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fraud lou soon. ah ah, this is d. w. news live from berlin sedans, army kimball's hopes of extending the 3 day cease fire fighting between the army and power military's flags up near the capital for 2000 leave the country. those civilians still trapped. central supplies are now running out. also coming up, iran's supreme court upholds the death of the german iranian city. citizen jam shed
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sharma was convicted of terrorism. his daughter tells d. w. germany is doing today to help when are they gonna stop dealing with this regime? and treating them like christmas partner. ah, i'm any kid was mc and, and welcome to the program. fighting has fled again in sudan despite the armies approval of a 3 day extension to the current ceasefire. the par military r s f has so far off and no response to the proposed truce. and they flashed with students military on the outskirts of the capital. how to, how many thousands of civilians are trying to escape from sudan while the shaky truth holds that for many sudanese who are unable to leave the situation is grim. rushing to find food in a lull in the fighting after days trapped inside. here and haul tombs,
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twin city on demand, residents say it's harder and harder to get basic essentials and even had um when it comes to daily needs from bread and water to gasoline. the situation is getting worse each day. and the sudanese living in khartoum are all trying to get their families out amid the deteriorating living conditions. how you would idle fizzle, la, la la, and as you have a good idea across the river in har tomb. supermarket shelves already running bad 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
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the army and the rival power military rapids 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 their fragile true 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, when in that flood, i got separated from my 7 children,
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and i can't find them had either. we have seen parents massacred by our malicious for knollys in indiana. we have victim of gratuitous barbarism that we do not understand yet. i mean the like that a sub i sent a young guy to little bit 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. kate, main of all the heads up, the nairobi office of the cat and to national humanitarian agency. and i asked her earlier about what she's hearing from her team now working in saddam. so what we're hearing is that the currency or the it was a welcome reprieve, or so denise events, but we are receiving reports from my team that the fighting is continuing in parts of don to quite honestly fire lodge. clarissa,
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hearing that tar blood chopped in your own bulls, stanford aren't families. this is a country and not the chapter that won't low on food and even of what i'm be, what's how power cuts, you know, will people can't access, hospitals are essential services. i'm not, i'm not available. busy there's no fuel, lack of doctors, and even when did commodities can be found, his explanation very high and his out of reach so many, many as you report idea, we're also seeing student, he's racing, he's making that one evacuation plans. i'm headed to the border to chat where you as care in child also responding and receiving, working with stakeholders their to the c, g. 's drops down. so we can expect many more debts due to lack of obsessed good water. an actual clue. destruction of the health services. i was kate man,
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a volley from care international. speaking to me earlier, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world to day keeps as a rough and missile strike has killed one person, an injured, at least a dozen others in the southern ukrainian city. mikka lives, you printing president, love me, zalinski says the missiles struck private homes and a high rise apartment building. moscow has repeatedly denied that its targeting civilians. authorities and volunteers are working to clear mysterious clumps of oil that have been coating parts of the corporation. coastline since last year. clean up has taken month and authority the trying to clear the spill before the tourist season begins. as being no official explanation so far for the pollution coast guard ships from china and the philippines have narrowly avoided a direct collision in the south china sea as witnessed by journalists on board. the philippine vessel was cast off by the chinese shit as
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a troll through the just use it was away. china claimed sovereignty over much of the sea, despite an international ruling denying its claim. now or on supreme court has upheld a death sentence against a 68 year old iranian german jewel, national for the crime of what it calls corruption on earth. the journalist and activists chum, good jam shed sharma was sentenced to death in february, accused of playing a role in a 2008 mosque bomb bombing. his family says he is innocent and the german foreign minister and lena burbock has called on iran to reverse the judgment. for more than 2 years german, iranian journalist and activist jumpsuits ahmad has been detained in iran. in february, he was sentenced to death. and now the country supreme court confirmed the sentence, his family insist, his innocence, the accused iranian governments of kidnapping de long time, years resident on a stop over in dubai, while on
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a business trip in 2025. and now they're worried. 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 chart 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 ron cancel the business trip and is on his way back to tier on to intervene with the iranian authorities. but this won't be enough so much daughter fears we need our governments to show where their red line is,
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when their citizens objected and taken there and tortured, put through sham trials and are about to be executed. what are they getting 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 allies 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 exiled iranians called the german government to increase pressure on to iran. they continue to demand the release of chum should show i'm out and several other political prisoners. oh, i'm joined now by p of. i have from the human rights group ha, health, he's one of the organizes of protest in berlin in support of jam shed. sharma, thanks so much for your time today. can you tell us what you are demanding from the
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german government today? so we're demanding that the german government do absolutely everything in their power to make sure not only jumps sharma was, of course a german citizen is freed from from his incarceration, but also the 20 other political prisoners who are innocent individuals. there's no judicial process who've been incarcerated since september, 2022. and the revolution began. and we need germany to stop economic relations and stop business partnerships with the iranian government. germany still has the strongest economic ties of any country with the iranian government, and this needs to stop under the circumstances we've. we've heard the condemnations of the death sentence from german politician such as the foreign minister on a lena bab book. but from what you will saying, these words are not enough. due comments like this may, kenny difference,
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those comments and demonstrations and words, of course they make a difference and they're important. but condemnations are, of course, not enough much more needs to happen. there needs a lot, there needs to be a lot more transparent, transparency of what is happening. because the general public doesn't know what efforts are being made to have these prisoners released. and we just were in the dark, all of us are in the dark. the families are suffering. they're at, they're going through torture day by day. they can't sleep. i'm. it's terrible to see. i mean, dumb shit has been in solitary confinement for, you know, 1000 days. it's, that's incredible torture for a human body to have to go through it more needs to happen from the german government side. this is a german citizen. do you think the protest like the one that you will, if you are organizing today, do they make a difference in terms of raising awareness and getting people involved? definitely we need to keep the political pressure pressure on this topic. i mean, the news media jumped on the topic last year when the revolution began,
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but slowly the media attention is starting to die down. and we as an organization, human rights organization of our help. it's our role to keep the media attention and keep the general attention on these crises and on these human rights abuses, whether it's iranian or indian regime or other regimes that are committing human rights abuses. p of i have from the human rights organization have a help. thank you so much for speaking to us today. thank you. all right to spain now, which is experiencing record heat for this time of year. and the meteorological agency is attributing the heat to climate change. the unusually high temperatures are exacerbating a long running drought in spain and now media. there are reporting that the health ministry will propose implementing a heat prevention plan 2 weeks early. it would be the 2nd consecutive year in which it has done so. these tourists from england are getting
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a sneak peak of the spanish summer. we love it. absolutely. it's been so cold and wet. i've. i'm 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 mid. 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 spain's 1st climate record of the year. last month, the country recorded it's dry as 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
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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 has a quick reminder of our top story today. fi saying has fled between the army and rival paramilitaries near the sudanese capital cartoon. despite the armies approval of
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a 3 day extension, the currency via thousands of civilians are seeking to flee the country. while the shaking truth holds on without you are up to date coming up next doc fil meets women who are fed up with i'm not show culture in latin america station at the back . if you can. i'm and you can look at and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more international have like ah, i was interested in the global economy. our portfolio g w business meeting. here's a closer look at the project. our mission to analyze who fight for market dominance can to stick with d w business b.
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