hello, i'm david eades with bbc world news. our top stories, the death toll after the tunisian attacks rises to 23. one of the two gunman was known to the intelligence services. security is tight at the basel museum where the attack took place on wednesday. this is the scene live. we'll be reporting from tunis. also gun battles in the

yemen yemenese city of adan. yahoo! pulls out of china. we'll look at what's behind the move. and why letter writing is making a comeback among students in nairobi, as the bbc's school report goes global. hello. thanks for joining us. the tunisian authorities say the country's intelligence services did know about one of the two gunman who carried out the attack at the prestigious bardo museum in tunis. it's now been confirmed that 23 people were shot dead 20 of them foreign tourists. we're just focusing right here on the bardo museum there, adjacent to the tunisian parliament. there were tourists terrified,

running from the museum. two gunmen were killed by security forces. three people two of them foreign tourists actually spent the whole night hiding out in the building. that's emerged in the course of the last few hours. well tunisia's president has promised to wage what he's calling a merciless war against terrorism. the so-called arab spring began here in tunisia, where there's been a by and large stable transition to democracy. we spoke to someone who was in the parliament building at the point at which the attack began. >> yes, we were scared, because it's really not usual at all for a public building to be targeted in tunisia. we know that terrorism is a problem here for many years, but until now it's never went into the city. and especially not the public buildings. so, yes, we were scared. >> does this change tunisia? >> no it doesn't. it's convinced us more than

afterever that we need to hold this big fight against extremism. but at the same time, we are convinced that our democratic model is actually the best against terrorism. >> well, she joins us from the capital tunis. perhaps, first of all, you could just give us a bit more if you can, about the increase in the number ofs s numbers of those killed. >> it seems according to the health ministry, more people have died after this attack. i did not manage to attend the conference. one of my colleagues managed to attend. but from what i understand, people have died after being injured. i know that people were undergoing surgery, over the last 24 hours, and the death toll has gone up to 20 tourists now. >> i suppose it's significant, where they actually came from. do we know? >> i have to say, it's quite hard to verify this. there's a different account going around even from

government ministries. so at this point, i would not want to speculate on that. >> okay. we'll leave it at that for the moment. but we have had some extraordinary word coming out of some people who are in the museum, taking refuge hiding somewhere or other, and actually ending up spending the whole night there, presumably simply too frightened to come out. >> yes, that's what i understand. i spoke to two policemen here who were saying that two spanish tourists as well as a tunisian employee of the museum were terrified and in hiding for, again, almost 24 hours, because they couldn't believe that this siege was over. they were taken out by the tunisian security forces just over an hour ago, and there was an ambulance here as well. so i'm not entirely sure in what state they're in. i have been told they were not injured. and -- but they have been taken to one of the hospitals that is looking after people here. >> it's worth making the point, isn't it that given the number

of casualtyies and the fact that they do come from quite a wide variety of countries, these gunmen have hit a target which will be a very raw nerve for the government which, of course depends a great extent on bringing tourists into tunisia. >> yeah as you say, they have hit -- they have killed tourists from all over the world. colombians, japanese australians, so it is a terrible time for the country, as it was hoping to attract more tourists and more people to invest in this country. many people believed in these small foreign investments. they want to show tourists the rest of tunisia. so it comes at a very difficult time at a very early stage of this political transition that so far, as you said has gone quite well. and people are really wondering what this will mean for the rest

of the transition. >> thank you very much indeed bringing together the latest strands on that story. in fact, just confirmed from the british foreign secretary, phillip hammond, he has acknowledged he's in nairobi at the moment and acknowledged that one british national was killed in the museum incident. a british woman and her family has been informed. heavy night in southern yemen has closed international in the port city of adan. several were killed there. yemen has been in political limbo since the president and the government resigned in january. well mohammad is the bbc arabic editor. he gave me the latest. >> the army units that are allied to the president, are joined by militias who support

him, have managed to repel this attack on the airport in adan in south yemen, by this special forces police unit that is allied to the former president, who is allied to the houthi rebels who now control the capital. >> so, you, just in that last sense, have given a sense to have the complexity of what we're having to deal with. is there any sense that one side or the other is getting the upper hand at the moment or is the government sort of clinging on? >> well the houthi rebels who come from the north of the country. they took over the capital in january and they basically tried to -- said that they are now in control. they put the president under house arrest. he managed to flee last month to his hometown of south yemen, where he comes from originally and he's trying to consolidate his power there.

