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about the universe were series, 42 years, almost everything this week on the w ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, high risk operations to evacuate thousands of foreign nationals from sudan, the german military, and left over 300 people from cartoon where arrival forces are fighting st battles . millions of residents remain trapped in the capitol. also coming up, speeding up ammunition supplies to ukraine. you foreign ministers meet and discuss
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how to replenish the crimean armies. rock that lead depleting stokes and in sports leave a cruise and continue that charge towards the champions league places they see off fellow contended like fish to extend that unbeaten straight. 13 matches will have the best of the bone to speak coming on. ah, i could anya cooper's mckennan. welcome to the program. basic food and water supplies in the sudanese capital of hot tomb are running low as violent clashes rage across the city. brutal street fights between forces aligned with 2 rival military generals are raging for a 2nd week. at least 420 people had been killed. more than 3 and a half 1000 are wounded. many of the chairs are stranded and unable to get to
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hospitals. but just struggling with the lack of supplies, thousands of people, a sheltering in their homes, the power cuts on limiting communication. not, not shared as a journalist. his following the developments in su, dawn from cairo. and he told me more about the situation on the ground. and cartoon, the situation was obviously a little bit quiet. you mentioned evacuations that took place yesterday. however, it's still quite a catastrophic and fighting appears to picking up a routine of hospitals that are in here center. and the cross wires as well as other vulnerable populations such as prisoners, many political prisoners that were, you know, a prosy demonstrations. so some of them have been able to, to get free, uncertain about the circumstances of others. that obviously is no provisions for
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them in a certain sense, extremely dire. so that's just a little bit of like the site on, you know, some different demographics within their homes. which of course, as you, as you mentioned, are grappling with severe shortages of basic needs. i was just going to ask you about those, those major shortages of basic needs. can you tell us a little bit about how civilians are coping with the situation? ah, yeah there's, there are a number of informal networks called resistance committees. were spearheaded pro democracy demonstrations since december 2018 that brought down former burn leader, motor sheer. the reason i mentioned them is because as 8 has been slow to get into the country and serve a provisions to, to be restarted and assist people throughout the conflict. these committee through
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their networks have been a liked line for people. they're trying to get fuel on the block market medicines for the black market get food equal. and so this is the main way that they're coping however, you know, despite their quite heroic efforts. and it's still quite an impossible situation for many that are deciding whether or not it's really feasible for them to stay. or perhaps they should follow many others that have made the decision to leave the car to look to them. and many of those who have last have risked dangerous roads and cross the northern border into egypt, which is where you are. can you tell us what the situation at the see don egypt border is right now. yes, i mean it's, it's, it's quite dangerous. just because, you know, between egypt and it's about maybe around 900 kilometers down as a 3rd biggest country and africa. so it's very,
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very long road and there's hardly any resources let alone in the capital. but once you leave the capital, if you want to get water or get food, you're really relying on local communities. the trip is extremely tiring. and there's also fear of this chart points out by militia, particularly the rapids support forces. who are, you know, obviously the main adversary in this for against the army right now are setting up checkpoints and reports of them putting up people have gunpoint or looting. so the dangers of trying to get to the egypt and border it's quite difficult. journalists not now shed in cairo. thank you so much for updating. of thank you so much. 100. the foreign diplomats and citizens have been evacuated from the sudanese capital to as violent. clashes continue across the city country. the rushing to transport the citizens back home as the fighting shows no sign of a basic now more than 1000 european union citizens are among those to have been
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evacuated. germany has now left $300.00 people out of the dawn, including germans and other foreign nationals. the evacuations have been flown out on 3 plains, the 1st of which touch down in berlin earlier today. and dw correspondent matthew more tell me more about the german government efforts to evacuate its citizens from sudan. that's right on, you know, one of the planes arrived this morning at the airport behind me at the military part of the airport. i would expect at some point in the course of the day, the 2 other planes that are coming via jordan know the government and the foreign ministry, and the defense minister keeping very tight lips about the official v as you'd expect. what they did tell us is that right? all the $300.00 plus people that were rescued their own half or german nationals, the other half are made up of people from 20 different nations, most of the european union. and what they said was,
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if the security situation in sudan lows at the will to launch and sell more evacuation flights today. and this all comes basically on the back of an acute crisis in the last week. and it's the 3rd time that the german government basically attempt to, to get to get citizens out. there was a flight that was on wednesday that was abundant. and then on saturday night flight, the plane had to turn back from, from cartoon because they didn't have london permit. and at the moment, the government is saying that there are still, as far as the understand the right to digit number of people. and in cartoon, who are public overland to report her looking to be to be rescued as well. all right, thank stream lea difficult situation did correspondent matthew moore at the apple in berlin. thanks so much. i your opinion, foreign ministers, let me sing and luxembourg today to discuss. ukraine's appeal for more weapons and ammunition and it fights against russia. the ministers are debating a 1000000000 euro procurement plan to boost ukraine's weapon supplies as part of
