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Car ploughs into Vancouver street festival

At least nine people have been killed after a car drives into crowds at a street event.

At least nine people have been killed after a car ploughed into crowds at a Filipino cultural event in Vancouver. Yousef Vardeh is a Filipino-Canadian who witnessed the incident from his bao-bun food truck and watched as his customers were hit.

Also in the programme: Iranian officials say they have contained a deadly fire following an explosion at one of the country's largest ports; and we speak to the Serbian students running from their home country to Brussels to lobby the EU.

(Photo: An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day block party. Credit: REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier)

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