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welcome. i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: on the first day of his visit to the uk, president trump is welcomed by the queen at a state banquet at buckingham palace. i offer a toast to the eternal friendship of our people, the vitality of our nations. but will the pomp and praise be overshadowed by protests? a quarter of a million anti—trump demonstrators are expected on the streets for day two. i'm rico hizon in singapore. also in the programme: it's 30 years since this protestor tried to resist a brutal crackdown on china's pro—democracy movement. we talk to some of those who were there that day. pakistan investigates
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a sudden spike in hiv. 600 children have been diagnosed with the virus in one month. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. hello and a very warm welcome to the programme. it's 8:00am in singapore, and 1:00am here in london, where president trump has attended a formal banquet, hosted by queen elizabeth, at the end of the first day of his state visit to britain. earlier the president and the first lady laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown warrior in westminster abbey. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has the latest. and a warning, his report contains some flashing images.
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this state banquet in the ballroom of buckingham palace. white tie for men, long white gloves for women, medals, insignia, and tiaras welcome. the centrepiece of any state visit. mr president, i am delighted to welcome you and mrs trump to buckingham palace this evening. the queen spoke of the shared sacrifice of d—day and pointedly defended the institutions that have kept the peace since. bodies which the president seems much cooler towards. while the world has changed, we are forever mindful of the original purpose of these structures, nations working together to safeguard a hard won peace. notably absent, the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn, and the speaker, john bercow, who declined to attend. the president didn't seem to notice. he was delighted to be there. on behalf of all americans,
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i offer a toast to the eternal friendship of our people, the vitality of our nations, and to the long cherished and truly remarkable reign of her majesty, the queen. thank you. if the state dinner is the height of royal protocol, the day didn't exactly start like that. moments before donald trump arrived on air force one he launched a most un—presidential attack on twitter on the mayor of london, sadiq khan. after that presidential twitter blast, the real cannon fire as donald trump was given a gun salute welcome. as he flew above the city that sadiq khan presides over, it's safe to assume the president won't be rolling out the red carpet at the white house for him anytime soon.
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time for the pomp to take over from the politics. the president and first lady, melania trump, were greeted at buckingham palace by prince charles and the duchess of cornwall. in the two and a half years of donald trump's presidency we've learned his views daily on anything and everything. from the queen, who's been on the throne for more than six decades, we know nothing. and whatever she thinks of her unconventional visitor, that's how it will doubtless remain. though a year ago the palace let it be known the queen was totally unconcerned when the us president walked ahead of her to inspect the troops. today, no such protocol infractions, although it came close. these pictures will play very well in the united states, where the royal family is still a source of huge fascination. and, remember, this trip isn'tjust about the royal family,
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it's about the trump family, too, who've all come along. this is a state visit with nearly all the bells and whistles. there's no gold coach ride up the mall because of security concerns, there is nojoint address to parliament — because the speaker chose not to invite him. there was a display of gifts and artefacts. the president expressing some interest in what the queen was showing him. and then it was time to leave. this trip is a celebration of the closeness between the us and uk, even though there are many issues where it's more fraught relationship than special relationship. 0n trade, on climate change, on iran, on the chinese company huawei, there are big differences. but that will be the meat of tomorrow's political discussions. at westminster abbey, a moment of solemnity as the president laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown warrior. over the years, so many american and british soldiers have been comrades in arms.
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there was tea with prince charles at clarence house, where, i understand, the heir to the throne did raise the issue of climate change, an issue where the two men don't see eye to eye. and as for the duchess, well maybe she had something in her eye. this has been a day that has delighted the white house, delighted the president. the state visit has lost none of its lustre. john sopel, bbc news, buckingham palace. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. divers have recovered a body from the wreck of a tourist boat, which sank last week in budapest after being hit by a cruise ship. a second body was pulled from the river more than 100 kilometres downstream from hungary's capital. the mermaid was carrying south korean tourists when it sank; the bodies of seven of them were recovered on the night of the disaster. 28 people are presumed to have died. south korean embassy officials are helping with the recovery operation.
