tv Outside Source BBC News June 5, 2018 9:00pm-10:01pm BST
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hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. the first funerals in guatemala for those killed by the volcano. 69 people are confirmed dead, but it's feared many more may have perished as the search for survivors continues. president trump dis—invites the nfl super bowl winners to the white house after some of the players said they didn't want to meet him. the fashion designer kate spade is found dead in her new york apartment. police believe she took her own life. and after days of protests, the king ofjordan instructs his new prime minister to review the entire tax system. the official number of dead in the guatemalan volcano disaster is 69. but the finalfigure is likely to be far higher, with many people still missing. let's show you where
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guatemala is on the map. and the fuego volcano is about aokm south—west of the capital guatemala city. take a look at some of the pictures from the scene. we have this extraordinary footage of a police officer rescuing a baby from the debris of a house. as you can see the officer is covered in ash, but remarkably the baby appears unharmed. as the search for survivors continues, the first funeral was held. this was in a town called alotenango. hundreds of people attended a funeral service there. we also have this helicopter footage of the volcano. you can see it's still shrouded in smoke and the footage is quite hazy. thousands of people from the area around the volcano have been displaced. they are coming to churches and even school for refuge. many have no idea when they'll be able to go home. louisa reynolds is a freelance journalist based in guatemala city. she told me the latest on the rescue operation: today i was actually at the site of
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one of the villages that have been worst affected by the volcanic eruption on sunday and the ground is very unstable, rescue workers had to wear masks and had to tread very carefully because the ashes very hot and you can feel the heat from the ground. the air is very congested. it's a very strong smell of a burning smell of which fills your lungs even if you wear a mask. if you went to the site, at this point u nfortu nately you went to the site, at this point unfortunately it's highly unlikely that the more survivors will be found although it's still possible. but now it's really a point of finding the bodies so that they can be buried by family members. are the
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people that you have spoken to who are sheltering in villages around the area, are they still saying that they have many, many loved ones unaccounted for? yes, that is correct. when you visit the shelters nearby the villages, there's a large shelter a catholic church, about 50 km away from the site of the volcanic eruption and you see a lot of people saying that they are looking for their loved ones. there's people who have lost up to 20 family members. agenda generalist in guatemala city. iran says it's preparing to increase its capacity to enrich uranium. it's the latest sign that the international deal on its nuclear programme might be about to collapse. the move isn't entirely unexpected, when the us withdrew from the deal last month, iran warned it might start down this path. and the supreme leader warned his country won't stop, unless the us pulls back on sanctions. some europeans are talking about
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both iran coping with the sanctions and limiting our defensive missile programme which is essential for the future of the country. i'm telling these european governments that this dream will never come true. of all the countries that take an interest, iran's nuclear programme is of particular concern to israel, especially when in the past 2a hours the supreme leader of iran has been on twitter saying this too: "israel is a malignant cancerous tumor that has to be eradicated: it is possible and it will happen". the israeli embassy in washington, was quick with a comeback tweeting a gif from the movie mean girls, asking, "why are you so obsessed with me?" that's been retweeted nearly 10,000 times. but anyway, iran says its plan would involve building new centrifuges at a nuclear facility in natanz, south of tehran. it was here in 2014 that technicians, supervised by international inspectors, shut down its previous enrichment programme, bringing the agreement with major foreign powers in force.
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iran says its move today doesn't break that agreement, but it's a further sign of it weakening. i spoke to bahman kalbasi who is from the bbc‘s persian service, in new york ssource the million—dollar question was after the united states has violated the deal despite the fact that iran has fully abided by the deal broke the three years since its signing, when will iran run out of patience and start moving towards bringing the programme back to its full capacity. the supreme leader ordered here and what has been announced so far are not a violation of a deal yet but they are sort of the primary work towards increasing capacity. we have to see whether they will take that step later or not what they are signalling that if they are going to pay a price by the sanctions that the violator of the deal, the united states is bringing back and the europeans do not have the political will or if they have the political
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will they do not have the ability to keep at least a level of trade with iran going as many companies pulling out as a sign that they don't. then iran has no incentive to stay and if iran has a lot of politics so the hardliners in iran very much are pushing for a response so donald trump and while the moderates may be hoping that they could be patient but it's a longer and see what happens, these two factions are going at it and clearly mr trump has given the hardliners the upper hand now. we have seen ever since donald trump announced he wanted to pull the us out of this deal, we have seen the rest of the dignitaries trying very hard to still make it work. trying but not necessarily delivering it. many of the companies europeans, french car—makers to banks, german companies, one after another, announcing that they are leaving iran worry they are suspending work or they are putting on hold any future plans they have
