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you are watching beyond 100 days. spain is out of patience and moves to impose direct rule on catalonia. the catalan leader says he will call parliament to ratify independence, u nless parliament to ratify independence, unless madrid agrees the talks. so what happens next? if spain fulfils its threat, the consequences could be explosive. in brussels tonight, can theresa may persuade the eu to begin brexit trade talks? some mps say that if she can't she should walk out. truman from janmaat the bangladesh, rohingya muslims struggle to survive. even the aid workers are overwhelmed. tears come to my eyes sometimes. it is dreadful. you just do what you can come you know. also on the programme, the consensus within the intelligence agencies and within congress is that russia did medal in the 2016 elections, so why is the white house so slow to acknowledge it? tom hanks weighs into the harvey
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weinstein scandal. the hollywood star says it could be a turning point for the industry. star says it could be a turning point for the industrylj star says it could be a turning point for the industry. i think we are ata point for the industry. i think we are at a warning shot —— watershed moment, this is a sea change, i think his last name will become a noun and a verb. iam i am katty kay on, washington, christian fraser is in london. the spanish government is on the brink of imposing direct rule on catalonia, the latest ad in the cat and mouse game the national and regional elements have played in the last few weeks. on october one, the cata la ns last few weeks. on october one, the catala ns voted last few weeks. on october one, the catalans voted in an unofficial referendum. violent erupted after police tried to close down polling stations, the result was 92% support for independence on a 43% turnout, but the figures were challenged. the cata la n but the figures were challenged. the catalan president declared
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independence but then suspended its implementation, calling for dialogue with spain. madrid gave him six days to clarify his position. he has failed to do so, which has led to the day's announcement from madrid that perform saturday, it will suspend autonomous rule. we are joined from barcelona by whole gay solo, an mep with the separatist party republican left of catalonia. we understand that the catalan parliament will be record on monday —— ——jorge parliament will be record on monday —— —— jorge sole. parliament will be record on monday -- -- jorge sole. i think the spanish government should be reasonable at once and should open the possibility to dialogue, to negotiations. we have been asking for dialogue, we have been having a bilateral meeting and have a political solution to what is a political solution to what is a political demand and a political
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problem. colours puijim on, what should he be doing? he said very clearly this morning —— carles puigdemont, what should he be doing? the catalan parliament will meet if they go ahead with suspension of home rule and they might decide to lift the suspension. sol home rule and they might decide to lift the suspension. so i think that is the way ahead but we will have to see what suspending our economy means, because there is no precedent. article 155 is written in a very general way so we have to see what specific concrete measures they are planning to undertake. jordi sole, if madrid goes ahead and imposes rule again on catalonia, do you think there will be violence on the streets? no, there won't be any violence at all, at least not from the side of peaceful people and
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peaceful democrats, because, in the end, we are talking about mass immobilisation, we are talking about serious movement that has always been and will always be democratic and peaceful. so i don't really think there will be more violence. we have already seen violence but from the side of the spanish police, following orders of the spanish government. they are the ones who so far have used violence. we will never use that resourceful stop we we re never use that resourceful stop we were seeing pictures of the violence from the time of the referendum, obviously now wants to give access systems that time compressor for the headquarters out of catalonia. are you worried that your region will be economic hit by this? it already is. lam not economic hit by this? it already is. i am not really worried about that, lam sure i am not really worried about that, i am sure that these companies will
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at some point go back to catalonia, because catalonia is an interesting market for all of these companies, and fall of these banks, and i am sure that after what has the come will have come, they will be back in catalonia and doing business as usual, because catalonia is a powerful economy in the context of the south of europe. we are growing above average in spain. fdi has been in record numbers during the last months. so we are confident in our economy. ok, jordi sole, thank you for joining economy. ok, jordi sole, thank you forjoining us. prime minister theresa may is in brussels, trying to persuade eu leaders at a time to move on to talk about a trade deal. nothing so far suggest it will be a very satisfying summit for the prime minister. eu leaders are sticking
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together, not enough progress has been made they savour the brexit talks to progress any further. now some within the conservative party are eschewing herjudd urging her to issue an ultimatum, if those talks don't come soon britain should walk away. let's cross live to damien grammaticas in brussels, is theresa may likely to make another presentation to those european leaders at the dinner? she will, she will get a short period during the dinnerto will get a short period during the dinner to address those european leaders, the 27 other nations, at which point we know she will stand up, she will repeat the message that she delivered in her speech in florence. she will say that she is committed to working together with europe, they share common interests, and she wants a close relationship. but what she is not going to do, we understand, is offer anything new or different. then that will be the death —— the end of her
