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and the singer harry belafonte has died. welcome to bbc news. we start in sudan — and developments in the last hour or so — with the uk government urging british passport holders to head to an airfield to the north of khartoum, tojoin evacuation flights. previous advice — to wait until they are contacted — has been dropped. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, said uk nationals would have to make the riskyjourney to the airbase �*without a military escort�* — and warned it is "impossible" to know how long the pause in the fierce fighting will last. the first of the br...

also in the programme... president zelensky addresses the european parliament — saying ukraine is fighting to protect europe's way of life president zelensky pleas for. we start with the devastation following monday's earthquakes in turkey and syria, where mass graves are being dug, as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have lost their lives. rescuers are continuing desperate attempts to find and free survivors, four days after the quakes hit. the world health organization has warned there could be a "secondary disaster" with survivors living on the streets w...

hello and welcome to the programme. the financial times is reporting that ubs has offered to buy credit suisse for up to $1 billion dollars, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america's silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion dollars by switzerland's central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. our business correspondent marc ashdownjoi...

the government of switzerland says that the country's biggest bank, ubs, has taken over its troubled rival, credit suisse, in an emergency measure designed to protect the swiss economy. credit suisse had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america's silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion by switzerland's central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. here's the swiss president, alain berset, speaking at a press conference a short time ago. on conference...

hello and welcome to bbc world news. the government of switzerland says that the country's biggest bank, ubs, has taken over its troubled rival credit suisse in an emergency measure designed to protect the swiss economy. fears about the possible collapse of credit suisse sparked falls in stock markets around the world over recent days, and raised fears of another global financial crisis. the rescue deal follows a weekend of emergency talks between the two banks, after credit swiss saw its value plummet over the past week. the swiss national bank said the deal was the best way to rest...