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On the b.b.c. World Service and Tim Franks. Government has rejected criticism of a counter-insurgency campaign which has seen a wave of refugees fleeing to Bangladesh to water the role of me animals de facto leader a Nobel Peace Prize winner. I think there are faults we can fight in the way she s handled it but I don t hold her fundamentally culpable for the situation we ll also have a rare report from inside reckoning States the scene of the bloodshed hurrican mammaries pounding towards put a Rico up to smashing through several islands in the eastern Caribbean and movies in the village of code repo in Switzerland population 16 it s like being in on the center Time slows down everybody knows each other in the village but how do you stop 16 becoming 0 all that after the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jack Speer hurricane Irma is battering parts of the Caribbean and next is expected to pass just north of Puerto Rico before possibly hitting the u.s. Mainland where the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded with 185 mile an hour winds or has already caused major damage in Barbuda and St Martin is hitting the Virgin Islands was bored Potter s lieutenant governor of the u.s. Virgin Islands he says conditions on St Thomas making it tough to determine damages just yet we re just we re trained for. Use every wind isn t rain to play understand so he can actually go in and do to relax estimates of what damage we know what caused their lives today called on the United Nations and its 193 member states revised assistance for those suffering from the effects of the storm parts of Florida are being evacuated days ahead of a possible landfall by Erma Georgia s governor has declared a state of emergency for 6 coastal counties ahead of hurricane Arma as Georgia pub . But Broadcasting s Emily Jones reports residents and officials there are preparing for the storm to possibly hit Monday it s too soon to tell how strong will be by the time the storm reaches Georgia but forecasters do expect significant wind and flooding and they re urging coastal residents to prepare evacuation orders could come this weekend Chatham County Emergency Management Director Dennis Jones says the timing of that decision could depend on how busy Georgia highways get as people of vacuum from Florida that s something that we consider when we doing our evacuation clearance times to make sure that we have enough time to get our community out Governor Nathan Deal as emergency declaration bans fuel price gouging on the coast and lives restrictions for vehicles carrying aid and supplies for n.p.r. News I m Emily Jones in Savannah Georgia the houses signed off on a nearly 8000000000 dollar emergency relief bill for Hurricane Harvey lawmakers want to get the measure to President Trump by the end of this week from Capitol Hill N.P.R. s Scott Decker reports on the political wrangling behind the scenes as the House voted to approve the aid package President Trump and congressional leaders struck a deal Harvey relief bill will be amended in the Senate to also extend the debt ceiling for 3 months that s what Democrats had been calling for but something that Republicans didn t want to happen g.o.p. Leaders had been pushing for a much longer 18 month extension of the debt ceiling and earlier in the day House speaker Paul Ryan blasted the idea of a short term agreement but according to a House aide briefed on the Oval Office meeting when Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested a 3 month extension President Trump quickly agreed the president told reporters it s a very good deal it s got Tetro n.p.r. News the Capitol the Federal Reserve in its latest Beige Book report says the economy appears to be expanded at a modest pace during the July through mid August period on Wall Street today the Dow closed up 54 points the Nasdaq was up 17 points you re listening to n.p.r. . You want to preserve or say the United States wants the u.n. Security Council to impose an oil embargo on North Korea and also to ban exports of textiles in the hiring of North Korean laborers abroad all part of an effort to rein in that country s nuclear and ballistic missile program u.s. Ambassador to the u.n. Nikki Haley this week said she wants the 15 member council to vote on a draft resolution Monday one in 8 u.s. Households is struggling to get enough to eat that s about the same as it was the year before but the level of food insecurity the u.s. Is still higher than it was before the great recession that s based on new figures from the Department of Agriculture looking at numbers from last year N.P.R. s Pam Fessler as more people in more than 15000000 households have trouble getting enough food last year because they didn t have enough money or other resources the number of food insecure families has been dropping but is still higher than it was in 2007 before the start of the recession in about 6000000 households people reported what s called very low food security this means someone in the household went hungry because they had to skip meals or cut back serving sizes while adults generally shield their children from hunger as many as 300000 households reported that children in the family went hungry at some point during the year Pam Fessler n.p.r. News Washington a bump up in gas prices in Texas is being blamed in part on a hoarding associated with hurricane Harvey Texas road commissioner Ryan sentence saying expect short is there to be resolved in the next day or so sub refineries idled by the storm have also