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hello and welcome to the programme — i'm lewis vaughan jones. gunfire is sounding across the sudanese capital, khartoum, as another temporary truce between warring army factions fails. this is sudan, the fighting is concentrated there, you can see smoke coming from buildings for days and hearing gunfire. let's look at the latest pictures we have. these are not live but these give you a sense of what's been happening, some of the damage and some of the fighting continues. the latest guess is about 400 people have been killed across the country since the fighting started, now coming ...

The arduous reconstruction process is under way on the spanish island of la palma. excavators are digging their way through the solidified lava flows while engineers are working to ensure conditions are safe. the eruption of the cumbre vieja volcano was declared over on christmas day, after three long months of spewing ash and molten rock over the island. more than 3,000 buildings were destroyed along with hundreds of acres of farmland, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. here in the uk, there are still problems with accessing covid—i9 tests. the government has promised that mi...

The start of building work on the next wave of nightingale hubs. this one is at st george's hospital in south—west london. the government says it is a contingency measure, in case of a surge in covid patients. but there is concern about who will staff them. we would prefer that the government take steps to avoid needing to use that extra surge capacity, purely because there just aren't the number of staff needed to safely provide the care for any patients that are required to requiring care, and that is where the priority needs to be, to ensure we have staff to safely care for people that ne...

Hospital in south—west london. the government says it's a contingency measure in case of a surge in covid patients, but there's concern about who will staff them. we would prefer that the government take steps to avoid needing to use that extra surge capacity, purely because there just aren't the number of staff needed to safely provide the care for any patients that are requiring care, and that's with the priority needs to be, to ensure that we've got staff to safely care for people that need care. eight nightingale units will be set up in hospital grounds to care for around 100 covid patie...

Facilities that have been turned into makeshift hospitals in previous waves. however, even though the nhs did that, those hospitals were very rarely used much, partly because it is notjust about bed capacity, it is notjust about bed capacity, it is about getting the staff to operate them and you cannotjust invent stuff that you can bed space so they have changed tact in england and eight major hospitals will have extra storage capacity for covid. the so—called nightingale units. 100 extra beds at these separate hospitals, 800 overall and they will be set up in the tented area in car parks an...