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The BBC has seen new evidence of the brutal ethnic violence that has swept western Sudan since fighting broke out between two rival military...

Ethnic cleansing committed in Darfur, UK says

Analysis of satellite images provides evidence that dozens of Darfur villages have been burned down.

Developers plan more than 800 units in the city's gateway. Neighbors recognize the need for housing but have concerns about traffic, green space and where affordable units will be built.

As many keep up to date on the war in Ukraine via social media, digital investigators are taking painstaking steps to verify the authenticity of the footage

Behind their back. and many of them dont survive. yes, lots of them didnt survive. and thats where theres a big suspicion that, yes, there were 23 people who had died on the day but actually, theres 70 more people missing. and so, the question is, what happened to those? who are they? where are they? and theres a suspicion that they probably passed somewhere further down in the day or the few next few days. and thats kind of where all of this gets fudged and — and becomes really important. 0k....

Of law and author of the fight for privacy, protecting dignity, identity and love in the digital age. shona gauche from insiders uk bureau. benjamin strick, of course, and suzanne from africa eye. we will be back next week. in the meantime, you can head to the bbc sounds app and search for elon musk to find a whole radio four series about him. but for now, thank you so much for listening. goodbye. hello. river flows across the uk have been responding to the much—needed rainfall we have had thi...

Is going to be a whole lot of leaving of twitter, including advertisers. and ill be sad, you know, illjust be personally sad. i really, like ben, who has really crucial reasons to be, of course, on this platform as a law professor, the kind of communities that we also create, computer scientists, you know, the ways in which we reach folks in our work. for me as an intimate privacy advocate, it will make me really sad. peter kafka, host of recode media. i saw a wry smile on your face at that poin...

The core of the problem is that old—school media organizations or old—school way of doing journalism means youve got a reporter on the ground who you can trust to tell you whats happened. and with social media giving everybody a camera in their pocket, all of a sudden theres — theres people filming things everywhere. but again, theres the same problem that a journalist normally covers. who do you trust? what can you say? and the bbc as a news organization doesnt always succeed in getting t...

Of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as were talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think theres — theres a couple of reasons. first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people ive worked with had it not been for twitter. second, its a world of sources at our fingertips, so that were able to contac...