tv Outside Source BBC News January 15, 2018 9:00pm-10:01pm GMT
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hello, welcome to outside source. we are going to report from a hello, welcome to outside source. we are going to report from 3 wells biggest refugee are going to report from a well‘s biggest refugee camp in bangladesh, home to more than 570 rohingya muslims, and there is a deadly threat of disease. donald trump has been denying he is a racist after the row broke out over his reported use of offensive language to describe african nations. the venezuelan authorities have tracked down a helicopter pilot who threw grenades at the supreme court last year. we'll have the details of an ensuing siew shalit. and a tribute to dolores o'riordan of the cranberries who has died suddenly at the age of 46. —— and insulin shoot out. welcome to outside source. all of the most important information on
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all the stories for you. we are going to begin by talking about the well‘s biggest refugee camp. it is in bangladesh and it is home to more than 570 rohingya muslims. until last year the people who lived here, most of them called myanmar holm but after violence against them began in august, many crossed the border into bangladesh. and there are any number of urgent issues in the camp. diphtheria is one of them. that is why you will see lots of people wearing masks like this. it is an infectious disease spread by coughing or sneezing. we know already 30 children have lost their lives, and there are around 4000 cases of it in total. there is an urgent need for all rushing her children to be vaccinated and we know this to be near half a million.
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this boy is category red, he has a serious diphtheria infection. it is the doctor was myjob to try to stop the doctor was myjob to try to stop the outbreak spreading. he runs a tea m the outbreak spreading. he runs a team of outreach workers. one diphtheria case comes in, the work begins. they trekked through this giant refugee camp, now the biggest in the world, trying to find people who might have been exposed to the disease. the average workers can see up to ten cases every day. which can meana up to ten cases every day. which can mean a lot of walking! so, the challenge for this team is the harm done infection and stamp it out. —— to hunt down. the hunt begins. at yasin‘s home. close contact can be dangerous, even if you have had the vaccination. some members of the
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medical team have been infected. they explain how dangerous diphtheria can be, and give everyone in the family antibiotics. that. the disease developing. anyone who has beenin disease developing. anyone who has been in close contact with a patient for more than an hour needs to be treated. how dangerous is it for us sitting outside here? it is not much dangerous for us because we are vaccinated. but it is dangerous for the rohingya who were not previously vaccinated. are you getting this under control? we hope we can get it under control? we hope we can get it under control? we hope we can get it under control with vaccination and medicines. the signs are that this disease, long forgotten in countries where vaccination is commonplace, is now being brought under control. but the hunt continues. more than
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800,000 people are packed together in these vast refugee camps, so the tea m in these vast refugee camps, so the team cannot take any chances. another element of this crisis concerns the children who are being born in these refugee camps. unicef has estimated around 25,000 children will be born this year, the issue is their status. myanmar will not recognise them as citizens as they we re recognise them as citizens as they were not born there. in bangladesh there are not being properly registered. that means the may not be able to access basic government services. as well as that, there is theissue services. as well as that, there is the issue of families actually going home to myanmar. wear it —— we know there have been talks between bangladesh and myanmar and there is a platter repatriated 100,000 people later this month. but the un says it will only support that plan if it can monitor it and the conditions of that happening have not been agreed.
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then there is the issue of whether people want to go back at all. here is one un official on that. they are worried about returns to myanmar. the refugees tell us they will consider a return, if they get legal documents, if they become citizens of myanmar. if where they go to return is safe and secure and if where they go to return, they can get their rights and access. at unhcr, our position has always been that it has to be done voluntarily. safety, security and with dignity. for more background on this, you can find it online from bbc news. not for the first time, donald trump has had to fend off this accusation. iam nota has had to fend off this accusation. i am not a racist. so, there is the president saying he did not make those comments. that follows three days of upset over what he allegedly said about immigrants from haiti and africa. mr
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trump denies using the offensive phrase during a meeting with senators in the oval office on thursday, but people who were there disagree. this is the democratic set of the —— senator dick durbin.” cannot believe that in the history of the white house and the oval office, any president who has ever spoken the words that i personally heard our president speak yesterday. basta, donald trump has tweeted a response to those comments. acquah being a programme that allowed who came into america illegally with the parents to remain in the us. —— illegally with the parents to remain in the us. -- daca illegally with the parents to remain in the us. —— daca being. last week, a judge blocked president trump's scrapping of that scheme. the president's alleged offence of
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commons were made after lawmakers from both parties visited him on that thursday. there were supposed to be working on a bipartisan immigration deal. some republican senators say they did not hear the phrase. astonishingly, people heard that meeting is likely splitting down party lines. either way, that meeting is likely splitting down party lines. eitherway, has been considerable dramatic followed. —— diplomatic fallout. south africa and botswana has summoned diplomas to protest that what was said. the haitian ambassador has had this to say. well, donald trump has not got a habit of saying sorry. there is no sign he is going to do that on this one. there have been quite a few reports
