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,
before the low pressure starts to ease away. on saturday, we will see wet weather to the west. it is also going to impact wales and south west england. elsewhere, dry with sunshine. if you dodge the showers, you will get that once again. but we could see lines of showers through east anglia, stretching up towards newcastle and south west scotland. we are going to see the winds strengthen, particularly with this pulse of wet weather pushing up from the south west towards northern ireland during the beginning of sunday. that is then going to sit across northern ireland and south west scotland once again. that is where the worst of the weather is going to be. it is also going to be windy, but elsewhere, yet again, it is going to be blustery. you might see isolated showers, but you could also grab some late summer, early autumn, whichever way you prefer, sunshine and top temperatures on sunday of 25 degrees. thanks. and that s bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest
in new zealand. good afternoon. a meeting of the government s emergency cobra committee has taken place this afternoon to discuss how to respond to the record temperatures that are expected to hit parts of the uk next week. a national emergency has been declared after a red extreme heat warning was issued for the first time, meaning there s a risk to life. jon donnison reports at the bristol harbour festival this weekend, a cold shower more than welcome. and with potentially record temperatures forecast for early next week, this summer s heatwave is entering uncharted waters. well, i don t like the heat. it s all right at the moment, it s all right in the shade, but i do burn too quickly. for those climate sceptics, i think this is evidence that something s definitely happening, so, you know, people need to take a bit of responsibility, definitely. he can t be in nursery for the full day because it s going to be far too hot for him, so he ll be home for the afternoon in a p
Blood soaked sheets on Maternity Wards without help. Evidence was given about babies who were injured during birth and many women said they werent listened to. Birth trauma is thought to affect 30,000 women a year in the uk, a term which refers to negative birth experiences such as serious blood loss and Emergency Cesarean is. One in 20 women developed post Traumatic Stress disorder. Its women developed postTraumatic Stress disorder. Stress disorder. Its really patronising. Stress disorder. Its really patronising, in stress disorder. Its really patronising, in my stress disorder. Its really. Patronising, in my opinion, stress disorder. Its really patronising, in my opinion, not to give women the information about what its like to have a baby because we are able to cope with this kind of information. The report from an allparty this kind of information. The report from an allParty Parliamentary i from an all Party Parliamentary group calls for urgent change, including ending the Postcod