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. hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. i'm lucy hockings. our top stories on china's national day, hong kong protestors protest. thousands including families with children join the protests today. now they say they'll occupy government buildings if the territory leader doesn't resign. >> live in hong kong as protests continue on this national day. ebola is diagnosed for the first time in the united states. we're going to be looking at how the authorities there plan to
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control the deadly virus. also on the program, aaron is looking at funding behind islamic state. >> absolutely. i.s. have managed to finance an army of some 30,000 soldiers. we're going to take a look at how private donations, extortion money, bank robberies and millions in oil funds everyday have made these people the wealthiest insurgent group of all time. it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. washington, 7:00 p.m. hong kong where prodemocracy demonstrators warn they'll occupy government buildings unless hong kong's leader resigns. demonstrations have spread to new parts of the city as the territory celebrates china's national day. some protestors were heard booing as the chinese national anthem was played. they want beijing to allow full
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democracy in hong kong by withdrawing plans to fetch candidates for the next leadership election. they continue to protest the main sites in the district, bay and mong kok. it's a public holiday to mark 65 years since china's communist party came to pass. let's take you straight there to my colleague in hong kong. >> reporter: yeah lucy, thank you very much. it's just on 7:00 in the evening here. once again, protestors are out in the hearts of these financial district. compared to the situation this
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time yesterday when we were broadcasting, numbers are thinner on the ground. they are in the thousands, but there was a sense this time yesterday there were tens of thousands. of course the situation does change minute by minute, hour by hour. we've been hearing chants of them calling for freedom. fight for freedom. this protest is a hong kong protest by hong kong people. there is now a growing sense in some parts of the population here in hong kong. for once, mainland china needs to acknowledge the growing inequality. the gap has been there many years and gone ignored by china and now time to voice those concerns as well as the calls for democracy and universal suffrage when it comes to enabling hong kong people to elect their leader in 2017. it is as you were saying a national day here today. public holiday which means people have got the day off work, school, college universities today and tomorrow. we're expecting numbers to once again swell in the coming hours.
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as bbc martin patience has been finding out, it's the will of the hong kong people. >> another sweltering hot day in hong kong. there's been another stunning turnout as you can see. thousands lining the streets here. some of them doing homework. many fanning themselves to try and stay cool. today is a national holiday across china. celebrations have been cancelled here in hong kong because of the protests. as you can see, people are streaming by me. most people know beijing is not going to let them further demand. they believe it's important to stay out on the streets to show this movement has no end. big cheers from the crowd there as a drone goes in the sky to
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get aerial shots. there's a carnival like atmosphere. people are camped and say they're going to camp out. it's unlikely i beijing will make changes. it worries what impact this might be on china. >> martin was saying the protests continuing into a sixth day here. we were here broadcasting this morning. will there's a sense energy levels are a little low after the huge numbers we saw overnight. going to give you a sense to get a closer look. it's largely a student demonstration at the moment. young of hong kong are out on the streets. there's the other section of hong kong
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>> reporter: xi jinping making comments there. also many activists have been calling for cy leung to step down. he's remaining defiant and using the opportunity today on national day to give a sense of unity between hong kong and
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china and saying those principles under that agreement of the one country two systems will be adhered to. of course as we know, this is playing out on social media in a huge way. many images going viral. they're calling it the umbrella revolution. that's coming out of hong kong. media heavily sensored in china. going to cross now to get more reaction. give us an idea of how this is being played out in china and how the information there is reported. >> reporter: the messages are tightly scripted and sensored in china. the message from leaders it's business as usual. there are some state media
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reports mentioning the hong kong protest, but they're short and do not contain photographs. the media reports are really playing down the size of the protests. they're also looking over the demands of the protestors themselves. they're trying to emphasize that these protests are really shutting down hong kong, choking the city and disrupting lives of people living in the city. that's the protest message that these will lead to no good in hong kong. >> we were hearing in order to penetrate the system, you have to be savvy as an internet user. has there been sense any of the images we've seen in hong kong have been are thread perhaps going onto social net working sites in china? >> reporter: if you're someone that's savvy and curious and heard about what's going on, there are many mainland chinese that travel to hong kong regularly. there's people that know about the protests. if you know enough about the
