this is bbc news, the headlines a hundred days since the start of the war in sudan —

aid agencies say up to 19 million people are facing hunger — because of the fighting. there's political deadlock in spain — as conservatives win the most seats — but not enough to form a government — in a snap general election. twitter�*s blue bird is dumped — as elon musk changes the platform's logo — to x. we'll be gauging the reaction. welcome back. it's 100 days since the war in sudan started, with fighting devastating the capital khartoum and more than three million people now displaced. than three million the darfur region is currently seeing the most casualties. human rights groups have called it ethnic cleansing by arab militias, backed by the para—military rapid support forces. the rsf, as it is also known, has been fighting the sudanese army in khartoum in a power struggle since the middle of april. merchuma travelled to the border of darfur and chad where she spoke to mothers who had fled the violence

to try and save their children. a warning, you may find their testimony disturbing. this woman gave birth 20 days before we met, just as she crossed into chad from sudan. translation: i delivered on the road. _ there were no midwives, no one to help. everyone was running to save their lives. no one was even looking at me. when i delivered and realised the baby was out, i wrapped it up and didn't even think of anything else, as i continued walking. a mother of eight, she crossed over with herfour girls — but she left the bodies of her three sons behind. they were three, seven and nine. she says the rapid support forces kill them in an attack. most of those we spoke to said the rsf came for them wherever they hid. at home, schools and in health facilities.

it's the men and boys that were killed first. thousands of people keep flowing into this camp every day and most of them are women and children. there are very few men here. there are two possible explanations. one — it is very difficult for the men to move or cross over from sudan into chad because they are the ones being targeted most by the militia. the second possible reason is that they have remained behind to fight and protect whatever little is remaining of their community. there are tens of women in this tent with their babies. all of them have gunshot wounds. they come from various towns and villages in darfur sudan. this woman and her nine—month—old son were shot as they fled their village. i was carrying my son and walking on the street. everyone was leaving, trying to get away. the bullet came from the direction

of the north, we were headed west. my son was strapped to my back. i heard a bullet go through him and hit me here, narrowly missing my kidney. the blood was pouring, the boy was bleeding, and so was i. doctors without borders set up these tents to host the hundreds of refugees coming in every day. here we are in the hospital which was around 35 to a0 beds total. and now, in the past two weeks, we've received more than 1,000 surgical cases. refugees in this camp say their ethnicity was questioned at every rsf checkpoint on their way to the border. some pretended they were arabs to get through. they say they were doused with petrol and burned or shot. the bbc has asked the rsf to comment on the allegations, but hasn't received a response. in the past they have denied

similar accusations. this is one of the few males who made it to this camp. earlier i spoke to sir william patey, who was the british ambassador to sudan from 2002 to 2005. that harrowing report reminded me of the first time i went to sudan in 200 ., ., . ., ., , 2003 and that could have been 2003 and the artists _ 2003 and that could have been 2003 and the artists that _ 2003 and that could have been 2003 and the artists that have _ 2003 and that could have been 2003 and the artists that have a _ 2003 and that could have been 2003 and the artists that have a name - and the artists that have a name now, they were marauding arab tribes in militia terrorising the population and attacking villages and driving them out. now, it is worse because they are in khartoum as well. and as difficult as it was to get a in those days, if you should get in and out of khartoum and agencies can visit international relief could getting in there. and

now, with two warring factions that believe they can win an international mediation support is proved ineffectual. the assigned and the truce was broken and ours. i don't see anything changing the next 100 days. fist don't see anything changing the next 100 da s. �* ., , don't see anything changing the next 100da s. �* '~. 100 days. at least 16 cease-fire agreements _ 100 days. at least 16 cease-fire agreements in _ 100 days. at least 16 cease-fire agreements in each _ 100 days. at least 16 cease-fire agreements in each of - 100 days. at least 16 cease-fire agreements in each of them - 100 days. at least 16 cease-fire i agreements in each of them have collapsed, why is it so difficult to get any sort of collaboration and cooperation? is get any sort of collaboration and c00peration?_ get any sort of collaboration and cooeration? , ., . , ,, ., cooperation? is no real pressure on either side — cooperation? is no real pressure on either side and _ cooperation? is no real pressure on either side and they all— cooperation? is no real pressure on either side and they all have - either side and they all have international backers and they all believe they can win in the armed forces been beat to defeat the r itself and the artists of think they can defeat the army and they've dug in and khartoum and it's difficult for the army to get positions and khartoum, they have positions where you have to think of this is a cross—border conflict and the leader of the rsm is a leading member of

