this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800 thousand people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea today. those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojedda in saudi arabia. our correspondent andrew harding reports. on sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim th
welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojeddah in saudi arabia. 0ur correspondent andrew harding reports. 0n sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim their own. several british families were on
secede from iraq heading also coming up. from the machall hits the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election this time around she s helping out an election in one of germany s states. and hugh hefner the founder of the adult magazine playboy dies at the age of ninety one launched in one thousand fifty three playboy was an overnight success will go to los angeles to look at his life. i m brian thomas welcome to the show iraq s kurds are facing growing political isolation after the massive yes to independence and monday s referendum airlines from turkey egypt jordan lebanon say they ll be halting all flights to iraqi kurdistan at the request of baghdad now turkey has also warned it could stop cross
border trade with the region and iraq central government as threatened its own sanctions. there were euphoric scenes among iraq s kurds after the official result was announced could issue authorities say that with a seventy three percent voter turnout the poll had be
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