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i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: china's president says the relationship with russia is more important than ever, as they hold joint millitary exercises for the first time. america's east coast prepares for hurricane florence. the category four storm heads towards the carolinas, with winds of 225 km/h. i'm rico hizon in london. also in the programme: india's supreme court dismisses an appeal to stop forest rangers killing a tiger blamed for the deaths of several people. and cooking up a storm. singapore's bid to seek unesco recognition for its street food culture stirs up the fury of some malaysian chefs. good morning.
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it is 7:00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 6:00am in siberia, where russia claims to have launched what it says is the largest military exercise in its history, and for the first time china isjoining in. previously they have posed as enemies in drills, but their troops will now be partners. china's xijinping said the relationship with russia was more important than ever, at a time of global uncertainty. richard galpin reports. these are military exercises on an epic scale. russia is claiming more than 30,000 tanks and other armoured vehicles are taking part, along with 300,000 troops. it is also claiming
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1000 aircraft are involved, and a large part of the navy. the kremlin has not put on a show of strength like this for more than 30 years, when the soviet union and the cold war earth existed. and also taking pa rt war earth existed. and also taking part here at this command centre in eastern siberia are these chinese officers, a sign of the deepening relationship between the two countries. this major general describes the joint exercises as strategic, co—ordinated, real combat, demonstrating their cooperation. the chinese contingent of these exercises, although significant, is comparatively small, with around 3000 soldiers taking part. but, at the same time, president putin has been meeting with the chinese leader, xi jinping,
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atan with the chinese leader, xi jinping, at an economic forum also in the far east of russia. all this ulster in the sense that two countries are growing closer together. while both countries have an interest in demonstrating their growing military capabilities, for russia, these exercises seem capabilities, for russia, these exercises seem to capabilities, for russia, these exercises seem to be a practice for mass mobilisation —— bolstering the sense, and how to shift their forces quickly across the country, a message perhaps to nato countries. the kremlin justifying the exercises because of what it calls aggressive and unfriendly attitudes towards russia. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. commemorative events have been held in new york and in washington to mark the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. ceremonies were also held at the 9/11 memorial plaza on the world trade center site in new york city. a us flag was unfurled from the roof of the pentagon in washington. it was deadliest foreign attack ever on us soil, killing 2,996 people. president trump spoke at the flight 93 national memorial in shankville, pennsylvania, where passengers on united flight 93 are thought to have charged the cockpit
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to stop the attackers. a piece of america's heart is buried on these grounds, but in its place has grown a new resolve to live our lives with the same grace and courage as the heroes of flight 93. this memorial is now a message to the world. america will never, ever, submit to tyranny. also making news today: the party of brazil's former president luiz inacio lula da silva has
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decided to drop him as its candidate in next month's elections. fernando haddad, a former sao paolo mayor, is expected to stand in his place. lula has been the frontrunner in the polls for months, despite currently serving a 12—year jail sentence for taking bribes. the former malaysian prime minister najib razak has released a letter that he says will clear his name regarding a $100 million donation he received from a saudi ruler. mr razak has been charged with theft after millions of dollars earmarked for a state investment fund were found in his personal bank account. he has denied the charges. the wife of pakistan's ousted former prime minister nawaz sharif has died of cancer in london, while her husband and daughter were in prison. kulsoom nawaz was 68. she was elected as an mp last year after standing in for her husband. nawaz sharif and his daughter maryam were jailed for corruption. a court in bangladesh has once again denied bail to an internationally acclaimed photographer arrested last
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month during mass protests over road safety. shahidul alam was detained on 5 august on charges of spreading rumours and false information against the government. he had criticised the government crackdown on the student demonstrations in a television interview and on facebook. his detention and that of dozens of other activists has sparked an international outcry. around a million people have taken part in a huge pro—independence demonstration in barcelona to mark catalonia's national day. it is the first such event since separatist politicians were thwarted in their bid to declare catalan independence from spain last year. that was ruled illegal by spain's constitutional court. the us federal emergency management agency has ordered more than a million people in coastal areas of north and south carolina to leave their homes as hurricane florence bears down
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on the us east coast. the two carolinas, along with virginia, could be worst hit by this storm, which is 500 miles wide and due to make landfall on thursday. many are getting away from the coast, but some are not heeding the warnings. gary 0'donoghue reports. this is the calm before the storm, storm that is barrelling towards the carolinas with winds up to 130 mph, expected to make landfall overnight thursday into friday. this storm is a monster. it is big and it is vicious. it is an extremely dangerous, life—threatening, historic hurricane. more than 1 million people have been ordered to leave coastal areas in both north and south carolina, some highways
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have been made one way to smooth the flow of hugely increased volumes of traffic. people don't understand that when they say it is time to evacuate, there is no emergency services, the restaurants are closed, there is nothing else open, you need to go back and get back to the mainland, so you got some comforts. .com for those who have chosen to stay, it has been panicked rush to buy essentials in the coming days. right now we are looking for water. we have been to walmart and the shelves were clear, then we stopped at walgreens, and the shelves were clear, so we decided we would bypass that and come to lowes and get battery. people's homes and businesses are endangered by florence, everyone doing what they can to protect against mother nature. keeping up the windows before throwing boards over them, making sure that top seals and side seals on the windows are nice and tight, so we don't have to worry about water dripping from the top. concerned over this severe strength
