tv Outside Source BBC News June 14, 2018 9:00pm-10:01pm BST
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the fifa world cup in russia has kicked off, with the host nation winning the opening match 5—0 from saudi arabia. we have all the action on and off the pitch. president trump and his children are being sued by the state of new york over alleged persistent illegal conduct by the trump foundation. mr trump says the case is ridiculous. we will report in washington. in yemen the all—out assault on the port of hodeida is in its second day. the un says it is concern about 80 getting into the country. we hearfrom the un in yemen, and in new york where it's holding an emergency meeting on the situation. and we'll hear tributes for the victims of the grenfell tower block fire here in london that killed 72 people a year ago today. the world cup has started.
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it could have started better for russia. they won their opening game. that's what they cannot have started better. here's some of the opening ceremony in moscow. # let me entertain you there's robbie williams doing his thing. there was also a guy playing a harp at one point. and then the first match kicked off. russia beat saudi arabia 5—0. 0ne one of the five goals. the perfect start for the hosts. that would have been a relief given russia hasn't won a game for eight months. but it wouldn't have been a total surprise if you're partial to the now traditional animal which predicts results element
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of the world cup experience. achilles the cat, and his track record as a soothsayer is so far unblemished, after he picked russia to win. achilles would've only needed one bowl of food to choose from if he'd been predicting the outcome of the recent russian election. and for vladimir putin this is another part of his strategy to reassert russia on the world stage. he spoke before the game. translation: we've done our utmost for fans and athletes and experts, immersed themselves in the atmosphere and the splendid football feast. and of course, enjoy their stay in russia, an open hospitable and friendly country.
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western powers chose not to send senior representative to the opening ceremony. despite that, there's been no shortage of dignitaries in town. and as any leaders would, mr putin made the most of each arrival. here he is welcoming north korean official kim yong nam. and at that meeting, president putin confirmed that kimjong un has been invited to visit russia. then this is the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. this is a good chance to talk about an oil deal the kremlin would like to strike with the saudis. so we've talked about the players, and the political players. next the fans, who've not gone short of advice. here's the times tell us they're being told to watch out for so—called honey—traps. 0ne estonian spy chief is saying double agents may target them for information, or seek to blackmail them. should say i remember covering the south africa world cup and there was lots of talk about what could happen to fans,
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and the fears didn't materialise, so we should reserve judgment. anyhow, plenty of fans are in russia, and sarah rainsford has been talking to some of them in moscow. while this is moscow, but not as i know it. this is a city that's been transformed over the past couple of days into the world centre of football, and ourfans here from all over the world. this huge group here are all from peru. there seemed to be thousands of people from peru all over moscow at the moment. and this huge number of people from peru. unbelievable. there are a lot of people from peru, from everywhere. we came here just to see our country. what has it been like here in russia? it is amazing. it is awesome. everybody is super friendly. everybody is super nice. a long time since peru made it to the world cup, right? yes, after 36 years we made it. so i am excited to see them again.
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it seems like half of peru is here. i'm very happy here. peru, world cup champions. do you think you have any chance of the world cup? yeah, we have a chance. we're going to the semifinals. absolutely. so, also people from panama and iran, saudi arabia of course. it is a completely different atmosphere to the normal moscow life. a lot of fun and chatting and a lot of people making new friends here. i suppose that is is what it is all about. people for the moment at least forgetting all about politics. and it is all about football. i also want to show you this. the british gay rights activist peter tatchell has been arrested in moscowjust before kick off. he was protesting against russia track record on lgbt rights. and how's this for timing.
