live from london. this is bbc news. heavy fighting in khartoum — as the sudanese army tries to recapture areas held by the rival, rsf militia. warnings of disruption to emergency care as nurses in england prepare to strike later on sunday. with a just a week to go until the coronation, british subjects will be encouraged to swear allegiance to king charles. hello. the first consignment of medical aid has reached sudan since the war broke out there two weeks ago. the international committee of the red cross says a plane landed

at port sudan with eight tonnes of relief supplies — including health kits for hospitals. it hopes to get security guarantees to send humanitarian aid to the capital, khartoum and the darfur region. despite a ceasefire being in place, the past few hours have seen intense clashes in khartoum as the army tries to dislodge the rival rapid support forces. residents are being urged to remain indoors and stay away from windows. tens of thousands of civilians have abandoned their homes and are fleeing sudan. the uk's last evacuation flight left the country overnight — while the united states has completed its first evacuation of citizens. countries like saudi arabia are getting people to the city ofjeddah via port sudan on the red sea. let's hear from evacuees in port sudan. i was working in the sudan

for the last 13 years, and due to the situation of peace and security here, due to this war, i left everything, my house, my car, my everything. all the savings of 13 years i'm living here. finally we are on board. and yeah, it feels really good to be in really good company. very nice people here at the moment. you know, we got on board, they served with sweets and water and they have been looking after us all this time. and it was a little difficult getting on board, but i think the people here are very professional. they managed to get everyone on board without any kind of mishap. our correspondent, lyse doucet, made the journey by boat in the opposite direction — setting off from jeddah and she sent this report from port sudan. every face, every person

in this waiting tug boat tells a story of sudan. look at the exhaustion. they've made a dangerousjourney to get here to port sudan. they've told us they've waited hours here waiting for a boat to be evacuated. and now it's 4am in the morning and they're within touching distance of of a safety route to leave this violence. but from here, they'll go to a saudi warship and then it's a ten hour journey across the red sea. so many now uncertain about what lies ahead. but when i asked one labourer from nepal whether he would come back to sudan, he said, "sudan is finished." earlier i spoke to marti flacks — who spent four years working with the us special envoy for sudan on the peace agreement with south sudan. she started by telling me about the challenges in getting help to civilians.

it's taken some time for humanitarian aid to start getting to the places it's desperately needed in sudan. and there's a few reasons for that. the international aid community has a long history of providing assistance in sudan, but the places where we're seeing active fighting like khartoum are places that they haven't historically had to have an active assistance presence. and remember, khartoum has never seen fighting on this scale before. and so it's taken some time for them to reposition their personnel and their assistance to places like khartoum. but also, as you mentioned, port sudan, the sudanese egyptian border, where we're seeing tens of thousands of people make it the difficultjourney to try and leave the active fighting zone, but find themselves desperately in need of assistance when they get there. we're also seeing the places where humanitarian aid is very active, in places like darfur. aid organisations are also being targeted. yesterday, msf reported that one of its hospitals was targeted by the warring parties and that limits their ability to provide assistance, even in places where they have the logistical

infrastructure. marty, i wonder if i could just say that it's fair and well for the international community to be calling for aid to be entering sudan, south sudan, also the darfur region and west west darfur. but if the two men at the centre of this are not aiding that humanitarian help to get to the people that need it, what's the point? the fighting continues. well, that's right. ultimately, this conflict is the responsibility of the warring parties, and they have an obligation to allow their citizens to get the assistance they need and to not target either civilians or the aid organisations trying to help them. what we've seen in the last week or so is a series of very short term, 1—3 day ceasefires that have been intermittently adhered to by the parties, but have provided a little bit of breathing room, as you said, for some people to leave khartoum, for some people to get out and get supplies. could but what we really need in the immediate present term

is a longer term cease fire that comes with an agreement by those warring parties to let aid come through and to let people who want to leave leave. you've worked with peace plans and negotiations concerning south sudan. like you said, we're dealing with two men. this is a power struggle, essentially. everybody knows that a cease fire is necessary and a working cease fire. what is it going to take for them to agree? can they agree? well, it's going to take a long term, sustained effort to engage at a high level by the international community. this isn't a conflict that's going to get resolved in a matter of days or even a matter of weeks, even if a cease fire is put into place with enough sticks and carrots and pressure from the international community to put down the guns temporarily to get to any kind of sustainable political solution that doesn't just involve two armed men with armies, but actually involves the broader sudanese political class and civil society organisations to create a lasting peace.

it's going to take a really sustained months and years long effort that the international community needs to be supporting. an estimated 100,000 have attended an open air mass in a central budapest square on pope francis�* third and final day in hungary. pope francis urged hungarians not to close the door on migrants and those who he said were , �*foreign or unlike us�*. among those at the service was the hungarian prime minister, viktor 0rban, who's repeatedly criticised migration, and was responsible for constructing a wall to stop people crossing the borderfrom neighbouring serbia and croatia. 39% of the population in hungary are catholic and pope francis had last visited the central european country briefly in 2021. i spoke earlier to marc roscoe loustau in budapest, who is the managing editor of the journal of global catholicism.

