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this is bbc news. our top stories: the row over british plans to send migrants to rwanda heats up. the high court gives the go—ahead but the uk's future king is reportedly not so keen. more misery for mariupol with warnings of the risk of cholera and other infectious diseases as the dead go unburied. pop starjustin bieber cancels a number of shows after being diagnosed with an illness that's partially paralysed his face. and how the shamans of peru are trying to help the national football team qualify for the world cup.
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welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. prince charles is reported to have privately described the british government's policy of sending migrants to rwanda as "appalling". the comments, reported in the times newspaper, emerged after the high court ruled that the first flight taking asylum seekers from the uk to the central african country could go ahead next tuesday. we have more on his comments in a moment but first, here's the bbc�*s mark easton on the legal proceedings. is it lawful to give people seeking asylum in the uk a one—way ticket to rwanda? telling them to pursue refugee status thousands of miles south in east africa? the first migrants are due to make thatjourney next tuesday with campaigners today failing in their legal bid to stop the removals. the high court in london heard from home office lawyers that six asylum seekers who had been due to be deported have had their removal directions cancelled, but thejudge was not persuaded to halt
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the flight carrying 31 others, dismissing arguments that the policy is unlawful. the government welcomed thejudgement. campaigners said the fight goes on. no, it's absolutely not a landmark day, and doesn't — it is important to note this isn't the substantive hearing, so this isn't in any way a vindication of the home secretary's policy — that is still to be tested in the courts in the next few weeks. the lawyer representing those trying to stop next week's flight, raza husain, pointed out that the home office has repeatedly claimed that their rwanda policy has been given the green light by the unhcr, the un agency responsible for the refugee convention. "that's misleading and incorrect," he told the judge. the united nations has used rwanda for several years... priti patel has consistently claimed her deal with rwanda is lawful, under the refugee convention. this agreement is comparable with all our domestic and international legal obligations. but in court today, a barrister for the un told thejudge: not
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notjust once, but on numerous occasions, it was claimed. after the deal was signed in kigali in april, the un had two meetings with priti patel and told her the arrangement broke international law. the government's legal team, however, interprets the convention differently, noting that more than 10,000 asylum seekers have risked their lives crossing the channel in small boats already this year, and arguing there is a significant public interest in a policy that will deter people from making those journeys and undermine the activities of criminal people smugglers. around 100 asylum seekers are now in immigration detention, threatened with deportation to rwanda. in brook house near gatwick, some have been on hunger strike. 0ne syrian spoke to the bbc. a translator has voiced his words. translation: i came to the uk because it's the only place - i have connections to.
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my brother, my uncle and my aunt live here. if i end up in rwanda, my future and the future of my two kids will be destroyed. the home office had always expected a legal challenge and welcoming the high court decision tonight, the home secretary insisted she will not be deterred. however, campaigners have been given permission to appeal against today's judgement. the matter to be decided at a hearing on monday, just hours before the flight to kigali is due to take off. mark easton, bbc news, at the high court. we've been speaking to polly mackenzie, a political commentator, about prince charles reportedly calling the government's rwanda policy "appalling". charles, who will be king — potentially sooner than we might wish, given her majesty's ill—health — his position is unique and he has to have a constitutionally independent role. he has to find a way to be neutral and, essentially,
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a sort of a counsellor to the government of the day, but it's not his call what the government does. in the end, they are voted in by a democratic system. and, you know, charles has made these blunders, i guess you might call them, or has been outspoken throughout his life. there have so often been controversies. again, lots of them on issues where i tend to agree with him — around the kind of housebuilding that we do or around the importance of nature — but i think it will be a challenge. of course, having spent — unlike the queen, who has spent almost all of her adult life as the monarch — charles is now in his 70s and is still only the heir to the throne. i think that adaptation will be challenging and it's a reminder, i'm sure, for him and those around him that even private remarks can so often become a public controversy so quickly. i think it is also just worth mentioning that it's probably come to light because he will be representing the queen in kigali at the commonwealth heads of government meeting. polly mackenzie there.
