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ah, i started on the w ah, this is d w. news line from berman sedans, warring armies agree anew ceasefire. south sedan says the sudanese army and rival paramilitaries have agreed in principle to all week long truce. all named delegates to peace talks also on the program. the disinformation war in ukraine will look at how kremlin control media is spinning the conflict for russian audiences. and we'll
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look at how turkey's demonstrating earthquakes are shaking voter confidence and present on a head of elections. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. the foreign ministry in south sudan sans warring parties in sudan of agreed in principle to a 7 day cease fire to begin on thursday, commanders of the sudanese army and are b r s f r. a military group will also send representatives to peace talks. as part of the deal. the un says more than a 100000 people have fled the fighting. at previous attempts to establish a lasting truce, have failed. as another cease, fire collapsed in war torn cartoon asia and her family knew that they had to move quickly. they traded everything, they could to rent
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a car and says elf for the egyptian border. i come mazda and nissan was, it was very difficult time with 28 people coming to the boys. don't know either, but we kept them with us. oh, suffering is unprecedented. i left on the side, the flashes until it was real suffering. the anamosa philipo marfisi of asia is just one of thousands who have flocked to neighboring egypt since the war broke out. 2 weeks ago. i'm in marietta, georgia with a neighboring country, ahmad. but they wanted up number is lines with how long side government,
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some partners you and hcr the you and refugee agency has the 3rd mean. i mean me, she'll planning fieger of more than 800000 refugee sundry thirties that maybe they, that may fleece to than 2 neighboring countries. the u. n said the scale of the exodus is staggering. and so don's neighbors are struggling to accommodate those who have fled their home to show the number of displaced people through the last 2 weeks exceeds as a result of conflict. exceeds all conflict related displacements reported in sudan in 2022. just to give you a sense of the scale of movement. since april 15, asia and her family managed to escape the fighting that has gripped their homeland together with thousands of others who have made the journey. they now face an uncertain future. will toby harbor is the you are
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a refugee agencies or principles situation coordinator for dar 4 and he joins us from nairobi, having been evacuated from sudan just a few days ago. welcome to d. w. a project could start with you. just telling us about the situation you left behind. oh, thank you very much for this invite. i mean, i was fortunate i was, i have actuated on thursday night from the french military military forces, along with 102 other humanitarian personnel, un humanitarian personnel. many of my other colleagues had to take very hazardous journeys over land towards chad into south dawn. many of the same journeys that others sit in these are having to take now in response to the white scale fighting situation is catastrophic. in many areas of food, in a fashion where i was based, there was full blown conflict between the 2 sides for 2 or 3 days before an uneasy fragile truce was put into place by the local authorities. unfortunately, that truce has, has more or less held, allowing the civilians to resume very,
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very basic normal normal lives. but unfortunately, there has been huge damage done by critical done to critical civilian infrastructure including medical facilities. and it is extraordinarily difficult for any humanitarian organization, including our very courageous national staff to be able to be carrying out a central humanitarian work in such an environment. in the ela, a south star for there was a wide scale looting and chaos in parts of the town which left all un agencies without guest houses without cause, without offices, and in a interrupting you there. but a agencies, agencies were themselves targets we were found ourselves in the front line of battles in a fashion. we will not directly targeted,
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but we will certainly found ourselves in the front frontline, very scary situation for all of my, all of my colleagues in other parts. we've become collateral damage to looters, reynolds and looters who have taken advantage of the insecure situation. and the latest news so that we have now and this hour or so as from south for that. and that's that war in general have agreed in principle to a 7 day truce from the 4th of may if that holds. and i appreciate it's a big if you expect this will allow agencies back in to help civilians. well, 1st of all, agencies haven't left international stuff have left, but we are still trying our best working on the ground with our national colleagues to, to ensure that we can carry out, continue carrying out our central essential functions in for,
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in terms of international stuff. un does still have a presence in port saddam, and we certainly intend to get into the other areas, the more the areas that are on the bomb bombardment and elsewhere as soon as we as soon as we possibly can. so i understand that the 180 are planning for the possibility of this conflict could push more than 800000 people out of sudan on neighboring countries in any position to receive them well. well, i mean, 1st of all, i mean we estimate more than 100000 persons have now fled into neighboring neighboring countries. many from dot dot for into, into chad. we have an excellent relations. we already have a presence in chad. and so we do have sort of a basic capacities, but we will need to scale up if we are looking at, at figures that our, our, our, our plan is put out today in terms of country capacity. again, we, we do have good relations with all governments,
