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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: north korea's most powerful nuclear weapons test to date sparks worldwide condemnation. mr president, will you attack north korea? we'll see. we'll see, says president trump, as the us insists any threat to itself or its allies will be met with a massive military response. the brexit secretary says the eu is making itself look silly by insisting talks with the uk are making little progress. an exodus of myanmar‘s rohingya muslims. we report from bangladesh, where thousands have fled persecution and violence. this is the main land route through which the rohingyas are now entering bangladesh. on the other side of the mountain is myanmar. a bbc investigation finds is recruiters were trying to direct would—be attackers a year before
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westminster and london bridge. and we will be taking a look at tomorrow's front pages, including the daily mirror, which says the prime minister is under pressure to change organ donation laws. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the un security council is to hold an emergency session to discuss north korea's nuclear programme, after it carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date. it claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb capable of being mounted on an intercontinental missile. the us defence secretary has said a threat to the us will be met with a massive military response, while theresa may called for urgent new sanctions. the blast detected near an underground test site
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in north—western north korea is said to have had more destructive power than the bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki at the end of world war ii. yogita limaye reports from the south korean capital, seoul. it was a perfect success, the newsreader declared, as she announced north korea was close to achieving its nuclear goals. the country says it has detonated a hydrogen bomb small enough to be fitted to an intercontinental missile. this is kimjong—un inspecting what north korea claims is such a device. if true, it would mean that pyongyang is now capable of launching a nuclear attack on cities in the united states. this unprecedented threat prompted president trump to say,
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"south korea's talk of appeasement with north korea will not work. "they only understand one thing," he declared. any threat to the united states or its territories, including guam, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. it is a strong message to south korea's president, who for months has said talking to north korea was the solution. today, he expressed outrage and disappointment. translation: north korea has made an absurd tactical mistake by committing a series of provocations, such as launching icbm missiles and conducting a nuclear test, which has heightened tentions on the peninsula and is threatening world peace. it will isolate them further. south korea is most worried,
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because it has the most to lose, and that is why, even though military measures like these bombing drills are held in the face of the threat from north korea, it is hard to see what further action can be taken. it's certainly our view that none of the military options are good. the distance between north korea and seoul is very, very small. they could basically vaporise large parts of the south korean population even with conventional weapons. here in seoul, a city that is home to tens of millions of people, we are only about 50 kilometres from the border with north korea, and at any given time, a mass of weapons is pointing in this direction. and that is why, rather than take a military route, the international community has been trying to put economic pressure on pyongyang. but that isn't working, either. and the impact of every move kim jong—un makes is felt notjust in the korean peninsula, but also across the sea injapan. the pod under the belly of this
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japanese air force jet can sniff the airfor radiation. this afternoon, it roared off towards north korea, to do just that. it is less than a week since north korea fired this missile across japan. for prime minister abe, this is becoming an unwelcome routine. translation: together with the us, south korea, china and russia, japan will take determined action against north korea. north korea may now have tested a nuclear device that is small enough to put on top of a ballistic missile that could be fired at the united states. and, for the government here injapan, that is very disturbing, because it raises a very troubling question. in future, will the united states be willing to risk one of its own cities, say for example, denver, in order to protect
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seoul and tokyo? this afternoon, the us ambassador rushed to see japan's foreign minister, to reassure him. no action taken by the north koreans will in any way deter our commitment. japan and the us may have the military might to deter north korea, but they have few other levers to pressure pyongyang. only one country does, and that is china. china was quite literally shaken by the blast. north korea's nuclear test site is only 60 miles from the border. it will have sent a diplomaticjolt, too, coming just before president xi jinping opened this international summit. although he made no direct reference, he warned of the challenges to world peace. on state tv, the message was more blunt, with an official statement strongly condemning the test.