well, i think many were actually quite surprised that pope francis did decide to come back to hungary since, as you said, he was here very recently in 2021. the pope, ithink, really has a special pastoral concern for hungary, because, as you mentioned, prime minister viktor 0rban has led the country and is currently leading the country, including its catholic church, in a very nationalist and xenophobic direction. 0rban frequently uses racist, some would even say fascist language to talk about hungary's racial and ethnic homogeneity. he claims also to be defending europe's christian values. the two men, pope francis and viktor 0rban, have in the past clashed repeatedly over these claims. this visit has really been no different. and what do you make of the location of his final mass? well, certainly pope francis was seated right in front of hungary's parliament building, which is the seat of political power in hungary.

and he spoke directly in his homily, in his address to hungarian politicians. he mentioned them specifically as a group. and he mentioned specifically to them that they should be like an open door. he addressed the political class explicitly and their beliefs and the way they have led the country towards in a racist and xenophobic direction. but then in a very dramatic moment, he actually departed from the official vatican text of his homily, and he repeated again that exhortation, be like an open door. and he even took his pages and he thrust them up and down the pages that he was reading from for emphasis. so clearly, he wanted hungary's politicians and especially viktor 0rban, to hear that message clearly and directly. nurses in half of england's hospitals, mental health

and community services will go on strike later today, with nhs chiefs warning care is at risk. the royal college of nursing union has called on the government to return to pay talks. the health secretary, steve barclay, has expressed disappointment over the escalation. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. once again, members of the royal college of nursing in england will be taking to the picket lines, having voted earlier this month to reject a government pay offer. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! senior nurse rhian wheater has stood with her colleagues in leeds during previous strikes, but she says the decision to walk out again is a reflection of how low staff morale has sunk. 25 years i've worked in the nhs and i've never seen or felt anything like this, never. it's heartbreaking. absolutely heartbreaking. soul destroying.

it's horrible. and none of us want this for patients. we can't keep delivering second class care. we're a first class health system, you know, we've been first in the world and we still should be. in a statement, steve barclay said it was disappointing some unions were escalating strike action this week, including the royal college of nursing, despite only a third of its members rejecting the government's offer on pay which other unions accepted. he added that these strikes would put more pressure on the nhs, and would be incredibly disruptive for patients. we have actually agreed a number of national exemptions, including intensive care units, emergency departments, neo—natal units, paediatric intensive care and others, so let's not scare the public this morning by saying nursing is being reckless on this one day of strike. they most certainly are not. later this week, the main health care unions will decide on what the next steps are in this long running series

of industrial disputes. some union members have accepted the pay offer, others have rejected it. it's not yet clear what that will mean for future strikes. dominic hughes, bbc news. the archbishop of canterbury — who's the head of the church of england — will ask millions of british subjects around the world to swear allegiance to king charles, during his coronation next saturday. the public pledge — dubbed "a chorus of millions" — is one of several striking changes to the ancient ceremony. female clergy will play a prominent role for the first time, and the king himself will pray out loud. the pledge of allegiance, or homage of the people to give its official title, marks a break with tradition. previously only lords at the coronation service had to recite a form of words. this is the text of the pledge of allegiance.

other countries like the united states require a patriotic verse to be recited by governing officials — and in most schools — on a daily basis. and although the coronation is a rare event and the homage entirely optional, it is something new here in britain. laying her hand upon the bible, she reaffirms her oath. we now know there is as much in the coronation service that will not change, not just from 1953, but from centuries of coronations before it. so help me god. this is the bible queen elizabeth kissed during her coronation service. and this, the brand—new one on which the king will swear his oath. those oaths go unchanged, but before them, the archbishop of canterbury will explain the church wants to ensure people of all faiths

and beliefs live freely. there is nothing that offends against christian worship, but we are very clear that our society today is very different from 1953 and that means there needs to be a clear recognition of all the elements of society. while those new details from lambeth palace show there will be hymns sung in welsh, irish gaelic and scottish gaelic, but also for the first time there will be significant involvement from people of non—christian backgrounds both during the service and also with faith leaders greeting the king at the end of it. these elements are no surprise for a king who has long been known for his engagement with people of other faiths. he has formed a long association with holocaust survivors and this year met with martin stern, a man who survived the nazi concentration camps and came to britain as a 12—year—old.

