tv Outside Source BBC News June 19, 2019 9:00pm-10:00pm BST
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. borisjohnson extends his lead over his nearest rivaljeremy hunt in the latest round, in the contest to become, the uk's next prime minister. four men are to be charged with the shooting down of flight mh—17 over ukraine five years ago. the un says there's credible evidence linking saudi arabia's crown prince to the murder of the journalist, jamal khashoggi. and a man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaugter by detectives investigating the death of the footballer emiliano sala. we are down to four candidates to replace theresa may.
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the results of the latest round of voting were announced earlier. michael gove — 51. jeremy hunt — 5a. sajid javid — 38. boris johnson “143. rory stewart — 27. rory stewart is out. yesterday he got the support of 37 tory mps, today 27 — and that wasn't enough. borisjohnson is top again — up 17 votes on last time — and almost getting the support of half the mp5. those mps will vote again tomorrow — twice if need be. and that will leave us with two candidates. the conservative party's140,000
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members will then select the winner. and we'll get the result in latejuly. well rory stewart's campaign definitely shook up this contest. and he spoke after his exit. the fact that the lib dem voters and labour voters wanted to vote for me should be something we should be proud of. something we should embrace in this party and i'm disappointed also that in the end, perhaps some of the things i was saying that a no—deal brexit would be catastrophic or that she can't negotiate a new deal with europe, probably proved the truth and people weren't ready to hear that but i still think they are truths, and i'm still going to keep saying them. that was rory stewart talking up his centrist appeal. but the lbc presenter iain dale isn't convinced. he tweeted this... "the handwringing of the guardian reading classes at the exit of rory stewart from the leadership contest is something to behold. the fact is that i doubt whether a single one of them would have voted for him in an election." i spoke to rob watson earlier. two big headlines, first that borisjohnson i think is absolutely
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cementing his position as favourite front runner, absolutely. second, the departure of a rory stewart, and why that matters is that it means the remaining leadership hopefuls, basically have exactly the same position on brexit and that's to renegotiate a better idea than theresa may and failing to leave an eu without the deal, so rory stewart has said that absolutely, it's fa ntasyland there's never negotiating and i wouldn't happen again. let's look at the brexit policy of the remaining candidates. rory stewart was the only one making case for theresa may's withdrawal agreement. all the others want to go back and renegotiate with the eu — despite it saying it won't renegotiate. and they all say they want the uk to leave by the current deadline of october 31.
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though there's a difference between saying you want something, and saying it will definitely happen. first of all this is the home secretary sajid javid. one of the mistakes we have made so far, is by having the sort of flexible deadline. if you did not have a deadline, you did not concentrate minds, and that includes minds of our european friends, so we have to set the date... both sajid javid and borisjohnson say they're willing to consider a "no deal" brexit to make sure the uk leaves in october. this was borisjohnson last night. nobody wants a no deal, disorderly no deal of that kind. but it is important to prepare for no deal, i congratulate what you all have done to prepare for it. but i think actually, there is a wide measure of consensus, we must get out on october 31, we must prepare for no deal, and if... that is the way that we will get the deal that we need. then we have the environment secretary michael gove. he also wants to to be out by october 31, but says
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he would extend the deadline if a deal is in sight. here he is. if you had an arbitrary date and we get so close to being able to get the line over, i think the view that boris and sajid articulated, which is that you know what, we will rip up the progress we made and go out without a deal. then we have foreign secretary jeremy hunt. he's awary of a no—deal, and says he's willing to extend the deadline to get an agreement with brussels. he spoke on bbc radio earlier. thejob of the prime minister is not actually about broad brush statements, we all want to leave by the 31st of october and we all want to have an orderly brexit, that's the easy bed. it's actually about making finely balanced judgements on the basis of the facts in front of you. rob watson again. we are still lacking detail on exactly what outcome these four
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candidates would like, is there any expectation they will flesh out the policy? that's generous to say that, we are lacking a lot of detail actually, and the answer to the question is i don't think we have much fleshing out to do, i think they will stick to this idea that they will stick to this idea that the preference is to get a better dl, a different one to teresa may, but failing that they been conservative parties will be destroyed as somehow exit does not happen very near or on october 31, but i suspect what's going to happen from now i now that there are in some ways the contest is more boring because now rory story is gone, they agree by that policy so i think now it's about personality, given that kind of violent renegotiation or no deal, who do you think is going to be the best and of course all four will say it's me of course. another point is that the tory mps who want to remain in the european union, lest we forget three years ago david cameron the tory prime minister
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campaignfor remain, cameron the tory prime minister campaign for remain, where did those tory mps turn to now that rory stewart has gone? cracking question. they are in an uncomfortable position, i would go further and remind everyone a majority of conservative mps were in favour of britain remaining in the eu, and worth remembering the membership was also absolutely orthodoxy for all conservative governments. the proceeding from a0 years, so that's why it's such an extra in a moment, so why it's such an extra in a moment, so i'm not sure where they have to go andi so i'm not sure where they have to go and i think he raised a much bigger question about british politics, which is the direction of the conservative party, is it about to become and i think the answer is yes, a party much more of what you call a nato versus wright, national right party that's not for the sort of obvious globalist pro—business socially liberal party that it was under david cameron. working all week? i guess so and the big day
