and retaining their premier league title. liverpool s trent alexander arnold tells us why he s launching a scheme to help young players who are released by club academies. a lot of people still find it difficult to kind of open up and feel vulnerable, and are scared of that feeling of failure again. good morning. there is a lot of cloud out there for most of us and some outbreaks of rain. the weather is going to be warming up in the next few days. details here on bbc breakfast. good morning. it s thursday, the 27th of april. our main story. british evacuation teams are working to rescue more people from sudan before the country s fragile ceasefire ends tonight. more than 500 people have already left on uk flights, with another due to land this morning. but the foreign secretary said he can t guarantee how many further planes will depart once the 72 hour truce expires. simonjones reports. back on british soil, escaping the conflict, hundreds of people have now left sudan as pa
everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with a dramatic evacuation of u. s. government personnel and their families from sudan president biden confirming the operation overnight more than 100. special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the decision to evacuate came after a week of heavy fighting between rival military factions that left more than 400 dead and thousands injured. we ve got full coverage with kylie atwood at the state department, kevin liptak at the white house. kylie let s begin with you. this was a big operation. i mean what was happening behind the scenes at the state department and what provoked this decision. major operation and what you have to understand with embassies like this that are in areas where conflict can arise is that the state department has plans for these evacuations. but then they have to go back and look at these plans in a very detailed way, and that s what state department offic
son on tv, but you know that child of holocaust was reporting the news. the best revenge. is to survive and thrive. that s why it s so important that we educate and we show the world what was going on, and that s what we re doing. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield and us diplomatic personnel and their families are now out of sudan. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti in a dramatic overnight evacuation more than 100. us special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the u. s embassy in her tomb has now suspended operations. violence in sudan broke out more than a week ago. heavy fighting between rival military factions, leaving more than 400 dead and thousands injured. cnn s or in lieberman is at the pentagon for so or in what more are you learning about this operation? this was an operation carried out effectively in the dead of night by a fairly small group of special operations forces right ar
be too dangerous at this time. trey yingst with the latest. u.s. special forces entered the capital and the u.s. department says around 100 staff members at trust embassy were evacuated along with a small number of people from allied countries including canada. we are learning more about the details of this mission. u.s. officials say 3 helicopters took off before landing in ethiopia to refuel and the choppers flew to conduct the rescue. douglas simms described clean and fast. simms stressed the evacuation was planned for the past week and conducted without the help of parties on the ground. other countries like france and britain have started to evacuate personnel and some civilians. the british took diplomats to airfield before flying them out of the country while some to have french nationals headed in convoy to the port of sudan. reports indicate french convoy was targeted by gunfire and one person was injured. evacuations 8 days after fighting in army with rapid suppor
americas diplomatic personne from the u.s. embassy in the capital city of khartoum there are still thousands of private american citizens stuc amid the fighting. we re following the stor closely. going to bring in the latest throughout the next two hours. mike pence is finally come out strongly against donald trum on one key issue, not the on you think. we ll get the latest from iowa where they both spoke to conservative evangelicals last night. for today s meeting of the velshi banned book club, we re paying tribute to the public library. once a community fixture, safe haven to explore differen worlds and learn new ideas, it has become the battleground fo the ideological fight over books. nowhere are libraries unde greater threat than in texas that s where we re heading t talk to shirley robinson executive director of the texa library association about th fight for the freedom to redeveloped she starts now it is sunday april 23rd, i m ali velshi we begin with the republican