Welcome to bbc news. The home secretary, amber rudd, says the uk will continue to seek a bespoke deal on leaving the European Union and she insisted that differences between cabinet ministers over brexit policy have been exaggerated. A Cabinet Committee will meet this week to discuss the governments approach to negotiations. Heres our political correspondent, susana mendonca. Watching the dragons in action on a trade trip to china last week, the Prime Minister was all too aware that her backbenchers at home were farming the flames of division over brexit. Some tory brexiteers have painted a picture of disunity on the governments front bench over the direction britains negotiations with the eu should take, but now one leading cabinet member has pushed back. I have a surprise for the brexiteers, the committee that meets in order to help make these decisions, meeting twice this week, as you rightly say, is more united than they think. We meet in the committee and also privately for discus
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I spent over a dozen years looking into this story, and i had worked at the wall street journal for over 20 years and i had never encountered a story of this magnitude or drama. As i began looking into it what i found was that this has to be one of the most deadly, least known shipwrecks in america. And i uncovered a tale that was so horrible and so surprising i could not let it go. In a a lot of ways the story would not let me go, either. So were in july 1915, almost exactly 100 years ago. A large steamship. Think of the flatiron building on its side. That is virtually the exact size that eastland was. A flatiron building turned on its side quickly capsizes. Although it is tied to its dock. Yet, it capsize. 844 people die. Within minutes. 844 people. That is more passengers than died on the titanic, much more famous accident. 22 entire families died on the eastland. Mothers, aunts, 22 whole family units gone, wiped out in the Chicago River. Now, i do not know how many of your for real
When they got to cabin partitions, they got to steel and scratched their fingers bloody trying to escape. This little girl, eleanor, was the only survivor of her entire family. Her entire family was killed. There were many orphans on the eastland. Many children were orphaned. For me, one of the as i say the photo of the little girl was one that drove me. I am touched by the number of children, orphans, and eastland children who are here. This is one. 2001 when i was initially starting the research, i was fortunate to meet someone who had been on the eastland. I had always wanted to and there was a woman named libby. She was nearly 100 in 2001. She was going to recollect being on the eastland. She was 10 at the time the ship went down and survived. I went to the talk, like this gathering, and i had hoped to interview her. I was deep in the research and wow what a great source to have. When i went to the talk, she was not talking and was not lucid enough to speak. She stood by the podium
In the mediterranean. A market blown apart. Syrian activists say more than 100 have been killed by Government Air strikes targeting a rebelheld town. More than 200 others were wounded in the attack on a crowded square in douma just outside the capital of damascus. Syrias air force has confirmed it did carry out air strikes in douma and in the nearby area of harafti. We have the latest. Reporter the opposition is calling it a massacre, dozens killed and wounds. Douma is a rebel stronghold. It relly comes under attack. The airraids targeting a marketplace. What we understand is after the first strike, people gathered at the site of the explosion and they were trying to help evacuate the people when more raids were carried out. So really that explains the high casualty toll. Like i mentioned, the air strikes in this region, it happens regularly, but this is seen as a message from the syrian government. Just yesterday opposition groups promised to, quote, ignite all front lines across the