Rape. The secretary general of the United Nations has described the humanitarian crisis facing them as catastrophic. Would you like a paper bag with that . That would be great. We speak to the Booker Prize Nominated author who also happens to work in a book shop. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A £37 Million Pound fund has been established for victims of the breast surgeon ian paterson, who duped his patients into unnecessary operations, including mastectomies. He was convicted of 20 offences in april. He is serving 20 years injail. The bulk of the fund will come from spire health care, which runs the private hospitals in which many of the operations took place. Its thought that more than 700 women might have a claim. Sima kotecha has the story. Breast surgeon ian paterson, jailed for 20 years after carrying out hundreds of unnecessary operations. Here are the faces of some of his victims. Now, more than 700 of them will get compensation from a pot amounting to £37 million. One
European going on in equities today. Pray much unchanged on the stoxx index, ever so slightly higher, hitting a record high in this session. Sterling, bucking the trend a little bit as other currencies are treading water. The euro hit the 1. 20 handle in this session. 1. 999, and the 10 year yield, down one basis point ahead of the fed decision and Janet Yellens press conference. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. 7. 2 magnitude earthquake has struck mexican city. It is the countrys second major quake this month and came on the anniversary of the earthquake in 1985. This temporarily closed the airports and halted trading on the mexican stock exchange. It plans to open tomorrow. Hurricane maria has strengthened to a category five storm again with top winds reaching, 175 Miles Per Hour, causing at least six deaths on the island of dominica. Warnednt trump has north korea of military action. The arab nations are looking at ways to remove the regime. Trump is said to have told them th
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