Oliver Conway

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, the 15th of April.

Sudan marks a grim milestone, three years of civil war.

We hear from a journalist who was trapped in a brutal siege there.

President Trump suggests talks with Iran could resume in the next few days.

And Ukraine says it's recaptured territory from Russia using just robots.

Also in the podcast, the tech bosses using AI to create digital twins.

The bot passed with flying colours.

Employees could not distinguish between the human CEO and the bot CEO correctly.

How small talk can have big benefits.

It's three years since a power struggle between two armed factions in Sudan erupted into full-blown civil war.

The fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary rapid support forces has led to a de facto partition of the country and triggered the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

The fall of the city of Al-Fasha in the western region of Darfur last October was one of the most brutal episodes of the conflict.

Journalist Mohammed Suleiman was there, facing a communications blackout that cut off his connections to the outside world.

He's now made it to safety and shared his story, as Barbara Platt-Usher reports.

This sound is so familiar and so crucial to how we live our lives.

But when Mohamed Suleiman entered the telecoms office in Port Sudan in January, he hadn't heard a phone ring for a very long time.

He'd been isolated by conflict and unable to convey fully the horrors he was witnessing.

I was flustered because people were talking on their phones inside the office.