the washington declaration aimed at deterring an attack on seoul. the bbc s seoul correspondent jean mackenzie explained what this agreement involves. so this deal is the us stepping up its commitment to use nuclear weapons to defend south korea from north korea. you know, the us is responsible for south korea s defence and are always up implied it would use nuclear weapons if necessary but recently people here in seoul have questioned that commitment and they needed part of its submarines, armed with nuclear weapons to the peninsular. it will be stationed here continually but it will come periodically. they will form the joint nuclear planning group and this allows south korea to be more involved in understanding how and when the us would use its nuclear weapons. politicians here essentially have been kept in the dark with little understanding of what would actually trigger the us president to trigger the nuclear button on its behalf, but in return for these us commitmen
trouble. and the controversial american tv talk show host jerry springer has died at the age of 79. voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, - this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with the latest in the crisis in sudan. the national army and rapid support forces have agreed to extend a three day ceasefire shortly before it was due to expire. almost two weeks of clashes between the factions have left hundreds of people dead and forced tens of thousands from their homes. thousands of people are still trying to flee the country. our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley reports now from cyprus, where some evacuees are still arriving. at the airfield in khartoum, desperate crowds with just one hope to escape. everyone here has made a dangerous journey. a military operation described as even more complex than the evacuation from afghanistan, and no one knows when the last flight out will go. larnaca airport first stop to safety.
the paramilitary group the rapid support forces came to that agreementjust hours before a previous ceasefire was due to expire. despite these agreements, clashes have been reported with gunshots heard and fighterjets seen in parts of the country. our correspondent paul adams has more on the origins of the conflict. khartoum obviously was the focus of that popular revolt backin focus of that popular revolt back in 2019, which was, you know, the thing that brought to an end 30 years of alba ts s power. it was followed by a terrible massacre of demonstrators in the aftermath of president 0mar al bashir s alistair but it has not seen the kind of all out military conflict that it is witnessing. what happened in so many other parts of sudan and is now, has now come to the city. it is a real shock for the civilians of that city who did not think that city who did not think that it would come to this but feared that somehow, this rivalry between these two factions was going to result
ever april day. hello, a very warm welcome. i m samantha simmonds. efforts are being stepped up in sudan to try and extend a fragile ceasefire between troops loyal to rival generals. the outbreak of violence in the country has left more than 500 people dead and forced thousands to flee. the current truce brokered by the us is due to expire later on thursday. both the un and south sudan are rapidly trying to organise a three day extension to it. the sudanese army says it s approved the idea of discussing the proposal but its rival, the rapid support forces, has not yet responded. here s our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, with the latest. there is an invitation from salva kiir, south sudan s president, to both the warring generals to try and get them to go to the south sudanese capital to sit down and talk about another three day ceasefire, to carry on when the current one expires later today. and also to talk about humanitarian corridors within khartoum and perhaps to t
of three years has been cheating on me with some little skank. audience: ooh! and, do you want to know the best part about it all, though? yes, i would like to. his own mother was the one who walked in on them. jeremy paxman interviewed jerry springer back on newnight back in 2014. here s a bit of it. jerry springer, the godfather of the confessional chat show, is here. are you ashamed of it? uh, the show s stupid, i ve always thought the show s stupid. ashamed? no. shouldn t you be? no, not any more than a journalist should be doing the news. because, for example, you would make a living. let s say you re a journalist, let s say you do the news every night. every night, you tell stories about very bad things and it s very profitable for the station. you re not necessarily helping the people you talk about. newspapers are in that business all the time. you could decide only to put well scrubbed, wealthy people who speak the queens english on television and just do that. but t