tv Newsday BBC News September 23, 2022 12:00am-12:30am BST
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welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. the russians fleeing their country to avoid president putin's partial mobilisation of military reservists to fight in ukraine. when i refused to take the call up when i refused to take the call up papers and officials said suit yourself. but you will be sent to prison for ten years. back in ukrainian hands, but still under russian attack: we report from the city of kupiansk. unrest spreads across iran sparked by the death of a woman detained by the �*morality police�*. her father says, they lied about how she died.
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i asked them why you didn't transfer her to the hospital early and they said the ambulance key was lost for 20 minutes and they couldn't find it. can you believe this? and anger over violence against women in south korea after a shocking murder highlights the country's weak stalking laws. hello and welcome to the programme. we start in russia — where many of its citizens are trying to escape the military mobilisation announced by vladimir putin yesterday by leaving the country. tickets for direct flights between russia and serbia have sold out. president putin's order to mobilise three hundred thousand russian reservists to fight in ukraine — led to protests yesterday, at which more than a thousand
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people were reportedly arrested. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from moscow. called up by the kremlin, they set off for ukraine. russian reservists, now part of vladimir putin's war. there were scenes like these across russia. a sense of shock at the first mobilization here since world war ii, and apprehension at what lies ahead. child cries. "daddy," cries a child, as another group departs. but there was anger too, outside a recruitment office. the protester says, world war ii was a real war, but this one is just politics. protesting in russia can be dangerous. mikhail was detained at an anti—mobilisation protest in moscow.
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he says that down at the station, police tried to give him call—up papers. translation: when i refused to take the call-up papers, - an official said, suit yourself, but you'll be sent to prison for ten years. she said it was against the law to refuse the draught. the public�*s being told the motherland is in danger. the message from the russian authorities to the russian people is we had to call up the reservists, the west is trying to destroy us, nato is waging a war against us — this is a fight for russia's future. but some russians have now concluded that for them there is no future here. at russia's border with georgia, the queue of cars was unusually long as some russian men of fighting age tried to leave the country. i heard some speeches... viktor has decided to leave
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russia because of the call—up. viktor is not his real name. he's asked us to hide his identity. there is a choice, for example, you go and you kill innocent people or you go to jail. i decided i don't want to make this choice. i'm better to live my life somehow, i don't know, from abroad. up until now many russians have tried to block out what's happening in ukraine and get on with their lives. the call—up of hundreds of thousands of reservists has changed that. reality is starting to hit home. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. that's the picture in russia — meanwhile, russia's conduct in ukraine has been strongly condemned at a special meeting of the un security council. the american secretary of state, antony blinken said president putin had shown contempt for international law and the world must not let him get away with it.
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his comments came as the ukrainian military continues to make gains in the east of the country. our senior international corrspondent orla guerin reports now from the newly liberated city of kupyansk. this is kupyansk, a shattered city. ukraine calls it liberated territory. during our visit, it doesn't sound that way. shelling. every few minutes, more shelling. and it's soon very clear that war isn't far away. exlposion. come on, come on, come on! well, we've just had to run and take cover in the building. there has been what sounded like heavy incoming fire. it's pretty clear that
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the russians are continuing to target kupyansk, even though they've been pushed out. dangerous. understood, understood — they want us away from the blast, yeah. a few minutes ago we heard the russian helicopters doing some shelling, and it was nearby us so we need to go to save your life, and go from there, this city. is this happening a lot in kupyansk, a lot of attacks? yes, yes. every day kupyansk is under russian shellings and russian artillery. quickly, quickly. now ukrainian forces a back looking for signs of life. they are few and far between. some don't have a bad word to say about theirformer
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don't have a bad word to say about their former occupiers. "they treated people normally," oleksander tells me. "there was no torture, nothing like that. "for us it was no different with them or without them. "they were here but it feels like they weren't. "they came and then they left." he says most here with ukraine. either way they are now caught in the middle. with shelling back and forth. i asked liliya how she copes. "i do nothing", she says. "i stay home and pray that nothing hits the house". ukraine's victory here is messy and incomplete,
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there are untold stories of suffering here. and some believe sooner or later the russians will be back. orla guerin, bbc news, kupiansk. earlier on thursday former russian president dmitry medvedev and now the deputy chairman of russia's security council — an advisory body to the kremlin said that moscow could use nuclear weapons to defend annexed ukrainian land. he said... the donbas republics and other territories will be accepted into russia." "russia has announced that not only mr medvedev was, of course, talking about plans to hold what russia is calling "referendums" in areas of ukraine occupied by russia. the us has been keeping a close watch on these developments. earlier the white house national security spokesman
