a fire kills twenty three at a malaysian boarding school most of them teenagers traps in a dormitory. north korea and iran dominate the agenda at a meeting between the u.s. secretary of state and his british counterparts in london. and white independence is not proving a blessing for bob as it were faces the enormous task of rebuilding after her. iraq or at least fifty two people have been killed in a suicide attack in the south of the country the attackers targeted a restaurant and a police checkpoint in the southern city of nasiriya at least ninety others were injured eisel has claimed responsibility. there were four buses of iranian pilgrims the gunman boarded the buses and sprayed those inside with bullets others in pickup trucks drove by and fired on people then they walked into the restaurant and opened fire on people inside the young the old they spared no one everyone was killed. well meanwhile the future of a united iraq is looking ever more uncertain as tensions continue over a controversial referendum on kurdish independence the iraqi parliament has voted to remove the gove

it was developed by the malaysian company clean my. room.there especially proud of the high performance batteries they designed themselves. the power direct drive on the model is six kilowatt the batteries that we uses for kilowatt hour this is one of the technology breakthroughs that we have achieved so far not only campari in malaysia i would say that can bring to the wall. the malaysian government supports companies that bring eco friendly products on the market like a clean mike. the financial aid and tax breaks are supposed to help malaysia become a green a country. but over the past three and a half years only four hundred scooters have left the factory at around three thousand seven hundred euros they cost twice as much as conventional models but. i will be says more there right now is two of the two to go for their feet because the most heavily used dualists right now the biggest is kentucky fried chicken care see if they are using it for home deliveries they serve police patrolling using a bite and we also have a local council and f

he'll be on pole for tomorrow's malaysian grand prix as rival sebastian vettel suffered a blow to hison the grid, giving hamilton the perfect chance to extend his 28—point championship lead. tom clarkson is in sepang. to win the world championship every racing driver need a little bit of luck and after qualifying, lewis hamilton must be pinching himself as nick parrott reports. this is the sound of sebastian vettel‘s championship hopes slipping away. first drive, i can limp back. his engine had already been changed before qualifying, but the secondary problems could not be fixed to allow him to set a time. after crashing on the first lap in singapore he now faces a battle to score points in malaysia, starting from the back of the grid. that put pressure on the other ferrari driver kimi raikkonen to get pole ahead of lewis hamilton. he managed to top the time sheets in the second session, but despite mercedes struggle in practice hamilton pulled out all the stops when it mattered. his first run in the final shoot out was enough to secure pole position, but only because kimi raikkonen m

help un children's fund is calling for new safety procedures to be established and forced in all malaysian schools a baby was among two more range of muslims to have died making the crossing from miramar to bangladesh bringing the number who drowned since the start of the crisis to eighty eight they died when a refugee boat capsized almost four hundred thousand to fled since the military launched a crackdown three weeks ago after hinge of fighters at a number of police posts u.s. president donald trump has denied reports of a deal to protect undocumented young immigrants known as dream notes earlier democrats announced an agreement had been reached to protect nearly eight hundred thousand young immigrants under a program the president said last week he would scrap. no deal had been finalized but an agreement was close and it would include a provision for border security a senior russian negotiator says his country turkey and iran are close to finalizing an agreement on deescalation zones in syria they're discussing the details at a meeting in kazakstan capital starner it's the sixth round

a fire kills twenty three at a malaysian boarding school most of them teenagers trapped in their dormitory. and an official inquiry opens into a fire to london tower block that killed at least eighty people in june. you know britain's foreign minister says he believes libya's plan to work towards elections in twenty eighteen is the right time scale for us johnson was speaking at a joint news conference with his u.s. counterpart rex tillerson in london the pair also discussed a range of other foreign policy issues including north korea's escalating nuclear program with tears and asking pyongyang to reconsider its current path to try to halt was at that news conference and joins me live now from central london so john what progress on libya from this meeting. well on the issue of libya was central to the meetings that took place at lancaster house behind me during the course of the afternoon a number of countries in attendance the u.k. and the u.s. of course the u.n. envoy to libya as well as france italy egypt and the u.a.e. and the all of these countries with an interest in what is happeni

