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for trapped civilians. the uk's home secretaryjames cleverly is in rwanda to sign a new treaty with the government there to facilitate the deportation of asylum seekers. that's despite the supreme court's ruling that the scheme violates human rights laws. the un's climate summit continues in dubai, where the focus has shifted to energy and industry. thousands protest across new zealand against the newly formed centre—right coalition government and its policies affecting the indigenous maori population. and excitement for fans of grand theft auto. after a ten—year wait, a trailer of the new version of the game is released after being leaked online. you're watching bbc news.
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13 hikers have been found dead near the crater of indonesia's mount marapi volcano after it erupted over the weekend. the initial death toll was 11 — but a short time ago, a rescue official reported two additional bodies were found, and the number was revised up. at least ten others are missing and the search was suspended on monday after another, smaller eruption. there were 75 hikers in the area during the main eruption on sunday but most were safely evacuated. let's go live now to bangkok and our south east asia correspondentjonathan head. bring us up to date with the latest and this figure of 13 who have been found dead? 13 and this figure of 13 who have been found dead?— and this figure of 13 who have been found dead? . . , , found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great _ found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great deal— found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great deal of— found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great deal of concern - there is a great deal of concern about them and whether they will still be alive. the search has gone on today. there have been about 200 searchers involved in different teams in difficult conditions. the whole of the area around the summit of the volcano is completely covered in this thick ash, and the volcano
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remains active. we are getting close to the end of the day now. there will not be much daylight left, perhaps another hour or so, so the search will have to stop at night. there is a great deal of concern about the state of those missing ten people. some of those who have been found did suffer severe burn injuries. 1 found did suffer severe burn in'uries. ., found did suffer severe burn in'uries. . , ., ,. , injuries. i read reports of rescuers havin: to injuries. i read reports of rescuers having to take _ injuries. i read reports of rescuers having to take it _ injuries. i read reports of rescuers having to take it in _ injuries. i read reports of rescuers having to take it in turns - injuries. i read reports of rescuers having to take it in turns to - injuries. i read reports of rescuers having to take it in turns to carry i having to take it in turns to carry survivors down the mountains. this is just one of 130 volcanoes in the region? paint as a picture of what the landscape is like. the region? paint as a picture of what the landscape is like.— region? paint as a picture of what the landscape is like. the whole of indonesia has _ the landscape is like. the whole of indonesia has hundreds _ the landscape is like. the whole of indonesia has hundreds of - the landscape is like. the whole of i indonesia has hundreds of volcanoes. that figure of 130 is the number of volcanoes that are active. so people are used to living with them. and there's volcanoes provide fertile soil when it settles down, but anybody living near a volcano has to live with the reality that it might erupt at some point. they are popular with climbers because you
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get tremendous views from the top and they are covered in wonderful, lush tropicalforests. and they are covered in wonderful, lush tropical forests. the terrain is quite challenging and they are difficult to climb. the problem is that they are very unpredictable. a lot of active volcanoes do have frequent eruptions. there are often plumes of smoke in the air. you can hear the bellowing and occasionally lather comes down. most of those eruptions are not life—threatening. in some parts of indonesia, not this mountain, which is in sumatra, which is relatively lightly populated, but the main island ofjava is so densely populated that many people farm right up to the high slopes of the mountains. in this case, on mount marapi on sunday, the strong eruption that happened appears to have caught seismologists by surprise. there were eruptions earlier in the year. they closed the mountain for a period then. then it was reopened injuly because it had died down and there was no indication that there would be an
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eruption of this scale on sunday. we will follow the search efforts closely. thank you. a drone used by the nigerian army has accidentally killed at least 85 civilians. it was targeting militants, but hit a village in the northern state of kaduna on sunday night as people gathered to mark a muslim festival. nigeria's president, bola tinubu, described it as a bombing mishap and called for a thorough investigation. kaduna's security commissioner, samuel anuwan, has been speaking to reporters. the nigerian army was on a routine mission against terrorists. but unfortunately, some members of one community were affected. it's been a day of peaceful protests and demonstrations across new zealand against its newly formed coalition government on the opening day of parliament. maori leaders are calling for action against government policies which limit co—governance.
