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the murder of the saudi journalist in istanbul. now the turkish president demands justice is done. he calls for the men arrested in saudi arabia for the killing ofjamal khashoggi to be put on trial in turkey. translation: all information and evidence shows jamal khashoggi was killed in a violent savage murder. we expect those responsible to be exposed. meanwhile the man many suspect of ordering the killing, the saudi crown prince, meets the murdered journalist's son. all this while a business summit takes place in the saudi capital with foreign companies pledging tens of millions of dollars. also tonight: what's thought to be the uk's biggest ever strike about equal pay has workers out on the streets in glasgow. how elderly people are facing distressing and painful deaths due to poor care in some homes. the dilemma facing sheep famers. how to sell the lambs bred now but that will be sold after brexit. and how did these two book worms manage to win
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a book shop in a raffle? and coming up on bbc news, cristiano ronaldo is back in familiar surroundings tonight to face his old club with his new one. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the turkish president has demanded that 18 men arrested in saudi arabia in connection with the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi be put on trial in turkey. president erdowan also said the saudis must reveal the whereabouts of mr khashoggi's body, and who ordered what he described as a "savage, premeditated" killing. the crown prince of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman, who is suspected by many of ordering
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the killing ofjamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul, has today met the saudi journalist's son. mark lowen is outside the saudi consulate. did the president's comments give more clarity over the murder? i think they raised more questions than answers. were mike is the body? who ordered the hit god? the turkish leader increase the pressure but stopped short of pointing the finger. some reports have said that jamal khashoggi's belongings may have been found in an abandoned saudi consulate card. the net is closing in on riyadh. jamal khashoggi's last steps into the saudi consulate and towards death. three weeks on the search continues.
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president erdowan vowed to provide it, the naked truth. in the end no new bombshell but an accusation of a premeditated act. translation: all information and evidence shows rockley was killed in a violent savage murder. we expect those responsible to be exposed. we think it was a planned operation. he called for an independent investigation and tightened pressure on the alleged hit squad. translation: they are 18 people must be tried in istanbul. this is my proposal. the decision is for the saudis to make. president erdowan said a saudi reconnaissance team arrived just before the event.
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joined by other saudis the next day they met at the consulate in the morning, president erdowan cnb removed morning, president erdowan cnb re m oved cctv morning, president erdowan cnb removed cctv hard drives before jamal khashoggi turned up. it took the saudi government 17 days to admit jamal khashoggi had the saudi government 17 days to admitjamal khashoggi had died, claiming first it was after a fist fight. the next day the saudi foreign minister said the journalist was murdered in what he called a rogue operation, adding those involved would be punished. given the gruesome lea ks involved would be punished. given the gruesome leaks of what happened here, sedatives, strangling, dismemberment, a president who does not shy away from confrontation was surprisingly quiet today. in the saudi capital today they put on a brave face, or opening a glitzy investment conference, but many
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multinationals and politicians are boycotting it and the opening speaker could not avoid the elephant in the room. the terrible acts reported in recent weeks are alien to our culture and our dna. convincing the us to change tack is harder. its treasury secretary pulled out of the conference but still met the crown prince. the saudis praising the strategic partnership. this was a far harder meeting, jamal khashoggi's son with the man widely accused of ordering his murder. it comes down to this, a father killed and a family torn apart. our correspondent tim willcox is in the saudi capital riyadh where the international business summit is taking place. many world leaders speaking out against the murder of jamal khashoggi but nonetheless business is brisk. yes. iam
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yes. i am standing in the extraordinary opulent convention centre. it is empty because all of the delegates are having a dinner at the delegates are having a dinner at the ritz—carlton close by. it was packed earlier especially when crown prince mohammed bin salman walked in. he was mobbed by people taking selfies and wanting to shake his hand. igot selfies and wanting to shake his hand. i got close to him and i said to him in the light of these recent events how did he feel things were going and he said great, many people, more money. as far as he is concerned nothing has really changed. mark mentioned the fact this event had been boycotted by several political and business leaders but in truth you find that a lot of them have sent their deputies here as well. they simply cannot miss out on this 2030 vision for changing saudi arabia. even the us treasury secretary who tweeted a few days ago he was not going to come arrived in the riyadh yesterday and
