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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the death toll from the volcano in guatemala has gone up to 62. many others are missing. israeli prime minister, benjamin netenyahu is in europe to try to persuade germany, britain and france that they must abandon the iran nuclear deal. the united states has left the deal and i think the real question we have to confront today is what do we do about iran's aggression? a change at the top of north korea's military. it's emerged that kim jong—un replaced three of his top officials ahead of his summit next week with president trump. the liverpool goalkeeper loris karius was concussed during the champions league final. that's the conclusion of doctors who have examined him. we'll try to get more information. the death toll from the volcano
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in guatemala has gone up to 62. the major eruption was on sunday. there have been a smaller eruption today. this is amateur footage of the initial eruption. the cloud of ash went as high as six kilometres in the air. here's guatemala on the map. the fuego volcano is about aokm south—west of the capital guatemala city. and we know that a number of nearby villages, have been affected, including this one, el rodeo. and we have pictures from there. they give an idea of the scale of the devastation visited upon it. it's been covered in volcanic ash. what's made this eruption so dangerous is that is contains a mix of hot rocks and gas known as pyroclastic flow.
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while we ash cloud was going into the air, this flow was moving very quickly. it can read speed of hundreds of kilometres per hour. this footage was taken from a nearby golf club. people were trying to run to safety. u nfortu nately not everyone was able to. while these people did get away, as well as those who have died, 46 people are missing and the number is expected to rise. a short while ago i spoke to martin rodriguez pellesser, from guatemalan news outlet nomada, about the chaotic scenes around the volcano today. the people are organising, firemen departments and people are in villages nearby. it's not going to be enough because we still don't
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know the amount of people that have disappeared. we work today one kilometre away from the village. we could not get any closer. six villages have been affected and some of them were affected eight years ago this week bya similar affected eight years ago this week by a similar eruption. we can now bring in tamara gil. . tell us more about what you've been
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hearing today, please. hi, hello. there is a sense of chaos. thousands of rescue workers have been deployed to the area and they are trying to look for survivors. they pulled out many dead bodies. people are very worried. we spoke to relatives of people in the small village that is affected and people were really devastated. one lady said 20 members of herfamily devastated. one lady said 20 members of her family were dead. devastated. one lady said 20 members of herfamily were dead. she devastated. one lady said 20 members of her family were dead. she tried to get to her house but she couldn't. she is waiting for news and authorities didn't know how many people were living in that particular village. so as i said, there is a sense of chaos right now and people are worried about what may happen over the next few hours. does the quiet the government have enough resources or does it need
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help —— guatemala government. enough resources or does it need help -- guatemala government. we spoke to people from that village, san miguel los lotes, and they said that they did not expect this tragedy. they are looking for survivors and to try and help people but they are still trying to get the most resources they can get. but this has been really difficult for them. they didn't expect such a tragedy. is it possible for volcanologists to predict what the volcanologists to predict what the volcano will do next? well, at the moment we don't know but there is a risk of reactivation. this morning, on monday there was another eruption and people had to run and tried to get to a safe place because their lives are at risk right now. thank you for the update. those of you
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watching who speak spanish can get updates through bbcmundo.com. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in europe to meet the leaders of france, the uk and first germany, all in the name of persuading them that he and donald trump are right about the iran 2015 nuclear deal, and that it should be abandoned in its current form. here's the prime minister with angela merkel. we've shared with the german government, the german specialists, the information that we have retrieved from a secret atomic archive that iran has. we think that it's important, as chancellor merkel has said, that the iaea investigate iran, based on this new information. a lot of new information, that israel has now provided to the iaea as well. and it's important to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons. we commit and i commit again that we will not let that happen.
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and this was angela merkel‘s response. translation: germany did not cancel this agreement, together with other european partners. we stand by it. but we were at one in saying that this issue of regional influence of iran is a very worrying one, particularly for the security of the state of israel. and this is why we feel that we ought to make every diplomatic effort we can in order to address the ballistic missile programme of iran but also its activities for example in yemen and the presence of the iranian army also in the area and syria and to exert our influence here in such a way that iran is pushed out of this region. also today, the un's nuclear watchdog, the iaea, met to discuss donald trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal. remember, the iaea has consistently said that since that deal was signed in 2015, iran has been meeting its obligations. here's the head of the iaea.