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0n the day the world cup started, this man, russian opposition leader alexei navalny says he has been freed. he served a month long sentence for organising an illegal protest. i spoke to 0lly foster in moscow a short time ago. and asked him if today's result was the best start for a host nation in decades. been many years or something like that since italy got a thumping win against the usa in the 30s. 7-1. we just didn't see this result coming either because of how lowly russia is ranked at 70. that's not something to be very proud of. saudi arabia not much better so we thought what are we going to get between these two. for 90 minutes, it was the most important match in the world
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of course, the opening of this feast of football that vladimir putin has promised us. saudi arabia were terrible, russia were a lot better i think than many people thought they would be. they rose to the occasion after a bit of a glitzy opening ceremony with robbie williams involved. and they scored five goals. they have been pretty dreadful. that is why they dropped down in the world rankings. the have given themselves every chance now of getting out out of the group stage, which they haven't done the past four world cups. when the host are happy and the team are playing well, the whole tournament is happy. everybody is just enjoying russian hospitality. i think as long as the team is still in the world cup, that hospitality will continue as well. expect when the host go out, the atmosphere does just change a little bit shall we say. but the more coverage of the world
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cup on the bbc sport set. —— for the more coverage. new york's attorney general has sued the trump foundation, plus the president,and three of his children. she's also asked a judge to dissolve the donald] trump foundation, citing "persistently illegal conduct", "extensive unlawful political coordination" and " repeated and willful self—dealing". trump didn't wait long to respond, blaming "sleazy new york democrats doing everything they can to sue me. anthony zurcher, washington. isaid i said this to you quite often but i have trouble judging how significant these trump stores are sometimes in these trump stores are sometimes in the scheme of things. help me out
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with this one. i think this represents another front in the investigations into donald trump and his circle. we have robert mueller‘s investigation to ties between russia, donald trump presidential campaign and we have a new york federal us attorneys investigation into michael cole win, who is donald trump's personal attorney and that we have a new york state investigation into donald trump asuka foundation. a lot of the stuff we knew about it too doesn't succeed. a series of articles in the washington post talking about self—dealing the foundation and donald trump's political interest in his business. —— a lot of stuff we do about it to the other 16. a lot a evidence in this lawsuit. a sino from donald trump saying he's been a doll is a foundation money to pay for a lawsuit against mara lago. they could constitute a crime and if more evidence like that is laid out,
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it could be very embarrassing for donald trump and cost him some money. while this doesn't rise to the level of the allegations of the russia investigation, it does represent a serious new series of legal questions surrounding donald trump it is business empire. legal questions surrounding donald trump it is business empirem legal questions surrounding donald trump it is business empire. it is impossible to assess how long it would take the wheels to turn on something like this?” would take the wheels to turn on something like this? i think this is going to take a fair amount of time. you never know with legal proceedings but obviously, there will be legal battles back and forth and it could be questions about whether donald trump personally can be dragged into this or not. a lot of this is a murky, legal waters when you have the sitting president, so when you have the sitting president, soi when you have the sitting president, so i would expect things to move that quickly. but little damage can be done even early on before there isa be done even early on before there is a verdict. donald trump says he is a verdict. donald trump says he is not going to sell their soul despite this to continue. —— not going to settle this. here is
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another one. must have a look at what the us inspector general is angered by james comey‘s what the us inspector general is angered byjames comey‘s in the link at the hillary clinton e—mail controversy. a new report out that says... and this report goes on saying... let's go back to anthony. it is a strange situation where one person, james comey, is unpopular with both sides of the political spectrum. there is something in this report, all 500 pages that partisans on both sides will point to and say this is either indication or evidence that the other side and gazed into misdeeds. clinton supporters will say see, james comey should do not
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have had that big press conference injuly, that have had that big press conference in july, that it have had that big press conference injuly, that it was unfairly damaging hillary clinton and that he certainly should not have sent that letter to congress saying the investigation was reopened on the eve of the presidential election that violate all sorts of fbi norms. meiwald donald trump supporters are going to say, this is also poorly i james comey. there will also point toward specific incidences of fbi officials including peter struck, with a charge of the clinton investigation, transferred to the russia investigation, of bias and having disparaging thoughts about donald trump. and while the inspector general said that information revealed the text m essa 9 es information revealed the text messages that he said and then the fbi colleague disparaging donald trump is saying that we will stop donald trump from being president, that did not biased the clinton investigation, he didn't say whether
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it would have any effect on the trump russia investigation, that was beyond its particular mandate. i think we will hear from donald trump very soon saying that this is clear evidence that there are people within the fbi who are out to get him orat within the fbi who are out to get him or at the very least had disparaging thoughts about him and thatis disparaging thoughts about him and that is what they withdraw from this. the same report, two very different conclusions. very helpful. thank you. inafew in a few minutes we were here the latest development in arabic sword. three years ago, 71 migrants died in a sea of glory in austria. the lorry came from hungary and today several men were found guilty of being responsible for the death. here, the uk government's compromise to avoid a commons defeat on brexit has been rejected as "unacceptable" by leading remainer dominic grieve.
