7 possible drone sightings 373 people are now known to have died in Saturday s tsunami in Indonesia dozens more remain missing and rescue workers are using heavy lifting equipment to clear blocked roads as they try to reach cut off areas Luis a fair use in is from the British Red Cross we know from past experience people can survive quite a long time even if they ve been trapped under rubble the key thing is having access to water and air and not being affected by critical injuries so the search and rescue is in a critical phase right now there is still hope for many people but we need to act. Dozens of medium sized earthquakes have been recorded around the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna lover an ash clouds have been spewing from the mountain for several hours forcing some airports to close. A man with a jewel British Iranian nationality who was detained in Iran in April on security charges has been released professor at A.O.L. Or an expert in computer science at Imperial College London
And it can cause local life like the Mendocino complex burned close 246-0000 acres about 150 miles north of San Francisco making it the largest fire in state history for n.p.r. News I m so new hats and. At the bet again Christmas Eve mass being celebrated at St Peter s Basilica tonight Pope Francis during his traditional homily lamenting what he said is the meeting people seek and possessions and instead urging Christians to forego the greed hoarding of materialism of Christmas or something more meaningful Francis continuing a message that has been part of his 5 year papacy church s 1st Latin American part of also denouncing a global financial system he says makes the rich richer at the expense of the poor crude oil futures prices continue their upward slide today or downward slide it should say that crude oil is down 6 percent to $4253.00 a barrel this is n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include American universities Co God School of Business co
When the u.s. Government might shut down later today unless Mr Trump gets congressional approval for $5000000000.00 to build a wall on the Mexican border we ll cover those remarkable stories in about 20 minutes time but before that warnings of the dangers of commercial drones to air traffic have been talked about often in Britain there are laws backed by 5 years of imprisonment for misuse of drones nonetheless an armed and identified drone operator or operators has closed down one of Europe s busiest airports for 36 hours starting on Wednesday the runway at Britain s got weak airport has reopened a flight. In Lapland was the 1st plane to depart the airport is the 2nd largest in Britain and it says delays and cancellations remain likely there s a backlog of more than 100000 passengers whose flights were distracted by the closure at the start of a busy holiday period and police so far have failed to locate either the drone or its operator people are calling for tougher sentences as well
The international forces had only been involved in training and supporting Afghan military missions against the Taliban and others for the last 4 years so their departure would have a minimal impact on security. Pro independence demonstrators in Catalonia have blocked a number of roads in protest of the Spanish cabinet meeting being held by the prime minister Pedre Sanchez in Barcelona the regional capital riot police have been engaged in a tense standoff with protesters today is the anniversary of elections imposed on Catalonia last year by the previous Spanish government go ahead go is in Barcelona certainly Pedro Sanchez since he came into power 6 months ago has made this a priority he said he wants to reduce tensions between Madrid and Catalonia he has taken some measures along those lines he s reintroduced a bilateral working group between Madrid and Catalonia Yesterday he met with Kim taught at the cattle and president but back in Madrid there s a lot of pressure on him from Uni
With a backlog of more than 100000 passengers whose flights were disrupted by the closure at the start of a busy holiday period she isn t due is it got to get bought police have not managed to apprehend off buying the person operating the drive over train itself but we have been made aware that they have put into place military style technology to China make sure that this train all drones and do not continue to cause any further disruption to any air passenger travel today at least 13 miners in the Czech Republic and are confirmed dead in a me say an explosion at a coal mine in the country s border with Poland 10 people were injured the explosion took place on says Day $800.00 metres below ground Rod Cameron reports from Prague television footage showed Polish mine rescue vehicles outside the c.s.m. Coal mine and both the track and Polish prime ministers are due to visit the site of what is a cross border tragedy the state run ok.d. Company which operates the mine says most of the vi