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tomorrow. i'll be like tomorrow only talk to people about it as an appetite for potentially opening up that brexit deal, so far the message has been absolutely not, but we'll also have chris bring you up—to—date on how the building has gone among the tory mps as they select the final to which will then be voted on by the conservative members. dutch prosecutors have charged four men with murder over the downing of a malaysia airlines passengerjet over ukraine five years ago. international arrest warrants have been issued for all of them. three are russian, one is ukrainian. they are ccused of operating in the donetsk region of ukraine injuly 201a. investigators say a russian—made missile was fired from a buk launcher which had been set up in a village called snizz—nee—ay — which we know was controlled by russian backed rebels. here's more from the investigators on how they believe the four men were involved.
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eager was appointed minister of defence and given the highest position in the army. in this area, the flight was downed. he was commander there on the 17th ofjuly, 201a. being the highest —— highest military officer and minister of defence, he was in direct contact with the russian federation. the second suspect was his deputy, and had an intelligent service. he was in regular contact with officials in russia as well. that third suspect was the deputy head of that intelligent service and one of the deputies him. and the fourth suspect was under direct supervision of hand and led a military unit in that region as commander and from the
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so—called defence minister to the commander on the ground, together they formed a chain linking the self—proclaimed people's republic with the russian federation. that video was part of a presentation from thejoint investigation team, which has been led by the netherlands. the dutch are heavily involved because mhi7 was flying from amsterdam to kuala lumpur when it was attacked above ukraine. 298 people on board, 193 of them were dutch. wreckage of the plane fell to ground in rebel held territory. you can see the cockpit here, parts of the wings and tail kilometres away over here. this was clear evidence the plane had broken up in the air. since then, the online investigation group bellingcat have been heavily involved in trying
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to establish what happened. today it identified 12 men, including the four who've been charged with murder. both bellingcat and dutch investigators say the buk launcher came from a russian battalion. and that it entered eastern ukraine shortly before mh17 was shot down — and returned to russia soon after. here's eric tolerfrom bellingcat. there was a call at previously unheard one that was aired today during a press conference where you could hear him talking directly to his colleagues, specifically asking for a trained crew of anti—aircraft missile to be sent from russia because at this time, the ukrainian airport was very heavily hitting and restricting movement of separatists
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in eastern ukraine, said they had to get and they felt anti—aircraft support, and again they asked for significantly for trained crew, because as he said we did not have time to train our own people to people who are already competent and train with us, which would be the russian members of that brigade. russia denies all of this. today the russian foreign minister issued a statement saying... "once again, absolutely groundless accusations are being made against the russian side, aimed at discrediting the russian federation in the eyes of the international community". here's 0lga ivshina, from bbc russian. today, joint investigation team specialist said they have proof that at least one of the four people had been active russian servicemen, at the time of the tragedy, but moscow keeps denying it and russian ministry of defence keeps supplying the world with alternative versions, from time to time, they actually
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change the main series of events, first they say the ukrainian fighter jet than they said it was ukrainian book, they keep saving details of the key change in the story but one thing that's unchanged, dated the night thing that's unchanged, davey knight any connection. first at the time of the incident, there was already an armed conflict on the ground in eastern ukraine between russia—backed separatists and ukrainian government forces. several government military aircraft had been downed in the previous weeks, while government air strikes were being carried out on rebel—held areas. here's zhanna bez—piatchuk from bbc ukrainian, with the reation in kiev. the reaction from the ukrainian government is basically about this investigation and evidence, one more evidence very important one, of the direct russian involvement in this conflict. but ukrainian side, it's
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very important to emphasise that this investigation proves that russia was at the country that supplied this weapon and that russia was the country that provided the professionals who operated this anti—aircraft missile and launched it. generally speaking, it's important for the ukrainian government to bring russia to its responsibility for its role generally in the conflict and the downing of the aircraft. this all happened in the context of the conflict and east of ukraine, lesser status of that now? -- what is the status. the state of conflict has changed obviously, five years ago, they were having constant firing, it's the high moment that the conflict felt —— but what's necessary to understand is that it's still going on. it's not over. we
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underside and the other side as well, on a regular basis. for the ukrainian side, it's under occupation and ukraine are making lots of efforts to understand how they can return these territories and also although, now there are no more hostilities on the scale that took place in 201a, these conflicts actually has the potential to escalate at any point and it's the conflict that's going on in europe. inafew in a few minutes we turn to the issue around the oil tanker is attacked last week. last week we told you about the attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman.
