welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mari oiko. the headlines. signs of a ceasefire in sudan, as the crisis spills into its second week. those on the ground though, describe terrifying scenes. they were running along here and they were shooting, chasing people along the street. we were locking all the doors and we go right in the middle of the house. tucker carlson exits fox news. for years he's been one of america's most—watched, most—profitbale, and most—controversial personalities. the who and other health agencies have launched a campaign to reverse a dangerous decline in vaccination levels among

children due to covid. plus, monarchy and popularity. a new bbc poll suggests less than a third of young adults in the uk want the royals to continue. we begin in sudan where the us says warring parties have agreed to a 72—hour ceasefire. us secretary of state antony blinken said the agreement with the sudanese armed forces and the para—military rapid support forces came after 48 hours of intense negotiations. earlier, the united nations secretary general warned the violence is at risk

of causing a "catastrophic conflagration" that could engulf the whole region and beyond. here's our africa correspondent andrew harding. khartoum today, still burning, as civilians, locals and foreigners hunt for ways to escape from sudan's hellish capital. at a bus station, this man said, "we're afraid that civilians may be used as human shields, especially after foreigners have been evacuated." it's still going on. this is for the last 20 minutes. many people still can't get out of the city, like the man who filmed these images. he's from dunfermline in fife and was visiting relatives in sudan's capital when the fighting began, trapping his family. very scary. they were running along my street yesterday, last night. they were running along here

and they were shooting, chasing people along the street. we are locking all the doors and we go right in the middle of the house. asked if he feels abandoned, he becomes emotional. i think they've done what they could have done, and we'lljust have to do it ourselves. in the past 2a hours, others have managed to flee, some risking everything to drive through the front lines to an airfield outside khartoum. egypt, jordan and germany, among others, have been ferrying thousands of people to safety — this teacher among those now recovering in djibouti. i mean, i'm happy that i'm safe. for me, in a way, it's just a little bit sad. some of my friends that i work with, they can't leave. others are still making long overland journeys

to sudan's borders. among them, british nationals. emily keal was teaching in khartoum. her mother growing increasingly frustrated. my perception is it's just been really slow. other nations have gone in and evacuated their citizens, but our governmentjust seems to be... they keep telling us they're planning, they're planning, there's been cobra meetings and there's been lots of talking on, but we actually need them to just get in there and do it. so now what? as khartoum empties out, the fear is that a power struggle between two rival military factions will turn even more violent. the violence must stop. it risks a catastrophic conflagration within sudan that could engulf the whole region and beyond. for now, sudan's war goes on, and with it an exodus of civilians escaping from a country that had hoped it was on the path to democracy, not chaos. andrew harding, bbc news, johannesburg.

earlier we spoke to our state department correspondent barbara plet usher who told us more about ceasfires. the most recent one was the temporary cease fire over the muslim holiday of eid, which was shaky, to say the least. and now the secretary of state, antony blinken, has announced another one, an extension of that one in effect, for three days. he said there would be a cease fire. he said during that time he would work together with all parties, international and sudanese to set up a committee to be able to try and negotiate and implement a permanent cessation of hostilities and also to deal with the humanitarian consequences of the conflict. he did not explain why he thought this cease fire might hold when others have disintegrated or have not been kept very well. he did say that he was urging both generals to cease fire, that there had been 48 hours of intense negotiations to get to this point. and the goal,

of course, is to get to a more stable cessation of hostilities so that ultimately that process, which was interrupted by the the fighting, that process of trying to a transition to a civilian government could could resume. and at the same time, a number of countries, including the united states, are trying to evacuate its citizens from sudan and the uk government coming under quite a lot of pressure, isn't it? yes. as we were hearing there from some of the people in andrew's report, the uk government coming under pressure from citizens who felt it's not doing enough to help them on the us side. the americans evacuated their diplomatic personnel from the embassy. they are not going to conduct an evacuation of us citizens who do not work for the government. there could be up to 16,000 of them in the country. that's the figure that congress was given last week by officials. but we've been told that only some hundreds approached

the embassy or called the embassy, and only some dozens, mr blinken said, were actually trying to find a way out. so they are providing information to these people on the safest way to do that, which is going to have to be over land because there isn't going to be another air rescue, at least not now. and the pentagon has said it has drones in the air that are monitoring threats and identifying potential routes. the best one or the main one seems to be the road out to port sudan. and the navy has also deployed two ships in port sudan to be on standby in case they're needed for any sort of efforts to help civilians. the most—watched presenter in cable you news on the us took carlson is leaving the network owned by rupert murdoch. he has been the vanguard of fox's on flagging support for donald trump and he was named in the recent court case where fox news agreed to pay almost $800

million over its coverage over the 2020 residential election and its false claims about the ringing. our north american editor has more. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight... tucker carlson was a huge star on fox, one of their highest rated and more outrageous hosts... 80—year—old joe biden, shuffling stiff—legged and bewildered to the podium, a husk held together by botox. .. ..making the news himself today. fox news media and tucker carlson have mutually agreed to part ways. tucker's last show was this past friday. here is that final show. just listen to the end. and we'll be back on monday. in the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love and we'll see you then. he clearly did not know this was his last programme. fox news knew and loved the fact that tucker carlson attracted great controversy. he promoted racist conspiracies on air and he said repeatedly that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump.

