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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. as europe records over 100,000 new coronavirus cases, spain declares a two—week state of emergency in madrid to contain a covid—19 outbreak. there's fresh confusion over when president trump will return to the campaign trail following his hospital treatment for coronavirus. in the uk, an extension to the country's job support scheme as the government says it will pay two thirds of worker's wages for businesses which are forced to close. we will adapt and evolve our response as the situation on the health side adapts and evolves. that's what's happening. i think that's the pragmatic and the right thing to do to adapt to that, and i believe that the actions today demonstrate that approach. and the united nations‘
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world food programme wins this year's nobel peace prize. its director tells me he's stunned. somebody walked in and said nobel peace prize, and i'm like, "0h, who won it, who won it?" and they're like, "the world food programme!" i was like, you've got to be kidding me! hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. new coronavirus infections in europe have passed 100,000 in a single day for the first time. more restrictions have been brought in in several countries in an attempt to control the spread. this graph shows the number of cases per 100,000 people. the uk, france and spain all have more than 100,
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while germany and italy have fewer cases, but numbers there are also rising. in spain, there is disagreement over how to get the disease back under control. the government has imposed a two—week state of emergency in madrid to try to contain the outbreak, overriding a court decision that previous restrictions were illegal. guy hedgecoe reports. it's the beginning of a bank holiday weekend, but with the police stopping many people from leaving madrid, it's not a typical one. the central government has announced a state of emergency in the madrid region, preventing all nonessential travel in and out of the capital and eight nearby cities. these restrictions were already in place for several days until a court struck them down on thursday, saying they violated the rights of madrid's inhabitants. the state of emergency overcomes that legal obstacle, but it has further inflamed the dispute between madrid's regional
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authorities and the central government, which worry that the spread of the virus in the capital was out of control. translation: the president of the region of madrid has decided to do nothing. look, last week, 63 people died from covid—19 in the madrid region. right now, there are 3,361 people hospitalized in madrid. there are 490 people in the icu fighting between life and death, fighting for their lives. we can either cross our arms or we can stop the virus. the local government disagrees, insisting that existing measures had already started to improve the infection rate, making the state of emergency unnecessary. some locals take a similar view. translation: it seems that the measures are only intended to annoy madrid, because there are so many regions in spain which are going
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through the same thing as us and they haven't done that. so, i'm not at all in favour of what the central government is doing. in recent weeks, madrid has been spain's biggest concern, providing around a third of the entire country's new infections and, the government says, spreading the virus to neighbouring regions. so far, during this second wave of coronavirus, spain's health care system has managed to cope. whether that continues to be the case could depend on how successful measures like this state of emergency are in stabilising the pandemic. guy hedgecoe, bbc news, madrid. here in the uk, the country's finance minister, chancellor rishi sunak, has announced new measures designed to help businesses that could be forced to close because of coronavirus restrictions. it's thought that bars and restaurants in the worst—affected parts of england may be told to shut next week. the nationwide scheme will begin on the 1st of november,
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and last for six months as the bbc‘s consumer affairs correspondent sarah corker reports. local lockdowns and reduced opening hours are already hurting hospitality. 0n the edge of greater manchester, altrincham has been under tighter rules sincejuly and the prospect of pubs and restaurants being forced to close in areas with high infection rates has angered business owners. it's disastrous because the minute the tap is turned off, you've got no ability to generate any income. the hospitality industry is being completely and utterly slated and the spectre now of further closure is really terrifying. there will be more help to cushion the blow. staff working for firms told to close by law will get 67% of their wages paid for by the government. so, today i'm announcing an expansion of ourjob support scheme, specifically to protect those jobs of people who work in businesses
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that may be asked to close. if that happens, those workers will receive two thirds of their wages for the time that they are unable to go to work. and listening closely to that is william robinson, whose brewery runs 260 pubs across the north west. i think there is definitely a relief that he's listening. he says if some are told to shut, wage support and an increase in business grants of up to £3000 a month will take some of the pressure off. the closure of a business and the reopening of a business, when that happens, and if that happens, will be very expensive for small businesses and large businesses. they've a lot of costs and depending on the level of grant they get, will depend whether that will really truly cover their expenses or not. the hospitality sector has a raft of safety measures in place and says it's being unfairly singled out and for those who may have to close their doors once again, the big unknown is whether this extra financial support will make
