this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: a un warning about the levels this is bbc news. of migrants fleeing conflict our top stories: and poverty, who are now trapped on the edge of the eu: trapped on the edge of the eu. the desperation of migrants fleeing conflict and poverty global concerns grow as they try to seek asylum. about the safety of chinese tennis player, peng shuai, we have a special report unseen since accusing a senior government official from the bosnia—croatia border. of sexual assault. global concerns grow about the safety of the chinese tennis player peng shuai, this was the scene in february unseen since accusing a senior government official 2020 in the chinese city of wuhan, days after it was of sexual assault. shut down as a new virus spread we're all pretty worried, through the city's population. given what's happened over the last couple of weeks and that, really, that was the start of the right kind of contact and communication with the coronavirus pandemic, peng shuai has but the exact origins of the virus are still unknown. not happened yet. a us state governor halts two places in the city feature the execution of convicted prominently in the numerous killerjuliusjones hours theories of where before he was due to be put to death. the virus came from. president biden considers a diplomatic boycott of the beijing winter olympics in protest against china's

human rights record. one is the huanan wet market, a market selling live animals where several of the earliest and lady gaga tells us cases were detected. about channelling her childhood experiences into her the other is the wuhan new film house of gucci. institute of virology, which is known to have been studying coronaviruses in bats for over a decade. well, i had known about a discrepancy between the who reports december 8 on this individual welcome to our viewers and a scientific paper that suggested his symptoms began on pbs in america and around the globe. on december 16, across eastern europe, from belarus to the balkans, and i pointed that out people are fleeing conflict and poverty in their homelands, in my article, which then went out to anonymous peer reviewers trying to reach the and one of the peer reviewers european union to seek asylum. was obviously someone who spoke in recent days, the focus and read chinese and passed has been on the crossing between poland and belarus along this video that actually showed medical and dental where tensions have been high records from this individual as hundreds of migrants which showed that on december clashed with border forces. 8, what he actually had but there are other routes that people are using to try to enter the eu. was a dental issue with one of the most popular retained baby teeth that needed is through bosnia into croatia. to be pulled, and in his own according to the un, voice, he says in the video since 2018, 75,000 people have that his covid symptoms

moved through bosnia began with a fever and tightness in his into neighbouring countries. chest on december 16. the bbc�*s fergal keane travelled with a family of afghan migrants so, that's how you found the accountant wasn't trying to make the journey, the first known case, and that was just publicly and sent this report. known information that you found it through? near the croatian border, yeah, it was out there a refugee family butjust had not been — is waiting to cross. the dots had not been connected. akram was a television engineer in kabul. zarah was a policewoman the person that you are saying, in herat, but fled in 2016. mrs y, is the first baby sara was born in greece, known case was actually backed up by the who report as well, is that correct? where the family had a previous asylum request denied. we are countryless. we are illegally on the border. well, interestingly, what should we have to do? i don't think that she actually they say they've been pushed appears in the who report because there is no report of a vendor back from croatia 39 times — at the huanan market once, they allege, with force. with symptoms that early, but clearly, she was a case, she's been interviewed they came and hit my husband, by the wall streetjournal, she was interview in person and i said, in this video that i watched, and in fact her symptoms might "why are you hitting even go earlier my husband?" and they hit me also in my face and said, "shut up." than december 10.

who will help us? by december 11, she visited a clinic, the life become like hell but she may have felt for us, for all of us. ill before that point. some migrants wait right, and so that gives us in abandoned factories the seafood market looking from which they can easily like it has the majority of those early cases reach the border at night. and is potentially a superspreader event. but in order to answer others, in temporary this question, about whether the theory reception centres like this, links back to a lab leak, run by the united nations. you're saying that cases may have happened in november that we need to track down. how concerned are you by the numerous reports is that correct? yeah, it's possible of pushbacks that are that the earliest cases started in november and that there was happening in this region? a small chain of transmission we see many of the migrants that we haven't actually sampled with actual patients. but what is really clear themselves being returned back. and really the take—home message from my article was that you can'tjust dismiss we see that they've been the pattern of so many early deprived of their shoes, cases coming from this one wet market they're being deprived that sold the same sorts of animals that brought us the original sars, that more of their basic goods, than half of the first patients identified seemed and sometimes, really, of their dignity. the croatian government didn't respond to have worked there. to a request for comment, pretty great. but has already denied kelli masters is an attorney and this place is the size a policy of pushbacks, and advocate forjulius jones. of a football pitch, and says it upholds its legal shejoins me now from oklahoma city. obligations to asylum seekers. a soccer field. it's small. briefly, does this three policemen were suspended i understand thatjulius asked you to speak at his clemency

