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this is bbc news. the headlines at 6pm: a fresh warning for north korea from the us president — donald trump says it will ‘regret it fast‘ if it threatens america or its allies. if anything happens to guam, there will be big, big trouble in north korea. police have arrested a 27—year—old man on suspicion of a double murder in golders green. police investigating the death of 83—year—old peter wrighton, who was stabbed while walking his dog, have arrested a man in his 20's. a state of emergency has been declared in the us city of cha rlottesville — following violent clashes in the run—up to a large far—right rally. and london prepares to say goodbye to 2 legends at the world athletics championships... mo farah will be attempting to secure britain's second medal of the championships in the 5,000 metre final this evening. while usain bolt will be aiming to end his career with gold
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in the four by 100m relay later on. and in football, defending premier league champions chelsea suffer a stunning defeat to burnley at stamford bridge. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the chinese president, xijingping, has urged the united states and north korea to show restraint, amid the growing crisis over north korea's nuclear programme. during a telephone conversation with president trump, china's leader urged both parties to avoid "words and actions" that could increase tensions. earlier today mr trump called the governor of guam to show his support for the us pacific territory — which north korea has threatened
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to fire missiles at. from seoul, robin brant sent this report first, he threatened fire and fury in north korea, then last night, president trump said us forces are locked and loaded. but tonight, north korea is getting sound and music from its neighbours in the south. the message at this annual peace concert on the border a little louder after a week of increasing tension. this is south korea's capital, just a few dozen miles away, but it is hardly a city suddenly in panic. trump's policy offers me a comfortable life because he puts heavy pressure on north korea. i feel comfortable. i am worried about that because the level of tension caused by trump's government is much higher than 0bama's government. the people here have long lived with the growing threat from the north.
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but there are small signs they may be stepping up their preparedness. reports shoppers buying more ready meals and investors are buying more gold. injust over a week, they will have a civil defence drill in the city. the sirens will go off and people will be guided from above ground is the natural —— metro stations or bomb shelters to take cover from possible aerial attack. it happens every year. last year, just a handful of districts in seoul took part but this year, everyone is taking part. this is part of the reason for that. if anything happens to guam, there is going to be big, big trouble in north korea. north korea has threatens to land missiles close to the us territory in the pacific, that is a threat america cannot tolerate. good morning, good morning! it is great to speak to you. mr trump called the governor of guam to say this. this is between you and i but you don't talk like they talk. you can't do that and you can't do that with people like us. guam is home to us military bases,
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if we are bombers and tens of thousands of americans who are now being given advice about what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion. meanwhile, this relationship remains key to finding a solution. china's president xijinping has a crucial role if there is to be peace. but in a phone call, he told mr trump that all relevant parties, who included, should stop exacerbating the situation. across the sea injapan, they are preparing missiles, but these are border fence. japanese military transporters have been moved to places they could intercept a north korean launch. now there's more short—phrase diplomacy as the tension goes even higher. anything happens to guam, there's going to be big, 0ur correspondent laura bicker is in washington. laura china's calling for restraint but the us has called for china to do more to reign north korea in? yes, donald trump donate call last
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night and we understand that the two sides agreed that north korea must stop its provocative behaviour. what idid find stop its provocative behaviour. what i did find interesting was that the white house statement and the chinese foreign ministry's statement about bad cold differ. the white house said the relationship between china and america was extremely close, and together they would solve, consume a peaceful solution for the problem in north korea. however, in the chinese foreign ministry statement, it added that the president urged calm, urged restraint from donald trump. the chinese are worried. they do not wa nt chinese are worried. they do not want washington's involvement on the korean peninsulas. they hope, certainly from some within the white house is that the ramped up rhetoric coming from donald trump mayjust urged china to take up more of an interest and put the pressure on pyongyang. using in terms of who is
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saying what and what is actually happening. what, if any, saying what and what is actually happening. what, ifany, diplomatic effo rts happening. what, ifany, diplomatic efforts are taking place behind—the—scenes? efforts are taking place behind-the-scenes? this is important, because amongst the ramped up rhetoric, amongst this world words, there are a number of diplomatic efforts going on. there are us media reports that a us envoy has been talking to a diplomat in north korea, but a back channel has beenin north korea, but a back channel has been in place for several months to —— this judgment is talking about putting more sanctions on north korea, and there are also these discussions with china on going. donald trump's ramping up of the rhetoric has divided opinion. it's not something that previous administrations in the white house have done before. earlier in the week, you had front is micron rating donald trump for standing up to north korea. now he is slightly more worried and is urging a peaceful solution on both sides. but you have
