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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritzen and on Thursday the 30th of October these are our main stories.
The leader of Sudan's paramilitary RSF promises an investigation after acknowledging abuses by his forces in El Fashe.
The US-China trade war appears to be de-escalating after what President Trump said was an amazing meeting with President Xi in South Korea and new arrests in France over the audacious jewel heist at the Louvre in Paris.
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Civilians who fled El Fasha in western Sudan have said that children were killed in front of their parents as bodies lay in the streets and families hid in trenches when the paramilitary rapid support forces took control of the city on Sunday.
The RSF captured the Sudanese army's last stronghold in the region of Darfur, Caroline Bouvard,
the Sudan country director of the aid group Solidarity International,
told the BBC that some people have fled to the nearby town of Tawila.
They're highly malnourished, highly dehydrated, many of them are sick or injured,
and they're clearly traumatized with what they've seen either in the city or on the road.
And we believe that actually many people are stuck currently in a different location between Tallulah and El Fasher and unable to move forward either because of the physical condition or because of the insecurity on the road where militias are unfortunately attacking people who are trying to find safe haven.
Tom Fletcher is the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Speaking at an emergency session of the UN Security Council in New York,
he said that he'd been in contact with TACES,
which is an alliance of Sudanese anti-government political factions and paramilitary forces.