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ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a shaky truce, and sudan allows thousands to flee the country. fighting between the army and paramilitaries flags up near the capital ought to and for the civilians still trapped. central supplies are running out. also coming up, iran supreme court upholds the death sentence of a german irradiance and jumps had sharma was convicted of terrorism. his daughter tells d w. germany is doing too little to help. when are they going to stop dealing with
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this regime and treating them like business partners? plus, she finally calls the lensky the leaders of china and ukraine speak for the 1st time since the full scale russian invasion began. the results, a chinese delegation, will visit peeve to discuss how to the end war and spain sweat through the spring record and temperatures. april are exacerbating a low running drought. the meteorological agency attributes the unusual heat to climate change. ah, and i manuscript, mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us. fi sing has fled again in sudan despite the armies approval of a 3 day extension to the currency. the paramilitary
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r s s has so far offered no response to the proposed truth. and they've clashed with sedans, military on the outskirts of the capital, how to, how many thousands of civilians are trying to escape from sudan, while the shaky truths hold. that for many sudanese, unable to leave, the situation is grim rushing to find food in a low in the fighting after days trapped inside. here in hartwell rooms, 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 and cartoon are all trying to get their families out amid the deteriorating living conditions. how you would adul fuel the lavon as you enter the across the river in hot tomb. supermarket shelves
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already running bare business own as a warning that if 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, capitol region difficult. the area has seen some of the heaviest clashes between the army and the rival per military. rapid support forces with new ass 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 they're fragile, true still holds. china followed france and sending a warship to collect
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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 off to heretic journey's plenty that flood i got separated from my 7 children and i can't find them had either. we have some parents massacred by our malicious for no reason at 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 terribly sedans, even poor, a neighbor to the west was already home to some 400000 sudanese refugees. the u. n says its 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. kate may know volley heads
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up, the nairobi office of a cat, international humanitarian age agency. and i asked her earlier about what she's hearing now from her team working in sir john. so what we're hearing is that the currency or the it was a welcome re free or so denise events. but we are receiving reports from my team that the fighting is continuing in parts of don to squire a ceasefire. lodge. we are also hearing that our blood chopped in your own will stop and our families. this is, i come to eniela the chapter that won't low on food and even of what a me, what's our power cuts, you know what people can't access hospitals, home essential services. i'm not, i'm not available. busy there's no fuel, a lack of doctors, and even when did commodities can't be nice, is explanation very high and is out of reach so many,
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many debbie's as you report it idea. we're also seeing denise, very soon, he's making that one evacuation class and headed to what the board to chat where you as care in child also responding and receiving, working with stakeholders there to the c, g stops. so we can expect many more debts due to lack of access to food, water, and actual to destruction of the health services. we, kate, we know that this, this cease fire that you've spoken about is that 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 inspire which ends tomorrow. it did come as a welcome reprieve. not only for the sudanese citizen but it has helped us to, to regroup as a humanitarian community and, and begin to think about what, you know, what are the operational aspects that need to build,
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to ensure that we continue to function there as care where we are we are able to account for our stop and we are, you know, we are very fortunate in that regard. you know, it hasn't be the case for many. we reopened our offices in for the 6th april 19th of april. so we continued to did immigration in cassandra get duran, easter, who in south wanted. so this decision has allowed us to, to, to begin to think about what cannot apply on 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 it is a look at, in terms of the assistance that you are providing. what are your priorities right now? so crazy. as i mentioned earlier, cost is a joke, care to our staff, the safety and security of our staff is a top priority for us and where we are, we able to a car stop down remains intact and operate to this with these people.
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we are continuing our life saving work across those team that i mentioned working together with our partners and even as been fighting has continued media, you know, our partners continue to provide essential life saving services. we reopened our offices. we are responding in several sectors including wanted health services and nutrition services. and on the chat side here is working with other actors to facilitate their reception and the registration of knowing each child 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 a human, a 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?