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the iaea continues to verify and monitor the nuclear commitments made by iran under thejcpoa requested by the united nations security council and authorised by the board of governors. as of today, we can state that iran is implementing this nuclear related commitment. the israelis say that they have new information. rana rahimpour now on what the new information is. they've talked about new evidence but we haven't had much detail about it but it's probably similar to the evidence that benjamin netanyahu revealed a few weeks ago, which many experts said that it wasn't new. it accused iran of further activities that went back at least a decade ago and it didn't convince the experts. clearly it did comment donald trump and he referred to that evidence
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when he announced he was pulling out of the deal but it seems that this is prior to his european tour, he's going to use it to put more pressure on the european signatories of the iran deal to leave it, although it doesn't sound likely. with every israeli claim we have the iranian is coming back and saying this is nonsense. yes, the iranian supreme leader gave a speech today, the 29th anniversary of the death of the leader of the revoluation and he said "our enemies are wrong to think we will negotiate." he said that you can't put sanctions on us and expect us not to continue our nuclear activity. so he has given signals that iran is getting ready to resume its nuclear activity within the iran deal framework. that's the big question, how can you resume it and stay in the deal? many experts say that he's just sending signals to say that iran is prepared to resume its activities
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if the european signatories don't stay in the deal. this puts those european signatories in quite a difficult position, doesn't it? that's the aim of the supreme leader, that's what he's wishing for. the fact is that these meetings are going on, the iranian foreign minister travelling around the world trying to convince everyone to stay in the deal but many of these companies are not staying. today the french car—maker psa said they are leaving two joint ventures that they signed with iran for the fear of us sanctions. the deals they have with the us are too big to sacrifice so most of these companies are afraid and are running out of iran. and while the geopolitics is playing out i guess we should reflect on the state of the iranian economy and what the failure of this deal might do to it. the state is already dire, the iranian currency has lost about half of its value over eight weeks and that is one
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of the reasons the supreme leader has been cautious. he keeps saying we are getting ready but we will stay in the deal. he knows about the repercussions. iran is struggling. almost every day we have protests in different parts of the country. we have truck drivers protesting, teachers protesting. all over the country they are in a very tense situation. the last thing they need are these sanctions which are going to make it much more difficult for them. one big issue for american foreign policy. here's another. the white house says the first meeting between president donald trump and north korean leader kimjong—un will take place at 9:00am singapore time on june 12. donald trump and kim jong—un donald trump and kimjong—un in donald trump and kim jong—un in the same room. extensive coverage on the bbc news channel. it seems kim jong—un
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has removed three senior military officials. here's hywel griffith in seoul on why must be seen in the context of thatjune summit with donald trump. we understand from these reports, which we can't verify from here the south, of course, that the defence minister, the chief of the general staff and also the head of the politburo, have all been removed in the last few weeks and replaced by reportedly by more moderate figures. in the north korean context. they wouldn't be considered moderate in other countries but people who maybe aren't so hardline, people who aren't so married to the idea of fighting against imperialist american oppressor, as the us is sometimes referred to in north korea. possibly more in line with the idea that a summit and a deal could be reached which seems to be kim jong—un‘s tactic at the moment. stay with us on outside source.
