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this is bbc news. i'm lucy grey. our top stories: investigators seize more classified documents from president biden's home in the us state of delaware. thousands of israelis take to the streets against benjamin netanyahu's right wing coalition in what could be the biggest anti—government protests in a decade. the british prime minister says he has confidence in nadhim zahawi, after the conservative chairman admitted to what he called a "careless" error with his taxes. turkey condemns the burning of a copy of the quran during a protest in sweden, describing it as a "vile act".
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six more classified documents have been found in the us justice department's search of president biden�*s home in wilmington, delaware. mr biden�*s attorney, bob bauer, said in a statement that the president offered access to his home, and neither he, nor his wife, were there during the search. (biv)0ur north america correspondent peter bowes has the details. this search took place on friday. news of it has only just emerged. we know that according to mr biden�*s lawyer, access was given to this private residence for the department ofjustice to carry out what sounds like a very exhaustive search of the entire property. officials were there for more than 12 hours, looking through private areas of the property, looking through documents and they did find six that were marked as classified. we understand some of those documents date back
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to mr biden�*s time as senator. he represented delaware for more than 30 years, others date back to his time as vice—president in the obama administration. the nature of the documents we don't know that, just like we don't know the nature of the documents that were discovered previously at a private office that he used to use in washington and also it emerged a week or so ago that some documents were found in his garage, also at his private home. as you said, he wasn't there at the time, the first lady wasn't there either, but full access was given, according to the lawyer, to allow them to as expeditiously as possible continue this investigation. they must be keen to try and draw a line under this. the republicans must be enjoying it. it's been going on for a while now. the comparisons are drawn, aren't they, between president biden and donald trump's find of classified documents.
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the differences is there had to be an fbi search of donald trump's residence rather than a sort of opening of the door, as president biden would see it. exactly. that is the key difference, at least according to mr biden, and those close to him, he is fully cooperating with this investigation. the allegation was there was resistance from donald trump and his team. that is a criminal investigation that donald trump is facing, special counsels have been appointed in both cases so there is an investigation into these documents that are related to mr biden�*s time in office as vice president and as we know, much earlier when he was a senator. protests in israel against plans by the new right—wing government to overhaul the judicial system have gone on into the night.
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there were more than 100,000 protesters in tel aviv and thousands more took to the streets in other cities. it's the largest demonstration since benjamin netanyahu's return to power last month. from tel aviv, tom bateman reports. they came in their tens of thousands and brought central tel aviv to a standstill, accusing israel's coalition of a coup against democracy. i am a student, a law student and once i heard about the reform in the legal system, i was shocked. we, as a student protest, are against it and want to save our democracy. protesters railed against mr netanyahu, back in power with the country's most religious nationalist coalition ever. lawyersjoined in, slamming plans for changes to weaken the power of the courts, with the prime minister himself on trialfor corruption. 0pposition leader yair lapid was there, calling for people to keep fighting until they win.
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translation: this is a - demonstration for the country. people have come here today to defend its democracy, defend its courts and defend the idea of coexistence with the common good. mr netanyahu dismisses these protests as inflammatory, saying they ignore the will of the voters. he says israelis elected a full right—wing government and voted for security. others here highlighted israel's decades—old occupation of the palestinian territories. they are deeply worried about a government that is committed to what they call exclusive jewish rights to all the land. police are estimating numbers were greater than last week when they said there were at least 80,000 people protesting. that would make this certainly the biggest anti—government demonstration in israel in recent years. this drumbeat of protesters is putting israel's old divisions back on show.
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but the liberals and the secular of tel aviv know theirs are the views that have long been moving to the margins in israel. tom bateman, bbc news, tel aviv. dr sara hirschhorn, an historian and political analyst, told us more about the judicial reforms protesters are angry about. israel has been rocked by debate about reform with thejudiciary, the israeli high court, which is equivalent to what might be considered a supreme court in the united states, which provides a check and balance on the legislature, or the israeli knesset, especially since israel does not have a formal written constitution and is governed by a set of basic laws. so the judiciary provides interpretation and will opine on the legitimacy of the knesset�*s legislation. that is sort of based on precedent, presumably? yes, in addition to the basic laws, thejudiciary also considers judicial precedent.
