this is bbc america, and now live from london, "bbc world news." hello, i'm david eades with "bbc world news." our top stories. police in hong kong remove protesters who have occupied the city center for more than two months. hello, i'm live in hong kong where a major police operation is under way to move the main protesters from this site as the umbrella revolution comes to an end. a warning. superbugs resistant to cancer

will rack up costs. the prime minister who died after a confrontation with israeli troops, the funeral has been taking place. also, a bbc investigation finds 5,000 people were killed in jihadist attacks across the globe in the month of november. hello. the day is coming to an end in hong kong, and so, too, it would seem, is the occupy movement in one of the main protest areas of the city center, as the last barricades are being dismantled by the authorities. let's give you the live pictures of the scene. as you can see from this, just a handful of hardcore demonstrators here left here in the foreground of the picture there after hundreds of protesters moved out in the

course of the day. so many camped out over the course of the last couple of months. earlier, bailiffs were breaking down barricades, removing the protesters, arresting some of them as a deadline for them to vacate just councilman caame an. the anger is still there, though. it's over the election of hong kong's leader for 2017. china, which ultimately governs the region, says a committee will nominate two to three candidates. pro democracy campaigners say that amounts to vetting, it's not democratic, it's not a free election. the camps have been in three districts of hong kong. that's the mong kok. now we're talking about admiralty, and it leaves just causeway bay. we can get more from babita sharma. is it fair to say this really is it, they're clearing out the last vestiges?

>> absolutely, david. it's been an incredible few hours here. the authorities always told us that today was going to be d-day for the protesters. they said no matter what happens, they are going to clear this main protest site. i'm currently on a bridge just overlooking admiralty, where you were showing those live pictures there. because what has actually happened in the course of today is it all began at 10:00 this morning when bailiffs enforced a court order enabling them to remove barricades from the surrounding areas just down the street from where i am around the government headquarters. they did that, and then just some two or three hours later, in a very cleverly thought out calculated calm manner, the police descended on this protest site. inching their way slowly, but purposefully across the super highway that has been home to the protesters for some 75 days now. and what they actually did was they took their time.

they said that they are in no rush to do this. they wanted to do it right. fortunately for both sides, no clashes have been reported between the two, and that was indeed the fear, given the fact that previous attempts to clear this site had resulted in a number of arrests and clashes between the two sides. like i said, they inched their way slowly through here, taking some four or five hours to the point where we're at at the moment, just opposite to where i am. these streets are completely empty. all we can hear now are the sounds of trucks moving a lot of the debris, and the tearing down of the tents, the homes of many of these protesters for the past two and a half months. and there is still, though, just a pocket of protesters. i think they're numbering in about a hundred or so that are resisting arrest. nowhere near the numbers that have been on this highway here.

tens of thousands -- i was here reporting on the very start of the pro-democracy movement here. those front line activists that are still here are saying, you know what, they're going to stay here until they are arrested by the police, and that is exactly what is happening at the moment. the police are taking their time doing the arrest as well. they are lifting up the protesters one by one, as individuals, moving them away from where they're currently camped out, taking them to another side, just a few meters away, asking them for their i.d. badges and issuing arrests. it's been a very calculated and methodical raid, this police operation. and i have to say if you are looking at it from the point of view of the police, it's been a success for them, because they've managed to clear this site that stretches almost a mile along here with no violence whatsoever. we've just heard, by the way, from a police spokesperson that i spoke to in the last ten

minutes or so saying that they are hoping that by the end of the day here today, this route that has been completely blocked off to public access in traffic will be reopened for the first time in 75 days. >> babita, thanks very much indeed. drug resistant bugs kill something like ten million people across the globe. that will be the figure by 2050, i should say, and that's the warning that's coming from a new report on super bugs. the analysis, which is being commissioned by the british government, says the global cost could top $100 trillion. 107,000 people are currently killed worldwide by drug resistant strains of e. coli and malaria. that number is going to rise dramatically unless coordinated international action is taken.

