live from london, this is bbc news. fighting continues in sudan with fresh artillery strikes. the leader of anti—governenment forces says he won't hold talks until the violence ends. russian authorities say a massive blaze at an oil terminal in russian—occupied crimea was triggered by a drone attack. all four teaching unions in england say they will co—ordinate strikes over pay — if their members vote for industrial action. and how liverpool is preparing to welcome the lgbt+ community during the eurovision song contest. hello, i'm anjana gadgil. the former prime minister of sudan has warned that the insecurity in his country could become worse than that

in syria and libya. abdalla hamdok said there needed to be a unified international effort to persuade the sudanese military leader and the head of a rival paramilitary force to hold peace talks. despite agreeing to a ceasefire, fighting has continued in parts of the capital, khartoum, with reports of fighterjets and drones targeting positions held by the rapid support forces, or rsf. hundreds have now been killed, and tens of thousands have fled the conflict which is de—stabilising the entire region. one of the generals leading the rsf in the fight against sudan's army — has told the bbc he will not negotiate until the fighting ends. mohamed hamdan dagalo — also known as hemedti — was speaking to zeinab badawi. i want to put it to you that the people particularly in khartoum are living in an ordeal, what would it take for you to allow humanitarian corridors?

translation: first of all i would like to thank- the bbc for the interview regarding the truce. we have been asking for it from the first day of the war, we started a humanitarian corridor straightaway. we have opened these corridors within the areas controlled by our forces. we started the truce from our site. we started the truce from our side. we are working for the sake of the civilians and our fight is on behalf of the civilians. we have no problems with these corridors and helping. the sudanese people acknowledge the areas under our control. we are working hands and feet to help others. we have no problem with these corridors whatsoever. our diplomatic

correspondent paul adams, is following developments. there had been the suggestion from the south sudanese government of an invitation to the two men leading these rival factions to travel to meet face—to—face. that has not materialised. clearly there has been an enormous concerted international effort led by the americans, the saudi arabians, the gulf and other regional players to try and make sure that these ceasefires are put in place, but it is hard to resist the feeling that this is largely to allow the evacuation of foreign nationals. whether that diplomatic impetus and pressure will continue once foreign governments feel they have got their citizens out, we will have to wait and see, but if it does not, we are in for a very rough time indeed. it does feel as though left of their own devices the two men are not going to settle the differences. it is only going to be as a result of international pressure that the

fighting can be contained, that the differences that separate them can be addressed. the british government says nhs doctors in sudan can now catch evacuation flights out of the country, with just hours to go before some of the uk's final rescue flights leave. more than 20 nhs medics were told they could not board planes because they were not british nationals — despite having uk work permits. sancha berg reports. safe from the fighting. nearly 2000 people packed on board a ferry arriving injeddah, saudi arabia, this morning after an overnight trip across the red sea from the increasingly crowded and desperate port sudan, where people are trying to use this escape route as others close. it's so bad, you know, so bad. and a lot of innocent people are dying every day. he's my mum's first cousin and he's

the first one of my family that has left khartoum in this. and you know what a relief. what a relief to see him and his kids safe and sound. port sudan is 800 kilometres from the capital khartoum, where most british nationals have been based and the government's evacuation effort at an airstrip north of the city. the foreign office said over 1500 british nationals and their dependents have left this way. registration for the last flights has now closed. those stuck in sudan may head for the port like several nhs doctors. the issue with the port sudan evacuation is it's quite unclear. there's a little sort of presence for the uk evacuation. there's minimal communication. people are unclear whether they will actually be evacuated. many thousands of people are now heading in to port sudan.

