World news - June - 3rd - 2013

Chinese state media says that at least 61 people have been killed in a fire at a slaughterhouse in the east of the country. It happened at a poultry processing plant in the city of Dehui in Jilin province. It's thought that an electrical problem began the fire.

 Countries across Central Europe are reinforcing their flood defenses as swollen rivers threaten to burst their banks. The Czech government has declared a nationwide state of emergency after days of torrential rain in the capital, Prague.

The U.S. soldier accused of causing America's worst ever national security breach goes on trial later. Bradley Manning is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents to the website Wikileaks.

Source: bbc.co.uk