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this weekend that actually the president felt those comments had been a success for him politically, that they had gone down well with his base. there have been reports he was calling some conservative leaders on thursday evening and friday to say, how did that go down? isaid friday to say, how did that go down? i said the kind of things that people are feeling, but do not like to say. i think the president does feel he was elected to tell it like it is, as he has always put it, and reflect the kind of things that people feel they cannot say perhaps out of political correctness, and that he is some kind of a truth teller. but there has also been a huge to kick back in this country and around the world, because of those comments that were made in that meeting. particularly because todayis that meeting. particularly because today is martin luther king day in the us, the day that americans celebrate the birth of martin luther king, and a day they think about the civil rights movement and about race more generally, and those comments raised the issue of racism and whether the president is a racist
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himself. he denies it, but the fact that question is asked is fairly astonishing anyway. what is also remarkable is how solid the republican senators and comres men and women are behind the president. i remember us talking us —— talking about this into 26 team when paul ryan said mrtom about this into 26 team when paul ryan said mr tom used a racist comment. they are not unaware of the accusations but they stand by their man. this case, paul ryan said the comments were unfortunate. but it was actually a republican senator in that meeting, lindsay graham from south carolina, who came out of that meeting and confirmed those comments toa meeting and confirmed those comments to a fellow republican, tim scott, himself an african—american. so in a way, the story was blown open in buy to make republicans who spoke to the press about it. and it was lindsay graham, the republican, who in the meeting itself reprimanded the president and said that was not consistent with american ideals. we
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have started in bangladesh, then to washington, next to venezuela. you might remember this man from last year, oscar perez, the rogue helicopter pilot. he dropped grenades on the venezuelan supreme court. this all happened at the height of the street protests against president megdoud row. while oscar perez had plenty to say about the president, he became very one of the president, he became very one of the latter fact and he kept up the president, he became very one of the latterfact and he kept up his attacks on the government. —— president maduro. in the last 20 or hours, number of videos have been posted, including this one, where we see perez with a bloody face telling viewers he has been surrounded by the authorities. since those videos we re the authorities. since those videos were published, we are told two police officers have been killed in a gun battle that has taken place to the west of the capital, caracas. mr perez's fate is not known. here is katy watson. this is the latest she
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has heard. early on monday morning, about a dozen videos appeared on oscar perez's instagram account, some of them showed his bloodied face, he had obviously been injured, and he said that he had come under attack. you could see a small house he was m, you could see a small house he was in, he was wearing body armour, you could hear shots in the background. he was saying he was willing to give himself up, but he claimed the varieties were saying they were wanting to kill him rather than him hanged himself in. there was also a video that was allegedly his mother, who was also calling for the authorities to let him give himself up. but after mid—morning there were no more videos. and what is this perez's game? what does he want apart from president maduro to go? as you mentioned, last year he became very famous by taking a
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helicopter and throwing grenades on government buildings. he says that it isa government buildings. he says that it is a crusade against a tyrannical government. the government says he isa government. the government says he is a terrorist. they talk about this as being a terrorist cell. they have used the word terrorist in talking about the protests you saw last year, people on the opposition they have labelled as terrorists, but he has always said he's doing it to fight a tyrant called government. last summer, there was a huge amount of attention on these street protests. there are not happening to the same degree now, does that mean the same degree now, does that mean the unrest has dissipated? the u nrest the unrest has dissipated? the unrest has dissipated, but the problems are still very much there. the country is full each —— facing hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages. the feeling is, what more can the opposition do? they have tried to go to elections, they feel there have been fraudulent elections
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and the government is winning those elections. the local municipal elections. the local municipal elections but like the two sides are very far apart despite discussions going on with the dominican republic, there has been no agreements, so the situation, the problems still carry on in venezuela. inafew venezuela. in a few minutes we will look at the progress that has been made on north korea's participation in next month's winter olympics. it looks like it will involve a large orchestra, and possibly north korea's top girl band as well. the lead singer of the cranberries, dolores o'riordan, has died at the age of 46. the family have said they are devastated at asked for privacy at this time. the cranberries, one of the biggest bands of the 1990s. and pa rt the biggest bands of the 1990s. and part of that success, huge degree of that success, was down to dolores
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o'riordan's celtic, lilting vocals, along with that indie guitar style. so many songs that sold tens of millions of albums across the world. millions of fans. they took a break until 2009, she recorded some solo material. they can back together again and had been touring and recording again and stop very sad news for fans of her and the cranberries and very sad news for the music industry, a real loss. she was a very talented singer—songwriter who made a huge impact in the 1990s and beyond. we are live in the bbc newsroom. bangladesh is now home to more than 570 rohingya muslims and there is a threat of disease. this another world's biggest refugee camp. some other news from elsewhere. the
