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g7 leaders meeting in canada have been discussing import tariffs imposed by president trump. following a bilateral meeting with donald trump, the french president said there's willingness to find an agreement. the us special counsel robert mueller has filed new criminal charges against president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort. he and a former aide are accused of obstructing justice by tampering with witnesses. american celebrity chef and tv presenter, anthony bourdain, has died at the age of 61. the us television network cnn, for whom mr bourdain worked, said he'd taken his own life. chinese government hackers are reported to have stolen highly sensitive data from the computers of a us navy contractor. the information is said to include plans for advanced underwater weapons. the navy is not commenting. the queen's birthday honours list has been announced — it includes damehoods for professor mary beard and the actress emma thompson. but there's controversy over a cbe for the boss of network rail.
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our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba has more. it has been a shambles. it has been a nightmare. we are stuck because there were so many of the northern train sitting on platforms with no drivers. the decision to make network rail‘s chief executive mark carne for service to the rail industry was made many weeks ago carne a cbe for service to the rail industry was made many weeks ago but still being seen as controversial following network rail‘s role in the recent and ongoing catastrophic cancellations. tfl acknowledged timing was unfortunate. less controversially, player, manager and the figure who gave huge support to the hillsborough families, kenny dalglish, says he is hugely proud to receive a knighthood. for everybody that made a contribution, maybe even a detail, one or two untruths of it
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myself to get this far, and to come out and get the accolade, that has been awarded, is very humbling. imagine your husband bought a gold necklace and come christmas, gave it to somebody else. oscar—winning actress and writer emma thompson becomes a dame for services to drama. it is an extraordinary collection of art. classicist and presenter mary beard also becomes a dame. the troops have been firing indiscriminately. along cbe's, the bbc journalist kate aidey... author and broadcaster bamber gascoigne, actor tom hardy and businesswoman jo malone, for services to the british economy. i feel honoured, i feel humbled, i feel for the first time that, i don't know, ifeel on top of the world. it is an amazing feeling to be honoured and thanked by your queen
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and country and government for your hard work. hello and welcome to gardener's world. becoming obes, monty don for services to horticulture and charity. and actress keira knightley for services to drama and charity. it is suddenly very panicked... investigative journalist stacey dooley becomes an mbe... as does an award—winning singer who can now say... # miss dynamite...# ..mbe. in sport, winter olympian lizzy yarnold has made an obe. and jennifer kehoe and menna fitzpatrick, the only british gold—medallists from this year's winter paralympics become mbes. at 20, fitzpatrick is the youngest
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to be honoured on this year's list. most honours have gone to people out of the public eye for work in communities. people like akeela ahmed, the founder of online forum "she speaks, we hear". i wanted to ring together diverse voices. but more importantly, i really wanted to elevate the voices, the everyday voices of muslim women because i felt that more often than not they are spoked about in negative terms, but we don't get to hear their authentic voices. the oldest person recognised, becoming an mbe, 103—year—old rosemary powell, britain's longest serving poppy seller who retired after 97 years earlier this month. now on bbc news, tens of thousands of children in pakistan are legally employed as domestic servants. they cook and clean for their employers — and are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. but as secunder kermani has been investigating for our world — there are rarely consequences for those who cause them harm. his programme contains some scenes which viewers may find upsetting. for losing a broom, this
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ten—year—old girl says she was beaten and her hands were burnt. this 16—year—old boy died allegedly after being assaulted again and again. their horrific stories highlight the plight of some children working as servants in the homes of the rich and powerful in pakistan. but they are desperately poor families often choose not to pursue the cases. meaning those accused of abuse regularly go unpunished. wherever you go in pakistan, you can
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see young children working to support their families. but others are support their families. but others a re less support their families. but others are less visible. working behind closed doors in a dark unable with. —— in upmarket neighbourhoods. tens of thousands of children are sent by their impoverished families to work as domestic servants in homes across pakistan. some of them are aged as young as eight or nine years old. and in most of the country, there is simply no law whatsoever preventing anyone from hiring them. this ten—year—old girl is learning to be a child again. he is very fat... (laughs). she used to work hundreds
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of miles away from her family in the home of a judge and his wife in the capital islamabad. these pictures of her taken in late 2016 caused outrage on social media. tayyaba is currently being looked after at a children's home run by a charity. sitting with her best friend and her carers, she agreed to talk to us. the couple employing her have denied
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mistreating tayyaba. the couple employing her have denied mistreating tayya ba. as the couple employing her have denied mistreating tayyaba. as she told me she was beaten by the wife just for losing a broom. the children here are divided into houses, each with a specific carer, 01’ houses, each with a specific carer, or mother, to look after them. azmat has been helping tayyaba recover from her ordeal. tayyaba's best friend in the home is anotherformer child
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tayyaba's best friend in the home is another former child made, fatimah. slightly older and more confident, she has taken tayyaba under her wing. tayya ba grew up tayyaba grew up in a small village about 200 miles south of islamabad. i went to meet her father to find out why the ten—year—old had to leave home to go and work for a judge and his wife. children are not legally allowed to work in most businesses in pakistan, but despite calls from campaigners, the vast majority of the country has no ban on them working inside homes. there are thought to be over 250,000
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children working as domestic servants. some child maids and up working in homes alongside their mothers, orfind jobs in their own neighbourhood. but for others it is much more organised. there are employment agents act as middlemen, and we are on our employment agents act as middlemen, and we are on oui’ way now to employment agents act as middlemen, and we are on our way now to meet one of them. irshad bibi runs an employment agency on the outskirts of islamabad. she has no shortage of clients looking for domestic workers. and no shortage of families volunteering their children. some people would say these children should not be working, they should be in school. amidst the tangled streets of the