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it's so it's incorrect. that means national with meeting to wish listen, sustainable. and this translation, the more this continues, the harder to still be deal on already fragile social fabric dot com. you know, the humanitarian response was a rig underfunded. he's done. and so there is a dire need for me to, to, to, in funding but also long term multi court. and when the fight continues, it continues to stop in life. kate may not fully direct for the cat office in nairobi. thank you so much for your time. today, thank you very much for having me. iran 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. john list, an act to this chum, said jama was sentenced to death back in february,
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accused of playing a role in a 2008 mosque bombing. his family says he is innocent and the german foreign minister analynn a bad book has called on iran to reverse the judgment for more than 2 years german, iranian journalist and activists jumps, he'd some out, has been detained in iran. in february, he was sentenced to death, and now the country supreme cold confirmed the sentence, his suddenly insist he is innocent. the accused, the iranian governments of kidnapping the long time us resident and a stop over into by while on a business trip in 2025. and now they're worried. iran has so far, yes, no lawyer. he has no access to anybody. has no access to his medication that 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
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a half years, they want to take away his life in a tweet foreign minister anna lynn up here. bach has called the 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 ambassador to iran cancel the business trip and is on his way back to tehran to intervene with the iranian authorities. but this won't be enough so much daughter fears we need our government to show where they are. red line is when their citizens are directed and taken there and tortured, put through sham trails and are about to be executed. what are they willing to do when are they gonna 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 allies to put pressure on this regime to stop them from doing what they're doing. now,
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after the death sentence was announced in february exiled, iranians called the german government to increase pressure on terror. they continue to demand the release of jumps, which are mart and several other political prisoners. so as we just heard, that jam should shimoda dos as, as germany is doing too little to help as though to double the political correspondent matthew more earlier. and i asked him what germany has done so far, for well from the outset, german officials in berlin of condemned in the strongest possible terms. jumps should show much treatment, seeing that he's not been given a fair trial at any point. and back in february when sharma 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 what, that's what the time is a cited we called a massive reach of mister shaw,
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much human rights in justifying the expulsion. and they also sought 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 in mister shaw my case. but part of the problem is that mr. sharman has ju citizenship and iran does not recognize ju nationalities. so as far as they're concerned, it's none of germany's business. and obviously what worries jumps should show march family is in january of this year, authorities in iran, extra it a british iranian man, despite protests. and they naturally fear that the same thing 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, friedrich mats as it happens, is jam,
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should sha mads political sponsor, meaning that he's giving support to shot mad 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 matthews. they might as matthew more did up these 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 nikolai ukrainian president. resilience. he says, the missiles struck private homes and
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a high rise apartment building. moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians for a long awaited call between ukrainian president the lensky and the chinese president . she's in pain, has been hailed as an important step by both nato and by kremlin officials both sides welcomed wednesdays discussion which ran for 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 keep, to seek a political settlement to the crisis. the conversation between she and the lensky is considered a step forward in strengthening that diplomatic ties. jo, mostly there is an opportunity to use china's political power to reinforce principles and rules that peace should be built on or to somewhere ukraine and china like the absolute majority of the world, are equally interested in the strength of sovereignty of nations and territorial
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integrity. seriousness and warm down by martin is a senior fellow in war studies at kings college london. hi there, mike. now, in this phone call with zalinski president, she mentioned apiece plan. is this a good time for ukraine to be discussing peace with russia? no, no, it's a terrible time. both ukraine and russia have mutually incompatible goals as your you just said in the package there, russia intends to complete the goals, especially reparations, to take over don't boss. and then to retain holder, crimea, and ukraine's goal is to evict russian forces from ukrainian sovereign territory. so although it's always good to talk and maintain channels, there's no peace plan in the offing. ok, so let's have a look at what's going on in ukraine right now. apart from an ongoing defense about no hearing, much from the ukrainian front lines. and is this
