Refugee crisis, after nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims flee from myanmar to bangladesh. And the Manchester Arena re opens tonight with a benefit concert, more than three months after the terrorist attack which killed 22 people. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hurricane irma is continuing to sweep its way across the caribbean, en route to the us coast, leaving a path of devastation. Cuba is the latest island to be hit. The category four storm it was category five, the highest, but has eased slightly made landfall off the North Eastern coast overnight bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Communities have lost power and communication is becoming increasingly difficult in more remote areas. The bahamas have largely been spared after the storm changed course. This is irmas trajectory. Its expected to make landfall with us coast tomorrow, before heading inland. In florida, more than five Million People a quarter of its population have been told to evacuate. And theres another hurrica
Welcome to bbc news. Hurricane irma is continuing to sweep its way across the caribbean, en route to the us coast, leaving a path of devastation. The category four storm made landfall off the North Eastern coast overnight bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Communities have lost power and communication is becoming increasingly difficult in more remote areas. The bahamas have largely been spared after the storm changed course. This is irmas predicted trajectory. Its expected to make landfall with us coast tomorrow, before heading inland. In florida, more than five Million People a quarter of its population have been told to evacuate. And theres another hurricane coming. Jose has strengthened to a category four, driving winds of 125 miles an hour and forecasters warn it could strengthen still further. Alice hutton has this report. The first category five storm cuba has seen in nearly a century begins. A state of emergency has been declared. Homes and lives dismantled and preparation in
Announced hes dissolving the castle impala months and calling them elections after it declared independence from the us. Mariano rajoy said their decision was based on the law and fraud lets not be election will take place on december the twenty. Mr premier of maybe the game was operable though the first measures that have been tossed are the following to depose the president of the council on government the position of the Deputy President and all other members of the council on government we will also abolish the delegation abroad known as the embassies except in brussels and the secretary general of the council on police will also be suspended. Well described as comments thousands of people are rallying in barcelona to show their support for independence waving flags and singing traditional song the last of the votes in the assembly. Addressed the Parliament Chamber about the challenge ahead. Of the citizens of catalonia in the coming hours we will have to maintain our countrys poll
Im Richelle Carey and these are the top stories on aljazeera spains deputy Prime Minister Soraya Santa Maria is taking over the running of catalonia government and barcelona madrid has fired the kettle on governments and leaders and its chief of police all in the aftermath of fridays independence declaration sessions of porters have warned will resist any takeover and its not clear if the sacked rachel leadership will willingly step aside myanmar state media says the government will harvest rice from farmland abandoned by families who fled violence and or the Rakhine State that paddy fields covered more than twenty eight thousand seven hundred hectares and the area worst affected in the crackdown by the military against the red. There are a couple of ways to look at this one is that this is simply a practical solution the rice crops are ripe for harvesting and if they were left to just stand in the fields they would go to waste so the myanmar government has put in place a plan to harve
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