BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction

BBC团队抵达喀土穆,目睹了令人震撼的破坏景象

Global News Podcast

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2025-04-02

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Parts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, are now a burnt-out shell after the army recaptured the city from the RSF paramilitary group. Also: has there been a major evolution in the design of the American baseball bat?
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 2nd of April, these are our main stories.

  • The BBC has become one of the first international news organisations to reach the Sudanese capital Khartoum

  • since the army recaptured it and has found overwhelming destruction.

  • A major rebel alliance in Myanmar has declared a month-long ceasefire to allow earthquake relief efforts to take place.

  • Russia has embarked on its biggest military call-up in more than a decade.

  • Also in this podcast.

  • So what you're trying to do really is to swing the heaviest thing you can at the fastest speed you can to make contact with the ball.

  • A redesign of the baseball bat and it's already having a huge impact.

  • For two years now, since April 2023, Sudan has been in the midst of a devastating civil war.

  • The fighting is between the country's army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.

  • Their fight has caused a huge humanitarian crisis.

  • Around 150,000 are estimated to have been killed and millions of people have become refugees.

  • In the last few days, Sudan's military recaptured the capital city, Khartoum, for the first time since early in the war.

  • Many of those who stayed have been celebrating the end of RSF occupation, but the core of the city is in ruins.

  • A BBC team is one of the first media organisations to enter the city since it changed hands.

  • Our Africa correspondent, Barbara Pledarsha, and her team travelled with Sudan's army to the city.

  • We're going over the bridge now into Central Khartoum,

  • just days after the army recaptured the city from the Rapid Support Forces.

  • We'll be driving straight to the Presidential Palace, which the RSF occupied for nearly two years.