so much for those claims that voterfraud never happens! of course it happens... last week, fox news agreed to pay an enormous, nearly $800 million settlement to dominion voting systems. tucker carlson was among those who had falsely suggested on air that dominion�*s machines switched votes from donald trump tojoe biden in the 2020 election. we don't know how many votes were stolen on tuesday night. we don't know anything about the software that many say was rigged. we don't know. we ought to find out. tucker carlson did a greatjob last night... cheering ..because he was willing to call it out. carlson and trump had a symbiotic relationship, each man glorifying the other. is there anything they could direct you legally that would convince you to drop out of the race...? email and text messages, made public as part of dominion�*s legal case, showed that carlson only promoted trmup�*s lies about election fraud because he was worried about fox losing viewers and the share price falling. after his shocked departure was announced, fox's market value — ironically — fell sharply,

losing $700 million. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. kathleen culver is from the university of wisconsin—madison, and i asked what her reaction was to this decision by fox news. i'm stunned by it. i don't know whether it was a mutual decision or not, but friday's programme certainly gives the indication that tucker carlson didn't know at the time. no activity over the weekend would indicate otherwise. but i certainly did not this have this on my media bingo card for this week. interesting. shares in fox news falling and by about $i,000,000,000. that's more than how much fox news actually agreed to pay in that dominion settlement. what are investors concerned about? is this about mr carlson leaving the network? i think investors are right

to be worried about a number of different things. first and foremost, whether the lies that were shared throughout fox news and calling into question the integrity of the us presidential election of 2020 actually damaged the brand to such an extent that the shareholders lost money. there's a case to be made there and one shareholder is already filed a lawsuit in that regard. i think there's also the immediate reaction on wall street to this sort of thing. tucker carlson no longer on the network. he certainly was popular with viewers. the question is, who will be next and how will they build an audience? and then will those shares rebound? so do you think his departure, as well as that dominion settlement, will it affect fox news and other media coverage of the 2024 presidential election? i think there's almost no doubt that it will have some effect on that coverage. i think one of the questions is going to be who remains in competition with fox news? with the discovery that we saw in the dominion lawsuit, you saw a lot of concern among those inside

fox, as well as including tucker carlson about challenges from one america news, oan and then also newsmax and losing audiences to those more conservative outlets, more right wing outlets, and that fox needed to pivot its own coverage in response so that it wouldn't lose viewers. oan and newsmax are also the focus of litigation, and it remains to be seen whether they will move, whether there will be judgements against them or they will move toward settlement, whether they'll actually be going concerns in the 2024 race. and on the same day, don lemon has also left cnn. what's happening there? well, it's so strange that they happened on the same day, but they're such enormously different cases. you know the odd couple, the new version of the odd couple with don lemon and tucker carlson in the same breath. but i think with lemon, i actually was surprised that his time at cnn lasted as long as it did.

you know, he his comments about nikki haley not being in her prime when at her age, she's younger than me. ifeel very much in my prime, especially at a time when we have two leading candidates, both the democratic candidate and the republican candidate. ahead in the polls now are both geriatric men. so i was surprised that don lemon made it this far. and i suspect that the reason is the sort of duration of those offensive comments. there may be something else at play here. there may be workplace issues that we don't know about. we certainly have been seeing a lot of that activity in the us media. let's take a look at some of the stories in the headlines in the uk.... the uk's biggest business lobby group says it hired "cultu rally toxic" staff and failed to deal properly with people who sexually harassed female colleagues. the cbi says it has now dismissed a number of people and that it must change its culture.

the group has been engulfed in scandal since allegations of misconduct, even rape, have emerged and many key businesses have deserted it. an organisation that was over complex with its size, too many layers, too many managers not trained enough of these sensitive people issues. the people and cultural agenda was not top of mind. it wasn't, you know, the hr director didn't sit on exec committee. the board didn't hear very much about people issues. we've addressed that through this report as well. so a combination of a number of failings that led together to be a more serious overall feeling. the uk government wants the high court to assess whether the last day of a nurses strike in england is unlawful. it believes the walkout on tuesday falls outside the royal college of nursing's six—month mandate for action. the royal college of nursing has accused ministers of using "draconian anti—union legislation". a bbc investigation found that a third of the nearly