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and people are worried they are trying to make these changes and a lot of the criticism is about in relation to mr netanyahu's court case, which is currently still going on, isn't it? tell us where we are with that. sure, mr netanyahu has been on trial for quite some time, he is facing three charges of corruption and other issues of malfeasance that would make him unfit for government on the grounds of moral turpitude. he has written into coalitional agreements with his partners in this new government that was formed about a month ago to pass these reforms of the judiciary that he expects will also assist in his court case and perhaps even have his charges dismissed. so he has a very vested interest in these reforms, but only out of theory or principle but also direct relation to his political future.
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nobody in the coalition has said that that's what they are intending, though. what have they said? the coalition is certainly intending to pass these reforms. there has been quite a lot of active consultation over the last few weeks to try to put together a package... i meant that it is not their intention to try and influence his court case in any way? he himself may be found unfit to govern and forced to take a kind of leave of absence as the attorney general of israel announced today because of perceived conflict of interest between netanyahu's court case and the judicial reform. and in terms of this judicial reform, mr netanyahu has said that, "actually, people voted for us, the main demonstration was in the election last month, and that's when people got their voices heard." and that actuallyjudicial reform was one of the things
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people voted on. in this case he may be right, that he was able to assemble a coalition based upon voters who in part agreed or perceived to agree with these judicial reforms but the margin between the israeli opposition and the israeli coalition remains rather narrow, a matter of four seats so we could also make the argument that many, if not most israelis, also oppose these measures, including some of the right—wing religious voters who did indeed vote for the coalition, for a variety of reasons beyond the judicial reform package. turkey has condemned the burning of a copy of the quran during a protest in sweden, describing it as a "vile act". in the build—up to the protest, ankara cancelled a planned visit by the swedish defence minister. earlier, our news reporter azadeh moshiri gave me more
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details about the protest. well, the protest by the far—right politician in sweden was known to the swedish government, it was known to turkey as well — turkey was very well aware it was an anti—muslim protest — and so, they appealed several times to sweden, asking them to not grant the permissions for this protest to go ahead and yet, the swedish government did. and so, even before the protest took place and even before the quran was actually burned, turkey called off an important diplomatic visit by sweden's defence minister to ankara. now, it's important to remember that turkey is a majority muslim country and so, any insult to the quran, any damage to the quran is deeply offensive, so it's worth reading out what the turkish foreign ministry statement said. they said: .. it also went on to condemn the, in its view, alarming extent of islamophobia and racism that is, in their opinion, growing across europe.
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and so, in response, sweden tried to distance itself from the protest. it's worth also reading out their response by their foreign minister, who said: . they did also say that the event was appalling. all of this complicates what is already a very complicated relationship between the two countries. well, they cancelled the defence minister's visit. what about more generally — how will this impact their relations? well, that visit was extremely important to sweden, and that's because right now, sweden, as well as finland, are trying to — have announced their intention tojoin nato, they've put in their bid, but the catch there is that turkey is already a member of this western military alliance and therefore can block any other country from joining and yet, this is very important to sweden. ever since russia invaded ukraine, it prompted them tojoin an alliance that they were hesitant to join
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before and so, they really want to repair this relationship with president erdogan. this certainly damages it. and on top of it, president erdogan has already been calling for concessions from sweden in order to accept their application — things like expelling critics that president erdogan says are in sweden, as as well as kurds that he insists are terrorists. and on top of it, damage had already been done last week when an effigy of president erdogan was hanged in sweden. and so, given that this is such an important relationship to sweden right now, they have a long way to go to repair it. azadeh moshiri. this is bbc news. the headlines: investigators have seized more classified documents from presidentjoe biden�*s home in the us state of delaware. more than 100,000 people in israel have protested against what they say are the anti—democratic policies of benjamin netanyahu's new government. state television in burkina faso is reporting
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that the military government has demanded the departure of the 400 french special forces troops stationed in the country. the reports come three days after the regime suspended a five—year—old accord that allowed the presence of french forces. ika ba koyi reports. protesters have been gathering in their hundreds in 0ugadougou chanting anti—france slogans. relations between paris and burkina faso have deteriorated since a military coup in august 2020. many here believe that france's military presence has not improved. translation: yes, i france was our partner and they were supposed to help us fight terrorism but since 2016 there has been no change and we thinks france does not deserve the trust of burkina faso. some 400 special france forces are based here to help local forces battle insurgents across the sahul and mali over the decades.