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intervention. they went replied, this is not a negotiation, that happens ina this is not a negotiation, that happens in a totally separate forum, not at the summit. that is her chance over. i think the difficulty will be that if she doesn't offer anything new, we have these talks stuck at the minute on some very difficult issues. and nothing is going to change until there are new options on the table, new proposals on the table, so that is where we are at. and this summit is not going to change that. damian, can i ask you about some other news that came today on the same related subject, the head of goldman sachs who tweeted out a sort of cryptic twea ked, tweeted out a sort of cryptic tweaked, i think we have got it. what has the response been to that? that sort of sent a bit of a shiver through this place, as you can imagine. and it got a lot of people talking, because, of course, what he
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was talking about there was the fact that banks, goldman sachs and others have been making contingency plans, looking at where they would need to move staff. frankfurt is one of those. goldman sachs looking at frankfurt, and the owner's tweet suggests that planning is now starting to move ahead, because most of these big organisations are looking at this saying that the way things are panning out, the sort of deal the uk is talking about, or the fa ct deal the uk is talking about, or the fact even that talks are stuck at the minute means they have to start activating their contingency plans, to start moving some of their operations onto the european mainland, into the eu, to ensure that sort of continuity of business in future, and that is a powerful signal from outside this hall of what will start happening if there isn't progress amongst the eu 27 and the uk on reaching a deal. so the two things feed absolutely one into the other. for the moment, thank you
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very much indeed. 6000 employees in london, goldman sachs. the owner has only bought some office space in frankfurt. the question i suppose is how money will go there, how many might go to dublin. are they satellite offices and the bulk remain in london or are they moving wholesale? certainly a provocative tweet and this is someone who does not send out to its very often and when he does he seems to send them out because he wants to get attention and he wants to get the effect. it was picked up quite a lot here, brexit stories generally aren't picked up in the us, that particular tweet was. the prime minister's office has responded through a spokesperson saying that they went replied to any individual cases like this, but that they are confident london will remain the financial centre that it is at the moment. this is one of those big brexit its use, it has always been the big bogeyman that was out there, —— brexit issues. we would see the
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city of london diminished, it hasn't happened so far, so what exact literacy mean? can you mind read him for us tonight? a lot of the capital raising, a lot of the european debt is here in london and there are some here who are quite bullish about how london will look in a few years' time. we will see. absolutely. let's move on, president trump's handling of veterinary families is igniting further controversy here. the associated press is reporting that mrtrump only associated press is reporting that mr trump only contacted around half of the relatives killed while he has beenin of the relatives killed while he has been in office, while the washington post reports that the president offered one family $25,000, which
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they did not receive. the white house that together a statement: that tells you that since four were killed and not three, they were not imposition of all the facts. what we do know is that 12 us troops were on control on october four when they we re control on october four when they were ambushed and four were killed. they were there we are taught as pa rt they were there we are taught as part ofan they were there we are taught as part of an 800 strong us mission helping asia fight terrorism. last week the pentagon said this. the patrol was attacked had done lots of patrols over the previous six months, no indication this was going to occur. i have some sympathy with the pentagon. it shows that the white house did not have possession of all of the facts. the pentagon is not going to put out a full stamen until it knows exactly what was going on on the ground because it would be picked apart. absolutely first i have reached out to a couple of security expert and i am not getting any details than are in the press. a rundown of what we know from reporting in this particular
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incident, it seems these 12 us serviceman was incident, it seems these 12 us serviceman was went incident, it seems these 12 us serviceman was went to a village, they were talking to locals about counterterrorism operations and they we re counterterrorism operations and they were into groups. one was staying, guarding the vehicles, which were unarmoured pick—up trucks and the other group had gone into the village to talk to people and it was as they were walking back from their discussions in the village that they we re discussions in the village that they were ambushed in an area that the pentagon, as you heard them say there, they had been on patrol before, they had never come across ambushes in this area, and the us military there seem to be saying, look, we know we are there as counterterrorism operations, we just didn't expect isis related groups to be in that particular area. but the su is of course that the americans of course do not have —— the issue is. they sent this private plane to pick up the bodies and then they left one of the sergeants behind the 48 hours. so that might explain why on the 50 get this statement about three dead and then they have a body count anything hang on, we are
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missing one. i mean, was the alive, did they leave him out there? why is it local troops went down to pick up that sergeant and not american troops? those are questions sergeant johnson's family are also asking, how come it was 48 hours before his body was found ? how come it was 48 hours before his body was found? and about the intelligence, wide and they know there was a risk in a particular area of gyimah did any of the locals now? so a lot of questions about this, not yet many of facts. the pentagon is investigating and i will guess we'll get more about that later. with regards to donald trump, you would have just put out a whole thing statement, something awful has happened, deep sympathies for the family, we are investigating and we will come back to you with the information. that would have sufficed. pretty certain they wished they had done that at this point. 0k, talking of the white house, secretary of state rex tillerson says that the us holds janmaat‘s military leadership accountable for the ranger process —— mejanmaat.