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there can be little doubt that the government here in beijing is rattled. once again, it has had to order emergency radiation monitoring along the border. but, despite the frustration, as always, it may be reluctant to punish north korea too hard. china has recently been stopping cargoes of coal and seafood, in line with toughened un sanctions. but its biggest fear is not nuclear weapons. it is the chaos that would come with the economic collapse of the impoverished state, shrouded in darkness, on the other side of this river. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. in the latest surrounding this story, we have just in the latest surrounding this story, we havejust got in the latest surrounding this story, we have just got news via our correspondent, the south korean military has confirmed that it has conducted a live fire exercise
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targeting the nuclear test site in north korea. it is live fire, using lipstick missiles and f—is k fighter jets. this was a test missile live fire military exercise can be by south korea. the south's military in particular said the range of targets was set in consideration of the north's nuclear test site in the north—eastern province. so we are starting to see some reaction, rather than dialogue, to that test that was conducted by north korea today. here, the brexit secretary, david davis, has said that the european commission is making itself look silly by saying that talks with britain aren't making progress. the eu's chief negotiator, michel barnier, says british people need to understand the extremely serious consequences of leaving. theresa may faces a parliamentary battle this week with the first commons debate on brexit legislation, as chris mason reports. still some way apart, the uk and the eu. david davis and michel barnier
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at last week's talks. a huge sticking point is money, the divorce bill. today, mr davis insisted the uk would not be pressured into paying more than its fair share. we are basically going through this very systematically, a very british way, a very pragmatic way of doing it, and of course, he's finding it difficult. and he wants to put pressure on us, which is why the stance is this week in the press conference. bluntly, i think it looked a bit silly, because there plainly were things that we've achieved. and yes, there were spiky exchanges between the two men at thursday's news conference. mr barnier has since spent the weekend on the banks of lake como, in italy. he told a conference here he does not want to blackmail the uk, but added... meanwhile, the rows about leaving
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the eu return here this week. the planned new law that is needed to make it happen will be discussed in the commons, and remember, the prime minister's parliamentary predicament is precarious. she nurses a tiny majority. and that is why the debate on repealing this, the act that took us into the eu, matters so much. labour says it will vote against the law as planned, which will eventually be stored here, unless it is changed, including the option of staying in the single market during a transitional period after brexit. i've been very, very clear. whilst we accept the result of the referendum, we are not giving a blank cheque the government to do it in whichever way it wants, because it's not in the public interest.
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this means any rebellion from just a handful of conservative mps would leave the prime minister in real trouble. discussions on delivering brexit are getting rather blustery. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. thousands of members of myanmar‘s rohingya minority are continuing to flee into neighbouring bangladesh, escaping a military crackdown that began after attacks on police positions a week ago. nearly 73,000 have fled, with human rights groups accusing the myanmar army of atrocities and indiscriminate violence. the treatment of buddhist—majority myanmar‘s muslim rohingyas is the biggest challenge facing leader aung san suu kyi, accused by critics of failing to speak out for the persecuted. sanjoy majumder has the latest from the bangladesh—myanmar border. it is a long and torturous flight to freedom. these rohingya are fleeing
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persecution back home. those who cannot make it on their own are helped along. leaving them behind could get them killed. so they labour on, bringing with them whatever possessions they could carry, some far too young to understand what has happened. this is the mainland route through which the rohingyas are now entering bangladesh. on the other side of the mountain is myanmar, and they say they can slip in without being detected easily. but it also means that they have a steep climb through the mountain, and they have to walk through the forests and wade through the streams before they can get to one of the refugee camps. but at least they are alive. they have lost their homes, their villages have been burned to the ground, and many have seen their relatives murdered. translation: my brother was killed. they shot him in the chest.
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i couldn't even dig him a proper grave. i somehow managed to bury him just by a house, and then i left. it is hard to verify what is happening inside rakhine state. no—one is being allowed in. but fresh plumes of smoke can be seen from the bangladesh side, presumably from burning villages. bangladesh has now relaxed its borders, and the floodgates have opened. rohingyas are streaming in by the hundreds every hour. thousands of others are waiting to cross over. those who have made it are exhausted and overcome. translation: we've been on the road for four days. our food ran out on the first night, and we haven't eaten since then. but space is running out for the new arrivals. they are squeezed into camps, schools, orjust out in the open. their first hurdle was to make it here alive. now, they have to figure out how to survive. sanjoy majumder, bbc news,
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on the bangladesh border. disturbance has broken out at birmingham prison tonight. the u nrest birmingham prison tonight. the unrest is in one wing and staff are attempting to bring it under control. the prison service says the disorder involves a small number of inmates and they are working to resolve what they call an ongoing incident. the headlines on bbc news: north korea's most powerful nuclear test today draws international condemnation with the us saying any threat to itself or its allies will be met with a massive military response. the brexit secretary, david davis, says the eu is making itself look "silly" by insisting that little progress is being made in talks with britain. the united nations refugee agency says 73,000 rohingya muslims have now fled to bangladesh to escape violence in myanmar. time for a full round—up of this
