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
pictures right now from paris. you can see police moving in and we will have the latest. and in america first republic has become the third back to collapse in a matter of months and will be bought byjp morgan chase. this is bbc news. let s go straight to paris and you can tell that potentially we have tear been fired and potential disturbances at those protests. we were in paris in the past hour or so and scenes were pretty peaceful. there had been a huge downpour of rain and perhaps that was behind it. although we are now seeing these pretty dramatic pictures but of course there will be other areas of the protests which are much calmer. but as you can see this is paris and these are live pictures coming in now. and you can see some clashes with police. the reason behind this, in essence it is about emmanuel macron and his pension reforms, increasing the age at which you can claim from 60 to up to 64 but as ever with protest on the scale it is about much more than that. it i
i m karishma vaswani. we begin with the banking turmoil in the us. shares of several regional banks have closed in the red on monday. it signals concern about the health of the sector, following the collapse of first republic and its acquisition byjp morgan chase. the wall street giant said it would pay $10.6 billion dollars to the federal insurance deposit corp, after officials shut down the smaller bank. first republic had been under pressure since last month, when the collapse of two other us lenders sparked fears about the state of the banking system. meanwhile, the managing director of the international monetary fund kristalina georgieva says she expects more weaknesses to be exposed in the banking sector. so just how vulnerable is it? let s ask the chief global investment officer of oreana financial, isaac poole. i think there is a real risk of that. this is probably not the end of bank failures. we are seeing these problems in the smaller, regional, medium sized banks,
bank. now we have the sport and a full round up. we will begin with the women s champions league. a crowd of more than 60,000 is expected at the emirates for arsenal against wolfsburg. a record attendance for a women s club match in the uk is expected and kick off is a few hours away. kt is there for us and this feels like a big moment, not least for the crowd they are expecting? fix, like a big moment, not least for the crowd they are expecting? a massive occasion, crowd they are expecting? a massive occasion. not crowd they are expecting? a massive occasion, notjust crowd they are expecting? a massive occasion, not just for crowd they are expecting? a massive occasion, not just for arsenal - crowd they are expecting? a massive occasion, not just for arsenal but - occasion, not just for arsenal but for women s occasion, notjust for arsenal but for women s football and they have an expected crowd of 60,000 for this game which would be a record for a match in this count
to the federal insurance deposit corp, after officials shut down the smaller bank. first republic had been under pressure since last month, when the collapse of two other us lenders sparked fears about the state of the banking system. meanwhile, the managing director of the international monetary fund kristalina georgieva says she expects more weaknesses to be exposed in the banking sector. earlier, i spoke to oreana financial s chief global investment officer, isaac poole, who told me the turmoil will not end with the collapse of first republic. i think there is a real risk of that. this is probably not the end of bank failures. we are seeing these problems in the smaller, regional, medium sized banks, really exposed to higher interest rates. we are going to see another interest hike from the fed which might add extra pressure on depositors and so forth. as we look out, there is a real risk that initially what was a bank specific problem becomes a wider problem for the syste