sanders: we will keep you posted on that travel. >> the malaysian prime minister. conversation with the president today? secondly, different matter. general assembly. the president usually has a theme or idea that one again across in her speech or individual leader meetings. what will president trump speak? sanders: i don't when you get ahead to fall -- too far. we will outline the plans in more detail at the end of this week as we have done in the past on those types of meeting. we'll certainly do that by the end of this week. >> you said the actions of james comey could've been illegal. the other day you referred to potential false testimony with the doj. with the president and encourage to prosecutej james comey? ms. sen. sanders: is something they can look at, that's not the president's job to do. if there is ever mama where we feel someone has broken the law, particularly if they are that of the fbi, that is something that should be looked at. >> second question. does this administration say north korea did not test a hydrogen mom? ms. sen. sanders: i'm not su

britain‘s lewis hamilton surprised even himself to take pole for tomorrow‘s malaysian grand prix. grid. katherine downes reports. lewis hamilton has fought his way back into this formula 1 championship race. now he‘s looking to accelerate away. his great rival, sebastien vettel, can only watch, as his title hopes fade. he crashed out of the last grand prix. now this. an engine problem is that ferrari were ina race engine problem is that ferrari were in a race against time to fix, a race they ultimately lost. radio:m we know what to do, i can limp back. that left kimi raikkonen to try to hold hamilton fan for a while he was fastest, that hamilton pulled off a remarkable fightback. the said he‘s had been off the pace in practice. not so when it mattered. kimi raikkonen had one last chance to topple him but locked up on the final corner, and expensive day for ferrari. a 70th pole position for lewis hamilton, while vettel start from the back of the grid. stay out of trouble tomorrow, and hamilton will be a step closer to a fourth world title. there were 17 goals in today‘s premier lea

families in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur are in mourning, after 23 people died in a fire that swepton thursday. most of them were pupils aged between 13 and 17. investigators have ruled out an electric fault. what does seem clear is that once the fire started, many of the victims were trapped behind barred windows. 0ne survivor said there was just one window that the boys managed to open. the disaster has renewed calls for more scrutiny of unregulated private religious schools. the bbc‘s anna hutton has more. the dormitory of the darul quran ittifaqiyah school had just one way in and out. many of the bodies of the schoolboys were found paths on top of each other, indicating a possible stampede as they tried to escape the blaze, blocked by bars on some of the windows. and unfortunately this morning i had bad news. and then even the warden, it was the warden i met him last night, he's also dead, gone. a number of schoolboys managed to escape the blaze byjumping from the burning building. we escaped through the window. we dismantled the window grille, opened the window and climbed down

talking about new sanctions on north korea today, us president donald trump was also meeting the malaysiantments and steered clear of an american investigation into a malaysian corruption scandal. i asked mr najib's former political secretary about that omission. i think the proverbial light elephant indeed did not materialise in the conversations between mist najib and president trump. i think that has mainly to do with the attitude of the new administration, namely to really delineate clearly between what is, for example, politically and economically expedient versus the finer details, the niceties in international investigations. i think, for example, president trump would be indeed more interested in discussing some of the economic corporation possibilities rather than delving into some of these investigative details. indeed that's a bit of what we've seen on the first day of his visit, visit. prime minister najib is only the second southeast asia and leader to visit the white house since vietnam's prime minister, how is he seeking to translate this visit into political capital at home

at least twenty people have died in a fire at a malaysian boarding school most of them teenagers so they say that it began on the top floor dormitory of the religious school on the outskirts. as reports. it took more than an hour for firefighters to put out the flames that the. school in kuala lumpur by then many people mainly teenage boys had lost their lives and i'm going to have to set the scene we can see from a certain angle their hands waving out for help we had no choice but to ask them to jump out and we tried to catch them we did try to enter the house but the fire was too hot until certain point there was a blackout when that happened things started falling apart we withdrew after that the fire started near the dormitory on the top floor first thing in the morning it quickly ripped through the entire building. by one of the interior of the building is one hundred percent destroyed the mattresses books and all other things in the very damaged but the cause of the fire is still unclear we're still investigating it would have been difficult for the boys to escape as the rooms had

top story more than twenty people have died in a fire at a malaysian boarding school most of them were teenagers police say the blaze started on the top floor dormitory of the school on the outskirts of the capital kuala lumpur running o.t. as a story. it took more than an hour for firefighters to put out the flames at the daughter ana to school in kuala lumpur by then many people mainly teenage boys had lost their lives the fire started near the dormitory on the top floor first thing in the morning it quickly ripped through the entire building and it was named by one of the interior of the building is one hundred percent destroyed the mattresses books and all other things in the room were damaged but the cause of the fire is still unclear we're still investigating. it would have been difficult for the boys to escape as the rooms had barred windows and the fire blocked the only exit a fire department representative says their bodies were found on top of each other suggesting there was a stampede to try and get out a community religious leader led prayers for the students but. he descri

