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BBC News with Chris Barrow.
Officials in Canada say a deadly blaze at a military base on Saturday started after a grass fire ignited in a training area and spread rapidly due to strong winds. Four people were killed in the incident and an investigation is underway. The premier of the Canadian province of Alberta, Danielle Smith, told a news conference that 39 people were in hospital, with at least 19 in a critical condition. "For those patients and their families, this is far from over. We know that the road ahead, especially for those who are suffering from severe burn injuries, will be long, requiring weeks and months of intensive and specialized care." Brazil's leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro are facing off in their first televised debate a week ahead of a tight presidential run-off election. The first half of the debate saw the two candidates immediately clash over public security, with Mr. Bolsonaro promising to declare a war on narco-terrorism if elected. President Lula countered by stating that Brazilian states had failed, arguing for an expanded federal role. The confrontation quickly devolved into shouting matches, with the candidates trading personal jabs. President Emmanuel Macron has said only those responsible for the violence in Paris and other cities will face justice. In a national television address, he sought to draw a clear divide between the hundreds of thousands who staged peaceful protests and the left-wing troublemakers he blamed for the destruction. Our Europe editor Katya Adler is in Paris. President Macron said that they would deal extremely toughly with perpetrators of violence but also they would be listening to the legitimate concerns of peaceful protesters. He said he singled out the students but also people worried about rising energy costs. But the point is, everybody here knows that he is a president on his way out and that's what's adding to the febrile atmosphere here. Massive demonstrations are also continuing elsewhere in Europe. Hundreds of thousands gathered in the Albanian capital Tirana for a sixth consecutive day met by riot police and rubber bullets. The Prime Minister Edi Rama had refused protesters demands that he resign. Nick Thorpe is in Tirana. Even though probably it's only a small minority that are actually throwing things at the police, the people on the street very much supporting that violence. They feel it's justified. Some people fleeing the tear gas into a cafe where I was in the center of the city. They then watched on television the violence going on outside and there were great cheers and applause when a police vehicle was attacked, for example. So it's a, you know, very radical mood here. In Italy, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she'll hold an emergency meeting on Monday after a march in Milan against rising living costs ended with masked rioters throwing stones at police. BBC News. An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna has been forced to divert to Bulgaria because of an anonymous bomb threat. The crew decided to make an emergency landing in the capital, Sofia. Israeli media say a suspicious object was discovered on the aircraft deck. Bulgaria's transport ministry said passengers were evacuated from the plane after landing. President Trump has accused Ukraine's leader of not wanting the war with Russia to end, as his row with Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues. Mr. Trump, who's recently signed a deal to buy Russian diesel and waived new sanctions on Moscow, claimed he was making great progress in negotiating peace. He said Mr. Zelenskyy didn't care about the war finishing as Europe was giving him money. A Ukrainian film that studies the Soviet Union in the early 1970s has been named best picture at the London Film Festival. The judges said "Imperium" by Sergey Loznitsa used a rich archive to give a visually arresting perspective of life before the Soviet Union broke apart. Unlike most film festivals, the competition in London recognizes emerging talent around the world and isn't open to the higher profile pictures in the program. The event's director [Kirsty] Kristy Matheson explains why. "All of the films in the festival are films that we think are exceptional and that's why we have put them in. But I think having the competitions allows us to maybe point people to different film-making styles, different tones, different stories and sort of to really snapshot the program." The Catholic Church in Ireland is campaigning for a priest from Dublin killed in the First World War to become a saint. Father Willie Doyle served as a military chaplain in the British Army during some of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Somme. He was known for running into No Man's Land while under fire to carry wounded soldiers to safety. Today a special service was held in his honor and thousands of documents are being sent to the Vatican to support the case for his canonization. BBC News. |