we report on the plight of christians in the indonesian province of aceh.g tribute to george michael, who's died from suspected heart failure at the age of 53. he sold well over 100 million albums in a career spanning more than three decades. the united states troops have been trying to overthrow the dictatorship of general manuel noriega. the pentagon says it's failed in its principle objective — to capture noriega and take him to the united states to face drugs charges. the hammer and sickle was hastily taken away. in its place, the russian flag was hoisted over what is now no longer the soviet union, but the commonwealth of independent states. day broke slowly over lockerbie, over the cockpit of pan am's maid of the seas, nose down in the soft earth. you could see what happens when a plane eight storeys high, a football pitch wide, falls from 30,000 feet. christmas has returned to albania after a communist ban lasting more than 20 years. thousands went to midnight mass in the town of shkoder, where there were anti—communist riots 10 days ago. this is bbc

christians in the indonesian province of aceh are preparing to celebrate christmas in makeshift tentsroyed four years ago by islamic vigilante groups and the police. church leaders say they want to rebuild — but they've been stopped from doing so by the local authorities. the bbc‘s asia editor rebecca henschke reports. this is the last service martina berutu's community were allowed to hold in their church, built in the 1960s. the next day, she had to stand by and watch authorities destroy it. translation: we were all afraid. we felt so sad. it was heartbreaking. now we have nowhere to pray. a week before, angry mobs burnt down this nearby church after holding protests calling for all churches in the region to be demolished. translation: someone threw a molotov cocktailfrom a car and everything caught on fire. they also threw a bomb at the cross. then people came from everywhere. the police tried to hold them back but they couldn't. the president, joko widodo at the time, called for the violence to end, saying it was against the country's founding principles of unity and diversity. bu

we report on the plight of christians in the indonesian province of aceh.: a safe landing for boeing's starliner space capsule after its failed mission to the international space station. the world of music has been paying tribute to george michael, who's died from suspected heart failure at the age of 53. he sold well over 100 million albums in a career spanning more than three decades. the united states troops have been trying to overthrow the dictatorship of general manuel noriega. the pentagon says it's failed in its principle objective to capture noriega and take him to the united states to face drugs charges. the hammer and sickle was hastily taken away. in its place, the russian flag was hoisted over what is now no longer the soviet union, but the commonwealth of independent states. day broke slowly over lockerbie, over the cockpit of pan am's maid of the seas, nosedown in the soft earth. you could see what happens when a plane eight storeys high, a football pitch wide, falls from 30,000 feet. christmas has returned to albania after a communist ban l

stop at the august 20 our guest douglas much to do once example yes non-university sickly in banda aceh still time going mining sent the bus and leads and since the police was unable to identify exactly what was so it came out in sight do you know why city and it started attacking all the students who ended. up with us eventually saw who didn't die you. that was noisy april to any of the students the b.g.p. government and the more the. downs to set up the tension sent to us and all of these people especially the muslims in those events and sent those about it comes to all of the size of the population muslim must constitute 14 boston of the population they don't even own a muslim problem most of the presentation in the parliament and you don't have to get into most i'm pretty certain one of. the balance between the weakest actually not this is the id who am a dozen times on their ideology do you turn out in the country and that cannot be the india was a secular nation. as north korea celebrated another missile test washington assented representative to neighboring south korea during a b

of using disproportionate force now some of the most violent scenes of it in the northern state of aceh for their ish when 8020 percent of the population is muslim and the northeastern states especially in as sam or people dare fear an influx of hindu bengalis they say that could threaten their language and culture protests have been largely peaceful in opposition control west bengal the ruling b j p. being accused of seeking electoral gains by opening the door to more in the refugees and migrants and there's also been rest in southern cities like chennai where police watched as people chanted against the law and in new delhi thousands of protesters defied police bands to converge on the has stark jumma must mosque so been a stressed of reports now from the indian capital. police in the northern state of the but they are not taking chances. did vans while firing tear gas at protesters who are defying a government ban to congregate in large crowds. every tactic is being used to quash nationwide protests against a new citizenship law the police are being accused of using excessive force.

ace there across afghanistan if anything that becomes more widespread as we go on through thursday aceh but a wintry weather coming through a couple temperature of around 3 degrees celsius the disturbed weather well wise but around the levant isis well that rain just sliding its way down towards israel maybe even into lebanon as we go through the next couple of days wet weather coming across parts of northern syria into northern areas all of iraq ahead of that we've got some cloud which will fade its way across northern areas of saudi arabia and we will see a few spots of right on that launching a little further south which as we go on through thursday i think will stay fine and dry here in doha temperatures at around $23.00 degrees meaning meanwhile it's fun to try course much of south africa we have got want to choose showers just around the mountain say about the west to weather the northern madagascar. the latest news as it breaks boeing is the longest manufacturing exporters in the u.s. . with detailed coverage critics say secular protections and great in the indian constitution an

hureds participated in mass prayers in indonesia's aceh province, one of the hardest-hit areas. in thailand, survivors visited memorials to lay wreaths and flowers for their loved ones, and recalled the terr of that tragic day. >> ( translated ): i am still scared, very scared. i want to go tlive somewhere else, but it's not possible. sometimes i dream that a wave is coming. it's an image that still haunts me, when the wave was coming. i cod still remember it. >> nawaz: a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off sumatra isld triggered that deadly tsunami. a dozen countries from indonesia to east africa were hit. to this day, tusands of people are believed to still be unaccounted for. in israel, benjamin netanyahu faced his first major chalnge to his decade-long rule as prime minister today. voters cast their ballots in a primary election to pick the leader of his conservative likud party. his main party rival, veteran politician gideon saar, hoped to capitalize on a late surge in the run-up to the vote. netanyahu was widely expected to win, despite facing corruption indictments and failing

of water for the largest number of deaths around the country 18 of the 25 people dead have been in aceh for days we're also expecting protests to take place in places like these may last. and elsewhere in the country to call big cities like mumbai lock now which is the capital of what over there and kolkata to 2 weeks after the citizenship the opposition to it is still very big. we also expect in kampala the building b j p to hold a rally. and protest is this important will come out they have been some of these rallies but really they're nowhere near as big as the protests that we've seen against the citizenship nor. sort of precautions being taken to they are those with given these protests have been deadly in the past number of people were killed last friday we've lost the link with elizabeth you might have heard there the sound just starting to break up a little bit before unfortunate lost the link with her but we're getting reports now relation in the days we said protests which were deadly last friday and expecting more unrest today across india. lebanon now which has been without