Trying to get in zcheznia trying to find the next einstein reporter i will be here with all the days sports. Including the quarter final for the Champion League as chelsea crash out of the tournament. Top stories so far today. The european refugee crisis has claimed more lives. Five people including a baby have drowned as their boat capsized whilst they were trying to make the dangerous crossing from turkey to greece. This latest tragedy as with so many others will be on the mind of European Union interior ministers who are meeting in brussels. Topping the agenda the proposal to return refugees en masse to turkey. Also to close borders to refugees which has created the situation here right now today. Thousands of people stuck on the greek Macedonian Border where conditions have been described as deplorable. Take you live to our correspondent who is on that border crossing. Reporter yes. Conditions are absolutely squalid and deplorable here. Behind me there are empty spots that you say
Reagan who has died age of 94. Reporter may tonne manning is set to retire after 18 seasons at the stop of the support sport we begin in iraq where at least 60 people were killed in a suicide bombing on sunday. Dozens of people were wounded in the blast which happened near hilla south of the capital. I. S. I. L. Says it carried out the attack. Reporter the tanker drugging blew up one of the busiest checkpoints on a main road. It was carrying explosives. There was almost nothing left here. I. S. I. L. Took responsibility for the blast north of hilla. This is almost 90 kilometers south of baghdad. On the main road leading to the shia shrines and the coastal city of basra. Iraqi soldiers and police manned the check point. Many of the other casualties were believed to be civilians. Translation the blast mass completely destroyed the check point and its builds. More than 10 buildings. More than 100 cars have been damaged. We have strongly condemned the attack. Reporter Iraqi Security forces
Iraqi leader muqtada begins a sit in on the verge of the green zone and an easter rising that helped pave the way for the irish republic. In sport avoiding being sent home, a host nation holding their nerve against australia to progress it the t20 world cup finals. Starting the news in pakistan. In lahore, in the northeast of the country, a Splinter Group in the Pakistan Taliban says it carried out a bomb attack on a park popular with families. 65 were killed, most women and children. In pakistan the army was called out as Police Used Tear Gas against protesters. They were thereto protest the execution of a policeman. He killed a governor. First of all, we go to the bombing in lahore. Reporter an explosion at a childrens park in the heart of lahore. This was the Pakistan Taliban attack, to claim lives in taliban. A food card vendor described the moment. I was speaking about it. I heard an explosion so big. I couldnt understand what was happening. It was the weekend. The park was full o
Have targeted the main isil person responsible for recruiting new isil fighters as well. Well go back to this News Conference and get a real sense of what they feel they have achieved. Were not reluctant jennifer. What we track is the number that are in our force management level. Thats 3800. But this is nothing inconsistent with what has been going on for 15 years. Those have not been counted in other words there is a consistency that have has going on for the last 15 years. When units rotate, for example, we dont double count those numbers. So if a unit of 200 is being replaced by a unit of 200, we dont count those as 400. Were not denying there are more than 3800. But in terms with the number we count, the 3800 was what is in the mission. I didnt say 5,000 was accurate. I said 3800 and some number above that on any given day as a result of people in other categories. Jim . Reporter i would like to follow up on the questions about the marines and that fire base. Unlike the previous u
Isis finances. In sports its all over for pakistani cricket twenty20 world cup. The 2009 champions beaten by australia mean they cant reach the semifinals. They decided to come together. Thousands gathering in the belgium capital in the center of brussels to remember those who lost their lives in tuesdays suicide attacks. This was earlier today 31 people we know have been killed. Their identities have been released including american, british, chinese, and french and dutch citizens as well as belgiums. On friday there were series of raids carried out by Belgium Police aimed at breaking up the network behind the attack. Three men arrested. Two of them shot in the leg during the raid. And the French Interior minister said that an imminent attack in his country was foiled when the police found suspect there. The man refused to remove his rucksack. So the police shot him. Afterwards a robot was sent in to investigate. A man was wounded an and arrested. We heard a boom. We thought it might