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hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. the saudi palace released this photo today. it's the murdered journalist jamal khashoggi's son called in to meet mohammed bin salman. this as the world's seven richest countries ask the saudi arabia to provide a full account of the killing. meanwhile that same crown prince was greeted like a rock star at the saudi investment conference that opened today. president trump and president putin say they'll meet next month, as the two leaders have been disagreeing over a nuclear treaty that mr trump wants to quit. the european commission rejects italy's budget plan for next year, but the country's interior minister is in no mood to compromise. so what next for one of the founding members of the eu? and archeologists say they've discovered the world's oldest intact shipwreck, almost 2,500 years old. hello and welcome to the programme.
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g7 foreign ministers have released a statement on the killing ofjamal khashoggi. it says they "condemn the killing of the saudi journalist in the strongest possible terms". adding that, "saudi explanations for his murder leave many questions una nswered." but today at an investment conference in riyadh, crown prince mohammed bin salman seemed unphased when questioned by my colleague, tim willcox. that was tim willcox catch up with
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crown prince. this is a picture of jamal khashoggi's son salah shaking hands with crown prince mohammed bin salman, released by the saudi foreign office. the image has received a great deal of criticism on social media. sahrif, author of daring to drive: a saudi woman's awakening, says "salah is banned from travel. they brought him to the royal court to accept condolences. the look on his face." in that photo has received an awful lot of criticism. and raf sanchez, the telegraph's middle east correspondent, describes it as "a picture for the ages. salah has to shake hands with the man accused of ordering his father's murder". the saudis have admitted jamal khashoggi was killed in istanbul, but says it was a rogue group of killers acting on their own authority. and they stress that the crown
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prince had no knowledge of it. turkey's president, recep tayyip erdogan, says it was premeditated murder. translation: all information and evidence shows that jamal khashoggi was killed in a violent, savage murder. why was it that the consulate's building was opened to investigation not immediately but many days later? we want answers to that question. why was it that so many contradictory statements were made about the alleged murder, at the time alleged murder? we want answers to that. and the body of jamal khashoggi is still missing. president erdogan had vowed to expose the naked truth ahead of that news conference, but he didn't add any new information. he made no mention of an audio
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recording that turkish authorities say they have, which documents the killing. the wherabouts of jamal khashoggi's body, and the condition of it, is a huge concern. turkish officials say mr khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the consulate by saudi agents on the 2nd of october. ajoint turkish—saudi investigation into the death has repeatedly been hindered by the saudis. today a car belonging to the saudi consulate, found in a car park, was searched by a turkish forensic team, after waiting until a delegation from saudi arabia was made available to oversee the search. there are suspicions that this vehicle was used to transport jamal khasoggi's body. we will let you know their findings as soon as they're released. but in the meantime, here's cagil kasapoglu from bbc turkish on the timing of mr erdogan‘s speech today. it is not really a coincidence
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because president erdogan doesn't leave stuff just randomly. apparently this was planned because he still wants to have leverage over saudi arabia and he particularly in this case must have the last say. and he accused riyadh saying, "this was a premeditated murder. a brutal, savage, political murder," he said. right now when in riyadh, ceos and high senior officials of corporate durations are negotiating money and investing in riyadh. president erdogan has calculated today and he wanted, he expected more from saudi arabia. but i think it was also a very well—calculated statement because he didn't directly point fingers at mohammad bin salman, he never mentioned the crown prince's name. but he mentioned king salman‘s name and he said he doesn't doubt his sincerity.
