and tributes to the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist harry belafonte, who s died at the age of 96. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in sudan, where an uneasy truce appears to be holding. thousands of people have been fleeing the country due to the violence there, as countries from around the world work to evacuate their citizens. people living in sudan have spoken of their fears of looting, vandalism and hunger. andrew harding has this report. safely out of sudan, the first plane carrying british nationals landed back in cyprus this evening. the rescue mission had begun early in the morning, several raf planes setting off for sudan s capital, khartoum, not knowing if a ceasefire in the city would last days or even hours. it has been incredibly challenging because of the changing nature. we have had to work up complex plans involving numerous royal air force aircraft and a great number of military personnel, who ve been flown in from the uk over t
breaking news from around the world, 24 breaking news from around the world, 2a hours a day, this is bbc news. fix, 24 hours a day, this is bbc news. certain degree and also support against what they see as pressure from the prc so this would be japan, south korea, singapore is a bit of a mixed position. singapore i think is not a us ally. it like this with with the us i think it appreciates bite and s more stable as opposed to trump s. so there is some concern about perhaps the mounting intensity of competition between the us and china, i think for singapore who was in the middle man position, they are wary of a bite in the ministration pushing further on competition and of course they are just as concerned with the prc in kern in case any mistakes as would venture to say. interesting you mention tensions between washington and beijing. under the obama administration when mr biden was the vp that was very much a policy of pivot to asia. how do you rate mr biden policy t
a very large sum to settle claims of phone hacking. # 0h, island in the sun. and tributes to the legendary singer, actor and civil rights activist harry belafonte, who s died at the age of 96. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and one am in khartoum in sudan where an uneasy truce appears to be holding. thousands of people have been fleeing the country due to the violence there, as countries from around the world work to evacuate their citizens. people living in sudan have spoken of their fears of looting, vandalism and hunger. andrew harding has this report. safely out of sudan, the first plane carrying british nationals landed back in cyprus this evening. the rescue mission began early in the morning, several raf planes setting off for sudan capital khartoum not know if a ceasefire in the city would last days or even hours. it has been incredibly challenging because of the changing nature. we have had to work up complex plans involving numerous royal air force air
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn
lawmakers have rarely sought to make public confidential taxpayer information. there is some precedent. now we ll see a whole new one today. we ll go live to capitol hill this morning. what time are we expecting these to come out is what everyone really wants to know. reporter: this is going to happen around 9:00 a.m. so just less than an hour at this point and we are mere steps from the house floor where this is going to get entered into the congressional record. what you should expect to see today is the ways and means committee will release a press release that will include the following documents. one of them, trump s personal federal tax returns for the years between 2015 and 2020 as well as the returns for eight of his business entities. here s where the real treasure trove of information could come from, additional work files that the irs might have as they were looking over former president donald trump s taxes. we should talk about the importance of this moment bec