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for investments in trade. so, there seems to be two completely different worlds, one of the european leaders who expressed hope and determination to stay in this deal and push back against a violator of the deal being the united states acting like rogue state and the reality of the economy and many of european companies who are more accountable to the shareholders than to the presidents and leaders of europe. let's talk about qatar. it's been under a blockade for exactly one year today. on 5th, june 2017 saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, bahrain and egypt cut off all diplomatic, trade and transport links to qatar. they accused it of supporting terrorism, stirring up regional instability and seeking close ties with their arch—rival, iran. as you can see from the map qatar is tiny and many predicted qatar
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would quickly capitulate to saudi demands. but the wealthy emirate didn't give an inch. instead it used its vast riches from offshore gas to find ways around its isolation. a year later, they say they're stronger than ever. they're certainly a lot more independent and some qataris are now even calling the blockade a blessing in disguise. yolande knell reports from the capital doha. majestic and proud. many in qatar cd falcon as a fitting national symbol. but today, there's a new one. a year ago, this dairy herd it did not exist. now, it's 10,000 ago, this dairy herd it did not exist. now, it's10,000 strong, living in air—conditioned barns,
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deepin living in air—conditioned barns, deep in the desert. in such a short period of time that it all happened, where everybody says it can be done, it cannot be done, it cannot be done and we have done it. many calls were flown in from top breeders in the united states. they showed that with whale and plenty of money, qatar is coping. after saudi arabia and its other arab neighbours cut off trade and travel last year. they accuse qatar which is incredibly rich from the gas under its waters of funding terrorism. meddling in their politics, and being too close to the arrival. iran. they started to draw the picture of terrorist on anyone who is different than them. the main thing that the blockade states are aiming for our power consolidation in the region and they don't accept to have another country which is saying to them this policy is wrong
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01’ saying to them this policy is wrong or this policy is right. they want oui’ or this policy is right. they want our country to embrace whatever they see as right. tiny qatar getting ready to host the 2022 world cup likes to see itself as global player. but it's a long had differences with others in the close—knit family of golf nations. isa close—knit family of golf nations. is a little brother, it should read it self of that illusion. it's like monocle to france and you shouldn't play bigger than you are because ultimately that backfires and causes you problems. into hard after dark there's no sense of qatar being the wrong path. and there's a renewed sense of patriotism on display. qatar is rallying around their are mere, the gulf's youngest royal ruler. at 84, he has seen it all.
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before qatar was rich, he earned a living diving for pearls and as a strong man. it's my country, i love it and strong man. it's my country, i love itandi strong man. it's my country, i love it and i know that it's better than the others, 100 times more. now we are depending on our self. and we don't need anything from other countries. one year into this crisis, to many surprise qatar is still resisting its neighbours demands. that has shifted the balance of power and creates more uncertainty about how this region will deal with da'ron and its other troubles. —— iran. stay with us on outside source, still to come: one week to go to the trump kim jong un meeting, we have the location. singapore's foreign minister's in washington, working out the details. the yorkshire post, the manchester evening news,
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the liverpool echo, they'rejust some of the newspapers across the north of england that have joined forces to call on the prime minister to "get a grip" on the rail network and deal with the continuing delays and cancellations. they're all urging theresa may to call an emergency summit at downing street to find a solution to the disruption caused by the new rail timetables. repeated delays and cancellations have left rail passengers struggling to get to work, despite hundreds of trains being removed from service in an attempt to get a grip on the crisis. the editor of the leeds based yorkshire post, james mitchinson, says that passengers in the north are fed up. we are not willing to take this any more, there has to be some deliverables written down on paper that people like chris greyling and if chris greyling is unwilling to be held to account than the prime minister theresa may must be held to account and people in the north must be able to see things being done on
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the ground, speeds in the ground quickly. —— spades. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: the first funerals have been held in guatemala for those killed by the volcano. 69 people are confirmed dead, but it's feared many more may have perished as the search for survivors continues. other stories from around the bbc newsroom. italy's new anti—establishment government has won its first confidence vote in the italian senate, outlining details of the tax cuts, higher welfare spending and tighter immigration rules it wants to implement. the prime minister giuseppe conte was sworn in last week after days of political and economic instability. the boss of qatar airways has come under fire for suggesting a woman couldn't lead the airline. at a conference in sydney akbar al baker was asked why qatar's ceo was a man, he responded saying, "of course it has to be led by a man because it is a very challenging
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position." bbc arabic. the miss america beauty pageant is scrapping its swimwear segment and says it will no longer judge competitors on physical appearance. the chair of the organisation's board of trustees, gretchen carson, also announced that the competition would embrace women of all shapes and sizes. ms carson who's a former winner said women's voices were being heard. that's on our website. president trump has cancelled the planned visit of nfl super bowl winners, the philadelphia eagles. it's a yearly tradition for the winners to meet the president, but it seems they didn't want to meet him anyway. here's what he tweeted: @realdonaldtrump: "the team was invited to the white house. unfortunately, only a small number of players decided to come, and we cancelled the event. staying in the locker room for the playing of our national anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. sorry!"
