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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Newsday 20240706

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 cl ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Newsday 20240604 22:06:00

Hours to rescue their nationals, people, foreigners with many nationalities. sudanese who are lucky enough to have second passports. some people told us they didn t want to leave, they were sad and fearful about leaving sudan, about leaving sudanese behind, but they knew they had no other choice. and for so many sudanese, those traces are narrowing by the day. 0ur chief international correspondent reporting for us. in the last few hours the british government has given more details about the numbers of uk citizens who have managed to evacuate from sudan. 0ur reporter nicky schiller is in our london newsroom with more details. yes, karishma. this statement from the british government says that 2,197 people were safely evacuated from sudan. officials say it was the longest and largest airlift operation of any western nation. now, in addition to the british nationals that were evacuated, ....

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