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but he said that an unbiased investigation is needed in this particular case. saudi arabia has always distanced the crown prince from anything to do with this. but in terms of turkey's relationship with saudi arabia, it's been strained? yes, well it goes back to last year and it has a longer history, actually. turkey is a sympathiser, particularly president erdogan is a sympathiser of the muslim brotherhood which is banned in saudi arabia. and turkey sided itself with qatar when it saudi arabia when saudi arabia imposed embargoes. so, yes, it is a regional game, it is a regional chess event. and people, countries, states, choose their role in this. and turkey clearly wants to remain as a big player. it is a sunni area and there is this competition. but on the other hand, turkey is not in a position to afford being in contradiction,
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conflict, with saudi arabia given that its economy is quite in tatters. as this investigation continues, hundreds of bankers and company executives are in riyadh for the future investment initiative, an event started by mohamed bin salman to attract foreign investment. tim willcox is in riyadh as well you saw him earlier questioning the crown prince there. i put it to him that the prince seemed unphased. i didn't have more than a chance for one question actually. because i got in and asked him a question and said i was from the bbc. and i held him by the hand and i did not want to start with the jamal line of questioning. and i asked him in the context of everything that was happening, so i kept it quite vague. i asked him how he thought things were going. and he was totally
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unphased and smiling. but as soon as they realised that i was asking him questions, i was bustled away and he just said he thought it was great, many people more, more money. so, as you say, completely unphased by this. there was no suggestion at all that he seemed under any pressure from what mr erdogan had said and the interesting thing at this conference which is closed on the first day now, when mr erdogan started to speak in the turkish parliament, some of the biggest hitters here at the conference started pledging billions of dollars to try to overshadow what everyone knew mr erdogan would be saying in that speech. as far as the saudi royal family's story is concerned, it has changed several times. remember they first said that mr khashoggi had actually walked into the consulate and left and that they happened to not have the cctv cameras switched on at the time. then they admitted that he had been killed but it was a mistake
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effectively and he died from a chokehold. the conference's first session today started off with the energy minister addressing the killing of the journalist and said basically that it was something which was a crisis for the country. and other delegates here, saudis, here saying "this is not the way that saudi arabia does things". the big question, the big fear though is perhaps that is really the way that saudi arabia does things especially under a young leader who is a moderniser but also sticking very strictly to the sort of autocratic monarch—like complete power that the house of saud has here. tim willcox who was able to exchange a few words with the crown prince.
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as we get more, we will bring that to you. but we must move on. the european commission has rejected italy's draft budget. this is the first time the commission's done this to a euro—area country. here's why. it is openly consciously going against commitments made. europe is built on cooperation. the euro area is built on strong bonds of trust. asi is built on strong bonds of trust. as i was saying for everybody, if trust is eroded, all member states ta ke trust is eroded, all member states take damage. our union takes damage. italy now has three weeks to submit a new, draft budget to brussels. but if you listen to matteo salvini, italy's deputy prime minister, he doesn't sound in the mood for compromise. traffic—macro: we will respond politely to all of their letters. —— translate translation: we will
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respond to their words. i will talk to him tomorrow. but no one would tolerate a single euro being removed from the budget. there you go, no compromise. this is the problem. italy's rising debt. as a percentage of gdp, within the eu it's second only to greece. the italian government wants to spend more, by bringing in a minimum income for the unemployed, scrapping extensions to the retirement age, and cutting taxes. to achieve this, they have to borrow more, and that's what the eu commission is not happy about. of course, the political consequences are also significant — this draft budget is italy's new populist government trying to keep campaign promises. it was well short of
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what was the crisis is at his peak. having said that, the sheer size of the thai government and the government does mean that if things we re government does mean that if things were to go wrong, it would be much harderfor were to go wrong, it would be much harder for the rest of the euro zone to clear up the mess. but i have to emphasise we're not there and not close to that point yet. andrew walker there with the economic consequences. luigi di maio is matteo salvini's coalition partner and also deputy prime minister. his reaction to today "this is the first italian budget that the eu doesn't like." "this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels!" when we were in milan a few weeks ago, we spoke to the journalist anna momigliano — this is her take. "in the short term, this eu commission thing is a boost to the government narrative" and anna joins me again now.
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—— i was able tojoin earlier and she said what she meant by that. this government is run on eurosceptic. they present themselves as the true independent government. what is happening right now, it allows both the league and 5—star to say "see, we are the true people —— tripathi of the people. of people living in brussels. —— the league and five star. italy is one of the most eurosceptic countries across the area, this general feeling among people, the europeans people but these bureaucrats don't want money
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spent on more people. and in the short term... 0h, spent on more people. and in the short term... oh, and i have the feeling that we are losing the line with you. i suspect... i feeling that we are losing the line with you. isuspect... i hope feeling that we are losing the line with you. i suspect... i hope you can still hear it. i understand the image that the eu has within italy isn't particularly popular. but in the long term with the the long—term, surely the long—term, surely get times to understand the economy is very large. compared to other eu countries. if things should go wrong, the consequences for the rest of the european union will be very grave. that is probably what they're counting very grave. that is probably what they‘ re counting on. very grave. that is probably what they're counting on. they keep then —— tone of cells that italy is too big to fail. and the may have up point because we have a situation where someone point because we have a situation where someone may point because we have a situation where someone may get hurt very badly. and whether it will be the eu, italy or both, it is still yet to be seen because we really, italy has three weeks to change its budget. the government says they don't want to. and after that you
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can don't want to. and after that you ca n start don't want to. and after that you can startan don't want to. and after that you can start an infringement procedure but do they really want to? italy is the third—largest economy in the euro zone. it will start generating panic in the italian market. you are threatening to call euro zone and keepin threatening to call euro zone and keep in mind that the european election, this would be a huge gift to all populist party is across the continent. so i think what they're doing right now is to show muscles hoping that the eu commission will be too scared to actually act upon the proceeding. but whether this will work, they are taking a big risk. they are bluffing and we will see whether it is worth it. we will certainly see. stay with us on outside source — still to come,
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what would you do if you won a staggering one point six billion dollars? that's what's up for grabs in the mega millions lottery tonight, the largestjackpot in us history. the prime minister, theresa may, will address a committee of backbench conservative mps in parliament on wednesday, here's vicki young. you remember at the week and lots of angry and some would say completely in appropriate language directed to theresa may. one of thing said was that she should come to this meeting on wednesday with a noose. others talking about an assassination. that is potentially the kind of atmosphere she will be walking into. but i think it is fair to say that in the past there has been difficult
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moments for her but at this time she intends to go to that work in the building behind me and quite often comes out unscathed after the ritual banging of desks and support. i think when it comes to the moment quite often those on anonymous sources coming forward that kind of language when their face—to—face with her, it is not always quite so aggressive as you might think. you are watching outside source live from the bbc newsroom. the saudi palace released this photo today — it's the murdered journalist jamal khashoggi's son called in to meet mohammed bin salman. this as the world's seven richest countries ask the saudi arabians to provide a full account of the killing. some of the other stories we're working on, here in the bbc newsroom. mexico has issued an alert for parts of its pacific seaboard, as it prepares for the arrival of a hurricane, which is being described as "life—threatening".
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category four hurricane willa is expected to make landfall on the south—western coast later today. that's on bbc mundo. israeli officials believe that a lightening storm accidentally triggered palestinian militant rocket fire from gaza, which escalated tensions in the area last week. one of the missiles badly damaged a house in the israeli city of baresheva. israel retaliated with air strikes on gaza, and a palestinian was killed. bbc arabic has more. prince harry and meghan markle are in fiji to begin the second leg of their south pacific tour. the duke of sussex drank a bowl of kava, fiji's national drink, as part of the traditional welcoming ceremony that mirrored almost exactly the ceremony given to the queen and prince phillip 65 years ago. i want to take you to germany.
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she's a daughter of palestinian migrants who's risen to be state secretary in berlin. she has been subjected to a storm of abuse on social media after this four—year—old picture of her was posted online. it was taken when she was made deputy spokeswoman of the german foreign ministry in 2014. the anger is because of the watch she is wearing in the picture. it's a rolex worth more than 7,000 euros. ms chebli has now deleted her facebook account, this is what you get when you go on it now. this is why — she told the germany newspaper bild: "my facebook account has become a playground for nazis and extremists of all stripes. and ijust do not want to offer these people a platform any more." she also took to twitter to defend herself.
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this says: "who of you haters lived with 12 siblings in two rooms, slept and ate on the floor, chopped wood at the weekend, because coal was too expensive? who had to wait months for wooden crayons? nobody tells me what poverty is." for more on this i spoke to mike sanders from the bbc world service. this is a four—year—old picture of a expensive rolex which not everyone can afford. a sharp bite fashionista in the newsroom was pointed out that she wore a expensive ring. but this isa she wore a expensive ring. but this is a woman of status, the state secretary of berlin to the federal administration berlin being one of the 16 states of germany. that entitles her to a seat on the upper chamber of the federal parliament. so why should she not wear a rolex in principle? by her background is
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important because she was the daughter of how the city refugees. she is and i suppose some people would think that she is something of an upstart. but she is a member of the social democrat party, the social democrats administration in berlin. and it was saying that she isa berlin. and it was saying that she is a champagne socialist and this is not the kind of signal that you want to be sending to potential voters who had been deserting the party to the right in droves going to the populist anti—immigrant the right in droves going to the populist anti—immigra nt alternative for germany party because they now feel they, the alternate for germany, represent the interests of the traditional working class of better than the social democrats. the traditional working class of better than the social democratsm terms officially of how this looks, it doesn't look great. it is a bag signal certainly. it is a bad mood music. but she is also being a target for the far right, the populists. she stuck her head above the parapet on several occasions.
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there were riots in the eastern city of chemnitz last month about far right protesters over the death of a german man at the hands of immigrants. and those rights went very violently. but she went on the social media and said that the left—wing are doing comfortable about this was aware that she said. "we should stand up to be more radical". and that was taken to mean by sunday but an assignment of violence. so she had to delete that message and come back to explain what she wanted was a firm opposition in a legalframework. what she wanted was a firm opposition in a legal framework. and she estimated her whole account and social media profile. because some of the comments she was getting was asa of the comments she was getting was as a leaf out. at the champagne socialist stuff does stick any more my loop. —— she was getting was foul. time for os business now. and these are pictures coming into the newsroom from the us — they're of people buying
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a ticket for tonight's mega millions draw. the figures are staggering. anyone who matches all six numbers to win the jackpot can choose an immediate cash payment of $904 million. here's the tricky bit the odds of winning are one in 303 million. this means you are, statistically, way more likely to get killed by a shark in your lifetime — those odds are only one in 3.7 million. this is my favourite stat of the day. but that doesn't seem to be putting people off. the washington post tweeted about this. i don't think we can get at the moment. but it is saying that... "so many people are buying mega millions tickets that number combinations are running out". and cnbc tweeted tweet "the big winner in the $1.6 billion mega millions is the irs.
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the federal tax agency will be taking 24% of the winnings in tax. samira hussain is live. it is incredibly difficult to win this. but it is not putting people off. the figures are staggering. and it is all actually by design. what water is have done in the united states in the last few years have changed the formula. so you don't have as many winners but the jackpots just get have as many winners but the jackpotsjust get bigger have as many winners but the jackpots just get bigger and bigger. and of course the bigger the jackpots, the there are more people driving to those sales. it actually working for the lottery commissions because people are interested in those tickets. take a look at those pictures up in long lines of people buying tickets. in fact the bbc new york office has indeed contributed to those lines. i wasjust would ask you if if you bought a ticket. in
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terms of morality, there's a huge question about that because of such huge winnings. sure, but if it is $2 or $5 for someone tojust huge winnings. sure, but if it is $2 or $5 for someone to just a dream about what it would be like to have that $1.6 billion and what they would actually do with that money, if you accept it on face value for what it is, than many people are saying "it is after worthwhile". i do want to mention the bit about the odds. right now some statisticians are saying that the number of tickets that are sold, the odds are that 75% of the number, nations have been taken. ifi has that 75% of the number, nations have been taken. if i has not seen you tronic, i know to give one the lottery. join us for the next edition of outside source. we have more stories. see you in a moment. good evening. as i speak an
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extremely dangerous hurricane is barreling down across western and central mexico. that is hurricane willa. this is from yesterday. it has done moister ahead in the southern states. it could cause potential catastrophic damage with destructive winds 130 potential catastrophic damage with destructive winds130 miles an hour. some extremely high storm surge for coastal areas that will be dangerous as well as 400 mm of rain because we have another strong for the stuff coming into southern and western mexico adding to the rain. flash flooding and landslides on the cards. in moves to the four corners of the united states and a lot of moisture brought. west and central and some parts of southern mexico at risk with some extremely destructive weather in the next 12—24 hours. as i say, the moisture starts to push further eastwards so it has been moving through tuesday, moving showers in the southern states and through wednesday, southern plains at risk as well. by the end of that
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week and some of the moisture could ta ke week and some of the moisture could take itself across the panhandle for errors which we devastation from because of michael. it is a destructive storm. —— panhandle of florida. we have a slow—moving weather front through south america around paraguay and some parts of brazil. that will be a problem just getting day after day of persistent rainfall. it looks wetter for kenya and tanzania the next couple of days. i heat wave persists across the south of africa. the middle east at the moment has been fairly quiet but we have this nasty weather coming up the mediterranean to contend with later this week. temperatures will fall away and we will see heavy rain mounting and snow our first taste of winter. across in the pacific we have another and storm, the western pacific a typhoon heading towards the mariana alves. we will watch someone for the next day or two because it become —— you could
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become a super typhoon. thus i went you're because we have nasty weather here golf ball size hail to parts of italy. red and amber warnings out again. you can see it becoming more active as a heads eastwards in the next day or two. we have cold air sinking behind it so snowfall. we are rdc showers for the canaries and not great but as you can see this point of cold air, snow and the carpathian mountains and still that active story weather and across the eastern mediterranean. and adriatic. coming into turkey and parts of greece. that has an impact in the uk and sure you have been listening to the forecast. a significant drop in temperature is due. more on that in half an hour. hello, i'm kasia madera. this is outside source. the saudi palace has
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released this photo today. it's the murdered journalist jamal khashoggi's son called in to meet mohamed bin salman. this as the world's seven richest countries ask saudi arabia to provide a full account of the killing. meanwhile, that same crown prince was greeted like a rock star at the saudi investment conference that opened today. president trump and president putin say they'll meet next month, as the two leaders have been disagreeing over a nuclear treaty that mr trump wants to quit. the european commission rejects italy's budget plan for next year, but the country's interior minister is in no mood to compromise. so what next for one of the founding members of the eu? and archeologists say they've discovered the world's oldest intact shipwreck — almost 2,500 years old. but get more on one of those
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stories. the us national security adviser john bolton has told the bbc that a key nuclear missile treaty with russia is outdated and the us will pull out, as indicated by president trump. he re—iterated washington's stance that russia has violated terms of the agreement. the kremlin denies this. here's some of the exclusive exchange between mr bolton and the bbc‘s sarah rainsford in moscow. you don't feel this is a dangerous step, a return to the old arms race of the cold war? no. i think that rhetoric is overheated. i was here almost exactly 17 years ago to withdraw from the abm treaty. we heard a lot of the same rhetoric. we withdrew from the abm treaty. and we're a more secure country today. and is this rhetoric or is this actually going to happen?
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is this something that will...? i think the president could not have been clearer, notjust on saturday but yesterday, as to what his decision is. and what response have you had so far from the russians? well, we've been discussing... as i said, the defence minister is aware of the larger global context, that this is a bilateral treaty from cold war days. technology's changed, geostrategic reality is changed, and we both have to deal with it. the russians have said this will make the world a more dangerous place. would you agree with that? no. i think this recognises the change reality, and i think given the russian violations of the treaty as well, you can't rely on theology, you have to rely on the facts on the grounds that we see. sarah rainsford, who was able to get that interview with john bolton. the 1987 intermediate range nuclear
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forces treaty was seen as a watershed moment during the last days of the cold war. it helped to eliminate thousands of land—based missiles, with ranges of between 500—5,500 kilometres. and it reduced the perceived soviet threat to european nations. but the americans believe that this 30—year—old bilateral treaty is outdated. mr bolton, who's been meeting with the russian president vladimir putin and other senior russian officials in moscow, says there's a new strategic reality now, where nuclear missiles are no longer a bilateral issue but a global one. china, iran, north korea and others, who are not covered by the treaty, who are free to do whatever they want in the intermediate range and have made very substantial strides to have that capability. we estimate, for example, in the case of china, that somewhere between one third and one half of all of their illicit missile capability would violate the imf if they were party to it.
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-- all —— all of their ballistic missile capability. the bbc‘s barbara plett usher is on the story. i asked her if we were in danger of heading to a nuclear arms race. if you listen to mr bolton, the a nswer if you listen to mr bolton, the answer is no. because he said the rhetoric is overheated, the last time the us scrapped a nuclear arms treaty, which was in the days of the george w bush administration, he said the warnings had been missile be catastrophic that nothing had really happened and he seemed to be the case here. this street was outdated, the russians had been cheating, and therefore, there was no reason why the us would be only one that should adhere to it. i think the russians and others who have looked at this treaty can also see weaknesses in the but they do warn that maybe this will return to something at the level of the cold war. but it does open up the chances ofan arms war. but it does open up the chances of an arms race because the americans are not offering any
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replacement. there's no viable replacement. there's no viable replacement according to the russians, no replacement offer at all, to tear up an arms deal that deals with nuclear weapons is quite a big thing to do given that. european union has warned this could affect europe's security because, of course, these land—based missiles we re course, these land—based missiles were in europe and they are very worried about anything that would reduce that kind of deterrence or perhaps open up a race for deploying missiles in europe again, and president trump i think has added to those fears by saying the americans would stepped up missile reduction until he said other nations come to their senses. raised a lot of concerns. barbara, i guess one the wea knesses concerns. barbara, i guess one the weaknesses is china was never signatory of this. and this is the point mr bolton made. this was a bipolar treaty. it was a bilateral treaty between russia and united states that time when they were the paramount military forces,
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especially the ones that military weapons. because china were not signatories to it, that did not prevent them from building the second missiles prohibited to russia in the united states. he did mention that as one of the key issues also and of course, he mentioned that president obama and the previous administration had also cut by the wea knesses administration had also cut by the weaknesses of the treaty had been the first to flag of the russians we re the first to flag of the russians were cheating, that they were deploying a certain amount of band missiles in europe, but he failed to mention the obama administration decided to stick with the treaty because the europeans wanted them to but also, he was afraid that pulling out of it would fuel an arms race. what could be the world's oldest intact ship—wreck is believed to have been found by a team of english and bulgarian archaeologists. they found it at the bottom of the black sea, around 80 kilometres off the coast of bulgaria. it's an ancient greek trading ship with a sail and oars, the type of which has only ever been seen in paintings and on vases.