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others like the governor of one praising donald trump for his words and saying that he feels safe with donald trump at the helm. and then china urging restraint. this is dividing opinion, but in the white house they want to ensure that this isa house they want to ensure that this is a strategy that they hope will work. finally, in terms of mr trump, if this crisis something of a welcome distraction from the state of affairs at home? this is something people have had out there, any truth in that? there are certainly a number of newspaper reports that would suggest that concentrating on foreign policy will ta ke concentrating on foreign policy will take donald trump away from the problems he has had at home. he has had no major legislative win here in his now seven months manually eight months, as president. when it comes to his relationships with congress, he has been criticising the senate majority leader, picking fights with
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republicans, seeming increasingly isolated within the white house. i concentrating on foreign policy, appearing strong on that, it may help him appear strong as a president. when his ratings approvals appear to be quite low. and we can add that his recent comments on venezuelan. thank very much. thank very much. clashes have broken out in the american city of charlottesville, where white supremacists have been holding a protest dubbed the unite the right rally. violence erupted when the protesters clashed with demonstrators from anti—racism organisations such as black lives matter. the rally follows a decision to remove a statue of the confederate general, robert e lee. in february, charlottesville city council voted to remove statues that marked confederate leaders from the american civil war. a man's been arrested on suspicion of murdering a mother and daughter at a house in north london.
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the women, aged 66 and 33 years old, were stabbed at a property in golders green last night. a 27 year—old man is in police custody. detectives investigating the death of an 83—year—old dog walker — who was stabbed to death in woodlands in norfolk — have made an arrest. the body of peter wrighton was found near east harling in norfolk. a post—mortem examination showed he'd been repeatedly stabbed in his neck and head. norfolk police have arrested a local man, in his 20s, on suspicion of murder; he remains in custody while their inquiries continue. new measures to tackle the dangerous use of laser pens are to be considered by the government, following concerns about the threat to air safety. the lasers, which can temporarily blind people, have been used to target aircraft and pilots, as our business correspondent, jonty bloom, now reports. laser pens or pointers are designed to be used to highlight
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something of interest. but they can be dangerous, and dazzle or blind people if shone directly at their eyes. last year alone there were 1,258 laser attacks on aircraft, even though it is already an offence with a maximum fine of £2,500. helicopters, which fly lower than many aircraft and typically have only one pilot, are thought to be especially vulnerable to laser pens. the government is now going to consult on new measures to restrict the dangerous use of laser pens, and boost safety, such as introducing a licensing scheme for retailers, limits on the advertising of laser pens, and potential restrictions on their ownership, as well as a possible awareness—raising campaign to educate people about the dangers of laser pens. interested parties, including businesses, retailers and consumers, now have eight weeks to submit their evidence and proposals. the unite union has warned that strike action by refuse
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workers in birmingham — which has left waste piling up in the streets — could continue until christmas. industrial action began at the end ofjune in a row over working conditions and pay. birmingham city council has accused the refuse workers of holding the city to ransom. kathryn stanczyszyn reports. itjust keeps mounting up. six weeks of strike action by refuse workers has left some streets in birmingham full of bin bags and vulnerable to vermin. now the union behind the action, unite, says it will ballot its members on continuing that action all the way until christmas. the council is proposing to take safety—critical responsibilities off bin loaders at the back of a bin wagon, endangering my members and the public. but in doing so, there will be a cost to my members' income of between £3,500 to £5,000 a person. they're already on low incomes, and they simply cannot afford it. the row with birmingham city council over changes to the waste service has deepened,
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with the council accusing unite of holding the city to ransom. it says it must modernise, saving millions of pounds in the process, and also that no—one will lose jobs. the city council says it will have cleared all of the backlog by the end of this weekend and it then has a plan for further disruption. it's also inviting unite to get around the table with it and the independent arbitrators, acas. but workers say although it isn't desirable, they are willing to continue their action for many more months. this bin man spoke to us anonymously. we don't want to, but we are willing to stay out for as long as it takes. if that means up to christmas, then so be it. it's stalemate, but the patience of residents dealing with the consequences is running out. an anti—islam campaigner has been approved as a candidate in the election for a new ukip leader.