after being accused discount the lab theory? hearing. what is your reaction of violence against migrants. to this, and have you spoken to yeah, it really throws but only the snows, a tremendous challenge to that due here soon, him since? i theory because there's are likely to slow no indication of early cases near the market the desperate attempts to this, and have you spoken to him since?— and there's really to reach the eu. him since? i spoke to julius in the hours _ him since? i spoke to julius in the hours leading _ him since? i spoke to julius in the hours leading up- him since? i spoke to julius in the hours leading up to - him since? i spoke to julius in no good way to explain so many the hours leading up to what l him since? i spoke to julius in l the hours leading up to what we thought was going to be his early cases at this particular wet market it'sjust after execution. i have not been unless it started from 5:00 in the morning and the family is preparing given the opportunity to speak for another attempt to him since we received the a wild animal at that market. at crossing the border. call from the governor that his dr michael worobey there. we'll go with them sentence had been stopped. we as far as we're allowed were very relieved tonight. to on the bosnian side. let's get some of let's just see what happens julius is still alive. and i do believe that the governor's position was at least, in the day's other news. if they're able to cross. sparing his life, it was rescue teams in canada there's fear that are trying to reach 18,000 baby sara will cry and alert border guards. correct, and at least people stranded by floods acknowledge that even the governor had some doubt about and mudslides in the western she's really fast asleep now. province of british columbia. although water levels are starting to recede, we must leave in this way. julius's gill. entire towns remain cut off governor had some doubt about julius's gill-— and many roads are blocked. julius's gill. what did you say at the hearing? _ if she wake up, especially there are fears that julius's gill. what did you say at the hearing? at _ julius's gill. what did you say the flooding could cause at the hearing? at the - julius's gill. what did you say| at the hearing? at the hearing nationwide shortages. i was essentially _ at the hearing? at the hearing i was essentially given - at the hearing? at the hearing i was essentially given a - at the hearing? at the hearing the cricketer azeem i was essentially given a few. rafiq has apologised at the border, she will cry, i was essentially given a few minutes to really hear about and said he had "absolutely no julius himself. we had already excuse" for using anti—semitic language in messages covered the facts at the case. on social media from 2011. and the people that i spoke about my own meetings two days ago the former player are close to the border will call the police. gave evidence to mps with julius as i spoke about my own meetings withjulius as an advocate and attorney and that i believed in about racism he'd experienced so, we'rejust within cricket, calling

