the headlines: an official us report warns that climate change will cost america hundreds of billions of dollars and cause severe damage to people's health and way of life — all of which is at odds with president trump's stance on the issue. the spanish prime minister says he still hasn't got the british guarantees he wants on gibraltar, suggesting that a summit in brussels on sunday to approve an eu deal on brexit, could be postponed. mr sanchez said if there was no agreement on the draft deal, the summit would not take place. people in taiwan are voting in local elections and in several referenda, including one on the legalisation of same—sex marriage. the issue has divided the island despite the top court ruling in favour, giving parliament two years to amend laws or pass new ones. police in london say new tactics designed to stop moped crime — including knocking offenders off their bikes — have led to a sharp fall in the number of moped robberies. scotland yard say the number of offences has dropped by over

a third since specialist teams were set up to tackle the problem. you may find some footage in tom symonds‘ report disturbing. as a crime, it can be lightning fast or deeply intimidating. for the met, the scooter gangs have become a big problem. the response? a new specialist team with high—powered, slimline motorbikes. and a stinger system which punctures the tyres of scooter criminals, then retracts to let police cars pass. but it's also about this. yes, that's a police car driving into a scooter rider, deliberately. they are trained to do it at as low a speed as possible, but it is risky. it's a high impact tactic and therefore our riders and our drivers will be considering the risk to the rider they're pursuing,

the risk to the public and the risk to themselves before deciding upon that course of action. but, in more cases than not, it is safer to bring that pursuit to a close than it is to continue to allow that rider driving dangerously through london. this specialist team has made 63 stops like this without serious injury. he gets up. but the police watchdog is now investigating three other incidents elsewhere in the met. right, right, right. officers have to justify their decision to continue a pursuit in real time over the radio. contrary to what some criminals believe, whether or not they are wearing a helmet is not necessarily a reason to stop the chase. well, this is an absolute myth. if they take their crash helmet off, they think we won't pursue. they need to know that we will. it is for their safety. crime is always changing and the police believe that this one has been increasing because we are walking around with expensive things like phones, which are very valuable to thieves. but you can add to that the fact that it's an efficient crime to carry out. one scooter can be used

for a string of offences. these tactics are not entirely new but they are now being used regularly and the met says they have helped cut scooter crime by 36%. tom symonds, bbc news, at new scotland yard. now on bbc news, our world asks who cares about israel's thai workers. every year, thousands of people come from thailand to work in israel. they hope to build a better life for theirfamilies back they hope to build a better life for their families back home. they hope to build a better life for theirfamilies back home. but what they find when they get here can be shocking. for more than a year, we

have been investigating the treatment of thai labourers working on israel's farms. then labour helps to produce fruit and veg sold across the world, but they are anxious that work is damaging their health. and many deaths amongst the workers remain uninvestigated. in this film, we will be asking who cares about israel's thai workers? they call it

the land of milk and honey, a country rich in history and one of the world's wealthiest nations. despite being half desert, israel grows millions of tons of fruit and vegeta bles grows millions of tons of fruit and vegetables every year and exports to europe and russia, a modern miracle of hyd ro— europe and russia, a modern miracle of hydro— engineering. and in industry reliant on migrant workers. but everything is not as it seems. i ama but everything is not as it seems. i am a journalist with bbc‘s thai

service in london. just over a year ago, i started to get worrying m essa 9 es ago, i started to get worrying messages from thai workers in israel that were telling me that they were being abused and exploited. being from thailand myself, i wanted to find out what was happening. we are starting our investigation in southern israel after a tipoff about a farm not far from gaza. agriculture in israel is organised into hundreds of gated communities, called more shops. each contains dozens called more shops. each contains d oze ns of called more shops. each contains dozens of farms and farmhouses. —— moshas. actually looks nice here. big trees, colourful flowers, moshas. actually looks nice here. big trees, colourfulflowers, nice houses. this is the home of a

well—established farming family on the mosha. the thai workers they employed them just a throw away. —— just a stone's throwaway. they live in these wooden huts. —— throw away. this accommodation is not temporary. the worker is not seasonal. these are the only homes these young men and women will know in israel. this man was 29 we met him. like most of the workers he hears from the north—east of thailand. he had left his village three years before because his parents and his wife we re because his parents and his wife were often going without food. he has agreed to show me around. many of these labouring jobs is to be done by palestinians, but not any more. this man is in israel as part

