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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. donald trump's outdone himself. he's retweeted far right videos that feature fake claims about muslims. we'll be live in washington. the uk is offers the eu up to 50 billion euros to settle its financial commitments. we've all the details and the reaction. a couple of months ago the foreign secretary said the eu could go whistle when those kinds of sums have been talked about. here is his reaction today. we've been waiting for this for a long time, 18 months or so, now‘s the time to get the whole ship off the rocks, and move it forwards. there were shocking events earlier during a war crimes trial in the hague. after losing his appeal, a former bosnian croat commander drank poison and later died. and the un security council is gathering right now to discuss north korea's latest missile test. we'll watch that closely for you. let's talk about the president of america retweeting far right videos.
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they come from an ultra nationalist group in the uk. we're not going show the videos but they contain disturbing violence and they make unverified claims about muslims. this group is called britain first. and it's pleased. britain first was founded 2011. this is its website. among its policies is to "introduce a comprehensive ban on the religion of "islam" within the united kingdom." these are the people in charge. the group's two leaders have both been convicted with crimes related to inciting racial hatred. britain first is known in the uk as a group — but also as a slogan. last year, the mpjo cox was murdered in the street by a man with links to the far—right.
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he shouted "britain first" during the attack. jo cox's husband was brendan cox — and he's spoken today. i thought it was an horrendous thing to do. britain first is a well—known hate group, it strives hatred against muslims and donald trump is the president of our nearest ally, the president of our nearest ally, the fact that he didn't check first, or didn't even think about the content or didn't even think about the co nte nt of or didn't even think about the content of those tweets before doing it, i think, content of those tweets before doing it, ithink, suggests content of those tweets before doing it, i think, suggests hisjudgment is hugely lacking. there has been extensive condemnation. labourmp david lammy... labour leaderjeremy corbyn said... theresa may has said...
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here's a different perspective, though. this is white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders defending what most people think is indefensible. whether it is a real video, the threat is real, and that is what the president is talking about, that is what the president is focused on, dealing with those real threats, and those are real no matter how you look at it. so does it matter if it isa look at it. so does it matter if it is a fake video? the threat is real, and that is what the president is talking about is the need for national security, military spending, and they are very real things nothing fake about that. that that says the means justify the ends. you are putting words in my
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mouth, i said that the threat is real, the threat needs to be addressed, it has to be talked about, and that is what the president is doing in bringing it up. what a job sarah huckerbee sanders has. it's not about whether the video is real, she says. remember this is from the administration that frequently derides accurate reporting as fake. anthony zurcher, washington. anthony, i have mentioned that britain first is delighted with the president's re—tweets. as the far right in america reacted to this? absolutely. i saw a tweet from david juke, a former head of the ku klux klan, he treated out that donald trump is showing us what the fake news media won't. he said thank god the trump, that's why we love him. i don't think very many people here in the us now britain first, the white nationalist groups in europe, there
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are groups here in the us that follow what is going on in europe very closely and they look at what donald trump retweeted today is an indication that they are not the only ones following it, the president himself is paying attention to what groups like britain first saying. in terms of the controversy around this, if any president had retweeted this they would be in deep trouble but the same rules do not seem to apply to donald trump. they don't. it fits a pattern. donald trump has repeatedly looked to europe and the uk, citing insta nces looked to europe and the uk, citing instances of violence as a reason why the american people should endorse his aggressive border control policies, immigration policies, controls on resettlement of refugees. i have spoken with a number of donald trump supporters over the past few months and years, and they view europe is having a problem with immigration. they don't
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wa nt problem with immigration. they don't want the us to end up like europe in their mind, and that is what donald trump is serving as well. while there has been quite a ferrari in there has been quite a ferrari in the uk about this, the president is not thinking about europe, he is thinking about his domestic audience. he is making the pitch that his policy prescriptions are justified, because of what he says is happening over in europe and he points to these videos, real or not, as evidence, as sarah huckabee sanders says, that the threat is real. listening to her there was reminding me of sean spicer trying to defend other statements trump has made. this is at least evidence that the president is his own man, this doesn't look particularly strategic. i don't think so. that open question about how donald trump decided to retweet these tweets. he and his social media director are the only
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ones who have control of that. the white house say they will not talk about the process behind how donald trump decided to re—tweeted this. but again, this is not the first time donald trump has retweeted controversial things. he retweeted an account called white genocide tm several times, woods has links to anti—semitic groups was he has retweeted an image of hillary clinton superimposed on a field of dollars with a star of david honoured, with the words, most corrupt politician ever. he has a tendency also to send a message in his retweets that has been considered very controversial. thank you very much indeed. another controversial story, the bbc understands the uk may be ready to pay between a0 and 50 billion euros in order to settle its responsible it is to the european union. the money will cover things like budget commitments and pensions.
