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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. hong kong's battle ground shifts to university campuses — around 70 fires are burning across new south wales — about half are out of control in land that's hard to reach we saw the peak winds up to and above 80 clumber per hour, we of the temperatures up into the high 30s and we saw the humidity down as low as 5% across so much of the geographic area of new south wales affected. hillary clinton tells the bbc she is shocked the british government has not yet published a report on alleged russian interference in uk politics. i'm dumbfounded that this government won't released a report about russian influence
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because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. and we'll also go to bolivia for the latest on the crisis there — as the president flees to mexico. wa nt to want to begin the programme by playing this assessment from the hong kong police. hong kong's rule of law has been pushed to the brink of law has been pushed to the brink of total colla pse. of law has been pushed to the brink of total collapse. as master writers recklessly, recklessly escalate their violence under the false hope that they can get away with it. the key development has been that the clashes have moved from the centre of hong kong onto some university
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campuses. these are some of the pictures coming in from the severity of the clashes. also see that some protesters formed barricades, blocking roads within the campuses and there were clashes between the police and the protesters. it has not ended the protests in the centre of the city. around 1000 people turned out during a lunchtime mostly dressed in office uniforms. again certain roads. this is the latest iteration of a protest movement that dates back to june, iteration of a protest movement that dates back tojune, all do they proposed a bill that would've allowed extradition between hong kong and mainland china. that has been long gone but these protests have more to do something else demanding more democracy in hong kong and more police accountability. let's hear from one of the protesters on the university campuses. this is not a fight for
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us, if they fight for a whole generation. it's a fight that will determine whether our idea, whether oui’ determine whether our idea, whether our ideal way of living, whether the hong kong we love can be upheld for so hong kong we love can be upheld for so long and cherished for so long could stay this way. hong kong's chief exective carrie lam said gas, bombs, guns. the reality is that the behaviour of both sides is escalating — yesterday a protestor was shot in the chest, and a man expressing pro—beijing views was set on fire by protestors. both men are in critical condition. the bbc‘s danny vincent is at the university campus. the protesters a re
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the protesters are still in the chinese university, it looks like many are going to stick to spend the night here now. their sports fields was filled with students lying on the ground and resting. it's obviously been a long hard battle for the protesters today but also it's up to have relatively high levels of energy even at two o'clock in the morning. some people making petrol bombs and even some carrying bows and arrows moving to the front line and what is deemed as the new front line of the protest here at the chinese university. even a kind of rudimentary lookout tower that has been put up made from barricades and even a large car door or maybe a van door part of the barricade.
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earlier on today we saw very heavy fighting on the bridge and protesters trying to take back this land because please come again either tonight or in the morning it's going to be more battles and i guess they are ready for that. many levels of escalation during this movement. certainly feels like an important moment. the protesters seem to be now pushed back into their own territory and also damaging much of the property here at the university. almost feels like somewhat of a mediaeval war. does not look like it's coming to a political end anytime soon. i think the protesters here prepare for whatever the authorities or police throughout them next. here's vincent ni from bbc chinese.
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the protesters have been out and about on the street for five months i'iow about on the street for five months now and they're shifting to campuses because they want to change their tactics, and normally the police forces would not be guarding universities like the university of hong kong which is a very widespread university and very big in hong kong as well. they want to make it very difficult for the police to respond immediately. unfortunately we have seen the escalation of events even oi'i seen the escalation of events even on university campuses, this also puts the ministration under duress. they have to either come up with some sort of response to eitherjust be standing on the protesters side or be standing on the government side. they will not be going to pleasing everyone. have the university said which way they're going? they said we don't condone violence and students have to be rational. and this is a political impasse and in order to break this political impasse there needs to be
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political impasse there needs to be political will, it's exactly what it's lacking now. the chief executive of hong kong was basically confessing that her administration has been severely tested and to an extent by some point might be asking for help. also been saying all of the classes are taking hong kong to the classes are taking hong kong to the brink but i sometimes don't understand what is beyond the brink. it's always difficult to say. as pa rt of it's always difficult to say. as part of the political language that politicians use to warn those on the streets and campuses today that she has other plans, if hong kong has slipped out of this brink and what the options are. asking for help from beijing, still a legally possible option? i think it will be a very last resort for them to send troops from hong kong and tanks to hong kong because the political and reputational damage globally would be too severe for china. again,
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carrie lam basically was saying that you're putting me under tremendous pressure and at some point i will ask for help. can i ask you about the hong kong police force? is it considered politically neutral or an ally of beijing? it traditionally has a very good reputation. very professional and for those who grew up professional and for those who grew up in hong kong they have very close relationships with their police force. and this escalating, this series of escalate events in the past five months or so is really putting the reputation into dispute. asa putting the reputation into dispute. as a lot of allegations of police brutality and of course the police are saying we brutality and of course the police are saying we are brutality and of course the police are saying we are just taking orders and politically neutral. but increasingly the narrative on the protesters side is that everything to do with china, everything to do with carrie lam is non—neutral at all. latest on the bushfires
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in australia. there are still dozens of fires across new south wales and queensland — around half are considered out of control. the threat level on tuesday in some areas in and around sydney was set at catastrophic. the highest level that exists in australia. and the fire service says the conditions have matched that. we saw the peak winds up to and above 80 kph, with the temperatures up above 80 kph, with the temperatures up into the high 30s, and we saw the humidity down as low as 5% across so much of the geographic area of new south wales affected. three people died at the weekend — but since there have no other fatalities. that's because of evacuations and one of the biggest fire—fighting operations in australian history. these are some of the most recent pictures. this was in northern new south wales. 1,500 firefighters were on the ground. it was just one of 300 separate bushfires crews had and they also had some help from the air.