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john kirby spoke with my colleague laura trevelyan. tomorrow the kremlin will start the referendum in russian occupied territories in ukraine. by wednesday of next week do you expect that russia will declare those territories are part of russia? i think that's where they want this to go. we believe that these will be sham referendum, they won't be legitimate, they certainly will be free or fair. they are designed, they are preordained to allow mr putin to say, look, this is russian territory. and now ukrainian attacks are are on the motherland and not on ukrainian territory which is of course not true. as you heard our national security adviser say, we're not to recognise that. so many other nations around the world aren't recognise that. this is nothing more than a ploy by vladimir putin to try
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to gain through some legitimacy through politics and electoral issues that which he cannot gain militarily. but it's not going to work. no one is going to recognise it for them and what needs to happen is mr putin needs to leave ukraine and stop this war. but isn't the problem that president putin could say in the middle of next week that russia's territory has expanded and any ukrainian attacks on what he now says is russian territory could even be met with a nuclear response? he said he's not bluffing. do you believe him? we do think part of the reason he's going to conduct this referenda is so he can claim russian ownership over territory that is clearly ukrainian so he can use it to justify further military operations against ukrainian armed forces look, we heard this rhetoric about nuclear weapons and weapons of vast destruction since almost the beginning of the war. so you don't believe him? we take these comments seriously we have to take the threat seriously and we do and we have been for seven months.
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we've been monitoring best we can his nuclear capabilities with up i could tell you we don't see any indication need to change our posture at this point. but it's irresponsible for a modern nuclear power to be talking about the potential use of nuclear weapons in that way. nobody gains from this. that's what you heard the president said yesterday nuclear war should never be bought and it cannot be won. but it's freaking out countries in the region. the president of turkestan told the general assembly that there needs to be a dialogue between east and west because there is talk of using nuclear weapons not as a loss resort. it is a dangerous president for mr putin to be using this kind of rhetoric in the context of a war clearly that he is losing inside ukraine. we're gonna continue to monitor as best we can and make sure that we can do what we have to do to protect our national security interests and those of our allies and partners. john kirby white house national
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security speaking to my colleague. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. four people have been arrested in iceland for the police say semi automatic weapons have been seized as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition for the iceland arrest first recorded in the country to possible terrorist activity. giorgia meloni has held her final rally ahead of this weekend's italian election. she's is widely predicted to win and become the first female prime minister in the country. appearing alongside silvio berlusconi and matteo salvini she spoke about law and order — a theme the far right brothers of italy party have made a central plank of their campaign. translation: among the people scared of us are drug dealers, thieves, rapists and members of the mafia. and they are absolutely right to be scared because we will guarantee everyone's security by enabling
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our police for that we will guarantee justice by forming systems with seriousness and guarantee jail sentences by building new prisons. because when you are found guilty and handed a sentence you need to be jailed. the bank of england has warned that the uk could already be in a recession as it raised interest rates to their highest level for 14 years. the base rate has gone up by half a percentage point, to 2.5%, as the bank tries to curb soaring inflation. protests in iran have spread to more than 80 cities and towns on the sixth day of unrest — triggered by the death of a young woman after she was arrested by the so called "morality police". 23 people are reported to have been killed so far, but according to our correspondent that figure could be higher. rana rahimpour has this report.
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women across iran are setting their hijabs on fire. they are tired of being beaten up by the morality police for not observing strict islamic dress code. their anger was sparked by the death of this woman, mahsa amini. she wasjust 22. she was arrested by the morality police in tehran earlier this month. they said she wasn't wearing the mandatory hijab properly. they say she died of a heart condition, but eyewitnesses say she was beaten up in the police van. her father told me she was a healthy young woman with no medical condition. translation: i still cannot believe she's dead. - i don't want to believe she's not alive. iranian state media are saying she had health conditions before, but that's a lie. the medical report was full of lies. the government has cut the internet in much
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of the country so it's hard to get accurate information at the moment, but last time they did this, three years ago, they killed hundreds of people. with thousands of people protesting across the country, there are fears that far more might be killed this time. protests are quickly spreading across the country and they are no longerjust about clothing — it's about regime change. now, men, next to women, are standing together, chanting "death to the dictator". but for iran, change comes slowly. the iranian president, who is at the un, insists that hijab is a personal choice. but even in new york he demanded that the world—renowned broadcaster christiane amanpour wears a headscarffor an interview. this was refused. but the same refusal in iran is costing lives. rana rahimpour, bbc news.