these are your top stories so far today more than twenty people have died in a fire at the malaysian boarding school most of them were teenagers police say it started on the top floor dormitory of the school on the outskirts of kuala lumpur the police are investigating whether an unapproved waltz. stopped the students from escaping killed in drama is fire and rescue department director he says the school wasn't built to the required safety standards it would be. with the local people if they get it and they will issue with you. but. getting there. and dead and what did it leave we did problem you did well the people who escaped the building have been describing what happened. thing actually going on and i was sleeping about five thirty a.m. i woke up because i thought i heard sounds like a corner store and i opened the window to check if it was a thunderstorm but i could only hear the voices of villagers screaming outside and when i got out from my room i realized the fire had ravaged a turd floor of the ashram north korea has threatened to use a nuclear weapon against japan after th

a fire killed twenty three to malaysian boarding school most of them teenagers trapped in their dormitory. president trying to visit florida to inspect the storm damage after sending mixed messages over his plans for young immigrants. to start registering voters using biometric technology something that would increase the chance of vote rigging. news for united nations secretary-general ban ki moon has a new job heading up the i.o.c. is ethics commission that and more later this news hour. to iraq or at least fifty two people have been killed in an attack in the south of the country a gunman opened fire in a restaurant near the southern city of nasiriyah before getting in a car and blowing themselves up at a nearby security checkpoint at least eighty on the people were injured many of them seriously meanwhile the future of a united iraq is looking ever more uncertain as tensions continue over a controversial referendum on kurdish independence iraqi parliament has voted to remove the governor of kirkuk from office after the province voted to take part in the september the twenty fifth vote

the malaysian ringgit stronger, breaking through that level.thursday,hold but the central bank did say growth in 2017 will be better than expected. we have not seen that level since october last year. i want to turn my attention to the g10 space. the kiwi leading gains. the aussie dollar trading higher by .1%. level,olding that $.80 rising to the highest since 2015, resistance at 81.64. the euro at a 20 month high after mario draghi was seen as not trying too hard to talk it down. dollar-yen, 1975, the pair has been knocking out a pattern of lower highs. test breaks below 1072 60 1.8% retracement for the june 2016 low to the december 2016 high after it marked a new year today low on thursday. taking a look at the commodities space, oil price up, set for the first weekly gain since july. traders are assessing the resumption of refining operations on the gulf coast. 8% of refining capacity does remain shot. david: a lot of factors pushing up the commodities prices. you mentioned factors out of hurricane irma and the weak dollar. right, let's get

rising with malaysian stocks.uty ceo expressing confidence in asia given the figure growth picture. the fundamentals are not entirely overlooked by geopolitics. a closer look at some stocks in hong kong. we have the move in the premarket session. , goldman sachs, and maybank raise their price target today. hsbc says it is positive that it will maintain its lead in the years to calm. agile group rising after announcing its spinoff plan. flipping the board, fortescue shares after the company said the ceo is to step down in february 2018. shares falling for a third day there. david: thank you for the update. lots of corporate news, but the top story is north korea. let's get an update with first word news. rosalind: north korea has fired its second missile over japan and as many months four days after the united nations approved harsher sanctions. japan said the missile flu over and landed in the pacific ocean. command says it was in intermediate-range missile. the united nations security council will hold an afterno

the malaysian prime minister said the malaysian carrier plans to carry eight dreamliners and possiblys order for the max jets over the next five years. we will tell you about special coverage coming up on bloomberg tv. unprecedented and exclusive asset to the alibaba group, including interviews with the founder, jack ma, and it ceo -- it's ceo. we will have a special half-hour entitledn friday, "alibaba, the global disruptor." this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ betty: this is "daybreak asia." i am betty liu in new york. haidi: i am haidi lun in sydney. we are counting down to the market open in tokyo, seoul and sydney. looks like we are getting a nice lead from wall street, day two of the wrist on a rally. stocks set toia extend the global gains while bonds are continuing to fall. investors are betting economic growth can withstand geopolitical worries. not everyone is embracing this rally. coopermansors' leon said a correction could be on the way soon. one big story is apple after the reveal overnight. we will show you suppliers we haven't focus, given that story. apple shares falling overnight