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from florence has made the navy is moving ships out to sea, away from ports like norfolk and virginia, so they can sail away from the path of they can sail away from the path of the hurricane and reduce the likelihood of being damaged. at a meeting at the white house this afternoon, the president was briefed by the direct of fema. he said this would be the biggest storm in decades. the safety of the american people is my absolute highest priority. we are sparing no expense, and we are totally prepared, we are ready. we are as ready as anybody‘s ever been. meteorologists say hurricane florence could bring a storm surge of up to 12 feet at the coast, and anywhere between 20 and 30 inches of rain, making severe flooding far inland a real threat. for more on hurricane florence, cbs correspondent mola lenghi joined us from wrightsville beach in north carolina. you see a couple of people are out here, but i mean, if you are to look
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left and right down the coast, it is pretty much deserted. now, obviously this isn't the peak season. it is notjune, july, august, when there are thousands of people out here, but this is sort of that secondary season when you would normally see, especially on a day like this, you would still seek several 100 people out here, and this illustrates how people are approaching this incoming storm. people are getting out of town here in wrightsville beach, mandatory evacuations in place, beginning at 8am tomorrow. a similar story up and down the south—eastern coast, for the coastal communities. mandatory evacuations up and down the east coast, and then when you start to get a little bit further inland, obviously some mandatory, some voluntary, that will probably eventually be mandatory, evacuations. but people really heeding the advice and taking this one seriously, from what we have seen. let's get more on our top story — those huge russian war games, which are now underway and are due to start in earnest on thursday. china for the first time is participating alongside russian forces in the week—long military excercise, which the kremlin is calling the biggest since the cold war.
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earlier i spoke to sam roggeveen, director of the lowy institute's international security program in the australian capital, canberra, and he said he was sceptical about the actual scale of these military exercises. the figure of 300,000 russian troops has been... has been thrown around, i believe, mainly by the russian defence ministry. the experts that i am reading on the russian military suggest that there might be a little bit of creative accounting going on there. you know, when one unit gets involved in the exercise out of division, they count the whole division. so i would be a little sceptical about the overall scale of the exercise. all of that said, this is extremely significant. it is a large military exercise, and i think the chinese in particular gain a lot from this. the chinese have ambitions to be a world military
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power that is on a par with the united states. the big disadvantage that they have is that they have no true allies. they can't learn a lot militarily from pakistan. they certainly don't have very much to learn from north korea, and so the only appear that they can really look to to measure themselves against and to learn from is the russians —— the only peer. so i think that they will get a lot from this exercise. and of course, given the location of this military exercise, sam, it is in far east russia. so this basically gives china the edge over the russians in this military exercise, and showing their prominence in the asia—pacific region. well, i think an exercise of this scale in that location probably couldn't have gone ahead without the chinese, because it would have been seen diplomatically by the chinese as, you know, really unfriendly, even hostile act for the russians to
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stage exercises of this kind in that pa rt stage exercises of this kind in that part of russian territory, without any chinese involvement. so i think this is a show of... you know, of unity on the part of the two of them, and a demonstration that the relationship is pretty good at the moment, with the russians also selling really top—flight weapons now, again, to china, something that was paused for a few years in the early 2010 s, and has now resumed. the migrant crisis has sparked questions about europe's identity, something bbc world news is looking at in depth in a new season. hardtalk‘s stephen sackur has been speaking to the italian interior minister, matteo salvini, whose northern league has built its popularity, on an anti—immigration platform. mr salvini said the number of boats arriving to italy needs to go down. translation: 700,000 migrants
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reached the italian coast over the past few years, creating a huge economic, social and legal problems. half of the citizens who are arrested or reported to police every day in italy are immigrants. so for security reasons and social order order, we need to reduce these arrivals. last year, 100,000 arrived. this year we had 20,000 arrivals, so i wanted to hold those who live the countries, and this is a limited number. for all the others, the doors are shut. but you are breaking the rules that were agreed by the italian government, with all the other member states of the european union, to run what is called operation sofia, and to have these migrant ships landed the nearest port, which happens to be italy. and you are now refusing to accept your responsibilities to take these people. translation: no, with
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sofia now in operation, that you mention, 115,000 immigrants were rescued at sea, and 40,000 arrived. we wa nt rescued at sea, and 40,000 arrived. we want to change these rules. we are abiding by these rules but we wa nt to are abiding by these rules but we want to change them, because we can't accept that all migrants come to the italian coast and we have to pay for them. either europe steps m, pay for them. either europe steps in, all we do it ourselves. the final objective is to spend money in africa. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we take you on the ‘gutter cruise', a lifeline for people living in a slum in the indian city of mumbai. freedom itself was attacked this morning, and freedom will be defended. the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible. bishop tutu now becomes the spiritual leader of 100,000 anglicans here, of the blacks in soweto township as well as the whites in their rich suburbs. we say to you today,
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in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears. enough! translation: the difficult decision we reached together was one that required great and exceptional courage. it's an exodus of up to 60,000 people, caused by the uneven pace of political change in eastern europe. iam free! this is newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. i'm rico hizon in london.