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a com before the storm? well i think there's 2 points i would make. the 1st is that there is a media blackout in for so the ukranian government has asked for a media blackouts and restricted access for journalists. and the reason for that is because very clearly ukraine has started what's called shaping the battlefield for its upcoming offensive. and if you look carefully this morning, a russian installed official was assassinated a couple of days ago. there was a surface drone in seconds of us, the pole, there's been some ukrainian probes in different areas. what they're doing is they're just probing and testing the russians to see where the defense is a week in preparation for the upcoming offensive. ok, now we've just had confirmation that ukraine has now received almost all of the equipment promised by western governments, tanks and vehicles. ukraine is also trained 9 brigades for
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a counter offensive. can you give us a sense of how keith will use this combination of western weapons and highly trained troops against the russians? so the russians have built fortifications along their lines. and so what ukraine will be looking to do is in one or maybe a couple of areas to punch through the russian lines and get behind them. because once you're behind those fortifications, you can then run about and not about the russian logistics and commanding control. and so on, so forth. now, it's not clear and perhaps you guys haven't decided yet where that blow will full. but that is the a strike versus which almonds, highly mobile enables, all right, quite quickly and that reach from the ukrainian lines. ok, you met, mentioned these russian fortifications along the front front line. at the same time, russia is absolutely continuing its offensive operations in back moot. so what does
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all of this tell us about russia's priorities? what is houses that russia doesn't have a strategy? they've announced their goals to be the taking of the dumbass in order to do that, they need to take back move. but at the same time, the holding on all this territory elsewhere in ukraine, which they're having to divert resources to defend. so there's a bit of a mismatch between what they're doing on the bus to vote and what their state goals is. and that's partly because it's become quite personal for president putin. and he's, you know, ordering his generals to, to focus on that. but really, it means that spreading their resources to thinly across about, which is frankly a problem that the russians about rice's the beginning of this conflict. i did just quickly want to ask you about reports that the russians assessing out fighting positions at the shop, a nuclear power plant. how worried did you crane and europe be about that?
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yeah, well, we've seen this before. the advantage of doing that is, of course, you know, she sets up an itinerary battery in the middle of the nuclear power plant. it makes it very difficult for ukraine to target it. so that's why they're doing it. i don't think the ukraine is going to be attacking the pipeline. they're much more likely to bypass it during the counter offensive. just wait for it's linda. mike, thanks so much for that. let's mike martin, military expert joining us from the u. k. take letting out some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour. 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. a new cove in 19 variant recently detected in south korea has been found to cause i diseases in some patients. the variant cause is red and itchy eyes,
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along with the usual coded symptoms. authority, say them monitoring the new barrier that the cove risks to the public remains low. now, spain is experiencing record heat for this time of year, which the meteorological agency is attributing to climate change. and the unusually high temperatures are exacerbating a long running drought. the poses risks to both people and wildlife. these tourists from england are getting a sneak peak of the spanish summer. we love it. absolutely. it's been so cold and wet. i've even the day you went to the angel, 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
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to be like in june? it wouldn't be spain's 1st climate record of the year. last month, the country recorded it's dry is 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 the risk of wild fires. 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,
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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, spoke to a guy hedge curly. he's a journalist in the spanish capital, madrid, and i asked him how unusual these kinds of temperatures are spain in april? will they like streaming, unusual? i mean, these are 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 these kinds of temperatures 2 months or 3 months before that, and in april it is pretty much on hurdle. so 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
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a real shot for people today right now in madrid. it's somewhere in the, in the mid high twenty's. but it's going to get halter and hold to throughout the day to day. and it's down in the south of the country, which places like quarter, one seville down and under the sea, which are really expecting 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 mean, i think the problem for other people is that you know, the temperature in the summer, not so much of a problem because probably 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. i should point out that the temperature is do tend to hit that pink
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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 the energy costs are so high as well. so just getting around the ordinary things can be pretty uncomfortable. and the authorities have issued several warnings already and have the health warnings while far warnings hospitals are on a lot. so there's a lot of information out there warning people about these temperatures and the precautions guy, hedge, co in spain. now we're going to take you to washington d. c. now, where the president of south korea uni fuel has joined the president joe biden for talks on nuclear deterrents. but he also showed that diplomacy can have a lighter side because at the end of the white house dinner, you took the mike and treated his hosts to a rendition of american pie by focused don mclean. o
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