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clashes with western diplomats as he hosts a un security council meeting. we will speak to the u.s. ambassador to the human -- to the u.n.. >> their hypocrisy was unbelievable. >> tucker carlsen exits fox news. for years, he has been one of america's most profitable and most-watched and most controversial personalities. plus, monarchy and popularity. a new bbc poll suggests less than one third of young adults in the u.k. want the royals to continue. ♪ >> welcome to "world news america" on pbs and around the globe. the u.s. secretary of state has announced a three-day cease-fire has been reached in sudan. this comes after ongoing fighting, and a massive international effort to get personnel out of the country and

back to safety. a statement from antony blinken says following intense negotiations over the past 48 hours, the sudanese armed forces and the rapid support forces have agreed to implement a nationwide cease-fire starting at midnight on april 24. it will last 72 hours. during this period, the united states urges the saf and rs avenue to immediately and fully uphold the cease-fire. before the cease-fire announcement, the united nations secretary general warned the violence in sudan is at risk of causing a catastrophic conflagration that could engulf the whole region. more than 400 people have died so far, and it is estimated some 20,000 people have left the country. for those trying to get out, one option is a dangerous road journey to port sudan, and a boat journey across the red sea. others are traveling north to the border with egypt. are africa correspondent starts

our coverage with the situation in khartoum. reporter: khartoum still burning. foreigners and locals hunt for ways to escape from sudan's hellish capital. >> [speaking non-english language] reporter: this man said, we are afraid that civilians may be used as human shields, especially after foreigners have been evacuated. >> it is still going on. this is the last one he three minutes. reporter: many people cannot get out of the city, like the man who filmed these images. he is from a five and was visiting relatives in sudan's capital when the fighting began. >> very scary. we were running along yesterday, last night. they we running along here, shooting people along the streets. . we were locking all the doors and they go right in the middle of their house. reporter: asked if he feels

abandoned, he becomes emotional. >> i think they have done what they could. we just have to do it ourselves. reporter: in the past 24 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 very 8 -- have been ferrying thousands of people to safety. this teacher among those recovering. >> i am happy that i'm safe. it is, for me, it is a little bit sad. some of my friends i work with, they can't leave. reporter: others are still making long overland journeys to sudan's borders. among them, british nationals. emily kiel was teaching in khartoum. her mother growing increasingly frustrated. >> it has just been really slow.

other nations have gone in and evacuated their citizens. but our government just seems to be -- they keep telling us they are planning, they are planning, there have been meetings and lots of talking going on. but we just need them to get in there and do it. reporter: so now what? as khartoum empties outcome of the fear is 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. reporter: for now, sudan's war goes on. and with it, then a exodus of civilians escaping from a country that had hopes that it was on the path to democracy, not chaos. andrew harding, bbc news, johannesburg. >> joining me now for the view from the united states is our state department correspondent.

the united states has been evacuating its own embassy staff have a picture of the secretary of state monitoring those operations over the weekend. what are they doing about the private citizens who are still trapped in sudan right now? barbara: we are talking about an estimated 16,000 people. that is the number of officials gave to congress last week. only hundreds have been contacted from the -- the embassy and dozens wanted to leave, according to mr. blinken. many of those in sudan are dual nationals. the state department is giving them information about the most safe way to leave. that is an overland route, they will not launch an air rescue. the pentagon is flying drones to monitor threats and identify potential routes. the main route seems to be out to port sedan, and the navy has put two ships on standby to help if needed. the pentagon has put up a d confliction cell in its headquarters to keep tabs with what allies are doing and let

the warring generals know what the movement of civilians is. >> what about the people of sudan and the people staying there? is anything being done to end the conflict itself? barbara: intense efforts to end the conflict. you had that cease-fire over the muslim holiday of eid. secretary blinken has announced that cease-fire has been extended there there will be a three-day cessation of hostilities. he says he will work with all parties to create a committee that can negotiate and implement a permanent end to the fighting, with the view of dealing with the humanitarian issues and trying to get back. to a civilian government hhas been heavily involved in this all along. he has called both generals several times, he has been dealing with regional players as well. he met the kyan top diplomat in washington, who said kenya was ready to mediate. mr. blinken has been speaking to arab countries who have ties with one or both of the warring parties. laura: there are -- >> there are

reports of external parties getting involved in the conflict. . what do we know about that? barbara: mr. blinken mentioned that. he warned about the wagoner group, these russian mercenaries who are active in sudan. he said that they would risk aggravating the conflict. he did not say how, but there are reports that they have offered weapons to the paramilitaries. >> thank you very much for that. the un security council is responsible for maintaining peace around the world, and the u.n. charter is designed to prevent wars. today, it's security council meeting was chaired by russia's foreign minister, sergey lavrov. it was a contentious session. . the u.n. secretary general took direct aim at russia, accusing the nation of inflicting great suffering through its invasion of ukraine. lavrov offered a counter argument, putting the blame on the west. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations was in the chamber as russians foreign