>> this has been in a way the easy bit. the tough bit now is to think about what we do about both the supply and the demand, because that's the underlying challenge. so as we outline at the end of this report, there's a whole series of different areas we're now going to explore more detail. i guess they'd like to highlight three. one is we need to find a better way of not wanting to use them so much. so one area we're exploring is so-called diagnostics to enable or force doctors or the medical profession to not reach for an antibiotic at the first sign of somebody asking for them. there's one area. on the whole area of new supply of drugs, we're going to spend a lot of time on what are the right incentives, what forces the pharmaceutical industry to produce more. and then critically, and again it sort of goes to my background really, it doesn't really matter what we would do in the uk or in

europe. i've got to somehow cajole and persuade my friends in the developing world, particularly the likes of china and india, to think about this as a huge problem for themselves and help them be part of a global solution. >> do they not get it at the moment, would you say? >> i'm encouraged from the very early signs. yesterday we had a bit of an event and the china tv guys recorded it and interviewed it afterwards. the nature of their question suggests there's an awareness of it. try and get everybody onboard as opposed to it being seen as us leading them into a solution. it's better for them to feel that they've found a solution. it's a part of what i've got to do. >> that's jim o'neill. in the west bank, the funeral is taking place of a palestinian government minister who died following a clash with israeli troops in the midst of a

protest. he collapsed clutching his chest, shortly after an israeli border policeman had grabbed him by the throat. he was demonstrating about alleged israeli plans to expand a settlement. they issued conflicting accounts over the result of his autopsy. the bbc's kevin connelly is in jerusalem. could we start with the funeral itself, and how that has gone? >> it was the funeral that reflected how seriously the death has taken on the palestinian side. it had the military trappings of a state occasion, but there was, of course, plenty of private grief involved, too. he was a popular and respected figure in palestinian politics, a veteran of the palestinian cause. so the tone of grief and anger reflected all of that and will be seen by the palestinians as an appropriate sendoff to a man they regard as a martyr who died

defending their political rights. >> and we're left with very clearly different views as to what actually causes death. >> i think that's right. people will have seen the television pictures, at the heart of an angry confrontation with israeli troops at the site of a palestinian protest in the occupied west bank yesterday. palestinian officials are choosing to emphasize that the circumstances, in other words, he was struck in the chest with a rifle, but they say he inhaled tear gas. there was delay blamed on the israelis in getting him to hospital. so that's the palestinian version of what caused his death. the israelis, for their part, they had a pathologist involved. they said he had very serious underlying heart condition and in effect died of a heart attack. so accounts are somewhat confli conflicting, it's just that israel is emphasizing, as

perhaps you'd expect, those underlying medical factors. the palestinians are saying that whatever those underlying medical factors may have amounted to, that he died as a direct result of the actions of those israeli border police officers and troops. so it's emphasizing different ways of looking at those circumstances, i think, rather than producing reports which are in themselves contradictory. >> kevin, thanks very much indeed. kevin conneolly with the latest in the west bank. let's catch up on business. aaron, i can tell you that the russian central bank has raised interest rates by 1%, up to 10.5%. i've got that from @bbcaaron. >> ah, yes. you looked on twitder, did you? we talked about it on world business record. we broke the news on world business report. we are talking about the russian

currency, the ruble. we know it's fallen further in the last half-hour or so. the central bank raised that interest rate by 100 basis points. that's 1%. the main interest rate in russia is now 10.5%, and the central bank hopes this will make the currency more attractive to investors despite the pain of high borrowing costs. that's what that's causing for the russian businesses and consumers. let me show you a few numbers here, because on wednesday, the ruble was trading close to a record low of around $54.5 to the u.s. dollar. it is off a cliff. the value of the russian ruble has fallen by 40%, plunged. all of this hit by international sanctions on russia over ukraine and the slump in russia's main export. that black stuff, oil. all this despite moscow spending an estimated $80 billion of

russia's foreign reserves. they've been using that money and buying rubles on the market to try and prop up the price. hasn't really worked. russian prime minister medvedev took to the airways to try and talk up the ruble and also reassure russian people basically. we're going to have more on this coming up in "gmt" in just over an hour's time. i mentioned oil. let's talk about that. the price trading slightly higher today after tumbling yesterday. another big tumble. the benchmark u.s. crude is up about 25% at $61.19 a barrel. still very low. but yesterday, the price of oil sunk to a new five-year low after more evidence of global supplies outstripping demand. there is a lot of oil out there. a report by opec predicted that demand for crude oil will fall next year to levels not seen in more than a decade. at the same time, we had the u.s. energy department reporting a surprise rise in domestic oil stockpiles.