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you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme.. traffic and forced to work as slave labour. we speak to a human rights expert about a new cyber scam. ben johnson, the fastest man on earth is flying home to canada in disgrace. all athletes should be clean going into the game. i'm just happy that justice is served. it is a simple fact that this morning these people - were in their homes, _ tonight those homes have been burnt down by serbian soldiers and police. i all the taliban positions along here have been strengthened presumably in case americans invaded. it's no use having a secret service which cannot preserve its own secrets against the world.
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and so the british government has no option but to continue this action even after any adverse judgment in australia. the concorde would cross the atlantic faster than any plane than ever before, breaking the record by six minutes. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore, our headlines. the russians fleeing their country to avoid president putin's partial mobilization of military reservists to fight in ukraine. in iran, unrest in 80 towns and cities — sparked by the death of a woman detained her father says, they lied about how she died. in a special investigation, the bbc has spoken to victims of a new scam which is being ran by human traffickers
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to capture people and force them to work as slaves in illegal cyber activities. workers are lured to south east asian countries with the promise of lucrative newjobs. instead — when they arrive — they're captured and forced to work in makeshift offices — scamming people online. let's speak to elaine pearson — who's the new asia director at human rights watch. she joins us live from sydney. great to get you on the programme. in terms of how this works, talk us through this. are you seeing a rise in numbers here?- are you seeing a rise in numbers here? , . ., , numbers here? yes, we certainly are. this numbers here? yes, we certainly are- this is— numbers here? yes, we certainly are- this is a _ numbers here? yes, we certainly are. this is a new _ numbers here? yes, we certainly are. this is a new phenomenon. l are. this is a new phenomenon. this is a modern form of slavery. in the past we would see women and girls being trafficked, being duped into false promises of work and ending up in factories or brothels. now what we are seeing is people from countries as diverse as china, vietnam,
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lord to cambodia on the promise of work for the time times is working a call centre, food processing but when they get there they find that actually, they are being forced to scam others on line. and the scams are often like fake romantic relationships but all about trying to get as much money as they can out of people that they can out of people that they meet on line under false pretences. and if they refused to participate in this, if they try to escape they've been beaten, they been tasered and in some cases people have even been killed. in some cases people have even been killed-— been killed. the information that you're _ been killed. the information that you're getting - been killed. the information that you're getting is - been killed. the information that you're getting is really. that you're getting is really shocking. these people, they ones that have fallen into this scam and become victims, unfortunately, many of them as i understand it educated, computer training. that's quite different from the sort of demographic we've seen in other sorts of illegal scams or human
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trafficking of this nature. talk us through why that is happening and how that's changed. it happening and how that's changed-— changed. it is a really different _ changed. it is a really. different demographic. changed. it is a really i different demographic. i changed. it is a really - different demographic. i think this is partly a reflection of covid. and the downturn in the economy. many people have lost theirjob reflection of how much time that are spending online who are lonely, isolated and so the online space has become rife with exploitation. many of these young people are computer literate. some of them speakforeign computer literate. some of them speak foreign languages. because the people they are scamming our people in china, australia, the united states and so i think this is a really concerning new form of slavery. it also means thick tactics to fight and tackle this online world is different. just briefly. _ world is different. just briefly, what - world is different. just briefly, what are - world is different. just briefly, what are the l world is different. just briefly, what are the tactics needed to fight this kind of modern slavery, as you put it?
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firstly, this couldn't be taken placing cambodia if it wasn't for officials basically doing nothing, turning a blind eye to this with several of the investigations have also noted that some of the locations where people are being held in empty casinos or empty buildings are buildings that are owned by people who have seen your connections to the cambodian government. what we really need to see is more pressure on the cambodian government to inspect these workplaces for that we've seen a new report by the un's special repertoire who has said we also need to look at how people can obtain help whether it's people can obtain help whether its online through facebook, special messaging apps, there needs to be more awareness of the scams. but they really need to be enforcement for them and that means the perpetrators who are conducting these abuses really need to be held to account.