ofan more. this man is in israel as part of an official government scheme. he is part of the 5000 thai nationals working and living here. this type of accommodation is sadly not unusual. what is he told me that temperatures inside can reach more than a0 degrees and they are scared that had any point the whole thing could collapse on top of them. we asked his boss for an interview. he refused. but he told us lately that since our visit he has made some improvements to the workers‘ home. investigating the lives of thai workers on israel‘s farms is not easy. there is a climate of fear. few people talk was on camera. but

over ia months we visited more than 50 farms and spoke to hundreds of workers to get to the truth. we are heading to a small mosha called paran in the deep south of the country. there are several cowsheds in paran. the animal single house. the workers, less so. —— the animals seem well housed. we have agreed to hide this worker‘s related to the because he is frightened. he has lived here behind the cash every year. —— worker‘s identity, because he is. —— lived here behind the

cowshed for a year. like many of the other workers, he told us that if he was caught speaking out he would be sacked and left jobless and homeless speaking out he would be sacked and leftjobless and homeless in a foreign land. the fear is palpable and it wasn‘t long until i understood why. we havejust and it wasn‘t long until i understood why. we have just arrived at the mosha. we asked the shopkeeper to convert the farmers that we wanted to meet. 0ver shopkeeper to convert the farmers that we wanted to meet. over the phone, we told them were making a bbc documentary. he told us to leave the mosha immediately otherwise he would call of his friends to come and break our bones. agriculture in

israel is a multibillion pound industry. it is hard work, but for those farmers who make a success of it, the benefits are easy to see. this is the most beautiful mosha we saw and is built on revenue from grapes. we have come to take a closer look at one of the farms. this man has lived here for 20 yea rs. this man has lived here for 20 years. he says he employs 30 workers and was keen to show me where they live. then something strange happens. can we go to this place? at

the back? white? come here, see the caravan? he wouldn't let us take our cameras into his backhouse. what he didn‘t know at this point was five months ago we had already filmed inside and this is what we found. a man sleeping in what appeared to be a makeshift bedroom complete with kitchen and it is alljust metres away from the chemical shed. although he won‘t let us film inside the warehouse today, i did manage to ta ke the warehouse today, i did manage to take a look at the man that we had filmed months ago, and he was still

there. we asked about him. thai workers are allowed to stay in israel for a maximum of five years. during their stay, they are entitled to expect a reasonable level of comfort and safety. according to the workers handbook, they should be provided with suitable housing including at least four square metres of sleeping space, personal cupboards, bedding, heating, ventilation, everything is laid out in black and white. in the dozens of farms we saw, there weren‘t many exa m ples of farms we saw, there weren‘t many examples of good practice but we did see some places that measured up. these homes are in israel‘s central arawa district. solid walls, no leaking ceilings here. the workers

are employed by a date farmer who has a very different take on the situation. what i see in my place in other places in israel, the place is very good and after three months, the place is a disaster. this is not the place is a disaster. this is not the farmer, this is the worker, he needs to care about the place he sleeps. he doesn‘t care. you see the kitchen, i show you. it looks disgusting. his staff seemed to be safe. they are paid fairly and they live on this idyllic farm but not many are this fortunate. just when i thought i had seen it all, another tipoff. these homes became known to us as

cardboard city and it‘s easy to see why. workers here are sleeping in rooms made out of packing boxes. but right now, that is the least of our problems. the owner of this farm confirmed to me by his lawyer that he hadn‘t been able to pay his work is due to financial problems. he refused other requests for an interview. a few months later, the workers told me they did eventually get paid but only half of what they were expecting. with very few farmers willing to speak to us, i have come to tel aviv to take our findings to the israeli farmers federation. there are problems but looking at the big picture, more or less the

system is working. when there is problem, they can tell us, they can call the embassy, they can do this. we showed avshalom vilam pictures of cardboard city. i don't know where is the place. if those other conditions, they have to complain. it is against the law. nobody will support such a kind of condition and people that fulfil the law, they have to pay for it. so far, workers have to pay for it. so far, workers have told me they are underpaid, overworked, intimidated and live in squalor. but the story doesn‘t end there. spraying pesticides without

proper protection seems to be common. we happened upon this work are going about his daily work and his boss had no problem with us filming. israel‘s use of pesticides is amongst the highest in the world. long—term low—level exposure has been linked to respiratory and neurological illness. and this is why the rules are so strict. workers should wear a mask air filters as well as special boots and clothes. but a recent on line survey of over 150 workers found that fewer than

