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

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 21st of May, these are our main stories.

Sudan's army says it's driven paramilitary forces out of the whole of Khartoum state,

marking a significant shift in the civil war.

Two days after aid began entering Gaza, the United Nations says no new supplies have reached local people.

The German authorities have carried out a dawn raid on members of a suspected far-right group.

Also on this podcast, researchers say wildfires are destroying tropical forests at record levels,

with the equivalent of nearly 20 football pitches lost every minute.

The underlying cause of a lot of this is climate change, which is ultimately fueled by human activities,

but it's not just now human activity that physically destroys forests.

Fires that might have snuffed out fairly quickly are now spreading further and further.

And?

They're only on land for about three months while they're raising their chicks.

So it gives us an idea of like their health, how they're doing.

Record numbers of puffins on a small island off the coast of Wales.

We begin in Sudan with the two-year conflict that's often called the forgotten war.

Video posted online seems to show soldiers celebrating after Sudan's army said it had taken full control of Khartoum state, the political and economic heart of the country.

The announcement follows weeks of violent clashes with its rival, the rapid support forces, or RSF, who are yet to comment.

So far, the fighting has claimed more than 150,000 lives

and cause what the United Nations has called the world's largest humanitarian crisis,

with around 12 million people displaced. So how significant is this? A question for our

Africa correspondent, Barbara Plet Usher. It's a step that the army has been wanting to complete. The big

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