he has this militia that's allied to him, and because the army is -- part of the army is with him, but in adan there is who are allied to the former president, who is coordinated for the rebels. and they're trying to isolate him there, while he's trying to consolidate his power. >> now britain is concerned that it has sent some military trainers to the south of ukraine to help the government in its fight against the pro-russian rebels. russia's support for the separatists will be discussed later by european union leaders. they're gathering in brussels. i've been speaking to tom burridge, who's in southern ukraine. i asked tom how significant this latest british involvement is. >> reporter: i think it's symbolic. i don't think anyone's suggesting that it will shift the military balance in the east of ukraine in any real ways but these instructors have arrived and have been working for a few days can ukrainian troops

training them in first aid and military tactics. and that tallies with the fact that the west have only supplied non-lethal military aid to the ukrainian army things like sleeping bags, laptops gps system, the u.s. is providing radars and surveillance drones. it's a symbolic move but well received, of course by the ukrainian public government and military. i think, though there is a debate here in ukraine and there are calls for the west to go that one step further and to arm the ukrainian military. but, of course countries like britain haven't taken that option off the table. for now, they don't seem like doing it anytime soon. >> we've come to see this as a sort of east versus west conflict haven't we? and, in fact is it a little bit more nuanced, particularly i guess, for those people right on the front line of this conflict. >> reporter: yeah, we've been in the east over the last few days traveling on both sides of the divide. there's a front line of course which divides the area, controlled by pro-russian rebels from the area controlled by the

ukrainian government but the people, families are divided on either side of that line. in war, you rarely witness a scene like this. allah is reunited with her daughter and grandchildren. they've been living on different sides of the fighting in eastern ukraine. >> i'm so happy the kids have come back. i haven't seen them for six months with a fragile cease-fire here, the family are moving back home to a neighborhood in the town of debaltseve now controlled by pro-russian rebels and badly damaged by recent shelling. shelling. >> we want to go back to school to go to work.

>> when i heard my granddaughter took her first steps and i wasn't there to see it that was very hard. >> reporter: not far away on the ore side of the divide people who are desperate to see family and friends are forced to wait. outside this local government building. she tells us she can't get to her home in debaltseve. she says this is the seventh time she's come here and if she finally makes it inside she'll hope to get a precious pass which people here now need to cross into rebel-held territory. checkpoints mark the only road that's still open between ukrainian-held territory and the rebels. fueled by what they see in the pro-russian and ukrainian media, people living on either side of this divide see the war in very different ways. friends and family are separated physically and by their beliefs.

she has decided to leave her house and her husband in rebel-held territory. she now shares this room with her daughter on the ukrainian side. her husband is pro-russian, but elena supports the ukrainian government. >> it's very hard. for me i have nothing to lose anymore. my home is 300 kilometers from here. my family is divided. and all i have is my work my daughter. >> at ukrainian army positions, the guns are generally quiet, but they still point east towards a front line that separates families and tears the relationships apart. well there is a cease-fire agreement, but there isn't a cease-fire in the strictness sense of those words. the fighting continues.

there's been a lull but there's fighting on either side. and the political solution to the crisis in eastern ukraine seems a long way off. how will they hold elections? how will the two sides, the pro-russian rebels and the ukraine government decide on how elections will be held in the east of ukraine? and what will be the status of that region in ukraine in the future, if it's not independent of course. that's what some of the rebels want. so the dialogue in recent days has been far apart on either side and without the political solution, an effect lating in the fighting just looks more likely. >> that's tom burridge. there is that side of course. is it enough to change the european union's mind about sanctions? alice is here. that's the big question that they've got to decide in the next day or two, really. >> absolutely right. deciding whether the russian economy has already suffered enough. it's our top story. the economic pain being inflicted by western sanctions on the russian federation. eu leaders will be discussing that issue in a two-day summit that begins later in brussels.

