[02:29.25]Valerie Amos has told the Security Council that about 2.5 million Syrians were trapped beyond the reach of aid workers and that action was urgently required.
[02:38.20]This is a race against time.
[02:41.48]As we deliberate, people continue to die unnecessarily.
[02:47.24]I call upon all members of the council to exert influence and take the necessary action to stop this brutality and violence.
[02:57.41]World News from the BBC.
[03:00.33]Hundreds of Eritrean refugees have held a mock funeral outside the Italian parliament to remember the victims of a ship wreck earlier this month.
[03:09.26]More than 350 people, most of them from Eritrea, drowned when their boat sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
[03:16.86]Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta has pressed fellow European leaders to give more help to Mediterranean countries to address the issue of illegal migration.
[03:25.21]But the EU pushed further discussion of the problem back to following summits.
[03:30.23]Roma leaders and right activists in Bulgaria have expressed concerns about media coverage of the case of a blond girl removed from her Roma family in Greece.
[03:40.19]DNA test have established that the Bulgarian Roma couple are the parents of the girl named Maria.
[03:46.22]Here is report by Nick Thorpe .
[03:48.51]As police in Greece and Bulgaria try to investigate whether any money changed hands between her natural parents and those with whom she was found.