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Of religion or ethnicity. And at least ten people are confirmed dead in iran during protests against fuel price rises. The Supreme Leader backs the hike and blames counter revolutionaries for violence. We have the latest. Hello and welcome to world news today. Prince andrew is facing widespread criticism after the bbc interview in which he denied having a sexual encounter with a 17 Year Old Girl in 2001. Virginia roberts says she was groomed byjeffrey epstein the american financier who was convi...

In more than 50 years. Investigators examining the shooting down of a passenger plane over ukraine in 2014 have disclosed intercepted phone calls that they say indicate close links between senior russian officials and the rebels accused of attacking the aircraft. Nearly 300 people on Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 were killed. In the phone calls, close aides to president putin seem to be organising supplies of weapons for separatist fighters. Gareth barlow has the story. Investigators say the int...

In hong kong, a Senior Police officer has said that unrest has brought the territory to the brink of total collapse. In the latest clashes with democracy campaigners, the violence spread to a university campus, where police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon. Some of the protesters built barricades and threw petrol bombs. Our correspondent robin brant was there. Yelling. Run, she is shouting in cantonese, and they are running, but not for fun. Hong kong students at their university ...

The Turkish Military says its captured the sister of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, leader of the Extremist Group the so called Islamic State, who died in an american raid in syria a week ago. Turkish Officials Say they are interrogating her, along with her husband and daughter in law, detained with her. With more heres michael pregent, former intelligence officer, now a senior fellow with the hudson institute. There are not a lot of details, but what is important is where she was captured, in the town o...

As the impeachment inquiry around President Trump intensifies, with congressional hearings due to go public next week, more revelations have emerged from testimony already given behind closed doors. This time from bill taylor, the top american diplomat in ukraine. He told the hearing he was astonished that the president appeared to have made military aid to ukraine a us ally, under threat from russia dependent on ukraine investigating joe biden, one of his rivals for the white house. Ambassador ...

A vast area of australias east coast, including sydney, is facing some of the worst threats from bushfires the country has ever seen. There are dozens of blazes across New South Wales and queensland. Authorities have predicted catastrophic conditions on tuesday. A state of emergency has been declared in both states. The head of the Rural Fire Service has warned that the fire danger will increase in the coming hours. We still have 52 fires burning across New South Wales. 30 of those are uncontain...

As Anti Government protesters celebrate after the Prime Minister resigns. Here in the uk, a general election has finally been called, for december 12th, to try to end the deadlock over brexit. It may also have serious implications for the unity of the country. Itll be the first december election in the uk in nearly 100 years. The Prime Minister has said the public must be given a choice over the future. The leader of the labour opposition described the election as a once in a generation chance t...

Far enough. Translation everything the Political Class is doing now is clearly to buy time. The reform list that the government in whats now a wide ranging presented is clearly a lie. Murder investigation, today the demand is for British Police are working the government to fall. To identify 39 people found dead lebanon is a country divided along sectarian lines in the trailer of a lorry, shia muslim, sunni muslim about 30 kilometres outside london. And maronite christians. One was a teenager, b...

Around 60,000 people have been forced from their homes in North Eastern syria, on the second day of a major air and ground assault by turkish forces. Thereve been several civilian deaths. Turkeys president claims at least a hundred kurdish fighters have been killed. They are long time American Allies in the fight against the extremist group, the so called Islamic State, but the turks regard them as terrorists. Turkey is trying to push back the kurds and seize land just inside the syrian border, ...

Officials in the Us Defence Department have confirmed that the remains of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, leader of the extremist group, the so called Islamic State, have been disposed of. But theyve refused to confirm he was buried at sea. Our International Correspondent orla guerin has been speaking to one syrian victim of Islamic State and sent this report, from the turkish syrian border. Just a warning it does contain testimony you may find upsetting. A scar on the landscape, scorched earth after the ...