This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 25th of April, these are our main stories.

The Sudanese Army and the paramilitary rapid support forces agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire from Tuesday.

The US TV anchor Tucker Carlson, parts company with Fox News, days after a degree to pay $800 million

to settle a defamation claim. And...

Why India is about to surpass China to become the most popular nation in the world.

Also in this podcast, China says it's going to use 3D printers to construct buildings on the moon,

and Len Goodman, the popular judge on strictly-come dancing and dancing with the stars, has died aged 78.

We begin in Sudan, where a 72-hour ceasefire is meant to have started.

It was agreed by the warring sides, the Sudanese armed forces and the RSF militia,

after intense negotiations led by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken,

our correspondent in Washington, Barbara Plattascha, told me how it came about.

The State Department and Mr. Blinken himself had been very actively involved in trying to get

a cessation of hostilities. They worked hard to broker this temporary ceasefire over the Muslim

holiday of Eid, and then they had been working to extend that, hoping to get something a bit more

permanent. And so now, Mr. Blinken said after 48 hours of intense negotiations, there had been

agreed a three-day ceasefire. And he said during this period, the United States would work with

all parties, international partners, as well as Sudanese civilians to try and set up a committee

that could negotiate a permanent ceasefire and implement that ceasefire, as well as deal with

the humanitarian issues that have arisen out of the conflict. And of course, with the goal,

ultimately, of trying to return to that process of getting to a civilian government, which was

upended by the two warring parties. Why should this ceasefire stick when all the previous attempts

...