live from washington. this is bbc news. embassy e m bassy staff embassy staff evacuated from khartoum. wrexham fc�*s return to the football league. we start with some news now coming in from sudan, the evacuation of us diplomatic staff has been completed, the rfs said it alternated with the us on those

evacuations, now the evacuation of foreign nationals has been a priority. of foreign nationals has been a riori . , . , of foreign nationals has been a riori _ , ., , ., priority. this was earlier when eo - le priority. this was earlier when peeple from — priority. this was earlier when people from saudi _ priority. this was earlier when people from saudi arabia, - priority. this was earlier when i people from saudi arabia, egypt and india were shipped out from and india were shipped out from a nearby port. earlier attempts to get people out were put on hold with one of the most intense days of fighting since violence broke out in the country one week ago. this was the capital khartoum, gunfire and explosions were heard across the city. a reminder now of what has been taking place in sudan, the army general is fighting the leader of a paramilitary group the f led by mohammed hamdan dagalo. they had in sharing power, now though they disagree on how sudan should be in government. sudan's people were caught in the middle of all of this. the situation for ordinary sudanese people has been dire and things

are worsening. we are seeing all of these reports showing the deterioration of the health sector in which many of the hospitals are not operating at full capacity and on top aid agencies have been unable to operate as well so some of them are suspending the operation is entirely and others are working with minimum capacity and the residents do not have access to basic supplies like water, electricity, and their food stocks are depleting. in addition to this, this fighting is happening in urban centres, in crowded residential areas and there are fields that the casualties could grow. things look bleak for the ordinary sudanese people. and we will be bringing you more on that developing story as we get it on bbc news.

wrexham football club are celebrating their return to the english football league after 15 years. hollywood actors ryan reynolds and rob mcelhenney bought the small welsh club in november 2020, their plan, they said, was for wrexham to win games. and well, take a look. and now they've won the national league title, here's the team are celebrating after beating boreham wood 3—1. this was straight after that win, you can see wexham fans running onto the pitch, as well as ryan reynolds and rob mcilhenny. i don't think i have words yet. how special is that? that was one of the most incredible moments of my life, but this is not about me, this is about them so please, talk to them, they are the ones that did it. bbc sport correspondence sent us this report. the club has

really shot to prominence thanks to its hollywood owners who attracted global fans to this place. they were here tonight going through every emotion as the club came from behind to win 3—1 to seal the promotion to the league stopping at the final whistle the fans poured onto the pitch in celebration, the owners were looking highly emotional as well in the stands but it was an emotional night above all for the supporters. what a win! boom! how proud are you? very proud, absolutely amazing. i lost my husband just before christmas. i have a picture of him. this is for him. i love you, jeff. i love you. the whole town has wanted this for 15 years and for ryan - and rob to come in and buy the club and give us -

what we wanted, cannot thank them enough. - it makes you want to cry. i might cry now. this is for the future generation, they want to be here and experience it. its mega. i don't even like football but we're just here, it's amazing, isn't it? it means the absolute world. my dad has been a wrexham fan his entire life. he was coming to games when there was about 500 fans left side. now 10,000 tonight. it is absolutely fantastic. i am so happy. wrexham have been through a lot in recent years, they last played on the football league some 15 years ago since then they've had some struggles, they've had some struggles, they nearly went out of business at one point but thanks to a little help from hollywood they have completed a remarkable revival. to kenya now, where there's an investigation into a christian cult which allegedly told its followers to starve themselves to death, in the hope of getting to heaven quickly. police found 21 bodies by searching dozens of suspected graves. the group is called the good news international church, its leader, paul mackenzie, who's been detained, denies wrongdoing.