been restarted I m Jack Speer n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Whole Foods Market offering lunch box Staples including sandwiches and snacks made with natural and organic ingredients a variety of back to school items are available at Whole Foods market we believe in a real food. Hello and welcome to News that live from the b.b.c. World Service studios in central London I m Tim Franks today as international pressure grows on the government of Myanmar to stop violence against range of Muslims will ask was the West too eager to reward what is or is democratic progress in the country and its figurehead. That s a top story also on the program in the region hurricane havoc in defense Caribbean and internationally give us the latest update on how to. Look at. When. Islands across the Caribbean adopt the brace position as hurricane strikes we ll have the latest in 30 minutes and we ll also hear from the man of God who says he has the ear of the American president when it comes to religion race and immigration and the violence sweeping across western Myanmar one thing is clear that ever more range of Muslims are feeling that they have no choice now but to flee in their tens of thousands across the border to Bangladesh but beyond that everything else is under pointed dispute the Bangladeshi government has accused the Burmese authorities of allowing troops to commit atrocities against the Ranger Nonsense says the Burmese government what s the truth of the matter it s very rare for foreign journalists in fact foreigners of any stripe to be allowed into Iraq and state by the Burmese authorities the b.b.c. Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head has been allowed in on a government organized trip and this is what he s been able to find out so far well this is Monk all the town in the Bangladesh border that s been the epicenter of the violence that has erupted in northern Rakhine state we ve come rather. Long an arduous journey to get here on a government tour now the government has brought us here it doesn t normally allow journalists or any foreigners into this region without special permission because it wants to challenge the narrative that the rest of the world is hearing from the many refugees tens of thousands of it flee into Bangladesh and so they ve been taking us to various sites showing us examples of destruction and letting us talk to people and all of them sticking to the same story which it is the Muslim militants who infiltrated communities of course they don t use the word Ranger it s pretty much banned in this part of the world but they re saying that the Muslim communities were infiltrated by these militants and it was the militants themselves who burnt down these villages what you can see here is the remains of perhaps 4 or 5 houses apparently lived in by Muslim inhabitants who are now being looked after next door in the Buddhist temple behind me it s very hard for us to challenge this narrative everyone was speaking to were doing so while in the company of police heavily armed police and government officials we have heard some dissenting views and we ve been able to talk quietly to people but this is the message the government wants to get across that it is not their fault the security forces have denied any abuses at all all those allegations of rape and of shooting and they re saying that all of the burning the hundreds of villages that have been burnt down every part of it is the responsibility of the militants themselves and nothing to do with the government I think it ll be very hard for people to believe that but that s the line we re hearing here Mondo itself feels very fearful it s quiet the shops are all shut there s a very heavy security presence there is a sense that the violence that has run over this area on the border with Bangladesh is not over yet. B.B.C. s John oven head on the ground in record straight as he was saying the Burmese government is trying as strongly as possible to push its version of events Myanmar s de facto leader and San Suu Kyi has said that the crisis in the region is being distorted by what she calls a huge iceberg of misinformation. But given that her given rather her current position of power and her stature as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate she herself has drawn wide international criticism for failing to show a measure of empathy for those suffering and to rein in the abuses apparently committed by the armed forces Derek Mitchell was a u.s. Ambassador to me under President Obama and is currently a senior advisor at the u.s. Institute of Peace given the closeness and support shown by the a bomb or administration towards her and towards me on Mars moves away from military dictatorship What does he make of San Suu cheese current behavior I think there s a credible perspective that says she could have spoken. More compassionately about there in Germany she hasn t been as effective in explaining herself as she might but I am very concerned about this the human as a nation vilification of Aung San Suu Kyi you know and this is not something that you can wave away with a wire and it s very deeply entrenched this problem in Burma society she faces a military that you cannot control and people that are very much against their interests that are against their hinges and I think she s trying to be quite careful even a problem as long as she fails to speak I mean I could understand if it was clear that behind the scenes somehow the army was was being reined in nothing suggests that that is happening now and I don t think she can rein in