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the courageous effort against corruption and political crimes in our series, guardians of truth and watch now on youtube dw documentary, ah ah, ah sir sedans army says it's taking steps to help people flee renewed fighting. germany is among the countries planning to get it's nationals out. more than 400
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people have now been killed as students, army battles, paramilitary rivals, also coming up a major donor conference in germany. more than 50 countries pledge to continue their military support for ukraine. the u. s. says ukraine's partners stand united in providing weapons for as long as it takes ah, a michael. ok. welcome to don's army, says it's facilitating the evacuations of diplomatic missions from the capital cartoon. it's been a week since heavy fighting broke out between the army and rival paramilitary forces and several sees fires have failed. saudi arabia was among the 1st countries to renounce the evacuation of its citizens. and now others including germany, art making steps to do so. as the fighting enters its 2nd week,
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many in the capital only venture out for urgent supplies, such as food, fuel, and water. if they can find it. in southern cartoon, these residents take advantage of a brief respite in the violence to fill barrels mounted on donkey pulled carts with fresh water. oh, others are fleeing the city of 5000000. as that battle between sedans, to top generals, for control of the country intensifies this despite promises by the warring rivals of a temporary cease fire to mark the muslim holiday of eat, i'll fitter oh, there was a bit of a lot of fighting. however, now reports picked up again. so you know, fighting us. so i think you know, it just, it just those back to the original sin of trusting these leaders with their words
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before their actions. so unfortunately, no a ceasefire. and in the sense that we like to see it has not occurred in sudan. yes . the ongoing fighting is also hampering international efforts to evacuate. diplomats and foreign nationals still trapped in khartoum for to buy them. lot of with the airport in the capital closed. and the runway heavily damaged the u. s. saudi arabia and several e u countries are among those trying to find alternative transport routes to safely remove thousands of their citizens. for now, they're being told to simply stay indoors. joining me now, a voice you just heard in that piece, journalist, matt nation in cairo, who's following developments ensued on matt, what are you hearing about the situation on the ground right now? that's extremely, extremely difficult. you know, although the,
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our staff earlier and now the military made promises to international evacuate internationals are still considerable concerns about also the, the back you ation of, of sudanese them. so hard to restore. if lee has been a city that has a sore, people that have been displaced by crisis and the surrounding regions, obviously the. ready ready door for new mountains and now her to itself is morphing into ghost. but where people go in and our family is being able to stay together. these are the 1000000 dollar questions, and i think the question a lot of people's minds are, you know, well, you back, you ation efforts. there's plans for those to be underweight or nationals. is there also a parallel plan to try to navigate and negotiate humanitarian access, and mentoring, or doors, or certainly citizens, and those ones that are,
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that are leading from the capital right now? that remains to be seen. questions we might be asking for days. the army says it will facilitate evacuations. does that mean they were anticipating more violence? yeah, listen, these guys from the outset, i have been intent on killing each other. and then the history of sudan military men made the same miscalculation without much ability. it seems for personal self reflection that to try to go at it in a military solution had on usually doesn't work very well. neither for them neither for the country that the claim to. ready ready be quote, unquote, defending and neither for the region. so yes, i think that it's it, that there is in the fighting. ok. but at the same time,
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i still would be skeptical of the military's words of saying that they are willing to cooperate on evacuations. well, as foreign nationals at stake here are, you know, not their own, certainly citizens. at the same time we have to just observe the track record of these generals when ever since they've been on the face of students. it's joyce 2018. have they ever have any promise that they've made to the west? not a good track record. that was met nasha journalists in cairo. many, thanks to you, sir. thank you very much. sherman foreign minister and a lena bear, bog says, germany is preparing to evacuate it. citizens from sudan, but burbock said that will only happen when there is a cease fire that quote holds for at least some time. the german foreign office convened its emergency task force on friday to discuss the issue bear. bog said the
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number of germans applying for evacuation is growing daily. for more on germany's evacuation efforts, i am now joined here in the studio by d. w. political correspondent, benjamin alvarez gruber, benjamin. what more can you tell us about germany's evacuation plans? there was a crisis meeting to day, attended by germany, defense minister boris disorders and the foreign minister and alena babbled. and they are considering looking at all the options that they have to get these hundreds of germans out of sudan. there is not a number, they say it is increasing because it's also difficult to get to those who are that trapped within the fighting and then see what the options are that they have right now. add media reports a few days ago saying that there was a rescue mission already in place, but he has had to be aborted to get 150 german nationals out of the country. now they're assessing the situation to see if there is a piece a truth and then they can get in and get out safely. but we don't know when that
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can happen. i'm having visions of, of, of the up, gannon, stan just some time ago. what can you tell us about nationals from other nations? so we already had confirmation that about carrying saudi citizens and also of friendly nations, as they call it, made it out of the country safety. they are of course, other efforts in place. the ro talks, we heard the sudanese armed forces or in conversations with several other countries, with the u. s. with france, with the u. k as well. but one thing is, is telling them, you know, there will be a possibility of a truth, a peace hogs or something will the fighting is over. but the other is that if the actually can do that for them to go into the country and get the nationals out safely. benjamin, i imagine nat evacuations in this particular context and with these circumstances is no easy feat. what can you tell us about what authorities are juggling with right now? so there is fighting close to the f. what that will be the place you just mentioned