coming up to the border. him, i believed in his his treatment inhumane. they've seen a car innocence and i also believed rafiq also later apologised on the other side, on thursday for an instagram which they suspect meme containing a saying is croatian police. that public safety would be so, what do you plan to do? preserved even if he were to be we have to cross. released with the man that he relating to african people. thisjourney has already is today and that he could really make a difference with germany has announced tough measures to exclude his voice. really make a difference with his voice-— the unvaccinated from taken nearly 4,000 miles. really make a difference with his voice. ., _ i. , his voice. you say you believe in his innocence. _ certain public events. his voice. you say you believe in his innocence. what - his voice. you say you believe i in his innocence. what happens healthcare workers and next? has in his innocence. what happens next? �* , ., in his innocence. what happens next? ~ , ., ., next? as of right now, under the existing _ several hours later, employees in care homes will be next? as of right now, under the existing executive - next? as of right now, under the existing executive order, j the existing executive order, julius has no options. he is obliged to get the vaccine. life in prison, which is germany's lower house of parliament approved new measures including certainly better circumstances than being on death row. he restricting access to public transport and workplaces to people who have been will be allowed to live with vaccinated or tested. akram sent us a video some freedoms that he didn't have before but we have to wait for possibly another governor of the families inside croatia. before we seek additional the united states says relief. ., , it is considering a diplomatic so, we are here, before we seek additional relief. . , .,~ , relief. the family takes boycott of next yea r�*s we are in croatia now. comfort _ relief. the family takes comfort in _ beijing winter olympics. relief. the family takes comfort in the - relief. the family takes both democratic and republican lawmakers have called the police came comfort in the fact - for a boycott to protest relief. the family takes - comfort in the fact decision and put them in this van. reaffirms the guilt ofjulius jones may have said they felt against china's human rights because greece refused asylum, croatia can reject them, re— victimised about the abuses. movement to free him. what do a diplomatic boycott would mean but it must first check you say to their concerns? i athletes would still compete at the games but government officials would not attend. their background and status. speaking to reporters during a meeting with instead, they say have grieved for the family, the canadian prime minister, mr biden was thrown they were pushed back — again. they have suffered a great loss the question. are you going to keep trying? and they have suffered ongoing

pain. in my opinion, and i am very familiar with the would we have a diplomatic trying again? transcript of the record and boycott of the beijing olympics? boycott of the bei'ing olympicsvfl boycott of the bei'ing ol mics? ., , olympics? that is something we are considering. _ yeah. information that has come earlier i asked ian bremmer, president and founder we have to do. forward since the trial that we don't want to be hopeless. of eurasia group, whether this every time when the police was either never presented at is a sign the relationship are deporting us, the trial or not discovered, between the us and we say to ourselves, china is still rocky. ok, no problem, their investigation prior to we will try to go again. their investigation prior to the trial, i do believe in it is a better time croatia, europe want to in the relationship. stem the flow of migrants. the last couple of weeks but there's no way home now, julius's innocence. and while i were marked both by the chinese no way forward. fergal keane, bbc news, bosnia. believe in his innocence, i expressing willingness to engage with the americans directly on climate understand the family deserves at the cop26 and then an over justice. we could not execute three—hour meeting between the americans and chinese at the head of state level former women's world number one serena williams has joined the wrong man. i do believe where they are trying to find several other tennis stars ways to lower the tensions in expressing concern over thatjulius was misidentified in the relationship. the whereabouts of chinese we don't yet have an announcement of a diplomatic and framed as the shooter in boycott, despite the fact professional player peng shuai. that is clearly where the biden this case, and i think it is an administration had been absolute tragedy that the real heading before the summit, before the virtual summit, the 2—time grand slam doubles champion hasn't been seen and there is a lot of pressure on the americans right for two weeks, since she accused china's former killer has already been in and now because, of course, vice—premier zhang gaoli out of prison and is now biden recognises that he did lose some vote in 2020 in swing of sexual assault. doubts have been cast released and i am just... i states from working—class folks who believe he was on an email supposedly written soft on china. just believe that punishing an by the tennis star saying that she's safe and well. 0ur correspondent robin brant innocent man certainly is not reports from shanghai. i can tell you the biden white for years, peng shuai has let her racquet do the talking going to bring healing to the family and is notjustice. than and she has risen to the top. house, if it was up to them,

