hello and welcome to the programme i m lewis vaughan jones. starting with the latest developments from sudan. a couple of updates on international efforts to get citizens out. the latest from france, they have undergone and i quote a rapid evacuation operation to get rid of their citizens. and earlier we heard from america, they had done the same, this is a statement from presidentjoe biden, saying on my orders, the united states military conducted an operation to extract us government personnel from khartoum. let s look at some of the other rescue operations that may not have already taken place. this is saudi arabia in the port of cheddar and we understand around 150 people have been evacuated to safety, mostly citizens of gulf countries. he chipped and canada. the canadian government has urged remaining canadian city scenes in sedan to shelter in a safe place. in khartoum, air strikes and shelling have been going on for over a week. we can listen to someone there who can
said the peeple just explain what is going on. i m, said the people of voting, they are not really. reports from the four municipalities in north kosovo is the turnout you could probably count it on the fingers of one hand. in one area, there s been suggestions that one person is churned out and that one person is churned out and that was a candidate to beat the mayor in that particular municipality. the reason behind this is that ethnic serb parties are boycotting the votes, majority serb areas, so called ethnic serb people in the areas are not going to go out and vote so there is a bizarre situation, the majority of the candidates are ethnic albanian, the only people likely to go out and vote are ethnic albanian, easily in the minority in these areas and the president of serbia says it is shameful these elections are going ahead without the participation of serb candidates or voters. talk us
indoors, to make the foreign office aware through their website of their location. what i would say is, the situation in sudan is very different to, for example, what you saw in afghanistan. clearly, we don t kind of have the level of personnel and so on there that we had in that situation. the current advice for british nationals is to stay at home, to make the foreign office aware of their situation. as i say, the foreign office are being operationally supported by the ministry of defence actively. i can t give you any further comment. that was 0liver dowden. we believe sudan for the moment but we are getting plenty of updates and we will of course bring those to you as soon as we get them. a loud alarm will be heard on smartphones across the uk at 3pm on sunday afternoon.
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