an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism for the british newspaper, the observer. the dutch siffan hassan and the kenyan kelvin kiptum have won the race for female and male categories in the london marathon. hello, i m rich preston a very warm welcome to bbc news. a growing number of foreign diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from the sudanese capital, khartom, as fighting between rivalfactions of the army enters a second week. the uk, france and the us are among those to remove embassy staff under the cover of darkness. the british evacuees are on their way back to the uk, via cyprus. the situation for other nationals in sudan remains unclear. in the last couple of hours we ve seen a french military plane arriving at one of france s airbases in dijibouti said to be carrying european diplomats and citizens. with the latest here s our africa correspondent, andrew harding. amid the bombs and the gunfire in khartoum today, a series of drama
Countries Evacuate Diplomats, Citizens Out of Sudan
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then get them out? the first issue is where our day, who are they, what are they doing there and how do you contact them? i haven t been involved in a noncombatant evacuation order somewhere like sudan, but we were heavily involved in the refugee crisis in kosovo where tens of thousands of people were on the move and just trying to bring some sort of order to this is not easy. it is definitely a chaotic situation, the rebel forces are strong, hundred thousand strong all over the country, the fighting is getting worse and a lot of people are being hurt. if we are going to get the rest of the british citizens out, finding out who they are and where they are, getting them together where we can descend on some sort of capability, and if it proves to be necessary to send in a military capability, you have to sendin military capability, you have to send in quite a strong combat power force because it could find themselves engaged in a firefight. clearly the mod and government will not want t
citizens from other countries somewhere together, where you can then get them out? the first issue is where are they, who are they, what are they doing there and how do you contact them? i haven t been involved in a noncombatant evacuation order from somewhere like sudan, but we were heavily involved in the refugee crisis in kosovo where tens of thousands of people were on the move and just trying to bring some sort of order to this is not easy. it is definitely a chaotic situation, the rebel forces are strong, a hundred thousand strong all over the country, the fighting is getting worse and a lot of people are being hurt. if we are going to get the rest of the british citizens out, finding out who they are and where they are, getting them together where we can send in some sort of capability, and if it proves to be necessary to send in a military capability, you have to send in quite a strong combat power force because they could find themselves engaged in a firefight. clearly the mod