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theresa may had convinced most rebels, to back her in a key vote next week by giving them assurances. a big defeat in the house of commons over the idea of giving parliament more power if the brexit deal goes sour. but she only got through that and avoided a defeat by promising a compromise. that compromise was published at 5pm and remain attending tory rebels are furious and they should economize is not acceptable and were not even consulted on the final version. the brexiteers say something very different and they don't necessarily like it but the government has got to get on with it. but with all of these months theresa may has been accused of trying to keep both sides on board. perhaps by disappointing remainers tonight, she has finally picked one side. but now the lines are drawn. for the big showdown when this all comes back to parliament next week. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom.
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0ur lead story is: new york state is taking legal action to dissolve president trump's charitable foundation. it's accusing it of persistent illegal conduct over more than a decade. mr trump has called the case ridiculous. the lower house of parliament in argentina has voted in favour of legalising abortion within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. the vote was a narrow one and the bill must now go before the senate where it may struggle to be passed. we will keep you updated on that. eu countries have approved a raft of retaliatory tariffs against duties imposed by us president donald trump on steel and aluminium. the european commission in brussels says the new tariffs will be implemented in the coming days. 0n bbc world service. in india residents of the capital delhi are battling high pollution levels that are 8—9 times higher than normal, and extreme temperatures, due to an unusual dust
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haze covering the city. it's been exactly one year since the grenfell tower fire, which killed 72 people. commemorations have been taking place throughout the day. at the exact moment the first emergency call was made to report the fire a year ago, 12:54 in the morning, the tower was lit up in green. here's lucy manning. in the middle of the night, grenfell lit up the sky. last year, the horror of the flames, now green to commemorate the tragedy. last year, they gathered at the foot of the tower, helpless. now, they stood in the same place to remember. # we all need somebody to lean on. words from the koran.
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adele and stormzy. but this was about people who had lived and lost here. some came with flowers, others with messages. the day after the fire we met this man, and today he came to remember his mother, father, sister and two brothers. from having a family to not having a family at all is a big change. their absence is a big thing that i've been left with to deal with for the rest of my life and it's extremely painful and i miss them dearly every day. last year we also met this lady, desperate for news. he lost his cousin, her husband and their baby. 0n the day of the fire we were just running around trying to find relatives.
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you saw me on the day. but it was the aftermath. in the aftermath, this whole community came together. what do you think the grenfell community have achieved a year on? a desire to make sure this never happens again. at a local church, otherfamilies who lost children, parents, sisters and brothers heard calls for healing and justice. they have mourned here as a community from the day of the fire, supporting each other, when those who should have done, failed. at this primary, they lost 12 past and present pupils and a teacher. those who have died are always remembered. we pray for those who have lost their homes. how does a school cope after this?
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with difficulty. it was a day of dignity, but their campaign for answers doesn't end here. many more reflections on those who lost her life and the grenfell tower available online. —— lost their lives. in hungary four men have received 25—year jail terms over the deaths of 71 migrants. they suffocated in the back of this sealed lorry. these were the scenes in the court today, that's the afghan man identified as the gang leader, as well as three bulgarian accomplices. they were all found guilty of people—smuggling. this all happened during the height of the migrant crisis in august 2015. some of those who died had travelled
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all the way from iraq, through europe, until they got to roszke, on the hungarian—serbian border, where the lorry began its journey. police say they think an hour later, the 71 people inside had already suffocated, the lorry was sealed airtight. the prosecutors said the accused ignored the sound of the people inside banging on the sealed interior, as the oxygen ran out. the lorry was abandoned in the village of parndof, but was only found 2 days later, with the bodies decomposing inside. nick thorpe was covering the trial. exactly a year after the start of the trial, here in the courtroom, in hungary, three years after the tragedy itself, all the defendants were found guilty. the judge highlighted at the particular cruelty of this case. 71 men, woman and children
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left to suffocate in the back of a sealed truck. that judge also highlighted the success of the police investigation, the hungarian police backed by their australian counterparts. austraian counterparts. the surveillance technique used to track the truck and to catch the culprits. left unmentioned during the trial largely were the moral dilemmas behind this case. with few legal avenues into europe, genuine refugees and migrants have to use the services of smugglers to reach europe. often with such dire consequences. the case also highlighted the continued split in europe. between those who regard refugees and migrants and asylum seekers as worthy of compassion and help and those who see them as potential criminals little better than the men who smuggle them across the continent. apple says it is to change