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anne marie waters is the founder of the campaign group, sharia watch, which has previously called islam ”evil". her candidacy has divided the party. some prominent figures in the party say if she wins, they'll quit. a new leader will be announced in september. mike hookem has already resigned as ukip‘s deputy whip in the european parliament, over the support within the party for ms waters. i took this decision earlier this week, and i e—mailed the interim leader to say i would no longer carry out the duties of deputy whip. stuart agnew, who is the web, is vocally supporting anne marie waters, and signed as a proposal on the nomination papers and i can't work alongside stuart. you know, as long as he's supporting this woman. i believe that she shouldn't be in the party, and i believe, you know, she shouldn't be standing as a candidate. back injune, she was actually prevented from standing as a candidate in the elections.
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she apparently didn't meet the members being of good standing rule. what's changed this time around, then? why has she made that list? well, nothing. she couldn't stand for a westminster seat because she wasn't a member of good standing. she couldn't stand as a police and crime commissioner because she wasn't a member of good standing. and now suddenly she standing for the top job. it doesn't make sense. she shouldn't be on that list. she shouldn't be in the party. what you think is going to be the fallout if she does, let's just say she does win? well, if she wins, you know, myself as a ukip mep, i was elected in 2014 is a ukip mep. it was not me that was elected, people were voting for the party. so i would carry on as a ukip mep, serve my term out until 2019, i would carry out myjob as fisheries spokesman, i'll carry on doing that and i'll carry on making sure that we get the exit what are the odds of her
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getting the leadership? i haven't looked at it. hopefully very slim. but my problem is, she should not be on that list. more than 60 children, many of them new—born babies, have died in a hospital in northern india over the past six days. the head of the facility in gorakhpur district in the state of uttar pradesh has been suspended, and a government inquiry is underway. 0ur correspondent sanjoy majumder spoke to us from delhi. well most of the deaths occurred between thursday and friday, overnight into friday. there's been a suggestion that one of the reasons is because oxygen supplies ran low, apparently because the hospital hadn't paid or cleared the bills of the private supplier. now this has been denied by the authorities, but the fact is that from the reports we've heard
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from the ground, certainly on thursday night it appeared that the supplies of oxygen were dangerously low. many of these children or babies, in fact, were in the neonatal facility. some of them were seriously ill. there have been reports that both the doctors as well as the families were handed out manual breathing bags in an attempt to try and revive some of these babies, who unfortunately didn't survive. what the authorities maintain is that many of these children were very, very ill and no—one died because of a lack of oxygen, but an investigation‘s on to see if there's been any negligence. this has turned into something of a political hot potato, because there is discussion of this ongoing problem of encephalitis. where does this fit into the issue? well this is in one of india's poorest states, uttar pradesh. it has for decades now suffered with this problem with encephalitis. it's a disease that breaks out in the monsoon, the season we're currently in. children tend to suffer the most. the reason it's turned into a hot
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potato is quite apart from the fact that the medical facilities in that city still appear to be very, very poor, this is the constituency of a very influential politician. he's the state chief minister. he's a leading member of the hindu nationalist party, the party of the prime minister. we understand the prime minister is personally monitoring the situation. many people are questioning why the situation is so bad in a constituency that belongs to a very, very influential very quickly, many people listening to this will be surprised at the brain swelling that you're telling us about, is there no vaccine available, because this is a long running problem across northern india during the monsoon.
