hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. we'll be taking you around the world with our stories today one in russia a big popular movement has made vladimir putin change his mind, he's watered down his plan to increase the state pension age. in puerto rico, the death toll from last year's hurricane has been revised up, massively, and caused another row between the island, and the white house. in the usa, florida is shaping up to be the race to watch in the coming elections, with two candidates channelling two very different visions of america. and in brazil, soldiders are patrolling the border, as the crisis in neighbouring venezuela continues to spread. also why the humble scallop, has been causing angry scenes between french and british boats, in the english channel.

vladimir putin has reduced the rise in the retirement age proposed for russian women, from 65 down to 60. here he is announcing the move. translation: we have a special caring attitude to women in our country. we understand that not only do they do theirjobs, but the whole household usually relies on them. the retirement age for women should not be increased more than for men. so i believe it necessary to decrease the retirement age for women suggested by the draft law from eight to five years. so although the retirement age for women would be increased by less, a five—year increase

for men, will stay. these pension proposals are extremely unpopular, tens of thousands of people have rallied across russia in recent weeks. and unusually for russia, protesters have been from all sides of the political debate. 65 may not seem that unreasonable a retirement age, but according to the world bank, the life expectency of a russian man is currently 66 years old, meaning many would not live to see their retirement, and an average russian man can expectjust one year of pension before they die. that life expectancy is well below the global average ofjust under 70 years for a man, or in sweden, a life expectancy of 80 years. that is why these pension reforms in russia are so contonentious, and they hit vladimir putin's popularity hard, his approval rating fell from 80% to 64%, according to a state pollster.

which is why he took the unusual step of giving a televised address. it's unusual to see an address like this made to the nation, i mean, mr putin generally only speaks like this, direct addresses, on state television and new year and on major occasions like for example after terrorist attacks he's occasionally done it, so that's in itself is unusual and was announced in advance of course they carried on all the main tv channels. beyond that, what this is is a very interesting moment because president putin essentially has distanced himself until now from this pension reform, he's always been presenting it as a government plan, because it's always been clear that this was going to be controversial and i think right at the beginning as the tough measures were first advanced, the kremlin simply didn't want mr putin to be associated with the reform.

but what has happened is we've seen mr putin's approval ratings plummet in recent weeks, drop from its astronomical heights to much lower, and i think perhaps that's why mr putin felt this was the time to step in and perhaps to try to soften the blow for the russian people. let's go to puerto rico now. until yesterday, the official death toll from last year's hurricane maria stood at 64. that's now changed to almost 3,000. here's the island's governor earlier. officially changing the... we're actually putting an official number to the death toll, we take the 2,075 number as the official death toll. i'm sure you remember videos like this one from when hurricane maria struck. it was the most powerful storm to hit the region in over 80 years. puerto rico is a us territory, everyone born there is an american citizen, though they cannot vote

in us presidential elections. at the time president trump played down the impact of the storm. every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overbearing, nobody has seen anything like this, what is your death count as of this moment, 17? 16. 16 people certified. 16 people versus the thousands. the mayor of the capital of puerto rico, sanjuan, has spoken in stark terms. this was not a good news story from the beginning, this was a people are dying story.

this is the us and trump are neglecting the puerto rican people story, and this was the story of violation of the human rights of the people of puerto rico. here's luis farjardo from bbc monitoring in miami. the mayor of san juan, the capital puerto rico, has been one of the most vocal critics of the administration of the trump administration. she talked about what she called neglect in the care of people in puerto rico during the storm and after the storm. again the fact that so many, even months after the event, that there were still deaths which have been attributed to the situation that happened after the hurricane, this is something... of course some people are going to say that it has to do with political rivalries, but i think it's fair to say that many puerto ricans feel that the attention that was given to this crisis by the federal government was not the same, not the same level to the us federal response to other similar crisis for example when houston

was affected by a storm during nesting season. this increase in the death toll hasn't come out of the blue, it was always viewed with scepticism. this is the new york times in december 2017, citing several academic assessments and concluding death toll was far higher. this may a harvard study put the figure even higher. at the beginning of august the puerto rican authorities conceded that the death toll was about 1400, but said they would wait for the results of a george washington university study to change the official figure. that's what's happened now. the situation has to do with the methodology used to get the numbers, initially the government had described the number of deaths that had occurred directly to the storm. people who had drowned or been killed by falling debris, but however this new study more detailed study, takes into account the number of people who died along several weeks even months after the event because of

