hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. the un secretary general calls on the authorities in myanmar to halt the military campaign against the rohingya minority. i call on the mien ma authorities to suspend military action, and recognise the right of return for all those who had to leave the country. the european commission president looks beyond brexit and claims that the eu has got "wind back in its sails" after a difficult year. and victims of hurricane irma are confirmed in florida as the clear up continues in the state and across the caribbean. and if you want to get in touch — it's #bbcos. the un has said there's now an "emergency within an emergency" when it comes to dealing with the rohingya crisis.

to remind you, rohingya refugees have been fleeing violence from myanmar‘s rakhine state. already, some 380,000 have crossed the border into bangladesh, where they're now living in makeshift refugee camps. meanwhile, aung sang suu kyi appears to have turned her back on the international community — pulling out of a meeting of world leaders in new york next week. a myanmar government spokesperson said ms suu kyi wouldn't attend because perhaps she had "more pressing matters to deal with", but added, "she's never afraid of facing criticism or confronting problems." reeta chakra barti reports from close to the border. the end of a long journey. more weary muslim rohingya people arrive in bangladesh. fleeing persecution in buddhist—dominated myanmar. this is godu thara in myanmar.

the bbc filmed it in flames last week. the government said the fires were started by rohingya villagers. we found some of those villagers here in bangladesh. dildah begum and her husband watched the bbc‘s pictures of their village. they said the government's version of events is false and they blamed the police and local buddhists who they call the rakhine. translation: the rakhine were killing people. police were shooting. they set fire to our homes. they only killed muslims. they even killed people as they tried to escape. this is the rohingya district of mondor, a border town in myanmar. we found refugees from there too. again, the government told the bbc that rohingyas had set fire to their own homes. again, we found people who said that wasn't true. translation: in our area in mondor,

all the houses, including mine were set on fire by the military and the rakhine. i saw the fires with my own eyes. people continue to arrive by any means possible, making their way to safety. but the risks are great. nine bodies were recovered from the water today, theirfinal resting place here, under this tree on foreign soil. reeta chakrabarti, bbc news. the european commission president, jean—claudejuncker, says the eu has got wind back in its sails after a difficult year that saw britain vote to leave the bloc. in his state of the union speech, he was optimistic about the economy, reforms in the eurozone and trade deals. but on brexit, he had a stark warning to the uk. we are now in the fifth year of an

economic recovery that reaches every single member state. unemployment is ata nine single member state. unemployment is at a nine year low. almost 8 million jobs have been created during this mandate so far. the wind is back in europe's sales. we have now a window of opportunity, but it will not stay open for ever. let us make the most of the moment, catch the wind in our sales. here's our europe correspondent, adam fleming. he was very optimistic. unemployment down, grows up, migrant crisis solved. eurozone crisis pretty much

over. brexit is the fly in the ointment, which hardly got a mention in this speech, although ointment, which hardly got a mention in this speech, althouthean—claude juncker said that it was a sad and tragic day when britain voted to leave the eu. the day after the uk leads on the 29th of march 2019, jean—claude juncker has said leads on the 29th of march 2019, jean—claudejuncker has said there should be a summit for the remaining members in romania to celebrate their shared future. as adam said, jean claudejuncker was also optimistic about solving europe's migrant crisis — saying the eu had "drastically reduced the loss of life in the mediterranean". here's mrjuncker on that. translation: we managed to better control the central mediterranean roots, arrivals down 81% in august compared to the same time last year. in this way, we have considerably reduce the number of human lives lost in the mediterranean. how

accurate is that? chris morris from bbc‘s reality check has been looking at that claim. the overall numbers have certainly gone down. in 2015, the number of people reported dead or missing crossing the mediterranean was 3700. that jumped to over 5000. crossing the mediterranean was 3700. thatjumped to over 5000. so far this year that number is 2500. still shockingly high, but a significant reduction. you have to look at those figures in the context of the number of arrivals. be you has been more successful in reducing the number of people arriving on eu shores than it has been reducing the number people dying making that crossing. the number arrived in 2017 has gone down