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two football stories. this goalkeeperfor two football stories. this goalkeeper for the tunisians, accused of feigning injury as an excuse to get food and water to his tea m excuse to get food and water to his team as they break their ramadan fast horsey said he was injured. it has been alleged that loris karius was concussed before he made those two calamitous mistakes in the champions league final. there've been yet more delays and cancellations for rail passengers across england after the major disruption caused by new timetables introduced last month. the transport secretary, chris grayling, says the widespread disruption is unacceptable, and has announced an independent inquiry into what's gone wrong. mayor of greater manchester andy burnham said this. northern services have
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been poorfor some time. the new timetable tipped things into chaos. they've turned people's lives upside down. i have e—mails from people saying they are on warnings at work because they are late so often or not being able to pick up their kids and having to pay for extra childcare, getting taxis or hotels. they shouldn't be allowed to inflict their miserable substandard services on the public of the north on an ongoing basis. actually if you look at the emergency timetable, especially with the withdrawal of services from the lakes in the peak tourist season, they're doing real damage here to the northern economy. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. authorities in guatemala have announced three days of national mourning as the death toll from the eruption of the fuego volcano continues to rise to over 60. we will give you the latest
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information as it comes in. other stories being reported on by the bbc‘s language services. the "me too" memo may not have reached the filipino president rodrigo duterte. he was speaking in south korea when he called a woman on stage, and convinced her to kiss him. the crowd cheered, others were less impressed. she didn't look overly impressed either. one civil rights group said: the "disgusting theatrics of a misogynist president". a man in italy who took a selfie of the scene where a women was hit and badly by a train has been widely condemned. police caught forced him to delete his picture. but the image of him taking the picture appeared on many front pages in italy. tunisia's world cup football team is gearing up for the world cup. it has been accused of feigning injury to
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try and break the ramadan fast as soon as possible. in one match their goalkeeper appeared to feign injury at sundown which is when the fast comes to an end. as he lay on the pitch receiving medical treatment, his team—mates rushed to the sidelines to drink water and eat dates. this guy is enjoying some dates and getting some food and water. the goalkeeper mouez hassen tweeted. .. that is the bbc news tweet. he said that he was indeed hurting. mimi farwaz, focus on africa sport — is the goalkeeper really faking injury? it has happened before, hasn't it? yes, we saw it before, people claiming they are feigning injury, then people getting food and water. they equalised with portugal and the
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same scenario against turkey. people started on twitter, a lot of reaction about that. it's understandable, they are playing a high—level football match and they haven't had anything to eat or drink four hours. is there no way the authorities can allow them to break the fast? it is an individual decision, the players have decided they want to follow the fast up to they want to follow the fast up to the world cup. it with anish by the first match. we have some —— it will be finished by the first match. some players follow the fast but others choose to break it, as we saw mohamed salah in the champions league final, breaking his fast. it is on league final, breaking his fast. it isona league final, breaking his fast. it is on a case—by—case basis. the tunisia team decided they would follow the fasting this time around. they haven't had bad friendlies, two draws. they haven't been in the
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world cup for a long time, ten yea rs. world cup for a long time, ten years. it is a big moment for the fans. strong five african teams this year so we'll see how they perform. thank you forjoining us. the bbc africa service has a lot of information about this. talking about the champions league final and mohamed salah, he injured his shoulder after a tangle with sergio ramos. the poor keeper, loris karius. we are told the sustained a concussion in the final after a clash with sergio ramos. hugh ferris is in salford. well, well, well, as it sergio ramos wasn't the hand and i'm villain already, he has gone up a notch. yeah, one of the biggest things on
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social media, one of the items most retweeted was the moment when loris karius and sergio ramos came together, just before the first goal, the first of two stakes when he rolled the ball to karim benzema's leg, making it 1—0 and later passing the ball to gareth bale. doctors haven't pinpointed when they think the concussion could have happened but pantomime villain is something that is a way to describe sergio ramos. but if you are describe sergio ramos. but if you a re carefully describe sergio ramos. but if you are carefully at the footage preceding that moment, there's all sorts of blame that can be placed on all sorts of players, so we perhaps won't draw too many conclusions. suffice it to say that this is an extraordinary revelation. this character is absolutely dejected, you saw that picture of loris karius. it was a real story of incredible despairfor a karius. it was a real story of
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incredible despair for a gentleman who had been directly responsible for two of the three goals that liverpool conceded. he was the scapegoat. threats were made to him afterwards. for this medical reason to be behind those moments potentially has put a new perspective on things. plenty more on the bbc sport app. we don't often jump on the bbc sport app. we don't often jump from champions league football to jordanian politics. jordan has a new leader. omar al—razzaz has ta ken charge, after the king asked prime minister hani al—mulki to resign. that was the outcome of days of nationwide protests against tax rises and austerity measures. this was sunday night. big protests with anti—government slogans. the police used tear gas and roads were blocked. these are the biggest protests in jordan for years. as you'd expect,
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they were focused in the capital amman, but we alsao saw them in other jordanian cities. issam ikirmawi has more. they've been going on for the last four days. they have been largely peaceful, here in amman people gathered outside the prime minister's office every evening after breaking the fast and they stay up until midnight, charting slogans and demanding the resignation of the government and the prime minister. in other parts of government there have been protests by people unhappy with the latest austerity measures approved by the prime minister. this morning the prime minister was summoned to meet the king and he tendered his resignation to king abdullah the second following the meeting. a statement has been issued by the
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protesters saying they will continue with their protest asians until the measures are conveyed the cancelled —— with their protestations. they wa nt —— with their protestations. they want them completely cancelled out before they said they would abandon the movement on the street. so it remains to be seen how many people are out this evening here and in other parts ofjordan but it's probably premature to say that this is the end of the protest. the european union is lining up measures to protect deal and aluminium which could come in as early asjuly aluminium which could come in as early as july —— protect steel. that's a response to president trump's decision to slap tariffs of 25 percent on incoming steel and 10 percent on aluminium. paul blake in new york.
