the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns the ship sailed away after the british royal navy launched the two vessels in response the government of gibraltar called the maneuver foolish and the nuisance but great as long claimed the tiny peninsula should be under stannis control but a spokesman for britain's prime minister the minister said we are certain of our sovereignty over the whole of gibraltar. still to come on the program a charity's report says un peacekeepers stood by as violence of the state in central african republic and we visit a southern town at the heart of italy's immigration debate. however the really shouldn't be quite so much rain in china at the moment but as you can see from the massive cloud there's more than the hint what it's already for and there is more to come of it you've got one more day of it reaching its peak and it may well fall in hong kong so it's quite widespread it goes up towards shankar and the cold that run will has produced some pretty interesting architecture sculpture if you like of snow and raw in the song the trees pretty sorry a

came to work that these are refugees from perhaps major wars and you know your you served in the royal navy brought there by the australian government is that right if you try to reach australia by boat and they take you to christmas songs first of all which is not enough for west. then they process you and then it's really fairly arbitrary whether you carry to detention center in the middle the desert in australia or one of the cities or if you go it's madness or no research it's who are innocent australians decided to place people in offshore detention really means out of sight and out of mind and having me reporting restrictions so no journalists are allowed back they have had a couple who've been heavily monitored and very pots on their approach but basically you can't go to you can't record it but to watch what was going on and say that it was more traumatic what you saw there than what you see who is a royal navy doctor in afghanistan yes it's different sort of trauma but saying if you had a kid who maybe was three years old when i got sonari after five years camp or tent in this tiny

that it was more traumatic what you saw there than what use was a royal navy doctor in afghanistan yes is different sort of trauma but saying if you had a kid who maybe was three years old when i got sonari after five years or eight marion's a camp or tent in this tiny yard and you see over and over dreams just being taken out of them and getting you know worse and worse psychologically that was very traumatic to see and we saw lots of self harm we saw a lot of serious attempts quite apart from the physical conditions i had which were not being treated correctly and i don't know what the australian government is saying now with some self reflection going on there i mean do you contend that patients with breast lumps kidneys just your logical damage diagnostic treatment was being delayed for the absolute it's laid every single time we would make recommendations that people needed treatment was not available and i knew australian government would say yes we've heard you and then just store it these patients were just languish with no no no further treatment program treatments are so peop

part of any don't trump military intervention in venezuela it's certainly being advertised by the royal navy as militarily capable it's what's below deck that makes these bay class ships unique a large wet dock in cavernous vehicle deck mean troops and equipment can be loaded on to landing craft even in rough weather and did half the time of their predecessors this as british marines specializing in close combat from forty commando infamous for its role in tony blair's iraq war carry out battlefield and casualty evacuation drills in central america as they have done for some time we're currently in a place called. police in central america conducting our jungle warfare training we're conducting our individual skills package at the minute and we've been in the field for about seven days and we've got about another eight days left to go in this package one of the biggest challenges is about ninety five percent of the company have never been to the jungle before well the u.k. m.o.d.e. told going underground that there are no plans right now for u.k. military attack over this well and the deploy

part of any don't trump military intervention in venezuela it's certainly being advertised by the royal navy as militarily capable it's what's below deck that makes these bay class ships you need.

seas you know they control the sea as the sun never sets on the british empire they have of the royal navy is the sea based empire this is a land based empire this is an attempt to dominate the land which is different than we've seen in a while even though the america us as a sea based power in europe was a seam so this is a land based power now you know china is broke at the moment they have huge debt problems and they probably couldn't shekels together but the impressions nicety this is a land based empire that they're building but they do have three c. networks that they're also working around. but this points out that that's the thing is once you start with trade and financial flows or with giving countries what they saw early lack cultural and political influence what forms it's very basis at its heart vision and deng xiaoping vision of a world organized as a network to drift from rigid hierarchies like media monolith or even governments. to now digitally created and has networks dang as both an autocrat and a hyper capitalist was in more ways than one ahead of his time right now netw

there any dollar trump military intervention in venezuela it's certainly being advertised by the royal navy as militarily capable it's what's below deck that makes these bay class ships unique a large wet dock in cavernous vehicle deck mean troops and equipment can be loaded on to landing craft even in rough weather and in half the time of their predecessors this has been.

he is a man who has committed a ship in the royal navy, has learned to fly, has driven many a sportss full of energy. the word connected to your most of the time is dynamo. giving up the right to drive was a pretty big dealfor him. he has yielded on that. yes, he will be driven around in the future. he will not be driving himself. i think that isa not be driving himself. i think that is a blow for him. but it has perhaps yielded to the reality of the situation and perhaps a little bit to the poor public relations that surrounded the whole incident. johnny dymond there. let's get some of the day's other news. kurdish forces have launched what they say is their final attack against the so—called islamic state in syria, where an estimated 600 fighters are holed up in four square kilometres near the iraqi border. at least 20,000 people were evacuated from the area. a spokesman for the us—backed syrian democratic forces attack should conclude within days. activist groups outside china are reporting the death of a respected uighur musician in a chinese detention camp. he is believed to hav

