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relationships go across the globe. we create something greater than ourselves and usg, we build relationships that build the world. >> and now, bbc world news america. >> a burning ferry in the midst of an adriatic -- in the adriatic sea is now being described. 10 people are confirmed to have died. but discrepancies have emerged in the passenger list, which named 478 people as being on board, while 427 passengers and crew were rescued. the transport minister said it does not know for sure how many may still be missing. some may not have traveled.

it ran into trouble you the island of corfu. -- near the island of corfu. >> the burning ferry on the entry at a -- on the adriatic has given up. the shift passengers fought wind, cold, flames, and panic. this morning at don, the navy winced away from the ship. many families were separated during the rescue. passengers landed this morning in the city of valley. finally, they were on firm ground. among the survivors are british horse trainer nick williams and his fiancee.

they lost each other during the rescue. this is how bad it got. his face is covered in smoke and set. -- and soot. how to the fire breakout on the card deck and why did it spread to kill several of its passengers? >> my thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims, but the work of the rescue services prevented what could have been a great disaster people stop their dedication and tenacity stop us from becoming much worse. -- from becoming a great disaster. their dedication and tenacity stopped this from becoming much worse. >> james arnold reporting there. one of the survivors has been

speaking to james. he described the atmosphere on board before. >> at 5:00 in the morning, there was a small alarm. we couldn't imagine he could be too much. we came out and there were clouds of smoke. >> what did you think was going on? >> it was very clear. >> were people panicking? >> yes among and basically the panic hit was when the deck where the lifeboats were caught fire. there were people getting so warm that they just started to panic. >> what did you do? >> i went up to the deck to watch what was going on.

>> were you looking for a lifeboat? >> no, there was general panic. there was a sense we would not need a lifeboat, and then all of a sudden we did. people were in mass panic. >> did you fear for your life? >> yes. there were lifeboats dropping into the sea and people throwing themselves at them in panic. we just stood up there and watched it and molest less we had no chance to get down there. >> how long did it take to see helicopters or ships? >> a long time, hours. >> do you have any anger toward the ferry company?

likes there are definitely questions to be asked. -- >> you are definitely questions to be asked. but i have come away from it very lucky. there definitely has to be something addressed. >> staying with the story of greed, stock market has fallen sharply following the news of a snap election in january. for the third time, the parliament has failed to agree on a new president. a new government could try to new renegotiate the terms of the country's bailout program. >> it was the starting gun for europe's next political pattern -- battle.

they will face a snap election a referendum of these unpopular as it cuts. greeks, he said, were risking and relapse into the deepest and most dramatic crisis. this response after brussels forced the country to make drastic cuts in return for a bailout. today in the market new the parliament the popular left-wing opposition party is promising to end the cuts and renegotiate greases international debt. -- greece's international debt. >> we have already changed parties once, this woman said and nothing has improved. the situation is a mess. greece has already been destroyed. >> another is not looking at changing greece, but changing europe. >> is in a common interest of

all european countries, the winds of change will spread all over europe. we are living in historical times. >> now it is political change they are worried about. it has grown into a fully fledged political machine will stop the winners -- political machine. the winners next month could give a boost across europe. that could leave brussel in in awkward position and the north with questions when it comes to eu strategy and rules. where does national democracy fit in? >> joining us, professor costas

an outspoken critic of the greek bailout program. what do you think is going to happen in this snap election? >> i think they are being given more or less, a few weeks and the opinions of the last months of shown clearly -- have shown clearly and that means they will join either the right wing or the left wing.

[indiscernible] >> a bit of a breakup underline. we are going to try to fix that. i'm trying to figure out if there is a different question to ask. as a protest party in any shape to govern greece? >> it is difficult to have an immediate answer. it was a small protest party, 4% in the 2009 elections. now perhaps 30%. in the last few years, they have had difficulty putting to

alternative for the economy. [indiscernible] >> professor, we are going to have to leave it there. i'm so sorry. the breakup on the line is affecting us. now some of the day's other news , judicial authorities in russia are bringing forward the verdict on the charge of the opposition. mr. nepal he the move was designed to outflank set -- outflank thousands of his supporters. within hours of the announcement, several thousand people signed up on facebook to rally on tuesday. he denied defrauding a french cosmetics certain -- cosmetics firm. he is facing a 10 year sentence.

a woman was diagnosed with ebola in glasgow after feeling unwell. the patient will be transferred to london for further treatment in a special isolation unit. james cook reports from glasgow. collect more than 7000 people in west africa, and tonight, in this hospital, ebola has been diagnosed on british soil for the first time. a female health company who had traveled to sierra leone to help battle the disease is being treated in an isolation unit here in glasgow by a specialist team. but she was transferred to the brinley center and was admitted using well-established well practiced protocols. she herself is quite stable. and she's not showing any great clinical concern the moment. >> this year, ebola has ravaged parts of west africa.

the system -- the symptoms are diarrhea and vomiting as well as weakness bleeding, and fever. it is spread by contact with bodily fluids, but there is no known cure and it is killing 70% of the people it affects -- it infects. but for those in the u.k., there's no need to panic. >> a risk to other people as a result of this confirmed ebola case is team to be extremely low , given the early stage of diagnosis and the patient was displaying no system of the -- no symptoms of the kind that would lead to the transmission of other people at risk. >> the health care worker led -- left sierra leone yesterday bound for casablanca. she then boarded a flight to heathrow before flying from london to glasgow, where she arrived at about half past 11:00. she was taken into isolation at