the foreign office says it's set up a consular office in a hotel there and a team will signpost options for departure. it's a busy day as you can see atjeddah�*s port,with happy moments. lyse doucet, our chief international correspondent, has boarded a boat making the journey back to port sudan some happy moments. those are the people who have finally made it to safety in what has been the that was the largest evacuation effort so far. and now you find us here on a saudi warship. we're at the king faisal naval base. in fact, we have just left it. we have literallyjust pulled up anchor. you can see they're bringing up the steps now. all of the main officers on this warship are on the bridge. they are now charting the journey. it will be perhaps 12 hours, perhaps 18 hours. a red sea crossing, which will take us to port sudan, to sudan's largest port, where hundreds of thousands of people are waiting, including brits trying to find any boat

which will take them to safety. it's a long passage and exhausting passage, but it is a passage to safety and an exit from this devastating war. and so we're on this warship to basically report on the evacuation effort as it will unfold and will unfold for some time to come in port sudan. russia says a huge blaze in the crimean port of sevastopol has been caused by a drone strike. the city's moscow—appointed governor says a fuel tank had been hit. video on social media shows smoke and flames billowing from an oil terminal. sevastopol is on the crimean peninsula which was annexed by russia in 2014 — and home to moscow's black sea naval fleet. meanwhile, ukraine is still reeling from a wave of russian airstrikes on friday which killed at least 25 people including children. this was the scene in the central city of uman — after a nine storey apartment building was hit.

0ur correspondent — hugo bachega — is in uman with the latest from there. this is the building hit yesterday, as you can see there is lots of activity happening behind me more than 30 hours after the attack happened. and a missile hit the top section of this block of flats after liam, residents were still sleeping here. the section collapsed, as some of the residents were trapped under the rubble. the authorities here, emergency workers, i think there is still a search and rescue operation under way. we have seen some families here this morning waiting to hear about their missing loved ones. the authorities working here say they still do not know how many people are still missing but i think this gives you an idea of the scale of the disruption caused by this, destruction. 23 people have been killed here. just a few minutes ago

the authorities confirmed a fifth child was one of the victims. this attack happened yesterday. this morning, the ministry of defence in the uk said there was a realistic possibility russia was attempting to intercept ukrainian reserve units and military supplies provided by western countries to ukraine. there is a military airfield in that direction so that is perhaps the target of the attack carried out yesterday here in this town. obviously this is happening as the ukrainians are preparing a counter offensive to try to take back territory that is now under occupation. perhaps this is an indication of how russia is likely to respond to any ukrainian advance.

the sister of ruth perry — the headteacher who took her own life while awaiting for a school inspection report that downgraded her school — says she won't give up until the regulator is reformed. speaking to a union conference of headteachers, julia waters called for schools to remove 0fsted banners and branding from their premises. here's our education editor, branwen jeffreys. ruth perry took her life while waiting for an 0fsted report. the school she ran was downgraded to inadequate. inspectors raised concerns about keeping children safe. today, ruth's sister, julia, gave an emotional speech to head teachers. ruth and i were both pupils at caversham primary school ourself in the 19705 and absolutely loved it. she described the impact on ruth of the inspection. the injustice of that one—word judgment destroyed ruth's career, her world, and her sense of self. i won't give up until 0fsted is radically reformed

to place the welfare of teaching staff as well as of children at its heart. and she called on schools to stop using 0fsted branding, headteachers to stop working as inspectors. so please stand up for ruth. stand up for yourselves and each other. stand up to 0fsted. speak out. take down your banners. hand in your badges. 0fsted must be reformed. applause here from head teachers. but 0fsted says it's standing by the inspection and judgement of caversham primary. what happened here has prompted others to take a stand. this school in cambridge has begun a legal challenge to 0fsted. the head teacher has said she too was left feeling suicidal. the school claims inspectors didn't follow proper process.

