hello, you are watching "gmt" on "bbc world news." our top stories, beyond inhumane. islamic state militants enter a refugee camp near damascus. 18,000 trapped without food water or medicines as fears mount of a possible assault on the syrian capitol. also on the program, the one minute wonder. looks like a jumble doesn't it? is this the system to end our

flat battery mobile woes? also on the program, aaron delivering the news. >> see what you did there, david? america's delivery giant, fedex is buying up tnt for a nearly $5 billion cash deal. why is tnt selling? does this mean more of your brand? will authorities allow these two household names to become one? hello, it's midday here in london 7:00 a.m. in washington and 2:00 a.m. in london. the council is demanding humanetarian access to the palestinian refugees inside. they have been trapped since wednesday when islamic state militants launched an attack. the situation for the 18,000

people has been described as beyond inhumane. yarmouk is south of the city center covering two square kilometers of land. it's believed i.s. militants are now in control of most of it. yarmouk was established back in 1957. it was for palestinians who fled the arab/israeli conflict. more than 150,000 residents were registered before syria's current civil war. it's a place with its own mosques, schools, public buildings as well. since 2012 the camp has been besieged by fighting. on the first of april, militants stormed the camp. they have been fighting palestinian militiamen trying to defend it. those who managed to escape spoke of beheadings by is. jordan's ambassador is chair of

the 15-member council. >> the members condemn in the strongest terms the grave crimes committed against 18,000 civilians. they emphasize the need that such crimes do not go unpunished. the members called for the protection of civilians in the camp for ensuring humanitarian access to the area including by providing life saving assistance and ensure safe passage and evacuation of the syrians. >> i'm joined by a member of the palestinian liberation organization executive committee. thanks very much for joining us. it is a pretty desperate state of affairs, we all accept that don't we? what can be done do you think, at this stage, to help those caught inside? >> well as you are described it it is a very inhumane

situation. this situation has been like that for two years now. i mean people were deprived all the time from water, from food from basic needs. now, they are being slaughtered and carry the risk of being slaughtered at the hands of these terrorists. they were possessed by israel in 1948, 67 years ago. the most important need now is to provide their protection, to provide them with a safe passage to leave if they want to leave or provide them with supplies they need and provide them with protection. and, of course the best solution would be to allow them to come back here home to palestine, to their palestinian homeland. this is the only place, probably, they can feel safe. >> given the situation, as it is there have to be question marks as to whether anyone is going to grant access. what sort of inference do you

think you, as the palestinian authority have to bear? >> there is a delegation in da damascus. there have been negotiation that is allowed 2,000 people to leave the camp so far and negotiations are going intensively to achieve two purposes. first, to give these people safety whether inside the camp or outside the camp and second to make sure that nobody who would leave the camp would be hurt or arrested or anything like that. it's quite important now to provide safety to them. >> it is a desperately confuse zing picture for a lot of people as well. is it clear to you who is working with whom at this stage? if we have a front and we have i.s. working together where does that leave you? >> well it means that those who

initiated these terrible things don't maybe plan them but know where it will get to. eventually violence breeds violence and one violence breeds more severe violence. that's what we see on the ground. the painful lesson to us palestinians is without protecting our own people ourselves, nobody is going to protect us. that's why the need of palestinians to have their safe homeland is so important. our need to be able to provide safety to people is so important. the only way to achieve that is that palestinians become free from occupation from the system of apartheid and palestine becomes a homeland for all palestinians. >> thanks very much, indeed. a desperate situation in yarmouk. we will keep you posted here on "bbc world news."

forensic teams in iraq have begun to excavate 12 graves after militants were driven out of the area. they are thought to contain the bodies of up to 1700 iraqi shiite soldiers killed last june. we have the report. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: paying tribute to the slain men. it's believed this is one of 12 mass grave sites thought to contain the graves of 1700 iraqis. they were massacred by islamic state last june. remains of the victims clothing have been lying here for almost a year. now, forensic teams have begun the task of excavating, first as diggers, then more kaffully as bones start to appear. survivors claim they rounded up soldiers from a former u.s. base. they were slaughtered at the presidential compound belonging to the late dictator, saddam

