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

I'm Alex Ritson and at 30 hours GMT on Tuesday, the second of May, these are our main stories.

More than 100,000 refugees flee Sudan since the clashes between rival military factions started

two weeks ago and the UN warns it could get a lot worse. The widow of a prominent Islamic

had militant who died while on hunger strike in an Israeli jail, so she wants no bloodshed

in response. The leader of a Kenyan Doomsday cult has appeared in court accused of encouraging

his followers to starve themselves to death. Also in this podcast, the migrants who can't get into Peru

and the Hollywood writers who are out on strike. We are not neurosurgeons, we are not curing cancer,

we are all very well aware of that, but I think what we do is special and I think it deserves to be valued.

In just two weeks, more than 100,000 people have fled Sudan. According to the United Nations,

this will exceed 800,000 if the fighting continues between the Army and paramilitary group,

the Rapid Support Forces or RSF information is key for anyone in Sudan right now. And here on the BBC,

a new service is being launched today to provide this. We'll hear more on this in a moment.

But first let's listen to Dr Ahmad Al Mandari from the World Health Organization who is responsible

for operations in Sudan. He says that even hospitals in Khartoum have been attacked and turned

into military bases. The situation there in Sudan is very much deteriorating. The violence is

making the delivery of healthcare services there, increasing the very difficult. For example, in Khartoum,

around 16% of the healthcare facilities are functioning fully. 23% of them are functioning

virtually and 61% of them are not functioning at all. Our correspondent in Nairobi Paul Adams has

more on the estimates given by the UN Refugee Agency. They reckon that a further escalation of

the violence will trigger further flows in all of the directions that we've seen so far. In other words,

North to Egypt, West to Chad and South to South Sudan primarily. Those three countries taken

...