the mosque is in a compound in one of the most tightly controlled areas of the city, which includes police headquarters and intelligence bureaus. here s our correspondent in peshawar, caroline davies. behind me are the gates to the police compound where the mosque was attacked around lunchtime yesterday. we now know that the death toll has continued to rise. today has been a day of mourning here and many flags have been flying at half mast. some have also begun the process of burying their dead. we attended one funeral earlier of a police officer and we were told that only recently he d survived an attack that had killed some of his colleagues. we spoke to his brother, who described him as being big hearted and brave and that he wanted to continue to be a police officer because he felt it was his duty. this has sent shockwaves around pakistan because there are many concerns the scale of this particular atrocity, of this particular event, we have heard from prime minister shahbaz sharif
invited to joe biden s state of the union address as a guest of the u.s. president. at least 17 people are dead, 83 others injured in an explosion inside a mosque in pakistan. police say the blast took place in the northwestern city of peshawar in the middle of afternoon prayers situated inside the police lines and mostly attended by law enforcement officials. russia s deputy foreign minister says it s now pointless to talk with ukraine after the u.s. decided to send tanks to the battlefield. those comments reported by russian state media come just days after president joe biden announced the u.s. would supply ukraine with 31 abrams tanks. meanwhile, the fighting rages on. the mayor says at least one is dead after a missile struck a residential building in kharkiv. three other people were injured in the strike. officials say residents were evacuated and to the south, the
islamabad. we re learning more details about heavy casualties in peshawar. what more do you know from the authorities? reporter: we know that there are about 17 people died. more than 70 injured in this blast that took place in a mosque in the police lines area of peshawar in the northwest of the country. it happened during afternoon prayers, and this is a mosque usually visited by law enforcement officials. we have been told by a hospital official that there is a state of emergency at hospitals in that area in the city of peshawar and they re asking for blood donations because there is a fear according to law enforcement officials we ve spoken to that this number is going to increase. there have been reports of the entire wall of the mosque falling in and you have to understand that when people are praying at the mosque they re
of the economy. it is coming up to the three year anniversary of brexit, and that has been a factor, the immigration question and you will have seen the small boats slogan, stop the boats, behind the prime minister who is speaking in the north east, that is seen to be a factor in that area, being a brexit stronghold. the prime minister facing questions on the uk including having to sack his chairman, that aims to how they overtax irregularities and questions and we will go back to that us soon as journalists are asking the prime minister some questions. at least 28 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in an explosion at a mosque in the pakistani city of peshawar. the blast happened when the mosque in the north west of the country
unfortunately, the uk has the highest number of deaths. bethany s legacy means that from next year only a pharmacist can sell dnp and only to someone with an explosives licence in the hope that no more young people will lose their lives. rhaya barton, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: the prime minister insists he acted decisively in sacking conservative party chairman, nadhim zahawi, but labour say rishi sunak must come clean about what he knew and when. at least 32 people have been killed and 150 others injured in a blast in the pakistani city of peshawar. a £1 billion plan to improve nhs care in england, including thousands more hospital beds and hundreds of new ambulances, is being set out by ministers.