recognize where exactly was fun. i learned a lot. our culture history. all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit. ah, nationals out. within 400 people have now been killed. as you don's 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 west says ukraine's partner 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 fail. saudi arabia was among the 1st countries to renounce the evacuation of its citizens. and now others including germany or taking steps to do so, has the fighting enters. it's 2nd week. many only venture out for urgent supplies, such as food, fuel and water. if they can find it in different suit me, cities like cartoon, alpha sheer residents are struggling to meet their basic needs. the challenge in

elfish are now is that people are lacking basic services that is not elected within the city. yeah, right now it is 41 degrees centigrade in this summer. that is not what i in households for default running out into city because all it is sub my license for the food which are just kind of district localities outside of the city. every other supplier is gather final. come into the den delta janet you do this for you to a stoplight food. ah. others are fleeing the capital city of 5000000. as the battle between students to top generals for control of the country intensifies this despite promises by the war in rivals of a temporary cease fire to mark the muslim holiday of eat. the ongoing fighting is also hampering international efforts to evacuate. diplomats and foreign nationals still trapped in khartoum with the airport in the capitol closed. and the runway

heavily damaged the u. s. saudi arabian, several you countries are among those trying to find alternative transport routes to safely remove thousands of their citizens. for now though, they're being told simply to stay indoors, that nation whom we just saw in that report as a journalist based in kyra, you know, although the earlier and of the military made promises to international or evacuate internationals, they're still considerable concerns about of the evacuation of sudanese them so hard to restore. if lee has been a city that has absorbed people that have been displaced by crisis and the surrounding regions, obviously you know, the. ready door for new mountains and now her to itself is morphing into. ready ghost, but where people go in and then our families 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 offers. there's plans for those to be under way or nationals. is there also a parallel plan to try to navigate and negotiate humanitarian access and mentoring, or doors, or sunni citizens, and those ones that are, that are leading from the capital right now? that remains to the questions we might be asking for days. the army says it will facilitate evacuations. does that mean they are anticipating more violence? yeah, listen these guys from the notes that have been intent on killing each other and the history of sudan, the 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 out very well. neither for them

neither for the country that they claim to. ready ready be quote unquote, defending and neither for the regent. so yes, i think that there is in the fighting but at the same time i still would be skeptical of the hurts and the military words of saying that they are willing to cooperate on evacuation. well, it is for national that stay here, you know, and 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 the 2018, have they ever up held any promise that they've made the west? not a good track record. that was met nash had a journalist in cairo many thanks to you, sir. thank you very much. german foreign minister and a lena bear,

bog says, germany is preparing to evacuate it. citizens from sudan, but bear book 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. verba said, the 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 corresponded benjamin alvarez gruber, benjamin. what more can you tell us about germany's evacuation plans? there was a crisis meeting today, attended by germany's defense minister boris disorders and the foreign minister on alena babylon. 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 at meter reports a few days ago. say that there was a rescue mission already in place, but it has had to be a bought it 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 can happen. i'm having visions of, of the up ganeth 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 that the sudanese armed forces or in conversations with several other countries, with the u. s. with france, what 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 where the fighting is over. but the other, it 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 one that will be the place you just mentioned, afghanistan. if there is fighting going on, if they are paramilitary groups, trying to take control of the f. what were this planes are supposed to land that makes it very difficult. of course it to see how they can actually get into the country where this crisis team with germany is for a 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 and then organize it. that's really difficult. if there was something with a broader also support that they need from the bonus from germany on force that they would need. the green light from the bonus are so from germany's parliament, but it's important what we just heard as well. it's not only to focus on the nationals who 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 event to be evacuated for them who try to go to chat, to take other a land borders as well. so well, we look at foreign asset 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 a little prospect to get out of the country. so it's a very dynamic situation, it's dramatic, and that's what on alina, babble, 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. you cringe. western allies have been meeting at an air bays here in germany. the most senior u. s. defense officials repeated pledges 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 group's efforts so far for announcing washington's latest contribution. we've also expedited argument, abrams timelines to supply ukraine with more armored capability and coming much in the morning. so ukrainians will use for training or 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 or patriot systems is subject to wear and tear. especially when they are in continuous use in combat.

or the more so i am very pleased that together with my polish and ukranian colleagues, i was able to sign a memorandum of understanding when we'll set up a joint maintenance hub in poland for the entire leopard to fleet food to get them to leo live flood roof ministers and nato secretary general un stockton berg reiterated support for ukraine's future night, a 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 of the other stories making news around the world. russia says it is expelling over 20 german diplomats in a tit for tat move. the russian announcement was made following reports of berlin's decision of a mass expulsion of russian diplomats. germany and russia have repeatedly expelled each other's diplomat especially as tension sort after russia's war against ukraine . at least 9 people have been killed and over 60, injured in

a triple suicide bomb attack. in central molly, a government spokesman said the blast destroyed around 20 homes in the town of several way. no group has yet claimed responsibility. authorities in thailand have issued extreme heat warnings for dozens of provinces. residents are being advised to avoid going outside as temperature surge above 40 degrees celsius. experts say the heat index means it will feel as hot as 54 degrees in some parts of the country . australian comedy, great barre, humphreys, better known to some as dame edna average has died aged 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 surgery.

the u. s. supreme court has decided to preserve access to a widely used abortion pill. the decision means that me for 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. d w's, washington correspondent amy and s f. explain what this decision means. the supreme court basically ruled to day 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 for 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 in improving 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 make it only available through dr. prescription and the supreme court looked at that and for the past week they've been postponing 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. he w's amiens' ss . that's all for now. landed there, coming up next is sports life. we talked to a woman's wood cutting champion who knows how to wield an axe and use a chainsaw. that's after the break. don't forget there's more on our website and on

social media. a michael. ok. thanks for watching. 3 o time once again. oh.