Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

On Thursday, the 30th of October, there were calls for the UK to stop selling arms to the United Arab Emirates

over concerns that the weapons might be used in Sudan's civil war.

On Sunday, the paramilitary group, rapid support forces, or RSF,

captured the Sudanese city of Elfasha,

bringing to an end an 18-month-long siege.

The RSF has been fighting the Sudanese armed forces for more than two years.

In the days following the fall of the city, reports emerged of atrocities against civilians.

The UN Secretary-General has called for an immediate end to the fighting

after claims that hundreds of people were killed at a hospital in Elfashire.

A Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said the reports were horrifying and deeply alarming.

The scale of suffering is unconscionable, often based on ethnicity, women and girls facing widespread sexual and gender-based violence, and there is

evidence mounting of defenceless civilians being executed and tortured, and indeed aid workers

also being targeted as they try to reach the most vulnerable communities facing famine.

Stephen Doughty told MPs the UK had called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.

The minister had been summoned to the Commons to answer an urgent question from a Labour

former development minister, Anna Lisa Dodds. She said the scale of civilian suffering in Sudan

was almost impossible to comprehend. The idea that 460 people could have been slaughtered in a maternity hospital,

patients, their companions and medical staff

is surely must be a turning point in this war

and the international communities focus on it.

For the Conservatives, Wendy Morton, said the reports of the killings at the Saudi

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