seven! seven! tributes pour in for the former head judge of strictly and king of the catchphrase, len goodman, who s died aged 78. he had no understanding ofjust how big he was, how much people loved him. in my own house we still never use the word seven, we say seven differently. he changed a whole number for so many of us. how a third of government money for extra school tutoring after the covid lockdown still hasn t been spent. and with just under two weeks until the coronation, a bbc poll suggests less than a third of18 21i year olds want the monarchy to continue. and coming up on bbc news: the draw for the sixth round of rugby league s challenge cup will take place shortly on the bbc. 16 teams go into the hat to see who will play whom in the ties in may. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the head of the un has called on the security council to do all it can to pull sudan back from what he called a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the whole re
today at six, calls grow for the government to do more to evacuate british citizens trapped in the fighting in sudan. the head of the un calls it a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the whole region. some countries are managing to get their people out. the bbc understands a small british military team is in sudan now scoping possibilities for evacuation as british nationals shelter from the gunfire. basically they were running along my street yesterday, last night. they were running along here and they were shooting, chasing people along the street. we are locking all the doors and we go right in the middle of the house. there are reports that some british citizens are running out of electricity supply, food and water, even having to kill their pets because they can no longer feed them. also on the programme.
britons are in khartoum whether fighting is faces, they could be attacked if they left their homes, any assembly point could become a target and even if temporary ceasefires were agreed there is no guarantee they were told, which is why the official uk advice is to still stay at home. but for some uk nationals running out of food and water, that is not good enough and they want a decision about evacuation is not good enough and they want a decision about evacuations soon. chris, the government is coming under increasing pressure to do something. under increasing pressure to do something- under increasing pressure to do somethint. ~ . something. andrew mitchell, the minister use something. andrew mitchell, the minister use saw something. andrew mitchell, the minister use saw there something. andrew mitchell, the minister use saw there in - something. andrew mitchell, the minister use saw there in the - something. andrew mitchell, the i minister use saw there in the report faced
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the head of the un has called on the security council to do all it can to pull sudan back from what he called a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the whole region and beyond . after over a week of fighting between rival factions of the military, there s growing criticism of the government s lack of help to evacuate at least 2,000 british citizens trapped there with dwindling supplies of food and water. a number of countries are rushing to get their people out, aided by a lull in the fighting. some are being flown out from an airstrip near the capital khartoum. others have been leaving the capital by road, heading north to egypt, or east to the red sea coast. thousands of sudanese civilians are also making desperate attempts to flee, with many crossing into neighbouring ethiopia, chad and south sudan. we ll hear more about the uk s efforts to help trapped british nationals out in a moment, including reports that a small
but there s nothing that persuades me that i need to rejoin the cbi any time soon. applause. meanwhile the prime minister this morning assured business leaders the government was behind them, with or without the cbi. if there s one overarching message that i want all of you, and everyone watching, to take away from today it is this. we want businesses small and large to know that this government has got your back. business and government acknowledge they need each other. but whether they need the cbi is not so clear. simon jack, bbc news. our top story this evening. the un secretary general warns the fighting in sudan could engulf the whole region , as calls increase for the government to evacuate trapped british citizens. and how rewiggling rivers re introducing their natural bends is helping to reduce flooding and restore biodiversity. coming up on bbc news: an exciting victory at the crucible for debutant si jiahui.