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
a chinese rocket launching a weather satellite briefly forces planes flying to and from northern taiwan to alter their routes. hello, i m lucy grey. at least 56 people are dead and almost 600 injured in sudan because of a power struggle between the sudanese army and a notorious paramilitary force. among the dead were three un workers, who were shot after the two sides exchanged gunfire at a military base. the united nations secretary general has condemned the fighting, amid fears it will derail the transition to civilian rule. both the army and its opponents, the rapid support forces, claimed they had control of the airport and other key sites in khartoum, where fighting continued overnight. the foreign ministers of saudi arabia, the uae and the united states, who ve been backing the civilian transition process, have issued a joint statement calling for a halt to military escalation and a return to the framework agreement. the sudanese telecom provider mtn says it s blocked i
Evacuations. figs on the ground and also with the evacuations. evacuations. as you said quite a number evacuations. as you said quite a number of evacuations. as you said quite a number of countries - evacuations. as you said quite a number of countries are - a number of countries are evacuating their nationals and there was a sort of exodus right now, that many of the foreign nationals who have been living in sudan and particularly in khartoum, are leaving. the us used air lifts while others have taken their nationals in convoys from khartoum to the port city of port sudan which is located more than 500 miles to the east and others have managed to use, to take them out by c. it seems like this evacuation is increasing and while this is happening it has triggered a fearful who are left behind, who have concerns of what is going to happen after these evacuation has happened. 0ver evacuation has happened. over the weekend there was a supposedly truce that was declared separately by
In nairobi or addis ababa or annette neighbouring country where they don t have to worry about the safety of their civilians. i think the real challenge with the departure of the international staff, however, is it is a signal to the local sudanese that it is not safe for anyone to be in the city anymore and what that is triggering is a mass exodus of people out of the city no longer feel even a modicum of people out of the city no longerfeel even a modicum of protection by the fact that international staff was there and so we are seeing people who probably shouldn t even be travelling right now in vehicles that probably can t even make the trip to the red sea or to the egyptian border because of these are very long journeys, much of which is across open desert and so you have people now travelling without food, without water, without food, without water, without medicine, trying to get to safety, all triggered, i think in many respects, by the departure of internationals and the uptak
Live from washington, this is bbc news. more western countries have evacuated diplomats from sudan. uk mp diane abbott suspended after playing down the racism suffered byjewish, irish and traveller people. and bed, bath and beyond files for bankruptcy after more than 50 years in business. i m helena humphrey, good to have you with us. we start in sudan, where more than two dozen countries have been evacuating their citizens from the capital khartoum as fighting between two rival armed groups continues. this was french nationals leaving earlier.