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our top stories: russia stages what it claims is the biggest military exercises since the soviet era, and for the first time, chinese troops are joining in. america's east coast prepares for hurricane florence. the category four storm heads towards the carolina's, with winds of 225 kilometres an hour. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the south china morning post is getting in—depth, with a look at the underwater robot exploring the deep. the remotely—operated vehicle known as the sea dragon dived over 5,500 metres. definitely a plunge to go down in the record books! singapore's straits times is celebrating, after the city state trumphed in a football friendly over fiji. striker ikhsan fandi was fighting for dad and country. his goal handed a win to his father, who's just become the national team's new coach. and the new york times focuses
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on an actress using an axe murder to carve out a new career. chloe sevigny was tired of being typecast, so she's taking a stab at a horror flick. we'll have to see if she can shock people into seeing her differently. thanks to conservation efforts across india, the tiger population in india has steadily increased over the past 12 years. but the growing population and rapid deforestation means they come into conflict with villagers who live near the reserves. in the western state of maharashtra, one tiger has been blamed for five deaths and india's supreme court has dismissed an appeal to stop forest rangers from killing it. shalu yadau has more from delhi. this is the first time at case like this has come up. last year, a court in the western state of maharashtra
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upheld an order to kill eight tiger who was blamed for fall back debts. in the current case there is nothing to suggest that the tiger in question is responsible for the five deaths. animal—rights activist in the court asked for a softer approach and argued that the tiger should be tranquillised and relocated. the court dismissed the appeal, saying it would not interfere if the forest guards are forced to kill the tiger. the forest officials have told the bbc that they will try their best to tranquillised and captured the tiger first, but people say they do not trust their capability and expertise to do so and fear that the forest officials might end up shooting her. india is home to one of the largest tiger populations in the world. even as their numbers have been on the rise, so are the cases of man animal conflict, mainly because human settle m e nts conflict, mainly because human settlements keep getting closer to the animal reserves due to rapid deforestation. now to a story that's stirring up cross—border controversy
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between singapore and malaysia. it's not geo—politics, but what some would consider far more important — food! singapore's bid to seek unesco recognition for its hawker street culture has been received with fury by some malaysian chefs, with one calling the move arrogant. hawker culture is famous in singapore. it's people gathering in hawker centres where they can buy cheap food and drinks, and sit at communal no—frills tables. other items on unesco's list of cultural heritage include: windmills in the netherlands. neapolitan pizza making in italy. that recognition was met by street parties earlier this year. and the beer culture in belgium. while many european nations have a love of beer, only in belgium can drinking it, be called a cultural experince. earlier i wasjoined in the studio by seth lui, who is a food blogger here in singapore. i asked him if malaysia is right to be upset about singapore's attempt to seek international recognition for its hawker street culture.
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i share some heritage as well, my father is from malaysia. i have been to malaysia multiple times, of course. the food culture is very similar, as you said, we all came from similar route, came from china, we just from similar route, came from china, wejust happen from similar route, came from china, we just happen to settle in different places. so the influences are all over the place, we go up and down, we share what we all know and each country developed the and different styles. i don't think one is superior over the other, it is pretty similar. tell us little bit about this unesco stamp of approval, we know that singaporean hawker culture is famous internationally, to sydney this stamp of approval from unesco and what does this bring it to? -- from unesco and what does this bring it to? —— bring it?
