hello, i m helena humphrey, great to have you with us. we begin with the us presidential race. florida governor ron desantis becoming the latest republican to launch his bid for the party s 2024 presidential nomination, and the chance to challenge sitting democratjoe biden. on wednesday, debuting this campaign video in a bid to position himself as a donald trump style conservative without the drama. mr desantis is widely seen as donald trump s main republican rival in the race for the white house. but the former president remains the dominant force in the republican party. now, ron desantis announcement itself wasn t a suprise, but the wayhe made it was unorthodox a conversation on twitter spaces with elon musk. here s some of what mr desantis said. i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american comeback. we know our country is going in the wrong direction, we see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones, our southern border has collapsed, d
And to the region well its going to be very difficult for down the Syrian Government doesnt allow them to go to aleppo theyre now like two small villages also i think so the pens on the turkey also theyre going about as they said theyll allow civilians to return but i think most of them will be not be willing to return because theyre afraid of repercussions because they were supporting kurdish fighters most of them but the three maybe some of them who were there and are also still some sort of the inside i think so we have to see whats coming in the next few days that american mogan berg thank you for your insight. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad has visited Army Positions in eastern goto near the capital damascus syrian t. V. Reported the army had given rebels in one village an ultimatum to withdraw this as more civilians streamed out of the besieged rebel held areas russian sources say
some Twenty Thousand people fled Eastern Ghouta on sunday alone Syrian Government forces have been
reports suggest militias allied to the rapid support forces have been targeting army positions, businesses and homes. barbara plett usher sent this update from nairobi in kenya. this ceasefire is looking more and more fragile. witnesses have been reporting shelling and artillery fire in different parts of khartoum, and they ve also been reporting that a sudanese warplane has crashed in the nearby city of 0mdurman. the rapid support forces militia has released footage appearing to show the incident. in one video, you see a man dressed in an air force uniform. it seems it might be one of the pilots. he s looking dazed. he s sitting in the back seat of a car and he s surrounded by men with guns who are celebrating the two powers who are monitoring the cease fire, tte united states and saudi arabia, had earlier released a statement in which they said they were trying to verify other reports of violations and they demanded that both parties abide by the truce, which, of course, was called i
landed in their garden. they started at the hill, he says. the last shell fell here. now all the mud is inside my house. the attack here was part of a flare up along the front line. the village is on ukrainian soil, but some here sympathise with moscow and put the blame on ukrainian troops. they insist it was russian backed rebels nearby and say president putin is laying a trap. we think it s a provocation, she says, because there is shelling of civilian areas where there are no army positions. the enemy wants to provoke the ukrainian army. the tension has been increasing here, and for communities living on the front line, the risks and the suffering are increasing also. the warnings about an invasion keep coming, but whether or not
the attack here was part of a flare up along the front line today. the village is on ukrainian soil, but some here sympathise with moscow and put the blame on ukrainian troops. they insist it was russian backed rebels nearby, and say president putin is laying a trap. we think it s a provocation, she says. because there is shelling of civilian areas where there are no army positions. the enemy wants to provoke the ukrainian army. the tension has been increasing here, and the communities living on the front line, the risks and the suffering are increasing also. the warnings about an invasion keep coming, but whether or not that happens, communities here are already trapped in a war of attrition. and across the front line in the breakaway capital of donetsk, sirens wailing after the authorities announced women and children would be evacuated to russia.