of our viewers around the world and to our viewers joining us from the u. s and canada. i m leila rock and you re watching cnn newsroom for nationals have been evacuated from sudan as fighting between the military and paramilitary forces stretches now into a second week . hours ago, the us confirmed that all american diplomats were on their way out of the country and that the u. s embassy in the capital khartoum has been temporarily closed. cnn s oren lieberman has the details. a successful mission carried out in the dark of night in sudan to evacuate the u. s embassy in khartoum, according to us officials. three chanukah helicopters took off from djibouti some 750 or 800, miles away from khartoum flew into the country landed, secured the embassy and then brought out all of the embassy staff and their family members, a group of just under 100 people, according to us officials, who briefed reporters on the operation and what happened around it during the operation and afterwar
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hello and welcome to the programme. i m lewis vaughan jones. we start in sudan, where gunfire has been sounding across the capital, khartoum. live pictures here. we have been watching these live pictures over the last few hours. every few minutes or so you get a burst of gunfire or heavy artillery. we have had eye witnesses describing men in uniform on the streets and people trapped in their homes. in the last hour, we have had an update on people trying to leave. foreign nationals trying to leave. the sudanese army have said that they will facilitate diplomats trying to leave the country. let s just take a look at the map and remind you where this is happening. sudan, here, the actualfocus remind you where this is happening. sudan, here, the actual focus of the fighting is the capital khartoum. and that is where diplomats and foreign nationals are. they haven t been able to leave, there has been significant efforts to try and make that happen. we have heard from the head of
hello. after the abundance of blue skies many saw through the week, the weekend is already looking different. a lot more cloud out there. there will be some rain at times, not for everyone. one or two spots will stay dry. but the general trend, especially later this weekend, is for colder air to arrive. now, at the moment, we ve got two main rain bearing clumps of cloud, one to the south, mainly to the southwest. and this one here, which across southern scotland, northern ireland, far north of england, continues to produce rain through the afternoon. turning a bit lighter and patchier, never quite reaching some of the central belt. and here northwards, plenty of sunshine for most, a bit of cloud lingering around the murray firth and sutherland. warmest again, 16 degrees out towards the west of scotland. but the winds will be picking up, some rain in wales, the south west later, but central eastern parts of england, a brighter and milder day than yesterday. now, this evening a