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the uk had offered 20bn when theresa may made this speech in florence in september. still, i do not want our partners to fear that they will need to pay more oi’ fear that they will need to pay more or receive less over the remainder of the current budget plan as a result of the decision to leave. the uk will honour commitments to what we have made in the period of membership. this is another clip, the uk secretary borisjohnson on the uk secretary borisjohnson on the idea might be handed over to the eu. the sums i have seen that they propose to demand from this country seem to me to be extortionate, and i think to go whistle is an entirely appropriate expression. the cost of go whistling appears to be a0 to 50 billion euros will the let's here is borisjohnson again
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today. we have been waiting for this for a long time, 18 months or so. now is the moment to get the whole ship off the rocks and move forwards. next — here's the reaction of michel barnier who's the eu's lead brexit negotiator. do you welcome britain's decision to pay more? we are still working. remember though even if this bill is agreed, citizens rights and the irish border. here's damian gramaticas in brussels. what the eu side now want to do is to nail down some of those issues. the deadline is monday next week when theresa may is due here in
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brussels for lunch with jean—claude juncker. 0n the financial side what they are looking for the broad areas of the commitments that the uk will meet, what things it will actually pay for, not a final figure. so that needs to be sorted, but crucially too the issue of ireland still outstanding, and still very difficult to see the eu saying how will the uk resolve contradictions in its position? it wants to leave the single market, the customs union, but have no border controls between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. the eu says thatis republic of ireland. the eu says that is impossible, how is the uk proposing to get over that issue? the other problem of course for citizens who will be left on the two sides, and which courts will the european courts be able to oversee the guarantee of their rights? those things also have to be agreed, and then any agreement has to be put to then any agreement has to be put to the eu leaders of the 27 other
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countries before they can sign off on it, so still some way of signing off on this. in the uk, there's been a mixed reaction to this deal from eurosceptics. remember, they all in their different ways campaigned for brexit on the grounds it'd be good for the uk economy. it may turn out to be positive, but clearly this is a big financial hit up front. here are some of the statements we heard in the house of commons earlier. would the minister agree such a move would be betraying the trust of the british people? she shouldn't pay more than we owe, but she should be confident that whatever that is, it is a bargain against cost of staying in. ben wright in westminster, first of all, let's took about the reaction to this, it is a delicate line theresa may has to walk. so far from sitting here in the newsroom, she seems to have dummett reasonably well. yes, partly because there has been a
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widespread expectation that the sort of bill britain is looking at amounts to the figures we are talking today. we are talking tens of billions of pounds to settle britain's financial commitments to the eu. that number will be haggled overin the eu. that number will be haggled over in the coming months, we're not there yet, it hasn't been nailed down, nothing is agreed. the widespread expectation is that it was going to be in the ballpark of perhaps a0 to 50 billion euros cover certainly far in excess of what theresa may was suggesting back in her florence speech in september where we were talking about 20 billion euros. it was clear the eu was tarting up liabilities, and gentle projects that the uk owes money for, far in excess of 20 billion euros. i think it is very interesting today that we have not heard angry formulating brexiteers in parliament, livid about this some, because, as i said, i think they had been expecting it over the last few months, but also they think it is worth the prize, and the prize
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isa it is worth the prize, and the prize is a quick, new trade deal done with the eu they hope next year before britain leaves in march 2019. the test will be what they are saying about the money into three months‘ time when we have better sense of how that second phase of the talks is progressing. ben, we always respond well to deadlines and it seems to be more of a constant that we have a couple of big get—togethers in december, which seemed to be focusing a lot of minds. mines are being focused and concessions made. there were some in the uk government who saw that the money was the uk‘s biglia bridge in this negotiation and wanted perhaps to hold clarity and money back until the very end. they are having to concede that now because they are so keen to get the green light to the second phase of talks to happen at that summit in mid—december. another concession around the role of the european court of justice, concession around the role of the european court ofjustice, and the role that will play if a two—year