hussein. this is one of the very few survivors. he explains pointing out what happened pointing out where they attempted to execute him. >> they repeatedly said they won't hurt us. they brought us here. when we got here, they tied up our hands. the fourth bullet was meant to kill me. i was not hit. the fifth bullet was fired killing the one next to me. i deliberately fell to the ground. i was covered with blood, then i rolled down the valley. >>reporter: his story matches images posted online which show the soldiers being machine gunned. for months, relatives of the victims have been calling on authorities to provide them with proper answers. now, they are closer to finding out about the fate of their loved ones. the mass killings have come a symbol in iraq of the brutality of islamic state fighters and

their hatred for the country. bbc news. let's catch up on other news. a massive explosion of a chemical factory in china, killing one person. the shock waves could be felt 50 kilometers away. the accident happened in fujian. the accident is currently the top trending item on china's popular service. speculation continues to mount that hillary clinton will announce her intention to run for the u.s. presidency in the next couple of weeks. some american media outlets are reporting the staff of the former first lady were told they should be ready to start their campaign roles at any moment. police in britain confirmed no further action will be taken against jeremy clarkson. they didn't renew his contract

after an incident where he punched a producer in a round over catering. also turkish police arrested two people for their suspected role in an attack on a bus. the bus was shot at on saturday near the northern city. turkey's league and cup matches were suspended for a week. some said they would not play until their attackers were caught. kenyan students are marching to demand greater national security following last week's attack on the university. this is the third and final day of mourning for those 148 who were killed. protesters in the capitol are demanding compensation for the victim's families. ann is in nairobi. give us a sense of the scale of the demonstration and the way it's being carried out. >> well this demonstration is organized by students from

various universities here in nairobi. they are feeling volulnerable following the attack in nairobi. across the world as well. we know that there are students holding vigil in boston cape town, venezuela and australia in memory of the 147 people killed in the attack. this attack came at a time there had been lots of potential attacks and circulating on social media warning of an attack at the public university. this attack happened in gariss. it hit the kenyan community hard. >> indeed. thanks very much indeed. do stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come on the program --

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fighting in yemen over the last few weeks killed more than 540 people. there are the figures, injuring more than 1700. these are figures that have come to us from the world health organization. the fightings continue where houthi rebelling are in control of most of the roads in and out. they have been bombing the city from the sea. water and food supplies are running low. the international committee of the red cross is trying to organize an air lift of relief

supplies to little effect so far. a 20-year-old student is in aiden in yemen and joins me now. thanks very much indeed for joining us. can you give us a picture as to what life is like for you at the moment? >> caller: well life is now -- the chaos is growing more big. everything food supplies are getting more less. the houthi's when they invade they have a policy to bomb everything. they have no morals. they have been killing civilians, women, children they have blew up lots of residential buildings. they have no -- they bombed lots of -- people who are injured

already, we cannot just take them to the hospital because we are totally not safe anymore. >> do you know of a safe place to put yourself and your friends and others to avoid the attacks? >> caller: well, only for this now -- for me i have evacuated my house, which was near the airport because of the air strikes from saudi arabia. almost all areas invaded by houthis. we are under the control -- these local defendants are the youth.

happening to the city and now against the houthis -- >> a dreadful stage of affairs. thank you very much for joining us on "gmt." we are joined by tom, a reporter for middle east here in the uk. tom lived in yemen for two years. just getting a flavor for what's going on there. it's a horrible state of affairs. there is an effort to get some sort of help in. do we know what's going wrong with that? >> i spoke to a spokeswoman this morning in yemen. she spoke with the extreme frustration over a week of trying to get this one plane full of bandages, i.v. fluids into the capitol and still unable to do it. saudi jets are flying over the capitol bombing by day and night. they cannot get run plane into the country.

that says a lot about the situation. >> how much hope is left in yemen, in aiden, particular in terms of foreign aid agencies trying to do their thing? >> i think it's important 12 days into the campaign to look at what's been achieved and at what cost. what has been achieved is the saudis manages to take out planes and weapons they feel the houthis could use. i spoke last night to a tribal chafe. he was against the houthis. he took part in the arab spring. an air strike hit his town and killed an entire family. he says he will never accept the president coming back into power in yemen. >> he might say that and feel

that, i can understand why, if you are that directly hit. the message from the saudis is we are going to see it through. >> that's the message from the saudis. it's important to ask what is the end goal here. let's not forget the houthi's have millions of followers. they have behaved in a brutal way. they are not going anywhere. if the aim is to get them back to the negotiating table, is bombing them and turning yemeni people away from them the way to do it? i'm worried the people of yemen may not be willing to accept a settlement after this intense bombing campaign. >> thank you very much. thank you. now the jury in the trial of the man accused in the boston marathon bombing will begin deliberations. dzhokhar tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to the charges he was under the influence of his radicalized older brother. we have the report.

