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BBC news 2015-09-18

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Serbia and the United Nations have sharply criticized Hungary of using tear gas and water cannon against migrants trying to enter its territory to reach northern Europe. The Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic accused Hungary of being brutal and non-European. We will like to preserve the best possible relationship but our Hungarian colleagues for they fired tear gas against those migrants and it was a chaotic situation and we hope that it will be able to act calmly and responsibly and It will to be able to reckon this situation. But what we really need is a comprehensive European solution. Hungary defended that action saying the up to two dozen police officers were injured as those migrants trying to break through border fence.

A new study suggest the compaign against malaria in Africa has prevented almost 700 million cases of the most deadly form of the disease since the turn of the century. Research by team at Oxford University found that the number of the new infections in Africa at halved. But the report says there are increasing concerns about resistance to the main drug used to treat the disease.

Gun shot has been fired in Burkina Faso to disperse a growing crowd near the presidential palace. Soldiers there have seized the interim president and Prime Minister. Our West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy has more. Their captors are soldiers from the elite presidential guard but their intention remains unknown. Are they protesting against a plan to dismantle their controversial unit? Or are they trying to take power less than a month before the first elections are held since former president Compaore fled a popular uprising last year?

And people fear that in the confusion the situation may escalate into violence.

The top US commander in the Middle East, General Lloyd Austin has admitted that only 4 or 5 Syrian rebels trained by America to confront Islamic State militants are still fighting. He was being questioned by US Senate Committee as Baber reports from Washington. Congress has approved 500 million dollars to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State. But the first 54 graduates of the program were attacked by Al Qaeda militants as soon as they entered the battle field in July. Some were captured and killed, the rests scattered. Law makers were dumbfounded to hear from General Austin that only 4 or 5 are still in the fight. There was clearly no way right now to meet the goal of training around 5000 recruits a year, he said. The admission is a stark indictment of president Obama's strategy to defeat Islamic state while keeping US troops off the front line. Barbara P reporting.

The US says Russia has proposed holding what it described as military to military talks on the conflicts in Syria. The US secretary of state John Kerry said US were considering the offer. You are listening to the latest world news from the BBC.

The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has strongly critisized the decision by Russian backed rebels in east of the country to hold elections next month. He said that will pose a great danger to the peace process.

The Mexican foreign minister has visited six survivors of Egyptian army attack in which eight Mexican tourists were killed after being mistaken for militants. The minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu said the injured survivors at hospital in Cario were doing well. She repeated Mexico's demand for thorough investigation into Sunday's incident in Egypt's western desert.

India says a senior Saudi diplomat accused of holding captive and raping two Nepal maids at his home near Deli has left the country. The Indian foreign ministry said Majed Hassan Ashoor, first secretary at the Saudi embassy, had been protected by diplomatic immunity, and they were unable to question him. The Saudi embassy has strongly denied the allegations.

President Obama has invited a 14 year old Muslim student to White House after he was briefly detained by police for taking a homemade clock to school. The teather thought it looked like a bomb. The boy, Ahmed Mohamed said he was surprised by the reacions at school in Texas. I took this clock to show my teachers that the talent I have, I want to show him. And in my perspective, it did not look like a bomb. President Obama writing on his Twitter account said that Ahmed Mohamed's clock was cool, adding that more children should be inspired to join science like him.

A well known Russian impersonator has claimed he tricked the singer Elson John into thinking that persident Vladmir Putin had phoned him to discuss gay rights. Vladmir Crossnal, better known as volva, said he believed Mr. Putin would be unlikely to want to talk with the singer, but he said from the way Elson John reacted, it appears that he was really expecting the call. BBC news.