a fragile three day ceasefire. the violence broke out on the western outskirts of omdurman, a city across the nile from the capital, khartoum. but much of central khartoum remains calm, and thousands of sudanese and foreign nationals are still trying to get out of the country. as they flee, they re making treacherous journeys. residents are struggling to get clean water and other vital supplies, and warplanes are still flying overheard. tens of thousands of sudanese are trying to reach neighbouring chad, egypt and south sudan, and those left behind say they fear the world is abandoning them. meanwhile, britons are being told to go to this airbase, about 20 miles outside of the capital khartoum, from where they re being flown to safety in cyprus. nearly 2,000 people, from 50 countries, have crossed the red sea from port sudan to the port ofjeddah, on a ship organised by saudi arabia. eight year old karim, a british national, arrived in cyprus with his family, earlier. we heard
hello. i m sumi somaskanda. more on those stories in the show, but we start with events in montana where republicans in the state s house of representatives have voted to bar transgender lawmaker democratic representative zooey zephyr from the house floor. it s republicans response to zephyr s plea for her colleagues last week to reject a bill that would ban gender affirming care for minors. she said if they vote yes, she hopes they will see blood on their hands. she has already been blocked from speaking on the house floor. now, she cannot even go onto the house floor for the rest of the legislative session, she can only vote remotely. the bill she worked to stop has been sent to the governor s desk and he s indicated he ll sign it. here s montana s republican speaker of the house saying why he thinks banning zephyr is the right call. if you re not going to operate within the house rules like all other 90 nine, remedy that and come back and play within the rules, everybod
hello and welcome to the programme i m lewis vaughan jones. gunfire is sounding across the sudanese capital, khartoum, as another temporary truce between warring army factions fails. this is sudan, the fighting is concentrated there, you can see smoke coming from buildings for days and hearing gunfire. let s look at the latest pictures we have. these are not live but these give you a sense of what s been happening, some of the damage and some of the fighting continues. the latest guess is about 400 people have been killed across the country since the fighting started, now coming up to a week ago, last weekend. the intensive battles started and as we head into this weekend more continued fighting. these are the very latest pictures. these are live, it hasjust very latest pictures. these are live, it has just gone 11am very latest pictures. these are live, it hasjust gone ”am in khartoum in the capital. don t let the stillness of that picture fool you, because you can hear
after a fire started in a restaurant. hello and welcome to the programme. i m luxmy gopal. we start in sudan, where the army says foreign nationals from the uk as well as the united states, france and china are to be evacuated in the coming hours . the head of the military agreed to facilitate the operation, as fighting in the capital khartoum enters its second week. saudi state tv is reporting that planes carrying evacuees have begun arriving injeddah the un estimates that at least 400 people have been killed across sudan since the fighting began a week ago, the most intense taking place in the capital khartoum. explosions and gunfire have been heard across the city in the past few hours. that s despite the sudanese army announcing a three day halt to fighting from friday. the conflict is the result of a power struggle between the national army led by general abdel fattah al burhan and the rsf para military group led by general mohamed hamdan dagalo. the two men had b