600 million pound funding the uk government allocated to its tutoring programme has not been spent. this means it'll be returned to the treasury. the scheme is meant to help children in primary and secondary schools catch up after covid lockdowns. the government said it has helped millions of children — but the opposition labour party called the scheme a "shocking failure". around the world and across the gate this is bbc news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. it's been described as a buzzer. but for something so small, its impact is huge. if i turn it off... ..then i turn it back on again.

jeff is one of the first people to use the 01 which is now being trialled at addenbrooke�*s hospital in cambridge, where staff admit patients have been surprised by the results. i think it was a surprise to me as well, which is why we're trying it in—patients because it has such a quick effect. and a lot of the drugs that people need to take to treat the condition have a lot of side effects. over 13,000 people are on the waiting list for the 01. sojeff is one of the lucky ones. operating a scooter would have been unthinkable without one, training a new puppy now a walk in the park. you're live with bbc news. children and teenagers around the world could be at risk of rare diseases because of a fall in vaccine uptakes. organisations including the world health organisation, unicef and the bill and melinda gates foundation have today announced a drive to encourage and increase immunisation.

with more on this is our reporter simi jolaoso from the newsroom. for the start of world immunisation week. a number of health agencies, including the world health organisation and unicef, have come together to announce what they're calling the big catch up. it's a targeted global effort to boost immunisation among children, they say, especially after the covid—i9 pandemic. there's been a massive decline in vaccine uptake in over 100 countries. in 2021, 25 million children missed at least one vaccination. three quarters of these children are in 20 countries, including mexico, myanmar, chad and somalia. some of the reasons why the vaccine uptake has decreased includes conflict, the climate crisis and lack of medical supplies, as well as overstretched health services. but this isn't only in low and middle income countries. in fact, in england,

69% of 13 to 1a year olds in 2021 did not take the three in one jab that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and polio. this number is down from 88% before the covid—19 pandemic. there can be severe consequences when vaccine uptake decreases so much. and in fact, we're already seeing a rise in outbreaks of polio, yellow fever, measles and diphtheria around the world. so the hope is that this big catch up will protect populations from such outbreaks, will save children's lives and will strengthen health systems across the world. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines.... new united nations figures say that india is now the world's most populous country. for decades china was the country with the most people, but now it's been bumped down to second place. experts believe that india's

growing youth population will give the nation an advantage as they are witnessing a baby boom twice the rate of china. the family sizes and china felt earlier than india and they have gone lower than in india so india is perhaps 20 or 30 years behind china in this respect. so china is getting through the climbing population quicker and sooner than i think people fox and india is indeed about to overtake it, we cannot know exactly the date with the moment, butjust about now. officials in pakistan say at least twelve people have been killed in two explosions at a counter—terrorism office in the north—western town of kabal. most of the dead are police officers. the attack took place on the last day pakistan was celebrating the islamic eid al—fitr festival, which marks the end of the holy month of ramadan. japan has approved it's first abortion pill decades after other countries. to date, only surgical abortions have been allowed injapan —

and only with consent from their partners and if the pregnancy will cause harm to the mother, or was caused by rape. activists have celebrated this milestone but also point to a long road ahead for better reproductive rights. dawn services have taken place in australia and new zealand to mark anzac day —— to commemorate troops killed at war and people who served. the date marks the anniversary of the landing of australian and new zealand soldiers — the anzacs — on the gallipoli peninsula in 1915. it comes at a time when the australian government is embarking on its biggest overhaul of its defence strategy since world war two. earlier, i spoke to our sydney correspondent phil mercer about the major defence reviewjust announced by the government. i think australia is worried about security closer to home

in the indo—pacific region. the review makes reference to china's rapid military escalation and also its territorial ambitions in the south china sea. the review says in its opinion, there is no direct military threat from china to australia, but it believes that china's activities in the region do undermine australia's national interests. so to that end the review is calling for australia to invest more in longer—range missiles amd also to beef up australia's military bases in its tropical north. so this is the most fundamental sweeping review of australia's armed forces in many many years. and certainly china's rise has been one of the fundamental drivers of this review. it is interesting how the review mentions china because of course australia

does have very strong trade economic ties with the country. it is a bit of a tricky balancing act, is it not? it is always a delicate act of diplomacy when it comes to australia and china. you are absolutely right. china is australia's biggest trading partner. australia's recent prosperity has been underwritten largly by china's demand for australia's natural resources most notably bya iron ore, a ingredient in steel—making. since the election last year of anthony albanese leading australia's left of centre labour government, there has been some easing of tension with beijing and mr albanese is pointing out that australia needs to have cordial stable relationships with china but there will be areas where both countries disagree.