some countries want the sanctions kept in place, until the end of this year. others argue they should be eased now that there is a cease-fire in place in ukraine and that russia is suffering enough already from those plunging oil prices. let's go with a quick look to see how much. the russian central bank says that the country's economy should shrink by as much as 4% this year. inflation, that's running at 17% and the rouble the currency has fallen by 45% against the dollar since this conflict. there are fears that economic weakness will spread into neighboring countries. now a big story on financial markets today. u.s. stocks having surged and the dollar slumping after the federal reserve signaled it's not in a hurry to raise interest rates. there hasn't been a rise in rates in the u.s. for a decade so a very big deal for global

markets. at its monthly meeting, the u.s. central bank opened the door for a rate hike since early june but janet yellin made it very clear, the committee needs to see more jobs created and inflation first. and that caused big gains on wall street. now lastly internet giant yahoo! is closing its china office as part of a worldwide consolidation aimed at cutting cost. it's the only remaining physical presence in the country, after it sold its chinese operations to alibaba in 2005. a spokesman said around 350 jobs would be eliminated. we'll have more on those stories for you in world business report throughout the day. now back to david. >> alice, thanks very much indeed. thanks for watching bbc world news. stay with us if you can. we have something special coming up. we'll be talking live to one of the pilots of the solar-powered plane attempting to fly right around the world. it's coming en route to myanmar.

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you're watching bbc world news. i'm david eades. the latest headlines. 23 people are now known to have died including 20 foreign tourists when gunman attacked a museum in tunis on wednesday. heavy fighting has broken out in southern yemen between security forces and those loyal to a former president. now here's something. solar impulse, the solar-powered plane, attempting to fly right around the world, has begun the second leg in a two-part journey from india to myanmar. two pilots take it in turns to guide solar impulse on its circumnavigation of the globe. and so far, they've covered about 3,000 kilometers in the three segments flown since the beginning of the adventure in abu dhabi back on the 9th of march. well, the leg to mandalay in

myanmar is being flown by bertrand picard and he joins me now live on the phone from the plane's cockpit. i hope we're not disturbing you too much bertrand. first of all just tell me how is this leg of the journey going? >> everything has been beautiful. beautiful, because leaving in india, an early sunrise crystaling the gulf. arriving in myanmar, beautiful sceneries, very good winds, and flying sometimes 200 kilometers per hour which is a lot for a solar-powered plane, but it was thanks to the jet stream that was behind me. and that's reminded me of the jet stream when i was flying around the world. so it was really a nice way to come back to myanmar. >> absolutely. 200 kilometers an hour is pretty good going, isn't it for solar impulse. as a pilot, just tell me what

is it like to fly the plane? >> there are two different parts. one is really flying the plane. it's very big, it's very light, and it's very slow. so it's not easy to maintain air in a very stable situation when you have tubulars. it's a little bit bumpy sometimes. but the other part is absolutely gorgeous because the more you fly, the more energy you have. because you never need to land for refueling. you just take the energy from the sun, it runs your engines, it loads the batteries, so you can even fly at night, until the next sunrise, so no fuel it's fantastic. it is exactly how the world should be in a couple of years, it's possible. >> i appreciate it.

that is the sort of -- the key aim of this project. but while the plane might not run out of energy bertrand you might run out of energy if you've got to go for as much as five days across the pacific. how are you going to cope with that? >> well you have to make a lot of exercise in the cockpit. my colleague is doing self-hypnosis, as i have learned to do, because i'm a medical doctor originally. so you move you relax, you sleep by little movements of 20 minutes at a time and you fly the plane, and you know the passion, the energy for the pilot, because we've been preparing this flight around the world with my friend with our entire team for 13 years now.