the things like for example lack of adequate infrastructure, lack of electricity, which as you know was a problem on the island for weeks and months in parts of the island. didn't have access to adequate medical care, all these things summed up to get this new estimate, which as you know is almost 50 times bigger than the original one. what about the situation now, how apparent is hurricane maria and what people would find in puerto rico today? i talked to people from puerto rico who have moved to florida where i am right now, tens of thousands of people have relocated, they describe that in some cases there are still people in direct material hardship because of it they say in some cases because of bureaucratic delays, they have not received the adequate financing from the mouth from the federal agencies for recovering their place of living, and also the fact they could be much much worse also

of people say that if it wasn't for the fact that puerto ricans are automatically considered us citizens by birth, many left the island, one of the striking things of this new report says that during this crisis about 8% of the entire population of puerto rico moved out of the island, many returned, but tens of thousands of people have stayed away because they decided that it was not viable any more to live on their island. if you want an insight into how president donald trump has affected us politics, look no further than the two winners of the florida governor primaries. on the left is andrew gillum. he caused an upset by winning the democratic nomination. or as the washington post put it. tweet @washingtonpost "gillum s upset captures the story of the midterms in miniature." here's why: he's very liberal, he's backed by bernie sanders, and democrats chose him over a candidate from a democratic political dynasty.

establishment candidates aren't a shoe—in any more. mr gillum will face ron desantis on the right. he's very pro—trump, and is way outside of what once was the republican mainstream. also, look at the turnout. there was record levels on both sides, 1.6 million republicans versus 1.5 million democrats did, everyone it seems is energised. both sides are being pushed to their political left and right. if you want an idea of how pro—trump ron desantis is, look at this. everyone knows my husband is endorsed by president trump but he's also an amazing dad, he loves playing with kids. read the wall. he reads the stories. mr trump said you're fired i love that part. is teaching our daughter to talk.

people say he's all trump but he's so people say he's all trump but he's so much more. big league, so good. i thought you should know. tweet @realdonaldtrump "not only did congressman ron desantis easily win, but his opponent in november is his biggest dream, a failed socialist mayor who has allowed crime & many other problems to flourish in his city. this is not what florida wants or needs"! personal yes, but ron desantis went one step further. in a fox news interview, he said voters would "monkey this up" if they elected his opponen, who's black. now i've never used that phrase, and i've spent a little time looking into this, it seems no—one uses that phrase. you would think this would cause problems but not really. i spoke to anthony zurcher in

washington and asked him about that. things have changed, it's the trump era, the type of things that would disrupt campaigns now they know they keep their head down and stay on message, it's not necessarily going to be career threatening. we will see, this is ron coming out of the gate the day after he won primary in his party nominee, any stumbling like this, people can interpret whether that is racist sentiment or not or slip of the time, one way or the other it's a bad way to start a campaign, but it's very early on the spot like this going to be on and we will see how he holds up. that thing he gets for criticism, is that pieces of the white house, and then whether it's congress or presidential level there've not got their game presidential level there've not got theirgame in presidential level there've not got their game in order, what does this primary tell us about how they take it to primary tell us about how they take ittoa primary tell us about how they take it to a national scale? that's going to be interesting, we've had plenty of primaries now over the course of

this year, and in some cases the progressive, bernie sanders type candidate has one, alexandria of course running in new york, unseated a member of the house of representatives, there's been cases where more moderate candidate prevails. it also almost hard to draw a trend out of it except that democrats are engaged in supporting a wide variety of candidates, this race in particular is high—profile win for the bernie faction, it'll be a real test to see whether, which bases stronger which grassroots true believer can prevail in a state like florida. you have to remember about florida, it's a swing state, it a lwa ys florida, it's a swing state, it always is up for grabs and in presidential elections, but does not mean it's moderate. it's a very polarised state between pro trump right and progressive left, so it'll bea right and progressive left, so it'll be a real test to see who can turn out their base, who can show up in the midterm election, and it's going

to be fascinating race to watch. one of the stories in the last 2a hours has been the tape of donald trump telling evangelicals there may be violence if the democrats do well in the midterms and try to overturn his agenda, the new cycle moose pass at the moment i wonder if that is still gathering attention. you know, donald trump at an event that the white house and asked about a variety of things including that line you just quoted, was asked about the comments, the other night, i think we have to view these as perhaps inelegant way of the president trying to drum up interest and attention for the midterm elections, he realises that the party that can power usually does not have the turnout advantage it's a party that's out of power that has enthusiasm and the story —— words or phrases, and he's trying to forcefully assert the gravity of the situation and of course he's doing

