good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 16th. i had to be reminded of that just a few minutes ago. i m aymara walker. i m victor blackwell. she was talking about yesterday on sunday. and i m thinking we do the weekend. so clearly yesterday wasn t sunday . i thought today was monday is with us. all right. thanks for spending good morning with us. here s what we re watching for you. at least 56 people are dead. excuse me in sudan. there were explosions repping night clashes between the military and armed group or escalating will tell you what we know about how this started and what the rest of the world is doing. in response, congress returns from recess this week with a laundry list of to do items among them coming up at the plan to fund the government look at other major priorities for both parties in the coming days. the $1.6 billion defamation trial against fox news starts this week. what s at stake for the company and watch fox apologized to the j
breach of the kakhovka dam has almost halved as the water recedes. the authorities in the city have introduced restrictions on the use of water from the nipro river, saying flooding of households and sewage facilities means the water is now highly polluted. let s take a look at some other stories in the headlines around the world. residents in the sudanese capital, khartoum, are reporting new exchanges of gun and shellfire following the expiration of a twenty four hour truce. the ceasefire had held better than previous ones, but the army and the rival para military force, the r s f, resumed combat shortly after dawn on sunday. the lull in the fighting had allowed people to try to stock up on essential goods. residents of the french town of annecy have gathered in support of the victims of thursday s knife attack in which six people were injured. four children including a british three year old are said to be recovering well.
crisis. um around victor. maduro with the story there for us. thank you so much here with us now to discuss is cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier. really good morning to you. i want to start where larry just ended that african leaders are now asking for the head of the rsf ahead of the government there also to negotiate to go back to the table. is there any advantage does it behoove at all? the number two who is ahead of the rapid support force here to negotiate if they re making these advances. unfortunately when there s momentum on the battlefield until one force or the other fields beaten, there s very little advantage going back to the negotiating table. um as a general rule in this situation , you ve got a long simmering dispute that us um and various african nations have tried to tamp down. over and over several years in a row. ever since, uh,
capital of khartoum. sudan s army commander denies that and has accused the group of traitorous plotting, but civilians are caught in the crossfire and have been warned to stay indoors as warplanes are conducting sweeps and search for r s. f troops. cnn s larry meadow has been following the developments, leary is a situation anywhere close to the escalating. alright. it does not look like that. if anything, we are now well into day two of this violence, this heavy gunfire in some cases, explosions in other parts of the country, not just in the capital cartoon but also in the east, for instance, the ports of port sudan, which is the main seaport, that a lot of the international trade in sudan goes through in darfur, and so it does not look like the situation is getting better. it appears to be getting worse and especially because the two men who are to blame for this violence have taken very hard line positions were paying a lot of attention to sudan because it s africa start largest co