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philippines‘ most active volcano has begun erupting and sending out streams of love. thousands of people have been evacuated after warnings of hazardous and explosive activity to come. the interplay who mistakenly sent a missile alert in hawaii on saturday —— employee, has been temporarily resigned to other duties. people in hawaii received text messages warning of imminent attack. and the french football association has suspended this referee who ain‘t a kick at a player. —— aimed. the player fell to the fore. the referee booked carlos and sent off. there is no stopping north korea‘s olympic enthusiasm at the moment. it will send this 140 piece orchestra
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to the winter olympics in south korea next month. we were told that at the first of three sets of talks between the two countries, all to discuss the north korean delegation to the winter olympics. as we expected, they met here, the so—called truce village, which sits on the dimona tries zone between the countries. the talks very much focused on the artistic side of things. it is thought as well as the orchestra, north korea‘s top girl group will be going. this is the kind of thing you can look forward to if they do make the trip to the olympics. there are ten members. rumours say they are hand—picked by kimjong un rumours say they are hand—picked by kim jong un himself although we cannot confirm that. it is not about love or lust or heartache, they sing songs about loyalty to the state. one of the big tunes is, comfortable we call him father, which is an ode
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to the north korean leader. —— one of the big tunes is, we call him father. . and will be a lot of attention on these two athletes because they are the only two north korean athletes who qualified, two skaters. there are plans to send a north korean cheerleading troupe. more intriguing perhaps rumours that could be a united women‘s ice hockey team, and that athletes from north and south will march together in the opening ceremony. it is not confront but if it were to happen it would be symbolic and also potentially significant of the country‘s longer term relationship. but before we get carried away, let me play you this could of sophie long with more details. only yesterday, north korea was reporting that they were criticising the south korean president, for crediting donald trump with helping
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to open up this renewed inter—korean dialogue. and it said in a thinly veiled threat that the coach and the train that would carry the delegation to south korea is still in pyongyang at the moment. so an indication of the diplomatic tightrope that the south korean president and the south korean government are walking. they want to engage north korea in genuine dialogue and they say the aim of that dialogue eventually is the same as that of the united states and the international community, to demilitarise the korean peninsula. but that subject, very far from these talks of the moment. one of the biggest stories in the uk todayis one of the biggest stories in the uk today is the huge construction company carillion, which has been placed into liquidation. this move will threaten more than 40,000 jobs, most of them in the uk, but also canada and the middle east. the company had revenues of $7 billion last year as but they still have
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problems. they issued three profit warnings in the last six months. our business editor simonjack warnings in the last six months. our business editor simon jack has warnings in the last six months. our business editor simonjack has this report. this bypass near aberdeen is scotland‘s biggest construction project with a price tag of £750 million. here is another, around lincoln, the cost £100 million. just two contracts carillion has been awarded throughout the uk, but it does a lot more than buildings. through contracts to manage schools, prisons and hospitals, it touched the lives of millions. today the government said it would not support the company with public money. this is, however, the failure of a private sector company and it is the company‘s shareholders and its lenders who will bear the brunt of the losses. taxpayers should not and will not bail out a private sector company for private sector losses. at their hq in wolverhampton, nervous faces and tight lips. any comment to make? it was a disaster, there are thousands of subcontractors who will not get paid.
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carillion's fuel cards are not working this morning, so staff are not being able to fill up theirvans. the thing is collapsing around us. the government seem to have this laissez faire attitude and they have to take steps to assure people of their futures. carillion is more than the uk‘s second biggest construction firm. it delivers 32,000 school meals a day. it maintains nhs buildings containing 11,500 hospital beds. it provides services to 50 prisons. it has recently been awarded a contract to help build hs2. it was that fact that prompted angry exchanges today in the commons. so, where did it go wrong? big contracts like this one went sour, profits optimistically banked, had to be written off, blowing a hole in its finances, and with banks are unwilling to lend any more money without government support, its fate was sealed.
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carillion was a company that until recently paid big salaries to its bosses and big dividends to its shareholders, despite owing its bank and its own pension scheme £1.5 billion. the wisdom of awarding public service contracts to a private company will continue, but today the urgent concern is for those thousands of small businesses who rely on the big boys like carillion for their payments, so they can pay their own bills. carillion workers are being urged to continue to go to work while contracts are re—awarded. but with tentacles in so many areas of the economy, unravelling this bankruptcy could take many months. airbus has had a good stop the production of the superjumbo unless it gets more orders. more orders in particular from the airline emirates. this is one of the biggest, this is the world‘s biggest thing, it‘s so big it requires special facilities at airports.