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the opportunity to do something with 0xford which has the number one humanities department in the world, and the number one philosophy department. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is... rory stewart has been eliminated from the conservative leadership race to decide britain's next prime minister. borisjohnson won the most votes in the third round. scientists say the rate at which himalayan glaciers are melting has doubled in recent years. researchers at new york's columbia university compared satellite images dating back to the nineteen— seventies with modern ones. the glaciers are a vital source of water for hundreds of millions in south asia. bbc world service.
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a 10—year—old american girl has become the youngest person ever to scale "el capitan" in yosemite national park in california. it's around 900 meters high is beyond the abilities of most climbers. that didn't stop sailor schneiter — who did it with with her dad and a family friend over 5 days. last week we told you about the attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. the incident happened here in the strategic shipping lane, the strait of hormuz. this shows damage to one of the tankers, which the us says was caused by a mine identical to those used by the iranian military. tehran has denied involvement. today the us navy presented what they argued was the evidence to back up that claim when they took journalists on a tour of the damaged tanker. mark lowen was among them.
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it brought a volatile region closer to conflict. attacks last week on to ships in the gulf the us is blaming on iran. washington says this is the iranian patrol boat involved and they deny it. today, and american forces showed us what they say are fragments of the mind that caused the blast and a magnet allegedly pa rt the blast and a magnet allegedly part ofan the blast and a magnet allegedly part of an unexploded device resembling those that iran is not to have. at this time of attack is a threat to international freedom of navigation and international waters, as well as freedom of commerce. as they build their case, the us navy to act out on a rare trip to see what at the stricken tinkers. pancras. we travelled for an hour the choppy waters, where a fit of the choppy waters, where a fit of the crude oil transported, geopolitical flash point feeling nervous. as we approach the japanese owned vessel, the impact that the
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attack was clear. gouging out the side. if it was a warning shot, it had a crippling effect. you see the voice of the blaster. this is the call american say was caused by then. it may have been designed to damage rather than sink, but either way, it has sparked a huge international tension. way, it has sparked a huge internationaltension. iran way, it has sparked a huge international tension. iran says it will increase its nuclear stockpile next week, due to us sanctions that we re next week, due to us sanctions that were meant to force charon to the negotiating table. —— i had on. epping is under economic pressure while at the same time asking us to talk said the president. i think talking —— ifi talk said the president. i think talking —— if i think an act economic surrender. in this crucial choke point, peace is being strangled. neither side wants war, but the risk of an accident is perilously real.