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the default settings of its iphone to stop hackers and others unlocking devices without proper legal authorisation, but it could upset law enforcment agencies. well for more on this, let's cross to kim gittleson in new york. but with the resignation the of law—enforcement agencies?” but with the resignation the of law-enforcement agencies? i think at first it helps understand what apple is beta testing right now. the idea if you have your iphone, you plug it in overnight to charge or perhaps it sinking into your computer and typically up until this point, that portable clean your computer and the usb port is left open for the entire time even when the iphone is locked. what apple is testing is essentially locking the phone after an hour so that no data can be after downloaded that no data can be after downloaded that device was locked. and that has some law—enforcement officials here in the united states and elsewhere up in the united states and elsewhere up in arms, idea being that this is the
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method they have been using to try and unlock iphones they have been using in criminal cases. two main companies here that say they can provide the services one is called grey shift and the other is called celebrate. both of them have essentially been using this back door. when they want to get access to these divisive. this is something that has cropped up repeatedly because apple wants to talk the security of vista device to consumer saying they won't be unwittingly unleashing the data if they don't wa nt to unleashing the data if they don't want to grant access. but the problem is that for many law enforcement officials, this prevents them perhaps from getting useful information that could help them solve crimes. thank you. leslie but there. in the uk, the engineering firm rolls royce says it will cut 4,600 jobs over the next two years, as a part of major restructuring. middle managers and back—office staff will bear the brunt of the cuts. professor david bailey explains why. simply the focus on a few sectors.
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upson downs in terms of offshore energy sector for example, sanctions against russia impact on it is well and there are a lot of excellent effect is here but ultimately, the firm is too top heavy. they management is right in trying to understand that and they want to become a much more simplified company, with good levels of management top of the company in the engineering and research and development and customers. it was a bit more responsive to customers and reduce bit more responsive to customers and red u ce costs bit more responsive to customers and reduce costs and compete more effectively at the against the ge. that is all good for the concert is will they continue to invest in r&d and engineering in the uk. we want to see the evidence of future investment here. we update you on major battle playing out and given in a few minutes. —— playing out in a given. good evening. while storm hector has
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been affecting parts of the uk, as hurricane but bringing flash leading to some parts of mexico. these pictures were sent in tuesday across. because to the extent of the rain flowing to the streets people in the houses here, and more rain to come. it's been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm but heading into the peninsula heading northwards into the southwest that the states. some bring much needed for the likes of arizona, colorado affected by wildfi res for the likes of arizona, colorado affected by wildfires but with that there will be strong winds as well. there will be the first rain for parts of arizona and about three months. we still can see some severe door to storms of the friday across northern parts of the usa into the planes into saskatchewan. 0f northern parts of the usa into the planes into saskatchewan. of the storm posting off the limit. a lot of what whether gathering across the north west of south america but also the chilly weather, temperatures
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well below average across parts. we will continue to see some wet and windy weather here. the tropical disturbance in the bay of bengal, hassan area northeastern states. that process continues and high levels of wanting out. it also continues very wet and fortunately do parts of bangladesh and myanmar and is part of the world we have thousands and thousands of refugees out at the moment. so we will see further concerns with flash flooding and mudslides in this area. the rain continues for the worse it gets the dees a little bit across the northern states but the far north and himalaya district very wet. snow over the hills there. the monsoon across china. another storm posted taiwan moving through. giving warm and wet weather here and a lot of heavy showers. following into the philippines. and i weigh southwards into oshawa get high—pressure debriefings dry. but there is a nasty area of low pressure bathroom
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parts of tasmania. —— battery parts. come the weekend the temperatures dip away and we will see snow even at lower levels. now it europe in the uk we have had the storm hector heading his way into scandinavia. some rain here but still warnings and wildfires as it's been so hot and wildfires as it's been so hot and so drive. we could see disruption from that storm here and also these thunderstorms across central and eastern areas. which could be triggered late in the day on friday for portico's match against spain in the world cup. there is a lesotho weather on the east. —— portugal match. after hector, quieter day here on friday but saturday looks quite unsettled and drierand but saturday looks quite unsettled and drier and brexit hopefully on sunday. —— and hopefully will be brighter on sunday. another dna, hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom. the fifa world cup in russia has kicked off, with the host nation