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the eagles haven't directly responded to the cancellation, but here's one of their players malcolm jenkins. there's so much that's been kind of swirling around in the administration that i don't think, i don't see it as beneficial at this moment in time to visit in a celebratory fashion. but i know for a fa ct celebratory fashion. but i know for a fact that there are other guys who have dreamt of the opportunity to go to the white house and i think they should have that opportunity. and there's been no shortage of reaction from elsewhere in philadelphia. here's what the mayor of the city, jim kenney, had to say in a statement: "disinviting them from the white house only proves that our president is not a true patriot, but a fragile egomaniac obsessed with crowd size and afraid of the embarrassment of throwing a party to which no one wants to attend." to get more reaction to this unprecedented move from president trump, our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan has been talking to people in philadelphia. a few months ago, the streets of
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philadelphia were packed with fans celebrating the local team the eagles winning the super bowl. but today, with news that the team will be going to the white house, the mood is somewhat different. do they change how you feel about your team yes, i'm a little disappointed with them. donald will be not watching to much next year. i think people have this misconception that sport players that all they should do is players that all they should do is play sports and that it.|j players that all they should do is play sports and that it. i think we're losing track of what the meaning of the players being champions. so it should not be made a political issue. they can have an opinion and if they choose not to wa nt opinion and if they choose not to want to go somewhere or do something because they don't agree with someone's values then they should be able to do so. as an native philadelphia and i think they did the right thing, none of the players neild during this event. is disappointing that the president has chosen to mix politics and sports in the joy of chosen to mix politics and sports in thejoy of our chosen to mix politics and sports in the joy of our city and i'm sorry for the team and the players. to many people that we spoke to this came down to one thing, what does it
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mean to pledge allegiance to the american flag? does that mean you should stand for the national anthem 01’ should stand for the national anthem or does that give you the right to freedom of beach which means you can protest if you want to? let's get more well, we can get more from our north america correspondent and big nfl fan anthony zurcher who's in washington for us. i'm wondering, is in a politically risky for donald trump to be involved in a very public fight with some of the nations favourite board starts 7 some of the nations favourite board starts? and if not why not? well, if you think back to the end of last year, the beginning of this year donald trump feuded with the entire national football league, the most popular sport in the us. people thought that was an uphill fight for him, he actually turned public opinion, particularly among republicans against the nfl and just about a month ago, the nfl relented and said that all of his players have to stand up for the national anthem if they're on the field or they can stay in the locker room if they can stay in the locker room if they choose to, but essentially they are trying to make the problem go away i'm here once again, donald
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trump is leaning into the controversy. now mind you, picking a fight particularly with the philadelphia eagles rather than the nfl asa philadelphia eagles rather than the nfl as a whole is risky, member philadelphia is in pennsylvania, a key swing state and even if he alienates some of the fans of that team, a couple of years that could come back to want him. stay with us, we will speak to another subject. prosecutors investigating possible collusion between russia and the trump presidential campaign of accuse the president's ex—campaign manager of witness tampering ahead of his trialfor manager of witness tampering ahead of his trial for tax fraud and money—laundering. according to an fbi agent working on the case, paul ma nafort fbi agent working on the case, paul manafort contacted and attempted to contact manafort contacted and attempted to co nta ct to manafort contacted and attempted to contact to unnamed witnesses in an effort to influence their testimony and to otherwise concealed evidence but ina and to otherwise concealed evidence but in a statement paul manafort oxman said that mr manafort it's innocent and nothing about this latest allegation changes or events, we will do our talking in court. it's go back to anthony in washington for more background on this, how did become to this point anthony? we can do it because paul manafort
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who is donald trump's campaign chair doing —— during a key point during the campaign is facing a lengthy prison sentence and also from the trauma that will start injuly, all of this dates back to his lobbying on behalf of the ukrainian governments before he became involved in trump's campaign. but, i think that the consensus is that robert mueller is putting pressure on paul manafort to get him to co—operate in what is at this day the central focus of mueller proposed investigation which is a type it in the russian government and thejump campaign and the more pressure you can put on manafort including both of the witness tampering charges in addition to everything else he is facing, that could require manafort to go into prison and could have his parole, sorry his temporary release from jail suspended for a while. that could end up putting more pressure on him to co—operate. to do we get a sense of how central to robert mueller investigation paul manafort actually is? i think he's a very
