Alex Ritson

Now to France, where a French doctor known as Dr Death has been sentenced to life in prison after he poisoned dozens of his patients.

Frédéric Péchier worked as an anaesthetist in the eastern city of Besançon and was found guilty of poisoning 30 patients and killing 12.

Our Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield has the story.

They looked into it and found that there was an excess of chemicals in her infusion bag of a certain chemical.

And then they started looking further and found a pattern of events like this going back over nine or ten years.

And in the trial, they've established that, yes, the charges against him were true.

In 30 cases, he was found to have put chemicals in the infusion bags

He was the first responder when things went wrong and said, I know it's this, this is the problem.

Here's the antidote.

Hugh Schofield.

Major cities in Sudan, including the capital Khartoum and its main seaport, Port Sudan, are without power after drone strikes hit a key power plant in the east of the country.

Government forces have been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, for the last two and a half years, which has plunged Sudan into a massive humanitarian crisis.

I heard more from our global affairs reporter Richard Kegoy in Nairobi.

A military source has just told the French news agency that the paramilitary rapid support forces, the RSF, carried out large-scale attacks in the east of the country targeting three cities.

So the accusation has been coming from the army that this is the RSF because if you look traditionally, the RSF has been carrying out drone attacks targeting civilian infrastructure.

It's quite a thing to take out power to the capital and to other major cities.

Yeah, that's really quite devastating because if you look at Khartoum, that's the capital city, and Port Sudan, which is the seat of the military government.

This is quite disruptive and very devastating because residents in parts of Sudan say that they've been without power since 2 a.m.

on Thursday morning.

And this particular drone attack did target a particular key power station in the city of Atbara, which is really responsible for redistribution of power across many parts of Sudan.