Weapons stockpile as the people say people are being starved to death in damascus. Flooding claims dozens of lives. We begin this news hour in italy where former leader beryl sconey has sparked a drama, appealing for his governments survival ahead of votes in parliament. Thats due to happen in the next few hours. Latta said the governments survival must be separated from berlusconis legal troubles. Berlusconi has been fighting a string of legal convictions, first convicted of fraud in october 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. The high court upheld the conviction in august. Politicians were expecting to vote friday whether to strip berlusconi of a senate seat. In retaliation, berlusconi ordered five ministers in his party to resign from the coalition government, leading to the Prime Minister to seek backing from parliament and a he volunteer of defense. Lets go live now to sonia live in rome. What stage in the process are we at and when are we expecting the vote to happen . Well
World cup to the winter. Well have the latest from zurich. At least 94 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off the southern ital lan island of lampedusa. It was carrying hundreds of people trying to reach europe from africa. Many jumped into the water. Ita italys coast guard is looking for at least 250 people, 150 others have been rescued. Lampedusa is a major route for migrants trying to get into europe. The tiny island lies 113 kilometers from the coast of tunisia. We have more from the italian capital of rome. Reporter a devastating scene was described by the may r o of lampedusa who claimed the situation on land was so chaotic he was struggled to find a place to put the dead bodies pulled from the sea and where to find a place for the survivors to be care of. Theyre very traumatized following this horrific incident. It appears that the incident occurred in the early hours of thursday morning. A boat carries what is expected to be about 500 people on board suffer
Fight in philippines. Reporter more news from europe, uganda withdraws from the commonwealth. And fifa in zurich where day one of the Committee Meeting has been dominated by 2022 world cup in qatar. More than 100 people were r known to have died and more missing after a boat carrying african my grants sank off the e italian island of lamped usa. They apparently boarded the cressel in libya. Many jumped in the water after the boat caught fire. Lamedusa is a major route for migrants trying to get into europe. Reporter a grim scene on an island where many had hoped to start a new life. A boat carrying hundreds of my grants from africa sank as they tried to reach the italian island of lamped ua. Italy coast guard said that it sent off flares, which likely started the fire. The boat caught fire and because of this everyone started to panic. They pushed forward, and caused the boat to capsize. Reporter rescuers arrived in the scene in the early hours of the morning. More than a hundred peopl
Delhi. Plus another Senior Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested in egypt. This picture is said to show esam elarian when he was taken from a house in a cairo suburb wednesday morning. Hed been in hiding since the coup in july, which ousted former leader mohamed morsi. Esam elarian was a deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhoods political party. We speak to Dominique Kane who joins us from cairo. What do you know of the circumstances of the arrest, and what is the significance . What we understand is in the early hours of the morning the police went to a house in new cairo suburbs of the capital. Esam elarian was found, they arrested him. There were pictures of him collecting bags and being taken away. He was taken to tora prison, where many of his colleagues in the Muslim Brotherhood, the Senior Leadership, is being held. The prosecutor is moving to the prison to start investigations with esam elarian. This comes a day after the three leaders. Mohammed badie and two collea
Way back to france. Also. Im in the ecuadorian amazon where the government has gisent the green light to drill for oil. The u. N. Says the long drawn out battle between Government Troops and rebels in the democratic republic of congo is drawing to a close. Congolese soldiers are launching an assault to retake the last town held by armed fighters known as the m23 rebels. A bit of background. The m23 are a group of tute si fighters who defected from the government. The conflicts forced 800,000 people to flee their homes. The push by the congolese troops has been largely successful because they are backed by a u. N. Prevention brigade sent to crush the rebels. The m23 fighters abandoned their military positions in the east and are confined to a small down close to the ugandan border called rumanagabo. They have been fighting hard for days. They are getting ready to fight again. They are congolese Government Troops and have taken a string of towns back from the m23 rebels. The fighters hol