attempts by other countries to evacuate their citizens from sudan have been abandoned because it is currently too dangerous to move. the head of the sudanese army says he can see only a military solution to the fighting. general abdel fattah al burhan has said he sees no room for talks with paramilitaries of the rapid support forces. in new york, the un secretary general antonio guterres appealed for an immediate, three day truce to mark the muslim holiday of eid. 0ur africa correspondent andrew harding has sent this report. another sunrise over khartoum, but still no sign of the promised ceasefire in sudan s shell shocked capital. across this vast country, hospitals are increasingly overwhelmed. these, the victims of a power struggle between two rival armies, a war that s being waged in crowded cities with no regard for civilian life. doctors can t even reach many of the wounded. 0ur volunteers didn t feel safe to go and to provide service apart from hospitals very close to
These suffering and tragedy stories are in every corner, every person you are meeting, whether it he is a doctor struggling to find a couple of hours to sleep, whether he is a businessman who has left big business behind in gaza city and has to live with his family, has to live in a shelter or school. You go there and you find a queue of people just waiting for hours to get five pieces of bread. There is not enough for the 50 people and the family they are evacuating with. You go there and you find someone is begging to buy water, but water is not available. Israel resumed bombing the water area today. There is no electricity to run and stop pumping the electricity to the houses. 90 of the houses in the south of gaza which is accommodating now over two thirds of the gaza strip overall population, they dont have water. They have to buy water. Un, you know, big tankers, they transferred the water from other parts of the city, the most Populated Areas here in the centre and people queue t
the head of the territory s largest hospital says that at least 20 people died there, including several sheltering in a courtyard. the world health organization says 20 hospitals in gaza are now entirely out of action, as israeli tanks are spotted outside one children s facility. health officials now say more than 11,000 people have been killed in gaza since israel launched its offensive against hamas in response to the group s deadly assault last month. the uk s prime minister has backed the home secretary suella braverman, in the face of calls to sack her. downing street said rishi sunak still had full confidence in her. she s come into criticism after writing an article accusing the police of bias. welcome to bbc news. let s spend the next half hour answering some of your questions as we approach five weeks of the war in the middle east. where are we with israel s military campaign, the humanitarian situation, hostages, the tactics being used, the death toll, the diploma
a very warm welcome to the programme. given the latest developments, we talk about bakhmut to begin with, the debate about who has control. how likely is it that russia could have captured that city? it is possible. the ukrainians only occupy may be 10% of the city and so it is possible that prigozhin s forces, the wagner military group, that mercenary group that has been doing most of the fighting for russia there has captured the rest of there has captured the rest of the city. it is really not of great consequence, though. what might be more important is the fact that ukraine s forces are now basically performing a kind of pincer move on at the city, surrounding it from both sides. and in fact that they are able to do that, wagner s troops in the russian army metric that they should be city because they should be city because they might find themselves trapped. in they might find themselves tra ed. , ., they might find themselves traued. , ., , ., , trapped. in terms of strategy, th