The BBC has heard claims that Turkey is breaking international law by deporting Syrian refugees back to Syria. Refugees told a BBC investigation that Syrians who are trying to cross from Turkey into Greece were detained and returned to Syria against their will. They forced us to sign a paper on the Syrian border, that was wrote on it that I want to send me back to Syria. I did not want to go back to Syria. Many of us feel afraid. Amnesty International says it believes scores or possibly hundreds of people were deported. The Turkish government has strongly denied the allegations. International humanitarian law ban states from deporting people to war zones.
Health officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed another death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organizatioin declared an end to the outbreak in the west Africa, the BBC's Umaru Fofana is in the capital Freetown. The spokesperson for the Ebola response center in Sierra Leone Sidi Yahya Tunis confirmed to me late last night that Public Health England have to carry out two tests on the swab sample of somebody who have died in the northern Tonkolili district of Sierra Leone, and both tests had returned a positive result for Ebola. We understand that this is what sick nobody near that it was Ebola. It's only after the person have died 3 days later, this swab results returned a positive sample for Ebola.
The police chief in the Indonisian capital Jakarta says the security forces are hunting terror cells believed to have been involved in Thursday's gun and bomb attack in the city center. The Jakarta police chief said the attackers had links to other militants in Sulawesi and Java. 7 people including 5 attackers are known to have died. From Jakarta, here is John Fisher. There is still dry blood on the ground outside the Starbucks where yesterday's attack began, left when a group of armed men detonated several explosive devices before moving on to target a police post. There have been home grown Islamist militants attacks here before, notably the Bali bombing in 2002, but this time, the authorities are sure, there is an international link. There has been an Indonian man Bahrun Naim who is appearantly the so called Islamic state in Syria. They believe he orchestrated this attack.
Officials in Japan say at least 14 people have been killed and dozens injured, after a bus taking them to a skii resort slipped down a mountainside. The bus was going from Tokyo to the resort in Nagano-ken when it veered off the road near of the town of Karuizawa. It's not immediately clear what caused the crash, as there was no snow or ice on the road surface. Transport Ministry has launched an investigation. World news from the BBC.
The worldwide Anglican church has suspended its US branch, the Episcapol church from full participation in matters of doctrine, for recognizing gay marriages. Anglican leaders say Episcapol church had fundementally departed from the faith held by the majority of Anglicans.
The frontrunner of the Republican presidential nomination in the US, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have clashed sharply in one of the final debates before the primaries begin in two weeks time. Mr. Trump questioned whether Senator Cruz was legally allowed to become president because he was born in Canada. And in a debate on the Fox Business Network, Mr. Cruz replied that his rival only brought the matter up, becasue he was losing support in the state of Iowa, where the first will be held. On the issue of citizenship, Donald, I am not gonna use your mother's birth against you, because it would not work. You are an American, as is everybody else on their stage, and I would suggest we focus on who is best prepared to be commander in chief, because that's the most important question faced upon.
The trial has begun in Thailand of the former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra whose government was overthrown in a coup in May 2014. She faces charges of corruption that stemmed from a popular rice subsidy scheme which helped her win 2011 election. Critics say the policy wasted billions of dollars. BBC news.