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ukrainian officials are warning that humanitarian conditions in the russian—occupied city of mariupol have deteriorated so far that there's a risk of diseases such as cholera and dysentery breaking out. the exiled deputy mayor of the southern port city says bodies are still being discovered in the ruins, there's a lack of doctors, and food and water are in short supply. our correspondent nick beake has more from kyiv. the big concern is that the dire conditions in mariupol, this city of death and destruction, are ideal for the rapid spread of this disease among the 100,000 people who are still said to be living there. tonight, the ministry of health here in ukraine have told us they actually have not recorded any official cases. and that's not to say they do not exist, but they say it is more a case that they cannot do any testing there because the russians are not allowing people in and out. this is a city where it is very hard to get any information from — communications are poor — but earlier today, we were able to speak
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to one ukrainian woman, anastasia. she said that her mum managed to flee a week ago and left behind a city where the corpses are not being buried, where rubbish is piling up in the streets, as the temperature rises as we go further into the summer, where there are very few medical supplies, where sewage is mixing with drinking water, and any rations that the russian soldiers are giving out are simply said to be not sufficient. so, tonight, russia may well control the city of mariupol but it stands accused of failing to provide the very basic services to the very people it says it has gone in to liberate. police in brazil say they've found apparently human remains in a river near where a british journalist was last seen in the amazon rainforest. the organic material is being sent for forensic analysis, along with blood found earlier on a suspect�*s boat. dom phillips and the brazilian indigenous expert bruno pereira were last spotted on sunday in the remote javari valley, one of the largest indigenous
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territories in brazil. the suspect, a fisherman, was arrested with illegal possession of ammunition shortly after the two men went missing. president biden has warned that the forces behind the deadly insurrection at the us capitol last year remain a threat to democracy. his remarks came after an explosive congressional hearing where the former president donald trump was blamed for an attempted coup which sparked the violence at the capitol in january last year. our north america editor sarah smith's report contains some strong language. man over 2-way radio: we have a breach of the capitol! _ never—before—seen footage of rioters storming the capitol was designed to shock. because you'll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength and you have to be strong. cheering and applause. as the committee promised to demonstrate, donald trump deliberately orchestrated this attack.
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president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. i mean, i saw friends with blood all over their faces. i was slipping in people's blood. all chant: usa! usa! _ the first police officer to be injured in the attack described the sheer scale of the violence. what i saw was just a war scene. it was carnage. it was chaos. all chant: hang mike pence! hang mike pence! _ as the crowd chanted "hang mike pence," the vice president, the committee says trump agreed with them — "mike pence," quote, "deserves it". donald trump has denied ever thinking or saying hang mike pence, and on his social media channel says: the committee will produce more evidence over the next couple of weeks that they hope will convince people donald trump conspired — illegally — to try and overturn the election. but they can't actually bring
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criminal charges against him — they're trying to convict him in the court of public opinion. president biden calls the january sixth attack a "brutal assault on democracy". it's important the american people understand what truly happened and to understand that the same forces that led january sixth remain at work today. testimony from committee witnesses was used to show that trump knew the election was not stolen. i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was bleep. even his daughter and senior adviser agreed. i respect attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. it is an historic evening... the prime time broadcast commanded attention... it shows donald trump at the centre of a violent plot to overturn... ..but it may not convince an audience who have largely made up their minds about who's to blame for the capitol attack. trump—supporting tv channels like fox refused to air the hearing live.
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the whole thing is insulting. in fact, it's deranged, and we're not playing along. five more hearings will provide more detail about what committee members say amounts to an attempted coup in america. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. earlier, i spoke to us conservative national talk show hostjennifer kerns. i began by asking her about the claim that donald trump responded to chants calling for the vice president to be hanged by saying "he deserved it". well, remember, that was testimony that liz cheney was reading — that was from somebody else's mouth, what they said that donald trump said — so look, in an actual court of law, notjust a congressional hearing, i believe a judge would rule that as hearsay, so we really need to hear from trump himself. i think we are going to be hearing more from him — he certainly had his reaction today — but i am not 100% sure that he actually said that. i think they missed the mark on two points, if i may.
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number one, they presented a lot of evidence and quite convincing, you think, that the proud boys and the oath keepers were involved in this plot to interrupt the elections. this was a months—long plot — seven, eight months in the making. well, thatjuxtaposed against what they said previously, up until last night, is that donald trump somehow spontaneously whipped people into a frenzy and that he was the cause of the capitol attack, so you can't have it both ways... you know yourself, don't you, that he spent weeks whipping up the discord with his false allegations of fraud in the election and he had spent weeks making those claims, hadn't he? well, he began to promote this stop the steal rally i believe it was december 15, only two weeks before, but one thing i think the panel should have addressed — and liz cheney said they will plan to address this in one of their next five hearings — is this issue that so many millions of americans still have issue with, which is was there actual voter fraud? maybe not enough to overturn the election, but americans
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have been told for the last 18 months that we are not allowed to speak about it, we're not allowed to ask questions and we just saw yesterday in america, in this city of philadelphia, a long—time democrat operative plead guilty to election interference and election fraud... but, you know — i am sorry to interrupt — there has been no evidence found that this selection was stolen. even if the attorney general at the time has said it, republicans themselves have said it — there has been no evidence shown that this election was stolen? well, look, there was never really a full audit of the elections after 2020. i will not go back and relitigate that. ifully accept that joe biden is the president. but i do believe there was a level of election fraud in some cities. as ijust mentioned, an elections operative in philadelphia — don't forget,
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philadelphia was the city where hundreds of thousands of ballots showed up overnight and we need to hear more about what that gentleman may have been involved in — the guy who pled guilty yesterday — so, i think there's still a lot of questions. that is why 70 million americans still have some questions about those november elections. hopefully, they'll get to the bottom but i think it remains to be seen with these next five hearings. jennifer kerns. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we'll take you beneath the waves off the coast of england for what's been described as the most important maritime discovery for the last a0 years. the day the british liberated the falklands.
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and by tonight, british troops have begun the task of disarming the enemy. in the heart of the west german capital, this was gorbymania at its height. the crowd packed to see the man who, for them, has raised great hopes for an end to the division of europe. it happened as the queen moved towards horse guards parade - for the start of- trooping the colour. gunshots the queen looks worried, but recovers quickly. - as long as they'll pay to go see me, i'll get out there and kick �*em down the hills. what does it feel like to be the first man to go across the channel by your own power? it feels pretty neat. it feels marvellous, really. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: the row over british plans to send migrants to rwanda heats up.
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the high court gives the go—ahead, but the uk's future king is reportedly not so keen. president biden has announced that the leaders of 20 countries attending the americas summit in los angeles have endorsed a plan to address mass migration. speaking on the final day of the summit, mr biden said that the declaration outlines specific measures to address the phenomenon. the us has seen record numbers of people reaching its border with mexico every month. let's hear now from david willis, our north america correspondent. this declaration reflects the biden administration's support for legal migration and its opposition to illegal migration, and it concludes measures designed to make legal migration into this country more orderly and much more refined, if you like, much more orderly, and it seeks to spread the burden
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for combating the problems of illegal migration more evenly amongst countries that are neighbouring to the united states. now, president biden has said that this will be an historic commitment, it will transform, as he put it, the management of migration in the americas. but whilst it allows the biden administration, undoubtedly, to claim that something substantive did come out of this summit of the americas, experts are saying that a lot of the language is rather woolly and vague, that we've seen these sort of measures suggested in the past, and that there is really very little new here. right, and also, some leaders were not there, were they? that's right, and much as the white house might seek to portray this as a unified gathering, it was, in the end, anything but. there was that boycott not only from mexico, but also from the leaders of guatemala, honduras, bolivia and el salvador.