it in situation and of course he's doing itina situation and of course he's doing it in a very trump style which is not the most polished with doing it, and warning of violence is obviously going to raise concerns, but then againi going to raise concerns, but then again i heard a sort of talk from trump supporters right before the 2016 election as well, maybe the sta kes a re 2016 election as well, maybe the stakes are very high. stay with us on outside source, still to come... we'll be looking at what caused this angry confrontation between french and british fishing boats in the english channel. a developing story out of scotland tonight. alex salmond says he is resigning from the snp, following allegations of sexual harassment, which he denies. he made a statement via twitter a short time ago. today i wrote to the national sector of the party, resigning my membership. i carefully read the statement i read the interview a few days ago, she made it clear that the smp have never received a single complaint about my personal conduct

and my many decades of membership. in the scottish government have confirmed they did not have any such complaint before this january. more than three years after i left office as first minister. that is the record of 30 years of public service. so, let me be clear again, i repeat these two complaints of harassment and i absolutely did jack any suggestion of criminality. i believe all issues of al-qaeda should be treated seriously confidentially and for a fair process. all kinds. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... russia's president vladimir putin has announced plans to soften controversial pension reforms that have caused public outrage in russia. bbc persian reports that nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has been admitted to a medical clinic in herjail in iran, after

reportedly suffering panic attacks. she's a british woman who was temporarily released a few days ago to see her daughter, but returned to prison on sunday. she's serving a five—year sentence for spying, a charge she denies. the german city of wiesbaden has removed a 4m golden statue of turkey's president erdogan. it had been installed in a square as part of an arts festival, the organisers said it was to spark discussion around the theme "bad news". instead, it prompted conflict between mr erdogan‘s supporters and critics, and was removed after it was defaced with the words "turkish hitler". turkish. this is footage of fireball, believed to be a meteor, lighting up the sky near perth in western australia. most watched list. an app called natural cycles promotes itself as a natural alternative to contraception, and has claimed to be highly accurate and clinically tested .

but the advertising standards authority has found that these claims are misleading. jean mackenzie has been to meet one woman who got pregnant while using the app. how many months now? 34 weeks. so yeah, about five to go. rebecca was not planning on having herfirst child for a few years. i was looking for a sort of alternative to contraception at the time, i suffer from depression and anxiety and hormone related contraception just seem to really escalate that. she came across this contraceptive act which strikes fertility over the month and tells them when they can and cannot get pregnant. she says she started using it after seeing an

advert on is to graham saying that it was 99% effective. was it based on the 99% you decided to use it? yes, i was sort of sucked into this 99% effective, you know, even more effective than the pill. she said she had been falling the search is perfect over three months which he found out she was pregnant. this might have to be the going home outfit. talked about the impact this had on you in the last few months. it's been stressed high levels of stress, selling the flat at the moment trying to going somewhere new, and move back in with my mum temporarily. yeah, just, you know, everything all at once. you are not ready for it. and yes, exactly. you know, i'm only 26. there's been lots

of things i might would have done differently. the advertising watchdog ruled the app cannot be marketed as highly or 99% effective, because evidence from users shows there's in fact a chance of getting pregnant. if you had been sold of seven night of 100 women get pregnant using it, would you have usedit? pregnant using it, would you have used it? no. a year or so ago when i saw it on social media i was led to believe it was 99% effective, i think that's definitely misleading. the company says it removed the advert in question and its current adverts provide women with necessary information will stop more news for the us economy. it expanded faster in the second quarter than at first thought, it's growth is now put at 4.2%. that's translated into some sizeable profits. live with us from new york is kim,

first thing how come they didn't get it right the first time? as they a lwa ys it right the first time? as they always do a sack and even third revision of these economic figures, it's pretty standard, every time we give you a figure of something saying the us grew at an annual rate of four by 1% a bears worth mentioning of course that there are second and third revisions as more and more data comes in, and they can revise those figures, so what you are talking about is we saw they we re are talking about is we saw they were by slightly upward which again show the us economy is doing quite well. but that figure for .2% in context, how good is that? is the fastest annual rate in four rate —— yea rs, fastest annual rate in four rate —— years, so fastest annual rate in four rate —— years, so that's something that's been trumped by the president, if you forgive the pun, it's partial, corporate tax reform is this a good