to just over number arrived in 2017 has gone down tojust over 128,000, so number arrived in 2017 has gone down to just over 128,000, so a number arrived in 2017 has gone down tojust over 128,000, so a big drop from two years ago. but if you combine the number of arrivals and the number of deaths, and the drops in those figures, two years ago, for every person who died making that crossing, 268 made it safely. last year that fell to 70. this year it's about 50. so the risk for those people making that crossing has significantly increased. fewer people are certainly making that crossing in the first place, because of increased naval patrols and more eu cooperation with governments in north africa, but for those still trying to cross, the chances of dying have gone up. syrian leader president assad has held a meeting with russia's defence minister sergei shoigu to discuss the fight against terrorism. the russians now claim that 85% of syrian territory has been cleared of illegal armed groups. our correspondent steve rosenberg

is the only british tvjournalist with the russian army to the west of aleppo, and he's sent this report. this is the russian airbase near latakia. it is the heart of russia's military operation in syria. an operation which has changed the course of the war here. it's nearly two years since moscow launched its intervention in syria and now the russian army has invited a group of journalists here to give its perspective on how the operation is going. translation: as of today, 85% of syrian territory has been liberated from militants of illegal armed groups. we've taken off from the airbase on a russian military plane and we're heading somewhere, i don't know where, because when you're on a guided tour around syria with the russian army, they never tell you where they're taking you. so we've been brought to a school in the city of aleppo to show that life is returning to normal here. they sing

we thank russia and the president of russia, president putin. need peace, love peace. working for peace in all the world and we are really, really thankful for russia and the president of russia. it's quite clear that a large part of aleppo still lies in ruins but what the russian army is trying to demonstrate by bringing us here, even if it does feel a little stage—managed, is that gradually life is returning to this city and that russia is playing a part in that. you can get more detail on all our top stories on the bbc website, including coverage of the rohingya

crisis, hurricane irma and all the other top stories. emergency crews are in the middle of a huge oil spill clean—up operation. an oil tanker sank close to the greek island of salamis on sunday. as you can see, a fairly big one — containing 2,500 tonnes of fuel. coastguards say an entire bay on the southeast of the island has been covered by oil. and now officials say that the oil is spreading to some of athens' most popular beaches, as well as the port of piraeus. here are some of the latest pictures we have from there. this is the seafront neighborhood of faliro. residents often would swim here. that's clearly not going to be the case for a long time. here's sarah corker with more on what we know about the orginal spill. a picturesque greek bay turned black by this thick sludge. every wave dumping more oil onshore. officials have described it as an environmental disaster. a tanker carrying more than 2,000 tons of fuel sank on sunday, polluting the waters and coastline

around the island of salamis. fishermen have been told to avoid the area. translation: it's such a disaster. i don't know if this place will be able to live again. i can't understand how this happened. we used to go into sea and the fish were biting us. they were literally biting us. and now this negligence. i can't fathom it. the cleanup has started, but the slick covers an area of 1.5km, and it's likely to take many months. the 45—year—old vessel had been anchored near salamis island, around 25 kilometres west of the capital, athens, when it began to leak. the captain and the chief engineer were charged with negligence and released on bail. it's still unclear what caused the sinking. an emergency pumping operation to remove the oil is expected

to begin today. now, hurricane irma. an assisted living facility is being evacuated, hours after people died in another nursing home. thank you for talking to us, jason. what sort of operation is going on right now? right now, oui’ is going on right now? right now, our special needs unit came back to check up on the facility, and tried to evacuate some of the patients. there are two generators. one failed, and the second wasn't working. the police department was notified. we contacted the city and

we are transporting all of these patients to another facility. five patients to another facility. five patients have been taken to a local area hospital as a precautionary measure. jason, the line isn't very good. how many people are you trying to help? we are evacuating 79 patients. five have been transported to hospital. how challenging is what you are doing? it's quite simple. we we re you are doing? it's quite simple. we were able to get a bunch of vehicles and several buses. we were able to mobilise very quickly. it's a great partnership that we have in the city. what were the conditions like inside this facility? extremely hot. it's september in south florida, so it's very hot. and dark. for an elderly person, conditions like that

are difficult. so one of the biggest threats to life inside the facility when you have no power is the heat, the lack of air conditioning? correct. how long do you think this operation will take to complete, and are you looking at other areas where you have the same problems? may be another hour at this location. our special needs unit has responded to all facilities in our city, and this is the only one that has had a generator failed. thank you very much for giving us the latest on that operation to evacuate 79 people from a residential home with no power. about one third of the planet's land is now severely degraded, putting millions of people at a worsening risk of hunger, water shortages and poverty. that's the finding of a new un report, which calls on stronger international action to combat the problem. as demand for food increases, experts also warn the potential for conflict does too. simon cullen reports. its images like these that are

