. >> it's burmese?d be floridian. >> exactly. the burmese python eats a ton of alligators and other native wildlife. so -- >> what? >> what he's found is a baby. a very irritated baby burmese pyth python. >> baby? >> yeah. this is very small compared to how large they can get. so he's not happy with this find because it's a wee one. he's looking for the giant ones. before he lets this one go -- >> oh! >> he sees a lot of pictures on the wall with people and their encounters with pythons. and you can see how huge these get. he goes back out to try and find a larger bur-- a larger one. >> look, look. whoo! >> nick is pumped. he found what he was looking for. like a man possessed, he reaches down and starts rasling with a large python in the water. >> brother, my brother, we got to talk. >> be careful. you might be food. >> after quite a struggle with nick the wrangler, i believe he's exhausted, this python. but not after a few strikes and near misses with the snake. get it up on lands and tell us a -- on

a big search operation is continuing for a burmese military plane with more than 120 people on board which went missing over the andaman sea. most of the passengers were soldiers and their families. and this video is trending on bbc.com these fossils discovered in morocco suggest humans evolved 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. the find also suggests humans evolved across all of africa rather than in the east of the continent. that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: after a seven—week battle, the political parties have stopped campaigning as britons head to polls in the next few hours. live coverage on bbc news. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. it is triple threat thursday. good global event create time oil in the market. a new generation of robots hitting the factory floor. a factory helping manufacturers prepare for the future. it is a thursday, everyone. good morning, asia, hello, world. we start off the programme with the us dollar dropping seven week low to what some are calling triple threat

also in the programme: an anxious wait on the ground — the search for a burmese military plane with moren 120 people continues more tributes to the victims of the london bridge attack — eight people are now known to have died and police have made more arrests. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington where president trump is under new pressure over the sacking of james comey. the former fbi director will give evidence to senators on thursday about whether he was pressured to drop an inquiry into links between a senior white house official and russia. ahead of that hearing, written testimony has been released from mr comey. in it, he says he believes the president trump asked him to drop the investigation into general michael flynn. here are the key lines from james comey‘s statement... our washington correspondent david willis says mr comey‘s evidence is eagerly anticipated. they are saying that this could be bigger box office as far as capital hill is concerned and the clinton impeach

an anxious wait on the ground after burmese military aircraft with more than 100 people on board disappears. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: with just hours to go, the candidates wrap up their final campaigns before britain goes to the polls. every vote for me and my team isa polls. every vote for me and my team is a vote to strengthen my hand in those brexit negotiations. we are labour! we are the people! we are the community! and we will win this election, tomorrow. a new fossils suggest that humans of old 100,000 yea rs suggest that humans of old 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. —— evolved. glad you could join us. it is 7am here in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, dc, web donald trump is under new pressure over his sacking of the former fbi director. —— where. james comey will give evidence on thursday about whether he was given any pressure to drop an enquiry into links between a senior white has official and russia. and written testimony has been released injames comey. in it, he says he believes that the president asked him to dro

a big search operation is continuing for a burmese plane with more than 120 people on board. most of the passengers were soldiers and their families. this most of the passengers were soldiers and theirfamilies. this is trending on our website. fossils found in morocco suggest humans evolved 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. it suggests humans evolved across all of africa rather than the east of the continent. more to come. i will be back in half an hour. now it is hardtalk. welcome to this special hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, recorded in front of an audience coming to you from the bbc radio theatre as part of our freedom season. the acclaimed south sudanese singer and political activist emmanuel jal was just a boy during the sudanese civil war when he was captured and forced to work as a child soldier in the 1980s. he escaped and went on to see his people gain independence in a referendum three years ago. but now, south sudan is once again in conflict as rival tribes descend into ethnic violence that has killed thousands since december and left nearly a milli

exactly happened, what has caused this crash, in probably what is the worst aviation disaster in burmeses will begin to be asked, and there will no doubt be investigators here looking to ask questions and work out what happened. clearly more to come. thank you forjoining us. a teenager has been killed during opposition protests against the venezuelan government. witnesses said the 17—year—old was hit in the chest by a tear gas canister fired by a police officer at point blank range. the country is in the midst of a severe economic crisis and widespread demonstrations are being held on an almost daily basis, as sarah corker reports. for more than two months, violent demonstrations have overwhelmed the venezuelan capital, caracas. protesters angry with the government of president nicolas maduro and demanding early elections to remove him. they blame him for the country's desperate economic crisis. despite vast oil reserves, venezuela's economy has collapsed. translation: we are afraid of losing an eye due to gas, a bomb blowing up in our skull, but we are even more frightened this repressi

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it's been a day in which the burmese army and local fishermen it's been a day in which the burmese armywn transport aircraft which was flown from the southern town of myiek to langon yesterday lunch time. it is 110w langon yesterday lunch time. it is now simply a question of trying to find as many as possible of the people who were on board that aircraft. it's believed there were about 120 people on board. a large number of military person 9/11 and theirfamilies as number of military person 9/11 and their families as well -—crew the aircraft. i believe -— to need on ., to need to . , to need to find ., looking 2 the early indications but looking at the early evidence in terms of the fact there does not appear to have been a may day call from the aircraft and the scattered nature of the debris that's been found so far, it does appear to suggest that the plane may well have broken up in the air before it hit the water. so that will be one line of inquiry. the priority at the moment, still, is to try to find the bodies of those on board the plane and then to also begin looking for the blac