that pushed u.s. benchmark crude down 4.5%, and it closed at $60.94 a barrel. it's the lowest since the summer of 2009. but overall, oil, what it's done, it's like the ruble. off a cliff, down some 43%. the price, 43% since that peak during the sirm. more on that as well. now, if you're as old as me, or at least as old as david, you may remember one of these. it's one of the first computers made by apple and it is being sold at christie's auction house later in new york today. it's the only known surviving apple 1 to have been sold by the man himself, steve jobs, to an individual from his parents' garage. you remember that's how he started. it's expected to sell today for -- well, the set price about half a million dollars. but experts think it will go for over a million dollars, because why? well, there was one of these computers, apple 1 sold at

bonham's auction house for $905,000. so i wonder if everybody will go rummaging through your attic to see if you've got an old computer. lots of business news coming up on "gmt" in just over an hour's time. follow me on twitter. you can get me @bbcaaron. i was only joking, david. did you know, it's even being sold with the original check. >> yeah? okay. a much newer, faster, better one for a lot less. aaron, thanks very much. do stay with us on "bbc world news." still to come. elvis lives and he's on tour, it seems. exhibits galore making their way from graceland to southeast london. we'll have more.

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occupied the city center for more than two months. a new report says super bugs resistant to antibiotics will kill more people than cancer and rack up trillions of dollars in health care costs. a bbc investigation has found that more than 5,000 people around the world died as a result of jihadist violence during the month of november. there were deaths in more than 14 countries, ranging from mali to the philippines caused by al qaeda or groups that subscribe to a similar ideology, including islamic state. we can have a closer look at the findings.

extremist groups are always looking for ways to recruit new members. one way is through song.

our correspondent has had rare access to a live performance in jordan, and sent this report. >> a declaration of jihad. this fresh-faced teenager was to give up his young life in a battle for the islamic state, and he says his song is his artillery. in this conservative city, these kinds of performances find a receptive audience in all sorts of gatherings. perhaps you would never guess, but this is actually a wedding. even the groom wears a pistol. many here have fought in afghanistan, iraq, and syria. some have close links to al qaeda. in these kinds of communities, the hymns act as a powerful

tool. >> translator: the jihadi hymns are all about strong faith. it motivates you for the sake of allah. >> reporter: i asked, what if these songs make people react in the wrong way? wouldn't he feel responsible for that? >> translator: we all know the rights and wrongs in islam. they will receive the right message. >> reporter: it is not just extremist hymns that prove popular. he is a popular singer. he performs traditional islamic songs that deliver a more moderate message. >> translator: the audience for jihadi hymns is no more than 5% of the society. however, they have a louder voice. >> reporter: people who are after islamic hymns can easily come to a shop like this one and pick a cd or two. but those who are after something more extreme have to go to somewhere else. the internet, where these hymns are circulated and easily

accessible. it's here where many militants have notoriety. one of these yemeni performers was on one of america's most wanted lists. this jihadist performing a hymn to inspire others has carried out a suicide attack to assassinate a saudi prince in 2009. these hymns are not a mere form of entertainment, but a tool that jihadists are handing from one generation to another. bbc news, southern jordan. >> well, that's one aspect of the recruitment drive. another, of course, is the use of the internet. with me is charlie winter from the counterterrorism think tank, thanks for coming in. they are very adept with the internet, aren't they? feels like they're ahead of the

game. >> they absolutely are. if we look at islamic state in particular, they have a media wing, which produces jihadist hymns and it has a very high productivity and a very large reach. >> and why is it do you think that it works so well? i mean, there's no one actually challenging it half the time, is there? >> exactly. that's the greatest problem we face. at the moment, there are a number of different individuals who are supporters of jihadists, be they in syria or iraq and syria. but there's not that many voices that are actually challenging the narratives this these guys are promoting and that does make for a very large problem. >> and what are the main narratives? how are they selling themselves? >> the primary narrative is that there's a war in islam and that these are the jihadists. the vanguard, which is protecting muslims, and also seeking to overturn the global status quo, so that means getting rid of israel. getting rid of the imperialist influence in muslim majority

countries. so it's a very narrow jihadist ideology, but it does have quite a lot of persuasive power. >> is there any element to which the likes of twitter and others could be doing more, should be doing more to catch this early and keep it off? >> well, at the moment, social media platforms like twitter and facebook are doing quite a lot. they are getting rid of accounts that are known propagandists. however, it's a very difficult job to do. we know there are a number of very important islamic state propagandists in particular, who i've been following who are the first point at which islamic state propaganda is disseminated. when they're taken down, they appear within an hour with just a tiny change to their twitter handle. >> so they're straight back to the same sort of messages. are they so far ahead of essentially governments in the region -- i'm thinking particularly in the middle east region, whether it's iraq or syria. are they so far ahead of the governments there, do they do

nothing to try and counteract this? >> there are attempts at counter propaganda, if you like. but the problem is governments aren't well-placed to engage in this kind of thing. nay don't have the same level of being dynamic, that kind of thing. so what needs to happen is there needs to be more community-led bottom up narratives on twitter. it's not a government-led initiative. it should be a government facilitated initiative. >> thanks very much indeed, charlie winter. a place as famous as the home of elvis presley, a magnet for his millions of fans worldwide. today, a slice of memphis is going on display here in london, where it will be playing host to hundreds of items of memorabilia from graceland. the king of rock 'n' roll's pink cadillac is one of the exhibits on display, as is that, the

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this is "bbc world news." our top stories. police in hong kong dismantle barricades and remove protesters who have ocasccupied the city center for more than two months. a warning, super bugs resistant to drugs could kill more people than cancer and rack up trillions of dollars in health care costs. the funeral of a palestinian government minister who died after a confrontation with israeli troops has taken place in ramalla. and why google has decided to

shut its google news service in spain after new copyright laws take effect. hello. thanks for joining us. the day is coming to a close in hong kong. and so, too, it would seem, is the occupy movement. in one of the main protest areas of the city center, as the very last barricades are being dismantled by the authorities. there are just a handful of hardcore protesters left after more than two months of demonstrations. earlier in the day, bailiffs were breaking down barricades. they were removing protesters after a deadline for them to vacate the area came and went. many who refused to go were then arrested by police, albeit pretty calmly. their anger remains, though, and it's anger over the election of hong kong's leader in 2017.

china, which ultimately governs the region, says a committee will nominate two to three candidates. pro-democracy campaigners say that amounts to vetting. they say it's undemocratic, that this is not going to be a free election. the camps themselves have been in three districts of hong kong. the mong kok district, that side was cleared last month. now admiralty, which is pretty much cleared as we speak. and it leaves just causeway bay. we can get some more now from our correspondent babita sharma, who is overlooking what is left of the situation in admiralty. and we spoke not long ago. it's already looking thinner again. >> absolutely, david. just opposite to where i am. completely unrecognizable. it's almost as if -- has never taken place. streets completely clear. the trucks are now working

overtime to get rid of any rubbish. they're also pulling down a lot of the artwork here, and the at the present times have completely gone from that side of the bridge where i am. they are defying orders to leave. i'm just going to see if i can zoom in, hopefully we won't get too much breakup on our signal, because that is just the scene of a lot of media attention. but to be honest, it's completely the police outnumbering the protesters there. a completely different scene from the ones that we saw two months ago, with tens of thousands on the streets here. they are defying orders to leave, but the police have said they will carry out arrests and they're doing that as we speak. arresting those people very calmly and individually, taking them one by one, choosing not to arrest a whole group of them in one go. they're doing it one by one, which is also creating a sense of calm here. and it is that police operation that has been carried out the

last four or five hours. it has been calm. it's been measured. it's been purposeful. and they've definitely calculated their strategy very clearly, thinking about how they can clear this area promptly and also creating no scenes of violence. there have been none here today at all. and it does seem that we're probably just two hours away from the main route, this super highway from reopening as the police said they wanted to do by the close of play today. i just want to add that i spoke to a few protesters a short time ago, who are frantically trying to get their artwork from the part of the community of this protest site, just about a meter from where we are. they were really emotional. they were hugging each other. but they weren't disheartened. there was a sense of achievement on their part. they said that they managed to get the world's attention to the issues they wanted to bring to the forefront. those calls for democracy.