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these are some of the pictures of it. the 23—metre vessel, found lying on its side. and archeologists used a remote—controlled submarine to find it. it appears to have been there for an incredible 2,500 years. here's one of the project leaders. there are ships down there that have never been seen — apart from the murals and paintings and in books — and these are the first time they have been seen since they were afloat. dr helen farr is a maritime archeologist, one of the leaders of the expeditionary team that discovered the vessel. here's her take on the find. we've been doing this project for the last couple of years of looking at mapping the black see for number of reasons. and we kept finding ships coming up. we've got about 67 of them in total. this one is special because this one is one of the oldest. it's about the fourth century, bc, ancient greek, and is
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intact. it's lying on its side. it has a mast. it has siege or benches we re has a mast. it has siege or benches were the rowers would have sat. there's no oxygen in lower waters, which means there's no life. you don't get the bacteria that eat away at the wood. it does mean that we get the potential reservation of wood in shipwrecks, which is why we have such an amazing range of shipwrecks being discovered. this time period, we have a few fragments of bits of ship but we don't have the whole thing. and we really worked out what people were doing and think about trade and connectivity around the mediterranean and across into the black see, and thinking about greek colonization. but it's also looking at the movement of people and things, and we see them in terms of what is on the short, the dreaded
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artifacts, but we very rarely see the ship. and the best thing is that, actually, it's very similar to a vase that, actually, it's very similar to a vase in the british museum, red figure where. it's got this depiction of almost exactly the same kind of ship on it. and it'sjust so similar. it actually allows us to say, "look stop the person who created the space actually knew at this should look like." we don't know what it was. in a normal weight, we would find an amount of... the cargo is still inside the ship. we will look inside if we get the opportunity. staggering to think we have not seen inside the chip before —— inside the ship before. lots more online. you can get all the details of the stories that we've covered here on outside source. log on to bbc.com/news.
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several african nations have banned the recruitment of domestic workers for countries in the middle east which subscribe to the " kafala" system. under this arrangement, foreign maids are legally bound to their employer and have limited rights. the bbc‘s africa eye has been investigating a world of abuse, hidden behind closed doors. 2.8 million women work as maids in the middle east. many have their passports confiscated on arrival, and some find themselves trapped inside homes where they're overworked, underpaid and physically abused. this is a kenyan senator who campaigns for the rights
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of kenyan women who are sent as domestic servants to the middle east. today, she's on her way to the hospital to visit mary, a kenyan maid who was badly burned in a fire at her employer's home in jordan. translation: i was in the kitchen. i screamed out, "madame, it's me, mary. i'm burning. please help me, madam." when she arrived, i felt like someone was kicking me. for a month, no one injordan — not her employers or the recruitment agency — informed mary's family of the accident, until she was put on the plane home. now, this is her.
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now the world has come to know what is happening. as a mother, as a leader, i will not stand, i will not sit and watch this kind of... we are not animals. there is no slave trade any more. despite stories of abuse, thousands of women from kenya and ghana still sign up with recruitment agencies, like this one injordan. translation: injordan, the market demand is for ghanaian girls. they are better than kenyans. translation: better than kenyans? i think kenyans are better. kenyans are better educated, but in ghana, the girls work harder. i sent you the last group, right?
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yes. beautiful. i have 11 girls like this. yes, they drive you insane. but they don't all come here looking like that. laughter. neither of these agents are accused of abuse, but the abuse does happen, often behind closed doors and usually unreported. some women, though, escape to safehouses, like this centre in lebanon where they are free to tell their stories. he came where i was sleeping and he told me, "i want you." and i told him, "no, i can't, i'm married." and he told me, "you have to obey my rules in this house." give me lighter! i don't think there is human rights in this world. no way. maybe in europe, but not in the middle east. in 2012, kenya banned women from travelling to the middle east as domestic workers. but recently, they lifted that ban and signed new deals with saudi arabia,
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lebanon and jordan. mary mbela, the maid who was burned while working in jordan, died of her injuries a month after she was returned to kenya. her family was never compensated, while the fight against the trade in domestic servants continues. translation: the girls going to the middle east are our daughters! i'm not leaving here until we sit down together and organise as women. thanks to africa— bring that story to our attention. facebook has removed 68 pages and 43 accounts that were alleged to be part of a socialmedia propaganda campaign for presidential candidate jair bolsonaro. this is the article which exposed the activity, from the newspaper o estado de sao paulo,
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saying a marketing group called rfa were behind the social campaign, and they are the main supporter network for mr bolsonaro. this is not the only recent allegation. just last week, another newspaper, folha de sao paulo, exposed what they said was a whatsapp messaging campaign financed by brazilian entrepreneurs that bombarded whatsapp users with fake news about workers party candidate fernando haddad. brazil is holding a presidential run off between the two on sunday. let's go live to camilla costa in sao paolo. just bring us a little bit more details about these fake accounts that have been off facebook. actually, these fake accounts and pages linked to rfa have had over 12 million interactions in the past 30 days. you can have an idea, this is