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enough of a difference for them to survive in the long term. the landlady of the bull's head in trafford fears a difficult winter ahead. the future is very uncertain and it's quite scary. we've done a beer order. do i need the beer? don't know. does it need to go down the drain? mayors representing cities in the north of england say the chancellor's measures don't go far enough, while labour want more to be done to protectjobs. in other countries, those schemes are working to incentivise employers to keep people in work. his scheme, the chancellor's scheme, is just not doing that sufficiently and we're seeing the impact on the levels of unemployed people. and the extra financial support will only apply to businesses told to close by the government, and all this at the start of what should be the lucrative christmas period. sarah corker, bbc news. here in the uk, downing street says the prime minister borisjohnson
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will make an statement to mps on monday about coronavirus restrictions. 0ur uk political correspondent jonathan blake has the details. well, we can confirm tonight what we have been expecting for a couple of days now, and that is that on monday, borisjohnson will make a statement in the house of commons setting out the details of a new framework of restrictions and at the national level in england to slow the spread of coronavirus. the indications is that it will be a tiered system of differing levels of restrictions imposed region by region according to the severity of cases in any one particular place. we don't have the exact details of that scale of measures, but i think we can probably expect tier one, if you like, or the baselines. what is in place in england now, the national level, and that is the 10pm curfew
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on bars and restaurants, plus what is called the rule of six which allows a group of up to six people from any number of households to meet indoors or outdoors at any one time. tonight, mps and some of the worst affected areas in the northwest tonight, mps in some of the worst affected areas in the northwest of england particularly have received a letter from the prime minister's director of strategy, edward lister, saying that it is now very likely that certain local areas will face further restrictions, and he adds that the prime minister will make that statement to mps on monday and the government is looking to finalise the details as soon as possible. so we can read from that, i think, that the final decisions and details may not yet be signed off, but we know at least now the timing and we will get the details on monday.
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there's renewed confusion over when president trump will return to the campaign trail after being treated in hospital for coronavirus. following the latest assessment by trump's white house's physician, the president said he may attend election rallies over the weekend. but a separate administration official later said mr trump was unlikely to travel so soon because the logistics of organising events at short notice was problematic. 0ur washington correspondent, nomia iqbal, told us that information regarding the president's condition is patchy. we haven't really been given any more information. we've not actually seen more information. we've not actually seen much of president trump. we certainly heard from him just earlier. he was on a radio show with rush limbaugh, for a few hours, a very conservative talk show hosts here in america. it was almost like a virtual reality. we are expected to see mrtrump
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a virtual reality. we are expected to see mr trump in person later on on fox this evening. in terms of his travel plan, he suggested he was going to a rally in florida tomorrow, that's not likely to happen. but we are never really too sure with this president in terms of his medical condition, there's really been no update on that. apart from last night, when doctor sean connko from last night, when doctor sean connolly said in a memo that mr trump could be ready to resume his public engagements by saturday. stay with us, because there's something i wa nt to with us, because there's something i want to talk to you about. with the presidential election getting ever closer, the democrats have decided to raise the issue of the 25th amendment, which deals with what to do when a sitting president isn't physically able to fulfil his or her duties. nancy pelosi said it was time for mr trump's fitness for the job to be scrutinised. congress has a constitutional duty to lay out the
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process by which the president's incapacity and the president of any party is determined. this bill honours the duty by creating a standing commission of top former executive officials selected in a bipartisan, bicameral way. a president's fitness for office must be determined by science and facts. speaker nancy pelosi there. let's come back to you, if you can hear me. 0bviously, we've heard president trump call himself a perfect ethical specimen, sojust help trump call himself a perfect ethical specimen, so just help us understand what exactly nancy pelosi setting in motion here and why now —— perfect physical specimen? i think it's fair to say that nancy pelosi is always donald trump's antagonist. she doggedly the person that starts the