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0ver over half a million people from the muslim minority have left their homes in myanmar, many were burned out of their homes. clive myrie is in bangladesh and sends us this report. every breath is a struggle for mohamed ibrahim. six months old and fighting pneumonia. he is terribly weak and malnourished. he has just a 50—50 chance of seeing out another day. a sense of sorrow hangs heavy in the air in this clinic in bangladesh. 80% of the patients are rohingya muslim refugees, and many are malnourished children. the weakest of the week. the mother of this 18—month—old girl summed up the nightmare of many rohingya women. translation: we had to run from our village.
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but we had so little to eat. then when we managed to get food i could not feed my child. she is so sick, butt if god wishes it, she will survive. working with the local staff here is ian cross, a former gp from leicester. tears come to my eyes sometimes. it's dreadful. you just do what you can, you know. in a way, i'm lucky that i'm a doctor. i've got my hands and my tools, i can help to make people better. if i wasn't able to do that, i'd feel so frustrated and i'd feel even worse. but when you're hard at work, it's... you cope. it is a depressing truth in this crisis, that close to 60% of the more than half a million rohingya muslims who've escaped myanmar are children and teenagers. and they have seen some terrible things like this girl.
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she has called this refugee camp in bangladesh home for almost two weeks. her story of the night she had to flee myanmar is depressingly familiar. villages torched and her mother dying in the flames. "they're killing all the muslims," she told me. "slaughtering innocent rohingyas. we've always been treated as less of people in our own land. now they want to finish us off." but dangers lurk in exile as well. young women are vulnerable. and the chance of children falling into the hands of sexual predators or exploited for their labour is ever present. the families here have nothing. they are trying to survive on a daily basis, and some of them at some point might be tempted to give away one of their children for domestic work. you know, not going to school,
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sometimes sexual abuse. so the risks are high. but there is light amidst all the gloom. children in the camps are getting vaccinated against cholera and other diseases. there is even a chance to watch cartoons. and youngsters are never allowed to feel ashamed of who they are. in this class, they are reciting nursery rhymes from their homeland. but some will never return. the day after we filmed mohamed ibrahim we were told he died. he was buried in a tiny grave before sundown. clive myrie, bbc news. clive joins us live from the bangladesh border, such distressing pictures we are seeing. i have been watching you in the newsroom throughout the day. the rain has been pouring, it makes a miserable situation even worse. it does, yes. we are battling a tropical cyclone
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here. the monsoon season is actually over, now it is the cyclone season and this refugee camp behind me stretches way down behind me several kph hundreds of thousands of people i hear. they have basically been sleeping the night, it is midnight, just after, they are sleeping in a mud bath because of all of this heavy rain. but the bottom line is frankly they are here, they are safe, they are alive. and as long as they are in that condition they can begin to move on, and the aid agencies are now getting their act together. there was criticism at the beginning of this crisis that they we re beginning of this crisis that they were not moving fast enough to deal with the increasing pace of this tragedy. but there are standpipes for water, one behind mejust there, so clean water is getting pumped in, there are latrines just over to my left, so sanitation is improving. that's diminishes the risk of waterborne diseases, and there is a vaccination programme going on in
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parts of the camp is welcome so things are beginning to settle down. but, listen, 10,000 refugees arrived today, 15,000 arrived two days ago when we were filming with them when that happened. in between another 5000, so you have 20 30,000 who have arrived this week alone. and the pressure that puts on local services here, as you can imagine, is immense. clive, i want here, as you can imagine, is immense. clive, iwant to here, as you can imagine, is immense. clive, i want to ask you about rex tillerson's comments that the myanmar authorities have to be held accountable. there has to be a political solution in the circumstances, any chance it might happen? in a word, no, at the moment. my understanding is that there are high—level governmental talks going on between the bangladeshis and the myanmar authorities. but who is it the bangladeshis are talking to? the head of the civilian government, or
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the head of the military, the ones who are actually, apparently, perpetrating the crimes that we have heard described by so many refugees as they crossed the order? the bottom line is the myanmar military are not even allowing the un to go in and investigate what has been going on and i think that would have to be part of any political settlement, and it is certainly the one being put forward by kofi annan and his particular attempt to try and his particular attempt to try and forge a political path forward, that that would be the beginning of any kind of resolution that the united nations independent observers are united nations independent observers a re allowed united nations independent observers are allowed into that kind stayed across the border from here to be a will to try and establish exactly what is going on. that has to happen before any political solution can ta ke before any political solution can take place with this crisis, and at the moment the bernie is not allowing that to happen. thank you,