the tribe which is part of a tribal network which stretches all the way through west africa and they have links for their getting support from libya in the army is supported by egyptians and the saudis in the argus of have the goal of getting out of the country and there were over our rsf another side appears to want to give up. over our rsf another side appears to want to give um— want to give up. having so many mediators, everyone _ want to give up. having so many mediators, everyone from - want to give up. having so many mediators, everyone from saudi | mediators, everyone from saudi arabia to the uae and the african union is getting involved in this. egypt is not seen as neutral and neither the others, the african union would neutral but none of them

are able to put any pressure, tangible pressure on the competence to come to come to a conclusion. there is no un consensus and the russians have different agendas, the chinese of different agendas and it would take a consensus among the international communities coming together to pressurise the parties and that its encumbrance of peace agreements during the civil war in sudan were signed in 2005 there was an international consensus packing a solution that appears to be absent. someone who was there for the crisis of many years ago, a horrific sense of many years ago, a horrific sense of deja vu for you from all of this. and the denials. i remember confronting people in those days

about reports of atrocities and ethnic cleansing and raping of women, it was all denied then as we've come to know it, it's all absolutely true when you can take rsf denials of the pinch of salt. there's a political stalemate in spain after sunday's snap general election failed to produce a decisive winner. neither the right nor the left have a clear route to forming a new government. the conservative people's party, led by alberto n ez fay—ho, won the most seats, but fell short of a majority. mr feij o said the task fell to him to try to form a government and urged other parties not to stand in his way. the outgoing governing socialists fared better than had been predicted, with the prime minister pedro s nchez claiming voters had emphatically rejected right—wing policies. so what now?

for now, spain is facing weeks and possibly months of uncertainty because there is no candidate that will be able to form a government for now, and the last few hours reversing the conservative candidates, the winner of the election in spain, he is already beenin election in spain, he is already been in touch with parties to try to make a coalition starting at the far—right party but even if that materialised into something, the chick at the numbers, they do not add up. and if you look at the political spectrum to the left and the prime minister cannot, they can still mathematically make it happen but will be very difficult for them to be able to get reelected as prime minister, you need the support of not only the left—wing parties which the n and nationalist dependent

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these three entities from this independence party and the party said that they are ready to talk with mr sanchez but there are some conditions, conditions like amnesty for this process pulls the illegal referendum in 2017 and also a referendum in 2017 and also a referendum on independence. something that the socialist charity would never agree on and that is why there is a lot of uncertainty because we look at the numbers, no one seems to be able to form a majority. one seems to be able to form a ma'ori . �* ., , one seems to be able to form a ma'ori . �* . , . ., majority. and that is the coalition doesnt majority. and that is the coalition doesn't work. _ majority. and that is the coalition doesn't work, what _ majority. and that is the coalition doesn't work, what is _ majority. and that is the coalition doesn't work, what is the - majority. and that is the coalition l doesn't work, what is the likelihood of another election?— of another election? many analysts are sa in: of another election? many analysts are saying this _ of another election? many analysts are saying this is _ of another election? many analysts are saying this is a _ of another election? many analysts are saying this is a possible - are saying this is a possible outcome it has happened before in spain after the election of 2015, there were elections because people in cyprus congress cannot reach an agreement happen to begin in 2019 or

the spanish election were stopped because the same reasons. knowing this ruling the study the prime minister pedro sanchez is said he is not considering this and he is going to look for an alternative way and now, we do not of the way yet but this is spanish politics and anything can happen. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. now, fancy getting one of these on your next all plastic exists in some form because it takes so long to break down, leading to pollution like this. but a new invention might be able to help. this may look like normal plastic bag but this is something quite different. it dissolves in water and boiling water, this process takes about a minute. i caught up with the australian companies co—founder at the event for startups to find out

