there has been air strikes, shelling and other heavy gun fire reported. and in the last few hours, the general of the rsf the rapid support forces in sudan has approved a 2k hour ceasefire. general mohamed hamdan daglo tweeted. he had spoken to the us secretary of state antony blinken and agreed the pause to ensure the safe passage of civilians and the evacuation of people who are injured. mr blinken had called for the ceasefire during the g7 foreign ministers meeting taking place injapan. but, the sudanese army has released a statement denying any knowledge of the ceasefire. despite that tweet, these are the latest pictures from rsf paramilitary forces at khartoum international airport showing black smoke rising from burning plane. let s take a look at the area more closely. sudan is part of this eastern area of africa, known as the horn of africa and has a history of instability. the area s intergovernmental authority on development, or i gad, will send the presidents o
States has been at the forefront of leading a big campaign to try to get him released, they have deemed him to be wrongfully detained. but we are just watching live pictures coming to us from the moscow court room as well and actually the breaking news from that courtroom, they have rejected his appeal, so they have rejected his appeal, so the news there that his appeal has been rejected, we will get more lines for youth from the moscow courtroom as soon as we have them. but the reuters news agencyjust reporting right now that evan gershkovich s appeal against pre trial detention has been rejected by the court. those with a live pictures we were just from moscow. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. alongside the brutality, there were also huge acts of bravery during the first world war. when a road was cut off and the wounded couldn t be evacuated,
The trial is going on, the hearing, i should say, is going on as we speak. to be honest, it would be highly surprising if his appeal succeeds, because thisjust highly surprising if his appeal succeeds, because this just isn t how russia s legal system works. the conviction rate there is more than 99%. evan gershkovich was arrested in the city of your guttenberg, east of moscow, was judged with trying to obtain russian state secrets on behalf the american government and he was arrested for two months. this is what this hearing is about, against his arrested two months. he has lived damning in russia for six
Desperate situation, particularly in khartoum throughout the day. let s update you on what is happening in russia in the last hour or so. the wall streetjournal reporter evan gershkovich is appearing in court in moscow for his appeal hearing against his detention. he is only 31 year olds, arrested last week. he is the first american journalist to face espionage charges in russia since the soviet era. his employer, him, his family, they strongly did deny any wrongdoing. 0n strongly did deny any wrongdoing. on monday more than a0 countries led by the us, called for his release, condemning 0scar puzzling efforts to restrict the media. let s let s speak now to vitaliy shevchenko, the bbc monitoring russia editor. we can see him there, it s really moving to see him inside that glass and metal box, but he does appear to be ok. what did we learn from what happened in court, what happened?
We leave those pictures in israel to take you back to russia, because we are getting some live pictures from the court in moscow, we were just talking about the case. the man you can see there, the czech shed, that is evan gershkovich, his appeal is being heard. standing in the that glass and steel box, described inside the courtroom, he is ok, he looks 0k, physically, at the moment, we understand that he hasn t actually said anything yet. russia s security service arresting him last month on espionage charges. the concern for him employer, a charge that carries a possible 20 years prison sentence, the united