categories in the london marathon. hello, welcome to the programme. we begin in north east africa. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from the sudanese capital, khartoum, as fighting between rival factions of the army enters a second week. the ministry of defence has confirmed embassy staff were removed under the cover of darkness. the united states has carried out a similar operation. there s no word yet on how other british nationals are supposed to leave. with the latest here s our africa correspondent andrew harding. a series of dramatic rescue missions. among those successfully lifted out of sudan after a week of terror, british embassy staff and theirfamilies. terror, british embassy staff and their families. their families. 0ver1200 people contributed their families. 0ver1200 people contributed to their families. 0ver1200 people contributed to this their families. 0ver1200 people contributed to this operation. it | contributed to
hello, i m frankie mccamley. a number of people have been have been arrested at one of the most prestigious horse races in the world, the grand national. a number of protesters made their way onto the track at antrie their way onto the track at aintree which had delayed the race. as you can see from these images the protesters got right onto the course. animal rights activists had warned they would try to disrupt the world famous race. a large number of police had been deployed to the raceground and they went onto the course to remove the protesters. the start of the race was delayed for m minutes whilst the protesters were cleared from track. the race eventually went ahead and was won by corach rambler ridden by the jockey derek fox. our correspondent sharon barbour has been following the developments in aintree. she s been speaking to protesters to get their perspective on the afternoon s activity. people cut through the defences to get onto the track. you 500 million peop
brought to you by skechers slip ins. everybody hates the taking off and putting on your shoes nightmare at the airport. but now there s an easier way without bending down or looking for a place to sit machine washable hands free sketcher slip ins. you re back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington. we begin with the crisis in sudan about 100. americans are safe this evening after being rescued from a war zone and a daring mission. thousands remain behind us. special operations forces personnel carried out the emergency evacuation of u. s. government employees and their families earlier this morning. today the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed, at least temporarily. the decision to evacuate us personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and rival paramilitary group. more than 400 people have been killed, including one american, the state department says there are about 16,000 americans in sudan. most are dual nationals, and there a
us from the united states and all around the world and leila rock, the u. s. supreme court delivers a win for abortion rights supporters and protects access to a widely used abortion pill. and fighting mars the latest ceasefire in sudan as countries way options to evacuate their citizens. and it s earth day will look at one man s quest to tackle what he calls the godzilla of climate change. man made carbon gasses. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila horak. in a striking victory for the biden administration and abortion rights supporters across the united states supreme court has moved to protect access to a commonly used drug for abortion and miscarriage. well at least for now. cnn s emily schmidt has details on what the court ruling means. all friday. all eyes were on the u. s supreme court each minute a minute closer to a decision about an abortion drug , which has been safely used for more than two decades. the decision when it came was to protect access to a
Some people think it may be as few as 300,000 animals, so we might be losing 1 6 of the continental population of africas elephants every year. Peters in many countries in africa, the elephant is already ecologically extinct. [gunshots, elephant trumpets] narrator every 20 minutes, an elephant is killed for its tusks. The reason greed. The price of ivory has skyrocketed. Raw ivory sells for as much as 3,000 per pound on the black market, but the cost for humanity is unfathomable. Elephants may be gone in 10 years. Ruggiero the problem begins very simply with demand. Narrator and china drives the demand for ivory. Knights china now is estimated to be 70 of the worlds ivory market. There is a tradition of ivory carving, but also, of course, the massive growth of the chinese economy. Narrator around 300 Million People make up chinas middle class today. Thats more than the population of the United States, and they are looking to spend their money on luxury goods. Ivory has particular appea