this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800 thousand people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea today. those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojedda in saudi arabia. our correspondent andrew harding reports. on sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim th
welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we begin in france where more than a hundred police officers have been injured in the latest protests over pension reforms. demonstrators used the traditional may day rallies, to voice their continued anger, against president emmanuel macron s plans. these protests have been widespread. take a look at the figures. according to the interior ministry, more than 780,000 protesters hit the streets across the country. that includes 112 thousand in the capital, paris alone. but the country s hard left cgt union, says the figure is actually three times that number. at issue of course is president macron s plans to raise the retirement age from 62, to 64. he signed the legislation last month, and the meaures are due to take effect in september. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake has the latest. singing. the may day march, a french tradition reaching back decades, but fuelling this year s protests, the vision of a future whe
about half the health trusts in england are affected by today s industrial action, but the rcn, has guaranteed a minimum level of cover, for intensive care and trauma units. a quarter of the trusts involved have also been given extra exemptions, for services like transplant and cardiac care, which means strikers can be called in, for emergencies. this latest 28 hour action ends at midnight, with the government saying it s pay offer, is fair and reasonable. here s our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson. they say cut back, we say fight back. nurses on the picket line once again. no nhs cuts. determined to have their voices heard, in this dispute over pay and conditions. i ve been a nurse now for 15 years, and it s just got worse and worse. the staffing is cut, our pay is cut, but patient care is always excellent, but we just strive and we give and we get nothing back. we re on strike because i have seen, over my entire career of more than a decade in the nhs, a progressive
eurovision 2023 kicks off and just over a week in liverpool and we to former ukrainian contestant. welcome back. the united nations is sending its top aid official to sudan to help co ordinate relief efforts after warning that the humanitarian situation there is reaching breaking point. fighting continues and the leader cease fire. and there s going to leave the country and evacuation from port sudan and the red sea are also continuing. those not able to leave by plant or going across tojeddah in saudi arabia. and they gave me their assessment of events. this is taken so many by surprise and snow its third week and now the cease fire that is been extended is now barely holding and whether it is the people you see disembarking from the people you see disembarking from the warships and the passenger ferries who come into the port here in saudi arabia or as we did, making the ten hours and sometimes it can are crossing across the red sea and port sudan were many people are makin
welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojeddah in saudi arabia. 0ur correspondent andrew harding reports. 0n sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim their own. several british families were on