so balochistan liberation army is a separatist organisation, and this particular attack does not comecks by balochistan liberation army. target military personnel and installations, we have seen a attacks in the past where civilians were also targeted. this is a province, the one we are talking about, balochistan, the largest province in pakistan, but it is also the least developed one and its history is marred with insurgency and human rights violation, so balochistan liberation army in this particular attack also claims they were targeting military personnel returning from a training course back to quetta, and as we repeat, we still haven't heard from the pakistan army on this particular attack. thank you. here in the uk, a campaign group is urging hundreds of thousands of former university students to check if they're eligible for a refund from the student loans company. figures released for the first time show a total of £181; million has been overpaid. radio 4's money box dan whitworth, has more. student loans. everyone signs up for them when enrolling at university, and from sep

a militant group, the balochistan liberation army, said it carried out the bombing. correspondent saad sohail who's in islamabad. tell us more about the organisation what have eyewitnesses been saying? figs what have eyewitnesses been sa inc? �* , what have eyewitnesses been sa inc? a ., what have eyewitnesses been sam7n,a ., , saying? as you have 'ust mentioned i saying? as you have 'ust mentioned about i saying? as you have just mentioned about the - saying? as you have just - mentioned about the casualties. at this particular train is a very popular train that commutes daily from one city to another. it has to travel through a lot of cities of pakistan. people are waiting, this was around 9am local time in pakistan so there were a family and friends there to drop off passengers for this. and that is the time when this explosion took place. so there are a couple of eyewitnesses that spoke to bbc, someone who is just that spoke to bbc, someone who isjust mentioning the that spoke to bbc, someone who is just mentioning the horror that he saw. he described it as a judg

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so, balochistan liberation army is a separatist militant organisation. e have seen frequent attacks by balochistan liberation army. and we've also seen that although they claim that they only target military personnel and military installations, we have seen attacks in the past where civilians were also targeted. this is a province, the one we are talking about, balochistan, which is the largest province in pakistan, but it is also the least developed one, and its history is marred with insurgency and human rights violations. so, baloch liberation army in this particular attack also claims that they were targeting military personnel that were returning from a training course back to quetta. and as we repeat, we still haven't heard from the pakistan army on this particular attack. officials in italy are introducing a daily cap on the number of tourists allowed to visit the ancient roman city of pompeii. from next week, officials will almost halve the number of daily visitors to try to protect its fragile heritage and encourage people to explore other attra

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a militant group, the balochistan liberation army, has said it carried out the bombing.ommutes so it has to travel through a lot of cities through pakistan. people were waiting and this is around 9am local time in pakistan so there were family and friends there to drop off passengers for this and that is the the time the explosion took place. they were mentioning the horror they saw, and he described it as a judgment day has come because the explosion was so loud. he even mentioned how the ticket box or the ticket offices and people laying on the ground screaming, we also talked to a government employee who came in earlier because of the scheduling usually, people cannot rely if the train leaves on time so they were there earlier to drop off friends so he mentioned when the explosion took place he could see that people were screaming that there was of a until that had settled, that is when he saw his friend whom he had come to drop off. once he had seen him and was relieved that he was alive but he mentioned how everybody was in a state of shock obviously at a time when

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a militant group, the balochistan liberation army, has said it carried out the bombing.y popular train that commutes daily from quetta to peshawar. so it has to travel through a lot of cities, through the breadth of pakistan. and people were waiting. and this is around 9 a.m local time in pakistan. so there were family and friends who were there to drop off passengers for this. and that is the time when this explosion took place. so there are a couple of eyewitnesses that spoke to bbc. there's abduljabbar, who wasjust mentioning the horror that he saw, and he described it as a judgment day had come because the explosion was so loud. he even mentioned how the ticket box or the ticket offices and the people laying on the ground screaming. we also talked to nasir khan, a government employee who had come in an hour earlier, because the scheduling, usually people cannot rely if the train leaves on time. so they were there an hour earlier to drop off his friend. so he mentioned when the explosion took place, he could see that people were screaming, but there were obviously clo

the balochistan liberation army said the blast at quetta railway station targeted an army unit. now on bbc news, the media show. hello, i'm katie razzall. this week, were the press blindsided by donald trump's us election victory? this is a magnificent victory for the american people. from polls to legacy media outlets, the results were predicted to be on a knife edge. we ask what went wrong? also, a new investigation into how the british royal family makes its money. that's all coming up on the media show. on wednesday, donald trump declared victory once again in the us election. it's prompted some soul—searching from pundits and pollsters who failed to predict the result. to talk about the media's role in the election, i wasjoined byjames harding, former head of bbc news, and now boss at tortoise media, and max tani, media editor at semafor. well, i think the media in large part was hedging its bets because the polls showed such a tight race. there was a lot of uncertainty and there was a lot of apprehension among folks in the mainstream media about getting it wrong again, abo

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a militant group, the balochistan liberation army, said it carried out the bombing.islamabad. what more do we know? so, just what more do we know? so, 'ust now we got fl what more do we know? so, 'ust now we got confirmation i what more do we know? so, just now we got confirmation from . now we got confirmation from the local authorities in quetta, confirming there were military personnel part of the casualties, but we have talked to certain eyewitnesses, till now, and they describe the horrors of the scene, one of them told bbc that what he saw was like a day ofjudgment. 0ther was like a day ofjudgment. other than that, the witnesses that we have spoken to, so far, that we have spoken to, so far, that this was just before 9am local time and the train that you mention it is a very popular train which commutes daily from quetta in the west, to the north east, so this is a 152

a militant group, the balochistan liberation army, said it carried out the bombing.o's been at the scene. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. tell us what you have witnessed.— have witnessed. this morning around 8:30am _ have witnessed. this morning around 8:30am the _ have witnessed. this morning around 8:30am the army - have witnessed. this morning | around 8:30am the army both were _ around 8:30am the army both were ready to embark on a train toweit— were ready to embark on a train to wait for— were ready to embark on a train to wait for their destination like — to wait for their destination like an_ to wait for their destination like an openjob, different citiesm _ like an openjob, different cities... so a suicide bomber came — cities... so a suicide bomber came and _ cities... so a suicide bomber came and exploded himself among them _ came and exploded himself among them so— came and exploded himself among them. so far, 26 people have been — them. so far, 26 people have been killed, including 14 soldiers and 60 injured. among the 60. — soldiers and 60 inju