the military when there s an attack as there and I think what we re missing as well by the way is the attack by this our economy hinge our Salvation Army undoubtedly but she doesn t see clearly and she has talked about that and she clearly doesn t speak for them or control them however if you re saying that she can t control the army and yet she can t speak out what on earth is she doing that s a fair question. And I think I would frankly since I started with this I think there s more that she could have said she always knew in my conversations with her I know she was very clear this is going to be a very difficult issue for the end of the end for her when she won the election and talking to her privately I do believe that she understands the responsibility of the government to deal with this but I think she she thought she may have more time in space and she asked them to deal with it and she didn t get that time and space and it s understandable that time waits for no one now this is not something where Time will heal it or make it easier there are faults we can find in the way she s handled it but I don t hold her fundamentally culpable for the situation this is of course something that she inherited from previous government that did have an opportunity to get on front of it she did have the responsibility as a leader to speak out but she failed but I think we also for our sake and for the country sake need to recognize as well the context in which she s operating where she cannot make this go away easily even if she were to speak out and make us feel better about her understanding I m wondering whether the Obama administration also Bez a little bit of responsibility in this because off the rule it moved. Quite far and quite fast to embrace the changes that were happening in Myanmar the move away from military dictatorship assumption of power the move to lift sanctions when a lot of people were saying that enough progress had not yet been made perhaps that did not exist enough pressure for this to be sorted before it got to the point where things are going so badly wrong we never had any illusions that a single action or a single moment was going to deal with all the very fundamental problems in this country there are there are some just fundamental challenges that were hidden or not dealt with because of 50 years of military dictatorship they are now coming to the fore so I don t think sanctions are somehow panacea somehow we put more pressure but that would have made a difference in a case where the country in a way that we may not understand but truly believes there is an existential threat that comes from potentially from this community. Identity question security question we may not like it but we have to understand if we re going to address it I do not and I do believe that also Suchi success is very much in our interest democracy need to deliver she needs to deliver we need to support her where we can we need to call her out in order accountable where she deserves it but I think we have to be very smart and thoughtful and not sort of use all methods on issues that we simply don t have the leverage to address. Mitchell The last us Ambassador to me. During 6 years of war more than 5000000 Syrian refugees have fled the country and around twice that number of being displaced internally 10. Of thousands have died trying to reach Europe often aboard flimsy boats provided by people traffickers many others either live a life of limbo in overcrowded and under-resourced refugee camps or eat can out a precarious existence elsewhere that is the familiar terrible picture but for a minority a small minority things have worked out well Mohamed Ghanem one of 3000000 Syrian refugees to have settled in Turkey moved there from Aleppo 4 years ago he now runs a thriving factory in the southern city of Gaziantep and employs hundreds of people a correspondent Mike Thompson has been to meet him. While many Syrian refugees are struggling in Turkey some others are doing very well but come to a century in the industrial area on the outskirts of Gezi and says it s great over for us and exports more than 3 $1000000.00 worth of shoes every year this is run by mechanics down and inferred here from Aleppo just 4 years ago. But only. In the 1st 2 years we have faced difficulties in Syria because we have factories inside Aleppo we came to show here we start a small factory like 25 Ford with the help of the Turkish government so we expand our Lord from a small factory for now the international company and cyclists are you running a similar factory in a weapons plant are not enough yes in a little we have a factory and we provide market when we were in Syria but when we came there to a church it would be difficult to manufacture and sale inside the same country so we started to search for other markets we go to some Arab country it like Oracle and Judea would thank God that our physicists are good but we can t. In Turkey our exports our goods store other countries. You said that you had an even bigger factory in Syria you know what s happened to that she still operates. Out of me actually 4 years ago I went to Syria to check our factories there it was damaged very damaged by from bad months and some militias took over control on the factories so it s was our last time I go into Syria it s in the same as far as you know your factories don t Tamanna Yes it s called and what about the future building big business here when peace comes to Syria finally what would you do then would you stay here or would you go back. On a mothers out on the. Yes we re going to