so i tell you, the thing we like the most now is to be in the air, even if the flight allows it. at least we are into the dream that we have set so long ago, and here we are. >> well it's quite a dream, isn't it? bertrand, we'll let you focus on the road ahead, as it were from now on. great to be able to speak with you here on bbc world news though. bertrand picard, as he flies solar impulse, part of that around the world effort. great sound quality, too. now, the bbc school report is something we do that gives 11 to 16-year-olds the chance to make their own news stories. we've gone global now and we've been getting a view from one school in nairobi. >> hello, viewers, welcome to my school, boy's center right here in nairobi, kenya. while there are very many interesting things about my school, one is that the students are not allowed to have their

mobile phones while in school. so that does beg the question how do we communicate with other students in other schools? we are back to the good old days letter writing. these are well designed and telegraphed by students themselveses. >> i'm sending to a friend of mine. just to say hi because it's been quite a long time. >> i'm writing it to my friend natalie, and it's been a long time since i've talked to her and i would like to say hi to her and know how she's doing. >> now the letters are collected and handed to a mailman who takes them over. >> they're reading them now, they've received the letters and from their reaction they're very excited. some of them are laughing. let's ask them about what they think about the letters? >> i think it's nice. people don't use it often.

>> i think it's a good way to get to know other people and it's interesting to understand -- to write to people who you don't know. >> some people may say that the writing is outdated or old fashioned, but it does work for us. at the end of it one question remains unanswered between letter writing and texting, which is the most efficient way of communication. your guess is as good as mine. >> the guessing game isn't it? let's go over to the school now. the center in nairobi. it's a good story, this moses, what is your view ultimately now about having to write out painstakingly letters to friends rather than a quick text? >> yeah, it's actually -- we came up with this because we don't really get to have fun in school, so we find letters much exciting. from writing the letters to

making envelopes and delivering them to the postman. >> it's good to hear that because it feels like a blast from the past almost. but tell me a bit about the whole project, of putting together a tv piece. how have you found that? >> it was exciting. journalism is much furnish than i thought. i have seen very very exciting. so i would be happy to do it again. >> and what's the part that interests you most the reporting or the production that goes into putting a piece of television together? >> actually the part that excited me most was the many flows we had to go through so you come up with one perfect and final product. >> you should be working over here. moses, great to have you here on bbc world news. enjoy the rest of the school report day.

thanks for being with us. let me just remind you, if you want more on the school report and as i said, going global for the first time this year, have a look on the website, bbc.com/news where we have more on all our other stories as well.

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our top stories. the death toll after the tunisian attacks rises to 23. one of the two gunman was known to the intelligence services. gun battles in the yemenese city of adan as those loyal to the former government clash with security forces. climate change blamed for cyclone pam. and we hear from the chinese businessman behind the world's

biggest infrastructure project and he's building it in latin america. hello and thanks for joining us. the tunisian authorities say the country's intelligence services did know about one of the two gunman who carried out the attack at the prestigious bardo museum in tunis. it's now been confirmed that 23 people were shot dead including 20 foreign tourists. here you can see the bardo museum in tunis. adjacent to the tunisian parliament where you would expect security to be pretty tight. but this was the scene. terrified tourists running from the museum. two gunmen were killed by security forces. three people actually ended up spending the entire night hiding out in the building itself.

well, tunisia's president has pledged to wage a merciless war against terrorism. the so-called arab spring began in tunisia, where there's been a stable democracy. he's been speaking to one mp who was in the parliament building when the attack began. >> yes, we were scared, because it's really not usual at all for a public building to be targeted in tunisia. we know that terrorism is a reality here for many years, but until now, it's never went into the city. and especially not the public buildings. so yes, we were scared. >> does this change tunisia? >> no it doesn't. it's convinced us more than ever that we need to help this big fight against terrorism, but at the same time, we are convinced that our democratic model is actually the best against terrorism. >> well also in tunis, the

increase in the number of people killed. >> according to the health ministry, more people have died after this attack. i did not manage to attend the conference, one of my colleagues managed to attend but from what i understand, people have died after being injured. i know that people were undergoing surgery over the last 24 hours, and the death toll has gone up to 20 tourists now. >> we have had some extraordinary word coming out of some people who were in the museum taking refuge hiding somewhere or other, and actually ending up spending the whole night there, presumably simply too frightened to come out. >> yes, that's what i understand. i spoke to two policeman here who were saying that two spanish tourists as well as a tunisian employee of the museum were terrified and in hiding for, again, almost 24 hours, because they couldn't believe that this siege was over.

