a were series 40 to the answer. almost every day. this week on w. ah, ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. air strikes and st. battles and sudan as the army fights a paramilitary group for control of the country. dozens are dead, and hundreds are wounded as fighting rages for a 2nd day. a temporary cease fire gives a couple of hours of relief in the capitol, but the violence continues to spread across it. and also in the show,

russian president vladimir putin celebrated the orthodox easter sunday in moscow. meanwhile, a neighboring ukraine. the most important holiday in the orthodox calendar is marred by war as a missile, destroys a church ah, a married evanston. it's good to have you with us. the warring factions and sir dan agreed to a shore to you and brokerage cease fire for quote, humanitarian reasons. it came as violence continues to spread across the country. video for the capital cartoon shows relative calm on the streets of the capital, where much of the violence has been concentrated bonds. the pause was only for 3 hours earlier, the un world food program said it had temper rarely stopped operations after 3 of

its employees were killed in the western region of dar for the flare up and violent stems from a fierce power struggle between the army and a powerful paramilitary group called the rapids support forces. dozens of people have been killed with hundreds more wounded. the clashes follow months of hide intentions that have delayed sedans, long anticipated transition to democracy. oh, jets, roaring overhead. tanks on the streets, gunfire and smoke all around. sedans, army and a powerful paramilitary force have turned their guns on each other. just months after signing a deal to restore the country to civilian rule and 2021, the 2 sides. sedans army and the rapid support forces or, or s f, joined, forces to seize power from civilian prime minister, abdullah hm. doc,

an uneasy era of power sharing began. as army chief general abdel thought to albert han became sedans, defact, a ruler vehicle. while general mohammed hummed on the gallow, better known as him at he kept control of the aura. so military rule was met with frequent protests as sedans, economic woes worsened international aid, dried up and fuel and food became scarce. activists marched almost every week and cartoon to demand a return to civilian rule and a restructuring of the military and not getting the sobs we're out today to reinstate the civilian country. we're calling very clearly for the military to return to the bi obvious f to be disbanded by the end of 2022 am, etc. and oberon signed to deal with sedans, main pro democracy group, to establish

a civilian lead transitional government. but the 2 generals couldn't agree on a timeline for a merger of their forces and negotiations sold. it was another blow for pro democracy advocates would probably need the alber hannon committee are fighting over power in this one. and we are fighting for food and drink that they are fighting over authority and looting the country and people don't. but with diplomacy at a dead end, confrontation became more likely just days before the violence broke out. the army issued a rare public warning that the r s f was illegally mobilizing its forces around the country. r s f and army forces. now blame each other for starting the conflict and both say they won't back down. we can now speak to journalist patrick are yeah . and who is monitoring developments from juba and south sedan?

so patrick, we know that there was this cease fire for only 3 hours in sudan, which just ended a short while ago. what are you hearing about the current situation in the country? yes. what we are hearing is that people are still very much scared. of course, fighting or not your resume as we speak now. and the issue with us also to anything that anything that we have relatives across. so it's also the need, but definitely i have relatives in so don who are very much scared and what we're hearing is that the 3 hours of the ceasefire has provided a lot of opportunities. number one, there was to do and was back in school because in sudan, saturday on sunday, our working days students go to school. so yesterday were fighting started. some students were ready in school. they were talking school since saturday. and now with the small window, the money to return to their own homes,

number 2 may be called walkers who are at home, have money also to to, to find their way to hospitals. ambulance isn't being able to move, to collect those who i wanted to take them to, to hospital, to be treated. and also if you have given this at any people a window of hope that perhaps there will be along that the fire. because if they're wanting functions can agree to these 3 hours, then it is possible that in the future along the sci fi i could be in place. however, people are still worried because of the i know nobody knows what will happen next when fighting resume. yeah. oh yeah, as you describe, this fighting has taken a very hard toll on civilians who seem to be caught in the crossfire and suffering disproportionately. but we also know that the fighting broke out after weeks of rising tensions. and the main issue seems to be how to integrate the recess

