welcome, i m tonya beckett. it has been a day of worship, and a day of grief in israel and the occupied territories. tens of thousands ofjews gathered atjerusalem s western wall for passover prayers. not far away, hundreds ofjewish worshippers walked close to the al aqsa mosque. and in a settlement in the west bank, the funeral took place for two british israeli sisters, shot dead on friday. from jerusalem, lucy williamson reports. as maia and rina were brought in, the wailing of rina s teenage school friends filled the prayer hall. theirfather, a rabbi, bent low over their bodies. the pain on his face hidden for a moment, in a last embrace with his daughters. today, thejewish people have proven that we are one. we are united. this simple, quiet family is devastated. the whole country hurts. maia was 20 years old when she died, rina was 15. their mother, still unconscious in hospital, doesn t even know yet they are dead. they were travelling from their west bank settlement to
to the country torn by internal conflict. you are watching bbc news. now, it s talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. the great global divide is the world economy drifting away from us dominance, as some of our biggest emerging economies are showing us what economic growth is all about? india, it s sitting pretty at the top of the pack, growing faster than any other major world economy. it s also one of the major leading players in the group of emerging economies who are talking up the idea of a common trade currency to counter the dollar. so, could they become the trading block of the future? i m going to be discussing all of that and more with these two. there they are. the man who first coined the phrase the brics, and a former central bank economist from brazil. also on the show, shining bright like a diamond. yeah, the shiny rocks have been one of the
visit, alongside the leaders of the church of england and church of scotland. hello to you in the uk, and around the world. in the last few hours, a united states fighterjet has shot down a chinese surveillance balloon which had been spotted over sensitive us military sites, on the orders of president biden. three airports on the east coast were closed in preparation for the operation. beijing has tried to calm the diplomatic row about the balloon, insisting it was gathering weather data and wasn t being used for spying. a short time ago, this is what president biden said. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible, they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was as it got overwater within a 12 mile limit. they successfully took it down, and i want to complement our aviators who did it, and we ll have more to report on a little later. our north america correspondent david willis has been giving us the
Leader has been sentenced to death for war crimes. Welcome once again. The Syrian Free Army says a small group of Syrian Rebels have entered kobani to help extremist fighters. They are on route to syria. One group from iraq to turkish port. Another group carrying weapons including artillery are travel ago separately through r turkey. The battle has so far lasted six weeks. More than 800 are believed to have been killed during that time. The fighting has force 2d 00,000 to flee across the turkish border. The bbc joins me now from the syrian turkish border. What is the progress as far as we know on these troops a arriving in kobani . Reporter in different small groups. In one hand they dont want people, local people to actually see them. They dont want media to get close and get a picture of them. Most roads leading to kobani traveling through those roads have closed to People Like Us and all those people that want to see them. As you see, this is kobani behind me. Seems the fight has es
The absence from view for the north Korean Leader kim jongun. According to the spy agency, hes been having ank having ankle surgery. Welcome once again. A commander from the Rebel Free Syrian Army told bbc he have sent reinforce ms to the syrian town of kobani. The colonel said 200 of his soldiers are there to support those fighting Islamic State militants. It comes several hours after the group of iraqi peshmerga troops arrived in turkey on route to syria. One group flew from iraq to a south eastern turkish airport. Another group carrying weapons including artillery are traveling separately over land through turkey. The battle on the turkish syria boerd has lasted six weeks. Fighting has forced 200,000 to flee across the turkish border. 800 have died during it will fighting. We are joined from the syrian, turkish border. Youve been speaking to a kurdish leader there that a says there are no extra Syrian Free Army troops traveling to kobani. Reporter yes exactly. I just talked to one o