we are observing swings in the malaysian ringgit, it fell earlier about 2%, the biggest drop since august015. thisted to highlight what trader is forecasting, he sees the malaysian ringgit falling, -- on expectations of a weaker yuan. michael avery anticipates that emerging markets will have a more difficult time over the next 12 months than the have seen in the past 12, for now, emerging markets, have managed index.b higher on the the em index has reached levels rallying at levels that we have not seen since 2011. >> sophie, thank you for the market update you read a lot more -- lots more to talk about. the first word news is here, stephen engle to read stephen: president trump making his address to the u.n. general assembly. frequently derided organization june his campaign but he soft and his tone a bit saying -- bureaucracy and mismanagement has prevented organization from reaching its potential. he six to take on iran and north korea. the unitedt years, nations has not reached its full potential, because the bureaucracy and mismanagement. one the united nations on a regular budget ha

pmi --have the malaysian today we have the malaysian pmi.ching back on north korea, is that turns out to create tension in terms of trade, that could be, that is a big risk to these markets. we have got to be aware of that. that will contain the upside as well. betty: all right, james. we will be watching for some of those headlines on trade. the bloomberg asia headlines editor. the heightened conflict almost certain to impact wall street as well. regular u.s. trading as opposed on monday because of the labor day holiday. there will be activity in futures, which has been open a little over half an hour. su keenan joining us. futures areyou are trading now. you can see they are stabilized around this point. futuresmuted reaction, are hard -- down. su: contained is the perfect word. a week ago we saw risk off in regard to the missile firing, and the market assessed the of thec and containment most recent threat, and we saw it move on to other aspects. here is the video because trump is facing a busy week. this began with him visiting victimser

dependent -- at that time i did not believe i could become totally independent, but less dependent on malaysian will always be a satellite. so the quest began for water independence. from day one. >> he died in march 2015. one of the major policy goals was to reduce the volume of water imported from malaysia and achieve a self-sufficient water supply. this is a satellite image of water pipes carrying water from malaysia to singapore. half a century after independence, singapore achiefs its necessary water supply by combining four major water sources. here's a breakdown. water imported from malaysia and rain water account for 45% of the supply. processed seawater accounts for 25%. reprocessed waste water known as newater, makes up 30%. the singapore government aims to become completely independent from malaysia by 2016. increasing newater's share to 55%. and process seawater share to 30%. securing the remainder of the supply from rain water and other sources. harry sia is the chief of the public utility board's technical division and was entrusted with the development of newater in 1998 and has

malaysian police dispute that. kim jong-un's regime denies ordering the hit. one former cia analyst says it's possible the north korean leader didn't intend to send a broader warning to the world with his brother's death. >> keeping the involvement secret would seem to be -- make more sense, they remove a potential threat to kim jong-un, but then adon't risk the response by the governments around the world or the u.n.. >> what most observers seem to agree on is that in the end, kim jong-nam's murder was a victory for kim jong-un. the north korean dictator got his half brother, who is a critic of his, out of the way. the north koreans got the brother's body back. no north korean has ever been held accountable for the murder, and they likely won't be. the only people charged in this case are two young women, one from vietnam, one from indonesia, who will probably be hanged if they're convicted. wolf, we'll learn a lot more when their trial begins on monday. >> interesting. and the north korean regime, brian, had made what two other runs at killing couple jong-na

you can see the malaysian ringgit, the taiwan dollar, also ong under pressure as well. the aussie dollar leading that surprised charge upside. sales, we aretail waiting for this raft of data from china. the picture in terms of retail industrial output, investment, retail sales. charts see through these china fixed asset investment, this yellow line, retail sales the white line, and the blue line is value added year on year. they are starting to soft and could most analysts expect stability, stability, stability ahead of the party congress in october. let's look at some of the moves in the region today. we did see quite a bit of weakness when looking at ace metals in london overnight. a lot of those mining stocks in austria under pressure. bh, didn't down by one -- bh billiton down by 1.7%. honhai in taiwan under pressure. by 6%ctronics rose yesterday, up another 3%. samsung electronics, one of the front runners when you look at the msci asia-pacific index, up by .6%. news going to roll out its note a phone in china at the end of the month, and also partnering with we ch

malaysian police say they've arrested seven boys suspected of starting a fire to school which killed twenty three people on thursday police say the suspects aged between eleven and eighteen were detained after officers obtained c.c.t.v. footage from a neighboring building most of those who died were students who were boarding at the school on the outskirts of kuala lumpur the fire broke the only exit to the dormitory leaving those inside trapped. the scale of the humanitarian disaster after last month's flooding and landslides in sierra leone is overwhelming orphanages in the capital freetown or than a thousand people were killed leaving many children without parents nicholas hike reports. the chaos of august is landslide came a few miracles. nineteen months old sick was that is one of them rescuers found him with a neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. when i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died his body stuck in the mud my heart went cold in. the recovery effort has stopped. an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still

