world chess champion, with china now holding both the men s and women s world titles. it s six in the morning in singapore, and midnight in the sudanese capital, khartoum where the two rival military factions have announced a new ceasefire, but are showing no sign whatsoever of stopping their fighting in the capital khartoum. the united nations and african union are warning that the people of sudan are in dire need of a humanitarian truce. thousands of people are still trying to get out of the country. our africa correspondent, andrew harding, has been speaking to some of them. we are crossing the red sea, heading towards the coast of sudan. a night time rescue mission organised by saudi arabia s navy. it s not quite dunkirk, but many warships and ferries are now involved in this giant evacuation. tight security as the lights of port sudan gleam on the horizon. we head to shore on a smaller tug boat, to the edge of a country consumed by conflict. we arejust coming in now to p
putting women s lives at risk. plus, house republicans finally have their chance to hold hearings on their anti-fauci, anti-mask conspiracy theories. as a government report raises new questions about the origin of the virus. we begin the reidout tonight with history repeating itself, because here s the thing. when you try to erase it like the florida governor wants to do, you are doomed to repeat it. over the weekend, the new york times published a stunning account of more than 100 migrant children, largely from central america, who according to the times reporting, were working overnight shifts and dangerous jobs for companies large and small throughout the u.s. according to the report, children stitch made in america tags into j. crew shirts in los angeles. they bake dinner rolls sold at a walmart and target. process milk used in ben & jerry s ice cream, and helped debone chicken sold at whole foods as recently as this fall, middle schoolers made fruit of the loom s
hello, i m luxmy gopal. welcome to the programme. a power struggle between sudan s army and a notorious paramilitary force has rocked the country with at least 56 dead and almost 600 injured. among the dead were three un workers who were shot after the two sides exchanged gunfire at a military base. gunfire. the united nations secretary general has condemned the fighting amid fears it will derail the transition to civilian rule. both the army and its opponents, the rapid support forces, claimed they had control of the airport and other key sites in khartoum, where fighting continued overnight. the foreign ministers of saudi arabia, the uae and the united states who ve been backing the civilian transition process have issued a joint statement calling for a halt to military escalation and a return to the framework agreement. violence was reported around the country with eyewitness accounts of sudanese army air strikes in the city of omdurman. the target is a base belonging
Spacecraft for the benefit of Life On Earth. Space is an integral part of society. Our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. So, we need the satellites for our daily life. The country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. If russia doesnt partner up with another nation l or field its own Space Station, which given the current circumstances and sanctions i is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. What became a story of collaboration is now once again one of competition and conflict. China has its own Space Station. India wants one. And private companies are getting in on the act, too, sending up their own rockets. Im pallab ghosh, the bbc s science correspondent. Come with me on a journey into the future of human exploration, and the new space race. Archive long before man had mastered the earth, i he lifted up