all i'm mariko oi in singapore — the headlines. social networking giant twitter announces a global ban on all political advertising — beginning next month. as uk police investigate the deaths of 39 migrants found in a lorry, we have a special report into the vietnam—to—france smuggling routes — and the business of human trafficking. france is a bottleneck for the smuggler networks. it is seen as a springboard to london, which is why so many migrants end up here. i'm kasia madera in london.

also in the programme: the us military publishes the first images of the raid in which the leader of the islamic state group was killed. raging wildfires in california — as a new blaze in the south of the state threatens the ronald reagan presidential library. voiceover: live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore and 1am in london. twitter has announced a global ban on all political advertising on its site. the social media company says it wants to prevent potential problems with unchecked information and fake news. the policy comes in on 22 november, so affects the uk general election and next year's us election.

our media editor amol rajan has this assessment of how the fight for voters‘ attention is increasingly being waged online. recognise any of these? in the coming weeks, brace yourself for a further onslaught of adverts in your social media feed. elections used to be all about the ground war and air war, leaflets through the letterbox or party political broadcasts. today there is a third front, the cyber war, and this digital blitzkrieg is the most complex and controversial of the lot. data from the electoral commission shows the proportion of campaign money going to digital advertising is growing fast. the issue isn't just political parties. it's anyone with a political message to sell. there's potential for a lot more money to be being spent here. we don't know necessarily who is spending this, what the content of this advertising is, and that's a big problem for us in terms of working out if there needs to be regulation here. it is in response to these concerns that the boss of twitter announced there would be no more political advertising on twitter globally. but, despite what might seem like a significant shift,

political ads on twitter have a fraction of the impact of those on facebook. in the 2017 election, uk political parties spent £3.2 million on facebook ads, and just £56,500 on twitter ads. in any case, the vast majority of what cuts through on twitter is shared content, rather than paid—for ads. free speech is a pillar of our democracy, but it only works if you and i know who is doing the talking. alas — when it comes to social media platforms, sometimes we don't. for instance, we often don't know who is ultimately paying for this marketing. it could be foreign or malign actors who deploy social media precisely because regulation is so weak. and of course, amid all the clamour and propaganda online, it's those who engage our emotions rather than appeal to reason who find their messages cut through. digital campaigns have no beginning or end. they are constant, it's just

the volume is turned up or down according to political need. in the coming weeks, the noise will be deafening. amol rajan, bbc news. and we'll have more on that story from our north america correspondent chris buckler a little later in the programme. let's ta ke a look at some of the day's other news. the us military has published the first images of the raid in which the islamic state leader abu bakr al—baghdadi was killed. the footage depicts several fazes of the us special forces operation, culminating in the destruction of baghdadi's compound. here's our north america editorjon sopel. these pictures show the kind of denouement of this operation. we can run the first pictures that we have received. you can see the us special forces, delta force, moving into position to launch their attack on the base that is housing abu bakr al—baghdadi.

the second sequence of pictures we're not going to show. that apparently shows isis fighters engaging us forces, and they are attacked from the air by gunships. the second sequence of pictures is after the forces have gotten out of the compound, and you see from the air missiles coming down and totally flattening where al—baghdadi had been hiding out. donald trump has been at the white house. he has said that america congratulates you on that operation, and the whole world congratulates you on the success of the operation. also making news today, here in the uk, an inquiry into the deadly blaze at the grenfell tower apartment block in london two years ago has issued a damning report.

it's concluded more lives could have been saved if the building had been evacuated sooner — and found systemic failures in the london fire brigade response. relatives and survivors have called it heartbreaking. in iraq at least two protesters along with a member of the security forces have been killed at anti—government demonstrations in the capital, baghdad. demonstrators are defying the newly imposed overnight cu rfews by protesting for betterjobs, public services and an end to government curruption. the prime minister is under pressure to resign, with key political figures announcing they‘ re withholding their support for him. the us federal reserve has cut interest rates for a third time this year. policy makers are trying to keep the economy on track, in the face of ongoing trade wars and possible head winds from brexit. fed chairjerome powell suggested he does not expect the bank to change rates again

unless economic conditions worsen unexpectedly. british prime minister borisjohnson and the labour opposition leader, jeremy corbyn, have traded blows in parliament, a sign they're getting ready for the general election. while brexit is still a key issue, mr corbyn also said voters had a "once in a generation" chance to save the national health service. borisjohnson warned of "economic catastrophe" if labour gets into power. voters are expected to decide on the 12th of december. new details are emerging about the routes taken by 39 migrants, who died in a refrigerated truck in the uk last week. several are thought to have come from vietnam, and then spent time in france — before making the fatal crossing to britain. to learn more, our paris correspondent lucy williamson, has been speaking to their families and to others who've made the same trip. was france the last place these faces saw, the last place they lived, unrecognised 7 some of those feared dead are said to have been here last week before boarding the lorry across the channel.