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transition deal is signed off. so all the time you are seeing concessions made from the uk in their hurry to get movement from the eu and open up that second phase of talks. money has been for a long time one of the big sticking point. it feels that maybe resolved enough now to get that sufficient progress box ticked by the eu. as damien was saying, though, perhaps the bigger walkable jaded issue, and the one where they may not have reached sufficient progress yet is that question about what to do between the border of northern ireland and the border of northern ireland and the republic of ireland, this is a massive sticking point. uk is leading the single market, it says it doesn‘t a hard border. the eu wa nts it doesn‘t a hard border. the eu wants more than just war of words and assurances from the uk, they wa nt to and assurances from the uk, they want to know how the stage of the negotiation the uk plans to get that outcome. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come... we will go back to the us because there have been two huge shocks, nbc
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news anchor has been fired over sexual misconduct allegations and a giant of us radio garrison keillor has also been fired. we will find out about both. the duke of cambridge has said prince harry and his fiancee meghan markle have a lot of happy times ahead of them as they plan their wedding. clarence house announced the engagement on monday and the couple later revealed the proposal happened over a roast chicken supper in their kensington palace cottage. the wedding will take place in st george‘s chapel, windsor castle, in may. prince william spoke to reporters during a visit to finland. yes, all very excited, delighted for them both. and wishing them all the happiness atmospheric setting time. for me, personally, i have it means he stays out of my fridge. it will stop for the scrounging he has done for my fridge over the last few yea rs. for my fridge over the last few
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years. we saw them together, and they looked so much in love. absolutely, it is a fantastic process to go through, the engagement and the build—up to the wedding, so they have a lot of happy times ahead of them. i think they are both caught up in the moment and i wish them all the happiness and success in planning the wedding, i haveit success in planning the wedding, i have it all goes really well. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. president trump has been widely criticised after he shared several anti—muslim videos by a far—right group in the uk the reconciliation between hamas and leading zimbabwean activist has been acquitted on charges of trying to overthrow robert mugabe‘s former
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government. the harare high court judge said there was no evidence, from bbc africa. this is quite frankly beyond belief, two skydivers jumped offa frankly beyond belief, two skydivers jumped off a mountain in switzerland, and then landed inside a plane. we are told they practised as 100 times, but still, it is seriously impressive, you can find that in the most watched video on the bbc news app. it has been a day of extraordinary shocks in the us media. the long—serving nbc news anchor matt lauer has has been fired over sexual misconduct allegations. nbc‘s chairman released the statement... in the last hour, variety has posted a long and detailed article, containing accusations from a number of different women against matt
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lauer. in any event, the job of making that decision public fell to his co—host, savannah guthrie. making that decision public fell to his co-host, savannah guthrie. for the moment all we can say is that we are heartbroken. matt is my dear friend and my partner, and he has been loved by many people here. and iam been loved by many people here. and i am heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story, and any other women who have their own stories to tell. and we are grappling with a dilemma so many people have faced these past few weeks. how do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly? and i don‘t know the answer to that, but i don‘t know the answer to that, but i do now that this reckoning that so many organisations have been going through is important. that is long overjune. and it must result in workplaces where all women, all people feel safe and respected. matt lauer not the only big name to be sacked. and giant of us radio,
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garrison keillor, has been fired by minnesota public radio over allegations of inappropriate behaviour. we had a statement from the president of mpr... let‘s get some help to jesting all of this. if you drew up the list of the big names in us media who have lost theirjobs in recent months, it is quite something. it is, and certainly matt lauer dufner loop tops the bill to appears one of the most bankable stars in the united states. he is reported to earn more than $25 million, the face morning tv on nbc news. so this was a huge shock to a lot of people. but it looks like vanity fair had been working on this investigation that you just mentioned for about two months. they say that three women had come forward as part of their
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reporting that. the official statement nbc said one woman had come forward with an official complaint but the reason that they fired matt lauer as they believe it wasn‘t an isolated incident. this comes a week after charlie rose of cbs news, another huge name in broadcasting in the united states was fired, and you mentioned harrison keillor, a much loved voice on the american public radio, he has been on the airwaves for many decades, also in the last couple of hours being fired over allegations of sexual misconduct. and it feels like a significant balance of power is occurring here, if some of these allegations had been made a few yea rs allegations had been made a few years ago, you suspect it‘ll might have kept theirjobs. yes, perhaps, thatis have kept theirjobs. yes, perhaps, that is one of the questions being asked, because in some of these cases, certainly the rumour mill here in washington is that some people may have suspected some of these names were responsible for the alleged activities, and that they
