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the universe of like a superpower in our series of 42. the answers almost everything. this week on d. w with this is the w. news live from berlin sedans, warring armies agree anew, sees fire, south sudan says the sudanese army and rival paramilitaries have agreed in principle to a week long truce and will name delegates to peace talks. also on the program. the dis, information war in ukraine will look at have kremlin control media is spinning the
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conflict for russian audiences. and we'll look at how turkey is demonstrating earthquakes or shaking voter confidence in present early on. i had of elections. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. so sedans, foreign ministry says the warring parties in sudan have agreed in principle to a 7 day cease fire beginning thursday, commanders of the sudanese army and of the r s. f power 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. 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 set off for the egyptian border. oh park on martha and nissan. and it was very difficult. sometimes we were 28 people. i mean the boys don't have a visa, but we kept them with our suffering is unprecedented. we left on the fighting clashes and artillery, and then it was real suffering for that. i mean, in wasa de la garza here, asia is just one of thousands who have flocked to neighboring egypt since the war broke out 2 weeks ago. the humanitarian situation incidence capital is dial, food and water us guess. and the health care system is on the brink of collapse. faced with these dangers, the un estimates that over 100000 people have fled to neighboring countries, but they won. that number is likely to rise alongside government,
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some partners, u. n a t r, the u and refugee agency has the 3rd mean. i mean me, she'll planning fieger of more than 800000 refugees and right there. nice that maybe they, that may fleeced to, than 2 neighboring countries. sunday the u. n. says the scale of the exodus is staggering, and so don's neighbors are struggling to accommodate those who have fled their homes to shoulder. the number of displaced people through the last 2 weeks exceeds as a result of conflict ah, exceeds all conflict related displacements reported ensued on in 2022 just to give you a sense of the scale of movement. ah, 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 hall a see you and hcr principle situation coordinator for doff for it was evacuated
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from the region just a few days ago and told me about the situation he left behind. i mean, i was fortunate i, i was, i have actuated on thursday night from the french military military forces, along with 102 other humanitarian personnel, un, and humanitarian personnel. many of my other colleagues had to take very hazardous journeys over land towards chad and to 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 civilians to resume very, very basic normal normal lives. but unfortunately, there has been huge damage done by critical done to critical civilian
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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 guess houses without cause, without a 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, 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
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become collateral damage to luke looters, reynolds and looters who have taken advantage of the insecure situation and the latest news so that we have now in 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 whole than 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 staff 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, 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 areas that are on the, on the bomb bombardment and elsewhere as soon as we,
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as soon as we possibly can. so i understand that you and hcr planning for the possibility of it is 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 a for into into chat. 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 plan is put out today in terms of country capacity. again, we, we do have good relations with all governments concerned about the numbers indeed are very, very large. and we will, we will spend no effort working with the governments to be able to receive who we
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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, sir. through that toby howard from that you and hcr. thank you. is look at some all sorts making a news around the world. multiple rockets have been 5 of israel from the gaza strip following the death in is ray because they have a policy in hunger strike. israel's military is that it's a defense systems intercepted for rockets, while 16 others landed in open areas. at least 3 foreign nationals were injured at a construction site. the last of for form police officers involved in the killing of george floyd in 2020 has been found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter. to tower held back on lucas while white officer during chopin and kneeled on mister floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes. floyd's murder ignited mass protests across
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the us and the police are fight tear gas to dispose of us lawmakers and processes in nairobi. lawmakers with marching to the office of president william router to present a petition opposition leader rather again goes calling for action to tackle the cost of living and reforms to the electoral commission. uganda's parliament was approved one of the world's harshest anti l. g. b t q bills, even after revisions requested by the president. it includes a death penalty for some same sex at and 20 years in jail. the so called promotion of homosexuality, bill now goes back to the president for signature legislation has been widely condemned around the world. a russian state media play a crucial role in maintaining public support for russia's war against ukraine. what could the kremlin eventually lose its grip on its tightly control? narrative w's, maria, cat madison looks at how russian tv fashioned alternative reality of
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a deadly missile strike on the city of yuma. russell sas, its army, 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 russia may 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 of state to be used. images of they destroyed building, claiming that this devastation was actually ukraine 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
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. se blood the mythology off he should and added to the video on his telegram channel 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 telegram 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 your mon, people all over russia brought flowers to spontaneous memorials. the show of solidarity was not welcome by the russian authorities, and they were quick to remove the flowers and any messages apologizing for their talk. as a turkey were in just under 2 weeks of president obama face, his biggest electoral test was the country goes to the polls. it's been in par for
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2 decades. but recently his popularity has taken a hit because of her to his ongoing economic crisis. and because of his handling of february's devastating earthquake presenter runs also facing opposition parties that of united around a single candidate wretched type ad 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
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his final approval letter allowed finland to join nato this year. but he continues to hold up sweden's membership bed hedge once 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 and it should clear last week the 2 leaders jointly unveiled turkeys 1st nuclear power plant, which is being built by russia state nuclear company rossa tom. you. 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.
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edwin's also trying to deal with the fallout from an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people. many blame him personally for responding too slowly to the disaster and for the country being ill prepared for such a crisis. on top of that add ons, facing an 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 add to on spent the campaign trying to hit back laming everyone and every thing for turkeys problems being southern was not a regular, we're here to open the door of turkey century, together with our nation against crew plotters, tutelage, defenders,
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global imperialists, political and social engineering, project law market. what other? while edwin still has huge support this time round, it may not be enough to secure him another time as it show up to date, friends, golf will have more world news. the top of the out of next on the w, a documentary about the life of britons. king charles, have a good the green you feel worried about the planet to? i'm neil. host of the on the green fence podcast and to me it's clear we means to change. join me for a deep dive.