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more than a football player neymar had. he had about1 million interactions. it's even more than madonna had on facebook. some newspapers actually in brazil have been investigating this company, rsa, that administrate some pages and some accounts, mostly pro bolsonaro. they are what facebook calls at farms. they are pages that usually send messages to people on facebook over to attract people back to their website or you will see more ads, clickable ads, than actual news. and some of them were actually showing fake news as well in or at least news out of context to their readers. bolsonaro is well ahead in the polls. the election coming up soon. is there a lot of concern that this has helped him get up in those polls? or is some concern. the past
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week has been quite a tough week on the campaign ofjair bolsonaro because of those accusations. there was a sao paulo story as well that pro bolsonaro executives had been paying for messaging on whatsapp groups. the state university has also been saying that pro bolsonaro groups on whatsapp have been orchestrating fake news and attacks the people, so this has been quite a difficult week but the campaign seems to be taking it all in stride. jair bolsonaro has beenjoking and calling his voters robots are saying that those accusations have been fabricated by the opposition, so there is some concern. people have been pressuring, putting pressure on the supreme electoral courts to talk
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about this but so far, it seems like he is poised to win the elections. camilla costa in sao paulo, thank you. jair bolsonaro's brand of populism has been likened to that of donald trump. one similarity he seems to share with the us president is his appeal with evangelical voters, asjulia carneiro found out. a concert for a devoted audience. who's part of the lords army, the singer asks. this is one of the biggest evangelical churches in rio. these people can help decide brazil's political future. these people can help decide brazil's politicalfuture. winning over evangelical voters has become crucial in these presidential elections, and this means appealing both to conservative values and to a group that's been hard hit by brazil's economic crisis. up to 70% of evangelicals are expected to vote
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for the meeting presidential candidate, jair bolsonaro, a former army captain who praises brazil's dictatorship years. he suffered homophobic and misogynistic views. and defends the traditional heterosexual family. translation: i because he's a decent man. he the family and his ever been involved in corruption scandals. translation: bespeaks of preserving the family comedy values, the good customs. this pastor has over to me and followers on social media and has been campaigning for bolsonaro. translation: he has his flaws but he's against corruption and in favour of values. the left—wing governments were shattered —— will shatter our moral values. the candidate from the left—wing workers party has been blemished by recent
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working scandals. translation: conservative religious groups are threatened by a growing agenda depending female, black and lg bt agenda depending female, black and lgbt rights. this makes it harder for left—wing politicians to appeal to evangelical groups. but these groups have gathered in rio de janeiro against bolsonaro. they say his values betrayed his fate. we are not voting for him, and we're taking stand against groups that support neofascism, which is what we believe is going on. translation: we're here to say the government has nothing to do with hate or violence. it's about he the maccabees —— it's about piece. hate or violence. it's about he the maccabees -- it's about piece. after yea rs of maccabees -- it's about piece. after years of economic recession and political turmoil, brazilians are desperate for change and struggling to keep faith in the future. julia carneiro, bbc news, rio dejaneiro. the whole will
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—— whole team will keep us up—to—date with that election this weekend. more than 7,000 people have now joined the central american migrant caravan travelling across mexico to the us border. here's us secretary of state mike pompeo, speaking about it moments ago. the united states also is a message for those currently part of this ca rava n for those currently part of this caravan orfor for those currently part of this caravan or for any caravan that follows. you will not be successful at getting into the united states illegally. no matter what. at getting into the united states illegally. no matterwhat. i at getting into the united states illegally. no matter what. i repeat. he caravan when i cross our southern border illegally under any circumstances. if you seek to come here, go through the normal refugee process. if you apply for refugee status, a permanent solution is possible in mexico are in a third country. but i can tell you with certainty we are determined that illegal entry into the united states from this caravan will not be possible. mike pompeo speaking just a few moments ago. the united nations refugee agency
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has announced its sending staff to southern mexico to provide support to the most vulnerable asylum seekers. they say they'll perservere in theirjourney north despite those threats from mike pompeo, from president trump. yesterday, he tweeted... we got absolutely no proof of this. he also talks about... that this is a national emergency. the bbc‘s ana gabriela rojas spoke to one man about why he's making thejourney from honduras. chanting translation: i'm coming with my family, my children,
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trying to get there to find a better future. i'm coming as a disabled person. and in my country, there's no work for us. we're very resigned. and apart from that, the cost of living is going through the roof and we can't do anything. we can't live. electricity has been increasing exponentially and we don't have enough for gas. working on a construction site, a wall fell on me. i lost my right foot. i lost it from the ankle down, so now i have a prosthetic. now it's hard for me to walk. but we're trying to arrive to give our kids a good start so they don't fall into that circle of gangs. what i want is to see my children made to be professionals, for them to be something. my son says he wants to be a us marine. in honduras, there's a lot of violence. in honduras, they killed one of my cousins, my uncle, and just now, my stepfather — who was like my father — who raised me since i was eight. and so now, we are fighting to make it there. let's see what the president of the us says.