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impeachment proceedings against him, but she said this is not about him specifically. because of course, if joe biden becomes president, he will be the oldest president in office. but it's worth mentioning that this is not even at a stage of it becoming a bill. she wants to set up a commission to get this going, but this will have to go through the senate. the senate is controlled by the republicans, so it's very unlikely to be considered. in the last few minutes, the white house has said mr trump will deliver remarks from the white house balcony on saturday. we'll bring you more details on that when we have it. but while mr trump's campaign team stress his return to health, his democratic rivaljoe biden remains out on the campaign trail. here he is in nevada, at a socially distanced event, and his message remains focused on two things. as you can see, he wants to be
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sure people are voting. he also wants to keep the president's record on the coronavirus pandemic in the spotlight. as he put it, why did mr trump tell journalists the truth about covid—19, but not the american people? there are just 25 days to go before the presidential election, and you can keep up to date with all of the developments and get the background on the issues, plus find out what our reality check team make of what the candidates have been saying on our website. just log on to bbc.com/news. let's get some of the day's other news. two members of the group calling itself islamic state have pleaded not guilty in a court in america to charges of conspiring to murder four american hostages. el shafee el—sheikh and alexanda kotey were flown to the us from iraq on wednesday. they were part of a cell dubbed the beatles because of their british accents. a chinese military spokesperson
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says that a us navy ship has entered the area around the disputed paracel islands in the south china sea, without china's permission. it called on the us to immediately stop what it called such provocative actions. the islands are claimed by both china and vietnam, and the area is thought to hold substantial gas and oil deposits. a state of emergency has been declared in kyrgyzstan, after several days of violent clashes following disputed elections. the decision was taken by presidentjeenbekov, who had earlier said he was ready to resign once a new cabinet was appointed. the country has seen a power vacuum since the results of last sunday's parliamentary vote was annulled. an aid worker thought to be the last french national being held hostage in the world has been reunited
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with herfamily after a prisoner exchange. sophie petronin had spent nearly four years in captivity and was one of several hostages, including mali's opposition leader and two italians to be freed. more than a hundred militants were handed back to mali last weekend. the bbc‘s west african correspondent, mayenijones, reports from lagos.four hostages freed by islamist militants have reunited at last. sophie petronin's son has a lot to keep his mum's name in the public for years. translation: idid translation: i did everything i could. she said she wasn't angry at those who took her, it was relieved to be free. translation: i'm doing much better. the french government who apparently also help. known as the last french national held hostage in the world, aid worker sophie petronin was kidnapped by militants linked to al-qaeda on christmas eve of 2016. in a tweet,
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french president emmanuel macron on expressed his relief. also freed on thursday night was this man. he was abducted in march walls campaigning ahead of parliament or elections. translation: iam very translation: i am very happy to be here for my family. i spent six months in the most difficult conditions, and the most difficult conditions, and the most hostile climate and very hard living conditions. as you can imagine in this area like sahara desert. to italian nationals were also freed. these high—profile releases come after a politically turbulent time for mali. mindy supported the move, protesters have been calling for him to step down
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for months —— many supported the move. security continues to be a concern. mali internationalforces have been struggling to contain the certainty they are 2012. mayeni jones, bbc news. stay with us on news, still to come... we have a special report from nagorno karabakh, the territory being fought over by the two former soviet republics, armenia and azerbaijan. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything's going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more as it used to be before slobodan milosevic took power. the dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet, has won this year's nobel peace prize. as the parade was reaching its climax, two grenades exploded and a group of soldiers jumped from a military
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truck taking part in the parade and ran towards the president, firing from automatic rifles. after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of henry viii's tragic warship emerge, but even as divers worked to buoy her up, the mary rose went through another heart—stopping drama. i want to be the people's governor. i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. cheering this is bbc news. the latest headlines... britain's prime minister boris johnson is to address mps on monday on new coronavirus restrictions. it comes as europe records over 100,000 new coronavirus cases and spain declares a two—week state of emergency in madrid