0fsted says it completely refutes these allegations. it's incredibly difficult for schools to challenge 0fsted'sjudgment. one of the main reasons is they don't get to see the evidence behind it. that goes straight from the inspectors to 0fsted and it's never shared. the government has said 0fsted inspections are vital for parents. the labour party that it would replace one—word judgments with a scorecard. branwynjeffreys, bbc news. the health service in england has warned that a planned strike by nurses on sunday night will cause significant disruption during an already busy holiday weekend. members of the royal college of nursing are walking out from eight o'clock until midnight on monday. the union has agreed contingency plans for staff to return to work in extreme cases and major incidents. health workers represented by another union, unite, have also rejected the same pay deal and say they'll escalate industrial action.

but the gmb union, which represents ambulance workers, nurses, porters and radiographers, have accepted an nhs pay offer, joining members of the biggest union, unison, who accepted that deal two weeks ago. pat cullen from the royal college of nursing explains there will still be help available for patients. it's important to let the public know and patients know we have agreed in the royal college of nursing a range of critical exemptions within those services, we have been working for two weeks with nhs england to ensure that those exemptions are put in place. it was ourselves actually who contacted nhs england to ask for that process to be put in place. this idea that has been put in the media over the past few days that all nursing staff are going to walk out on their patients and the patients

will be left with higher leels of risk, that is not the case. we worked through to midnight on our last night to make sure all exemptions of a request through nhs england are dealt with. 0n the second day of his visit to hungary — pope francis has met refugees at st. elizabeth's church in the capital, budapest. the pontiff also visited a home for disadvantaged children. the trip will run until the end of the weekend. pope francis has praised hungary for its intake of ukrainian refugees, but the vatican has also criticised budapest�*s attitude to those arriving from 0utside europe — after they were put in harsh transit camps. 0ur correspondent nick thorpe has been following the pope's visit. he has gone out of his way to praise the hungarian government for some of what it is doing, for helping persecuted christians around the world, for example some of those

in the church who he is meeting now in the churches behind me here would be christians who have come here from pakistan, iran, for example, and have found refuge in hungary. also he has been pretty critical of the hungarian governments position in the past, showing a cold front, even building fences to keep our asylum seekers, to keep out asylum seekers, very few apart from those coming from ukraine ever get into hungary. the pope making clear, really, the act of christian charity would be to be open to strangers and refugees in general. let's get some of the day's other news now. and the british royal navy says it'll investigate reports that sensitive documents — containing details about a nuclear submarine — were found in a toilet cubicle at a pub in northwest england. media reports say the files showed the workings of hms anson — one of the navy's most advanced vessels. the us army has grounded

all flying units not involved in critical missions with immediate effect. the army chief of staff says pilots have been ordered to undergo a day's training next week after two recent helicopter crashes which killed twelve soldiers. the stand down applies only to the army. other branches of the military, such as the air force, aren't affected. and a threatened strike by us screenwriters demanding more pay could bring hollywood film and television studios to a standstill next week. a us headteacherforced to resign after parents complained about an art lesson showing one of the world's most famous sculptures — has visited the masterpiece. hope caraskiier pictured on the right —— went to see michelangelo's david on friday at the accademia galleria in florence. the statue, which is over five metres high, depicts a completely naked david — the biblicalfigure who killed the giant goliath. sport and a full round up,

from the bbc sport centre. by the end of the day we will have our two finallists at the world snooker championship in sheffield. the four time champion mark selby resumed his semifinal 7—6 ahead against mark allen. he still has a one frame advantage. he's11—10 up heading into the evening session at the crucible. it could be a late finish there. china's sijiahui is looking to become the youngest finallist at the crucible. the 20—year—old who is making his world championship debut leads the belgian luca brecel14—10 in their semi final but it could have been more had it not been for this missed green. brecel , who knocked out ronnie 0'sullivan in the quarters, pinched the final frame and trails by fourframes. they are back out in a few minutes to play their final session

england are on course for another six nations grand slam, they are facing their title rivals france at twickenham right 110w. both sides had a hundred percent record heading into their final match of this year's championship. in the last few minutes they've come out for the second half, it's 33—0. england haven't lost in the six nations since 2018. they're playing in front of a record crowd for a women's rugby union international with around 56,000 there. there's not too much riding on the other two matches today. wales should hang onto third in the table unless they are heavily beaten by italy in parma and scotland get a big win against ireland in edinburgh. there has to be a seventy point swing for the scots to move above the welsh. it's scottish cup semi—finals this weekend. rangers and celtic play on sunday. the winner will face championship side inverness caledonian thistle in the final after they beat league one falkirk 3—0