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elon musk is a huge fan of this, there been an x corporation company and elon musk is involved with space x, he made a new company called ex dot ai, the tesla model acts, this is not, while mip shocking to get rid of the notable brand, but this is how elon musk wants to put his stamp on the company. this is something _ stamp on the company. this is something that _ stamp on the company. this is something that is _ stamp on the company. this is something that is very - stamp on the company. this is | something that is very personal stamp on the company. this is - something that is very personal to elon musk, its relationship with x, boy does that say about twitter and the decisions made there, it seems to be veering away from this corporate entity to really an extension of elon musk. yes, he really wants _ extension of elon musk. yes, he really wants to _ extension of elon musk. yes, he really wants to make _ extension of elon musk. yes, he really wants to make it - extension of elon musk. yes, he really wants to make it his - extension of elon musk. yes, he i really wants to make it his company and very different from the twitter we all have used for many years at this point and he is looking to take it forward into a new idea of a

super app where we you can write long posts, you might be able to do some kind of financial transactions, you may be able to do more video —based social media, he really wants to make it a place for you can do everything and i think this x brad will give them a little bit more latitude to have a more broad approach to what twitter is to be. but you make of the changes that you have experienced so far? not a fan of many of the changes but the thing i like the least is the changes to verification. previously, they would manually verify users and journalists at the check are pretty much assume that person was actually that person by now, anybody can pay from one of the checkmarks makes it that much harder to know that somebody might be posting to somebody might be posting to somebody that you're talking to is

in fact that real person and a lot of features are starting to go into this pay monthly subscription and i would rather not for those features just be able to use them by being on the platform. news editor at the verge which is a technology website discussing those latest changes on twitter, or should i say x. now, when the taliban took over kabul nearly two years ago, many members of the afghan national women's football team escaped to australia. they've now settled in melbourne and are continuing to play, but because the taliban have banned women's sport, fifa has refused to recognise them as a national team. our correspondent shaimaa khalil has been spending time with the players. this is not prep for a world cup game, but these women have already come a long way. two years ago, they were running for their lives, fleeing their home country after the taliban takeover.

they're safe now, following their dreams. but it's not lost on them that millions of their country women can't do the same. everything you see here, the jerseys they're wearing, the hairstyles, even the laughter is enough to get them severely punished or killed had they stayed in afghanistan. now there are many people who are in a voiceless journey, and i have to be the voice for them. i have an obligation to represent those ladies back in my home country. those who cannot study, those who cannot work, and those who cannot play soccer or do anything they like. so now i'm representing them and i feel more strong and proud and it will be awesome to represent that country that women and ladies are banned from everything there. it's a bittersweet moment for these players representing afghanistan nearly two years

after they fled their home country. many say this is much more than just about football for them. "we play for afghan women," they tell me, "and we pray for their freedom." none of them take this moment for granted. the taliban government has banned women's sports, which means they're not officially recognised by their country or fifa. i'm very sad. i was expecting a lot from the governing bodies of football. to stand with these women, when taliban say the women of afghanistan belong to the kitchen, these women sacrificed a lot to change that mindset, that women don't belong to the kitchen, women belong to everywhere in the society and that's what we want — the leadership. we want a strong voice to stand with us and just don't keep silent. we've asked fifa for a response and they sent us this statement, saying that "the selection of players and teams representing a member association is an internal affair," adding that "fifa does not have the right to officially recognise any team unless

it is first recognised by its own association." they also said that they'll continue to closely monitor the situation of the afghan team. doing what they love comes at a heavy price. the constant anxiety about the safety of family and friends back home and the loneliness of having left everything behind. these players have given up a lot for football and they're hoping that football doesn't give up on them. the former england footballer trevor francis, has died. he was 69. his family say he had a heart attack in spain. trevor francis became britain's first one million pound footballer when hejoined nottingham forest on completing a transfer from birmingham city in 1979. he went on to win two european cups there. the bbc has apologised to the former ukip leader nigel farage over a report about the reason why his account at the private bank coutts was closed.