thing that he has passed with help of republican congress, it has certainly helped american corporations it took and put more money in american pocketbooks which move dot —— spread spending. another thing he benefited from his rosy economic environment we came out of the depths of the financial crisis, and firms are growing again about something that sort of has helped the us economy grow, i want to mention it's also have corporate hot profits grow we saw another bit of data to date. corporate profits go up data to date. corporate profits go up but we carried reports recently on the bbc about how wages in real terms are not necessarily going up, so terms are not necessarily going up, so how is a corporate or enjoying it more than perhaps the average person? just because corporate process “— person? just because corporate process —— profits go up doesn't mean they are putting those towards wages, a lot of what we saw in the united states as we see that those profits went to buying back shares from existing shareholders, that means a lot at that extra profit is

being returned to people who own shares and those companies not necessarily people who work for them. thank you very much. live from new york. remember earlier in the week that donald trump announced a trade deal with mexico — it wasn't a deal — it was a agreement on some issues — none the less it wasn't clear where canada was in the equation. now he says he thinks canada will meet a friday deadline he's set for an agreement between the three of them. here's what one analyst makes of the president's optimism box 2 first the intellectual property provisions which canada fought against, which was president obama's attempt to a goat —— negotiate nafta. and also the dairy farm provisions that president trump will try to negotiate, but canada dairy farm lobby is very strong and i thinkjustin trudeau will be very

against shifting on that. the chinese government says its working hard to cut pollution, which is thought to kill more than 350,000 people a year. and it's seeking help in doing this from foreign entrepreneurs. vineet khare has this report from beijing. a blanket of smoke enveloping beijing, last year. engineerjohn was not happy with the local air purifiers, so he built his own and turned it into a business. we build a pure fire that has enough capacity to handle a home, so 150 m2 anna manages all the rooms. as these pictures travel across the world, and a small —— smog takes a toll on public health, the government has taken strong measures. there are

restrictions placed on factories as well as government use of vehicles, and when you get to a red level we will switch from one day per week restriction on vehicle licence plates to audit events of 50% of cars will be removed from roads and if there are big government advance like a summit often they will do major changes like shutting schools or factories. you would find these electric charging points across beijing to charge cars and taxis. locals say they had seen a drop in the level of pollution in the last couple of years. and the credit goes to electric vehicles as a reason for the drop. i will see you in a few minutes' time. good evening, on the new weather

menu big waves in india, big storms in france and sweaty time for tennis players in new york. heat and humidity very much in place for a surprise of the united states at the moment but the chart shows cooler colours and cool air pushing their way south dividing line brought in severe storms of late, around the great lakes midwest eastern canada better day on thursday, but we could see storms push towards boston and new york and washington and philadelphia later in the day, through today we could see temperatures in new york feel like 100 fahrenheit mid to high 30s as far as celsius is concerned but those storms are about to bring a bit of a change. temperatures at for thursday but as storms go through the day into night and friday, eight ta ke the day into night and friday, eight take a noticeable drop in it builds up take a noticeable drop in it builds up the heat, for the player next week. going to bigwigs battling the shores in sydney, want to stay

within the coast as well that is being ripped of by air pressure, and i'm loving way, sees will use but they are low pressure moving to nosiness a bigwigs come here as we see the week. what happens is the southeast of australia sunshine replaced by more cloud and after that the winter so far wet and windy weather thursday into friday, went on friday east of melbourne. after what they windy night across new zealand, we will see brighter conditions posing in to the wet and it'll ease down. going to north india, southwest of new delhi, the highway into new delhi completely flooded from some fairly intense monsoon rains over the last 24 — 36 hours using a bit from the northwest of india as we go through the rest of india as we go through the rest of this week, notice blue colours become more tense toward the northeast, so eastern parts at

that's where we could see increased risk of flooding as we head towards the weekend. finally, this take us to closer to home, and your, the storms rattled france last night in 100,000 lightning strikes in 12 hours across the country. the storms have come courtesy of a change of air mass warm air pushing into central europe, cooler air uk ireland working its way south east, dividing line for thursday is across sweden, denmark, eastern germany and towards off—line region. heavy thundery rain at cool air pushes and a bit of snow on the tops of the alps as well, so temperatures northwest of europe gallon close to where they should be, one through mediterranean a bit warm back as he go into next week, you'll find out for your weather for the week ahead in halfan for your weather for the week ahead in half an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source.