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internet, you can get around the censorship machine. the challenge is that many of china's 1.3 billion people don't have the curiosity. they might hear the reports on chinese state media and know reports are slanted or biassed in a certain way, but they won't have the extra energy to go and find out other information beyond what the state media is telling them. >> reporter: okay. thank you very much for that. the bbc in beijing reporting on the media reporting of this situation in mainland china. it's a social media revolution. they call it the umbrella revolution. it's been unpredictable. tens of thousands people had the umbrellas. those images went viral across the world. there was also another image this morning that went viral. it's due to our next guest that
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joins me now. paul zimmerman a district counselor here in the city. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> reporter: what was it you did this morning? >> i went to the celebration, 65th anniversary republic of china. i used the umbrella as a prop. it stood out sharply against the red flags. >> reporter: it did because you were there with not much support doing it at the ceremony procedure. how did you feel doing that? were you nervous? >> i wasn't that nervous. i was concerned whether they were going to throw me out or not. they didn't. many were there making noise, and they were thrown out. i had no security on me. the audience facing the stage where all flags were. >> reporter: so you've been
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dawned the yellow umbrella man. >> my name is paul. >> the umbrella, how much of a difference is this going to make? numbers aren't much different than yesterday. >> i think the point is made to beijing and government and hong kong that this goes beyond what was originally seen as only 25% of the people supporting occupying. now you see the vast majority of hong kong says we don't want pressure. we don't want police violence. we want a city of freedom. we don't want across the border in mainland china. we want values in hong kong. that's clearly stated. in whatever move the governments make next, they'll keep that in mind. >> you say that but people we've been speaking to say we almost
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know we're not going to get what we're asking for. that's not the point. do you agree with that? why be here? >> they're overstating requests asking for them to make another decision. that's not logical. the chief executive standing down, maybe a good request, but though the likely. he is the man and he is the one running this town also running his relationship with the communist party and beijing government. >> reporter: just quickly, you've been in hong kong and born here. >> i've been here 30 years. this is my town. i'm a chinese national. this is my hometown. i'm interactive with the community last ten years. i'm not going to leave. this is my home. >> reporter: you made the point that's now gone viral. now called the yellow umbrella man. the will of the hong kong
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people. they're out on the streets of the financial district. we understand the demonstrations are spreading to other areas as well. i'll have more later from hong kong. >> thank you so much. don't forget you can get more on our website including a map of demonstrators and a closer look at the umbrella icon we've been hearing about with paul there which is the symbol of the protest. our page is constantly updated with video and posts from on the ground. it's well worth logging on. bbc.com/news. . news to bring you now. 17 people including 10 children have been killed and 56 injured in the explosion. two cars were placed in a
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neighborhood. we're getting news from sources who say the number of casualties is likely to rise. this is the deadliest strike to hit this government controlled area in months. the explosions took place as the children were leaving school at the end of the day. we will bring you more on the story just sooas soon as wet it. in ukraine, 10 killed when shells hit a playground and a minivan. there were no children among those killed. it was the first day of the new school year.
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. the first case of the deadly ebola virus diagnosed on u.s. soil has been confirmed in dallas, texas. the man is thought to have contracted the virus in liberia before traveling to america two weeks ago. more than 3,000 have died of ebola in west africa. with more now. >> reporter: this is the hospital where the unidentified man is critically ill in the isolation ward. the authorities are trying to
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establish if anyone else is infected as a pry yourty. >> we identify all people who may have had contact with the patient while he could have been infectious. remember ebola does not spread from someone who's not infectious. it does not spread from someone who doesn't have fever and other symptoms. it's only someone who's sick with ebola who can spread the disease. >> reporter: the man flew from liberia to visit family in the u.s., one of the countries worst affected by the ebola outbreak. 6500 have been infected in west africa, half have died. a poor health system is blamed. the virus spreads by direct contact when the patient is showing symptoms. the man was not contagious while on the plane but was six days while going into a hospital. >> if a person has no symptoms, they can continue to work and do regular activities.
