hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement. it said... it's helping the authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed it's offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. let's speak to fernando torres, a reporterfor the spanish newspaper and website diario sur, he's in malaga currently but was at the resort on the costa del sol. thank you forjoining us. are we any further forward, currently come thank you forjoining us. are we any furtherforward, currently come in understanding what caused this tragedy? welcome as we know, maybe tomorrow, the mother and wife of the victims will finally talk to the police because she could not do it until now, because she is quite shocked about what happened. maybe tomorrow, her words will help us out tomorrow, her words will help us out to know more about it. what we know, just a couple of hours ago, clc world resorts released a new press release saying that spanish police have reopened to the pool because they

hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement. it said...ing the authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed it's offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. our correspondent emily unia is here with me now. you have been following this tragic story. but it is a good 2a hours since this news emerged. are we any further forward with understanding what might have happened? we are not really. very few details have emerged. we know a sequence of events. a nine—year old girl was in the swimming pool at a big complex of 21 pools in all. she got into some kind of difficulty. her 16—year—old brother and 52—year—old father both jumped into the pool to try to rescue her and they all died. that's all we really know. we know emergency services were on the scene and people tried to resuscitate the victims and they did not succeed. other than that, there is very little detail. we have heard some rumours circulating about the availability of life guards. we

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what we know, just a couple of hours ago, clc world resorts released a new press release saying thatcivil have reopened the pool because they did not find anything working wrong. they think it is safe to swim there. so a couple of hours ago, half an hour ago, they released that the police have opened it so they think it was just an accident, nothing involved with the parents, as everybody thinks. it is quite confusing right now. there is no official cause of death. so just to clarify, the police believe that this pool is safe to swim in? yes, it is actually open right now. they opened it, like, a couple of hours ago. how is this story being covered in spain itself? it has been quite a story here. people are really shocked, not only the holiday—makers, but the whole city of malaga, and the town of mijas is close to the capital, people are concerned and shocked about how this happened. christmas meals, christmas dinner, has been all around this conversation, this unbelievably strange tragedy. it is... the whole country is looking for an answer. we can't find it yet. but as you say, eve

hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement. it said...s helping the authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed it's offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. our news correspondent, emily unia, is here with me now. this just thisjust appears this just appears to be a terrible family tragedy? yes, i think we are still trying to understand what happened. it looks like they will be postmortem investigations today. that may give us more of an explanation. looking around on social media i've seen, tos from one guest at the resort there at the moment, and he said there are a lot of pools at the resort, some appear to have lifeguards, some don't. it is not clear what actually occurred. we know this child got into difficulties in the pool and it looks like her brother and her father tried to rescue her and all of them have lost their lives. we still have very little information about what actually happened. emily, thank you. the queen will lead

hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement.g the authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed its offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. 0ur news correspondent, emily unia, is here with me now. still many questions unanswered about this? yeah, absolutely. we are waiting for the results of the postmortem examinations that will hopefully tell us more about what happened. we have seen in some of the pictures from the resort diners inspecting the pool, perhaps the pump. there are questions being asked about whether this could have had anything to do with the pump, a reference to previous incidents involving swimming pool tragedies and pumps of this nature. we don't have a lot of information at the moment. we know it is a large complex, around 21 tools. not clear if they were lifeguards. a lot of questions to be answered about what happened and what caused this terrible christmas eve tragedy. thank you very much indeed. a woman h

hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement. it said...ing the authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed it's offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. religious leaders have been giving their traditional christmas addresses. in the vatican, pope francis said, "god loves everyone, "even the worst of us" — thought to be a reference to abuse scandals in the catholic church. the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, talked about the darkness of the london bridge terror attack in his address as john mcmanus reports. midnight mass at manger square, the place where, for christians, it all began just over 2000 years ago. and this year, a special link to the past — a wooden fragment which the church says is from the manger ofjesus, back in the holy land after 1300 years. the holy family famously became migrants, fleeing from king herod to the relative safety of egypt. and at the vatican city today, pope francis once again repeated his concern

hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement. it said...e authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed it's offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. a woman has died in a serious crash on the m1 motorway which happened last night on the northbound side nearjunction 12. it was one of two accidents on the motorway overnight with police from both hertfordshire and bedfordshire forces involved. both the north and south bound carriages have now reopened. the woman who died has not yet been named. religious leaders have been giving their traditional christmas addresses. in the vatican, pope francis said "god loves everyone, "even the worst of us" — thought to be a reference to abuse scandals in the catholic church. the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, talked about the darkness of the london bridge attack in his address as john mcmanus reports. midnight mass at manger square, the place where, for christians, it all began just over 2000 yea

hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement. it said...g the authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed its offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. the dean of westminster abbey says britain is in need of the hope offered by the christmas story. speaking before the midnight service, he said he was hoping the nativity could unite people after years of political conflict. our religion editor, martin bashir reports. this is a first christmas season for the new dean of westminster abbey, dr david hoyle, an ancient cathedral where monarchs have been crowned and poets celebrated, it is at the heart of our nation, a nation that he says is bitterly divided. i see the divisions everybody else sees. i feel them. this — i get angry and i get disturbed, and i live in westminster, where i bump into it all the time. we need some hope in all of this. i think we've become angry and i think we've become despairing. dr hoyle says we need an intervention

hotel firm clc world resorts, which runs the complex, released a statement. it said...sta world would like to offer its heartfelt condolences to the family affected by the loss of three family members on the 24th of december, 2019. the firm says it's helping the authorities fully with their investigations into the deaths, while the foreign office has confirmed it's offering assistance to a british woman following what happened. nick quraishi, bbc news. bethlehem has experienced its best christmas period for tourist numbers in two decades after thousands of people gathered to mark christmas day. the town is honoured by christians and pilgrims as the birthplace ofjesus christ. the festivities centred on the church of the nativity. a short while ago santa was in alberta. now he is in tucson in arizona. he is making his way quickly around the world. big kids, little kids, you know where centre is at the moment. perhaps you think you would only be travelling by sleigh tonight. yet yesterday people in florida were treated to something different. nearly 600 surfing santas hit

what we knowjust a few hours ago clc world resorts released a press release saying that police, spanishy didn't find any work, anything working wrong. i think it is safe to swim there. so a couple of hours ago, half—an—hour ago, they released that, the police opened, so they think it was just an accident, nothing involved with the pumps as everyone thinks so it is quite confusing right now, there is no official cause of the depths. so just to clarify, the police believe that this pool is safe to swim in? yeah. it is actually open right now. they opened, like, a couple of hours ago. how is this story been covered in spain itself? it has been quite a story here, people are really shocked, not only the holiday—makers there but the whole city, the town is really close to the capital. people are concerned and shocked about how did this happen? christmas meals, christmas dinner has been all around strange