Snap election. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when she was found carrying almost 300 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, in her suitcase. Daniela relph reports. Laura plummers family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. But today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. Her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, 0mar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. Laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit 0mar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. In her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal on prescription in brit
Hundred billion dollars to put the country back together but that is a massive task not to mention the question of whether isis has been. On the grid will he stay right now top members of. The president say he has managed to. Despite years of corrupt. May be his biggest challenge yet and ten years. To its indigenous population stolen generation of children taken from their families were looking at what has proved to be Aboriginal People and the equality. Of clothes. And im talking about the need to move but its chinese equivalent has something to do with a bowl of rice and a rabbit. You know if the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com and what price on rebuilding iraq well apparently its one hundred billion dollars at least that is what the Iraqi Government is asking for in assistance after defeating a three day donors conference has begun in kuwait and on the first say they got pledges worth more than three hundred Million
Two soldiers have been killed in what is thought to have been a suicide bombing at at Police Station in eastern turkey. A truck packed with explosive was rammed into the building. 24 have been injurds. The perform kk has been p. K. K. Has been blamed for the attack. The violence increased after the turkish government began air strikes against separatists. Kurds have been protesting against the air strikes. Police fired water canon and tear gas to break up a rally in turkeys city crowds gathered outside the prokurdish h. D. P. Party officers, politicians called for a resumption of peace talks with the p. K. K. More from zeina khodr, on the turkey syria bored erm. Attacks have been continuing, there has been numerous incidents, 22 soldiers and police men killed. The latest incidents really signals an escalation because according to the governor of agriprovince, in the east of the country, a suicide bomber barked an agricultural vehicle outside an army base, and detonated the explosives,
And at 11. 30, well bring you dateline, where foreign correspondents currently posted to london look at events in the uk through outsiders eyes. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. One the first day of the conservative conference, theresa may says shes sorry the party didnt win a majority at the general election. The Prime Minister is also seeking to enhance her partys appeal to Younger Voters by outlining changes to student funding and has indicated that graduates wont have to start repaying loans until they earn £25,000 a year. Lets get the latest from norman smith, who is at the conference in manchester. A sort of apology from the Prime Ministerfor manchester. A sort of apology from the Prime Minister for what went wrong at the election. A fairly limited apology, i have to say. She said she was sorry for those candidates who lost their seats and those who went out campaigning without success. But she did not say iam without success. But she did not say i am sorry for calling an e
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