>> reporter: dzhokhar tsarnaev at the mare than two years ago as he planted a bomb in the crowd. these chilling images show what happened next. two deviced exploded leaving three dead and injuring 260. tsarnaev can be seen here running away from the carnage. prosecution said he wanted to punish america and become a terrorist hero. as he went on the run from police, he hid on this boat. here he wrote a note asking allah to make him a martyr. his lawyers say he carried out the attacks, but acted under the influence of his older brother tamerlan who died in a shootout with police. people here in boston say they want justice to be served after the attack on their city. the key challenge is what that

justice looks like if as is expected tsarnaev is found guilty, then the more difficult challenge is deciding his punishment. should he face life in prison or the death penalty? bbc news, boston. now, if you own a mobile phone, silly question if you own, almost all of us do. you are a victim to the flat battery syndrome. a hazard of mobile phone life i suppose. or is it? how much longer? scientists have invented a new battery made from aluminum. they say it's fast charging long lasting and inexpensive. there is a stumbling block. it doesn't seem to have the voltage of the present lithium-ion battery. it's encouraging. with me is the bbc technology correspondent. you have the answers to all

these questions. everyone will be on this like a shark if it's right. >> we are obsessed with battery life. the reason is these. we are walking around with these. they run out half way through the day and it's brought home to us that this technology is advanced quickly. battery technology seems to be advancing slowly. this is a fascinating development. this came out in a research paper. the scientists at stanford have demonstrated aluminum and graphite, i think, flexible battery. it looks like a sheet of aluminum. they are demonstrated i think, they have demonstrated that it is flexible too. they can bend it and it still works. it brings up the prospect of having a bendy phone and it working. it is demonstrated there showing you can recharge a phone in

under 60 seconds, which, of course, is incredibly impressive. now, a word of caution. i have been looking at stories about research into new batteries, new forms of batteries, faster charging batteries for many years. i have yet to see it really come into play. >> is there much of a response so far? what are they saying out there? >> people are excited about it. a note of caution. the man behind the tesla car, which of course runs on electric batteries already tweeted, beware of breakthrough announcements about breakthroughs in battery life. they are often not what they seem. energy density is what he's talking about. do they have the same energy density. he, himself, is about to unveil his own battery technology. >> that would explain that. >> he has an interest. >> it still looks like a school physics or chemistry lab. how far down the road are we

talking? >> stanford university is an incredible place where they have a track record of taking research and turning it into a company. they are very commercially minded. i imagine they only let this out in public having perhaps already approached people about commercializing it. >> thanks very much. when don mclean sang about the day the music died it was about the death of buddy holly. much of the song's meaning has been a mystery. someone is going to take ownership of the original lyrics as it goes up for auction. we have the report. ♪ so bye bye miss american pie drove my chevy. >> reporter: the truth of "american pie" has been a mystery since it was released in 1971. he was clear he wrote about the death of buddy holly, that's the february that makes him shiver.

the rest of the song is left for you to interpret. today, the original handwritten lyrics will be sold at auction. he says they will divulge everything there is to divulge about the song. >> what you have in the manuscript is how we got to the stage, the creative process from beginning to end. you see great moments of inspiration. you see him attempting things that didn't work out, the direction he was going in that he didn't want to follow. these words that we all know so well and are fixed restaurant fixed in the beginning. >> reporter: over the decades, academic papers dedicated to the song placed bob dylan as the gesture, picked out references to the beatles and the stones and the loss of american innocence in the '60s. the extra annotations on 16 pages for sale could back up the theories or prove that many music fans have been spouting

