South Korea: New investigation into Halloween crush

South Korea's President, Lee Jae Myung, will set up a new investigation into the Halloween crowd crush, which killed 159 people in Seoul in 2022. Nearly t 200 more were injured, when large crowds packed into a narrow street in the Itaewon area of the city. Jake Kwon reports from Seoul.

Syria says its army is withdrawing from the city of Suweida after days of deadly clashes and Israeli airstrikes that have shaken the country’s fragile political transition under President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Syria's army went in to the south-western Druze area, it said, to calm local tensions. But the military was then accused of targeting Druze communities and 300 people were reportedly killed. In response, Israel launched airstrikes - it says to defend Druze civilians.

The Hague Group, a new coalition of countries from the global south established by South Africa and Colombia, has convened in Bogotá for an emergency two-day conference to focus on the issue of how to end the war in Gaza. We speak to the executive secretary of the group.

We speak to Mahmoud Khalil, the Colombia university graduate who spent 100 days in immigration detention in the United States for participating in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. He is now seeking damages from the US government.

Presenters: James Copnall and Victoria Uwonkunda

(Photo: A woman reads condolence messages on a wall in a narrow alley of Itaewon where the deadly Halloween crush happened. Credit: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)