Watched Christmas Day programme of the decade. And later on i will be looking at the stories that weve covered from britain by the coastal towns this year, thats an half an hour with me simon mccoy. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children, who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool on the Costa Del Sol on Christmas Eve. Gabriel diya, who was 52 and from london, died with his 16 year old son, praise emmanuel and his nine year old daughter, comfort. The family had been staying at the Club La Costa world resort, near fuengirola. An investigation into what happened is under way. The owners of the hotel have described it as a tragic accident. Helena wilkinson reports. This is gabriel diya, the 52 year old father who died trying to rescue his daughter. Here he is with nine year old comfort, on a family holiday when, on Christmas Eve, she got into difficulty in this Hotel Swimming Pool. Despite her fathers efforts, she also died,
Australias Prime Minister apologises for holidaying in hawaii as wildfires continue to sweep across three states. If the queen attends a Church Service in sandringham while the duke of edinburgh spent a second night in hospital receiving treatment for a pre exisiting condition. And coming up, rhe bbcs media editor meets the editor of private eye magazine at 17 30. A walk through the year in media with ian hislop. Hello, good afternoon. A six Year Old Girl has opened a pack of Tesco Christmas cards to find a message saying they were packed by prisoners in china being forced to work against their will. Tesco says its stopped production at the factory while it investigates. Greg mackenzie reports. Ready . Uhhuh. It was six year old schoolgirl florence widdecombe whod sat down at home to write out her Christmas Cards to her friends and family when she discovered one of the cards had already been written out. We were writing in them and about on my sixth or eighth card, there was. Somebody
Because doctors in iraq said there is no treatment for me. Reporter the Charity Hospital in jordan that is helping war victims recover from severe injuries. Ill have all your sport including number three seed andy murray crashes out of the u. S. Open and fails to meet a grand slam quarter final for the first time in five years. Now the u. N. Is saying an urgent system is required to relocate refugees to ease the worsening crisis in europe. The u. N. Unhcr say there are 30,000 refugees on greek islands with 20,000 on the island of lesbo alone and 11,000 syrians have arrived in neighboring macedonia on monday. Ahead of germanys biggest state northwest falia says the number of refugees arriving in the country this year will be well above the earlier estimate of 800,000. Hundreds of Asylum Seekers have broken through police lines in hungrys southern border close to the border with serbia and more people are stranded within hungry at a camp that is just across the border from serbia and the
Hello, irans ambition has been the main focus so far. Saudi arabia, kuwait, United Arab Emirates all attended the summit at camp david although only kuwait and qatar have sent their leaders. And said it would try to make those happen quickly. We are really looking at what we can do to expedite the provision of support, and Capacity Building to the g. C. C. In areas like missle defense and maritime security. Counter terrorism capacity, border security. These are the types of capabilities that i think are directly relevant to the threats across the region. To include not just destabilizing but also terrorist groups like isil. In maryland and as we had expected this particular focus on iran has been all about trying to reassure the countries but it is okay to go ahead with the nuclear plan. What they are saying and what we would expect to see in the final communique, of course, they talk about there being a formality. An exclusive interview on al jazeera on wednesday said that simply wasn
Conflicting reports of who is in control of the west gate Shopping Mall in nairobi and how many hostages remain alive inside. Kenyan officials said all the hostages have been released but according to the red cross 65 people are unaccounted for. Some victims were miscounts. The tales of the story are extremely fluid with each day and every hour new details are surfacing. Tonight we have a clearer picture of how the attack unfolded over the weekend. Saturday afternoon shots and explosions are heard inside the west gate Shopping Mall in kenya. West gate mall is being held under siege. Shoppers are held by gunmen and unconfirmed reports say that several people have been shot. Eyewitnesss say an unknown number of gunmen burst into the mall firing shots at the ceiling and tossing grenades. Eyewitnesss say the gunmen tell all muslims in the building to leave asking for the name of the mohameds prophets mother before they exit. At least 18 gunmen believes to be within the west gate having tak