to be received by the head of state, of this fantastic country, it is beyond words. it means a terrific lot. we were treated as rubbish, you know, fit to be burnt, ground up and disposed of in landfill. and here i was having tea with the king and the queen. though there will be many who criticise how exclusive the monarchy is, that service here in westminster abbey will still be by far the most inclusive there has ever been. aleem maqbool, bbc news. we're going to take your life budapest international airport and this is the scene, there come alive. 0fficials this is the scene, there come alive. officials in hungary await the arrival of pope francis, he hasjust ended his three day trip to the

country, he performed a final mass earlier today, country, he performed a final mass earliertoday, he country, he performed a final mass earlier today, he will be flying back to italy and the vatican shortly. we have seen an entourage of vehicles enter the roads around the airport itself and as you can see the red carpet has been laid out and pope francis, there you go, you can see the entourage in the background, there. that will be carrying pope francis and various officials, as well. earlier in the day he was in a square in budapest, he was celebrating mass, hungary largely catholic, this was the climax of a three—day visit and it was an opportunity he took to discuss migration and some have said criticise the policy policies of the leader of hungary, victor aubin ——

mike vick taught 0rban. in the so many ask people to open their doors to those who are foreign or unlike us to migrants and the bold message as it has been described. the country's government's main policy has been to keep migrants out. the pope, though, very careful also during this trip, he made sure to mark and pay tribute to praise, history and culture of the country and he also finished his prayer, citing peace for the tortured people of ukraine and also the people of russia. so, as i think wejust look at the scene there, live, from the international airport in budapest, that a van at the front, i suspect, will contain pope francis, all these are the officials, yes, these are

the officials that arrive before the pope, himself. there is a little cart that is part of this entourage and it will be that carrying pope francis. three days, i think the last time he visited the country itself was back in 2021. but he had lovely weather, for his mass in the square in budapest. three days, it was noted that when he did criticise the country's policy towards migrants, there was very little applause, some of the analysts we have spoken to here in bbc news from those crowds, whilst he was welcomed initially rapturously, as he entered the square itself. just to remind you of what he said, he did say that hungarians should not close the door on migrants and those who he

described as foreign or unlike us and part of that mass, or rather as part of the mass, was the hungarian pro minister, victor aubin, part of the mass, was the hungarian pro minister, victoraubin, he part of the mass, was the hungarian pro minister, victor aubin, he of course has repeatedly criticised migration and you may remember was also responsible for building a wall to stop people crossing into hungary from neighbouring serbia and croatia. —— make victor 0rban. we will keep an eye on those arrivals and add budapest international airport. now, let's cross to a guest and discuss this pledge of allegiance that has been announced as part of king charles�*s coronation, coming coronation on saturday. you also the author of the book called modern monarchy. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. what do you make of the allegiance? what do you make of the allegiance? what do you make of the works? i

do you make of the allegiance? what do you make of the works?— do you make of the works? i think this has to — do you make of the works? i think this has to be _ do you make of the works? i think this has to be viewed _ do you make of the works? i think this has to be viewed in _ do you make of the works? i think this has to be viewed in the - do you make of the works? i think. this has to be viewed in the context of the service itself. and what it is doing is replacing the homage of the peerage and it goes with the general tenor of the service which is to try to broaden out those who are involved in the service. and i think it is primary effect will be in the abbey itself, where you will have presumably most, if not all of those attending paying homage at the same time. and i think television, on television it will be a effective moment. what is interesting is that there is an invitation for those outside the abbey to take part as well, reflecting that the monarchy todayis well, reflecting that the monarchy today is really based on popular support, more than anything. so it's an invitation for the public to get involved. why track did you think thatis involved. why track did you think that is how the public have read it,

though? the wider message weight, because it is a new aspect of though? the wider message weight, because it is a new aspect— because it is a new aspect of the ceremony _ because it is a new aspect of the ceremony and — because it is a new aspect of the ceremony and it _ because it is a new aspect of the ceremony and it is _ because it is a new aspect of the ceremony and it is open, - because it is a new aspect of the ceremony and it is open, an - ceremony and it is open, an invitation to all british subjects. the audience around the world, compared to those within the building, whether ceremony is taking place, will be very different, don't you think the message will be read and interpreted differently as well? it may well be. i think, if we put ourselves forward to that saturday, there will be some people who have chosen to watch it on a large screen in a communal setting and its may be that some of those people will get involved. whereas those, obviously, who have chosen not to watch the coronation at all, or anything, obviously want to do. so i think this is very much a matter of individual choice and, you know, people will act according to the

choices. it may, perhaps, look quite bold, perhaps outside the uk, but thatis bold, perhaps outside the uk, but that is inevitable with an event like this, which is primarily a state event of the uk, but one attracting interest from around the world. . ~ attracting interest from around the world. ., ~' ,, , attracting interest from around the world. . ~ , . the other shot you can see on your screen, there, is budapest international airport, the plane on the runway with the red carpet awaits pope francis and there is his wheelchair, which is waiting for him to arrive, his officials are already in place. this is the end of his three—day visit to hungary, with a mass earlier today, but his flight home taking place shortly.

sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre. let's take you to italy where it's been a nail—biting afternoon for napoli fans. they could have won their first italian league title since 1990, but only if they had beaten selernitana. and they didn't do that — only managing a 1—1 draw. so the fans, who were building up to a big celebration, will have to put the champagne on ice for another week in the city of naples. they haven't won serie a yet. the last time they did that, diego maradona was playing for them. in today's match, napoli scored first, but then selernitana equalised in the 84th minute, muting the celebrations. big news in the premier league, manchester city have gone top of the table for the first time since november. they beat fulham 2—1 to leapfrog arsenal. earling haaland scored early on from the penalty spot to give himself 50 goals for the season, fulham then equalised through carlos vinicius, but city scored again — julian alvarez taking it to 2—1.

that means city are top by one point with a game in hand. let's take a look at all the results so far — bournemouth thrashed leeds 4—1. that means bournemouth are 13th. leeds are 16th, one point off the relegation places. newcastle beat southampton 3—1. struggling southampton are rooted to the bottom of the table — newcastle are third. liverpool and spurs, kick off at anfield at az30pm. manchester united beat aston villa 1—0, bruno fernandez with the goal just before half time. before the match manchester united fans protested outside old trafford. a large section of supporters marched to the stadium carrying banners opposing the continued glazer ownership. it comes as sirjim ratcliffe and ineos are said to have moved ahead in the battle to buy the club, with a valuation higher than the £5 billion bid from the qatari group led by sheikh jassim on friday. but many fans are demanding a �*full sale only�*. luca brecel has made a blistering start against

mark selby in the final of the world snooker championship in sheffield. the belgian came close to a century break in the opening frame, raced into a 3—0 lead against the englishman and has just won the final frame of the first session. he�*ll start the evening session with a 6—2 lead. it�*s brecel�*s first final, he�*d never won a match at the cruicible before this year, while selby has been in six finals, winning four of them. it�*s been an incredible weekend in azerbaijan for sergio perez. after winning formula 0ne�*s first sprint race of the season on saturday, he�*s now added the grand prix. the mexican started from third on the grid in baku behind his red bull team mate max verstappen. they both passed the ferrari of charles leclerc — who had been on pole. but when verstappen stopped for fresh tyres, the safety car came out and perez was able to get ahead — staying to the chequered flag. he�*s cut verstappen�*s championship lead to six points. lewis hamilton was the first british driver home in sixth place.

and that�*s all the sport for now. thank you very much indeed, plenty more coming up here on bbc news. for the second month in a row england is heading for a very wet month, some areas seeing nearly double the april average rainfall so far, but in to england, on the far north of scotland just like last month it is turning out to be a dry month with much more sunshine, with the temperature higher than average as well. today is another cloudy day with bursts of rain working from west to east across the uk, some heavy downpours are set to move into scotland and northern ireland, with the risk of some thunderstorms and hail one hefty showers through the afternoon. at the same time, not many showers for east anglia and south east england and it should brighten up.

high temperature around 18 or 19, which should not feel bad at all in the brighter moments. 0vernight, low pressure staying in charge with further showers moving slowly eastwards across the country. it stays quite cloudy, so not that cold, with the temperature overnight between six and ten. for monday, low pressure starts to pull away and to norway. a trail of cold front, bringing cooler conditions across scotland through the day. quite a lot of cloud for monday were still some showers in the heavy showers across central and eastern areas of england with the risk of thunderstorms through the temperature about 14—18 but it will start to turn colder in scotland, were through the night the temperature in aberdeen will come down to around seven. quite chilly in northern areas. and with clear skies in place through monday night we see patches of frost developing in rural areas. tuesday looks like a better day weather wise in terms of dry weather and sunshine thanks to this ridge

of high pressure building its way in. there could be a few showers across the northern isles but light and fleeting and the cloud will tend to thicken up across western counties of northern ireland later in the day but for most a decent day but it will be a little on the cool side across northern and eastern areas where the temperature will be around 10—12. wednesday, the temperature comes up a little bit but more cloud around and that will be thick enough to bring if you patches of rain in the west. temperature about 14—15, coolest air in the east.

this is bbc news, the headlines. sudan�*s army launches a major attack on khartoum — as it attempts to retake areas held by the rival rsf militia. tanks and heavy artillery have been deployed to the capital. residents are warned to stay indoors. nurses in half of england�*s hospitals are set to strike later this evening. nhs chiefs warn that care is at risk. but unions call on the government to return to the negotiating table. the pope concludes a three—day visit to hungary. earlier, tens of thousands of people attend an open air mass in central budapest. the pontiff calls on hungarians to be "open" towards migrants coming from outside europe.

the british public will be invited to swear