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concerns about the numbers indeed are very, very large and we will, we will spend no effort working with the government to be able to receive who we can. but we are extremely concerned at the possibilities of escalation, which could lead to indeed these huge numbers crossing, crossing boards. ok, thank you so much for talking us, sir. through that toby howard from you and hcr. thank you. is lucas of all source making news around the world. multiple rockets have been fired at israel from the gaza strip following the death in israeli custody of a palestinian hunger strike. israel's ministry said it's eddie fan systems intercepted for rockets while 16 others landed in open areas. at least 3 foreign nationals were injured at the construction site. uganda parliament has approved one of the world's harshest anti l. g. b t q bills, even after revisions requested by the president. it includes
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a death penalty for some same sex acts and 20 years in jail. so called promotion homosexuality. real now goes back to the president for signature of the legislation has been widely condemned around the world. here in berlin delegate, some 40 countries are attending the annual petersburg climate dialogue event brings leaders together to prepare for the annual world climate conference. in november, the german foreign minister, atlanta bandwalk told dana guess that countries should set targets to replace oil and gas renewable energy. i'm russian state media play a crucial role and maintaining public support moscow's a war against ukraine. but could the treadmill eventually lose its grip on the tightly control narrative? the w 's, maria cuts a monster, looks at how russian t v fashioned an alternate reality of a deadly missile strike on the city of yuma. russia sas, its army,
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uses precision weapons only aimed at military targets. so how's the propaganda? spinning this narrative, this apartment block in human central ukraine was struck by a russian me style. it heat at around 4 in the morning when most people were in bad . the strike killed $23.00 people including 6 children. so how did moscow respond? rush from state to be use? images of they destroyed building, claiming that this devastation was actually ukraine's fault caused by keith shelling of the don't boss region. even though this region is hundreds of kilometers away from the actual scene of the tragedy. you know, this video recorded by one also victims was exploited by one of russia top propaganda se floods him. and so he should and added to the video on his telegram channel,
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saying that it was ukrainians, killing their own people. and while rush and propaganda outlets try to shift the blame, the countries ministry of defense tried to embrace it. these photo reading right on target appeared on the ministry telegraph channel just a few hours later. independent polls indicate that many russians believe their propaganda. but of course, this does not apply to everyone. after the strike on this apartment building in mon people all over russia brought flowers to spontaneous memorials. the show of solidarity was not welcome by the russians towards this, and they were quick to remove the flowers and any messages apologizing for their talk. or just under 2 weeks turkish president bull face is biggest electoral testers. the country goes to the polls at a time heard, one has been in power for 2 decades. but recently popular, he has taken a hit is of his conscious ongoing economic crisis. and because of his handling of
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the devastating earthquake present around his altar up against an opposition, that is find that united around a single candidate wretched type ad to one likes to win. and for the past 20 years, his grip on power has only strengthened the army snowball at work with the help of his a k party. he's transformed turkey's parliamentary system into a presidential one. he controls the major sectors of the country from the economy to the military. he's also successfully silenced a number of critics, including political rival, sela hot in demetrius, who's been in jail since 2016 outside turkey. and tuan has increased his influence on the international stage. it was his final approval letter allowed finland to join nato this year. but he continues
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to hold up sweden's membership bed. edwin's made no secret of his friendship with russian president vladimir putin, nato's biggest threat. he's already purchased an air defense system from moscow. much to the west frustration center here last week, the 2 leaders jointly unveiled turkeys 1st nuclear power plant, which is being built by russia state nuclear company ross, a tom but behind the scenes at home, things haven't been going his way. inflation is still stubbornly high. even official figures put it around 50 percent. that's created a cost of living crisis that's hurting even the president's most loyal supporters. everyone's also trying to deal with the fallout from an earthquake that killed tens
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of thousands of people. many blame him personally for responding to slowly to the disaster and for the country being ill prepared for such a crisis. on top of that add to on spacing and opposition that's managed to unite behind one candidate in order to get him out of power. i know all of turkey's problems, we know them all and we will solve them all. we have the knowledge, we have the experience and we have the strength, the strength, is you no one else on the powers, the people it is, you know, and to, and spent the campaign trying to hit back laming every one. and every thing for turkey's problems being southern was not regular. we're here to open the door of turkey century, together with our nation against crew plotters, georgia, to village defenders, global imperialists, political and social engineering,
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project law market. what other, while edwin still has huge support. this time round, it may not be enough to secure him another time that set you up to date. i'll have more world news at the top of the thir spotted j hasty w. use asia in just under the day with small acts can inspire big changes, meet the people making it possible on you go africa joined them as they set out to save the environment. learn from one another.