Trail Derailment in India; British Woman in Dubai's Jail
PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT REPORTER: Hi, there. I'm Patrick Snell with your CNN World Sport headlines. It really has been quite the year for British tennis player Andy Murray, he won his second Wimbledon title, added a second Olympic gold in Rio, and now he can proudly having to the New Year as the youngest featured world number one after beating Novak Djokovic Sunday at the ATP World Tour finals in England winning 6-3, 6-4. The Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson Sunday having quite the year too. He won the Open championship in July, he won a silver medal at the Olympics and Sunday was looking to win the European golf procedures and raced to buy crown for the second time in three years. Stenson doing what he had to do then to seal the European Tour Order of Merit after holding up his rival, the 40-year-ol closing with 7 under 65 to seal in his style to keep nearest challenge Danny Willet at bay and another triumphant to add to his 2013 title. And finally, we head to the top of the table in England Premier League a position where you'll now find Chelsea Football Club sitting pretty after the blues reported a slender 1-nil victory at Middleborough on Sunday. The only goal of the game coming just four minutes before the half time break and it came from Diego Costa, the Spaniard's tenth of the season, too. And as it turned out it was enough to send the men from West London home with at all three points at the Riverside Stadium on Sunday. Thanks for joining us. That's a look at your sports headlines. I'm Patrick Snell.</s>HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN Newsroom. I'm George Howell. In India, an investigation is underway in to what caused the deadly train derailment in the northern part of that country. The death toll now stands at 142 people killed in the incident, 14 cars of the 23-car carriage train jumped the tracks early Sunday. Dozens more people were injured and what's become India's deadliest train wreck that happened in six years. CNN's Mallika Kapur is following the story live in Hong Kong this hour. Mallika, good to have you with us. If you could, just explain to our viewers around the world where things stand now when it comes to identifying the dead and also looking to see if there might be other survivors.</s>MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Authorities are saying that there are no more survivors. They have completed the rescue operation, the area of the train crash has been cleared. And as you mentioned, the death toll, unfortunately, the number is very grim, it is 142 people confirmed dead. Out of those 142 people, they have been able to identify most of the bodies. They have been able to identify 110 victims. This death toll, as high as it is, may continue to rise even further, George, and that's because many more people are in the hospital and being treated for their injuries. We did hear from authorities, 49 people are still in the hospital, some of them are seriously injured, so we won't be surprised if we do see this number of 142 people dead continuing to rise. So, the search and rescue operation has been completed and the death toll at 142. The question now turns to what caused such a horrible train crash to occur in the first place. Now, the junior railway minister he said a few hours ago that on preliminary investigation, it seems it may have been caused by a fracture on the tracks, a formal investigation has been ordered, but at the moment it does look like it could have been caused by a fracture on the tracks, George.</s>HOWELL: Fracture on the tracks. You know, this reminds me just of the issue of transportation infrastructure in India. I think back just a couple of months back to the overpass that collapsed and so many people killed and injured in that situation. And now this train derailment. Talk to us about why these accidents like this train accident why they are so common in India.</s>KAPUR: Yes. Infrastructure does remain sort of the weakest link in India's growth story. And it's always been a recurring problem, you mentioned the highway, the overpass that collapsed in Kolkata just a few months ago, train accidents, like this, unfortunately are quite common. When you look at India's railway network, though, one of the reasons these train accidents are common is because of the sheer size of the network and also because of how old the network is. But if you look at the sheer size, if you took the tracks that make up India's railway system and you line them up one after the other, it would go around the earth equator one and a half times, that's how big it is. If you looked at the burden on this railway network, imagine the entire population of Australia, 23 million people, that's how many people are moved by the Indian railways every single day, that's a massive burden for this network to bear. And then on top of that, you add the problem of subsidies. Now the Indian railways which is state run has been subsidizing passenger tickets for years. So when you look at the revenue of this railway network, by the time the revenue comes in the chunk of it almost all of it really goes towards just the operational cost, and there was very little left over to use towards modernizing it. And the Indian railway system is in desperate need of an upgrade and it needs to be modernized. Prime Minister Narendra Modi just earlier this year during the budget has earmarked a chunk of money to modernize the Indian railway system so that accidents like this are not repeated again in the future.</s>HOWELL: The great deal of concern, just given how extensive this rail system is, and just the difficulty in making sure that safety, you know, is maintained. Mallika Kapur following the story in Hong Kong. Thank you for your reporting. Moving on now o Dubai where a British woman who went on vacation there could end up in prison after telling police that she was gang raped. The U.K.-based legal advice group says that authorities have charged her with having extramarital sex. CNN's Muhammad Lila is following the story and joins us now live from Dubai this hour. First of all, what do we know so far about this, what are we hearing from the United Kingdom in response?</s>MUHAMMAD LILA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, George, we do have the statement from the consulate here in Dubai where the office says that they are providing assistance to this woman and they're hoping that this case can move very quickly through the UAE legal system. A lot of the information that we have on this comes from reporting from this NGO called detained in Dubai. Now they provide legal advice specifically to foreigners who were in cases like this, where they either visited Dubai or they're living here and they've been caught up in Dubai's legal system. And for those who were outside of Dubai's legal system, this clearly comes across as an outrage, in fact, in many ways it's a tourist's worst nightmare. What we're able to gather so far, what we've gleaned from the information is that this woman who was from the U.K. in her 20s was visiting here on vacation, when she reported she had been raped. She took that complaint to the police and she said she had been raped. Now, as part of the police investigating the case, they also turned around and detained the woman, the alleged victim in this case, was detained and her passport was confiscated and she was charged with having sex outside of marriage, which is a criminal violation here in Dubai. And so because her passport has been confiscated, she is now effectively trapped here in the country until this case gets resolved. As far as official comment goes, the Dubai government is not commenting on this, the Dubai police are not commenting on this because it's before the courts. And clearly, what we found here on the ground is that this has become a very sensitive case because it deals with foreigners and it deals with an image that Dubai really may not want to publicize. Dubai is a place of amusement parks and beaches and sky scrapers and business, and all of those other things that draw so many foreigners here. But when you have a case like this that runs counter to that narrative, it's something that people here like to keep under wraps and certainly treat very sensitively.</s>HOWELL: And Muhhamad, when you consider the number of people that travel to Dubai, so many visitors and so many tourists, this is certainly a story that many people around the world will be watching closely. Muhammad Lila, live for us in Dubai, thank you so much for your reporting and we'll stay in touch with you. This is CNN Newsroom. And still ahead, an ice rink in Manhattan built by Donald Trump many years ago, how it's led to his plan to heat up the U.S. economy. 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