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from unesco and what does this bring it to? -- bring it? for me as a citizen i don't think it is necessary , citizen i don't think it is necessary, singapore food is famous around the world. you don't really need someone to say you guys have been included in the unesco cultural award. we don't really need that, but it doesn't hurt to have this stamp of approval, which is probably what the singapore heritage board is going after. they have applied for it. it is interesting because there isa it. it is interesting because there is a whole load of rules, it includes things like it has got to be something with visibility and awareness, reflect cultural diversity, measures to protect it and another rule is that it has to be nominated by the largest possible participation of the community. what is interesting is this need to protect it. a couple of years ago, a lot of music centred around the fact that the old hawkers were retiring along with their traditional dishes, is that a concern, are we protecting
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and keeping this heritage?” is that a concern, are we protecting and keeping this heritage? i guess it is more recognition, the second generation will start to take up what the generation has done, but it is getting really difficult in this economy. rate is rising, labour cost is our rising and i guess that this recognition it does help to give more leeway, as i said, recognition to be younger generation to take up what their forefathers did. a makeshift raft has turned into a lifeline for people living in a slum in the indian city of mumbai. the ride costs just two rupees — about three cents — and residents find it more convenient for crossing a polluted waterway. but the man behind this so—called "gutter cruise" fears the service will be shut down. i'm rico hizon in london. and sharajit leyl is in singapore. thank you for watching newsday.
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hello there. a full uk weather forecast coming up in a moment, but first of all the latest on that massive hurricane heading towards the eastern side of united states. it isa the eastern side of united states. it is a category for hurricane, sustained wind of 140 mph but is forecast to strengthen, with wind getting up to 185 mph were. it will make landfall friday morning in north carolina but the fx will be felt up and down the mid— atlantic coast with the risk of flooding and those damaging winds as well. here in the uk look at a conference seeking its way slowly southwards today and that will have an effect on the temperatures. yesterday we saw highs of 25 degrees in both london and exeter as well but today we are looking at highs of around 18 degrees of. 87 celsius drop in temperature, not that it will feel cold but feel a great deal cooler.
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this is how we have the weather over the next you hours. a lot of cloud around and outbreaks of rain. was heaviest across north—east england to the north—west of wales are plenty of heavy showers working into northwest scotland over the next few hours with a slice of clearer weather across northern ireland, northern england and eastern scotland. is here where we will have his temperatures dipping down into single figures, why would further south, 15 degrees below in london. looking at the weather picture, the cold front six southwards, the rain becomes increasingly like an patchy but there were probably some left over a cross but there were probably some left over across south—east england well into the afternoon. some blustery showers for western scotland but in between there is a slice of sunny weather, which is added deal lower in the south, highs expected to reach 18 celsius. looking at the weather picture to wednesday evening and overnight, our rain clears away from south—east england. heavy rain into the north—east of scotland but there will be clear skies for the bulk of england and wales and it will be one of the cooler nights
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that we have seen so far this september, with breaches across eastern parts of england around three orfour eastern parts of england around three or four degrees eastern parts of england around three orfour degrees in eastern parts of england around three or four degrees in the coldest areas. like a chilly start of the day on thursday but there will be plenty of sunshine around here. a band of rain pushes southwards across scotland and northern ireland, weakening as it does so, a few spots possible across cumbria to ta ke few spots possible across cumbria to take us into the afternoon but for many of us it is a dry day, showers affecting western parts of scotland. averages in the sunshine, 15 degrees for aberdeen and edinburgh, 21 averages in the sunshine, 15 degrees foraberdeen and edinburgh, 21 in london. bit more sunshine starting to feel warmer, reasonable sunshine across southern england as we head through the weekend, some heavy outbreaks of rain across the north—west of the uk this weekend. that is the weather. you are watching bbc news. our top story: chinese president xi jinping stresses the importance of his country's relationship with russia. it comes as the two nations prepare forjoint millitary exercises for the first time. russia claims it will be the biggest military exercises since the soviet era, with 300,000 soliders taking part. america's east coast prepares for hurricane florence.
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the category four storm heads towards the carolinas, with winds of 225 km/h. over a million people have heeded a warning and evacuated coastal areas. and this video is trending on bbc.com. a stash of gold roman coins have been discovered during excavation work in a theatre basement in the northern italian town of como. all 300 coins were perfectly preserved. they date back to around the fifth century. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news: hardtalk, with spain's foreign affairs minister, josep borrell.
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