BBC News with Marion Marshall
Audio recordings from the capsized Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, suggest the captain left the vessel while passengers were still being rescued. A coast guard officer orders the captain, Francesco Schettino, to return to the ship. Mr Schettino could be charged with
manslaughter
. His lawyer says a judge has ordered that the captain be held under house arrest. Eleven people are now known to have died in the disaster. Matthew Price reports from Giglio island.
Five more bodies were brought out of the Costa Concordia today, four men and a woman, the coast guard said. More than 20 people, though, remain
unaccounted for
, among them a five-year-old girl taken on the cruise as a special treat. Rescue workers blew holes into the side of the ship today, trying to improve access for the divers who are venturing inside. Specialists, cavers were brought in to get into the deepest parts of the
wreck
. Officially this is still a rescue operation, but the sense here is that no one else will be brought out alive.
The Syrian government has rejected a call from the Gulf state of Qatar for Arab soldiers to be sent to end the violence in Syria. The foreign ministry in Damascus said the Syrian people rejected any foreign intervention or attempt to
infringe
their sovereignty. Here's Paul Harper.
Qatar has been an outspoken critic of Syria's violent repression of anti-government protests, but the Qatari emir's suggestion on Friday that Arab troops should intervene to end the killing took that criticism to a new level. Predictably the suggestion has met with an angry Syrian rejection. Nevertheless, the Arab League will soon have to decide what to do about Syria as the mandate of its observer mission