what? well, hamas's failed. so, now what? well, hamas's re'ected failed. so, now what? well, hamas's rejected the — failed. so, now what? well, hamas's rejected the last _ failed. so, now what? well, hamas's rejected the last offer _ failed. so, now what? well, hamas's rejected the last offer and _ failed. so, now what? well, hamas's rejected the last offer and i - rejected the last offer and i believe they said the last offer was too much like the offer before, so there was nothing new to respond to. talks will. .. there was nothing new to respond to. talks will... you know they haven't succeeded yet, but they will go on until they succeed. because everybody needs a ceasefire at this point. hamas needs a ceasefire as your previous guest noted. there are internal pressures. there is not an infinite number that can be killed and hamas keep the position it can be part of a nebgtd settlement. — negotiated settlement. behind the scenes who knows? but there are pressures on hamas to get to a ceasefire, to get to a point where

it can declare some measure of if not victory, not a loss. the israeli government also needs a ceasefire. the pressure from families and citizens to get the hostages home is intensifying daily and keeping in mind that the way hostages, the vast majority have come home has been through negotiations and not bombing. ininvasion is less likely to get the hostages home than a ceasefire negotiated in sky row. there is pressure on the israeli and the united states, the president is facing pressure and an election is coming up and americans are tired of this conflict. they want to see israel certainly not be less safe thanit israel certainly not be less safe than it was, but some path to that day after the ceasefire is the most important first step.— day after the ceasefire is the most important first step. thank you for talkin: to

important first step. thank you for talking to our _ important first step. thank you for talking to our audience. _ now, newsnight has a long association with the moon. from popping up in past title sequences to the effect a full one has on its producers. and of course we don't need to go all the way to north america to experience a lack of sunshine. nevertheless, today's total solar eclipse was spectacular. goodnight.

in sudan the medical charity — msf — is urging humanitarian organisations to return to the country to help its desperate citizens. many charities left when war broke out a year ago and more than 12 thousand people have died. the conflict started when the head of the sudanese army, and the leader of a powerful rebel group, the rsf — fell out and began fighting for control of the country. almost 25 million people — around half sudan's population — are in need of humanitarian aidand more than 8 million people have been displaced within sudan and to other countries the bbc�*s mercyjuma has visited neighbouring chad to speak to some of the victims of sudan's violent conflict. on a street in sudan five unarmed civilians are threatened by an arab militia at gunpoint. what happens next is too graphic to show. gunshots ahmad is one of the men in the video. incredibly, he survived the street execution.

the 30—year—old shows us this exit wound where a bullet ripped through his body after they were shot at point—blank range. translation: l was hit. in the shoulder and i also have some other wounds. three of us survived. we laid down as if we were dead, then someone told us, "anyone who is just injured should get up and run away." like so many survivors of the darfur violence, ahmad now lives here in one of the camps across the border in neighbouring chad. 20 years after accusations of genocide, the memories are still fresh here, and now the un is opening a new investigation into the latest war crimes and ethnic cleansing. the violence continues to spread across darfur. this group of men were abducted and forced to run to a local airport by the rapid support forces, where they were beaten and tortured. some disappeared, never to be seen again. here we have heard story after story of people being killed,

kidnapped or abused — targeted, they say, because of their ethnicity. it comes as little surprise that these sorts of allegations and others in the wider sudan conflict have made the international criminal court say it has grounds to believe that war crimes are being committed. this is a genocide. it is 100% genocide. if i had other terms to use, i would use. but i think some of the international community, they are silent. they don't react, or theyjust condemn but there is no intervention. shouting. reports of alleged crimes committed by both the rapid support forces and the sudanese military continue to grow. the rapid support forces told us the majority of accusations against it are untrue, that its troops are held accountable when incidents occur. everyone in these camps knows someone who has been killed, injured or is missing,

but survivors like ahmad still believe there will be an end to this brutal war. translation: we know one day - it might not be today _ or tomorrow, but one day — justice will come. despite the international outcry over the hundreds of thousands of deaths 20 years ago, no—one has ever been convicted. the victims of this conflict are likely to face a similar wait. mercyjuma, bbc news, on the chad—sudan border. donald trump says abortion rights should be decided by individual us states. he's been under pressure from conservative republicans, who have been calling for an outright abortion ban. gary o'donoghue is in washington with more. donald trump is a man who has occupied pretty much every position on abortion over the last 25 years, but he has been claiming credit for overturning that abortion right by the supreme court