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winning the opening match 5—0 from saudi arabia. we have all the action on and off the pitch. president trump and his children are being sued by the state of new york over alleged persistent illegal conduct by the trump foundation. mr trump says the case is ridiculous. in yemen the all—out assault on the port of hodeida is in its second day. we hearfrom the un in yemen, and in new york where it's holding an emergency meeting on the situation. every day outside source features bbc journalists working in over 30 languages. your questions are always welcome. #bbcos is the hashtag yemen next. the offensive to seize a crucial port from rebels is now the biggest
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battle of this four year conflict. already at least 39 people have died in hoodayda. it's the latest move by a saudi—led coalition that's been trying to defeat shia houthi rebels since 2015. the rebels seized territory including the capital sanaa the year before. the extra factor is that iran, a shia nation, supports the houthis, though the nature of that support is contested. the saudi led coalition is made up of these mainly sunni arab states. well, these are the latest pictures of pro—government forces advancing on hodeida. the uae is taking a lead role in this particular operation, and it says four of its fighters have died, along with 30 rebels. so far the ground and air offensive has focused on the outskirts of the city
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in particular areas near the airport. meanwhile the un is trying to ensure that aid can still comes through hodeida's port. eight million civilians in yemen are on the verge of starvation. this is one un humanitarian coordinator in sanaa, we got through, though the line isn't great. it's the lifeline for yemen. 90% of all the basic commodities people living there required to survive co mforta bly, living there required to survive comfortably, that's singapore. 70% of all humanitarian assistance comes from that single port. if that port closes, even for just a few days, the impact is immediate and it's serious. everything has to be done to ensure that the port remains open so to ensure that the port remains open so that food can continue to arrive, can leave the city and reach the
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areas where people leave it the most. yemen right now is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, 7596 humanitarian crisis in the world, 75% of the entire population depends on some form of humanitarian assistance and protection. the bbc‘s nawal al—maghafi is yemeni and has covered the conflict in her country extensively. here's her analysis today. the uae led force on the ground they start pushing towards the airport, so we have not seen the ports completely stopped which is a relief but one of the things that we have seen is the aid agencies pull out of a data which will have consequences already and thousands of people trying to flee their homes. trying to escape the conflict that's about to come. it's always been known that this port is strategic, if they take control of it it will have a major shift in the balance of power in this conflict. but this isn't the first time we have discussed this offensive. the uae have put it forward time and time again to the uk and the us and they've been told not to do it. that's because the price
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and the cost is just too high on civilians. if this takes a long time, every single day that that port isn't working will have catastrophic consequences on the ground. france, the uk and the us are backing the saudi—led coalition. but as you heard there from nawal, they say they didn't want this offensive to happen. in fact when it was clear it was going ahead anyway, the uk called a meeting of the united nations security council. that's happening now in new york, nada tawfik is there. the closed meeting has now wrapped up, and it was interesting because before hand, we heard from the swedish ambassador and he said that given what yemen is facing with this humanitarian crisis and this assault that's drying closer that he thought the security council should call for a complete cessation of hostilities to avert what he said would be a disaster but when the security
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council met, the members said they we re council met, the members said they were united in their deep concern about the humanitarian situation and that they reiterated their calls to keep the port open but they were unable to come to an agreement about whether there should be appalled to stop those hostilities. and karen pierce, the british ambassador said they wanted this closed meeting to get really an in—depth breathing —— from the us special envoy to yemen about what is taking place military and she then also reiterate the coalition, the fact that they have a legitimate reason the coalition, at security reason to hold this military operation. so the console is divided on the way forward, what they do say though is that martin griffiths is urgently trying to work out some kind of arrangement from the port that would satisfy both the food seas and the saudi led coalition. us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has met president xijinping in beijing, north korea is top of the agenda. since the singapore summit
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the americans have been trying to counter the idea that north korea got something for nothing. mr pompeo insists japan, south korea and china still support sanctions. here's more of what we heard. the world should rest assured the united states, the republic of korea, and japan, remain committed to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearisation of north korea. each of those three countries also has acknowledged the importance of the work of president trump has undertaken and the commitments that chairman kim has made toward that very end. to achieve that denuclearization. the americans say they want major progress on denuclearisation by the end of 2020.
