Figures in iraq. Weve just heard from various sources from the largest political bloc within parliament that there has been an attempt on the life of the cleric shia cleric coveralls father his compound in the holy city of najaf was apparently attacked by an armed drone overnight in that city you know we dont know if there were any injuries or casualties in his in that compound and we dont know who could have been responsible for that attack but we have heard from various sources saying that there was an attempt on his life that is because there are some other the shia cleric in najaf now this happened after many of those demonstrators who were attacked just behind me here. In the square overnight they were demanding protection from Government Forces and there were no effort there was no Government Security to protect these protesters and that is when most other us souther called on has military wing of his party to come to the rescue of these protesters that is what theyve been tellin
Rock and less than 24 hours after protesters were gunned down there has been more violence in the streets of the capital. And fire was again heard in parts of baghdad people running for cover on friday night a group of armed men attacked a group of protesters near Kalani Square killing at least 20 people more than 70 others were wounded and in what seems to be a related escalation sources close to a prominent shia cleric. Say his home has been hit by a drone strike it happened in the city of new jobs were still getting details but his party says all saddam was not in the country at the time of the attack or more in the reports of the attack aimed at one of the most powerful figures in iraq. Weve just heard from various sources from the largest Political Blog within parliament that there has been an attempt on the life of the cleric shia cleric coveralls souther his compound in the holy city of najaf was apparently attacked by an armed drone overnight in that city you know we dont know
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The first of the victims of fridays terror attack in Central London has been named as jack merritt, a cambridge graduate who was helping coordinate a conference on prisoner rehabilitation near London Bridge. He was one of two People Killed by 28 year old usman khan, a former prisoner whod been convicted of terrorism offences, and released from prison on licence last year. Khan, whod been invited to the conference, was shot dead by police after members of the public tackled him. Heres our Home Affairs Correspondent daniel sandford. 25 years old and with the sense of adventure, jack merritt had a masters from cambridge university. His father said today he was a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. Yesterday, he was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack by a former prisoner at a conference that hed helped organise. His killer was taken on by people from the same conference, including otherformer prisoners and by a passing policeman in c
Prisons. Only setting out its plans for a new era in Space Exploration europes space agency sets its sights on the moon and must. Have all your sporting clothing police in london stopped by and on track frankfurt france and getting into also the emirates stadium ahead of the Europa League details coming up. In iraq at least 33. 00 people are reported to have been killed after Security Forces opened fire on antigovernment protests in the Southern City of nasiriyah earlier the army dispatched commanders to provincial areas with instructions to restore order were also hearing of 11 People Killed and 800 injured in the city of najaf a protest to set fire to the iranian consulate on wednesday iraqs foreign minister has called his iranian counterpart to apologize over the incident. Reports from baghdad. In iraq a dramatic escalation hundreds of antigovernment protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate Late Wednesday in the Southern City of measure setting parts of the Diplomat
A much bigger hike much bigger fight the want to fight in right now theyre fighting for equality in the country theyre saying that they do not have a future theyre fighting against a system that they say is. You know why provoke him more inequality in chile so whats going right now is the government has deployed around 10000 soldiers around the country many of them are here in the capital protecting metro stations that have been set on fire among others think also theyre protecting some sort t. J. Of location because its quite shocking for many of the people we have spoken to because people in from cairo have not seen the military says chris huhne to return to democracy back in 1989 thats a dictatorship of our stuff we have to so thats why i say what were hearing right now is because of the ongoing situation here is that a curfew could be imposed once again later tonight because of the protests that were seeing we do know that saluting continue in some parts of the country this is not