by putting conservative justices there. social conservatives want that to go further, they want a nationwide ban on abortion and donald trump has been flirting with that idea but the polls are very clear it would be a liability for him to go down that road at the election so he has taken the strategic and frankly politically sophisticated decision to hedge on this one, for the fear of driving away republicans and galvanising democrats. anti—abortion groups are unhappy about that and his vice president mike pence said it was a slap in the face but the reality is that social conservatives are never going to vote forjoe biden so no matter how unhappy they are with donald trump, they have nowhere else to go. the authorities in hong kong have made the city's largest ever gold smuggling bust. the 146 kilogram haul is estimated to be worth more than $10 million and was intercepted last month on route to japan. customs officials say they made the discovery while examining

two air compressors — which drew suspicions due to their unusual texture and weight. a 31—year—old man has been arrested and released on bail pending further investigations. there's new evidence that people living with long covid, have inflammation in their blood, and this may provide clues, as to how best to treat the condition. a uk study of hundreds of patients who've been seriously ill with covid, suggests their immune system remains overactive long after catching the virus. fergus walsh is here, with the full story. the study followed more than 650 patients in the uk who have been treated in hospital with severe covid. six months on, two in three were still experiencing symptoms, including heart and lung problems such as shortness of breath, fatigue, gut issues, anxiety, depression and brain fog. the researchers analysed their blood

and found these proteins, which are markers for inflammation of the immune system which are useful while the body is fighting an infection, but not once a virus is gone. the scientists say there is strong evidence that long covid is caused by different types of post—viral information. i think this is really exciting for us, it is the biggest study of its kind. it has taken a long time to get this far, but it is finally pointing to some very specific pathways that might be underlying long covid that could be targeted in future trials and treatment. this is tracey evans, she was a care assistant before contracting covid in early 2021. tracy ended up on a ventilator in hospital and three years on, she still can't not work to a raft of long covid symptoms. even changing a pillowcase on a bed

is breathless. i can't walk far, even — is breathless. ican't walk far, even to— is breathless. i can't walk far, even to a _ is breathless. i can't walk far, even to a local shop which is not far. even to a local shop which is not far~ i_ even to a local shop which is not far~ i have — even to a local shop which is not far. i have shocking paints a love of my— far. i have shocking paints a love of my body, _ far. i have shocking paints a love of my body, really bad brain fog, forgetting — of my body, really bad brain fog, forgetting what things are, forgetting what things are, my forgetting what things are, my mind forgetting what things are, my mind my mind just forgetting what things are, my mind just can _ forgetting what things are, my mind just can turn a plank. a forgetting what things are, my mind just can turn a plank.— just can turn a plank. a blood test to diagnose _ just can turn a plank. a blood test to diagnose long _ just can turn a plank. a blood test to diagnose long cool— just can turn a plank. a blood test to diagnose long cool it _ just can turn a plank. a blood test to diagnose long cool it is a - just can turn a plank. a blood test to diagnose long cool it is a long l to diagnose long cool it is a long way off but it is hoped that this research can eventually lead to new treatments with existing drugs being trialed to target areas of the immune system which are triggered by long covid. at the time of her death — amy winehouse had already become a music legend. but her struggles with substance abuse, mental illness and addiction were well documented. now her life and music is the subject of a new film, back to black. here's our culture correspondent, charlotte gallagher. # tried to make me go to rehab, isaid no, no, no.# amy winehouse, a music legend. # yeah, baby, and the rest.

# tried to make me go to rehab # i said, no, no, no.# now, a new film is telling her story. i was so excited by the idea of, you know, playing and getting in touch with amy — the girl, and then amy the singer — as well as, like, you know, the woman before the icon. i don't write songs to be famous. i write songs because i don't know what i'd do if i didn't. and for you, sam, how hard was it to find your amy — someone that can physically resemble amy, but then can also sing like her? well, really, it was important, mostly, that i could find someone that wasn't going to impersonate amy~ _ there were many brilliant impersonators and people that looked like her or sounded like her. but marisa came in as herself — was the only one in the audition process, who didn't try to look like her in any way. earrings, eyeliner or anything.