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they say the policies are an assault on tangata whenua — indigenous new zealanders and the treaty of waitangi — new zealand s founding document. it's extremely encouraging, not only here, but across the motu. we put the call out in 72 hours, and this is the interest that we have and the concern with the way that the government is treating maori. let's go live now to sydney and our correspondent, phil mercer. tell us more about this growing issue between the government and the maori population? weill. issue between the government and the maori population?— maori population? well, maori oliticians maori population? well, maori politicians have _ maori population? well, maori politicians have called - maori population? well, maori politicians have called for - maori population? well, maori politicians have called for a - maori population? well, maori| politicians have called for a day maori population? well, maori. politicians have called for a day of action. and likely to be the last, given the sense of anger that many of the thousands of protesters feel about what they have described as a racist agenda pursued by new zealand's new conservative coalition government. protesters are worried
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about plans, for example, to limit the use of the maori language, to abandon positive policies that acknowledge maori as the original inhabitants of new zealand. there is also a proposalfrom inhabitants of new zealand. there is also a proposal from the new government to reassess the treaty of waitangi. this was signed back in 1840 waitangi. this was signed back in 18110 between the british crown and hundreds of maori chiefs. it set out the way that both sides were to govern new zealand. it is still relevant today, and the coalition government wants to reassess the way the treaty is interpreted in modern legislation. many maori protesters and others believe that this is an assault on indigenous rights. the government, of course, says that its job is to treat all new zealanders equally, regardless of race. talk to
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us about this _ equally, regardless of race. talk to us about this coalition _ equally, regardless of race. talk to | us about this coalition government, phil. i watched a press conference from the leaders of the coalition a couple of days ago. it was combative and weird at times. it didn't really give the illusion of a coalition. what is happening in new zealand politics at the moment? idea? what is happening in new zealand politics at the moment? new zealand has voted in — politics at the moment? new zealand has voted in a — politics at the moment? new zealand has voted in a general _ politics at the moment? new zealand has voted in a general election - politics at the moment? new zealand has voted in a general election on - has voted in a general election on the 14th of october. it took six weeks for a government to emerge, principally because of new zealand's often complex system of proportional representation voting. eventually, when the dust settled, the national party, which is a centre—right party led by christopher luxon, had the largest share of the vote, but it needed the support of minor parties to form a government. so it has now formed a coalition with the libertarian act new zealand party and the populous new zealand first. and it is those minor parties in large part that had been driving the
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concerns about policies that favour indigenous maori people. so here you have a centre—right government that believes that some of the policies of the past are outdated and need updating, but you have many maori new zealanders believing that this is an assault on their culture and their rights. so these protests today could be the start of more confrontation between maori protesters and the government of christopher luxon. phil protesters and the government of christopher luxon.— christopher luxon. phil mercer, thank you _ a former service technician for tesla says he doesn t believe the electric car s assisted—driving technology — autopilot — is safe. lucasz krupski is in the uk this week to receive an award for deciding to blow the whistle at the company and leak internal memos allegedly regarding safety issues, from tesla s norway ho. the firm has declined to comment. here's our technology editor zoe kleinman.
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over—the—air software updates ensure that autopilot gets even better... this is how tesla wants its autopilot software to be seen, assisting a human driver who is ultimately still in control. but when former employee lucasz krupski voiced concerns he felt about safety in his own workplace, and later on with the tech itself, his dream job turned into a nightmare. i became very depressed and anxious. i couldn't sleep. mr krupski was personally praised by tesla owner elon musk after putting out a fire. he claims his managers turned against him when he raised his concerns directly with the tech billionaire. he then told us he found he could easily access a huge trove of sensitive internal company data, ranging from personal staff details to safety information. he chose to hand it over to us regulators and, controversially, the press. i spoke to multiple hr partners, managers, different levels of compliance, and it didn't work.
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if you don't speak to compliance, what else you can do? the dutch data protection authority, where tesla's european h0 is, are looking into the data breach. some of what mr krupski says he saw continues to alarm him. i found that the car unexpectedly brakes out of nowhere, phantom braking is when the car unexpectedly brakes out of nowhere, because it interpreted a shadow as, let's say, some obstacle and needs to suddenly brake. and that can put the car in danger, and everyone behind as well. last month, the government announced new proposals for driverless car regulation here in the uk. in san francisco and beijing, you can hire a taxi with no human driver at all. but are we ready for the tech? so it might be relatively easy to get the technology to drive relatively safely on, say, a motorway, which is already quite a controlled environment. it might be next to impossible
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to get it to drive safely through central london so that we can all be really confident that it causes no additional risk. but that's all a long way away from the hype that's currently coming from the people developing the technology. do you think that tesla autopilot is safe? unfortunately not. i don't think the hardware is ready and the software is ready. so even if you don't have a tesla, your children still walk on the footpath. i have this terrifying feeling that one day, a car mightjust harm them. tesla did not respond to our emails. according to its own data, at the end of 2022, us tesla customers using autopilot averaged one crash where the airbag deployed roughly every five million miles traveled. tesla drivers not using it averaged once every 1.5 million miles or so. the us driver overall average was once every 600,000 miles, but we can't independently verify tesla's figures. meanwhile, the first delivery
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of the car—maker's latest vehicle, the cybertruck, went ahead in the us last week. tesla's boss elon musk continues his push for a driverless future, and the uk aims to be on a similar track. zoe kleinman, bbc news. now, have you heard of forest city? this was a $100 billion project unveiled in southern malaysia in 2016 by the developer country garden. it was a part of china's massive belt and road initiative and was supposed to be home to almost a million people. but eight years on, country garden is facing colossal debts and the complex is virtually empty. our asia business correspondent nick marsh spent a night in forest city that many now describe as a ghost town. music: ghost town by the specials. we're injohor, right on the tip
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of southern malaysia, and there's something strange on the horizon. locals call it ghost city. and on first impressions, you can see why. 0k, this is forest city. it's a bit dark. i think someone has forgotten to turn the lights on. it's hard to believe that anyone actually lives here. oh, here they are. even in mid—afternoon, forest city feels more like a haunted house than a happy home. do you feel like it's a ghost town? from what i've seen so far, yes, i would have to agree. maybe you should try after 12. we may be 3,000 miles from beijing, but residents likejoanne are trying to weather a storm in china's property sector.