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emirates is based in dubai, it bought 142 of these planes. but it has cut back on those orders in recent yea rs. has cut back on those orders in recent years. this is one aviation expert looking at what can happen next. it seems like the visit to china by the french trade mission did not have any success last week. so it is emirates or no—one. it is probably 20 years too late in terms of the size. the dreamliner is flying long range. the high—density double—decker a380 is sadly looking like a thing of the past. it was a major strategic decision taken 20 or so years ago, and going made a great call by this deciding not to go big and beautiful, and airbus went big and beautiful, and it has gone disastrously wrong for them. next to the detroit motor show.
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i was hearing that sales in the us are down for the first time in a number of years. what is the mood like there? well, it is a mixed mood. the sense i‘m getting is that they are hedging themselves on what kind of vehicles they are going to make. there is a big focus on pick—up trucks, partly because of the demand here in this country. it is also very profitable. car companies making money on that kind of thing more than any other. and the reason why they want to make that money is to invest in vehicles like this one behind me. this is a small electric vehicle. for many of the commenters here, it is one of the commenters here, it is one of the vehicles of the future. yesterday ford have said they want to almost double their investment in electric cars. but the challenge for making these kind of vehicles is about making profits on them. so far, they lose money every time they make and sell an electric vehicle.
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gm says that there will be able to make money on electric vehicles by 2021. other car—makers have so far not put a date to it but they definitely think they need to be in that space for the future. do they wa nt that space for the future. do they want more help in selling those cores, do they want subsidies or something like that to make electric more affordable? well, yes, parsley, one of the car analysts i spoke to said that it is regulation from different countries that is pushing car—makers towards electric cars. it is not so much the customers saying that they won‘t electric cars. you have had regulations in countries like china, which is actually right now the biggest electric market in the world. then in europe, then maybe the us. thank you very much. that‘s it for the first half of
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outside source. at the beginning of the second half, we will turn to the americans and the big plans they have for a new force along the border between turkey and syria. it is that time of evening when we ta ke it is that time of evening when we take a look at some interesting weather currently happening around the world. in north america, some cold air, from the arctic through central parts of canada towards the eastern states. this is going to be bringing some further snowfall, quite heavy around the great lakes. temperatures below average. but the cold lunch will not be as long—lived as the call we had just over a week ago. into the caribbean, a lingering weather front bringing heavy downpours across coastal parts of
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honduras and nicaragua. meanwhile, severe tropical storm irma brigitta is quite a well—defined eye, showing the wind speed picking up. it is likely to become a tropicals. likely to pass close to mauritius and reunion. bringing with it damaging rains and flooding. elsewhere across africa, heavily downpours in mozambique, malawi and southern parts of the drc. to the south of that, dry weather. meanwhile for europe, a cold north westerly flow ofair bringing europe, a cold north westerly flow of air bringing a wintry feel to the weather. some heavy rain and heavy. across the alps up towards norway, likely to increase the risk of avalanches across norway and across the alpine region. quieterfurther south, portugal and spain. across
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australia, was an ex—tropicals i own that has now dissipated. still heavy showers. also across northern parts of western australia. drier towards the south east but pretty hot, temperatures in adelaide around 36 degrees by wednesday. in the uk, a windy and wintry outlook. low pressure moving in with a north westerly flow of air. for tuesday, lots of wintry showers. scotland, northern ireland and northern england, the showers falling as snow. further south, sleet and snow confined to the highest hills. at low levels, rain showers, hailand it will feel cold and windy. in fact the winds and the ice and is in oak—wood caused disruption in the middle part of the week. overnight into wednesday, another cold night with subzero temperatures for many. clear skies and plenty more wintry showers. that makes of rain, sleet and snow showers on wednesday. some
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sunshine in between. but we could see things toni colette story on wednesday night into thursday. we could see disruption due to the strength of the winds. more details on the weather for the week ahead and about half an hour. these are some of the main stories. several people have been killed in an operation to capture a helicopter pilot accused of leading an armed rebellion in venezuela last year. donald trump is denying he is a racist after that row broke out over reported use of offensive language to describe african nations. this was the terrifying moment a floor in a main stock exchange in indonesia collapsed. over 70 people were injured. as usual, as you are watching outside source, if you have questions you want me to pick up on send them my way using the hashtag. the men you can see here are
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fighters from an organisation called the kurdish people‘s protection unit. they‘re militia. they‘re already backed by america in the fight against the islamic state group in syria. but now the americans are proposing to expand their role as part of a larger force which will operate along the border with syria and turkey. the catch is turkey sees these kurdish units as terrorist organisations. this is president erdogan earlier. translation: this is what we need to say to our allies, don‘t get in between us and terrorist organisations or we will not be responsible for the unwanted consequences. either you take off your flags of those terrorist organisations, or we will have to hand those flags over to you. the americans also support fighters from the syrian democratic forces. this matter could come to a head with
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turkey in a place in the north of syria. president erdogan has repeatedly said he is ready to launch attacks on it. here is more about this border force which the americans are proposing. the idea behind is that the united states is trying to draw a line between turkey and some areas in syria and trying to emphasise the existence of sdf, the kurdish forces that the united states is supporting, and this is for the first time going against russia, turkey and iran, all at the same time. of course the syrian regime. this is a rare occasion where turkey and iran and russia are agreeing on something, so they want to think what donald trump is thinking after a few weeks ofjust announcing by the pentagon that the fund something reviewed, so it‘s confusing for all of them. the americans know full well hen they