nguyen van hung was last seen leaving marseille for paris, a relative told us. his father got a phone call from the organisers, just after the lorry had crossed the channel. they said his son would soon call him. no call never came. nguyen dinh luong had been working in a restaurant in france for over a year. ten days ago, he called his family to say he was going to the uk. his father told us he tried to stop him. last week, doctors took blood samples from the family. someone who successfully made the same crossing from zeebrugge to london last week told us he knew 12 of the people who had died on board the essex lorry. translation: i left for the uk a day before the lorry transporting the 39 people who died.

there were seven people in the lorry, but it was not refrigerated, so breathing was fine. i crossed from russia to germany through woodland, then onto france. i went to the uk to find work, but i'm now in shock, and can't do anything. france is a bottleneck for the smuggler networks. it is seen as a springboard to london, which is why so many migrants end up here. but while it is easy to get to france from belgium, germany, or even poland, it is much harder and more expensive to get from here to the uk. in 2012, a vietnamese smuggler was arrested in france. he reportedly told police that the money went to the parisian boss, whose deputies distributed the salaries to smugglers on the ground. does france's leading expert on vietnamese trafficking think the networks are still being run from here? thi hiep spoke to us from vietnam.

translation: they are notjust in paris. they are everywhere. there are bosses in every country in europe, including in the uk. there are a lot of them around paris. they change location all the time, but generally they are around the southern suburbs. sometimes you get a0 people in an apartment. it's inhuman. hiep says more than half of those found dead last week are thought to be from one small area in vietnam. they could not pay for the most expensive kind of crossing, she says. they don't have that kind of money. they paid with their life instead. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. earlier i asked mimi vu, an anti—trafficking expert, who's based in ho chi minh city, whether there are specific regions people are leaving in vietnam most of the migrants, the potential victims that come from vietnam, who go to europe and the uk, come from just a handful of provinces in vietnam, and these provinces are found in the northern part of central vietnam and northern vietnam. so the most common is called mien province, and the second—most province, and they used to be one province before they were split into two. there are other common provinces, all located in the northern

and central part of vietnam and northern vietnam. why do they do it? what is their reasoning behind taking such a perilous journey? because they must know the risks that they are taking. that's exactly it, though. they don't exactly know the risks that they are taking. they... in these particular provinces, there has been a long history of migration for labour from vietnam to europe, especially in the former soviet bloc countries. this has been going on since the 1980s, i990s, ever since vietnam had a labour export programme agreement with those countries. and those routes and motivations, economic motivations, are still the same. they still think that the best way to make money and support their families is to go overseas and work and then send money back home. as for the risks, you know, the thing about vietnamese people, and especially the ones who take this journey, is that they will never really tell their families back home what exactly they went through. the truth never gets out, because they don't want

their families to worry, or they don't want to feel shame that they took multiple tries to get to the uk, and so what happens is they only tell them the good news. so what happens is the information and the money that is being transmitted back to the families from these people who actually do go abroad is generally positive. and then what the parents do is, the families use money to build homes and buy motorbikes, and also spread — a word in vietnamese where parents brag about what they have bought in the village, new houses, motorbikes and cars. and so no—one ever truly really knows what the truth is when it comes to the exact dangers and vulnerabilities that the vietnamese go through during this long and perilous journey.

so in that case, with this specific case, these 39 people who lost their lives in this lorry here in the uk, what kind of information is getting back to vietnam? what is being said? because of course, there are people there who simply have lost contact with their relatives. they must be absolutely distraught. they are, i think the entire country is distraught. this isn't the first time vietnamese migrants have died en route. the other times, though, it has been kind of individual cases, and when the bodies have been sent back for burial, the parents don't broadcast the reason why their son or daughter or family member passed away.

