i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: israel bars two us congresswomen from entering the country, a move encouraged by president trump. hong kong prepares for more demonstrations this weekend. donald trump urges china's president to meet protest leaders to try to ease the crisis. i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme: hailed as heros. the russian pilots who managed to land their place safely after its engines were struck by a flock of birds. and he is a foreigner and the odds are against him. we meet the chinese—born man,

running for office in tokyo's red light district. good morning. it is 7:00 in the morning here in singapore, midnight in london, and 2:00am in israel, where the authorities have banned two us congresswomen from entering the country. ilhan omar and rashida tlaib, who are both democrats, had been expected to begin a tour of the palestinian territories later this week. they have both been critical of israel's policies towards the palestinians. our north america editorjon sopel reports from washington. have two newly elected members of congress ever created the stir

that ilhan omar and rashida tlaib have? they were the first two muslim women to be elected to the house. they're both on the left of the democratic party, neither is a fan of the israeli government, both are outspoken, and donald trump relishes going after them. omar has a history of launching vicious anti—semitic screeds. all chant: send her back! her colleague, representative rashida tlaib... booing ..agreed with omar‘s characterisation of 9/11 and said that members of congress who support israel forgot what country they represent. and they haven't been shy in dishing it straight back to him. we have said this president is racist. we have condemned his racist remarks. i believe he is fascist. this is normal political knock—about, but this morning

donald trump tweeted this: and moments later, israel announced its ban on the two congresswomen‘s visit. the government said it welcomes critics and criticism, but... translation: israeli law prohibits the entry into israel of those who call for and work to impose boycotts on israel. this is what the interior minister decided regarding the two congresswomen, and i agree with him. for donald trump, this isn't about who goes in and out of israel. it's about the next election, and he wants to personify the democratic party as these two women. he has vilified them as being anti—semitic, left—wing extremists, anti—american. and the more that democrats get behind them, the more he likes it.

but what israel stands to get out of this is harder to fathom. the us president and israeli prime minister are tight, but this decision hasn't only alienated democrats. many republicans are critical too, and even aipac, the pro—israel lobbying group, has said it is wrong. john sopel, bbc news, washington. let's take a look at some of the day's other news: police in malaysia say 15—year—old nora quoirin probably died from internal bleeding caused by hunger and stress. the teenager from london was found dead ten days after she disappeared while on holiday. howard johnson reports. after nora quoirin‘s body was discovered on tuesday, a senior pathologist was dispatched from the malaysian capital, kuala lumpur, to carry out a postmortem examination of the london teenager. today, at a police press conference, the first details of how she died were revealed. translation: the real cause of death

was internal bleeding of the intestine, which may have been caused by not having any food over a long period of time. the state police chief went on to stress he believes there was no suspicion of foul play. nora is believed to have died about 2—3 days before her body was found. in english: but there is no element of abduction or kidnapping. the teenager, who lived with her parents in london, had been missing for ten days. the family have always insisted, given nora's learning difficulties, it is very unlikely she would have walked off alone. the malaysian police have always treated nora's disappearance as a missing persons case. behind this gate is the road that leads to the palm oil plantation where nora's body was discovered on tuesday. today, the family said that they would like people to end the speculation about how nora died, and to give them the space to grieve in peace. although today's police announcement will have gone some way to clarify

how nora died, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance still leaves many questions to be answered. howard johnson, bbc news, pantai, malaysia. also making news today: the authorities in gibraltar have freed an iranian oil tanker after it was detained last month by british royal marines. the vessel was seized on suspicion of trying to breach eu sanctions against syria. the decision to free the ship came despite a last—minute objection from the united states. india's prime minister, narendra modi, has said his decision to strip indian—administered kashmir of its special status will restore the region to its past glory. meanwhile, pakistan's army says three its soldiers died after exchanging fire with indian military forces. it is the latest escalation of violence along the line of control which divides the territory. data from weather monitoring stations across the globe has confirmed thatjuly was the earth's hottest month since records began. heat records were broken

across the northern hemisphere, and not even the arctic was spared. hundreds of wildfires hit forests in the arctic circle, including siberia, alaska and greenland. and these pictures show what happened after a flock of birds brought down a russian airliner. the pilots have been hailed as heroes after making an emergency landing in a corn field, saving the lives of more than 200 people on board. the ural airlines plane was travelling to crimea when it hit the gulls shortly after take—off. fresh demonstrations are expected over the weekend in hong kong, as fears grow that china will crack down on the pro—democracy protests which have swept the city since march. on thursday, thousands of chinese military personnel continued their build—up across the borderfrom hong kong, undertaking drills and reportedly conducting a parade at a sports stadium in a city.

earlier, china gave its most direct threat yet to pro—democracy protesters. speaking at a press conference in london, the chinese ambassador to the united kingdom warned that china's patience with the demonstrators will eventually run out. should the situation in hong kong deteriorate further into unrest, uncontrollable for the government of the hong kong special administrative region, the central government would not sit on its hands and watch. hong kong—born martial artist and film starjackie chan posted a video on twitter calling the situation sad and depressing. translation: i feel the translation: ifeel the pride translation: i feel the pride of being chinese, wherever i go. the

chinese national flag is respected by people all over the world. i also deeply feel that security, stability and peace are like the air. you never know how precious it is until you lose it. hong kong is my birthplace, my home town, and china is my home country. i love my country, i love my hometown stop i really hope that hong kong will return to peace as soon as possible. chan's video drew a negative reaction by some on social media, who feel he is too close to the chinese authorities. one user linked to chan's video in a subtweet, commenting: another user accused chan of using his platform to promote human rights violations, saying they expected and hoped for more. more now on our top story, the decision by israel to ban two us members of congress from visiting the country. well, yousef munayyar from the us campaign for palestinian told me earlier why the israeli government needs to be held acountable for what he called

discriminatory decisions. yes, well, unfortunately the united states continues to give billions of dollars annually to israel, and in this situation they are denying entry to some of the people who are making decisions over those very apportionments of money. and this kind of discrimination is certainly not limited to members of congress who are american citizens. i think it's important to remember that the experience of being denied entry to israel and to palestine is something that palestinians experience co nsta ntly, a nd that palestinians experience constantly, and have since the beginning of the israeli state. what's happening now, increasingly, is we are seeing this experience, this experience of denial of entry, this experience of denial of entry, this experience of being considered less tha n this experience of being considered less than others because you are not fully supportive of israel's oppression of palestinians, is now not only being limited to

palestinians, but is being exported around the world. notjust to american citizens, but even critics of israeli policy in the united states congress. but it's one thing to say people are being denied entry because they don't fully support israeli policies, but this is a case where the two congress women have specifically supported a boycott of israel, and that goes beyond simply not supporting israeli policies, doesn't it? i don't think it does at all. look, when different countries around the world are targeted by things like sanctions, these are tied to specific policies. in the case of the state of israel, it is the policies of occupation. it is the policies of occupation. it is the policies of discrimination, which are very clear and specific, violate international law, and which there is a clear international consensus against. what people are calling for, that the israeli state objects to, is accountability for these violations. that is very much in line with what i people should be

doing, not to mention the right of free speech. look, the kind of countries that don't allow critics in our totalitarian regimes, and i think, you know, one of the reasons that that has become such a pr disaster for the israelis, and that that has become such a pr disasterfor the israelis, and so many people are criticising the israeli government for their decision, is because this has become an opportunity for people to see the real face of the kind of discriminatory policies that palestinians are seeing every single day. ijust want palestinians are seeing every single day. i just want to pick up on that, because it is the criticism rightly directed at the israeli government? because initially they had indicated they would allow the congress women m, they would allow the congress women in, and you may call it a coincidence, but after a tweet from the us president, the decision seemed to change. well, look, i think there is a domestic political game here, a transnational domestic political game, that both trump and netanyahu political game, that both trump and neta nyahu are involved political game, that both trump and netanyahu are involved in. but let's be clear. the decision to deny entry

to these members of congress was an israeli decision. the motivations behind it are not necessarily my concern. but this decision, along with various other policies that discriminate against palestinians on a daily basis, are decisions that the israeli government needs to be held accountable for. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: he's a foreigner in japan and his political ambitions are a long shot. we meet the chinese—born man running for office in tokyo's red light district. also on the programme: the incredible findings at mission jurassic. we'll take you to one of the biggest dinosaur graveyards in the world. the big crowds became