we have been speaking in the link at what is happened in russia. the plans to increase the state pension age. we'll be going to brazil present, soldiers on the street, reducing the number of migrants coming over. we'll also talk about what happened in the english channel last night with english and french boats. theresa may's trip to africa. we will bring you up—to—date and will also talk and theresa may's in nigeria meeting the president, but some of his countrymen are wondering why the uk allows money stolen by corrupt officials in africa, to be banked in london. also goats can read your emotions, and they prefer a happy face. brazil's president has already warned the situation in venezuela

threatens the peace across south america. now brazil's government says it may restrict the number of venezuelans it allows in. it's considering a voucher system — and says it wants to get the daily number of people coming across the border down from 700 a day to below 200. here's the president. translation: we will seek the support of the international community to adopt firm diplomatic measures to solve this problem, which is no longer a matter of one country's internal policy but a problem that is crossed the borders of the various countries and threatens the harmony of our entire continent. this is happening in a northern state of brazil, on the border. tens of thousands of venezuelans have crossed already there — and it's creating tension. these pictures came in earlier. brazilian troops are on the streets. their role is to stop repeats of violence between migrants and locals. this was earlier in the month.

a mob of residents attacked camps where venezuelans were staying. let's not forget more than 2 million people have fled venezuela since 2014, when a collapse in oil prices sent its economy into a nosedive. what's now becoming clear is this is no longer a national crisis but a regional one. and the countries dealing with it are coming up with regional solutions. colombia and peru have said they will share a database of migrants, and they're also calling on the united nations to address the issue. venzuela's president nicholas maduro meanwhile has made an extraordinary televised address, calling on venezuelans who have left the country to return and stop being economic slaves. it cannot be that some venezuelans

have left the country to clean toilets overseas, have left to be economic slaves abroad. they heard they had to leave, that all is finished here in the opposition was saying, leave the country and right wing governments are saying to go over there. and now the migrants say, they discriminate against us. they despise us. many sold their houses and cars and left to be economic slaves. that bring ourselves up—to—date with the different strands of this story. back to brazil now, and the bbc‘s katy watson is in sao paulo. it is worth pointing out compared to the other countries, brazil in absolute numbers is not saying a huge influx of migrants, the state certainly have come under pressure,

very isolated state, so venezuelans are coming through into the state and there are very fewjobs, not a big population and that is causing a lot of problems, and it said that brazil will not do and that is what they're trying to reassure them that they're trying to reassure them that they will have troops on the ground to reassure locals but also to look after the migrants coming through. but it is not something that the state thinks is too little too late. but looking at the bigger picture, to send them down to big cities like sao paulo, to bring venezuelans to bigger cities to find a stable life. where are these huge numbers of venezuela ns a stable life. where are these huge numbers of venezuelans staying? and

all places. if you look at columbia, which is got more than a million venezuelans that come through its borders, when a lot of venezuelans first come, they are seeking new shelters and sleeping on the streets, i was talking with someone who works on the northern border in just a few hours ago who was saying that people are sleeping on the streets. people will try to find any work they can and do keep on walking, they go from columbia and ecuador, down to peru, but of course, as you mentioned, as you heard in the past few weeks there have been more restrictions placed on venezuelans coming through, peru is asking for passports, but a judge lifted that order, so there is a lot of confusion in the region about how to approach the number of how did deal with venezuelans to approach the number of how did deal with venezuela ns and to approach the number of how did deal with venezuelans and the best strategy to deal with, and they do not have a unified plan for that. this was what was happening in the english channel last night.

this was not far from the north coast of france. and those are french and british fishing boats clashing in what's being called the ‘scallop war‘. french fishermen sent nearly 40 boats to confront the british boats, they accuse of the british of depleting scallop stocks. this is british account of what happened. around ten or maybe 15 other french boats surrounded us, throwing rocks at us, players lighting the sky up with flares so other books could see us. it was quite an intense moment. and this is the french perspective. translation: they have no hours, no quotas, they just fill their boats. they come, scrape and leave. they start working a month

before us and they leave us the crumbs. the source of the disagreement is this. french law says the scallop fishing season is from october to may. british boats aren't affected by the same regulations — they can gather scallops year—round. this is the uk environment secretary. my heart goes out to the fishermen who've been caught up in this. they have my full sympathy. they are fishing legally and they have every right to be fishing in those waters. and we are talking to the french authorities at the moment. in order to make sure there can be no repeat of the scenes that we saw earlier this week. this is le monde who called it "the battle". it quotes the most senior offical in french fisheries chief — he says the uk will not have access to these fishing zones. after it leaves the european union. the daily telegraph focuses on the fact that perhaps this could have all been avoided. sarah ransome reports from dover. they came back late last night, came

