and then nikki haley is going to deliver a major speech to abortion and then two legal battles surrounding former president donald trump in sudan, a shaky cease-fire as an evacuation is under way to help foreigners. what we know about why tucker carlson and don lemon were forced out. and then we remember harry bwho died president biden announced he s running for re-election he kicked off his bid for a second term with the release of a three-minute video called freedom, and he asked voters to tk give him more time biden also says maga extremists are lining up to cut the social safety net and take away personal liberties the announcement comes four years to the day after he launched his 2020 campaign when i ran for president four years ago, i said we are in the battle for the soul of america, and we still are the question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more or less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be, and i think you do,
enough to leave the country. it seems as though his rival, the general hemedti, rsf forces have perhaps been weakened in the capital somewhat and that has allowed general burhan to make this trip, first of all to port sudan which has become a bit like the de facto capital of the country from where flights can still take off, and he is headed to egypt on what looks like a trip to rally support. what we don t know is what is going on behind the scenes. the public message from president el sisi office is one of, we stand by you, we are in favour of the stability of sudan and the territorial integrity. so, a message of support for general burhan. then the general talking about wanting to end the war and saying he doesn t want to stay in power but that is very different from what he has been saying in recent days,
ceasefire really sticking and no word yet about the seven day ceasefire that is supposed to come into force. we ve had a visit from two senior un officials to port sudan which is rapidly becoming the hub for the emerging humanitarian response, real frustration expressed by those officials saying that they urgently need high level detailed guarantees about access, concern about the looting of six trucks, food trucks that were delivering aid to die for. that is of real concern and a broader sense that a lot more needs to be done to facilitate support for hospitals in particular we know are being targeted widely in khartoum and darfur. and the exodus, tens of thousands of civilians heading north, heading south, heading east and
0utside, food queues for the millions still stuck in khartoum. a global relief operation has barely begun to address the humanitarian crisis growing here and across sudan. this is one of africa s biggest countries, but it is now at risk of total collapse. these families, already fleeing west across the border into neighbouring chad, with the un warning today that hundreds of thousands could soon follow suit. andrew harding, bbc news. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, travelled to port sudan and met some of the people fleeing the fighting. she is now injeddah in saudia arabia, where many of the vessels evacuating people have been arriving. this fighting is now in its third week. and with every day, you feel this crisis deepening, the united nations has said tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes,