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hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is outside source. the fbi report on brett kavanaugh is in and senators are reaching a verdict. the early signs are that donald trump's nominee for the supreme court will be confirmed. but the democrats aren't happy. it looks to be a product of an incomplete investigation that was limited perhaps by the white house, i don't know. western governments say russian spies are hacking into governments and institutions worldwide, as four russian agents are caught trying to infiltrate a laboratory at the hague. the search continues for the missing in the indonesian tsunami, as the death toll rises to 1,500. and we'll find out the latest from brazil where the far—right candidate is leading the polls for sunday's presidential elections. welcome to the programme.
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the fbi report into allegations of sexual misconduct against president trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh has been released — not to the public — but to the 100 senators who will vote to confirm judge kavanaugh to the supreme court. a confirmation vote is expected on saturday. and it's fair to say a lot of people — both democrats and republicans — are angry. let me show you these pictures. people marched to hold a rally outside the supreme court. celebrities are due to make appearances at the event. democrats aren't happy with how this fbi investigation was carried out. here's diane feinstein. democrats agreed that the investigation scope should be limited. we did not agree that the white house should tie the fbi's hands. it is not credible to say that public testimony in last week's hearing is a substitute for the interviews by fbi agents. rememberjudge kavanaugh‘s confirmation depends on republican
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senators voting strictly along party lines. the party has a 51—49 senate majority. so everyone‘s remarks following the release of the fbi report is being closely watched. one person who's left us with no doubt of what he thinks is republican majority leader mitch mcconnell. none of the allegations have been corroborated by the seven fbi investigations. not in the new fbi investigation, not anywhere. those allegations include those made by dr christine blasey ford who says she was sexually assaulted by brett kavaugh when she was 15 and he was 17. this is the latest time cover with a picture of professor ford made out of quote from her testimony last week — and the headline "her lasting impact." that remains to be seen.
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but what of accusations the fbi investigation was not given enough time to do a comprehensive job? here's a former fbi agent. i think what's important here is the general public does not understand that difference between a criminal investigation and a background. as a matter of managing expectations of what people expected from this and if they are limited based on who they can interview, believe me they we re they can interview, believe me they were done and done well, but we still end up with something akin to he said, she said. there's no question this has ignited debate. one us commentator sohrab ahmari tweeted the vicious campaign to destroy kavanaugh and his family is reminding republicans that there are worse things than trump's outbursts. it's reuniting the right. it's even being talked about on the red carpet. someone else who's weighed in on this topic isjulia roberts — this is what she told my colleague phillippa thomas when she asked what this means for women. well, what it means for our entire
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country, not just the well, what it means for our entire country, notjust the women, though thatis country, notjust the women, though that is the obvious, you know headline of horror. but to realise that if he were to get on the supreme court, this effect is going to affect our children, and our children's children, and this is something that is notjust this administration at this moment, this is something that will have a very long—lasting effect. let's speak to anthony zurcher, washington. anyone changed position? i suppose my first question to you really is who is intending to vote in what way is has anyone changed position if you know? no, no one has lived change position. we have one undecided democrats coming out and saying she was going to against. that's north dakota and a very contentious reelection battle there. she's saying she was going to end up
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voting against cavanaugh. blonde that all eyes are on that. jeff fla ke, that all eyes are on that. jeff flake, susan collins, arizona, maine and alaska respectively. and susan collins and jeff flake have indicated in comments today that they were happy with the fbi investigation and thought it was the i’ow. investigation and thought it was the row. and susan collins and jeff fla ke row. and susan collins and jeff flake said they did not see any new cooperation. if you're looking at these on the fence republicans are these on the fence republicans are the indications right now to be very favourable for cava naugh. the indications right now to be very favourable for cavanaugh. stay with us favourable for cavanaugh. stay with us because i want to shave another poll that has come into us. in july democrat voters were more enthusatic about the mid—term elections, but now both republican and democrat voters think the november elections are very important. the president meanwhile tweeted. the harsh and unfair treatment ofjudge brett kavanaugh is having an incredible upward impact on voters. the people get it far better than the politicians.
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let's go back to anthony. soi so i suppose, what i am wondering is the midterms are couple of weeks away, this nomination or possible confirmation, what is more important for each party? is it gains in these midterm elections? or is it supporting or confirming the nomination ofjudge kavanaugh? the reality is a supreme court appointment is for life. we're talking about influencing the decisions for a generation. that's very important. you also keep in mind that ifjudge kavanaugh would go down donald trump would dominate some equally or perhaps more conservative than him and he or she would be confirmed in the next few months it regardless of the outcome of the midterm elections. the think that poll you cited did turn a lot of heads because democrats have
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relied on an enthusiasm gap to drive turnout and to give them an advantage in a lot of these close races, and if republicans are closing that gap, as their base is going to turn out in equal numbers to democrats for the idea of some sort of democratic wave that will sweep into power and congress looks less likely. and the midterms are still a month off and a month from saturday, that's a long time and enthusiasm can diminish. this other indications, fundraising, donald trump other approval rating, retirements and congress that seems to still favour the democrats. one data point in one poll, but a lot of democrats did look at that with a little bit of surprise and concern. would it be if he is confirmed that democrats may come out in larger numbers? the democrats are already enthused it is going to be difficult to get the more enthusiastic about voting short of them having a
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coronary. republicans however are interested in this nomination. the question is if he is confirmed will they be well, we are done? usually people don't turn out to vote to reward the party that does something good can they turn out to punish the party if they were slighted and did i get the nomination. we will see how it plays out. this is uncharted territory in the age of trump. there will be more concerned if the seat was still open in november and i would get republicans to go to the polls to make sure they control the senate going forward. anthony who will talk us through whatever it is that comes. thank you for speaking to us from washington, dc. the netherlands, uk and us all came out today accusing russia of cyber attacks. dutch authorities say they caught four russian intelligence officials in the act — they were in a car park near the united nations chemical weapons watchdog in the hague in april. they presented a trove of intelligence information from the case —
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as anna holligan reports. it's just incredible the amount of evidence left behind that they have managed to collate year. they have car rental agreement, how would just say this and this is here, this is the hacking device that they had set up the hacking device that they had set up in the back of their rental car. outside the headquarters. that's where they were picked up and then attempted to smash one of the mobile phones and even took the rubbish of the hotel. at the time, the international chemical weapons watchdog was investigating the nerve agent attack in the uk — and a chemical attack in syria. the british authorities say the men from russia's ‘gru' military intelligence were trying to ‘clean up the mess' it had made in salisbury. here's britain's ambassador
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to the netherlands. the gr you has interfered in free elections and pursued a hostile campaign of cyber attacks against state and civilian targets. the gr you is an aggressive, well—funded, official body of the russian state. they can no longer be allowed to act aggressively across the world against vital international organizations with apparent impunity. the official reaction from moscow is that it's more western spy mania. here's olga ivshina from the bbc‘s russia service. well, russian official reactions to those allegations were quite usual. saying that all allegations are just a matter witchhunt. in the spokesperson said that this is all a mix from a perfume mocking the reference that sergei was was and by
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the agent transferred and eight fake perfume container. but the discussion on russian social media is different. many are impressed with the evidence and are shocked by the fact for example that one of the quys the fact for example that one of the guys who was detained actually had the receipt with him which linked the receipt with him which linked the gr you headquarters. this was ha rd to the gr you headquarters. this was hard to believe the russians because they are used to thinking that the agents are really outstanding people. it also had discussions of social media about the fact that russia is putting so much money on those operations and now it's known that as people travel to malaysia, brazil, europe and the same time the russian government is saying that they're struggling to pay pensions to its people. so pension age is rising in the russian economy is struggling. may people asking why so much money spent on russian
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intelligence which is not widely performed at the same time not enough money for internal investment. the usjustice department also indicted seven russian intelligence officers for hacking a different target today — here's barbara plett usher. justice officials here focused on mainly on the hackers of sports bodies this was anti—doping agencies. the world anti—doping agency and others which visit was russian italic retaliation against officials that exposed their campaign of cheating with drugs in sports and the aim of this operation was to delegitimize these claims and officials and that involved hacking the medical data of 250 athletes which was spread on the web and on social media with the insinuation that these athletes were not as clea n that these athletes were not as clean as it claims to be. is that a lot of their time talking about that plot. they mentioned another one in which they said targeted a nuclear power company in pennsylvania,
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westinghouse. they said the hackers had set up a fake internet domain to try to get access to employee accounts. the officials did not say what they were trying to achieve or the goal was or whether they had achieved it, but they did note that this company provided nuclear fuel to ukraine. we saw a lot of evidence from the netherlands when they were talking about their cases and came to russian cyber attacks, was there any evidence offered here to support the assertions put forward in a press conference? they were not any photos, but there were numbers and they talked about twitter 50 athletes from 30 countries and they talked about more than 30 sporting federations targeted including but they do not have the same demonstration of physical evidence that they made quite clear they are coordinating with britain and the netherlands in exposing what they represented as a widespread
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conspiracy that involved several different kinds of hacking plots. stay with us on outside source — still to come. four years ago a police officer in chicago shot dead this teenager, sparking huge protests. we go live to the us city as it awaits a verdict on the officer's murder trial. a man has been sentenced to 14 years in jail after trafficking and grooming children into selling crack cocaine and heroin for him. it's the first time the police have secured child trafficking convictions against a drug dealer under the modern slavery act. zakaria mohammed from birmingham admitted running what police call a county lines drug network, sending children out into provicinal towns to sell drugs. mohammed was caught after two missing 15—year—old boys were found in a squalid and freezing flat in january. a surveillance operation identified a car registered to mohammed making regular trips from birmingham to an address in lincoln, where missing boys were found. police said mohammed, who admitted four counts of possessing drugs with intent to supply and five counts of human trafficking,
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raked in £500 a day in profit from the sale of the drugs. he refitted these children, he groomed them but he exploited them. he did not see them as individuals, he saw them as a commodity. he didn't recognise their humanity, they were just there to be exploited to extend his business. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story. democratic senators in the us dismiss as incomplete an fbi report into allegations of sexual misconduct against president trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. president put it in india for talks with the indian president. expect to
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signa $5 with the indian president. expect to sign a $5 billion dealfor anti—aircraft missiles. they warned that the deal would result in us sanctions. the us first lady, melania trump, was in malawi, the second stop in her four—country african tour. the visit focused on humanitarian and children's issues at a time when the trump administration has been pressing to cut foreign aid. bbc afrique. egyptair has been forced to defend an interview with actress drew barrymore published in its in—flight magazine after it was slated on social media. the article was riddled with grammatical errors and unlikely quotes from the actress, whose representatives say she didn't participate in the interview. the story is popular on our website. rescue workers on the indonesian island of sulawesi are right now working through the night — making a final effort to find any survivors of last week's tsunami and earthquake. the government has tentatively said it will end its official rescue operation on friday — but there are calls
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for the search to continue for at least another week. in the city of palu, one of the worst affected areas electricity has been reconnected to some buildings, and a few shops and banks have reopened. the death toll is more than 1,500 but that's still expected to rise, because look at this in under every flag is a body among the rubble — and they're just the victims who have been found. underneath the rubble of the mercure hotel, french rescue workers found a survivor, nearly a week on from the disaster. one father has been digging with his bare hands to try and find his daughter — and ended up rescuing other people along the way — including a pregnant woman. we kept shouting meiren, meiren, it's me your dad with your brother.
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but here was no response just silence. i became very sad. i stayed there even with a couple of aftershocks but i would never give up. the mudslides caused by the earthquake have obliterated entire villages. this is the village of pet—obo just to the east of palu —the earthquake was so powerful, it shook loose the rice fields, which then poured down the hills. this little girl is just two years old — her name is fiona. those mudslides swallowed her mother and sister — but she was plucked to safety. here's her aunty. translation: she often asks where is my mum, where has my mother gone? i tell her we're still looking for her oi’ tell her we're still looking for her ori tell her we're still looking for her or i say your mother has gone a long journey. if she hears a loud noise oi’ journey. if she hears a loud noise ora journey. if she hears a loud noise or a plane going overhead she is scared. she is still traumatised. international efforts are being ramped up — 29 countries have offered help — these are some of them.
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the indonesian government initially rejected offers for aid , but gave in when the magnitude of the disaster became clear. the police are clamping down on people taking goods from stores now. earlier in the week they were largely turning a blind eye to it — but now officers are making arrests. but this is how desperate people still are — fighting over one precious box of supplies from the red cross. don't forget it's very hot in indonesia, and there's been a severe lack of fresh water and food. but on top of everything the indonesian government has had to deal with a number of hoaxes that are circulating on social media. the government is making it clear with images like this — a hoax that the mayor of palu had been killed — he's still alive. many graphic pictures of victims among the rubble are from other disasters, years ago.
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and while there is a volcano erupting much father to the north — false information about ash clouds and flowing lava have been spread. this is from the twitter page of the spokesman for indonesia's disaster agency. he's leading the fight against hoaxes — translated, he says this is not the eruption of mount soputan. this photo is hoax. don't share it. just throw it out. as if the indonesian government don't have enough to deal with. if you want more details on indonesia to visit ago our our website at also the bbc news app. we are continually updating it and has been with the stories that people really wa nt been with the stories that people really want to know more about throughout this week. so bbc news .com. it's being reported that apple and amazon are among us companies and agencies who have had data stolen by chinese spies. bloomberg earlier reported
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that the data had been siphoned off via tiny chips inserted on server circuit boards — but the companies have denied the claim. samira hussainjoins me from new york. tell us love it more, what is this story all about? tech but the worst fears of americans being realised if this does actually pan out in terms of the story. bloomberg reporting that after a full year of investigations it found that to these computers that were built by a company called supermicro computer actually had chips that were inside the computers that once activated, chinese spies were able to gain access and gain information. and they were able to do so for several american companies. 30 companies and the different governmental agencies. now, apple and amazon have both said
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this is absolutely not true, this is not the case. but as a result if you look at supermicro the company itself that makes the computers, their share price has tanked. falling 40% on trading based on this report. thank you very much for giving us more details indeed of what that story is all about. you may not have heard of him yet, but byju raveendran is the founder of one of the world's most valuable educational technology start—ups. it's called byju's — and investors include the chan—zuckerberg initiative — a philanthropic outfit set up by the boss of facebook. sameer hashmi, has been speaking to the man behind the start up. it's the app that is taking india by storm. byju's provides lessons to schoolchildren as well as young adults preparing for university entrance exams. the app today has another 5 million users out of which
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wa nted another 5 million users out of which wanted a half are paid customers. it's the brainchild of this man man. it's the brainchild of this man man. it's very important that he goes on with this fun little change of how stu d e nts with this fun little change of how students learn so that they're ready for the future. reverse entry the reds are not the one who cannot read and write. they‘ re reds are not the one who cannot read and write. they're the ones that can't learn, unlearn and relearn. to achieve that they have a team of animators, instructors and graphic designers all working to convert textbook content into engaging videos and games. the cost starts at $200 which is more than a month plus a salary for most parents in the country. the reason hundred million dollar investment from us investor general atlantic it's not valued at around $3 billion. they plan to use the cached to launch the learning app in the us, uk and commonwealth
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countries. while an idiot there is plans to offer the app in regional languages for helping students in smaller towns and villages. nobody knows the benefits of a good education better than him. what is we are good at? he grew up in the small village of kerala and says success small village of kerala and says success is the best inspiration. small village of kerala and says success is the best inspirationm motivates everyone around them. that makes them believe they can also do it and makes them believe they can also do itandi makes them believe they can also do it and i always tell them if i can do it there's no reason why you cannot do it. he began teaching friends had to pass competitive exams as a hobby and it turned him into an accidental entrepreneur and he has not looked back since. taking the happen to new markets always sees one of the easy but he is confident his focus on making learning fun and will ultimately succeed. it's not in creating a
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billion—dollar company budgeting the way we live for. it may be ambitious, but one byju's is readily taking on. after the headlines, we'll be in chicago — where closing arguments have been heard in the murder trial of the chicago police officerjason van dyke. he's charged with fatally shooting 17—year—old laquan mcdonald four years ago, in 2014 — and it was the dashcam footage from a police squad car that's been powerful evidence in the trial. the shooting sparked a wave of protests and lawsuits. i will bring you more details on that on outside source coming up after the headlines. you can get in touch with us and use the hash tag on twitter. good evening. it's a very active
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speu good evening. it's a very active spell of weather at the moment in terms of hurricanes and typhoons in the worldemotions. first off to the central atlantic where hurricane leslie is turning away. it may well move close to the uk as the remnants ofan move close to the uk as the remnants of an next hurricane ended around ten days' time. across the america we have a line of cloud which is separating some pretty cold air into the arctic down into canada and into warm edits piling in from the gulf and mexico taking hold across the southeastern states. another very warm day for the likes of atlanta. temperatures once again in the mid—30s. much colder for the temperatures once again in the mid—30s. much colderfor the north and record breaking amounts of snow surprise of canada. winnipeg cadets pretty chilly look ahead of the next five days or so and toronto will start to warm up. 26 degrees or warmer than that towards next week. not the pacific and this typhoon. the huge typhoon of the satellite image, pushing close to the islands of japan image, pushing close to the islands ofjapan and did he link the
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pressure northwards may well affect shanghai and pushing close to south korea. it will bring a combination of very heavy rain and damaging winds and also high waves around the sea as well. over the past two days there's been a lot of heavy rainfall in the south of india and more of it to come. the rainfall here will continue throughout friday and into saturday. by the end of the saturday some parts of kerala to see around 100 mm of rain and even more than that. also for sri lanka which we could see flooding in impacts that to continue. the weather across europe has been very unsettled particularly in the mediterranean with low—pressure and other area of low pressure through friday into saturday brings rain in other parts of italy and croatia in corsica as well. the weather front for the north through parts of the uk. but the weather across europe should start to settle down a little bit with heavy snowfall writing in the alps. in berlin, sunny spells sent
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you last of the next five days but for the showers and the odd rumble of thunder possible as things stay fairly unsettled. but a closer to home? and nextel look for the uk and we of warm air does holding off another day or so in the south and things will turn colder from the north behind a cold front which is working its way south. likely to bring some rain on friday and across parts of northern england and wales to the north of that scott another island is in that colder and fresher air. more sunshine does the odd as they showers. temperature is around 12 degrees in the sunshine but the sunshine breaks out because he hides around 22 celsius on friday. as the cold front makes its way south of the weekend gobie ran across an good and wales on saturday and those temperatures for all of us will not be quite as warm as they have been. goodbye. hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is outside source. the fbi report on brett kavanaugh is in and senators are reaching a verdict. the early signs are that donald trump's nominee for the supreme court will be confirmed.
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but the democrats aren't happy. it looks to be a product of an incomplete investigation that was limited, perhaps by the white house. ido limited, perhaps by the white house. i do not know. western governments say russian spies are hacking into governments and institutions worldwide, as four russian agents are caught trying to infiltrate a laboratory at the hague. we go live to chicago as the us city awaits the verdict in the murder trial of a police officer who fatally shot a teenager four years ago. and we'll find out the latest from brazil where the far—right candidate is leading the polls for sunday's presidential elections. closing arguments have been heard in the murder trial of the chicago police officer jason van dyke. he's charged with fatally
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shooting 17—year—old laquan mcdonald four years ago, in 2014. the shooting sparked a wave of protests and lawsuits. in 2015 a judge ordered city officials to release this dash cam video. it shows mcdonald appearing to be moving away from police when he was shot. it also shows that mcdonald was roughly 10 feet away from van dyke when the shooting happened, and that many of the 16 shots hit mcdonald after he fell to the ground. this contradicts van dyke's version of events. here he is speaking at his trial yesterday. no expression. his eyes were just
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walking out of his head. he had these huge white eyes just staring right through me. i was yelling at him, dropped the knife. i don't know how many times. but that is all i yelled. the make and did he keep advancing towards you ? yelled. the make and did he keep advancing towards you? he never stopped. he waved a knife from his lower right side upwards, across his body. towards my left shoulder. i could see him starting to push up with his left hand off the ground, i shot at that knife and i wanted him to get rid of that knife. patrick smith is covering the story for wbez radio in chicago, and runs a podcast about this shooting. iam glad i am glad you canjoin us. welcome to outside source on the bbc. one thing i would like to get into is that there appears to be, when you begin to hear details and discrepancies between his version of events and others, are using dash
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cam footage saying that they believe something different happened. i do understand it? there are huge discrepancies between his version and police versions of that —— cam footage shows. during the trial, the officer and his attorneys say that the —— cam video does not show the shooting from his perspective, that it isa shooting from his perspective, that it is a skewed vision and from van dyke's perspective, but he looked much closer and threatening when he appeared on it —— cam. much closer and threatening when he appeared on it -- cam. this the year that we live in, where they're shown to video, how significant, we're hearing closing arguments. how significant is this case to chicago, because this happened back in 2014 in so much as happened since then.|j can say that here in chicago, this isa can say that here in chicago, this is a huge case. i think, more than anything else people are paying
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attention to this will be watching for this verdict. there are some people said they are predicting that if he is found not guilty, maybe violence on the streets. however those predictions, were saying, instead they were forceful protest but they're all peaceful. in chicago, they know what they are doing. they send a strong message but things do not get out of hand. what might be expected, do you know when the verdict might come? we really have no idea. thejudge is going to make them stay over the weekend if they have not reached a verdict, so it could come anytime between now, but it could be over the weekend. alexander the police we re the weekend. alexander the police were asked not to take leave in case ofa were asked not to take leave in case of a reaction that could be violent. they are cancelling days off and extending shifts. the normal officer shift, the expanded that in
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anticipation of what might happen. thank you very much patrick smith from chicago. the fabulous radio station. this is another story but related, there are this is another story but hundreds of people are killed or injured by the police in the us each year. much of the media attention has been on the race of victims, but there is another pattern emerging. a large number of the dead or injured have disabilities. those with mental illness or physical impairments often have difficulties communicating with the authorities and situations have escalated quickly. aleem maqbool reports.