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clive, in bangladesh. president trump has given his administration ten out of ten for his response to hurricane maria that devastated puerto rico. he acknowledged the massive scale of the rebuilding effort. 80% of the us island still remains without power. at least 43 afg ha n remains without power. at least 43 afghan soldiers have been killed and nine wounded after two suicide bombers in armoured vehicles destroyed a military base in the province of kandahar. six are still missing, ten militants also said to have died. the taliban said they we re have died. the taliban said they were behind the attack, tuesday, two taliban attacks in eastern afghanistan killed 70 people. new said to have a centre—left coalition government led by jacinda ardern's labour party. she is poised to be the country's youngest prime minister since 1856 at 37. the labour party will finish —— form a
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new government. no party was able to secure a majority. i am feeling so good at the moment, what is it, with these thirtysomethings taking over these thirtysomethings taking over the world? we just mentioned jacinda ardern, part of this developing world trend of young politicians who have won elections over the past year, there is heard, there is a manual and macron elected in france injune manual and macron elected in france in june aged 39. manual and macron elected in france injune aged 39. another 39—year—old swa n injune aged 39. another 39—year—old swan is as estonia's prime minister last november. layover atco, ireland's youngest ever premier, and at the weekend we saw sebastien coates, austria's new prime minister, the baby of the bunch. it makes ca nada's ‘s minister, the baby of the bunch. it makes canada's ‘s 45—year—old justin trudeau looked positively, i can't even believe i'm saying that, positively ancient. what does that
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make you ? positively ancient. what does that make you? ok, christian fraser, there are certain things you don't say the woman! that is one of them. why'd you think it is happening? you will try to move on now, aren't you? i think it is social media, isn't it? it is people who have an intuitive sense of communicating with audiences, they get instagram and snapchat and can reach out and away that doesn't seem, butler, it is not universal, america hasjust elected donald trump, 71. so not everywhere is doing this and it is not all populist countries doing it either. it is not a rejection of the old establishment ways necessarily. just thinking about a manual macron, he brought in a lot of young people who are driving the social media and it was them who motivated the macron movement. but young french voters did not actually vote for him. i wa nt to did not actually vote for him. i want to see numbers on whether these young leaders increased voter turnout amongst young people. i was
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trying to dig around on that but there isn't any yet. 0k, speaking of those who hold power, like christian, our colleagues at bbc future have come up with an image, the composite of all 135 members of the composite of all 135 members of the eu congress, they were merged together, and they would produce this, no surprise, a middle—aged white man. they also did for the major parties. i was reading that the lips on the left are slightly bigger, slightly different profile. i think that is actually incidentally because they have more african—american members than the republican party. this is the female member that we put together, that is the face that you get, not many women in congress, though. it is interesting, keep hearing people say it is great, america has a record number of women in congress and in the senate, there are 20 women in 100 in the senate.
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that is a record at the moment but it still only 20%, hardly reflective of the population, is it? no. there are more republicans called john or mike, 29, then there are women in the party, 27. i have all these fa cts the party, 27. i have all these facts at my fingertips. image is very important for me go all the way back to washington, he realised that his forehead was the important bit, so he used to pull his ponytail back to reveal as much forehead as possible. this is what you have achieved, random facts. it is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news, actor tom hanks speaks out about harvey weinstein and the scandal. a car bomb killed a prominent journalist and the scandal. a car bomb killed a prominentjournalist in malta. we talked to a politician from there. good evening, a second named storm
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of the season set to liven up the weather, storm brian. the good news is it reaches peak strength during the next 12 to 18 hours out in the atla ntic the next 12 to 18 hours out in the atlantic before weakening just a little bit off before reaching our shores but even before it arrives in very blustery conditions out there tonight. gales around southern coasts, an area of heavy rain working its way across the south at the moment and further batches of rain pushing through on the southern flank of that area of low pressure over night, and a bit of rain at times to further north. clear skies into the west and northern ireland, cornwall later on to stop it keeps the temperatures up to matt, 11 to 13 degrees to start friday. another fairly great start with outbreaks of rain across england and wales, the the winds towards the far south—east corner but the winds will ease down, skies will brighten, most will see a bit of sunshine at times through friday. with winds falling, once you have the sunshine at it should not be too bad but all but all in all a reasonably cool day, temperatures around 13 to 15 degrees. finish the day with rain starting to push back