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had a meeting with mohammed bin salman about terrorism funding and trying to combat terrorism. those political links and business links are still open. this conference was the baby of mohammed bin salman and at the time president erdowan was speaking some of the big donors were pledging billions of dollars, the political pressure discontinuing against the saudis and in particular mohammed bin salman but they are toughing it out. what is thought to be the uk's biggest ever strike about equal pay is under way in glasgow. thousands of council workers are striking for 48 hours, resulting in the closure of hundreds of schools, and affecting some care services. scotland's highest court last year ruled that women at the council had been discriminated against since 2006 and that some had lost thousands of pounds a year in pay. 0ur scotland editor sarah smith reports from glasgow. francis is a social care worker who said she did not
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want to go on strike but feels she has no choice. francis and her colleagues say they are paid up to £3 an hour less than men doing similar work because of pay structures that penalise those who work irregular hours, the vast majority of whom are women. there are cleaners and carers and dinner school ladies getting a lot less tha n dinner school ladies getting a lot less than men for doing the same jobs or similarjobs. we do so much more, compared to a cleansing worker, a gardner, so there is no comparison. we are dealing with people's lives. we want equality. we wa nt to people's lives. we want equality. we want to be treated equal. primary schools and nurseries across the city are closed and most home care services suspended. glasgow city council say that that is putting some vulnerable people at risk, like irene who needs four care visits a day to make sure that she takes essential medication. what do you need you are not getting
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today? pills. medication. how did you feel when you were told your carer would not be coming in today? shaky. are you annoyed she is not here? no. they deserve it. thousands of women and some male colleagues took to the streets today after 12 years of arguing about equal pay. the irony is that the pay structure is put in place were put in place to try to end discrimination but the woman on strike say they entrench the inequality. over a decade under labour control, the council did not resolve the pay dispute. the snp took charge last year promising to settle the claims. unions say negotiations have stalled but the council insists that the strike is completely
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unnecessary. we have been trying to meet every single one of their demand is and have agreed with forward on everything. they had every reason to withdraw the strike action right up until this morning. at this point we are not clear what it is they still want. campaigners say the cost of settling 12,000 equal pay claims could be over half a billion. the council dispute that figure but admit it is facing a huge financial challenge. scotland's first minister said today she wished the strike was not taking place but she had nothing but admiration for the women taking part. it is to give her because they are taking action against an snp led council who blame the labour party who were in charge here for decades. the snp are determined to settle these people end but it is not clear
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how they are going to afford to pay for that. ajudge in london has said a contempt of court case against the founder of the english defence league, tommy robinson, must be referred to the attorney general. the case was due to heard at the old bailey today. mr robinson, who was prosecuted under his real name of stephen yaxley lennon, is facing an allegation that he committed contempt by filming people before a criminal trial. some elderly people are facing distressing and painful deaths due to poor care in some care homes, according to the health watchdog. the care quality commission says staff shortages and a lack of training are to blame. relatives of two elderly women who died at a home run by bupa have told the bbc the women suffered terribly. they've been speaking to our health editor hugh pym. i saw the most cruel thing that no one should ever go through. you should not have to die that way.
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this is a photograph of my mother in the nursing home. ingrid is haunted by the way her mother ann died last year, aged 92. it was in a private care home run by the health provider bupa. herfamily knew she did have much longer to live and believed a plan was in place for a peaceful death in the home, but the reality was very different. the frustration of having all end of life drugs that would have eased her pain and agitation and fear down the corridor and not getting anyone prepared to administer them without a sign off from a gp is absolutely awful. awful. and will be with me forever. i know that. lindy is another who feels let down by the same care home. her mother, barbara, who was 106, enjoyed living there, but when her condition worsened, she was in distress for several hours as the right medication was not given through a device known as a syringe driver.
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lindy thinks it was down to a lack of training. i feel that nurses who work, who care for the elderly, should have extra training in palliative care and that this should be legislated by the government. the website for the bupa care home in west london highlights smart fixtures and fittings. fees can be over £100,000 a year. it advertises palliative care, that is symptom management at end of life, making sure physical and psychological needs are met, but an inspection by the regulator, the cqc, in august last year said it required improvement. in a statement, bupa told us that the team here had undertaken additional training since the cqc inspection and that nurses do have the equipment to administer pain relief. it added that syringe driver training is available for all registered nurses in the care homes. the regulator believes there is a growing problem with some nursing homes not providing
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the right level of care for residents in their final days. it is not acceptable that we cannot support people at the end of their life in the way that they want to. some people can definitely do it, but it is not happening everywhere and we need to get that sorted. ingrid says it is time to end the taboo of not talking about death and to strive to get every care home properly enabled to allow residents to die with dignity. hugh pym, bbc news. the irish government has announced that the site of a former mother—and—baby home where almost 800 babies and children may be buried will be excavated. an investigation has already found that "significa nt quantities" of human remains are at the site in county galway. the irish children's minister said she wanted to ensure all the babies and children who died at the catholic—run home have a "respectful burial". here's our ireland correspondent emma va rdy. this was once the grounds of a former home for unmarried
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mothers, known as the fallen women. a mass grave was found here four decades ago. then people were told that it contained the remains of those who had died during the great famine, but research by local historians in 2014 found that the grave contained the bodies of almost 800 babies and children. it is believed that they were buried in a septic tank. now the site will be excavated to recover the remains. at a press conference today, the minister for children said that she would ensure that they would all now be given a dignified and respectful burial. it was an important step, she said, for those who believe that they have a loved one whose remains are here. this catholic run institution had high infant mortality. it is believed that the bodies are of children aged between two days and nine years old. the church says it has no records of their burial. the excavation, it is hoped, will uncover the secrets of this site. former residents of the home
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and their families have waited many years for answers. emma vardy, bbc news. the time is just gone quarter past six. our top story this evening. turkey's president calls for the men arrested in saudi arabia for the killing ofjamal khashoggi to be sent back to his country to go on trial. still to come... how the number of fast food outlets on the high street has increased by a third in a decade. coming up on sportsday on bbc news, england's heaviest ever defeat in one—day cricket as they lose to sri lanka by more than 200 runs. after a year of extreme weather farmers have a lot to contend with at the moment. but sheep farmers are facing possibly an even bigger obstacle as they put their rams in the fields this breeding season. the lambs they are planning for will be born after brexit
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and so decision making is unusually difficult. and the latest figures show that breeding ewes are fetching the lowest price in more than 3 years. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith has been to talking to farmers in cumbria. on a crisp autumn day there are few places more appealing than being up on the hills with the sheep at this farm. but for rachel and her family it is getting harder to make the sums add up. 300 lambs, £30. you're talking a £30 loss or £30 less... yes, it is about £9,000. we have friends with £20,000 back. it is a bit of a worry, because obviously you have got your bills to pay. but she is already having to make the big decisions about next spring. we put them in with the sheep, we have got lambs inside sheep and we don't know if they will be
