News Wrap: World leaders urge end to violent clash between forces in Sudan

John Yang:

Good evening, I'm John Yang. The battle for control of Sudan is ending its second full day with no signs that either side is willing to end hostilities. Fighting between two forces led by rival generals the Sudanese army and a paramilitary force raged on in the capital of Khartoum and other flashpoints around the country. A doctor's group says at least 61 people are dead and nearly 700 injured. The U.N.'s World Food Program suspended operations, saying that three of its humanitarian workers had been killed.

In Khartoum, news report showed tanks rolling through the streets and thick plumes of smoke engulfing the city. Aerial footage shows the airport smoldering and ruins. Leaders agreed to a three hour pause in fighting today, although witnesses said shooting seemed at first to subside, heavy bombardments quickly resumed.

The African Union and Arab League held emergency meetings today as leaders urged a return to dialogue. In December Sudan's political parties agreed to move toward democracy. The military has controlled the country since 2021 coup.

There's been another mass shooting in the United States. This one at a 16-year-olds birthday party late last night at a dance studio in Dadeville, Alabama outside Montgomery. Four people were killed, most of them teenagers, and a number of others were injured. Shooting remains under investigation. According to the gun violence archive so far this year, there have been 163 shootings involving four or more people.

At a gathering of top Republican donors in Nashville last night former President Donald Trump predicted he would be the party's nominee in 2024. The event was closed to reporters but the Washington Post obtained an audio of the speech. At the same event, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp who resisted Trump's pressures to overturn the 2020 election results said not a single swing voter will vote for our nominee if they choose to talk about the 2020 election being stolen. This morning Kemp elaborated on CNN State of the Union.

Gov. Brian Kemp, (R) Georgia: And I was just laying out the blueprint print for I think any candidate to be able to win is to talk about what we're for. Focus on the future not look in the rearview mirror.

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Kemp also said Trump's current legal problems in New York and Georgia are distractions that will help Democrats. Russia and Ukraine marked orthodox Easter today with an exchange of prisoners of war. More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners were released. There was no immediate word on how many Russian prisoners are involved. It's the second prisoner swap in just the last week.

In Ukraine, some people gathered today in the ruins of churches to celebrate the second orthodox Easter under the shadow of war.

And the curtain falls for the final time tonight for the critically beloved musical. the Phantom of the Opera, the longest running show in Broadway history. It took in more than a billion dollars at the box office during its record run, but ticket sales never recovered after Broadway went dark during the pandemic.

Based on a 1910 pulp novel phantom tells the story of a mysterious disfigured composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and pines for an opera singer. It opened on Broadway and joked January 1988. The final show will be it's 13,981st performance.

Still to come on "PBS News Weekend," a look at the state of school lunches in America and the story of the men who fought to get the video game Tetris out of the Soviet Union and onto Game Boys.