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into northern ireland once again and some heavy rain to take us through friday evening, and strengthening winds, a fawn runner to storm brian, which will be working its way towards our shores through friday night and into saturday morning. the republic of ireland will see that it effects of storm brian. but as strong a beast once gets the orders but it will still bring some pretty lively conditions across southern and western coasts. it is around the coast of wales, southwest and southern england we will see the strongest gusts, 50 to 60 mph, maybe 70 mph, with high tides at the moment with the season very rough conditions around the coast. across the board, a blustery day on saturday, very wet weather to go with. up is parts, not a bad morning with. up is parts, not a bad morning with some sunny spells. the heaviest winds will be in the morning during the west and temperatures dropping into the afternoon as the winds go more north—westerly, 12 to 16 degrees in the brightest. through saturday night in the sunday, area
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of low pressure moves off into the northern north sea, the winds will still remain blustery and the sunday but it will be a cooler day a mixture of sunshine and showers, showers most frequent in scotland, north—west england and eastern areas probably staying driest and brightest the longest. temperatures 12 to 15 celsius. clear this is beyond 100 days, i'm katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. tensions rise in spain as after madrid says it will move to impose direct rule. an emergency cabinet meeting has been called. theresa may mingles with angela merkel and emmanuel macron. but meagre comfort in the brexit talks tonight. 0nce but meagre comfort in the brexit talks tonight. once a power in the white house, now steve bannon is making his mark on the campaign trail, one candidate at a time and we hear from trail, one candidate at a time and we hearfrom tom hanks. he speaks to
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the bbc about his latest project and the bbc about his latest project and the current scannedel engulfing hollywood. the murder of someone in our business is sadly not an exceptional event but for it to happen to a journalist in a european country, where the rule of law is paramount and press freedom a right we often take for granted it is harder to fathom. 0n we often take for granted it is harder to fathom. on monday, a journalist died in a car bomb attack after leaving her home on the island of malta. the force of the blast left her car scattered across the countryside. galicia was known for ha rd countryside. galicia was known for hard hitting journalism, accusing top politicians, often of corruption. her son said she was murdered and he and his brothers wa nt murdered and he and his brothers want the prime minister of malta to resign. a full investigation has
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been called for with the dutch police and the fbi. a brief time ago we spoke with the maltese finance minister. sir, the sons of daphne galicia, say that the mother was assassinated bus of work in government in malta, and that it isa in government in malta, and that it is a government that is encouraged to flourish? it is very hard to discuss things which are said by a son who is really in pain. who has seen son who is really in pain. who has seen his mother dismembered and to argue about them, i think it is not the time to discuss certain issues. however it is a terrorist attack. definitely made to silence her, that i think we can all agree. but the real reasons behind why this has happened, i think they must be
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sought by more investigation and we just hope that this will come to the surface after the work is carried out. but the point i am making is that it won't be satisfactory to the family just to ininvestigate the crime itself, the crime itself must be linked to what she was investigating. that's what they want the answers to? yes, i would imagine when this started to surface and opening up, the links, so on, they will be found as well. so you have to start somewhere. there is an outrageous act, this is an outrageous act that has shocked many people and they want the truth. 0ne many people and they want the truth. one can start to point fingers before the evidence or the clues are found but i think this is speculation. 0ne
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speculation. one has to wait and the certain things will then be found. minister, we are sadly used to journalists being killed in attacks like this around the world but not used to it in a country that is a member of the european union. you must know how bad this makes malta look, don't you? definitely. i'm the ministerfor look, don't you? definitely. i'm the minister for finances. it is very sad and very disappointing and outrageous that in this malta, being so attractive, especially in the region, for stability, peacefulness, a low crime rate, to have incidents like this. now, could they have been avoided? that is the basic question? an act of terrorism is happening in many countries in the west, the uk so on. this is different as it has targeted a particular person. it is more difficult as nobody has claimed
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ownership and therefore it is much more complicated. however, however, we just hope that the investigators will get to the bottom of it and with the help and the assistance that it with the help and the assistance thatitis with the help and the assistance that it is getting and find the truth. this doesn't look like other terrorist attacks we have seen in europe recently. the sons are calling for the prime minister muscat to resign. is he going to do so? i think that this is not the time for the playing of politics. as isaid, it time for the playing of politics. as i said, it is to use a son's words and using them for political ends, the opposition is doing that but this is their option to do that but this is their option to do that but this government believes in its institutions and time will tell where this could be coming from. thank you very much forjoining us.