and despite the fact that they haven't won any political concessions, they said the umbrella revolution was phase one. this protest site has ended, but now we're going to look to phase two. what that means and their next strategy remains to be seen. but they are defiant and saying that the landscape of the political dialogue here in hong kong has changed forever. >> babita, thanks very much indeed. drug resistant infections will kill ten million people a year worldwide by 2050, that's the warning of a new report of super bugs. the analysis commissioned by the uk government says global action is needed if this economic and health crisis is to be averted. here's our medical correspondent fergus walsh. >> reporter: doctors have been warning for years about the growing health threat from drug resistant super bugs. but it's taken an economist jim o'neill to put the eye-watering

price tag on what will happen if nations continue to ignore the problem. he says drug resistance will cost the world up to 63 trillion pounds, that's 63,000 billion pounds by 2050. that's the equivalent of 35 years of the uk's entire economic output. around 700,000 people a year worldwide are killed by drug resistant infections, such as e. coli, tb, and malaria. that's predicted to rise by ten million a year by 2050, more than currently die from cancer. >> as we've seen with a number of other worrying pandemics that break out, there's immediate panic about trade and travel. and so, that's usually when it's also very specific in some part of the world. something like this, which is going to affect everybody, you know, it can have a devastating impact on international trade and travel and globalization. >> mr. o'neill says it will take

global action and especially commitment from developing nations like china and india to avert the crisis. his team will now explore how to get international agreements to limit the use of antibiotics and to encourage greater investment in drug development. fergus walsh, bbc news. in the west bank, the funeral of the palestinian government minister who died following a clash with israeli troops during a protest has just been held. the minister collapsed, clutching his chest shortly after an israeli border policeman grabbed him by the throat. he was demonstrating about alleged israeli plans to expand a settlement. israeli and palestinian officials have issued conflicting accounts over the results of his autopsy. with me in the studio now is the editor of bbc arabic. we'll come to the details of the

conflict of the autopsy. but the funeral itself, has it passed out calmly and smoothly? clearly, emotions are pretty here. >> there have been reports earlier today of a couple of minor scuffles between palestinian demonstrations and israeli police or military, but nothing serious up until now. what we need to watch out is how the day goes on, because thousands are taking part in this funeral. there's also tomorrow the friday prayers, whether this could trigger something. also, the palestinian authority have been saying they're considering stopping their security coordination with israel, and this is a big step. so we're watching this, whether it's just rhetoric, is it really stopping, and what will this need to do. it will take a couple days to clarify. >> it's understandably tense, given some of the pictures we

saw from the situation yesterday, from the protests and where the minister was grabbed by the throat. no question about that. and now we have these conflicting views of how he died. >> the tension arises from the fact that the deceased was such a high-profile government official. and the fact that everything was caught on camera. the autopsy itself is very interesting, because it shows why peace has eluded these two sides for a decade. you have a single body and a single autopsy conducted by a palestinian and israeli pathologist, and yet they manage to come with completely conflicting results. >> so people are left with the pictures they have seen from themselves. i guess from a palestinian perspective, it's a pretty damning picture, isn't it? >> it's all about the pathological interpretation of the reason of death, and they cannot agree on this. >> so, in terms of where this could go, obviously the fear

always with a situation like this is that this is one of those escalatory moments. do you think that's likely? >> it's typical of very small incidents that snowball. so what has been reported in the israeli press is the man who grabbed him from the throat was actually a driver of a jeep, and he decided to take part in the fray. so minor thing, mistake. or something that happens that triggers a sequence of events that we don't know what it would lead to. >> we just have to wait to see on this one, i suppose. thanks very much indeed. the latest there on the situation. thank you. let's get some other news for this hour. a suicide bomber has killed at least six people in afghanistan. the attack on a bus, which was being used to transport military personnel across the capital kabul injured another 10 people. several of them were civilians.

police in nigeria say two women carried out a suicide attack near a mosque on wednesday. six other people died in the blasts. another seven were injured. no groups admitted carrying out this attack. the islamist militant group has been behind a number of similar incidents, though, in and around the area. india's prime minister narendra modi has signed a deal with russia for the construction of at least ten more nuclear reactors. the agreement was reached during a visit to delhi by russia's president vladimir putin. mr. modi says many of the components will be made in india. do stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come. copyright? what copyright? myanmar's pop stars put a new take on relatively new songs without having to pay a penny. for over a decade,