come back when it s sort of out for us and we will not leave here also we maybe we can leave an office or other ties when our goods but we have to go it s our land Syria and we have to help the economy there but surely with various studies of the country after the war is done. That was Ghanem the shoe manufacturer of gas intact for many a refugee from the Syrian city of Aleppo and he was talking to Acker spawn and Mike Thompson here with me live from the b.b.c. In London. And coming up on the program we ll hear from the evangelical pastor who met President Trump hoping to persuade him not to scrap the Dhaka program which offers protections to young people who were brought into the United States illegally as children. One of the things. You missed is you do. Your children and I think. Your children. And I hope that you have that are. So how persuasive Was he will you can find out in about 30 minutes headlines hurrican mammaries moving towards Puerto Rico after wreaking havoc on several islands in the eastern Caribbean more on that in 15 minutes and as we ve been hearing Bangladesh Myanmar to stop the violence that s triggered an exodus of range of Muslim refugees across the border. This is new sideline from the b.b.c. In London with me 2 francs sometimes we do science stories here on News Hour which we sperate quietly I find a little difficult to get my head around functionally my colleagues on the program would never guess but this story seems like a clear simple wind up a pen that can identify cancerous tissue within seconds speeding up surgery and making it far more accurate Livia Evelyn is assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Texas and lead all through the study that was published today the way that surgeons assessed surgical margins which is the presence of cancer at the excised edge of the tumor is using his to pathology so this is actually a technique that s been around for I would say over 100 years so it s pretty old in the way that they do it is they take that piece of tissue and send it to adjacent room to the actual surgical room in there they will freeze the tissue section and staying with that I guess in these dice will reveal the morphology of the cells and then you normally have a pathologist who s a doctor that specialized in looking at tissues in the morphology of cells in this but all of you will use just like my cross copy which is a microscope to look at the cells and then he or she would have be able to tell Ok this piece still has a margin of the 2 tumor at the margin so that s a positive margin so they could call that back in the surgery and tell the surgeon look there s a positive margin here then the surgeon has to make a decision Ok I ll keep resecting this so I m sure I got all the tumor out resume you boil takes a fair bit of time. It takes about to take about 30 minutes because you have to process the tissue and during this time the patient is there open exposed to there waiting for a response so tell me what you pay in dollars so the pin that we develop the mass spec pin it s completely different because we re not treating x. Fi vote issue x v 2 shoe Yes So the way that pathology is done on is on the surgical piece that is removed from the patient and the idea of the mess back bit is actually to end the life the tissue in the patient so it would be in vivo we haven t gotten to human surgery but we have done in view of what else is on animal surgery and it s working really well and I was a work so it s actually a very simple process chemical process but it s not difficult to understand so we use single water droplet extract small accused that are soluble in water and of course a lot of our molecules are soluble in water because our cells are mostly made of water so then these molecules go from the tissue to the water droplet and then we use the 2 that will deliver that water droplet to a mass spectrometer so by analyzing cancer tissue in normal tissue now we know Ok this is a profile or a fingerprint of molecules that are characteristic of cancer and this is a profile or a fingerprint of molecules that are characterised of normal tissue and the division is that clear. It s very clear actually because cancer cells of a very this regulated metabolism that are growing really fast are invading tissue they re completely out of control so the biological processes are completely messed up and that and result in expression of molecules in a different level than a normal cell would have how quickly can you when I was this be performed from when the doctor or whoever is using the pen triggers it with a foot pedal there s no specific training to it you just click on a foot pedal you get it. Gnostic result with their associated probability in 10 seconds or less how accurate do you think this is to lose our overall accuracy is 96.4 percent for a cancer diagnosis so it s pretty high it s very exciting our collaborator our clinical collaborators are really excited about it as indeed always that that was Livia Eveline assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Texas. The us is civil war may have ended 150 years ago the ructions continue most recently in turbulent flee ever monuments to an statues all of those who fought on the side of the slave owning Confederacy Florida was one of those Confederate States it s now one of the most ethnically diverse in the country the B.B.C. s Luis for harder looks at how the controversy over civil war related monuments is played out in Hollywood a small result near Miami. Was . A city hall in downtown Hollywood is not a place where you usually see much