hello and welcome to the programme. the us military has evacuated american diplomats and their families from sudan. six aircraft were used in sunday s early morning mission. president biden issued a statement a short time ago. he said: more than 150 people were evacuated by sea to the saudi arabian port ofjeddah on saturday, mostly citizens of gulf countries, but also from egypt, canada and others. it came as clashes continued between the rsf and sudan s army. the near constant shooting and bombardment in khartoum and elsewhere has cut electricity and safe access to food and water for much of the population. several ceasefires that had seemingly been agreed by both sides were ignored, including a 3 day pause to mark the muslim holiday of eid al fitr, which started on friday. bbc news understands that the government is drawing up plans to evacuate british embassy staff from sudan, uk citizens are being urged to tell the foreign office where they are, either online or by phone,
hello and welcome to the programme i m lewis vaughan jones. starting with the latest developments from sudan. a couple of updates on international efforts to get citizens out. the latest from france, they have undergone and i quote a rapid evacuation operation to get rid of their citizens. and earlier we heard from america, they had done the same, this is a statement from presidentjoe biden, saying on my orders, the united states military conducted an operation to extract us government personnel from khartoum. let s look at some of the other rescue operations that may not have already taken place. this is saudi arabia in the port of cheddar and we understand around 150 people have been evacuated to safety, mostly citizens of gulf countries. he chipped and canada. the canadian government has urged remaining canadian city scenes in sedan to shelter in a safe place. in khartoum, air strikes and shelling have been going on for over a week. we can listen to someone there who can
hello and welcome to the programme, i m lewis vaughan jones. starting with the latest developments from sudan. they developments from sudan. they developments from sudan. are centrin- around international they are centring around international efforts to get their citizens international efforts to get their citizens of the country from top from top the latest from france, they have undergone and i quote a rapid evacuation operation to get rid of their citizens. and earlier we heard from america, they had done the same, this is a statement from presidentjoe biden, saying, on my orders, the united states military conducted an operation to extract us government personnel from khartoum. this is saudi arabia in the port ofjeddah and we understand around 150 people have been evacuated to safety, mostly citizens of gulf countries. the canadian government has urged remaining canadian city scenes in sedan to shelter in a safe place. in khartoum, air strikes and shelling have been g
as another cease fire fails. here now a reminder of why this has all taken place. sudan s army general is fighting the leader of a paramilitary group which is led by general mohammed dagalo. they had been showing karas they led a coup in 2021. now they disagree on how sudan should be governed. with multiple ceasefires broken and fighting entering its second week, there are questions about how and when this conflict will end. a former us assistant secretary former us assistant secretary for state in africa spoke yesterday. for state in africa spoke yesterday- for state in africa spoke esterda . . ., yesterday. earlier we heard from general yesterday. earlier we heard from general himself - yesterday. earlier we heardi from general himself giving yesterday. earlier we heard l from general himself giving a speech. you have seen scenes are fighting continuing. what do you think this country will be facing in the coming weeks or months? i am very pessimistic. normally optimisti
Through the city and out to sea. Now to give you a sense of the power of that reverse tsunami 20 centimetres of fast moving water, is enough to knock adults off theirfeet here you had three metres of water sweeping everything in its path. It is an appalling loss of life the man in these pictures had onlyjust found his son, and was begging Rescue Workers not to move him. Desperate scenes repeated again and again there are some people who have lost 30 50 members of their extended family. Heres one survivor describing what he went through. Translation we woke up at around 33. 30am, i we heard a large bang. Anyone who was awake in derna for sure must ve heard it. The water was unbelievable, everyone could hear it coming. When we went outside, the city was gone, it had been raised to the ground. Well, to begin with, there are around 14 15 families which were swept away by the sea. Anyone who was in the valley was just swept away. Nine other people who live directly on the coast are gone, ma