it's a complex relationship and hasn't been made simply by chinese concerns about royal navy deployments in the south china sea and i can announce the operational mission of heechul mass queen elizabeth will include the next rainy and the middle east on the pacific region williamson's plan to send him to carry out of the south china sea you prompted an angry response from beijing soon after with china cancelled a visit well u.k. trade that occasion which would have included philip hammond this comes at a critical time for the u.k. securing a trade relationship with china is seen as vital for britain off it leaves the e.u. one month from now. we're joined live by jonathan steele international affairs commentator for more on this mr steele thanks for coming on today good to have you on the program just some of a set how much of a setback is this for britain's relationship with china as the foreign minister was saying this is a complex relationship as it is just how much of an impact will this have well it's a kind of warning shot it's not enormously important because of this because it wou

part of any don't trump military intervention in venezuela it's certainly being advertised by the royal navy as militarily capable it's what's below deck that makes these bay class ships unique a large wet dock in cavernous vehicle deck mean troops and equipment can be loaded on to landing craft even in rough weather and did half the time of their predecessors this as british marines specializing in close combat from forty commando infamous for its role in tony blair's iraq war carry out battlefield and casualty evacuation drills in central america as they have done for some time we are currently in a place called. police in central america conducting our jungle warfare training we're conducting our individual skills package at the minute and we've been in the field for about. seven days and we've got about another eight days left to go in this package one of the biggest challenges is about ninety five percent of the company have never been to the jungle before well the u k m o d told going underground that there are no plans right now for u.k. military attack on venezuela and the deployment

he said the royal navy's new aircraft carrier, the hms queen elizabeth, would be deployed to the pacific mr williamson said it was vital the uk was prepared to use its military power. more than 300,0000 babies under the age of one are living below the poverty line — that's according to analysis carried out for the bbc by the joseph rowntree foundation. relative poverty is defined by the organisation as living substantially below the average income. for a single—parent family with one child, that amounts to £198 per week after housing costs. for a family of two parents with two children, it's £360 per week. the government says there are now 1 million fewer people living in absolute poverty since 2010. absolute poverty is defined as living with income 60% below the average income in 2010, adjusted for rises in the cost of living. 0ur correspondent danny savage has been to castleford to talk to one working mother about her experiences. morning, charlie. ready? the start of another day for vicky miller and her son charlie, in their rented home in castleford. going to get ready for nursery, a

from military standpoint what it can do commercially will have i think it is a problem for the royal navy on that one but it has to be said that we've heard on this program it's been quoted widely around the world that the united states is in circling china with military bases is that the way london and other countries are going to be the list of the communist party of ji u.s. military presence in the region long predates china's rise right it's a legacy obviously of world war two when the victory over japan and so forth and since that time during the cold war the us alliance system the end agreements countries like of course japan and south korea also australia new zealand others were formally. part of a u.s. treaty based alliance system and a lot of that remains intact today there's shifting you know positions and degree of acceptance of a strong military presence in places like japan and korea because of course they've modernized the become very successful they have their own self defense capability to some degree they still want the u.s. there to a certain extent though they also feel

look back on the decades that he has spent before that when he was yachting, when he was in the royal navywn plane, driving sports cars, this is a man who has enjoyed physical activity all of his life, so physical activity all of his life, so giving up his licence is no small thing. but certainly there was the criticism of the fact that he drove again so swiftly afterwards and this criticism he was perceived to be driving without a seat belt on public roads, something that the police said they had worked written about, again, ithink police said they had worked written about, again, i think you police said they had worked written about, again, ithink you have police said they had worked written about, again, i think you have a combination of facing up to the reality of his age and yielding a bit at the criticism surrounding the collision he was involved in. bit at the criticism surrounding the collision he was involved inlj suppose you said earlier, the palace hopes that this will now draw a line under the affair, this is perhaps the palace trying to seize control of the situation, a situat

the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns the ship sailed away after the british royal navy launched two vessels in response but dread has long claimed the tiny peninsula should be under spanish control but a spokesman for britain's prime minister said we are certain of our sovereignty over the whole time war and political instability in iraq have held back its economic development for decades and unsurprisingly investment in sport has also suffered one discipline in particular has great cultural significance for iraqis and the wider region stratford went to baghdad to find that war. its cold tent to taking an ancient horse riding skill believed to be practised by all means around the world over two thousand years ago. and some of these iraqi reuters a rather good at it. is a member of the iraqi equestrian team he writes an eight year old arabian thorough bred culture has already. since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three until now i have one around forty five medals and four of them were gold but the equestrian sports here are no longer taken seriously they

he said the royal navy's new aircraft carrier, the hms queen elizabeth, would be deployed to the pacificina. mr williamson said it was vital the uk was prepared to use its military power. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, says the increased use of food banks is partly caused by problems in implementing universal credit. the department has previously played down links between the new single benefit and people seeking emergency food parcels. but today, the minister said that difficulty in accessing money after moving to universal credit was one of the causes of the rise. the food bank operator the trussell trust said the acknowledgement was welcome. a trial has started over the rape and murder of six—year—old alesha macphail, who was killed on the isle of bute. her body was discovered in woodland last july. a 16—year—old boy, who can't be named because of his age, denies the charges at glasgow high court. human activity could drive the earth's entire insect population to extinction within a century, according to a major new scientific study. insects are vital pollinators, so any