the investigation is happening in kenya's coastal town of malindi. 0ur africa editor grant ferrett has more. paul mckenzie was first detained last month when two children were found to have starved to death. he then appeared in court a week ago after four bodies were found. he said at the time that he had done nothing wrong in the church had actually been shut down several years ago. but since then about a dozen people have been taken to hospital, some of them severely emaciated and what police are doing now is checking land owned apparently by mr mackenzie, the leader of the church, where they so far uncovered 21 bodies that have been exhumed. it's not clear in what circumstances they have died and that is what police will continue to investigate. the police actually called off their search today because of bad weather, there was heavy rain but they do say they expect to continue and they expect to find more bodies. mr mckenzie himself, although he has not been asked to enter a plea has

said that he's done nothing wrong and his church was closed down some time ago. to cuba now where sergei lavrov has finished up a trip. it comes after prison�*s resident criticised the us for quote, encouraging the war on ukraine and sergei lavrov talked about ukraine in cuba. translation: we greatly appreciate the fact that from the very beginning of the special military operation our cuban friends and other representatives of the leadership very clearly outlined their position and expressed full understanding of the reasons that led to the current the reckless expansion of nato directly to our borders. of nato directly to our borders— of nato directly to our borders. ~ ., borders. we spoke about brazil's present - borders. we spoke about brazil's present earlier i borders. we spoke about| brazil's present earlier -- brazil's present earlier —— president earlier. he is now in lisbon where he signed a declaration with portugal's

prime minister. the declaration also called for lasting peace as lula seeks to downplay differences with europe and the us over russia's invasion. saturday is earth day, people have been protesting across the world calling for more climate change action. i spoke to the governor of the us state of washington who has dedicated a lot of his career to climate action about what needs to be done. thank you so much forjoining us and taking the time. i want to start with the new report coming from the world meteorological organisation. it is essentially a report card and it seems the world is failing as populations around the world are gravely impacted by extreme weather, among other things. what is the most urgent change that the us should make right now that it is not doing? well, on a great beautiful earth day i will focus on some of the things that

are going on and then i will answer your question. i think america is in the game now. i am so delighted we have a vigorous federal response. we have $360 billion of clean energy investment. our states are moving forward. i lead a group of 23 states who are even going faster than the federal government so if there is a lot going on but we have to put pedal to the metal. the meteorological report is very clear. the world has to dramatically accelerate this transition to a non—fossil fuel based economy and that is a massive transition. the whole world needs to go faster and there are many places we need to go faster. starting with the electrification of our transport system. thankfully many of our states are going faster, mine included, which have made a commitment to rid ourselves of fossil fuel based automobile and buses and we are moving in that direction very rapidly. but we have to move

faster in every regard. in residential heating, industrial heating, transportation infrastructure — all of those things need to go faster because there is no other option. it is a beautiful earth day and i want to keep it that way. some of the things that can be done on a state level but first on the national level. presidentjoe biden announcing a $1 billion pledge, requesting another $500 million to protect the amazon ra i nfo rest. however, he is also approved a couple of big fossil fuel projects as well. it is the president living up to his campaign promises on climate change? again, i am going to focus on the positives. our nation is finally in the game under this presidency. i mean finally. i've been working on this for over a quarter of a century and for the first on the united states really is leading

the world in my view it the carbonisation and a point to the act which has $360 million of investment which will translate to millions ofjobs in new industries from electric cars, solarfarms, batteries. my state has two of the leading battery manufacturing companies in the world. we have just flown the first battery powered commercial air plane in world history in my state. what we're doing this built federally is accelerating dramatically that transition all across our platforms... sorry to interrupt. you mentioned the inflation reduction act but is that enough to get the us to these very lofty goals about having emissions and cutting them by 50% by the end of the decade?

