britons trapped in the country, have talked about feeling abandoned by the uk government. we ll hear live in a moment from one british national who s just got out and hear from another who s still in khartoum. but the rush to get diplomatic staff and civilians out of sudan has gathered pace. the european union says it s managed to extract more than a thousand of its citizens, with france taking the lead in the operation. emmanuel macron said the evacuations on sunday and monday had extracted nearly 400 citizens and diplomats from the country. the dutch military have also played a role in the airlift. germany deployed three planes to move people tojordan. italy and spain have also evacuated citizens, with the spanish mission including people from argentina, colombia, ireland, portugal and poland. others are trying to leave by road, with convoys of buses and coaches heading across land to port sudan on the red sea, as well as north to the border with egypt. turkey has evacuated
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american, to try and get them to take her as well. she did not have her british paperwork on her. they very, very fortunately agreed to take me with them, so i wasjust planning on taking the children and remaining in sudan, but as it happened, they agreed to let me in. there were injured people being taken into the embassy and i told them if i am i am taken into the embassy and i told them ifiam iama taken into the embassy and i told them if i am i am a doctor if they needed any help, and they invited me in, and we were all extracted at the end of the day. how much help did extracted at the end of the day. how much help did you get from the british government, if any? we received british government, if any? - received e mail alerts once or twice a day. it is extremely impersonal, just telling us to shelter, and that they are working on something, but there are no plans at present time. i am in a whatsapp chat group with 71 other nhs doctors who work in
or take us to some shelter. the only thing they would do is take us to shelter. then they had no plan whatsoever as to what would happen to our car, how we d get back to our car. there just didn t seem to be any plan in place. frankly, we re not real hot about just abandoning our car. we heard, and this may not be true, but someone as we were talking amongst ourselves on the roads here someone said they heard the governor said that the abandoned cars would just be plowed off to the side. peggy, i can understand that as a concern. so you are talking with other stranded motorists? you have been getting out of the vehicle and checking in with other people? yeah, a lot of people are walking up ahead to see if anything is happening. nobody has come back with any good news. there is nothing happening as far as towing the cars out. just to confirm once again, you haven t seen anybody from the national guard in your area along i-65? no we have not. this number i called i believe,