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their monitored by taking their temperature. if they develop symptoms or temperature, that's when they're put in isolation. >> an experimental treatment zmamm was used to treat two american aid workers that survived. there's no more of that drug left. while there are vaccines and treatment on trial, there's no treatment for ebola. doctors are doing everything they can to help the man on american soil and to insure further infections can bel controlled. bbc news los angeles. >> what steps will the u.s. authorities be taking to contain the virus? let's talk to someone at the university. how worried is it that we're announcing a case of ebola in the snus. >> it is worrying. we've known since the beginning
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it could happen. it's important to point out, this is not wild ebola running around in america. this is an imported case, someone sick in another country that's brought the virus in glchlt what will they do to try to contain it? >> one or two patient, the easiest way is put them in the isolated transport boxes. it's a big blastic box. there are gloves to go in and help the patient. if it turns out there are eventual areally more r cases, they probably want to set up an ebola ward where they'll put the doctors in like a space suit and have the patients out in a carefully filtered room. >> isn't there an issue the fact this patient would have come into contact with quite a few people before he had ebola? >> yeah, but ebola is one of the diseases the sicker you get, the more likely you are to pass it on. while the person was coming in, he didn't show signs. it's unlikely he would have transported that to anyone. >> how will they treat the
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patient? >> the risk is to doctors. doctors will be giving fluid at the very least and bedrest and trying to keep him comfortable. that seems to have a great response in terms of ebola. >> he's got a better chance in the high-tech hospital in america than the the many, many patients in west africa? >> yes. there are many, many more patient as and if anything, this patient is fortunate to be in a place where there are lots of machines and doctors ready to receive him. >> we've been hearing today again from liberia that all non essential government employees have to stay home. they're trying every measure they can to try and contain the disease. where are we at in terms of getting some kind of treatment that is more medical as opposed to practical things happening on the ground? >> yeah, so it looks like the vaccine test in oxford is a few months from giving results. it was announced a week or two ago a push from the welcome
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trust to get potential treatments tested out in west africa. the real test is not somebody in the uk getting the drug. it's something out there that has ebola. >> thank you very much for joining us. air strikes by u.s. led forces have targeted islamic state fighters around the syrian town of kobane near the border of turkey. a bbc correspondent on the ground says militants have been firing shells into kobane which kurdish forces are battling to protect. jihadists have been trying to take the town the past two weeks. meanwhile in northern iraq, kurdish peshmerga fighters are at the forefront of the battle. we are join them on the front lines. >> joining me on the front line, one of many across northern iraq. coalition air strikes many the area. the problem is air strikes are
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limited. they're not effective for retreat. you need boots on the ground. in this area, the peshmerga forces are doing the dirty work. over there you saw guys filling sandbags for the fortifications. if you follow me around here as well, this camp has food, water. up here, if i can get onto the sandbags is the front line itself off into the distance where some of the positions are. some of the villages are around the islamic state fighters. let's look at equipment the peshmerga forces here have. you can see very old rifles, rocket launchers, and rifles. the kind of thing really that's no match for the sophisticated weaponry that a lot of islamic state has. the commander of this camp here is general ramada. every now and again we hear
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small arms fire off in the distance. >> translator: they are shooting. we are getting down. >> looks like it's heading our way. that's i.s. fighters and peshmerga firing off rounds. how are air strikes used in this area by americans? are they conducting air strikes in the area to help the peshmerga? [ inaudible ] >> all of us know isis have advanced. even their weapon are more advanced than ours. we have old weapon.
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they have very new weapon. without air strike, we couldn't stand against them for sure. >> the weapons issue is a thorny one. the peshmerga made it clear, if they're going to take the fight to the islamic state, they need update in weaponry, much more sophisticated so they can take on the militants. the fact is, most want to arm the peshmerga because of turkey. turkey fought the kurds 40 years and turks don't want sophisticated weapons in the hands of guys like these. you have regional complications affecting the overall fight against the islamic state. >> on the front line in northern iraq. just a reminder of breaking news this hour coming from the syrian city. two explosions near a school. we have 17 people that have been killed. ten of those were children.
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. i'm lucy hockings. many this half hour, campaigning reaching final stages in brazil's presidential election. we return to the amazon home of one of the candidates who says her humble beginnings help her connect with the brazilian people. in colorado our pop up crew looks at the serious issue of sexual assault on university campuses. also on the program, aaron is back with something new for irish today. >> new indeed. from today, irish must pay for water that comes out of their
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taps. up until now, island has been the only country not to charge directly for water. we'll look at why eu and imf say this is a source of revenue that a must be now tapped. >> welcome back. the brazilian president goes to sunday's election as favorite to win, but a second round of voting looks likely. the president is facing a strong challenge from an environmental campaigner who assumed the socialist party candidate say after the death of her runni ma in a plane crash. she grew up in an isolated part of the jungle. her family made a living
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collecting sap from leaves. we find out more about her extraordinary journey. >> the story is a remarkable one. the team is making sure everyone in brazil has heard it. she emotionally recalls the poverty of childhood. >> her voice breaks as she says my parents went hungry so we children could eat. the mixed race daughter began life here deep in the forest. the frontier state where the young marina was gouging trees at age of ten. still tapping trees hopes if she becomes president, she would provide roads and health care lacking in the interior. she taught herself to read and write at the age of 16 while
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working as a maid. she made an instant impression. >> she is very determined. if she says something she means it. she asked for help from god and makes things happen. >> the politics of the amazon were emotional and often fatal. she was a protege of the world renowned environmentalists assassinated. the incumbent president has a better track record of looking out for the interest of the poor. she keeps on changing says angela mendes. today she talks about protecting the amazon. if big business is pressure, she could give into them. that's scary. we could lose all we fought for
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with our own blood. her story may be captivating, but the president is still front runner and growing in confidence. all smiles as she talked at the rio olympic park. she plans to be still in power r when the games come here in 2016 having led brazil through a successful world cup earlier this year. things are heating up. the presence of the business friendly candidate from the first round means there's likely to be a runoff vote between the two women later in the month. >> with me here in the studio a correspondent for global news television here in london. just hearing things are heating up. we are expecting a second round. if that happens, who will marina take votes from?
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>> it's a big question mark. it's quite likely the vote of the third candidate as you report indicated, it will probably be split. there's a substantial segment of his own party and people who would never vote for the current president ruosseff. it might be split half and half. it's the undecided like we witnessed happening in scotland. undecided are the ones that nobody knows where they're going to move to. >> some of the undecided in scotland was the emotional appeal that ended up winning. do we see that a with silva the? does she capture people's imagination? >> a combination of things happened to add to her. first of all she came to be the number one as a candidate for her party because the main guy died in a plane crash in august. that emotional attachment to her
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because of that and also her background as we saw in your report. she comes from an extremely poor family. she was illiterate until she was 16 years old. >> presumably the fact she has a clean record. she's not tainted by corruption issues that rousseff. >> there have been a lot of political scandals, cases of corruption and people. not trying to enrich themselves necessarily but mechanism to finance political parties. >> we just saw the olympic signs. we are fascinated by the world cup and olympics coming up. are brazils still playing a part in the campaign? >> the world cup did play quite a significant part. the year before the world cup, there were street
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demonstrations, actually billions billion s literally in protest against the government and spending money for the world cup. the expectation was that it was going to be a disaster from the point of view of organization. it was going to be fine as a sport. brazilians are so good at football. it turned out to be the opposite. our team did lousy and a lousy performance. it was well organized and ran smoothly. the argument people hoped to use against her, you can't run this event, it didn't stick because it was run well. >> the first round is expected to have no clear winner. we'll wait and see a what will happen in the second. thanks for joining us here on "gmt." find out more about the brazilian elections on our website. we have a page there. find all the report about the campaign and candidates. follow him on twitter too.
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that's at bbc.com/news. we're going to bring you results as soon as they come to us after the polls close on sunday. join us for that. time to feel catch catch up business news. where are the islamic state getting funding? >> from all sorts of places. thanks very much lucy. as you've been hearing, iraqi kurdish troops are reported to have taken the key crossing border from islamic state. the group managed to finance an army of more than 30,000 soldiers and is said to be the wealthiest insurgent group of all time. some of its money cops from private donations from backers around the middle east. this is now overtaken by oil. the group earns estimated $1-3 million everyday from the wells and refineries that now controls in that area.
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extortion and kidnapping have raids hundreds of thousands of as well as road taxes and charges in the areas that it controls. mosul and other central banks believed to have given the group cash and gold. there are also gas fields in the territory it controls. difficulties in transportation believed to be hindering from capitalizing on those. let's get more on this. the finance and security expert and associate fellow at the united royal services institute. great to have you on the program. let's start with that oil money. we keep hearing at the moment the oil production at i.s. is in control. that's targeted by the u.s. and allies in terms of b s os of bo. is it working, making a dent on i.s. finances? we're seeing plenty of pictures of damaged and destroyed oil fields and
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refineries. whether it's making as big a dent as authorities say, i'm not sure. nonetheless oil together with tax and extortion is the biggest revenue provider. >> if you were the finance director of i.s., you're dealing with the bombings and u.n. resolution. what areas, what and where would you be looking to raise funds? >> over the history of islamic state before that have learned important lessons about financing. one of the lessons they learned was to have reliable sources of financing. that's the reason they operate with the way they operated. i don't think they've relied on that particularly heavily. the fact is one of their major funding sources is targeted oil. what would i do? look around and see how do similar groups around the world
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raise significant revenue? you look in west africa, tens of millions of are paid to release kidnapped victims by certain european countries in west africa. >> that's a fund i'd be thinking about. >> tom, very briefly, for us, how does this money move around? you've got to assume it goes through banks out there? >> countries like kuwait and indonesia don't have terror finance regulations therefore the banks are leaky. also of course cash clearance. a million weighs 20 pounds. we have seen stories of people carrying money in underwear through airports. >> okay. i'm not going to say it's fascinating. quite scary stuff. we appreciate your input. thanks for joining us on "gmt." let's talk about this. from today, the irish will have
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to pay for the water that comes out of their taptaps. the move was ordered by the international lenders of the country or part of island's bailout program. ireland has been up until now the only oedc country not to charge directly for water. a source of revenue eu said must be taxed. water infrastructure needs 2 billion euros of investment over two years. i tell you what, charging the public for water is not going down well. we now report from ireland. >> reporter: it rained a lot in ireland, so there's no shortage of water. there's been a drought of investment for decades in the infrastructure meaning some don't have supply fit to drink. there's plenty of fresh water, but here in the town, people have to boil tap water before they drink it. it contain as bacteria making it
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unfit for human consumption. ireland needs huge sums of money to bring the infrastructure up to scratch. to do so, approving to be an austerity measure too much to swallow for some. supermarkets are doing a booming trade in water adding to household bills. many don't trust what's in the tap. >> you're going to be sick 24 hours. it's happened to me twice. i was foolish enough to let it happen then but not a third time. >> water was paid for by general taxes before, but the plan to charge homes individually has brought protests like here in dublin. bills range $200 a year for a single person to more than $600 for a family of four adults. >> many people can't pay mortgage. how are you going to pay for water? >> i don't think the governments realize how much of a burden it
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would be to people around this area. >> around half the country's water currently disappears to leak from old pipes with supply barely meeting demand. >> we have a big problem in materials of infrastructure. it's not in a state fit to meet the needs of modern economy. we need to change water services. that means domestic water charges where people pay directly for amount of water they use so we can fix leaks and insure waste water plants are all environmentally compliant. >> the road to economic recovery has been a long one for ire ran. six years after the collapse of major banks. recent data shows signs of hope, waves of austerity such as the new water charge continue to be felt. bbc news dublin. >> going to keep a cross on that story. lots going on. tweet me. i'll tweet you back. get they @bbc aaron.
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>> you have to agree it's a bit rich to ask you to pay for water if not safe to drink. still to come on the program, our pop up bureau in colorado looks at issue of sexual assault on university campuses. ♪ [ female announcer ] we love our smartphones. and now telcos using hp big data solutions are feeling the love, too. by offering things like on-the-spot data upgrades -- an idea that reduced overcharge complaints by 98%. no matter how fast your business needs to adapt, if hp big data solutions can keep wireless customers smiling, imagine what they can do for yours. make it matter.