back into the harbour here, some of them lined up alongside, you might not be able to see behind me but there is a blue boatjust behind me, one of two that came into port last night with some damage, to the cruiser on board. and they have been on board all day, checking overfor repairs than anything else that they might need. the crews on board said that the french navy did nothing to help when that violence erupted. they're asking for more protection when they go out again, environment secretary says his heart goes out to them because they were fishing legally. but over time, and certainly the last 48 hours, the frustration has over again. the

commission is urging both countries to find an amicable solution. will have to see if the royal navy gets involved. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site there is full coverage on bbc.com/news, including more on why vladimir putin decided to soften planned pension changes in russia. if you want the best content being generated, you can get it through the bbc news app. the un says the nicaraguan government is responsible for serious human rights violations. they released this scathing report —

you can read it online. here's the un's human rights chief speaking earlier. repression and retaliation against demonstrators continue in nicaragua as the world continues to look away. the violence and impunity of these past four months have exposed the fragility of the country's institutions and the rule of law created a climate of fear and mistrust. just the number of those leaving nicaragua is testimony of that. hundreds of people have been killed and thousands injured in the crisis, which has been going on since april. the un seperates it into three stages. the original protests in april were against plans to change the social security system — they've now been suspended. but they soon turned into wider calls for the resignation of president daniel ortega. the un says the first phase of the crisis provoked a repressive

response by the police and pro—government armed elements. it says phase 2 was mid—june to mid—july — the clean—up phase, where police and mobs forcibly dismantled roadblocks and barricades. and in the third and current stage, government opponents have been "persecuted and criminalised" — though they continue to march, as these pictures from last weekend show. the nicaraguan government says the report is biased. the report does mention attacks on the governing party and police officers, but says they, "do not legitimise in any way a response by the state that is not in line with international human rights law". arturo wallace is from bbc mundo — he's recently back from nicaragua. here's what he saw. the second stage which was where the

government was trying to get rid of the roadblocks in the different sorts of incidents taking place, the shooting didn't stuff. we arrived the day that the last act was being placed, we could not get in because of there was a lot of shooting and paramilitaries, masked men with heavy weapons attacking the protesters. but we went there the second day and we saw people burying their loved ones who had been killed, removing the roadblocks in barricades, they're feared for their lives, protesting because many protesters have been captured, and a lot of them you do not hear a lot for quite a big time. they capture

and they only resurfaced many days later under allegations of torture and different sorts of abuses and even killings. very horrible stories. they have already asked for asylu m stories. they have already asked for asylum and of course, people who ask for asylum are always just a little, a portion and a lot of people have left the country and have moved north, el salvador and so on and so forth. right now, of course it is not as violent as it was in the past few months, more than hundreds of been killed, but there were people protesting and captured and arrested by people wearing masks and paramilitaries or even by people wearing masks and pa ramilitaries or even police officers wearing masks capturing people because they protested against the government who say that

all of this is not a coup d'etat, and ina all of this is not a coup d'etat, and in a way they say they're trying to justify this as a response. we have had updates from brazil, nicaragua, puerto rico, from the uk, from china and we're not going to turn to the netherlands. it reports by the dutch newspaper. this is a report by dutch newspaper volkskrant. it says one in five syrian refugees applying for asylum are being rejected from the netherlands and the reason — it says — is because their ideals are not in line with dutch values. it quotes the person in charge of migration paul van musscher this is anna holligan's latest report. differing views will interfere with their ability to integrate. else the

explanation given by the head of the department who is responsible for monitoring migration, he cited things like attitudes towards gender equality is the reason why some are being rejected. in 2100 syrians were granted the right to come to the netherlands as part of this special deal with turkey, made to the eu, this year that number has fallen to 200, 288. in turkey this year that number has fallen to 200,288. in turkey for their vulnerability and suitability for the refugee agency and subsequently by the dutch police immigration service and it is at that point that this apparent culture clash, the most vulnerable are being prevented from coming to a country that has traditionally been seen as one of the most open, tolerant and liberal