no, we need to be faster but the good news is we have 23 states that are moving faster. i started with governorjerry brown some time ago, 23 states moving faster than the federal government requires. we represent 60% of the us economy. the beautiful thing of our democracy that we can have states that are the laboratories of democracy and each one is moving faster. our state, for instance, has a much more rapid decarbonisation in our transportation package, we have a clean cap and invest bill, we are generating billions of dollars of money through our investment system which is going to help people, create jobs and help people get electric cars, electric charging stations. over 60% of the us economy is going faster. you get a lot of news

out of washington, dc but there is better news coming out of washington state. so yes, we need to go faster but we have states leading the way and i am proud to say my state is in the van in this regard. you mentioned some of these massive changes in order to move the us in that direction in terms of cutting emissions. critics would say as we push electric vehicles, those vehicles are more expensive for many people. some of these changes are bringing big changes in our economy and people losing theirjobs if they are working in coal mining, for example. what would you say to those critics who say part of the country could be left behind by these changes? i think the whole nation has economic opportunities in this regard. look at what is happening in the south we have huge new investment in manufacturing plants for electric vehicles, wind power across the united states in a lot of rural areas.

in my state i cannot turn over a rock whether it's in urban or rural areas, without finding a newjob developed in clean energy. i was in a rural area east of seattle previously great one of the worlds best apples and we are putting people to work with a new solar farm. in moses lake, washington, another small community, we have the leading silicone battery companies going in. two huge companies. it's a light manufacturing base that never existed before so i think these opportunities across the state of washington and the united states... of course, governor, sorry to interject. you are a democratic governor in a very democratic state in washington. what about the south and politically across the board, as well.

the inflation reduction act did not get a single republican vote. how can and should democrats be working across the aisle to get bipartisan support because, as we saw, president trump came in and undid all kind of climate protection president obama had put in place. how do you get the republicans and democrats working together? first off, do it the easiest way by replacing republicans with democrats. that happening in the last midterm which was supposed to be this big red tide. we replaced republicans with democrats. i predict that will happen again in the next election cycle. in part because other areas of the state are now seeing thejob—creating opportunities. republicans are struggling to catch up. i look forward to the day when the republican party will get on the bandwagon

but until that happens, democrats are going to get elected on this issue. i got elected — one of the first governors in this regard, running on climate change and i think that is happening across the united states. so, but i also predict over time, eventually, the republican party, when they have thousands ofjobs coming in building electric cars, someday they will figure this out. until then, we need to be replacing them with democrats who understand the economic opportunity of this. jay inslee. the un says the secretary general antonio guterres will bring together top diplomats on afghanistan next month in doha. the qatari capital is home to a delegation of taleb ahmad and his deputy talked about the possibility of recognising the

delavan government. —— tally barn. delavan government. -- tally barn. ., , delavan government. -- tally barn. . , ., barn. -- taliban. is a possible? _ barn. -- taliban. is a | possible? recognition barn. -- taliban. is a . possible? recognition of barn. -- taliban. is a - possible? recognition of the taliban, principal recognition, in other words there are conditions.— in other words there are conditions. ~ . , conditions. what she said there sarked a conditions. what she said there sparked a huge _ conditions. what she said there sparked a huge reaction - conditions. what she said there sparked a huge reaction among| sparked a huge reaction among afghans. my colleague spoke to andy for time, the us�*s former deputy assistant secretary of state for afghanistan. thank you forjoining us on our programme. we heard the un deputy secretary's due —— words. do you think steps should be taken towards recognising the taliban? absolutely not and i think those remarks were very forward leaning in a way that perhaps the deputy secretary general regrets at this point. you think she _ regrets at this point. you think she may _ regrets at this point. you think she may regret - regrets at this point. you think she may regret those comments but at the time she was discussing the reality on the ground which is the taliban

is governing afghanistan so how can the un and us work together to help civilians of afghanistan while not legitimising the taliban. the taliban is — legitimising the taliban. tue: taliban is controlling afghanistan. i would say they are not governing it. and i think that if the united states and the un have an obligation to talk to all afghans. taliban is not the legitimate voice of afghanistan. and under no circumstances should they be given a un seat for the country of afghanistan until they make an effort to be a legitimate ruling entity. they have made a kind of living hell for women thatis kind of living hell for women that is hard to describe and hard for anybody outside of afghanistan to understand but women cannot leave their houses, men are being picked up and murdered because they were part of the former security forces. this is a country that is being ruled by terror. what