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i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm ben bland in london. our top stories: israel bars two us congresswomen from entering the country, a move encouraged by president trump. hong kong prepares for more demonstrations this weekend. donald trump has urges china's president to meet protest leaders to try to ease the crisis. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the south china morning post says hong kong has unveiled a relief package worth $us2.5 billion us dollars to boost the battered city. hong kong's finance secretary paul chan insisted the money is not related to current political difficulties, but rather the possibility of a technical recession. the financial times is also headlining hong kong with an image of military vehicles

positioned along the border. it also carries the story of the iranain supertanker released by gibralter on thursday after washington's last—ditch legal move failed. and finally to the front page of the german paper frankfurter allgemeiner. the main photo shows farmers campaigning for a second referendum on brexit, ushering a flock of sheep through the city of london, but wool their voices be ‘herd'? but ‘wool‘ their voices be ‘herd'? those are the papers. maori groups in new zealand are taking to the streets to protest family separations carried out by the country's child welfare agency and a planned development on their ancestral lands. the protests have strained relations between maori and jacinda ardern‘s labour—led government. well, political commentator bryce edwards writes about politics in new zealand.

he explained why prime minister ardern is in danger of losing her support over the issue. these are two league issues going on at the moment, but not everyone agrees with these protests, certainly not most of new zealand, and the indigenous people, too, themselves aren't in consensus but prime minister dern is having trouble navigating these issues and trying to get out of them because she knows public opinion isn't on the side of these protesters. this is probably a good thing for her pop la rratt is probably a good thing for her pop larratt ebac thing is part of those protesters are on her support base, the political left —— popularity. she's in danger of losing her key constituency. bryce, if you were in the shoes of miss ardern, how would

you handle these two issues? she has to communicate with these people and go into the protests and be seen to be in dialogue, seen to be listening. at the moment, there's a feeling that she's not listening from some of the protesters, but it's a really hard call to make on her side. i think she also has to make some big moves in other areas that aren't related to these protests directly, because these protests directly, because these protests are kind of like a lightning rod for get discontent about inequality in new zealand —— bigger. that's why a lot of these people are attracted to these protests, and this government isn't really doing enough on those issues stop in some say maori and pacific island babies are disproportionately affected by institutional racism. how much truth is there in these claims? yellow it is true that maori disproportionally affected by this.

that's because of colonisation, if you like. the people who are being taken off... the families affected are those in deprivation, extreme poverty. its all ethnicities that are being affected, but in new zealand, maori are at the bottom of the heap —— it's all. zealand, maori are at the bottom of the heap -- it's all. on the land issue, why are so many people against housing development but some of the elders are keen on the development? maori are split on this. part of the local tribe negotiated with the housing developers and got some concessions out of it. it is young versus old. the elders want progress and housing, the youngest want return from stolen land. bryce edwards, policital commentator and analystjoins us via webcam from wellington. chinese—born lee komaki is making a third bid for public office in his home for the last 31 yea rs, tokyo. the odds are stacked against him; he's a foreigner in a society where only 2% of the population were born overseas. and he is running in tokyo's red light district, where he used to work. here's his story.

one of the biggest dinosaur graveyards in the world is being excavated in the united states. the dig, dubbed ‘missionjurassic‘, has already discovered more than a dozen fossils and footprints. but researchers think there could be more than 100 dinosaurs buried there, including new species. our science correspondent rebecca morrelle went to see the dig in wyoming. a hot, dusty landscape extending for miles. but imagine from this barren terrain a dinosaur graveyard where the bones of some of the biggest creatures ever to roam the earth are being discovered. where does this fit on this mass? that slot's straight in here. so, you found the pelvis? yeah, it's brilliant. that's amazing!

the dig is called missionjurassic. what is fantastic about this site, there's multiple bones from at least a dozen individuals already poking out of the ground. when you realise we have only really scratched a corner of this square mile, there is going to be dozens if not 100 plus dinosaurs lurking in the rocks of thejurassic here. this dinosaur drowned in a flash flood, and was then caught up ina logjam. the tree trunk it was crushed up against is still preserved millions of years later. these are just some of the amazing bones that are being discovered at this site. right here, you have an arm bone. next to it, a giant shoulder blade. and then you can just begin to see the backbone starting to emerge. and standing here, you really get a sense of the size of this creature. it's a type of sauropod which from nose to tail measured 30 metres long. and scientists think it might even

