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Hello, today we're in France, where Louvre memes are going viral, but the theft of France's

crown jewels is piling yet more pressure on the ailing French government. In the garment

factories of southern India, the sewing machines are falling

silent, as Donald Trump's tariffs hit hard. From Las Vegas, we meet an organization helping drug

addicts living in the city's underground tunnels. And the tropical paradise of Mauritius is welcoming back its tiny lesser night geckos after a catastrophic oil spill five years ago.

But first to Sudan, where the capital city Khartoum, has been relatively free of fighting since government troops retook control earlier this year.

But the Sudanese armed forces are still at war with militia fighters.

The conflict across the country shows little sign of ending

and has left millions of people displaced and facing acute hunger or famine.

This week, just a day before it was due to restart domestic flights for the first time since the war began in 2023, Khartoum's airport was

hit by several explosions, believed to have been launched during a drone attack. Across the city, Nawal al-Maghafi saw the toll which years of violence have taken on families and children.

When I walk into the hospital ward in Khartoum, the silence is almost as heavy as the heat.

Rows of children lie in beds, too weak to move. A few cries break through, but most are quiet,

frighteningly quiet. On one of the beds a young mother named Tuma, she's frail and her eyes are gaunt

as she holds her daughter. Three-year-old massage doesn't stare. Tuma looks at me and says softly,

I wish she would cry. She hasn't cried in days.

I can't help of thinking of my own son, two-year-old safe.

At home, I often long for quiet.

But here, silence is the thing that every mother fears.

Tuma fled her village after RSF fighters arrived.

They stripped her family of everything, their money, their livestock, their home.

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