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these planes have been dropping fire retardant over parts of northern sydney. 0nce once it has been dropped the flames and struggled to spread. it's a phosphate powder mixed with water. it is simply a diet which then guides the pilots to know which areas have been treated in which areas have been treated in which areas still need to be treated. you can see the air quality and air visibility. some people being told to stay inside as they have conditions like asthma because the air quality has been so poor. there in mind some residents have chosen to leave certain areas if the bushfires were particularly close. u nfortu nately bushfires were particularly close. unfortunately the conditions and fires are not going to go anywhere in the short term. here is the same spokesperson for the fire service. we are sobhi not going to get the upper hand. —— simply. particularly in northern
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new south wales given the enormous size of the fires that are burning still. since october over one million hectares have been burnt out. that's three times the area burnt in all of the last fire season and it's not even summer yet in australia. because of the conditions, because of the sides of the fires as you'd expect climate scientists are paying close attention. this is the world meteorologicalorganisation. is been associated increase in the length of fire season inc. climate change including increasing temperatures is contributing to these changes. may not be surprised to know this is become politicized very quickly. australia's deputy prime minister has called people who are connecting climate change to the fires "raving inner—city lunatics". that has been criticised in a number
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of quarters not least from green politicians in australia. the greens have responded by saying politicians in australia. the main parties are "no better than a bunch of arsonists". this is brought out a comment from the prime minister who said there's been a provocative comments on all sides and i find been a provocative comments on all sides and ifind it been a provocative comments on all sides and i find it very unhelpful. one thing all australians can agree on is their admiration of the firefighters. this is one resident in north new south wales. everybody just working everybodyjust working so hard to. can't think, the word thank you is not enough. i don't know what the word is we all want to say but it's just not enough. this is a note that was left on a kitchen bench by one firefighter. "it was our pleasure to save your house. sorry that we could not save your sheds. urunga rfs" — that's rural fire service. "p.s — we owe you some milk".
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the owner of the house described it as the best note he's received for the latest i was joined by abc australia's lara hyams in the northern suburbs of sydney. for new south wales it's actually towards the north of the state and also along the mid north coast. that's were some of those conditions we have been seeing have been exceptionally drive for this time of year. yesterday there were threats that that was actually going to take a hold of sidney itself. the area where i am is located on the upper north shore of sydney in a suburb, there is bush land about 50 metres away and that fire actually got to an emergency level yesterday. some thick and dense bush land is around those properties and that ignited very quickly yesterday afternoon at about four o'clock. still seeing the multitude of fires around the state but the severity is not as bad as what we saw yesterday. what we can see behind me is some of the homes in the suburb that is downstate almost this pink retardant all along the roof and to the facades of the
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homes. that was because yesterday real water bombers flew down in a bush fire ignited just up from me and took hold of that bush land area and took hold of that bush land area and those bombers responded exceptionally quickly to douse a lot of those areas without flame reta rda nt. of those areas without flame retardant. that actually took out a lot of the fire and reduced the intensity. i can also see the cars and dries and people walking by, does that mean most people have stayed put it rather than leave the neighbourhood? around this area there were fire officers that were doorknocking neighbours yesterday telling them to perhaps pack their possessions if they wanted to and get ready to leave. it was courtesy of those water bombers that enabled that fire to reduce from the emergency warning very that fire to reduce from the emergency warning very quickly. some of the residents have spoken to this morning say even though they were prepared to leave they did not necessarily need to because it was
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the quick response to that. at times concerns that fire crews may be stretched, and we've been worried about this. those conditions don't seem about this. those conditions don't seem to look any positive for the month ahead. in a few minutes an outside source i will update you on tensions in the gaza strip. a leading figure from here has been killed by air strikes and militants have fired under 50 rockets across the border into israel. the former head coach of british cycling and team sky, shane sutton, stormed out of a medical tribunal earlier after rejecting claims by the former medic for those bodies, dr richard freeman, that he was a doper and a liar. our sports editor, dan roan, was at the tribunal — he says it was claims put to sutton by dr freemans' lawyer, mary 0'rouke that provoked his reaction.
