Exercises held in home. And rescue for a ship stuck in the antarctic gets underway. The u. N. Is calling for an immediate truce in south sudan. Parts of the country are in a state of emergency as rebel negotiators prepare for talks. Large areas of jonglei and unity stake are in rebel hands. Theres a growing humanitarian crisis. We have more from south sudans capital in juba. A state of emergency is more about giving Government Forces and officials a free hand to deal with the rebellion. Theres a sense of embarrassment that they have lost two key cities of bor and bentiu. Fighting is going on around those towns. In bor, fighting began at dawn when Government Forces that had been sent there as reinforcements to those defeated on tuesday, to attack the rebels there. The government is saying they will not stop the fighting until they get to bor. Fighting is happening in bentiu, the oil unity state. These are two key states that the government doesnt want talks to begin before it gets contr
Elections. And im in the valeric islands, where prospects for oil, Economic Future of these islands. But first, were getting reports of an explosion in the kenyan capital nairobi, at least five people have been reportedly killed, others injured. Lets go to tanya page, she is on the phone from the nairobi capitol. What can you tell us . Reporter they fear five people ared the and at least one explosion. There have been reports of multiple commotions however that we know of at least one that happened near a restaurant. Now this has been an area of increasing tension over the past week or so. This is really a stronghold the center if you like, socially, for the kennians in the election and Somali Refugees and it was about a week ago now in fact that the government in kenya said that it wanted all refugees most of them somali to go back to some of the two designated camps. Happens in an increasingly insecure context, al shabaab, absolutely no indication at this stage exactly what the motiv
KARACHI: A large number of people, including serving and retired officers of the armed forces, attended the funeral prayers of the former president and military ruler General Pervez Musharraf here.
DUBAI/KARACHI: The body of former president General Pervez Musharraf has reached Karachi from Dubai after several delays in the flight.The mortal remains of the ex-army chief departed from Al.