ah ah ah, this is dw news lived from berlin a shaky truce in sudan allows thousands to flee the country. but fighting between the army and power military flags up near the capital cost to the civilians still trapped, essential supplies are running out. also coming out they were on supreme court upholds the death sentence of a german iranian citizen jump sharma was convicted of terrorism. his daughter tells

d w. germany is doing too little to help when are they gonna stop dealing with this regime and treating them like the business partner? plus she finally called the landscape, the leaders of china and ukraine speak for the 1st time since the full scale russian invasion began. the results, the chinese delegation, will visit tv to discuss how to spain, sweat through the spring record temperatures this april are exactly basing a long running drought, the meteorological agency attributes the unusual heat to fund change. ah, i'm on your campus, mccann, and welcome to the program. sch, fi sing has sled again in sudan despite the army is approval of a 3 day extent to the current ceasefire. a paramilitary r s f has so far of it,

no response to the proposed truce. and they flashed with sedans, military, on the outskirts of the capitol. ha, too. and many thousands of civilians are trying to escape from sudan while the shaky truth holds. but for many sydney's unable to leave, the situation is grim, rushing to find food in a lull in the fighting after days trapped inside here and her teams. twin city on demand residents say it's harder and harder to get basic essentials and even a dumb when it comes to daily needs from bread and water to gasoline. the situation is getting worse each day. and the sudanese living in cartoon, are all trying to get their families out amid the deteriorating living conditions. hardly would idle, fizzle a lot. and as you have to deal across the river in harton supermarket shelves

already running bare business own as a warning that the fighting doesn't stop. goods will soon run out. well i'm not more than 4 or 5 days more than that and there will be no supplies. left fuel is also hot to come by and increasingly expensive, making escape from sedans, capital region, difficult. the area has seen some of the heaviest clashes between the army and the rival per military. rapid support forces with new asked strikes on wednesday despite the 72 hour cease fire. but with relative. com, raining in much of sudan countries, have kept up the rush to get their citizens out. while their fragile truce still holds. china followed france and sending a warship to collect

a vacuum ease. while hundreds of other foreign nationals have already been air lifted to safety, sudanese civilians are also taking advantage of the law and fighting to try to escape. thousands have already fled here to chad. many after horrific journeys planning that sled, i got separated from my 7 children and i can't find them had either. we have some parents massacred by our malicious facilities in indiana. we are victims of gratuitous barbarism that we do not understand yet. i mean to like that a sub i sent a young guy to live sedans. even poor. a neighbor to the west was already home to some 400000 sudanese refugees. the un says it's ill equipped to take in more. but unless the armies offer of a longer truce is accepted by both sides, many more refugees are likely to arrive soon. for more unless we can speak to kate

man, a volley his within i rode the office of the cat international humanitarian agency care is assisting with aid in sudan right now. thanks so much for your time, kate. can you describe for us the situation in sue dawn, what are you hearing from your team here working on the ground there? thank you very much so. so what we're hearing is of the currency fire that it was a welcome reprieve. also denise events, but we are receiving reports from our team that the fighting is continuing in parts of don despite the fire lodge. we're also hearing that tar chopped in your own staff and our families and not attracting that won't low on food and even of what i mean, what top power cuts, you know, when people can't access hospitals essential services. i'm not,

i'm not available. busy there's no fuel or lack of doctors, and even with the commodity prices explanation very high and he's out of reach for many, many as you requested idea. we're also seeing student, he's very soon, he's making that one evacuation plans. i'm headed to what the board to chat where you as care in child also responding and receiving, working with stakeholders their to the c, g strokes. so we can expect many more debts due to lack of access to food, water, an actual clue, destruction of the health services. we kate, we know that this, this cease fire that you've spoken about is shaky. but it is it, is it helping the work of humanitarian agencies like care at all to be able to, to come in and pro provide some assistance? yes. so the current fire which ends tomorrow, it did come as a welcome reprieve. not only for this denise citizens, but it has helped us to,

to regroup as a humanitarian community. and begin to think about what you know, what ideal peroration all aspects that need to be billed to ensure that we continue to function there as care where we are. we are able to account for all of our stop and we are, you know, we are very fortunate in that regard. we know it hasn't been the case for many. we reopened our offices in florida state, so 19th of april. so we continued to the naval operations in cassandra, get direct east when south wanted. so this decision has allowed us to, to, to begin to think about what's came up with, look like um, how, how we guarantee the safety of our staff and how we ensure that operations continue to operate in those states. and in terms of the it is a lock it in terms of the assistance that you are providing. what are your priorities right now? so as i mentioned earlier, cost is

