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
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. two teenagers have been found guilty of murdering 16 year old brianna ghey in a park near warrington in february. the girl and boy, who were 15 at the time, stabbed her 28 times. they cannot be named for legal reasons. outside court, prosecutors said it was one of the most distressing cases the crown prosecution service has had to deal with . here s our north of england correspondentjudith moritz. brianna ghey s family described her as a ball of energy, funny, brave and one of a kind. the 16 year old was also transgender, though, they say, that did not define her. she was fearless to be whoever she wanted to be. she wanted to identify as a female and she wanted to wear girl s school uniform and yeah, shejust did it. it wasn t a hurdle at all for her. but not everyone wished brianna well. she was targeted as a murder victim by two teenagers who wrote out a plan to stab her in the back and in the stomach. brianna was lured from
killed are women and children, and it says there have been over 52,000 people injured in the conflict so far. our special correspondent fergal keane reports on the toll that the conflict is taking on families. a warning you may find this report distressing. the world is debating calls for a ceasefire and a bleak new reckoning of the dead is declared. but for the people of gaza, the suffering is felt. not counted. dead children being touched a final time by their wounded father. a mother comes to mourn a lost daughter. translation: imagine that esterda i was brushing her hair, making her a sandwich for dinner and putting her to sleep. then you wake up in the morning and there is no fatima anymore. from the beginning, they have known there is no escape. not from gaza orfrom grief. ..or trauma. the wounded now number in their tens of thousands. in al aqsa hospital, the child holds to symbols of a vanished normality. nearby, this child, aged 13, who lost ten members of herfamil
the release includes infamous former defence contractor leonard glenn francis known as fat leonard. he s at the center of one of the us navy s largest corruption cases. in exchange the us has freed alex saab, an aide and top ally to venezuela s president nicolas maduro, accused of laundering money on behalf of the maduro government, which he denies. mr maduro is also releasing 20 venezuelan political prisoners. it s all part of the biden administration s efforts to improve relations with venezuela, and push mr maduro to hold fair elections next year. earlier, i spoke with our reporter mimi swaby about the deal. president byers was emphasising that this was all about encouraging venezuela to hold free and fair elections. how much leveraged you think the biden administration has in that regard? this is yet another sign of significant flowing between relations between the us and venezuela after months of really high level negotiations. this comes as biden is grappling with a