likely to become far more common. intensive agriculture, deforestation and climate change have resulted in one third of the planet's land becoming severely degraded. according to the un, the problem is 110w according to the un, the problem is now so according to the un, the problem is now so bad that 15 billion trees are being lost each year, and 2a billion tonnes of fertile soil are being lost annually. 1.3 billion people are now living on agricultural land thatis are now living on agricultural land that is deteriorating. the un warns that is deteriorating. the un warns that without urgent action the consequences will continue to get worse. from food insecurity in some places to potentially falling productivity, less incomes, so people choose to leave their land and move to the cities. there are problems with biodiversity loss,

loss of forest. problems with lack of resilience to climate change and climate shocks. as a meeting in china, leaders from many countries, including brazil and india, pledged to ta ke including brazil and india, pledged to take stronger action to limit deforestation and to protect soil quality. the hope is to stop or even reverse the effects of desertification. if not, experts warn millions more people will be put at risk of conflict and poverty. at the height of europe's migrant crisis two years ago, pictures like this were commonplace. in 2015, over1 million migrants crossed into europe by sea alone. many then made their way overland in europe, heading for northern countries like germany. this is the route overland a lot of people took — called the balkan route. but as the number of people grew, one by one, states shut their borders; and people became stranded in various countries along that route. some are now trying to settle in the countries they were stopped in — and for many children, that means

trying to go back to school. virginia langeberg has been looking how this is playing out in one of the countries along that balkan route, serbia. here's her report. on the outskirts of the serbian capital belgrade, refugee and migrant children start the school run. many have escaped war and persecution in iraq and afghanistan and now want to resume their education. this 12—year—old is one of them and the language barrier is his first challenge. translation: every week we have four serbian classes, so we are busy with that. we have lots of friends at school. for him and seven members of his family, for now this asylum centre is home. they say they left kabul two years ago fearing the taliban. 47 schools across serbia are now enrolling children like him but they are not welcome everywhere. in this town, close to the border with croatia, hundreds of people signed a petition, unhappy about their

children mixing with migrants. translation: the children are unprepared, the parents are unprepared, the environment has not been prepared and i think this will be extremely destructive. that mentality and ours do not much at all. nearly 18 months ago, borders to the north on the so—called balkan migrant route were closed, leaving many stuck. all of them would like to continue theirjourney but it is not possible to do that any more because the border with hungary and croatia is hard to cross, so they are, let's say, stuck in serbia for a longer period of time. hungary allows only 50 migrants a week to enterfrom serbia, leaving thousands with no choice but to settle in the balkans and try to build a normal life, including going to school. the bbc has seen documents

which suggest the security firm gas has been making substantial profits at its immigration detention centre near gatwick airport. the centre, brook house, has been facing allegations of bullying, widespread drug abuse and mistreatment of detainees. gas says the profit figures are overstated and based on incomplete information, as our social affairs correspondent alison holt reports. this is brook house immigration removal centre near gatwick airport. an undercover panorama investigation exposed a place when drugs and self—harm are commonplace. with offices struggling under huge pressure, many doing their best, but some were seen bullying, abusing even allegedly assaulting detainees.

the home office pays the security firm gas to provide safe and humane accommodation at brook house. this is for asylum seekers and others awaiting deportation. the bbc has seen financial documents from between 2009 and 2016, which suggests the company has been making significant profits on the running of the centre. working out the exact figure is not easy, but slides from an internal presentation given to managers suggests a profit of about 20% in 2013, more than £2.a million, a higher profit that was envisaged by the original home office agreement. nathan wood is a priest who, until three years ago, was a senior gas manager. separately to

the documents, he says he sat in meetings where profits at that sort of level were discussed. profit margins at the end of the year i left were declared at around 20% for the brook house contract, far in excess of what was meant to be made in the contract. gas disputes the numbers. it says the profits quoted are significantly overstated and are based on incomplete information. the home office has full access to the financial information regarding the performance. and a spokesperson says... tomorrow, gas bosses will appear before mps to answer questions about the chaos seen in the panorama programme and the finances. the chaos seen in the panorama programme and the financesm the chaos seen in the panorama programme and the finances. it would be unacceptable for a private company to be making excessive profits from a contract where there

