Have been dropping in populated neighbourhoods in the south and the west. The army has been responding with air strikes and the number of casualties have been mounting. There is only one functioning hospital and it is overwhelmed. Already, the city had been in a dire humanitarian situation because that siege had been going on for about a month now and many of the people in the city have already been displaced. They have been fleeing the fighting elsewhere. They need food aid, they need medical aid, and thatjust hasnt been able to get in. Again, as the fighting gets worse, that will get worse. Un officials have been warning for weeks now that it is going to be absolutely catastrophic if there is a full scale battle. The us has been warning of a large scale massacre and is also nowjust recently sanctioned two rfs commanders for their alleged role in the el fasher fighting. Millions of people across the country have been displaced and millions in need of humanitarian assistance. What is t
Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. This is what sir keir starmer handed out at an event in essex today what he says are the first steps he would take as Prime Minister. The labour leader unveiled the six point plan to take to voters ahead of a General Election expected later this year. He rejected suggestions that his party was scaling back its ambitions and said the plans were fully costed and would be delivered in the first term of a labour government. Labour will also soon unveil separate sets of priorities for scotland and wales. The conservatives called his speech another relaunch. 0ur Political Editor chris mason reports. Flashing red, the Morning Commute in purfleet in essex today. The commuters, the people who want to run the country before the year is out. They were heading for a film studio of all places promises, pamphlets, pledges and no shortage of razzmatazz. And this stuff does not happen by accident. Keir starmer minus a jacket and tie, sleeves rolled up