and so, again, that information never gets out. what is different about this case is, number one, the numbers, the sheer numbers. 39 at once is a large number. and the second thing is this is happening in real time, and it's still taking time to verify the bodies. it's a long process — blood collection, dna sampling, multiple investigators from multiple countries. and the families who are waiting without any idea, there is no closure. they are stuck, and this is playing out in real time. that was mimi vu. the death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck the southern philippines has risen to seven, with officials warning there are many more injured and the death toll could continue to climb. here's the bbc‘s howard johnson in manila. lots of buildings were damaged by this earthquake. there have been landslides, and thousands of people remain displaced. so there is lots of effort at the moment to hand out aid to help those families who have been displaced by this earthquake. and howard, there has been quite

a lot of seismic activity in the area recently. yes, this is in the pacific ring of fire. this is one of the most active seismic zones in the world. it's where most of the majorfault lines are. five of those major fault lines are in the philippines, and we have seen a lot of activity, as you say, over the last year. in fact, in the area of mindanao last week there was a 6.2—magnitude earthquake. and even this morning, there are after—shocks still being recorded, 300 after—shocks from this major quake on tuesday. scientists are also saying that this city, manila, is expecting a major earthquake as well. it is long overdue, according to them. in april this year, i experienced an earthquake in manila, a 6.1. this tower i am standing and now was shaking back and forth. i heard the plaster cracking on the walls.

it was quite a scary experience. as i said, today, the effort is still going on in mindanao to help those who have been displaced by this major earthquake that took place on tuesday. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: mass protests in chile take a toll as two international summits are cancelled in the wake of the unrest. also on the programme: firefighters battle raging wildfires in california — as powerful winds fan the flames, and could make the situation even worse. indira gandhi, ruler of the world's largest democracy, died today. 0nly yesterday she'd spoken of dying in the service of her country and said, "i would be proud of it. every drop of my blood would contribute to the growth of this nation". after 46 years of unhappiness, these two countries have concluded a chapter of history. no more suspicion, no more fear, no more uncertainty

of what each day might bring. mission control: booster ignition and lift—off of discovery, with a crew of six astronaut heroes and one american legend. well, enjoying the show is right. this is beautiful. a milestone in human history. born today, this girl in india is the 7 billionth person on the planet. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko 0i in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: social networking giant twitter announces a global ban on all political advertising —

beginning next month. as police in the uk continue to investigate the deaths of 39 migrants found in a lorry, more details are emerging of the routes those who are missing might have taken. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the south china morning post reports that hong kong authorities are beefing up security in the city ahead of halloween. demonstrators are set to march on thursday night to protest the government's controversial face mask ban. next, the philippine star says over 300 aftershocks have been recorded in mindanao island, in the south of the country, after a deadly eathquake killed at least 7 people. tuesday's earthquake was the second to hit the region in as many weeks. finally the los angeles times has a dramatic photograph of a burned car and swing set surrounded

by embers from the fire in northern california. the fires prompted massive power cuts for safety reasons, leaving more than two million people in the dark. those are the papers. now, kasia, a tragic fire is what many people are discussing online? some sad news — a fire has destroyed japan's famous shuri castle on the island of okinawa, a unesco world heritage site. the blaze started near the main hall, according to japan's national broadcaster nhk. the castle dates back hundreds of years, and was completely destroyed during the battle of okinawa in 1945. reconstruction work was only completed in the early i990s. so to hear that it has been

destroyed by this fire is devastating for the many people stop that's returned now to our main story. —— devastating for many people. let's return now to our main story. twitter has announced a global ban on all political advertising on its site from november the 22nd. social media companies have been under scrutiny ahead of the 2020 us elections. 0ur correspodent in washington is chris buckler. i asked him what the motivation was behind the announcement. this is a global ban on political advertisements, but at the same time, you have to do things when they were considering this new policy that they were thinking very strongly about the upcoming us presidential election. certainly there's been a very strong reaction from both sides — republicans and democrats — who will fight it out for the presidency next year. the trump campaign, for example, has said, "twitter has walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue, a very dumb decision for the stockholders and this is another attempt to silence conservatives." and president donald trump very

cleverly used the internet and social media around three years ago when he first ran for the presidency and it was a very important part of that campaign, however, social media companies have really struggled to work out how they will oversee these kinds of advertisements that were so successful. and just a week ago in congress here in washington, we had a number of congress members questioning mark zuckerberg about facebook‘s approach and they are not banning political advertisements, they are still encouraging them, but he struggled to answer questions about how they would fact check those advertisements and ensure people aren't telling lies, and that will be the big issue coming up for facebook. twitter, however, has made a very firm decision here. chile has pulled out of hosting two major international summits as the country continues to be rocked by anti—government protests. the summits are the un climate change conference

and the apec trade forum. the bbc‘s katy watson has more on this. this is a massive decision by chile, but one perhaps understandable with the fact the protests are ongoing. it would be hard to see world leaders coming to santiago whilst people are on the streets every day in chile. now, this was meant to be chile's moment. apec, the asia—pacific summit, was going to see trump, with the chinese leader, sign phase one of a big trade deal, and december the un climate conference, which is a massive date in the calendar. but the fact is pinera has to focus on problems at home. he called this a painful decision but one that made commonsense. he likened the decision—making to that of a parent — that if there were problems in the family, the family came first. likewise for a president, his people are more important than anyone else. emotive words, but lots of chileans might struggle to understand them because since these protests began, sebastian pinera has struggled to find a resolution and put

