bring in more of those supplies to try and carry people as nice to places that are needed with the people at the board of thousands of them. what they need now is to lead, sell to entrust. what so these a big effort to try and get to those people as soon as possible. it is raining now in the country. so if my d, the roads are difficult to travel, is going to be a lot of hard work. it has many people as possible to where they need to go there. i think down the ground is not it, not they need more help, but the stable to the base. they can't help as many people as they can because more
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people are still coming. heading to the portal itself is done by them into asa in juba. how to? thank you. well, the violence in sudan is interrupting the supply of goods to easton charge. that means prices have gone up and many people can't afford basic items on it. it is reports from adrien near chance border, and how people are having to adapt to rising costs. i, demi, brought him to heb, has come to audrey market to buy groceries, only to discover he can't afford many of them. now he says his family must adjust alisha lawanda. i am not one of the latter. what previously we could afford 3 to 4 meals a day. that was not any more like an eating twice a day. these days is difficult because food has become so expensive. the village of address an important trading point. but the fighting across the board in sudan has changed everything for many people here. while there has been a steady stream of refugees at this crossing pointed to still chide the flow of
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goods have been severely disruptive. fighting has almost cut off this side of lun, locked child from sudanese sports that supply many of the imports it needs. the shadows hug is i saw his refugee and trader who brought his talk with him. he explains why thinks can only get worse in the coming out of philadelphia, the other, lenora less dear said he got the prices have gone up because air strikes hit our main goods depot in khartoum. the road is close to transporting any goods is very difficult. anyone with stock will now try to sell at a higher price is about beckoned at remarket vendor struggle to find buyers for items that only a few can afford. less of that is that little sold, marvin are going on 100 in the business is slow, but we're grateful innovative. no can afford to say prizes, especially food items of reason by up to 70 percent in a matter of weeks. and that the government is looking for solutions,
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planning to subsidize some good. it's an additional burden on a country where millions of people are already struggling to put foot on the table . i'm at edris al jazeera. i bri chide ah. into here police have detained. protest is demonstrating on international workers day authorities have closed our tax in square lanier, san ball major rallies that expected around the city. ahead of may 14th elections, president bush obtain powder one seems to extend his term after 20 years in power. is maint challenger is co, are from the opposition alliance, a foreign minister, some 5 out of nations have gathered in jordan's capital. armand to discuss normalizing relations with silvia. jordan was foreign minister hosted his counterparts from syria, sarabia iraq and egypt. jordan is proposing
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a political solution to end city as civil war. the meeting follows delegates from 9 arab nations having gathered in saudi arabia in mid april. the disgust serious returned to the arab league still ahead on al jazeera oh, otherwise governing party declares victory in the presidential election. and we look out on a giant blob of seaweed is closing the swelling situation in martin league. ah frank assessments. this treaty provides us with this hopeful moment what countries could come together and stop putting in place the rules will allow us to treat with global comments with the attention it deserves inside story. on al jazeera, well korea's rapidly declining population trend is starting to show.
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schools are closing and benefits like free subway arrives for senior citizens, are becoming controversial issues. asia as 4th largest economy has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidies and programs to encourage young people to have children. despite this, the average number of babies as job korean women will have fell further below one last tier 20.78, only 4 percent of women here between the ages of 20 and 34 viewed marriage and having children as essential. i'm worried about the big cold in our national security, as fewer people be available to serve in the military. with many young south korea's struggling with day to day career and financial challenges analyst are calling for innovative schemes to tackle the problem. lou.
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oh wow. oh ah, your team does eat a reminder of our top. so is this iris, providing done far as being had accosted on his capitol club tomb despite an extension of a faltering cease fire from another 72 hours on humanitarian grounds. continued fighting is making it difficult for thousands of people trying to leave to that many and making a treacherous journey to fort saddam on the northeast coast. to board evacuation ships presence of people in cities around the world of mocking international workers day in the u. k. it follows labor disputes not seen for decades. many are expected to rally in london under simmons is that a volley of nurses and the national health service has been on strike for months.