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afghanistan. if there is fighting going on, if they are paramilitary groups, trying to take control of the f. what were this planes of supposed to land that makes it very difficult? of course it to see how the can actually get into the country. where if this crisis team with germany is foreign ministry, we have the defense ministry as well. the chance the re so many ministries and both to see how they can get into the country, then organized. that's really difficult. if there was something with a broader also support that they need from the bonuses from germany on pool. so they would need the green light from the bonus sized from germany's parliament. but it's important what we just heard as well. it's not only to focus on the national, it could be evacuated, but also to look at those millions were trapped within the fighting. and who don't have any other country or embassy where they can go to full, then to be evacuated for them who try to go to chat, take other a land borders as well. so well, we look at foreign as can be affected in on the efforts. so it's important to keep in mind and also to not. yep, also look at what happens to those who have no prospect or
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a little prospect to get out of the country. so it's a very dynamic situation. it's dramatic. and that's what angelina babcock sad as well yesterday when she met her spanish counterpart mail, looking into all the options, trying to get them out of the country as soon as possible. as always, many thanks to our d job political correspondent, benjamin alvarez group and now the war here in europe, ukraine's western allies have been meeting at an air base here in germany. the most senior u. s. defense officials repeated pleasures to stand with ukraine in its fight against russia for as long as it takes. and they promise that american tanks do for delivery later this year will make a difference on the battlefield. a show of solidarity for ukraine from its western allies as the war continues to rage. us defense secretary lloyd austin praised the groups efforts so far for announcing washington's latest contribution. we've also expedited argument. abrams timelines to supply ukraine with more armor capability
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and becoming much in the morning so the ukrainians will use for training arrive here in germany in the next few weeks. and all of this is huge progress for their part. germany and poland announced the creation of a tank maintenance hub. it's location just over the polish ukrainian border would enable tanks to return to the front line more quickly after repair. it is mostly i will see every piece of equipment that is supplied in this war where the tank, so combat support tanks and other equipment such as how it says o patriot systems is subject to wear and tear. especially when they are in continuous use in combat. or do more so i am very pleased that together with my polish and ukranian colleagues, i was able to sign a memorandum of understanding will set up a joint maintenance hub in poland for the entire leopard to fleet food exam to leo,
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lifelong ministers and nato secretary general un stockton berg reiterated support for ukraine's future nato membership. but the focus for now, they say, is on helping ukrainian forces defend the country against continued russian aggression. a brief look now at some the other stories making news around the world . at this hour to british climate change. protestors who scaled a bridge to unfurl a just stop oil banner have been jail. the men were given a total of almost 6 years in prison after being found guilty of causing a public nuisance by scaling the q e 2 bridge in dartford, just east of london, australian comedy, great berry, humphreys, better known to some as dame edna average has died at the age of 89 humphreys portrayal of the flamboyant dame among other characters helped propel him to international fame. he died in sidney after suffering complications. following hip
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surgery, australia's defense minister says the discovery of the wreck of a japanese merchant trip, which sank with $864.00 australian prisoners of war on board. and a tragic chapter in the country's history. yes, s. montevideo my room was torpedo in 1942 by a u. s. submarine. the u. s. supreme court has decided to preserve access to a widely used abortion pill. the decision means that miss metro prestone will continue to be available in the united states. earlier this month. the conservative judge in texas suspended approval of the pill, which is used in more than half of all abortions in the us. the justice department under the biden administration filed an emergency appeal, asking the supreme court to block the lower court ruling. t w's washington correspondent amy and s f explained what this decision means. the supreme court
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basically ruled today that access to this pill that is important for many women to terminate pregnancies will remain unhindered. they were responding to a case from a texas judge, a federal judge appointed by foreign president, donald trump, a conservative and appealing to anti abortion advocates. and he essentially wanted to stop access to this drug method prestone based on his assessment that the f d a the food and drug administration which approves medications had not done a proper job and approving this pill. this went on to an appeals court which said, we're going to halt this decision, but we're going to add restrictions to it and make it unavailable for women who wanted to order through the mail and making only available through dr. prescription and the supreme court looked at that and for the past week they've been postponing
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the decision. but they found they said, no, we're going to go back to the status quo. women across the country will continue to have access to this pill, which is now used in about half of abortions across the country. his reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. there has been reports of fighting incidence capital cartoon, despite a 3 day truce, at the end of ramadan, more than 400 people had been killed in thousands injured in a week of clashes between the army and arrival paramilitary group. that's all for now. coming up next is reporter news and 45 minutes. oh, time for a brain update. because this orchestra called the brain continuously adaptive. so.

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