all at once. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with news that s been breaking in the last few hours or so. police in the northern german city of hamburg say several people have been killed in a shooting incident, several others have been injured. hamburg police said a large scale operation was under way in the alsterdorf area. german media are reporting that the shooting took place at a jehovah s witnesses centre. ambulances are at the scene. police say they have no idea what might have motivated such a deadly act. earlier i spoke tojenny witt, a journalist based in hamburg, who gave us a sense of the situation on the ground. the details are still very scant. the police have said that several people have been injured and several people have been killed. they have not put a figure on the number of fatalities yet. what we do know from police and from reports at the scene is that when officers arrive
ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than a dozen ministers if you add up the ministers on each side, gathering for a one day get together. it ll be about half an hour chat, i would have thought, bilateral, as they are known diplomatically, between the two leaders. lots on the agenda. ukraine, obviously, central. there s a sense that with the northern ireland brexit deal that the relationship is a bit better than it might otherwise have been. quite a lot in personal terms of similarity between the two leaders. both former finance ministers, both former investment bankers. current nerves. ner
hello, i m lucy grey. it s become increasingly clear the ceasefire in sudan is not holding. air, tank and artillery strikes are continuing in parts of the sudanese capital khartoum despite the latest 72 hour truce. there s also fighting in the western darfur region. hundreds have now been killed and tens of thousands have fled in a conflict that s de stabilising the entire region. one of the generals who leads the rapid support forces the paramilitary force fighting sudan s army, has told the bbc he will not negotiate until the fighting ends. mohamed hamdan dagalo, also known as hemedti, was speaking to zeinab badawi. i want to put it to you that the people particularly in khartoum are living in an ordeal, what would it take for you to allow humanitarian corridors? translation: first of all, i would like to thank the bbc for the interview regarding the truce. we have been asking for it from the first day of the war, we started a humanitarian corridor straightaway. we have
embassies within two months. a gunman opens fire at a jehovah s witness hall in the german city of hamburg. police say at least 7 people have been killed, including an unborn baby. hello. it s adam in the studio. and chris in the studio. and in a few minutes time we are going to bejoined around this very set of microphones by the education secretary, gillian keegan. she s quite an interesting character even when she s not being the education secretary, so it ll be interesting to see what she has to say about a whole load of things. one of the things we ll ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than