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she said that she had been contacted by an anonymous witness who said that they saw such and inject himself with testosterone at his housein himself with testosterone at his house in the late 90s when he was still a writer, but he denied that. clearly furious and accused 0'rourke of being a liar and a bully. he said that freeman should look him in the eye and man up and take down a stand that has been erected between the two men because freeman is being treated as a vulnerable witness. then said he would take a lie detector test and that he never failed a drug test and in the end he stormed out of the tribunal hearing. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. our top is, there have been violent clashes in hong kong between police and students at a university campus. after months of unrest there's no sign of either side backing down.
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these are live pictures from chile's capital santiago where protests are in their fourth week. people have been demonstrating against the increased cost of living in protests which have sometimes been violent have left at least 18 people dead. notjust in santiago either. in other cities as well. denmark has begun random checks on its border with sweden after a string of bombings and shootings in the copenhagen area that police believe were carried out by swedish crime gangs. the checks affect trains and vehcles entering denmark at ports and also traffic entering on a main road bridge between the two countries. lots of people are watching this footage, a head on collision involving two trains in southern india caught on cctv. miraculously nobody died, although 16 people were injured. the incident was caused by a signal fault. it took eight hours to free one of the drivers from the wreckage. there's been intense
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fighting between israel and militants in the gaza strip. things have escalated after israel targeted this man with a missile strike. this is baha abu al—ata, a senior commander of the palestinian militant group, islamichhad. this was the aftermath. the strike destroyed a whole floor of his home. authorities in gaza say five people died — and two other missiles strikes elsewhere in gaza killed another three people. militants in gaza fired back, hitting a highway inside israel. this was near the city of ashdod, motorists just escaping the blasts. at least 150 rockets were fired in all, injuring more than 20 people. israeli prime minister benjamin neta nyahu says israel is not interested in escalation, but said.
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"we will do everything required to protect ourselves..." and he went on. "this could take time". barbara plett usher is injerusalem. this is a serious escalation because this is the first time the israelis have carried out a so targeted killing against a militant leader in gaza in five years it ended the path that has lead to wider conflict to the israelis have very much been stressing that this is about this man, about the circumstances, he said is responsible for most of the rocket attacks in recent months from gaza into israel and that he was planning more attacks, and so they had to act. they say they are not looking for further escalation but are prepared for it should happen. now whether this goes on forjust are prepared for it should happen. now whether this goes on for just a few more days or whether it continues for much longer than that depends on the number of casualties. so for around 20 or so israelis have been slightly injured and that includes people who suffer from
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shock or hurt themselves as they are running from shelter. seven palestinians have been reported data. it also depends on the position of hamas, the main islamist movement that governs gaza and it has a different strategy. it's been involved in tacit truths arrangements with israel trying to alleviate the economic and humanitarian suffering in gaza and they been challenging that with these rocket attacks. he is have been signalling pretty strongly that one hamas to stay out of this fight but it's about a confrontation with islamichhad endeavour targeting those sites. not hamas targets they said they don't plan to resume the policy of assassinating militant leaders, in other words they don't need to worry about whether they might get hit. so far the group has joined together with islamichhad to put out a statement saying israel has crossed all the redlines and will suffer the consequences. it's not clear what sort of action it plans to take.