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the us federal reserve has kept interest rates as they are — despite pressure from president trump to cut them. samira hussain in new york. hi, do we get reasons behind the decision where it decides to do something like this? remember, this is really done by a committee of people, so it's not a decision made by one person, but there is a bit more than a dozen people that make these decisions and what they do is look at all the information from around the country, interns at the kinds economic data that they are looking at, and so almost unanimously, people said love, we should not be raising their rates this time, but it seems that there are almost half of these voting members that believe that down the line, we should see another rate rise, so they had held steady now but there could be another one
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coming at some point this year. what's it about the state of american guy economy that makes us but it's thinking it's necessary send. what we are seeing, and what we have heard from the chair of the federal reserve is that there has been some uncertainty when it comes to economic growth, globally. and that's of course some uncertainty with regards to the trade negotiations between the united states and china, and that has created some uncertainty domestically and in fact, he even said that luck, some of the businesses, the uncertainty or hesitation you're getting from business, it's probably directly related to what we see in regards to the trade war. flip side of the argument is donald trump seeing the rates go in the other direction, what's his argument and why does he believe these guys are reading it wrong? well, of course the president has really tied his, how will the
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economy is doing to what is happening with us stock markets, so when interest rate goes up, i mean have less money and not pouring it into the stock market. part of what the president wants to see, is the interest rates going down so you can see a lot more money going into the public exchanges, and not something that he could really take with him on the campaign trail. so that's one of the reasons, but the federal reserve is not a political body, and mr powell was asked many times about the kind of political pressure he's receiving and says well we don't comment on that it doesn't factor in for them. thank you very much. us pilots and cabin crew have been voicing their concerns about the safety of the boeing 737 max. they've been doing so at a congressional hearing in washington that beigng held after the 737 max was involved in two fatal crashes. the plane has been grounded since. despite that british airways'
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parent company, used the paris airshow to say, it wants to buy 200 of them. theo leggett was there... this is a really vote of confidence by them, and their ability to get the 737 max flying safely again and getting a pass regulators being able to convince them that it can fly safely. now they say it's negotiating a substantial discount on this order, or potential order andi on this order, or potential order and i think the business assigned the given circumstances surrounding it, likely to be a very significant discount, but it's enormously important for them and he needs to show the world a time get the plane backin show the world a time get the plane back in flighting —— flying, has more than a000 on order and absolutely needs to get it back in the air, and frankly airlines needed to because of its ability to flight long distance without consuming too much feel. said this really prompted sighs of relief i guess to find a way, airbus is been profiting from
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their problems and it's been steadily racking up or it for its new 83 21, a long—range version of tonight until it's been happily plugging away under normal circumstances this wouldn't be a spectacular show, but for the airbus it's pretty satisfactory on the whole. and at the second half of the programme, it be a comprehensive report about a saudi journalist who was murdered in istanbul several months back, it also says that saudi crown prince was culpable for murder, we happily because coming up.
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hello there, i think it's fair to say it's business as usual in terms of the weather. at the moment across the globe, no major weather stories to point out that that said, still pretty intense showers. a satellite picture from early on in north america showing bands of sour cloud moving from west to east, and as we go through the remainder of wednesday, we see a rash of pretty intense fund or a downpour as you see to the south that the great lakes and across the eastern seaboard, some could produce a localised flash flooding at times and large hailstorms. across the west coast, find and settled. not as warm as it could be, but a good deal of quiet weather in the forecast and you can see that in the five days ahead, in fact the temperatures in san francisco peeking into the mid—20s so pleasant enough here. across the eastern seaboard, certainly as that showers and long spells of rain started to go away,
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it's an improving picture with the warmth developing as we move into the early half of next week across new york, high 20s not out of the question. monsoon rain pretty slow in arriving, but they are starting to intensify a little bit. silent picture from earlier, you can see this area of low pressure developing and heavy rain expected into myanmar, also into low—lying areas of bangladesh, but the same time, down to the southwest we are likely to see the rain tapping up over at the next few days across the kerala coastline and moving further north into maharashtra as we move into the weekend, that rain will become more significant. we are also seeing as the rain pushes further north, at the extreme heatjust debating a little, but the dark restaurants across pakistan and northwest india, so pretty extreme heat and temperatures into the mid—a05. stormy spell of weather continuing across central and eastern europe, quite high and humid here and the dark russets across eastern europe denoting that
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but further northwest, a bit disappointing, it's been rather cool and thunder and downpour. here we likely are to see temperatures cover a little bit in the next few days. so plenty of thundery downpour is expected again across central and eastern europe. we had heat and humidity certainly throughout romania bulgaria and the balkans, some localised flooding. but the mediterranean is fairly consistent at the moment, find and settled inside me, not going to disappoint for those find and settled sunny, not going to disappoint for those heading for warmer climate and summer sunshine. temperature perhaps into the mid—and high 20s. that's how it's looking across europe but i can tell you for the city forecast for the next few days, it's a little bit hit and miss. they will continue to seep thunder and downpour hopefully easing away into the early half of next week to dry and sunny weather. and we had had thunder and downpour across the uk, thursday looks like a bad sunshine and showers, dry by the weekend and fingers crossed it's alittle warmer too.