a stop to these protests. he came across quite aggressively when they started, talking about the fact this was a war with enemies, and that obviously didn't go down well with the public. he made concessions, including a rise in wages, a rise in the tax on the rich, but people felt those changes were cosmetic. he's also changed cabinet members, but people feel that that is not enough. now, speaking to people on the streets of santiago last week, there were a lot of people who felt that actually there needed to be a lot bigger structural change, a change in the constitution, a more inclusive society, because chile — yes, it's one of the wealthiest countries in the region but also one of the most unequal countries in the world, and people want much more of a voice and a much more inclusive chile going forward. mariko already showed us a striking image from the wildfires in california. well now a new blaze in southern california is burning dangerously close to the ronald reagan presidential library.

the bbc‘s sophie long reports. another day, another fire. california continues to burn, as the hot dry weather delivers the fires forecasters feared it would. this time, the strong santa ana winds whipped flames through the simi valley. among the buildings evacuated is the ronald reagan presidential library, home to millions of historical documents and the resting place of the former president and first lady. they're calling this the ‘easy fire'. putting it out is proving anything but. we're on the hill by the presidential library, where there's a massive effort to get this under control. they're fighting it from the air and from the ground, but the wind is blowing very strongly. and it's the wind that is their greatest enemy. it is ferocious here, with gusts of up to 70mph. it's propelled the fire through more

than 1,000 acres in just a few hours. the winds down south are going to be very serious, it's a very serious fire situation developing across northern california, and i am concerned for southern californians down there. this is just one of many fires burning across california, where a state of emergency has been in place on sunday. they are dangerous and they are disruptive. hundreds of thousands of homes have been evacuated and many more are without power. roads are closed, so too are the schools and businesses. and the hot, dry conditions are expected to continue to combine with the strong santa ana winds for another 2a hours at least. sophie long, bbc news, simi valley.

we will continue to monitor that and all of our stories. you are watching newsday. hello. south—western reaches of the uk have had relentless rain in the last couple of days. cornwall, the channel islands and devon. this was the scene sent in from one of our weather watchers from paignton yesterday. fairly solid, grey cloud and outbreaks of rain on and off throughout the day. still wet weather around here at the moment but the low pressure responsible is going to be pulling away to the south of the uk as the day pans out, so we'll see things becoming drier, not necessarily brighter, and then we await our next weather system, this time coming from the atlantic, that will bring rain to all areas for friday. today, though, a lot of dry weather to be had. the best of the sunshine to the north and east. the rain clearing from the south—west.

quite a bit of hanging back, though, in southern england and wales and the midlands and the cloud thickening in the west later in the day as that next system approaches. another breezy day, particularly around western coasts. temperatures — well, we could get up to 1a in plymouth with a bit of brightness and some drier weather, and we're typically looking at around 9—10 as we cast our eye further north towards scotland. if you are heading out this evening to trick—or—treat, well, central and eastern areas faring pretty well with a dry story, as well as increasing cloud. further west, patchy rain to start with but turning heavier and more persistent as we get towards midnight. that, of course, is because our next weather system is starting to work its way in, and this low pressure centre is going to stay with us notjust on friday but on to the weekend, swirling bands of rain our way. it is also going to bring much milder air from quite a way south in the atlantic our way on a south—westerly wind, so the temperatures will start to go up even though the rain is coming down. some quite heavy rain at times on friday, tending at first to come in showery bursts and perhaps more

persistent rain running into the south late in the day. some brightness in between the showers and with that sunshine we could push temperatures up to 16 or 17 degrees across eastern england. we're still talking about nine or ten at this stage in scotland. friday into saturday, here's our low pressure system with us. some question as to exactly how this picture will evolve. if it goes like this, and we get this deep squeeze to south of the low running to the south of the uk on saturday, it could be a very windy day, especially for south coastal regions of the uk. either way, it looks like a pretty windy story really for many of us on the weekend, and outbreaks of rain on and off for both saturday and sunday too. the temperatures slide down a little as well.

we i'm kasia madera with bbc news.

our top story. twitter is banning all political advertising on its platform starting from the 22nd of november. in a thread on twitter, the company founder and ceo jack dorsey said that the reach of a political message should be ‘earned', rather than ‘bought‘. the us has released video of the raid that killed the is leader abu bakr al—baghdadi. us central command says these are pictures of the compound in north—west syria where baghdadi was hiding. firefighters in california are continuing to battle the blazes that are being fanned by strong winds

and low humidity.