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what do the europeans have in mind? the europeans have threatened a response by the markets seem to be taking the news in their stride. the nasdaq, one of the biggest markets, ending ona nasdaq, one of the biggest markets, ending on a high, driven by positive news on the tax front and on friday, the dow finished on a high after an especially good jobs figures. why wasn't this taken more negatively? analysts say that actually markets in the us would be in even further positive territory if it wasn't for this trade uncertainty hanging over their heads and the development is coming out of the last week. we've had a meeting of the g7 finance ministers which gave us clues about how this could disrupt relations between some of the biggest economies in the world. what do you make of what happened?m economies in the world. what do you make of what happened? it was an awkward weekend for the us treasury
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secretary steven mnuchin. the meeting in canada, the other six ministers came out slamming these us tariffs, demanding that he take their concerns to washington, to donald trump. steven mnuchin said he had donald trump. steven mnuchin said he ha d co nveyed donald trump. steven mnuchin said he had conveyed this to the president and that he would continue to. donald trump for the weekend has been tweeting about trade, even this morning calling out what he calls unfairand morning calling out what he calls unfair and jupiter trade. so no light at the end of the tunnel for the european prospective —— unfair and jupiter trade. thank you for joining us. —— stupid trade. here in the uk, legal action is being taken against three delivery firms used by amazon. the gmb union wants the drivers to be classified as employees, rather than self—employed, and given guaranteed hours and the minimum wage. mary—ann russon is covering this for us. the union is saying that these amazon delivery
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drivers should not be cast as self—employed workers rather that as full—time employees. they basically say that the reason for this is that the amazon delivery drivers work a huge amount of hours, however they are basically paid per parcel and they are responsible for their own insurance and maintenance of the van and they don't receive any of the basic sort of employment rights like minimum wage. theirjobs are very similar to that of food delivery drivers or large container truck drivers or royal mail delivery drivers and if these drivers are considered to be fully employed, then the amazon drivers should be considered to be fully employed as well. i'll see you in a couple of minutes' time. we've seen some thunderstorms
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breaking out across different areas of europe over the course of the weekend. one of the key ingredients for thunderstorms is hot weather and we've seen plenty, especially over eastern europe over the last few days. coupled with that, a weather front moving in across this part of romania. you see how the clouds are in this u. some enormous under storms. bringing heavy rain to brasov in romania. roads turn into rivers and we saw some significant flooding. difficult getting around for this cyclist. it wasn't the only place getting thunderstorms, further west in france we had torrential downpours. firstly in brittany we again had some flooding issues. a lot of floodwater here, up to the
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halfway point of the front wheels of this vehicle. further south, we had some flooding in the pyrenees in southern france. the floodwaters needed pumping away. the weather pattern over the next 2a hours, some more big storms, concentrated in northern spain. cold air in the middle part of the atmosphere sliding across spain which will enhance the downpours. some lively thunderstorms but also quite likely to get some large hail affecting not just northern spain but will increasingly move into central and southern parts of spain. likely to see localised flooding over this pa rt see localised flooding over this part of the world over the next 24—hour is. looking at the weather further east, this cloud is a tropical depression in the south china sea. it is very slow moving, the winds are not going to strengthen but it will bring torrential rainfall. we may be
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looking at 300 millimetres of rain and a risk of flooding. one thing we haven't seen much of over the last few days is south—westerly wind with the monsoon but the wind has changed direction to the south—west and the showers are returning over southern india. the monsoon like it will travel further north. the heaviest rain will be across into my —— myanmar. in pakistan it remains very hot, temperatures likely to be peaking at around 50 degrees in the hottest areas. we have a similar day coming up tomorrow, cloudy skies. the best of the sunshine is in the west. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom the death toll from the volcano in guatemala has gone up to 62 — many others are missing. israeli prime minister,
