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have been buried alive in a landslide that hit on friday. the country s disaster management agency said in a letter to the united nations that the landslide caused major destruction to buildings and has damaged the economy. unstable terrain is making work dangerous for rescue teams. the figure is substantially higher than the last estimate by the un, which put the number of missing at 670. the disaster hit a remote village in enga province, nearly 600 kilometres north west of the capital port moresby. let s go live to katy watson in sydney, where she is monitoring developments on papua new guinea. in the last couple of hours, we have had the news of this big increase in the numbers of people that are believed to have been buried alive? that s right. a lot of people feared that the death toll would rise, but it s important to emphasise that this is an estimate. it comes from the national disaster centre, who said the landslide buried more than 2000 people alive. as of su ....
in from reuters telling us the inspector general of the pentagon has launched an investigation into whether michael flynn, trump s former national security adviser, accepted money from foreign entities without the required approval. you may remember the story as we have covered it many times on outside source. michael flynn left the trump administration earlier this year after it was revealed that he had misled the vice president about his communications with the russian ambassador. this is the leading democratic on the committee that exercises oversight for the federal government. i honestly do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don t get it. after the president fired him for lying. so the president fired him for lying about communications with the russian ambassador. they should be bending over backwards to help us. it does not make any sense and it makes the american people think the white house has something to hide. the white hou ....
as you know, emmanuel macron will be the next president of france. francois hollande represents the socialist party. but if you want a measure how things are getting for the socialists have a listen to the former french prime minister manuel valls on french radio. translation: this socialist party is dead. it is behind us, not its history and values, but it has to move on. at times others, one has to be capable of moving on. forget the bitterness and personal issues. something interests me above all others, it is france, the republic and the success of the presidency. i am not forgetting the fight against the far right will continue and eve i’yo ne the far right will continue and everyone needs to be vigilant in the parliamentary elections. often political defections are carefully choreographed. not in this case. officials from emmanuel macron‘s party say mr valls hasn t even formally put his name forward yet. here s one saying, he should have applied like everyo ....
and pubs that attract people on a pleasa nt and pubs that attract people on a pleasant and balmy summer evening. these are live pictures from london bridge. this was in the studio, a story that has developed into three locations. let s go back now to the first incident that happened. we heard just before 1030 that a white van had mounted the pavement on london but the bridge on the south bank and several pedestrians were it. we were told that police were on the scene and that the police helicopters and boats on the river thames. that was according to witnesses at the scene who said they saw at least five or six people struck by the van. afterwards we got reports of a disturbance at borough nightclub, borough market, a popular and packed location on a saturday evening. the reports were of men carrying knives police have confirmed that there were several stabbings in that area and they have responded with gunfire. around 20 minutes ago, the metropolitan police fourth conf ....
prince philip carries out his final solo engagement watching a parade of royal marines at buckingham palace. and the £198 million man. the record breaking price tag for barcelona star neymar to transfer to paris st germain. good evening and welcome to bbc news. there is new hope tonight for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. for the first time scientists have successfully repaired a faulty gene in human embryos. the us and south korean team used a process known as ‘gene editing to correct dna that causes a deadly heart condition. the controversial technique is still at the early research stage but it raises the hope of preventing 10,000 gene disorders which pass down the generations. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. the goal could not be more ambitious. to eradicate inherited diseases. these scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road. editing dna in human embryos. ....