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she wants to get out of forest city. and as night started to fall, i met someone who already had. i feel freedom, to be honest. i feel free. i finally escaped this multi—billion project. it's supposed to be good. it's supposed to meet expectations, but it's frustrating. the property developer country garden sold this place as a thriving eco—friendly community, with beaches, bars, restaurants. it was a chance for chinese investors to own a second home abroad and then rent it out to locals. but as we've already seen all over china, ambition didn't match reality. chinese government controls on how much companies could borrow and how much chinese citizens could spend on foreign property have left forest city in disarray. this place was supposed to be a restaurant. i think behind me, judging by the looks of things, it was supposed to be the kitchen. country garden's slogan for this
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place was "a prime vision for future cities". but if you take a look around, it doesn't seem that way. country garden insists that the project will be finished. but with the company facing debts of nearly $200 billion, it's hard to see how. forest city was supposed to house1 million people. right now, it's1% occupied. like so many chinese property developments, this place seems to be going nowhere. bbc news contacted country garden group in china and received no response. its malaysian operation did respond and said that despite what they called "the noise and current situation", they were running the business as usual and the overall operation in the region is "safe and stable". around the world and across the uk,
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this is bbc news. ijust want i just want to take you to rwanda now. the british foreign secretary james cleverly is visiting a genocide museum over there. he has travelled to kigali to try and cement plans to send migrants to the african country legally after the supreme court in the uk ruled against the policy. legislation will push through the uk parliament to assert that rwanda is both safe for asylum seekers and that it is also a planned agreement. james cleverly will meet his counterpart to sign the treaty discussing the next key steps on the so—called migration and economic development partnership. this is an agreement that has been decried by many campaigners. as i say, it was ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court, so now these efforts by the foreign secretary,
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the home secretary and the prime minister to establish the programme. this is bbc news. just some developing news with regards to gaza. the situation is getting worse by the hour according to a world health organization official there. reports say there is an intensified level of bombing around khan yunis and the rafah area. that is of course the border crossing between gaza and egypt. now, a decade—long wait for gamers is over. finally a trailer for the sixth main game in the grand theft auto series has been released. rockstar games released it earlier than expected after it first leaked online. it's predecessor is the second best selling video game of all time, behind only minecraft. our technology correspondent, marc cieslak, reports. lucia, do you know why you're here? bad luck, i guess. critically acclaimed, commercially lucrative and controversial in equal measure.