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are not surprised. had the right procedures been in place, savannah guthrie, just described it as a reckoning. it certainly seems that it is a moment where things are starting to change will stop of course it is notjust the media. we look at politics, a representative has resigned from the house of representatives at the weekend. he is being investigated over allegations of sexual misconduct, and al franken on allegations of grouping as well. thank you. now the craziness
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going on with it: first of its hit another record high, one bitcoin worth over $11,000. this is a graph of the year. here we have the price now. it has gone up over ten times just in 11 months. frankly it is all over the place, having hit that new high earlier it is now down below $10,000. i am not sure what is going on. samira is with us in new york. tell us what is happening because i have not got a flu! laughter the trick with bitcoin is that it is actually traded on multiple different platforms, so depending on which platform you are looking at, some exchanges can have bitcoin trading somewhat higher and others can have it trading somewhat lower. so that is why you are seeing a lot of this kind of discrepancy, and additionally where you are seeing so much volatility with regards to the pricing of bitcoin. now the question
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is why are people buying up so much of this bitcoin? the way i have been expending it over the last few days, and you can quote me on this, it is investor fom0. investors are just so afraid of missing out on the next big thing, and there isjust so much capital sloshing around that there is money available to invest in things like bitcoin. but there are some prominent members of the financial community that have come out pretty critical of bitcoin, and this kind of digital currency, saying it is something around a ponzi scheme, or it is really akin to the kind of dot—com bubble we saw in the early 20005. to the kind of dot—com bubble we saw in the early 2000s. thank you very much indeed. 0ne bitcoin going for $11,000 earlier, back to below $10,000 at the moment. the us administration is looking at chinese aluminium imports. there were more than $600 million worth just last year.
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now the americans are considering raising tariffs. here‘s celia hatton on what the chinese make of that prospect. that intense displeasure, it accused the us of engaging in protectionism, and said it would stand up for chinese firms‘s interest. so it really isn‘t backing down. it also said that probes of this kind will hurt both countries‘s interest. it really could not have used stronger language to underline how unhappy it is that the us has made this announcement. donald trump has warned he is unhappy with the trade deficit. it was interesting, when he was in beijing, he said he didn‘t blame china for the trade deficit, he blamed previous administrations. that led to a lot of people criticising donald trump, saying he is not doing enough to deal with the problems facing the us economy when it comes to china. i think what the
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announcement of this probe, he is really going to try to please his base inside the united states. this is just lining base inside the united states. this isjust lining up base inside the united states. this is just lining up another card. base inside the united states. this isjust lining up another card. we had the announcement, as you said, of tariffs on aluminium foil last month. the announcement of an investigation into intellectual property theft by china against us interests, and now this latest probe announcement. but many people say this is not the way to go about dealing with problems within the two economies. because the united states does seem to be acting unilaterally, they are not lining up other countries to back them in this. they are not going through the wto, as the 0bama administration did, and so many people are signalling that maybe this isn‘t going to achieve the goals that the united states wa nts. the goals that the united states wants. i will see you in a couple of minutes time. of course, it is spring time at the
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moment across australia. in fact, the month of november has been exceptional across parts of victoria and new south wales. temperatures have been well above the seasonal average, with the heat even as far south as tasmania, but things are about to change. a big thundery breakdown across parts of queensland and the brisbane areas, some violent thunderstorms last 2a hours. and here a cold front moving in from the south—west, bringing insignificant thunderstorms to victoria and new south wales. these violent thunderstorms will move eastwards from thursday to friday, could bring some large hail, risk of flash flooding and frequent lightning, and also a significant drop in temperature as well. it looks like the start of summer will be much wetter tha n the start of summer will be much wetter than what we have seen during the course of november, with those temperatures coming down across all areas. now into indonesia and malaysia, the heavy, thundery rain