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translation: it was not inside of the ship. the body was found on the left stern side of the ship. it was outside of the ship. the thing we'd agreed with the hungarian authorities was if a body was found the body would be handed over to the police and then sent to semmelweis university, which is known for advanced medical technology. also making news today: the genetic mutation given to chinese twin girls last year may have shortened their life expectancy. prof hejiankui shocked the world when he genetically altered the twins in an attempt to protect them against hiv. but a study in nature medicine shows people who naturally have the mutation that he was trying to recreate were significantly more likely to die young. apple has announced it's closing its music download service, itunes. it said it would split itunes up
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into three separate apps, focused on music streaming, podcasts, and tv. the music streaming app has come under increased pressure in recent years from the likes of spotify, tidal, and soundcloud. india is reeling from an intense heat wave, with the city of churu — in the northern state of rajasthan — hitting 50.8 celsius on sunday. others parts of the country have reached 45 celsius. the heat has been hardest on the homeless and those who work outside including street vendors, traffic police, and rickshaw drivers. rescue teams have spotted five bodies while searching for a group of missing climbers in india. the group of eight climbers from india, australia, britain and the us were trying to summit nanda devi, the country's second highest mountain, when they disappeared after an avalanche.
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some cricket news now, and england have been defeated by pakistan in their second cricket world cup match at trent bridge. the hosts put in a lacklustre performance to lose by 14 runs. the former england captain michael vaughan says it was an unexpected result, but pakistan were on great form. and of course we'll have more on this in sportsday in a few minutes. as part of his visit to the uk, president trump will travel to the english south coast on wednesday to join in the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the d—day landings. they marked the beginning of the liberation of german—occupied france, and later europe from nazi control. 250 veterans are making the journey to france for the occasion and our correspondent robert hall is travelling with them. they left port on a june evening in 191m without fanfares or cheers,
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young men who had written their last letters home, sailing into the dark wondering whether they would return. last night, 300 veterans began their pilgrimage in honour of the thousands who still lie in normandy. the week—long journey has been planned by the royal british legion. the veterans willjoin commemorative events in britain and france. it is about the opportunity for everybody to feel they have been on the trip of a lifetime. archive: this is it, they are on the beach. 7000 vessels landed over 130,000 british, canadian and us troops on five d—day beaches. the sights and sounds of that campaign still burn bright in the memories of those who survived. we were under intense machine—gun fire which we hadn't expected. we couldn't go anywhere, we were just sitting ducks. it went straight through that one.
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i knew i had been hit of course and i realised these cigarette cases obviously saved my life. whatever role they played, these men are part of a normandy brotherhood. some have never told their stories until now. cheering. we were stacking dead bodies up to get behind and looking after another patient. but the last patient i looked after was a german, a 16—year—old boy, he had just lost both legs and he died in my arms. at every shipboard gathering veterans scan the faces for old friends, fewer as each anniversary passes. john stacey has just turned 101. and all the people in here i look for two or three particular friends who you went with like you did, whether they survived.
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there will be moments to forget the passage of the years before the boudicca sets her course for the beaches and the friends they left behind. robert hall, bbc news, in the english channel. 0njune 4th, 30 years ago, the chinese government sent tanks and soldiers into beijing's tiananmen square, to crush a peaceful pro—democracy protest. the images shocked the world, but remain censored in china. and despite the best efforts of the authorities to dismiss the protests as a mere "disturbance", the violence of the suppression still shapes the chinese political landscape today. 0ur china correspondent, john sudworth reports. wong ju—xin was one of the leaders of the protests. he's never been back to tiananmen square until now. translation: 30 years ago there was a student movement here which shocked the world. but all these tourists must have forgotten. they have no way to find
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out what happened here because the information is censored. what happened here is still so politically sensitive it's safer to do the interview in the car. it was the moment the communist party almost lost its grip on power, rocked by five weeks of massive, peaceful demonstrations. first, senior officials tried meeting the student leaders, including mr wong. then, late at night on the 3rd ofjune, they sent in the army, killing hundreds, possibly thousands, in the effort to retake the square. the following day there was one final act of defiance. it has become one of the most iconic images of our time, except in china. the vast majority of those we ask
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say they have never seen it. just over there is the spot tank man stood, although you would never know it. the silence and censorship are now central to the official line. the protests were dealt with, china is today more prosperous and the country should move on. not everyone sees it that way. bao tong, a former senior official jailed for supporting the protests still believes china would be better off if they had succeeded. translation: i see china without censorship and without a privileged class, a place where the poor can live freely without being driven out of the big cities, and a china that does not need to steal foreign technology. two miles from the square wong ju—xin shows me the place he first saw the tanks arrive.
