live when it happens. fighting is raging for a third day in the sudanese capital, khartoum. the clashes are part of a power struggle within the country s military leadership, which has failed to deliver a transition to civilian government. a doctors union in sudan says almost a hundred civilians have died but the true number is likely to be higher. our senior africa correspondent, anne soy, reports. this is one of the warring groups in sudan. it s the powerful paramilitary group currently fighting against the country s army. both sides remain defiant and post videos like these claiming gains in the clashes. we cannot verify their claims. civilians are bearing the brunt of the fighting. there is nowhere safe to go. sudan is a majority muslim nation. it s a difficult ramadan for them. we do not have water here in khartoum. we are also afraid of running short of ourfood supplies here because all markets are closed. unless there is a very immediate humanitarian truce for the peo
bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
major hurricane. and this thing is going to continue to intensify as it comes ashore here this morning. and look, you ve been around the block covering tornadoes, hurricanes, you name it. and i m just curious for your take. based on the forecasts that we ve seen to this point, what are you expecting toee in the coming hours physically on the ground where you are? and how do you intend to react to what you re seeing? so we re going to slowly see the winds begin to pick up and get stronger as each hour passes. eventually we ll reach those tropical storm strength winds, 35 plus, 45-mile-per-hour winds. until we get to the hurricane force winds of the outer eye wall of the hurricane approaches land. we ll get strong winds coming from onshore winds actually, coming out of the east-southeast of these cyclone that s rotating. until the eye wall comes ashore, where the strongest winds are associated right along the eye of the storm.
through the streets, you have fighting going on all around. so it s impossible for the civilians to get out, to get food. this is the third day now. there isn t electricity. water is running very scarce. hospitals are running out of blood. so as each hour passes, the situation is getting more and more precarious, notjust from a military point of view, but also from a humanitarian standpoint. so, mary, potentially that 100 people killed and hundreds more injured could be an underestimate? absolutely. the doctors say that they ve confirmed that 100 civilians have been killed, but they fear the numbers are far higher. and also, we mustn t forget that there are two rival military forces fighting each other. so there will be many of those people will have been killed and injured as well. and the fighting is notjust happening in khartoum. what s happening in the rest of the country?
bret: an international team of investigators say russian president vladimir putin probably authorized the supply of long-range anti-aircraft systems to pro-russian-ukrainian separatists before they shot counsel a malaysian airlines plane in july of 2014. all 298 passengers and crew were killed. investigators say they do not have sufficient evidence to launch any new prosecutions. russia has always denied involvement. but two former russian state security officers and ukrainian separatist leader were convicted of murder last november. bret: breaking tonight, the death toll continues to climb in the wake of monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria. the fight to try to find survivors reached the survivors under the rubble grows more urgent and frantic as each hour passes. senior foreign affairs