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continues, enhanced rainfall across parts of java and sumatra. tropical depressions remainjust parts of java and sumatra. tropical depressions remain just offshore from the south of java. it will bring some very large waves here with some disturbance in the seat for these tropical storms, which are bringing fairly strong wins out in open waters. further north, heavy rain across the malay peninsula across the gulf of thailand could lead to some flooding and landslides and significant travel disruption. this heavy rain is tied into torrential downpours across the bay of bengal and in the southern india as well. explosive cloud element of the south of india. flooding could cause some problems in major cities. as we head into the weekend, there isa as we head into the weekend, there is a chance we could see a tropical cyclone developing in the bay of bengal, which could impact the south—east of india early next week. into europe, a severe weather event developing. cold air moving south, steering the jet stream in towards
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the mediterranean, which is firing in the areas of low pressure. this area of low pressure is expected to be slow—moving and intense as it pushes toward italy and greece and the balkans. in the next couple of days, significant rainfall across western greece, montenegro and albania, which could lead to severe flooding. back home, we are continuing with the arctic air, which will bring some very cold weather during thursday and friday. in fact, thursday is looking like possibly being the coldest air of the week, with temperatures just about getting above freezing in many places. there will be plenty of sunshine around, eastern areas will hold onto the strong winds and the wintry showers. a full uk weather forecast in about half an hour. donald trump is causing controversy again. he has re—tweeted severalfar right videos which feature unverified claims about muslims. the uk is offering up to 50 billion
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euros ina the uk is offering up to 50 billion euros in a divorce bill. this will set of its financial commitments when it leaves the european union. shocking event earlier during a war crimes trial in the hague. after losing his appeal this former bosnian croat commander drank poison and later died. the un security council is discussing north korea‘s latest missile test. updated we will keep you updated. let‘s talk about this former bosnian croat commander who has died after drinking poison at a un criminal tribunal in the hague. his final appeal against the prison sentence had just been dismissed and this is what happens. translation: slobodan praljak is not
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translation: we suspend common pleas, the curtains. the court has now been declared a crime scene by we have £1an i" this was not the end in the court had envisaged. this un tribunal was set up before the end of the war and has surpassed expectations by dealing with every one of the 161
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suspects. but the fact one of them was able to smuggle in a deadly poison take it in front of live cameras will leave an indelible mark on this court‘s legacy. it has faced allegations of bias from politicians on all sides. many of the victims believe this institution has given them some form ofjustice. now the question is, how could an institution with such tight security and impressive record and allow such and impressive record and allow such a fatal lapse. the court has now been declared a crime scene by dutch police. anna holligan picks up on what happened next. i‘m not surprised at all. he was not
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only a senior croatian officer, but in civilian life he‘d been a theatre director. i met him first in the croatian war. afterwards i wondered whether one of his battles has been a bit stage managed. but then he was in charge of the bosnian croats on the day the wonderful bridge was blown up on the 9th of november 19 93. about five years ago i got a call from one of his lawyers asking me to help him with an alibi because he said on that day i‘d been meeting in central bosnia. i checked my notes and he was one day out so that was the end of the alibi. i‘m not altogether surprised because he was a lwa ys altogether surprised because he was always a man with a sense of drama. i‘m sure this was premeditated, clearly. well the ruling was in the hague. of course this has been a huge story in croatia and across the wider balkans. our correspondent guy de launey is in the serbian capital, belgrade.
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the events were extraordinary. the reaction was also remarkable. croatia‘s prime minister extended his condolences to the family of slobodan praljak. he also said that his act which we all unfortunately witnessed today talks about the deep moral injustice towards six croats from bosnia and the croatian people. this was showing really how uncomfortable croatia is with a judgment which in both the first insta nce judgment which in both the first instance and in the appeal more or less found against the state of croatia. there was a joint criminal enterprise in which these six men who were convicted were conspirators. but the first independent president of croatia was also named in thisjoint independent president of croatia was also named in this joint criminal enterprise. there was an accusation that these people had driven people out of this area of bosnia to create
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an ethnic croat area. and carve it out and create a so—called greater croatia. this demonstrates that the individual states which emerged out of yugoslavia may find it difficult to a cce pt of yugoslavia may find it difficult to accept verdicts which paint themselves in an unflattering light. we have seen it many times over when ethnic serbs have been affected. we‘re now seeing it with ethnic as well. this time yesterday we were talking about a north korean missile test which had just happened. the un security council has discussed this. president trump has already told us that he spoke to the chinese president but china‘s position hasn‘t moved.