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central, he's one of the key figures who is under indictment, he's one of the few that has been targeted by malware so far that has not decided to co—operate with the rush abroad if your member michael flynn who would donald trump's national security adviser and adviser of the campaign, he's already pled guilty, george papadopoulos, foreign policy adviser has pled guilty, manafort is holding out and he had a front word —— row thejump campaign the some very key months. he was in that trump our meeting we're russian nationals came to visit donald trump jrandjared nationals came to visit donald trump jr and jared kushner and manafort in a meeting that was billed as an opportunity for them to share possibly damaging information about hillary clinton. so he could have some information and it would be very helpful to the probe in addition to all has already reported ties to the ukrainian government and to some russian oligarchs. thank you very much, good to see you from washington. the powerful right—wing activist brothers charles and david coke
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are funding a multi—million dollar campaign against president donald trump's trade tariffs. the moves comes days after after mr trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the eu, canada and mexico. paul blake is new york. who are they and what are they doing exactly? the brothers, charles and david coke are the billionaire brothers behind coke industries, one of the largest privately held firms here in the us. that firm has its hands in all kinds of areas of business is from pipelines to the paper towels, but the cold brothers really made a name for themselves in the public arena here for their financial backing of conservative groups here in the us. and the amount of money they contributed to groups certainly as part of the tea party movement ten years ago have made them into somewhat of a bogeyman amongst left—leaning people and left leaning political watchers here, but what they are doing now which is interesting is they are
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funding a set of groups who are launching a campaign to oppose donald trump eyespot tariffs on aluminium and steel tariffs which certainly puts them at odds with groups that they might have otherwise traditionally backed. that's interesting they are on the right page ofjune is no need backed policies but they are at odds with donald trump. yes, it highlights this internal rift between the republican party. traditionally, republicans and the republican party here in the us has been quite business friendly. but with the rise of the tea party which as i said the cold brothers back about a decade ago, the tea party gateway to the populist strain within conservatives and conservative thought here in the us and donald trump tapped into that to win the 2016 presidency. so, the cold brothers backing groups that are opposed to tariffs put him at odds with donald trump in the white house and really underlined and highlights this rift within the
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republican party over some of these business policies. what do we think these opposition groups are going to be doing? what sort of activities? so they are calling it a multiyear multi—million dollar campaign against the tariffs which will take the form of activist education, grassroots campaigning and advertisement buys throughout the country. so it looks like a fairly comprehensive push against the tariffs. thank you very much paul blake in new york. apple has pledged to shut down tools used by facebook and other social media companies to track what you're doing. the company says its safari web browser will ask permission before loading certain features which social media firms use to gather data. so what do these changes mean for users? it's a massive change in the way the app world —— apple browser which is how safari works. what will happen from the time you get the needed ios, from the time you get the needed 105, 10512 is from the time you get the needed
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105, 105 12 is that from the time you get the needed ios, ios 12 is that you start seeing p°p‘up ios, ios 12 is that you start seeing pop—up messages, whenever you go to click on something that might contract you for example, i like on facebook, bearing in mind there are a point for millions like buttons peppered around the web. you might be getting an awful lot of these p°p‘up be getting an awful lot of these pop—up alerts. the uk government says it will allow 21st century fox to take over sky, but on the condition it sells sky news. the government has also cleared a similar bid by the us cable network comcast. our business editor simon jack tells us why sky is such an attractive takeover target. disney has serious movie studios, what it's looking for by buying sky is an outlet for some of its content, it's quite good at producing content, doesn't have the distribution? what sky would bring it is 20 odd million subscribers throughout europe, it's also got very strong agent businesses so the idea is that you create the content and then you have a way of delivering that content. and sky is generally seem to be one of the best
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most lucrative most well—managed pay—tv models anywhere in the world, you twin that's with a great content provider and you have a very powerful combination. once again you see the fix is a distribution plan for most of us will know it for subscribing other peoples material, they are going in the other direction. let's bring you up—to—date with our top story. the official number of dead in the guatemalan volcano disaster is 69. of dead in the guatemalan the official number of dead in the guatemalan but the finalfigure is likely to be far higher, with many people still missing. many people sheltering in school and villages around the area of the volcanic explosion. we will be back inafew volcanic explosion. we will be back in a few minutes' time with more from outside source, stay with us.
