seven! seven! tributes pour in for the former head judge of strictly and king of the catchphrase, len goodman, who s died aged 78. he had no understanding ofjust how big he was, how much people loved him. in my own house we still never use the word seven, we say seven differently. he changed a whole number for so many of us. how a third of government money for extra school tutoring after the covid lockdown still hasn t been spent. and with just under two weeks until the coronation, a bbc poll suggests less than a third of18 21i year olds want the monarchy to continue. and coming up on bbc news: the draw for the sixth round of rugby league s challenge cup will take place shortly on the bbc. 16 teams go into the hat to see who will play whom in the ties in may. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the head of the un has called on the security council to do all it can to pull sudan back from what he called a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the whole re
the head of the un has called on the security council to do these on the security council to do are live pictures of ita citizens these are live pictures of italian citizens arriving in rome, the italian capital. as we have been saying here on bbc news, it s been difficult for many countries to evacuate their citizens with a growing list of countries having chartered flights, brought on ships to evacuate diplomats and citizens from the sudan capital khartoum as the fighting continues there, into its second week in fact. there has been some criticism of the uk government response to uk citizens in particular the fact that the uk government evacuated diplomats and their families government evacuated diplomats and theirfamilies but government evacuated diplomats and their families but has yet to start to properly evacuating british citizens from khartoum. bbc understands a small british military team has landed in sudan to assess potential evacuation options. what we are seeing
children due to covid. plus, monarchy and popularity. a new bbc poll suggests less than a third of young adults in the uk want the royals to continue. we begin in sudan where the us says warring parties have agreed to a 72 hour ceasefire. us secretary of state antony blinken said the agreement with the sudanese armed forces and the para military rapid support forces came after 48 hours of intense negotiations. earlier, the united nations secretary general warned the violence is at risk of causing a catastrophic conflagration that could engulf the whole region and beyond. here s our africa correspondent andrew harding. khartoum today, still burning, as civilians, locals and foreigners hunt for ways to escape from sudan s hellish capital. at a bus station, this man said, we re afraid that civilians may be used as human shields, especially after foreigners have been evacuated. it s still going on. this is for the last 20 minutes. many people still can t get out of the city,
Happenings in the financial world. Sally is here with World Business report. The boss of the uks biggest business lobby group, the cbi comic gives us her reaction to the Snap Election called for by the british Prime Minister. The cbi, gives. And we talk to facebook about policing violent material on the social media website following the suicide of murder suspect steve stephens. Hello and a warm welcome to you. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also in the programme well have all the Market Numbers for you as the global slide in shares continues in asia and the Pound Sterling holds its gains. We were sure those numbers at the end of the programme. But first, here we go again. Nine months after becoming Prime Minister, theresa may is ready dice and betting on a strong victory in a Snap Election on june the act. Today, mps are expected to vote in favour of the proposal, which theresa may says will bring greater certainty as britain prepares to leave the european union.