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it‘s still "concerned". but it‘s main idea remains the same — north korea stops its test in exchange for the us stops military drills like this in the region. america‘s not going to go for that. of the missile test itself, north korea says it was a new model. we can‘t confirm that but we do know the heights that missiles previous tests have reached. as you can see, this latest one was the highest yet. that‘s significant. this is a clip of the analsyst alison evans explaining why. that points to the fact north korea may have created a missile which has a further range which could target all of mainland united states, but it still hasn‘t launched one of these missiles on a flatter trajectory which would go over japan. it‘s also important to note
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that this wasn‘t the most provocative test north korea could have done, which would have been launching one of these missiles on a flatter trajectory, or carrying out an atmospheric nuclear test. this missile, in this test, could have travelled more than 13,000 kilometres. if that‘s true that brings any part of the continental us into range. and if that‘s the case, south korea may get caught in the middle. its president seems to act knowledge just as much. the middle. its president seems to act knowledgejust as much. here is the president of south korea making a statement, saying: this is an american arms control a nalyst this is an american arms control analyst reacting to that, saying: bbc‘s state department correspondent
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barbara plett usher... we know they are talking, do we know anything that is happening in those talks? they are just beginning. there will be briefings to talk about the situation both in terms of missile test and where sanctions enforcement is up. in terms of the missile tests members will be wanting to know just missile tests members will be wanting to knowjust what it says about whether this is a major advance in technology or not, which is what the north koreans have been saying, as well as experts. we expect statements from council members. i think you will see some of them call not only to fully implement strictly existing sanctions, but also to have additions to the sanctions already in place. the french minister said he would be looking for tougher measures. having said that, they have three rounds of sanctions in the past year that are already tough. we will see whether they are
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able to strengthen those even further. thanks very much. don‘t forget you can get much more detail on our website. you can get lots of background material. as you can see, we have news about donald trump and those far right tweets, and the war criminal who drank poison in the hague earlier. for all our top stories — just go to bbc.com/news. france is hosting emergency talks on the trading of slaves in libya. they‘re taking place at a summit in ivory coast — and african and european countries are present. it was actually meant to focus on growth and stability. but libya has dominated
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because of one cnn report which allegedly showed a slave auction of sub—saharan africans in libya. donald tusk is one of the most seniorfigures in the eu — and he‘s attending. we cannot accept this. we also cannot accept that narrative that it‘s africa and europe against each other. the worst we can do is to start the blame game. what we need now are common solutions and stronger cooperation to save lives, protect people, and allow them to live in dignity. the white lines on this graphic show popular migrant routes towards libya, and sometimes onward to europe. some manage to go north into
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italy. but some get stuck in libya. the nigerian president has said he is going to repatriate all nigerians in that situation. he said today "some nigerians were being sold like goats forfew dollars in libya." but he didn‘t give details on how he would actually get these people home. and the serious crimes don‘t stop with slavery. this is one woman in libya talking to an italian ngo. translation: i stayed there for about three months. there was a rotor. each woman had a different day on which she would be raped. they came and chose one of us, took us they came and chose one of us, took us away and did with us what they wanted. that‘s how it was in the camp. the un says more than 9a,000 migrants have crossed the mediterranean to italy so far this year. more than 2,300 have died trying. there are many different reasons that people risk their lives
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making these crossings. one is the economics, the belief that europe offers them better hope than in their home country. tamasin ford has been finding out more. africa has one of the youngest populations in the world. unemployment is a major problem. translation: every year we have more than 5000 students who graduate from university. less than 5% find a job. because of all of these difficulties we know more and more young people who aspire to go abroad to foreign
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countries in europe, to follow their dream. more than two thirds of young people in africa work in the informal economy. there isn‘t insurance, there isn‘t a safety net, and incomes hover around $2 per day. natalie left school age seven. which isn‘t selling vegetables she makes clothes. translation: i would like to open a bigger sewing workshop and open other workshops, but i don‘t have money to do that. if i had someone who could invest in me that would be great, but asking the world —— we are asking the world to help young people here. it's a similar situation across the continent, people forced out of the formal economy with few opportunities. the future of young people, that‘s what presidents, prime ministers, banks, policymakers are here at the summit to talk about. jobs, education, and
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the crucial question, how to keep people from making that deadly trip to europe. it's very understandable that young people look to go to places where they have opportunities to develop. i think our challenge, and our task, is really to create such an environment here. i think it‘s very human that any human would stay in the place where he or she was born if there are opportunities on the ground. hundreds of thousands of young africans make the treacherous trip to europe every year. if their situations at home don‘t change the migrant crisis is only going to get worse. many african and european leaders, including angela merkel and emmanuel macron, are there the summit. but the british prime minister is not — the foreign secretary is there instead.