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the latest headlines. police in hong kong have been dismantling barricades and removing the protesters who have occupied the city center for more than two months. a new report says super bugs resistant to antibiotics could kill more people than cancer and rack up trillions of dollars in health care costs. a bbc investigation has found that more than 5,000 people around the world died as a result of jihadist violence in the course of november alone. one of the towns being held by so-called islamic state is the iraqi town of mosul. residents there have sent us their stories of what life is like under the caliphate. they've been translated and voiced over by actors. this is may's story. >> our suffering due to the water shortage has turned into a state of fear that won't go

away. my husband goes on to the roof every day to see if the water tanks have been filled. on one unforgetably terrifying night, i decided to go on the roof with him to help. we suddenly heard a loud explosion followed by shouting, somewhere close on our street. very quietly and carefully, we shuffled over to the edge of the roof to peer down. we saw a group of islamic state fighters. they were shooting in the air. i feared for my husband because they were banging on doors, searching for men in order to question them. it turned out that the explosion was caused by a bomb planted on one of the i.s. vehicles. within a few seconds, the terrifying sound of the fighter jets filled the sky and they started bombing the islamic state fighters. their vehicles were full of ammunition and we kept hearing explosions for over three hours. i was trembling with fear and

dreading the sound of the doorbell. but thankfully, the air bombing caused a great deal of confusion among the i.s. fighters and they didn't knock on our door. >> extremist groups are always looking for ways to recruit new members. i.s. uses social media as a powerful tool to put across its propaganda. charlie winter works for the counterterrorism think tank foundation. he says islamic state is well ahead of the game when it comes to using social media. >> if you look at islamic state in particular, they have a media wing, which produces jihadist hymns and it has a very high productivity and a very large reach. >> and why is it, do you think, that it works so well? i mean, there's no one actually challenging it half the time, is there? >> exactly. that's the greatest problem we face. at the moment, there are a number of different groups of individuals, supporters of jihadists, whether they be in syria or islamic state in iraq

and syria, there's not that many voices that are actually challenging the narratives that these guys are promoting. and that does make for a very large problem. >> and what are the main narratives? how are they selling themselves? >> the primary narrative is that there is a war on islam and that these are the jihadists. these jihadists are the vanguard, which is seeking to overturn the global status quo, so that means getting rid of israel, getting rid of the imperialist influence, in muslim majority countries. so it's a very narrow jihadist ideology, but it does have quite a lot of persuasive power. >> is there any element to which the likes of twitter and others could be doing more, should be doing more to catch this early and keep it off? >> well, at the moment, social media platforms like twitter and facebook are doing quite a lot. they are getting rid of accounts that are known propagandists. however, it's a very difficult job to do. we know that there are a number of very important islamic state propagandists in particular who

i've been following who are the first point at which islamic state propaganda is disseminated. when these accounts are taken down, they appear within an hour with just a tiny change to their twitter handle and they're doing exactly the same thing. >> straight back on to the same sort of messages. are they so far ahead of essentially governments in the region, particularly in the middle east region, whether it's iraq or syria? are they so far ahead of the governments there, do they do nothing to counteract this? >> governments do try and do something. there are initiatives across the world of attempts at counternarrative problem beg-- propaganda. but governments aren't well-placed to engage in this kind of thing. their attempts to counter the narrative are always seen as just government attempts, so they don't have the same level of being dynamic, that kind of thing. so what needs to happen is there needs to be more community-led bottom-up counternarratives promoted on twitter. that's something the government does have a role in, but it's

not a government-led initiative. it should be a government facilitated initiative. >> charlie winter. we'll have a special edition of "global jihad: counting the cost" at 1500 gmt on "bbc world news." google will shut down its google news service in spain within a matter of days. a new law forcing it to pay for content would make the service financially unsustainable. google news publishes snippets. google said it decided to close the site in spain because of a new intellectual property law, which would force it to pay royalties to spanish publishers for using their content, even in very small quantities. so, that's the essence of the story. our business correspondent theo leggett is here. how big a deal is google news as

