and the singer harry belafonte has died. welcome to bbc news. we start in sudan and developments in the last hour or so with the uk government urging british passport holders to head to an airfield to the north of khartoum, tojoin evacuation flights. previous advice to wait until they are contacted has been dropped. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, said uk nationals would have to make the riskyjourney to the airbase without a military escort and warned it is impossible to know how long the pause in the fierce fighting will last. the first of the british transport planes took off from an airbase in cyprus bound for sudan it s thought there may be up to four thousand britons in sudan, a little over two thousand have registered with the foreign office for evacuation. rishi sunak authorised the operation late on monday night, after growing criticism that only diplomats had been rescued with british nationals left feeling abandoned. france, germany, greece,
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Show you how it had transpired throughout the day. We know the plunge in shanghai overnight cap it all over global equities. But mainline stocks are not included. You dont see the big drop in hours. 2 ocks 600 film and fell more than 2 . The index is currently down by 7 10 of 1 . Moreker market means demand for treasuries and higher prices means a lower yield. Remember, the fomc begins a twoday meeting tomorrow. The concern is the fed wont be able to consider to signal on wednesday that they are confident of a rate hike even though business is so far recovering from we miss in the first half. And taking a look at the dollar we instead, the u. S. Currency falling. A lot of analysts say the dollar could be weakening because of lowercost oddity lower commodity prices. Mark lets take a look at some of the top stories we are following at this hour, investors worldwide are wondering how are the damage could right after chinese stocks suffered their worst day in eight years. It the shanghai c