malaysian police say they've arrested seven boys suspected of starting a fire school which killed twenty three people on thursday police say the suspects aged between eleven and eighteen were detained after officers obtained c.c.t.v. footage from a neighboring building most of those who died were students who were boarding at the school on the outskirts of kuala lumpur via block the only exit to the dormitory leaving those inside transit. still to come for this half hour landmark victory women in tunisia celebrate being allowed to marry non muslims after a decades long lorries overturned. and the children who were orphaned after last month's floods and landslides in sierra leone. hello there the weather is generally quite quiet across the middle east at the moment on the satellite picture you can see a little bit of cloud there around parts of afghanistan and that's threatening to bring a few more showers around kabul but generally as we head through into sunday the shouts of pulling away towards the north and kabul should be draw it twenty seven degrees will be our maximum look at the t

at least twenty people have been killed in a fire at a malaysian boarding school most of them teenagers police say that it started on the top floor dormitory of a religious school on the outskirts of kuala lumpur as reports. it took more than an hour for firefighters to put out the flames that the. school in kuala lumpur by then many people mainly teenage boys had lost their lives you know by gangs that do such as. we can see from a certain angle their hands waving out for help we had no choice but to ask them to jump out and we tried to catch them we did try to enter the house but the fire was too hot until certain point there was a blackout when that happened things started falling apart we withdrew after that. the fire started near the dormitory on the top floor first thing in the morning it quickly ripped through the entire building. the interior of the building is one hundred percent destroyed the mattresses books and all other things in the very damaged but the cause of the fire is still unclear we're still investigating it would have been difficult for the boys to escape as the r

. >> spirit and reported that the malaysian prime minister stand at the trump hotel. to that come up at all in conversations with president during the meeting? is it problematic under someone under doj investigation looking at the for-profit companies of the president. >> i'm not sure that came up. we certainly don't book their hotel accommodations. i cannot speak to the personal decision they made but where to stay. >> is there any attempt to have favor with the president? >> no. [inaudible question] key does bannon and the president speak more regularly? >> i don't think they speak that frequently. a mower of two conversations i've had. nothing beyond that. >> but not every two to three days? >> not that i'm aware. >> and one other topic, why hasn't president trump called the president of mexico in the wake of that earthquake. >> there's a call taken place today within this hour. we'll have a read up this afternoon. >> is the present aware that steve bannon said firing comey was the biggest mistake? >> whether he is or not i think everybody knows for the president s

very much professor sebastian balfour from the london school of economics thank you very much now malaysian police say they've arrested seven boys suspected of starting a fire at a school which killed twenty three people on thursday police say the suspects aged between eleven and eighteen were detained after officers obtained c.c.t.v. footage from a neighboring building most of those who died were students who were boarding at the school on the outskirts of kuala lumpur the fire block the only exit to the dormitory leaving those inside trapped. at least fifty four people have now died during three months of tarantula rain in asia the u.n. says more than eleven thousand homes have been destroyed in the country's capital niamey which is one of the hardest hit areas the severe weather also left nearly twenty thousand people displaced and which often faces food shortages and drought is now facing further insecurity after the floods destroyed crops and cattle. the scale of the humanitarian disaster after last month's fighting in landslides in sierra leone is overwhelming often edges in the capit

you know, it's the meeting with the malaysian prime minister or it's, you know, the firing jim comey,t things don't stick to him. and so i think what hillary clinton is saying is look, we've had u.s. intelligence confirmation five different u.s. intelligence agencies confirming that russia interfered. we have amazing coincidences about timing of releases of clinton campaign information to overshadow negative information about donald trump when the "access hollywood" tapes came out, so did a new dump of clinton campaign e-mails. so what hillary clinton i think is saying, is for her, this just feels like too many coincidences, the trump campaign consistently teased out that they were going to have a lot of dump on hillary the same weekend don junior had a meeting with a russian lawyer saying they wanted to give information about hillary clinton. so -- >> kate -- >> it's appropriate for her to say i think there's too much here i don't believe that nothing happened. that's totally fine. >> i've never enjoyed a hillary clinton book more than this one. because what she needs to do is reread