0ur media editor katie razzall can tell us more. the head of natwest, which owns coutts bank, has already apologised to mr farage. now the head of bbc news has written to him to say sorry and the journalist behind the story has tweeted an apology, because earlier this month, the bbc reported that a private bank had closed the former uk played a's account for financial reasons. he had always said it was a political decision, and after the report, mr farage was provided with internal documents which indicated the bank thought he had xenophobic and racist views. the bbc�*s business editor simonjack tweeted today that the information he based the story had been from a trusted and senior source, but it turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate. today, mr farage, speaking to the bbc, said he accepted the apology is with good grace, but natwest was at fault and he still wanted

answers from the bank. we are going to end the hour with a special tribute to our colleague george alagiah. after he was diagnosed with cancer just over 9 years ago, george received thousands of letters and messages from people who wrote to him as if they knew each other, strangers who spoke to him as a friend. he was really touched by your support. george was a man of great values, an indomitable spirit, a big smile and a velvety laugh. he had wanted to come back to work one last time ? to say thank you and goodbye. he didn t get the chance. so we have done it for him. i ll leave you with george alagiah ? in his own words. my life is, for what it's worth, is divided into pre—cancer and post cancer. yeah, the weird thing about a bowel cancerjourney is you don't really know the beginning and you don't really know the end. so i know the day i was diagnosed with bowel cancer, but i don't know when it started,

because i was at the top of my game, i was having a fantastic time at work, at home. then suddenly, you hear those words, "i'm sorry to have to tell you, mralagiah, "you've got bowel cancer. " at first when you're told, you don't know how to kind of respond. it took me a while to understand what i needed to do. for me, i had to get to a place of contentment and the only way i knew how to do that was literally to look back at my life. actually, when i look back, i looked at myjourney, where it all started, looked at the family i had, the opportunities my family had and the great good fortune to bump into fran, who has now been my wife and lover for all these years, the kids that we brought up, it didn't feel like a failure.

i wish i hadn't had cancer, obviously, but i have cancer and i'm glad of the things i've learnt about myself and about my community, my friends and my family as a result. i have got to a place to see life as a gift and rather than kind of worrying about when it is going to end and how it's going to end, i've got to a place where i can see it for the gift that it is. i feel that gift keenly every morning. hello. southern parts of europe are still baking in that heatwave, whereas in our neck of the woods the weather is the exact opposite, it's changeable, it's rainy. it's on the cool side and the outlook remains the same for the rest ofjuly and also into august. unsettled with rain at times, frequent showers and, in fact, large weather systems being spawned

by the fairly strong jet stream across the atlantic, and here is the animation over the next five days or so. the forecast showing that meandering jet stream, and meandering jet stream is an indication of these low pressures being spawned across the atlantic. now, the jet stream has crucially been to the south of us, which means that that cooler air has been often invading us from the northern climes, whereas in the south, we've got the heat. and indeed, on tuesday, sicily may once again hit 47 celsius, we had that on monday. this could happen again on tuesday. we could even nudge up to around 48 celsius, which would come close to the all—time european temperature record — the maximum. let's have a look at the weather across our part of the world for the next few hours. satellite picture showing a fair

amount of cloud across the uk. it's been a showery day for many of us, and this is the case through tonight. there will be clear spells around here and there, but frequent showers crossing parts of northern and central scotland, and there will be showers elsewhere out towards the southwest. the early morning temperatures around 8—11 celsius. so the forecast for tuesday then shows a fair amount of bright white or first thing, even some decent lengthy spells of sunshine, but then the clouds will once again bubble up in this unstable air mass, and we will see showers forming, heaviest of which should occur across these more eastern and northeastern parts of the country. i think the best of the weather will be the further west you are, and certainly closer to the coast. temperatures 17—21 celsius. now, here's another weather map, a different look with the pressure lines there, the isobars, and at low pressure approaching us, our neck of the woods, on wednesday. now, early in the day, i think there will be some sunshine around, but through the afternoon, this weather front will spread across the country. initially, it will turn wet in northern ireland and these western fringes of the uk,

but come the evening hours, i think all of us will have least some rain. here's the outlook for the week ahead and into the weekend, very little change, unsettled, temperatures below average.

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well, like this. it's still smouldering. that, of course, was someone's livelihood completely destroyed. this is where there were sunbeds. two buses arrived and there was a scramble. there was women, children, screaming their lungs out. it was just horrific. the foreign office advice is to stick very close - to your tour company. they are the people, - the tour operators, who know best what you should do. 0n the greek island of rhodes, the fires are still burning and extra flights are trying to get people out. we'll look at the emergency operation and the damage that's being done. also in the programme — in israel, the mass protests haven't worked. the parliament passes a controversial bill to limit the power of the courts.