over 170,000 more people showed symptoms compared with the day before. the north korean leader, kimjong un, described the outbreak as a great disaster, but said that it could be overcome. a russian court has extended the pre trial detention of the american professional basketball player, brittney griner. the athlete, a two time olympic gold medallist and wnba champion, was detained at moscow airport in february, allegedly in possession of cannabis oil. the us state department says she s being wrongfully detained. ms griner s detention came days after russia sent troops into ukraine. a man has been arrested in germany for allegedly stabbing passengers onboard a train bound for aachen. an off duty police officer and two passengers managed to overpower the attacker, who was described in local media as an iraqi in his 30s. the wounded have been taken to hospital but none of their injuries are life threatening. this is bbc news. the headlines: israeli police have beaten mourners carrying
moscow denies targeting civilians and made no comment about the trial. ukraine s state prosecutor there will soon there will be a lot more of these cases. let s get some of the day s other news. at least 27 people have been killed and more than a0 injured in a fire in delhi. the blaze started on the first floor of a a storey building and witnesses say several people jumped to safety as it spread. more than 20 fire trucks and ambulances have been at the scene. two days after north korea officially acknowledged its first covid cases, official media say another twenty one people have died. the state news agency also said over 170,000 more people showed symptoms compared with the day before. the north korean leader, kimjong un, described the outbreak as a great disaster, but said that it could be overcome. a man has been arrested in germany for allegedly stabbing passengers onboard a train bound for aachen.
At least six people were wounded after an assailant attacked them with a knife on a passenger train near the western German city of Aachen. The suspect has been detained by police.
a man has been arrested in germany for allegedly stabbing passengers onboard a train bound for aachen. an off duty police officer and two passengers managed to overpower the attacker. local media described the suspect as an iraqi in his 30s. the wounded have been taken to hospital, but none of the injuries are life threatening. stay with us on bbc news. still to come. fans countdown the hours until the eurovision song contest in italy. the pope was shot, the pope will live that s the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the man they called the butcher of lille, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war.
Across the continent, pupils face bullying, harassment and humiliation over the invasion of Ukraine, another perverse effect of a war that is overwhelmingly affecting the innocent.