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galizia's investigation went to the top of maltese politics. many more questions to be answered. and today, george w bush was stinging in how serious his thinks the russian involvement was in the meddling of the campaign. the russian government has made a project of turning americans against each other. it is broad and it is conducted across a range of social media platforms. ultimately it will not succeed. the foreign aggression, cyber attacks, disinformation, arched financial influence, should never be downplayed or tolerated. george w bush. so how did the russians do it? so—called troll farms used social media and fake
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websites to exacerbate americans and its divisions. 0ne troll farm was the internet research agency based in superb. it said that the activities, many of them, including infaking up a said that the activities, many of them, including in faking up a fake twitter account, claim took the voice of tennessee republicans. and hundreds of facebook sites, including one called secure borders that paid for anti—immigrant adverts like these that appeared. it is thought to be behind controversial black activist websites which were used to stoke fears. i wanted now to get your reaction to what george w bush said about russian involvement. he said that the russian government has made a project of meddling in american
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society and elections, would it be useful if president trump said the same thing? it would be. this is a pattern of intervention that did not start in the united states or begin in 2016. these are techniques and gains that the russians have been practicing for a number of years. in central and eastern europe and in the ukraine. this emy greated to the united states last year. part of learning how to deal with them is the acceptance it happens, it works, and that we have to understand it better. although the russians were for historical reasons interested in doing this, and this are better at it from the beginning, they are not the only ones and this are tactics used by many people in the future. so the platforms have evolved from the cold war? it is different. modern russia doesn't promote its the way that the soviet union did. they don't promote a russian idea.
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what they are interested in is undermining us, means us in the west and the central european democracies. and as george w bush said setting different groups against each other, creating political division and undermining our sense of unity and then the goal to undermine the western institutions, to get the united states out of europe and make the world safer for russian corruption. do you think that the russians look at it and think that they were too effective. now that there are investigations, the president is in a straitjacket when it comes to round—up policy? a straitjacket when it comes to round-up policy? in that sense it back fired as president trump is unable to do the deals with vladimir putin that he probably hoped he could do. he has a long relationship with russia going back many years. he has been an admirer of putin, as he said many times. that is not in dispute. but we see both in the united states that overplaying their
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hand and going too far has had, worked out badly fort russians. a similar problem they had in france where they made the mistake of backing too aggress elve three out of the four french candidates and then the within who won, emmanuel macron is very wary of russia. and of course, they wanted nato to back off, control over the ukraine and as your book, red famine tells us, that efforts to control the ukraine go back many, many years?” think that the problem is for russia, they see ukraine as a domestic issue. they understand ukraine. things that happened in the ukraine. things that happened in the ukraine affect them. so in 2014 when there was a revolution in the ukraine and young people on the streets waving european flags and
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calling for a democracy and rule of law and anti—corruption, the russians in moscow saw this very much as an assault on them and worried that it could back fire on them and lead to similar projects in russia. that was the nightmare. they have trouble seeing the ukraine as a foreign country, or one that has its own politics or its own political development. the book is red famine. thank you very much, anne applebaum for joining us. now, steve bannon's, the kingmaker in upcoming elections? doubts have been raised about whether or not football association bosses are fit to stay in posts? accusations of a cover—up. claims of a failure to
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support a victim of racism, evidence labelled as shambolic. the fa is dealing with a self—made crisis, one that some feel could cost officials theirjobs. whats with disappointing is that the chief executive, the head of hr, they were not prepared to apologise for their failings they were not prepared to apologise for theirfailings in the they were not prepared to apologise for their failings in the way that this was vetted. it raises doubts as to whether or not this are the people to take this group forward. eni aluko said she feels vindicated after receiving an apology from fa bosses. it was judged she was the victim of racist remarks from her former england coach. the fa has received criticism for the way it handled the claims. time and again we have seen the failure to address serious allegations. it fits the definition
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of discrimination to a t. the head of a player who's actions and alpris called into question is sceptical now over whether or not the players can trust the governing body. this was a leading player. if they treat a leading player like that, what does it say to anyone else who is going to be treated? it was a dereliction of duty. we don't want this to happen to somebody else. this was not about me, or eni aluko but about finding the truth and letting people realise if you have a grievance you can bring it forward. it is understood that the government is concerned about the fa's handles of the case. but for now, an organisation keen to talk up its successes. . . inaudible you are watching beyond 100 days. he is at war against the republican establishment, if you are an