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a huge number of people injured... and those killed by the police in the us each year have a disability. 26—year—old ethan saylor who had down syndrome, idolized police officers. he'd wanted to be one. one evening, he'd been in the cinema with a carer, and at the end of the film, he went back to his seat, wanting to see the movie again. hearing someone was inside the next screening without a ticket, three off—duty police officers went in. somehow in those next seconds or minutes, ethan ends up on the floor, face down and is not breathing. ethan was restrained, handcuffed and had been crying out before he died. we were called to the sheriffs department the autopsy report was
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back. and they told us that the medical examiner had ruled this a homicide and the death was by asphyxiation. the department whose officers were involved in ethan's death has not engaged. they agreed with a financial settlement with her, but never so much as apologised or admitted any wrongdoing. already, this year, right across the us, at least 130 people with a range of disabilities are confirmed to have been killed by police officers. these are just the ones we know about. and hundreds of court cases, it was never determined whether the person killed had a disability at all. but what of the officers who have taken the life of someone with a disability? i had a subject was armed with a knife outside of school and... i was forced into a situation where i didn't have any other choice other than to shoot
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and kill the individual and their outside of school, she was armed with a very large knife, she was not responding to my instructions and after the incident was over, i was able to be told that she had a history of mental illness. i didn't know that at the time, did not know was going on. so you're saying at the time that you felt you had no choice. do you feel differently about it now? now, don't feel differently about it now. the complaint from many around the country as a officers to often command and control, shouting orders and physically taking charge, especially when someone doesn't immediately comply. the problem is some people just can't comply. there are few hopes of the major shift in police culture which many feel could save the lives of so maybe would disability. where de—escalate the situation really is the focus, but even fewer expectations that mental health provision will radically improve here, the grim numbers will continue to grow across this
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country. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site. there is full coverage on the confirmation process for his supreme court nominee, that final vote set to take place this saturday. it has become a huge national issue and will be bringing you all the major developments is that story plays out in the states. the first round of presidential elections in brazil on sunday is between these two men. tonight they will hold a tv debate. on the left is far—right candidate jair bolsonaro, who's campaigning for change and painting his opponents worker's party as ineffective and corrupt. fernando haddad, on the right, is a close ally of former president lula da silva, who's in jail for corruption.
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and it appears to be working, mr bolsonaro is leading the polls with 32%. mr haddad is behind him with 22%. two issues have dominated this race, crime and corruption. the country is still reeling from the biggest corruption scandal ever. 1 in 3 politicans a re currently involved in a corruption case. and last year there were 63—thousand murders, a new record. here's what voters think of the two men: translation: bolsonaro has values that today have been a little forgotten. education, schools should be stricter, today, a child doesn't even know sing the national anthem. translation: the first time lula ran as a candidate, i voted for him because i thought he was going to change things. i regretted it. brazil cannot be like venezuela. bolsonaro is the only upright
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candidate who we trust completely to change this country. haddad makes an excellent pair, i think lula is very well represented and i came here despite my age. i do not want to see both the best president at all. translation: the people from the middle and lower classes didn't have the means to live, we lived on what was left over, with her to recognise the citizens, we are able to study, work and retire. i spoke to our correspondent katy watson who's in sao paulo who told me how people are feeling there: i think there's a lot of anger. i was talking to someone whose that there was also a lot of fear. the country is a divided country, and unequal country. people talk about this as being the most polarised election since the country returned to democracy under 40 years ago. that's the concern. it feels like people are having to make a choice
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between far right and left and both sides hate each other, effectively. the left thinks that there is a creeping fascism. a threat to democracy, the right says there's communism and if the party continues then it means that, the economy will just collapse, as you heard there. that it could be a new venezuela. the whole country is divided. could fernando haddad in any way make up gains to i don't know, get close to him was so much in the league just looking at the figures today? well, at the moment the figures show that he is quite well in the lead. there are also people who we spoke to and say, i don't know who i'm going to vote for. so there are a lot of undecided people so we could see that, the popularity gains, there is a call for other
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candidates to get together and to be able to kind of avoid in runoff with haddad. we have three days before voting on sunday and in the last week alone bolsonaro has gained. so it looks like that could be quite difficult. saying that voting is mandatory, what do you expect this weekend? everybody goes and uses that right to vote when you see massive lines, would you expect to shell it is mandatory that you don't vote. —— do vote. if you do not chew up a fine. this also renewing passports —— you will owe a fine. there's also a blank vote, buoyed vote and a