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los angeles is america's biggest port — and it's warning the trade war with china is threatening 1.5—milllion usjobs and more than $186—billion of us eonomic activity. a few weeks ago investors had expected a deal with china would be signed this weekend at the now cancelled apec summit in chile. because of the unrest from chile. and it was not rearranged. here's president trump. their supply chains are cracking very badly, and they are dying to make a deal. we are the ones that are deciding whether or not we want to make a deal. we are close. a significant phase one trade deal with china could happen, could
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happen soon. vivienne nunis, new york. it's tough happening here but he said we are" a few times over. of that they were planning on doing this regardless. what has gone wrong? not that long ago that we we re wrong? not that long ago that we were watching that press conference in the oval office. heralding the significant progress made in a phase one trade deal and it was, as you say going to be signed this week in chile on the same meeting. there is the chinese lead negotiator and he too said he was happy with progress being made so really did look at these stages as if we were inching closer to a deal. since in that meeting was cancelled and have not got any clues today in that speech by president trump or anywhere else about when that replacement location will be found and when this phase one trade deal will be signed. quoting those figures from the port of la but is that why the accepted
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trade war is causing that much money and puts that manyjobs at risk? trade war is causing that much money and puts that many jobs at risk? you will not have heard it and president trump's speeches today he was heralding the positive aspects of his economic stewardship but not just la saying this, in the last 2a hours of the scene the report from ubs, the swift bank that tariffs that are already in place are likely to cause a slowdown in the first half of next year and costjobs as well. it does depend where you are looking for the information but there's mixed views the country. turning to zimbabwe because it's getting new banknotes. it's an attempt to ease the country's acute cash shortage. shingai nyoka has more details. there have been long lines outside banks since the early hours of the morning. zimbabwe desperate to get their hands on what is essentially
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their hands on what is essentially the first official currency in ten years. a desperate shortage of cash over the last few years, and the central bank is hoping that by injecting almost a billion in hard cash to alleviate that. but the double nominations being withdrawn are double nominations being withdrawn a re two double nominations being withdrawn are two and $5 notes. that's equivalent to about 30 us cents. it's going to be fewer inflation not change much. nothing will change actually. if they reintroduce other things i think it will be better than to keep on adding these new currency like adding new notes or coins. translation: it might help us because there'll be more money in the economy we won't have to waste her time sleeping in bank queues. critics say such low denominations ina high critics say such low denominations in a high inflation environment is useless. $5 does not even buy a loaf of bread here. the government says they're doing so because there were
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to control inflation. they have a chequered past with monies management and what whatever money came in to the market in the past went directly to the black market where it was treated for a premium. a local currency collapsed spectacularly last time and people withdrawing money here are her biggest currency won't go the same way. ina in a couple of minutes' time will be talking about jeremy corbyn. in a couple of minutes' time will be talking aboutjeremy corbyn. because they've been under two cyber attacks inafew they've been under two cyber attacks in a few hours. hillary clinton has criticising the uk government's decision to delay publication of a parliamentary report on russian interference in british politics. suggesting that reports should come out before the december the 12th election here in the uk but of course the uk government has decided that is not going to happen. we will hear her arguments and uk government counter arguments and what labour is
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doing about the cyber attacks all in a couple of minutes' time. hello there. bitterly cold air working in from canada into the northern us states. now, in chicago, o'hare international airport reports of over 1000 flight cancellations yesterday one plane skidded off the ru nway to yesterday one plane skidded off the runway to to the snowy weather. seen some disruption but more snow to come as well. this was a front bringing about 15 to 25 cm of snow in the heaviest falls around the border between canada and those us states but the cold air pushing all the way further south and could even see a little bit of snow as far south as tennessee. it is unusual to see this cold in november. over the next few days that cold air is going to stick around so montreal temperatures staying below freezing and winnipeg very cold too. even in
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boston and new york temperatures struggling to get much above freezing as we look at the weather picture. one of the consequences of this area of high pressure the built in that cold air across the midwest as we get some very in that cold air across the midwest as we get some very tightly packed isobars and that's sending a stream of very strong winds around the western gulf of mexico slamming into the south coast of mexico could it gust of wind here around 60 mph or so gust of wind here around 60 mph or so with plenty of thunderstorm activity. unusually windy weather for parts of mexico as a result of the colder in the us. for south africa severe thunderstorms in the weather may do of the next few days. to bring the class flooding across southern and eastern areas but also the scope for getting fairly large hail as well. keeping a close eye on storms across this part of southern africa. australia the wildfires continues to burn across parts of new south wales and queensland to the forecast is to stay dry however it won't be as windy here on wednesday as it was on tuesday. no
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give firefighters at least less hazardous conditions to work in hopefully extinguish some of those places. looking at the weather for the north just east of the philippines is very upper clad has now developed into a tropical depression. don't think it will strengthen a great deal but the big problem with this depression is just how slow it's going to be moving. the forecast of the next three or four days bringing torrential persistent rain particularly to the eastern and northeastern side where we could see significant flooding issues by the time he gets the weekend. the weather in europe would be quite stormy as we get to the mediterranean if you're a fan of skiing likei mediterranean if you're a fan of skiing like i am it will be able to see the alps seeing lots of heavy snow of the last few days. more through wednesday and thursday as well. looking good for the start of the ski season which for most resorts is a month away. here in the united kingdom looking at a mixture
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of sunshine and showers. cold start to rein in the southwest later on.