minister was speaking. linda thomas-greenfield spoke to my colleague. >> ambassador, is -- it is great to have you with us. i want to ask about survey lavrov -- sergey lavrov's comments today. >> as was the case in the cold war, we have reached a dangerous, possibly more dangerous threshold. the situation has been worsened by the loss of and faith in multilateralism. >> what do you make of that? >> if there is any loss of trust in multilateralism, it is russia's fault. we are dealing with some really critical issues. a pandemic, climate change, issues of war and peace, and right at that point, russia invades one of its smaller neighbors. really, just challenging the entire foundation of the u.n. charter. challenging all the values that

we have all worked on since the founding of the united nations. if this is an issue for the russians, they are responsible for creating that issue. their hypocrisy today was unbelievable. the fact of them calling for a discussion of multilateralism, when they have taken such an aggressive unilateral action as to attack one of their neighbors. >> observers there at the u.n. seat lavrov's speech as a direct provocation of the west. how do you deal with that type of provocation? >> they didn't just provoke the west. they provoked the entire u.n. system. they provoked every single member state. and i still think it is important for us to point out that 141 countries condemn their actions. and they heard all 14 members of

the security council, in different ways, stand up for the values of the u.n. charter, and condemn their actions as being actions that bring into question their own commitment to multilateralism, their own commitment to the u.n. system. their unprovoked aggression against ukraine cannot be justified. it can't be put in front of us as a defense of multilateralism. what russia needs to do is pull their troops out of ukraine and end this war. >> you accuse russia of violating international law wrongfully detaining americans. . you called for the release of the wall street journal reporter, and also x marine paul whelan, and you invited his family to that session today. are you making any attempt to

speak to sergey lavrov about these two americans? >> the secretary has spoken to lavrov, and i have spoken to my counterpart here in new york. there permanent representative. and raised at at that level. i have no plans to meet with lavrov. but he knows what our position is, and he heard my statement loudly and clearly today in the council. >> un security council is supposed to prevent wars like the one we are seeing now. is it a failure of the body that russia has already invaded a country before, with crimea, and can invade another and preside over this body? >> no, it has shaken the confidence of member states in the council. but the council continues to function. we are continuing to deal with

peace and security issues across the globe. we will be meeting tomorrow on the situation in sudan. we have addressed the situation in libya. we met last week on the situation in yemen. that counsel functions, despite -- in spite of russia's unprovoked attack on ukraine. but certainly what they are doing has made the world look at the council in a different way. and it has really impressed upon us how important it is to look at security council reform, and to really evolve the security council to take into account the issues of peace and security that we are facing today. many of them different from what

we faced almost 80 years ago when the u.n. was created. >> what kind of reform would prevent one of the permanent members from invading another country? >> you know, first and foremost, we need to make the council more representative of the world. so, right now, there are no african permanent representatives on the council. no one from latin america has a permanent representative on the council. it is to expand the council and make it more representative, is one of the things that we would certainly look to doing. >> you mentioned latin america. we know sergey lavrov previous to his trip to new york, traveled through south and central america, including cuba. are you concerned about russia's influence in the region? >> russia is trying their best to get as many countries on

their side as possible. but the truth of the matter is only five countries have consistently supported russia in the resolutions that we have brought before the general assembly. so, they are in a minority community. and they are fighting to bring more people into their sphere, and they are feeling at that -- failing at that effort. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> it really has been wonderful to be with you. thank you for having me. >> it has been a busy day in the u.s. media world. fox news and tucker carlsen, the most-watched presenter on cable news, have announced they will be, in their own words, parting ways. carlsen has been in the vanguard's of fox news's unflagging support for donald trump and he was named in the court case when fox news agreed

to pay $800 million over its coverage of the 2020 residential election, and its false claims about vote rigging. at the height of his popularity in 2022, his show, tucker carlsen tonight, averaged 3.30 2 million total viewers, and received the largest audience in all of cable news. the coveted 25 to 50 over -- 254 age demographic. sarah smith reports. >> good evening and welcome to tucker carlsen tonight. >> tucker carlsen was a huge star on fox. one of their highest rated and more outrageous host. >>-year-old joe biden shoveling stiffly good and bewildered to the podium, a husk held together by botox. >> making the news himself today. >> fox news media and tucker carlsen have mutually agreed to part ways. tucker's last show was this past friday. >> i knew you did it >> >>. here is the final show. listen tthe end. >> i will be back on monday. have the best weekend with the

ones you love and we will see you then. >> key clearly did not know this was his last program. >> fox news and loved the fact that tucker carlsen attracted great controversy. he promoted racist conspiracy and he said that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump. >> so much of those claims that voter fraud never happens. of course it happens. >> fox news agreed to pay nearly $800 million settlement to dominion voting systems. tucker carlsen was among those who had falsely suggested on air that dominion's machine switch votes from donald trump to joe biden in the 2020 election. >> we don't know how many votes re stolen on tuesday night. we don't know anything about the software many say was rigged. we don't know. >> tucker carlson did a great job last night. [applause] 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