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now, those are all countries which contribute a large number of migrants to the flow into the united states and the united states was looking to this — the biden administration, certainly — as a means of rebooting its relationship with countries in the region. i think that it's done very little to do that. if anything, it's revealed the differences between them. he's trying to very much stress the difference between himself and donald trump, isn't he? very much so. donald trump was seen as very combative, of course, and one of the only leaders in south america that he really got along with was jair bolsonaro from brazil. mr bolsonaro was at this summit of the americas, but you're absolutely right, lucy, there was little love lost during the course of the trump administration. president biden now rapidly seeking to rebuild fences that were damaged by his predecessor. david willis there for us. justin bieber has revealed he has a health condition that has left his face partially paralysed.
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the 28—year—old canadian singer told fans on instagram that he has ramsay hunt syndrome, which has forced him to cancel tour dates. i've been speaking to doctor and icu medical director dr andrew pastewski. the big thing everybody thinks about when you have facial paralysis, when something is not moving, is everybody thinks about a stroke. and strokes can be devastating, especially atjustin�*s age, that's a big deal. but it's not what's actually happening with him. what he's happening is one of other two common causes of facial paralysis. one that everybody�*s familiar with is bell's palsy, which is caused by the herpes simplex virus, but what he has is ramsay hunt syndrome, which is a little different. it's caused by the same virus as chickenpox. and it is actually
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a reactivation of the virus from the chickenpox in his neural cells in the face, specifically the eighth cranial nerve that presents in a way where he has facial paralysis and one side of his face doesn't work, it also develops a rash which can be fairly painful, and also infectious, because the rash can pop and particles can infect other people. and it also presents with hearing issues, which, for someone likejustin, is the real concern, because as a singer, hearing isjust as important as smelling is to a cook. and how long can it last, these symptoms? so, typically, this is resolved within three to five weeks. bell's palsy, which is the better—known entity, 95% of those cases resolve completely. however, ramsay hunt is not as good as bell's palsy. the numbers are about 84—85% resolved completely, but there are people who will develop permanent
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hearing loss, and it is a known disability to have ramsay hunt syndrome with permanent hearing loss or facial paralysis. and can it be worse if you're particularly run down? he says in the video he thinks it's his body's way of telling him to slow down a bit — can it be affected by that sort of thing? well, this should not happen in someone with a normal immune system. this is very similar to shingles, which is the second activation of chickenpox, in most people, when they are elderly and immunocompromised, this is a similar entity where it should not happen in a normal person, and the fact that it happened to someone so young and in such decent shape does indicate that he probably was very run down, working his body way too hard, and not able to have an immune system that could respond and fight this off, and it is probably evidence
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that he was working too hard. football now, and the line—up for this year's world cup is almost complete. there are two spots still up for grabs, and in the coming days, we will find out who'll be filling them. new zealand are due to take on costa rica, but first, peru face australia. and the peruvians are looking for some spiritual help as the bbc�*s tim allman explains. chanting when it comes to world cup qualification, the shamans of lima are leaving nothing to chance. these ancient rituals involving flowers, plants, seashells and some football posters are aimed at bringing good fortune — both a mystical ceremony and a sort of spiritual team talk. translation: we've carried out a victory ceremony. - there are 13 shamans because they play onjune 13.
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we have foreseen peru passing to the next round. peru will be present in the qatar world cup because we've seen the people's joy. but the people are taking no chances, and nor are their pets. a special event with dogs decked out in the colours of the national team. if the shamans don't do the trick, this should seal the deal, surely. translation: we'rej excited peru will win, and this parade will encourage them. with support both divine and canine, victory must be a formality. tim allman, bbc news. a 17th—century ship which sank off the coast of england has been located, and experts say it's the most important maritime discovery since the mary rose was raised a0 years ago. here's joe black.
