but in doing so, do you not risk losing the support of the sudan armed forces, the saf?byjust outlining what taqaddum mean, which is the acronym of the coordination of civilian democratic forces. this is a broad alliance of many organisations and institutions — political parties, trade unions, professional civil society organisations, resistance committees and all that. it was established last year, end of october, and it started putting forward a road map, a declaration of principle and addressing the crisis. we do not believe there is a military solution for this crisis. we have to go through a political process. we wrote to both belligerents. we wrote to the leader of the saf, the sudanese armed forces, and the leader of rsf, the rapid support forces. general hemedti responded — and we thank him for that — quickly. we met him at the beginning of this year, and we were able to go through a very lengthy discussion process that addressed the challenges of the war. and at the end of it, we agreed on what we called and what we issued as addis declaration. it has three comp

the fighting continues between the sudan armed forces, which is headed by general abdel fattah al—burhanile deputy general, mohamed dagalo — better known as hemedti — who heads the rapid support forces militia, the rsf. my guest is the former prime minister abdalla hamdok, who is playing a significant role in the negotiations. he has signed a deal with hemedti, so does this mean the rsf has effectively won the war? hi, zeinab. abdalla hamdok in abu dhabi, welcome to hardtalk. nearly half of sudan's 49 million strong population is in dire need

children in sudan and they now need help and we know that there is been an increase in reports of violations against children. the killing of children, the naming of children and armed forcesudan facing a hunger crisis prorated by the situation of food security and malnutrition, the 3.5 and 2.4 million children are usually malnourished and up to 50,000 children, they don't receive simple packages and therapeutic food, they are at risk of dying. unicef chief speaking to us earlier. stay with us on bbc news. hello there. we've seen some very strong winds across northern areas of scotland today. and with those severe gales came some pretty big waves pummeling the coastline of shetland. but it wasn't shetland where the strongest winds in this storm were. no, they were in the core of storm ingunn and that runs straight across the faroe islands to our northwest. now, landsverk is the public authority that runs the infrastructure in the faroe islands. they reported a gust on one of their weather stations of 155 mph. in relatively well sheltered torshavn, we had a top gust of 120 mph there in the capital of the faroe islands. thankfully, those really powerful winds stayed well awa

now, to turn to the conflict in sudan where fighting has been raging for eight months with no end in sight, the conflict is between the sudanese armed forcesple have been killed in between ten and 15,000 people were killed in one city in the west region last year. the un says ethnic violence is creating the worlds largest human displacement crisis and the world food programme regional director for eastern africa was based in nairobi, thinking of being with us on the programme and it may seem a crass question but is this considered the forgotten war that many of the headlines, much of the focus on the road diplomatic efforts are focused elsewhere? unfortunately yes, listening to your previous story in the crisis in the middle east is getting most of the attention and rightfully so but unfortunately, the situation in sudan which the catastrophe inside the country and having ramifications across the region is not getting the attention and the number of people impacted is immense, it is touching each and every one of them and they're over 18 million people who are acutely food insecure, acutely hungry and unfortunately, with humanitarian actor

armed forces. i'm permanent, you rapid support forces the number of displace people is the highest in the world of school, just the international organization for migration, it says people in sudan are at risk of mound nutrition, infectious diseases, and violence. the conflict has destroyed most of the country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, and roads. well, the international criminal courts chief prosecute to carry him con is a visiting child's eastern border with sudan to document allegations of abuse. con will present his findings to the un security council on monday, when the 600000 student needs refugees across into chad from doc for since the fall is broke out and that's 7 months ago. victims and survivors say rate porch and enforce disappearances are being carried out. how many they address report some andre in easton? chad. this video shows governor dean at bobbie brought him and 4 young men detained by lucas melisha is in debt for shortly after they were cut down a little for me. i can honestly gum redeem, survived the november 2023 attack and managed to make it to this refugee camp in eastern chide. i don't even know that i do live. these people have ki

sudan and the sahel in ukraine as well. and don't forget what china's long firm intentions are to we can't do that with the size of the armed that we have the armed forces15 frigates and destroyer ours. uh, at the end of the cold war, we had 50. so i think as we focus absolutely on the operation, all the there will the immediacy, there will be questions now asked, think questions now asked, i think important questions which i know grant will welcome as to grant shapps will welcome as to whether now time invest whether it's now time to invest more heavily, just in our more heavily, not just in our maritime capability, but also in our army and indeed air our army and indeed our air force as well. >> um, on that note, about discussing it and hearing from the secretary , should the defence secretary, should parliament be recalled , which is parliament be recalled, which is which is what we're hearing from the lib dems this morning. >> no, mean, i started out by >> no, i mean, i started out by saying that i understand those calls. it's important that accountable party scrutiny accountable party and scrutiny is there for. but ultimately, the executive decisio