welcome to bbc news. i m alice baxter. our top stories: face to face talks have taken place in doha between senior us and taliban officials as mass funerals are held in afghanistan for the victims of friday s kunduz bomb blast. plunged into near darkness: lebanon suffers another nationwide power cut amid an ongoing economic crisis. taiwan says it will work to hold fast the frontlines of democracy and freedom after china says reunification must be fulfilled. the chancellor of austria, sebastian kurz, says he s stepping down to fight corruption allegations. and porridge with a twist:
welcome to bbc news. i m alice baxter. our top stories: face to face talks have taken place in doha between senior us and taliban officials as mass funerals are held in afghanistan for the victims of friday s kunduz bomb blast. plunged into near darkness: lebanon suffers another nationwide power cut amid an ongoing economic crisis. taiwan says it will work to hold fast the frontlines of democracy and freedom after china says reunification must be fulfilled. the chancellor of austria, sebastian kurz, says he s stepping down to fight corruption allegations. and porridge with a twist:
this is bbc news. i m alison baxter. our top stories. face to face talks have taken place in doha between senior us and taliban officials as mass funerals are held in afghanistan for the victims of friday s kunduz bomb blast. plunged into near darkness. lebanon suffers another nationwide power cut amid an ongoing economic crisis. taiwan says it will work to hold fast the frontlines of democracy and freedom after china says reunification must be fulfilled. the chancellor of austria, sebastian kurz, says he is stepping down to fight corruption allegations. and porridge with a twist.
this is bbc news. i m alison baxter. our top stories. face to face talks have taken place in doha between senior us and taliban officials as mass funerals are held in afghanistan for the victims of friday s kunduz bomb blast. plunged into near darkness. lebanon suffers another nationwide power cut amid an ongoing economic crisis. taiwan says it will work to hold fast the frontlines of democracy and freedom after china says reunification must be fulfilled. the chancellor of austria, sebastian kurz, says he is stepping down to fight corruption allegations.