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able to sell, but you cannot not put your rams in with your sheep, so you just have to carry on, really. this is crunch time of year for sheep farmers, they are finding out how much they made on all their lambs from last spring and how much they are going to have to invest in breeding stock this year. because, it is market season. so i am heading down the road to one of the biggest livestock markets in the country. almost 500 rams were sold here today for breeding next spring's lambs. at auctions across the country, prices were down. farmers as a whole, as a race, if you like, as a group of people, are pretty resilient. we had a difficult winter, really bad spring, beast from the east and all the assorted weather, followed by a really dry summerand brexit, so, yes, the amount of uncertainty is probably greater than we have seen for a long time. but that is how the land lies
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for farmers this breeding season. they are going to be in a situation where those lambs are going to be born post—brexit, in a completely different market. we might be under world trade organisation tariffs then which would really hit. 90% of our lamb trade in this country goes to europe, so that if we go under wto rules, we are in a really difficult situation, where we do not have free trade access to our biggest market. rachel's daughter catherine is watching as her parents make big financial decisions about the farm she loves and hopes to run one day. definitely it is in the back of my mind, like what is going to happen after brexit? but i do think we need to persevere, because we are the people who provide the food for the uk. whatever happens, decisions by farmers to reduce their flock now will have an impact on the price we pay in the shops
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for lamb next year. coletta smith, bbc news in kirby stephen. dyson — the firm which made its name with vacuum cleaners — says it'll make its new electric cars in singapore, ending hopes for a site here in the uk. the factory is part of a 2.5 billion pound global investment drive in new technology. dyson is aiming to launch its electric vehicles in 2021. the government says flour could be fortified with folic acid in a bid to help reduce birth defects. health officials believe the change would mean pregnant women get the recommended regular exposure to the b vitamin. a consultation is due to be launched next year. the duke and duchess of sussex arrived in fiji today on the latest leg of their southern hemisphere tour — a warning some of the following pictures contain flash photography. the royal couple have been following in the footsteps of the queen and duke of edinburgh who were there back in 1953. this was them on the balcony of the grand pacific hotel and this was harry and meghan on the same balcony some 65 years later.
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uk high streets have the highest concentration of fast food outlets in almost a decade, according to research by bbc news. in most areas the number of takeaways per 100,000 people is at its highest since 2010 — up by a third in that time. research suggests people most exposed to them are nearly twice as likely to be obese. david rhodes reports. it is the food that is fast, convenient and an everyday part of some people's lives. i really hated how i looked. it is not normal to be 30 stone. at the age ofjust 16, joe from rotherham was morbidly obese. you are seeing more takeaways then you are actually seeing corner shops. i think they should definitely limit the number of fast—food places massively, because it is just taking over. it is part of everyday life. analysis of official figures by the bbc has found that in 2010 there were just over 29,000 fast—food businesses in the uk.
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this year that number has reached over 39,000, an increase of over a third in the space of eight years. obesity is the biggest challenge facing the nhs. obesity has been linked with fast—food and we have had projections that suggest that by 2050, which is only one generation away, that direct and indirect costs of obesity will cost nearly £50 billion and that is enough to bankrupt the nhs. the government and devolved administrations across the uk have all set out plans to reduce obesity levels, whilst in england, ministers say local councils can control the number and location of takeaways, but on current trends, the number of these food businesses is set to rise as the battle to control bulging waistlines looks likely to become harder. david rhodes, bbc news, rotherham. and viewers in yorkshire can see more on that story on look north straight after this bulletin. take a look at this.
