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good saturday morning. it is april 29th. good to have you along. i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm amara walker. you're in the cnn newsroom. we begin with ukraine and a deadly russian missile strike on an apartment complex. the attack killed almost two dozen people, including six children. and it's believed to be the deadliest strike on civilians since january. it happened 4:00 a.m. local time when most people were asleep. ukraine's air force says russia fired a barrage of long range cruise missiles from the aircraft in the caspian sea area. president volodymyr zelenskyy says his forces...

Wrapping up. >> nic robertson there for us, thank you so much. now to sudan where the situation is growing more desperate. fighting between sudan's armed forces and the para-military group that rapid support forces, that continues, and food and water are in short supply across the country. >> more than 50,000 people have escaped to chad, egypt, south sudan, and the central african republic. and as you would imagine, there is also growing anger among americans who feel abandoned by the u.s. government as the crisis in sud zan is raging. despite a number of nations evacuating citizens, the whi...

From the naval base to sudan, a 10 or 12-hour journey across the red sea to evacuate more people out of sud zan. it is a saudi military but there are commercial ships that have done the same and one is about to come into port here in jeddah and so far the saudi say, there are about 3,000 people evacuated out of port sudan. only about 100 of them were saudi nationals. they came from 80 different countries including the u.s., u.k., australia, canada, kenya, and from all over the globe. saudi arabia is a key diplomatic player in sudan. and despite what is called the quad, that includes the u.s., ...

And too, what our guests who escaped sudan had to say, many governments including the u.k., germany, india, they have flown their citizens out of sud zan in the last few days. why can't the u.s. do the same? why isn't it standard practice? >> good morning. and thank you for having me. of course, i'm not in any official capacity, so i can't really speak directly to answer that question, but i think what i can say is that every embassy makes very serious preparations for such eventualities and i'm sure that this embassy must have been hosting what they call emergency action committee meetings, p...