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make these proposals it‘s going to upset president erogan. what‘s so important about these fight sners the importance for united states is emphasising an area that goes to the kurds instead, turkey would prefer them going to al instead of sunnis or sdf and kurdish forces to create a different map for syria and today russia said this is the first step in the verge of criticising what trump is deciding. russia said this is the first step on dividing syria and actually there are so many critics that went against russia saying you were trying to divide syria too but it‘s a different map. everybody wants a different map. everybody wants a different map. everybody is accusing everybody of trying to divide syria. the united states along with some partners and other countries too like turkey, syria, iraq, russia, they aren‘t
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offer ago completely unified fight against the islamic state group, but that fight is working, the coalition led by the americans say they‘ve now taken back 98% of is territory. it‘s been a significant operation since 2014 there have been more than 14,000 strikes in syria and also over 13,000 in 14,000 strikes in syria and also over13,000 in iraq. while 14,000 strikes in syria and also over 13,000 in iraq. while that means attacks by the islamic state are perhaps less likely, it doesn‘t mean they don‘t happen. just today there was a double suicide attack in baghdad that killed at least 35 people: we have been discussing this like six or send months ago when we we re like six or send months ago when we were about to get into the fierce fighting, we said there is always going to be sleeping cells waiting for a going to be sleeping cells waiting fora gap, going to be sleeping cells waiting for a gap, something that‘s a bit wea k for a gap, something that‘s a bit weak especially in baghdad. this is the very first time that the iraqi prime minister is using the word sleeping cells. as well as that the
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idea that there is not going to be any isis ever is too ambitious and so many analysts would think that it was a bit too early to announce that especially that it might not be isis this time, might be the return back of al-qaeda, might be new groups that they came from under the ground, especially the baghdad government we moved all the checkpoints in baghdad and so many people were against that especially with situation waiting for parliament elections next may. and iraqi officials are speaking to bbc arabic, do they suggest today may alter the approach to security in baghdad or is that overstating it? actually if the iraqi prime minister now changed the strategy, put back the checkpoints, it‘s like shooting himself in the foot because he is about to announce the new coalition between himself and. if he does that now it‘s going to be politically
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backfiring on him because it‘s going to draw the situation as if it was too early to announce there is no isis any more in iraq. so the coming back from the previous decision needs to be very, very wise and taken very needs to be very, very wise and ta ken very slowly. needs to be very, very wise and taken very slowly. if you want more background information on the situation in syria and iraq you can get that through the bbc news website. next we are going to talk about a woman who has been nicknamed the black widow of the riviera. she‘s on trial in nice in the south of france. that trial will decide if that nickname is deserved. she‘s already serving time for fraud. now she us a accused of poisoning four elderly men, two of whom died as a result. she denies the charges. the nice prosecutor says she would be full of everyone pathe for these men, gain their confidence and end up men, gain their confidence and end up by men, gain their confidence and end up by working out how to make them disappear. one of her alleged victims was a 91—year—old. he told
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police he believed she was his great love but that his health declined alarmingly after meeting her. as you can imagine, this story has been widely covered in the french press. this is one image we spotted. it shows her in 2011, who are a while she lived on a yacht in canees. huw schofield has much more. it's canees. huw schofield has much more. it‘s quite a story. it goes back a few years, mind you, and she is appearing in court already as a prisoner. she was charged and found guilty in 2013 on a related case, that was the case of an elderly man found ina that was the case of an elderly man found in a very bad state, seminaked, covered in urine at his home, a home he had been sharing with her and she at that point was convicted of abusing him and extorting money from him. it was that case in 2013 that triggered the
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interest of police in other case, including two rather suspicious deaths in the region and they looked into those cases, again two very old men who died and they found there was a link in both those cases with her. she had known them and in the case of one of the men, she was found to have cheques from him after his death worth 20,000 euros or so. so they started putting together this pattern and they came to the conclusion that she was somebody who preyed on elderly men, according to the prosecution in this trial today, she had a modus operandi which never — she would contact elderly widowers and old single men through a dating agency. she would befriend them, get close to them, sometimes have sex with them, sometimes move in with them and then it‘s alleged use a combination of drink and sleeping pills to get them in a woozy very wea k pills to get them in a woozy very weakfragile pills to get them in a woozy very weak fragile state and at that point get them to sign over money, sign
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cheques, in one case even to change their will. this case centres on those two alleged murders. but also on two cases of poisoning and those survivors, alleged survivors, will be appearing in court to testify against her and to explain how they nearly succumbed to her charms and her what they would say is her evil. that trial in nice continues. remember you can get more information on the stories we are covering through the bbc news website. for instance you can find a report by our bbc science correspondent about how it was humans and into the rats who were responsible for the spread of the playing during the black death. that‘s news to me. i need to see that one. —— of the plague. now the oil tanker in the east china sea we have talked about for over a week has sunk after burning since it
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had a collision nine days ago. u nfortu nately, had a collision nine days ago. unfortunately, all the crew, 30 iranians and two bangladeshis, are confirmed to have died. the tanker collided with a cargo ship. we have marked the collision area there. it then drifted towards japan before sinking on sunday. robin brant has more. this was the final intense fire that sent sanch toishgs the bottom of the east china sea. an explosion engulfed the whole ship and cracked its hull. in the final few hours, engulfed the whole ship and cracked its hull. in the finalfew hours, a plume of smoke reached up to a kilometre in the sky. chinese rescue teams had spent more than a week trying to fight the fire. but escaped oil and gas made it very dangerous to even get close. on saturday, they managed to get on board and recover a further two bodies. what‘s left of the tanker is now 100 metres down on the seabed.
