BBC news with Iain Purdon.Civil defense workers in the Syrian city of Aleppo now say at least 55 people were killed by government airstrikes that hit a hospital on Wednesday. The group known as the White Helmets were still digging through the rubble 24 hours after the bomb strike. More than 200 people are reported to have died in Aleppo in the past week as a result of rebel shelling as well as government airstrikes. Sam Taylor of the charity Doctors without Borders says their report. This is not the first time. This is the 7th time that a Doctors without Borders supported hospital has been attacked this year alone. And there are many more hospitals that SMF doesn\'t support. So this continuing attacks on medical structures is horrific.
The American vice president Joe Biden has lent his support to Iraq\'s beleaguered government during a reef on announce tripped Baghdad, his first in five years. The White House spokesman Josh Ernest said the visit was a good indication of the United States continued support for efforts by the prime minister Haida Al-badi to unified Iraq to confront the Islamic State group, There are too critical priorities that prime minister Badi has indentified but the first is obviously the fight on the ground that Iraqi forces are waging against ISIL inside Iraq, the second priority that prime minister Badi has indentified is persuing a set of political reforms to fight corruption.
Iran has called on the United Nations to press the United States to release all frozen Iranian assets in US banks in line with last year\'s nuclear sanctions deal. It\'s been incensed since the US Supreme Court ruled last week that frozen Iranian assets worth more than 2 billion dollars must be handed over to relatives of people killed in attacks blamed on groups backed by Tehran.
The Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner has described the presidential hopeful Ted Cruz as Lucifer or the Devil in the flesh. Mr Boehner, a fellow Republican, said he wouldn\'t back Mr Cruz if he became the party\'s nominee for the White House. From New York, Nick Bryant. Up until his resignation last year, John Boehner was the most powerful Republican in America. And the former House Speaker was in expansive mood. They said he got along almost with everyone and had Democratic and Republican friends but that he\'d never worked with the more miserable \'son of a bitch\' as he put it in his life. Ted Cruz has said that Boehner \'s outspoken comments offered proof of his outsider status. He\'s cast himself throughout as the scourge of Washington establishment.
The British foreign secretary Philip Hammond is Cuba, the first such visit since 1970s. Trade is expected to play a big part in Mr Hammond\'s trip. The BBC correspondent in Havana says west European governments want to position themselves to take a good slice of Cuba\'s slowly opening economy before Americans move in. World news from the BBC.
The Supreme Court in Colombia has formally legalized same-sex marriage, making it the fourth country in Latin America to authorize it. Gay couples in Colombia were already allowed to form civil unions and had many benefits of marriage including inheritance, pensions and health benefits but the symbolically important right to marry had so far been denied to them.
More than 20 police officers have been injured in France in clashes with protectors opposed to planned labor reforms. Some of the worst violence was in Paris. Clashes also erupted in Nante, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse. France\'s powerful CGT union says the labor reform bill which should be debated in parliament next week will let employers bypass regulations on basic workers\' rights.
The Appeals court in Burkina Faso has thrown out an international arrest warrant for the former president Blaise Compaore. A military tribunal had brought charges against him in connection with the assassination of president Thomas Sankara during the coup 30 years ago that brought Mr Compaore to power. The court said the tribunal had committed procedural errors when issuing the warrants.
And finally construction workers in Southern Spain have uncovered a huge horde of ancient Rome coins while conducting maintenance on water pipes. The many thousand of bronze coins were found in 19 jars near Seville. James reports. The Romans ruled Spain for serval centuries and left a rich archaeological heritage but local experts say this discovery is pretty much unique not least because of its scale. The horde of bronze coins weigh a total of 1600 kilograms. Most show little sign of wear and tear, suggesting they were never in circulation. They bear the inscriptions of the emperors Maximian and Constantine who ruled Rome more than 1600 years ago. Archeologists think they may have been stored to pay soldiers or civil servants and were perhaps forgotten during a period of violent unrest. BBC news.