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benjamin netenyahu is in europe to try to persuade germany, britain and france that they must abandon the iran nuclear deal. the united states has left the deal. and i the united states has left the deal. and i think the united states has left the deal. and i think the the united states has left the deal. and i think the real the united states has left the deal. and i think the real question the united states has left the deal. and i think the real question that we have is to confront today isn't what do we do about iran's aggression? a change at the top of north korea's military. it's emerged that kim jong—un replaced three of his top officials ahead of his summit with president trump. and donald trump has said he could pardon himself but says why would he need to — we'll get into whether that's true with anthony zurcher. a suicide attack in afghanistan killed 14 people earlier. it was targeted at a gathering
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of religious scholars in kabul. the attacker pretended he was attending. this is the aftermath of the attack. and already the islamic state group has claimed responsibility. the group of islamic scholars which was targeted had actuallyjust issued a fatwa against suicide attacks — at the moment though afghanistan is incapable of stopping this type of attack. the bbc‘s shoaib sharafi recorded this at the scene. kabul was hosting a gathering of religious scholars here today. over 2000 scholars from around the country had gathered in this quite landmark place where important decisions have taken place here. there was tight security, even the media were not allowed here, and the event was televised by national tv. as the scholars announced their fatwa against violence and suicide attacks, calling it haraam and non—islamic,
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as the delegates were leaving, the assailant then managed to break through the security barriers and detonate his explosives. here at the gate exactly at the time when the participants were leaving. an official from the peace council told me most of the casualties in today's incident were participants of this big event. we are going to have a look at some us stories. now, you'd need a psychologist, a constitutional lawyer and a political analyst to fully get to grips with donald trump's latest tweet. then he goes on to talk about the witchhunt which is how he describes the rational enquiry. this echoes what we find in this carousel memo sent by the president's lawyers to robert mueller injanuary.
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you can see it on the new york times website. i asked anthony zurcher if mr trump is right. well, short answer, no. there is a line of theory that the president could conceivably pardon himself because in the constitution the pardon power is pretty broad. it isn't well—defined. it hasn't been tested in court. right now it is an open question about weather that could happen or not. conceivably, if the president could pardon himself for any federal crime, washington, dc isa for any federal crime, washington, dc is a federal city, that means donald trump could walk through the street shooting bystanders and pardon himself and not face criminal liability. it is a radical poppers -- it is liability. it is a radical poppers —— it isa liability. it is a radical poppers —— it is a radical proposition for him to say that. he is saying i
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could do this, then in the same breath saying, why do i even need to think about this because i've done nothing wrong? that was a line sarah huckabee sanders said in her breathing today. she said thankfully the president hasn't done anything wrong, so we don't have to explore this any further. donald trump is drawing a battle line. he is asserting his innocence. if robert miller brings any charges, takes any actions, then the pardon would effectively be used to help protect himself from this illegitimate probe. —— robert muller. it is in short a declaration war against robert muller. help me with one other thing. the media tends to focus on the narrative around the muller investigation because it is important. but is it getting in the way of normal politics functioning in washington as it would do under
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any other president? one way you could tell it is certainly a distraction in this town is that of republican politicians over the past day or two, have been asked nonstop whether they support this idea that the president can pardon himself. lots of republican senators are saying no, they don't believe that, but you have to look at this, lawyers, even donald trump's lawyers, even donald trump's lawyers, have an obligation to try to come up with every sort of defence that their client. but good politicians know that there is some argument you don't make because it is politically untenable. but in this case trump feels free to make these arguments, even if it is putting members of his own party in a difficult position. don't go anywhere. donald trump has had to fend off multiple allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour. so has the former president, bill clinton, who has a new book out.