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to contain an outbreak. evacuations have been taking place along the coastlines of louisiana and texas, ahead of the arrival of hurricane delta. this satellite image gives you an idea of the size of the weather system. it's bringing with it winds blowing at up to 185 kilometres per hour, and will be the tenth hurricane big enough to have been given a name to reach the us during this storm season. delta is moving towards roughly the same areas which were deluged by hurricane laura at the end of august. many towns have not yet recovered from the flooding and damage caused then. you can see the tower block with boarded up windows in lake charles, which were broken by the gale force winds. the municipality's mayor has given this warning to residents. there's going to be a window of time
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where public safety cannot respond to you. and so, though they may want to, and though it's in their dna to respond, there's going to be a period where it's just not safe to get out on the roads. this is the scene in lake charles now. it's on the western edge of louisiana, around 150 kilometres east of houston in texas. you can see here thatjust from the way the trees are moving, those winds are picking up speed and looking very strong. no people around. skies looking quite grey and menacing, and of course winds are as those expected are a big deal on their own, but the risk has been magnified by the masses of debris already littered in the city. the foreign ministers of armenia and azerbaijan are holding talks in moscow in an effort to establish a truce in nagorno karabakh. the negotiations have been brokered by russia. this picture of the three countries' ministers was released
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by the russian foreign ministry. it's the first face to face meeting between the two countries since fighting began nearly two weeks ago. earlier, the azerbaijani president ilham aliyev said that baku was giving armenia a "last chance" to peacefully resolve the conflict in the region. the enclave is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan but is populated and governed by ethnic armenians. from goranboy in azerbaijan our international correspondent 0rla guerin reports. the battle for nagorno karabakh. this footage released by azerbaijan's defence ministry. this isa warof azerbaijan's defence ministry. this is a war of liberation to recover pa rt is a war of liberation to recover part of the motherland. azeri forces
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are closing in on the mountains of karabakh, gaining control of some areas nearby held by ethnic armenians. we saw military vehicles on the move. and got a glimpse of the battle, but azerbaijan won't allowed journalists to reach the front line. ijust been hearing a number of more shouting in the distance, and the past few minutes, we've heard what seemed to be a rock of landing. azeri forces have pushed back the armenians, but this matters not just for these two back the armenians, but this matters notjust for these two nations. it has implications for the security and stability of the region. so, moscow is pushing for a quick cease—fire, but some in azerbaijan have been waiting 30 years for this moment. like the residents of this grim housing complex in baku, is
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home to many who fled no pawn no karabakh in the 905. they said they are counting the day —— day to go back. translation i see it in my dreams. i cannot forget about it. if my motherland. how do you feel about the people are there now, about the ethnic armenians? could you live with them as neighbours today bigger —— together? with them as neighbours today bigger -- together? of course we can live together. we have been very firmly with them. they also don't want the war. the only ones to blame her though sitting at the top. but some of his neighbours want outright victory, not coexistence. translation: today i signed to fight in the war. i'm ready to get my blood and soul for my motherland. with videos like
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this, the government is stoking the 5trong nationalist sentiment here and president aliyev i5 5trong nationalist sentiment here and president aliyev is sticking to his guns, saying his country will keep retaking land, by war if need be. 0rla guerin, bbc news, azerbaijan. the world food programme has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize. the norwegian nobel committee praised the organisation's efforts in fighting hunger and its work in improving conditions for peace in war—torn regions. david bea5eley i5 executive director of the programme. he says the news caught him totally unaware which is why he's especially delighted. it's amazing, it's shocking and i am so it's amazing, it's shocking and i am so thrilled on the half of the world food programme and all of our employees and partners who are literally, and i mean literally putting their lives in harm's way every day. in hurricanes, tornadoes and things of this nature, so they're out there. this reward, this
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prize i hope will be an example for the rest of the world to follow, people who are willing to put their lives at risk for others. so it's quite amazing, honestly. just to bring you a quick update, we've heard that us president donald trump i5 heard that us president donald trump is planning on hosting his first and person event since his positive covid—19 diagnosis. he will be 5peaking covid—19 diagnosis. he will be speaking on saturday and this will be in conjunction with a preplanned event. we will hear more from him next. stay with us on bbc news. good evening. during friday, much of the uk had a bit of a drop in temperature and we have seen a real mix of sunshine, some blue sky but also some heavy downpours, too. but of course is the recipe for lots of rainbows that we've seen out there today. this one comes from one of our weather watchers near swansea. and as we head through the course of the weekend, that theme sticks with us.
