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tv   Our World  BBC News  February 23, 2020 3:30am-4:00am GMT

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the headlines: bernie sanders has cemented his status as the democratic frontrunner to take on donald trump in the us presidential election. he is projected to win nevada's caucuses, and early results suggest he is on course for a large victory. former vice president joe biden is in second place. the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in mainland china has now reached almost 77,000, more than 2,400 of whom have died. elsewhere, italy has adopted what it is describing as urgent and extraordinary measures to tackle what is now the biggest outbreak in europe. tyson fury and deontay wilder are preparing to face each other again in las vegas for the wbc world heavyweight title. it is almost 15 months since the pair fought out a controversial draw, and tickets for the big bout have been changing hands for thousands of dollars.
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now on bbc news, our world has gained unprecedented access to indonesia's prison island to witness two young people meeting the bombers who killed their parents. this film contains flashing images and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. reporter: the blast which brought this extraordinary level of destruction was caused by a car bomb. 0n the holiday island of bali in 2002, bombs exploded outside nightclubs, killing more than 200 people. garil lost his dad. sarah lost her mother in another bombing. to stop more attacks,
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indonesia is taking a radical approach — making bombers meet their victims. every yearfamilies from across the world come here, to what's known as ground zero on the holiday island of bali — to mourn their loved ones killed in indonesia's worst attack. 27—year—old garil is here with his mum. it's the first time he's publicly mourned for his father, aris, who was one of the 202 people killed
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in the bombings. garil‘s dad, aris munandar, was a taxi driver.
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aris was waiting for tourists outside pubs and nightclubs. close to midnight a van carrying explosives entered the area, driven by this man, ali imron. his group were linked to al-qaeda. this was garil‘s father's taxi after the bombings. with his mother very ill, it was ten—year—old garil that had to identify his father's body.
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two years later, sarah's family was torn apart by a bombing by the same group in the capital, jakarta. iwan was on his bike with his wife, halila, heavily pregnant with their second child. they were on their way to the doctor for a check—up when the bomb exploded outside the australian embassy. iwan was badly injured but rushed his wife to hospital and that night she gave birth to rizqy.
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but she never recovered from her injuries. two years later she died on sarah's fifth birthday. for 15 years indonesia has had a unique way of trying to de—radicalisae
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generation of militants. that includes meetings between bombers and their victims. garil and his mum are going to meet ali imron, one of the bali bombers who killed his dad. and iwan is taking his children, 15—year—old rizqy and 17—year—old sarah, to meet the men on death row who are convicted of killing their mum.
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gariland his mum, endang, arrive at the prison. after the bali bombings, ali imron‘s brothers were executed. he's serving a life sentence.
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iwan and his children are on their way to indonesia's highest security prison.
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their first meeting is with rois, who was found guilty of plotting the attack outside the australian embassy in jakarta. 0n receiving his death sentence rois said, "i am thankful because i will die a martyr." he is kept in an isolated cell because they are worried about his influence on other inmates. security for this meeting is tight.
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garil is making one morejourney, to meet the son of this man, amrozi, who was proud of carrying out the bombings that killed garil‘s father. he showed no remorse. his son, hendra, was 16 when he was executed.
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today, garil is meeting him.
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hendra now promotes tolerance, helping to organise prayer meetings, like this one, involving the police, former militants and their victims — an attempt to stop the next wave of attacks from groups loosely linked to the so—called islamic state, responsible for three bombings in the last four years. gariland him find they have much in common.
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0n indonesia's prison island, the meeting with bomber rois has left sarah distressed. but they have one more visit to make. they are going to see ahmad hassan, also on death row, for his role in the bombing. at his trial, hassan was defiant after being found guilty. iwan has met him once before
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but this is the first time for sarah and rizqy.
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hello there. it's a familiar february theme, more rain on the way and the prospect of further flood warnings. now, at the moment, we've got in excess of 100 flood warnings in force. those numbers have been rising, actually, over the last 2a hours in northern england and scotland. and now we're looking at this — a 4,000—mile long weather front stretching all the way over towards the caribbean. but along the front, there are two areas of low pressure and both of these could cause us some problems. the first is actually knocking on our doors right now with outbreaks of rain
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spreading into northern ireland and getting quickly across england and wales over the next few hours. the rain always heaviest across wales, perhaps the north midlands, parts of northern england, 20—1i0mm in places. and that is falling on saturated ground, so we could see further localised flooding issues. snow showers continue to work in across scotland where it remains windy, so a blustery start to the day. but for most of us, it's a day that will slowly improve. the rain pushes its way southwards through the day, brighter skies follow with a bit of sunshine. but there will be further showers in the north—west of scotland. still wintry over the high ground, still relatively cool there, compared with the cloudy south where, yes, it will stay quite mild. but looking at the weather picture beyond that, as we head into monday, the next area of low pressure moves in. this one also could cause some disruption, because, before it arrives, it's going to be getting colder through sunday night with some patches of frost and into that cold air, the rain arrives. the rain turns to snow for a time, northern ireland,
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northern england, and then in scotland the snow could last longer and could reach down to lower elevations as well. now, apart from the snow, we've also got the prospect of getting some very strong winds at points during the day on monday across the northern half of the country, with gusts in excess of 60 or 70mph. so, there is the risk of some disruption, particularly so for scotland, where there's most likely to be snow that will last longest and also probably where we'll see the strongest of the winds. elsewhere, more rain in the forecast across england and wales. that in itself isn't welcome and could cause some further localised flooding issues. even as the rainband clears, it will be followed by blustery showers. it will be a windy kind of day everywhere. now, beyond that, as that weather front clears away from the south—east, we will be left with a showery north—westerly, so it stays unsettled, stays quite windy. the next weather system arriving towards thursday off the atlantic. so, in other words, there's no sign of the weather settling down any time soon. we are going to see further showers. it's often going to be quite windy and we could see a spell of rain coming through on thursday and be cold enough to see some snow at times
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as well in the week ahead.
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this is bbc news. welcome if you are watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm james reynolds. our top stories: bernie's big night. senator sanders cements his position as the democratic frontrunner with victory in the nevada caucus. no campaign has a grassroots movement like we do, which is another reason why we're going to win this election. the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in mainland china rises to nearly 77,000. italy adopts what it calls urgent and extraordinary measures to tackle what is now the biggest outbreak in europe. and a grudge match in vegas. tyson fury prepares to take on deontay wilder

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