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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11. more violence in hong kong as police and pro—democracy demonstrators clash at the airport — after a second day of disruption and flight cancellations police in malaysia say that a body found near a jungle holiday resort is that of the missing london teenager, nora quoirin. we join police on the front line as they try to trace children who've been recruited as drug dealers. police say they're struggling to cope. we're barely dealing with it now and i think if it gets bigger and more violent, then there's just not enough of us. 50 years since the start of the northern ireland troubles, a view from south africa on bridging the divide. at 11.30 we'll take
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a look at the papers, including claims by the former chancellor philip hammond who claims that he believes unelected people are pushing the country unelected people are pushing the cou ntry towards unelected people are pushing the country towards no deal brexit. as well as reports that the speaker john bercow says he'll fight attempt by boris johnson to close parliament. that's with our reviewers stephen bush from the new statesman and lucy fisher from the times — stay with us for that. and, sailing to new york to address the un — teenage climate change campaigner greta thunberg taking to the ocean in a zero—carbon—emitting yacht. violent clashes have broken out at hong kong airport after riot police stormed the terminal to disperse protesters. officers charged on pro—democracy campaigners, arresting some whose protests had led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights at one of the world's busiest airports. china has described
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the anti—government protests as terrorism, and said it would intervene if they don't stop soon. from hong kong jonathan head sent this report. this was the day a self—styled democracy movement came close to mob violence. fearful of infiltrators, the protesters seized individuals they believed were undercover chinese officers. with emotions so raw it was hard to restrain them. for a second day they had occupied the airport and shut it down. luggage trolleys rammed together to make effective barricades. thousands filled the departure hall, mingling with bewildered passengers whose flights were no longer leaving, and at times trying to win their understanding. what started as opposition to a controversial extradition bill has evolved into demands for a fully democratic government in hong kong
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and full police accountability. a roar from the crowd and another suspected infiltrator had gone down. it was a struggle for medics to evacuate him. a delegation of police was allowed into the airport. this officer pleading for cooperation. but the bellowing fury of these young protesters drove them back out of the terminal. that was followed by lines of riot police moving towards the doors. it sent them scurrying for more trolleys. outside, this officer's attempt to arrest someone backfired badly and he had to raise his gun to fend off his attackers. as you can see, they are building barricades at the moment at the entrance to the terminal. we have seen riot
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police outside, they are trying to stop them coming in. have a look down there, there are still passengers arriving at this airport. how are the police going to storm this building? while all this was going on, stranded travellers sat among the empty check—in desks in one of asia's most important transport hubs. losing control of it is a humiliation for the hong kong government. more significantly, it is a humiliation for china, which has warned that its patience is running out. jonathan head, bbc news, hong kong airport. we have heard from the foreign minister, the foreign office minister, the foreign office minister, here is what he said in the light of the scenes in hong kong today. i think the scenes we have seen over the past few days have been deeply troubling, and in particular the scenes from the airport over the past couple of days. in terms of china's reaction,
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china is clearly a signatory to the joint declaration with the uk, and that binds both of us to promoting the special status of hong kong, and i feel certain that china will want to be true to its obligations in international law, contained within thejoint declaration. international law, contained within the joint declaration. that was the foreign office minister speaking a little earlier following comments from the foreign secretary, dominic raab, who tweeted about the need for dialogue between the two sides. he says the foreign office is upping its anti—in how these issues are being dealt with. police in malaysia say they've found the body of 15—year—old nora quoirin, who went missing nine days ago. the teenager, who has learning difficulties, was on holiday with her family when she disappeared from the resort. her body was found just over a mile from where she was staying. our correspondent howard johnson sent this report from seremban. and a warning, it contains
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some flashing images. a malaysian police helicopter hovers over the area of dense jungle where the unclothed body of nora quoirin was discovered. then this... winched up in a cage, supported by a police officer. the teenager went missing from the dusun eco—resort in western malaysia ten days ago. the family had planned a two—week holiday but the morning after they arrived, nora's father sebastien discovered her bed empty and a downstairs window open. the family have always insisted, given nora's learning difficulties, it is very unlikely she would have walked off alone. nora! today's search and rescue effort started with more than 300 personnel scouring a 2.5 mile square radius around the resort. but by mid—afternoon, the police were alerted to a macabre discovery.