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so, again, it's feeling a little bit colder than it has done recently and it will be a mix of some sunshine and blu5tery at times heavy shower5, most of them on saturday. looking a little bit drier for most of us by sunday. high pressure is sitting out to the west of the uk. low pressure in the north—east, and that's driving in a northwesterly wind. we will see some showers rattling through on that northwesterly wind through the course of tonight. particularly heavy and persistent downpours for a time in scotland, northern ireland, into the far north of england by the end of the night. a few showers through north—west england down towards the midlands. further south and east across england and wales, you should keep the clear sky tonight. so, temperatures in the coolest 5pots coming down to round about 4 or 5 degrees, perhaps a bit lower than that in the countryside. so, just a touch of rural frost po55ible first thing saturday morning. saturday brings us a similar day to what we had on friday. again, we've got that high pressure out to the west, low pressure in the east but it will be a little bit windier. we've got a few more isobars on the map and those wind5 coming in from a northerly and northwesterly direction, so feeling fairly fresh there throughout the day. this line of persistent, heavy showers making their way
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across england and wales during the course of the day followed by 5un5hine and for the showers rattling in from the north—west. there will be some drier weather through the day particularly for parts of southern scotland later on. perhaps on the south coast of england, you should avoid mo5t of the showers but it will feel quite chilly, 11—14 degrees, particularly chilly down that ea5t coast and we still got the breeze around east coast into sunday as well. perhaps one or two showers for eastern scotland and eastern england but for much of the uk, sunday brings us the better day of the weekend, a lot of dry weather on the cards. some 5un5hine coming through not quite as breezy as saturday so it will feel perhaps a little bit warmer, about 11—15 degrees or so for sunday. looking ahead through next week then we soon see a return to low pressure moving in from the atlantic. looks like this area of low pressure will then be sitting across part5 of central europe for much of next week. so, there will be showers around particularly acro55 pa rt5 of england and wales. further north across the uk, scotland and northern ireland looking a little bit warmer and a little bit drier with some autumnal 5un5hine in the mix. bye— bye.
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this is bbc world news, the headlines. a two week state of emergency has been declared in madrid, to try to contain a big ri5e in coronavirus cases. across europe, there's been more than one hundred thousand positive tests in a single day.
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donald trump will host his first in—person event since contracting coronavirus on saturday — nine days after the white house says he first tested positive. he'll speak from the white house balcony to make remark5 on ‘law and order‘. talks between armenia and azerbaijan are continuing late into the evening in moscow, as the kremlin tries to broker a ceasefire in the disputed territory of nagorno—kara bakh. nobel peace prize for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in conflict areas. a spokesman said it was a proud moment. at ten 0'clockjane hill will be here with a full round up of the days new5. first... five years ago, more than a million people crossed into europe. many of them took huge ri5ks and embarked on dangerousjourney5 in an effort to escape conflict for a better life.
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the migrants who came to europe in 2015 were hoping to find shelter from war and terror new opportunities for a better life. their journey was often difficult and dangerous. thousands died attempting to reach europe's shores and while some countries opened their arms, all others put up fences and closed their borders. italy was one of the main destinations and migration deep in divisions here leading to the far right entering government. this tiny island of lampedusa is still struggling with migrant arrivals five years on. the joy of getting a chance at life. her name is francesca miracle after her birth on an italian rescue boat in 2015. as her motherfled libya.
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suffering seizures and in intensive care, they almost did not make it. the bbc met them back then. now settled in sicily, we have come back. was everything you went through worth it? yes, it is worth it because most of the people they are dreaming to be in my shoes. you have kissed outside the country. you are lucky. i think i should be happy for that. they were among the million migrants that made it to europe at the height of the migration crisis in 2015, changing its society and politics. thousands more drowned en route, nameless in the graveyard of the mediterranean sea.
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five years on, they are still coming. the camp and lampedusa to the south of sicily, crowded and guarded. so far arrivals this year are a third of what they were in 2015 and yet, this camp is already way past capacity. and then for coronavirus into the mix, pushing migrants to flee suffering economies, creating quarantine concerns and reawa kening the old migration tensions in italian society. in squalid conditions, migrant tears say they know of several cases inside. there is pressure to clearthe camp and. this man tells me he wants to work to send money back to his wife and daughter into knees key. translation: we took the risk of dying at sea now we are at risk of dying of coronavirus. we left the misery of our country, but if i knew what misery would have been here, iwould have stayed in my country. even life there is better than this.