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. hong kong's battleground shifts to university campuses, still no sign of either side backing down around 70 fires are burning across new south wales — about half are out of control in land that's hard to reach we saw the peak winds up to and above 80 km an hour. temperatures up to the high 30s piece of humidity down as low as 5% across so much of the geographic area of new south wales effected. hillary clinton tells the bbc she is shocked the british government has not yet published a report on alleged russian interference in uk politics. i'm dumbfounded that this government won't released a report
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won't release a report about russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. and we'll also go to bolivia for the latest on the crisis there — as the president flees to mexico. as the president flees to mexico. hillary clinton has criticising the uk government's decision to delay publication of a parliamentary report on russian interference in british politics. it won't be released until after the election on december 12. hillary clinton knows all about russian inteference. us authorities concluded that russia made a concerted effort to tip the 2016 election
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in donald trump's favour. here's hillary clinton with the bbc‘s mishal hussein. i am dumbfounded that this government will not release the report of russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. that should be an absolute condition because there is no doubt, we know it in our country, we have seen it in europe, we have seen it here that russia in particular is determined to try and shape the politics of western democracies, not to our benefit, but to theirs. there is no doubt of the role that russia played in our 2016 election and is continuing to play. there is a lot of evidence that russia played in the brexit election. i am not in your country, i do not have a say about any of that. but the fact that the current
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government will not release this report by your own government should raise some questions. the uk government highlights the fact that it received the report on october — and that it needs to be ‘properly processed' before being made public. here's the bbc‘s security correspondent gordon corera. the issue is that there was a deadline because parliament rose for the election and if it did not come up before then which it didn't, then it really can come out then it really can't come out until after the election. the prime minister suggested there was just as normal process but there's been a lot of criticism, including for the man who chaired for the committee that actually, this is not the normal process and it could have been made public earlier and we have heard secretary clinton add to the voices saying why didn't this come out and this material should be out
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there because from her experience, she's seen what russia did, even if there is not as much evidence in the uk as the us, there is still this view that everyone should have this evidence and know about it before an election. another development today — the labour party says its been targetted by two cyber attacks i nthe last two days. here's gordon correra again. here's labour leaderjeremy corbyn after the first attack. it was a very serious cyber attack. we have a system in place in our office to protect us against the cyber attacks, but it was very serious attack against us. so far as we are aware, none of our information is downloaded in the attack was actually repulsed because we have an effective in—house developed system by people within our party. but if this is a sign
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of things to come in this election, i feel very nervous about it all. cyber attacks are now a standard part of electins. bbc‘sjoe tidy has more. they are going to be targets, they are going to be attacked but like with some of the labour party, they knew this going again, there was advice from the national cybersecurity organisation and they had said here's some advice of the party, yet to be vigilant on this because in election campaigns, the margins are tight that if an attacker it has a particular vendetta or motive against the party decides to get some information. like we saw with the hillary clinton e—mails that were hacked off the servers, we do not know what impact that had but we do know it had some impact. for labour this is more about slowing down their website, is that right? this is a denial of service which effectively, lots of
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computers are commandeered to flood a server or network with too much information, so too many requests and the website falls over. if you think about buying tickets, so maybe we'll flood the website of the same time, the website falls over. is it possible for us to speak in general terms but the motivation for people who carry out cyber attacks?m terms but the motivation for people who carry out cyber attacks? it is very ha rd to who carry out cyber attacks? it is very hard to pinpoint exactly who and why they would do this. the labour party have said there is evidence that there have been attacks originating, previously in the past few weeks which have come from either russia or brazil, but it is so hard to attribute, attribution is so hard to attribute, attribution is not something that is done in this community because the methods and techniques that attackers can use, the ip address could be from russia or brazil, that does not necessarily mean that the attackers are in russia or brazil. a network of computers that is used to carry out some of the biggest attacks happens to be hosted in brazil.
