Sudan's former foreign minister doubts a proper ceasefire is possible

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Mariam al Sadiq Al Mahdi says the level of mistrust between the rival military factions is too deep. Also: Closing arguments have been heard in New York in the civil rape and defamation trial against former president Donald Trump, and the singer, Grace Bumbry, who was one of the first African Americans to become a star of international opera, has died in Vienna aged 86.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:04.8	I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Tuesday,
0:07.7	the 9th of May, these are our main stories.
0:09.8	Sudan's former Foreign Minister says the mistrust
0:12.8	between the two warring factions is so deep
0:15.2	that she doubts a proper ceasefire is possible.
0:18.4	Closing arguments have been heard in the civil trial
0:21.2	in which the former US President, Donald Trump,
0:23.4	is accused of raping and later defaming a writer.
0:27.1	Officials in Nepal say three people
0:29.4	are missing after an avalanche hit a group collecting
0:32.1	a fungus known as the Himalayan Viagra.
0:37.2	Also in this podcast,
0:44.4	the pioneering African American opera star,
0:47.2	Grace Bumbry, has died at the age of 86.
0:53.5	The former Foreign Minister of Sudan,
0:56.0	Marum Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, has told the BBC
0:59.3	she doubts the rival military factions
1:01.5	can agree on a genuine ceasefire due to deep mistrust.
1:05.5	Representatives of the army and the paramilitary
1:08.2	rapid support forces are currently meeting in Saudi Arabia
1:11.8	as we reported in our earlier edition.
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