should the — is being ruled by terror. what should the us _ is being ruled by terror. what should the us and _ is being ruled by terror. what should the us and the - should the us and the international community, the un, do? , international community, the un,do? ., un, do? first and foremost, they have — un, do? first and foremost, they have to _ un, do? first and foremost, they have to keep _ un, do? first and foremost, they have to keep in - un, do? first and foremost, they have to keep in place i un, do? first and foremost, i they have to keep in place very power tools of influence they still have and that includes sanctions at the united nations against taliban leadership and they should also make sure that they should also make sure that they are talking to the non— taleb and afghan leaders, human rights defenders, members of civil society in finance outside the country to find out what they want and what they could use to be protected. t could use to be protected. i also want to ask you about something we heard from the inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction who said us aid might be flowing to the taliban. how could that happen? t the taliban. how could that ha--en? ~ the taliban. how could that ha en? ~ , the taliban. how could that ha . en? ~ , , ., happen? i think it is something that is going — happen? i think it is something that is going to _ happen? i think it is something that is going to have _ happen? i think it is something that is going to have a - that is going to have a political reverberation in the united states. it's very possible that there would be an effort to cut back on humanitarian assistance and

that's coupled with the fact the taliban have taken the untenable step of barring women from being part of the humanitarian distribution that is so badly needed in afghanistan, and that violates not only human rights principles of the un and international community but humanitarian principles, so combined with their acts of terror, the fact that they are supporting terrorism within afghanistan, and the fact that they are barring women from being part of the distribution, there may be a backlash that will affect millions of afghans. rydersaid will affect millions of afghans. ryder said do you think there needs to be a better oversight the bided administration from the state department and uss aid? i do think the oversight right now is adequate. because up until the decision about women working for the un, there was a relatively straightforward and

needs —based approach to distributing assistance. now, if the taliban make more demands, they may demand sunday the international community can just give the money to them and let them be distributing it —— demand sunday. it may be a bridge too far. —— demand some day. how do we help the people facing starvation if we don't help them?— facing starvation if we don't help them? it's been over a ear help them? it's been over a year since _ help them? it's been over a year since the _ help them? it's been over a year since the chaotic - year since the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. how do you see the country? how has it changed since then? the country has — has it changed since then? the country has lost _ has it changed since then? tta: country has lost everything that it was working for in terms of a peaceful and prosperous future. i have many friends outside and friends inside and i really cannot, i can't fathom the despair, especially of a girl who is 13 and was expecting to go to high school. and may now be facing a forced and early marriage,

childbearing and the only future education will be to hearty education. the taliban is trying very hard to indoctrinate an entire country —— jihadi education. indoctrinate an entire country -- jihadi education.— -- jihadi education. annie pforzheimer, _ -- jihadi education. annie pforzheimer, great - -- jihadi education. annie pforzheimer, great to - -- jihadi education. annie l pforzheimer, great to have -- jihadi education. annie - pforzheimer, great to have you on the show. the australian comedian barry humphries has died at the age of 89. barry humphries was best known for his character, dame edna everage, and was a leading figure on the british comedy scene, with his many satirical characters. his family said he never lost his brilliant mind and unique wit. he'd been receiving treatment at a hospital in sydney following hip surgery. our david silitto looks back at his life. emcee: dame edna everage! hello, possums! applause. dame edna always said she was born with a priceless gift — the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others. i am weightless and you could do with losing a little. success has gone to your

jowls, russell harty! oh, you're being very, very cruel! for more than 50 years, she took pleasure in saying the unsayable. i've had a little work done, but... have you? ..not quite as much as some of us here! laughter. applause. no... no, but the thing is, you are still recognisable, that's what i like. laughter. she was so familiar, it was easy to forget that behind the glasses and frocks was a man called barry humphries. he was, offstage, a cultured, art—loving collector of rare books. that's me standing outside... oh, one of the big clocks they've got out there! edna was a character from his student days in australia. when he moved to britain, he began to develop the character on shows such as late night line—up, with joan ba kewell.

