it's something that really is price and measurement that also gives me not to what i do. the trio combating, sheeting dealings starts april 29th on d, w. ah, ah ah . this is the w news coming to live from berlin. wheel sedans, warring parties, respect a 24 hour truce. heavy fighting was seen in the capitol bright up until it took us back. and there have already been reports of ceasefire violations. we'll get more from car to also coming up. a russian court denies bail for

a detained us journalist. wall street journal reporter event gash cabbage will remain in custody as he awaits trial on spying chargers and 100 years of disney. as part of its antenna re, celebrations, the media empire is ordering its classic films with a behind the scenes exhibition in music. ah, hello, i am terry martin. good to have you with us. in sudan, a 24 hour cease fire is now supposed to be in effect, but with violations already reported. it seems unlikely rival forces battling for control of the east african country will lay down their weapons. there was hope that a pause in the balance would allow both sides to return to negotiations and gives civilians a chance to seek safety around 200 people had been killed since fighting began on

saturday. o. after days of heavy fighting and cartoon. many residents are fleeing the sudanese capital now leaving the city and heading for a hometown were waiting for the victory statement from the city and his army. mothers have had no choice but to stay put traps by the fighting. these university students are sheltering in their college library. with the conflict has seen heavy gunfire and several air strikes and civilian neighborhoods. diplomats have also been targeted. i can confirm that yesterday we had an american diplomat, a convoy that was fired on, on all of our people are safe and unharmed. but this action was reckless. it was a responsible and of course unsafe. we are, of course, calling for the escalation in general of the violence. this is the 1st priority of

the you as we speak. as i said, we are working on assessing the situation when it comes to use stuff. you top diplomats, yoseph burrow, said in the tweet that the youth ambassadors residence in hot whom had been rated by fighters. the un has condemned to the growing turmoil were a neighboring egypt has offered to mediate our contact with a sudden his army into rapid support. fortune has not ending we are constantly reaching out to encourage them to start a ceasefire and prevent bloodshed in order to allow negotiations leading the restoration of com. the violence has left cartoons, air, pause, hospitals and top military buildings badly. scott: the fighting is the combination of a long simmering power struggle between sedans, army and the powerful paramilitary rapid support forces. all r s f. they join forces to ask former dictator omar bashir in 2019.

now they have turned their guns on each other. 2 months after signing a deal to restore civilian ruin with tension still high, it's hoped that a potential ceasefire will allow time for the rival factions to reach a lasting agreement to end the violence. within the past hour, i talked with raga, macau, we, she's an editor, an analyst based in khartoum. i asked her whether or not a cease fire was indeed an effect in cartoon, not as you know, not just to day. and he and nellie were promised to cease fire from day to so yesterday the day before and today, which was supposed to be a longer one. 02 at all these days. fighting continued as, as it was, i could still hear that gunshot behind me. and i mean,

not as much the, an sounds of bombs, but the gunshots had not stopped. okay, so there's no cease fire being observed at this point. or there's been fierce fighting incident for 4 days now. it started on saturday. what impact is this having on the country? i mean, it's having a very can as dire, dire on the country and the people obviously, in addition to the kind of in destroying the city, the public buildings, the infrastructure, there was already kind of rudimentary and weeks had begin with. and the violence that he would have had to endure in themselves getting caught themselves, getting caught in the crossfire has been kind of, you know, quite serious. and there's been a lot of casualties, a lot of deaths. people are stuck in public

and places like universities, hospitals, even some people who went to visit harmony and weren't able to leave em. and as a result, since then, the hopes that a sci fi would allow people at least this space to kind of move around and get to where they need to go. if they need to be reunited with family or to even access life saving services. can you explain through this raga briefly, why tensions in certain are boiling over right now and why? and those cease fire can be agreed? well, the reason this is happening is because the 2 major, the, the 2 major generals that have had that have been presiding over the political process. and the political agreements is to don. since the fall of the share have come, i mean obviously their, their, their interests have clashed and they've come to an impasse. and the problem is

that both of them kind of also reside over lodge armed constituency, both in, in cartoon with the military. it's obviously the staff and, and with the minissha with him. 80. it's the iris f. both are on to the seeds. unfortunately, the iris at the militia has managed to infiltrate itself throughout heart to him through through a, you know, within the neighborhoods the residing in kind of civilian urban areas. and so any attempts by the soft to kind of joy them out and kind of, you know, and bomb the science has go into effect as civilians. and you know, and, and there and didn't under let, within their kind of natural habitats. of course of rug a. thank you very much. that was almost raga. mccauley in cartoon to catch up on smell the stories making headlines around the world today. the defamation trial against news uh fox news is opening in the united states. dominion voting systems

says fox knowingly erred false claims that the country's ballot, counting machines had been used to rig the 2020 u. s. president election against them. president donald trump, fox is part of rupert murdoch's media empire. saudi arabia's foreign minister has held talks with syrian president bashar al assad in damascus. it's the 1st trip that a top saudi diplomat is made to the country in more than a decade. it's being seen as a significant step towards ending serious regional isolation and further evidence of wider rapprochement in the reach. giant to ran a sorest rex has been sold for almost 4900000 euros at auction in switzerland. the dinosaur skeleton was assembled from more than 290 bones, taken from 3 different sites in the us. hence its name. trinity. a court in moscow has rejected an appeal by us journalist,