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weekend's sport. five time grand slam champion maria sharapova has been knocked out of the us open, beaten in the fourth round by anastasija sevastova. sharapova won the first set 7—5, but the latvian number 16 seed fought back and took the second set 6—4 to level the match. the russian, who'd been granted a wildcard since returning from a drugs ban, couldn't recover and sevastova won the third set 6—2 to book her place in the quarter—finals. she'll play the american sloane stephens. britain's lewis hamilton won the italian grand prix in dominant style and with it took the lead in the drivers‘ championship for the first time this season. a day after breaking the all—time record for pole positions, hamilton was in total control at monza, leading mercedes teammate valtteri bottas to a one—two. ferrari's sebastian vettel was third and is now three points behind
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hamilton. chris froome has finished the second week of the vuelta a espana by extending his lead over vincenzo nibali. stage 15 featured a testing mountain—top finish on the sierra nevada but team sky rode a high tempo and it was all froome's rivals could do to keep up. colombia's miguel angel lopez impressed on the climbs, riding away to claim his second stage win, and move up from tenth to sixth overall. froome finished six seconds ahead of nibali, and now leads by one minute and one second. the first of the remaining six stages after tomorrow's rest day will be a time trial, where froome is expected to extend his advantage. bath have started their premiership season with a 27 points to 23 win over rivals leicester tigers at welford road. england centre manu tuilagi scored the opening try of the game on his first competitive appearance since january. but he and tigers finished on the losing side. bath scored three quick fire tries in the first half,
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including this from semesa rokodunguni. the winger running nearly the full length of the pitch to score and help bath towards their first win at welford road since 2003. england play slovakia in a world cup qualifier at wembley tomorrow. gareth southgate's side are currently top of group f, two points clear of slovakia in second. england needed three late goals to beat malta on friday, but southgate says his side are becoming ‘savvy‘ to international football now. we would all love to school early and be free up by half—time. sometimes that happens but it is not often that it so you need to be patient and work your openings. . whatever rode the game goes down we need to adjust to that it we believe that players are becoming more and
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more savvy to the challenge. also in action tomorrow are scotland, who are in the same world cup qualifying group as england. scotland — on the back of their crucial win against lithuania on friday — will play malta tomorrow, and slovenia will host lithuania. and northern ireland, who are second in group c, face the czech republic. great britain's oliver townend has won burghley horse trials, just two weeks on from winning european gold with the british team in poland. riding ballaghmor class, townend led after the cross country phase, and had just one fence down in today's showjumping to clinch the title for a second time. piggy french and gemma tattersall, who also rode at the european championships last month, came second and third. there were six british riders in the top ten. that's all the sport for now. let's leave you with with two of football's brightest stars showing off their skills. while warming up for brazil, neymar and gabrieljesus did a lap of the pitch at the arena da amazonia in manaus. they are just showing off... this
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they arejust showing off... this is bbc news. a bbc investigation has found that the islamic state terrorist group has found that they were direct thing extremists to murder people nearly a year before the attacks at westminster and london bridge. terra manuals showed them how best to attack victims with knives and dry ca i’s attack victims with knives and dry cars at victims. —— terra manuals.
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indiscriminate murder on the streets of london. exactly the kind of attacks so—called islamic state have been calling for. our investigation reveals the group were not only inspiring such plots, but issuing directions to target both westminster and london bridge. last summer, our undercover reporter made contact with is recruiters active online. the authorities were fully aware of our communication. after inviting us to talk on a secret messaging site, is agents pinpointed westminster, promising, if you succeed with an attack there, it would be huge and damaging. he said that this was a very good target because it was crowded with disbelievers and civilians. he told me to just kill ordinary people, and that it wouldn't require a very complicated plan. with hindsight, the instructions look like a blueprint for the westminster attack eight months later. khalid masood used a car to mow down
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pedestrians and then stabbed policeman to death. injuly 2016, we were also in conversation with another is handler, who had another target. london bridge, he wrote. use truck, axe, anything. we were directed to terrorist guides on the so—called dark web. one of them showed how to use a vehicle to kill people. the other showed how to use knives and home—made bombs for maximum impact. there was a description of how to create a fake suicide vest, and how it can be used to stop the police from attacking you if you are standing next to civilians. the instructions bear all the hallmarks of the carnage nearly a year later at london bridge. a van, knives, fake suicide belts and a stash of improvised bombs. hanif oadir, a former al-qaeda fighter, now tackling radicalisation, is alarmed at how quickly encrypted communication can
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radicalise young britons. at that time in 2002, it still took me six to seven months. if they'd have had this kind of technology, i would... i would put my hand on my heart and i would say guaranteed within a few weeks you could have somebody so enraged with revenge, that's how they see it, that they would become a suicide bomber or a terrorist. the government has vowed to close down what it calls safe space where terrorists can both plot and recruit. i think the authorities have an unbelievably difficult task now. encrypted apps or anonymous web browsers or the dark net, these places online that are very, very difficult to properly monitor, are proliferating very quickly. and as their self—declared caliphate crumbles in the middle east, is are still making the most of secret communications, determined to inspire but also direct atrocities here in the uk. nick beake, bbc news. and you can see the full
