the 27 people who died making the crossing from france to britain yesterday comprised 17 men, seven women, two teenage boys and a young girl. the uk and france both say they want to prevent a repeat of what happened yesterday, but the british home secretary admits there is no quick fix . and more will come. in fact, today, in spite of the grim news circulating in the camps in northern france, there were still people willing to pay to get into these flimsy boats for the dangerous journey across the channel. this report from our europe correspondent nick beake. beside an abandoned train track in northern france, families desperate to resume their own journey to the uk, despite the horror of the last 2a hours. for now, more than 500 people call this camp home. among them, new arrivals, this family from iraq. their family has grown in the three years they have been on the road, trudging through more than half a dozen countries to get here. romania, after hungary, after france, a
than 4,600 people have been killed in gaza. that s over the past two weeks since israel launched retaliatory airstrikes, in the aftermath of hamas s attack that killed more than 1,400 people in israel. now, israel is warning that its military campaign against hamas could last several months. the idf say the next stage, a widely anticipated ground offensive, would happen soon . with more, here s our correspondent wyre davis from jerusalem, and a warning, you may find parts of his report distressing. the human toll in gaza is mounting. these casualties brought to the al aqsa hospital in central gaza are outside the zone from which israel had told civilians to flee. it s not known from where the victims came, but many of the dead and injured are children. some images, too distressing to broadcast, show the bodies of at least a dozen children. translation: we have been here since the crack of dawn l and the bodies have completely filled the hospital yard. this is in addition to
Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison Wednesday on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release. Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the slayings of 25 Peruvians by death squads in the 1990s. Peru’s constitutional court ordered his immediate release on Tuesday, but the Inter-American Court of Human Rights asked for a delay to study the ruling.