in the last quarter of an hour. this was a repeat of the 2015 final which inverness also won. dan mackay scored in each half and billy mackay added the other goal at hampden park. there arejust three premier league games today. the lunchtime kick—off between crystal palace and west ham was delayed by 15 minutes because of problems with the electronic turnstiles at selhurst park. the fans didn't have to wait long for the goals to come, palace 3—2 up at half—time. there are around 20 minutes to go in the second half with the score now 11—3 thanks to a eberechi eze penalty in the last few minutes. west ham are five points above the relegation zone and a win would see them move above palace.

west ham think they have scored, we will keep an ion that will stop. final bids have been submitted for the purchase of manchester united. 10 pm last night was the latest deadline for interested parties and we've been told that the qatari banker sheikh jassim has tabled an offer of around 5 billion bounds sheikh jassim believes his bid, is the best for united and the community as a whole, but he will face opposition from sirjim ratcliffe's ineos group who have also put in their final offer. they are the two main parties looking to take full control of the club. there are other investment groups only willing to take a minority stake. the glazer family who have owned the club since 2005, will now assess their position. formula 0ne's first sprint race of the season gets underway in the next quarter of an hour.earlier

ferrari's charles leclerc made it two pole positions in as many days by leading the new sprint shootout at the azerbaijan grand prix. leclerc took pole despite crashing on his final lap of the shortened qualifying session. he beat red bull's sergio perez and max verstappen, with mercedes driver george russell in fourth and lewis hamilton sixth. and that's all the sport for now. the countdown is on with just two weeks to go until the eurovision final comes to the english city of liverpool. it's notjust europe's biggest night in music, it's also one of the biggest events for the lgbt community. here's lauren moss. it is two weeks to go. joy, fun, excitement. until the big day. camp, isn't it? just boss. literally gay christmas.

otherwise known as the eurovision song contest. it is one of the biggest events for the lgbt community, and thousands of people will descend on liverpool. the city is working hard to welcome them, two years after it was rocked by a spate of homophobic and transphobic hate crimes. the attacks prompted protests, calling for more to be done to make people feel safe. i think for us, as a city, we're like every city. we do have hate crimes, and we're still working tirelessly to remove that from the city and challenge that wherever possible. my team only investigate hate crime, so i can see a lot of this... the region's pride group, alongside merseyside police, has created a first—of—its—kind training plan. more than 100 businesses have signed up so far. having that awareness that people respect you and understand the community is important, so being able to see a rainbow logo, you are safe here lanyard, or being able to see pronouns, just helps people know that that person respects them and can approach them.

this venue has completed the you are safe here training. constable chriss hubbard is the force's lgbt lead, and says there is no better time to break down barriers than at eurovision. it'sjust an opportunity to come as you are and be yourself and be proud of who you are from your diverse minority that you may come from. as part of the community, i obviously want to feel safe when i'm out and about, when i take this uniform off. and i do feel that by having that visible presence, actually, the community are really forthcoming. the pub where rachel works has done the training. as a lesbian, she says it is important everywhere feels inclusive. i know that i can go places and not be harassed or hate crimed or anything. you shouldn't have to walk, look around somewhere and think i can't go in there because i don't know what will happen. i think it should be, i can go anywhere, i don'tjust have to stay in this part of town. shut up, i can't hear the music! the run—up to eurovision will include a packed programme of lgbt events,

from drag shows to art exhibitions. there will be all the glitter and glam we have come to expect from the campest night in the calendar. shows like this will transform liverpool in the next couple of weeks, a huge celebration for the queer community. what we decided to do was create a party or a celebration that we would love to share to the people of ukraine, a spectacular show that raises awareness for not only them and what is happening over there but to promote us and the lgbt community, and especially people who are part of the queer black community. one and the most important question — how will merseyside score on the night? liverpool, 12 points! to the us next where a 13 year old school boy is being hailed a hero after this happened. 66 michigan students were

