effort against corruption and political crimes ah. in our series guardians of truth and watch now on youtube dw documentary. ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin sedans. army raises hopes of extending a 3 day cease fire. fighting between the army empire military's flares up as thousands of fleeing for civilian, still trapped, essential supplies are running out also coming up outrage over

a death sentence for a german iranian citizen upheld by iran supreme court. john, she'd shamar was convicted of terrorism. as family says, germany is not doing enough to help the agonizing wait for families of cult members in kenya. it's alleged their loved ones, were driven to stop themselves to death. sex leader is under investigation. ah, i'm good. how else as well come to the program? fighting has flared up again and so darn, despite the army backing a $72.00, i extension to the current ceasefire. the paramilitary rapid support forces have not yet responded to the off. up. thousands of civilians are trying to escape from sudan while the shaky truce holds, at least in part,

many who are unable to leave are now facing shortages of vital supplies. rushing to find food in a lull in the fighting after days trapped inside. here in hall, tim's 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 khartoum are all trying to get their families out amid the deteriorating living conditions. hardy with adul, there's a lot and as you have a good idea across the river in hot tune, supermarket shelves already running bare business own as a warning that is to 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 paramilitary rapid support forces with new air 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 i. we have some parents massacred by our malicious finance at indiana. we are victims of gratuitous barbarism that we do not understand yet. i mean, be 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 likely to arrive soon. earlier i spoke to a journalist a martin, a shit in cairo, and i asked him if the sudanese army and the paramilitary will agree on a ceasefire. ah yeah, i think for we we talk about cease fire like we have to talk versus fire where

exactly right and then what june. and it's always potential for anybody to talk about or agree to cease fire if they feel that there's no favorable environment for them to either with concessions with then you know, potential negotiations or restock if they want to re strategize for the next round of fighting on our tomb it might be possible depending on interest, but the issue is, is that fighting is picking up across the country which is increasingly taking on in some parts of that of that character. and so i think it's important we talk about cease fires to talk about the entire country and possibly some of the fighting there. and not just or to me at this point. can you describe of from what you hear from your source is how far the fighting has spread in the country with a hard tomb is still the the main center of the fighting fighting, of course it is, i think still quite concentrated and harder tell him,

but i think one hot spot in particular to look out for is for this is historically strong hold of the rest. this is where there are a bit of premeditation and terms of the domino effect, the fighting between the army and the recess, and trigger community, the long standing grievances with each other due to you know, reducing water and land supplies this view. and so what we're seeing is that in some areas are for there is increasingly security in some areas where communities are now start trying to sell scores with one another or consolidate control over resources. or in other cases where fighting may be looking like it's being source by the 2 parties or an order for them to see if they can get military to batches for so as the world looks on

fighting and it's increasingly worrying about civilian protection. and now what i hear about these long standing grievances that you have described got this battle develop into a civil war, or is it one already? i mean, i guess i'm just semantics of what classifies civil war. are we talking about? you know, splinter groups emerging from the to motion to something to i'm a genius can besides fighting together right now. yes. absolutely. can we see both forces tried to out source fighting to other communities that is i think, already happening in some cases. however, i think any fighting, regardless, we call it

a civil 4 or not. i mean it's certainly not an interstate or within one state against another to belligerence and one country that are fighting each other. but i think the best forecast stop that whiting is for both international communities. and of course people with in sudan to not aligned with either of these literacy and not be allowed over their communities to be exploited by the rhetoric of either communities as well. and then, or provide the chance that, that suddenly, that the fighting doesn't spiral into something uncontrollable where there's a number of civilian groups. now that are, are a number of regions because then that would be truly worst case scenario. and another level of internal conflict that maybe reaches something but some solvable to stop the bleeding. the civil war was massive in cairo. thank you very much for joining us on the w news. thanks for having

a as roy younger over the death sentence past armen, iranian german dual national. the journalist john, she'd shamar was found guilty of being involved in a bombing, a mosque in 2008. the uranium supreme court has confirmed the verdict. germany's foreign minister on alina burbock has called on iran to cancel the death sentence from os. family and supporters insist that he is innocent, safe dam sheet. that's the message protestors and human rights activists have come to spread here and berlin, near the german parliament. the miss alice mentioned, we must do everything humanly possible. everything we can to prevent this execution lives. and that is the reason why we are standing, had to day to appeal to the german government. but it has a duty to protect and to take care of its german citizen goods is being held as a porn. as the hosting cheesy guidance good for almost 3 years. time sheets are mad,