even gash damage against his pre trial detention. the wall street journal journal, the wall street journal reporter has been charged with spying following his rest late last month. eskoville shared his employer deny any wrong doing with washington calling for his immediate release. it's the 1st time a u. s. journalist has been detained on espionage charges by russia since the end of the cold war dw former moscow bureau chief, your re, re, shatteau, has been following the story for us. i asked him what we can expect now that there's good, which is appeal has been denied. yes, the court rejected the appeal against the arrest of gosh, given officials from the us embassy in moscow, we saw it included combat the de leon. tracy attended the call to the meeting, was behind closed doors on march, just remind you, the 13th as a cold sand gasket to jail on charges of espionage. and the journalist was detained at the aunt of martinique, and herein broken,

the euros. the f as be claimed for that he collected secret information about a large military factory in the euros in connection with the investigations, by the way, against gaskets to russians, will also rest the to allegedly contributed the alleged crime. the s t a department has declared that both have wrongfully detained, bathing the pay with the way for exchange dogs, according to media reports, gash of each. lawyers expect in the future that he will be or would be, or could be exchanged for one of the russians and imprisoned, broke there. on monday, the u. s. ambassador to russia was finally allowed to see gash given in prison. what do we know about that meeting uri? yet, meeting took place more than 2 weeks after gash coverage was arrested and from day one that the u. s. embassy was request has requested permission to visit, even as part of our counselor corporation. anyway, the ambassador report that after the meeting, that even was fine,

and we know that you asked president biden had previously met with ivan gush village gaskell experience at him a promise to do everything possible to get even out of russia. also garish garbage himself wrote his parents a letter in russian. his parents are former, so it may grant migrants who speak russian to even in this letter, he expressed the hope that he would see her again soon. very well. yesterday, a russian court sentenced another journalist, a russian journalist to 25 years in prison for treason. his trial was widely seen as politically motivated now ghost adventures facing espionage charges that he and his ploy are strenuously deny. he could be facing 20 years in jail himself. what effect is this likely to have yury on the few independent journalists still working in russia? yet look at a given said carol marizza yesterday, who by the way, was also region to the journalist as so given he was put behind bars for 25 years

because he said something wrong from the courts. point of you authorize his point of view. he didn't do something wrong, but she only said, so you can imagine how much of the russian authorities hate independent journalism, kara moore's. i didn't kill anyone. he didn't steal from anyone. he was a critic of the kremlin who was convicted of treason for an alleged corporation with that 2 countries. and he was put behind bars for his words i. but despite this verdict a, despite all the threat and intimidation, there are still independent journalists in russia, who, at least at the local level and criticize with authorities. there are fewer and fewer such reporters, but they are there in no se beer asc in their courts in douglas don entrust of and even on the russian ukrainian bought in belgrade the voice of the independent press in russia hasn't yet been silenced. uri, thank you very much. that was our correspondent jury rochette. her disney turns

100 this year. and the american entertainment conglomerate is putting on its largest ever exhibition of disney artworks, costumes and props. in the southern german city of munich exhibition opened its doors to the public to day. and we'll continue until september blue cinderella, winnie alice and frozen over the past 100 years. disney has left an impressive legacy of globally beloved characters. now they are opening the largest ever exhibition in the bavarian capital to celebrate this in tannery in style. never before seen props, costumes and archival sketches in the form of interactive displays are onshore in exhibitions, 10 galleries. the exhibitions opening comes at a crucial time when 1st pictures of the live action remake of the little mermaid revealed the african american actress halley bay, in the role of arielle. some fans voice their disapproval with the studios casting

choice. the film which is set to hit him next month raises the question, is it ok to change characters? ethnicities. ah, people have to understand that area is an imaginary character. she's a mermaid. and what does a mermaid look like? i've never seen one person. and so i think i'm may, can be whatever we want it to be. the choice to cast, tally bailey as r, e. o has come amidst accusations of racial insensitivity and stereotyping. in some of the studios all the fields, movies like the 1970 aristocrats, with its depiction of the chinese ketchum gone. but flag for the racist imagery. we're human beings, and our characters tend to be human beings unless they're mice and elephants and that kind of thing. um, so we are a prone to all things human that may be sometimes a person or a character may see something that seems like, oh,

i don't agree with that character will. i hope not because the characters the villain in order to address these cultural stereotypes in the movies, the studio now issues warnings before some of that films. but is that enough? whatever lies ahead for the studio in this ever changing cultural landscape does not doubt the disney has enchanted audiences across the world over the past 100 years. oh. 6 6 you watching d w those up next, a documentary, beijing, spraying a short period of the liberalization in the late 19 seventies. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. when you work as an architect, jacqueline or not at all women in the architecture, why are they so invisible to the larger public? we decided to ask them. what is the poetry the secret of.