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hello and welcome i m reged ahmad. sierra leone s vice president says the state will provide economic assistance to the families of nearly 100 people killed on friday when a fuel tanker exploded in the capital, freetown. the city s hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of people injured. umaru fofana reports. the blast happened in eastern freetown after a truck rammed into a petrol tanker. people rushed to collect the leaking fuel, causing a heavy trafficjam, according to eyewitness accounts. there was a vast explosion, leaving fireballs spreading through the crowds. vehicles in the traffic jam were set alight. hospitals in freetown are overwhelmed with injured people, many in critical condition. most of the dead have been taken to the central mortuary. we started transporting bodies from 11 until four o clock. the last set of bodies, i had to convey them with some soldiers to the morgue, for us to get a total headcount. just outside here are anxious relatives ....
losing a lot of sponsorship and paying the price for banter. ja. paying the price for banter. jo, thank you paying the price for banter. jo, thank you very much. nigel, are you for your time as well. sleep well and have a lovely rest of the weekend. take care. that s it for the papers tonight. next it s the film review. have a good night. hello and a very warm welcome again to the film review on bbc news. taking us through this week s cinema releases, mark kermode is with us. hi, mark. what are you watching? loads to talk about. we have a new marvel cinematic universe film, eternals. we have kristen stewart as princess diana in spencer. and the card counter, the new movie by paul schrader. and eternals is directed by chloe zhao. chloe zhao, who won an oscarfor nomadland. she s a terrific film maker. so, the story is. this follows a group of godlike eternals who came to earth many, many years ago to fight the deviants, and they ve been fighting deviants throughout hist ....
temperatures a little bit down compared with where we have been today, but still on the mild side. a chillier night, on sunday night, a touch of frost in the east. hello this is bbc news with reged ahmad. the headlines: former conservative prime minister, sirjohn major, accuses borisjohnson s government of acting in a shameful manner over the owen paterson row. i think the way the government handled that was shameful and wrong and unworthy of this or indeed any government. at least 98 people have died in an fuel tanker explosion, in sierra leone after the lorry collided with another vehicle in the capital, freetown. rapper travis scott says he s absolutely devastated by the deaths of eight people, incuding a m year old, at the texas festival where he was performing. tens of thousands of people march through glasgow demanding new steps to tackle global warming one of more than 100 climate protests taking place across the uk. now on bbc news, it s time for our w ....
a new political panel as befits the new era. paul mason, guardian columnist, is here, as is ian dale, lbc radio presenter and polly mckenzie, special advisor to nick clegg until 2015. great to have you all here. paul, this was an overwhelmingly good day for the tories, wasn t it, you presumably concede it? 0verwhelmingly good day for hard brexit. we have seen dramatic events of su bsta nce. it s not been a week of flimflam. theresa may picked a real fight with the european union. walked away dramatically she did her own bit. walked away and created a diplomatic situation which i think has drama advertised in the minds of former ukip voters the whole situation. we have an alliance of tories and ukip. that is new. that can win any election it wants to. aggressive alliance isn t going to work? it redoubles the need for that half of british politics it redoubles the need for that half of british politics that believes in progressive politician, globalalism, we need to sto ....
we start with some breaking news: the campaign of the french presidentialfrontrunner, emmanuel macron, says it has been the victim of a massive hacking attack ahead of sunday s poll. it says hundreds of internal documents were released shortly before official campaigning ended on friday night. aides to mr macron say authentic documents, which had been stolen, were mixed up with fake ones to sow doubt and misinformation. mr macron‘s en marche! party said the documents showed the normal functioning of a presidential election campaign, but added that the authors of the leak clearly wanted to undermine it in the final hours. we will bring you more on this story as details come through. the fate of emmanuel macron and marine le pen is now in the hands of the voters. with analysis of what we can expect at the polls, our correspondent is in paris. if you speak to people on the left, particularly in the hard left as well, a lot of people don t really see anything to vote fo ....