Sri Lankans arrest UK news team

• A British Channel 4 News team has been arrested in Sri Lanka after reporting allegations of abuse in camps for displaced Tamils.
• The Sri Lankan Defence Minister ordered Asia correspondent Nick Paton-Walsh, cameraman Matt Jasper and producer Bessie Du to leave the country.

• Mr Paton-Walsh said the crew was being driven to Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, with a police escort.

  Investigations

• Police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekera told reporters the trio were arrested in the eastern city of Trincomalee on Saturday. He said investigations were continuing.

• The Channel 4 team had been covering fighting between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels.

• Its report looked at the conditions in camps that had been set up by the government for the refugees who had fled the northern war zone.

• It explored allegations of sexual abuse as well as shortages of food and water.

• The United Nations estimates that about 50,000 civilians are trapped by fighting as government troops attempt to oust the Tamil Tigers from their strongholds across the north.

• The rebels have been driven back into a small pocket of land on the north-eastern coast.

• The Tamil Tigers have fought for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority since 1983. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the war.