and tributes to the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist harry belafonte, who s died at the age of 96. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in sudan, where an uneasy truce appears to be holding. thousands of people have been fleeing the country due to the violence there, as countries from around the world work to evacuate their citizens. people living in sudan have spoken of their fears of looting, vandalism and hunger. andrew harding has this report. safely out of sudan, the first plane carrying british nationals landed back in cyprus this evening. the rescue mission had begun early in the morning, several raf planes setting off for sudan s capital, khartoum, not knowing if a ceasefire in the city would last days or even hours. it has been incredibly challenging because of the changing nature. we have had to work up complex plans involving numerous royal air force aircraft and a great number of military personnel, who ve been flown in from the uk over t
bombing that killed dozens at kabul s airport has been killed by the taliban, that s according to us officials. 70 civilians and 13 american troops were killed when a bomber detonated his device among packed crowds as people tried to flee afghanistan, in august 2021. the officials did not reveal the name of the man, who was the leader of an islamic state cell. they said the leader died weeks ago, but it took time to confirm his death. us officials say intelligence gathering and monitoring of the region led them to conclude the leader had died, though they did not provide further details on how they learned that he was responsible for the bombing. and the us began notifying families of the deceased troops about the death of the is leader on monday. in sudan, a shaky ceasefire seems to be holding in capital city khartoum while foreign nationals are evacuating from the country. these picures are from cypus late tuesday local time, when the first uk evacuation flight carrying 3
and microsoft both unveiling quarterly report cards beating expectations. shares in alphabet jumping after hours as the company announced that quarterly revenue rose to $69 billion. meanwhile, microsoft a boost in extended trading with quarterly revenue mainly driven by growth in its clad competing businesses. dan ives is senior equity analyst at wentworth securities and says these are welcome news for the tech sector. some sunshine in a dark environment. this reflects the muscles moment for big tech in terms of what we saw from alphabet and microsoft, both on cloud and digital advertising. markets will be focused on these results tomorrow. the hottest thing at the moment appears to be ai, but is google s market share at risk? this was a sigh of relief in terms of what we see on the ai front in terms of bard and ultimately focused on what google is trying to do. there is definitely a game of thrones going on in al. microsoft is leading, but google has all hands on deck des
shares ended up more than 50% after it confirmed it was exploring strategic options including a possible sale. but pac west isn t alone, and shares of other mid size and small banks are also taking hit. our north america business correspondent has more on what is driving this. us regional bank stocks suffered more sizeable losses on thursday despite assurances from the head of america s central bank, saying that the us financial system remains sound. leading the way was pac west, which saw its share price halved yet again, which means since the start of the week, its stock is now worth about a quarter of its value. also trailing we saw first horizon and the western alliance. those stocks under pressure, and the value of those shares falling more than 30%. what is driving some of this is higher interest rates. that has meant that they have had to write down the value of some of their assets that are sensitive to rising interest rates, then you have the fact that there are slig
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