they were taken out by the tunisian security forces just over an hour ago, and there was an ambulance here as well. i'm not entirely sure what state they were in. i have been told that they were not injured, but they have been taken to one of the hospitals that is looking after people here. >> it's worth making the point, isn't it that given the number of casualties and the fact that they do come from quite a wide variety of countries, these gunmen have hit a target which will be a very raw nerve for the government, which depends on a great extent on bringing tourists into tunisia. >> reporter: yeah as you say, they have hit -- they have killed tourists from all over the world. colombians japanese australians so it is a terrible time for the country, as it was hoping to attract more tourists and more people to invest in this country. many people believe it needs

more foreign investment. and they want to show tourists the rest of tunisia. it comes at a very difficult time, at a very early stage of this political transition, that so far, as you said has gone quite well. and people are really wondering what this will mean for the rest of the transition. >> just talking about the dead and trying to identify them the british foreign secretary, phillip hammond, has confirmed that one of those killed was a woman, a british woman, and that there may be another british person involved there as well. now, heavy fighting in southern yemen has closed the international airport in the port city of adan. several people were reportedly killed in clashes between forces loyal to the country's previous president and forces loyal to president mansour hadi based in adan. yemen has been in political limbo since the government

resigned in january. the editor of bbc brks krrksbc arabic gave me the latest. >> the army units that are allies to president hadi joined by militias who support him have managed to repel this attack on the airport on adan in south yemen, by this special forces police unit that is allied to the former president, who is allied to the hottuthi rebels who now control the capital. >> you just in that last sentence have given us a sense of the complexity of what we have to deal with. is there any sense that one side or the other is getting the upper hand at the moment or is the government sort of clinging on? >> well the houthi rebels who come from the north of the country, they took over the capital in mid-january, and they basically tried to -- they said that they're now in control. they put the president under

house arrest. he managed the flee last month, to his hometown of south yemen, where he comes from originally and he's trying to -- since going there, he's trying to consolidate his power there. so he has this militia that's allied to him, and because the army -- part of the army is with him, but in adan there is at least two or three army units who are allies to the former president, who is allies to the houthi rebels. and they're trying to isolate him there, while he's trying to consolidate his power. >> now, a number of people known to have died in the cyclone which ripped through vanuatu last weekend is not going to rise significantly. that's according to the nation's prime minister. the u.n. put the number of known dead as 11. that is relatively low, considering the strength of this storm. it was a category 5 storm and there had been fears that the

number killed would rise significantly once the extent of the damage to the archipelago's outlying islands became clear. they are islands that are very difficult to reach. but that probably wouldn't rise by much. he blamed climate change for the worsening storms and urged the world to take action. >> we are getting more and more severe storms. the caribbean and indian ocean as well. maybe this has something to the climate matter and we hope that the world would come together and make a decision on some -- for what the concerns. we need to sign more legally and comprehensive legal findings

document to lessen the mission. and other greenhouse gases. we hope the whole world can be an example. >> vanuatu's prime minister. after wednesday's attack in tunisia, there is, of course growing concern about the spread of unrest across north africa. indeed governments are confronting jihadists and organized criminal organizations in many of the countries and france is one of those hoping to cut supply routes which extremist groups use to forge regional alliances. they've now set up a base just south of the libyan border in northern niger, and from there, our west africa correspondent, thomas fessi, has this report. >> out with the first light.

this morning, they will advance through a searing and bitterly cold desert wind. we joined them on a patrol. their mission, searching for clues in this emptiness. it's about 100 kilometers to the libyan border and this is what the french call a gray area because the authorities of this country, niger, can't control it. militias control the border. so the french are trying to secure this vast zone to stop jihadi fighters and weapons from moving south. the last french outpost, where soldiers keep a lonely vigil. this is the gateway to libya and busiest trafficking routes in the sarah.