he came on to television on late night line—up and we didn't know what to make of him. we thought he was a very dear man — a very brilliant man, quite clearly — and we knew that if we gave him a chance, he would make it. it was the beginning of a long friendship. edna became ever more brash and outrageous but the man behind the wig was urbane, cultured and loyal. good heavens! it's joan ba kewell! hello, darling! what the dickens are you doing here? the world in which i don't have the friendship of barry humphries is really painful. because he was so resilient and energetic and loving. and direct — i mean, there was a huge personality. and once you're exposed to it and enveloped by it, it was wonderful. so, that is a great absence in my life now. barry humphries was the absolute opposite of another of his characters, the profoundly uncouth sir les patterson. but sir les and dame edna were both a testament

to an extraordinary comic brain. a little — what is it, a little choker, darling? to the brash housewife superstar. gorgeous, darling! did it all come off the one chandelier? laughter. applause. # it's my niceness. # i pride myself on my niceness. for many, edna was so real, so engaging, it was easy to forget that the wit, the charm, the sheer audacity was all down to the brilliant comic mind of a man called barry humphries. i've been draped! # my wonderful, wonderful niceness # with you! the comedian barry humphries, who has died at the age of 89. before we go, a reminder of our top story. multiple media outlets announcing the us military has successfully evacuated american diplomats from the embassy in khartoum

and in a separate statement, sudan's paramilitary group the rsf saying it co—ordinated with the us on those evacuations. we will bring you more updates on the developing story as we get it. stay with us. hello there. i think it's fair to say the weekend started on a very mixed note. now, there were some areas of rain across the uk but other places that stayed entirely dry and sunny. look at this band of rain in southern scotland. underneath that, drumalbin in lanark only got to eight degrees. while it's not that far away, in stirlingshire, basking in the sunshine, tyndrum had a high of 17 celsius, so a massively different feel to the weather on saturday over a relatively short distance. sunday's chart still has low pressure firmly in charge. there will be more rain around. that low moves eastwards and then, early next week, we'll get northerly winds. and look where those winds come from — pretty much the north pole — so, needless to say, the weather will be getting quite a bit cooler over the next few days. now, over the next few hours, we've still got a bit of rain in northern ireland.

that's turning lighter and patchier in nature. northern scotland turning wet here with some stronger north—easterly winds developing and we've got some heavier rain just skirting along the south of england. so, there are some areas of rain, other areas stay dry, but a lot of cloud around. temperatures, 4—10 degrees as we start off sunday. now, we've got that fairly persistent rain that's going to be with us most of the day for northern scotland. it will feel chilly here on account of those gusty northerly winds. heavy rain across southern england extending into east anglia and then into the afternoon, we see showers break out, and i think those showers, particularly across england and wales, will turn heavy with some hail and thunder. temperatures across the board below average for the time of year, and it's set to get colder. those northerly winds really start to arrive through monday and on into tuesday as well. now, we're looking at some rain across england and wales. further north, it's a day of sunshine and showers. there'll be some hail mixed in with some of these showers, a little bit of sleet across the far north of scotland and over

the higher scottish mountains, yes, you could even see a little bit of snow, — but you have to go pretty high up for that, above 400 or 500 metres' elevation. temperatures dropping — highs of 7—11 degrees. feeling chilly, particularly for northern scotland. then monday night, we see a widespread frost develop and it's something that gardeners will certainly want to take note of. this is not a good news situation, really, for those tender plants — you might need to bring them back inside. tuesday, still cold, still a few wintry showers across northern scotland. showers with us for much of the week ahead with temperatures for the most part staying well below average. bye for now.

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