that it may not hold. hundreds of people have died since fighting started between the sudanese army and rsf paramilitary force. in recent days, more countries have attempted to evacuate their diplomats and citizens this is a member of the dutch military handing out earplugs as they get ready to take off. and this was the scene as the spanish defence ministry helped diplomats and citizens on to their plane. so far we know that germany evacuated 311 people this weekend to jordan, with 1000 german soldiers involved in that operation. france evacuated 388, both french nationals as well as a significant number of people from other countries, including the uk. italy flew out 200 people 140 of them italian nationals. in comparison, just 30 british nationals and 70 americans have been evacuated from sudan. and the the us and uk have a far higher number of people to evacuate 16,000 and 4,000 passport holders respectively. before the ceasefire was announced, we heard from the un
And coming up on bbc news. New zealand look to erase Rugby World Cup scars of 2019 as they look to reach a record fifth final when they face argentina later. Good afternoon. The labour leader sir kier starmer says his partys two by election victories last night are history in the making. Labour overturned huge conservative majorities in the previously safe tory seats of Mid Bedfordshire and tamworth in staffordshire. In Mid Bedfordshire, the former seat of nadine dorries, the tory majority of more than 2a,000 collapsed with a swing to labour of 20. 5 . While in tamworth the swing was even bigger 23. 9 . The conservatives have blamed low turnout, saying their voters stayed at home. Our Political Correspondent iain watson reports. Two previously tory seats, two big wins for labour. Keir starmer has been to visit both with big swings for his party from the conservatives in tamworth, but his first stop this morning was to celebrate his close victory in Mid Bedfordshire. We know that voters
From the north sea and from gas that we were importing from around the world, but we need to move on and we need to move on to Green Electricity and green power, and our National Grid is not up to it. There are days when we lose £63 million because the National Grid simply cant step up and take the energy that is being produced. We are holding back, according to the bbc, £200 billion worth of potential investment either by people who want to supply to the grid or people who want to use the grid. And people wanting to use the grid are having to put in bids to have more power and theyre being told they wont be able to get a connection to the grid or an upgrade to the grid until the late 2030s. This simply isnt good enough, there is no long term thinking on this, and what were saying is that we will invest in the National Grid and we will make sure that it is fit for purpose. This is bbc news. An update on another big story now. Over a thousand people are reported to have been killed in
he went on to win a fourth world cup as brazil s assista nt manager in 1994. zagallo died on friday at the age of 92. india s supreme court has cancelled an order that allowed the premature release of 11 men convicted for the gang rape of bilkis bano, a pregnant muslim woman. the incident occurred during the 2002 anti muslim riots in gujarat state. the hindu men, who also murdered 1a members of the victim s family, received life sentences. earlier, i spoke to our south asia correspondent yogita limaye in mumbai about how the latest ruling has been received by relatives of the victims. the judgement has been welcomed by bilkis bano s lawyer and also by members of herfamily who say they re relieved. we are yet to hear from ms bano herself, butjust to take you back to the history of this case. this was an attack that occurred during the religious violence in gujarat in 2002.