be a species that's new to science. there are so many dinosaurs here. excavating each bone is a painstaking process, so it takes people power. but how do you tell bone from rock? try licking it. 0k. quite sticky? yeah. because it's porous, and it's sucking onto your tongue. so that's... rock doesn't do that but bone does. the rocks are from thejurassic period 150 million years ago — a golden age when dinosaurs exploded in shape and size. dinosaurs are getting really, really, really big and there are loads of them. there are loads of different types and they are all walking around on these flood plains eating presumably huge forests, and that is a really good question actually — where were all these huge forests and how did they get enough food to eat? the dig is like going back in time. a meat—eating allosaurus has been found here and herds of plant—eating diplodocus also grazed on this landscape. before that, there was a vast inland sea.

marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs were abundant in these waters. this dinosaur dig is expected to last 20 years but the team says the efforts will be worth it to unlock the secrets of the jurassic past. rebecca morelle, bbc news, wyoming. absolutely fascinating stuff there. and before we go, we'd like to leave you with this story from the far south coast of new south wales in australia, where a community is reviving an old tradition of bird calling. bird noises this is the bournda bird olympics — it's a friendly competition between several small schools. the student who mimics an australian native bird with the purest clarity and precision wins. the tradition dates back to the 1950s and has only recently made a comeback. rico, how is your bird calling? i

think we have a winner! i think we have a winner! i don't really do bird impressions but i do tweet from time to time. that's all for now, stay with bbc world news. i'm rico hizon in singapore. see you again soon. hello there, good morning. thursday was a much better day but things are going downhill now and it's going to be quite a blustery few days ahead. we've got this cloud coming in from the atlantic and that will push outbreaks of rain eastwards across the whole of the country. the main driving force, that area of low pressure that will sit to the north—west over the next few days and at the moment it's pushing these weather fronts ahead, thickening the cloud and bringing rain from the west. this is how we start friday. a bit cooler in eastern england with a few breaks in the cloud, but the rain is coming in from the west and that could be heaviest over the hills of wales and south—west england, maybe 2—3 inches, that could lead to localised flooding.

this is the picture through the day, a dry start for eastern england and where we've got this rain coming from the west, heavy at times, we should get sunshine in the afternoon in northern ireland and eventually across scotland. a few sharp showers around. the winds picking up together with the rain so fresh to strong winds, may be locally gale force around western coast. where we have the sunshine, 21 or 22 in scotla nd have the sunshine, 21 or 22 in scotland and northern ireland and under the cloud and rain in england and wales, 18 or 19 asbestos are rain arriving at lunchtime for the cricket at lord's. that rain moves away from the south—east eventually overnight with clearer skies following. a lot of showers further north and these heavy and thundery especially in western scotland and 12-16 especially in western scotland and 12—16 for the start of the weekend. a blustery start to the weekend, sunny spells and showers. not too many showers for england and wales. good chance for eastern areas to

stay dry. there will be more focused showers coming into northern ireland and particularly western scotland, where temperatures will be a bit lower and in the sunshine further east, we are back up to 22 or maybe 23. may be a bit of rain in the south—east on saturday night in the returning weather front but we still have the area of the low pressure to the north—west of the uk, so lots of showers for scotland and northern ireland. heavy and thundery and blustery winds. the winds picking up in england and wales through the day, blowing in a few more showers, most will be out to the west. we have the fresh to strong westerly south—westerly winds continuing and those temperatures will be disappointing if you're underneath though showers in scotland and northern ireland, maybe 20 or 21 in eastern england and wales. we start next week with more showers around, particularly in the west, but as the week goes on there is the possibility high pressure could make a welcome return, drying things off and it will feel a bit warmer too in the sunshine.

i'm ben bland with bbc world news. our top story: israel has barred two us congresswomen from entering the country, a move encouraged by president trump. rashida tlaib and ilhan omar are democrats who have criticised policy towards the palestinians. the israeli government says they have been denied entry because of their support for a boycott of the country. as hong kong braces for more demonstrations this weekend, donald trump is urging china's president to meet protest leaders to try to ease the crisis. he says he does not want to see a violent crackdown by china. and this video is trending on bbc.com. russian pilots have been hailed as heroes for safely landing a plane carrying more than 230 people in a moscow corn field after a flock of birds were sucked into its engines. that's all, stay with bbc world news.