tonight at ten: nurses warn their strike action could go on until christmas in their dispute over pay. with more industrial action promised for the end of april, the threat is months of rolling strikes, if ministers don't act. fighting has continued in sedan. these are the latest pictures from sunday night from the capital khartoum. three hour temporary humanitarian is in place to allow civilians to escape. the world food programme halted its operations in sudan after three of its members were among nearly 70 people reported

to have been killed. international efforts to end the fighting are ramping up with the head of the african union commission planning to go on a ceasefire mission and the presidents of kenya, south sudan and djibouti also trying to mediate. frank gardner gave more details. there was a window of opportunity for a couple of years for sudan to make the transition from military dictatorship to democracy, but they blew it. and they blew it because of this rivalry and essentially what has triggered this most recently is that in the discussions as to how to move sudan from a military leadership to civilian rule there were plans to incorporate this militia, the rsf, into the army, but they didn't really like it, the two general could not agree on how this was going to happen and the rsf went and spread itself around the country, occupied certain areas, and

has been fighting to try and dislodge them from port sudan and the airport in the north. it is incredibly sad for the sudanese people. they have never really had the experience of democracy. there were huge protests in 2019 that overthrew the rule of general bashir, who was the president and he was wanted by the international criminal court. there was a lot of optimism that sudan could then move to a democracy, but because of this inter—military squabbling the sudanese people are still being denied chances of peace and democracy. the us presidentjoe biden has called a shooting at a teenage birthday party in alabama that killed at least four people "outrageous and unacceptable", saying he and the first lady were praying for the victims' families. the shooting

happened in the town of dadeville. at least 20 people were shot and wounded — most of them teenagers. at this stage, there is no official confirmation about what led to the shooting, but there seems to have been some sort of altercation that then escalated. phil dowdell has been named by local media as one of the victims. phil was a senior in high school and was going to jacksonville state university on an american football scholarship. here the health secretary has again insisted a pay offer for nurses is fair and reasonable. it's after the head of the union, the royal college of nursing, warned members in england could carry out rolling strikes until christmas. on friday the nurses rejected the pay offer from the government, even though their own leadership had recommended they accept it. pat cullen spoke to the bbc earlier: we have strike action for the end of this month, the beginning of may, and then we will move immediately to ballot our members and if that ballot our members and if that ballot is successful, it will mean further strike action right up until christmas. now, the person that can

stop that and the people who can stop that and the people who can stop that and the people who can stop that is steve barclay and the ministers, indeed the prime minister. sixteen people have been killed and nine others injured after a fire at a residential building in dubai. the blaze began on the fourth floor of the five—storey building in the al—ras neighbourhood in the old part of the city. all those so far confirmed to have died are from overseas. the chief minister of the indian state of uttar pradesh has appealed for calm after a former politician was shot dead while under police escort. atiq ahmed — who had been convicted of kidnapping — was shot dead live on tv along with his brother. they were answering questions from journalists when they were killed in prayagraj. in the uk hundreds of amazon workers have begun a three day strike in a dispute over pay. six hundred members of the gmb union in coventry walked out and are calling for a pay rise from 10 pounds 50

to 15 pounds an hour. amazon does not recognise the union and said only a tiny proportion of its workforce was involved in the dispute. more strike action is due to take place later this week. here in the uk, the scottish national party has denied it's facing financial problems. it follows reports in a sunday newspaper of claims by the snp�*s treasurer that there are "difficulties" balancing the books. but the party says the finances are in balance. 0ur scotland correspondent alexandra mackenzie has more for two years, police scotland have been investigating the snp�*s finances. the former chief executive, peter murrell, he was arrested just over a week ago. he was released without charge and the home that he shares with his wife, nicola sturgeon, the former first minister, was searched by police officers over two days. today, a video has emerged in the sunday mail. it's believed to be from march 2021.

nicola sturgeon is seen addressing the snp�*s ruling body. she said in that video that the party has never been in a stronger financial position. she said, "be very careful about suggesting there are problems with the party's finances". she said, "we depend on donors to donate," and she said, "there's no reason for people to be concerned about the party's finances". then today the sunday times is reporting that the snp treasurer said in a meeting yesterday that the party was having difficulty balancing the books due to a fall in party membership and donors and said we need to find money to keep the party going forward. the snp have responded to these comments. they've said that they were taken out of context. they said that the party

was financially in robust health. staying in england — and motoring groups and campaigners have welcomed the government's decision to cancel the construction of new smart motorways but have insisted the announcement does not go far enough. the motorways, where technology is used to regulate traffic, also use the hard shoulder as an extra lane. here's mark ashdown. they were hailed as the solution to ease congestion in britain's roads. smart motorways see the hard shoulder either constantly used as an extra lane or added in at busy times. but this is what can happen when someone breaks down. after dozens of deaths on these types of roads, the government has scrapped plans to build more. claire mercer's has beenjason died when he was hit by a lorry after stopping on a smart motorway in 2019. obviously, it doesn't cover existing roads, and it's the existing roads that are killing us, so it's half the battle, but there is still half the battle to go. plans for an extra 1a schemes were on pause

but will now be scrapped. seven will remain as dynamic motorways where the hard shoulder is sometimes used. the government says it will save £1 billion. we will not approve any new smart motorways. clearly as a result of public concern and safety concern, and we are going to keep a close eye on the situation with the existing smart motorways. but at the moment, the announcement is purely about no new smart motorways. but that means there will still be 375 miles of smart motorway, 10% of england's network. in 2020, bbc panorama found that 38 people had died while using them over a five year period, and the number of near misses on one stretch of the m25 had increased twnetyfold. the aa says they all need to be scrapped. basically, drivers don't trust them, the technology is not foolproof, and 37% of breakdowns on smart motorways happen in live lanes, and basically, those drivers are sitting ducks.

0n current roots, £900 million worth of investment is still going ahead. to an extra 150 emergency bays and improve technology to detect when a driver is forced to stop. labour and the lib dems say scrapping future projects is long overdue, but concern remains over the existing network. the british horseracing authority, says it "robustly condemns" what it calls the "reckless" protests, at yesterday's grand national. animal rights activists delayed the start of the race. in a statement, the bha also said it would analyse all the races in the three—day aintree festival, to try to understand, why three horses died. 118 people were arrested and merseyside police say 65 people are still in custody. you are watching bbc news. now... the billion dollar scam. these partygoers are scammers. they work for an organised crime

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