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let's hope that god gives donald trump a bit of charity and lets us in. but none of us wants to go back to honduras. this is the longest sea bridge in the world, officially opened by the chinese president, xijinping. robin brant has this report. it's another vast infrastructure project in china. this one took nine years and almost £12 billion to build. the mega bridge spans 34 miles, crossing the mouth of the pearl river in china's south. linking hong kong and the casino hub macau with zhuhai on the chinese mainland. the big idea is to create a new bay area powerhouse to rival tokyo or san francisco, china hopes. it links to more than 60 million people in china's high—tech manufacturing base. it's the place where this country first experimented with economic
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reform 40 years ago. absolutely extraordinary. i'm lost for words. we've got more on the story and all of our stories on our website. as always, thanks for being with us. see you soon. bye—bye. good evening. so far this autumn, the weather has been rather kind to us in terms of temperatures. looks like it is payback time come friday and the weekend as we will be plunged into some arctic air and a howling northerly wind to boot. at the moment, we are sitting in atlantic air, and that is relatively mild and being held in place by this area of high pressure. come thursday night, though, this cold weather front starts to sink its way south across the uk. the clue, of course, in the name. just look how the isobars
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re—orientate as well once that front sinks its way south through the course of friday. straight north to south, we are in an arctic blast with very cold winds by the end of the week. wednesday, still in atlantic air, still relatively mild. actually, quite a lot of sunshine around on wednesday. it will be quite a bit hazy thanks to high cloud. also patchy rain to the far north of scotland. much drier day, though, than tuesday. lighter winds as well. and the best sunshine perhaps in the shelter of the south east where we could see up to 17 celsius. thursday, high pressure still largely dominating. a lot of fine weather, better sunshine again towards the south and east. but the weather fronts start to creep in to the north west later in the day. so, some heavier rain getting into the north—west of scotland. temperatures already perhaps in some areas a couple of degrees down, actually, on wednesday. but the real change comes as this weather front sinks south across the uk through the course of thursday night into friday. now, the front itself is not going to do too much
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in the meantime producing rain. a lot of it will be patchy, and the biggest difference is once we start to drag that arctic air south. you can see we lose the yellow, the mild atlantic air. that's pushed away into the continent. we are straight into that arctic blast, with those howling northerly winds to boot. a few showers on the remainder of the front or friday morning, and then the northerly wind will bring showers, particularly in the north of scotland but around many of our western, eastern coasts. they could come quite thick and fast in some spots. although, moreso perhaps targeted through the weekend as the northerly becomes more established. certainly, the weekend sees the cold air remaining with us throughout. really no escaping it anywhere, but there will be decent sunshine away from the coasts. wintry showers will affect largely the higher ground, but some of these showers could have hail and thunder mixed in with them from time to time through the weekend, a real convergence line forming off the coast of pembrokeshire down into cornwall. it looks like they'll really get their act together across parts of east anglia, affecting the far south east, too. there you can see a little bit
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of white across northern scotland. temperatures in single figures. feeling much colder when you factor in the wind. in fact, feeling close to freezing across northern scotland. very similar story for sunday. a lot of sunshine on the whole, but it will be a chilly day with a northerly wind perhaps swinging a little more north—easterly, focusing our showers across towards the east coast at the end of the weekend. what happens after that? well, here we are sunday, still with that north—easterly effect. showers packing into the east, but notice how things start to get moving on into next week. the atlantic starts to take over once again, low pressure starts to push its way in. i think we're talking about some more unsettled conditions, some longer spells of rain. but also, thanks to the atlantic, of course, we'll bring back some milder air. if you chase the isobars around the low all the way back to the bottom of the low, you can see some of that air is going to be coming up from a good way south. so it could be considerably milder again by the middle of next week. the bbc reveals evidence of a vast new network of internment camps in china.
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it's thought as many as a million muslims are being held inside without trial. satellite images include what experts believe is one of the biggest detention centres in the world. familes are separated from loved ones inside. their dad is in there...? why can't we ask some questions? the muslims in the camps are part of the persecuted uighur community. we have a special report from inside china. also tonight... the moment the saudi crown prince, widely suspected of ordering the killing ofjamal khashoggi, meets the murdered journalist's son. marching on the streets of glasgow — council workers stage what's believed to be the biggest ever strike for equal pay.
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