has been imprisoned somewhere in iran, after being kidnapped while on a business trip on a stop over to buy. in february, the german iranian national was convicted of corruption on earth in what experts say was a sham trial. now that his death sentence has been confirmed by iran supreme court, his family fears, he could be killed any time in a tweet. foreign minister and alina babbar, called the death sentence for cham sheets or mud, unacceptable, and urged, he ran to reverse the judgment. immediately, she stressed that everything was being done for mister shamela to prevent the sentence from being carried out. but what exactly does she mean by everything? several politicians joined the protest to discuss which options are on the table, tells you what you're missing. believe we need to consider which sanctions we can expand in my view that that includes listing the revolutionary guards as

a terrorist organization to walk on is up soon on the missing. and we have to consider how we can also put more of a stop to the expanded structures of this regime here in europe. who and is us who seems written in oil premier. i know how to people couldn't. if this we know uranian security services are also active here, we know that iranian exile community is also in danger. here in germany far also for the protest as he and berlin, the governments, everything is not enough. and an, an interview with d. w. sham. at starter, told us she feels the same. we need our governments to show where they are. red line is when their citizens abducted and taken their and tortured, put through sham trials 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 gonna do the right thing and work together with their elyse to put pressure on this regime to stop them from doing what they're doing is on until that

happens gazelle and all the others fighting for her father's life will have sleepless nights hoping for freedom for jam sheets or mud, and all the others currently held hostage by these lamp republic. ukraine says a russian missile strike has killed one person in the southern city of nicolai's dozen small wounded in the attack. the miss alt struck private homes and a high rise apartment building. moscow has repeatedly denied that it deliberately target civilians. the war ukraine is also helping the agenda and talks here in berlin today between the german shops. the old shows until is william president, the townhouse, no setup, is preparing to host the next major summit in july. the w. nina has spoke exclusively to president nah said, and she asked him whether china can help bring an end to the war. i think china has a chance to become look prayer,

which is important in international field. and of course it could be also the moderator in this conflict, in the water of frosts against the grain. but the if one condition so far, we didn't see, and we didn't hear anything about the condemnation of this war. the china did not condemn as of world russia against ukraine. and this is that important to understand whether china is on the side, the fracture, or china is on the side of international rules based order. and as long as the china hesitates to take very clear position on that, it's the, it's that difficult to believe that it might be the credible moderator in this conflict. and of course the here, the room or the bob's support of china in order to circumvent the sanctions imposed

by european union and other like minded countries. so this is also not very good sign, and of course it cannot serve as certain confidence to trust in china and would president he boost his credibility as a potential broker if he went to keith, is that wonderful? i think it would be important visits. but again, if you talk about negotiations or peace negotiations, it's very important understand that the most important voice is ukrainians, voice, and ukraine has to decide what conditions ukraine is ready to take. and i think one of the most important elements of this piece, negotiation is respect to the territorial integrity of ukraine, sol, and now we are talking about the country, which is occupied. 20 percent of the territory of ukraine is occupied by russia. so

what the about this territory, what are their break conditions of peace negotiations answered this is very important to not to but again, on behalf of ukraine at him to make some tutorial concessions at the cost of ukraine. i think it's not a fair way off these negotiations, but we all are interested to see the space negotiation center cause a final result of those negotiations. but again, territorial integrity is the secret element of these negotiations with the president. thank you very much. there was little alien presidency. thomas now said i speaking to did of you earlier that aconia where families have been waiting to identify the bodies of loved ones, allegedly encouraged to starve themselves to death by a controversial cult if lead

a poor mackenzie entangle is being investigated. over the death of at least $98.00 people. but for us saying the names of their missing loved ones aloud as they wait to hear whether they've been found. family members gather here in the canyon coastal town of melinda, to identify the remains of bodies recently exhumed from a nearby forest. all victims of a suspected religious starvation cult that has been in operation for several years . stephen marie t lost his family after his wife took their children to join the self proclaimed good news. international church like little i'm glad you like my children. i did what i knew that for sure. the young men who told me about my children had been living in the forest since 2021. they told me the names of my children and i didn't even know me land. they told me my children had been starved to death of abbey out

yet. wonderful little lilian, pastor pool mackenzie, new thing is accused of driving people to death by preaching starvation as the only path to heaven he has been arrested and is due to appear in court on may. second others have had a lucky escape. these victims were rescued in an emaciated state and brought to hospital. they were discovered by investigators. he tracked the cult activities to a house to into their business and information that there were some people who are cited by members of public have been solved somewhere. and i was just about to die right there and we were able to rescue about 15 people. and among the 15 people for died as we are proceeding

to to hospital rogue pastors like mackenzie have founded cults in the largely christian country. before canyon president william rito has pledged to crack down on such activity, which he says sprays an unacceptable ideology. and he has dw correspondent phillips, marengo nairobi with the latest on the investigation. good evening get had a vin number so far as that 2 day their number of people confront dead is 103. and those rescued are about $100.00. and i'm sorry about 40 who have been rescued and 103 who've been confirmed dead. it does seem that even more families are now registering relatives as missing. what have you heard about that? a lot of people, so 53,