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. borisjohnson extends his lead over his nearest rivaljeremy hunt in the latest round, in the contest to become, the uk's next prime minister. the un says there's credible evidence linking saudi arabia's crown prince to the murder of the journalist, jamal khashoggi. a man is arrested on suspicion of manslaugter, by detectives investigating the death of footballer, emiliano sala. and we'll be taking a look at new research showing growing mistrust of vaccines around the world. that's all coming up on 0utside source.
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the un has found credible evidence says saudi arabia was responsible for the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. and its says it believes that crown prince mohammed bin salman was culpable. un special rapparteur agnes callamard led the investigation. the focus has been on who has ordered the killing. i do not have evidence regarding who ordered the killing. would i do have is evidence suggesting that the responsibilities what i do have is evidence suggesting that the responsibilities of high—level officials may be engaged and therefore, each requiring further investigation. in particular of the thumbprints, for variety of reasons, the first 20 that the people directly implicated in the murder reported to him. this is the un's 100 page report — it's based on interviews, recordings and cctv footage. it details how officials at the saudi consulate in istanbul planned and carried out the murder — and then dismembered jamal khashoggi's body.
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we know he was last seen entering the consulate in october. indeed, we have this footage of him arriving. and we know he was there to get documents that would allow him to marry his fiancee — who was waiting outside. the un says he was brutally slain minutes later. the un acknowlegded there is no "smoking gun" incriminating the crown prince. but the report goes on that "every expert consulted finds it inconceivable that an operation of this scale could be implemented without the crown prince being aware". its author also argues that saudi arabia should end the trials of those who are accused of this crime. this is why. two people were arrested, only 11 were indicted. twenty people were arrested, only 11 were indicted. there is no information as to why the other nine have not been charged
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and there is a secrecy over the proceeding of the trial. so the nature of the charges, sun none of that in my view, is so the nature of the charges, so none of that in my view, is leading to what i will consider to be a credible process. saudi arabia has rejected all the reports findings. arab news — an english language newspaper based in saudi — has comments by the foreign minister adel aljubeir. he says the report contains baseless allegations and contradictions — and says the authorities in the kingdom are the only ones competent to hear the case. now remember, saudi arabia's story on this story has changed. initially it said mr khashoggi had left the consulate. then it admitted something had happened inside. it blamed a "rogue operation" led by a former deputy head of intelligence called ahmed asiri. the cia in the us came to a different conclusion —
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it believes mohamed bin salman was responsible. well this is what the un wants done now. the evidence warranting international investigation, criminal investigation into the responsibilities of the crown prince isa responsibilities of the crown prince is a logical step to be asking for him to be included in the sanctions until and unless there is evidence provided that he was not involved, did not know, should not of known of the execution. jamal khashoggi was a us—based columnist for the washington post — and a prominent critic of mohammed bin salman. his former colleagues have been reacting. global 0pinions editor karen attiah @karenattiah
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jamal kashoggi's fiancee. she's written this article in the new york times in which she accuses washington of not doing enough to bring his killers tojustice. chris buckler in new york. in practical terms, what could the americans be doing that they are not doing at the moment?” americans be doing that they are not doing at the moment? i think to some extent, it is what the americans are not saying, which is something that is frustrating some of the people sceptical of these claims of saudi arabia and the crown prince that they were not involved in this murder. and that goes to the trump administration because the intelligence agencies are clear that they believe this did go to the top but the trump administration are particularly, president trump, has tried to distance himself from the
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comments and think at one stage that he spoke to him and denied that it and as faras he spoke to him and denied that it and as far as he was concerned, but i was the matter dealt with. when asked about it more recently, he asked about it more recently, he asked why you still talking about this? but the truth is, what they're asking for and more investigations. more criminal investigations and she is pushing that towards the security council and you take a look at this report and it is pretty blunt, you look at the details, it was a brutal killing and she says as far as she's concerned, it was a state ordered execution. what is the un asking for? more investigations but it has just completed one, but what else would you like to carry out investigation in which country should bring criminal charges? saudi arabia says as far as it is concerned, it hasjurisdiction arabia says as far as it is concerned, it has jurisdiction and thatis concerned, it has jurisdiction and that is not negotiable. you could argue that this did happen in turkey, certainly the body was disposed of from that embassy in turkey, so you could argue that
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turkish people have the rule there. but the independent investigation and can be seen in neutral and all of this. it also months pressure put on saudi arabia in terms of sanctions. there have been targeted sanctions. there have been targeted sanctions and individuals, but if you look at this report comments is very clearly that those targeted sanctions should also go to the crown prince. but of course, the us is reluctant to put on the pressure and that is partly because it is such an important ally in the middle east at a time when america is very clear about tensions as far as iran and if you look at president trump recently, he has been determined to keep up that relationship, even pushing through billions of dollars of sales to saudi arabia, despite a motion by congress saying that having any say of that would be against custom and also going against custom and also going against a congressional motion that set as far as they were concerned,
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america should stop supporting the saudi forces in the conflict in yemen that was vetoed by president trump and gives you the idea that he is not prepared to act, no matter what is said in this report or any other. a man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act in relation to the death of argentine footballer emiliano sala. the striker, who had signed to cardiff city, died in a plane crash injanuary along with pilot david ibbotson. the aircraft transporting sala from france to cardiff went down over the channel injanuary and the wreckage was discovered north of guernsey. his family paid for a private search after the official one was called off. they found the fusillage on the sea bed and sala's body was recovered shortly after. the pilot was neverfound. for more on the case, here'sjon donnison.