jihadi groups and militia thrive on this lucrative business. >> we do catch weapons, especially when we come to patrols in the area because there are those on the checkpoint. we go three or four times a month, and that's when we see transporting weapons and drugs. >> the french are stepping into the region's main militant hot spot. concerned that illegal trafficking will q4empower grouped linked to al qaeda or the islamic state across the region. >> translator: these arms groups may bring weapons into nigeria, indeed. and there is also drug trafficking that fronts terrorism. our operations with the nigerians are aimed at putting an end to these trafficking

activities, in order to stub the flow of logistical support that they can provide to nigeria and mali. mali. >> the old colonial power, france, stands as the saharan and has made it their imperative to break shifting allegiances between extremist groups. but with the nigerian boko haram to the south and an expanding islamic state to the north, the regional forecast does not bode well well. do stay with us here on bbc world news, because coming up shortly, a school with a twin focus, sport and academia. we take a look at a new educational model in rio de janeiro. that's the bbc's school report going global. um... i...i think we can make it, right? it's okay, jim. just stay calm and move as quietly

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you're watching bbc world news. i'm david eades. the latest headlines. 23 people are now known to have died. 20 of them foreign tourists, when gunman attacked a museum in tunis on wednesday. heavy fight has broken out in southern yemen between security forces and those loyal to the former president. the chinese billionaire who intends to build a shipping canal through nicaragua connecting the atlantic and the pacific has dismissed the critics of his projects. speaking to the bbc in a rare broadcast interview, he says that having chinese companies leading the project will help injury success. work schedules started in ernest after the publication of an environmental assessment next month. he's been speaking to our china editor carrie gracie. >> some say this is the biggest infrastructure project in the

world. do you feel a lot of pressure? >> translator: yes. i feel great pressure. because no matter how well we prepare, new problems will inevitably crop up. we can't think of everything in advance, but we can try to solve each problem as it emerges. >> and what is the biggest problem that you face in getting this canal built? >> for me it's personal. the biggest pressure comes from having to win recognition from the world and from society. i cannot let this project become an international one. >> many nations is have thought about canals through this part of the world before. the british, the french the americans, but none of them have realized this dream. do you think there's something special about china and something special about you and your company that can realize

this dream? >> for decades now, chinese firms have built up a wealth of experience and expertise with large infrastructure projects. so having chinese companies leading this project adds enormously for its prospects for success. >> the first time was 2012. what were your first impressions? >> translator: i thought this country really needs this canal. nicaragua is a beautiful country, with a long history and rich culture. but many people there live in poverty. if the canal can be built successfully, it will transform the economy and people's lives. >> there are some people who say, actually shipping is being hit by rail freight and the industrial centers of the world are moving away from asia so when the canal is finished will

there be enough revenue to justify the expense? >> 90% of the world's trade is by sea. shipping is cheaper and more convenient than by transport by rail. this canal is connecting east and west. it's definitely commercially viable. otherwise, we wouldn't be investing in it. >> there are, however, skeptic, who say it will never get, it will never get built, they say. it's too tough. it's too hard. how do you answer them? >> translator: we'll convince everybody with the facts. we'll convince them by succeeding. we are in talks with local people even opponents of the plan. we want to produce a thorough report, but that takes time. but this is not withholding information, it's being responsible.

now, china and japan are holding their first high-level talks in four years, with hence all the handshakes. the meeting in tokyo involves officials from the foreign and defense ministries. the talks themselves were suspended back in 2011 over tensions in the east china sea. both sides have stressed importance of sincere dialogue to maintain peace. i spoke to our correspondent in beijing, martin patience. he told me that these talks really did represent progress. >> for four years, we had no talks between the two countries. we had rising tensions between china and japan over these disputed islands in the east china sea. the big fear was that potentially some sort of accident could even trigger a conflict, but what we have seen in recent months is i think, a recognition of the diplomatic as well as the economic cost of those tensions. late last year, china's president met his japanese counterparts. they held talks for the first time. it was a pretty icy affair. both sides were playing to the