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well, look who's back! the official announcement for grand theft auto 6 arrived 15 hours earlier than expected, due to its developer's worries over leaked footage. it's mad. any leak, any detail, any of the smallest insights, this is the gaming story of the year, and it's just a trailer. the game is not even out this year. a blockbuster with its roots in the uk, the company behind gta, rockstar games, celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, with this trailer revealing the next instalment in the series. originally called dma design, its developers were based in dundee. the first grand theft auto looked very different from the game we know today. even this 2d top—down version proved controversial. old news report: it's been widely criticised for its violent content. under proposals being considered by the home office, a health warning would be flashed up on the screen at the start, reminding players not to drive like this on the roads. it's a series of games that's always
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managed to offend somebody. more recent outings have heavily leaned into dark humour and satire in between all of the car chases and criminality. it's been ten years since gta v released, and it's still regularly topped sales charts, racking up over £6 billion in revenue. an innovative and immersive game world, gta v's fictional city of los santos allows players to indulge in everything from extreme sports to watching in—game tv shows. i think the essential ingredients of a gta game are almost like rebelliousness and a freedom to be the naughty version of yourself, things that we obviously can't do in real life and none of us really actually want to, but the gta games are criminal simulators. this first look at gta 6 reveals the game is set in a location similar to miami,
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vice city, and the wider state of leonida. it's the first time these games have featured female and male lead characters. they spent over $1 billion on it. this is going to be the most expensive game ever made. we'll have to wait until the game is released in 2025 to see if gta6 lives up to the series' legacy of lawlessness. if you're scared of heights, you may want to look away 110w. this is a wakeboarder called brian grubb, who decided that being pulled along by a drone on top of a huge skyscraper wasn't quite scary enough. so he went up a ramp and off the side of the 77—storey building in dubai for a bit of base—jumping. it's said to be the first time anyone has combined the two extreme sports. you're watching bbc news. one of london's most iconic christmas decorations has been
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hauled into place. the trafalgar square christmas tree arrived in the early hours of monday morning, gifted as always by the norwegians. harry low has been to have a look. this tree is ready to leave. it spent most of its life in a forest north of oslo. after travelling by land and sea, the norwegian spruce reach central london this morning, before taking pride of place in the capital's most famous square. the tree is 62 foot tall, aged 70 and it is 76 years since no way �*s king first sent a tree to london as a token of thanks for hosting the country? government in exile during world war ii. country? government in exile during world war it— country? government in exile during world war il— world war ii. very nice, nice gift. it looks world war ii. very nice, nice gift. it looks very _ world war ii. very nice, nice gift. it looks very tall, _ world war ii. very nice, nice gift. it looks very tall, very _ world war ii. very nice, nice gift. it looks very tall, very green, - world war ii. very nice, nice gift. | it looks very tall, very green, very fresh _ it looks very tall, very green, very fresh. he— it looks very tall, very green, very fresh. �* , ., ., ., ., , fresh. as a londoner, born and bred, this is a very — fresh. as a londoner, born and bred, this is a very good — fresh. as a londoner, born and bred, this is a very good example _ fresh. as a londoner, born and bred, | this is a very good example compared with previous — this is a very good example compared with previous years _ this is a very good example compared with previous years where _ this is a very good example compared with previous years where perhaps . with previous years where perhaps one or _ with previous years where perhaps one or two — with previous years where perhaps one or two have _ with previous years where perhaps one or two have been— with previous years where perhaps one or two have been a _ one or two have been a disappointment. - one or two have been a disappointment. [- one or two have been a disappointment. one or two have been a disa ointment. ~ disappointment. i quite like it, actuall . disappointment. i quite like it, actually- it's — disappointment. i quite like it, actually. it's a _ disappointment. i quite like it, actually. it's a tree, _ disappointment. i quite like it, actually. it's a tree, isn't - disappointment. i quite like it, actually. it's a tree, isn't it, i disappointment. i quite like it, | actually. it's a tree, isn't it, and it's going to be dressed up, so
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there you go! it it's going to be dressed up, so there you go!— there you go! it is magic to be here, there you go! it is magic to be here. you _ there you go! it is magic to be here, you know? _ there you go! it is magic to be here, you know? trafalgar- there you go! it is magic to be here, you know? trafalgar is l there you go! it is magic to be i here, you know? trafalgar is the place _ here, you know? trafalgar is the ulace to— here, you know? trafalgar is the place to he — here, you know? trafalgar is the place to be in london at christmas. what _ place to be in london at christmas. what do _ place to be in london at christmas. what do you — place to be in london at christmas. what do you think of the tree? i what do you think of the tree? i think it's really cool. i look forward to looking at it all decorated.— forward to looking at it all decorated. , ., . , decorated. the finishing touches will be applied — decorated. the finishing touches will be applied in _ decorated. the finishing touches will be applied in the _ decorated. the finishing touches will be applied in the coming i decorated. the finishing touches l will be applied in the coming days and its christmas lights switched on in trafalgar square this thursday. it was dubbed the wagatha christie trial and became one of the most sensational trials of recent times — a dispute between formerfriends and footballers' wives coleen rooney and rebekah vardy over allegations the latter leaked stories about her to the press. in her new book coleen shares her experience of the trial and for the first time, she also opens up about her husband wayne's infidelity along with coping with miscarriages. she's been speaking to our entertainment correspondent colin paterson about why she's decided to tell her story... coleen rooney. the last time i saw you, i was about 20 feet away from you in the high court,
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because i covered every day of that case in there. what was that two—week period like for you? oh, it wasjust draining. it was so stressful. and it was the unknown going into it. i've never been in the court before, and ijust didn't know what to expect. i'd never seen a courtroom, obviously, only on films or on tv. so it was all new. and it was scary. it was emotional. how closely were you following the coverage of the case? not much. i pretty much went back to the hotel room, switched off, and then it was mostly of a morning when we put the tv on, we would catch a little bit and see myself on there. and i didn't follow it. my focus was on myself. what was the moment when thejudgment was handed down like for you? because we all gathered outside the high court, although nothing was happening there that day, it somehow felt the natural place. from the book, yours wasn't that glamorous a location. no, no. mine was in, like, a retail estate in salford.
