focused on the war in sudan? the death toll is now well over 12,000, with reports tonight the rebels have overrun the country s second biggest city. and in colorado, the state supreme court strikes donald trump from the ballot, just weeks before the first presidential primary in iowa. good evening. counting the dead is a challenge in any war zone, and especially one in which journalists are locked out. and how can we possibly know what the true figure when so many bodies remain buried under the rubble? but tonight the death toll reached a grim new marker. according to the hamas led health ministry, 20,000 people have now been killed. 20,000 people have now been killed, and among them 8,000 children and 6,200 women. the us has in recent days raised the alarm over the extent of the killing, and urged greater restraint. at home, president biden is under pressure. but tonight, a vote on a humanitarian pause, which was expected this hour in the security council, has again been pos
his father is among the 20,000 reported dead. but the survivors do not think of the dead in figures of thousands. theirs is an intimate reckoning, counted in the vanished faces of those they love. from the beginning, they have known there is no escape. from gaza. ..orfrom grief. in al aqsa hospital, in central gaza, the wounded child holds to symbols of a vanished normality. in a bed nearby, rama, aged 13, who lost ten members of herfamily, and fears she will lose her arm and leg. translation: i appeal to the arab countries to help me get urgent - treatment abroad before i lose my limbs. i dream of a life like other children around the world, where i can once again run and draw. fear of death is ever present. we interviewed this person over a month ago. as she tried to escape gaza with her disabled brother. today, our colleagues in gaza caught up with her and her brother. without vital medicine he is suffering from seizures and is terrified by the as many drones in the skies