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but they know they need regional support for their approach, hence mr pompeo's post summit tour. here's more analaysis from celia hatton. look at what's on paper, what came out of that summit, it is quite flimsy and that's really where secretary pompeo comes into play. he's the one travelling the region now, he's trying to give reassurances and i think we need a lot of people are going to be looking to the us administration now but also to pyongyang to say what's next. because what is on paper really wasn't very impressive. the biggest policy shift at the summit was the us saying it'd stop its military exercises with south korea. here's celia on that. kim jong—un wanted that that beijing wanted that, i mean beijing has been pushing for these military drills to be frozen. that was part of beijing's plan all along. they have been trying to get washington and pyongyang to agree to this freeze for freeze approach where washington would agree to freeze military drills, and pyongyang would agree to freeze missile testing and freeze its missile programme. so, really beijing is
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getting what it wants in this regard, if washington stakes its guns on base and agrees to continue to put a hold on those military drills. there are lots of smiles in beijing over that. we're starting to see how north korea's state media has reported the summit to north koreans who have no free access to information. bbc monitoring has been watching. it's quite hard to know what to say after that. thank you for putting that video together. stay with us on outside source, still to come: finland has just completed an experiment in basic income where it gave 2000 unemployed citizens a monthly wage. we find out how that went, and whether it'll be taking it any further. one of the musical stars of the royal wedding last month — the cellist, sheku kanneh—mason — has won two awards at the classic brits. colin paterson was at the ceremony. last month, sheku kanneh—mason
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played the cello at the royal wedding. at the classic brit awards, the 19—year—old won both best male and the critics' choice award. it is an honour, really. just a lovely summing up of my first two years. surprisingly, he is still a student, and sat exams last week but hasn't got his results due to a bungle. they're out but i need to go and collect them. so you could find them out? yeah, but only as of two days ago and i need my id card, which i've lost. # i want to be a part of it... alfie boe and michael ball also had a problem after winning best group. they only give you one. we've never had an argument. this might be the first one!
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# it's up to you, new york, new york.# thankfully, for the sake of harmony, they later triumphed in album of the year, meaning they could each have a brit. # we'll meet again...# and at the age of 101, there was a lifetime achievement award for dame vera lynn. she couldn't be at the ceremony, but she spoke to bbc south east today on the phone. unexpected but very nice. it's lovely after all these years to get acknowledgement like that. # i know we'll meet again some sunny day.# colin paterson, bbc news, royal albert hall. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom.
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our lead story is: new york state is taking legal action to dissolve president trump's charitable foundation. it's accusing it of persistent illegal conduct over more than a decade. mr trump has called the case ridiculous. i want to turn now to this article by the australian broadcasting corporation. it contains this photo from 2007 showing a nazi swastika flag flying from an australian army vehicle in afghanistan. defence chiefs say it was quickly taken down and the personnel involved were punished. but there's context here, because this is the latest in a series of allegations of misconduct by australian soldiers in afghanistan. they've surfaced because of this article. investigative journalists from fairfax media obtained a copy of an internal defence report that details alleged war crimes by some of australia's elite special forces.