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encumbant establishment, if you are an encumba nt watch out, establishment, if you are an encumbant watch out, the message from steve bannon, putting the party on notice that he is a force in upcoming elections. he is fighting income pants in the medium—term primaries. 0ne he is fighting income pants in the medium—term primaries. one is roger whitaker from medium—term primaries. one is roger whitakerfrom mississippi, medium—term primaries. one is roger whitaker from mississippi, one medium—term primaries. one is roger whitakerfrom mississippi, one of those that mr bannon fancies is the state snore mr daniels. so, that is my first question, are you going to run? it is unclear. we are looking a the race. based on results we saw in alabama, the race has become more come elling. so we are looking at it carefully. have you spoken to steve bannon in recent weeks, and would you class him asa recent weeks, and would you class him as a friend? i'm sorry. i could not hear you very well. i was ask if you have receive steve bannonin i was ask if you have receive steve bannon in recent days and weeks and
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would you class him as a friend? absolutely. i have known steve since 2013. he's a smart guy. a big work ethic, hard driver. he's been a buddy of mine for some time. i listen to steve, he would love to see me enter the us senate race and told me that whatever race we decide, he would back me there as well. there is a republican in the race. roger whinger, what is wrong with him to carry on in the us senate? miss simmy is a conservative state and mr whicker‘s record is not as conservative. he scores in the cards in the low 5 to 10% in the
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conservative unit. he is not in the numbers that we would like him to be, that is on all votes, from taxes, to spending to illegal immigration. the people of the state wa nt immigration. the people of the state want strong conservative leadership, thatis want strong conservative leadership, that is what we are thinking of offering if we enter into the race. you said of much mcconnell, that he is hardly a republican? are any of these in washington good enough for you? there are a few that are. ming of mike lee, ram paul, those individuals that are the types of conservatives that mississippi expects and much mcconnell, he has been on stricting the president trump agenda. he is a part of the problem. he has about a 48% scorecard when it comes to
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conservative voting, and senator whiter has only a 30%. so he is lower than mcconnell, i thought that was difficult to do amongst republicans! zblo do you think that donald trump leads the old right? those labels are difficult, especially for those here in mississippi. we don't associate with one label or the other. we are institutional conservatives, valuing individual liberty and limited government. as long as our leaders are fighting for those issues we stand behind them. right now we cannot get to the issues until we change who we send to washington dc, as right now the system is broken. so to be an agent of change and then acquiring the position, to be a forceful agent for conservative change. that is what is needed. the reason i ask the question is that it seems now that steve bannon
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is the loose canon, is he working for president trump or working for himself? he is working for the american people. i can tell you right now, steve bannon was instrumental in having donald trump elected. they are both friends. they are fighting for the same thing, most of the time. donald trump is an agent of change, bannon is obviously an agent of change, and to that extent they are similarly aligned. thank you very much. i was laughing, christian, the idea that much mcconnell is described as a liberal would amuse a love the republicans and democrats in washington who see him definitely on the conservative side. a senator from kentucky, definitely on the conservative side of the party. but thatis conservative side of the party. but that is how the party is moving, more to the right on the republican base and more to the left on the democrat base. we thought of america as a central
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country, about i wonder how long that will hold true? you listen to chris mcdaniel and there is a different agenda. talking about the conservative agenda on abortion, gay marriage, on immigration, those are the sort of things that he is more to the right, even of donald trump? yes, and perhaps of even of some hitherto considered conservative republicans. that is taking place in the party, can he win on a national platform? well, there is no chance that the disgraced producer harvey weinstein can return to work in hollywood. that is the view of tom hanks. his career has spanned four decades. the star said it was a water shed moment for the industry. he was speaking to will gompertz in new york to mark the publication of his
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short stories. 0ne short stories. one thing about the hermes2,000, it was heavier than the toy type writer. the green carry case banged against her willing legs as she walked home. stopping twice, putting the machine down, not to rest but the palm had gotten sweaty... were you worried about coming out as a novelist? petrified. 0f about coming out as a novelist? petrified. of course. i can't believe that people have put my stories in a book and are trying to make people pay in order to read them. it is astounding. all of these, broadly speaking are set in america. what was the picture that we are trying to paint? america is a place of relea ptless ongoing trying to paint? america is a place of releaptless ongoing chances. row don't just of releaptless ongoing chances. row don'tjust get second chances in the united states, you get third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh chances. you get to re—make yourself
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in the united states. is there any chance for harvey weinstein to come back? no. it is a watershed moment. this is a sea change. i think his last name will be a noun and a verb. it will be an identifying monikerfor a state and a verb. it will be an identifying moniker for a state of being of which there is a before and an after. no. not at all. imean, no. perhaps all men, myself included, should pipe down and not try to explain it and not try to comment on it, certainly not try to defend it. i was talking to a very famous, well respected actress, who said almost entirely the opposite, saying it was time for the men to stand up and do something. well, i'm saying first we have to
