The embassy in niamey as inside the embassy in niamey as france stops aid. and we have a special report where we talk to a mother about why it s getting easier to be a single parent in china. voice-over: live voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start in pakistan where at least 44 people have been killed in what police suspect was a suicide bomb attack at a political rally in the north west of the country. well, over 100 were injured in the blast at the event in the bajaur district, near the border with afghanistan. our pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, has the latest, from the capital, islamabad. a sunday afternoon political rally by one of pakistan s biggest religious parties,
Photos were published online shortly after mr bazoum met the chadian leader, mahamat idriss deby, who 5 on a mission to resolve the crisis. mr deby also held talks with the leader of the military junta who led the takeover. the coup leaders are continuing to claim, 0ur correspondent chris ewokor is monitoring developments from neighbouring nigeria and he gave us this update a short while ago. today, what we re hearing right now is that more than 130 members of the ruling party, officials of the ruling party, including those in government, have been arrested by the leaders of the junta. and this could be as a result of the allegation from the junta that they are about to be attacked by france, which of course there has been no evidence. but yesterday, protesters tried to breach the security of the french embassy in niamey. some of them were burning, vandalising, and setting fire
Head to the bbc news website. you re live with bbc news. to west africa now. niger s ousted president, mohamed bazoum, has been seen for the first time since the military detained him in a coup last week. following which gen abdourahmane tchiani. the head of the presidential guards unit, declared himself niger s new ruler. reporter yasmin khatun dewan is in the newsroom with more. here he is. mohammed bazoum the deposed president of niger, sat inside the presidential palace in niamey, inside niger. he, of course, has been inside that palace since last wednesday. he was arrested hours before that televised address on national television announcing a coup. he sat besides mohammed idriss deby, the president of chad, who arrived from nigeria, where discussions were ongoing concerning the situation in niger, deployed to negotiate on that coalition s behalf. that west african coalition called upon the nigerian military to give up power. you can see here an image from that announcement last w
Here he is. mohammed was the deposed president of niger, sat inside the presidential palace in niamey, inside niger. he, of course, has been inside that palace since last wednesday. he was arrested hours before that televised address on national television announcing a coup. he sat besides mohammed idriss deby, the president of chad, who arrived from nigeria, where discussions were ongoing concerning the situation in niger, deployed to negotiate on that coalition s behalf. that west african coalition called upon the nigerian military to give up power. you can see here an image from that announcement last week from an organisation within the military calling themselves the national council for the safeguard of the homeland. they, of course, have received support from the wider military force since that announcement was made. you can see here the negotiations and this image that surfaced of mohammed bazoum and mohammed idriss deby speaking inside that presidential palace. mohammed idriss
Hundreds of supporters of niger s military coup protest outside the french embassy in niamey as france stops aid leaders of the coup warn regional and western powers against military intervention to reinstate the ousted president. the uk prime minister wants a review into low traffic neighbourhood schemes, which seek to reduce the numbers of cars in some residential areas, in an attempt to show drivers that he was on their side. now on bbc news.the arts interviews: abba bj rn and benny. abba are one of the most popular groups in musical history, having sold hundreds of millions of albums. they won the eurovision song contest in 1974 and split up around eight years later, but it s never really felt like they have been away. after a 39 year gap,