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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Thursday, the 30th of October.

Coming up, MPs are horrified at the latest news from Sudan's Civil War.

The idea that 460 people could have been slaughtered in a maternity hospital, patients, their

companions and medical staff is surely, must be a turning point.

Meanwhile, the minister promises to investigate reports that British equipment has been used

by paramilitary fighters accused of atrocities in

Sudan. Also, as the Chancellor deals with questions about her home economics, Conservatives

asked the Trade Secretary to face down any budget measures that could hurt business. Find and demonstrate

his backbone, stand up to the Chancellor, encourage business investment.

And MPs demand action to end soaring property maintenance fees.

These charges amount to little more than a form of parasitic exploitation of ordinary people by absentee landlords and businesses.

But first, a Foreign Office minister has promised to investigate seriously allegations

that British-made equipment has been found on the battlefield in Sudan.

It's feared the equipment may have been used by the rapid support forces, or RSF,

the paramilitary group accused of mass killings of civilians in the city of Elfashir.

The city fell to the RSF after an 18-month siege in the country's civil war.

Survivors and videos shared by the RSF fighters themselves reveal evidence of summary executions,

terror and abuse. And there are reports of

the massacre of more than 400 patients and health workers at a maternity hospital. The Foreign

Office Minister Stephen Doughty said the report from El Fasher were horrifying. The scale of

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