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business and up with a mismatch with the cyber attack are being much more powerful than a small political party ina powerful than a small political party in a single country which may be does not have the resources to fend them off? absolutely every pound that is taken away from the campaign to be spent on security is money that could be spent on getting the message and getting to voters as those big concern of the party, i do not know how much they'll be spending under security. cloud fair, which is very world leaders and stopping the sort of thing and they don't come cheap. the parties are carrying the cost but if they're walking down the high street, there would be, they would not be expected to cover. is there any thought around adding general support to political parties? it may something got to talk about the future because if this was a nation state attack, we do not think it was but it may have been, we just
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we do not think it was but it may have been, wejust do not know we do not think it was but it may have been, we just do not know that and another country trying to influence our elections that is something that the government should ta ke something that the government should take more notice of and perhaps help out with. the take more notice of and perhaps help outwith. the security centre is a government organisation that have been offering advice and support in this instance, labour party saying that this is happened to us and the national cybersecurity centre gave them the all clear and they have handled it very well, they do not need a more support. but if they did need a more support. but if they did need support and they did the money, ido need support and they did the money, i do not know where they would get it from. bolivia's former president evo morales is in mexico — and says the country saved his life by granting him asylum. mr morales resigned on sunday — saying he'd been removed by "dark forces." he was also in the middle of a huge controversy over last month's election which observers say featured clear vote rigging. here's what we've heard from him. translation: you know very well about the new when in the first translation: you know very well
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about the new win in the first round of the elections of october 20 this year. there's been the coup d'etat started. we went through three weeks and at the final stage, unfortunately, the national police joined the political civil coup. bolivia is a landlocked country of 11 million people, here in the centre of south america. evo morales has been in power for almost 1a years — and he was bolivia's first indigenous president. under his leadership, the number of people living in poverty was significantly reduced — and bolivia's economy outperformed the region. however, those the vote rigging allegations led to violent protests — and then a call from the army chief for the president to step down. here's the analysis of vanessa buschschluter who's a latin america analyst for the bbc
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news website. under bolivia's constitution, if the president resigns, where the peoples in the lines of succession, the leader of the lower house will take overin leader of the lower house will take over in the interim 90 days until new elections are held. the big question is, will evo morales run again was make most people have been deposing them do not want that to happen and he was running for a fourth and they said those against the constitution because the bolivian constitution had term limits. he held a referendum to ask people whether or not they wanted to abandon those term limits. most people said no and he then took the matter to the constitutional court and the court said that the term limits infringed on his human rights and therefore he was allowed to run again. so that they want to see them running for a fourth time. decided by the big players in the region.
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evo a lot of what happens next rests on players in the region. evo morales is the last of the so—called "pink tide" of left wing leaders that came to power in the early 2000s — here he is with the former venezuelan leader hugo chavez. here's a timeline that shows when left wing governments were in power in south america. and the current reactions we're seeing follow ideological lines. brazil and chile have right wing leaders — they've expressed concern about the disputed election. the leaders of venezuela, cuba and the incoming argentinian government — all to the left — support evo morales' claim that he's been outsted in a coup. mexico also agrees with that — here's its foreign minister. let us hear from the foreign minister of what is been happening.
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the armed forces held a press conference and asked him to resign. this is called a coup d'etat and any country in the world. well, evidently mr morales thinks his time in mexico is temporary. but is that viable? katy watson is in la paz. thousands of people have been marching from the second biggest city in bolivia, sitsjust above la paz biggest city in bolivia, sits just above la paz sits just above la paz in the andies. they are marching because they're angry. they are carrying the flag representing all of the indigenous communities there saying mutual respect to the flag and what happened was the police ripped off the flag of their uniform in the march to show that they disrespected evo morales and they did not agree with him. morale is these people are saying
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that flag is more than evo morales. yes, he has a lot of support among indigenous communities, but that flag is not evo morales itself. these people are shutting the need respect and they are also very angry about the opposition but it's been happening in the past few days. many people here do support evo morales and say he shouldn't be made to resign by the army, many in this crowd argued that it was a coup. this country is deeply divided an opposition saying that it wasn't a coup d'etat, it was a popular movement, a popular request for evo morales to go. stay with us on outside source — still to come... new research that determines food that we like the and how to intern how it impacts on her health. and how it impacts on our health. opposition leaders have criticised the government for what they say is its "woeful" response to floods, which have affected large parts of the north of england. boris johnson said ——
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after a meeting of the government's cobra emergency committee, that efforts were being stepped up, after around 400 homes were flooded and thousands of properties evacuated. danjohnson reports from fishlake in south yorkshire. in the furthest reaches of fishlake, this is how life has been since friday. they are cut off and barely coping. you have been living like this for five days? yes, trying to keep warm, sweet. yes, trying to keep warm, sweep. no heating, no pub? no heating, no power. people will think why haven't you gone and left? go down the flooded lanes and to more misery. some are onlyjust returning to see what they lost and salvage what's left and they are asking what's next?