and europe. according to the boats from the report, this immigration criteria does not apply to people who are applying for asylum for the normal procedure and that these rules can be used for these people because they are coming through this special route through the un. india's supreme court has ruled that five prominent left—wing activists detained on tuesday should be kept under house arrest for eight days, rather than go to prison. police say the five were at a large public rally map, in maharashtra last december, where they incited dalits, the lowest caste in india, leading to violent clashes that left one person dead. the arrest of the activists has triggered a furious response. devina gupta has more from delhi. just a year before general elections, india's ruling hindu internationalist party is literally caught in the eye of the storm after

arrest of five left leaning activists on tuesday, questions are being raised on freedom of dissent in the country. earlier today, members of the civil society in three different cities, questioning his arrest and some even call them a political ploy. one of the activists is a noted campaigner, the other is a journalist who has questioned the government's policy in the past. the authorities however claimed that these five activists were involved in caste based violence that took place on the 1st of january where one person was killed. it is more interesting because india's human rights commission has noted that due procedure was not followed during the arrest of these activists, even india's activists, even india's top court intervened later in the evening directing authorities to keep these five activists under house arrest. it has also sought an explanation from the state government of maharashtra. a crowd of protestors had gathered outside the supreme court while davina was there,

here are the views of two of them. we don't stand for this, we don't stand for this kind of witchhunt. we demand that the policy should be viewed and fought democratically and we oppose these arrests and we demand that the people should be released. i think this is a conspiracy against the nation. it is a conspiracy against the nation because they want to create something that can question them and make it so these issues are silenced. day 2 of thersa may's trip to africa. today she flew from cape town to nigeria. here she is meeting with president muhammadu buhari in abuja. the prime minister has two goals — to ensure trade with africa continues uninterruped by brexit — and to find new markets and new investment opportunities. nigeria though has it's

own issues to raise — namely how corrupt officials are funelling money out of nigeria and into london's banks. here's nigeria's deputy high commissioner to the uk speaking on the bbc‘s today programme, we have received a lot of confirmation of the government of the uk. but not enough. we are expecting to get even more cooperation, we have the commonwealth, we talked about it and a lot of cooperation in that area,. the bbc‘s ben wright is travelling with mrs may. here's his latest report — after she arrived in lagos box 3 here's his latest report — after she arrived in lagos they still honour britain here, but the days of obeying are long gone. this former british colony is africa's largest economy and a hot destination for visiting trade delegations and their national leaders. theresa may is the first british prime minister to visit nigeria since 2011.

we have long—standing links with nigeria and long standing close commercial ties. there are british companies who have been here for many years and we want to enhance those trading links and there are opportunities to do so as we leave the european union. looking for a new trading direction as brexit beckons, but today resisting the temptation to join in the dancing. it is a very traditional welcome for theresa may, but make no mistake, this is a dynamic fast—growing economy with a lot of business potential for the uk which is why theresa may is here, hoping to find new markets for british goods and services. the nigeria also has the highest

population at nearly 194 million people in many of them quite young. there is huge economic growth potential, but trade is low. the latest numbers show we imported just over £1.2 billion and exported just over £1.2 billion and exported just over 2 billion. countries she is visiting, south africa and kenya. nigeria also has the largest population, almost 194 million, and many of them are young. tomorrow theresa may heads to kenya where again she hopes historic links will help the uk capture a slice of the future. new research suggests that goats are able to read the emotions on a human face. and they prefere us when we're happy. that's as far as i can take this stoyr — amanda akass has the rest. story — amanda akass has the rest. they may be gruff by name, but it turns out they don't really like those who are gruff by nature. goats at the buttercup sanctuary

have been involved in an experiment, showing they much prefer happy human faces. angry people can but out. founder bob birch is not surprised. goats love people who are happy. i think it rubs off on them if they have got people coming and visiting them and also staff and volunteers that are happy all the time. i think it creates a happy atmosphere for them and that is good. previous research has shown dogs and horses are very good at differentiating human expressions from photographs. the researchers from queen mary university of london wanted to see if goats could manage it as well. so they tested the reaction of 20 goats to photos showing people looking happy and angry. theyjust had to walk across the enclosure and investigate the photographs on the opposite side. we found that the goats were far more likely to walk towards the photographs with the happy face. the overall aim of our research is to raise awareness of how perceptive dog species are. the researchers hope their findings will improve