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ibe i be giving you an update on whether‘s weather updates here but first of all i want to take you into continental europe were the jet strea m continental europe were the jet stream is with one arm to the north and another one waving its way across southern parts of europe and across southern parts of europe and across the mediterranean. whenever you see the jet stream dipping away like that you can almost imagine a low— pressure like that you can almost imagine a low—pressure setting in the crook of that dip and with low pressure comes instability in the atmosphere and a of thunderstorm activity wildly across the balkans and southeast of europe and here are the latest pictures coming out of parts of poland where the rain has been sufficiently intense, not only has there been thriving but also landslides as well. a motorist they're doing well to escape the clutches of this particular pile of earth that has slid down from the mountain towards our right. some of the prospect towards the west, the area of low pressure, a pattern we saw a few weeks ago if you remember when we had those thunderstorms padding their way out of europe and
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up padding their way out of europe and up towards the british isles, i don't think it will reach us on wednesday but they are there to be had across siberia, france, the alpine region getting into the low countries and across towards eastern europe. further north it a different kettle of fish, it's a warmer prospect there for some areas and it's a prospect extending into the southern parts of scandinavia. mistake you further into the southern parts of china. this ribbon of cloud extends all the way from the islands of japan but it's this portion that we are quite interested in because this is a tropical depression. the wind although i'm showing it there, the circulation is quite nicejust to showing it there, the circulation is quite nice just to the west of hong kong is not a great issue, what is a great issue is that we show you those colours, that rainfall totals is in the next couple of days very slow moving and you could be looking at 400 mm of rain. and similar sorts of totals are distinct the possible asi of totals are distinct the possible as i move you a little bit further towards the west into south asia where the south asia monsoon is now well in hand across the seven states
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of india through sri lanka and the more easterly arm of it takes all of this moisture from the arabian sea to the indian ocean and then throws it towards the top end of thailand of towards myanmar up towards bangladesh. real concerned about the intensity of rain there ahead of that band of weather. it's searing heat that's a real issue either side of the pakistan indian border. it's not such an issue as we move down towards the islands of new zealand, the flow here is decidedly south south—westerly and plenty of it at the moment and as a consequence, the daytime temperature are struggling to get the double figures in a number of locations, that will be an issue here after a cool start there will be a lot of going around and some sunny will be a lot of going around and some sunny spells. goodbye. hello, i'm karin giannone. this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom. the first funerals in guatemala for those killed by the volcano. 69 people are confirmed dead, but it's feared many more may have
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perished as the search for survivors continues. president trump dis—invites the nfl super bowl winners, the philadelphia eagles, to the white house after some of the players said they didn't want to meet him. the fashion designer kate spade is found dead in her new york apartment. police believe she took her own life. the venue for next week's summit in singapore between donald trump and kimjong un has been announced. we have all the details coming up here on outside source. fashion designer kate spade has been found dead in her new york apartment. police are investigating her death as an apparent suicide. let's go live to new york. what more
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are police saying about what may have happened ? police say her housekeeper found her in her bedroom at her park avenue apartment this morning in new york. immediately called emergency services. when they arrived, they found her unconscious and unresponsive and pronounced her dead on the scene. they say they are looking at this as an apparent suicide. of course, the chief medical examiner will have to hold a thorough autopsy. but they did also say is that a note was found nearby. but we do not have the details about what exactly was in that note. let's get a sense of some reactions we have had. and actress bette midler tweeted... a reflection of the esteem she was
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held in throughout the world for her designs. yes, and we have seen some in people taking to twitter to share their experiences of their first purchase of a kate spade back or quoting the designer. she was such an iconic american fashion designer. she really paved the way for other females in the industry. it is interesting, her back story, she was an assistant editor at mademoiselle magazine. she saw the market needed fun and functional handbags, so she said her company along with andy spade at her apartment and grew into this global lifestyle brand. sony people have been talking about how when they have walked into a kate spade store, they immediately felt happy, bright colours, the fun patterns, the quirky designs really
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made it the it accessory of that generation. i certainly remember during that time in the 1990s, eve ryo ne during that time in the 1990s, everyone wanted to own a kate spade back. today, we have seen tributes to herfrom back. today, we have seen tributes to her from the fashion back. today, we have seen tributes to herfrom the fashion industry back. today, we have seen tributes to her from the fashion industry and for people who just love wearing her designs. thank you very much a kate spade, who has died at the age of 55. let's turn to raqqa, in syria, now. it's been a year since the battle to retake the city from the islamic state group began. it used to be their capital in syria, but was re—captured after a five—month aerial bombardment by the us—led coalition. this is an amnesty international map. they say the red dots represent areas of severe damage or destruction to the city. the map is in this report that the charity has released today. the charity's uk director said the coalition had killed hundreds of civilians and that "the uk needs to come clean over
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its role in this carnage". but a spokesman for the coalition said that she should "leave the comforts of the uk" and see how forces are "fighting an enemy that does not abide by any laws, norms or human concern". quentin sommerville has been following this story for us. in raqqa, american and british firepower brought the so—called islamic state to its knees and freed a city from its grip. months later, the reality of liberation, though, has a hollow feel. a picture is now emerging that in the battle's final months for hundreds of raqqa civilians, the bombs of the coalition proved as deadly as the islamic state group. throughout the battle, this family stuck together. grandchildren to grandparents,
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they set up home where they could. avoiding the front lines meant moving house four times. this video was taken just before the 20th of august last year, when a coalition air strike hit their home. everyone you've just seen was killed, 39 family members in total. the bombing was relentless. hundreds died. of the 42 coalition strikes investigated by amnesty, none were targeted by the royal air force, says the ministry of defence. "this was the most precise bombing campaign in history," says the us—led mission. in an interview from their headquarters, they blame the carnage on the islamic state's use of human shields.