a platform? >> it's very big and it's very popular. what it does is it trolls the net, finds news items and puts up a little paragraph on each one in a list, perhaps with a little thumbnail photo. so you can stroll through, see what the interesting stories of the day are, and then if you're interested in the story, you can click on it and go the original article. and you can tailor it to your own likes. so if there's a particular newspaper, or a particular news source, you can give priority to those news articles. >> so it sounds like the sort of thing that would actually -- many people would think that's a pretty good thing to be on, that it directs them to the site itself. >> that's certainly google's argument. they say that these sites generate extra traffic that wouldn't otherwise go to the publisher's site. there's been a lot of argument on this point. newspaper publishers do see google as a threat. there's been a long-running case in the european commission over whether or not the company abuses its dominant position, whether it's got too much power. but google says, as i mentioned,

that it's helping the sites out. the problem with the spanish law is that there would be no options for publishers. so google would have to pay them for yooers uusing their content publishers would not be able to opt out. >> i suppose google's fear would be that other countries would look at it and say it worked there, we'll take it. >> well, different countries have different strategies on this. in germany, google is now obliged to get permission before it can put their material up for free. now, one large german publisher did take on google over this. it said, okay, you can put our content on your news site, but only if you pay it each time. google said it wouldn't do that. so it removed the material, although material published by axle springer outlets from its news list. traffic to those sites went down. axle springer had to come back and say okay, we thought about it again, you can put our material up and you don't have

to pay us. >> theo, that's great. thanks very much indeed. myanmar may not be known really for its pop music, but fans there can enjoy some very familiar hits reworked in a particularly burmese way. the results are known as copy songs. jonah fisher reports. >> reporter: shakira. celine dion. even a bit of bob dylan. pretty much anything you want, she can sing it. she's one of the leading exponents of a phenomenon that's dominated burmese music for decades. the copy song. >> when i started singing, when i started my career, i have never known that we are stealing the songs.

>> reporter: the lyrics of a copy song are usually original, but the tune is pinched. often from a western hit. >> we have never taught in our school curriculum any rights, intellectual property right, or the ep co-right, or human right. we have never heard about that. >> reporter: in most of the world, you have to pay royalties if you want to make money from someone else's hard work. but not here. the burmese artists writing and singing copy songs aren't doing anything illegal. the only copyright law here is an old british one from a hundred years ago, and it's aimed more at literature than music. for years, there's been talk of a new copyright law that would bring myanmar in line with international standards and also tackle rampant piracy. the intellectual property bill is currently on its 11th draft. so i ask this man from the

myanmar music association what's going on. >> that's a really simple answer, because they don't want to do it. >> reporter: he tells me powerful groups with friends in parliament are making money from pirated music and copy songs. he's a principled, but frustrated man. his band doesn't play copy songs and perhaps as a consequence, it isn't having much commercial success. >> deep down, i think they've done enough of copy songs. i think this is the time they should start writing their own stuff. >> reporter: overwhelmed by piracy and crowded out by the copies, the purists of myanmar's music scene are struggling to be heard. jonah fisher, bbc news, yangon. >> a variation on a theme for you really. memphis is the home of elvis presley, a magnet for his millions of fans worldwide.

but from today, just a slice of the city is going on display here in london as it plays host to hundreds of items of memorabilia from graceland. the king of rock 'n' roll's pink cadillac, his american eagle jump suit are some of the highlights. >> reporter: there are rock stars, and then there is the king. the man who created the very concept. this is the biggest elvis retrospective ever seen in europe. >> this is the american eagle jump suit which elvis wore in his 1973 "aloha from hawaii" special. >> so iconic. >> the show itself was seen by over 1.5 billion people. >> was he very fussy when he had his clothes made? a specific thing he wanted? >> he really wasn't. his costume designer was a

gentleman he met in 1968, bill baloo. he would just say hey, i want something that's beginning to remind people of america and bill came up with the eagle design. elvis kept everything. so if you were a fan of elvis's and you sent elvis one of those fan letters, that's where it was delivered to. graceland's mailbox. he actually felt that if someone took time to write him a letter, then he could at least time to reply to it as well as keep it. >> reporter: people say he was a real gentleman. >> he really was. if you were at the gate of graceland and elvis was going to the movies, it wouldn't be uncommon for him to say hey, follow me, and you go to the movies with him. >> reporter: it's also a sense of sadness, because he died age 42. you see all the things he achieved and you think oh, my goodness, he died so young. if only. >> there is a little bit of that, but he accomplished so much and he changed pop culture for us. it's like he's still here.

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