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the police force they were investigating this because that is where the body was brought to, they said the 6a—year—old man has not been charged on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act. they're not giving you more details, but they say he has been released under investigation and is assisting with their inquiries. in terms of the nature of their investigation, how much did they briefjournalists and others on the types of avenues they are going down? if we are going on what they said in the press release that the release today, they do not wantjournalists to know too much. they are encouraging people not to speculate on who this man might be or how he might have been involved. at the moment, the details of very few and far between but the reason they are doing this investigation is because they are assisting with the coroner here who will do a formal inquest into this death. and i mentioned, he was flying from nantes to cardiff, new research shows that trust
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in vaccines is lower in richer countries than in poorer ones. and we've heard many warnings about the risks of low vaccination rates. for this new study, the organisation the wellcome trust, surveyed 1a0,000 people. let's hearfrom its lead researcher. there are many reasons why there is low confidence and low trust in vaccines and absolutely information or misinformation or where that comes from, in today's world, there's so much information out there and we need to make sure of is that make sure of is that the information out there is accurate. think about the uk and other developed countries, we have not seen polio, we have not seen diphtheria, day the we haven't until recently seen measles, so we don't see day to day the devastating impact of these diseases on peoples health and their lives. vaccines protect billions of people around the world. smallpox has been wiped out. and other diseases like polio are close to being eliminated. but measles is making a resurgence. this map shows where we've seen large outbreaks in the last 18 months. you can see that ukraine reported the highest number of cases in europe.
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madagascar had the highest number of cases overall. this new research also found that in france one in three people disagreed that vaccines are safe. that's the highest percentage of any country in the world. contrast that with rwanda where there's almost total confidence in vaccines. another country to focus on is the philippines. almost 500 people have been killed by measles this year. and this outbreak followed the manufacturer of a seperate vaccine for dengue fever saying its product posed a risk to some children. here's more from tulip mazumdar in manilla. this is what can happen when measles takes hold. james hasn't eaten for days and has
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now developed pneumonia. some of these babies are less than six months old. too young to have the measles vaccine. they rely on others around them being immunised so they don't even come into contact with the disease. in the next ward, two—year—old princess, lies limp and exhausted. first, she had a cough, her grandmother tells me and then suddenly a severe fever. princess was not immunised, her family were worried vaccines might harm her. we are admitting 30 to a0 and even as high as 80 patients admitted every night. we were so frustrated, disappointed because because the vaccine is given free at different health centres. the infection of misinformation at the un children's agency has called it can spread as far and fast as a computer virus. bitterly regretting her decision not to vaccinate her two children.
