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live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s six in the morning in singapore and 1am in sudan, where we begin the programme. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from khartoum, the capital of sudan, as fighting between rival military factions enters a second week. the ministry of defence in london confirmed that embassy staff had been brought out under cover of darkness and the united states has carried out a similar operation. there s no word yet on how other british nationals will be able to leave the country. our africa correspondent, andrew harding, has the latest. amid the bombs and the gunfire in khartoum today, a series of dramatic rescue missions. among those successfully airlifted out of sudan after a week of terror, british embassy staff and their families. over 1,200 people contributed to this operation. it was dangerous and pr ....
welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s seven in the morning in singapore and 2am in sudan, where we begin the programme. british diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from khartoum, the capital of sudan, as fighting between rival military factions enters a second week. the ministry of defence in london confirmed that embassy staff had been brought out under cover of darkness, and the united states has carried out a similar operation. there s no word yet on how other british nationals will be able to leave the country. our africa correspondent, andrew harding, has the latest. amid the bombs and the gunfire in khartoum today, a series of dramatic rescue missions. among those successfully airlifted out of sudan after a week of terror, british embassy staff and their families. over 1,200 people contributed to this operation. it was dangerous and precarious, but nevertheless, we managed to use both c130s and aao ....
and nearly 60 years after his death, the family of malcolm x say they re going to sue the cia and fbi. presidents putin and biden have given their competing views of the war in ukraine. president biden, who was in ukraine s capital kyiv on monday, has made a major speech in poland where he said the west s support for ukraine will not waiver. in his state of the nation address, vladimir putin defended his full scale invasion, blaming the west for provoking the war, and he announced he s suspending russian participation in the major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. here s our russia editor steve rosenberg. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? not russia, he says. translation: responsibility for fuelling the ukrainian - conflict, for its escalation, and for the growing number of victims lies fully with the west and, of course, with the regime in kyiv. i wish to repeat, they started the war, we ....
we just won an oscar to gather for all the little boys and girls who look like me watchin tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities this is proof that dreams drea big, and dreams do come true and ladies, don t let anybod tell you you are ever past you prime. never give up! [applause] and on that, american dream affirming note, i wish you a good night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i ll see you at the end of tomorrow thanks for joining us this hour. it s really good to have you here when we get a new president in this country, or when we get a president reelected for a ne term, that president i inaugurated. he, or maybe someday she, is sworn in to start a ne presidential term in january right? that s why it s always so cold january 20th is when the inauguration happens but that has only been tru since the 1930s. up until the 1930s, presidents did not get inaugurated in january. they waited anot ....
and by the way, it s the intended effect is to leave the population of the unitedat c states dangerously ignorant on questions that affect liveyou has. ave at this point, you haveorke to wonder if the average, say, new yorker is really better informed than a factory workeray in pyongyang, north korea. probably not. both have been effectively blindfolded by information monopolies. and if you doubt that s true, ask your neighbors who s winning the war in ukraine. and , i of course, to tell yl winn ukraine is winning the that s what they ve seen on the today show every morning for the past eleven months. and not just on the today show, but in virtually every media outlet in america. apart from colonel doug mcgregor s appearances on this show, for which he hasn needles to say, been condemned as an agent of putin, but he s pretty much alone. here s the version that mostm americans see this as leonskerio describe the time as the beginning of the end of the war. does we ....