Live in ukraine where there is growing concern about the security and protection of evidence at the crash site of flight mh 17. At least 13 people are killed in india after their school bus was hit by a train in the southern state. And the first day of competition at the Commonwealth Games in glaskow. Aviation officials are saying they have lost contact with an air passenger flight and lost contact 50 minutes after it took off. The Algerian News Agency says the plane is flying to algiers and 110 people are on the plane. One of the planes were being operated by air alger. They are saying that the aircraft took off at 1 17 local time. It was supposed to land in algiers at 5 10 in the morning local time but did not reach its destination. There is a flight number for that plane although i should say we cannot completely confirm this but the flight number we have from the a. P. Is ah 5017 enrowd to e enroute to algiers. It is day 16 of israels offensive against militants in gaza. This is th
In the weeks since the provisional ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on South Africa’s genocide claim against Israel, unforgiving attention has been focused on the trustworthiness, or otherwise, of one of the four United Nations entities on whose evidence the court relied.
he s the spokesman for the world health agency, via skype. christopher, thankful that you can be with us here. what is priority number one for you in gaza? right now, the number of displaced people seeking sanctuary is above 50,000 people. that s the same level of the gaza fighting five years ago. the main purpose is to shelter them, bring food, water all that the number of people in 44 schools in gaza will need. of course, the other major priority is the security of civilians. we all on all of the parties to respect the invulnerability. in the round of fighting years ago, hundreds of installations were hit. we ve also had a situation recently where we discovered 20 rockets in an unra school which wasn t being used.
you ve got to remember, even with the political turmoil, the conflict in gaza and israel, there are children involved here. civilians at the heart of this, paying the price for war. and it s hard to look at this, i know. in the morning, or at anytime, but we need to be real, to be truthful about what is happening there. and these images bring that to us. buildings reduced to ruins. we see here. tens of thousands of people are not in their homes. they ve been forced out. is israel and gaza fire upon each other. gaza has taken the brunt of the damage, both in casualties and in decimated infrastructure. israeli air strikes destroying water lines and sewers, leveling hospitals. residential buildings as well we see here. we need to discuss the humanitarian crisis, we re joined by christopher gunnis,