trying to get out of the country during a tenuous 72 hour ceasefire that threatens to break. among them are british people being told to go to this air base outside the capital where they are being flown to safety in cyprus then on to the uk where we are expecting very soon the first plane to arrive. the uk says more than 300 people have been evacuated from sudan with more flights expected in the coming hours. full nearly 2000 people from other countries have taken another route out by crossing the red sea on a ship organised by saudi arabia. tens of thousands of sudanese continue to try to reach neighbouring chad, egypt and south sudan. as thousands leave, residents in khartoum tell us about their fears that the world is abandoning them as supplies of food, water and medicine are running low. officials wanted for war crimes have been released from prison although the army says they have been moved to a military hospital. our correspondent is at the airport in cyprus. this is
most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people they say they ve successfully got hundreds of people out already. the us and uk have already flown diplomats out as well as canada. its prime minister, justin trudeau, tweeted that canadian officials in nearby countries have also been mobilized to help he says they re stationed in nearby djibouti which has a french and american military base. sudan s army has been fighting a rival paramilitary group, the rsf, for more than a week and this is what khartoum looks like right now. over the weekend, the violence intensified this city has been under constant shelling making evacuations difficult. here s the uk s defence secretary. it was dangerous and precarious but nevertheless we managed to use both see one 30s and a 400 aircraft to go in, and collect our diplomats and their residence and fly out to safety. and while foreign na
too joined as soon as possible. president erdogan said sweden still hadn t handed over people he called terrorists. now on bbc news the media show: writing a first draft of history. my my guest today has covered some of the most defining stories of our time stop gary younge briefly became part of nelson mandela s entourage, joined revellers as president obama was elected, and has covered mock els two, gay marriage, brexit, the windrush scandal, and the black lives matter. he left as a full time journalist to become professor of sociology at the university managers. although he continues write articles for various publications and books. his new one is a collection of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian in edinburgh, then in yourfinal year you received a scott trust bursary from the guardian to studyjournalism. i think you were quite clear at th