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but not life—threatening." that cause considerable problems. there is m live page running—en the bbc. website with live page ruhhihg—eh the bbc. website with all of the news website with all of the latest i sure if latest details, i am sure if you are travelling you might want to across that and want to keep across that and keep up to date with the very the government in thailand says it is trying to shut down the criminal scam compounds which have proliferated the scam business is believed to earn the mainly chinese side of the border.

city of shwe kokko, a $15 billion investment promising casinos, luxury hotels and entertainment but our south—east asia correspondentjonathan head which runs it. i mean, it looksjust like a provincial chinese city. has been waging war against the state for more so why has a chinese company called yatai built all of this? luxury villas and cyber parks.

yatai's boss, a chinese man called she zhijiang, is currently languishing in a thai prison wanted well, we've been driving around shwe kokko for a while now and this really is the most extraordinary place. technically, we are in the middle of a war zone the ambition of this project is breathtaking. trafficking, but looking around at all this, it's you just can't figure out where the money is coming from to fund it. yatai had invited us to see shwe kokko, a different side. "it's a safe, green city," they kept telling us.

are no longer permitted. on the streets we saw only the local karen people who come here to work in the hotels and restaurants. there was, unexpectedly, there was, unexpectedly, a library and even a not a library and even a not entirely convincing branch entirely convincing branch of starbucks — of starbucks — but we saw few customers. they allowed us to see only the outsides of all the buildings. "it's private," they said when we asked to go in. some local people quietly some local people quietly told us that the scam told us that the scam business still thrives here. you could see bars you could see bars on the insides of the windows. at night, shwe kokko lights up, on the insides of the windows. with nine casinos, supposedly for chinese gamblers, but there are few visitors. they allowed us to see these they allowed us to see these spectacular karaoke rooms, spectacular karaoke rooms, though in them we met only though in them we met only these young chinese these young chinese women who work here. women who work here.

and all the time, from screens on the walls, the face of the nowjailed she zhijiang looked down at us, extolling his vision of a shining new city. our south—east asia correspondent jonathan head explained why china might have allowed the bbc in to film. our best guess is they are in some trouble. it is clear the somewhat enigmatic figure, she zhijiang, who was in a thai prison, is very important to the project. they look up to him as a leader, almost worship him, and feel they cannot progress with him being stuck in prison. it is also affecting the confidence of people who might be putting money into the city. what struck us is lots of these compounds have sprung up along the thai—myanmar border, they are pretty low—key, basic buildings, people are crammed in there and made to carry out these scams. they were in other parts of

asia before that. it is clear yatai has aimed a great deal higher and they genuinely believe they can build something bigger than just the scams, a genuine resort. it seems crazy to think you can do that and they have put so much investment in that they are struggling. it seems crazy to think you can do that in a remote, all torn part of myanmar. access has become very difficult, the border is sealed, myanmar is a war zone, you can't get there. i think the negative publicity about the scams has really hurt them and they are trying to persuade us there is something different. i think they are different, but the reality is we found one we were there as there is no other viable business you can run in an area like that apart from these scams. the company claims to have ended the scams — what did you make of those claims? you have seen it on the ground. they are not credible. i think what the company has done is an alliance with this local armed group

which protects them and has given them the land, they tried to push the most abusive forms of scamming out of shwe kokko and they are moving to these much smaller scam compounds further south, but the actual scam business, even if run by workers who do it voluntarily, is going on. we met a young woman who had been working there just a few days before we got there and she spelled out exactly how they did it, she says it is across the city the city in every building. these are the buildings we looked at, they had bars on the windows, labels representing them as obscure financial services, we were never allowed to look inside but she said they all had scams operating. the workers are working there voluntarily but there are victims of these scams, huge numbers of people around the world being defrauded of savings. i guess notjust that, the myanmar—thailand border. the thai prime minister met president xi yesterday?

yes, this is the first visit for this young thai prime minister to china since coming to office last year. i would argue both governments have been slack about addressing the scam problem in this region. china moved against scams on its own border very decisivelyjust over one year ago but it is causing such a fuss because lots of chinese people are being both defrauded but also lured and forced, abducted, to work in these scams. you need chinese speakers to get the victims. we had a chinese actor who was abducted last month and then rescued, his case went viral on social media, and both governments realise now it is really damaging, they have to do something. it's a real problem, particularly for shwe kokko, these moves going against them, the cutting of power and telecoms and other access, they will make it difficult to function.

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the struggle to find an nhs dentist in the uk is an issue many people are familiar with. last february, police were called to a newly seen a dentist for more than five years. after another 100 patient spaces became available. our reporter christopher mace was there. a familiar sight on ashley road. queues down the street. to the dentist for five years, so hopefully they're going you know, decay or tooth loss. this area, there's lots of lots of communities and individuals who desperately need to get their teeth done and they can't afford it. are closing, or they've closed.

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paid for by miners themselves. been sold, and questions are being asked about what the money has been spent on. this was closed sort of six years ago now from the mining charity ciswo, but that failed. if you ask anybody in this community or any other in 2020, the land was sold to the highest plans have now been approved for eight houses

ciswo denies that money sits on its balance sheet, and said it decided to sell the building because it had were put forward. from the sales going to ciswo — the only national charity for mining communities. across the country, it's the same thing whether you're to use by virtue of the coal industry. you know, we are being watered down, i suppose, as developments take place and a lot of the community spirit is is being lost. it said the money it gets from sales is less

the charity said many of the sites sold had been communities across the uk. and if ciswo say what i've been told, which are talks have been good, that they're going to make a large donation because then they are giving something back, and people if they did that. ciswo said, discussions are ongoing and may stephanie miskin, bbc news. buckingham has confirmed

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that's to be expected. the debate goes on. in his catalogue? a city already known for its nightlife, its food and its culture. nesta mcgregor, bbc news, in new orleans. iam i am getting over iam getting over that, 200 i am getting over that, 200 million people tuning in for the super bowl. an important role in our lives today. as the historic site prepares to mark its milestone birthday, about the unique role of britain's first state

the pips. it's played a key role in our national story. first generated here in 192a, to our perception of with its incredible views over london, the royal observatory, institution, created on the orders of king charles ii and given a crucial task. 350 years ago, this observatory was established to provide a way to determine how to navigate across the to the land around them, which was becoming extremely

how does spotting stars or looking at stars help you determine where you are? you to determine where you were on the surface of the earth — effectively working out what time tells you how far round the earth you are from there. an impact on our lives. as a way of smoothing out variations in time. you'll find that it's not exactly 24 hours. exactly. so flamsteed created an average or mean time

easier to keep track of with a clock or a watch. on two specially—built clocks, how best to share it with the world? it was time to release the ball. the time ball was installed in 1833 to provide a visual time signal for greenwich mean time, and it's positioned on our roof so that it's clearly visible down to mariners waiting on their boats down on the river thames. at 5 to 1, the ball goes halfway up the mast, then at 12:58 it goes to the top. and then at 1:00pm precisely, it drops. and thatjust means that the mariners waiting their accurate sea clocks — and see if the clocks greenwich mean time. the pips.

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very telescope, as part of national astronomy week. jupiter and mars in particular are currently in this planetary parade, which is going on at the moment. this is the north pole of mars. the pips. the pips play happy birthday. tim muffett. the pips play happy birthday.

hgppy happy birthday to the royal 0bservatory. hello. this area of high pressure. but to begin with, our actual air will be coming up across the south. a little bit wintry over the higher ground. away from that, though, we're sticking with an hour to the south, will make temperatures of four so there'll certainly be an icy chill to that wind, especially out of the sunshine. now, into this evening,

that rain, sleet and hill snow flurries as well. further north and west, clearest of the skies, maybe down to minus five, minus six in the highlands. a few more wintry showers for eastern scotland. lots of cloud for england and wales. bit of hill snow. some will stay dry. up to around eight degrees, but a chilly day by and large with that easterly wind. so temperatures will be on the rise at twickenham in rome for six nations tomorrow, expect some rain at times.

it's all linked into a developing area of low pressure down there, but high pressure and northern ireland. a few showers around, but a bit more sunshine temperatures should lift a little bit as well.

live from london. live from london. this is bbc news. the united nations asks the us the united nations asks the us to reverse its sanctions to reverse its sanctions on the international criminal on the international criminal court. court. to impose sanctions to impose sanctions

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