with less than two weeks to go, until the coronation of king charles — a new poll suggests, public opinion about the british royals is changing, with less than a third of 18 to 2a year olds in the uk, wanting the monarchy to continue. commissioned by the bbc�*s panorama programme, the yougov poll also revealed that almost half of those asked, who were from ethnic minority backgrounds, believe the royal family has a problem with race and diversity. ashley john—ba ptiste reports. at this college in bedfordshire... hi, guys, have a seat. these 16—year—olds are gearing up for the royal event of the air, but what does the coronation mean to these students? how do you feel about the upcoming coronation? we haven't seen anything like it in over 70 years, like, you have to agree, come on, it is exciting.

i want to be part of history, and obviously i will come down to london to see it live as well. hmm. what are you thinking? it doesn't mean anything to me, because it isjustl someone getting crowned. it isjust a waste of money when they could be spending it on stuff like care homes. what do you guys make of king charles? i don't really like him. i think he can do some good, but he is not really my cup of tea. in my opinion, i think- he is going to be a really good king, because he is helping out with charities and stuff. - how do you feel about camilla as queen? she willjust be hidden in some ways, as she doesn't really come out and present herself. i do think that prince william should be king, as he... what, instead of charles? yeah. king charles does not have the empathy towards the young generation as much as william and kate do. does the royal family

connect with communities like the ones you are from? yes, because when you see all these controversies, - they are like a typical family, it is like watching a tv - drama, i would say. the kardashians! is that what you think about the royal family? tell me more, please! they are known by most people around the world, and they have got the money and stuff like that. they are not as relatable to our cost of living, because most of us live in poverty, they are the leaders of the uk, so they don't have to face those challenges. in terms of the future of britain, should we continue to have a monarchy? yes. that was unanimous. having a monarch and| being british, it shows that we are our own people. ijust think it makes our country special, because they are not many monarchies around. some people take it as a symbol of pride that we have a royal family, and it brings people together.

it is a part of my heritage. does it make you proud? yeah, it really does. that's it for now thank you for watching newsday. hello there. very few places on monday had a completely dry day and temperatures struggled to get into double figures. we've seen the colder air down from the arctic move down across the whole of the uk. that's firmly in place right now. there are some weather fronts trying to push up from the south—west, but most of the showers that we had earlier on are getting drawn away into the north sea as that low pressure heads towards scandinavia. so as the showers die away, skies are clearing, and with the winds lighter, temperatures are falling quite sharply. it'll be a cold start to tuesday. lowest temperatures, scotland and northern ireland, “4 or —5 celsius. so, a frosty start for much of the country on tuesday. but it should be a bright and sunny one. as is quite typical for this time of the year, through the morning, as temperatures rise,

the cloud will bubble up. in the afternoon, it spreads out and it becomes increasingly cloudy. very few showers around, mind you, most of them in the north of scotland — again, a touch wintry over the hills — but the winds are a lot lighter here and we'll have light winds elsewhere as well. those temperatures ranging from 7 degrees in northern scotland to only 12 celsius in the south—east of england. so colder weather is in place, these weather fronts trying to move up from the south—west, making very little progress. we are going to see more cloud coming in overnight into wednesday, so the frost is going to be more limited to scotland and northern england. and here, there may well be some sunshine for a while on wednesday, so too northern ireland, but again the cloud will build up, we'll see a few more showers breaking out, mainly across northern england. further south, wales, the midlands and southern england look pretty cloudy. quite a dull day. bit misty over the hills in the south—west, and the clouds thick enough to give a few spots of light rain or drizzle. and those temperatures not really changing very much into wednesday. there is some milder air, as i say, trying to come in from the south—west, but it's making very slow

progress, pushing away that cold air that we've drawn down from the arctic. and it looks like whilst there could be some sunshine around for a while across northern areas, again, the cloud will increase and it's looking pretty dull further south. the cloud thickening in the south—west to bring with it some outbreaks of rain, into south—west england and south wales. those temperatures creeping up but only by a degree or two. it will be a cold start to this week, a chilly week ahead, certainly, with those early frosts around, before the cloud comes in, limiting the frost, lifting the temperatures just a little bit, but bringing with it later in the week the chance of some rain.

lifting the curtain on the turmoil at us regional banks. first republic shares fall after it reveals it suffered a huge fall in deposits. plus, setting up a rum distillery in scotland? a business—minded couple tells us about the importance of location when setting up a new business. hi there, welcome to asia business report. i'm mariko oi. shares in the us bank first republic have dropped more than 20% in extended trading. it comes after the embattled lender revealed that it

suffered a huge drop in deposits during the first quarter.