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the remaining 29 crew members, who we re the remaining 29 crew members, who were missing, are all presumed dead. almost everyone on board was iranian and the government in tehran has declared a day of national mourning for monday to remember who they described as brave mariners. now the authorities here have to try to avert an environmental tragedy. while we know the size of the oil spill, we don‘t know much more about it. the chinese authorities have not been that forthcoming about exactly what they found in the ocean about 300 miles in that direction. the condensate on board is highly toxic and it could kill all marine animals and it could kill all marine animals and plant life it comes into contact with. sanchi burned for over a week. now an expanding slick is all left on the surface. the thick heavy fuel on the surface. the thick heavy fuel on board could harm wildlife. but it‘s what is left of her cargo,
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highly toxic condensate that could do even more damage. what was left went down with her. it will be hard to locate and even harder to contain. that‘s part of the east china sea is known for rich marine ecosystem. that‘s been emphasised in a document produced by the campaign group greenpeace. it produced this fact sheet on the disaster. if you read it in full it emphasises in this pa rt it in full it emphasises in this part of the text that where this ship has gone down is an important spawning area for many types of fish, including some which are crucial to the fishing industry. on that matter, here is the oceangrapher dr simon boxall. this fishing ground used byjapan, china, south korea, and so they‘re going to have to bring a ban, if they aren‘t already, very quickly, because this stuff is toxic and it will impact on those fisheries. and this is comparing what‘s happened here to other oil disasters. obviously, a tanker disaster near the coastline,
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things like the sea empress, you see an immediate impact on coastlines. but this is the biggest spill we have seen for over 25 years. it is in the top ten largest volume spills. because we don‘t have the ability to deal with this particular type of leak you can treat it almost like a sort of toxic chemical leak as you might rather than necessarily an oil spill. there was an horrific moment at the main stock exchange in ja ka rta moment at the main stock exchange in jakarta earlier. 75 people were injured when a floor collapsed. this is the cctv video that‘s been released. you may find it upsetting. ifi released. you may find it upsetting. if i play it on. you can see a large group of students were on a tour of the stock exchange but also there area number of are a number of people walking below. play on a little bit, you can see where that large group of stu d e nts see where that large group of students was standing begins to collapse. students was standing begins to colla pse. u nfortu nately everyone
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goes down and then the cctv turns to black. next video is the aftermath. you will see the extent of the damage that was caused. the police have already said this was an accident, there is no evidence it was an attack. here are some eyewitnesss talking about what they saw. i heard some noise and building shake and panic. translation: the roof collapsed. the roof of the first floor collapsed on to the ground floor. there might be a few people who were injured like the receptionist and people who hung out in starbucks. but i didn't see any dead. it looks like they were injured and unconscious. it is not advised from my colleagues and office management, don‘t advise me to go back to the building. the governor came to the scene a
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short while ago. he has called for a full audit of the jakarta stock exchange, the two towers that make up exchange, the two towers that make up this building in the heart of the business district. he said that will begin tonight, checking of the building, many people i spoke there to felt frightened about going back into those offices to work, wanting better checks. the governor has said also he will tighten up regulations on buildings around jakarta. indonesia does not have a great safety record when it comes to buildings. there was an horrific fire late last year in a fireworks factory that left more than 50 people dead and when the investigation was completed it was found that there were many safety regulations that factory ignored. so there will be a lot of scrutiny once again on this building because again it‘s really the heart of the
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business district here, a beautiful building, marble, foyers, glass, so extraordinary something like this could happen there. every day we bring you reports from journalists from the bbc, from all over the world, there is rebecca in jakarta, we heard from dc and destroit, we also heard from sao paulo. next we turn to kenya. we are going to talk about pot holes, a major problem, notjust going to talk about pot holes, a major problem, not just for going to talk about pot holes, a major problem, notjust for kenyans, but for people all over the world. there are new plans to try to resolve kenya‘s pothole issues, particularly in nairobi. let‘s look at this report from my colleague on the plan. on the outskirts of nairobi, damaged roads like these are common. the potholes test the resilience of machine and patience of man and some
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people have to go through this daily as it is their way home from work. it's as it is their way home from work. it‘s like somebody has grabbed you by the collar and is constantly shaking the patience out of you. this is not how i would like to get home from work every day. i can tell you that! vehicle owners feel the pain in their wallets. even these taxis find it hard to make a profit. when you go through a pothole there is an impact. it gets the damage, we are repairing. but such roads may not stay that way for long. this is a machine relatively new in the kenyan market. it can repaira relatively new in the kenyan market. it can repair a pothole in about two minutes, that‘s a fraction of the time it usually takes. this technology gets the job done in three steps. the first step is to