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the decision to speak out, he admits, is a risky one. but it is also proof that despite the efforts to force people to forget, some insist on remembering. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. we will have more on tiananmen square on the anniversary later on in the programme. you are watching newsday, from singapore and london on the bbc. still to come on the programme: pakistan investigates a sudden rise in hiv diagnoses among children. the queen and her husband began their royal progress to westminster. the moment of crowning in accordance with the order of service, by a signal given, the great guns of the tower shall be shot off. tributes have been paid around the world to muhammad ali, who has died at the age of 7a. outspoken but rarely outfought, ali transcended the sport of boxing,
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of which he was three times a world champion. he was a good fighter. he fought all the way to the end, even through his illness. yes, he did. uefa imposes an indefinite ban on english clubs playing in europe. today is the 20th anniversary of the release of the beatles lp sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band, a record described as "the album of the century." this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: president trump has praised decades of friendship between the us and uk at a banquet which capped the first
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day of his state visit. the pomp is expected to give way to protests on day two, as anti—trump demonstrators converge on the capital for planned demonstrations. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. let's begin with the japan times, which is looking at the anniversary of the tiananmen square protests. this is liberty square in taiwan's capital, taipei. giant inflatables have been erected in the shape of a military tank and the famous man who stood in front of it. the new york times has been speaking to employees at boeing who say the fatal flaws with the boeing 737 max can be traced to a breakdown late in the plane's development, when test pilots, engineers and regulators were left in the dark about changes to the automated system.
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and finally, singapore's straits times is one of many newspapers leading with president trump's uk visit. the photo shows him shaking the queen's hand, but the angle has led some to suggest it looks a bit like a fist bump. but i am sure that her majesty would not be fist pumping, it looks like a handshake. lets do a fist bump. there you go. -- let's do a fist bump. let's return now to the 30th anniversary of pro—democracy protests in beijing's tiananmen square in 1989. our correspondent robin brant joins me now from beijing. the most famous image outside china of tiananmen is that of the tank man, but he is not well known in china.
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there there is no official commemoration, there has never been of fourjune 1989. it was a couple of fourjune 1989. it was a couple of kilometres in that direction in the square at this time 30 years ago that people work up to scenes of carnage. hundreds of people at least had been killed in the square. many more, actually, on the roads approaching, when china's leadership decided to send in the soldiers to end the five weeks of protest. the only official comment we have had has been from state—run media in the last 2a hours, the english language global times newspaper describing what it has long called the incident asa what it has long called the incident as a vaccination. it says it has immunised china against any political turmoil since, and a government minister at the weekend repeating the party line that the decision to send in the soldiers 30 yea rs decision to send in the soldiers 30 years ago was the correct decision, and in fact, the global times as
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well describing it as a success. and robin, one of the more famous images from 30 years ago is the tank man. how well—known is he in china? from 30 years ago is the tank man. how well-known is he in china? well, he's not, and i think you heard my colleaguejohn side with their in a kind of unscientific straw poll saying they had talked to people, showing them the image, and particularly those who were born around that era, they know very little about the events of here, 30 yea rs little about the events of here, 30 years ago. it's not in the school textbooks, it's not taught. there is widespread censorship, of course, about this event, which is still extremely, extremely sensitive. china has changed a lot since then, but just down here, china has changed a lot since then, butjust down here, you can't see it, but there is a propaganda slogan which the commuters are passing on their way to work this morning which exhorts them to help build a beautiful, democratic china in the new era, under xi jinping, beautiful, democratic china in the
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new era, underxijinping, but beautiful, democratic china in the new era, under xijinping, but that democracy, of course, is very different to what was envisaged by the protesters who were killed in their hundreds in the square 30 yea rs their hundreds in the square 30 years ago today. nothing being marked in beijing. thank you so much for that update, robin brett in beijing. —— robin brant. more than 700 cases of hiv have been discovered in pakistan injust over a month. 600 of those are children. more than half the children diagnosed are under the age of five. in most cases, their parents have tested negative. the unusual outbreak is in the town of ratodero, 400 km north of karachi, and with more than 300,000 people yet to be screened, the government is trying to pinpoint the source. the bbc‘s umer nangiana has this report. she has just lost her youngest son. he was only five. he tested positive for hiv just over a month ago. he had been sick for three years.
