pakistan's prime minister, imran khan, has condemned what he called a horrific vigilante attack on a ed of blasphemy. mr khan said the burning alive of priyantha kumara after he was beaten by an angry mob was a day of shame for pakistan. shumyla jaffery reports from islamabad. he was working as a manager at the sports that factory and in an industrial town of pakistan. he was accused of the posters bearing names of the prophet mohammed and his family members. videos have been circulated on social media sharing a mob of hundreds of man armed with sticks lynching him and police officials have told the bbc that by the time they arrived at the ceiling of the attack he was already dead and his body was being dragged out of the factory premises. later it was set alight. people in pakistan have shock and anger including the prime minister. in pakistan chief of army staff and police now say they have arrested more than a hundred people. blasphemy against the prophet mohammed and islam is deeply emotional and highly politicized issue in pakistan and it is not uncommon that attacks followed by

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imran khan said the burning alive of priyantha kumara after he was beaten by an angry mob was a day ofistan. the acclaimed film and theatre actor antony sher has died aged 72. he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier this year. antony sher had a lifelong association with the royal shakespeare company, and appeared in films such as shakespeare in love and mrs brown. off the stage, sher also wrote several novels and was an accomplished painter. european diplomats at talks to revive the international nuclear deal with iran saying they're disappointed and concerned by tehran�*s stance. britain, france and germany gave the assessment at the end of a week of discussions in vienna. they complained that iran had back—tracked on diplomatic progress made during previous rounds of talks earlier this year. a court in the philippines has ignored objections of president rodrigo duterte and ruled that the country's first nobel laureate, the journalist maria ressa, can collect her prize in norway. but ms ressa, who was awarded the prize for efforts to "safeguard freedom of expression, still

imran khan said the burning alive of priyantha kumara after he was beaten by an angry mob was a day ofonomy created far fewerjobs than expected in november. employers in the world's largest economy added just 210,000 jobs for the month — that's less than half the figure for october. the number of people in work is now 3.9 million below the peak of february 2020. european diplomats at talks to revive the international nuclear deal with iran say they're disappointed and concerned by tehran�*s stance. britain, france and germany gave the assessment at the end of a week of discussions in vienna. they complained that iran had backtracked on diplomatic progress made during previous rounds of talks earlier this year. a court in the philippines has ignored objections of president rodrigo duterte and ruled that the country's first nobel laureate, the journalist maria ressa, can collect her prize in norway. but ms ressa, who was awarded the prize for efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, still needs permission to travel from two other courts. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the ro

imran khan said the burning alive of priyantha kumara after he was beaten by an angry mob was a day ofrs in the world's largest economy added just 210,000 jobs for the month — that's less than half the figure for october. the number of people in work is now 3.9 million below the peak of february 2020. pope francis has addressed thousands of roman catholic worshippers at a football stadium in the cypriot city of nicosia. it's the second day of the pope's trip to the divided island. his visit has focused heavily on the plight of migrants. our rome correspondent mark lowen reports. to the world's last divided capital came a preacher of unity. pope francis on the 35th trip of his papacy held mass in the cypriot capital split between its turkish and greek —— in the cypriot capital nicosia, split between its turkish and greek community for almost half a century. some 7,000 faithful came — mostly domestic workers from the philippines and the middle east among the tiny catholic minority here. and in a country where reconciliation between greek and turkish cypriots have stalled, an appeal for p

imran khan said the burning alive of priyantha kumara after he was beaten by an angry mob was a day ofd far fewerjobs than expected in november. employers in the world's largest economy added just 210,000 jobs for the month — that's less than half the figure for october. a court in the philippines has ignored objections of president rodrigo duterte and ruled that the country's first nobel laureate, the journalist maria ressa, can collect her prize in norway. but ms ressa, who was awarded the prize for efforts to "safeguard freedom of expression", still needs permission to travel from two other courts. scientists in britain have used gene editing technology to create female—only and male—only litters of mice. they say their technique could eventually be applied to chickens to ensure that only egg—producing females are hatched. our science correspondent pallab ghosh reports. half of these chicks are useless to the farming industry because they're male and don't lay eggs, so they have to be killed. that problem could be solved thanks to a breakthrough that enables scientists to reprogramm

this is pakistani prime minister imran khan speaking sunday. >> i have to say, and i speak to the unitedstates specifically, the taliban government for the afghan citizens, even if they have conflict with taliban for 40 yrs, 20 years, but [indiscernible] 40 million human beings. and that is very important that action is taken immediately. already we are late. amy: "the new york times" has obtained a trove of internal documents detailing how the u.s. military's air wars in the middle east have been marked by flawed intelligence, rushed and imprecise targeting, and the deaths of thousands of civilians -- many of them children. "the new york times" reports the 1300 documents on civilian casualties contra sharply with the u.s. government's image of precision warfare waged by all-seeing drones. in one such attack, special operations forces reported killing 85 isis fighters in a july 2016 air raid in northern syria. in fact, the raid hit houses far from the front line, killing 120 villagers. a federal judge sentenced a january 6 rioter to over five years in prison, the longest sentence yet lin