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here he is being questioned by tamasin about that. here we are. where is the british prime minister along with 83 other heads of state? the uk isn‘t here. asi heads of state? the uk isn‘t here. as i say, in all fairness you would have to note that this is the first timea have to note that this is the first time a british foreign secretary has come to the ivory coast in the history of our country... it's a releva nt history of our country... it's a relevant because nothing has ever happened here before. even the bbc would have to concede that it‘s a fantastic thing that we are spending more than ever before in africa... well the reason theresa may isn‘t in ivory coast is because — she‘s on a three day tour of the middle east. she just touched down in riyadh — in saudi arabia. she‘s said she will use the visit there to express concerns about the humanitarian crisis in yemen. alex forsyth reports. with all the ceremony befitting a
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friend, theresa may touched down in riyadh, meeting not just friend, theresa may touched down in riyadh, meeting notjust the crowned prince but the country‘s king. it‘s the british brand minister‘s second visit to saudi arabia this year. but the warm relations here have led to questions for her government in the uk. -- questions for her government in the uk. —— british prime minister. her de facto deputy faced political questions in her place as she was on her tour. the uk government has received £a.6 billion
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in selling arms to saudi arabia since the war in yemen began. a war which has created a devastating humanitarian crisis. yemen is now on the brink of famine. unicef has said that 150,000 children will die by the end of this year, doesn‘t the first secretary agree that the best thing the prime minister can do with her meetings today is follow the example of the netherlands and suspend licences for arms sales to saudi arabia? and stop killing children! i should correct something the right honourable gentleman said, that the government received money. it'll be the companies that received the money. therefore their workers. he can take that position if he wants. i know the labour party's position, as well, but that would certainly entail significant job losses. now, what's very important is not only that we have the robust regime i talked about, but that absolutely we continue the humanitarian efforts that we make to try to alleviate the terrible conditions in yemen. this is the backdrop, a country in the grip of war, its civilians devastated by starvation and disease. the situation made worse when the saudi led coalition blocked ports in rebel held areas, limiting the supply of much—needed aid. earlier today the prime minister
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promised to raise the issue in riyadh in the strongest possible terms. are you personally comfortable with the actions saudi has taken in regards to yemen? i‘m very concerned about the humanitarian crisis that has developed in yemen. particularly most recently. that‘s why the strong message i shall be giving to saudi arabia tonight is that we want to see the port opened for humanitarian and commercial access. that‘s important. the international community is concerned about the humanitarian crisis in yemen. that access for commercial and humanitarian goods is important through this port. the pledge was made while she was in iraq this morning, one leg of her whistle—stop tour in the region. here she met british troops to help train iraqi forces in the fight against so—called islamic state. she is the first major world leader to visit the country since the group lost control of its iraqi stronghold, mosul. the prime minister‘s visited this region is about showing the uk has a say in the world, even after leaving the eu, and countering critics who say it stronghold
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has somehow diminished. as the british prime minister forges what she calls the uk‘s bold future in the world the question is how she chooses to use the influence she is so keen to display. let‘s get you updated on egypt. egypt‘s president has given the military three months to restore security and stability in sinai. the region in egypt‘s north east has been the scene of numerous attacks by militants in the past two years move the latest was on friday when gunmen targeted a mosque in the town of bir al—abed, killing more than 300 people. abdul fattah al—sisi authorised troops to use brute force — but as sally nabil explains his language has many worried. what does he mean by that? does he
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mean deploying more troops, taking extra measures. however, he said they are going to use brute force. this is the second time he used this phrase. the first time was directly after the mosque attack in modern sinai which killed hundreds of people. and he said we are going to respond with brute force. he was severely criticised for that by some a nalysts severely criticised for that by some a na lysts o n severely criticised for that by some analysts on social media, because brute force means that you are going to hit indiscriminately. you are not targeting specific places or specific people. you are going to use force randomly. there are so many militant groups operating in sinai over the past couple of years. because the army have been criticised for using force random at some occasions, some people who lost
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relatives or houses, or schools, because of the air strikes carried by the army every now and then, they do provide support for the militants. they do believe in what the mid——— not because they believe in what the militants are doing, but because they have some sort of grudge against the military. we have details from a new study out about malaria. the disease killed aa5,000 people last year. that‘s only small change from the year before. as you can see, the majority of all malaria cases and deaths happen in the developing world. if you look at the trend since 2010 you can see why the who is concerned. the red line shows africa — the blue is worldwide. the trend is downwards, but the rate is slowing. the reason for that is largely money.
