you re live with bbc news. west african military chiefs have made clear they re prepared to use force if coup leaders in niger don t restore civilian rule. the ecowas group, meeting in ghana, said they still wanted to give diplomacy a chance and that niger had time to pull back from the brink. thomas naadi has this update. ecowas is ramping up pressure on the militaryjunta in niger to restore constitutional rule, following faltering diplomatic efforts. the chiefs in the region here had been meeting at the ghana army headquarters to firm up their strategy for a possible military invasion of the country. ecowas member countries are expected to contribute troops. officials have said that their resources will be used to support the mission but they will also welcome outside help. ecowas put the call on good governors and democracy was breached after the military coup last month and the bloc is determined to restore president mohamed bazoum. ecowas had previously intervened during civil war
in the 1990s and more recently in the gambia. niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. bit it s also battling a deadly islamist insurgency. it is the staging point for the western counter terrorism efforts in the sahel. and there are concerns that any further instability could worsen the already fragile security system in the region. thomas naadi, bbc news, accra. more than a hundred people have been arrested in pakistan after mobs burned churches and vandalised the homes of christian people. the violence in the city ofjaranwala, which in punjab, was triggered by claims that two christian men had torn pages from a copy of the quran. they ve now been been arrested. 0ur pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, has more. narrow streets with destruction at every turn.
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