children's fund is calling for new fire safety procedures to be established and enforced in all malaysian schools islamic tough is where children study the qur'an a very common in the country there are five hundred nineteen registered nationwide but many more i'm not registered these are often exempt from state inspections according to malaysia's star newspaper the fire department has recorded two hundred and eleven fires in islamic schools since twenty fifteen but malaysia's deputy prime minister says fire department records show there have only been thirty one since twenty eleven the worst of those was in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine when twenty seven female students died in a fire at of his school in kandahar state two more range of muslims have died making the crossing from mere marts of bangladesh bringing the number who drowned since the start of the crisis to eighty eight baby abdul masood was one of those who drowned when the wooden boat he was on capsized on africa with four hundred thousand minority ranger have fled me a massive the military launched a crackdown there t

for a driver sebastian vettel set the pace in the second practice for formula one's malaysian grand prix but the session was brought to a halt when a truck followed caused a dramatic crash driver remain careering into the barriers at two hundred kilometers an hour after clipping a drain covers he wasn't hurt his practice was called off ten minutes. unseeded australian ashley bharti has charged into the final the tennis open in china with a third win over a top ten player and she did it in comfort defeating french open champion elaine austin penco six three six party will face caroline garcia finds final. roger federer has won a record nineteen grand slam tennis title now he's acknowledging the part two greats played in his career a movie on the rivalry between born the organ john mcenroe has premiered at the festival fetter says both players were an influence on him and showed rivals can still be friends in the same way he has a good relationship with a. and it's. been unbelievable for tennis you know they paved the way for us so i'm forever grateful to what organ luck how did sports bac

people including twenty one teenage boys have died in a fire at an islamic boarding school in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur a fire broke the only exit to the dormitory which had its windows covered in metal grilles firefighters say to piers that building regulations were not properly followed two more one hundred muslims have drowned making the crossing from man law to bangladesh bring the number since the start of the crisis to eighty eight they died when a refugee boat capsized. researcher state rex tillerson is welcomed the recent sanctions imposed by the un security council on north korea he was speaking at a joint news conference in london with his british counterpart boris johnson it also says a full oil embargo is needed and that china would have to agree to that i think it's clear that with respect to all and a complete. embargo on all from the u.n. security council that's going to be very difficult in effect that is directed at china alone because china supplies essentially all of north korea's all oil. and those you have non-science in a golden age is up next to you after tha

. >> it's being reported that the malaysian prime minister on his visit here is staying at the trump tower. did that come up at all in conversations with the president during their meetings, and is it problematic for someone under doj investigation to be supporting the president's for-profit company he? >> i'm not sure about if that came up, i'm not aware that that was ever discussed.he? >> i'm not sure about if that came up, i'm not aware that that was ever discussed.e? >> i'm not sure about if that came up, i'm not aware that that was ever discussed.? >> i'm not sure about if that came up, i'm not aware that that was ever discussed. we certainly couldn't book their hotel accommodations. so i can't speak to that personal decision. >> any sort of attempt to curry favor with the president? >> no, i don't. >> steve bannon today apparently told a room full of people that he was speaking to that he talked to the president every two or three days. yesterday you said you thought they had only spoken once. so do they speak more regularly than maybe you were led to believe or can you give us

although the sea a new about that meeting to have the malaysian authorities do surveillance. twenty negative four 9/11. so leave assad the catastrophe of 9/11 for just a moment. here they are to investigate the death of 17 americans and the cia refuses to respond with their request for information to bring justice and how that was organized because it was the call barb bombing in the one time the conspirators for both of those operations were together. the cia refuses to help in the investigative death so another piece of it is during the embassy bombings in 1998 the fbi through brilliant investigation uncovered the fact had gone to a payphone after the explosion in called the telephone number is niemen. but the same number from the satellite so the fbi realized this was the al qaeda us switchboard and through tracking that telephone call to and from the number plus where they called elsewhere they can draw a map of the international reach of the oxide etch sunni they are calling your and where they were. it happens one of the two men that flew to las cedillas then down to sa