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hear from everybody so that we understand how vast and all—encompassing this was. that is a.b all—encompassing this was. that is a. b is, it's all got to change. you are one of the actors represented on the academy board. you must have been involved in the conversation about having harvey weinstein removed from that board?” ama weinstein removed from that board?” am a member of the board of governors. what was that conversation?” governors. what was that conversation? i am not able to discuss. did you talk about issues such as a code of ethics? honestly, i am not at liberty to discuss it. touching on donald trump is he a character you would like to play? dear, lord, no. we have had fools that have governed us and brilliant people but sometimes the fools got more stuff than the brilliant people. who is governing you at the moment? fool or brilliant? oh, well, let's not say brilliant... tom hanks
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with forthright thoughts. for decades janegoodall has been known as an expert on studying chum pan december. there have been other films about jane goodall‘s life but not like this. the film is impeccably preserved, telling the story of a woman with no scientific training when he is started to study chimpanzees in tanzania. when i see it is more emotional. i don't know, i see more things. seeing your life evolve and also taking me back to that best time of my life. the film was shot here in 1962 by hugo van lorwik. the dutch
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photographer sent by national geographic, to record the work of the naturalist who he would later marry. the archives in the early 1960 is one of the most important detostories of the 60's film. this will never happen again this kind of documentisation. it had been long thought we were the only creatures on earth that used and made tools and here was david grey doctors beard, using a tool... it was so amazing that it had to wait, i had to wait to see it again before i could completely believe what i saw. i knew it would make a difference. an audience of 15,000 attended the documentary‘s us premiere at the
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hollywood bowl amphitheatre in los angeles with a live 0rchestra performing the score, by the renowned correspondent, fill bishop glass, it was an emotional roller—coaster. and forjane an opportunity to share her passion for conservation. i have a very important information to share with the world, we are destroying the planet and we need to get together to try to make change. hollywood has fallen in love with jane, saying that the film could win an oscar. but jane's jane, saying that the film could win an oscar. butjane's heart jane, saying that the film could win an oscar. but jane's heart is still in africa. amazing. 16 millimetre film. i was reading ann ebbing dote that her husband, lugeow, was so fastidious about light and how it was shot, that she would say shoot it for science, now they are going back to it, saying look at the film, the pictures, how good they are.
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i bet he had no why that one day that would be the darling of hollywood, and he could be nominated foran hollywood, and he could be nominated for an oscar. but the pictures of those chum pan zeez, trying to get the bugs out. that is clever than we are. it's been said before. we are back at the same time next week. thank you very much —— chimpanzees. so, we have a second storm named of the season, storm brian. set to reach peak strengths in the next 12 to 18 hours. before it arrives there are windy conditions. gales around the south. heavy rain in the south and more batches of rain pushing through on the southern flank of the area of low pressure overnight and rain in the north. clearer skies in
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the west of northern ireland and cornwall. temperatures up to 13 celsius. friday, a grey start with outbreaks of rain over glaels. strong winds in the far south—east corner of england. the winds to the east, the skies brightening. a little sunshine on friday. with the winds falling, and the sunshine out, not so bad. but all in all a cooler day with temperatures up to 15 celsius. rain in northern ireland once again through the day. heavy rains and strengthening winds. the forerunner to storm brian working its way through to our shores friday night to saturday morning. the republic of ireland will see the bigger effects, not so strong as it gets to us but lively conditions over the south and the west coasts. 0ver over the south and the west coasts. over the south wales, the strongest gusts, up to 70 miles an hour. with
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high tides, we will see rough conditions around the coast. 0ver the barder, a windy day on saturday. wet weather to go with the strong winds in the west. eastern england and scotland, not a bad morning with sunny day but sunny spells through the day. temperatures dropping into the afternoon as the winds are more westerly, 122016 celsius in the brighter east. saturday night to sunday, the low pressure moving to the north sea. the winds still windy into sunday but a cooler day. a mixture of sunshine and showers. showers frequent in scotland, north—west england and in the east, driest and brightest for longest. temperatures, 12 to 15 celsius. this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm: theresa may is in brussels — where eu leaders are assessing whether enough progress has been made to begin trade talks. that speech that i set our
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in florence set out that ambitious vision and i look forward to us being able to progress that in the week ahead. as the number of recorded crimes in england and wales rises sharply, norfolk police say they're getting rid of all of their police community support officers. harvey weinstein is stripped of his british film institute fellowship — as tom hanks, describes the scandal as a "watershed moment" for hollywood. since when has this brand of common decency and professionalism been put on hold just because of sexual dynamics in the work place — it's inexcusable. a common blight in towns and cities alike — why the illegal dumping of household waste is on the increase.
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