At least 22 people have been killed and more than 1200 injured. A charity Offering Mental Health support to military veterans it cant take on any new cases due to a funding crisis. South africa end the second day of the fourth test on 88 6, after england posted a commanding total of 400. Lawyers representing us President Donald Trump have begun outlining their defence in his impeachment trial in the us senate in washington. Democrats acting as prosecutors have accused mr trump of abusing his power and of obstructing congress. In his opening remarks. The president s lead defence attorney, pat cipollone, said there was no evidence for the charges. He said the democrats were trying to overturn the result of the last election and prevent mr trump from standing again later this year. Theyre asking you, not only to overturn the results of the last election, but, as ive said before, theyre asking you to remove President Trump from the ballot in an election thats occurring in approximately nin
Enjoyments seemingly endless war. By the countrys Health System is on the verge of collapse. Why. Good to have you with us. This is mondays briefing stop giving you across all you need to know in globalnews, was not in sport. Also, the uk government sets up a counter disinformation unit to protect and secure uk from interference and secure uk from interference and disinformation length to the coronavirus. We like to know, have you seen a lot of misinformation about it . Has it impacted you at all . To get in touch, use the bbc the briefing. Will begin in italy today which 110w will begin in italy today which now has the highest number of confirmed infections of covid19 confirmed infections of covid 19 outside of china where the outbreak again. Theres been a sharp rise in the number of deaths in italy up by 133 in a day. To a total of 366. Most of the victims are in the wealthy lombardi area. The news comes as a sweeping quarantine measures are enforced to try and bring the outbreak und
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an unforgiveable mista ke. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has more. This is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. For three days, in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. But this morning brought an extraordinary about face. On state run television, a Senior Commander of the powerful revolutionary guards came out, on the orders of the supreme leader, to come clean. He explained that irans air defences had been on alert. They thought american cruise missiles had been fired. A quick deci
And coming up in football, liverpool extend their lead at the top of the english premier league. Well have all the latest from the bbc sport centre. Hello and welcome to world news today. After days of denial, iran has admitted it did shoot down a ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near tehran on wednesday. It follows evidence collected by the Ukrainian Government and western intelligence agencies. Protests have broken out in iran since the announcement. Many iranians are angry that the government lied to them for days. One of the protests has been taking place at a university which some of the victims attended. A total of 176 people were killed when the plane was shot down. Around a third of those on board were candian citizens. Prime Ministerjustin Trudeau has spoken in the last couple of hours. He says he expects full cooperation and clarity from the iranian authorities into what happened. Earlier this morning, i spoke with president rouhani of iran. I told him that irans admiss
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