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in the last half an hour, we've seen a flurry of activity here, policemen coming and going. these are some police chiefs here, you can see the lights are on on this forensics car here. what we've found out is there is a gentleman inside who is being questioned. he was the one who went up to a police checkpoint earlier on today and said that he had found a body. the body was taken to a nearby hospital, where nora's family had the grim task of confirming it was her. translation: the family has been brought in to identify the body found today and have confirmed the body is indeed nora anne, who went missing on august 4th. a postmortem will be carried out tomorrow. it came just a day after her parents announced a reward for information about her. she has been vulnerable since the day she was born. she is so precious to us and our hearts are breaking. what started as a dream holiday for nora and herfamily,
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has ended up being every parent's worst nightmare. howard johnson, bbc news, pantai, malaysia. the bbc has seen how criminal gangs are targeting children in care, some as young as 12, and using them to work as drug dealers. vulnerable children are specifically targeted and then sent to work in towns and cities many miles from home, the phenomenon known as county lines. the police say they are struggling to deal with the scale of the problem. last night, our special correspondent ed thomas reported on the officers trying to tackle the sale and consumption of class a drugs. this second report focuses on the children at the centre of the county lines problem. put that knife down. in care, missing from home... so at the moment in st helens children—wise we've got three missings. ..found in north wales. county lines is all over. it's cross—border. they have to be controlled. children exploited to sell crack and heroin. the most vulnerable in our society are the kids. can you protect them? right now i can't protect
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those kids because i don't know where they are. it is becoming a daily thing now, it keeps being the kids that have got links to north wales. in st helens, searching for missing children. by the time it gets to the sixth and seventh address, you know, you start to feel sick, you'rejust thinking that these kids are not here, they're not anywhere they should be. it's becoming a daily routine... give you some information on the county lines. ..eith searches from day to night. we're going to another address of missing child. but this is the care home, this is the home address. and in those children's homes police are hearing the same story. the most vulnerable kids being found in north wales. obviously we have massive concerns about this north wales link. we have changed the carer's voice to protect the child's identity. yeah, ok.
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what's your big worry? he's being exploited 7 these are good kids, really. you've got to understand that these children have been ripped apart by family issues, drugs mainly stuff like that from their parents. it's not their fault. so, today, i've been on duty for three hours and all i've done is missing person checks. this is the reality for some care children. is that yours? arrested in north wales, this teenager had more than 20 grams of heroin and crack hidden inside his body worth around £3,000. six months later, we're back in st helens outside his supported accommodation. your door‘s broken. two girls, three girls. come on, guys. why is the window, why is the door smashed? officers are searching for a different child, a 15—year—old missing from care
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at risk of county lines. have you got a warrant? your door‘s open. ijust needed to check you're all right. well, you know where the door is. yeah, i do know where the door is. police say younger missing care children repeatedly end up here, all vulnerable to exploitation. so the missing child who we think is coming and going from wales spends some time in there. he does, yeah. how old is he? he's15, yeah, and the lad we are looking for is 15. it really is getting to know our kids from the care homes, getting to know our kids on the street and to look out for these sort of danger signs really. gangs are targeting a network of children's homes to send them 50 miles away to sell heroin and crack. 14 i think was the youngest that i'm personally aware of was found drug dealing in north wales. and then a couple of weeks later we had a 15—year—old arrested. it was only when it was looked at, why were these two kids from merseyside both from care homes, in north wales drug dealing, that we identified those children are in fact being used and county lines
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is a bigger problem. calm down! police showed us this footage. in the middle of this, a child in care. stop fighting! although this arrest isn't for a county lines offence, officers say he has already been found in north wales. oh, my god! put your leg down. a young child in crisis. bleep it's all on body camera, it's all being recorded. the kids that do get exploited, a lot of them do go through an ordeal, so it's extreme. these kids are traumatised by it. the care home that we spoke to the people we spoke to said, he's lovely. the last two weeks he's out of control. what's your fear? why is he doing this? my fear is he's criminally exploited. he's gone from being a nice loving child now to someone who is dead aggressive. and that's county lines? and that's county lines. and this goes far beyond st helens. across the uk, it is believed 10,000 children are involved in county lines drug dealing.
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there's chaos. if it goes any more than it is now, we are barely dealing with it now, and i think if it gets bigger and more violent, then there's just not enough of us. they have to be controlled. we don't know exactly how many care children are being exploited in st helens but we do know no one has been prosecuted for trafficking kids in the town. former chancellor philip hammond has accused the government of trying to force through a no—deal brexit by making a set of negotiating demands the european union will never agree to. in addition to that it's being reported in the telegraph that the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, has told an audience in edinburgh that he will fight any attempt by borisjohnson to close parliament, a process known as proroguing, in order to run down the clock and leave the european union without a deal.
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we can cross to our westminster studio and speak to our political correspondent tom barton. let's deal with philip hammond first of all, he's done an interview published in the times tomorrow morning, and is being forced to go to twitter tonight to defend himself. that's right. it's a column he's written in the times and he really doesn't pull any punches, describing borisjohnson's negotiating stance as a wrecking one designed to force essentially britain out on odiah terms, but says it's a travesty of the truth to pretend that leave voters backed a no—deal. also he takes aim at dominic cummings, boris johnson's closest adviser, the director of the voeckler campaign during the referendum, saying unelected people who pulled the strings of this government know the eu cannot and will not renegotiate the deal agreed with theresa may. he also suggests
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he might not shy away from voting against the government, saying the parliament will make its voice heard and a no—deal brexit must not happen. number 10 has responded tonight saying when he was in government philip hammond did everything he could to block preparations for leaving an underbite negotiations, reiterating in that statement that britain will leave on october the 31st despite the former chancellor's best efforts to the contrary. as you say, in the last ten or 15 minutes, philip hammond has tweeted saying wrong to that statement by number 10. no—deal, he says, is a far cry from the highly optimistic vision presented by the leave campaign, and there's no mandate for it. i'm sure there will people watching this this evening saying philip hammond, ramona, get over it, but presumably this is a confrontation the government could well do without
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with any of its backbenchers right now given it only has a majority of one in the house of commons. absolutely, and it's a confrontation they knew was coming because philip hammond made it clear before boris johnson was even elected by his party as leader and therefore prime minister that if that happened he would leave the government. he duly did on the 24th ofjuly. there's a group of former ministers, including david gauke and others, who have made it clear that they are going to work together to try to stop a no—deal brexit. the sun tonight is reporting that has written to boris johnson essentially telling him that a no—deal brexit is something that must not happen. interesting. they may also be able to call in and aid assistance from the speaker, john bercow, who's been speaking out of westminster today. yes, atan speaking out of westminster today. yes, at an event in the edinburgh
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fringe, every politician's favourite event this summer! his comments was in the daily telegraph and he's talking about the idea that parliament could be suspended in order run down the clock towards the sist order run down the clock towards the 31st of october and force a no—deal brexit regardless of whether or not parliament once it. john bercow says any attempt to circumvent and bypass oi’ any attempt to circumvent and bypass or close down parliament would be anathema to him. he said he would fight it with every bone in his body. the telegraph said he was asked by a member of the audience if parliament could stop a no—deal brexit and apparentlyjohn bercow said yes. number 10 tonight would refuse to be drawn on what a spokesman called hypotheticals, but john bercow did say politicians don't get to choose on what votes they choose to respect. no doubt all those politicians in edinburgh are there to practise
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their comic edinburgh are there to practise theircomic timing! edinburgh are there to practise their comic timing! tom barton, thank you. meanwhile, a legal challenge to try to prevent borisjohnson shutting down parliament to force through a no—deal brexit has begun in a scottish court. a cross—party group of more than 70 mps and peers brought the case. they say suspending parliament to make the uk leave the eu without a deal is unlawful and unconstitutional. the next hearing will take place in september. the headlines on bbc news: the family of nora quoirin, the 15—year—old who went missing in malaysia, has identified the body found in the jungle as hers. violence at hong kong international airport, as police clash with pro—democracy demonstrators who'd forced the cancellation of more flights. police say they're struggling to cope with the number of children in ca re cope with the number of children in care being recruited to deal drugs. meanhwile, amber rudd, the work and pensions secretary, this week marks 50 years since the beginning of the troubles in northern ireland. the conflict lasted decades
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and claimed thousands of lives. for different reasons, south africa lived through its own bloody divisions, and like northern ireland, went through its own journey of reconciliation. our correspondent pumza fihlani has travelled from johannesburg and gives this personal assessment of northern ireland's peace process. it's home to a people haunted by the past, ghosts that simply will not let go. like south africa, northern ireland has an emotive connection to its violent history. for 30 years, this community was the scene of bloodshed, thousands were killed in sectarian violence. these gates are going to close soon for the night, it's to help the communities living on either side feel safer. but as a south african who lived under apartheid, i've come to find out why now more than 20 years after the peace agreement with these divisions still exist here. # and blood red lines lie where you fell...# my father's name
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is trevor bracknell. in the play blood red lines, cast members all have personal stories of the troubles. in south africa there is a common narrative — apartheid was wrong. i was seven when my father was killed... alan bracknell whose father was killed in a bombing over a0 years ago says a common narrative doesn't exist here. there is an ongoing debate as to the definition of the victim here. there are so many different narratives, but if we can get an understanding of how violence affected people, how people had to live through that violence, then i think we can start to get to a stage of acknowledging what we've done to each other. but reaching an understanding is difficult while there are continuing divisions. growing up in south africa, segregation was stark. but even i've never seen anything like this. this is one of many peace walls here in belfast keeping two communities separate. efforts at integration have not been enough. communities remain polarised.
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a vast majority of schools in northern ireland are segregated. i visited two schools in londonderry. one with many protestant pupils and the other, a catholic school separated by a river and identity. so, i'm south african. what do you identify as? i would identify myself as irish. identify as irish. i identify as irish. but in the school with protestant pupils... what do you identify as? british. british as well, yeah. why do you think it's still so separate? it's like the fear of the unknown. we all live in different areas. there's not much integration between the communities. what sort of future do you imagine? more open. like, more accepting of people. rather than it being us versus them. i think it's definitely
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still influenced a lot by older generations. people especially who grew up, if they are in a family who are, you know, particularly once i did. i think there still is bitterness, as you said, from older generations and that does still trickle down. we were born after the peace agreement so we don't really know the brunt of what happened. we can read it in a textbook but that's never the same. the tensions don't have to be there. so, how do you overcome those tensions? for professor brendon hamber, it's about trust. he's worked on both south africa's and northern ireland's post—conflict transitions. if you think of south africa, sometimes when people use the language of reconciliation it implies a certain vision of the future that in and of itself can silence people as well. reconciliation for me is a contested idea. it's not getting everybody together and saying we all agree on this great future. it's more that we agree to share the space. two societies of a similar history. the violence has diminished since the days of mass slaughter but neither
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society has the luxury of forgetting about the past. i'm reminded that peace is a fragile thing. pumza fihlani, bbc news, belfast. the teenage climate change campaigner greta thunberg is preparing to sail across the atlantic to attend a summit at the united nations in new york. the 16—year—old activist is travelling on a 60—foot yacht — fitted with solar panels and underwater turbines that produce electricity onboard — with the aim of making the journey zero—carbon. our chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt has been speaking to her in plymouth. how do you get to new york without any co2 emissions? this is how. but greta thunberg isn't anxious. i might feel a bit seasick, and it's not going to be comfortable, but that i can live with. the malizia is all about speed.
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no washing, no shower. would put clothes on and we keep them for two weeks. there is no kitchen, no heating and no privacy. here you have this little intimate corner stop eu can hide here and use the bucket. this blue bucket is the toilet. poos only, please. but there are also no carbon emissions. the entire journey will be under sail and all the electricity will be generated by solar panels and turbines. if we are honest, one person giving up flying doesn't make any difference in a world of 8 billion people. so what is the point? i mean, the point, ithink, is to sort of create an opinion. if i stop flying you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that, i mean, the climate crisis is a real thing and that also pushes a political movement.
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but it's been a year since the 16—year—old began her climate strikes and carbon emissions have continued to rise. she plans to encourage world leaders to take more urgent action in new york. and despite the privations, she is looking forward to the trip. this is the bank where greta will be sleeping and there's a little curtain. when the boat is tipping over, you can pull this up and wedge yourself and your quite squeezed in against the hull so you're not going to fall out. and i'll be honest, it's quite cosy. and despite the prize asians, she's looking forward to the trip. i think it will feel good in a way to be just i think it will feel good in a way to bejust a loan i think it will feel good in a way to be just a loan with those on the boat and the ocean. i think that it will do good. the voyage will take
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two weeks and greater‘s team say they haven't yet planned how she's going to get back from america. justin rowlatt, bbc news, plymouth. now it's time for the weather with susan powell. hello. our weather this week from day today is pretty much a case of all or nothing. on tuesday, we had a lot of dry weather, sunshine and light winds and through mid week, the rain is set to pile in again along with gusty winds. thursday will be drier and friday, back into the rain. normally at this time of year, as we saw injuly, the jetstrea m year, as we saw injuly, the jetstream will be like this and we sit in the south in the milder air and the jetstream stairs the low pressure to the north to scandinavia. at the moment, ourjet
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lies west to east and its barrelling areas of low pressure across us and we sit to the north in the relatively cooler air. here's wednesday and our next area of low pressure. for england and wales, where talking about a wet day with heavy and thundery showers in the afternoon for the midlands and parts of eastern england. northern ireland and scotland escaping with a drier first half to the day, certainly scattered showers around but heavier, more persistent rain arriving as the next system cosy in here through the course of the evening. with the wet weather, mid to high teens at best. a distinctly un— summery feel to proceedings. that low will pull away on thursday and there's a gap between the lows and there's a gap between the lows and a ridge on thursday if you like, and a ridge on thursday if you like, and out to the west our next low weights to come in on friday. can't promise an entirely dry day on friday, some showers in contrast to thursday, lighter winds and more
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sunshine and warmer, low 20s and may be up to 23 in london. onto friday we go, and this area of low pressure waiting in the wings. a deep feature that looks like it will come barrelling in with gusts of wind up to 40-4045 barrelling in with gusts of wind up to 40—4045 mph. heavy falls out of this front as it sweeps from west to east and perhaps some eastern counties will be largely dry up to the afternoon, and brightness in the west later perhaps, but windy across—the—board west later perhaps, but windy across—the—boa rd and temperatures west later perhaps, but windy across—the—board and temperatures in the high teens at best. the difference with this low is the centre difference with this low is the ce ntre wa nts difference with this low is the centre wants to stay close by by the weekend and we'll see fronts running into the south of it. on saturday, some uncertainty about the northern extent of the rain but wet weather to the south of the uk with frequent showers near the heart of the low further north. windy again across—the—board. further north. windy again across—the—boa rd. temperatures just about into the low 20s. on sunday, the low centre shifts a little bit
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and what that does is tighten the isobars and and what that does is tighten the isoba rs and sunday, and what that does is tighten the isobars and sunday, if anything, looks windier than saturday. perhaps drier to the south but further north, plentiful showers and certainly in the with it's going to feel chilly and almost autumnal on sunday. the wind possibly the greatest concern on sunday, may be 50km/h gusts and that's potentially damaging especially with trees in full leaf and those black circle temperatures give you an indicator of the gust strength. are we expecting to improvements in the near future? let's see next week and what's happening with thejetstream. where to the north of it until the second half of the week, where we go to the south, and it starts to buckle, as we saw at the start. next week could see improvements and we could see the lows going further away, may be becoming slightly drier and less windy and temperatures will struggle for a time at least.
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hello. this is bbc news with shaun ley. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the family of nora quoirin, the 15—year—old who went missing in malaysia, has identified the body found in the jungle as hers. violence at hong kong international airport as police clash with pro—democracy demonstrators who'd forced the cancellation of more flights. police say they're struggling to cope with the number of children in care being recruited as drug dealers. and, sailing to new york to address the un — teenage climate change campaigner greta thunberg will be taking to the ocean in a zero—carbon—emitting yacht. i feel a ifeel a bit seasick, and it is not going to be comfortable, but that i can live
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