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her two—year—old and eight—month—old died of measles within a week of each other. i just feel so angry. i should not have listened to the tv and social media. i was afraid but i should have protected my children. you heard tulip there talk about the importance of herd immunity, especially for babies who are too young to be immunised. here's what it actually means. let's talk about herd immunity. it isa let's talk about herd immunity. it is a community, especially vulnerable people who cannot be vaccinated themselves are protected. this lot are vaccinated and cannot get certain diseases. but this one is not. but because he is surrounded by the herd, diseases can get to him will stop herd immunity, if the majority of a community is
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protected, disease cannot spread. but i some people worried about being vaccinated? but i some people worried about being vaccinated ? and but i some people worried about being vaccinated? and what about people who cannot access vaccines? 0r those who thought religious or cultural reasons do not want to vaccinate their children. here the problem. for herd immunity to work, a certain percentage of the community needs to be vaccinated. so, those most at risk, like young babies, the elderly and those with existing health conditions could get infected. but the bigger and more immunea herd infected. but the bigger and more immune a herd gets, the more protected we all are against some very serious diseases. pretty cool, right? some countries are taking herd immunity seriously. in march this year, italy banned children under the age of six who haven't been vaccinated from attending school. children aged between six and 16 can't be banned from school, but their parents face big fines
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if they don't complete the mandatory course of immunisations. and here in the uk there's talk of taking similar action. the bbc‘s health editor hugh pym has more. he was funny, he used to make up dances, make up songs. one of his classmates actually said that everybody was his friend. gemma's son, sam, got measles at the age of three. he hadn't had the injections at that stage because of other health problems. earlier this year at the age of six, he developed a rare brain disorder, sspe, linked back to the measles virus. he died in hospital. it's left a six—year—old sized hole. even at the hospital, he had the nurses laughing and yeah... it's hard. measles is highly infectious. this little girl was too young to be vaccinated. she recovered after nine days in hospital. health chiefs are concerned that
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some of the family is influenced by false claims about vaccine safety, are refusing jabs. there have been calls for them to be mandatory. the idea of a compulsory vaccination system is now part of the debate. not least because other countries, other european countries are moving there and some states in america are moving there. but i'd rather we didn't do that. historically, we've had very high vaccination rates in the uk and we still have some of the highest in the world, but they are dropping off. persuasion doesn't always work. this gp and others in west london was told by officials to contact parents about vaccinations after measles outbreaks at local schools, but there wasn't much response. we suspect that it's not a strong enough message to convince people who are very convinced they don't want the vaccine to then change their mind. there is a balance between educating, encouraging, but also not insisting. gemma has this message for parents
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as they make their decisions. it's not always just about your family. vaccinating your child, if they can be vaccinated, you could help save another parent from burying their six—year—old. .. . .or younger. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come. the un says that more than 70 million people were forcibly displaced by war and persecution in the last year. now, plastic waste is a huge problem around the world. but do people really know about the extent of this growing issue? we hit the streets of london, beijing, dehli and singapore to find out what people know and what they're doing to help reduce plastic waste.
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it's hard to actually, because you see the plastic bottle, the bags.|j despite enough food for the week and limit what i throw away. the mac i am trying my best to try and stop them, i hardly use plastic myself. when i can avoid it i will. it needs to be tackled and on an industrial basis. i think you can make differences, but it cannotjust be changed like that. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story. rory stewart is knocked out of the conservative leadership contest, leaving four in the race to be the next uk prime minister
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staggering numbers in a un report today. it says that last year more than 70 million people were forcibly displaced by war and persecution. that's the highest such figure since the un started measuring these things. this is the head of the un human rights council. u nfortu nately, unfortunately, go and what i would say is the wrong direction with another couple of million people added to the dramatic statistics of last year. last year, we have reported 68 and a half approximately million people, refugees and displaced people, many refugees in their own country, asylum—seekers and this year, that figure has increased almost close to 71 million
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people. so this is an increase of over 2 million in just one year. one of the biggest displacement crises is venezuela. colombia, peru, ecuadorand chile have all taken in thousands. that illustrates an important point. here's the un again — this time on how the poorest countries often take in the most people. 80% of the refugees, or the people who have left their country are in the next country. so this image, i've said this many times but it bears repeating, you say your pass and emergency. no, most of the refugees are in fact in the countries next to where the war is an unfortunately, that means mostly in poor countries, or in middle income countries, that is where the crisis is. that is where we need to focus. here are examples of other countries
