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
hello. welcome to the programme. we start with the latest situation in sudan. three updates. the un top official to the region is on his way. this is a crucialfigure, martin griffiths. he is there to effectively coordinate aid and tried to help it get in safely. we are looking at live pictures of khartoum. the smoke rising there. i will get to the causes, we think, of those explosions in a moment. we can first get the latest on martin griffiths who has arrived in nairobi. he said the situation unfolding is catastrophic. and that. we can look at the situation on the ground. this is khartoum. air strikes have continued despite the ceasefire. the army said it had been attacking the city to flush out effectively paramilitary rivals the rapid support forces. 500 deaths have been reported and the actualfigure deaths have been reported and the actual figure believed to deaths have been reported and the actualfigure believed to be higher. we will not get official counts for while. mi
which hopes to return to the english football league for the first time in 15 years. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start in sudan, where the army says foreign nationals from the uk, as well as the united states, france and china, are to be evacuated in the coming hours . these are saudi state tv pictures of a boat reported to be carrying saudi citizens and some other nationals arriving injeddah, across the red sea from sudan. other ships are said to be due to dock injeddah later. the head of sudan s military agreed to facilitate the evacuation, as fighting in the capital khartoum enters its second week. the saudi broadcaster says the evacuees were carried in a convoy of vehicles to port sudan from where they boarded ships tojeddah. the most intense fighting in sudan has been taking place in the capital khartoum, where explosions and gunfire have been heard in the past few hours. the un estimates that at least 400 people have been killed across sudan since the fight
the wall streetjournal reporter evan gershkovich is appearing in court in moscow for his appeal hearing against his detention. mr gershkovich was arrested on espionage charges in yekaterinburg last month. more than a0 countries led by the united states have called for the release of the journalist. the statement condemned moscow s efforts to limit and intimidate the media. us ambassador to russia visited mr gershkovich at lefortovo prison. these are the latest pictures of him, behind the glass, inside court. we have had a live feed up until the last few minutes from inside and outside, if you look at the outside of the court as well. this is an appeal hearing against the charges on which he is being held. of course, we cannot predict or know what the outcome proceedings will be, but many observers and washes of court proceedings in russia points to the fact that most of the time, once people are in the judicial system, very little changes, so most verdicts, when it comes to c