a job. care to our staff is safety and security of our staff is a top priority for us and we're really we're able to a car for a stop don remains intact and operate to this to these people. we are continuing on life saving work across those teeth that i mentioned working together with our partners. and even as the client has continued, meaning no upfront is continue to provide essential life saving services. we've reopened our offices. we are responding in several sectors, including water, health services and nutrition services. and on the chat side here is working with in his yard other app just to facilitate their reception and the registration of knowing each in to chat it. can i off, kate, do you see this conflict spreading? do you see it spreading throughout the region and impacting even more people? you know, as i know many chair. and what i can say is that when there is

a power vacuum within any conflict of this nature, care international response, do we see that it creates a snowball effect in terms of me? it's so it's imperative that the international with meeting to initialize and sustainable in this situation, the more this continues the hottest deals underrating, fragile social fabric, don, you know, if you many tune response was the rig underfunded, he's done. and so there is a dire need for immediate human to in funding, but also long term multi ports. and when the fight continues, it continues to destabilize. kate may not only direct for the cat office in nairobi, thank you so much for your time today. thank you very much for having me now. ron's supreme court has upheld a death sentence against the 68 year old iranian german jewel,

national for the crime of what it calls corruption on us journalist and activists. sham said john, and was sentenced to death in february accused of playing a role in a 2008 mosque bombing. his family says he is innocent and the german foreign minister anna lynn a. bab oak has called on iran to reverse the judgment for more than 2 years german iranian journalist, chums, she'd sharma has been detained in iran. in february, he was sentenced to death. and now the country supreme court confirmed the sentence . his family insist he is innocent. the accused, the iranian government of kidnapping the long time us residence on a stop over into by while on a business trip in 2020. and now they're worried to iran has so far. yes, no lawyer. he has no access to anybody. has no access to his medication that he needs. he has parkinson's and they don't give it to him on time. he has lost at 40

pounds a week. he has lost all of his teeth. we don't know if they've been knocked out or if they fell out due to malnutrition, we know they're torturing him. and now that they've tortured him for 2 and a half years, they want to take away his life in a tweet foreign minister anna lynn up here. bach has called a death sentence for tom. she'd shout unacceptable and urged iran to reverse the judgment. immediately she stressed that everything was being done for mister sham out to prevent the sentence from being carried out. the german and basset to iran cancel the business trip and is on his way back to tier on to speak directly with the uranian authorities. but this won't be enough, some odd daughter fears we need our governments to show where their red line is when their citizens abducted and taken there and tortured, put the sham trials, and are about to be executed. what are the bidding to do when are they going to stop dealing with this regime and treating them like business partners?

when are they going to do the right thing and work together with their life to put pressure on this regime to stop them from doing what they're doing? my mom is after the death sentence was announced in february and exiled, iranians called in the german government to increase pressure on here. they continue to demand the release of jumps. it's ahmad and several other political prisoners. i was d w political correspondent here in berlin. matthew, we just heard him sham ads. daughter saying germany is doing too little to help me tell us what has germany done so far in relation to this case? hi anya, for go from the outset. german officials in berlin of condemned in the strongest possible terms. jam should show march treatment, seeing that he's not been given a fair trial at any point. and back in february, when shar matt was initially sentenced to death. the german germany summoned and

armenian and best embassy official to explain that decision and went on to declare to diplomat persona non grata and ordered them to leave the country and would have done so at the time is a decided we called a massive which of mister shaw match human rights in justifying the expulsion and the also thought to kind of ramp up the pressure on the regime in iran. but so far we really seen the limits of diplomacy. and yesterday, when this confirmation came in from the supreme court, we heard that germany's ambassador would then head back to to run, to intervene. mister shaw mat case. but part of the problem is that mr. sharman has ju citizenship and iran does not recognize you nationalities. so as far as they are concerned, it's none of germany's business. and obviously what worries jam shit charm at family is that in january of this year, authorities in iran executed a british iranian man despite protests. and they naturally fear that the same fe, a wheel chair mud. can you tell us how the news of this death sentence is gone down

here in germany? because as he say, he is a jewel citizen, the jonathan. yeah, there's been widespread outrage across the political spectrum at the head of the opposition cd. you party, frederick, met as it happened is jam, should shar mads political sponsor, meaning that he's giving support to shar madden and raising attend bringing attention to his case and he expects expressed shock at the news and cold on reading authorities to let mister shaw mad quote come home to germany and there's a protest planned at the moment in front of the german chancellor re to day with supporters of mister shaw, mad calling on those in power to do all the can to save his life. human rights monitor, see that demonstrations of support do have an impact on the regime in iran, and we have to wait and see if that is the case for mr. shanade matthew so much as mattie more just dw political correspondent. thank you so much.

