We are closely watching this volcano, where lava that has been flowing into the town of grindavik, does appear to be slowing, we are hearing from the authorities, but we have seen several houses destroyed by fires. It erupted in the early hours of sunday morning, Spilling Lava into the fishing town. These are live pictures from iceland. These are live pictures from iceland. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Lets look at some other stories making news here in the uk. Two men have beenjailed for life for the murder of a 14 year old girl in West Dunbartonshire in 1996. Robert obrien and Andrew Kelly arranged to meet Caroline Glachan and then repeatedly punched, kicked and threw bricks at her. A woman has also been found guilty of the murder, but has yet to be sentenced. Junior doctors in wales have begun three days of industrial action over their pay. Thousands of appointments and operations have been cancelled. The welsh government says urgent care will continue, but
Taiwan. , a. , lets just show you a rare white penguin spotted at a base in antarctica. She is very rare and has a genetic condition which affects the colour of her feathers. Penguins with this condition are rare because predators can spot the more easily than those with the usual Black And White colouring. She seems to be doing well. Back to iceland as we won at the volcano. We will cross live there to talk to someone shortly, who has been using drones to film some of the lava. It is flowing down the volcano towards the town Of Grindavik. Authorities are saying it is slowing, not until it had destroyed several houses by fires. The entire population Of Grindavik had already been evacuated so everyone is fine. There are no casualties. When the eruption first started back in december the town and authorities build defences around it. That did partially
A Rebel Group in Western Myanmar says it has captured a strategic town near the Indian Borderfrom the ruling military. The arakan army, part of the rebel coalition, said it had taken the town in Chin State one of myanmar s main routes to india. Bbc south east Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head gave this analysis. Youll make them me military is so overstretched by fighting going on right across the country, and in the east, the opposite area to this, where it has been losing territory on the chinese border for two or three months. Now the arakan army, One Of The Best equipped of the ethnic groups, have nowjoined together with the main opposition, with the goal, they say, of overthrowing the military regime. It has lots attacked and taken a significant slice of territory, cutting off one of the main routes to india and giving itself an important logistics base. We will have to see how much further the
A volcano erupted in southwest Iceland on Sunday, posing an immediate threat to a nearby fishing town that had been evacuated over fears of an outbreak, authorities said.
the white house, 100 staffers threatened to quick because they re unhappy with joe biden s position as well. there s a lot of trouble for joe biden on either side of this. that was my second take away from this. we will see that divide, that is presumably democrat voters protesting against a democrat president, we ll see how that divide plays out, i was thinking of the ballot box, inside the administration. are you going to let junior staffers run your white house? if you walk out of the white house, next thing, you should give me you your badge, you re out. i don t understand why you tolerate that. maybe they will. because they re weak. turning to your headlines, starting with this, a fox news alert. a volcano erupting overnight in southwest iceland, weeks after another eruption in the same area. yesterday the national commissioner of police ordered residents of a fishing town to evacuate by tomorrow night.