Its thursday 19 january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Several people have been killed and many are missing after a hotel was hit by an avalanche in Central Italy. Up to 30 guests and staff we re italy. Up to 30 guests and staff were in the Rigopiano Hotel in the abruzzo region at the time. A major Rescue Operation is underway. Frankie mccamley reports. Buried in snow, barely visible, this is the hotel hit by last nights avalanche. Inside the extent of the damage is becoming clear. What looks like a Reception Leading to corridors now unrecognisable, full of snow and debris. Up to 20 people we re of snow and debris. Up to 20 people were staying in the hotel Rigopiano Hotel along with Seven Members of staff, but bad weather meant a difficult overnight Rescue Operation. Translation the hotel was reached at 4 30am By Courageous Men who faced up variable situations. They saved two people, they are working to bring the means of transport that are difficult to bring. On ski
Will open skies stay open under President Trump . Us Airline Bosses take their grievances to the white house today. Top of the list, their fast growing rivals from the gulf. Plus hail to the tweeter in chief. Could the president s love of twitter stop the rot for the struggling Social Network . Welcome to World Business report. Some of you are going, what is he doing, it isnt even friday . I will tell you what, give me a minute and i will give you a snapshot of the world of business and money. We start in washington, where the bosses of americas top airlines and airports are due to meet President Trump in the next few hours. There are some major issues on the table that could affect the global aviation industry. As we know from his inauguration speech, mr trump said he would follow two simple rules. Buy american and hire american. That could mean a major boost for boeing. If he leans on us airlines to buy from them. But its not as simple as that. European rival airbus also operates fac
Where the plane crashed. None of the 150 passengers and crew on board are believed to have survived. Lets go live now to david who is in dean in the south of france. David talk us through where you are in relation to the crash and what has been happening there. Darren the crash is in a very remote part of the french alps the southern french alps in those mountains behind me. It is at about 2,000 meters where the wreckage has been spotted. Its a very hostile zone. On my way here i saw long lines of vehicles the french fire services, the French Police vans are their sirens going, and lights flashing obviously heading towards the scene. Its a long drive and very inaccessible area and now the weather is turning bad here. This is heading towards the crash scene. The rain that is now falling here will turn to snow and there is only a few hours of daylight left. Yeah, david and given that president hollande has said that there are no survivors this is going to be a pretty grim job for the rec
Breaking news on an investigation on a local College Campus the womens Softball Team st. Josephs university. Thursday night, jim is off. Im Rick Williams and the billing story on action news tonight is hazing broken that is casting suspicion on female athletes who play for the hawks. Action News Reporter dann cuellar spoken with a source about the disturbing details. Its a story youll only see here on action news tonight. Dann. Reporter rick, action news has learned that st. Josephs university is conducting an internal investigation into serious allegations of hazing in the womens softball program. Some of the stuff that allegedly took place is so graphic we cannot even talk about it in this report. Action news was there as the bus that was to transport the st. Josephs womens Softball Team to virginia was delayed several hours this is hazing scandal unfolding and university would not confirm four student athletes were suspended and not allowed to board the bus. But theyre confirming in
Meltdown at fukushima, scores of u. S. Sailors and marines are suing them at Japanese Nuclear company tepco, Tokyo Electric Power company. They accuse it of misleading the navy about the crisis at fukushima and the level of radioactive contamination at a time when the u. S. Navy was providing humanitarian relief. First, new york city settles a sevenyear lawsuit over discrimination hiring policies of the new York City Fire apartment, the largest in the country, second largest in the world. There was open and blatant discrimination in the department for at least 100 years. Black africans applications would be thrown in the garbage. They would do well on tests and would never be called. A black african would have committed some minor offense, literally jumping a turnstile, and would be excluded because of that. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The latest disclosures from Edward Snowden show the National Se