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the people of raqqa, they expected to be terrorised by the islamic state and they were definitely grateful for the removal of the islamic state from raqqa. but you went there as liberators. shouldn't you have served people of raqqa better? i think we served the people of raqqa to the best of our ability and against an enemy that used tactics that no one even suspected they would use. and again, we were the ones that liberated raqqa. and did it come at a price? sure, but it's a time of war, and that's what happens sometimes. but again, we go to extreme levels to avoid innocent civilians. three homes belonging to this family were destroyed by american air strikes a year and a half ago. they still have the remnants of one of the us bombs which killed nine of the family. but that's all they've got. they've had no official
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visit from investigators. the boys have lost their mother, their grandparents and their cousins. mohammed told us, "nobody contacted us or apologised, even to say they made a mistake. we haven't received anything, not even from aid groups and they can see the destruction. it's like all of your family is here, then suddenly, you don't have any." raqqa is free from the islamic state, but there's no escape tet from the loss and ruin that is and the coalition left in their wake. quentin somerville, bbc news. more frequent quentin and the battle on the website. the venue for the summit in singapore between donald trump and kimjong un has been announced. this tweet from the white house says it will be the capella hotel on sentosa island. this is from google maps.
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sentosa island is on the southern tip of singapore. it's an upscale area home to lots of beach clubs and luxury resorts, and the universal studios theme park, too. the capella hotel is on the southern side of the island. singapore has declared a special zone for the area across the hotel, stretching more than a kilometre out to sea. this is what he'll see when he arrives. it's one of the finest hotels in singapore. no surprise, perhaps, given the president knows a thing or two about hotels. he'll also be able to practise his golf swing by the looks of it. you can just scroll around you canjust scroll around if you can just scroll around if the golf buggies they are sitting there waiting. earlier, singapore's foreign minister was in washington, meeting with the us secretary of state mike pompeo to nail down some of the fine details of the summit. "we'll see you in a couple of weeks," pompeo said to him, only to be corrected, it's actually next week. that gives you a sense ofjust how quickly this summit has been put together.
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june 12th is in fact exactly one week today. earlier, donald trump tweeted that the, "meeting in singapore with north korea will hopefully be the start of something big. . .we will soon see!" don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site. there is full coverage on all the stories we cover here on outside source, including the premature death of the fashion designer kate spade. that's at bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. this is the new prime minister ofjordan. he'll be forming a new government. his name is omar razzaz. he served as education minister and was formerly a world bank economist. he replaces prime minister hani al—mulki, who resigned on monday. it's a move by the king abdullah to quell widespread protests. but people are still angry and don't think that goes far enough. thousands took to the streets.
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these are the largest protests jordan has experienced in years. people chanted anti—government slogans and clashed with police, who fired tear gas and blocked roads. here's one protester. there is a wave of change, especially in young people, who, in the age of the internet, it's very easy to see how stuff is changing or to get influenced and excited. there's nothing to be worried about, you know? i'm not worried. we basically have nothing to lose any more. there's nothing to lose for me. the worst is happening. it cannot get any worse. i want a better future, honestly. i want different decisions. i want a government that cares about people and notjust money and businesses, you know? i want an environment that's inclusive for everyone and notjust people who can afford to live. so why are people so angry? well, as you just heard there, a lot of it is about money. the government recently
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decided to increase income tax by at least 5%. critics claim the plan unfairly hits the poor and the middle class. the government has already increased the price of bread. these austerity measures are part of the aim to cutjordan's $37 billion of debt. king abdullah ofjordan has promised to review the tax system to make it fairer for everyone. translation: the subject is notjust for example the law taxation, corruption, administrative reforms, the poor and the unemployed. there is a lot of work to be done if we want see how we will come out of this crisis and the work ahead. we want an inclusive programme, and inclusive actions for the developments ahead of us. the bbc‘s mark lowen is in amman. i was out really late last night with the demonstrators. they said what they wants really a change of policy, notjust of prime minister. yes, they like the new prime minister. this is an attempt by the king to placate the protesters. but what they want is an end
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to the austerity they say is making their lives unbearable. a controversial new bill which would raise income tax by at least 5% for citizens and by at least 20% for businesses. the fact that the price of fuel has been hiked overfive times since the start of the year. that electricity has gone up 55% since february, that subsidies for bread have been scrapped. all of these are conditions forjordan to fulfil for a loan from the imf of $723 million. but people here say it is making their lives very difficult. remember, jordan is a country that is buckling under the weight of over a million syrian reguess. it has real structural problems. and so it is now facing a big challenge. the king says it is at a crossroads. does it provide an easier, more dignified life for its citizens or does it go into unknown territory? that is something that worries not onlyjordanians, but also the west as well, which depends onjordan to be a pillar of stability
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in the arab world. the state of emergency in ethiopia has been lifted two months early. it's the latest move by the government that appears to be aimed at easing tensions with the opposition. here's ethiopia's parliament approving a cabinet decision made at the weekend. this was the second state of emergency to have been imposed in the past two years. let's have a look at the timeline of events. it all goes back to 2015, and the build—up of protests in the ethnic oromia population against political and economic marginalisation. in october 2016, they spread, so the government brought in a state of emergency. that was lifted last year. then in february 2018, in a surprise move, the then prime minister hailemariam resigns and a new state of emergency is introduced. but the new prime minister abiy ahmed, who is from the oromia ethnic group himself, introduced reforms to ease ethnic and political tensions, culminating in today's lifting