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historic centre of lahore, we discovered one of the most shocking exa m ples of discovered one of the most shocking examples of what can happen to children who are domestic servants. this 16—year—old died while working in the home of a local politician and her daughter stop his uncle was the first from the family to recover the first from the family to recover the body. the home belongs to local politician from the ruling party. she was never accused of any wrongdoing, also living there was her daughter. both
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women deny abusing the boy and say he died from an infection. but his 12—year—old sister also worked there. she said she and her brother we re there. she said she and her brother were regularly beaten by the politician's daughter. the police registered a case against the daughterfor the police registered a case against the daughter for killing the boy and assaulting his sister lastjuly. the postmortem on his body revealed he had been beaten repeatedly with a blunt instrument. 25 injuries. the lawyer who represented his father claims the evidence was clear—cut. he agreed to take on the case for
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free, as long as akhter‘s father decided to pursue a trial and not taken out of court settlement. before the trial had even really started, akhter‘s father announced he did not want to pursue the case. most criminal cases in pakistan are not filed by the state but by the victims or their families. that means they have the right to drop the charges and to reach a settlement. 0r the charges and to reach a settlement. or they have to do is tell the court that they forgive a suspect in the name of god. usually the real reason, though, is that
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they are being paid off. i visited akhter‘s family home last october. they were building an extension. according to some relatives with money from a settlement. although they denied receiving everything. at they denied receiving everything. at the time, they refuse to talk to me. but now i am my weight back to meet the head of the village, who says he was a witness to at some negotiations. muhammad ali says representatives of the family keen to see him and akhter‘s father. it is hard to pin down exactly what
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have and next. different people allege different things about who received money to drop the case. but none of it can be proved and the family denied paying anybody anything. i wanted to speak to akhter‘s father directly. this is where akhter‘s body now lies. largely forgotten amidst the negotiations, squabbling, and accusations of money. it would be easy to blame these families for seeming to give up on the chance of
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justice for their dead children in exchange for a few thousand dollars. but when you see the kind of poverty that they live in, then perhaps it becomes completely understandable. the problem is that if no one is ever punished for these crimes, they will never stop. i wanted to ask about the allegations but could not getan about the allegations but could not get an answer. forzia lives just up the road here. we have had no response to our allegations. we have been told that at the time of akhter‘s death, forzia was working asa akhter‘s death, forzia was working as a some sort of teacher. and because there was no conviction, there is nothing preventing herfrom working with children again. forzia's mother, who we have been told that with her at the time, even
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though she was not accused of any abuse, is still a member of the regional assembly. i managed to track down. so she was just saying that she was out of breath and she isa that she was out of breath and she is a heart patient and she can barely breathe. 0bviously didn't wa nt to barely breathe. 0bviously didn't want to enter our questions. but it is really ha rd want to enter our questions. but it is really hard to understand how she can live in the same house as her daughter and his young boy akhter and not know what is going on. that is what we wanted to ask about. in
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the case of this 10—year—old, there was a conviction. before the trial, the police were told that she had been beaten. when she came to give evidence, she initially confidently repeated the claims, but under cross—examination, she contradicted herself and withdrew them. the court a p pa re ntly herself and withdrew them. the court apparently noticed a change in her behaviour. in note here, it says that whatever the defence lawyers we re that whatever the defence lawyers were asking she responded with a simple yes sir. her father, would help his lawyer, had tried to get the charges dropped. but in this instance, the court refused to allow them to do so. as long as there are poor families in poor villages, there are likely to be child maids. ushad and one of
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the agents are going south of islamabad to meet potential recruits. this family say they want to send their ten—year—old daughter to work in islamabad. a few weeks later, i get a call from his father, and says he wants to tell me the truth. he claims his lawyer was paid for by the suspects and convinced him to try and drop the case. it is hard to tell what really happened, but his account was corroborated by a second source involved in the negotiations. the
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father's for the lawyer says the claims are completely untrue. —— former. and that the father testified in court that he was not under any pressure. the lawyer representing the defendant and his wife said the claims were malicious and false. there were convicted of neglecting an injured child, and each was sentenced to one year in jail. they were acquitted of all other charges, including assaulting them. there remain free was the appeal the verdict. but there is a jasper happy ending. when she grows up, she wants to be a teacher. because she says children should be in school. —— a chance for.
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though many of us, it will be dry and bright this weekend. this will relinquish a little too allows in showers and we have seen in the past few days. the decree on saturday as the cloud peels back to the north sea coast and we are more likely to see widespread showers, particularly in the mounds of scotland, heavy and thundery, perhaps feel for northern ireland, but northern england, wales, and the south—west in particular, but not particularly. it
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will feel warm and muggy for most of us will feel warm and muggy for most of us away from will feel warm and muggy for most of us away from some will feel warm and muggy for most of us away from some of the coast in the east in particular. as a sunday, a similar scenario as the early mist and foxes away. the showers could be focused in the east of scotland and england, but again, it looks largely fine and dry. but if you do get a shower, it could bring thunder with it as well. a warm down sunday with highs into the low 20s. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is duncan golestani. our top stories: trade issues dominate the first day at the g7 summit in canada, but france says the us and its allies can get over them. i see a willingness from all sides to find an agreement and find a win—win approach for our workers and our middle classes. president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, faces new charges of obstructing justice. authorities in guatemala order new evacuations after a spike
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