also tonight: a promise to appoint 20,000 extra police in england and wales has been delivered, say ministers while labour says it s simply making up for the job cuts of the past. two former senior managers at the private health care firm the priory group, say they had concerns about the safety of patients and staff. and manchester city welcomed arsenal this evening for a top of the table clash in the premier league. and coming up on bbc news. luca brecel shocks ronnie o sullivan winning 7 frames in a row to reach the semi finals of the world snooker championships in sheffield. good evening. the rescue operation to bring british nationals out of sudan has made progress today. the latest official figure is that 536 people have been rescued so far. two flights landed at stansted airport in essex today. tens of thousands of sudanese and foreign nationals have left sudan in the past week, fleeing the violence that s erupted between two military factions. a ceasefire declared
seven! seven! tributes pour in for the former head judge of strictly and king of the catchphrase, len goodman, who s died aged 78. he had no understanding ofjust how big he was, how much people loved him. in my own house we still never use the word seven, we say seven differently. he changed a whole number for so many of us. how a third of government money for extra school tutoring after the covid lockdown still hasn t been spent. and with just under two weeks until the coronation, a bbc poll suggests less than a third of18 21i year olds want the monarchy to continue. and coming up on bbc news: the draw for the sixth round of rugby league s challenge cup will take place shortly on the bbc. 16 teams go into the hat to see who will play whom in the ties in may. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the head of the un has called on the security council to do all it can to pull sudan back from what he called a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the whole re
agreed to part ways. a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the region and beyond. a number of other countries are rushing to get there people out, aided by a local in the fighting today. the shortages of food and water worsen as thousands of sudanese citizens trying to flee. andrew harding has the very latest on what s happening in khartoum. khartoum today, still burning as civilians, locals and foreigners hunt for ways to escape from sudan s hellish capital. imagine the desperation. many people still can t get out. it s still going on. this for the last 20 minutes. like the man who filmed these images. he s from dunfermline, in fife, and was visiting relatives in sudan s capital when the fighting began, trapping his family. basically they were running along my street yesterday, last night, they were running along here and they were shooting, chasing people along the street. we re locking all the doors and we go right into the middle of the house. asked if he feels