trailing donald trump here at home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday. i m christine romans this morning. the u. s. has no embassy operating in sudan, a country on the brink of civil war president biden announcing the u. s diplomatic personnel and their families have been evacuated from sudan secretary of state antony blinken, adding that operations that the u. s embassy in khartoum have been temporarily suspended. cnn s sam kiley is reporting on the situation from djibouti for us and sam. how was the extraction of us personnel carried out and are officials saying why it was necessary? well let s start with why it was necessary there, christine, you say it s on sudan s on the brink of civil war, i think from the american and international perspective, it is a country in the throes of a very violent, actual civil war. there are, for example, sudanese jets bombarding positions inside their own capital. and it s that level of violence
for russia s ideological position on this war case in point this morning he s expected to share a debate of the security council entitled effective multilateralism through the defense of the principles of the charter. of the united nations. several of those principles you could objectively argue russia has violated in ukraine, but he is likely to make arguments along the lines of russia having a legitimate interest in ukraine, protecting its ethnic people in ukraine, all the things that we ve heard before he went into this meeting, saying that russia would not forgive or forget, after accusing the us of denying russian journalists visas. as part of his delegation, but one element that they re going to discuss in a meeting with the un secretary general of particular consequence for the world is this black sea grain initiative set to expire on may 18th that is on particularly shaky ground right now, so those talks will be very closely watched christine indeed, also, you ve got this amazi