Stay updated with breaking news from Cambridge woods. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
into the third day of the first ashes test in brisbane. coming up on sportsday on bbc news, england s women make it two from two in world cup qualifying with a 4 0 victory over bosnia herzegovina. good evening. egypt s president has vowed to respond with brutal force after one of the deadliest attacks in modern egyptian history. at least 235 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, many critically, after gunmen detonated a bomb and then stormed a packed mosque at the end of friday prayers. it happened in a remote town in egypt s north sinai region. the mosque was popular with sufi worshippers. they follow a mystical form of islam which extremists regard as heresy. just to warn you, there are some distressing images in 0rla guerin‘s report. sirens. a rush to save the wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. the attackers struck during friday prayers. for egypt, this was a grim new first a massacre in a mosque. inside, worshippers lay dead ....
telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. the sophisticated assault on the mosque was the latest attack by militants based in sinai. the state has been battling them for years. as egypt counted its new dead, analysts here warned that president sisi has already tried a hardline military response to no avail. the scorched earth approach that we have seen has failed to prevent this from happening, it has failed to prevent isis from continuing to operate in egypt and in sinai specifically. and it s a reasonable question to ask, to what extent does this scorched earth approach actually help isis perhaps recruit further followers? the most deadly previous attack by is here was the downing of this russian aircraft in sinai in 2015, with a loss of 224 lives. in the past year, is have killed scores of christians in three attacks on churches, saying followers of the cross were their favourite prey. this time, militants in sinai h ....
i m gavin grey. the egyptian armed forces say they ve launched air strikes against the militants they believe were responsible for friday s attack on a mosque. in the sinai peninsula. at least 235 worshippers were killed. the country s president has vowed to respond with an iron fist. a warning, orla guerin‘s report contains some distressing images. a rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. the attackers struck during friday prayers. for egypt, this was a grim new first, a massacre in a mosque. inside, worshippers lay dead where minutes earlier they had prayed. the mosque was popular with sufi muslims, who revere saints and shrines and are viewed as heretics by islamic extremists. within hours, a televised address to a nation in shock. president abdel fattah al sisi telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. the sophisticated assault on the mosque was the latest attack by militants ....
hello and welcome to bbc news. i m gavin grey. the egyptian armed forces say they ve launched air strikes against the militants they believe were responsible for friday s attack on a mosque in the sinai peninsula. at least 235 worshippers were killed. the country s president has vowed to respond with an iron fist. a warning, orla guerin‘s report contains some distressing images. a rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. the attackers struck during friday prayers. for egypt, this was a grim new first, a massacre in a mosque. inside, worshippers lay dead where minutes earlier they had prayed. the mosque was popular with sufi muslims, who revere saints and shrines and are viewed as heretics by islamic extremists. within hours, a televised address to a nation in shock. president abdel fattah al sisi telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. the sophisticated assault on the mosque was ....
for silence your cell phones. of course it would use them for social media you are welcome to keep them on. also during our q&a we have microphone, just one this time, so if you could step up to that mike mika would be great because as you can see we have c-span film we also making an audio recording of this event. and feel free to leave your chairs with our. we have more events coming up this afternoon so you re welcome to stick around all day. i m pleased to welcome johanna neuman this afternoon to discuss her important new book gilded suffragists about a group of new york socialites who fought for the women s right to vote in the early part of the last century. among the more than 200 social figures involved in the movement she writes about a host of familiar names including astor, belmont, harriman and vanderbilt, richard might just what a radical explosive notion the women s vote was in the early 1900s and how in her own words there s a moment when generations cr ....