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of the state of emergency. bbc afrique has been out and about in ethiopia gauging reactions to the recent changes in the country. translation: i believe the lifting the state of the emergency is timely. as you can see, there are conferences on national reconciliation, but genuine ideas and positive attitude come from a peaceful mind. translation: the public has been saying that things have improved and there's no problem in the country now. peace has returned to the country. everyone is going about their business peacefully, so there was no need for the state of emergency to continue. well, in another important development in ethiopia today, the government says it will also accept a ruling which said disputed territories on its border with eritrea were part of eritrea. the failure to accept the ruling made over 15 years ago has led to continued tension between the two countries. here's focus on africa's sophie ikenye. this is quite a significant move by ethiopia, because for many years,
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the country had never fully accepted the decision by the boundaries commission. let me just take you back a little. give you history on where we were and where we are now. in 1998 to 2000, ethiopia and eritrea had a bitter battle over boundaries and territory. many people were killed, thousands in fact. it is estimated that about 19,000 soldiers were killed who were eritrean and ethiopia's soldiers died, about 70,000. between 70,000 and 100,000 soldiers. it was a really bitter feud. so the un and other people came in to try and sort out what the problem was. and in 2000, a boundaries commission came up with the decision and offered some territories
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ethiopia. both countries did sign that agreement, but ethiopia never really fully accepted it. in fact, one of the territories is occupied by ethiopia. today, this is quite a development and ethiopia says they have done this because it is in an effort to make peace with eritrea. over the last few years, norway has taken in over 400,000 migrants from the middle east and africa. to help them integrate, it's offering what it's calling "cultural coding classes" — specifically, classes teaching migrants about how issues of sexual assault and domestic violence are viewed in europe. here's one of the instructors with an example of what a class might contain. the topic is about rape and sexual violence. but i also have some provocative questions about how to raise children in other cultures. i think it went very well, and towards the end of the course, i asked them quite a provocative
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question about what would disappoint you most being a parent? a, if your daughter was raped or b, if your son was accused for having raped someone. and we finally agreed after a bit of discussion, we agreed that the daughter, she has become a victim, but the son, he has become an attacker. so, of course, that would disappoint us most. that class was taking place in bergen, norway's second largest city. here's what some of those taking the class thought. translation: today, i have learned who the contact if something happens to me and how to have a person who has become a victim of sexual violence or right. i can now educate others about this, too. we get good
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help from the norwegian government. we get several courses about the country and the language here. and so country and the language here. and soi country and the language here. and so i think it is very useful. i think that women need to get such courses to help them to understand information about violence and sexual violence. the reporter who filmed those interviews is erika benke. i spoke to her earlier about her impressions of the class. i think they are very grateful. they really appreciate the effort in norwegians are making to integrate them. these women are coming from very patriarchal, very traditional families, mostly from the middle east. so i think what they really appreciate is that this course is given them some space to talk about these things, because these conversations just never happen in a
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traditionalfamily. so conversations just never happen in a traditional family. so they appreciate that. on the other hand, i think there is an awful lot of good will on the norwegian side as well, because they say these people come from a different culture. if they —— we do not tell them how we live here, what our customs are, what are conditions are, how would they know? today to be told. i think thatis they know? today to be told. i think that is good will and it is almost tangible in the room. we saw the example of learning what will be worse, to have your son become an attacker or your daughter to become attacker or your daughter to become a victim. what other interesting things were used and what did you find most interesting? the most interesting thing was when they were watching a film about a rape. that isa watching a film about a rape. that is a situation when a woman was raped and they had to decide it was a rape or was it not a rape. and the room was about half and half because
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the woman was wearing a miniskirt, she was dancing provocatively. many of the woman thought she was partially responsible for being raped. at the end of the course, margaret, the instructor who you saw in the film, was telling me that women tend to be morejudgemental. so migrant women in this situation are most —— more love me to say that the woman was responsible than men. but that was really interesting. and there was another conversation about domestic violence and rape in marriage. and many of the women in the room thought that in a marriage, raped just does not exist, it cannot exist, because it is legally impossible if the husband is the husband, a rape cannot happen. so it shows some of the journeys, culturally, many people have had to