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this is really quite so angry, it has to be set up. the strike has gone on since before christmas, december last year, and does it have been times when it was looking hopeful that would be a resolution. but right now, this strike is the most serious, yet it's affecting intensive care units. it's affecting dallas's chemotherapy. so out of all the strikes afflicting the u. k. right now, this is the most motive i'm with me now is linda toby, a specialist. oh no. you do in dialysis or how do you feel right now? do you feel a medicine? would you describe it as militant angry? how do you describe your move? i think different people feel different things to people, harrison, the angry,
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a range in feelings inside a disappointed that what we saying about a patient i'd be like patient i will not be enough nurses inside the test. this strike action will go on until midnight on monday. a bank holiday and the u. k. at the time when the tension 0 getting ha, tens of thousands of people are rallying in south can be as capital to lock international workers. day trade unions are demanding a raise to the minimum wage under speaking out against government policies. they say are, and to labor. it's the largest made it gatherings was the covert. 19 pandemic rubber. right? that one of their values. and so with more in a country with such a strong trade union tradition, labor day, you can always be guaranteed i big turn out. but this yet,
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especially so given that many workers feel squeezed by the rising cost of living, that they feel that wages simply aren't keeping pace with combine that with a conservative administration that many work is fail. simply listening to them on the sides with big business, it will be made worse by a prophecy, over the length of the working week. currently, workers can work about the 52 hours in a week. the government has been talking about increasing got to 69 hours, but that's such a backlash that now talking about a compromise of 60 hours. if we were to work up to 60 hours, we wouldn't be able to use our annual leave and you'd be absolutely no time to rest . you can go like now $200.00, you nurse is off quitting every year, and there is no one to fill the vacancy. tens of thousands of workers and take your part in riley's throughout south korea. the biggest here is all just wanted to
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organize by the korea, confederations of trade unions. they have been listening to speeches, judging slogans on this, on rather organization. as it often does, will also be calling for a job right in july, right? i'll just narrow rallies that are also taking place in multiple cities across indonesian in jakarta, sizes of people march towards the presidential palace. they want the repeal of a new job creation law which was passed in march and was meant to attract more for an investment, for the se, benefits big companies, rather than workers and the environment. and valley is that also taking place in the philippines. thousands of people gathered in the capital. manila, trade unions organize the mice to highlight the hardships at workers face where the increase in unemployment and wising cost of living. members say they want wages and job security. now, dozens of people, including children,
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have been injured in ukraine after a series of overnight, a russian missile strikes. most of them are in pavlov, had the east of general. let's go live now to charles stratford whose life for us in keep. so there's been a lot of speculation about a major push at possible at some point by ukraine. and there also seems to be this intensification in russian attacks. that's right, i think is safe to say it over the last few days. there has been an intensification of these missiles and so called camera kazi drone attacks deep inside ukrainian territory by russian forces. the most dramatic of which last night seems to have hit a target in the town of pavlov. drive in east, in ukraine as east of the city of denise pro. as you say, you crane and authorities saying that a dozens of people have been injured, including children, the pictures, dramatic for the fact that sam, you can see streaks of smoke heading sky. would. that would suggest that this may have well, have been an attack on
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a weapons dump or some sort of weapons cache. but of course, the ukraine military never comment on this sort of thing. they are saying that this was in their words, an industrial enterprise. they also say that they were 19 apartments here and 25 private homes, along with a number of schools that were damaged. certainly some of the pictures that we've seen coming through from the agencies, some very distraught civilians living in that area. and as you mentioned, these attacks come before an expected counter offensive by ukrainian falls is something the ukrainians have been talking about for months. we know that there are tens of thousands of ukrainian forces that have been heading east and south with billions of dollars worth of western kit. but of course, whether in fact, these increased missile strikes or an attempt by the russians to preempt that counter offensive and target supply lines. it's impossible to confirm, but yeah, we are expecting more strikes like this in the coming days in the build up to this
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expected counter offensive. charleston fund aim, gave charles, thank you. a 17 year old palestinians been killed during a raid by is really forces at a refugee camp in the occupied westbank. zebra will come all was fatally shot in the head in the october to july. we come for in jericho, at least 5, although palestinians were wounded and 2 were detained as early forces of kill $205.00 palestinians since the beginning of the year. but otherwise governing party candidates, santiago, penya. as one, the presidential election received more than 42 percent of the votes. continuing the dominance of the conservative colorado party figures. rival a friend. the luxury got nearly 27.5 percent despite starting with a narrow lead in the opinion. polls missy newman reports muscle seal aah! in paraguay history continues to repeat itself. despite
