hello, welcome to the programme. a0 migrants who crossed the english channel were brought ashore by the dover lifeboat this morning. so far, just short of 3000 people have crossed in the first two months of this year. that s twice as many as the equivalent period last year. the prime minister says stopping these boats is one of his top five priorities. tomorrow, we ll see how he proposes to do it. his new policy, that s been heavily trailed, suggests that going forward migrants who cross this way will be removed and banned from future re entry and automatically their application for british citizenship will be rejected. we will talk about what is proposed in a second, but let s first hear from someone farzad. he arrived by small boat in 2019, fleeing persecution in iran. he was granted asylum a year ago. he s been speaking to bbc radio 4. now, farzad, if you were in france, where presumably you were safe, and you heard that it was the law in the uk that if you arrived on a bo
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin in sudan, where thousands continue to flee the worsening violence between rival military factions. the fighting started nearly a week ago and so far it s claimed at least 350 lives. civilians in the capital khartoum who are trapped between the factions are running low on food and water. efforts are under way to secure a three day truce to mark the muslim holiday of eid al fitr. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest. 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 are the victims of a power struggle between two rival armies, a war that has been waged in crowded cities with no regard for civilian life. doctors can t even reach many of the wounded. our volunteers live in fields and provide service apart from hospitals, very close to thei
a year of hope. a year of endurance. a year of unity. the year of invincibility. the furious year of invincibility. following a devastating year of russia s war of aggression, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vows to do everything to win this year. if putin s goal was to devour ukraine, he s clearly failed. from the beginning he s underestimated ukraine and the west with severe consequences within russia. and you have been following the alex murdaugh murder trial, we re not going to get into that testimony. instead, i m going to tell you about what this case tells us about generational power and privilege and the oligarchs living among us in america. we begin tonight with the somber one-year anniversary of russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion of ukraine. the war remains the biggest threat to peace and security in europe since the end of the cold war. the scale of human suffering is unimaginable for so many. according to the united nations, nearly 18 million p
dismissed the possibility of negotiations with the paramilitary rsf. the violence is now thought to have killed at least 330 people with thousands more injured. many khartoum residents have been trapped inside their homes. dalia abdelmoniem ventured outside for the first time in almost a week ahead of the upcoming eid holiday. no one is celebrating. what these men have done to us, i don t think there s no words to describe if you know, the ramifications of what they ve done. i don t know how we as a people or as a country can recover. in light of the worsening situation, us officials say they are readying for a possible evacuation of staff from the american embassy in khartoum, moving more us troops to a base in nearby djibouti. bbc s barbara plett usher has more from washington. the pentagon says that it s deploying these extra troops and equipment in the region near sudan it doesn t say where. but according to reports they re being sent to the us base in djibouti, and
to try and reduce the backlog of applications. millions of americans are facing a weather alert, as a mix of record high and record low temperatures sweeps the country. and, the man who showed the world a new permanent exhibition is announced, dedicated to david bowie. hello and welcome. police in northern ireland have confirmed that an off duty officer is in a critical but stable condition after being shot at a sports complex in omagh in county tyrone. the police federation for northern ireland said the shooting happened at around eight o clock last night while the officer coached young people playing football. sinn fein described the attack as outrageous and shameful , while the dup called for those responsible to be brought tojustice. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy reports. the shooting happened the shooting happened in the shooting happened in front the shooting happened in front of young players training at a coaching session, it is thought the off duty officer