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investigation — terror by text — on the bbc iplayer from tomorrow and in the london region on bbc one on inside out at 7.30. the german chancellor angela merkel says she believes turkey will never become a member of the european union. she was speaking in a televised debate with her rival martin schulz ahead of this month's election, when she'll be trying to win a fourth term in office. jenny hill watched the debate in berlin and said mrs merkel appeared to come out on top. she has been in thejob for 12 she has been in the job for 12 years and that experience really showed through on a number of occasions when she exhibited some detailed knowledge, for example about the number of migrants arriving in
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germany who had gone through the process of having their asylum applications looked at and so on, down to the number of german universities which are training muslim imams. a lot of experience their. the debate was quite wide ranging indeed. there was talk about domestic policing, pension, the pension age, the diesel scandal but also concentrating on foreign policy, first of all north korea. martin schulz taking a bullish position saying several times that donald trump and this leadership had brought the world to the brink of destruction and the perhaps the world should forge an was a diplomatic solution to the north korea crisis without the us president. angela merkel would not go that far, she insisted that this has been her position for several weeks that it is important to seek a peaceful and diplomatic solution but
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she also said the us president would have to be part of any solution like that. another key subject that came up that. another key subject that came up was that of turkey. the relationship between turkey and germany has been deteriorating fast over the last few weeks and months, particularly following the arrest and detention of over ten german nationals in turkey. mrs merkel, ironically, because she herself admitted she had known this for a long time that she did not want turkey to be a member of the eu, she said she would not go as far as schulz. she is the main architect of the migrant deal between turkey and the migrant deal between turkey and the rest of the eu and she takes few. she is a politician who likes to talk and solve a problem who likes to compromise. she believes thatis likes to compromise. she believes that is far too strong an option.
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the key thing about this debate is whether it would influence voters who have yet to make up their minds. mrs merkel and her conservatives are on course to wind this election. this suggestion tonight is that mrs merkel is likely to wind the german election and it looks as though tonight she scored another victory in this tv debate. time now for the weather. up and down with the weather, rollercoaster weather. i have something a little quieterfor weather. i have something a little quieter for you weather. i have something a little quieterfor you mid week. that is the stable part. we start a little up the stable part. we start a little up in terms of temperature on monday if you are lucky enough to see sunshine. barely any today, however, wea k sunshine. barely any today, however, weak sunshine you can see now that dean shere. —— in aberdeenshire. into western scotland we have had a few burst in the past few hours
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along the english channel coast but it is turning lighter through the night. look how misty and foggy it is as well, especially the coastal hills. it is a muggy night. looking at things in the morning, do not expect much from the weather in the morning, do not expect sunshine. misty, murky, damp and drizzly in places. but it is a mild start to the day. northern ireland starts tried that here and into scotland where you are dry and may not last because there is more rain about to come in. from the word go in scotla nd come in. from the word go in scotland patchy rain or brown. wind in the north and into shetland where there will be gales at times. on through the day. i mentioned something warmer. is getting better and brighter for england something warmer. is getting better and brighterfor england and something warmer. is getting better and brighter for england and wales away from the coast. we could see 23, perhaps 2a celsius on a humid day. humid across—the—boa rd 23, perhaps 2a celsius on a humid day. humid across—the—board but the scotla nd day. humid across—the—board but the
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scotland and ireland some rain will move through the further west you wire, it may just move through the further west you wire, it mayjust brighten up again before the end of the day. through monday night we will see the rain picking up again. a course of that set to work through part of northern ireland in scotland, northern england and wales much of the energy from that will pull away to the north sea as tuesday begins and we still have a narrowing band of rain to sweep south eastwards during tuesday, especially across england. that is the leading edge of cool and fresh air so that is the leading edge of cool and fresh airso humid that is the leading edge of cool and fresh air so humid for monday, warmer if you see some sunshine. fresh by the end of tuesday. a few showers coming into the west. wednesday and thursday a similar day, most of the strike. a few showers around, call fresh whether staying with us. on thursday we will see outbreaks of rain pushing into scotla nd see outbreaks of rain pushing into scotland and northern ireland, feeding into other areas on friday. humid ina feeding into other areas on friday. humid in a warm start, call fresh sunshine in mid week and at the end of the week with the wet and windy
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weather pushing south across the uk. that is your up—and—down week for you. hello, this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines at 11:30pm: there has been international condemnation of north korea's claim that it has tested its most powerful nuclear device to date, a hydrogen bomb that could be loaded onto a long—range missile. mr president, will you attack north korea 7
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we'll see. following a meeting with president trump, the us defence secretary said any threat to the us or its allies would be met with a massive military response. the brexit secretary has accused the eu of making itself look silly by insisting talks aren't making progress. the eu's chief negotiator, michel barnier, said british people needed to understand what leaving the single market meant. the united nations refugee agency says 73,000 rohingya muslims have now fled to bangladesh to escape violence in myanmar. bill nighy please an inspector on the hunt for a victorian serial killer in the british thriller. we getjames killer in the british thriller. we get james king's
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