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in mainland sicily, they are expecting arrivals. this camp was built and disused airbase. stoking opposition from the far right which briefly entered the government because of immigration. translation: the your union has left us to handle immigration crisis alone. and at the same time italy is leaving regions like sicily on their own. there is that law and order risk and now a health risk. aren't you fanning the flames of racism? no, we would use the same language if we were invaded by the english or the french. if tomorrow the french landed on our coast i would also speak of an invasion. they are teaching italian here at the centre. it is a story about security, integration, identity,
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it is far from over. hundreds of thousands of migrants made the long trek up from the mediterranean via the balkans and eventually landed in hungary. the police they are sealed off the main railway station to stop them from travelling further into europe places like austria and germany. nick thorpe reports from hungry on how the migration crisis changed that country. reporting on this border through the summer of 2014, 2015. i asked him what he was going to shoot, just biblical scenes he reported. the exit that year was astonishing. people sought refuge here in europe, 4000 crossed hungary. and a good proportion of them entered from serbia down this disused railway track. in all looks very familiar today only the crowds are missing. then hungary built
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a fence to stop them. this man first suggested it. he is a local mayor. i am very happy when the government built this border fence because we need this borderfence not only in 2015, not only today, but we need this border fence in the future. few migrants attempt to cross the fence today. those who do reach western europe have found other routes. the government sees the fence as an unqualified success. we don't like other people coming here, especially different religions. we know that they are not going to a by the rules and follow the european way of life because their culture is different. it is not a matter of racism or antiracism, it is a matter of common sense. back in 2015, the station
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in budapest was another bottleneck as tens of thousands of migrants tried to transit hungary towards northern europe. last year, only 500 people were allowed to seek protection here in hungary. a handful of human rights groups defend the right to asylum despite bitter government hostility. it is very clear that whatever the hungarian government has done in the field of asylum since 2015 is unlawful. it has become more difficult to stand up for refugees in europe particularly here in hungary, but it is still crucial that we do so. irani and artist and his 12 year son faced deportation when they lost their asylum bed, but the helsinki committee took their case to the top european court and they won. their new asylum requests will be handled this week. translation: i was in a prison, but then i understood that was just politics.
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i realised that people in hungary have big hearts and want to help us to be free. that they love refugees. i love hungary and would like to live here. soon they hope to leave this open refugee camp and start a new life here. asylum—seekers like them who get the support they need still get through. five years ago, the german chancellor open germany passed my doors to hundreds of thousands of people seeking asylum in europe. jenny hill was at munich railway station as germans welcomed the new arrivals. she has been backed to bavaria to meet some of the people involved in that moment that changed the country and still divides opinion today. we can do this, said angela merkel. it is five years since germany opened its doors and its arms to tens of thousands of people.
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many more would follow hoping for the same warm welcome. i was proud of germany because germany did not hesitate to help the refugees. carmen who speaks arabic was among the many volunteers who came to munich station to help. when we look back and today the situation today, all the doomsday scenarios did not come true. we could not have closed our doors. and it brought change to every part of germany. here in this conservative preparing town they had to accommodate and integrate around 200 refugees. translation: i still think it was a bit much to say that we could manage knowing full well it was up to each and every local mayor to have to manage. if other eu countries had shared this burden, we would not have had this level of political tension. if i could turn back time
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i would ask for much more help. instead, anger and fear on the streets. fuelled by high profile crime, a woman, these as the chancellor battled a right—wing backlash. during the time, mohammed who arrived in 2015 built a new life here. he learned german, got a job, had a family. translation: it is like my home. everything is good. we have residency like normal people. we have work, it is a good country. we have good neighbours. i like it a lot. the story is not over, not for those still trying to come to europe and not for those we met in this
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specially built refugee home at the edge of town. this man tells us he was 16 when he arrived in germany. he is 21 now and still awaiting permission to stay. translation: i don't want to leave. my future is here. what we witnessed here in 2015 was extraordinary. the euphoria, the drama, the anger, it has now faded, but you can still feel the consequences of that moment. a change politics, society and many of the people who arrived here back then have begun to put down routes. they too will shape this country's future. almost 900,000 migrants arrived in greece in 2015. today, the open arms welcome and sympathy for many greeks has evaporated. the government is determined not to allow the country to become a gateway to europe again. it is actively deterring new arrivals. although the numbers remained low well , well below the scene in 2015,
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the flow of people from turkey into greece by land and then threw the balkans into western europe has picked up again. we have this report from northern greece. the first sunrays of days, the first stirrings beneath the burnt out carriages of this rail guard in northern greece. and then they are off. these young men are mostly from afghanistan. waiting tojump on a train. it is a game of cat and mouse at the stop. this morning, the police win. they often do. 17—year—old boy has from pakistan. how many times have you tried to get on a train? six or seven times.
