attack in march, has been awarded a posthumous medal for his attack in march, has been awarded a posthumous medalfor his bravery. a us navy destroyer has collided with a philippine container ship off the east coast of japan. the navy says the uss fitzgerald is now heading for the nearby port of yokosuka under its own power. the japanese coast guard is at the scene. there are reports of some injuries. no details have been released about the container ship, the acx crystal. sarah corker reports. the uss fitzgerald sustained significant damage to its starboard side. in the middle of the night it somehow collided with a container ship in the approach to tokyo bay. us navy has confirmed that seven crew members are missing. up to three compartments are flooded but the ship is not in danger of sinking. the incident happened at 2:30am local time on saturday. 56 nautical miles south west of yokosuka, a busy commercial waterway. the warship has a crew of over 300 sailors. the number of
the former communist east. the current chancellor, angela merkel, has led the tributes, describing him as a great german and a great european . the bbc‘s paul adams looks back at his life. as the cold war ended, helmut kohl seemed to tower, quite literally, over everyone and everything around him. as a child, he witnessed the destruction of his country. world war ii inspiring his lifelong desire to unify germany and europe. he rose through the ranks of the christian democratic union, becoming chancellor in 1982. his provincial manners were frequently mocked but he was tough and he knew how to wield power, and when history came calling, he was ready. the fall of the berlin wall, a moment of euphoria and, for helmut kohl, a chance to put his fractured country back together. but unity did not stop there. with france s president francois mitterrand, he pursued his other big idea the new european union and its own currency, the euro. he didn t always agree with his political
thousands of people have been taking part in anti crushed chin antique oi’ part in anti crushed chin antique or rough chin protests across russia. after a call from the opposition leader. pictures from moscow show people being detained and scuttles breaking out. the police say that nearly 500 people have been arrested in the capital alone including the opposition leader. they are thought to be the biggest in five years. demonstrated here and in more than £100 in cities across the country called for the prime minister to resign, the protest, ahead of presidential elections next year with president putin expected to seek a full time in office. from moscow he was our correspondent. here on pushkin square in the centre of moscow and the crowd is chanting, we are russian. there several thousand people who have covered here. the russian authorities say that this anti corruption protests is illegal. but people have come onto the streets anyway. there is a very heavy police
secede from iraq heading also coming up. from the machall hits the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election this time around she s helping out an election in one of germany s states. and hugh hefner the founder of the adult magazine playboy dies at the age of ninety one launched in one thousand fifty three playboy was an overnight success will go to los angeles to look at his life. i m brian thomas welcome to the show iraq s kurds are facing growing political isolation after the massive yes to independence and monday s referendum airlines from turkey egypt jordan lebanon say they ll be halting all flights to iraqi kurdistan at the request of baghdad now turkey has also warned it could stop cross
border trade with the region and iraq central government as threatened its own sanctions. there were euphoric scenes among iraq s kurds after the official result was announced could issue authorities say that with a seventy three percent voter turnout the poll had be
percent in the last a year later with just fourteen percent. that shows how quickly things can change. yes i can handle it i know approval can t windell rapidly but that you can regain trust with hard work and voting results aren t permanent approval rates. that s what you re working on right now you just came back from the s.p.d. is regional conference where the party s member vote between government or opposition was discussed what was the mood like i think towards the party leadership it was fairly cautious but it was more positive regarding the coalition agreement there was substantive debate on the points we had negotiated with the christian democratic union everybody knows that seventy percent of the agreement has the s.p.d. signature and that is met with a lot of support not for everything apart for about ninety percent and they know we can keep these promises we currently have trust issues with the s.p.d. leadership and that includes me i m aware of it and know it needs to ch