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while promoting that he has been asked about his affair with monica lewinsky back in 1998 winter an intern in her early 20s. he was president and married. —— she was an intern in her early 20s. president and married. —— she was an intern in her early 205.|j president and married. —— she was an intern in her early 20s. i felt terrible then and i came to grips with it. did you apologise for that? not yet. nobody believes i got out of that scot—free. i left the white house $60 million in debt... but you typically have ignored gaping facts, andi typically have ignored gaping facts, and i bet you don't even know them. this was litigated 20 years ago. i had a sexual harassment policy when i was governor. in the 805. i had two female chiefs of staff. they
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we re two female chiefs of staff. they were overrepresented in the 705 for their percentage in the bar. i had nothing but a female leaders in my office since i left. you are giving one side and omitting facts. i'm not trying to present a side. you asked me ifi trying to present a side. you asked me if i agreed, i said no. trying to present a side. you asked me if i agreed, i said nolj trying to present a side. you asked me ifi agreed, i said no. i asked if you had ever apologised, and you said you had. i apologised to everybody in the world. you did not apologise to hire. i did not talk to her. i've never talked to her, but i did say publicly on more than one occasion i was sorry. —— you did not apologise to her. that's very different. the apology wa5 public. monica lewinsky tweeted: she's talking about a lengthy
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article with her account of what happened. in one quote 5he article with her account of what happened. in one quote she says: anthony, if i could bring you back, as anthony, if i could bring you back, a5| anthony, if i could bring you back, as i was watching that could again i was thinking, why has bill clinton put himself in a situation where he has to go back over all of this ain? has to go back over all of this again? i think the reality is any time bill clinton makes a public appearance, or at least in front of journalists come he will be asked about this. things that happened 20 years ago. but we are viewing them now ina years ago. but we are viewing them now in a different context and in the #metoo era. while she felt there was a consensual relationship, 5he now realises the power gap. and americans are looking at it in a different way. you can tell from bill clinton's frustrations that this will be a mark on his
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presidency and he will never be able to move past this. in terms of the book, give us a synopsis, what is he promoting? it is a fiction book about a hands off president who like5 about a hands off president who likes to about a hands off president who li kes to battle about a hands off president who likes to battle terrorism in a very direct way. he co—wrote it with another author. not your typical presidential policy statement sort of thing. i won at anthony reid that then he can share his view and we can make our own decision. —— i will let anthony read that. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our website. there is full coverage on guatemala's mo5t violent volcanic eruption in more than a century. that's at bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. we turn to the mediterranean. tunisia's navy continued to search for survivors on monday after the worst migrant boat disaster in months. the death toll stands at 48. but international organization
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for migration has warned more than 100 people may have been killed. this happened close to the city of sfax — the5e pictu res came in from there today. some of the bodies of the victims are being kept here. already tunisians, and nationals from other african countries have been identified. all were trying to reach italy. james reynolds is in rome. we understand from the un's migration agency that more than 48 people may have drowned. they suggest maybe 110 people lost their lives on that boat. the reports we are getting from tunisia suggest it had departed entirely overpacked and overcrowded. perhaps 180 people on a boat designed for half that amount. it took on water very quickly.
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survivors have given their accounts. but many people lost their lives. italy is now the primary destination for people trying to get from north africa into europe. and the recent election told us this remains a potent political issue. ministers from italy's new populist government were sworn in last week. one of them is the leader of the far right league party matteo salvini. he's now the interior minister. he's promised to send home half a million undocumented migrants. to give you some context. 700,000 migrants have arrived since 2013. and critics say the eu has not done enough to share responsibility for their welfare. matteo salvini travelled to sicily on sunday. here's what he had to say. translation: it is not enough to reduce landings, we need to increase expulsion5. la5t
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reduce landings, we need to increase expulsion5. last year it was 7000 immigrants. at this rate i'll take a century. we must open deportation centres in each region, making 5trong agreements with countries of origin and renegotiate italy's role in europe. tunisia has summoned the italian amba55ador to register its profound astonishment at those remarks. here's james reynolds again — on how the politicians are struggling to influence the flow of migrants. you may remember that in recent years a you may remember that in recent yea r5 a lot of you may remember that in recent years a lot of migrants have departed from libya. but last summer, 2070, italy, the destination country on the other side of the mediterranean, did a deal with libya to try to stop a lot of those boats from departing. —— 2017. as a result, when one route gets restricted people look at other routes. the potential now is for boats to start leaving from tunisia.