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this woman had never heard of the deadly infection. she blames the local health system for his untimely death. translation: a local doctor gave my child an injection. and he never recovered from it. we took him to a government treatment centre, but they refused to help. my child was in a lot of pain, and i was helpless. her son was one of more than 600 children, most of them under five, who have been diagnosed with hiv in ratodero in the last few weeks alone. most of the hiv cases from this recent outbreak are in this village, and similar ones in the area. people here say poor medical facilities force them to go to private practitioners in the nearby town of ratodero. health officials tell us not all the doctors are qualified, and of those who are, their practices have never been checked. a private doctor first discovered the virus in children
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and alerted the authorities. translation: i first identified an hiv case here, and then within two weeks, i discovered 20 more. that is when i alerted the officials concerned. health authorities have started mass screenings. the government say the local medical practitioners reusing syringes could be responsible for the spread. but the cause of this highly unusual outbreak is yet to be conclusively identified. syringe is the major source. major source — more than 50%. but there are certain other reasons else, which will come on the surface after due investigation. this is the first time it came unsurfaced that, this is the first time it came on surface that, by the reuse of syringes a grand population, has
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been infected by the reusing of the syringes. so now, onwards, we are on it. the number of infected patients may further rise, and people here say they are not receiving the care they need. the government denies allegations of its centre returning patients. as uncertainty and fear grips this poor, rural community, the race is on to identify the cause of the outbreak, and to protect its children. he has 99 problems, but cash flow and one. jay—z has been named as hip—hop's first billionaire. forbes says his music, property, fashion and investment assets conservatively total over $1 billion. the us magazine also rejected claims that fellow rapper and producer dr dre has achieved billionaire status. you have been watching newsday.
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campaign has been launched injapan to force the government to ban high heels. the movement has been named #kutoo, to mimic the me to movement, and it plays on the japanese words for shoe and pain —— #metoo. i'm kasia madera in london. and i'm rico hizon in singapore. stay with us. we will find out why us technology stocks have slumped. it is all to do with concerns that us antitrust enforcers are set to launch probes into the sector's biggest players. and, before we go, we would like to leave you with these pictures from peru, where a young condor is being nursed back to health after local people spotted it was unable to fly. the bird is only ten months old, and trained national forest workers
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are giving it the best of care. hello. if you want yourjune weather to come with sunshine and warmth, this isn't the forecast for you. but if you want some rain on the garden, well, we're in business, because during tuesday, most of us will see some rain at some stage of the day as a weather system coming in from the south—west extends that rain further north and east as the day goes on. or at least tuesday starts, some of that rain into parts of wales and south—west england. ahead of that, maybe a bit of sunshine in some spots to start the day. fairly chilly for some of us where you've been clear overnight, as low as mid single figures in places. so let's look at the story of tuesday's weather,
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with the rain coming in, so here it is to start the day. some heavier bursts are possible as it slowly extends its way north and east. there may be a few thundery bursts developing across parts of south—east england and east anglia. and that rumble of thunder possible in the showers in highland scotland ahead of the arrival of the rain. the far north of scotland will stay mainly dry. now, it's still breezy out there, it's not as windy as it has been over the past couple of days, may see temperatures as high as 21 celsius in sunny spells developing again in south—east england. look at that, belfast just 12 degrees on a cool, wet day. so this area of rain extends further northwards as we go through tuesday night and into wednesday. just rotates around, though, scotland, northern ireland and parts of northern england, whereas the rest of england and wales are turning drier and clearer at this stage, and these are the starting temperatures on wednesday. so we still have a bit of rain out there on wednesday morning. now, as the day goes on, it will become confined mostly to northern scotland. elsewhere, there'll be some
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sunny spells to be had, but there will be a few showers developing. catch one, it could be heavy, possibly thundery, slow—moving too, and fairly light winds out there. and temperatures are just at if not a bit below average for the time of year. maybe a bit of rain reaching parts of eastern england to end the day, as the weather system in the north sea will then spill some rain northwards into thursday, more significantly into parts of northern england and scotland. some heavy showers again developing into parts of england and wales. there will be a bit of sunshine here and there, not doing a huge amount for the temperature. then, as we take a look at the big picture at the end of the week, another area of low pressure late friday into saturday brings the potentialfor some more significant rain over a larger area, so we'll keep an eye on that. and, over the weekend, low pressure is still close by, so it is still unsettled. so this is the picture for the rest of the week, and into the weekend. yes, june warmth — there isn't a great deal of it. wet, there is — sometimes.
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i'm kasia madera with bbc news. our top story: president trump's attended a state banquet hosted by the queen at buckingham palace, as he begins his uk state visit. he praised "decades of treasured friendship" between the us and uk. but some politicians boycotted the occasion and the leader of the opposition will attend protests against him on tuesday. pakistan's investigating whether medical malpractice could be behind a sudden spike in hiv. around 600 children have been diagnosed in a month. and efforts to change attitudes to high heels injapan has caught people's attention online. a petition calling for a ban on workplaces forcing women to wear them has gained nearly 20,000 signatures. the ku too campaign mimics the me too movement, playing on the japanese words for ‘shoe' and ‘pain‘. that's all.
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