8:00 this morning. agco plan was put into action. she was brought here by ambulance in isolation -- a detailed plan was put into action. she was brought here by andy lives in isolation. she is believed to be an nhs employee who was working at a government facility in sierra leone. >> we are reviewing our procedures and protocols for all of the other nhs workers who are working in sierra leone at the moment alongside colleagues in the foreign office. they are doing a very brave job in a very challenging circumstance. we want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to keep them safe. >> tonight another brave woman who went to africa to battle a deadly disease is fighting it herself. james cook, bbc news, glasgow. >> as you just heard from that report the patient will be taken to the royal free hospital in london. any idea of when this patient

will be transferred? >> i think within a matter of hours. we understand she will be flown from glasgow to london, brought here in a specially equipped ambulance and treated in north london. there is one isolation unit that is equipped to deal with ebola patients. it has two beds. it has successfully treated an invalid patient already come a british nurse who contacted -- who contracted ebola in sierra leone. he came here in late august and was successfully treated. he took the experimental drug z-mapp, but it's not certain how much that had to do with his recovery. a lot of confidence because this is caught at the early stage for this patient. >> any comments from the

hospital about the likely treatment for the patient in the coming days? >> there is the option of z-mapp, the experiment of drug. it's not clear whether limited supplies are around or they still have the key to it. but also hydration, making sure the patient is well hydrated. doctors in these specialist units are picking up expertise. the actual way that the treatment is carried out remains to be seen, but i think there's not total confidence. and never can be. a lot of questions are being asked about the screening and how people leaving sierra leone and entering london can pick it up. but it was stressed that her temperature was taken on arrival at heathrow. all health workers who come back

to the u.k., the temperature was taken. she was not feeling normal at the scene. but it only becomes infectious once you start displaying symptoms. and that appeared to be the case once she was home monday night and tuesday morning. >> stay with us on bbc world news. still to come, visiting the scene of the pakistan school massacre in peschel are -- peshawar.

makes you are watching bbc world news. the headlines for you this hour -- italian coast guard said it had completed the evacuation of the ferry that caught fire in storming conditions in the adriatic sea. can people are known to have died, but the number of passengers who were originally board is unclear.

the search for air asia missing flight has been suspended for the second night. the air asia passenger jet that disappeared monday morning, we understand the search for that will resume at daybreak. the agency coordinating the search has asked the u.s. for help. it had 162 people on board when it disappeared. >> at first light, the search resumes. they are now deployed to end this ministry. they were early reports that debris had been discovered possible fuel tanks, but no link to the jet to be confirmed. the indonesian president went further same, -- saying, we have

to tell it like it is. in the vast search effort, we have not found any clarity about the planes position. for the family of the pilot there is the creeping realization a cherished son may not be coming home. the captain was a distinguished military flyer before joining commercial airlines. his father lost another sent to diabetes seven days ago. the last time he saw his son was at the funeral. >> i want my son to come back alive, he says. if it was not meant to be, if it -- if god does not want it, it is an fates hands. i'm heartbroken, having already lost a son. it is very hard to lose another. >> the plane took off at 5:30 p.m. local -- 5:30 a.m. local time yesterday morning. contact with lap -- with traffic control was last made at around 6:24 a.m.

it should have been continued along this route to singapore. the search is now split into seven areas, shown here, but so far no success. with no distress signal or mayday, investigators now believe some kind of sudden catastrophic event must have taken it place. the weather was bad at the time and the pilot requested permission to's flying to a higher altitude to avoid big banks of clouds. the shaking up of the sleepy airline industry in the past decade in asia this man has been compared to richard branson. >> we have to find out what went wrong. and we have to carry on doing what we've been doing. >> now all the families can do

is wait, unable to influence events, less numb right all. having waived their loved ones goodbye, they had every right to expect that they would be seeing them again, but as time drags on, the agony of loss gets more profound. >> a little earlier an expert on aviation issues gave me his opinion on what could have happened to that air asia flight. >> basically there was a lot of tropical storm activity in the area. the pilots, of course, were a rare of it. that is one thing we do know about what happened to stop -- were aware of it. that is one thing we do not about what happened. the pilot was heard asking permission to climb. frankly, this should not happen. because the pilot has the means to see the storm through cloud.

they can see where the dangerous bits are and avoid it. if they have to use their judgment and if there is too much danger around, they can to around and go back. -- they can turn around and go back. the flight over burkina faso that was an identical situation to air asia. the pilot just before the aircraft went missing had said may i have permission to change my course please? we have bad weather ahead and i want to avoid it. that was the last call we had from the aircraft. two days later they found the wreckage in the desert. >> the british boxer amir con -- that he wanted to show support to the families and to offer

help to rebuild the school. >> the program at the army public school has turned into a memorial. for more than two weeks, people have been paying tribute and praying for the victims of the taliban nascar. many are -- taliban massacre. many are still trying to come to terms with what happened here. a british boxing championship -- champion has come to show solidarity. he also wanted to offer his support to the families. >> i just wanted to come to help. >> when you go back to the u.k., what is the one thing you will remember from here, the one thing that will stay with you? >> to see the pictures of the poor children on the wall who

were in the building and were killed. to go back to school and be so strong and carry on with life. >> many are very worried about sending the kids back to school. mohammed says his children's education is very important to him, but their safety comes first. >> if we can into school him and got for become a they don't come home, what will we think? we are very much concerned. why did they kill them you what have the kids done? these are questions we do not have answers to. >> the city is still on edge. it is unclear when the school will reopen and whether families like mohammed's will feel safe sending their children back to the classroom.

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