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question of on the day. maybe they think about who's worried about getting in and voting for the other one. it really feels very unsure here in brazil at the moment. this is jamal khashoggi — he's a prominentjournalist — and a fearce critic of the saudi arabian government and its crown prince. and now he's vanished. mr khashoggi went to the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul — but he never came out. his fiance was with him, but didn't go inside. and waited out the front for 11 hours, until midnight. the saudi government says the journalist had already left its building before he disappeared. turkish authorities believe mr khashoggi is still in there. @kenroth the executive director of the human rights watch isn't mincing his words —
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here's edgard jallad from bbc arabic. iam afraid i am afraid this story has triggered more question marks than answers. so we have an emergency, there is a prominent journalist who was we have an emergency, there is a prominentjournalist who was a fierce critic of the establishment who disappeared between the council late and outside, so we have the scenarios saying that he entered the consulate but left 20 minutes later, while the turkish side, they are
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saying that he is still inside the consulate. so this is a big? so we do not know where he is because, whether he is inside the consulate, it isa whether he is inside the consulate, it is a completely different story if he is outside and vanished outside, then it is a different story. tell us what bit more about him. could he possibly be a target in any way? as i said, he is a fierce critic of the saudi establishment, but of course targeting him on a foreign territory that turkey, there is not a good term with them, this could trigger a diplomatic problem. if he is released, for example, if you believe the turkish story that he is still inside released a few days ago, this will trigger a big problem between saudi arabia and turkey. why he was arrested inside the consulate. and also, this could
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result in a lot of questions and criticisms to the establishment as well. you would think, in this day and age, there would be cctv, some solid evidence to track a person down who's gone and in broad daylight, i imagine. is there anything? yes, the turkish side are trying to find the cctv, showing that he entered the conflict, but he never left the consulate. but who has access to these cctv apart from the intelligence and the police? so we're expecting more information in the coming days. so whether he is released, he would tell the story and if he is not released the mr will be more mysterious and we have heard a lot on social media like, dangerous and arias that he was,
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like, take out of the embassyjust seconds after he entered and then he was inside the diplomatic car and taken back to saudi arabia. some twitter are saying that he is already in saudi arabia. but of course, we do not know what happened and we are waiting for more information. his fiancee is organising in the coming days, outside of the consulate entity will give a press conference as well. so we're expecting to know more about this story in the coming days. thank you very much. climate scientists are meeting in south korea map to work out how the world might go further in limiting the rise in global temperatures over and above the 2 per cent limit agreed in paris. one country that's among the most vulnerable to climate change — and is backing a tougher 1.5 per cent target — is vietnam. david shukman reports.
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the painful sight of homes lost to the waves. the land here in the mekong delta is sinking. at the same time, the sea is rising as the world gets warmer. it is notjust houses being destroyed, farmland is vanishing as well. these farmers saw their fields slip underwater and they are worried that it will never be possible to hold back the sea. translation: climate change is getting worse says this man and the water level is rising so fast we don't have time to build defences. the threat is felt throughout the mekong delta. in the city of can tho, we found this flood barrier half finished. the homes behind it keep getting flooded. there are 18 million people living in this region and they're are only just above the level of the sea. so, even a small rise could be devastating, which is why vietnam, and dozens of other countries
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facing the same threat, want to see global warming limited as much as possible. so, what does this mean for the future? three years ago this primary school were swamped by the river beside it. rising waters are becoming more dangerous. a researcher, florence halsted, is here to find out what the children think. i'm really interested in what it's like in the flood season. so, could you all close your eyes and i want you to really think about being in the flood season? this ten—year—old has something shocking on his mind. people scream out for help. scream out for help. right. florence then asked the children draw pictures of flooding. they conure up nightmare images of houses being washed away and hands reaching above the water. this ten—year—old sketches a girl in a boat shouting for help. another has featured a giant snake.
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i ask her why. the hope is that encouraging this openness about flooding will prepare the children for the more hostile climate they're likely to face as adults. they live in a water world and that is only going to increase. the water's not going away. they need to learn how to adapt and, whether that be through education like this, through community groups, that resilience really needs to be built up. back at the coast, work on new sea defences. scientists used to think there was a safe limit of global warming of two degrees but they now say we need a lower target to avoid serious damage to countries like this. we're about to get a major report on how to do that. most of us love a selfie.
