Olympics in pyeonchang. Finishing 7th place in the mens skiathlon the best performance by a briton in an olympic Cross Country event. Meanwhile in the arena north korean cheerleaders mesmerise the crowds with incredible synchronisation. In halfan in half an hour, Rebecca Jones meets Award Winning irish author roddy doyle. They will be talking books. A good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. The government has threatened to cut off all state funding and help for oxfam, and other charities, if they fail to ensure that Vulnerable People are properly protected. The International Development secretary Penny Mordaunt has described as horrific the behaviour of some of oxfams workers in haiti, who were accused of using prostitutes in the aftermath of the earthquake there in 2010. The chair of trustees at the charity says oxfam prides itself on being a Transparent Organisation working hard to improve the lives of the poor and has apologised unreservedly, saying i share the anger and shame that
A day off to one of its fighter jets was downed. Iran marks thirty nine years since the Islamic Revolution president has sound rouhani calls for a year of unity. And another display of harmony in seoul south koreas president strikes a cautious note about his invitation to visit the north. But we begin with the latest on the story weve been following out of russia all seventy one people on board a passenger plane that crashed near moscow off to takeoff have died. The short haul plane took off from one of the russian capitals busiest airports on sunday it was just a few minutes into its johnny from. To the city of or squint it went missing from the right the plane is thought to have crashed near the village of our good nova which is near the capital moscow witnesses say they saw a burning aircraft fall from the sky b. To shop reports the antonov airliner with sixty five passengers and six crew onboard came down five minutes after takeoff in bad weather conditions wreckage was scattered a
Conversation about the front pages tomorrow in the paper review. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. The government has warned it will cut funding to oxfam if it cannot fully explain its handling of reports of Sexual Misconduct by aid workers in haiti. The International Development secretary, penny mordant, accused the charity of a failure of moral leadership, and of having lied to her department. Oxfam, which received £32 million from the government in the last financial year, has announced new measures, for the prevention and handling of Sexual Misconduct cases. Our correspondent, angus crawford, has the details. First haiti, now chad, one of the poorest countries on earth. New allegations that oxfam workers paid local women for sex. The charity says its shocked and dismayed, but cant confirm the reports. The head of the mission there at the time, roland van hauwermeiren, was the same man who, five years later in haiti, resigned after admitting using prostitutes. Four others were
A security Cabinet Meeting thats likely to take a look at what military options they may be now weve been speaking to the israeli only weve tried to ask them whether they can confirm what targets were hit inside syria and how long the operation will go on for they declined to comment on both of those but we are hearing from senior former military officials that this is the biggest operation to take place against syrian and defense units since the one nine hundred eighty two lebanese wars are very clearly a big operation now russia is coming into the fold the israelis have long said that the russian role is keep within syria and the syrians need to to take a look at what russias doing in the country when it comes to iran that the Russian Support iran and so this is something of a concern the message that the israelis will send to russia is that we dont want iran to have any kind of role within syria we certainly dont want it to be in near the border now the russian president Vladimir Pu
Hour israel launches its biggest attacks on syria in decades of the one of its warplanes is shot down. In iran hundreds of thousands rallied to mark the Islamic Revolution thirty nine years ago. Coffee table diplomacy north koreas olympic delegation is welcomed by the south korean Prime Minister in sport the teenager taking over the slopes at the Winter Olympics seventeen year old reggie role becoming the youngest snowboarder so when and then pick up. Russias Interfax News Agency reporting that a passenger plane has crashed it says it disappeared from radar soon after takeoff from the capital moscow there were seventy one people on board aljazeera is rory chalons is on the line now from moscow rory what more do we know. Well this is something pretty grim breaking news we know that this plane was taking off from damage yet the airport which is one of the capital to miami it was operated by saratoga airlines for a lot of time the plane was an answer no one for a relatively small plane th