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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...

Another comes from halyna hutchins' family in ukraine, there is a civil case, what is important about the criminal charges he was waiting until today as they could have resulted in a prison term. there were two chargers, one was under a firearm statute, alec baldwin's lawyers are for these charges from the outset, they said they were wrong, they represented a gross miscarriage ofjustice, they sat represented a gross miscarriage of justice, they sat at the time they were filed in january this year and that they would fight them and they would win. sophie long reporting there. around the world a...

About the type of punishment this person could be looking at. >> well, severe. there's a lot of federal statutes that are at least in place. some of that's gonna depend not just on finding the suspect, but interviewing him. figuring out if there's online or other forms of media that have been used, letters that have been written. there's the possibility of using federal charges such as attempted murder of an official, which would apply to maxine waters. it could apply to some of the others. there's also a long often used statute that basically reads like it's an under registered firearm statut...