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 we do not, so we had to learn from a further so we had to mount from a further distance which obviously precluded the use of helicopters or rotary wing, and we had a smaller footprint and i think that is a big challenge but i m very confident our men and women in the armed forces have done an amazing job and people are safe and sound on the way home. well, some more information for british nationals still in sudan the uk s foreign offices has tweeted: if you are a british national in sudan, we advise you to register your presence to receive updates from the fcdo. it goes on to say: you should also stay up to date with the fcdo travel advice by signing up to e mail alerts. earlier, i spoke to tim cross a military logistics expert and former major general who served in the british army from 1971 to 2007, including in the iraq and kosovo wars. the first thing to say is there has always been in place what are called noncombatant
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