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we didn't know when the judgement was going to come out and it came on us really quick. i literally got a phone call saying "it's coming out tomorrow." obviously when the verdict come out, i thought are you know, it's time for me now to tell my side of the story. and it was my account to give. it's my story to tell. i was terrified, and i thought the nerves are going to get the better of me and i could fall to pieces on that stand. and the book does not shy away from things. you talk about your miscarriages for the first time. you speak about wayne's infidelities. what worries did you have about putting this out there? none, because i've lived them, i've dealt with them. i've moved on. we've dealt with them as a family. i'm one of them that can move on, and i'm not afraid to shy away from it. it's comething that's happened and everyone knows about it, so why not tell tell my side of it? i've been in the press for 20 years.
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more than half your life. yeah, and people didn't know much. even though i've been there and i can be in the papers and stuff day in, day out, you don't really know me as a person, which i feel like from the book, hopefully they get me a lot more. what does a rooney christmas look like? it's always at home because it all revolves around football, and we have a family christmas. we do the whole... we will go out for a dinner on christmas eve, like an early tea, and then we'll go home and do the whole pyjamas, reindeer food out, leave the carrots and snack for santa, and then get the kids to bed. and then father christmas comes in. have you got wayne's present yet? we don't buy for each other on christmas. why not? we've been together too long. it's all about the kids. coleen rooney, thank you very much for speaking to us. thank you.
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lovely to meet you. hello again. some parts of scotland and northern ireland started the day with some frost, but as we go through the next few days, you will find the temperature is going to climb. it's going to get into double figures, but you can see how the yellows replace the colder blues and it's going to continue like this right the way into the weekend. so instead of low single figures, we will be looking at low double figures. but today, we have low pressure pulling away into the near continent. still a brisk breeze for a time along the east coast. but the wind with ease as we go through the day. and the cloud is continuing to drift further east with showers in eastern areas. we will hang onto some showers at times across eastern parts of northern ireland, pembrokeshire and devon and cornwall. the lion's share of the sunshine will be across scotland and
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parts of northern ireland, but it will still feel cold. overnight, eventually the low pressure does pull away. we will have clearer skies and mist and fog patches forming across parts of scotland, but especially central and southern england, where we will have freezing fog. these are the temperatures in the towns and cities, so a cold and frosty night. but in sheltered glands, temperatures could fall away to -10, glands, temperatures could fall away to —10, or “i! in the midlands. a lot of sunshine to start the day tomorrow. crisp and frosty. some of the freezing fog will only lift into low cloud through the afternoon. towards the west, the cloud is going to build, the wind will strengthen and the rain will arrive. and with that will come milder conditions. push further east, and it is still going to be a cold day. overnight wednesday into thursday and thursday itself, as this band of rain pushes north into the cold air, we could see some disruptive hill snow across northern england and the hills of scotland, but it will be transient.
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behind it, we will see a return to brighter skies and showers, but milder across the board. beyond that, low pressures come in from the atlantic as we head through friday and into the weekend. so the weather is going to remain unsettled. they will be cloudy and wet at times. it's also going to be windy at times. but compared to the temperatures and the weather we had last weekend, temperatures are going to be higher, with most of us getting into double figures.
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live from london, this is bbc news. there have been more explosions overnight in gaza as israel continues to expand its operations in the south, with reports of tanks near the city of khan younis.
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the uk's home secretary james cleverly is in rwanda to sign a new treaty with the government there to facilitate the deportation of asylum seekers. iam carl i am carl nasman at the cop28 climate conference in dubai, where there is more controversy over the role of fossil fuel companies at this year's summit. and excitement for fans of grand theft auto — after a ten—year wait, a trailer of the new version of the game is released after it was leaked online. hello, i'm gareth barlow. you are watching bbc news. israel says it's expanding its ground offensive in southern gaza, with witnesses there saying israeli tanks and troops are building up around the south. the israeli military are telling civilians to leave areas around khan younis — that's a city israel told civilians
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to flee to for safety, earlier in the conflict.

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