turning to the war in ukraine now, and some of the developments there and keith says, a russian missile strike has killed one person, an injured, at least a dozen others in the southern ukrainian city of mich alive, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says the missiles struck private homes and a high rise apartment building moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians are shown you tell me how long awaited call between ukrainian president zalinski and the chinese president and she's in ping has been hailed as an important step by both nato and kremlin officials. both sides welcomed wednesday's discussion, which ran nearly an hour. but russia says the aims of its so called special military operation in ukraine must still be achieved. the chinese foreign ministry says it will send a delegation to cave to seek a political settlement to the crisis. and the conversation between she and zalinski is considered a step forward in strengthening their diplomatic ties year. mostly there is an

opportunity to use china's political power to reinforce principles and rules that peace should be built on the similar ukraine and china, like the absolute majority of the world, are equally interested in the strength of sovereignty of nations and territorial integrity. seriousness he w correspondent, nick connelly is in cave, and he told us more about the reaction to the phone conversation between g and zalinski. we've been waiting for this call for months now. there was a little speculation that it would happen after shooting went to moscow in march back then it didn't happen. so this is a sign that china is still willing to engage with ukraine that china believes in ukraine sovereignty. you remember there were those very controversial comments recently by beijing's ambassador to paris talking about basically the fact that most post to the countries weren't really fully silver and, and didn't really deserve that kind of status. so there is that kind of showing up

the relationship, but i think it's all about damage limitation from the ukraine perspective. it's about stopping china, helping russia more full heartedly right now. china is popping up prices, economy buying a lot of energy that used to go to the west, but they're not supplying weapons on a large scale. and that is something that people hand keep are very worried about because china is, let's be clear. basically the only country that has the depth, the resources to really keep brushes on me afloat in terms of munitions, in terms of the kind of high tech stuff they need to keep on building cruise missiles and other difficult high tech systems. and if you look at the kind of noises coming out of beijing, they've talked about the importance of going to piece maybe trying to come to kind of some ceasefire as early as possible. that is something that really worries people here because from ukraine perspective, that is basically about freezing the situation as it is now. and that is something that will replace to rushes, kind of demands rushes requests at a time where you crane is thinking about going into a counter offensive. they're trying to kind of avoid that. avoid going into some

kind of negotiation that would stop them going to counter offensive, but try and keep china inside trying to engage china to prevent them putting their full support behind russia. as dw correspondent nick connelly talking to us earlier from keith as take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. and at least 7 people have died after a trained carriage burst into flames. in southern pakistan, at least 4 children are said to be among the victims. officials say they have opened an investigation into the cause of the fire. and you cove at 19 variant recently detected in south korea has been found to cause i diseases in some patients. the variant causes red and itchy eyes along with the usual cove. it symptoms authority say they're monitoring the new variant, but that the covered rest of the public remains low. coming up on dw news, how industrial pollution is threatening life and livelihoods on a major river in bangladesh. but 1st to spain,

which is dealing with an unprecedented heat way for this time of the many places have already been hit by non unseasonably dry winter. spanish forecasters expect this heat wave to peak to day and into to morrow and i his a look at expect to temperatures for thursday with madrid soaring to 36 degrees celsius celsius. seville is at $31.00 degrees and palm and a mule car at $26.00 degrees. now those numbers are way above the average for this time of year. but for some, it's a welcome change. these tourists from england are getting a sneak peak of the spanish summer. we love it. absolutely. it's been so cold and where i am even the day you went to the ample. it was right. 80 degrees for him with rain and when day. and then we landed in our ears. you

beautiful sun, so lovely. but many locals are less thrilled. it's already unbearable. it's only april if this is happening in april. what's it going to be like in june? it wouldn't be spins 1st climate record of the year last month. the country recorded it's driest march into decades. the scorching heat, combined with a drop and rainfall has brought on a severe drought does hit spain's farmers, the hardest. the dry conditions have increased risk of wildfires. the heat wave poses a grave risk to local wildlife as entire rivers dry out. spanish authorities are racing to rescue the native fish population they've been using electric trucks to stun the fish before moving them to another

