and, we look at a treasure trove of freddie mercury s personal items collected over 30 years before they go under the hammer. and coming up on bbc news. manchester city and arsenal go head to head at the etihad, with city looking to turn the tide in the title race with a win over the league leaders. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the first plane carrying british nationals fleeing sudan is due to land at stansted airport in about an hour. the evacuees were initially taken to larnaca in cyprus, before boarding a charter flight to the uk. more flights are expected throughout the day, to move hundreds of uk citizens out of the country during a 72 hour ceasefire, which has come after more than a week of fighting. british passport holders have been asked to make their own way to an airbase on the outskirts of the sudanese capital khartoum. so far, three british planes have flown from there to larnaca. another potential escape route is by sea, from port sudan, bu
trying to get out of the country during a tenuous 72 hour ceasefire that threatens to break. among them are british people being told to go to this air base outside the capital where they are being flown to safety in cyprus then on to the uk where we are expecting very soon the first plane to arrive. the uk says more than 300 people have been evacuated from sudan with more flights expected in the coming hours. full nearly 2000 people from other countries have taken another route out by crossing the red sea on a ship organised by saudi arabia. tens of thousands of sudanese continue to try to reach neighbouring chad, egypt and south sudan. as thousands leave, residents in khartoum tell us about their fears that the world is abandoning them as supplies of food, water and medicine are running low. officials wanted for war crimes have been released from prison although the army says they have been moved to a military hospital. our correspondent is at the airport in cyprus. this is
and london. this is bbc world news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington where the administration has given new details about its plans on how to deal with north korea. the us state department said the president aims to put pressure on pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and ballistic programmes. in an unusual move, all us senators were given a classified briefing on the us strategy. one democratic senator called the briefing sobering. our north america editor jon sopel reports. this isn t for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. a live fire exercise conducted by 2,000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. it s a show of force, a show of unity. a military exercise with an unmistakable message to the south s unpredictable northern neighbour, we want peace, but we re ready for all eventualities. in washington this morning, the head of us pacific command put it like this. as p
Are stuck in sudan with their mother. it are stuck in sudan with their mother. , ., ., ., mother. if they didn t manage to get out now, tomorrow, mother. if they didn t manage to get out now, tomorrow, or mother. if they didn t manage to get out now, tomorrow, or after - out now, tomorrow, or after tomorrow, to be honest, i don t know, i don t know what s going to happen to them. i m really worried about them and i can t sleep to be honest. i can t sleep. honest. ican t sleep. back in c rus, honest. ican t sleep. back in cyprus. more honest. ican t sleep. back in cyprus, more rescue - honest. ican t sleep. back in cyprus, more rescue flights | honest. i can t sleep. back in i cyprus, more rescue flights are coming in and others going out. this is an operation which is gaining pace, but farfrom ending. with many more prince on britons farfrom safety. it seems each flight is bringing around a hundred people, the numbers depend on the conditions on the ground and we are told the
Is an operation which is gaining pace but farfrom ending is an operation which is gaining pace but far from ending with is an operation which is gaining pace but farfrom ending with many more britons still far from safety. four flights have left sudan so far. the british government are saying a total of eight planes will depart sudan by the end of the day. another correspondent is lewis vaughanjones who had more details from cyprus. interesting update on the numbers, there has been a bit of a dispute about the numbers, about who is coming in and who is leaving. this airport is a hub for the uk operation, so they are coming in from khartoum, people are being processed and then heading to the uk on normal planes. on those numbers,