it's joan ba kewell! hello, darling! what the dickens are you doing here?ainful. 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

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it's joan ba kewell. hello, darling! what the dickens are you doing here?inful. he was so resilient and energetic and loving. and direct, there was a huge personality. once you're exposed to it and enveloped by it, it was wonderful. so, that is a great absence in my life now. our top story: the us military has completed the evacuation of us embassy staff from the sudanese capital khartoum. the palmetto group rsm says it's co—ordinating with the us on the evacuations. we'll have more on the developments as we get them here on the bbc news. i am carl nasman in washington. thank you for watching. stay with us and had to our website for the latest developments. 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