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harvey biggs. tell us more about these allegations. what we know about these allegations comes from the work of these two journalists, nick mackenzie and chris masters from fairfax media and what they have done is they up got their hands on this report, it's an internal defendant worry that began in 2016 and has been taking testimony from members of australia's elite fighting force is, the sas and commandos. what it does is think and grow to be disturbing picture, there's allegations of war crimes, a toxic culture and a lack of accountability and leadership. there's three incidents that stand out that i want to talk about. the first one in 2009, there was an sas trooper on his first appointment and allegedly was pressured into executing an unarmed elderly man and that was what they called a ritual
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of putting these young recruits. second comes from that exact same mission where an afghan man was killed, he had a prosthetic leg. that nick was apparently taken back to perth and fashioned into a beer drinking vessel. and third, three yea rs drinking vessel. and third, three years later, 2012, it's alleged that an australian soldier cake and have any man who was handcuffed off the edge of a client and he was badly injured and later executed and that's where the reference to the hollywood movie 300 comes into the story. the report is a talk about a minority of people in these troops started to really were emboldened by the warrior and ethos and became devoted to the movie and in that movie, there's a scene that depicts an enemy fighter case —— kicked off an enemy fighter case —— kicked off a precipice. what is the government going to do? they launched an investigation and they said it totally u na cce pta ble but investigation and they said it totally unacceptable but they haven't gone into much detail because this investigation is going
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on. if the third investigation into the conduct of elite fighters in afghanistan and the last two years alone. the opposition party is calling for this internal report to be made public. thank you very much. let's come back to the screen now. we will go to france first and then we'll turn to in a moment. now french police think they might have an answer to the identity of a french girl who died at the age of four, having been subjected to horrific violence, and was left by the side of the road. the crime dates back to the 1980s. it's after the man believed to be her brother gave a sample of his dna to police in an unrelated case. hugh schofield in paris explains: this is the story of a little girl whose body was found 31 years ago on the edge of a motorway near bloor on the door and the body was in a terrible state. it was covered in burns and bites
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and it was really in a shocking way. no of the time there is a huge search of course to find out who this girl was but it went nowhere, no one could trace or identify this girl, no pairings came forward, no schools came forward saying they were missing a child, she was aged between three and five so she could have been at school and in the event the girl was buried anonymously in a graveyard nearby where she was found and people stood visit that grave and put on flowers to what they propose the martyr of the a—10. fast forward 30 years and we have this remarkable breakthrough thanks to dna. what happened is that they kept the dna from the body but also from the blanket that was wrapping her arms on the blanket a couple of years ago they be examined it with finer tools and found another dna, another sample of dna. since then, what has happened is
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that they have arrested a man in a computer the unconnected matter, north of paris. they took his dna as routine, run it through the system and it matched the sample that was on the blanket of the girls. they put two and two together and they determined this man was therefore most likely to be the brother of the dead girland most likely to be the brother of the dead girl and from that they've traced the parents. who are a couple one living in below or another living north of paris and they've been arrested now and are expected to be placed under investigation leading to a trial and the presumption is that one or another oi’ presumption is that one or another or both of the parents were responsible for the killing of this little girl. update you on an experiment in finland. 2000 unemployed finns were given a flat monthly payment of 560 euros — called a basic income. the idea is that it provides a guaranteed financial safety net — and that it helps get unemployed people back into work — without fear of losing benefits
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they may need to meet their costs. well recently — the finnish government put an end to it. erika benke's been coverign this story for outside source from the start — she's been talking to some of those who took part. i now work in a call centre and i have been there almost a year now before i had thejob i was unemployed for two years. my salary with the basic income is over 2000 euros per month so that's quite good but i'm paying a lot of loans so i'm not getting rich here. when it's over i'm a bit worried that i can't keep myjob over i'm a bit worried that i can't keep my job because over i'm a bit worried that i can't keep myjob because of the trap that there is because my salary might be too low. it may not make sense to be
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working. i think it's not a good idea. here's erika on why the government made the decision to stop the pilot. they were looking at the possible cost of extending its to a group of employees fins. at the end of this pilot, they were looking about possible implementation. we also know that they stopped looking at these things. the reason is money, it would have cost at least a0 million euros, possibly even more to extend the pilots and when they finish security, social security agency, government organisation that's running this scheme, when they asked for a budget, the government said no. other countries are also trying variations on this idea. also in ontario as well. in
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canada but here are a couple of ta kes canada but here are a couple of takes on why this programme hasn't been continued in finland. bloomberg — "finland's basic income test wasn't ambitious enough." "universal basic income didn't fail in finland. finland failed it" in the new york times. that's reflective perhaps of how the suspension of this programme has disappointed people well beyond finland. here's erika again. it is, especially because we don't know what the results of this experiment are. we don't know how many of these 2000 people have decided to take on a job. the finnish government will the results at the end of the pilot, so it might bea at the end of the pilot, so it might be a glorious success story. it may not be. we don't know at this point. it seems unlikely it's a glorious
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success if they stop funding it. it seems unlikely it's a glorious success if they stop funding itm might bea success if they stop funding itm might be a success in terms of employment figures. it may have driven back a lot of people into jobs. you don't know what a lot of high—profile celebrity champions of basic income like mark zuckerberg, elon musk, bernie sanders. a lot of people will be policy makers and will have to look at the job market, could be because in 20 years according to estimates, 30, 30 5% of thejobs we according to estimates, 30, 30 5% of the jobs we currently have will go to robots and will be lost thanks full automation, digitalization. to robots and will be lost thanks fullautomation, digitalization. so, something has to be done because there simply won't be enough jobs for all of us. it's been exactly one year since the grenfell tower fire, which killed 72 people. commemorations have been taking place throughout the day. — and earlier, at a school near the tower, pupils came together to remember their classmates
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who were lost in the fire. one of them was the pupils of the school very close to the tower were classmates who tossed their lives and former pupils while also lost their lives came together in the playground after school just a their lives came together in the playground after schooljust a few hundred metres from grenfell tower to sing together and we thought we would finish the programme by listening to them. music, maule. singing.
