agreed to part ways. a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the region and beyond. a number of other countries are rushing to get there people out, aided by a local in the fighting today. the shortages of food and water worsen as thousands of sudanese citizens trying to flee. andrew harding has the very latest on what s happening in khartoum. khartoum today, still burning as civilians, locals and foreigners hunt for ways to escape from sudan s hellish capital. imagine the desperation. many people still can t get out. it s still going on. this for the last 20 minutes. like the man who filmed these images. he s from dunfermline, in fife, and was visiting relatives in sudan s capital when the fighting began, trapping his family. 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 re locking all the doors and we go right into the middle of the house. asked if he feels
the head of the un has called on the security council to do these on the security council to do are live pictures of ita citizens these are live pictures of italian citizens arriving in rome, the italian capital. as we have been saying here on bbc news, it s been difficult for many countries to evacuate their citizens with a growing list of countries having chartered flights, brought on ships to evacuate diplomats and citizens from the sudan capital khartoum as the fighting continues there, into its second week in fact. there has been some criticism of the uk government response to uk citizens in particular the fact that the uk government evacuated diplomats and their families government evacuated diplomats and theirfamilies but government evacuated diplomats and their families but has yet to start to properly evacuating british citizens from khartoum. bbc understands a small british military team has landed in sudan to assess potential evacuation options. what we are seeing
the violence must stop. it risks a catastrophic conflagration within sudan that could engulf the whole region and beyond. we ll have the latest on the rescue efforts, amid reports that the military factions in sudan have agreed a temporary ceasefire. also on the programme. as nurses in england prepare to strike next week, the government says it will go to the high court to try to limit the action. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. america s most watched cable news anchor, tucker carlson, one of donald trump s most loyal supporters, is leaving fox news. a growing list of companies decide to leave the cbi, as the business organisation admits it employed staff who spread a toxic culture. and the barrow boy who became a ballroom star len goodman of strictly has died at the age of 78. and coming up on bbc news. interim manager, cristian stellini, has been sacked by tottenham afterjust 4 matches in charge. ryan mason now has the job until the end of the season. good eve
are being instructed to shelter in place as western governments try to figure out a means to safely evacuate them. also tonight, scientific censorship in china. crucial genetic sequencing that could have helped with the fight against covid, was deleted, covered up or withdrawn under pressure from party officials. we will speak to the new york times investigators. what about the transition to clean power? nine countries meeting in belgium today have commited to building an entire electricity system in the north seas, based on renewable energy. and we will talk about the global addiction to cheap clothing 10 years on from the rana plaza disaster in bangladesh have we improved conditions for some of the poorest workers in the developing world. but first to sudan, a country fast coming apart at the seams. in khartoum it is now a stark choice between hunger and deprivation indoors and the risk of being killed in the street battles outside. there are tens of thousands of foreign
hugging it out. good morning, everyone! that was a hollywood ending for rexham and the team s owners. after years of struggling, the welsh soccer club has achieved its dream of a major promotion. look at that. tears. wow, wow, congratulations to them. we ll talk more about that. plus, president biden set to name a campaign manager as he prepares to run for re-election, but new polls are showing that many americans are not excited about a trump/biden rematch. also, the faa is investigating after engines caught fire on two different american airlines planes. but we re going to start in sudan this morning, where the u.s. has now launched a daring rescue operation to evacuate americans from the war zone. the pentagon says that special ops forces blew into flew into the war-torn sudanese capital and helicopters to pick up u.s. diplomats and their families. we re told the mission was fast, it was clean, and u.s. troops were on the ground for less than an hour. here s a ph