Anna Botting

2 weeks ago | news.sky.com | Anna Botting

World leaders including Sir Keir Starmer, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron have arrived in Rome ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis. Police sources have told Sky News around 200,000 people are expected to attend the pontiff's funeral, including some 130 delegations, with around one million estimated to be trying to see the procession in Rome. At least 250,000 people have taken the opportunity to view the 88-year-old's casket as he lay in state over the last three days in St Peter's Basilica.

Jan 18, 2025 | news.sky.com | Anna Botting

In a smoke-filled room in Bethlehem, four men pore over a list - just released - of the names of Palestinian detainees to be freed in phase one of the ceasefire deal. This is the office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society. The phone has not stopped ringing. Families are desperate for news.

Jan 18, 2025 | msn.com | Anna Botting |in Bethlehem

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Jan 18, 2025 | msn.com | Anna Botting |in Bethlehem

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Oct 23, 2023 | inews.co.uk | Anna Botting

There is always a moment in a conflict which brings it home to you. My team and I were given access to Kibbutz Be’eri. Just over two miles from the border with Gaza, it’s a community collective with large white houses, green lawns amid the dust of southern Israel and gardens filled with fruit trees and flowers. Decorations were still up for the Jewish holiday. Now, the homes stand empty, desolate, many blackened and burnt out, most bullet-ridden. Testament to that day of horror.