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and now, according to the country's state media, the military is telling them to go. it comes just days after the regime suspended a five—year—old accord that allowed the presence of french forces. earlier this month paris said it would not stop supporting burkina faso in this conflict and wanted to remain involved despite growing anti—french sentiment. burkina faso has been struggling to contain violence by armed groups with links to al qaeda and isil since 2015. the insurgency here has killed thousands and seen over 2 million displaced leading to a regionalfood insecurity and, worse, no sign of end to this conflict. ikaba koyi, bbc news.
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the famous inca citadel of machu picchu in peru has been closed indefinitely, due to fears over the safety of visitors. more than 400 peruvians and foreign tourists, who'd been stranded at the foot of the ancient site due to anti—government protests, have now been evacuated. authorities announced on twitter that rescue teams had been able to repair damage done by protesters to a train link. increasingly violent protests demanding the resignation of president dina boluarte began in the country's capital, lima, in december, leading to the declaration of a state of emergency last week. the chairman of britain's governing conservative party has issued a statement attempting to clarify his finances after reports that he paid a seven—figure sum to end a dispute with tax officials. the former chancellor says hmrc accepted that an error with his taxes was careless rather than deliberate. the dispute was over shares
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in the survey company, yougov, which nadhim zahawi set up more than 20 years ago. britain's labour party has called on mr zahawi to resign over the matter. the former british prime minister, borisjohnson, has been reported to the parliamentary standards watchdog by the opposition labour party. it follows allegations reported in the sunday times newspaper that the chairman of the bbc, richard sharp, helped the former prime minister to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000, just weeks before borisjohnson selected mr sharp for his currentjob. the bbc�*s political correspondent, helen catt, reports. the sunday times is reporting that the chair of the bbc, richard sharpe, was involved in helping to arrange a guarantee on a loan for borisjohnson when he was a minister. it was at the time mr sharp was applying to become bbc chair, a role appointed by the government. the loan facility was being provided by a distant cousin of missjohnson, a man
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called sam blyth. the sunday times claims mr sharp met the most senior civil servant in the cabinet office, simon case, discuss it. paper says mr sharp is not a clear and his application. labour believes ms johnson should have declared the arrangement and has reverted to the parliamentary standards committee. mr sharp told us there was not a conflict. dominic and said he simply connected at his request to mr blythe with the cabinet secretary, mystery case, and had no further involvement whatsoever. a spokesman for borisjohnson dismissed the claims as rubbish and said mr sharp had never given any financial advice to mrjohnson and alljohnson�*s financial arrangements had been properly declared and registered on advice of officials. a spokesman for the bbc said the corporation plays no role in the recruitment of the chair and any questions were a matter for the government. we have asked the cabinet office for comment but they have yet to
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respond. thanks to helen catt for that. it's the lunar new year on monday, also known as the spring festival or chinese new year. a traditional part of celebrations is the processional dragon, and we can introduce you to one of them, loong, who happens to be in australia. it's more than 120 years old and has just been given a painstaking makeover. we can hear more about loong from the conservation team leader, dr hollyjones—amin, who joins us from melbourne. hello to you. tell us more about loong underwear he has been all this time and how it ended up in australia. loong is spectacular- — ended up in australia. loong is spectacular. he _ ended up in australia. loong is spectacular. he was _ ended up in australia. loong is spectacular. he was over- ended up in australia. loong is spectacular. he was over 60 i spectacular. he was over 60 minutes now del michael long, now 40 metres long. he was made in southern china in 1890 and made his way to australia in 1901. he has since lived in bendigo for a very long time he lived in the set boxes, properly the same box he came
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to australia via. he now lives in the golden dragon museum in bendigo. he is on permanent display there. he came because australia had a massive gold rush in the second half of the 19th century. the chinese community brought him to australia and since that time, in 70 years, he was on performance or precision every single year. he is an imperial dragon which means he has five toes. we spent over 1,000 hours doing conservation work on him thanks to a living heritage grad from heritage victoria. this is painstaking work. sorry, yes, it is painstaking what you've been doing. describe what you've been doing to all these tiny materials. it's a massive dragon but the workers tiny, isn't it? it is tiny using _ workers tiny, isn't it? it is tiny using lots _ workers tiny, isn't it? it is tiny using lots of - workers tiny, isn't it? it is tiny using lots of micro i workers tiny, isn't it? it is. tiny using lots of micro paw prints movements with our fingers so a lot of bits of adhesive, little bits of paper, adhesive, little bits of paper, a vacuum cleaner as gentle as
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breathing in airand a vacuum cleaner as gentle as breathing in air and a lot of stitching as well. i don't know where to start but he has got over 1,000 scales and over 19,000 mirrors that's an idea of the volume. a lot of cardboard, silk, kingfish feathers and we worked in a team of 12 conservatives and six conservation students and 21 bendigo chinese association members who worked with us on it all. ~ ., ., , members who worked with us on it all. ~ ., ._ i. members who worked with us on itall. ~ ., it all. another way you call him it him _ it all. another way you call him it him like _ it all. another way you call him it him like it _ it all. another way you call him it him like it is - it all. another way you call him it him like it is some l it all. another way you call i him it him like it is some sort of living creature. you probably got quite attached after all this time.- after all this time. very attached. _ after all this time. very attached. he _ after all this time. very attached. he is - after all this time. very attached. he is seen i after all this time. very attached. he is seen as after all this time. very - attached. he is seen as living heritage and a living entity by the community. he has woken up each year when his other dragons in the museum perform. he has made offerings when he has woken up. he is away for that period of performance and then he goes back to sleep again for another year but he does it himself before anymore because he is too old. he
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literally has a son and grandson who does the performance.— grandson who does the performance. grandson who does the erformance. ., ., ~ performance. need to take it eas . performance. need to take it easy- thanks _ performance. need to take it easy. thanks very _ performance. need to take it easy. thanks very much - performance. need to take it easy. thanks very much for l easy. thanks very much for telling us all about it. dr hollyjones—amin from the university of melbourne. more details about the king's coronation have been released by buckingham palace, and they include plans to hold a concert with world—famous entertainers. the concert will also feature a choir made up of nhs workers, refugees and lgbtq+ singing groups. the coronation will be held across the first weekend in may, as our royal correspondent, nick witchell, reports. it will be 70 years since the nation last witnessed the coronation of a british monarch. that was in 1953, and the monarch travelling in the gold coronation coach was of course the late queen elizabeth. 0nce course the late queen elizabeth. once again for the coronation of king charles the third, there will be a procession from buckingham palace to westminster abbey. no route has so far been disclosed
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but common sense suggests that it will be down the mouth to trafalgar square and then by whitehall to the abbey. they second larger procession after the service which will take the newly crowned king and queen consort back to the palace where they will appear on the palace balcony. the first such appearance since last year's platinum jubilee of the late queen. no details of the coronation servers have been given. they are under review. here are the highlights for the rest of the coronation weekend. 0n rest of the coronation weekend. on sunday 7 may there will be the coronation big lunch, a chance as happened during that you believe the communities to organise their own street parties. and that evening at windsor castle bilby a special coronation concert produced and broadcast live by the bbc. again it'll echo thejubilee, again it'll echo the jubilee, according again it'll echo thejubilee, according to the palace, it will bring together global music icons and contemporary stars. there will be an appearance by the coronation choir, drawn from community
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choirs across the uk. there will be a national ballot for tickets to be organised by the bbc. on monday 8 may a public holiday, something called the big help out. a day when people across the uk will be encouraged to volunteer and join groups like the scales or royal voluntary service in support of the local communities. 0verall support of the local communities. overall the palace is the king and the queen consort hope the coronation weekend will give people an opportunity to celebrate with families, friends and their local communities here in britain and across the commonwealth. nicholas witchell, bbc news. thousands of people have been gathering in the dutch city of amsterdam to mark national tulip day. it takes place every january and always attracts a big crowd, especially since plenty of free tulips are upfor grabs. tim allman reports. they have, at times, been as valuable as diamonds, rubies and gold.
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# when it is spring again i will bring again. # tulips from amsterdam. for many people, people, the tulip is far more than just a flower. # tulips from amsterdam so, like the man said, where else will you go to celebrate tulip day than amsterdam? the netherlands produces around 90% of the world's supply and the business is worth billions of dollars. oh, and they are pretty, too. it is great. a great place to be. a lot of flowers. happy people. perfect. it is so nice. and it's for free. if you buy it, it's so expensive. it is worth the wait. you might think it would be difficult to make flowers exciting, but the organisers tried their best.
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apart from the flamethrowers, there was some reenactment of famous dutch art with added tulips. but the whole event still came as a surprise to some. actually we did not know this was going on here. we were just walking around. you can get free flowers later. nice. good to know. it's actually really gorgeous. this is only the beginning of tulip season, with the flowers being promoted across the country. because, of course, in the netherlands every day is tulip there. # tulips from amsterdam #. tim allman, bbc news. i have time to tell former us astronaut and second into organ the moon, buzz aldrin, has got married for the fourth time, coinciding with his 93rd birthday. pictures from the private los angeles ceremony was showed by him on social
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media. he said he and his new wife were as excited as eloping teenagers. that offer me for now. thanks very much for watching. hello. we have seen some cloudier, milder conditions moving in from the north—west but many of us further south and east have still got clear skies overhead and some frost and some fog. nearer the ground, this is the picture in sowerby bridge a little bit earlier on. now, we're going to see a real mix through the course of sunday. still sticking with the cloudier, milder theme in the north and west with some rain around, but further south and east, cold, frosty with some lingering fog, too. and that contrast�*s down to the fact that we've still got this cold air mass with us across central and southern areas. but this weather front in the north and the west is bringing milder conditions and some fairly patchy rain through the course of the day, too. so, for the rest of the overnight period, there's that rain, then, pushing in across the west of scotland, northern ireland. fog forming through the early
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hours across many central, eastern and southern parts of england in particular, so to start off our sunday morning, we're going to see temperatures down to about —6, possibly —7 degrees towards the south and east but frost—free in the north—west. so, through the day on sunday, then, there's that early fog in the east, slowly clearing away. some rain for parts of western scotland and through some of these irish sea coasts, pushing into pembrokeshire, perhaps cornwall, for instance, as well. some sunshine develops once that fog slowly lifts away from southern and eastern england but it will feel cold — just two or three degrees in the east, even colder if you see the fog lingering, but perhaps double figures for the likes of belfast, for instance. some clearer skies for a time across the north of scotland. as we move through sunday night now into monday, more of the same — cold and frosty towards the south and east with temperatures down below freezing but frost—free with milder weather holding on across scotland and northern ireland. so, we've got this area of high pressure which is really building across much of the uk as we move through into monday. just weather fronts in the far north there. so, i think there could be some
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rain in the far north of scotland and northern isles, for instance, and the odd splash around some of these irish sea coats. some sunshine again developing for the bulk of england and wales after that fog gradually clears away. so, top temperatures again around 3—5 degrees, on the chilly side, but there'll be some sunshine towards the south and east, milder but cloudier in the north and the west. and then, as we head through the middle of the week, still high pressure around, perhaps just a weak front just making its way south and introducing a few splashes of rain. but in the outlook, generally, a lot of dry weather. it will be turning milder through the week ahead but also rather cloudy at times, too. bye—bye.
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this is bbc news. the headlines: us investigators have found six more classified documents at the home of president biden. his lawyer says the search of the property in delaware took around 13 hours, and some handwritten notes were also seized. the white house says it's continuing to co—operate. massive demonstrations have been held in israel against plans from the new right—wing government to overhaul the judicial system. there were more than one hundred—thousand protesters in tel aviv. it was the largest demonstration since benjamin netanyahu's return to power last month. turkey has condemned the burning of a copy of the quran during a protest in sweden, describing it
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as a "vile act". the anti—muslim demonstration was organised by a far—right

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