to have been killed. international efforts to end the fighting are ramping up with the head of the african union commission planning to go on a ceasefire mission and the presidents of kenya, south sudan and djibouti also trying to mediate. frank gardner gave more details. there was a window of opportunity for a couple of years for sudan to make the transition from military dictatorship to democracy, but they blew it. and they blew it because of this rivalry and essentially what has triggered this most recently is that in the discussions as to how to move sudan from a military leadership to civilian rule there were plans to incorporate this militia, the rsf, into the army, but they didn t really like it, the two general could not agree on how this was going to happen and the rsf went and spread itself around the country, occupied certain areas, and has been fighting to try and dislodge them from port sudan and the airport in the north. it is incredibly sad for the sudanese peo
hello and welcome to the programme. the us military has evacuated american diplomats and their families from sudan. six aircraft were used in sunday s early morning mission. president biden issued a statement a short time ago. he said: more than 150 people were evacuated by sea to the saudi arabian port ofjeddah on saturday, mostly citizens of gulf countries, but also from egypt, canada and others. it came as clashes continued between the rsf and sudan s army. the near constant shooting and bombardment in khartoum and elsewhere has cut electricity and safe access to food and water for much of the population. several ceasefires that had seemingly been agreed by both sides were ignored, including a 3 day pause to mark the muslim holiday of eid al fitr, which started on friday. bbc news understands that the government is drawing up plans to evacuate british embassy staff from sudan, uk citizens are being urged to tell the foreign office where they are, either online or by phone,
the road to the nfl is well travelled, but littered with pitfalls and broken dreams. typically, thatjourney begins age five or six and encompasses high school and college, before a select few reached the promised land. efe obada s route wasn t like many who ve gone before, but then again, his story is farfrom typical. hisjourney to america s biggest show began age 20. far from the glitz and glamour in south london. one of my friends, josh hastings, played american football for the warriors and he saw my size. we were similar built. we went to college together. and at the time, he was, he was very skinny. he s very modern. and when i saw him again, you know, he had some size on him. and he told me that he was playing american football and i would be a good fit. so i went down and i thought nothing of it. like, honestly, it was the first time seeing helmets and pads and all these things. it was very strange. like i never saw. i ve never seen anything like that in south london.
we ll be live in north london. potter under pressure: the chelsea boss responds to critics, as his side travel to borussia dortmund in the champions league. and we ll have the latest on this week s women s internationals as scotland lose their opening game of the pinatar cup. hello and welcome along plenty to get through over the next half an hour. we start with football and the premier league s top two go head to head at the emirates stadium, as arsenal host manchester city in under an hours time. pep guardiola s side can move top on goal difference with a victory, joe lynskey previews the action. arsenal and manchester city are two clubs on each other s tail. the top two in the top flight. last summer, to city players left for arsenal and are key to their resurgence. because arteta is in his fourth year at arsenal after three years himself with city. 50 arsenal after three years himself with ci . ., ., ., ., with city. 50 animated almost mirror imaaes with city. 50 ani