these islands have been impacted and the entire population. for instance, ash has fallen on all of those islands and then as you just said has contaminated the water sources. things are luckily improving, we had very difficulties very much difficulties with communication at the beginning because the only fiberoptic cable that connects tonga with the rest of the world through an internet has also been damaged and satellite phones didn t freight because of the ash cloud which interfered with the connection. so this is better now, we are in daily contact with our staff on the ground and also with the tongan authorities and the tongan authorities have been able to run some initial assessments so that we have a better grip on the situation and what s happening on the ground. andreas go ahead. yes. so what unicef is doing at the moment, we have mobilized pre-positioned supplies to help
is due to hit northern england and on tuesday. storm barra. peter harris, bbc news, northumberland. at least 14 people are now known to have died after a volcano erupted on the indonesian island ofjava. officials on the island say dozens more have been injured, with many suffering severe burns from the huge ash cloud which escaped mount semeru and engulfed surrounding communities, damaging buildings and killing livestock. pope francis has criticised what he s described as the narrow self interest of european countries in the way they deal with migrants. the pope was speaking on a visit to a refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos, where he warned the treatment of migrants in the mediterranean could lead to the shipwreck of civilisation . from lesbos, the bbc s special corresponmdent fergal keane reports. they embrace the man and the
the case could now be sent to the court of appeal. yesterday, fans of birmingham city, the club after supported, remembered him, with applause in the six minute of their game, love shown for a little boy who thought no one loved him. commentator: applause here and the grounds around the country to mark the life of arthur labinjo hughes, the six year whose heartbreaking death has united the nation. a gesture repeated at several matches. today there will be a vigil in solihull for arthur. the prime minister has said he will leave no stone unturned to find out what went wrong and what he called this appalling case. simon jones, bbc news. at least 13 people are now known to have died after a volcano erupted on the island ofjava. officials on the island say dozens more have been injured, with many suffering severe burns from the huge ash cloud which escaped mount semeru. the volcano has been in a state of near constant eruption for decades.
appalling case. simonjones, bbc news. at least 13 people are now known to have died after a volcano erupted on the island ofjava. officials on the island say dozens more have been injured, with many suffering severe burns from the huge ash cloud which escaped mount semeru. the volcano has been in a state of near constant eruption for decades. a blast of wintry weather is sweeping across parts of scotland and northern england today, where nearly 5,000 homes are still without electricity, nine days after the damage caused by storm arwen. business secretary kwasi kwarteng will visit bishop auckland later today, and army troops will continue supporting residents in remote areas. mark mcalindon sent this report from northumberland. on saturday, royal artillery troops arrived at the west hartford fire station near cramlington to be
backup for the computer. system. and euro control is telling us it s a computer failure so we need to get to the bottom of that. has there been a shortening of the computer system that led to a power outage as well? nonetheless, they re taking this seriously in the sense they want to close the airspace for a number of hours to make sure they get this system back up and running. they have to test it once they get back up and running. i remember during the ash cloud which closed the airspace in 2010, even though they decided it was time to get planes in the air, they were testing for many, many days before they let passengers back on planes so i imagine they ll take extreme caution to make sure the system is up and running and that they can start letting these flights come and go. i can t stress enough how congested this airspace is over london. heathrow 1 considered to be if not the busiest international airport in the world one of the