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welcome to "gmt" on "bbc world news." i'm david eades. in this half hour the children not happy with their gender. an increase in under 10-year-olds seeing doctors here in the uk about what sex they are. the bbc speaks to a child about why he first wanted to wear girl's clothes. >> just to see how it looked and

if anyone laughed or not. i would be happy then. >> mind your head. we are hot on the heels of an epidemic sweeping new york subway. also joining us here on the program, aaron is back. samsung finally turned a corner or not? >> many people are asking if this year 2015 is the year samsung gets back on track. how? by selling a lot of s6 phones. we are going to find out if the korean giant can hold on to its title as the world's biggest mobile maker. hello. british doctors announcing dozens of young children every year who is unhappy with their biological sex. the children 10 and under referred to support services to

deal with transgender feelings quadrupled. victoria has been speaking to two of the youngest transgender children in the uk with permission from their parents and support from the schools. >> reporter: ligly and jessica were both born boys. now just age 6 and 8, they are some of the youngest children in the country to be referred to a gender identitity clinic. can you remember when you were being treated as a boy, why you wanted to wear girl clothes? >> to just see how it looked and see if anyone laughed or not and i would be happier then. >> reporter: more young children with feelings like this are now being seen by nhs doctors. the number has been rising sharply as awareness grows. 77 children age 10 and under

have been referred to a gender identity clinic up from 19 six years ago. >> there might be some who think this child is 6, it's bound to be a phase. >> we thought that to start with. this has been going on since she first started talking. there's no point trying to force them to be somebody who they are not. >> reporter: research suggests many young people will find the transition far from easy. without support, levels of self-harm can be higher. for parents, as well, a difficult time. there may be complex decisions to make in the future. for now, jessica and lily want to play with their friends and enjoy life like millions of young girls growing up. we can talk now suzy green from mermaids. and the film maker lewis

hancock. lewis, i want to start with you, if i can. the cases we have seen there are very young children. given your own experience, is that too young? >> i don't think so at all. i knew at a very young age, i knew i was a boy and would say it when i was 4 or 5 years old. i waited until i was older to transition. 18 or 19 that age because i felt like i had to fit in at high school. before high school, i lived like a boy, looked like a boy and treated like one. i wish i had the knowledge and confidence to come out and say i'm transgender. >> when you look at these youngsters as they are, do you look at it with a hint of envy they are addressing their problem that early or that issue? >> i don't feel envy. i do wish i suppose that i had that chance but i'm please thad people are feeling confident to be able to be themselves now. it's great to see.

>> can i ask you, do you think you would have had the same understanding from your family? >> my mom and dad have been very supportive from day one where they didn't have the knowledge they didn't necessarily even know what being transgender meant and what steps to take. >> that is part of the key, isn't it? >> yeah. >> you are here to support others now as they try to work out what to do. for so many of us it's a very alien approach. >> i think, unless you have dealt with it personally you really don't understand the issues. my daughter is 21 now. she was born male and she told me when she was 4 god made a mistake and she should have been a girl. i already knew something was going on. from the time she could walk she was going into my wardrobe and put things down. she liked the feeling down her back for long hair. when i took her for haircuts

she cried for hours. the articulation at 4 years old confirmed what i knew. >> what was the effect on her of not being able to feel comfortable in her skin early in life? >> she became very isolated. kids become aware of gender between 3 and 5 years old. that's the age they are aware of it. what happened was that as she started through primary school and realized the other children didn't feel like she did, she became more isolated became quite low. she wanted toys that were stereotypically for girls. if she was teased by the other children for that that made her feel obviously quite depressed. i think when we sort of made the decision to actually start allowing her to have girl clothes at home and transitioning. so about 6 years old, she started wearing girl clothes home. as soon as she came through the door the boy uniform was off

and she was straight in the girl's stuff and she became happier. as she got older, by 9, we decided to let her grow her hair. just a gradual transition that was basically to cater to what jackie needed really. >> i was struck in a bit of the film, which we haven't been able to show here unfortunately because of time but a young jessica announced to the assembly she would prefer to be known as jessica. there's not an issue. by the age of i don't know 12 13 14 that's got to be desperately difficult for children to adapt to and, indeed for those who want to go through that to cope with. >> definitely. that's when puberty kicks in and you develop, your body develops.

for me it was in a feminine way that i haithed. it was about an internal battle and also trying to be accepted as well. there's a social side to it as well as the physical side. for me at the time i didn't feel like i was in a place to come out as the real me. i did get picked on in high school. people made comments. i looked like a boy but i was in a skirt for the uniform. oh the boy in a skirt. they were right, i was a boy in a skirt. it wasn't a great time. >> obviously, there's a surgical side to this as well. >> yeah. >> you are embarking -- you haven't completed it. that must be a difficult thing to embark upon. >> i was terrified. i hadn't had operations before. for me it's different for everyone. not every transgender person feels they need surgery. for me i did need the surgery. it felt like it was a necessity.