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producing a high number of refugees. syria produces the largest numbers of refugees because of its bloody civil war that has been going on for eight years. the population of refugees in pakistan continues to be exclusively from afghanistan, the second biggest in world, south sudan's civil war is one of the world's most neglected crises. its latest bout forced over one million people to flee to neighbouring uganda, and hundreds of thousands of rohingya fled myanmar last year. they were brutally persecuted by the state. lebanon is a tiny country but it hosts the largest numbers of refugees relative to its population. 1 in 6 people is a refugee. it's been praised by the un for this. and the un chief also had this to say about germany. i usually do not like to praise and
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criticise but in this case, i would like to praise germany for what it has done and say it is a model for other countries to follow and everybody tells me when i say this, yes but the chance they could pay a heavy price politically. the chance there was courageous and she paid a heavy price which means she is even more courageous and i have said many times, history willjudge this. bbc‘s population correspondent stephanie hegarty has more. the dynamic is that you have this really long conflicts like syria and sudan and added to that is other crisis, what is happening in venezuela and the number of refugees that are coming from syria are still there. 6 million, over 6 million displaced in syria and they are not going anywhere. but added to this is another a million people coming from venezuela. never mind the other crisis that are happening around the world. it is these intractable issues and in other crisis coming on
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top of them that are really bolstering this number up. is it also offering some plans on how to help these people was yellow not really, but it is highlighting the shortage of the kind of support from countries around the world. resettlement and the us and going down and has the highest backlog of asylum—seekers looking for refuge at asylum—seekers looking for refuge at a 700,000 people. but also there is that criticism of countries that there is still the biggest donor. so they are the biggest supporter of they are the biggest supporter of the refugees of the human supports round the world. and presumably they would say that we are carrying a significant amount of the burden, we are giving you an awful lot of money. they are, but at the same time, getting a large amount of credit for like countries like lebanon and turkey are not, people
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from the sudan. this really highlights that we cannot ignore the burden that neighbouring countries have. most refugees are not living in camps, they are living in cities, in neighbouring countries. in those countries have a huge burden that surpasses anything that they could really offer. and that is the end of the programme, we will see you tomorrow. goodbye. hello again. some parts of the uk have artie had more than twice the amount of rain that we see in the whole of june. amount of rain that we see in the whole ofjune. so two days, drive for this time of year, and he might just manage that in a few days' time. influencing our weather and close to the low pressure centre in scotland, showers will be with us from the word go and spread and lead to the morning, northern ireland, showers developing to the morning but for england and wales, most places probably starting with a dry
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morning and sunshine, but the clouds will be developing later in the day it will be a fresher kind of day in the showers the afternoon and still have a pretty big gap between them, so there will be some sunshine to about 19 degrees. we will start to see changes as we enter friday, low— pressure see changes as we enter friday, low—pressure steel to the north of the uk and will start to build a rich across the south of the ukase of the weather in southern areas will become drier with more than with sunshine. and probably northern ireland on friday, showers still in the forecast in scotland, particularly the crossing norther in western areas. something i'm not showing in the whole of the month, an area of high pressure, we have not seen any of these at all injune but this is arriving just in time for the weekend which means for most of us, the weather should be dry. i say most because there will be a bit of cloud for the western hills in scotla nd of cloud for the western hills in scotland threatening if you showers here, but away from that actually for most of us, a dry start to the
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weekend with some decent spells of sunshine. quite hazy at times, but those temperatures are coming up and we are looking at highs between around 18 and 22 celsius. similar weather forecast for most of us on sunday as well, high pressure still there, however you cannot help but notice the area of low pressure starting to approach our western shores. weather—wise, on sunday, for much of england and wales, sunday morning for northern ireland by the cloud could thicken up and we could start to see a bit of rain on western areas later on or especially towards the evening time to stop and improvement with the weather in scotland, dry day for most but someone scotland, dry day for most but someonejune scotland, dry day for most but someone june sunshine —— scotland, dry day for most but someonejune sunshine —— some warm june sunshine. moving closer, will start to see some outbreaks breaking out, this rain has opened some degree of uncertainty, but because the rain could be heavy, we could see some impact on that in terms of
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surface water flooding on monday, perhaps some hot sunshine and torts of these england and temperatures could reach 27 degrees of that weather fronts days away. beyond that, we are looking at the jet strea m that, we are looking at the jet stream now and this is a classic block where the ridges and troughs in thejet block where the ridges and troughs in the jet stream do not move very far very fast and that means, if you like our weather pattern, once again, it is going to get stuck and we are stuck with our area of low pressure to the southwest of the uk. it's a little bit different from last time, we will start to be dragging in some hot and last time, we will start to be dragging in some hotand humid last time, we will start to be dragging in some hot and humid air by mixing it with cooler air coming in off the atlantic and they are the ingredients to make some big storms. it can become very warm if not hot, particularly across eastern england, it will power some torrential boundary downpours, bringing the risk of some localised surface water flooding into next week. to be a close eye on developments entered next week as well. —— into next
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