appears to have been abuse taking place. so there are serious questions for gas to answer. in the meantime, ten staff and former staff at brook house remain suspended whilst allegations made against them are investigated. there's just time to bring you one last story before we go. the canadian city of stjohn‘s, newfoundland is in the midst of municipal elections. there is one candidate who will be tough to beat. here he is. tell me about your campaign. do you think you will get a lot of the dog vote in the stjohn‘s? how did this all come about for him running for mayor? it's something he's been thinking about for a long

time. he's an actor and has been taking a break from time. he's an actor and has been taking a breakfrom his time. he's an actor and has been taking a break from his film time. he's an actor and has been taking a breakfrom his film career to help the city. what traits would he bring to the mayor's chair? he's a tireless workmen. he will work day and night to get things done. what's he been up to so far on the campaign trail? he's been meeting as many people as he can and trying to get his message across. snow clearing in the wintertime is an important thing. he's an avid walker so that's a concern. he's getting his message across to as many people as he can. what has the response been from the two legged it and four—legged population? phenomenal. we are overwhelmed. he is a last—minute candidate, and the response has so overwhelming. let's just

candidate, and the response has so overwhelming. let'sjust remind you of the main news here on outside source. let's turn to what is going on in the janmaat. the un has said there is an emergency within an emergency with the rohingya crisis. rohingya refugees are fleeing across the border into bangladesh. some 380,000 have crossed the border and are living in makeshift refugee camps. aung san suu kyi has pulled out of meeting world leaders in new york next week, and a spokesman has said that she wouldn't attend because perhaps she had more pressing matters to deal with. thanks for watching outside source. goodbye. now that we have storm aileen out of

the way, things are settling into a recognisable pattern, at least in the short term. later next week there is a lot of uncertainty, which i will explain in a couple of minutes. in the short term, a recognisable pattern. a north—westerly wind, and in that flow, sunshine and showers doesn't really cut it all the time. we have many fronts working their way down across the british isles. leaden skies to start off the day in the central and southern parts. once those showers have gone, the chance of some sunshine. not doing that much for some sunshine. for friday morning, it could be a case of a rather wet start to the day, leaden skies, and until that feature has

moved through, and it will take a good part of the afternoon to get to the vast alf, following behind, brighter skies, but the chance of the roads being awash at some point during your journey. the roads being awash at some point during yourjourney. come the weekend, we still have the same features in place. low pressure to the east of the british isles, high pressure over the atlantic. becoming more dominant across northern and western areas, and all to ring the flow somewhat. the shower distribution to the north will be different. the potentialfor distribution to the north will be different. the potential for the distribution to the north will be different. the potentialfor the odd sharp burst, and the temperatures, given that most of this breezes coming out of the north, nothing to write home about. if you see plenty of showers, you lose several degrees from those figures. still tending to

congregate over to the eastern side of those british isles, those showers. a better prospect for drier conditions across northern and western areas. similar on monday. not much in the way of breeze. the high pressure is doing its bit for most of the british isles, accept that north—western corner. that's the case on tuesday as well that pattern is well established up to that stage, but after that the uncertainty kicks in. some of that comes from the presence of the re m na nts of comes from the presence of the remnants of hurricane host say. —— hurricane hoser a. meandering around the north caribbean, but moving further north and may get picked up in thejet further north and may get picked up in the jet stream. the remnants of the system, yes, but may move the jet stream down towards the british

isles, and the prospect of unsettled fair. knocking beehive further south. if it moves further north, the high pressure could grow to influence more of the british isles. that's why we have uncertainty in the forthcoming week. temperature is about average for the season. could turn more unsettled, but a great deal of uncertainty. see you soon. tonight at ten: the crisis of the rohingya muslims has now reached catastrophic levels, according to the united nations. as thousands more flee the violence in myanmar — the un says the entire region is being destabilised. i call on the myanmar authorities to suspend military action, end the violence, uphold the rule of law and recognise the right of return for all those who have had to leave the country. but inside myanmar it's a very different perspective — we have a special report

on the prevailing attitudes there. the perception here from many is that it's burmese buddhism that's under siege, from militant islam. we'll be reporting on the plight of the rohingya — which is worsening by the day. also tonight: