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president trump has long pushed for more action to find and remove those illegally living and working in the united states, and this is one of the largest enforcement operations in recent years. the mayor of mississippi's welcome to bbc news, state capital, jackson, has called the raids dehumanising. i'm duncan golestani. let's speak to cliffjohnson whojoins us from our top stories: oxford, mississippi. he's from the macarthur justice centre, which is a civil rights law firm. eat less meat to help do we know what's happened to the save the planet — people who been released? duncan, some of them are finding their way a major un report says that altering our diets could help slow back home, they are attempting to reunite with children from whom they down global warming. then separated. 0thers the choice between broccoli and ribs reunite with children from whom they then separated. others we think are basically underground, concerned about what's going to happen going on your plate actually has a real link to the level of global warming forward and many of them will ultimately be required to show up in that we are likely to see. immigration courts and defend us immigration officials release themselves against ice in the united half of the workers detained in a huge raid, in the states government. let's be clear, state of mississippi. these are people who been in the campaigners say they should all be freed. india's prime minister says united states a very long time and he revoked kashmir‘s autonomy had children there and really set up to free it from terrorism and separatism. and 50 years since the beatles roots in their communities. you are walked across that zebra crossing in abbey road, fans are still absolutely right, duncan. these are flocking there in droves. people who we've known in these small towns for years and years,
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they've had these jobs for a very long time, they are children in our public schools, they coached baseball teams and soccer clubs. these are our neighbours and friends so these are our neighbours and friends so this is not about some new evidence or some recent influx of immigrants, these are long—standing members of our communities. that is beyond what i was going to ask you, a major united nations report on land use and climate change says what is the climate they because i we should all be eating less meat know in some states, in some and making ourdiets more plant based. communities, immigration is an the un experts say we're consuming issue, it does concern a lot of people. what's it like where you too many meat and dairy products in the west and it's helping to fuel global warming. are? it's interesting. this is a but their new report stops short of saying people should become very red state. this is a trump — vegetarian or vegan. here's our science supporting, very conservative state where people often times speak editor david shukman. loudly in favour of immigration reform and might chant built that a wall of dust smothers wall but at a local level, in our the parched fields of oklahoma. the planet is heating up, communities, when we start dealing with our neighbours in the way we've discussed, it's interesting because those same people might be challenging build the wall don't which may make it harder to grow
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wa nt to challenging build the wall don't want to see their friends and neighbours mistreated. we don't have the food we need, just as the world's population keeps an outcry to round up immigrants and increasing. there'll be 2 billion more of us ta ke an outcry to round up immigrants and take them away, not in these local by the middle of the century. and at the same time, communities. 0n up to a third of all food is wasted. take them away, not in these local communities. on a macro level, people may support immigration and as it rots, it releases gases enforcement but on the local and that raise temperatures even more. human level, we don't hear an outcry and this exacerbates climate change... the un climate panel highlights in mississippi to lock these people up. i should say, it's a violation these challenges in a major of the law as the attorney general said in that report. look, here's new report into how we're damaging the land we depend on — what we know in the united states and what that means for the future. we see very high risks, and certainly in mississippi, we and that becomes incredibly scary, have now and have always had people not just for the public, who come here to work, who are not but for us as individuals and scientists, and the question is, what can we do to avoid those risks documented, they have been and build a betterfuture? hard—working, documented, they have been ha rd—working, law—abiding documented, they have been hard—working, law—abiding members of the first step, the scientists say, oui’ hard—working, law—abiding members of our society and a rigid application would be to see an end to clearing of the law that doors i think forests like the amazon. as we reported last month, notions of fair play and justice the trees store huge amounts of carbon, but they're being felled to make way for cattle. and because the animals won't justify the generate a lot of methane, a warming gas, the report says that notions of fair play and justice won'tjustify the removal based on laws as written but the reality and eating less meat and more plants laws as written but the reality and would really help. law enforcement is a form former federal prosecutor i know this is that this acute as exercise
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discretion. don't prosecute every so what we choose to put on our plate helps define what the carbon footprint violation of the law in every and the level of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, so that choice instance. we have to use commonsense between broccoli and ribs and think about the humanity of what on your plate actually has a real we are doing and i don't think link to the level of global warming anybody in mississippi feels that we're likely to see. the report suggests that we have happier, more safer or more secure today than they did yesterday when to come up with clever new ways of producing food and of using land all these people were working hard at theirjobs. mrjohnson, we will have to leave it there but keep joining us. cliffjohnson from the if we're to have any chance macarthurjustice centre in oxford, mississippi. the indian prime minister, narendra modi, has defended his government's of avoiding the most dangerous decision to remove kashmir‘s impacts of climate change. special status. he said its removal would benefit and it's very clear that switching to renewables not only the people of kashmir — on their own won't be enough. but all of india. at this research farm india and pakistan claim in the netherlands, a glimpse kashmir in its entirety, of a possible future — but each controls part of the territory. with a robot working a field. pakistan has said the removal of special status breaches this is the view from the machine, international law, but its foreign spotting weeds in the crop. minister said they are not looking and planting everything in strips at a military response. limits the spread of pests 0ur correspondent yogeta limaye, and the need to spray. is one of the few international journalists in kashmir. she sent this report up the road, a dairy farm that's from srinuhgar , which has been floating in rotterdam. in lockdown since sunday. it means the cows can be milked
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where consumers live, kashmir is a fortress. tens of thousands of indian soldiers line its streets and highways. police vans announcing cutting the need for transport, which means fewer emissions. and there's the same kind of idea in nigeria. this farmer is in the city of abuja. this food is grown in there is a curfew in place the city where it's eaten. urban agriculture like this can be do the rounds. more environmentally friendly. boys raising anti—india slogans are chased away. another option is being tested and there are on cattle near reading. checkpoints everywhere. the feed includes an additive we're asked for ids and curfew which reduces the methane passes, and after some convincing, the animals produce when they burp. we're allowed to go ahead. farmers leaders say their target because of the environment of fear, for cutting emissions is ambitious. we as the national farmers union it has been hard to speak we have called and said that to kashmir‘s people. so, away from the eyes of the security forces, we have come into the small agriculture is up for delivering lanes of old srinagar. net zero by 2040 with in a one—room home, a willing government. so we really feel that we can we meet an elderly couple. achieve that target and it's really looking at climate—friendly farming. the teenage campaigner with phone lines cut off, television has been their only greta thunberg was in geneva source of information. "modi has done what he wanted to do, but he has left us to die," to thank the climate scientists for their work. asha hakim tells me she says her diet is vegan
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and she told me attitudes towards climate change seem to depend on age. it feels like many older people feel like, "why should i care about this?" as she breaks down. "this is not going to affect me as much." but young people feel more like it is going to affect them. wind tears away precious soil from the fields. the more the land is degraded, translation: what india has done, it's done for itself, the less it can absorb carbon not for us. they've smothered us. from the air, and the more they've destroyed us. temperatures will rise. their son overhears our david shukman, bbc news, in geneva. conversation and joins in. "how are we free?", he asks. "this is worse than being injail." outside, people are curious, asking for information, telling us how angry they are. what you are seeing here — us immigration officials say stones strewn across the street, they have released roughly 300 people who were arrested signs that a protest during a massive raid took place here earlier. in mississippi on wednesday. clashes like these have been nearly 700 workers employed breaking out here in srinagar, at food processing plants and in parts of southern were arrested for not having kashmir, as well. the right documents to be in the us. but the anger inside isn't really but stories of children being separated from their parents spilling out onto the streets, have sparked outrage. chris buckler reports. as we have seen happen before in kashmir. the reason for that is that people are not able to communicate with each other, and because of in a series of targeted raids,
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immigration enforcement agents the tight security deployment. searched food processing factories when the soldiers begin to withdraw in the evening, a few stone pelters come out. looking for undocumented migrants. and, as they were led away into custody, some of their children were left behind. my dad didn't do nothing. he's not a criminal what will happen when the curfew or something, that's what... is lifted is the question immigrants — took him... on everyone's minds. oh, please, let him be. today, prime minister modi starts crying. most of the 680 workers addressed the nation, arrested were hispanic, defending his government's decision. and many of their children returned home to find their parents weren't there. there are parts of the region where people are welcoming his words, but here, they have lost faith in indian democracy. yogita limaye, bbc news, srinagar. they're now being looked after by friends and relatives. let's get some of he said that his mom was gone, the day's other news. that he's upset with trump. the un human rights commissioner, he's — hejust wants his mum back. michelle bachelet, has criticised the latest us and they both crying, sanctions against venezuela. they've been crying all day she said they would intensify the suffering of millions of since they got home from school. venezuelans. he found out she wasn't at home. i went over to pick him up, and it's — they've been crying all day, just upset. the raids at seven different locations were the result of a year—long investigation the british foreign that was focussed not just on those secretary has said who were illegally in the country, the european union will bear but also those employing them. responsibility for a no—deal brexit to those who use illegal aliens if it doesn't for a competitive advantage, change its negotiating position. mr raab was speaking in mexico, if we find that you have violated
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where he signed agreements federal criminal law, 00:07:02,322 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 we're coming after you. to increase cooperation. the italian government says it will ban large cruise ships from venice's historic centre. it comes after an accident injune in which a cruise ship hit a dock, injuring five people. but campaigners say it's not enough. they want the vessels to be banned from a larger area. the russian government says two specialists have been killed and six other people injured after an explosion at a navy base. officials said the blast happened during testing at the facility in the north—west of russia. our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford has more details. at the moment there is a lot that is not clear about what happened. to run through what we do know, there was an explosion, we know, during testing of a missile engine in the north—west of russia on a facility that we know is used to test all sorts of missiles for russia's may be. particularly the northern fleet,
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which is close by with its atomic submarines. this accident happened, two people were killed, six people we re two people were killed, six people were injured. now, following that explosion we know that the local administration in the city recorded an increase in background radiation levels for around about a0 minutes. they say that the radiation level has now fallen, and the defence ministry say that there was no dangerous emissions from this explosion. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the 20—year—old cello prodigy who played played at prince harry and meghan‘s wedding, now preparing to perform at the proms. the question was whether we want to save our people and japanese as well and win the war, or whether we want to take a chance on being able to win the war by killing all our young men. the invasion began at two o'clock this morning.
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mr bush, like most other people, was clearly caught by surprise. we call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all the iraqi forces. 100 years old and still full of vigor, vitality and enjoyment of life. no other king or queen in british history has lived so long, and the queen mother is said to be quietly very pleased indeed that she's achieved this landmark anniversary. this is a pivotal moment for the church as an international movement. the question now is whether the american vote will lead to a split in the anglican community. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a major un report on land use
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and climate change says the west's high consumption of meat and dairy produce is fuelling global warming. us immigration officials have released half of the workers detained in a huge raid in the state of mississippi. campaigners say they should all be freed. italy's deputy prime minister and league party leader, matteo salvini, has called for a snap election, saying his party's differences with its coalition partners can't be patched up. it follows a row in the senate over a major infrastructure project. andy beatt reports. a vote that has left italy's government on the verge of collapse. the two coalition parties opposing each other over the future of the high—speed chain link to france. backing the project at a rally outside rome, the deputy prime
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minister and leader of the right—wing league party. he has now declared the governing coalition unworkable. the only way forward — to hold fresh elections. translation: if a couple who are in love decide to go separate ways, it is better to do it consensually, quickly and without quarrel. colourful language prompting his partner, leader of the five star movement, to say his party doesn't fear another vote. it is just over a year since western europe's first populist government took office. the coalition‘s relationship, always uneasy, becoming increasingly volatile. while five star one more parliamentary seats in 2015, polls suggest salvini's lead has a surged in popularity. he is now hoping to capitalise on that, but critics, including the country's prime minister, say it is not up to him to
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dictate the steps of a political crisis. pushing the nation back into election mode at the height of summer, when so election mode at the height of summer, when so many are on election mode at the height of summer, when so many are on holiday and parliament is in recess, would bea and parliament is in recess, would be a big gamble. he is the cellist who won the bbc‘s young musican of the year and gained globalfame when he performed at the wedding of the duke and duchess of sussex. now, 20—year—old sheku kanneh—mason is set to play sir edward elgar‘s poignant cello concerto at the bbc proms, 100 years after elgar composed it. here is our arts editor will gompertz. edward elgar‘s elegiac cello concerto in e minor, written 100 years ago, immortalised byjacqueline du pre in the mid—1960s. she was a 20—year—old cello prodigy then, just as sheku kanneh—mason is now. her performances are very inspiring.
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i have taken lots of inspiration from her playing. definitely, when i was younger, i wanted to be her. but it will be him front and centre at the proms, giving his version of elgar‘s famous concerto. for me, it's one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. to perform in here is going to be very, very special. elgar wrote it after the first world war, about which he was incredibly disturbed, and it's a very sad piece, in that regard. how does it resonate, 100 years on? it is a terribly sad piece, and i think, although of course i have not experienced anything even close to anyone who lived through the first world war has, but even just by listening to this
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piece and playing this piece and trying to understand the music, i think a lot of that comes across really clearly. he comes from an extraordinary family. all seven children are exceptional musicians, with his elder sister, a gifted pianist, leading the way. what we had was quite rare. the fact that we went to state schools that supported music and had music, that is very rare, and in fact, that has also gone now from the schools that we were at, so i think we were very lucky. now that it's not so common in the schools, and free music lessons are not so common, money is a big factor, and i do worry that there are people with the talent or the want to do music who may be restricted. the thing that is lacking a lot in this country is opportunity. well, the opportunity to have the lessons, to have instruments and things, and also to have the opportunity to see classical music live, as well. do you ever — do you ever, it's like, "come on,
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sheku, it is time to get out of bed?" there is kind of an atmosphere. i mean, if someone was to come downstairs in the afternoon, having done no practice, it would be considered strange, because everyone will be practising then we would kind of look at them and say, "oh, you haven't done any practice yet?" and there would be this kind of teasing. there won't be a need for any of that with his elgar prom. he has been preparing for it for years. will gompertz, bbc news. fans of the beatles gathered in london to mark 50 years since one of the most iconic photographs of the band was taken. the picture showsjohn lennon leading the group over a zebra crossing outside the abbey road studios in north london, where most of their songs were recorded. the image is now one of the most famous in the history of pop. lizo mzimba reports from abbey road. for half a century, fans from all over the world, fans of all ages, have come here to recreate and in their own way feel a connection to perhaps the most famous band ever.
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i'm coming from belgium, and i'm here for abbey road. abbey road is special because this is the last beatles record. well, we are coming from mexico, and this is special because we really are fans of the beatles, and we're excited to be here in london. we like the music. i am from uruguay, and the beatles are special, and i like the music. # all you need is love... over the years, abbey road studios became almost synonymous with the band, who recorded so much of their music there. they were the most famous band in the world. but even they may have underestimated the impact those short few minutes would have, as they emerged from the studios there, came out onto the road, and at exactly 11:35am, walked backwards and forwards over the crossing, while photographer iain macmillan took six quick shots. the fifth was chosen, and entered music history.
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# come together... the abbey road album is particularly special for fans as it represents the last studio recording sessions to involve all four beatles together. half a century on, things were a little busier than that day in 1969, the police eventually having to intervene to control the fans blocking the road. and, almost 50 years to the minute since the famous shot was taken, four members of a tribute band recreated what has become an image that encapsulates what the beatles meant to so many. just a regular day on a london street there. a reminder now of our top story: un scientists say intensive farming to produce meat and dairy products is fuelling global warming. a report by the intergovernmental panel on climate change has found that agriculture and forestry creates almost a
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quarter of carbon emissions. it suggests a switch to more plant —based products and more sustainable farming methods. it also believes ever increasing consumption of these foodsis ever increasing consumption of these foods is causing soils to release carbon previously trapped underground, heating the atmosphere. that's the way it is looking at the moment. there is plenty more on our website. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @duncangolestani. but for now, thank you for your company and we will see you soon. good buy. —— goodbye. hello there. it was 27 degrees on thursday in suffolk. felt a bit more like summer, but the weather's changing now. the next few days look very different. not only will there be some rain, which is going to be heavy at times, it's the strength of the wind that's
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going to be more significant, and bring more impacts. now, we don't normally see a satellite picture looking like this at this time of the year. but this curl of cloud marks the position of an unusually deep area of low pressure for august, hence the strength of the wind. it's a lot further south than we'd expect, as well, and it's pushing these weather fronts northwards and eastwards, and bringing some rain as well, which could be heavy at times. as we head into the morning, northern scotland still generally dry — just one or two showers, a cooler feel here. but a wet start to the day across central, southern scotland for the rush hour. that rain is going to be quite heavy. and we've still got some rain around in the morning first thing across northern ireland, the far north of england, and perhaps some showery bursts of rain still to clear away from eastern england. further west, though, wales and the south—west dry at this stage, and quite sunny as well, and quite a warm and muggy start across england and wales, too. that rain should clear away in the morning from eastern england, the rain band marching northwards into northern scotland, and then a lot of showers develop out across western parts of the uk. these are going to be heavy, thundery, gusty winds. very lively gusts in the south—west later on in the afternoon,
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as the winds really start to pick up. it's still going to be quite warm, though, for eastern parts of england, where it's going to be driest of all in the afternoon. highs into the mid—20s. but our area of low pressure is continuing to push its way northwards, and the winds continue to strengthen during the evening, overnight and into saturday. the low pressure is focusing the wettest weather in the northern half of the uk, with showers or longer spells of rain for scotland, northern ireland, perhaps the far north of england, risk of thunder. further south, the showers that come in will be more fleeting. there'll be lengthy spells of sunshine, and that's because it's going to be very windy for england and wales. widespread gales, and we'll be looking at gusts of 60 mph around some southern coasts of england and wales. and because of that, it's going to feel somewhat cooler and fresher, with typical temperatures into the low 20s. for the second half of the weekend, our low pressure starts to push away to scandinavia. it won't be as windy on sunday, but we've still got these weather fronts on the scene, focusing the showers into longer spells of rain, and that wetter weather will drift its way further south into england and wales.
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it will start to change the wind direction. it'll be breezy, but nowhere near as windy on sunday. but we're pulling down a northerly wind. it's drawing down cooler air, particularly in the north, with highs of 15 or 16 celsius.
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this is bbc news, the headlines: a major un report in warning that eating meat is increasingly fuelling climate change. scientists say altering our diets to become more plant—based could dramatically reduce emissions — with one quarter of greenhouse gases coming from food production. us immigration officials have released about half of nearly 700 people detained in a huge raid in the state of mississippi. human rights campaigners are urging the state to now set them all free. stories of children being separated from their parents had sparked condemnation.
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india's prime minister has defended his decision to revoke kashmir‘s special status. in an address to the nation narendra modi said a new era has begun, and the region will be freed from terrorism and separatism.
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