they were brought to lampedusa.the survivors reported they left libya on thursday night on a dinghy with 120 people on board. and after ten hours of navigation, the dinghy started having problems and started to sink. many people drowned. and these three survivors managed to stay afloat until the arrival of the italian navy helicopter, which rescued them and wrought them to a safe port. —— brought them. they told us that on board there were ten women, one of them was pregnant. and two children, actually, one was a toddler. two months old, so he was very, very young. so the missing people, according to this information, are about 170. with the brexit deadlock continuing, the former british prime minister, sirjohn major, told the bbc that the house of commons should be given a vote on all brexit options. the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, said only two "credible" options remained: close ties with the eu based on a customs union, or another public vote. our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. when

three survivors from that shipwreck were taken for treatment on lampedusa, and it's reported that 117have been taking place on the streets of france for the tenth consecutive weekend of anti—government protests. in paris, several thousand people marched in freezing temperatures, calling for president macron's resignation and condemning police violence. demonstrations were also held in other major cities, including rennes and bordeaux, where police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters. the headlines on bbc news: former prime minister sirjohn major says the house of commons should be given a vote on all brexit options. police investigating the death of 14—year—old jaden moodie arrest an 18—year—old man on suspicion of murder. doctors‘ leaders say shortages of gps put care at risk, as analysis reveals large differences in the availability of doctors in different parts of england. president trump has said he'll make what he's called "a major announcement" about the current us government shutdown during an address to the nation later today. the president is expected to ma

three survivors from that shipwreck were taken for treatment on lampedusa, and it's reported that 117ast 66 people have died after a leaking oil pipeline exploded in mexico. the hidalgo state governor says dozens were also injured in the blast, which happened as residents were scrambling to steal fuel from the pipe last night. you may find some of the images in richard galpin‘s report distressing. with this huge fire enveloping the area, people screamed for help as they tried to escape the flames. but many didn't make it. more than 60 people were killed. many others suffered serious burns. throughout the night, the emergency services were taking the injured to hospitals as quickly as they could. witnesses horrified by what they'd seen of the lethal fire. translation: i was in my house and started watching the news. and went up to my roof, and itjust exploded. i saw it. i also saw that there were a lot of people around, and i was shocked. hundreds of people had come to this area earlier to fill containers with fuel spurting out of a pipe which had been deliberately ruptured by thieves.

three survivors from that shipwreck were taken for treatment on lampedusa, and it's reported that 117as said he'll make what he's called "a major announcement" about the current us government shutdown during an address to the nation later today. the president is expected to make concessions to the democrats in an attempt to end the deadlock. hundreds of thousands of government workers have been on unpaid leave, or working without pay, since he refused to agree a funding deal with congress unless it included $5 billion for his controversial border wall with mexico. a little earlier, mr trump was asked whether he was optimistic the impasse could be resolved. i hope that speaker pelosi can come along and realise what everybody knows, i mean no matter who it is, they know that walls work. and we need walls, whether it's personal or not, it's not personalfor me. she's being controlled by the radical left, which is the problem, and, you know, she's under total control of the radical left. i think that's a very bad thing for her, i think it's a very bad thing for the democrats. everybody kno

staff in lampedusa have given a very grim account of what happened they were left in the water for many hours until they were eventually rescued by a talent search and rescue and brought to shore and brought to safety so it does appear that there are other who were with them in the doing it which was sinking at the time or had gone under the waves have probably no chance of being sort of being rescued is certainly the case that the numbers attending to cross' is about double the rate it was last year but it's still fairly low in the four thousand mark and what we're looking at them which probably more troubling is that the numbers of people dying as a percentage is really going up to about two hundred so far this year in in several incidents and of course the latest incident to is particularly shocking because you have about fifty three off the coast of spain and now another maybe forty plus off between italy and libya so it looks like these smugglers are really taking great risks with human life and putting wonderful people to sea in totally unsafe wrestles and really put it really qui

the survivors have been interviewed by startling lampedusa in a very grim account of what happened they were left in the water for many hours until they were eventually rescued by talent search and rescue and brought to shore and brought to safety so it does appear that there are other who were with them in the doing it which was sinking and going under the waves probably no chance of being sort of being rescued. are we seeing some of the numbers i read out there seems to indicate that the number of refugees and migrants arriving on european shores is are rising quickly in two thousand and nineteen would one be correct in drawing that assumption. that's correct but i would be reluctant to draw a trend from that it's certainly the case that the numbers attending to crosses is about double the rate it was last year but it's still fairly low in the four thousand mark and what we're looking at them which probably more troubling is that the numbers of people dying as a percentage is really going up to bank two hundred so far this year in several incidents and of course the latest incident th