on their school bus when as you can see the driver passes out. 13 year old dillion reeves was sitting about five rows back and saw what happened. he lept from his seat and managed to grab hold of the wheel and put his foot on the brake, bringing the bus to a stop safely. his parents said they were shocked when the police called them. what is he doing. and they were like this is a good call, your son is a hero. ~' this is a good call, your son is a hero. ~ , ., ~ , , hero. something like this makes my heart skip a — hero. something like this makes my heart skip a beat _ hero. something like this makes my heart skip a beat to _ hero. something like this makes my heart skip a beat to watch _ hero. something like this makes my heart skip a beat to watch that - heart skip a beat to watch that video — heart skip a beat to watch that video i— heart skip a beat to watch that video. i asked heart skip a beat to watch that video. iasked how heart skip a beat to watch that video. i asked how did you know what to do, _ video. i asked how did you know what to do. how— video. i asked how did you know what to do. how to— video. i asked how did you know what to do, how to drive the bus. and he said i_ to do, how to drive the bus. and he said i watch— to do, how to drive the bus. and he said i watch him do it every day. and before we go, a new photograph of king charles has been released, showing the beginning of his studies at trinity college in cambridge in 1967. the still has been released

ahead of the monarch�*s coronation on may six. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. for many parts of the uk, there has been a change in the feel of the weather, a change to something warmer with some spells of sunshine. but that warm sunshine has helped to spawn some big shower clouds. we will continue to see some heavy showers through the rest of today and indeed through the rest of the weekend. some spells of warm sunshine, too. however, on the earlier satellite picture, we can see this zone of cloud here across parts of scotland and northeast england. underneath that, we've got some spots of rain and actually, it does feel rather chilly. and to the north of that, caithness and sutherland, 0rkney and shetland certainly in some colder air, some sunshine, yes, but some scattered showers. further south, northern ireland, northwest england, wales, the midlands, the south of england, here, that's where we've got the warmest weather, 1a to 19, maybe 20 celsius.

a mix of sunny spells, but scattered heavy, thundery downpours. and then as we head through the evening and tonight, this band of cloud, a more widespread showery weather will push its way in from the west. ahead of it, a few mist and fog patches, temperatures in east anglia down to 3 or 4 celsius, just 2 there for shetlands. but further west, 9 for plymouth, 10 for belfast, so a mild start to the day. into tomorrow, this band of cloud and showers will drift eastwards. some more persistent rain likely to develop across 0rkney, moving up into shetland. behind that for northern ireland, the sun will come out through the afternoon, but we will see some heavy and probably thundery showers breaking out. east anglia and the southeast corner likely to stay dry for a good part of the day with some sunshine, seeing temperatures climb to around 19 celsius. now into monday, we see this weather system moving eastwards. that does bring the chance for showers on monday, particularly through the morning across parts of east anglia and the south east. but more generally through the day, i think we'll see some showers across eastern parts. further west, a little bit drier,

quite large amounts of cloud at times, but some spells of sunshine, too. turning a little bit chillier in the northeast of the uk. highest temperatures further south, 17 for cardiff, 19 for london. now, high pressure is set to build for a time into the new week. tuesday looking like a mainly fine day. but we will see low pressure then starting to develop to the southwest of us. so as we head towards the end of the week, there is the increasing chance of some rain and it may turn just a little bit cooler as well.

this is bbc news. the headlines: fighting has continued in parts of the sudanese capital, khartoum, with reports of fighterjets and drones targeting positions held by the rsf. tens of thousands of people are fleeing the country. there are chaotic scenes in port sudan, where people are trying to board ships. russian officials say a huge blaze at an oil depot in russian—occupied crimea was caused by a drone attack. the facility is located in sevastopol, home to russia's black sea fleet. local officials claim the fire is now under control. all four teaching unions in england say they will co—ordinate strikes if their members vote for industrial action. the move could lead to widespread school closures. meanwhile, nurses in england go on strike on sunday night in a dispute over pay.