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but that shows the dangers of every single root in the mediterranean, particularly when the boat that sets sail is not seaworthy. latest on the inquiry into the fire at grenfell tower in london. a series of expert reports have documented how a catalogue of safety problems allowed the fire to take hold. you can find them all online. also for the first time, the audio of the first 999 call made has been released. it isn't coming up, but if you go to the website you will find these five expert reports. fire brigade. there is a fire in g re nfell tower. fire brigade. there is a fire in grenfell tower. where? flat 16 g re nfell tower. grenfell tower. where? flat 16 grenfell tower. how many flaws? fourth floor. quick, quick. they are
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on their way. it is burning. i know it is burning. they are on their way. that was behailu kebede, the tenant of flat 16. an expert in forensic science said that the fire likely started around the tall fridge freezer in kitchen of that flat. mr kebede survived the fire. 72 people did not. one of the experts, dr barbara lane, said that there was "a culture of non—compliance" at grenfell tower and that basic fire measures were missing or inadequate. the bbc‘s daniella relph has more on that. the concrete grenfell tower, as it was built in the early 19705. after a refurbishment, finished in 2016, the building was wrapped in cladding. an expert report presented to the inquiry today said the cladding did not comply with building orfire regulations. tests showed just how quickly it caught fire. the cladding was insulation covered
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by an exterior rain shield. the makers of that shield say those doing the refurbishment should have known it was not fire resistant. they accept that this product was not of limited combustibility for the purposes of the building regulations, and their position was that this should have been obvious to any construction professional. but the report author said no one noticed the dangers. doctor barbara lane wrote... as part of the refurbishment, all of the windows were also replaced. the refurbishment effectively moved the new window frames outwards so that they sat no longer flush with the concrete as they had been, but flush within the new cladding system. it was a fatal decision.
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the new windows did not fit properly. there was a gap around the outside. it was covered by combustible upvc. it helped the fire spread more quickly. these were the new fire doors put onto the flats during the refurbishment. except none of them were installed correctly and contributed to the spread of smoke and fire. in addition, the doors to the stairwell had never been updated. they'd been there since 1972. communications were also found to have failed. when the decision was finally made to evacuate, there was no way of alerting everyone to the all—out message. doctor barbara lane noted on the issue of evacuation... it is a list of failings that this inquiry will now examine. they lie at the heart
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of the grenfell tragedy. the fire was first reported at12.51l at night. residents were initially told to "stay put". the experts say this advice had "effectively failed" within half an hour. however, change of policy on what residents should do was not made until almost 2 hours after the first call. here's lucy manning. well the fire brigade certainly had a very difficult and traumaticjob that night. the problems with the cladding and the fire doors meant that the smoke, the flames were even worse than they had ever tackled before and the fire lift wasn't working. but the decisions they took that night the decision making and the policies they took they will be thoroughly
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examined and looked at. 187 people made it out of the building before they changed the policy. but only 36 got out in the hours after. also some quite serious questions raised by the inquiry for the companies. —— also some quite serious questions raised by the inquiry for the companies involved in grenfell they were warned. that the inquiry wants more witness statements from them and the barrister said to them that they must resist the temptation of the merry go round buck passing and they need to explain. their role in events and he warned that they could be compelled to come to the inquiry to give evidence. a suggestion certainly seems to be that not everyone is cooperating with the inquiry. in the way that the inquiry would like. there's pressure on the south african government to ban school toilets that are dug into the ground. that's because two children have died after falling into them. the most recent death happened in march in the town of bizana. and in 2014 a 5 year—old boy drowned during his first week at school in the northern
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province of limpopo. pumza fihlani has been there. there are now toilets now at this primary school. but they came at a high price. little michael had just started school. he wanted to be a policeman. but on january 2014 the dream ended. five year—old michael fell into this pit toilet and was discovered hours later — he had drowned. his father, james, has taken us back to the school. he says no one has taken responsibility for the incident. translation: a human being died. a human. and it's like the government doesn't care. if they did that they would have come to us to apologise because our son died at their hands.
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with hands on their heads, so as to not cause mischief, a slow orderly line to the pit toilets. but news of michael's death has changed break time here. teachers now monitor pupils to make sure that everyone makes it out alive. here in south africa access to proper sanitation is a basic human right protected by the constitution. and yet pupils in nearly 5000 schools across the country are still forced to use pit toilets such as these ones. and some even worse. so communities are worried that they have become another tragedyjust waiting to happen. this is a new model of government schools. the education department hopes they will be the answer to the pit latrine crisis.
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this is the new type of facilities. authorities say change is coming even if slowly. we don't have the capacity to look after each and every learner. but what we need to do is make sure that the system is proper. we might be failing. but progress is slow. it is because we are building all over the country. we have some going all over the country. james is fighting for change in his community. he has no more time to waste. he doesn't want another family to know the pain that still haunts them. so many years later.
