hello and welcome to the programme, i m lewis vaughan jones. the fighting continues in the sudan capital, khartoum. there are conflicting reports though that the french embassy convoy was hit with gunfire, which led to their return and disruption of the evacuation process. the sudan army are fighting with the rtf. in a statement released a short time ago, the spokesman for the sudanese army has accused its opponents of: attacking the french embassy convoy with gunfire, which forced the convoy to return and abort the evacuation. the attack also resulted in wounding a frenchman. the spokesman went on to say that: the sudanese army condemns this barbaric behaviour and violence, which is a characteristic of the rapid support militia. but let me bring you this from the rsf which has tweeted saying the rapid support forces were attacked by aircraft during the evacuation of french nationals. we have had no international confirmation. we approached the french government and they c
the dutch sifan hassan and the kenyan kelvin kiptum have won the race for female and male categories in the london marathon. you re watching bbc news. here s sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. the second fa cup semifinal remains undecided. brighton against manchester united goes to extra time. 5 0 up in the blink of an eye. newcastle smash spurs at st james. and blackstenius has arsenal back in it as they fight for a first leg draw in the champions league semifinals. also coming up on sportsday. running in the rain is supposed to slow you down. not for kelvin kiptum, who wins the london marathon with a course record. hello again. manchester city are still waiting to find out who they ll be playing in the fa cup final. the second semi has gone to extra time, with the 90 minutes between brighton and manchester united finishing goalless. brighton had the better of the first half, but united had the best chance of it. bruno fer
and retaining their premier league title. liverpool s trent alexander arnold tells us why he s launching a scheme to help young players who are released by club academies. a lot of people still find it difficult to kind of open up and feel vulnerable, and are scared of that feeling of failure again. good morning. there is a lot of cloud out there for most of us and some outbreaks of rain. the weather is going to be warming up in the next few days. details here on bbc breakfast. good morning. it s thursday, the 27th of april. our main story. british evacuation teams are working to rescue more people from sudan before the country s fragile ceasefire ends tonight. more than 500 people have already left on uk flights, with another due to land this morning. but the foreign secretary said he can t guarantee how many further planes will depart once the 72 hour truce expires. simonjones reports. back on british soil, escaping the conflict, hundreds of people have now left sudan as pa
that he heading our way? that s a very good question. i ll answer that question later. iberia stands out like a source and temperatures and grenade are currently 35 degrees, 39 would be a record temperature for april. it s going to be the peak of the heat probably today, andalusia a popular holiday spot, people may be heading there over the next few days. it s not going to be quite as hot, not as hot as it is at the moment and still a drought there and it s going to stay dry. here at home we are seeing rain developing particularly coming in from the south where in scotland temperatures are still only 7 8 in the north of the country. could make 15 or 16 in england. this evening rain around in many areas, heavy for a while and eastern parts of england but the worst of the rain just moves away out into the north sea. it becomes a bit drier in most places later and there will be a lot of cloud so a mild night, milder than it s been of late across a good part of scotland. into fir
make 60 degrees in aberdeen. across central and eastern england, if you mist those showers, temperatures could reach 16 or 17 degrees. but we have an area of low pressure bringing wet and windy weather after dark overnight and into friday. strongest winds across northern parts of france, but through the channel and along the south coast of england and south wales, winds up to 50 or 60 mph overnight and into the early part of friday morning before they ease. wet weather overnight, that becomes more patchy and showery. further north, some sunshine perhaps. but also a few showers. still very unsettled. temperatures are going to be lower, typically 11 to 30 degrees by friday. heading into the weekend, those temperatures continue to just drop away a little bit, but it should be turning much drier. thanks, darren. from the six team, it s goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m laura mcghie. coming up on wednesday s programme. both scotland and wales top their european champion