hello and welcome to the programme. the us military has evacuated american diplomats and their families from sudan. six aircraft were used in sunday s early morning mission. president biden issued a statement a short time ago. he said: more than 150 people were evacuated by sea to the saudi arabian port ofjeddah on saturday, mostly citizens of gulf countries, but also from egypt, canada and others. it came as clashes continued between the rsf and sudan s army. the near constant shooting and bombardment in khartoum and elsewhere has cut electricity and safe access to food and water for much of the population. several ceasefires that had seemingly been agreed by both sides were ignored, including a 3 day pause to mark the muslim holiday of eid al fitr, which started on friday. bbc news understands that the government is drawing up plans to evacuate british embassy staff from sudan, uk citizens are being urged to tell the foreign office where they are, either online or by phone,
hello. thank you forjoining me for unspun world, where the bbc s experts give us their in depth thoughts about what s really going on in world affairs. vladimir putin holds his referendums that s what he calls them aboutjoining russia in four areas of ukraine. but how great is the danger that this will bring us closer to nuclear war? in the event that those territories are attacked by ukraine, we ve been warned that the nuclear doctrine applies. russia s way of fighting its war with ukraine has been pretty chaotic so far. but does that mean that vladimir putin might actually be pushed aside at some point? the youngsters, they are going to start questioning this policy and this worldview pretty soon, especially when we see the failures on the front line and more body bags arriving into the country. and kenya has a new president, a village lad who has made it to the very top. but how worried should we be about all the allegations of corruption against him? he called himself
that this will bring us closer to nuclear war? in the event that those territories are attacked by ukraine, we ve been warned that the nuclear doctrine applies. russia s way of fighting its war with ukraine has been pretty chaotic so far. but does that mean that vladimir putin might actually be pushed aside at some point? the youngsters, they are going to start questioning this policy and this worldview pretty soon, especially when we see the failures on the front line and more body bags arriving into the country. and kenya has a new president, a village lad who has made it to the very top. but how worried should we be about all the allegations of corruption against him? he called himself, styled himself as the hustler who rose from nothing. but that puts a lot of pressure mr ruto, because he has to deliver. so, russia s referendums in the four areas of ukraine that it s taken over have resulted in votes to join russia which are estimated at up to 99.2%. i suppose if you have
Deteriorate and more and more civilians, including children, the elderly, could face, could face a very, very disastrous situation. face a very, very disastrous situation- situation. for the american president situation. for the american president confirming - situation. for the american president confirming a - situation. for the american | president confirming a swift military operation to get american citizens out of sudan. it looks like the united kingdom is following. other countries as well. is there a sense in sudan and wider africa are that rather than just a message of healing appealing for calm and peace from the likes of president biden, the international community could be doing more? international community could be doing more? yes. there had been criticisms be doing more? yes. there had been criticisms even be doing more? yes. there had been criticisms even before - been criticisms even before this evacuation began because, you know, some say, the fighting appe
And reports and allegations of abuses and atrocities. back in 2020, war broke out in the north. there was a promise of a swift military operation, a law enforcement operation, as the government put it back then. but it has been nothing but swift, because two years later we are still talking about that. it resulted in a massive humanitarian crisis in which more than five million people are in need of desperate aid. are we looking at a regional civil war, do you think? for starters, ethiopia has been a sort of stabilising force in east africa and in the horn of africa for a decade or so. so any conflict here is bound to impact the region. but it s not only that eritrea is heavily involved in this fighting. eritrean forces were inside the tigray region, they were implicated in various allegations of crimes and abuses, including extrajudicial killings