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are there no vaccine programmes in place? no. it's not something you can apparently prevent very effectively. you can take medication for it. but basically, the simple preventive method is basic hygiene. most of it is borne by wind and mosquitoes. this is a city which is quite dirty. there's contaminated water. that's the reason why it occurs during the monsoon, because that's the time of heavy rain. if you have flooded areas with stagnant water it breeds mosquitoes, which in turn contaminates, affects people in contact with that. you need basic hygiene and make sure surrounding areas are clean. that's why there's anger with the government because it doesn't seem such a difficult thing to do. thank you very much.
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the headlines on bbc news: police have arrested a 27—year—old man on suspicion of a double murder in golders green. police investigating the death of 83—year—old peter wrighton, who was stabbed while walking his dog, have arrested a man in his 20's. in kenya, the acting interior minister says the police will stop at nothing to protect life and property following the results of the presidential election, which returned the incumbent, uhuru kenyatta, to power. the opposition claims that more than 100 people have been killed, though it's provided little evidence to substantiate the claim. the protests have been in opposition strongholds in two
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of kenya's main cities. the government is responding with force and it makes no apologies. individuals or gangs that are looting shops, that want to endanger lives, that are breaking into people's businesses, those are not demonstrators, they are criminals. and we expect the police to deal with criminals how criminals should be dealt with. this just hours after the incumbent president, uhuru kenyatta, was named winner of tuesday's elections. mr kenyatta won more than half of the votes cast. the news brought out his supporters in their numbers, following a long wait for the results. the party is over. it is the day after the election, yet now comes the hard part. those who were celebrating
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mr kenyatta's win here last night did so in the hope of a better quality of life. now the president has to deliver for them and he also has to gain the trust of the millions across the country who did not vote for him. but that will be harder after the opposition rejected the results. they claim the vote was rigged and that their candidate was the true winner. the opposition‘s next move will determine whether such clashes continue or whether kenya will move on peacefully. we are now hearing that the human rights commission in kenya have said excessive force is being used. how
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bad is the situation? it is bad in some parts of the country, particularly opposition strongholds in nairobi, especially slum areas and also in the west of the country, which is a stronghold of a group who support the man who lost. the police and can you have always been known for adopting rather heavy—handed tactics, and there are claims that a number of the evil few have died, even though the numbers are disputed, was shot by the police. was about the people who were shot and killed ? was about the people who were shot and killed? maybe not sharp efficiently killed as part of the build—up and during the election themselves? we haven't quite got a fix on the numbers. the opposition is claiming more than 100 but there is claiming more than 100 but there is no evidence to support that. the kenyan human rights commission says 24, kenyan human rights commission says 2a, and then media organisations are putting the numbers at around 11, 17. it seems that at least a handful
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of people have died, that if you compare that to what happens in the enormous election violence ten years ago, when more than 1000 people were killed, so far this is a far smaller number. i think everyone in kenya and everywhere else is desperate not to see a repeat of what happened for. the opposition has absolutely not accepted the results. when they we re not accepted the results. when they were announcing the results yesterday, the opposition stormed out of the tallying fencer and said they would not recognise the results. they said they were not going to take their complaints about the election to courts. so it's difficult to know exactly what they're planning difficult to know exactly what they‘ re planning to difficult to know exactly what they're planning to do in terms of disputing the results, if they're not going to go through a legal process. kenya's collections were described as an exercise in ethnic arithmetic. what's that about? that does make sense. in kenya, you have these different tribes or ethnic groups. of which the incumbent
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represents one. the main opposition candidate represents another big group. there is a phrase in kenya thatis group. there is a phrase in kenya that is often used, it is our 28. it means whichever ethnic group or ethnic groups when the election it is almost like every bit of the national cake goes to them. if you lose, you get nothing. —— it is our turn to eat. people don't universally thought all ethnic lines, but the more traditional sections of society do. speaking with very conciliar to rely on which at the moment. will he be able to bring the two clans together? i'm sure that must be the intention. there is massive pressure him to do so, given that he was one of the people involved in the post—election violence, ten years ago when he was also a candidate. there are fears of
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also a candidate. there are fears of a repeat of that. he was called before the icc, then the international criminal courts, the case was then dropped but i think everybody probably including him is desperate not to see that country engulfed in flames, because if kenya falls into fire, imagine what that hold very unstable neighbourhoods, imagine what will happen to it. thank you. it has just gone 6:25pm. a small village in the cotswolds has been taking part in a landmark dna study to trace their family histories — with some surprising results. more than a hundred villagers from bledington were tested as part of the genetics experiment asjeremy stern reports. everyone seems to know each other in bledington, but it turns out that people in this tiny cotswolds village are even more close—knit than they thought. brenda's found out herfriend graham is also her fourth cousin. definitely a surprise, yes.