>> very unhappy burmese python. a snake wrangler. thankfully he's an expert. police called him in.o, we're not dealing with that. >> that thing is enormous. >> enormous or about 110 pounds, 13 feet long. it is in the eaves or roof of had person's house. they are predators. they are not venomous. however, as we know, pythons constrict. that thing could most definitely take down a child or any person that might be sleeping in this house. >> yes. >> so you don't want this thing around. >> trust me. there was nobody sleeping in that house. >> not after they spotted this thing. reports say the snake was just looking for some shade. i guess he found it. but now unceremoniously being evicted. it is a protected animal in china. he took it, handed over to wildlife experts who released it far, far away from this neighborhood. >> what's up, guys? how is it going. >> you remember, he appears on the show. through his girlfriend he pretended like he was cheating on her. someone in his apartment, found him. so then there was this video. >> i decided that today i needed to get revenge on him. i'm

burmese police have arrested at least six people in yangon after the authorities cleared a large slumhundreds of local authority workers wielding bamboo sticks, rakes and saws as they descended on the shantytown in hlegu township. it's the first major forced eviction under the civilian government of aung san suu kyi. emirates team new zealand have defeated sweden's artemis racing 5—2 to set up an america's cup rematch with holders oracle team usa in bermuda. the kiwis came into the day with a 4—2 lead in the best—of—nine series and needed just one victory to advance. let's return to our top story and the british prime minister, theresa may has spent the day reassuring fellow conservatives that she will settle the current political turmoil. for more on this i spoke with our political correspondent ben wright. she has stabilised what was a very precarious situation after watching this so badly and destroying overnight the government's working majority in the house of commons. it did look, over the weekend, that theresa may was very precarious, that she was in trouble. but i think she ha

an anxious wait on the ground after burmese military aircraft with more than 100 people on board disappears every vote for me and my team isa polls. every vote for me and my team is a vote to strengthen my hand in those brexit negotiations. we are labour! we are the people! we are the community! and we will win

bbc burmese report that police in me and mark and thailand have found more than $800 million worth ofwith the un's the against drug abuse. the court of madrid has ordered that the body of salvador dali be exchanged to get the any samples for a paternity suit, a spanish woman claims that she is his daughter and that her mother had an affair with him. let's go back to washington because the indian prime minister has arrived at the white house to meet donald trump in the past few minutes. here's the moment the two men met. you can see mullaly at camp getting ready to beat the indian prime minister as well. some would say that you have any as they both portray themselves as outsiders, outside of the political elite, both campaigns to bring jobs back into the economy, both have huge followings on social media, too, with over 30 million followers each. this is what donald trump said a few months ago. it is a great honour to have a minister modi, who has been such a great prime minister. i had been speaking with him and reading about you and you have done a great job. economically. india is

a preferred but the issue was that the offer was lower come third to the one offered by the thai burmesemight be relu cta nt to ta ke speculated that toshiba might be reluctant to take the offer because of that close ties with china. but to be fair, the company which took over at another troubled company sharp, sharp is starting to make money and its applying to relist its shares on the tokyo stock exchange so at the foxconn agm, the boss said he is not giving up on buying the crown jewel of toshiba, the only unit that seems to be still making money. and hopefully we'll find out the toshiba final decision by next wednesday when toshiba holds its shareholder meeting. good stuff, thank you. we have a little break from george clooney news and i'll talk about the markets. the story we mentioned in the round—up, to cats and the airbag recall weighing on the nick cave. shares coming down. we then following the roller—coaster rides over the next few months and it could now end up in the ba n kru ptcy it could now end up in the bankruptcy court. weaker oil prices dragged down the us markets too.

they would be picked up by a native burmese who had been working with our officers of strategic services. the state department guys were in the thick of it with stillwell. this is what the japanese to do, they go from thailand in a they go and drive the chinese back and the british back. there are two chinese divisions that will make it to india. they will make it to a place called ramgarh. stillwell says we will train the division army in india, the brits will supply the uniforms and the money. the first group of americans --there are about 65 american soldiers that will leave savannah georgia --savannah, georgia and 65 days later go to pakistan and then moved to india up to ramgarh and build this training school. we will eventually build a lot of chinese division. --divisions. we will be helped now by what is -- we will also be helped by what is now the cia. which then was the office of strategic services. it had two parts. one was the office of war information. this is john king fairbanks, who, with his wife, was in china collecting information and writing studies. the intel piece of

they will jump out and be picked up by some local native burmese who have been working with our operations of the office of strategic services and that is kind of an interesting story as well. these state department guys were in the thick of it with stillwell. this is what the japanese do, they come from thailand in across the river, go north and --y drive the chinese back and the british back. there are two chinese divisions the 22nd and the 38th that will make it to india. they will make it to a place called ramgarh. that is where stillwell sets up. we will train the division army in india, the brits will supply the uniforms and the money. the first group of americans, about 65 american soldiers who will lead savanna georgia 65 to pakistan and move through india up to rein ramgarh and build this training school. we will be helped by what is now , which then was the office of strategic services. it had two kind of parts. one of it was this office of war information. this is john king fairbanks, who, with his wife, was in china collecting information and writing studies. the intel piece of

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the burmese army says it has now recovered ten bodies from the andaman sea.he website, downloading fact sheets and searching your own wildflowers. you can choose whether to go to the countryside or town, and get to know a little bit more about our wild flowers across the country, which are starting to become less and less known by the younger generation. many words such as poppy, cowslip, co rnflowe r, cornflower, a re cornflower, are starting to disappearfrom cornflower, are starting to disappear from the dictionary. but let's talk about the forecast. it is a rainy morning uk wide, but the sunshine in northern scotland. a little chilly through much of the day, brakes and the cloud possible, but rain across the northwest midlands and raining heavily across northern england, particularly the pennines, into southern scotland. northern scotland has the brightest weather of all with blue skies for some of you. northern ireland, rain on and off. a thoroughly wet start for many, particularly around the hills. the overnight rain easing off in devon and cornwall, but