animal welfare standards. people visiting the sanctuary today were generally quite convinced. i would definitely say they can tell whether you are happy or not because when i first came here i seemed a bit worried with the amount of goats and they could tell. they are really friendly because when i came in, as soon as i came in, they all come towards you and they let you stroke them and that. i haven't noticed them see if i am really happy. but i would say the more you talk to them and the more likely you say hello and stuff, i'd say that they could probably see that you are interested in talking to them. it's just an emotion. you can probably tell how someone is feeling by the way they are acting so i don't see why goats would not be able to tell it. so if something has got your goat, don't try and get down with the kids. i would like to make an exception

from time to time, there should update on goats, for more serious matter and, with ten men for the last hour. he has also released a video that you'll be oh to find online very easily. he goes on then to deny all of the allegations being made against him and saying that he is committed to a fair process, which in the here is the news at ten. goodbye. for your weather for the week ahead in half an hour.

this against the 1st of september logically speaking all that date gets collected and paid too often statistics, but hold off, it does not look as the summer has been is quitejust yet, i not look as the summer has been is quite just yet, i spoke about this yesterday, and it does look as though somewhere in the southeast potentially over the weekend could see temperatures into the mid—may be high 20s albeit pretty briefly. one of the reasons for this spell of weather is an area of high pressure that starts to build and it's going to allow southwest flow to dominate for a to allow southwest flow to dominate fora time, so to allow southwest flow to dominate for a time, so that means thursday could be on the chilly side in actual fact first could be on the chilly side in actualfact first thing, could be on the chilly side in actual fact first thing, sparkling start to thursday, cloudy over from the west does he go through the day, another chance of a few isolated showers almost anywhere of a favourite spot for the north and west if we keep sunshine, we'll see highs of 21 degrees and 17

fahrenheit. as he moved out of thursday, high—pressure still a chilly start on friday but weather fronts starting to push it from the atla ntic fronts starting to push it from the atlantic but they are going to be killed off quite significantly so not too concerned, but they will bring with them a band of cloud maybe the odd spot of two light patchy rain nibbling away at west ranges of northern ireland and scotland, i had added a cod would develop, but nice and dry sunny weather from time to time 16 and 21 degrees, the height. as we move into the weekend, similar scenario high—pressure will drift a little bit further east, but it stays as the dominant feature really and the weather front with top across again not bringing much in the way of heavy persistent rain but it'll bring a northwest southeast divide as we go into the weekend the best of sunshine eastern england out to south east england for the northwest and then beginning up may be some light patchy rain or drizzle, 14—18 here but temperatures start to pick up here but temperatures start to pick up in the southeast similar story as

we move into sunday if we keep some sunshine and the wind is swinging to a southerly week, temperatures in the mid—20s somewhere in a southeast may be even higher, whetherfriend stays out to the far northwest bringing rain perhaps into northern ireland and western fringes of scotland. this weather front continues to slip south and east, just like wednesday, i again weakening as it go southeast, i again just weakening as it go southeast, i againjust a weakening as it go southeast, i again just a band weakening as it go southeast, i againjust a band of weakening as it go southeast, i again just a band of cloud weakening as it go southeast, i againjust a band of cloud a weakening as it go southeast, i again just a band of cloud a little bit of drizzle from time to time, southeast corner again we could see plenty of sunshine a potential for warand plenty of sunshine a potential for war and fresh conditions however up into the far north and west so that's the story across the uk through the course of the week, southwest slope driving in this warm air, but as weather friends push southwest slope driving in this warm air, but as weatherfriends push in italy to do something rash into the far north and west, jet stream not particularly powerful at the moment, quite agile lading and all the time you get states to the south, it

looks likely in the longer 6—10 day period, high—pressure stays as a dominant feature however some computer models wanted to lose its identity and split into and that could mean we see a few more showers from time to time. does not look as though the most significant story, at the moment still sticking with early september being dried largely funny and fingers crossed often warm, take care. british and french fishermen clash in violent skirmishes over scallops in the channel. the dramatic confrontation involved dozens of boats yesterday in a protest over fishing rights, but the british government says ourfishermen did have a right to be there. my heart goes out to the fishermen who've been caught up in this because — they have ll sympathy. they are fishing legally and they have every right to be fishing in those waters. we'll be finding out what triggered the extraordinary scenes. also tonight: surprise, as the former

first minister of scotland, alex salmond, resigns from the scottish national party amid allegations of sexual harrassment — which he strongly denies. back the chequers plan or risk a no deal on brexit — the warning to the eu from a senior cabinet minister. an ad for the app that claims to be a natural alternative to contraception is banned for being misleading. and, why the national trust is returning a popular tourist spot