here s your latest sports news. we start with the fa cup, and for the very first time, both manchester clubs have reached the final. city were awaiting the winners of sunday s game between united and brighton, but that match needed extra time and penalties to decide it. natalie pirks reports from wembley. highflying brighton landed at wembley relishing the status of favourites. the seagulls are pushing for europe in the league and under a greater london sky and fa cup final for the first time in a0 years was at stake. united were looking to respond after a defensive horror show in europe. early on alexis mcallister put david tejeda applause reflexes assessed. united buoyed by the return of fernandez. but they came out of the second half all guns blazing. as the game opened up to them, he had to you again be on his toes. tired legs and had now faced extra time. chances came and went. in this slugfest neither could inflict the final blow, even all penalties was called, until so
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most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people they say they ve successfully got hundreds of people out already. 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. over the weekend, the violence intensified this city has been under constant shelling making evacuations difficult. here s the uk s defence secretary. it was dangerous and precarious but nevertheless we managed to use both see one 30s and a 400 aircraft to go in, and collect our diplomats and their residence and fly out to safety. and while foreign na
and for the very first time, both manchester clubs have reached the final. city were awaiting the winners of sunday s game between united and brighton but that match needed extra time and penalties to decide it. natalie pirks reports from wembley. high flying brighton landed at wembley relish the status as favourites. the seagulls were pushing for europe in the league and under a grey london sky, an fa cup finals for the first time in a0 years was at stake. united were looking to respond after a defensive horror show in europe. early on alexis mcallister put david de gea to to the test. manchester united were buoyed by the return of bruno fernandes. sanchez needed to be sharp. but brighton had all the running and came up in the second half with all guns blazing and as the game opened up for them the manchester united goalkeeper had to be on his toes. tired legs and heads faced aextra time. chances came and went in this slugfest nobody could inflict the final blow. even all pe
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s six in the morning in singapore and 1am in sudan, where we begin the programme. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from khartoum, the capital of sudan, as fighting between rival military factions enters a second week. the ministry of defence in london confirmed that embassy staff had been brought out under cover of darkness and the united states has carried out a similar operation. there s no word yet on how other british nationals will be able to leave the country. our africa correspondent, andrew harding, has the latest. amid the bombs and the gunfire in khartoum today, a series of dramatic rescue missions. among those successfully airlifted out of sudan after a week of terror, british embassy staff and their families. over 1,200 people contributed to this operation. it was dangerous and precario