a fire in a hospital in northe taiwan's taipei city has killed nine people and injured 30 others. it started on the seventh floor of the building in the early hours of monday morning. this is the moment the fire was discovered. two caretakers run into a patient's room. staff tries in vain to extinguish the flames from using fire commissioner'-- fire ers can while others drag elderly patients out of their rooms many of whom are chronically or terminally ill and cannot move on ofeir own. the ficersatoran patientsnd three staff who were still inside when they arrived. after our sefrch and rescue rts on that floor, we sent 23 people to other hospitals. 43 were expressing cardiac arrest. five were unconscious, four were away. report: investigators say it was nine minutes before the fire was reported, and of our not enough staff working so early in themorning to evacuate all patients. she says no one shut the door to the room where the fire started, allowing the smoke and flames to spread and possiy contributing to the death toll. >> the smoke came inside. there were many mattresses mad

injured in a fire at a nursing home in taiwan it started on the seventh floor of a hospital in new taipei city because of the fire is still being investigated a north and south korean officials are meeting for talks in the border village of panmunjom they're trying to agree on a time and place for the third summit between south korean president. and the north's leader kim jong il and two met for the first time in may for informal talks and of agreed to meet again in the autumn. in syria dozens of people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons depo in italy province the syrian government and its allies have been preparing for an offensive to recapture the last remaining opposition area of santa been jevon had reports. from under a collapsed building some made it out alive they're probably not part of the word of the younger ones had to be carried out by volunteers the familiar exercise for syrian rescuers. a powerful explosion brought down this building in the town of some of them in northwestern syria but this time it wasn't an attack by the assad government or its allies. on the. first

i would like to expose gratitude to the firefighters from new taipei city's fire departmentnt who preve the disaster from expanding. reporter: while an investigation is underway to made is thought -- isn electrical spark underway, it is thought that electrical spark started the fire. laura: nato and u.s. forces in o hasistan insist the city not fallen to taliban militants. afghan officials say tpet 100 of theional have been killed, along with almost 200 taliban fighters. a senior u.s. diplomat held at the first direct talks with the taliban. nathan beale reports fro helmand province. jonathan: back to the df t and heat ohelmand. this is where hundreds of british troops weic killed, and nearly fell to the taliban when they departed. four years ago, the british left for good, buthe americans soon returned, albeit in smaller numbers. now they are on their own, controlling what was a sprawling british base. >> it was necessary for us to come back in a couple years ago. if that had not happened, i would imine that helmand would be solidly under the control of the taliban right now. jonathan:

has killed nine people and injured sixteen others broke out on the seventh floor of a building in taipei city thirty two patients were housed there all in hospice care ambulances lined up outside to evacuate the building but firefighters were able to bring the fire under control after an hour the european union is asking saudi arabia for more details about the arrests of female human rights activists and the charges they face some of the women had campaigned for the right to drive an end to the kingdom's male guardianship system canada's call for their release date for the kingdom cutting ties the dispute is jeopardize the education of saudi students in canada into my hand has their story. saudi students in canada or caught up in a diplomatic conflict they've been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their studies. it blows count as call for jailed human rights activists in saudi to be released the universities say transferring so many students will be a logistical nightmare and could leave many with nowhere to go if there is one victim in all of this and this is

nine people and injured sixteen others it broke out on the seventh floor of the building in new taipei city thirty two patients were housed there all in hospice care ambulances lined up outside to evacuate the building but firefighters were able to bring the fire under control after an hour. the european union is asking saudi arabia for more details about the arrests of female human rights activists and the charges they face some of the women have campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom's male guardianship system canada's call for their release led to the kingdom cutting ties and the dispute is jeopardize the education of saudi students in canada for the monaghan has their story. saudi students in canada or caught up in a diplomatic conflict they've been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their studies. it blows count as call for jailed human rights activists in saudi to be released the universities say transferring so many students will be a logistical nightmare and could leave many with nowhere to go if there is one victim in all of this

city of angels. hello again we'll start by looking at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china and taiwan can see heavy rain for shanghai further towards the south in taipei probably ok during the course of monday but this circulation of low pressure is likely bringing heavy rain to hong kong elsewhere plenty showers across indo-china vietnam laos meum are still looking pretty wet at the moment and wet weather extends across parts of bangladesh and into the far eastern states of india with not much change ready to head on through to choose the states you can see that circulation just the south of hong kong so it could be some really heavy rain and some strong winds developing from that system and that system will also be giving some heavy rain across northern parts of the philippines so across lose on it's going to be a wet day expect some localized flooding in manila in particular but the south of the philippines is generally looking fine and once you get into borneo it's looking good certainly temperatures imputing though thirty five degrees unbroken sunshine and that fine weather extends across central southern parts of the many potential including kua

city of love. hello again will stop by look at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china and taiwan you see heavy rain for shanghai further towards the south in taipei probably ok during the course of monday but this circulation of low pressure is like to be bringing heavy rain to hong kong houseware plenty of showers across indochina vietnam laos meum are still looking pretty wet at the moment and wet weather extends across parts of bangladesh and into the far eastern states of india with not much change ready to head on through to choose the states you can see that circulation just the south of hong kong so it could be some really heavy rain and some strong winds developing from that system and that system will also be giving some heavy rain across northern parts of the philippines so across lose on it's going to be a wet day expect some localized flooding in manila in particular but the south of the philippines is generally looking fine and once you get into borneo it's looking good certainly temperatures imputing that thirty five degrees unbroken sunshine and that fine weather extends across central southern parts of them a potential including k