political drama but today it is different. In a few minutes the Hollywood City Commission will vote on whether to change the name of 3 streets named after Confederate generals and the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Hundreds of demonstrators of all races have shown up at this rally one of these protestors says Jonathan Jackson an African American who finds the idea of honoring men who fought to protect slavery deeply offensive I think that it would be just as grievous if we had Germans who wanted to pay homage to Nazi so I don t know why sperm is a homage twice premises but in Florida as an elsewhere in the country there are people with other opinions. Kris Aquino has joined a counter demonstration I ask him why he is carrying a Confederate flag is on here in defense of Southern identity Southern history and southern culture Hollywood was founded in 102560 years after the end of the American Civil War Today it is a vibrant multicultural resort with a large immigrant population many would say it is an unusual place to look for the history of the old American Confederacy I respond by saying this is the South Florida was a 3rd state to the union and we are very much 7 we are just occupied by a foreign power called and I was disappointed in Charleston and other cuts of the country this polarizing debate about history has focused on statues and public squares 2 but here it is about the name of streets where people have their houses and live their private lives for them the controversy is even more personal it brings up memories as a child growing up in Hollywood in the 1970 s. Can you see homes knew who the streets were on every least 3 good street yet 4 stories we know that they were slave masters and you re taught that it s in a black neighborhood. Just a few minutes drive from the city hall and the demonstrations forest street lights in the middle of Liberia an African-American neighborhood then slowly vine has lived all his life in this street named after a prominent groups clan leader the name of this street should be changed because this is a black African-American neighborhood and everyone over here just want the best for this neighborhood but across town Nancy who is white is happy living on a street named after the commander in chief of the Confederate army I have homilies street and they wish to change the name to do with street. I just don t feel that it s a change that benefits the city of Hollywood. Nancy is elegant and soft spoken you would not imagine her angrily waving a Confederate flag at a protest but she still wants to keep the old names on the streets I look back and say well it s still part of history and it s the same kind of a part of our history and yet we have to live with it and to take the names on the street doesn t eradicate. At the end of a very long day the city of Hollywood voted to change the name of the 3 streets if you think that the controversy will end any time soon but in the meantime these activists celebrate what they see as a small but significant victory in. The. What drives. Mr Hart everybody from Hollywood in Florida later in the program will be discussing some of his issues around race relations with an evangelical church leader who advises President Trump just to prove how joined up we will soon be in Florida talking to a academic The professor about the path of Harken that s to come on music. Distribution of the b.b.c. 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But they re part of the legal apparatus that helps him the political apparatus that helps him or are engaged in negative public relations campaigns which are also a very important technique of the Kremlin to go after its enemies we ll hear what they want this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. That s coming up today at 3 o clock our news in Culver City California and Wayne ground get prepared now that s what Florida Governor Rick Scott is urging people to do saying Hurricane Irma is bigger faster and stronger than Hurricane Harvey which devastated parts of Texas last week Governor Scott has also called up 1000 National Guard troops to help us Court gasoline trucks into the Florida Keys we are very very much into it being factor state and why it s still too early to tell exactly where the storm will go is incredibly important all 3 is get a clue signs incredibly dangerous that. You don t sit and wait for this storm to come is extremely dangerous and deadly and will cause devastation get prepared now forecasters expect their mother passed just north of the Dominican Republic tomorrow they say it will probably reach Florida late this weekend 15 states and the District of Columbia have filed suit against the trumpet ministration seeking to block the president from ending protections for young immigrants known as dreamers N.P.R. s Richard Gonzales has this update the lawsuit is led by the attorneys general of the states of New York Massachusetts and Washington were state a.g. Bob Ferguson called the president s decision outrageous attorney general principle I fortunately have a hammer it s the law the suit alleges that the Trump administration violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution and the due process rights of the estimated 800000 young people brought to this country illegally by their parents the administration says the docket program will be phased out beginning in March less Congress takes action to solve the. That Richard Gonzales n.p.r. News President Trump says he s agreed to deal to temporarily fund the government and increase the nation s borrowing limit for 