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clea n three steps. the first step is to clean the pothole. the equipment is capable of blowing at speeds of up to 100 kilometres an hour. the second step is to apply the bonding layer or the bonding coat, it‘s a primer, it allows for whatever material to put on top of the repair surface to stick. then the third and final step is to then fill the pothole with the material which is the dry aggregate and a mixture of emulsion. we actually war apt all our repairs forup emulsion. we actually war apt all our repairs for up to one year, that‘s the confidence that we have in the longevity of the repair. the nairobi government aims to buy these machines to fast track road repairs in the city but the public has often felt even with available resources maintenance work has not been satisfactory. experts are advising city managers to find the right balance. by bringing in a machine and you have not solved the organisational problems, the machine
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will not work on its own. what the city system requires to do is to augment an effective technology from augment an effective technology from a hard war perspective, they must also provide an effective organisational system. these motorists would no doubt appreciate if the potholes disappeared faster but keeping the roads consistently in good condition would be the ultimate win. let‘s turn to the issue of immigration in the us. illegal immigrants have been warned to expect more raids and deportations from their places of work. you may have seen last week the government raided 98 stores in a number of states, this is the wash post carrying the story, rounded up undocumented workers, 21 people were arrested. these crackdowns are ha rd est felt arrested. these crackdowns are hardest felt in relatively small communities. we are going to
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concentrate on one in washington state on the west coast of the us. according to data released locally the number of arrests and deportations have quadrupled in that cou nty deportations have quadrupled in that county in the last year, 2017 and that‘s county in the last year, 2017 and that's 2016. county in the last year, 2017 and that‘s 2016. interestingly, the majority of people in that county voted for donald trump and that was the first time the county had supported the republicans in more than 60 years. bbc news has been there to find out people‘s sentiments about what is happening. they‘re taking the easy targets. sentiments about what is happening. they're taking the easy targets.|j don't think people thought about it. i don't think they believed that people's rights would be trampled on. these are our friends. these are our neighbours. these are people that we value. he was a great friend. he stood up for a lot of kids. shame on me, i didn't think of how it would play out with people that i know.
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some republicans here who are delighted with what is going on with the enforcement of immigration. but there are also a number of republican who is are feeling very distressed and saying this isn‘t being done the proper way.|j consider myself very politically conservative, i thought it sounded great, i mean, you breakthe conservative, i thought it sounded great, i mean, you break the law, conservative, i thought it sounded great, i mean, you breakthe law, by golly, great, i mean, you breakthe law, by golly, and then when you actually — for me, you start, wait a minute, wait a for me, you start, wait a minute, waita minute. for me, you start, wait a minute, wait a minute. this year what we have noticed is a lot of people who have noticed is a lot of people who have been in our community for a numberof have been in our community for a number of years have been arrested and detained. talking people here sometimes here ten, 12, even more years. so it's impacting the fisheries, cannery workers, the cranberry bogs. even more so than that, i think people have cranberry bogs. even more so than that, ithink people have been emotionally in turmoil because
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they've seen people they've known for years, friends, acquaintances, neighbours, people that have gone to church with, those kind of things, kids are in school together, are just gone. they're taking the easy targets, i have been told people are just going to work for the day and ice is there waiting for them when they arrive at work. it‘s frustrating because they have not yet been able to tell us names of people they‘re taking away or any details so sometimes we have had cases where maybe somebody is missing and we don‘t know if they we re missing and we don‘t know if they were taken by ice or if they‘re actually a missing person. i have no problem whatsoever in seeing people committing crimes deported. since i have been a sheriff in the last seven have been a sheriff in the last seve n yea rs have been a sheriff in the last seven years i think they‘ve only taken seven years i think they‘ve only ta ken about people seven years i think they‘ve only taken about people half a dozen times from ourjail facility. a guy i have known for many years who i
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found out last summer was picked up andl found out last summer was picked up and i didn't know he was here illegally to be honest, but i was like, they picked up mario?|j illegally to be honest, but i was like, they picked up mario? i wasn't surprised at all, since this new administration started everyone is going to be detained. but then i knew that they were going to focus back on top criminals, i am sure imnota criminal, back on top criminals, i am sure imnot a criminal, i am not one of those. i mean, he is somebody that you would want to have in your country, he is somebody that's going to add to in a very positive way our community and you can not tell me that our community is better off or the united states is better off because mario has been shipped back to mexico. it's easy to hear soundbites and say yes, that's great policy. it's