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the world's longest sea bridge has opened — in china — nine years after construction first began, linking hong kong to macau and mainland china. the 15 billion pound bridge is designed to withstand earthquakes and typhoons, and contains four—hundred— thousand tonnes of steel, enough to build 60 eiffel towers. the project should have opened in 2016, but has been dogged by safety issues. officials say at least 18 workers died during its construction. when the owners of a book shop in the market town of cardigan in west wales decided they wanted to retire from the much loved business they'd started years earlier, they chose a novel way to pass it on. they offered it in a raffle to their customers. the lucky winners will take over in the next few weeks, and as sian lloyd has been finding out, the story of bookends has become quite a tale. ? ? in a quiet corner of cardigan, bookends has become a familiar spot for browsers over the years,
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but husband and wife, paul and leila morris decided it was time to say goodbye to the business they have started from scratch to pursue some of their other life dreams. we really love the shop, you know, we have lovely people that come in here and a really nice customer base, it is part of the community, we don't actually want to close the shop. but we also want to go off and do other things. rather than placing the business on the market, they came up with a novel idea for passing it on. if somebody was interested, they would buy £20 worth of books and be given the opportunity to go into the hat, with a view of possibly winning the business and it would be great to see the shop move forward. it is a legacy and we think we have got the right people taking it on. the winner of this unusual prize was dutchman ceisjan van heerden who had become a regular customer after moving to west wales a year ago. svaen bjorn from iceland willjoin him in running bookends in a twist worthy of a novel,
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as the pair had never met before, although they had been virtual friends, through gaming on the internet. there was an easy connection, basically. even if that was just online, right? i think it has continued, we probably metjust a day ago. i think we will be all right. i could not really believe it at first, because it has all been very surreal. so, i have beenjust... it has not been as real for me as it has been for him. putting names in a hat was certainly an unusual way to seal bookends' future. the next chapter in its story looks set to be another page turner. sian lloyd, bbc news, cardigan. time for a look at the weather... here's nick miller we are about to turn a chapter. it
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is turning colder. i told you that yesterday. we will appreciate what we have and here is a view of some sunshine on the north yorkshire coast today. whitby, although it was blustery. elizabeth further south, at average of 17 degrees. elsewhere it was a cloudy and damp picture in the west of scotland, closer to a weather front around this area of high pressure. when you see this, you think it is settled weather story and it is for most of us, but this weather front has made for a pretty wet story across north and north—west scotland by the time the rain eases tomorrow, some of us will have received about 100 millimetres, it has been quite windy and some of that rain continues overnight. a lot of blood filtering them across the north—west of the uk, south wales, the south of will seek clear skies, lower temperatures, not as cold as
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last night. the chance for the odd patch of mist and fog. we start tomorrow with the same weather pattern, pretty similar weather and that means some rain into northwest: but it is lighter, more patchy in nature and a lot of cloud in north—west england, northern ireland, south wales, southern england, these to bring you down parts of the east of scotland seem sunny spells, 16 or maybe 17 degrees to the doctor bridge. gesture we knew the picture moving into thursday, a lot of fine weather still, but the rain is gathering again in the north of scotland and this is significant because this is going to move south, thursday night and into friday, sweeping away these are double—figure temperatures, it will feel different by friday. here comes the sea on a blue as the arctic air moves across the uk with a strengthening wind and it will feel colder than even these temperatures might suggest in the wind, but i have to say, there is a lot of sunshine going to be out there into the weekend, but there will be showers and if you catch
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one, it could have pale, thunder and of the higher ground of the north of britain, there could well be a bit of show. that is it. a reminder of our top story... turkey's president has called for the men arrested in saudi arabia for the killing ofjamal khashoggi to be sent back to his country to go on trial. that's all from the bbc news at six , so it's goodbye from me , hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines. the saudi royalfamily met relatives of the mudered journalist in riyadh. turkey's president says the murder was planned days ahead — and demandsjustice is done. thousands of council workers in glasgow stage a forty—eight hour strike over the issue of equal pay. hundreds of schools and home care services have been affected. the world's longest sea
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bridge opens in china — made of 400,000 tonnes of steel, enough to build 60 eiffel towers. harry and meghan greet the crowds in fiji, 65 years after the prince's grandmother did the same, during her coronation tour. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news... the magic of mercury — 25 years after his death — a film about freddie mercury's life is premiered tonight. we're on the red carpet. we'll have a discussion about the "relentless" harassment faced by women on the street and in public spaces. and later tonight — we'll take a look at tomorrow's papers. 0ur reviewers are the ft‘s political correspondent laura hughes and former fleet street editor eve pollard. that's all ahead on bbc news.
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now on bbc news it's time for sportsday.

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