a star in a sport where family and is not 'ustice. an advocate h there aren't many family and is not 'ustice. an advocate for _ family and is notjustice. an advocate forjulius jones, they are trying not chinese success stories. thank you very much forjoining to have a diplomatic boycott at 35, she is someone us on the programme. of the olympics. thank you very much for 'oining us on the programmeh thank you very much for 'oining us on the programme. thank you the ruling communist party morning and i think that is so much- — leaders could be proud of. stay with us on bbc news. but an allegation about one still to come: how lady gaga drew on her own experience of those senior party figures of abuse to prepare for her changed that. role in ridley scott's if it does go ahead, this diplomatic boycott, new film, house of gucci. would it make much difference? in this social media posting earlier this month, especially if the athletes peng named vice premier are still going to compete? zhang gaoli, who she claims he forced her benazir bhutto what makes the difference to have sex with him. china's state censors removed has claimed victory at the end of the day is how the posting within an hour. in pakistan's general election, peng hasn't been seen in public the beijing olympics or heard from since. and she's asked actually go. pakistan's president to name her as prime minister. we know that china right now if recent history is any guide, has zero covid policies so this jackson's been released on bail will be much tighter bubble few people are allowed of $3 million than we have seen at tokyo and if you have a couple to publicly challenge after turning himself in of cases, there's a complete senior authorities like zhang gaoli to police in santa barbara. shutdown of events. that's one issue. secondly, you have a number without paying some it was the biggest i of athletes that are going kind of price for it, demonstration so far to be raising serious concerns and i think it would be telling if she were able of the fast—growing _ about forced labour and camps to leave the country, european anti—nuclear movement. for example, and speak freely, in xinjiang, human rights the south african government where she would not face has announced that it's opening abuses, about the issue of this the kinds of repercussions the country's remaining chinese tennis star whites—only beaches that has not been heard that the chinese to people of all races. from except for an alleged government can impose if she's still e—mail written by her inside the country. after she said that then, in the middle a former vice premier had sexually harassed her.

of the night, an email appears, next week sees the release of a new film called house or at least what one arm of gucci, directed of chinese state media says this will lead to a by ridley scott. is an emailfrom peng shuai black majority government the singer lady gaga in this country plays patrizia reggiani, who served 18 years in jail to the head of the women's tennis association. and the destruction of the white civilisation. for hiring a hitman to kill her part of the centuries—old and basically the message is, windsor castle, - former husband and label boss maurizio gucci. "do not worry, i'm fine one of the queen's residences, to prepare for the role, lady gaga says she drew has been consumed by fire on the abuse she suffered "and i didn't mean for much of the day. - as a teenager. what i said two weeks ago." 150 firemen have been here's our entertainment in what looks like battling the blaze, - 00:08:17,985 --> 2147483051:40:53,708 which has caused millions. 2147483051:40:53,708 --> 4294966103:13:29,429 of pounds worth of damage. correspondent lizo mzimba. heart of glass by blondie plays. a screen shot, it was a name that it's claimed she started out saying, "hello, everyone." sounded so seductive. in 1998, patrizia reggiani was convicted of arranging she went on to say the murder of herformer the allegations made two weeks husband maurizio gucci, ago were in fact false of the gucci fashion empire. to play her, lady gaga and she has immersed herself in months "just been resting at home." of preparation. "everything is fine," she adds. i don't consider myself to be prominent people do disappear in china. the tech billionaire jack ma a particularly ethical person. wasn't seen in public for months after he finding the pain the character criticised state regulators. but athletes? experienced as a woman that's unusual. in a hasty response, in a male—dominated world came the man to whom the email from lady gaga's own past. was reportedly sent, wta's chief steve simon, what was the most relevant about my personal experiences, said he had a hard time lizo, was the trauma that believing i have been through in my life peng actually wrote it. — being assaulted when i was 19 by a music producer. i think people in the tennis world i took from every trigger point that i could find, would like to see her, so it was very painful. hearfrom her directly, perhaps see her having

a tennis hit, a practice, things that she's done the singer has spoken since she was eight years in the past about how, old and first picked before she became one of music's biggest stars, she suffered not one up a racquet. but multiple sexual assaults, leading to post—traumatic all this comes as this country prepares to be at the centre of the sporting world when beijing hosts stress disorder. the winter olympics next february. a games that is already facing the prospect of some kind of boycott over what the us i have complex ptsd, says is genocide against so that's not single—incident ptsd, it's multiple incidents. chinese uyghurs in the i used all of them at different west of this country. times, in different moments robin brant, of the script. bbc news, shanghai. it's what i was compelled to do a us state governor has halted for the role because i thought the execution of prisoner to myself "well, there is simply no other answer juliusjones hours before for why she would have he was due to be put to death. her husband murdered". julius jones was sentenced gucci needs new blood. to death for the murder of paul howell, during a car—jacking in 1999. goodbye, 1930s. hello, '80s! he has always maintained his innocence. his case has attracted high—profile support, including from reality star, kim kardashian west. she says the film's director, ridley scott, was constantly concerned... the murder victim's family said house of gucci's coming! ..that she was immersing they recognised the governor herself too deeply into painful had a difficult decision memories. to make, but said they took comfort that it affirmed the guilt ofjuliusjones. reliving your trauma 0klahoma state representative for a character is maybe not forrest bennett welcomed the governor's the healthiest thing, but i'm a romantic.