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i mean, i had no idea. well all of them were surprises, because we've only been here 12 years. and they said i was the most related person in the village. the link was made through dna taken by a company which maps family histories. saliva samples were provided by 120 residents. that's about one quarter of the village's population. bledington looks like the quintessential english village. we were really keen to see what diversity we could find within bledington, just as an example of what you can find all over britain. we explored a few villages like bledington, nearby and around the country, and once we started talking to the people within the village and met with the parish council, they were so excited about the project, that for us, it was the obvious choice. but the results were anything but obvious. it turns out that as a whole, the residents in this most english of villages are less than 50% english.
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very interesting, because it tells you the percentage of, you know, britishness, how much of you is from europe or ireland. so we're not completely british. the links stretch across the globe — from the cotswolds to the caucasus, the middle east back to middle england. jeremy stern, bbc news, leading ten. good evening. from any of us are decent day today with sunny spells coming through. to which is the type 22 degrees. many saw the cloud breaking up and decent spells of sunshine, particularly the south—east corner, wales, the midlands. a few showers in the north—east. those guys will continue
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to clear and so through this evening perfect conditions for the meteor shower. it peaked this evening and overnight. hopefully, with those clear skies, a good opportunity to see them. through the night, those temperatures are likely to fall away. most of the shower is dying back to the north and west facing coast. these are the towns and city temperatures, but in rural spots in the far north, we could see loosing your figures first the far north, we could see loosing yourfigures first thing the far north, we could see loosing your figures first thing on sunday morning. a chilly start but hopefully lots of clear skies and sunshine as well. i might breeze, too. a bit more cloud with the west, the best of the east. we could still get a scattering of showers particularly into the far north—west, scotland and northern ireland. temperatures peaking at around 18 degrees. decent spells of sunshine to england. a better day with showers. more sunshine tomorrow. 0ne ought to scatter charity across wales and south—west england, but generally it will be
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fine and pleasant. temperatures peaking in the south—east at 21 or 22 degrees. that is 72 fahrenheit. after that chilly start, that's not too bad. as it conditions for the world athletics closing date. it looks like the conditions is that fair. maybe closing a little through the later stages of the day. on monday, wet and windy weather pushing in across scotland. fairly light and patchy, the rain, as it moves into in london wales. the south—east corner is staying dry with 22 to grieve the hive. that front with 22 to grieve the hive. that fro nt m oves with 22 to grieve the hive. that front moves through monday night into tuesday. tuesday could start cloudy but a ridge of high pressure builds behind and we will see some decent spells of sunshine coming through. 0nce decent spells of sunshine coming through. once we have lost monday's rain, tuesday looks dry and sunny for a little more cloud and rain threatens by wednesday. this is the pattern through the week. it's not going to be particularly settled but there will be decent spells of sunshine for a time before rain arrives from the west. this is bbc news. the headlines at
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