hello. we start in sudan where a ceasefire is just about holding. hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated. the ministry of defence in london released these images from a royal air force air base in cyprus of british soldiers preparing to fly to khartoum. these picture from khartoum, we are getting reports of gun fire being heard. but the sudanese army said it would respect the ceasefire. thousands have already left the country on flights and on boats or by road. the un said it is bracing up by road. the un said it is bracing up for 270,000 people to flee to neighbouring chad to the west and south sudan. at least five aid workers have been killed since the fighting broke out. here is our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. these are the first images of the evacuation beginning, british forces gathering in cyprus, ready to fly out to sudan. planes that will luck may return full of british nationals who have been trapped by the fighting for days. this was khartoum
as president putin begins drafting new troops in the fight in ukraine. some flights out of russia have sold out. also in the programme. the bank of england raises interest rates to their highest level for m years it warns the uk may already been in recession. and a fracking ban in england is lifted in a bid to increase energy production but critics say the move could harm the environment and trigger earthquakes. the us secretary of state has said russia s president, vladimir putin, can t get away with shredding international order over his invasion of ukraine. he was speaking at a special meeting of the united nations security council. here s what else he had to say. even the number of nations that maintain close ties with moscow have said publicly that they have serious questions and concerns about president putin s ongoing invasion. rather than change course, however, president putin has doubled down, choosing not to end the war but to expand it. that expansion he was
john: we talked to dr. nicole saphier and cdc director dr. tom frieden, they will explain what this means for the millions of americans who have been living under some form of lockdown for nearly a year now. sandra: all good stuff but for us to jonathan serrie in atlanta. what are the biggest takeaways from these brand guidelines just out a short time ago? hi sandra, these guidelines apply to americans who have been fully vaccinated. they guide safe activities mostly in small gatherings and private settings. the activities include indoor visits without masks or physical distancing with other fully vaccinated individuals or with members of a single household who are at low risk of complications from covid-19. if they are exposed to someone infected with cuvée to come up vaccinated people no longer need to quarantine or get tested as long as they remain asymptomatic. other to everyone whether vaccinated or not should continue to avoid medium and large sized gathering a
tried to expand her range of what performers could do in many different i was. what is your feeling that she was destined for greatness? we re looking at still images with dien w de dionne warwick. i don t think she was destined for greatness. i think it was something she had to work for. clive davis saw something when he saw her at that new york city at carnegie hall, yes. and took a chance to try to make her into something because you saw a lot of good raw material, dionne warwick being her cousin and cissy houston being her mom, but her album was not a huge hit out of the box. it day budde at it debuted at 166 on the billboard chart to reach number one. he stayed with it. she kept doing the circuit, kept performing, kept pushing on radio and became the whitney houston we all know. but she had to work at it, she had to show she had the stuff to be the icon she became. that s a beautiful lesson being underscored. thanks so much, christopher farley of the wall st