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the joint field that use foreign policy chief job burl disagreements between members over the issue must be resolved soon. ukraine's foreign minister joined the meeting remotely and called urgent action. earlier i spoke with d. w. 's, roman gunter, and co his and keith and t w's rosie birch. on his following that meeting and luxembourg for us. and they told me more about the delivery of ammunition tea crane and the european union has been facing public frustration from ukraine over this plan to deliver ammunition. and that is because the plan was agreed about a month ago. now it's a multi track approach. and the 1st strike is an acer under which e u. countries draw down on their own existing supplies of ammunition is to send them to ukraine. no, that is already in action. or we know ukraine has been thanking you countries for that, but there is a 2nd track of that approach. and this is to jointly procure more ammunitions for
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ukraine for the future. and that is where the debate is like, because there is currently some wrangling over the legal definition of sourcing these ammunitions from the european union defense industry from arm suppliers within the e. you know, a, some have dismiss this as bureaucratic. that's what the fin finished. ford minister told me on his way into these talks. but on the other side of this debate, which does seem technical in nature, is a very genuine desire to be thought. the use arms industry for the future to be able to deliver on the use promised to stay by ukraine fight for as long as it takes that also. so you countries counted up to what they see as a really radically changed security environment here on the continent. so the goal overall seems to be the same. but there are some divisions within the european union among members on her exactly to turn that promise that plan into action. okay, so we've got some divisions, but again, the use foreign policy chief judge burrell says that
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a decision will be made roman. if i can ask you, what's keith hoping for from this meeting in life of the expected ukrainian counter offensive? well, there is a sense of growing frustration here in ki, if with the you, because the use not able seems not to be a or 2. am there to find a solution for that, for that problem and to start buying. finally, the shelves that ukraine so urgently needs on ukrainians, preparing a major offensive operation. and according to some calculations in ukrainian media, and the demand for new shells is, is going to grow sky high. so a some say that ukraine would like to fire up to $2025000.00 shows a day, which would mean that, or if you, you would deliver at once all those shells it would last for about one or 2 months, maybe 3 at best. of course, ukraine's ukraine becomes shells and, and, or missiles from other sources outside the you. but it gives you an example of how
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much is the demand, how highs the demand and people, he and key of they say the, you seems not to quite understand how high the price you crate is paying for. or in this war every day and every hour, just this morning, we saw a ceremony of an o for a farewell to a fallen ukrainian soldier and such ceremonies, our daily routine. he and he, if so, are ukraine is losing a lot of its soldiers, especially in the fighting by bahamas, where an of the russian forces nearly control the whole city, but ukrainians are not giving up. and the ukraine in presence landscape, her has said recently again that how important it is to, to keep bottom would keep fighting the crime. and thanks so much, that's where i'm and gunter and co in the cave and rosie bird chat reporting from like from that thanks so much t both. okay, let's take a look out some of the other stories making news around the world as our label military spending rose to a record high last year,
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driven by the war in ukraine at $2.00 trillion dollars. it was the 8th consecutive record right now. that's according to the annual report on defense spending by the stuck column international peace research institute in europe growth reached its highest level since the end of the cold war. germany's berlin and hamburg efforts have faced major disruptions following trade. union strikes in berlin, all departures, and nearly a quarter of landings have been canceled for the day. the security and ground service work as a striking, as a pe finance to this of try to bring traffic to a halt and japanese capital berlin by glueing himself to the streets. the latest protest by the campaign group known as last generation in its attempt to pressure the german government and to take more drastic measures against climate change. tomorrow with some sports news for you now, starting in the bundis league and with the baffled for champions li qualification
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tighter than ever. i'll be like new a when they're direct rivals labor cozen could provide for the campaign near it's and that i read hot hosts and showed things may well go down to the wire, an opportunity to strike a major blow in the race for champions league qualification made labor cousins clash with leipzig, a classic 6 pointer, and it was labor cruising who landed the 1st job. after 40 minutes, adam closures with the finished to make it one mill to the hosts. mussa dia bees, 8 desist of the campaign, getting his side off to a dream start. while hoshiko celebrated a fit, boone is league a strike of an impressive debut season in germany. ah, hey, sloppy challenge from dominic supposed lie and labor who's in a penalty in the 85th minutes. the referee handed the hungarian a 2nd yellow for the fowl before a mere re put the game to bed with
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a composed finish. labor cruising firm, celebrated a messy 3 points in the european chase, while shabby alonzo t make it 13 games without defeat in all competitions. leipzig, meanwhile, a missed opportunity to go forth labor cruise and close the gap on their rivals to 4 points. it's all still to play for now sundays early bonus league action, so champions, league chases, fryeburg, grump, 2 for no victory over struggling shaneka who are running out of time to avoid relegation behavior goal which set fryeburg on the road to victory with a clinical finish. and the 7th minute of the 1st half further strikes from the austrian as well as lucas hula and mathias kinda helped seal the home sides. when shaker, meanwhile remained 3 points from safety. binds defeated
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mines for the 3rd season in a row as made the buddhist league, a title race quite interesting. dormant are the new leaders as they looked to end by ends 10 year dominance in germany or new berlin and fryeburg into the champions league. places at the bottom, it looks more familiar. despite a change of coach, hatta berlin, remain in deep trouble with 5 games left and without you're up to date coming up next doc film looks at women in architecture. i'm a nick hoops. mckinnon. thanks so much for watching d w trio taking on during trafficking words, i supported windows mounting evidence that nigerian human trafficking and forced to prostitution are also taking place here in schools. true.
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