i have a romance with this decision. script, a romance with my victory for the people of character, a romance oklahoma is that the system with the cast. works the way it should. to it was, i think, in a way, those who disagree, julius is therapeutic, in the way that — what he called it was an exorcism. not free tonight. but he is i relived all of this to play her. lady gaga, thank you so much for your time. also going to go to sleep thank you, lizo. tonight and wake up tomorrow and in the last few minutes we have heard that india's prime minister, narendra modi, has announced a repeal of farm laws which saw hundreds of thousands of farmers protest for almost a year. president modi made the surprise you turn in an address to the nation at 9am india time. there's much more on the bbc news website and app, including a report on how deforestation in brazil's amazon rainforest has hit its highest levels in over 15 years, according to official data. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @marklobel.

hello there. who'd have thought, by the middle of september we'd still be experiencing temperatures during the middle of the afternoon into the mid teens? that's exactly what happened on thursday with temperatures peaking just over 16 degrees in parts of aberdeenshire. now for many, we are under this influence of high pressure and a south—westerly flow is driving in a lot of cloud, but a lot of warmth with it. yes, a weather front into the far north, but it means that we start off on an incredibly mild start this morning — these are more akin to daytime maximums at this time of year. so, double digits quite widely first thing. the cloud, however, thick enough for a spot or two of drizzle — quite a damp, murky start out to the west — and our weather front producing some heavy, persistent rain to the far north of scotland and the northern isles.

top temperatures, though, with a little bit of brightness into eastern scotland, maybe north—east england, once again 14—15, maybe 16 degrees. however, that front will gradually sink its way south through the weekend. it's a cold front. it's allowing the wind direction to change to a northerly and to bring quite a different feel to the weather as we go through the weekend. so on saturday, it will weaken off considerably as it moves its way through northern ireland into northern england. ahead of it, we should get some sunshine. to the north of that, it will be a cooler feel with a scattering of showers — temperatures struggling to get into double figures by then. now, saturday night into sunday, the front continues to sink its way steadily southwards. we can track the isobars all the way back up into the arctic. that cold air is starting to take hold. it means in sheltered, rural parts of scotland, we could see a touch of frost first thing on sunday morning. sunday, there will be some sunshine but a keen northerly wind driving in some showers potentially along the coast. and factor in the wind direction and the strength, it is going to feel noticeably cooler, so temperatures

struggling to get into double figures right across the country. but watch this — those clear skies continue through the night. temperatures are likely to fall away in scotland and the north of england. we are likely to see more of a frost as lows get down to —2 in one or two places, so a bit of a shock to the system in comparison to what we've had just lately. and in fact, to close out the month of november, it is going to stay on the cold side. the potential for some wintry showers later in the week with overnight frosts as well.

this is bbc news. the headlines: many of tennis�*s leading stars have expressed concern for the top female chinese player, peng shuai, who hasn't been seen since accusing a senior chinese official of sexual abuse two weeks ago. chinese state media has released an email attributed to peng, but doubt has been cast about its authenticity. a us state governor has halted the execution of prisoner juliusjones hours before he was due to be put to death. in 2002, jones was sentenced to death for killing a man in a car—jacking incident. after several appeals, his sentence has now been commuted to life imprisonment. president biden has said the united states is considering a diplomatic boycott of next yea r�*s winter olympics in beijing. athletes would compete but us officials would not attend. the us and china are in dispute over human rights abuses, trade and taiwan.

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