3 months as part of a plan to rush disaster aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey that bipartisan compromise was a tough sell to Republican leaders but it s Congress more time to address issues such as immigration defense and health care you re listening to n.p.r. News. In a moment we ll have the latest on hurricane but business news 1st and the effect of climate change on all of our coffee consumption and a study recently published in the journal Nature plants scientists have warned that global warming is likely to wipe out half of all plantations in countries like Ethiopia which is the birthplace of the Beveridge already some plantations in Eastern Europe you have been destroyed with experts warning that the worst is yet to come if not enough effort is made to tackle the problem the B.B.C. s Emmanuel against the reports from Ethiopia. Have come to a farm in eastern Ethiopia and one of the farmers here is busy pruning a coffee tweet in our bus line and it s very hot and shook usually uses have green headscarves to wipe sweat face. For decades but didn t have it as depended on poor people survival has been able to feed and educate our 7 children from Ethiopia s main export and now but recent years have seen the harvest reduced drastically due to a mix of high temperatures and low rainfall. You need a lot of water to grow we ve been forced to plant other crops like maize and so because they do not require as much water if the rains with sufficient you could see coffee everywhere but it requires so much water which I don t have my harvest say far have been pulled. Thank you. It doesn t India for months get another you ll feel drained blooms of the trees and drying up some of we that end died in one corner a group of women are using big plastic and metal buckets to get water from a big town to get the plants the water is drawn for money for several kilometers away as all other water sources have dried out. Thank for and it s not just here but we are feeling the effects of changing climate. Up to 60 percent of. The farming. Within the next 100 years is the effects of climate change the government has been trying to encourage farmers to move to higher ground temperatures can protect them. Looking. Into more than mine $100000000.00 in foreign exchange at least $15000000.00 farmers engage in its farming but it s not just benefit as a place. To. Drink your coffee I. Like. To tell you. That. I love coffee a lot I drink maybe 3 or 4 times a day drinking coffee since I was a small boy I prefer. The traditional way is much much better. As give to the world will face its biggest challenge yet. The otherwise extremely good news or editor I went with didn t like the local brew so much I loved it he was wrong right. This is a line from from the b.b.c. In London with me Tim Franks and to something that as President Trump described it today could wind up not good believe me not good the president was talking about how barreling and smashing its way across the Caribbean on route it appears to Florida 2 people have been killed in French Caribbean territories according to the French president winds of 180 miles an hour getting over 300 kilometers an hour have been registered on some Caribbean islands the storm system is reported to be roughly the size of France this is how advanced is being reported around the region . Candy I Martina Johnson with your headlines communication has been lost with residents and a sister riled by beautiful in the region hurricane havoc in the French Caribbean and internationally someone who can give us the latest updates on Hurricane was. Looking at maximum sustained wind. Was. Very cool how the system. A little. You feel things. The thought of delays little the commute. The. View of the core of a Coleman Hurricane Earl is poised to strike the Virgin Islands with top sustained winds of 185 miles per hour it s headed next for Puerto Rico the National Hurricane Center says Earl is the strongest Atlantic storm ever recorded outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico the Center predicts it will shift to the north and threaten Florida directly by early next week. The prime minister of Antigua and Bob Brown told the b.b.c. That his country s preparedness had spent it the widespread destruction projected to come along with her economic We have made sure that most of the buildings here if not all of them certainly within the last down to get decades would have been built to withstand Starnes of about $200.00 mph and up in addition the public utility will have been repaired and strengthen to also withstand that those type of storms but within the last 72 hours we spent an enormous amount of resources to clear all of the trains that were blocked the culvert we made sure that the storm water was able to flow freely and as a result we did not have any serious flooding and I would say that you know the preparedness in terms of people securing themselves their families their properties are valuable would have been temporary and as a result the damage has been minimal compared to what could have happened if we were not ready and Prime Minister Fenty going Bob you know expressing some relief but the governor of. Florida Rick Scott warns people not to underestimate the storm s impact the storm is massive and the storm surges predict will go for miles . As a massive storm. In some instances could cover homes and go very far inland right now Irma is traveling at about 60 miles per hour the track now has the forecast to direct the impact for the keys on Sunday as a devastating major hurricane. The 40 keys