i was terrified, but i had to do it. i felt like it was a deformity that needed corrected. >> how far do you think we as a society, have come i suppose and the fact we are sitting here and talking about it. that's a start. perhaps it's a slow start. >> yeah. my daughter at secondary school was annihilated. she was kicked punched every day. people said nasty things to her. in the end, she had to come out of school and i had to send her to another area and not face that level of bullying. it's the same thing i hear from parents. they are facing enormous prejudice. it's difficult growing up without adding this into the mix. you know any of these young people hurting, they are embarking on a really really difficult journey, surely they

should get some respect for that. >> thank you for coming in. >> thank you. with us is aaron to talk about that big deal in logistics. aaron, samsung, still top of the tree? >> still top of the tree just hanging in there. i'll explain more. thanks, david. hello there. has samsung finally turned the corner? the electronics giant released their profits for the first three months of this year. it's better news than expected. the korean firm says operating profits should come in at $5.4 billion in the first three months of this year. if it gets that it will be the best performance for nine months. still, compared to the same period a year ago, it's down some 30%. samsung will publish the full results coming toward the end of this month. now, sales of smartphones have been falling. why? well simple because of

competition, stiff competition from apple as well as several chinese producers. fair to say samsung's chip business is doing well. samsung is putting hopes on the s6 line of mobile devices. i sat down with the expert and asked how samsung was fending off the chinese competitors? >> apple had a record breaking q-1 this year. chinese manufacturers are coming up fast. they are growing rapidly, indeed. they are competitive in terms of cost. samsung is being squeezed. >> they are competitive in costs. their products, you start to see the products popping up. >> their products are cheaper. the fact is they are cheaper. >> what about the guts and what comes in them? >> the guts are okay. they may not be the best. it's not always the best that wins. the vhs competition, it wasn't the best technology that won, it was the won that got to market. >> the rise of these chinese rivals is doing that.

it's really going fast. there was once a household name nokia. >> what happened to them? >> everybody had a nokia phone. it's not unforseen that something like that would happen. the chinese rivals are nipping on the heels. >> they are. they are growing fast. samsung is seeing what's going on. they have a lot of folks in the s6. if they don't pay off, they will be in serious trouble in a few months time. let's turn our attention, fedex is buying dutch rival tnt express for $5 billion, cash deal, mind you. two years ago, another u.s. firm, u.p.s. united parcel service pulled out of a bid for tnt after disapproval from eu competition. this time the tnt express

chairman says he is confident the deal will not be blocked from regulators. stephen great to have you in the studio. we'll talk about the regulators in a moment. why is tnt selling and what is in it for fedex? >> they had been struggling in the european market over the last couple years. they lose 200 million euros this year. they have invested in their road network. this is a great opportunity for fedex to get a foothold in the european market 15% of the european market. at the same time for all of tnts customers, get access to the global reach fedex has across the america's and asia. >> a nice fit. talking of competition, i guess it puts pressure on u.p.s. and dhl. putting pressure on them in europe. >> that's right. it's bringing a strong third player to the market. it will have power in the

european market. >> this is better for competition. >> i think it is. this is great for consumers. they will be able to play off the different companies and think about what is the best solution for their company. >> what is the difference when the european the eu authorities, when they looked at a u.p.s./tnt deal they said no. what's the difference between fedex/tnt? >> they will have 17% or 18% of the market below the 30% they normally use. at that level, it would not raise significant competition. however, there will be a pressure on tnt to sell off some of its airline operations to ensure its competition in that market continues. >> it depends on the competition. all of these big logistics companies are facing a bit of i

don't know if shake up is the right word. look at amazon. amazon in the uk self-delivers. >> the last year it's grown its self-delivery and it is 10% of the market. that is a huge change to what was a reasonably stable market over the previous five years. as that continues and that trend is continuing you are seeing other big players self-delivering. >> it puts a lot of pressure on these guys. how do they combat? big firms or consumer firms, companies like amazon delivering itself. >> well one of the things, it puts price pressure on the lower end of the market. they have the value added services that self-deliveries are difficult to deliver. the platforms guarantee delivery times and ensured guarantee services where they can make a lot of money. at the commodity end of it this

is a struggle for them. >> i have to wrap it up but drones. are we going to see drones delivering our packages? >> i think drones we have to wait five to ten years minimum for that. there are huge hurdles for that. don't expect your parcel coming by drone tomorrow. >> thank you very much for joining us from slj economics. that's it. follow me on twitter. tweet me i'll tweet you back. that's it for the business z. david, i'll drone it over to you. >> thank you very much indeed. thanks for watching "gmt." still to come in the program, a report from where people live neither at war nor at peace. what's it like inside a region calling itself independent, yet unrecognized by the rest of the world? (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything.

