Where severe drought is putting lives in danger. Hello, everyone. All of the sport for you including pakistans ticket. Tight security aeof the world 20. Underway. Indirect talks to end the war in syria are due to get underway in geneva on monday. Syrias foreign minister has con firmed his government will take part, but the removal of the Bashar Alassad is not up for discussion. Thats been rejected by opposition members who are now in geneva. They say president assad must step down no matter what. Diplomatic editor james bay has the latest from geneva. Both main sides now say they are coming to geneva for the talks, the confirmation from the government coming from the deputy Prime Minister and foreign minister at a News Conference in damascus but he made it clear the role of president assad was not up for discussion. We are adamant on holding the integrity and so fvereignty of syria as one state. At least this is what has been reiterated by the enter the National Documents released incl
African Healthcare System is seeing. But first at least 73 people now have been killed and many more injured in an earthquake in the central philippines and it was a magnitude 7. 2 earthquake that hit the island in the second biggest city and power has been cut and buildings destroyed and over 100 people have been hurt. Reporter crews search for survivors be kneeled concrete buildings, the 7. 2 magnitude earthquake hit just before 8 00 in the morning and the force brought down buildings and seeing people fleeing into open spaces. Translator we were caught by surprise. The building collapsed as people were coming out. Reporter officers and schools were closed for a National Holiday and this may have saved lives. This is where the church is, a huge, old, Spanish Church built in the 1600s and severely damaged and a lot has collapsed and perhaps because its a holiday today there were though casualties at all there. The mayor of the town came out to the command center in front of the church
Geneva and china celebrates ten years of space exploration. We begin the news hour with bombs across several countries on what is supposed to be one of the holyist days in the world and mosques in syria and afghanistan were attacked tuesday when they were attending prayers and a governor was killed on a bomb attack in a mosque in the providence and 20 others were wounded. A governor as we said was killed during the prayers in afghanistan. The attack happened in the Logar Providence and an official from the Governors Office said they were planted in the mosque where governor and 20 other people were injured in the attack. And a bomb blast at a sunni mosque in the Northern City of kirkuk in iran and 20 people died as a bomb went through worshippers after they left after morning prayers and they attacked a mosque not far from the capitol of damascus and they made a rare public appearance to attend morning prayers and we have people in afghanistan and southern lebanon and we go to jane fur