it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in sudan where rival military factions are fighting for control of the capital khartoum. fighting has continued into the night, with dozens killed. earlier, the sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces announced a temporary humanitarian pause but it s not clear how well it was observed. the world food programme halted its operations in sudan, after three of its members were among nearly 70 people reported to have been killed. international efforts to end the fighting are ramping up, with the head of the african union commission planning to go on a ceasefire mission and the presidents of kenya, south sudan and djibouti also trying to mediate. anne soy reports. a clash of forces. the sudanese army using its military might to crash a rival paramilitary unit. this fighting was sparked by political followed among the generals running the two units and governing th
Newsroom. We begin this hour with more Breaking News. Yet another shootdown of a highaltitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in Northern Canada. President biden and canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. A u. S. Fighter jet successfully brought it down. Its not clear if this latest shootdown is related to yesterdays downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. That was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if its related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. Arlette saenz is at the white house. The president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. Doesnt sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. But obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were Reporting On Last saturday which was the shootdown of that chinese spy balloon. And now these
social media platform and is being held in boston ahead of his next court appearance on wednesday. lucas tomlinson s life at the white house with more, lucas wicks jon, president biden spoke about the leak before leaving ireland. he did not appear to concerned. i have instructed the department to make sure they get to the root of why he had access in the first place, number one. number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which all occurred. biden secretary of state spoke in vietnam. i have not heard anything that would affect our cooperation with allies and partners. now more of the classified information have been discovered washington post reporting taiwan is unlikely to stop a chinese invasion not only because of beijing missile superiority but china s use of civilian transport ships to hide a pending investigation to be too many for appearing american something to sink u.s. intelligence agencies were aware of up to four additional chinese spy balloons i
cnn newsroom in just a few hours from now the national guardsmen arrested in connection with leaked us classified documents will appear in court ahead how he was discovered, and security flaws that allowed the leak to happen. as us president biden s last day in ireland. we re live in dublin with look at what he accomplished during the visit and a one in 1000 year. rainfall event hits south florida more on the way you ll see the damage it s causing live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim bruun hoover. we begin with a major development in the leak of classified pentagon documents posted online. the fbi has arrested 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman jack teixeira will appear in a boston courtroom in the coming hours. the air force says his job was to help make sure the military s vast global communications network was working properly. a government source tells cnn to share a had been under surveillance for several days before his arrest and multiple
in scotland. it is not clear exactly when she will leave office, but as i say, she has been head of the scottish government for the last eight years. she has been making headlines in recent weeks because of a wider debate on teenagers rights, calling for a wider debate on teenagers rights, she defended plans to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex. scotland s gender recognition bill that she wanted to introduce into scotland brought her into conflict and a clash with the uk government based in westminster, which blocked scotland plus two gender recognition bill. the secretary of state for scotland alisterjack used a special order known as a section 35 order to prevent that there becoming law on the grounds it would have an adverse impact on the laws. those are laws that apply across scotland, england and wales. that was a claim disputed by the scottish government, butjust to remind you, that gender recognition bill was to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex