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this is bbc news. the headlines at 4.00pm. extreme right—wing terrorist ideology was behind the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday, say the police. a �*disturbance�* at a london immigration removalfacility during a power outage — with reports suggesting it was caused by the detainees. disruption on the railways, despite a series of strikes being called off by the unions. thousands of people gathered in seoul to remember the victims of last week's halloween crush — many are demanding the president resign. they're anti—government and they're affiliated with the main opposition party. now, really, it's more of a protest than a vigil. ajudge in the russian—occupied donetsk region of ukraine
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who sentenced two british volunteer fighters to death is reportedly shot and badly injured in what appears to have been an assassination attempt. the us climate envoy, john kerry, is calling on richer countries to "step up" to help developing nations reduce their dependence on fossil fuels good afternoon. police say the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday was motivated by an extreme right—wing terrorist ideology. 66—year—old andrew leak from buckinghamshire threw up to three devices at the site. he is believed to have later taken his own life. the government has been facing widespread criticism for its handling of overcrowding
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at an immigration centre nearby. our correspondentjon donnison has been following the developments. a reminder this was an attack on a processing centre right on the quayside at dover, it is where migrants are first taken when they arrive on small boats. this attack on sunday morning, at least, possibly three petrol bombs thrown, to people lightly injured. what police said today, this is the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, after considering all the evidence collected so far, whilst there are strong indications mental health was likely a factor, he is satisfied be suspect�*s actions were driven by an extremist ideology, this means the threshold for a terrorist incident. and you mention the suspect there. what do we know about him? andrew leak, 66 and from buckinghamshire, he is believed to have taken his own life shortly after the attack. an inquest into his death is expected
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to open this week. police today saying they have been speaking to a number of witnesses during their investigation, collected evidence including digital media devices and they say this evidence suggests extreme right—wing motivation was behind this attack. he did have some apparent anti—muslim sentiment on his facebook page which has since been taken down but that is something the police are looking into. a group of detainees at a west london immigration centre caused a "disturbance" during a power cut on friday night. police and extra staff from the prison service arrived at harmondsworth detention centre near heathrow airport this morning. the home office said nobody had been injured and that the welfare of the people there was the top priority. earlier i spoke to to william neal — who's a detention outreach caseworker at the jesuit refugee service, visiting and supporting asylum seekers at harmondsworth.
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essentially, what we have are large institutions holding quite a large number of men, at harmondsworth it is over 600 men. it is most easily described as prisonlike conditions, the kind of image these centres are. the mood in those centres, what is that like? it can vary very greatly. following the protest last night, the move probably today is one where there is a lot of fear, anxiety. but in my experience, an overwhelming feeling of one of stress. you are holding individuals who don't really have a sense of control over their own future, they are at the hands of the government, of the home office. they have no real way of taking any of that control back. it is a great deal of stress. when there are 600 people
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who are under those stressful conditions, that gathers and there are times when things do rise up and that stress increases especially when there are greater pressures on the system. there definitely is likely a knock—on effect from the things we have seen in manston and these things don't happen in a bubble. that tense, that stress across the detention estate will be felt in the centres. what you are saying, are you surprised something like this happened? i don't know the exact details of what happened yesterday and i have not been in direct contact with anybody who was involved. these men who are in these centres have very little agency and very little control. the fact that when they try and raise issues in the past, and they are not heard, they don't feel they are listened to, the fact they protest
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and demonstration happened aren't unusual as the aren't unusual in the rest of democratic society. when people feel they aren't listened to, and process are one way people can raise their voice. the fact this was triggered by an outage on electricity may seem surprising to us on the outside but when you look at the bigger picture, these are men in very stressful conditions who have been taken away power, there has been no heating for 2h hours, the food provision has been cut off. it may seem a small instance to us but a power a footage, but when you are in this wider situation, something like that can have a huge impact on the man there. it isn'tjust the conditions, if you have no electricity, you have no ability to charge your phone, the sole thing you have is a person in detention to keep contact
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with the outside world, your lawyer, specialist agencies. it is a much bigger problem. we have heard from one government minister and he said it is a bit of a cheek for illegal immigrants to complain about conditions. what would you say to that? i think we have to be really, really careful about the words that we use and the rhetoric when we talk about anything to do with migration, especially people in power, they should know the weight their words hold. comments like thatjust show the complete disregard for basic human dignity that there is among some people towards people who are ultimately coming to the uk to try and reach safety. i would hesitate to think what would happen if the ministers were in the position where they had to flee, when they are seeking
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safety from another country and were subjected to such conditions as we have seen from the horrendous reports at manston. if the shoe was on the other foot, how would he feel about being treated like that and the derision and distancing and othering of that language? it is dangerous and that language is a trigger for the acts we have seen in dover. passengers have faced "significant disruption" on the railways, despite strike action being called off late yesterday. tens of thousands of rail workers had been due to walk out in the long—running dispute over pay and working conditions. strikes planned for monday and wednesday have also been cancelled — as negotiations between the rmt union and train operators continue. our business correspondent, marc ashdown reports. today's strike action may have been called off, but widespread disruption will continue. network rail welcomed the decision but said that services which had been cancelled can't be reinstated
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at such late notice. a reduced strike timetable means just 20% of services will run across england, scotland and wales. those which do will start much later and finish by the early evening. thousands of members of the rmt union at 14 rail companies, and network rail, are involved in this long—running dispute about pay, jobs and terms and conditions. we are at a late venue tonight, and then we are coming back tomorrow morning, so it will affect us. we are definitely affected by that, because i am going to london now and i have to take taxi back which costs us £200. the problem i findl is the information's not conveyed very well. so i know there's some trains running, but i don't _ from what stations or what times, at the moment _ the union said that previous strikes had made the rail companies see sense, and it looks forward to intensive negotiations to try and reach a settlement. the rail delivery group said it's glad the union stepped back from the brink, and it too is committed to negotiating, but it warned
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passengers will see disruption on monday as well, as it's too late to change strike rosters. the advice is to only travel if absolutely necessary. marc ashdown, bbc news. our correspondent luxmy gopal is at leeds station. what is it looking like where you are this evening? nice station is much quieter than it usually is, it is a very busy hub but the station is a lot quieter because it like many others across the country have been affected by the country have been affected by the disruption. as you mentioned, the disruption. as you mentioned, the strike action was called off but network rail say it was too late for full—time timetables to be reinstated in that time. here in these, like many other places, there are many cancellations. there were no services at all the running from here in leeds to london, manchester,
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nottingham, hole and other local stations as well. as you can see behind me, there are some trains around and there are some passengers heading to board their trains because there are trains coming and going but services are severely limited. the last trains for various destinations are departing within the next couple of hours. by about 6:30pm, there will be little movement here because the last train in and out of the station will be by 6:30pm at the latest. the passengers i spoke to here today, some of them were not aware of the impact on their services and turned up expecting to board the train. the passengers i spoke to who were aware of the strike action that had been scheduled for today, many were sympathetic with the cause and as we know, this is part of a long—running dispute overjobs and pay and conditions at the rmt. the rmt said while it was doing entering a period
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of intensive negotiations with network rail and train operators, and this is the first time in their long—running dispute that strike action has been called off. the advice from, many of the operators, northern teens, northern rail, passengers should not travel at all and less necessary. that is the wider advice from network rail who are advising you not to travel unless necessary and if you do have to travel, to check before you do so. the impact of the disruption will continue on monday where there was due to be strike action. wednesday, there was also due to be strike action but network rail are hopeful they can get the timetable running in time for services to be able to operate on wednesday. thank ou ve able to operate on wednesday. thank you very much — able to operate on wednesday. thank you very much indeed. _ thousands of people have been taking part in candlelit vigils in south korea, to remember the 156 people killed in a crush on halloween. the victims, mostly young people, were among around 100,000 people who had flocked to the popular
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itaewon nightlife district in the capital seoul. law enforcement officials have conceded that there was insufficient safety planning for a crowd that large, and opposition politicians have accused the government of not taking responsibility for the disaster. our correspondent nick marsh was at a vigil in the capital seoul. this vigil has been organised by one of the main civic action groups in south korea. they're anti—government and are affiliated with the main opposition party. it is really more of a protest than a vigil. the people i have been speaking to here all afternoon and into the night want the resignation of south korean president yoon suk—yeol. they say that he and his government are responsible for the tragic loss of life on saturday night. clearly, we know that there have been police failings. not enough officers were deployed on saturday night, there was nowhere
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near enough planning, huge numbers and little to no thought being put into things like crowd control. whether the responsibility goes all the way up to government levels, and ultimately to the president, will be something that south koreans will have to decide. but one thing is sure — over the course of this week, the initial grief and the shock felt by so many south koreans has turned into anger and has turned into a desire to get answers as to what went wrong. sinn fein�*s michelle o'neill has accused the democratic unionist party of using the brexit agreement as a "cover" to thwart democracy in northern ireland. her party became the biggest at stormont after an election in may, meaning ms o'neill is entitled to be first minister. but the dup have refused to enter into power sharing until its complaints about post—brexit trade rules are addressed.
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our ireland correspondent emma vardy told us more. northern ireland is in the grip of this political crisis at the moment. people have no government at stormont, no politicians in power, no ministers there to take important decisions which matter for public services. why is this happening? in may at the stillman selections, sinn fein for the first time in the history became the largest party, an historic moment for them, the first time a nationalist party had become the largest party in northern ireland. but they didn't get to take up ireland. but they didn't get to take up the first minister role, that is because the dup has been blocking the formation of a new power—sharing executive because of their deep opposition to the new brexit trading arrangements which have created a new border in the irish sea which units see as that in the main thing northern ireland's very place in the
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uk. that is preventing sinn fein�*s michelle o'neill from taking office in the first minister role. she was venting herfrustration in the first minister role. she was venting her frustration about the situation today. she made an accusation at the dup saying the dup was punishing people by leaving people in limbo without a government and she said she thought it was a dup didn't want to go back into governments because they couldn't swallow serving as a deputy first minister alongside a nationalist. she said they were using brexit as political cover for the real reason being theyjust couldn't stomach serving alongside her. the dup denies this, it says yes, it is ready to go back into a power—sharing executive and accepts the mandate that was given by voters at the ballot box but it says it will not step back into stormont while it has these big problems with the brexit arrangements, which it saysis the brexit arrangements, which it says is problems for businesses because it is more difficult to get goods from britain to northern ireland. michelle o'neill�*s messages
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going down well with sinn fein�*s supporters here. she was really attacking the dup today as you would expect at a sinn fein conference. not only a sinn fein having that electoral success in northern ireland but in the republic of ireland but in the republic of ireland as well, sinn fein�*s polling has been strong. they could become the largest party in the republic of ireland does well at the next island elections. forthe ireland does well at the next island elections. for the party's ultimate goal, which is to have a border poll, a referendum on whether northern ireland should leave the uk and became a united ireland, they feel the momentum is with them so they are optimistic today. the headlines on bbc news... extreme right—wing terrorist ideology was behind the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday, say the police a �*disturbance' at a london immigration removalfacility during a power outage — with reports suggesting it was caused by the detainees disruption on the railways,
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despite a series of strikes being called off by the unions. sport and for a full round—up, we'll go to the bbc sport centre. all the football to come — but first — great britain's giarnni regini—moran has won men's floor gold at the world gymnastics championships in liverpool. regini—moran edged out japan's daiki hashimoto, to become the first british man to win a floor title at a world championships, delighting the home crowd with his routine. britain'sjessica gadirova, who won bronze in the all—around earlier in week, has pulled out from vault england are looking good to progress — to the semi's of the rugby league world cup. they're in quarter final action, against papua new guinea. into against papua new guinea. the closing stages and live into the closing stages and it is live on bbc one. england currently
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up live on bbc one. england currently up at the moment, the score is 46 — six, i think it is at the moment. you can catch up with that on bbc one. tommy makinson with four of their tries. dom young among the scorers too. earlier, england's women women their second pool match — beating canada 5a points to 4. manchester city are down to ten men in the premier league. these are 3—1 down against bournemouth. neither had taken early lead but they've got the third there, bournemouth. forest is, 1—1. wolves are too— two against brighton. everton will kick off at home to leicester in an hour.
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celtic are involved in two games to date. sead haksabanovic with two goals. celtic hoping to move seven points clear, before nearest rivals rangers play tomorrow. elsewhere, ross county hoping to move off the bottom. in the championship, burnley�*s 16 match unbeaten run is over — as the leaders were beaten 5—2 by sheffield united — who now move three points behind them. and it's a busy day in the fa cup, with the first round — connor wickham scored twice — including a stunning long range finish as league one side forest green rovers avoided an upset in the cup. they beat northern premier league side south shields 2—0. it is nice to score personally but collectively, it is important for the lads, for the group and for the club to be in the hat. we knew coming here today was going to be difficult in terms of what we expected from them. it is one of the
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away draws that... we got the job done and we can go away and somebody can be the upset this weekend. at the t20 world cup, england's cricketers are into the semi finals — but they made hard work of it against sri lanka in their final group match. england had to win to progress — and restricted sri lanka to 141. pathum nissanka top scored with 67 before he was caught. england looked comfortable in their run chase — alex hales hitting eight boundaries as he top scored with 47 but wickets soon tumbled and england scraped over the line. chris woakes with the winning runs with just two balls to spare. england women have booked their place in the rugby union world cup final, beating canada 26—19. that scoreline will tell you, that this was a real battle, with the canadians proving to be a real test for the red roses in auckland and what a moment for abby dow, who had been out for 9 months, after leg surgery but scored
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a match winning try. so its an 8th world cup final for england, and their 30th victory in a row and they will face defending champions and the hosts new zealand in next saturday's final. scotland bounced back from their loss to australia last week with victory at home to fiji despite trailing 12—7 at one point, gregor townsend's men ran out comfortable winners in the end at murrayfield. they scored four converted tries including this powerful effort from duhan van der merwe shortly after the break to win 28—12. that's all the sport for now. england have beaten papa new guinea in the rugby league. i'll have more for you in the next hour. a russian—backed judge in occupied ukraine who sentenced two british men to death has been shot and badly injured. it appears to have been an assassination attempt. the britons , who were captured while fighting in the ukrainian army were later released by russia. our europe regional editor,
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paul moss is with me, now first of all, who exactly was alexander nikulin? he was a judge on the supreme court in donetsk in eastern ukraine. the asks one of the regions that declared independence back in 2014 supposedly before the russian invasion, and he had presided over the supreme court. he was notorious in britain because of sentencing to death two men as well as a moroccan who was fighting alongside them. they were not in the end sentenced, but when he passed the sentence he said their clients merited it, they were terrorists and mercenaries and he was working on unshakeable principles ofjustice. very clearly at the heart of the russian backed administration in eastern ukraine. this isn't the first time that someone working for the russian backed administration has been attacked, is it?—
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backed administration has been attacked, is it? there have been about 20 attacks _ attacked, is it? there have been about 20 attacks on _ attacked, is it? there have been about 20 attacks on officials, . about 20 attacks on officials, elected representatives and now a judge. they had been attacked in various ways, some had been shot, blown up, one was had by a car bomb and one was poisoned by his own share. we don't know how many were successful assassination attempts simply because of these people faded from view afterwards. some have died, the deputy mayor of kherson was shot dead. these operations continued. they seem to have picked up continued. they seem to have picked up in the last few months in particular. when it comes to the judge, do we know who is responsible? we don't know who is responsible for theirs or any of the attacks. some people have suggested this could be nothing to do with the invasion, so mad about gangsters, local business rivals. most people think it is ukrainians attacking the russian invaders and seeking to attack anyone who works with them. the russian backed authorities have blamed ukrainian government and say
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they are terrorists. the ukraine government has not taken responsibility for any of these attacks. it is a good reason why they would not. any attack like this would constitute a war crime under the geneva convention. you are not allowed to send in assassins to kill civilians even if they are working with an occupying army. the government in kyiv is not shedding crocodile tears. it has call the people they get partisans. it says it is investigating 1500 ukrainians who have worked with the russian backed authorities who could be charged with treason if and when ukraine is fully retaken by the ukrainian authorities. bier? ukrainian authorities. very interesting. _ ukrainian authorities. very interesting. do _ ukrainian authorities. very interesting. do you - ukrainian authorities. very interesting. do you think. ukrainian authorities. very interesting. do you think this will make any difference? the ukrainian government— make any difference? the ukrainian government certainly _ make any difference? the ukrainian government certainly thinks - make any difference? the ukrainian government certainly thinks so. - make any difference? the ukrainianl government certainly thinks so. they may not be taking responsibility for the attacks were what they say is, it makes it harder for russia to occupy ukraine if people who would work with their regime know there is a risks in doing so. the fact is,
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this doesn't look good for moscow. russia claims to have our next four regions of ukraine, the russian boss mike the ukraine troops every taken most of it. even in those areas where additions are still occupying, they don't have control because people appear to be able to operate with impunity, assassinating their officials. it would be crass to call this a pr victory but i think we can say it is another sign of a ship's invasion of ukrainejust say it is another sign of a ship's invasion of ukraine just isn't going according to plan. invasion of ukraine 'ust isn't going according to plan._ according to plan. thank you very much. according to plan. thank you very much- we — according to plan. thank you very much. we will— according to plan. thank you very much. we will be _ according to plan. thank you very much. we will be following - according to plan. thank you very much. we will be following that l much. we will be following that story as it develops. the us climate envoy, john kerry, is calling on richer countries to "step up" and provide money to help developing nations reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. speaking to the bbc on the eve of the cop—27 climate conference in egypt, mr kerry praised the development of renewable sources of energy, but said the war in ukraine and the cost of living crisis had slowed progress.
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is there loss? is there damage in places in the world? yes, i mean, you'd be an idiot if you didn't acknowledge the challenges we face. and obviously those countries with greater means across the board, and that includes some developing countries who have greater means, need to also step up and help in this transition. but we don't view it, and we are not going to view it as compensation, we are going to view it as our efforts to try to help countries be able to adapt, be able to become more resilient, and obviously to address the challenges that they face as a result of some of the losses and damages. twitter�*s new owner elon musk has defended his decision to sack about half the firm's workforce without warning. mr musk said the social media platform was losing large sums of money every day. he's insisted twitter�*s commitment to content moderation remains unchanged, despite the loss of key staff and anxiety among advertisers.
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in an interview, elon musk revealed that twitter was losing around $4 million a day, meaning costs had to be cut. he promised twitter wouldn't degenerate into what he called a "free—for—all hellscape' when content moderation is loosened. but advertisers including general motors have withdrawn their business, which is likely to lead to a drop in revenues. and now twitter faces lawsuits from the hundreds of employees over the way they were fired. the twitter co—founder has tweeted, after the sackings. folks add to it and present are strong and resilient. they will always find no matter how difficult the moment. i realise many are angry with me, i own the responsibility for why everyone is in the situation. he continues to say, i grew the company size too quickly. i apologise for
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that. he carried on... now it's time for a look at the weather with stav. it is an another unsettled weekend. we've got low pressure nearby, strong winds at times. today wet, the rain is confined to the south—east corner of england and then we will see clear spells and showers following on from many places into tomorrow. there is low pressure out into the atlantic, the first weather front bringing in the showers. this area of cloud and rain will hang around across the south—east to the evening and overnight, further north and west will see blustery showers moving into some of these areas. a mild night to come in the south, cooler further north are not as cold as it has been. low pressure firmly in control for sunday, we will continue to see showers around,
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the rain in the south—east continues and it'll be wet in places with the risk of localised flooding. elsewhere, clear spells in sunshine around and blustery showers again. they could be thunder. and while day to came across the board. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: extreme right—wing terrorist ideology was behind the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday, say the police. a �*disturbance' at a london immigration removalfacility during a power outage — with reports suggesting it was caused by the detainees. disruption on the railways, despite a series of strikes being called off by the unions. thousands of people gathered in seoul to remember the victims of last week's halloween crush — many are demanding the president resign.
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