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ta ke culturally, many people have had to take in norway. how happy would you say overall they seemed in norway? that is a really interesting question. i think most of them can appreciate, and they acknowledged to me they can see how equal this society is, and men and women have equal rights and women have equal opportunities. they truly appreciate that. on the other hand, i spoke to a syrian woman, a 30—year—old woman, who has been in norway forfour yea rs who has been in norway forfour years now. she has got a good job. she's the perfect norwegian. you would think she is happily integrated. but she is still not happy. she is telling me that when the war in syria is over, she wants to go back because that is her home. that is where her roots are, that is where herfamily that is where her roots are, that is where her family is. that is where her roots are, that is where herfamily is. and she is missing the family coming together for dinner. and even though she does have a job in norway, a good job, she would still be happier being at
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home, not working, looking after the kids and running the household. you could see more on her report on the bbc website. it's world environment day today, and the united nations says it's time for what it calls the "biggest ever worldwide clean—up of plastic pollution". the un secretary general antonio guterres posted this video on social media today. our world is swamped by harmful plastic waste. every year, more than 8 million bottles end so the warning is clear, but what are countries around the world doing to combat the problem? the solution requires different
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parts of the system to be handled. but about trying to illuminate those plastics that are persisted in the environment. just to give you an example, a plastic straw we are using outside for something like 20 minutes remain in the environment longer than our lifetime. so we want to make sure that these kind of plastic is no longer in the environment but, but we are also very aware that when this comes into the system, we want to stop the leakage of this plastic into the environment. hollywood film producer
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harvey weinstein has formally pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges. this is him arriving at the new york supreme court earlier. he was indicted last week by a grand jury. mrweinstein, 66, has previously insisted via his lawyer that he has never had non—consensual sex. he could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of either offence, which relate to two women. this is what his lawyer had to say. that is it for outside source today. back at the same time tomorrow. goodbye. hello, if you saw our last weather for the week ahead, you know we talked about how quiet the weather is right now, how it is stuck in a
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rut. perhaps it follows the jet strea m rut. perhaps it follows the jet stream may be missing in action at the moment. let's take a look at what the jet stream is. that normally develops and steers systems across the atlantic towards us. it is not really strong in our summer because the thermal gradient. it thrives off the difference in temperature and it is not there. it is still around but well to the north of the uk. another part is dipping south and giving lower pressure a cross dipping south and giving lower pressure across southern dipping south and giving lower pressure across southern europe and storms. the main part is well north. we are on the warm side of it so we are above average into butcher. this big rich, we find an area of high pressure keeping our weather mainly settled at the moment. we have got lower pressure to the southend as he goes on, we will see a few more showers and thunderstorms starting to track their way northwards towards us. that process is under way over the next five days. this is how wednesday is shaping up then. bit of cloud around parts of northern and eastern england. close
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to that area of low pressure, a few showers that could be thundery in the channel islands. the flow of air around the high pressure is coming in towards the north sea coasts of it is cooler here than elsewhere. thursday, hi to the north and the south but below is coming to feed up on the waterfront. an increasing chance wednesday and thursday of the scene showers that could be thundery across parts of southern england initially and then into the midlands and wales at the day goes on. northern england, scotland and northern england, scotland and northern ireland staying dry. more humid behind this weather front. south, it starts to move a bit further north going into friday, taking some showers with it. i do not think anything dramatic, but there will be some heavy winds around and maybe a rumble of thunder. more evident in wells and in the perhaps the odd one pops up into scotland and northern ireland on through friday as well. similar temperatures. more humid in england and wales. the picture for the weekend, does it advocate changes.
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hi to the north, love the south with the flow of air coming to the sea coast would aloud at times. while many of us look dry, there'll be some cloud and some of sunday spells and a few showers dotted about. mostly but not exclusively into england and wales were some will be heavy and possibly thundery. it is very similar as we look at the forecast for sunday. the feel of the weather is very similar to. there could be some changes on the way next week. and we could be looking at the jet stream for them. lessig look at that jet stream pattern, very different going into next week. that is it starts to move across the atla ntic towards that is it starts to move across the atlantic towards us in the main part of it did south. so we are on the cooler side of thejet of it did south. so we are on the cooler side of the jet stream. the weather pattern is going to change. it is not very strong these are not dramatic changes but maybe i weather will get a gentle nudge of next week. what does it mean? because of that change in position, we look to the atlantic, to the west for our
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weather. that will bring some areas of low pressure as a wetter weather at times. northern and western parts of the uk, on the cool site, temperatures come down closer to average and agrees your picture with average and agrees your picture with a westerly breeze that may well mean some north sea coasts are a bit warmer than they are at the moment. some changes coming but not dramatic perhaps but noticeable still. the government gives the go ahead to a third runway at heathrow after almost twenty years of delays. it says it will help the entire uk thrive after brexit but acknowledges the strength of feeling against it. it's going to be a battle going forward, there is still strong opposition to this. there's still some difficult stages to overcome. but we are absolutely determined to deliver this project, which we think is crucial to all of our future's. the runway will only go ahead if clean air targets are met, there's talk of a legal challenge, we'll be looking at the obstacles ahead. also tonight.... the companies involved in refurbishing grenfell tower are accused of increasing the families' suffering by refusing to fully engage with the public inquiry. emotions spill over at westminster as mp‘s
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