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and the more interesting the selfie the better, right? well, not always, according to a study web page by the us national library of research. it has revealed more than 200 people died taking extreme selfies over the past six years. drowning, falling and transport accidents were the most common cause of death. the group is proposing that ‘no selfie zones‘ be introduced at dangerous spots, such as mountain tops, tall buildings and lakes. christian hewgill, from bbc newsbeat told me more about the numbers involved. 259 people died from taking self is between 2011 and 2017. that is according to a global research by the us national library of medicine.
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so typically, these happened that the tops of mountains, tall buildings and lakes as well. so means drowning, transport accidents and following are the most common cause of death. i chu chin, fire and firearms also feature frequently on the list too. so he felt his death from the top of a cliff and new south wales australia, and the us, russia and pakistan were among the most common countries are the sort of thing happened and of all the people that did die, over three quarters are men. i saw that statistic but we are getting used to seeing pictures, self is really, in many weird and wonderful places into many weird and wonderful places into many of them, which we are also seeing now, it's risky, all those
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people seemed fine. but how can you stop a behaviour that has become so pervasive? it is such a part of life, i think that's why so many people found the statistics so surprising. it is highlighted that there is a problem. so what the us national library of medicine is suggesting is that no selfie zones are introduced. on tall buildings, la kes are introduced. on tall buildings, lakes and those are the places because this is a big study, the actual number of people who died from taking self is, could be considerably higher because death by taking a selfie isn't always listed as the official cause of death. and you think these things would be difficult to police, but if you think it's putting the danger in peoples mind, i suppose they'll be something. is there any reason or did they give an explanation as to why it's mainly meant? it's unclear as to age groups at this stage. but as to age groups at this stage. but a higher number of men than women.
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all those people and those pictures are absolutely fine, but is it for this edition of outside source. thank you for joining edition of outside source. thank you forjoining us. hello the weather is be doing a lot of swinging over the next few days from autumn chills and the north of the country to southern like warmth across the south, so we are in for some very pleasant weather across southeastern and eastern areas for friday. the satellite image of the clouds from the south. and this is where we will be getting these distinct areas of weather. the autumn chill coming of the north atla ntic autumn chill coming of the north atlantic and to stop still 80 feet of continental warmth air and other parts of western europe. but i want to point out this hurricane, not
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really bothering anybody out there but just a heads—up really bothering anybody out there butjust a heads—up that may be in the next week or so, it'll get absorbed into the jet stream and perhaps the remnants of the system may come our way. will mention that when it is relevant. but here's the one thing this side of friday, 22, cloudy here across northern england and wales we got sunshine across northern ireland. quite fresh in the north. friday nine to saturday, a big change on the way for folks in the south of the country. this weather front intensifies and it, into the east anglia, the rest of the uk looking absolutely fine. the manchester to belfast, is because in the high pressure here and into sunday, the high pressure will build and pushed that nasty weather away
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from the south east and it goes into france where you see the shape of the high they're extending all the way into scandinavia, but more weather fronts coming in way into scandinavia, but more weatherfronts coming in here way into scandinavia, but more weather fronts coming in here driven by an increasingly powerfuljet stream. that means rain wind on sunday. in a much better it is an sunshine. with a look at the weather on sunday into monday i mentioned a jet stream, so this is the weather for the atlantic, pushed by a jet stream. you can see where all of this is headed, scotland and northern ireland and in the south, here actually we have high pressure. high pressure in the south, weather front was into northern ireland scotland, typical pattern for part of the world. across the uk you'll and high teens in london, for some of the year, nothing to be sniffed
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at. and on south—westerly winds so the warm weather continues to parts of england and in the northwest who was the weather fronts being pushed in by thejet was the weather fronts being pushed in by the jet stream and much fresher here, temperatures around 11 to 14 celsius. next week, or on wednesday or thursday or friday, we start to see an ever—increasing jet strea m start to see an ever—increasing jet stream here spending up low pressures and that is the hurricane i mentioned earlier on the weather forecast. so these two may emerge here in the remnants of that bad weather may be headed our way but i do still a ways off for the time being wet and windy next week and where the best of weather for sure will be in the southeast. that is it for me. goodbye. tonight at ten — russia faces a detailed counter—attack by western intelligence agencies, who allege widespread hacking of key organisations. four men are unmasked by the dutch authorities as alleged russian spies — part of an extensive campaign against western targets. it's claimed that some
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of the equipment seized was used to hack into the international chemical weapons watchdog. here you have evidence of the russian military launching a cyber attack on the very organisation, the international organisation in the netherlands set up to investigate those novichok attacks, and why would you do that if you weren't the guilty party? we'll have the details and reaction from moscow, where the kremlin has dismissed western "spy mania". also tonight... zakaria mohammed? yes.
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