a big part of the film is amy's troubled relationship with blake fielder—civil. i didn't meet blake. i wanted to meet blake, but i didn't meet blake. i set out to make the film, like i said, through her perspective. 50 her love of him, you know, had to be palpable. it had to feel real and we had to understand why she fell in love with him. and so it wasn't about making a sort of one—dimensional villain. we had to fall in love with him to understand why she wrote one of the greatest albums about their love. and... and, for me, really, the villains of the film, you know, it's addiction and paparazzi. and when you actually look back now at the headlines that were written about her, i mean, i was reading one that said, "amy goes to see blake in court, but she can't hide the state of her shocking skin." and it's a picture of someone obviously very unwell. hm, yes. do you think now, obviously, what amy went through, what britney spears went through,

that maybe we've moved on a bit as a society that people wouldn't be persecuted essentially like that? i don't know. recent news may say different. i felt like we maybe had evolved to this place of maybe that wouldn't happen now, but it feels like it is happening now. # we only said goodbye with words. # i died a hundred times.# what do you think she'd make of the film? i think that she would feel, like, the fact that we've sort of gifted her music back again in a different light, having seen the film, and people sort of feeling i feel like hopefully she would feel proud of it and us. and of herself, too, you know, as a catalogue of her achievements and what it was that she was able to create as a very young woman. i hope that she would watch it and feel, like, you know, proud of everything that she created. # and i go back to black.# ceremonies have taken place in both england and france — to mark the 120th anniversary of the entente cordiale — which paved the way for strong diplomatic co—operation between the countries.

this was the scene in paris earlier as british troops joined their french counterparts and not too long after, french troops took part in the changing of the guard outside buckingham palace in london. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello. monday was quite a quiet day of weather, really. we had some sunny spells breaking through the cloud, for example, here in cambridgeshire. and across large parts of england — it was a warm day for april, with temperatures topping out at 19 degrees celsius at kew in london. these temperatures are around five or six degrees above average. it's going to be a much cooler kind of day for tuesday. notjust cooler — it's going to be wet and windy for many as well. the change is down to an area of low pressure. this area of cloud you can see swirling to the south—west of the uk and that's essentially pushing northwards and eastwards over the next 12 hours. we already have quite a bit of rain with us at the moment and the rain across northern ireland and scotland could be heavy enough to cause some localised flooding. 20—a0 millimetres of rain,

not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things. however — edinburgh, for example, has already had over one and a half times the april average rainfall, even though we're onlyjust over a week into the new month. so this extra rainfall could be enough to cause some localised flooding. the weather will tend to brighten up from the west as we go through the day. sunshine and showers follow our main band of rain through. it's also going to be a windy, gusty kind of day. particularly for england and wales, gusts widely running into the forties of miles now, but could reach around 50 or 60 miles an hour around some coastal areas, with the rain reluctant to clear away from eastern scotland and parts of north—east england. our temperatures are about 10 to 12 degrees for most now. that will clear through and be left with some colder air as we head into the first part of wednesday. potentially chilly enough to give an odd nip of frost for the early part of wednesday morning. should be a fine start to the day with sunshine. then it clouds over with the next weather system

moving in from the west, bringing more rain. now, even as the rain pushes through across wales and south—west england, it probably will stay rather cloudy. the weather that follows, however, it will start to turn a bit milder again with south—westerly winds, temperatures around 13—15 degrees. and that warming trend continues as we head into thursday. again, we've got south—westerly winds with us, but this time after a cloudy start, the clouds should tend to thin and break up and we'll see some spells of sunshine coming through quite widely. yeah, there'll be a few showers for the north and west of scotland, but otherwise it's mostly dry. and those temperatures, 17 for aberdeen, 17 for belfast, but highs could reach around 19 or 20 across parts of eastern england. it stays pretty mild then towards wales and england as we head into the weekend. temperatures could reach the low 20s for some.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from edinburgh. i'm stephen sackur. for most of the 21st century, scottish politics has been dominated by the scottish national party, the pro—independence party seeking

a divorce from the united kingdom. but right now, well, storm clouds hang over the snp. they're facing a police investigation of their financial affairs, their polling numbers are down and they stand accused of breaking a host of political promises. my guest is the leader of the snp and first minister of scotland, humza yousaf. has his party lost its way? first minister humza yousaf, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. by any measure, first minister, it's been a pretty difficult first year for you as first minister. why do you think the going is so tough?