live from london, this is bbc news. avoiding another banking crisis: us regulators race against the clock to find a buyerfor troubled first republic bank, whose shares plunged last week. more protests in france as unions call for further strike action against the government s pension reforms. and solving london s housing crisis: we ll tell you how one community is building its own solution by selling affordable housing to the locals. hello. i m mark lobel, here with your top business stories. let s start in the united states, where us regulators are racing to find a buyer for the troubled first republic bank. the federal deposit insurance corporation has reportedly asked six banks to bid for the lender, and wants a deal in place within the next 2a hours. shares in first republic plunged last week after it admitted customers had withdrawn $100 billion in deposits in march. at that time, its competitor silicon valley bank had collapsed, prompting fears of a wider banking crisis
in his country could become worse than that in syria and libya. abdalla hamdok said there needed to be a unified international effort to persuade the sudanese military leader and the head of a rival paramilitary force to hold peace talks. a ceasefire has been agreed but it is not holding. these images show khartoum where fighting is continuing in parts of the capital, with reports of fighterjets and drones targeting positions held by the rapid support forces, or rsf. life is increasingly hard for residents who ve been unable to leave such as this student who spoke to us earlier. three kilometres there is not any shop open, they are all closed. there is no movement, there is nothing. hundreds of people have now been killed, and tens of thousands have fled the conflict. one of the gernerals leading the rsf in the fight against sudan s army in the fight against sudan s army has told the bbc he will not negotiate until the fighting ends. mohamed hamdan dagalo also kno
threat. tens of thousands of adults with disabilities and long term illnesses are being sued by local councils for failing to pay their social care bills. we have a special report on the impact of a year of war on the children of ukraine. bells ring. calling all bell ringers a campaign is launched to fill vacancies ahead of the king s coronation. and coming up on the bbc news channel. a pivotal day for welsh sport and the six nations as the players are due to reveal whether they will strike over contractual disputes. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a 23 year old woman who travelled to syria and joined the islamic state group when she was 15 has lost her legal challenge to a home office decision to deprive her of british citizenship. it means shamima begum remains stuck in a camp in northern syria and is barred from returning to the uk. in 2019, the then home secretary sajid javid stripped ms begum of her british citizenship after receiving advice that she