. >>> but first happening now, two malaysian teenagers are being charged with murder for allegedly settingire at an islamic boarding school. 23 people were killed, mostly students. >>> in a few hours leaders from twitter will appear before senate and house committee members. leaders are looking into how russian may have used social media to influence our election. facebook turned over thousands of documents to investigators. >>> 4:53 on your thursday morning. gay rights groups are speaking out about some of the textbooks they believe should not be a part of calirnia's new history and socia sciences curriculum. the department of education is currently formulating updated textbook recommendations for kindergarten through eighth grade. new requirements call for lgbt issues to be covered. gay rights supporters yesterday addressed the state commission saying some of the books under consideration are not sufficient and should be rejected. the state's recommendations will be ratified in november. >>> new this morning the fremont unified school district may build a new school. the school board hea

final practice is under way ahead of qualifying for the malaysian grand prix. after kimi raikkonen topped the time sheets in final practice. the finn was a tenth of a second clear of team mate sebastian vettel. the german will be desperate to close the 28 point gap to championship leader lewis hamilton. his confidence should have been boosted by the briton only managing fifth, more than half a second off the pace. but vettel‘s ferrari developed problems towards the end of the session. qualifying gets under way at ten o'clock and you can follow the action on bbc radio five live sports extra and the bbc sport website. there was more super league semi final drama last night. following the golden point drop goal that sent castleford through to the grand final on thursday... leedsjust held off hull fc... beating them 18—16 at headingley to reach old trafford for a west yorkshire derby next weekend. this second half try from liam sutcliffe helped leeds to the win & a record—equalling tenth grand final. newcastle falcons are top of rugby union's premiership after a bo

one of our other top stories this is out of a sure at least twenty people killed in a fire at a malaysian boarding school most of them teenage students police say it started on the top floor dormitory of the religious school on the outskirts of kuala lumpur cut the rope as a billion has a report. it took more than an hour for firefighters to put out the flames at the dottle couldn't eat the fuck ia school in kuala lumpur by then many people mainly teenage boys had lost their lives by going fast to stop if you see news we can see from a certain angle their hands waving out for help we had no choice but to ask them to jump out and we tried to catch them we did try to enter the house but the fire was too hot until certain point there was a blackout when that happened things started falling apart we withdrew after that. the fire started near the dormitory on the top floor first thing in the morning and quickly ripped through the entire building opposite me by one of the interior of the building is one hundred percent destroyed the mattresses books and all other things in the room were damaged

and then sport a big drum or the practice session ahead of the malaysian grown very find out what caused it the details off to the brain. private companies a leading the way with plans to put humans on laws or a space giant lockheed martin wants to set up a base camp that while space x. found a long lost cause the much more ambitious projects of colonizing the right planet in the next few decades caribou malham has more from an international space conference in adelaide industry heavyweights and space lovers converged on adelaide for this year's international astronautical congress the highlight of the event was without doubt space royalty entrepreneur and billionaire long musk has long made it known he wants to make humans and interplanetary species to make sure we don't go the way of the dinosaurs now he says he'll start a colony on the red planet with the first human flights in twenty twenty four. or the base soaring one one ship than most horse eps and circling off the city. then the city bigger. even better. at that time tom foreman was. making it so really a nice place to be. lockh

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consolidated his power by killing his uncle and reportedly having his elder half-brother assassinated in a malaysianirport. >> he is ruthless and homicidal exactly because he is irrational. it is not a joke for somebody who is shy of killing people. >> reporter: lankov says kim jong-un wants nuclear weapons so his regime can't be overthrown by the u.s. with help from south korea. north korean weapons program expert daniel pinkston: >> it's very clear what they want. it's to achieve the final victory, which means unifying korea on their terms. secondly, it means expelling the s ited states from the region. and they continue to develop strategies every day to achieve those goals. >> reporter: none of the experts we've talked to believe that north korea would actually make a preemptive strike on the united states or here in south korea. but a big question now is, what happens if north korea continues to launch missiles over japan, and how does the u.s. respond? anthony. >> mason: the big question, indeed. ben tracy in seoul, thanks. when we come back, baseball's high-tech cheating scandal. >> mason: a

people including twenty one teenage boys have died in a fire at an islamic boarding school in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur the five blocks the only exit to the dormitory which had its windows covered in metal grilles the u.n. children's fund is calling for a new fos a few procedures to be established and enforced in the nation's schools to more revenge of muslims have drowned making the crossing from man march to bangladesh bringing the number since the start of the crisis to eighty eight who died when a refugee boat heading for the town of tech nuff capsized thousands of minority revenger a still flooding into bangladesh almost four hundred thousand of fled since the military crackdown a launched a crackdown three weeks ago after a range of fighters attacked a number of police posts. there's the headlines to stay with us up next it's inside story of a news after you off to that scene a bit by for. catastrophic and completely unacceptable the words of u.n. secretary general antonio good tears describing the attacks against muslim or hindu . as more people flee to bangladesh what in th

