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live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it's six in the morning in singapore and 1am in sudan, where we begin the programme. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from khartoum, the capital of sudan, as fighting between rival military factions enters a second week. the ministry of defence in london confirmed that embassy staff had been brought out under cover of darkness and the united states has carried out a similar operation. there's no word yet on...

and turkey issues an international appeal for help. we'll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. we'll look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, let's see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 — the epicentre in turkey's gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthqua...

to the negotiation table over ukraine. the economy it was also high on his agenda and during his three—day visit deals have been struck including on green and nuclear energy. i spoke with a professor earlier from the business school we explained the balancing act that france needs to strike with beijing. what is happening is that president or an invited ursula von der leyen to come with him and they are looking at the different speeches that have been given in beijing. micron is playing the soft parts while ursula bandar lyon is playing the hard part because has warned china severa...

and that's crucial to moving toward our enduring goal of palestinians and israelis enjoying equal measures of freedom, security, opportunity, justice and dignity. president biden remains fully committed to that goal. we continue to believe the best way to achieve it is through preserving and then realising the vision of two states. as i said to the prime minister, anything that moves us away from that vision is in ourjudgment detrimental to israel's long term security and its long term identity as a jewish and democratic state. you heard secretary blinken there referring to a two—s...

200 marathons in the last year to highlight the issue of water overconsumption. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin today in israel, where mass protests have been taking place in several cities after prime minister benjamin netanyahu sacked his defence minister, yoav gallant. mr gallant was dismissed after he called for controversial plans to overhaul the justice system to be scrapped. (os)these are pictures of the scenes in tel aviv tonight. as you can see, protesters are gathering momentum. we have seen these sorts of scenes over the last couple of days where tens of thous...