will be travelling to london for the king s coronation. hello, and welcome to bbc news. i m lukwesa burak. three members of the world food programme are among nearly 70 people reported to have been killed, as rival wings of sudan s armed forces battle for power. the wfp has now halted operations in the country. these are the latest pictures from khartoum where there is black smoke over the city. there are fears the violence will delay the planned transition to civilian rule in sudan. egypt and south sudan have offered to mediate. there are now reports of fighting around the country, with eyewitness accounts of sudanese army strikes in the city of omdurman. the target is a base of the enemy rapid support forces, north east of khartoum. beverly ochieng from the bbc s monitoring service has the latest from nairobi. some of the latest tallies we are seeing from a prominent doctors union is that nearly 70 people have been killed injust two days of violence. there have been cl
live from london. this is bbc news. the un secretary general calls for a ceasefire in sudan as nearly 70 people are killed in fighting between rival military factions. the leader of the nurses union in england says they re prepared to hold strikes until christmas, unless more money is offered. appeals for calm after an indian former politician, convicted of kidnapping, is shot dead on tv, along with his brother. the building of new so called smart motorways in england is being cancelled over safety concerns and costs. an ancient symbol of scotland s monarchy, known as the stone of destiny,
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safety, it would not be the right thing to do. for rishi sunak, tough decisions lie ahead. he doesn t want to be seen to be giving in to union demands, but he will also know that months of strikes will make it more difficult to deliver on his promise to cut nhs waiting lists. tony bonsignore, bbc news. the chief minister of the indian state of uttar pradesh has appealed for calm after a former politician who s a convicted criminal was shot dead while under police escort. atiq ahmed, who had been convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead live on tv along with his brother. they were answering questions from journalists when they were killed in allahabad. for more on this let s speak to our correspondent, roxy gagdekar chhara. thank you forjoining us in the programme. what sort of reaction has
there been to what took place live on tv, a murder, live on tv? the murder was on tv, a murder, live on tv? tue: murder was conducted on tv, a murder, live on tv? tte: murder was conducted when on tv, a murder, live on tv? tt2 murder was conducted when it happened on the live tv because the assailants were hiding as the journalist, and when reporters were asking questions, to two people, atiq ahmed and his brother, one among them first shot atiq and then his brother. all this happened amidst heavy police protection, because both were trying to get into the hospital. as soon as they get out of the police van, and they were approaching the hospital, at that time the reporters tried to stop them for questions, and three assailants were hiding as journalists among this group of people, and they first kill them and then they started shouting a slogan