domestic audiences, but as an outcome of that meeting, we now have these talks, where the two sides are working on ways to dial down the tensions over the disputed islands and also to set up a communication hotline, if you like so if something does go wrong, at least china and japan can get in contact with each other and hopefully sort that out. >> so how preliminary or even tentative do you think these talks are? i appreciate, there's been a four-year gap, there's a lot of rebuilding to be done but do they expect anything substantiative to come out of this? >> i think, what they're expecting is to try and dial down the tensions and perhaps come up with this communication hotline. on the issue of the disputed islands, that's not going to be resolved. i think both countries have resigned themselves to the fact that they'd simply have to disagree. china claims islands, japan controls them. it claims islands. no side is going to back down. what we are seeing in the region

is rising nationalism from china's point of view, it's worried about japan's loosening of its constitution, which it sees japan as taking a more military focused stance from japan's point of view, it will say china is spending its budget its military spending increases 10% year on year. what is it spending all that money on and it needs to be transparent about what it actually wants to do right around the region. >> martin patience. bbc's school report gives 11 to 16-year-olds a chance to make their own news stories. and this year we've gone global. our journalists have been mentoring schools in their local areas. among them rio de janeiro. as brazil gears up for the city next year the city has invested this a experimental school model that lets students keep up their sports skills while keeping up with their school work.

bbc news visits rio de janeiro olimpco. >> translator: my name is careys and i live in rio de janeiro brazil. i live very far from the school and to get here i take two buses and the metro every day. i like to study here, because it's very schoolcool. it's a school with a particular emphasis on sports. but what does it mean to be a school with an emphasis on sports? >> translator: these are all the trophies that our school has won in sports. our schools value sports a lot. >> it's not just sports it also really values classroom time. >> translator: maybe you don't understand why in a sports school we students have to study

a lot. so i'll ask my teacher and she'll be able to explain it better to you. >> translator: well, we're at a school and a school's goal is to prepare its students for life. we can't forget the citizen we're building here and the academics. both are very important so that the in the future you can make your choices. >> translator: this school is a school that uses sports to change, not only its students but also society. it builds thinking citizen and citizens that can fight for their country, knowing that they can win or they can lose but giving them more tools to win rather than to lose. >> it's very healthy and very important for life. i'll ask my teacher what she thinks. zplt swimming is the most comprehensive sport because it uses most of the muscle groups. and it improves self-determination, live focus, things that are very important

for their professional life in the future. >> i see the benefits of practicing sports in the future wherever i become a real athlete or not. if i don't become a professional athlete, i can still be a physical education teacher or maybe i will some day go to the olympics. >> translator: this school is great very and very different from the other schools because it's not just a school. here, everyone is like family. >> very good stuff. now, singapore is home to about 100,000 men from bangladesh. they work there as migrant laborerers, mostly in the construction sector. they've now organized a poetry competition to give those men a voice. shareef is one of the finallies and he tells us his story.

>> translator: i was a businessman in bangladesh and i have come to singapore because of political unrest back home. ♪ >> translator: they said there was going to be a competition, a migrant workers' poem competition. he asked me to write a poem. i remember i could not sleep that night. i kept thinking, i have to write a poem. what kind of problems have i been facing? what feelings does a worker have when he is working?

>> translator: i have only one, we live far apart from our families. this is the age of the internet and maybe we can contact them over the phone day or night, wherever we want but the feeling you get by being with your people seeing them touching them, that feeling we cannot get. i cannot see my son, i cannot put him on my lap, i cannot see my wife nor have a hearty talk with her. this causes ache. we feel uneasy about the uncertainties here like food and accommodation. and the living conditions. a lot of people here in single rooms, all squeezed in together. this really affects us badly. if the singapore government wanting towards the food and accommodation and improve its conditions, i'm sure workers

would be encouraged to work with an even more fresh mind. >> that was from the heart, wasn't it? shareef there on the realities of life in singapore. thanks for watching bbc world news. your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do, drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ ♪ ♪ all the goodness of milk all the deliciousness of hershey's syrup.

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