most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people the us and uk have already flown diplomats out, as well as canada. its prime minister, justin trudeau, tweeted that canadian officials in nearby countries have also been mobilized to help he says they re stationed in nearby djibouti which has a french and american military base. sudan s army has been fighting a rival paramilitary group the rsf for more than a week and this is what khartoum looks like right now. and while foreign nationals are airlifted out, sudanese civilians remain trapped in the fighting. the violence has worsened and it is already at a desperate humanitarian crisis, here is onejournalist we spoke to. lack of food, lack of electricity, lack of water, we don t have electricity for three days now and also we do not have access to water since saturday but we are drinking from wells in khartoum. live now to kalki
hello and welcome to the programme. i m victoria valentine. we start with some breaking news from ukraine. local media is reporting loud explosions in kyiv and the surrounding region. no reports as of yet on any specific targets or damage, but there were earlier reports of explosions in cities from central ukraine to the mykolaiv region. air raid alerts sounded throughout the country. the uk ambassador to ukraine, dame melinda simmons, has tweeted: and these pictures on social media, shared by our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse, apparently show an apartment building ablaze in the town of uman, which is in central ukraine. the bbc has not yet independently verified the pictures, but they are being widely shared. both sides in the conflict in sudan have agreed to extend their ceasefire for another three days. the ceasefire had only been partly effective with heavy fighting taking place in parts of the capital, khartoum. almost two weeks of clashes between the two factio
this is the scene in one of those cities in central ukraine after a building was apparently hit by a missile. and this is the same scene we can show you, it is daytime now obviously, rescue workers are desperately looking for survivors who may be trapped in the rubble. president zelensky has been speaking and has described scenes like this is another night of russian terror across ukraine. let s take a look at the scope and scale of the attacks last night. most of the fighting in recent months has been confined to the east of the country, centred mainly on the dom region. but that changed in the early hours of the morning, the capital kyiv was attacked, the first time it s been a target for more than 50 days. looking further south, in the city of uman, an apartment building collapsed, at least six people were killed. others are feared missing beneath the rubble. and heading further east to the city of dnipro and another deadly attack. the local mayor said a mother and her thr
hollywood actors ryan reynolds and rob mcelhenney bought the small welsh club in november 2020, their plan, they said, was for wrexham to win games. and well, take a look. and now they ve won the national league title, here s the team are celebrating after beating boreham wood 3 1. this was straight after that win, you can see wexham fans running onto the pitch, as well as ryan reynolds and rob mcilhenny. the bbc caught up with some elated wrexham fans just after the match. what a win! boom! how proud are you? very proud, absolutely amazing. i lost my husband just before christmas. i have a picture of him. this is for him. i love you, jeff. the whole town has wanted this for 15 years and - for ryan and rob to come - in and buy the club and give us what we wanted, i cannot thank them enough. it makes you want to cry. i might cry now. this is for the future generation, they want to be here and experience it. its mega. i don t even like football but we re just here, it s amazing
evacuations, now the evacuation of foreign nationals has been a priority. of foreign nationals has been a riori . , . , of foreign nationals has been a riori , ., , ., priority. this was earlier when eo - le priority. this was earlier when peeple from priority. this was earlier when people from saudi priority. this was earlier when people from saudi arabia, - priority. this was earlier when i people from saudi arabia, egypt and india were shipped out from and india were shipped out from a nearby port. earlier attempts to get people out were put on hold with one of the most intense days of fighting since violence broke out in the country one week ago. this was the capital khartoum, gunfire and explosions were heard across the city. a reminder now of what has been taking place in sudan, the army general is fighting the leader of a paramilitary group the f led by mohammed hamdan dagalo. they had in sharing power, now though they disagree on how sudan should be in governmen