50% had received protective equipment. i‘ve been sent videos on facebook which appear to show thai workers on a number of farms across the country spraying chemicals without safety equipment. these men work on a pomegranate farm. they claim that protective spraying has made them so ill that they have, at times, been frightened for their lives. from spraying chemicals to living standards on pay, thai workers on israel‘s farms are protected by a range of laws. but from what i‘ve seen, but little comfort. i went to see a representative of an israeli ngo which supports migrant workers in

the country. just because there is more doesn‘t mean people follow it. when inspectors come to check and complain, but don‘t come with a translator. the inspector just complain, but don‘t come with a translator. the inspectorjust goes to speak with the employer and the employer will show in the way that he wanted to be seen. the israeli government did not want to give us an interview but the ministry of labour told us a00 inspector and cza r labour told us a00 inspector and czar carried out every year and interpreters are available. —— inspections. many investigations have been launched into pay and working hours. 200 fines have been issued totalling more than £3 million. a finaljourney in the

north of the country where we made oui’ north of the country where we made our saddest discovery yet. these friends had gathered to say goodbye to bea friends had gathered to say goodbye to be a colleague who died suddenly just a few days before. despite the farmer ‘s attempts at resuscitation. monks have arrived to perform a cleansing ceremony. this man was a5 yea rs cleansing ceremony. this man was a5 years old. he had been working on a tomato farm for the last two years. 0n the night of the ninth of october 2017, he went to bed in this room and never wake up. he is not the only worker to have

lost his life. since the tie— israel agreement began in 2012, there have been more than 170 deaths. and many of those, like his, are unexplained. the thai embassy in israel told us medical postmortem examinations are not carried out on thai workers. it took more than a month for wicha‘s body to arrive back in thailand. he

won‘t be building the farm he dreamt of for helping his wife through the treatment of cancer. thai workers are the backbone of israel‘s agricultural industry but their existence here is precarious. they rely on their bosses for food, shelter and work. so is it any wonder they are scared to demand their rights? as i leave this country, i am their rights? as i leave this country, iam reminded their rights? as i leave this country, i am reminded of the old saying: you don‘t bite the hand that feeds you. i think there is kind of an approach or attitude among the workers themselves that they are being seen by the farmers as actually tools, not as people came here to work, but those tools to provide the work. they are not humans with needs that can be

harmed. nobody cared enough. the week ended on a pretty gloomy note for many, and i‘m not expecting things to brighten up spectacularly through the weekend. yes, some of us will see sunshine but many more will be stuck with cloud, it will feel chilly and for some areas, a bit of rain in the forecast. the satellite shows quite a lot of cloud streaming towards southern areas, this cloud is ready bringing some heavy downpours of rain across the south—west of england, even the odd flash of lightning and thunder, and we keep potential for wet weather across the south—west but perhaps also across other southern counties of england as well as we go through saturday. uncertainty about how far north that rain will get. it looks most likely that it will say to the south of the ma corridor.

so if you are in the london area, the south midlands, you may see a little bit of rain, on balance it should stay just about dry, temperatures around nine degrees. some rain could fringe into south wales but for the midlands, north—west england, south—west scotland and for a time across northern ireland a chance of seeing breaks in the cloud and some sunny spells. for north—east england and the eastern side of scotland we will keep cloud and some showery rain and with that easterly breeze across the country, top temperatures no better than 7—10 degrees. some rain is likely to continue across southern counties of england across saturday evening, elsewhere dry weather, some rain in drizzle coming into eastern areas, we keep that easterly breeze feeding in cloud, the best of the clear skies in the west. if it does stay clear where you are there may be a touch of frost, most areas will stay frost free. for sunday high pressure in charge, but this frontal system threatens to throw a bit of a spanner in the works across the south—east corner. uncertainty about this but clipping into kent and sussex, we could see a little bit of rain. it may come a touch further north

and west, but for many sunday is largely dry. a lot of cloud in the east, the best of the brightness further west, but fairly chilly. on monday we keep our weather coming in from the east, not an especially strong breeze but a cool one bringing lots of cloud, patchy rain in the east, some sunshine to the west and those temperatures stuck in single digits for all of us. and then a bit of a change as we had deeper into the new week because high—pressure retreats and the low pressure in the atlantic starts to wind itself up, a lot of white lines, a lot of isobars on the chart, that means it will be windy and at times wet. so tuesday another cool day, turning wet and windy on wednesday but also turning a bit milder. this is bbc world news. i‘m reged ahmad. our top stories: spain‘s prime minister says

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