river with higher water levels, some 10 kilometers away. ok, but if it's possible they'll be a mass die off if this isn't completed over the next few weeks or even months due to a combination of low water levels and poor water quality in this section of the on your river. the heat wave is expected to peak on friday. guy hedge, co, her journalist in the spanish, a capital madrid guy as spain is known for being lovely and sunny. but can you put into perspective for us quite how unusual these temperatures these kind of temperatures are in spain? will they like stream the unusual? i mean, these are the temperatures up in the mid to high. 30 people are used to them in spain, in general. but they used to sing them and say mid july or mid august,

what they're not used to saying of these kinds of temperatures 2 months or 3 months before that. and in april, it is pretty much on the hurdle for the temperatures we've been seeing throughout this week. have been 10 to 15 degrees higher than average for this kind of year. so that's been a real short for people today right now in madrid. it's somewhere in the, in the mid high twenty's, but it's going to get hotter and hotter throughout the day today. and it's down in the south of the country, which places like quarter live on seville, down and under the sea, which really expect to get very hot between today and tomorrow. and can you give us a sense of how this heat is affecting everyday life in spain? as you say, people in spain all used to it, but not this early and presumably not then for such a long period of time across the year. yeah, i think the problem for the people is that the september says in the summer, not so much of a problem because partly because you're expecting them. and also because

a lot of people are on vacation at that time, or the resting and they're not, they're not working at the moment. you know, people who have a job will be doing their job as usual, lead day to day life is pretty normal. and yet they have to put up with these temperatures, should point out that the temperature is do tend to hit that quite late in the day . so, from 5 to 6 o'clock onwards was still very uncomfortable. people don't want to use their air conditioning too much because energy costs are so high as well. so just kidding, around the ordinary things can be pretty uncomfortable and the authorities have issued several warnings already into the health warnings while far warnings hospitals are on alert. so there's a lot of information out there warning people about these temperatures in the precautions. you mentioned the health warnings, i mean, what about long term effect from people's health? well, the government has been issuing these warnings that would normally issue in july or august, telling people,

trying to avoid the heat in the hottest times of the day. and especially warning about older people and, and small children who are particular at risk. but yet people who have underlying health problems are also seen as high risk. and i think a problem with the sudden rise and temperatures that we had this week is the fact that it comes with an unusually early time of year. people are used to taking precautions at that time. so people with those health problems, they're having to change their routine perhaps. so take particular precautions. stay out of stay in doors or stay on the heat for much of the day when they wouldn't normally have to do that because of the medical risk. guy had cobra putting from the drink. thank you so much. now in bangladesh, untreated waste from the clothing industry is polluting the river that runs through the capital decor attempts to bound the disposal of chemicals into waterways. have failed,

and people are suffering from the effects of toxic drinking water while bores feast often at this stretch of filth along the booty gone river. once an artery of life cutting to the capital city, the river to day is considered a dead zone ruined by unchecked industrial waste. a large section of dark us population still depends on the booty ganga as a water source, but rampant garbage disposal and lack of water treatment. nene fishing is a thing of the past. i mean, normally with about 20 to 30 years back, the reverse water was good. i used to catch all different kinds of fish mala wrong . now it is polluted as factors discharge their waste into the river. there aren't any fish in the river to day on in london with one of

many people to put the blame on garment factories that lined the valley. gonna finally the she law require these factories to treat the waste before dumping. but the government cannot always keep watch. and so these factories often flowed the laws. communities living on the river banks also seen no option but to dump their refuse into the bullying on this water bush, they drink, go, quit bathe and defeated public water treatment facilities are non existent. that is not a single ah, but wisdom being chain is available. are provided by the cd corporations for that is obviously what i need a community is they are discharging their solid, was to that i to this river expert say the brigham, that troubles are manmade and could be held if target channels to waste to a nearby water treatment plant,

but no such plans have been announced. his acquit my, of our top story for you in sudan fighting has fled near the capital, hard to despite the armies approval of a 3 day extension to the current cease via 1000 civilians are seeking to flee the country. and that's where we have time for coming up next eco, india looks at how to tackle plastic waste. my many cars. mckinnon. thanks so much for watching. ah, ah ah ah, with

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