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different when you're implementing it and you start saying wait a minute, this is affecting these people's lives and i didn't sign up for this. shame on me for being short—sighted about it ok, fine, but... it's notjust, it's notjust, to me. sad news came through earlier, the lead singer of the cranberries has died suddenly here in london. she was only 46. lots of you watching will know, the cranberries found enormous international success in the 1990s. their debut album sold 40 million copies worldwide. tributes have been powering in. here is the american band foster the people. you will see on social media
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hundreds and hundreds of tributes. probably the song she is best known for singing is linger off that first album. we will finish the show by playing it. #if # if you could return # if you could return # don‘t let it burn, don‘t let it fade # i fade #iam fade # i am snour i am in the being rude, but it‘s just your attitude, it‘s tearing me apart it‘s ruining every day. # i swore i would be true # i swore i would be true # and so did you # and so did you #so # and so did you # so why were you holding her hand # so why were you holding her hand #is # so why were you holding her hand # is that the way we stand # is that the way we stand # were you lying all the time # were you lying all the time # was it just # were you lying all the time # was itjust a game to you hello. it was a mild but miserable
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start to our monday morning. the front that brought the rain cleared by lunchtime but behind it a colder feel as north—westerly winds dragged in cold air across the country. it‘s going to stay with us at least father a few days. a colder story for many. there will be some snow, not for all, but certainly much windier with gales or severe gales through the middle of the week. it‘s going to be a windy day on tuesday. you can see this little fella will enhance the wintry showers across north—west england, northern ireland and scotland and a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. south wales and south of the m4 it‘s likely to be rain. but it‘s a cold feel to the day, particularly when you factor in the wind and on exposed north—west coasts. through the overnight period a case of almost spot the difference. plenty of showers and some showers turning wintry at lower levels across the peaks and pen
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nines, maybe the north midlands. so a cold start to wednesday. i suspect sheltered eastern areas may well see decent dry sunny weather conditions. in comparison to the cloudy grey story of late, that might come as welcome news. fewer showers generally on wednesday. still wintry the further north and west you come. the change comes later on wednesday into thursday. a deep area of low pressure on the southern flank of that low, we are likely to see gales or severe gales for a time. on the leading edge across central and southern scotland is a potential for some snow. keep watching the weather forecast for the early hours of thursday morning. severe gales and some snow across southern scotland could cause some disruption. the good news is that it‘s moving at quite a pace and will rattle through early on thursday, so for the bulk of thursday not a bad day with sunshine coming through and perhaps just a tad milder in the south east for a time. the wind direction still
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coming from the north—west and still plenty of isobars on the chart on friday so still a cold feel, particularly in any exposure. we are still likely to see a few enhanced showers with that north—westerly flow across northern ireland and western scotland, rain, sleet and snow, not out of the question here. there will be some sunny spells. temperatures will struggle, though. out of friday into saturday, we see weather fronts drifting to the south of us and this ridge of high pressure building so things quietening down and the winds will be lighter into the weekend. some sunshine, again still not particularly warm, and overnight frosts could be an issue, something that we have not seen of late. into the weekend a cold and quieter theme. will it last? probably not. the high pressure is likely to slip off to the near continent allowing low pressure to move back in n from the atlantic and on top of that it looks as though the jet stream is
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set to intensify across the uk and that may well drive in low pressure from the atlantic and keep things u nsettled. from the atlantic and keep things unsettled. if we look further ahead the longer period, it looks like an u nsettled the longer period, it looks like an unsettled story, windy with gales at times and temperatures pretty much where they should be for this time of year. a lot to take in, i will be back same time tomorrow. tonight at ten, thousands ofjobs at risk following the collapse of the big construction and services firm carillion. the business is involved in major public building projects, as well as cleaning and maintenance for schools, prisons and hospitals and employs 20,000 people. workers are now facing great uncertainty. i am due wages that i would pick up this week in work, and i don‘t know if i‘m going to get them. that‘s my rant, that‘s my food. —— rent.
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tonight ministers held an emergency meeting to discuss plans for maintaining essential services in the public sector. the government is working very hard indeed across all whitehall departments to ensure that the liquidation of carillion takes place in an orderly manner that does not disrupt public services. we‘ll be asking how a company in financial trouble was nonetheless able to secure major government contracts. also tonight...
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