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everyone of them. they tried to on them because the problem of the police here, the police bow , the people of the police here, the police bow, the people leave this area. their next destination is greece's border. five years ago thousands took this route, a gateway to western europe through the falcons. look at these fields now. this border is shut. but migrants are now showing up again in smaller, but growing numbers. these men were just pushed back by border guards in north macedonia. when we came , we came across an afghan family trying for the sixth time to sneak through. the government says go from greece. so what do we do? we can't go back to afghanistan. we tried to go to another country. the welcome has gone cold
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in this little village. in southern greece, the mood is much the same. account built years ago to house hundreds of migrants now sprawled across the hills. thousands living in squalor, losing hope that there cases account built years ago to house hundreds of migrants now sprawled across the hills. thousands living in squalor, losing hope that there cases will ever be settled. we were not allowed to enter the camp, residence film for us.
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he shows us their food red gone multi—. there are far fewer arrivals on greek shores. look at how close turkey is. it is in touching distance to greece and they share a land border as well. earlier this year is when tensions rose between turkey and europe, turkey sent more migrants towards greece. it could do so again and right now it is the actions of greece which are causing concern as well. these videos appeared to show migrants being pulled by the greek coast guard out of greek borders back towards turkey in breach of international law. we obtain this photo from groups monitoring traffic. the un also says it has documented multiple cases. we are sending a signal that greece has legal borders, and that illegal crossings are not being tolerated
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but we do so within the law. life gets tougher for migrants under the conservative government here. in 2015, sweden was one of the most welcoming countries to migrants. its asylum policies have since become significantly stricter. five years ago, the bbc followed a young syrian woman as she made her perilous journey north. we have this report from sweden on how her life has changed. coffee with mum. a simple pleasure that she does not take for granted. they were separated as she travelled alone across nine countries to make it here. her father died in the war in syria. now she has learned swedish, got her driver's licence and a job in a food warehouse.
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i have my apartment, 'ob. so i feel like i am stable, and a confident person. what about making friends, settling in? they are a very close group the swedish people. you can'tjust go and be friends with a swedish person. do you have any swedish friends? no. she had hoped for a deeper connection, but still feels lucky to be here. that is because sweden, one of the most welcoming countries to migrants, changed its approach soon after she arrived. they limited numbers and making... for a centreleft government it was a major shift in government. it was a tough decision to make, but on the other hand, there was nothing else to do. 11a,000 people arrived to sweden in just four months. it would have been impossible for sweden to keep up that pace.
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so we had to be very clear that well if you are going to apply for asylum in europe, you have to choose other countries. crime is also a big issue here. in city suburbs he like this one where almost everyone has an immigrant background, there have been high—profile shootings in recent years and that has led to increasing numbers of swedes to vote for anti—immigration parties. although police say that most of the crimes are carried out by gangs and people who grew up here, not new arrivals. lots of local say they do feel safe even if they have lost friends. normal people don't have to be scared about that. if you are not involved in again, you don't have to be scared at all. but if you are involved in it, you better run. how easy is it to be successful if you come for a place like this to have a career, education? you only have two ways.
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either you play football or you do music. you don't have any other ways out. there is a strong push to improve life with a new police station and projects to help more people into work here and in other segregated neighbourhoods. it is a big challenge to enter thejob market if you don't have a network and progress as well. we facilitate meetings with ordinary swedes, but we match them on with people with the same background in the same sector. we have facilitated over 58,000 people to me this way with 24% getting a job or an apprenticeship through our programme. while some new swedes are making their way even in neighbourhoods that were already troubled, no one disputes that the decision to take in so many has brought challenges. challenges that are shaping the future here. five years since the 2015 margaret crisis, hundreds of people are still drowning
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in the mediterranean according to the international organisation of immigration. many west africans are making the perilous journey via the atlantic to the canary islands. some have been shipped direct and died, others have returned home voluntarily or forcibly. we have this report from senegal. the senegalese coast as a starting port for many migrants who aspire for europe or the canary islands in order to offer theirfamilies better living conditions. like many young senegalese migrants, he went to europe via libya. he started working in construction in libya. he was 2a years old. translation: one day roberts came in to the house around 9pm.
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they started banging on the door. before i opened it, i asked if they were arabs. they started shooting with guns and i was wounded in the leg. at first he could not get medical treatment because he did not have a passport, so his wound became infected and his leg had to be amputated. after spending a month in the hospital, it was impossible for him to find work or to stay in libya, so he asked to be repatriated. the senegalese who choose illegal immigration sometime start their dangerous journey from villages like this one. many lose their lives along the way and with more than 5000 deaths in 2017 in africa, migration is now one of the major causes of mortality according to the international organisation of migration. for those who return voluntary or forcibly, this charity is working with the local authorities.