paramilitary group into the army. so what do you think needs to happen for this conflict to be resolved? there are some ways in which this conflict could be resolved. for example, south saddam has had an expedient together with so down when they're c p a, what we call comprehensive peace agreement was negotiated. that was their disagreement. similar disagreement because the disagreement into down now is that rapid support forces hated by hum dot com is saying they want 10 years of gradual integration into this without i'm forcing. whereas general hand wants to years. now, we had a similar situation in, in south sudan, and what happened was that the mediators decided to add, in this case, they would add 2 years to 10 years to make 12 year and divide by 2. and that would be 6. so these would be something that perhaps both sides would,

would compromise and agree on to meet in the middle somehow. each day up was so high because now like somebody like general committee, it seems not to us. if he's force is not picking up from him, then he becomes powerless because these are the forces that have been pushing him up to the position where he has reached. as almost the vice president of a country is into this force is taken away that he has nothing really to do to, for example, pushes political ambitions. so there has to be a way in which a settlement could be read to, to, to, to really bring the 2 sides to an agreement. that was patrick. i am reporting from juba and south sedan. patrick, thank you for all of your insights joe, and come to some other news now and orthodox christians around the world are celebrating easter sunday,

which is the most important holiday in their calendar orthodox churches. follow the julian calendar where easter falls at a different time than in the western tradition. vladimir putin marked orthodox easter at midnight mass in moscow. meanwhile, the war raged on and ukraine with one russian missile hitting a church. behind all the pomp and ceremony its business. as usual, the russian president publicly joined easter prayers. he's been accused of weaponized religion in its countries war against ukraine, as vladimir putin prayed and moscow fast christ, the savior cathedral. this church in the upper region region of ukraine lay in ruins. the head of the russian orthodox church, patriarch hero, called for an end to what he called the internal feud. he went in that events which may even be described as internal feud, are now taking place in our historic russian land. most of today i am addressing russians and ukrainians,

particularly those became embroiled in this conflict against their will. with a force of our prayer in our goody and our good intention lay, we must do everything. stop this conflict as soon as possible, miss bell is me. helium, ashley, money, and ukraine soldiers returning from the back mode frontline joint civilian worshippers. they prayed together and were placed with holy water. you. meanwhile, present, loaded me as landscape, had an easter message of his own sanitary don. this is the dawn of independent ukraine. today we celebrate the resurrection of the lord, have them and its main symbol victory, the victory of good of truth of life bordering we celebrate easter with unshakable faith and the victory in the countries east. wagner group chief, yet kenny p. gozine lit a candle for those who died in the conflict. he later announced the unexpected release of a 130 ukrainian prisoners of war. it's the 2nd large prisoner swap this week.

meanwhile, those in ukraine's though digging through rebel will likely be praying for a rapid end to this long and drawn out conflict. let's bring you up to speed now and some of the other stories making news around the world. g 7 foreign ministers are meeting and the japanese resort town of car is all on their talks. during the 3 day summit are expected to focus on china's growing pressure in taiwan and also on the war. and ukraine also set the stage for a meeting of g 7 leaders in hiroshima. next month. more than 50 migrants have been rescued in the mediterranean sea. and italian charity says their rubber boat was spotted in international waters drifting away from libby as coast. united nations says early 2023, marked the definitely in time for migrant cross things in years, at least 16 people have been killed in dubai. after a fire swept through an apartment, building officials say the blaze was probably caused by

a breach in building and safety codes and over crowding. well, now a look and horse racing and animal rights activists have disrupted this weekend's grand national and england. protesters that say the sport is cruel. many horses have died over the years, including one that was put down after a fall on saturday. the start of the race was delayed and more than $100.00 people were arrested. it's one of britain's biggest annual sporting events. the grand national was 1st run in $1839.00, the event attract $70000.00 spectators and the global tv audience of hundreds of millions. oh, animal rights activists criticized the grand nationalist cruelty in the name of entertainment. it's not unusual for horses to be put down off to being injured in the race. the death is horrific and it's

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