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a video campaign against the center left coalition, that at one point looked set to when a conservative candidate is again going to be president santiago pena hedge. the conservative party that's dominated politics for 70 out of 75 years. at that 9, i'm 70 years old. i was born and grew up with colorado party, and they are going to have to put up with us for another 5 years. i think that santiago pena is capable, and i hope he corrects the defect vices that we have o. the 44 year old economist and former finance minister promise his better days ahead for one of south america's least developed countries in part because of rampant corruption. oh democracy is my flag, but democracy with bread because in abject poverty, it's neither democracy nor freedom. thank you my dear colorado party. we will honor
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you until the last 2nd of my administration. sent devil thing. yeah, it's definitely the man of the hour, but so is president thought asking baptism nobody had seen what days he had been keeping very, very wyatt long for a while, especially because the united states government as excuse him and the former vice president of having least international drug trafficking now he has come out of the shadows and is being embraced by the next president. santiago they now penny one was just under 43 percent of the votes. well, head of his closest rival. if diana legged, a lamented that he would have one, had the opposition been more united despite its own bitter in fighting, the colorado party operates as a solid block. he controls the, the of the whole state state apparatus. public officers are mostly from the garage
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part of the around 80 to 90 percent. and this is like a big ah, ah, big advantage that puts the field in a very us metric position for the operational parties. perhaps that explains why paraguayan so hoping for a better future while again voting for the party of the past. due ca, newman al jazeera, i soon seen paraguay in the u. s. of troubled 1st republic bank as being acquired by gp morgan chase. regulators had taken control of the bank, the 3rd major institution and he used to fail. busy in 2 months, 1st to publishers fell last week after it revealed customers had withdrawn a $100000000000.00 and deposited in march. a giant carpet of seaweed in the atlantic is discouraging tourists and threatening communities and the french caribbean island of martinique. mounds of the free floating sal gossum washes up on
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beaches and as rods it releases toxic gases. alexandra buyers reports on a normal day. jose via tours restaurant looks out onto one of martin leeks, pristine white beaches. on a normal day, his business is thriving and the air doesn't smell like rotten eggs. i guess the elephant when i got them is the hardest challenge for us. every year we are forced to close our business because of the gas. there's just no way we can serve customers in the these conditional solar. it started in 2011 millions of tons of the free floating brown seaweed called sarcasm, stretching for thousands of kilometers in the atlantic ocean enters the caribbean. it chokes coves and blankets, beaches. and as it rots it releases, toxic gases like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, people complain of sore throats, nausea and headaches. and it's happening close to the peak of the tourism season.
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and as having a devastating effect on the economy. it was it in only more human before it was very busy, but now at the sea weed, there is no one left tourist say they can't say here may be because of their health or the smell. i don't know, but we can't get by without them. fishermen are doing what they can using booms and nets and adapting their boats to trap hundreds of cubic meters of the algae every hour. so guess why homer, if it doesn't reach shore and is collected in a nash, it won't rush and release hydrogen sulfide. so we think it's one of the best solutions . that's why we're building all the boats with new technologies to go even faster. because we realize that when there are large quantities of the seaweed, we have to move quickly to collectors. sarcasm blooms every spring in the atlantic . but in the past decade it's been flourishing, breaking records nearly every year. scientists think ocean warming and industrial
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run off could be to blame that if it is also for the forecasts now very good scientifically. i don't know what to do or humanly speaking we are finding solutions. and i think we will also reach a point where we will be able to use it as rural material for something. nasa has already warned that 2023 is shaping up to be the largest bloom on record. the people of martinique will be on the front lines and hope the solutions they are developing will go some way to helping the rest of the caribbean. alexander buyers al jazeera while there's going to be next jeff, having to the inside story is going to examine egypt seems to stay with us. the news here is your weather update. let's begin this one in japan. great to have y'all long and teens
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is certainly quite it down. plenty, in the way of sunshine. we are getting a warm feet of air coming up each stage, but actually pictures here pretty well where they should be now that we're in the month of may, storm system is winding up across the yangtze river valleys. there's some big storm steam likely in will. one other place we've had some big storms is in hyderabad, in india picked up about 2 months worth of rain in 24 hours. and certainly that's where the bulk of the action is. as we look towards entrepreneur dash tumble. now do careless states also in the northwest of india as well and on the other side with border in bucharest on some severe hailstorm in his lumber bog roll pin d that i think the nasty stuff will be centered over the hor, on tuesday, and by the way karachi recorded its coldest april in 10 years. we had some big downpours there the other day as well. after the golf we go up and down the golf, certainly windy conditions, kuwait spock, of rain and cancer. so at points on tuesday, we'll see there's winds of about 50 to 60 kilometers per hour,
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full on sunshine in oman that includes 4 moscow with a high of $41.00 degrees. so that's a few above where you should be for this time of the year. that's a snapshot of your weather season. take care. ah, a fearless mexican journalists sideline for taking on a precedent. and a corrupt system ruled by a single party for over 70 years. only to then establish an investigative platform, determined to break through a poisonous media landscape in search of justice. an epic saga of truth seeking and a refusal to be gagged. radio silence, a witness documentary on out to sierra. ah, for a long time it wielded huge influence. i miss you down for now. egypt and nervous labour is embroiled in.
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