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hello, i'm david eades. the top stories this hour. the united nations security council prepared for human tear effort. the world health organization released figures to show the crisis in yemen. 550 people have been killed in the fighting in the past few weeks. as a cease-fire in eastern ukraine stumbles on, could it become a frozen conflict? where the dispute is never fully resolved. to get an idea of what life is like inside republics that call themselves independent, we are going to nagorno-karabakh. for more than two decades, they have been locked in conflict over the territory, which

internationally is considered part of azerbaijan. >> reporter: she is teaching her youngest son arithmetic. he can count on his fingers, unlike his older brother. two years ago, he found an unexploded round from the war. it blew off his left hand. he hides the stump in his pocket. she says they live in constant fear of more violence. >> translator: if there is a war, we will suffer. my children will also suffer. they won't care whether we are guilty or not. they will think we have no right to exist. >> reporter: that view is common here. they fought for this land in the 1990s. they lost territory. hundreds of thousands fled their homes.

despite a 20-year cease-fire, it remains heavily militarized. there are frequent fire fights and casualties. they call themselves an independent republic. they have their own government, university and international airport. though, in reality, they are isolated from the outside world. last year, the republic marked 20 years of independence. this independence in the republic itself has not been recognized by the international community which considers this land. there are still lots of signs this conflict remains unresolved. one example is this airport, renovated a couple years ago, it sits empty. there are no aircraft flying in or out. the planes risk being shot down because there is no official peace agreement.

the defactor government says the exclusion from negotiations is holding back the process. >> when you withdrawal them from the negotiation table -- show them as aggressive. in reality, this conflict for self-determination. >> reporter: it's also about self-preservation. at his school, they are learning how not to make the same mistake his brother did. thousands of unexploded things remain from the past. that, and the threat of a new war is the concern of the present. bbc news. a style of street dancing that grew out of hip hop.

it's performed across new york city by dance teams. many perform in the subway for donations. the best groups acquire a worldwide following on social media. the city is cracking down on them. public safety and solicitation rules. one group spoke to the bbc about why they keep dancing despite the risk. ♪ >> probably hundreds. maybe 70 to 80 teams, but individually, it's hundreds of us. i'm talking just new york. it's like an epidemic. it is a lot of dances incorporated into one. three bases is toe wap, bad one and harlem shake. they are three original moves. toe wop goes like this. ♪

second basic, harlem shake. ♪ third one, bad one. ♪ >> on a good day, how much money do you make? >> on a real bad day, 30. on a high day, 70 50. on a good day, 100. on a good, good day, 150. that's a lot. it's more than minimum wage. >> they arrest us for dancing because they consider it soliciting or reckless endangerment. when i was younger, they didn't stop us to tell us to get on the train. we were too young to get locked

up. after 15 they started putting the cuffs on us and taking us to the precinct. it happened to me 10 or 12 times. >> she's my pride and joy, for me to keep on dancing, i'm not going to stop. seven days a week i'll be dancing on the home. at home i could slip up and do something negative. the girls, the money and the way it makes me feel i feel like i'm expressing myself. i feel like i'm on stage, on broadway or something. i like showing people that black people are not as mean as they think we are. you know? people think we mean. we're not, though. ♪ >> don't try that at home as they say, or in the subway.

i want to bring you up to date on a situation in gorissa. we are getting word from sources in kenya. the police have arrested five kenyan suspects and one tanz knee yan. that's the latest on "gmt." thanks for being with us.

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picard: cacaptain's log, stardate 47423.9. we have arrived at boraal ii in response to an emergency distress call from lt. worf's foster brother nikolai rozhenko. he has been stationed on the planet as a cultural observer. analysis, mr. data? the planet's atmosphere is dissipating, sir. intense plasmonic reactions are destroying it. the stratosphere is already breaking down. there are turbulent radiation storms across much of its surface. i estimate that the planet will be uninhabitable in less than 38 hours. the distress call came in only four days ago. why would dr. rozhenko have waited so long before sending it? atmospheric dissipation is a rare