initial reports suggest the victims are migrants, and an investigation is under way. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is on the border between turkey and greece with more. the bodies were discovered in a forested area in the greek region of evros. a local coroner has said all 18 were male and two were younger, possibly minors. autopsies will be held in a few hours time, before that dna samples will be taken to begin the process of identifying the dead. bbc news has spoken to one man, a syrian, who was worried that is because it was among the groups. he says the young man won 27, he had travelled to turkey with a group of other syrians, afghans and iraqis. their plan was to cross the border illegally from turkey, as many do, and to head to the region of evros where the wildfires are taking place. he lost contact with his cousin three days ago. he said poignantly that if this group had been in trouble, that even if the fires had been coming closer to them, th
is under way. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is on the border between turkey and greece with more. the bodies were discovered in a forested area in the greek region of evros. a local coroner has said all 18 were male and two were younger, possibly minors. autopsies will be held in a few hours time, before that, dna samples will be taken to begin the process of identifying the dead. bbc news has spoken to one man, a syrian, who was worried that his cousin was among the group. he says the young man was 27, he had travelled to turkey with a group of other syrians, afghans and iraqis. their plan was to cross the border illegally from turkey, as many do, and to head to the region of evros where the wildfires are taking place. he lost contact with his cousin three days ago. he said poignantly that if this group had been in trouble, that even if the fires had been coming closer to them, they would not have called for help from the turkish or greek authorities be
we start in the occupied west bank where israel says its large scale military operation at the refugee camp in the city ofjenin is almost complete. palestinian officials say about 3,000 people fled their homes in the camp after israeli troops moved in on monday. these are pictures from jenin. israel said its troops had conducted an extensive counter terrorism effort . palestinian leaders have condemned the assault as a new war crime . they say 10 palestinians have been killed and 100 wounded. they describe it as an invasion and have praised those who have been resistant to israeli forces. in the last few hours, un aid agencies have said they are alarmed at the scale of the israeli military operation thatis of the israeli military operation that is going on in the occupied west bank at the moment. 0ur middle east correspondent injerusalem, anna foster, gave us this update a short while ago. this morning, the scene insidejenin is seemingly more calm and peaceful than it w
we ve been shooting at them, and that has been going on these eight long years from 2014 to 2022. sometimes the amount of shelling and exchange of fire has increased and sometimes it has eased. on 2a february there was nothing extraordinary. now the russian defence ministry is trying to deceive the president and the public by claiming there was insane aggression on the part of ukraine and they were going to attack us, along with the entire nato bloc. so the so called special military operation on 2a february was launched for completely different reasons. the bbc is unable to verify prigozhin s claims and images of wagnerforces in russia. moscow is tightening its security in response to developments here s footage of military tanks in russia s capital. also officials in two regions bordering ukraine are urging citizens to stay indoors or not to travel south. and the government of voronezh has urged people to avoid the m4 motorway connecting moscow to southern regions of
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in new york city where two men have appeared in court charged with operating a chinese secret police station in manhattan. lujianwang and chenjinping are accused of acting on behalf of china s ministry of public security, to monitor and intimidate dissidents. breon peace is the federal district attorney in brooklyn. unlike typical officers, the mps officers who have been charged today are not focused on preventing crime. rather, the complaints charge these mps officers with engaging in transnational repression schemes, targeting members of the chinese diaspora community in new york city and elsewhere in the united states. and as shown in these complaints, the mps has repeatedly and flagrantly violated our nation s sovereignty, including by opening and operating a police station in the middle of new york city. our new york correspondent nada tawfiq told me more about the reaction from us authorites. what they are alleging here