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not everyone is covered and today flooding overflowed into the election campaign. we cannot leave people living in this awful sense of fear and limbo. it is wrong it seems to be down to the local communities. this is clearly a national emergency. winter after winter it is homes and communities that get destroyed as a result of action and long—term action not being put in place. this afternoon officials met in downing street to discuss the floods. we have to prepare for more floods this winter and a huge amount of energy and effort is going into that. pumps are starting to move the water and emergency teams are getting through. some are still filling forgotten. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is?
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our top story is, there have been violent clashes in hong kong between police and students at a university campus. after months of unrest there's no sign of either side backing down. these are live pictures from chile's capital santiago where protests are in their fourth week. people have been demonstrating against the increased cost of living — and the protests have sometimes been violent, at least 18 people have died. they've also spread to other cities. denmark has begun random checks on its border with sweden after a string of bombings and shootings in the copenhagen area that police believe were carried out by swedish crime gangs. the checks affect trains and vehcles entering denmark at ports and also traffic entering on a main road bridge between the two countries. lots of people are watching this footage, a head on collision involving two trains in southern india caught on cctv. miraculously nobody died, although 16 people were injured.
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the incident was caused by a signal fault. it took eight hours to free one of the drivers from the wreckage. a suspected american fighter from the islamic state group has been filmed apparently trapped in no—mans land on the border between turkey and greece. here he is. he was deported by turkey which has just started repatriating jihadist suspects. turkey says he asked to be sent to greece not the united states but was rejected by the greek authorities when he tried to cross the border. we could have more cases like this shortly. about 12—hundred suspected islamic state fighters are currently being held in turkish prisons. and turkey says it intends to send them all back to their home countries, even if their citizenship has been revoked. this is all happening as president erdogan prepares to visit washington this week.
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some in congress aren't happy about that. we are sending the wrong message to the rest of the world. our allies have been focused very heavily on pressuring president erdogan at a time where we are inviting the white house which is a said is quite an honour. president erdogan at a time where we are inviting him to the white house which is a said is quite an honour. berza simsek is from the bbc‘s turkish service he, his flight was today and he is expected to meet donald trump tomorrow at the white house and there are a couple of issues on the table and one of the issues will be this suspected militant. and this anger does not suppress were seeing these pictures in the borderjust before mr becker to's visit because he wants to make a point to president trump. and turkey's
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campaign has been announced before. turkey has long complained about the western government's accusations of not taking the responsibility on joining the islamic state, and the interior minister announced that from monday on, turkey will be starting to deport suspected ias militants, basically saying that these detainees from other countries. doesn't intend to send all of them home? all of them turkey does not say. official sources do not announce those people as is militants. we do not know exactly how many of them are is militants and how many of them are belonging
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to other organisations. and ahead of this visit, what is on president erdogan's wishlist? saying that turkey has started an operation in northern syria about a month ago against the syrian kurdish militia and today, erdogan before his departure to the area was the united states is not taking, fulfilling its responsibility to remove those militants from the border in syria. thank you very much indeed. if you speak turkish, you can get updates on bbc turkish dot com. scientists in the us say a gene that impacts on the foods we like to eat — could have detrimental consequences for the health of some of us. if you have this inherited gene, food like broccoli, cabbage and brussels sprouts taste bitter and unpleasant — and so you're less
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likely to eat them — which affects whether you have a balanced diet. let's speak to drjennifer smith, the study author from the university of kentucky school of medicine. thank you very much for your time and first of all, help us understand this gene many people it affects. this gene, codes for one of your taste receptors and that taste receptor perceives bitter tastes. if you have one version of this gene, given enhanced bitter taste of their somethings they can take just exceptionally bitter to you. if you have the other version, you do not have the other version, you do not have that. this gene has a very wide expression rate and is found in all of the populations across the world and the two versions we are looking at in this study are the most popular versions, so there the ones that appear the most of the population. and what have you
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learned about the impact on peoples health who have the gene? but we saw in this study is that people who have the version of this gene that enhanced or bitter taste tended to be in enhanced or bitter taste tended to beina enhanced or bitter taste tended to be in a group that consumed less vegetables. if you have the bitter tasting gene, you ate less than those who did not have the bitter tasting gene. and they may be people thinking, maybe i have this. but how would they know? and daily life, this response to foods like asparagus, broccoli, cabbage. dark chocolate, beer, ... and asparagus, broccoli, cabbage. dark chocolate, beer, and if your bodyis chocolate, beer, and if your body is reacting to things like beer in chocolate, could be good for your health rather than bad? however, if