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i'm lucy hockings. the top stories this hour. students prodemocracy leaders in hong kong say they will occupy government buildings if the leader doesn't resign by thursday. the first case of ebola diagnosed in the united states is confirmed in dallas, texas. statistics from the united states suggest one in five
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female students will be sexually assaulted during her time at college. it's such a serious problem the white house has begun an investigation into how some colleges have handled victims complaints. a lot of colleges under investigation, one is university of colorado in bolder. that's where the bbc pop up team has spent the last month. benjamin has been hearing student experiences. >> we went into his room. we were kissing. he was trying to do more than kiss. i repeatedly said no. >> i was approached by a sorority girl raped on campus. she didn't want to tell me her name. >> he kept trying. then we were kissing some more. then he just like -- at this point i was in my underpants. he just did it. >> the school is on notice of either sexual harassment, sexual violence or in between.
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they have an obligation to independently investigate those allegations. we are doing everything aggressively as possible to really deal with the situation. that's how important this issue is. we want to do everything we can to keep people safe. >> there's no clear profile of what a predator on campus looks like. fraternity members are three times more likely to commit rape. that's from the alcohol field house parties in the spotlight. >> the frat mentality of being way girl every weekend makes men take advantage of a girl. >> almost 400,000 college men to belong to fraternities across the u.s. millions more are alumni. they say this provides brother hood, philanthropy and leadership. they feel they're too easily blamed for bing drinking and sexual sought. they say that off the record. getting anyone from a fraternity to talk to me proved difficult. >> fraternities are scapegoated
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in that way. the values of the fraternity are misinterpreted very frequently. >> this is edmond. he's from a fraternity. he did want to talk. >> guys in your frat understand what sexual assault is? >> you need absolute affirmative. legally you would actually need affirmative to unbutton every button of a girl's shirt. girls dressing in extremely provocative outfits and drinking ridiculous amounts of alcohol and going to any party on campus, they're setting themselves up for a hookup of sorts. they're starting the situation off very poorly. >> it's on us to stop sexual assault. >> to get in the way before it happens. >> the white house releases this campaign designed to encourage friends to intervene and stop abusive behavior. >> learn how and take the pledge
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at, it's on us.org. >> some fraternities and other colleges are speaking out pledging to work with the university to educate students. here in bolder where the fraternity is not under control of the college, so far the fraternity is staying silent. >> an issue in the united states now. let's take you to san diego and talk to someone behind the new app designed to prevent sexual assault. we go manchester in the north of the country to talk to someone who graduated from manchester university and is now a woman's officer there. how does an app stop sexual assault? >> well, what we're trying to do with our app called good go is provide a frame work for young adults to learn the language of affirmative consent. we think that there's a lot of confusion that is around affirmative consent and what it actually means.
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plus when you add alcohol into the mix, it becomes a very confusing situation for young adults. many of these young men and women are away from home for the first time. they're experiencing situations without the guidance and protection of their parents and homes. we really feel they're confused. they don't understand what affirmative consent is a lot of times. they don't know when they should be asking. they don't know how to answer. we're hoping that our good to go app will be a bit of a solution on the prevention side. >> what do you think of the app? >> i think that the app is interesting. it's an interesting concept. it's good people are starting to talk about affirmative consent meaning only yes means yes and no means no. that's often overlooked in consent campaigns and consent can be complicated and complex.
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it's not an option that you can go without. it's absolutely required. without it is rape. my concern about the app is how it would work in practice. with consent you can withdraw any time including during sex. i don't think that deals with that angle of consent. i think the good to go phrase, i'm not really sure to what extent that is. it doesn't actually mention sex. good to go could be interpreted many different ways. i'm not sure it gets across the necessity of affirmative consent. the idea is good. >> how do you address the criticisms particularly the one consent can be withdrawn any time? >> yes, that's absolutely clear to us. we have a reminder screen every time somebody uses our app that reminds them that no means no. yes means yes but can be changed to no at any type. if those owe wishes are ignored,
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it is very clearly sexual abuse. that is absolutely the opposite of what we're about. we want to prevent sexual abuse, misunderstands, miscommunications. about the name. we were trying to come up with something that was positive, that was comfortable. we understand that this can be a very awkward situation. we were trying to make it a little bit easier for kids to bring it up and start to talk about it. we just wanted something that wouldn't feel awkward to them that would feel it's something they could say. >> one in five young women at colleges in the u.s. will be sexual assaulted. what's the picture in the uk? >> we don't have the same fraternity culture as the u.s. some of the research into culture and sexual assault over
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