we begin in sudan, where the us says warring parties have agreed to a 72 hour ceasefire. us secretary of state anthony blinken said the agreement between the sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary 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, like the man who filmed these images. he s from dunfermline in fife and was visiting relatives in sudan s capital when the fighting began, trapping
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plus. the service has been losing money in the face of strong competition from rival companies. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. sally is here at five p.m.. she will keep you company. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the first anniversary of russia s all out invasion of ukraine is fast approaching, there s both a feeling here and in moscow that it would herald a new phase in the war. president zelensky is visiting european allies with his focus firmly on the challenges to come. a new russian offensive is seemingly imminent. the west is arming ukraine but still not and scale they would wish. my guess is ukrainian mp kira rudik. can ukraine win a long war? kira rudik in kyiv, welcome. thank you so much for having me. a pleasure to have you. i would like you to reflect on president zelensky s message here in europe. do you think the focus from the ukrainian government is more on the gratitude for what european partners have already delivered or more on the urgency to give
hello and welcome before we to those headline, the very latest, we were expecting the figures regarding the junior doctors strike in easter, the industrial action we were talking earlier to jim reed, he said we were going to get updated with the figures of operations and procedures and appointments that had to be cancelled. those have just appointments that had to be cancelled. those havejust come in. nearly 200,000 hospital appointments and procedures in england had to be rescheduled due to the strike by doctors between april 11 and 15. thatjust doctors between april 11 and 15. that just come to doctors between april 11 and 15. thatjust come to us from nhs england, so almost 200,000, 195,000 cancellations is the exact figure and at the peak of the action there were 27,361 staff not at work due to the industrial action. there s been a response from the nhs, national medical director, who said today s figure lay bare the collapse of the impact of industrial action unplanned ca
welcome to the programme. the updates from turkey and syria are relentlessly grim. the deathtoll has now passed 20,000 but only a fraction of the devastated areas have been searched, with hope fading for those still trapped. though there are still miracles. these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir and they show a little boy, six year old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges ahead. the world health organization has talked about a new disaster, with thousands unable to find shelter, food and water. help is arriving the first aid has crossed into syria, through the one border crossing point that is open. and in the last hour, the director general of the who, dr tedros ghebreyesus, has said he is on his way to syria. for the latest, our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in southern turkey. it s hard here in southern turkey really hard here, but it s