first republic came under intense pressure after silicon valley bank and signature bank collapsed last month. the bbc s samira hussain has more from new york. normally when a company s earnings for are released, executive hold a call with analysts where they take questions. but that wasn t the case for first republic bank. executives spoke for about ten minutes and then took no questions. it is perhaps an indication ofjust how bad things have become at the regional bank. during the first quarter, it lost $102 billion in customer deposits. that s way more than half of the $176 billion it had on hand at the end of last year. after silicon valley bank and signature bank were taken over by federal regulators, wall street worried that first republic could be the next bank to go down, since it has similar clients to silicon valley bank people in the startup space. on monday, the bank said it would cut about a quarter of its staff and slash executive compensation. samira executive
children due to covid. plus, monarchy and popularity. a new bbc poll suggests less than a third of young adults in the uk want the royals to continue. we begin in sudan where the us says warring parties have agreed to a 72 hour ceasefire. us secretary of state antony blinken said the agreement with the sudanese armed forces and the para military rapid support forces came after 48 hours of intense negotiations. earlier, the united nations secretary general warned the violence is at risk of causing a catastrophic conflagration that could engulf the whole region and beyond. here s our africa correspondent andrew harding. khartoum today, still burning, as civilians, locals and foreigners hunt for ways to escape from sudan s hellish capital. at a bus station, this man said, we re afraid that civilians may be used as human shields, especially after foreigners have been evacuated. it s still going on. this is for the last 20 minutes. many people still can t get out of the city,
are being instructed to shelter in place as western governments try to figure out a means to safely evacuate them. also tonight, scientific censorship in china. crucial genetic sequencing that could have helped with the fight against covid, was deleted, covered up or withdrawn under pressure from party officials. we will speak to the new york times investigators. what about the transition to clean power? nine countries meeting in belgium today have commited to building an entire electricity system in the north seas, based on renewable energy. and we will talk about the global addiction to cheap clothing 10 years on from the rana plaza disaster in bangladesh have we improved conditions for some of the poorest workers in the developing world. but first to sudan, a country fast coming apart at the seams. in khartoum it is now a stark choice between hunger and deprivation indoors and the risk of being killed in the street battles outside. there are tens of thousands of foreign
amarillo, texas, where is judge will decide whether to expand a ban on a drug used as medication abortion more than half the women who terminate their pregnancies do itwith this drug it is extremely low risk fewer than half a percent of patients experience complications, which means almost no one. medication abortions are illegal in 13 states, and that does include texas, where the arguments in this landmark case just wrapped a group of doctors who do not support abortion brought this suit they want to go beyond the texas ban and take this off the market nationwide they claim the fda did not evaluate its safety before it was approved in 2000 and argue it should not have been made accessible to women via telehealth during the pandemic the public found out about today s hearing monday after the judge initially delayed releasing the details. we ll fill you in on why he says he delayed and why others argue his motivation was personal. the hearing was not broadcast, but we have re