journalist hassan alaoui who is following the story from the capital rabat give us what you know. yes. i am aware of this give us what you know. yes. i am aware of this report, give us what you know. yes. i am aware of this report, but - give us what you know. yes. i am aware of this report, but the - aware of this report, but the problem is fake news are flying around. lately, 20 minute ago, a senior member of the rescue team came to the media there and said there were hundreds ofjournalists working for media and abroad, and he told them everything you hear is just fake news. what i can assure you about is rayan has not been reached yet. we still have to dig 80 cm to reach him, so any news about him being seriously injured or having problems or anything like thatis having problems or anything like that is absolutely fake news. we haven t reached rayan yet, and when we reach him, you will be the first to know the truth and the whole
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. moroccan officials say a five year old boy who was rescued from a well has died. rayan had been trapped since tuesday. as she celebrates the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne, queen elizabeth, she says she d like her daughter in law, camilla, to become queen consort. hoping to steady the ship. uk prime minister borisjohnson adds new recruits to his inner circle at downing street. and firming up legislation in the uk that will force global social media companies to take down harmful content more quickly.
turned to despair and grief. despite painstaking efforts to save him, the little boy didn t survive. rayan s parents had been hoping and praying for good news. instead, they received a call of condolence from king mohammed the boy s family now trying to come to terms with their loss. translation: i can t describe how it feels | that my cousin is gone. what can i say? now my heart is aching for him too much. my nephew, my heart aches for him. may god be with him, just like how god stood with us. rayan had fallen down the well on tuesday evening while his father was trying to fix it. this image of him captured on thursday by a camera lowered down, showing him injured but conscious. it prompted a huge and complex rescue operation around the clock. the five year old was trapped more than 30 metres down, the shaft
it s like one of our own children has fallen. we re praying for his safety. he s one of our children. this is the opening of the well that rayan fell down. it s too narrow for the rescuers to get to him, so they ve come up with a different plan. a large hole this being dug parallel to the well to reach the boy. there are only a few metres to go. but that brings with it its own dangers. the possibility of a landslide. the gathered cloud are desperate for progress and a happy outcome. rayan s father says he hasn t slept a wink. his mother says she s trying to remain positive. but this is a complex and delicate operation. oxygen and water has been sent down the well, a helicopter is on standby to get the boy to hospital. but rayan remains trapped, while the most challenging part of the rescuers is still ahead. simonjones, bbc simon jones, bbc news.
to protect our children online. well, there is something like a million or more commercial pornographic websites which obviously are a key risk for children being exposed to that sort of material. but the government already passed a law in 2017, the digital economy act, which was quite clever in how, instead ofjust trying to perhaps fine overseas companies, it put in place the ability to talk to the services that supply those companies, whether that is payment services, hosting services, or search engines, and get them to block access to those sites. and that is going to be the only way you can really enforce on what is, after all, the world wide web. the headlines on bbc news. moroccan officials say a five year old boy who was rescued from a 30 metre deep well in the past hour, has died. rayan had been trapped since falling into the well on tuesday.