Where theyd faced a military offensive after claims that militants were guilty of attacking police checkpoints. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled across the border. 15,000 of them have been stranded for three days with limited food and water. From the border, clive myrie sent this report. In the distance in myanmar, where rohingya villages have burned in recent weeks, and the people have been driven out, there is another fire. Its ethnic cleansing, says the un. And the purged are fleeing for their lives into neighbouring bangladesh. Translation in my village, many were killed. But my son had just been born, so we have only now been able to escape. We havent had time to name him. What is going on in myanmar, why have you had to flee . Another man we came across spoke of violence and murder. Translation on the way, we saw many dead people, their heads and limbs chopped off. The slaughter took place house by house. As we drew closer to the border, nothing had prepared us fo
Left their homes in myanmar, where theyd faced a military offensive after claims that militants were guilty of attacking police checkpoints. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled across the border. 15,000 of them have been stranded for three days with limited food and water. From the border, clive myrie sent this report. In the distance in myanmar, where rohingya villages have burned in recent weeks, and the people have been driven out, there is another fire. Its ethnic cleansing, says the un. And the purged are fleeing for their lives into neighbouring bangladesh. Translation in my village, many were killed. But my son had just been born, so we have only now been able to escape. We havent had time to name him. What is going on in myanmar, why have you had to flee . Another man we came across spoke of violence and murder. Translation on the way, we saw many dead people, their heads and limbs chopped off. The slaughter took place house by house. As we drew closer to the borde
A battle of words and of wills comes to a head in spain shortly. Madrid has demanded catalonias devolved government confirms whether or not it is declaring independence. The deadline kicks in four hours from now. The Spanish Government has insisted Carles Puigdemont, catalonias leader, retract a unilateral declaration of independence he made last week, even though he also suspended that declaration to allow time for negotiations, which madrid flatly rejected. Tim willcox is in the catalan capital, barcelona. Shocking images of the Spanish Police using violence to stop people voting in catalonias referendum have travelled fast since the first of october and have brought the worlds attention to this region of spain. The question was never recognised as legal by the central government, but did not stop the head of the region, Carles Puigdemont, declaring independence a week later. A declaration he suspended just a few seconds later to the disappointment of his hardline supporters. Since t
Critically injured. After hes run down by a hitand run driver. The citywide manuunt. And how police finally nabbed the suspect. Now at 11 00 a San Francisco officer hit by a hit and run driver, the citywide manhunt. The suspect struck the officer on turk street between franklin and van ness. Then he drove off ditching the car near the panhandle. Kpix5 reporter joe vazquez is live at zuckerberg General Hospital with how the officer is doing tonight. Joe . Reporter liz, still listed in critical condition. All evening weve been watching as officers have been streaming in to visit their colleague who was severely injured. Hes a bicycle cop, assigned to the tenderloin station. This afternoon around 12 20 he was helping with an investigation of a man suspected of a firearms violation. Police say the suspect noticed the officers, then suddenly bolted and in the process smashed his suv right into the officers bike. Officer down. Officer down. Turk and franklin, officer down. Reporter Police Ch
Car near the panhandle. Kpix5 reporter joe vazquez is live at zuckerberg General Hospital with how the officer is doing tonight. Joe . Reporter liz, still listed in critical condition. All evening weve been watching as officers have been streaming in to visit their colleague who was severely injured. Hes a bicycle cop, assigned to the tenderloin station. This afternoon around 12 20 he was helping with an investigation of a man suspected of a firearms violation. Police say the suspect noticed the officers, then suddenly bolted and in the process smashed his suv right into the officers bike. Officer down. Officer down. Turk and franklin, officer down. Reporter Police Chased the suspect but then lost him. They found his car with obvious front end damage, but he was nowhere to be found. After a three hour manhunt officers finally arrested the suspect in the 500 block of ellis. Meanwhile the officer was rushed to General Hospital. He got out of surgery this evening. Hes in icu. So i think t