this is bbc news, i'm samantha simmonds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. at least 15 people have died after an air india express flight carrying 191 people crash landed and broke in two at an airport in kerala. the lebanese shia movement, hezbollah, has denied any link to tuesday's deadly blast at the seaport in beirut. where are you from? iraq? record numbers of migrants cross the english channel — with pressure on local councils rising. will be taking 23 people into our care, the biggest number that we are aware of for many years.

lockdown measures affecting parts of northern england have been extended to preston in lancashire, because of a spike in coronavirus cases. at least 15 people have died and many more are injured after an air india jet with one hundred and ninety one passengers on board crash landed at the airport in kerala after arriving from dubai. the plane split in two on impact. several passengers have been injured, after the jet overshot the runway. the flight was a repatriation mission for indians stuck overseas during the coronavirus crisis. for the latest on the crash, here's our india correspondent yogita limaye. you been told by the authority that

it landed and then overshot the ru nway it landed and then overshot the runway and the runway in the airport is elevated. it is over a hilltop runway, that is how it is been described by aviation experts. it overshot the runway and it fell into a valley. that is with the authority is saying. the boss of the national disaster response is that is the reason why the impact is expected to have been quite massive and that is why we have seen injuries and almost all passengers. dozens of them have been taken to at least two hospitals nearby. we know the national disaster response team is doing checks to ensure that there was no one still stuck inside that aircraft so we are one still stuck inside that aircraft so we are waiting to hear whether eve ryo ne so we are waiting to hear whether everyone who was on board is accounted for. there was 191 people in total, passengers and crew on

that aircraft and it was landing and at about a quarter to eight in the evening, local time. it at about a quarter to eight in the evening, localtime. it has at about a quarter to eight in the evening, local time. it has been raining in the state, earlier in the day, there would land slips in the region because of which people died. the authorities say that at the time of landing, visibility was about two km saying that there was sufficient visibility to make that landing. just a bit of a background on the flight it just a bit of a background on the flight it was coming from, it was coming from dubai, currently because of the coronavirus pandemic, international travel is banned, as there are no flights going in and out of india, its borders are sealed. but for the past few months, india's national airport has been running repatriation flights for those who have been stuck overseas and want to come back to india. so this was one of the flights i was pa rt this was one of the flights i was part of that repatriation mission and there are a lot of people,

hundreds of thousands who go to the uae each year in search ofjobs and they send money back to their families. it is expected that many of the people on board this flight are migrant workers who were returning from dubai to have been stuck there amidst the coronavirus prices and coming to their families. the chief minister of kerala, pinarayi vijayan, has tweeted an update on the crash. he says that the rescue operations at the kozhikode airport have been completed. he sai "all passengers have been transferred to hospitals in malappuram and kozhikode". united nations aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis in lebanon, with food and medical supplies interrupted following tuesday's explosion at the port in the capital, beirut. the country's largest grain silo was destroyed with supplies of flour now having to be brought in, to prevent food shortages, in a country whose economy, was already on it's knees. 154 people are now known

to have died in the blast and thousands more were injured. more than 300 thousand people have been made homeless. with more, here's our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville. singing the lebanese are used to taking matters into their own hands. singing their national anthem, they came from all over the country to clear up their capital.