the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns the ship sailed away after the british royal navy launched two vessels in response the government of gibraltar called the maneuver foolish and a nuisance but great as long claimed the tiny peninsula should be under spanish control but a spokesman for britain's prime minister said we are certain of our sovereignty over the whole of gibraltar. japanese carmaker honda plans to shut its british plant by twenty twenty two putting three and a half thousand jobs at risk the plant at swindon is the company's only factory in the e.u. more than ninety percent of the cars produced there are explore exported to europe and the u.s. it's reported the company plans to consolidate production in japan and didn't take the situation because of bricks it bad of the u.k.'s labor party jeremy corbyn says he's disappointed by the resignation of seven of his m.p.'s the group of opposition politicians to say that they left the party in protest of a corbin's approach to breaks it and claims of anti semitism the labor party is the vide it on how the u.k. shoul

baron, a commanding officer of the frigate chesapeake. 1812,7 before the war of at a time when the royal navy off u.s.ssing seamen ships, interfering with trade outseamen's rights, called to captain baron of the chesapeake in norfolk that he believed there were british deserters on board, and called the ship out and challenged it and fired a broadside. the chesapeake was not ready for combat, not ready for much of anything. it was on a transit to the mediterranean. it was a great disaster for the ship. many were killed. the ship was taken by the british. seamen were taken off. not a good day for the united states navy. there was a court-martial. decatur sat on the court-martial and captain baron of the chesapeake was suspended essentially from the navy for a period of about five years. he went to south america, went broke, had a disastrous personal life after that. as you might expect, held a significant grudge against those members of the court, of which stephen decatur was one. baron is back in the united states, decatur has moved here to establish his presence with his family, his wife. ba

as a result of this gibraltar and say the british royal navy vessels were sent to the scene and after this the spanish war ship sailed up the coast of gibraltar very slowly with its guns man and and uncovered it has to be said that the only source for this story at the moment is the gibraltar and governments we have reached out to the british foreign office and the british ministry of defense in the moments they haven't come back to us with any further info the spanish aren't saying anything either but they have released some order of. shipping channels and we can listen to a bit of that now. all forty four to our current site spanish territorial waters and i think additional you know state budgets i suggest thank you tourist for starting it all yourself. but i think you are here. as we said really in the status of gibraltar gibraltar has always been a source of dispute between the u.k. and spain what's going to be the status of the territory in a need up to breck st. well the status of gibraltar is that it is a british overseas territory the spanish ceded it's the united kingdom in s

the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns of the ship sailed away after the british royal navy launched two vessels in response madrid has long claimed the tiny should be under spanish control but a spokesman for britain's prime minister said we are certain of our sovereignty over the whole of gibraltar. celebrations are taking place across libya to mark eighty years since the revolution that toppled one market darcey since then parts of the country have to send it into conflict with rival governments and on groups all vying for power but many still believe that ousting gaddafi did liberate libya by ending his forty two year autocratic rule the one that did what he has more now from tripoli. libya is free for that the people have paid a heavy price. worlds are broadcasting the language on public radio on the eighth anniversary of the seventeenth of february revolution m a z is were among the minorities persecuted on their good death is regina. i'm trying to convey my feelings to my fellow citizens as a reminder of the sacrifice a martyr is given to this revolution it's also a w

joined the royal navy reserves when i was 17 and thought i would love to go in soi i was 17 and thoughtf eight years. my trade was helicopter mechanic. —— i did ita trade was helicopter mechanic. —— i did it a short. i spent 18 months at sea. i loved it. fantasticjob. and the problem is, how do they manifest themselves? not until later on, very much later on. it was trying to find out who i was, what was happening to me. i would get very angry. you know, i would just snap. with this after you left the force? after i left the force. try to find a full—timejob. ijoined the emergency services, because i'm trying to replace that uniform, hinting that the camaraderie would be the same. but it is not quite the same. i have had sixjobs in the past nine years, which is quite a lot. and you just tend to go from job to what was the moment then when you realised you had ptsd? really when i was diagnosed, i went for some help. so you really realised you needed to ask for help because this is part of the problem, chris, you have gone through something similar. interestingly we were talking before ab

about a number of things, for example selling a new aircraft carrier to the pacific, essentially royal navynt hms albion to challenge china‘s territorial gains and there was a fierce response from china and indeed on his inside government about it, so it is a controversial move, nevertheless he says he will do it. he also says he is going to essentially make the armed forces more lethal, and that is by giving them new equipment. essentially set out a new shopping list for them, and i think that again would include things like swarms of drones, arming surveillance aircraft, building new ships, and the question is... if you remember, a year ago, there was going to have to be massive big cuts in the mod and the armed forces. he seems to have avoided that in part by getting more money for the treasury, but then public accounts committee says he can‘t afford to equip meant he has already said he wa nts to equip meant he has already said he wants to buy, let alone this new list of equipment, is waiting there will be some doubts as to whether the mod, whether he can actually give all of this new k