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you're eating less vegetables, they can have a negative impact on your health. i think we mostly know that it is good to eat vegetables, vegeta bles it is good to eat vegetables, vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals and less for cholesterol. it is good to eat your vegetables and not getting that may be detrimental to your health. and advice for people offering to have these gene who would like to eat more vegetables but do not like the taste ? more vegetables but do not like the taste? there are certain vegetables that respond to this and not all vegeta bles that respond to this and not all vegetables do it. if some are not good, try other things. just because when vegetable is bad, does not mean they are all bad. so broaden your horizons and ask for specific things, that is the next step of this research. the road, we hope to investigate different herbs and
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spices but we have not gotten the area. “— spices but we have not gotten the area. —— there yet. spices but we have not gotten the area. -- there yet. from kentucky university of medicine. finishing the programme. our lead story, an important development in hong kong, we have been focusing on these protests for many months now and the beginning of opposition to a proposed extradition bill but they been the bump promoting democracy in hong kong and police accountability. most of been in the centre of hong kong but we are noticing violent between police protesters on a university campus and really serious clashes with protesters barricading certain roads and the police chief in hong kong is now saying that the rule of law and hong kong is under threat delivery of the chief executive say that this is pushing hong kong to the brink and get the police and the political leaders do not appear to be changing tactics and neither do the protesters, so it is not clear what is going to give
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but we will return to that tomorrow. thank you for watching. for the middle part of the week we have a bit of a break from all the wet weather but it will be short—lived. because many areas are still flooded from the recent rainfall that we have had. in between systems, one area of low pressure is drifted out towards the north sea and there is one weighting of the wings but the ridge of high pressure may settle things down, albeit briefly. the widespread frost for the albeit briefly. the widespread frost forthe uk, albeit briefly. the widespread frost for the uk, still a few showers and parts of scotland which live wintry flavour to them in some spots of northeast scotland can make it above freezing an ulcer wanted to share his or northwest england in this next area of rain starts to show its hand later in the afternoon and we
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are going to keep an eye on it. spend a push to the far southwest of england up into wells with parts of northern ireland too. through wednesday evening, and into thursday, this area of rain will slowly start to pivot, working its way westwards and potentially moving into areas that have already seen a lot of rainfall that are already flooded and it will be heavy and persistent. accompanied by some strong winds too. away from this area there will be a slice of something drier and brighter but it will still feel cold. as we go from thursday into friday, low pressure remains in the driving seat so it is going to be another unsettled day. quite a lot of cloud around on friday and there will be further outbreaks of rain at times quite a blustery day once again for many spots and there will be some breaks in the cloud and we should see some brightness for the north and these
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temperatures are below average for the time of year and a mid to high single figures. so from friday and on into the weekend, low pressure still in charge at this time working its way up to them near continent, so its way up to them near continent, so no longer an atlantic system, it does look as though this will start to draw on something quite cool and northeasterly flow and for the spells of rain at times, some dried up spells of rain at times, some dried up great intervals to be had, but still feeling cold as we go to the day on saturday. and not much changes as we going into sunday with still some low pressure in charge dragging and a north or northeasterly wind, so it is going to feel cold once again and rather like saturday, there will be some dried bright intervals with quite a bit of cloud around it at times we are going to see some outbreaks of rain and it remains cold and those temperatures once again on the disappointing side. as we head into the start of next week, we will start to see a ridge of
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high—pressure work its way and to start monday. however what that means is to open the floodgates to more of high—pressure work its way and to start monday. however what that means is to open the floodgates to more of a northerly flow in a court direction and some showery outbreaks on the coast, it will feel bitterly cold here and she remained remain driver spells of sunshine. further on into next week, low pressure once again starts to edge its way and, but this time for more ofa its way and, but this time for more of a southerly direction. bringing in spells of rain in the southerly flow, that means that the temperatures sister to pick up a little in return milder. temperature spectre they should be at this time of the year, for the spells of rain and it will feel windy and at times cold.
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tonight at ten: ministers announce more support for flood victims in the north of england, but labour and the lib dems say the response has been far too slow. some 30 flood warning remain in place, with more heavy rain forecast, as locals say they feel let down by the official response. communities have been absolutely amazing. the official people that should have been telling us what to do, get out your house, move your things, or even it was coming, we had no idea. so, just complete contrast. the environment agency says flood defences have reduced some of the impact, prompting more debate about where the money has been spent. the money forflood protection is allocated according to the number

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