00:00 Gunfire heard ringing out throughout Khartoum on Friday morning, as the fighting shows no
00:05 sign of stopping.
00:07 Many have looked to flee the capital, leaving on packed buses.
00:11 For foreign nationals looking to do the same, the situation has been complicated by intense
00:16 fighting around Khartoum airport.
00:19 The US has already sent a large number of additional troops to its base in Djibouti,
00:24 readying for a possible evacuation.
00:27 Due to the unfortunate and uncertain and very fluid security situation in Khartoum, and
00:33 again because of the closure of the airport, it's not safe to undertake a US government
00:38 coordinated evacuation of American citizens at this time.
00:43 Like the US, France remains on standby in Djibouti, with three planes being sent to
00:48 their base in the East African nation on Wednesday evening.
00:52 Germany has gone one step further.
00:54 They had three military planes in the air on the way to Sudan itself, ready to evacuate
00:59 the hundreds of German nationals in the country.
01:01 Just hours later however, the planes were on their way home, the situation deemed too
01:06 unsafe on the ground.
01:08 Fifteen thousand kilometres from the Sudanese capital, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley
01:13 cut short his trip to New Zealand in order to deal with the situation.
01:17 Whitehall is working on emergency plans to evacuate the several hundred British citizens
01:22 who are trapped in the midst of the fighting.
01:24 If there is a mass evacuation similar to those previously in Afghanistan or Yemen, many worry
01:29 for the future of those left behind.
01:32 With the airport now closed, getting humanitarian assistance into the country is almost impossible.