ferrari have nowhere to hide coming into this weekend's malaysian grand prix.ut on the opening lap of the singapore grand prix two weeks ago and sebastian vettel now lies 28 points behind lewis hamilton in the world championship fight. the german has to win the grand prix this weekend. he has started as he needs to go on, fastest in final practice on friday. but of course, it is only during qualifying on saturday that we will find out which of these two great teams, ferrari or mercedes, holds the advantage this weekend. as things stand, lewis hamilton is only sixth fastest on friday, but some are saying he's keeping his powder dry until it matters. we haven't got long to find out. you can follow the action on radio 5 live. grand final veterans leeds rhinos will end hull fc‘s hopes of the double if they continue their winning streak in tonight's play—off semi—final. hull fc have lost at headingley on each of their last 12 visits. castleford are waiting for the winners after that thrilling victory against st helens last night. everything we have spoken about from

children's fund is calling for new fire safety procedures to be established and forced in all malaysian schools. a baby was among two more random muslims to have died making the crossing from miramar to bangladesh bringing the number who drowned since the start of the crisis to eighty eight died when a refugee boat capsized almost four hundred thousand afloat since the military launched a crackdown three weeks ago of three hundred fighters a type of number of police posts. u.s. president all trump has denied reports of a deal to protect undocumented young immigrants known as dreamers earlier democrats announced an agreement had been reached to protect nearly eight hundred thousand young immigrants of the program the president said last week. no deal had been finalized an agreement was close and it would include a provision for border security. or at those headlines here on al-jazeera i'm back with an update for you in about twenty five minutes time do you stay with us though the strain is coming next but why. today catalonia independent from spain ok to say they're going ahead with a re

lewis hamilton will start on pole for the malaysian grand prix after his biggest championship rival sebastian sepang after the turbo on his ferrari failed during the first session of qualifying. it means he'll start the race from the back of the grid. hamilton took the 70th pole position of his career, ahead of ferrari's kimi raikkonen, and will be confident of extending his lead over vettel in tomorrow's race. leicester made it three wins in three in the aviva premiership after beating champions exeter 20—13 at welford road. leicester took a 10 point lead in the first half with a try from nick malouf and a string of penalties from george ford. but the reigning champions responded well after being awarded a penalty try for a deliberate knock—on. jonny may sealed the win for the tigers with this well—taken try. elsewhere, northampton went top of the table after beating harlequins 30—22. meanwhile in the pro 14, munster put in a dominant second half performance to beat cardiff blues 39 points to 16 and ulster lost their first game of the after going down 27—23 to zebre in italy. catalans dragon

it hasn't gone too well for lewis hamilton in the practice rounds of the malaysian grand prix.slid off the track in the second round leaving him in sixth place. title rival sebastian vettel was quickest. but the session came to an early end after a major crash involving haas driver romain grosjean. and heavyweights tony bellew and david haye have announced the date for their rematch. it's the 17th december at the 02 in london. bellew beat haye, who ruptured his achilles during the fight, back in march. i'll have more in the next hour, goodbye. more now on brexit, and the plans some people are making to ensure they can still remain members of the european union. the actor colin firth for example recently revealed that he is also now an italian citizen, making the decision to apply for dual citizenship because of britain's departure. and he's not alone. data obtained by the bbc shows that tens of thousands more british citizens applied for citizenship of other eu countries in the year after the brexit vote than did in the year before it. in many countries, applications have more

lewis hamilton seizes pole position for tomorrow's malaysian grand prix with a track record, while rivalpes. rory mcilroy finally find some form, hitting a six under par in his third—round to put himself in contention at the british masters. the nhs is not fit for the 21st century, according to the chief inspector of hospitals in england. in a newspaper interview, ted baker said the system hadn't adapted to deal with population growth, and particularly the increase in the number of elderly people. the archbishop of canterbury has criticised the bbc‘s handling of abuse allegations againstjimmy savile. the reverend justin welby said he believed that the anglican and catholic churches had shown more integrity than the broadcaster in handling allegations of abuse. i haven't seen the same integrity over the bbc‘s failures over jimmy savile as i have seen in the roman catholic church and the church of england and in other public institutions over abuse. the bbc has said it does not recognise the accusation and has acted transparently regarding the abuse allegations. people found guilty of the

at least twenty people have been killed in a fire at a malaysian boarding school most of them teenagers police say that it started on the top floor dormitory of a religious school on the outskirts of kuala lumpur as reports. it took more than an hour for firefighters to put out the flames of a battle could an eighty five.