up to 314 families have reads it. i've read this that, that their kings are missing and people are coming from all over the country. others are coming from western kenya, yann's area john, as, as an to an air from our neighboring country and down in tanzania and all of them i read the starting and their family members to have been missing. and all of them are seeing that as that their time, their family members or went missing what they had said, they're going to pass on mackenzie's church and they've, they've never come back home. neither has have their family members had anything from them. now how could something like this have happened on this scale without the authorities noticing anything? the element least that we've just had a conversation with alice today was of the opinion that this might have been complicit, or some of the offices within government could have actually played

a low a sessions that came when in 2017 mackenzie was had they're running with a low one 1st ment offices. there was an issue he was let off of their hook in 2018 . the same happened in 2019 the same happened. and actually some of the junior officers have also said that they submitted reports to their senior by the seniors never acted upon the information, but also it could also be by the fact that religion in kenya is very emotional. so most of their offices have actually been staying away from it. and another pastor was arrested yesterday. but there's a killer darrow and the same thing happened. even the police officers who are a thing, you could not even touch him. they were just escorting him to where he was going to be contained by the police. so these, these are a lot of fear. and yeah, then at least those of the opinion that something might have straight to the eyes

of the security of he says, but they didn't act upon the information he w correspondence. felix murray go. they're reporting from my roby. thank you, felix. let's have a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world coast guard ships from china and the philippines narrowly avoided a direct collision in the south china sea report to say the philippine vessel was cut off by the chinese ship as a patrolled, disputed waterway. china claim sovereignty over marshal the sea. despite an international ruling against the claim authorities, volunteers are working to clear mysterious clumps of oil that have appeared along the creation coastline. since last year. cleanup has taken months and authorities are trying to clear the spill before the tourist season begins. there so far been no official explanation for the pollution to spain now,

which is dealing with an unprecedented heat wave for this time of year. many places have already been hit by an unseasonably dry winter forecasts as expect the heat wave to peak of the next 2 days. madrid is likely to hit 30 degrees celsius. cordova sweltering, 38, and inside on the island of my aka is said to climb to 34. for some visitors though, 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 wet. i've. i'm even the day you went to the anvil. it was right. 80 degrees for him with rain and when day and then we landed in our mid, you beautiful, sunshine, 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 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 need of fish population the then using electric trucks to stun the fish before moving them to another river with higher water levels, some 10 kilometers away. 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 run, the heat wave is expected to peak on friday. ah, how unusual exactly are these kind of temperatures for spain at this time of year put a request to journalist guy, hedge cope in madrid. well, it's precisely the time of year. this is unusual because nissan temperatures would not be at all unusual in the middle of july or august. you know, people are really quite used to temperatures in the mid to high thirty's, or even up to 40 degrees celsius in many parts of spain to take south. but they're used to sing those temperatures from late june onwards, when they're not used to seeing a temperatures 2 or 3 months before that certain temperature, they're so high, 2 or 3 months before that. and that's really what caught people off guard. and so

people are having to adjust to that they have to turn on their air conditioning. i spend more time in doors this week than perhaps they might have done otherwise. and, and it is something that people are having to adjust to and rather a big shop that people are not simply not used to having temperatures this hi, this time of year. do you think or do me draw just say that this whether that this development will be linear, that the, the warm months july august will be much warmer than usual than, than usual. well, we don't know yet exactly how this summer will play out so that we all hearing sort of reports of the idea that it's going to be a very long hot summer. but i think it's too soon to know that. but i think people wrote pessimistic factor, which they've been seeing temperatures the 10 to 15 degrees higher than they would normally be or should be in april this week. so there's a sort of general feeling that we're going to see high temperatures,

perhaps right through to the summer. now there's a good chance the temperature is going to drop because we're expecting to drop somewhat from the weekend onwards. but just the, the fact that we know that it's possible to have 3839 degrees and i'm going to see it in late april comes as a bit of a shock and makes i think people realize that was done. the thing is possible with the weather now that's, that seems to be rather the feeling. what about the long term effect? some people's house briefly, if you can when the government and local authorities have issued warnings about health, wanting people to stay indoors where possible. warning a particular high risk groups such as elderly people and small children, stay out of the sun. those are the kinds of warnings you would normally here in july or august. we've been hearing them this week. people are trying to bay those those instructions, but again, it's not the middle of summer, it's april. so people are out working. they're trying to live their normal lives.

it's very difficult in these conditions. guy had to go there in a madrid for us. thank you very much. as it's fun out for me and the news team, they'll go away coming up next after the break is news. asia with melissa china and she looks at a new u. s. pledge to south korea in the face of north korean nuclear gas office for me and teen with a, with

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