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over 100,000 people in hong kong have marked the 29th anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre. thousands of pro—democracy protestors were killed. this was back in 1989. and this is the vigil to remember them — it's the only place on chinese soil where a public commemoration of this kind can take place. that was in victoria park in hong kong. becky leung was one of those there. translation: i must continue to come here until the 4th ofjune has been really vindicated. then i will not need to come. this is something i persist in. it is an appointment i must attend every year. as hong kong people we have this great opportunity to remember those who perished. it's a precious day. not a lot of places can do this so we must persist. but there's been a steady decline in the amount of people attending the annual vigil.
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and hong kong's student bodies have said they will no longer take part. here's one time student activist nathan law — now a disqualified law maker on student politics in hong kong. by by the end of 2014 you can see that. it got a lot of attention in society. they were coherent. it touched the mass public. but now, seemingly these two bodies are going in two different directions. the hong kong youngsters, they are detached by the identity of chinese. in the daylight hours there is more violence with young people still determined to show their defiance... they have a mindset of what happens in china i'm not bothered by that. no matter if it happened in china or
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hong kong you are still facing the same repressive government. it's a perfect demonstration of that nature of brutality, of this government, and you are still facing the same regime. serena williams pulled out of her last 16 match with maria sharapova, at the french open. this is why. unfortunately i've been having some issues with my pec muscle. it has been getting worse. to the point where i can't actually serve. it is hard to play when i cannot physically serve. goodbye. whether changes for the weekend and we get our slow. we are stuck in a rut. we've seen fewer showers and storms in recent days but they are
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not far away. flooding downpours over the weekend for france and northern spain and in the north—west of italy. scenes like this across europe will continue as we go through the week as the weather pattern isn't changing. we have a lower pressure to the south of the uk. this is producing these storms and warm and humid air. they might fringe into the south of the uk occasionally. they won't be as severe as they have been recently. high pressure to the north is pretty influential across much of the uk, keeping things settle. not as warm as it has been. we can take a look at those subtle changes in the next five days. tuesday, plenty of cloud to begin the day. but for many the sun will appear. maybe not towards the south midlands and further south, but good sunny spells elsewhere to be had. temperatures in the warm spots reaching the low 205.
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the high teens on coasts. you will be seeing this patina a few times. high pressure to the north, low pressure to the south. —— this weather pattern a few times. showers and storms close to low pressure. you might see them in the southernmost part of the uk. some cloud into north england keeping things cool. but elsewhere, plenty of sunny spells after a cool start on wednesday morning with single figure temperatures. low pressure put upa figure temperatures. low pressure put up a bit of a fight from the south on thursday, pushing up thundery downpours, perhaps into parts of south—east england. we will keep an eye on that. that's probably the extent of it on thursday, elsewhere staying dry with plenty of sunshine. the temperature contrast between the north sea coasts with the breeze and everywhere else in the breeze and everywhere else in the sunshine. more cloud around on friday. again, the south—east quarter is likely to see some showers which may be thundery.
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elsewhere, we keep dry weather. looks like it'll be dry throughout the week for scotland in this area of high pressure. into the weekend, storms are still around for parts of spain, france, largely dry forthe uk. this weather pattern is staying the same for the weekend. we get a flavour of that into saturday. it won't be clear blue skies. there will be a dotting of showers and maybe some thunder here or there. by no means not everybody will see them. warm sunny spells for many. a bit cooler along the north sea coast. a few words about the weekend weather. sunny spells, maybe a shower come on the warm side, light winds, basically what we have at the moment and it is continuing through the weekend. —— maybe a shower, on the weekend. —— maybe a shower, on the warm side. areas of high and low pressure dancing around each other. towards the end of this sequence, around midweek, there could be no pressure near iceland. this air will
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come in from the atlantic and turn things a bit more unsettled across the uk. such is the dynamic nature of our weather, so slow the changes, and the uncertainty, it is possible we could be exactly where we are now, next week. when the weather is stuck in a rut it takes a while to put it back into life. tonight at ten — the catastrophic breaches in fire safety that led to the deaths of 72 people in grenfell tower. the official inquiry is told about the origins of the fire and hears the first 999 call made from the tower on that night. i have to get the address, 0k? the inquiry is told that dangerous cladding and unsuitable fire doors were all factors in the fire spreading so rapidly. the fundamental question which lies at the heart of our work is how, in london, in 2017, a domestic fire developed
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so quickly and so catastrophically. and the advice to residents to stay in their flats until help arrived was deficient from an early stage. we'll have the details. also tonight...
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