A show of military force in india as the country celebrates its sixty ninth republic day. A devastating water shortage in haiti leaves thousands with no safe water to drink yet more fallout from the powerful twenty ten earthquake plus. Im not talking about that in paris where persisting is on flood alerts as the river continues to rise. A fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and says in an intensive care unit firefighters in the Southern City of marianne managed to rescue dozens of others who were trapped by the flames critically injured survivors have been taken to other hospitals in the city the countrys president is calling for an investigation that the president in held an emergency meeting of his chief a short while. Go to discuss the fire at a marion hospital he expressed regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out at sage Long Hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after the fire in
Translation i was in an armour plated vehicle, when suddenly there was an explosion. I was in the back seat. My driver was blown out onto the ground and injured. The area of the attack is home to foreign embassies and the citys police headquarters. The road had been closed to public transport. The taliban claimed responsibility. This is their second deadly assault on the city in the space of a week. 20 people were killed in an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel last week. This evening, work was continuing to clear the scene of the latest bombing. This is a very secure area, and security is very tight here usually, and the question will be how they got through this far. The afghan military, backed by us air power, has intensified its campaign to drive out the taliban from its rural strongholds. But, as todays strike proves, they are still able to mount deadly attacks against civilian targets in the heart of the countrys major cities. Zia shahreyar, bbc news, kabul. The french capital,
Zia shahreyar reports from kabul. An ambulance packed with explosives, driven into crowds on their way to work. The force of the blast shook the windows of buildings at least a mile away. Some low rise structures collapse. A plume of smoke, visible across the city. The attacker had driven his vehicle past the Police Checkpoint claiming to have a patient inside. When guards at a second checkpoint became suspicious, he detonated the bomb. Translation i was in an armoured plated vehicle when suddenly there was an explosion. I was in the back seat, my driver was blown out on to the ground and injured. The area of the attack is home to foreign embassies and the citys police headquarters. The road had been closed to public transport. The taliban claimed responsibility. This is their second deadly assault on the city in the space of a week. 20 people were killed in an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel last week. This evening, work was continuing to clear the scene of the latest bombing. Th
And that vote is happening also coming up americas relations with cuba hit a bum note after a brief fall the u. S. Is pulling out half its Embassy Staff and warning travelers to avoid the island that after mysterious attacks that left some diplomats deaf. And dozens of rohinton drowned as they flee violence the United Nations is calling on myanmars government to and what it terms of the nightmare treatment of the Muslim Minority group. Im sara harmon welcome to the show its good to have you with us. Authorities in the spanish region of catalonia say they will proceed with sundays independence referendum madrid says the vote is illegal and must not take place catalonia is home to more than seven and a half Million People and already has a high degree of autonomy now separatists secured a narrow majority in the cattle on parliament of a Regional Elections in two thousand and fifteen but its unclear if that means most catalogs are willing to back independence still the Regional Government
Heard im sorry herman in berlin this is the day. For music or no matter how much they intimidate us no matter how many times they say they will not give us the keys to classrooms or that schools wont be open there is a generation growing up in our country that adds to this view with georgie that want to vote in catalonia with a new look at the. Stuff this is a session this process is illegal based on illegal premises it is the obligation of the rule of law and of each and every single government to prevent this from happening the motivation of those behind this is special process is to destroy spain feel that. They have this you know that i feel about spanish and catalan im not embarrassed to have two different cultures i mean reached by both of them i speak two languages and its nice to have this option is that. I dont share any of the ideas traditions or culture that are part of the rest of the country. I dont know i was born a slave turned from cultures dictatorship. But i show my t