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translation: as we get into the coordination and the vision of immigration policy, not much has been done. and we have a lot of progress to make. we need more resources and operational programmes that will attract the youth's interest and general profit. among the initiatives is the community radio, the second most populated city in senegal. the poverty rate is close to 30%. the income per day is less than $2. every wednesday, they have a programme that addresses communities on topics related to immigration. translation: we talk to these young men and their parents especially mothers. because a lot of them sell their assets for
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the departure of their son. sin settling here, 80 km from dakar, this man has been since settling here, 80 km from dakar, this man has been managing the only food shop in his neighbourhood. in his quest for survival, he has lost a leg, but regained dignity in his work. so many of the migrants who came here to europe in 2015 in huge numbers took enormous risks and embarked on dangerous journeys to escape conflict and find a better life. but the sudden influx of people sparked a crisis both humanitarian and political as europe struggled to respond. the impact of this mass migration is still being felt today. the migrants who came to europe in 2015 were hoping to find
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hello, thanks forjoining me. for this longer—range look at the weather over the next ten days or so let's start with the here and now because through the course of the weekend, things feeling fairly cool for the time of year and it's unsettled. so, blustery showers very much in the forecast. we got lower pressure and cooler air, in fact, sitting to the east of the uk. slightly warmer air mass out towards the west and in between those two areas, we've got these northerly or northwesterly winds. so, for saturday, those northwesterly winds deliver sunny spells and scattered showers. we got this line of showers here moving south across parts of england and wales, some brighter weather for parts of northern england, southern scotland perhaps during the afternoon, but frequent showers piling in across northern and western scotland. temperatures only about 11—14 , feeling coolest along that east coast where you've got the showers and quite a brisk, northerly wind around as well. so, blustery as we had through saturday evening and overnight into sunday, further showers around, too. moving into the second half of the weekend, this area of high pressure out towards the west tries to nudge its
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way in, so that will squeeze away the bulk of the showers. sunday probably the better day of the weekend in terms of some drier weather, a little bit less windy than saturday, so a touch warmer. we've still got this northerly wind down the east coast, so that could bring a few showers for eastern scotland, parts of eastern england as well. and temperatures somewhere between about 11—15 on sunday, feeling a little bit warmer than saturday, though, particularly where you do see the sunshine coming through. now heading through the course of next week, and after that brief area of high pressure, we're going to see low pressure returning from the atlantic to start the working week, so monday, quite a lot of rain across the bulk of britain. you can see some brighter weather moving into northern ireland, perhaps western scotland through the course of the day, but some of that ring could be quite heavy as it moves its way into east anglia and the southeast later in the day. and temperatures certainly on the cool side for the time of year, between about 9—111 on monday, quite windy with all that wet weather lingering as well. heading through monday night into tuesday, low pressure
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still with us, but it's just starting to sink away towards the near continent, so i think most of those showers are going to be drawn in on this northeasterly wind. so, pushing in across parts of eastern england, perhaps a few down into wales, the southwest of england as well. for scotland and northern ireland, you should start to see something a little bit drier and brighter through the day on tuesday as well. so, temperatures still nothing to write home about, only around about 11—14 on tuesday. now, that is going to be the theme into the middle part of the week. low pressure still with us sitting across central parts of europe, and we'll see rotating showers moving around that area of low pressure. so, for wednesday, pretty similar to tuesday. we got this cool, northeasterly wind bringing showers particularly to parts of eastern and southern england, too. a little bit drier and brighter for parts of scotland, northern ireland, wales and the southwest as well. temperatures at best about 11—14 , still on the cool side. now, let's look further ahead then towards the end of this coming week. the jet stream, we got two areas of strong jet winds out towards the southwest and another one there towards the southeast,
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and where you get those two kinks in the jet stream, you're likely to see two areas of low pressure, one to the southeast, one to the southwest. meanwhile, higher pressure starts to build in across the northern half of the uk, so that means something of a north— south split further ahead. scotland and northern ireland looking a bit drier and chillier, england and wales though unsettled. 0ften going to be quite windy with some scattered showers around. all in all, a fairly autumnal outlook.
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