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the who says insufficient funding means there are "major gaps in coverage of insecticide—treated nets, medicines, and other life—saving tools". but that‘s not the only thing slowing down progress. markjacobs from the who explains. it's it‘s also how we go about tackling it. one of the fundamental challenges we have is that services for malaria, whether that is prevention services, diagnosis services, treatment services, are not reaching everybody who needs them. partly that is a funding issue. it‘s also about how health systems operate, about how programmes operate, but until we come to grips with the fact that there are still big gaps in coverage, we will not hit those ambitious targets for malaria. the international airport in bali
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has been reopened. it was closed because of all of this volcanic ash. while it was closed thousands of tourists were stark. the threat is over. the volcanic ash is still blowing away from the airport, but, of course, that can change. an eruption could happen at any moment. these are the images coming in at the moment. that‘s why authorities are trying to convince people living nearby to leave their homes. here is the latest... it's the latest... it‘s another day of waiting on the island of bali, waiting to see what the volcano will do next. you can probably hear that there is a tropical storm, which is making conditions difficult. at this evacuation camp some people have been living here for the last two months since the first tremors were felt. some have just months since the first tremors were felt. some havejust first months since the first tremors were felt. some have just first arrived in the last few hours, having resisted evacuation until now, until they saw layers of volcanic ash
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build on their homes. up to one centimetre thick in some instances. this has made people very worried about what will happen their homes, and livestock. what could come next is red—hot lava. there are also thousands of tourists stuck here not knowing what will happen next. hundreds of flights have been cancelled. the situation is uncertain. some people have tried to make the most of it, adding a few more days to their holiday. for now what most people can do is wait and see what nature will bring us. i will see you tomorrow, goodbye. for the past few days we‘ve seen temperatures dropping day on day and night on night, but it‘s not going to be that way for much longer. we are seeing high pressure out of the west, low pressure to the east, and the cold air coming down on a
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northerly wind. that cold air is getting colder and colder right now. we have a widespread frost on thursday. for most places a dry and sunny day. showers in northern ireland, western parts of west, south west england. wintry showers driven by a cold wind over the eastern parts of england and eastern scotland. those temperatures in the afternoon, three to 5 degrees typically, so it will be a cold day. we are drawing down the cold air. we have the clever skies. we will have more frost around on friday. temperatures in the areas could be down to minus six. more wintry showers for eastern parts of england, even a few in the south—east before they fade away. still got lots of sunshine across england and wales. coming into northern ireland and scotland, the wind direction is changing, more cloud is arriving and perhaps some rain. eventually that will lift temperatures. friday is still another cold day. into the weekend,
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we still have this high—pressure out of the west, but it‘s receding a little and we are allowing air to come in from the atlantic, around the top of that high—pressure, and push its way down. the cold air is limited to the south—east on saturday. then it gets pushed into the near continent as mild atalanta winds slowly arrive. —— atlantic winds slowly arrive. —— atlantic winds slowly arrive. temperatures could possibly read 8 degrees. most places will be dry but rather cloudy. on sunday, clouded skies for most places. this rain will be pushing into england and wales. but it won‘t be as cold overnight and by day we could get temperatures of ten or 11 degrees. this high—pressure is still feeding in this atlantic air. most of the rain is sitting probably to the north of scotland. more
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westerly breezes across the northern half of the uk, light winds further south, it could get chilly overnight depending on the way the clouds break. pretty mild, temperatures nine or 10 degrees. into next week, look at the jet stream, it starts to back or more. that‘s going to be important. north of the jet stream we have the cold air, to the south of it the milder air, and you can see how the shape is beginning to change. early on in the week, high—pressure still towards the south and south—west, that allows us to draw in that atlantic air, feeding the cloudy skies, and bringing with it a reasonable temperatures for the time of year. however, as we move into the latter pa rt however, as we move into the latter part of next week, it looks like the high—pressure will get pushed away to the west as the jet stream buckles and we get this northerly flow returning. it will turn colder. for a while next week fairly cloudy, quite mild conditions across the uk,
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and not much rain. as the conditions change, it gets progressively colder next week, then there will be more frost, more sunshine, but there could also be some wintry showers. goodbye. tonight at ten... britain offers more money to unblock the brexit negotiations — reportedly as much as 50 billion euros. the final figure has yet to be formally confirmed, but ministers now suggest they want to give a fair offer. we‘ve been waiting for this for a long time, 18 months or so. now‘s the moment to get the whole ship off the rocks and move it forwards. we‘ll have the latest on the brexit process and the other obstacles still remaining before talks can move on to talk about trade. also tonight... donald trump shares anti—muslim material on social media. downing street says he was wrong to do so — the white house disagrees. the threat is real, and that is what the president is talking about. that‘s what the president is focused on, is dealing
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with those real threats. and those are real no matter how you look at it.
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