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heathrow saw the highest number of cancellations, followed by gatwick and manchester. there were also reports of thousands of passengers stranded in airports overseas. tenerife airport set up camp beds to assist stranded passengers. in the last hour, the air traffic control service nats says their systems are operating as normal after the technical fault was fixed and they re working to clear the backlog of flights. they added that an investigation has started to understand the root cause of what happened. this report from our transport correspondent, katy austin. the august bank holiday descended into flight chaos, with hundreds cancelled yesterday and more today. we are still at rome airport trying to get home, we have been here since 11.30 yesterday morning. it s now been more than 2a hours. we boarded ourflight last night and then were told to get off the flight because the aircrew have been flying for too long. our flight has been scheduled for this afternoon but t ....
the united states feel threatened as they were our allies and we view the export of chips in to the development of an advanced chip industry in china as threatening. so the export controls too. at the same time, the administration has been sending signals to american business about the consequences of investing in china. this notion of them going over there and saying that we want to continue the relationship is very conflicting and ambiguous. to give you an idea, since before donald trump became an president, china s share of us import is down by 25%. in the first six months of this year, us imports from china are down dramatically from last year. china is becoming less of a trading partner for the united states and is becoming less of a trading partnerfor the united states and it is notjust chips. partner for the united states and it is notjust chips. is notjust chips. less of a trading artner is notjust chips. less of a trading partner but is notjust chips. less o ....
we will shortly show you first hand testimonies, but before that, top united nations officials met today, saying the war has plunged the country into one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history . edem wosornu, director of operations and advocacy at the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, told the un security council of the severity of the situation in sudan. sue dan is on sue dan is on course sue dan is on course to become one of the worlds worst hunger crisis. already 80 million people and one third of the country are facing food insecurity. by the time the season arrives in may, people could face what we term ipc phase five level acute food insecurity. we call this stage a catastrophe. since april last year, sudan has been torn apart by fighting between these two men. one is the head of the country s military, general abdel fattah al bur han and the other is his former ally, general mohammed hamdan dagalo, who leads a paramilitary ....
the rsf has repeatedly denied any involvement in the violence in the region and has called for an independent international investigation. the united nations says that with 8.1 million people forcibly displaced, and tens of thousands killed, there are warnings of growing hunger. the un security council has called for a ceasefire in sudan but an agreement is unlikely. bbc arabic s feras kilani has been given rare access with the sudanese army, and managed to make it to the front line of the fighting close to the capital khartoum and sent us this special report. the front line of a war the world has forgotten. sudanese army troops, celebrating success as they push towards the capital. a fragile victory over their rivals, the rapid support forces. this market used to be the life of the city. now look at it. normal life here, destroyed. we heard stories of rape, looting and indiscriminate violence at the hands of the rsf. this war is taking everything from people. millions ....
we will speak to one of the archaeologists working on the british pompei. good evening. the british prime minister says he thinks the uk has turned a corner following the financial shocks of the past few years. new figures out today showed that inflation in february slowed to its lowest level since september 2021. which was some relief given that tonight the prime minister was due to meet his restless backbenchers. but what has not turned are his fortunes on the rwanda bill. the proposed law aims to ensure the uk can deport asylum seekers to rwanda by declaring it a safe third country, contrary to the judgment of the supreme court. on monday conservative mp s voted to overturn all 10 of the amendments made to the bill, by the house of lords. today, the peers got another look at it, and reinserted several of their proposed changes. which means the rwanda bill will not be back in the commons until after easter. further delaying the governments agenda. political corerpso ....