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off wet and windy in some places and in fact be gusts of winds in excess of 70 mph across northern ireland northwest england and strong enough to bring down some of those trees and needs, we also saw two inches of rainfall across parts of the highlands but by a contrast as the clouds cleared and the sunshine kempter we have beautiful weather across central and southern england. height of 2a degrees recorded at heathrow. as a move towards friday i did zoo bridge of height pressure bled —— builds and much all of us there will be some showers around there will be some showers around the far and west and to northern ireland and particularly some of these sharp and they willjust their way steadily eastwards through scotla nd way steadily eastwards through scotland as we go through the day. the rest of the sunshine in the southeast and the warm here, highs of 22 degrees, much pressure north. 14 of 22 degrees, much pressure north. 1a to 17 as a maximum. as he going to the weekend, it look as though we could tease him sharp showers on
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saturday if you've got outdoor plants, sunday looks likely to be the better of the two days. now some of that terrain could be heavy through the last first thing on saturday. a bit of it? as to how much rain will get across as that front weakens as it pushes eastward. but we could see some welcome rain for the garden care and a for sure generally on saturday 1a to 20 degrees. once that frontal system clears through and it will do so, again we see that ridge of high pressure building behind before the next system continues to push him from the atlantic. on sunday, acquired or story for most of us, we will see more crowd pushing in from the west and eventually maybe by the end of the day some showers fringing northern ireland and western scotland. but these areas could see the best of the sunshine and potentially best of the warmth. height of 22 degrees, 72 fahrenheit. so as we move out of sunday into monday, we have got that area of low pressure to push him from the northwest. now it may welljust brush the extreme north of the
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country and the windiest story here but it remains fairly widely open across england and wales. a breezy day but likely dry cider —— settled and sunny. monday looks likely that we will see some showers through northern ireland and again into scotla nd northern ireland and again into scotland and northwest england. but central and southern areas should stay largely dry and breezy but quite warm with it. height of 2a degrees. that's 75 fahrenheit. looking further ahead, there's the potential for these low pressures to continue to move in from the atla ntic continue to move in from the atlantic up the north but as we move further ahead still out into the atla ntic further ahead still out into the atlantic you can start to see an area of high pressure that will build. this high pressure will be significant, there's a level of uncertainty as to how parties that high pressure be setting but if it sits across central and southern areas, it could indicate a change. it will push the jet stream further north and deflect the areas of low pressure to the northern half of the
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country and at the same time start to drag in more warmth across central and southern areas. it looks as we could be set up in the longer—term period. many dry and warm but potential for cooler, wetter and windier weather open to the far north. i love to see update you the weekend. tonight at ten... a day of remembrance for the victims of the grenfell tower tragedy on the first anniversary of the fire. victims‘ families and those who escaped the blaze gather at the foot of the tower to pay tribute to the 72 people who died. jessica urbano. victoria king. raymond moses bernard. # something inside so strong #. among those taking part today, children from a local school which lost 12 pupils past and present, and a teacher. tonight, thousands joined a silent
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