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BBC News with Chris Barrow.
The Israeli prime minister has condemned settlers who again attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank. Benjamin Netanyahu called them "rioters" who harmed Israel standing in the world. He said they would be arrested. Here's Jon Donnison. The view of Prime Minister Netanyahu is that this is a few "bad apples." It's a handful of hardcore settlers who are giving the broad settler movement a bad name and you know his words were pretty strong. What I would say, though, is that the Israeli government, Prime Minister Netanyahu, the American administration, Israel's principal ally, are broadly supportive of the settler movement across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They have accelerated it. Hundreds of thousands of settlers living illegally under international law in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem so he's treading a bit of a fine line. Rescuers in Nepal battling to find survivors from Wednesday's deadly flash flood have managed to drill into a tunnel at a hydroelectric power plant where dozens of workers are believed to be trapped. A pipe has been inserted into the tunnel to send air. The massive torrent of water and debris swept away entire villages in the Himalaya on the Nepal-Tibet border. Meanwhile on the Tibetan side of the border, Chinese rescue teams have also been searching for any survivors. Laura Bicker in Beijing has the latest. That leak that had formed within the debris of the landslide just up from the main catastrophic site on the Tibetan side of the border has begun to subside. Now remember there was panic in the last 24 hours after it started to overflow. Rescuers had to stop all operations. Well now, Chinese officials say the water is receding and receding slowly so that is some good news. President Zelenskyy has ordered an investigation after a Russian airstrike detonated munitions in a warehouse near a residential area outside Ukraine's capital Kyiv, killing 37 people. Mr. Zelenskyy said it was "horrific negligence" to store deadly explosives near civilians. ???'s house was among more than a hundred that were damaged. "We were trapped inside the house. We couldn't get outside. A fire broke out then there was an explosion and something hit our house. The roof caught fire first so we called the fire department but they couldn't save it. It burnt down almost completely. Only the foundation remained." Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered the suspension of eight senior hospital officials and for them to face criminal proceedings after 14 newborn babies were burned to death in a fire in a maternity ward. The move followed the release of an interim report on Wednesday's fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad. Only one baby was rescued. This is the world news from the BBC. Niger's military government says it's regained control [of] after an attempted coup by mutinous soldiers. Gunfire and explosions were heard earlier in the capital Niamey near the presidential palace and international airport. Our West Africa reporter Makawachi Makuochi Okafor says the mutinies may be unhappy with the lack of progress in Niger's struggle against Islamic State and Al-Qaeda linked militants. It's important to note that reports that the soldiers were troops involved in the front line fighting insurgency. Now, Niger has been under immense pressure. In January, there was an attack in the capital city by Islamic State and then in June another attack by an al-Qaeda linked JNIM. So it is possible that the soldiers within the ranks are quite unhappy with how things are going especially as the military government took over power, promising to stamp out insurgency. Voting has ended in Iceland in a referendum on whether to resume accession talks with the European Union. The race is tight with the country split after a campaign focused on the cost of living, sovereignty and control over Iceland's valuable fishing waters. The first reliable results were expected within hours. Membership talks with the EU were suspended in 2013. British officials say the Royal Navy has been involved in an intense operation to track Russian warships escorting sanctioned vessels near U.K. waters. British warships monitored a Russian task force accompanying cargo vessels from the North Sea through the English Channel. Moscow uses a shadow fleet to evade international sanctions on its oil. The premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, Doug Ford, has unveiled a big sign next to Lake Ontario on the border with the United States which reads "Lake Ontario" in English and French. The sign is a response to an executive order by President Trump renaming it Lake America in U.S. federal government usage after trade talks with Canada broke down. And that's the latest BBC News. |