and, we look at a treasure trove of freddie mercury s personal items collected over 30 years before they go under the hammer. and coming up on bbc news. manchester city and arsenal go head to head at the etihad, with city looking to turn the tide in the title race with a win over the league leaders. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the first plane carrying british nationals fleeing sudan is due to land at stansted airport in about an hour. the evacuees were initially taken to larnaca in cyprus, before boarding a charter flight to the uk. more flights are expected throughout the day, to move hundreds of uk citizens out of the country during a 72 hour ceasefire, which has come after more than a week of fighting. british passport holders have been asked to make their own way to an airbase on the outskirts of the sudanese capital khartoum. so far, three british planes have flown from there to larnaca. another potential escape route is by sea, from port sudan, bu
To that air base. and then there is the problem of what happens when the ceasefire ends. for the attention being given to foreign nationals, if the stees fire breaks down tomorrow, we could be in for something much graver. the un is warning that as many as a quarter of a million people could be on the move. we have already seen 10 or 20,000 who have fled outside of sudan s borders. that situation could get worse. andrew mitchell, the foreign office minister, said it is essential that a further ceasefire is arranged. i assume there are efforts going on to try and achieve that, but we just don t know that. try and achieve that, but we ust don t know thati almost 21,000 new police officers have been recruited in england and wales in the last three years, according to new figures. the government says they show that it s met its election manifesto pledge to hire 20,000 officers, but labour says the government is just trying to catch up
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