More countries have joined Britain at restricting travel to the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-sheikh after a Russian passenger plane came down on Saturday killing all on board. France has advised against all but essential visits while Dutch and German airlines have suspended flights. Britain believes the plane was probably brought down by a bomb. The White House spokesman Josh Ernest said the US had not ruled out terrorism as apossible cause. It is accurate to say that the United States has not made our own determination about the cause of the incident, but based on what we know,and based on impart, and based on what's been publicly reported in terms of claims of responsibility, we can't rule anything out including the possibility of terrorist involvement.
Figures released by the European Union revealed that up to 3 million migrants could arrive in the EU by the end of 2017. In a separate report, the UN refugee agency said it expected people to continue arriving in Greece from Turkey at arate of 5000 a day. The BBC's Richard Galpin says officials on the island of Lesbos are struggling to cope. Here in Lesbos today, the head of the European parliament Martin Schulz visited a refugee camp with the Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras. They were greeted by protesters calling for an immediate action to prevent more people drowning during a short journey across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek islands. Both Mr. Schulz and Mr. Tsipras are deeply concerned about the death. And the numbers arriving from Turkey are not dropping now despite the increasingly cold weather. Mr. Schulz said Turkey must agree to stand the flow of refugees and migrants from its shores as quickly as possible.
Mafia bosses, politicians and businessmen have appeared in court in Rome at the start of Italy's biggest anti-corruption trial for decades. They are accused of rigging contracts for public services over many years, even bringing the Italian capital's finances close to the point of collapse.
A one year old British girl has become the first person in the world to receive a pioneering gene therapy treatment that has cleared her off cancer. Leila Richiewas just three months old when she was diagnosed with aggressive leukemia. Here is our health reporter James Gallagher. On the day before Leila's first birthday, her family was told that all treatments had failed, and their daughter was going to die. But her parents were determined to try anything. And staff at the children's hospital were rapidly given permission to use an experimental therapy that had been trialed only in mice. It uses cutting-edge genetic engineering to design immune cells that can hunt down Leukemia. A few weeks after the cells were injected, Leila started to recover. World news from the BBC.
Reports from Syria say that rebel groups have captured a town on the vital highway from Damascus to Aleppo. Syrian activists sound the Rebels from cell say they have taken Morec which is north of Hama. On Wednesday, government forces said they had retaken control of the alternative route to Aleppo.
The charity Medecins Sans Frontier says its staff saw people being shot from the air as they tried to flee a hospital in Afghanistan that was hit by US airstrikes a month ago. In a review of the incident in Kunduz, MSF said its own personnel were hit while trying to reach safety. It acknowledged that about 20 patients at the time were wounded Taliban. The charity's director Christopher Stokes said it was hard to believe that the bombing had been a mistake. Review from inside the hospital is that this attack was conducted with a purpose to kill and destroy, and this was certainly my impression went on in Kunduz two weeks ago, but we still do not know why, and we do not have a view from cockpit inside the plane, and we don't have the view from within the chain of command of the different forces either US or Afghanistan, so we won't include that.
One of India's most wanted man has been deported from Indonesia. Rajendra Chhota Rajan, also known as little Rajan, was detained in Bali ten days ago. His arrest came after a tip off from the authorities in Australia where he had apparently been living under assumed identity for 20 years. He is accused of multiple offenses, including murder, extortion and drug trafficking.
Campaign advertisements for the Republican Party presidential contender Donald Trump are running for the first time on radio stations in three American states, Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. They are the first adverts Mr.Trump has paid for since entering the race to become the Republican candidate in next year's election. He said the 300,000-dollar campaign was part of his efforts to fend off his rivals. BBC news.More countries have joined Britain at restricting travel to the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-sheikh after a Russian passenger plane came down on Saturday killing all on board. France has advised against all but essential visits while Dutch and German airlines have suspended flights. Britain believes the plane was probably brought down by a bomb. The White House spokesman Josh Ernest said the US had not ruled out terrorism as apossible cause. It is accurate to say that the United States has not made our own determination about the cause of the incident, but based on what we know,and based on impart, and based on what's been publicly reported in terms of claims of responsibility, we can't rule anything out including the possibility of terrorist involvement.
Figures released by the European Union revealed that up to 3 million migrants could arrive in the EU by the end of 2017. In a separate report, the UN refugee agency said it expected people to continue arriving in Greece from Turkey at arate of 5000 a day. The BBC's Richard Galpin says officials on the island of Lesbos are struggling to cope. Here in Lesbos today, the head of the European parliament Martin Schulz visited a refugee camp with the Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras. They were greeted by protesters calling for an immediate action to prevent more people drowning during a short journey across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek islands. Both Mr. Schulz and Mr. Tsipras are deeply concerned about the death. And the numbers arriving from Turkey are not dropping now despite the increasingly cold weather. Mr. Schulz said Turkey must agree to stand the flow of refugees and migrants from its shores as quickly as possible.
Mafia bosses, politicians and businessmen have appeared in court in Rome at the start of Italy's biggest anti-corruption trial for decades. They are accused of rigging contracts for public services over many years, even bringing the Italian capital's finances close to the point of collapse.
A one year old British girl has become the first person in the world to receive a pioneering gene therapy treatment that has cleared her off cancer. Leila Richiewas just three months old when she was diagnosed with aggressive leukemia. Here is our health reporter James Gallagher. On the day before Leila's first birthday, her family was told that all treatments had failed, and their daughter was going to die. But her parents were determined to try anything. And staff at the children's hospital were rapidly given permission to use an experimental therapy that had been trialed only in mice. It uses cutting-edge genetic engineering to design immune cells that can hunt down Leukemia. A few weeks after the cells were injected, Leila started to recover. World news from the BBC.
Reports from Syria say that rebel groups have captured a town on the vital highway from Damascus to Aleppo. Syrian activists sound the Rebels from cell say they have taken Morec which is north of Hama. On Wednesday, government forces said they had retaken control of the alternative route to Aleppo.
The charity Medecins Sans Frontier says its staff saw people being shot from the air as they tried to flee a hospital in Afghanistan that was hit by US airstrikes a month ago. In a review of the incident in Kunduz, MSF said its own personnel were hit while trying to reach safety. It acknowledged that about 20 patients at the time were wounded Taliban. The charity's director Christopher Stokes said it was hard to believe that the bombing had been a mistake. Review from inside the hospital is that this attack was conducted with a purpose to kill and destroy, and this was certainly my impression went on in Kunduz two weeks ago, but we still do not know why, and we do not have a view from cockpit inside the plane, and we don't have the view from within the chain of command of the different forces either US or Afghanistan, so we won't include that.
One of India's most wanted man has been deported from Indonesia. Rajendra Chhota Rajan, also known as little Rajan, was detained in Bali ten days ago. His arrest came after a tip off from the authorities in Australia where he had apparently been living under assumed identity for 20 years. He is accused of multiple offenses, including murder, extortion and drug trafficking.
Campaign advertisements for the Republican Party presidential contender Donald Trump are running for the first time on radio stations in three American states, Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. They are the first adverts Mr.Trump has paid for since entering the race to become the Republican candidate in next year's election. He said the 300,000-dollar campaign was part of his efforts to fend off his rivals. BBC news.