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really need to be held to account-— really need to be held to account. ., ~ i. . really need to be held to account. ., ~ . ., account. thank you so much for “oininu account. thank you so much for joining us- _ let's turn to south korea now, where the shocking murder of a young women last week has led to widespread anger — after it highlighted the country's weak stalking laws. the man suspected of stabbing the subway worker to death had been stalking her for many years and was due to be sentenced the next day. the government has since made promises to strengthen the law to protect victims, but politicians have been criticised for not taking violence against women seriously enough. our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie reports. what should be a safe space now a shrine to a young subway worker stabbed to death here by a suspect who had been stalking her for years. horrified, people have come to express their anger, sorrow and fear.
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where have we gone wrong writes this mother, now questioning whether to let her teenage daughter travelled to school alone. he was due to be sentenced for stalking the day after her murder for the police had asked the courts to detain him while they investigated but they are request was denied. this murder has exposed weaknesses in south korea stocking laws. korea stalking laws. it's proof people write, korea isn't doing enough to protect young women. translation: | feel angry i for the women are continually being stopped and attacked. in our politicians are ignoring it. people say south korea is safe but as a woman in my 20s i think it is very dangerous. flowers from remorseful politicians decorate the funeral home. her family tells us they never used to worry about their daughter, she was so smart and
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independent, she never told them what was happening. only her lawyer knew. she reveals how the victim had written to the judge begging for him to be put in prison so he couldn't hurt her. was this woman failed by the current law? translation: yes, in part she was. - we were not able to protect her. this is now the eighth victim. we cannot miss this opportunity to act. but despite these promises anger was rife. we will fight to the end, they shout. people here feel that this murder is symptomatic of a much bigger problem in korea. that women here are just not safe and violence against women is not being taken seriously enough. translation: we all feel connected - through this one death. we fear it could happen to any of us. this isn't about the law.
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what we need is to change the authorities attitude towards victims. they are not hoping for a watershed moment, change has failed to materialise too many times before. instead these ribbons symbolise a safety net to try and promised to protect each other. and finally — roger federer is gearing up — for what will be the last match of his illustrious career. the 20 time grand slam singles winner — will play for europe against the rest of the world — in the layver cup which starts in london on friday. he announced last week, that he'll retire after the competition, which means the curtain will come down after friday's doubles match, when he's due to partner his great rival and friend — rafa nadal. what a way to end your career and what a match that will be.
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that's it from us here. thank you so much for watching. tuesday with bbc news for the latest global headlines and analysis. hello there, we had a real mixture of weather around on thursday. it was pleasantly warm across southeastern areas. temperatures in hampshire and cambridgeshire reached 21 celsius, 70 farenheit. temperatures are going to be dropping over the next few days. it looks like it's going to turn particularly cold at night—time. we have the cooler air moving down from the northwest, it follows this band of cloud here that brought a lot of rain into cumbria. that rain is now sliding its way down towards the southeast and east anglia where we start the day with some rain. elsewhere, further north, clearer skies means it's going to be a much colder start here, particularly in eastern scotland and northeast england where we will start with some sunshine. it looks like it's going to be quite a cloudy
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day across east anglia and the southeast, some rain from time to time. it should cheer up in the midlands and much of england and wales away from the southeast will be dry with some sunshine, scattering of showers come in on the northwesterly breeze to scotland and northern ireland. and temperatures may struggle to around 15 to 16 degrees. still sitting at 18 or 19 though with that cloudy damp weather towards the south east on that weather front there, which is only very slowly moving away. around this area of high pressure, we're going to drawn down that northerly breeze bringing in that cooler air and may be bringing in a scattering of showers this time on saturday for central and eastern parts of england. further west likely to be drier and it should be a dry day with some decent amount of sunshine for scotland and northern ireland. still the threat of a little rain in the far southeast of england but should be moving away and typical temperatures will be around 16 degrees or so on saturday afternoon. saturday night though could be quite cold around this area of high pressure. we've got that chilly air, never really establishes itself because this is going to be quite a feature of the weather as we head through the latter part of the weekend and into the start of next week.
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a lot of dry weather to come on sunday but with that approaching deep low in scotland and northern ireland, the winds will be picking up and in the northwest we'll see some outbreaks of rain, sunny spells elsewhere, mind you. still on the cool side after quite a cold start, the temperatures around 15 or 16 degrees. i showed you that deep area of low pressure on the weather front that's going to be sliding southwards overnight and on monday it'll bring a spell of rain. but following on from that, we'll find the winds turning to distinctly a chilly direction and a much stronger northerly wind will drop the temperatures early next week.
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