welcome to bbc news. we start in sudan, where the 72 hour ceasefire is in its final hours. the uk foreign secretary told the bbc that now is the time for people to move. it s totally unclear what happens after the midnight deadline local time efforts continue to extend the truce. the uk operation, with round the clock flights, has so far evacuated 536 british nationals. many have been speaking about the nightmare of the last few days and the perils of the escape. the flights are only one way people are getting out. thousands more, sudanese and otherforeign nationals, have got to saudia arabia by boat. many others by road to the borders with egypt and djibouti. throughout the next crucial hours, we ll try to establish what is happening on the ground, whether the ceasefire can be extended, look at the exodus of people, and talk to some of those left behind. let me bring you the latest from number 10 downing street. rishi sunak s spokesman saying britain s ambassador is speaki
all rolling in the deep #. and the singer adele joins james corden for the final carpool karaoke in his last week as host of the the late late show. welcome to bbc news we start in sudan where the 72 hour ceasefire, is in its final hours. the uk foreign secretary told the bbc that now is the time for people to move. it s totally unclear what happens after the midnight deadline local time efforts continue to extend the truce. the uk operation with round the clock flights has so far evacuated 536 british nationals. has so far evacuated 700 british nationals. many have been speaking about the nightmare of the last few days and the perils of the escape. the flights are only one way people are getting out thousands more, sudanese and otherforeign nationals have got to saudia arabia by boat many others by road to the borders with egypt and djibouti. throughout the next crucial hours we ll try to establish what is happening on the ground whether the cease
the department of defence to develop options to take down the blue safety over our territorial waters while closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities. this action was to cash taken in coordination and with the simple support of the canadian government and we thank them. the reason why they are thinking cap motor is because you may remember it spent a bit of time over canada over to montana, and that is where those sensitive security sites in the us were, and that is where with this chinese surveillance balloon. and thatis chinese surveillance balloon. and that is when this news went global, and since then, we have been tracking it heading and now no more, now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if you were here earlier. just off south carolina. if you were here earlier, my just off south carolina. if you w
what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china s one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i m incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina congressman that this has been successfully shot down, apparently over the atlantic ocean? i think so, and i m super proud of the men and women at south carolina s shaw air force base for doing so. i think that shows our resolve and that we re able to take any task. it was really interesting to the watch this spy balloon go over my house and to see fighter planes really circling this balloon as i
general keane, i m not sure if you can see this, but we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balloon has been taken dow- oh, that s great. arthel: it is now i falling from the sky there over surfside beach, south carolina. so your reaction to this, sir. i m watching it. well, first of all, well done. congrats to the military for being able to do that. arthel: very dramatic, indeed. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with the very latest. lucas. reporter: we ve just learned from this background call with pentagon officials that it was an f-22 fighter jet flying out of langley air force base, that s near virginia beach, that shot down this chinese spy balloon using a single sidewinder missile, a heat-seeking missile. some questions if there was enough heat signature off this chinese apparatus to be able to shoot it down with a sidewinder. but i digress. the shot-down happened at 2:39 eastern time off the coast of south carolina. very notable, it w