Hello, im lewis vaughanjones. Welcome to the programme. First this hour a deadline set by the west African Regional bloc ecowas for the militaryjunta to reinstate nigers ousted president Mohammed Bazoum expires later on sunday. Ecowas gave the coup leaders a week to restore the president or potentially face Military Action. Meanwhile, france says it will support efforts by ecowas. Nigers Prime Minister has been in paris saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the niger embassy. He has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country. With the deadline only hours away, our correspondent chris ewokor reports from sokoto, North Western nigeria, close to the border with niger. They are bracing for the worst. Many of them were born here in nigeria but they have never been cut off from their roots in niger. The coup has caught them unawares. With the border is closed and the current political crisis, they are now separated from their families. This man lives here b
Another 45 are said to be injured. The Hazara Express came off the rails near nawabshah in Sindh Province, as it travelled from karachi to abbottabad. These are the latest pictures from the scene, in a remote area. Emergency workers are battling to rescue passengers trapped in at least five overturned carriages. Pakistans Railways Minister says more rescue teams have been dispatched to the site. An emergency has been declared in nearby hospitals including this one in nawabshah where casualties have been arriving. We are hoping to speak to an individual close to the town, where that derailment took place. Hopefully we will be able to bring you more details on that here on bbc news. Ukraines president Volodymyr Zelensky says a russian guided bomb struck a Blood Transfusion Centre in the north east on Saturday Night as part of Overnight Shelling across the country. Speaking in his night time address, mr zelensky said rescuers at the scene in the town of kupiansk in Eastern Kharkiv had rep
Counter. So a busy two hours to come. So put something cold and fizzy in the fridge or fire up the kettle or because were doing things differently tonight, put something and fizzy in the something cold and fizzy in the kettle a night of kettle and lets make a night of it. The headlines with it. First, the headlines with rory smith. Rory smith. Thank you very much. Leo storm, anthony saw 78mph. Winds hit some parts of the uk today, blocking 100 miles of railway between exeter and penzance. About half a months worth of rain fell in some areas, with a number of people having been evacuated from their homes in nonh evacuated from their homes in North Yorkshire due to flooding. The south west had severe road and rail disruption. Well a yellow weather warning remains in place until 10 00 tonight for the south east of england and east anglia. Weather journalist east anglia. Weather journalist nathan rao explains us the conditions, the wind speeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to b
The fridge or fire up the kettle or because were doing things differently tonight, put something and fizzy in the something cold and fizzy in the kettle a night of kettle and lets make a night of it. The headlines with it. First, the headlines with rory smith. Rory smith. Thank you very much. Leo storm, anthony saw 78mph. Winds hit some parts of the uk today, blocking 100 miles of railway between exeter and penzance. About half a months worth of rain fell in some areas, with a number of people having been evacuated from their homes in nonh evacuated from their homes in North Yorkshire due to flooding. The south west had severe road and rail disruption. Well a yellow weather warning remains in place until 10 00 tonight for the south east of england and east anglia. Weather journalist east anglia. Weather journalist nathan rao explains us the conditions, the wind speeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland
19 people have been killed in a rail derailment. Another 50 are injured. The Hazara Express came off the rails near nawabshah in sindh province, as it travelled from karachi to abbottabad. These are the latest pictures from the scene, in a remote area. Emergency workers are battling to rescue passengers trapped in at least five overturned carriages with more rescue teams deployed to the scene. An emergency has been declared in nearby hospitals including this one in nawabshah where casualties have been arriving. The Information Minister of sindh gave us more details about the crash. The top priority of government is the rescue work which we are focusing on. Bold the hospitals it boat dealers standby. But there are some more critical patients the government will take them to different districts. We will give them the best treatment over at private hospital or a government hospital. Lets get more on this with our south asia editor. The number of people dead and this accident keeps going u