khartoum are stepped up. in cyprus we havejust had khartoum are stepped up. in cyprus we have just had another 150 people arrive on the latest plane and they are expected to arrive in cyprus in the hours ahead the british government promises and tougher rules to tackle smartphone betting. industrial action in england as teachers go on strike. welcome to bbc news. the 72 hour ceasefire is in its final hours in sudan. james cleverly told the bbc now is the time for people to move. it is unclear what happens after the midnight deadline expires, efforts continue to extend the truce. the uk operation with round the clock flights has evacuated more than 700 british nationals, many have been speaking about the nightmare of the last few days and the perils of trying to escape. the flights are only one way people are getting out, thousands more sudanese and other nationals have got to saudi arabia by boat, many others by road, the borders with egypt and djibouti. throughout the next c
and, going up? err, sideways. this month marks the 25th anniversary of the self checkout. the first one was installed in new york on august five, 1992, amy price chopper. 1992, in price chopper. so, what does its inventor, doctor howard schneider, remember of it all? i hadn t gone shopping much, so i went to the supermarket near my house with a stopwatch, and i started looking at people checking out, and my stopwatch went click, click it was a mechanical one. and, you know, i said well, what a great environment. this is so messy. good luck with any machine doing it. and i said, this would be a great problem to solve. and then i started building a machine in my garage. i actually spent every cent i had on parts and i got the first machines built. see, i love self service checkouts, but then i m a control freak, but i do believe they save you time. until they go wrong, at which point they become a right pain in the bagging area. the technology in the machines now is less th
the electoral commission says he was more than a million votes ahead of his rival, but the opposition has complained of fraud. at least 37 people have been killed in egypt in a collision involving two passenger trains. about 120 others were injured. the crash, just outside the northern coastal city of alexandria, was between a train coming from cairo and anotherfrom port said. we will have the latest film reviews in about ten minutes. now on bbc news, it is time to click. this month marks the 25th anniversary of the self checkout. the first one was installed in new york on 5 august, 1992, in price chopper. so what does its inventor, doctor howard schneider, remember of it all? i hadn t gone shopping much, so i went to the supermarket near my house with a stopwatch. and i started looking at people checking out, and my stopwatch went click, click it was a mechanical one. and, you know, isaid wow, what a great environment. this is so messy. good luck with any machine doing i