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this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co—ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency's humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a "full blown catastrophe" — warning that more than 800 thousand people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum — despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea today. thos...

welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co—ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency's humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a "full blown catastrophe" — warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum — despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea — those not able to leave there by plane are t...

live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan, where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co—ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency's humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a "full—blown catastrophe" — warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port ...

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I spent over a dozen years looking into this story, and i had worked at the wall street journal for over 20 years and i had never encountered a story of this magnitude or drama. As i began looking into it what i found was that this has to be one of the most deadly, least known shipwrecks in america. And i uncovered a tale that was so horrible and so surprising i could not let it go. In a a lot of ways the story would not let me go, either. So were in july 1915, almost exactly 100 years ago. A large steamship. Think of the flatiron building on its side. That is virtually the exact size that eas...