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beneath the surface, 30 miles off the great yarmouth coast, lies the gloucester, a 17th—century warship which came to a tragic end. it sank 340 years ago after hitting the sandbank. on board was james stuart, duke of york and future king. he survived, but it's estimated up to 250 people did not. since 1682, the vessel remained half buried on the sea bed and its exact location was unknown. now we know that it's been discovered, it has caused much excitement with some saying that this is the most important maritime find since the mary rose. artefacts recovered from the ship include pipes with tobacco, spectacles with spare lenses, and bottles, some with wine still inside. and there's also the ship's bell. it was julian and lincoln barnwell�*s quest for a new challenge that led to this discovery. the printers from norfolk are also professional divers.
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four years and 5,000 nautical miles later, they found the gloucester. so, i was kneeling on the sea bed and surrounded by just a fantastically huge cannon. and there was more than one, a group of them. and ijust knelt there, took the moment in, for probably five minutes and just, just... just unbelievable, just one i'll never forget. he popped up, and normally you take all your kit off, because it's really heavy. he was so pumped with adrenaline, he just climbed up our stainless steel ladders, hand extended, and said, "we've found her." ifell over, didn't i? you did! then he fell over! many will want to see the gloucester raised, but whether that's even possible is still to be determined. for now, this fascinating time capsule remains on the sea bed. jo black, bbc news, great yarmouth. that is just amazing the wine survived all the time. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @lucyegrey.
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hello there. a bit like on friday, the weather this weekend is looking rather mixed. there will be some warm spells of sunshine, but there will also be some blustery showers. most of those will be across the northern half of the uk once again. now, on friday, we had some torrential, thundery downpours pushing eastwards across scotland, quite a few showers for northern ireland, but further south, lots of sunshine. just look at that view across london, you could see for miles. now, if you are stepping out early in the morning, in the sunshine across england and wales, temperatures of 13 or 1a degrees. further north, though, there is more cloud, some wetter weather, particularly in the north—west of scotland. we've still got some very high pollen levels on saturday across england and wales. those levels are dropping a bit
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across northern england and north wales, perhaps because there will be a bit more cloud around on saturday and maybe a few more showers, too, but further south, probably going to be dry. most of the showers coming in across northern ireland and scotland, some longer spells of rain in the north—west of scotland and windy in scotland with some gales in the far north of the country. and it may be a little bit cooler in scotland and northern ireland on saturday, but warm in the sunshine for england and wales. it will be breezy here, certainly some brisk winds blowing across trent bridge again on saturday for day two of the test match. should stay dry, really, through the rest of the match itself. those westerly winds tending to ease down. that's really because that low pressure is bringing the windier weather and most of the showers, but that's moving away as we head into sunday. so, it won't be as windy on sunday. there will be a scattering of lighter showers i think across scotland, northern ireland and perhaps the far north of england,
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but head further south across england and wales, more in the way of sunshine, not much cloud and with lighter winds. again, it will feel quite warm. temperatures this time, 21 degrees in london, perhaps 15 in the central belt of scotland. the start of next week sees one area of low pressure then moving away. another one coming in from the atlantic, these weather fronts approaching the north—west, they're not going to give much if any rain on monday, but we will see more cloud coming into scotland and northern ireland. the winds will be lighter across england and wales and we will see some spells of sunshine coming and going. temperatures, again, not changing much, 16 to 22 degrees, but south—eastern parts of the uk could get very much warmer later next week.
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this is bbc news. the headlines: the heir to the british throne, prince charles, is reported to have criticised the government's policy of sending some migrants to rwanda. the times newspaper says prince charles expressed his opposition in several private conversations. royal officials have refused to comment, but didn't deny the story. london's high court has ruled that the first flight to take migrants arriving illegally in britain to rwanda can go ahead next week. thejudge dismissed campaigners' attempts to win an injunction to stop it. charities and a trade union had launched a challenge against the uk government's controversial plan. ukrainian officials are warning of the risks of an epidemic in the russian—occupied port of mariupol because of the poor humanitarian conditions there. the city's mayor,
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who's now sought safety in ukrainian—controlled territory, has alleged there were already cases of cholera, dysentery,

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