Detaining the president , mohamed bazoum. On friday, the head of the president ial guards unit, general abdourahmane tchiani, declared himself nigers new leader, saying insecurity, economic woes and corruption prompted him to seize power. The us, the eu, and france, nigers former colonial ruler, say they wont recognise the coup leaders, with some suspending Security Cooperation and budgetary aid. There are concerns among many countries over which states nigers new leader will align with, potentially moving closer to russia, as happened after coups in neighbouring burkina faso and mali. Later, leaders from the 15 countries that make up ecowas, the Economic Community of west african states, and the eight leaders from the west African Economic and Monetary Union will meet to discuss their response. Earlier, chris ewokor, who is following the story from neighbouring nigeria. Well, right now in niger, things are happening quite fast. Earlier today, one of the members of the Military Coup ca
this week on the travel show. ..mont saint michel marks its millennium. that view is pretty amazing. there s the shadow of mont saint michel on the sand. oh, yeah! the parps and toots that make this port one of a kind. horns blaring. one, two, three, four, five. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. twittering and squawking. yeah, he s thinking about it. all right. we ll give him some time. here he comes. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 million people take each year. i m kind of getting an idea of how popular this place must be because it s off season, it s super cold, but this bus is packed. you can see it. i ve just got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont saint michel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany in normandy, connected to the mainland by a half a mile long bridge that opened back in 2014. and this year, the island celebrates a very special anniversary
it s saturday 8th july. our main story: tributes are being paid to the eight year old girl who died when a car crashed into her school in wimbledon on thursday. she s been named as selena lau. her family says she was adored and loved by everyone . another eight year old girl and a woman in her 40s are still in a critical condition. a woman who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail. louisa pilbeam reports. an intelligent and cheeky girl, adored and loved by everyone. selena lau s family have paid tribute to the eight year old. she was killed when a land rover crashed through a fence at the study preparatory school in wimbledon, where an end of school school tea party had been taking place. 12 people taken to hospital, among them another eight year old girl who remains in a life threatening condition. a woman in her 40s is in a critical condition. large numbers of people have been coming to the school to lay flowers and ref
of sub saharan africans by rights group human rights watch following a wave of anti migrant sentiment and clashes between locals and migrant communities in the country. our reporter, yasmin khatun, dewan is in the newsroom with more. according to a tunisian 1200 some safran migrants have been deported to tunisia to the port of algeria and libya over the last few days. the mp who made the statement suggested he wants to and hope that number would increase to 4,000 by the end of the week. he said the migrants had been sent with food and medical supplies. he is the mp for the region in tunisia whether been clashes between migrant communities in the last few days at local tunisians and one tunisian man was killed with his funeral just yesterday. even writes or suggests between 500 700 of the migrants are now stranded on the border to libya with little food, shelter or medical support. they said they spoke to a number of the migrants who said they saw large groups who had come to