throw at you that would convince you to drop out of the race? >> nails and text messages made public showed that carlson only promoted trump's lies about election fraud as he was worried about fox losing viewers and share prices falling. after his departure was announced the market value ironically fell sharply, losing $700 million. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. >> less than one hour after news of tucker carlson's departure broke, cnn announced it had fired its host, don lemon. he apologized to cnn staffers after making offensive remarks about women and aging. he was briefly suspended from his program. quite a day. joining me from outside the fox news building in washington, d.c., is our north american correspondent. thank you so much for joining. there are so many theories online about why exactly tucker carlson, to begin with, got

exited from fox news. what do we actually know? >> we know, as we heard from sarah's package, he presented his last show on friday and signed off to say, see you monday. this morning, his show was being promoted by fox news. . there has been some kind of abrupt decision for him to leave fox news. whether or not he was pushed or he resigned, we just don't know. there is a lot of speculation about that. as of yet, we don't know the full details. . the statement fox news gave was a very short, terse statement in which they spent more sentences talking about promoting the fox news franchise and talking about how many viewers a test. we also know there will be rotation of temporary hosts to fill his popular evening slot until a permanent host is announced. who that is, we do not know yet. >> let's look at how the stock market reacted. the fox corporation lost about

900 million dollars in market value after announcing tucker carlson was leaving. those figures did pick up later in the day. what does that say about how tucker carlson is viewed when it comes to fox news, and his role? >> he is a conservative star, but one that survived controversy after controversy. he is more than just a talkshow host, an incredibly influential figure. i have seen that in my work as a journalist. people do hang on to his every word, almost. he had a way of talking about politics and culture in this country in a way that was in defiance of everything. defiance of the mainstream media, which he was part of. in defiance of elites, in defiance of federal government, of the science community. he tapped into that feeling a lot of americans have, which is that they don't trust much, but don't trust the government. . and he almost sanitized and legitimized right-wing conspiracy theories, such as

that the election was stolen. a lie that was promoted by many of fox news talkshow hosts, including him. that was put out there by donald trump supporters. he was one of the talkshow hosts who decided in that suit that dominion brought against fox news, they showed a text message exchanges between tucker carlson and his producer. we showed what he was saying on air was different to what he felt like in real life. one of the messages he exchanged was that he hated donald trump with a passion, but that does not come across on air. he is someone who was more than just a talkshow host. it is important to emphasize we don't know if the dominion-fox settling had anything to do with today's development. >> thank you. we will have to leave it there. . thank you for the roundup. in other news, united nations figures say india is the world's most populous country. for decades, china was the country with the most people.

now it has been bumped to second place. experts believe india's growing youth population will give the nation an advantage, as they are witnessing a baby boom twice the rate of china. kenyon president has described the actions of a cult suspected of encouraging mass suicide as akin to terrorism. police have assumed more bodies of suspected cult followers who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. more than 100 others have been reported missing. the cult leader is in police custody and denies any wrongdoing. with the coronation of king charles a fortnight away, a new opinion poll commissioned by bbc pad around suggests that less than a third of 18 to 24-year-olds want the monarchy to continue. the online poll carried out by yu kao of sound half of those questioned from an ethnic minority background think the royals have a problem with race and diversity. jane corbin reports. reporter: as preparations gear

have turned outor aoyal engagement in york. >> it is exciting. the atmosphere is lovely. >> i think they make a lovely couple, and i think they're very dignified. reporter: there is a small but noisy protest here, too. >> across the country, there are millions of people who want the monarchy abolished. . they spend so much of their money on their lives and home and travel. they are wanting to raise awareness that the growing movement against the monarchy, and to object to the succession. reporter: panorama wanted to test attitudes to the monarchy. and commissioned an online poll from ugov. the poll of 4600 u.k. adults suggests 58% want the monarchy to continue. and 26% want and an elected head of state instead. when ugov asked the same question in july, 2013, 75% of

people polled said the monarchy should continue. and only 17% wanted an elected head of state. for young people, decline in support of peers it's darker. in the new poll, less than a third of 18 to 24-year-olds said the monarchy should continue, compared to 64% back in 2013. >> you care about the monarchy? ? is it something you support? >> no. >> i don't want to say i don't care, but it's not something i'm invested in. >> the only person i know who wants the monarchy is my gran. >> before we go come attributes to a man who is as quickwitted as he was fast on his feet. former strict len goodman has died at the age of 78. he had been battling bone cancer, and died at a hospice surrounded by his family. the former dancer himself, he featured on strictly from its launch in 2004 until 2016.

he appeared on the u.s. version of dancing with the stars until last year. he was known for his ride humor and pointed critiques. one former cohost judged the man himself, saying he was "always a 10." thank you so much for watching "world news america." thank you again. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

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♪ geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the newshour tonight, tucker carlson out at fox news. how the host became a leading voice for the far right and what his departure means for media and the republican party. geoff: foreign governments scramble to evacuate their citizens from sudan as fighting intensifies between the army and paramilitary forces. >> the civilians are bearing the brunt of what these two individuals are are doing right now, which i think is a power struggle just to be in power. amna: and arkansas's republican lieutenant governor weighs in on the debate over access to abortion medication, now in the hands of the u.s. supreme court. ♪