should be prepared to start feeling the effects of the storm as early as Saturday. Storm surge in extreme winds the biggest concern right now the storm is bigger faster and stronger than Hurricane Andrew. We are being very aggressive in our preparation for this storm and every Floridians take this seriously and be aggressive to protect their family well one Floridian monitoring the hurricanes progress professionally as well as personally as Dr Karim associate professor of geography at the University of Florida. We re in the climatological peak of the hurricane season right now and the reason why this isn t peaks at this time of year is because we have a lot of energy available swith got a lot of energy stored in the ocean so we have very high temperatures in the ocean and there s a lot of moisture in the area as well and you couple that with the fact that the winds are fairly light and so these are some of the ingredients that we need to get a hurricane to form and Irma has just been in a very favorable area this whole time so it s been able to grow and grow and grow when you say that the waters at the moment the sea water is a very warm Are we able to draw a line between the strength of Hurrican and climate change or is it far more complex than that ocean temperature should be warm in that part of the Atlantic and this time of year I m not sure off the top of my head of the analysis that s being done whether it s going to be sort of a longer term warming there are cycles of warming in the Atlantic Ocean that happen on sort of 20 year time periods where we tend to have warmer than normal then cooler than normal but then there s also some year to year fluctuation as well some years it s not quite as warm as it is in other years and what can we say with any degree of certainty about where hurricane memory is going to go and it and it was intensity I mean is that the likelihood that it will stay as strong as it is that it will lose intensity gathered pace the forecast right now is this for it to remain a a major hurricane where the track is forecast to go the biggest obstacle standing in its way would have been if it had made landfall over some very elevated train and that would disrupt the circulation but that hasn t happened so far and the path that the suite of models are projecting is making it a. More or less unlikely as we go along that it ll encounter some major land masses with a lot of rain to disrupt the circulation so the gestures right now are keeping at over some of the smaller islands and then more towards the east coast of Florida for those who are facing the prospect of a coming down towards him or indeed have already had to live through it at least people like you do the mapping and predict where the hurricane these is heading and that will allow people to do some sort of preparations being a resident of Florida we hear at the beginning of every hurricane season which starts on June 1st here and ends on November 30th we hear about you know making some plans making sure you ve got some supplies just in case reviewing any evacuation plans stocking up on medications and so we at least we d like to think that we ve got some level of preparation but then when the actual event comes of course then it can be a very different story because it depends on how much information we have how sure are we of where it s going to go and the fact that we ve got so many more people now living near the coastline than ever before which stresses out the road networks which taxes our relief supplies so it takes people longer to prepare and if they need to evacuate it takes longer to evacuate. Dr Corey match your Society Professor job for the University of Florida in the Reuters News Agency is reporting just within the last minute was according to the National Hurricane Center in the u.s. That a storm called Jose has become a hurricane and is also heading for the Caribbean. Now a question we rarely tackle here on News How does a village survive when it s few remaining inhabitants are all past retirement age is even possible it s an issue which across the Alps Europe s great mountain range many communities are having to confront as the younger generation move to the cities for education work and a social life imagine folks reports from the smallest village in Switzerland. This is correct Deacon southern Switzerland and this country s smallest village 60 beautiful stone houses many of them hundreds of years old stone roofs as well 60 houses but just 16 people live here in Cripple in small villages like this it s quite special it s like. Being in other century time slows down everybody knows each other in the village and you feel really authentic city of living in a village that exists for for centuries not everything is a work of. Teaching or tourism director for poorly has a deep affection for villages like corrido but he doesn t actually live here unlike mayor cloudier Chetry me he s been here all his life has only been a bit can well I feel it s rather tragic Corps has 16 inhabitants in a month or 2 we could be down to 13 and I m Ian. One working all the rest of pensioners I hope they live into their ninety s otherwise in 20 years I don t know who will be living here. In the Field live in Arcadian called. To save Korea posed the villagers have a plan masterminded by local architect Fabio see the good boy did in peridot we re going to turn these old houses into hotel rooms Mr Jack amat sees concept known as their gold the Fuso or scattered hotel has already been tried in some Italian villages but never in Switzerland the defense there are of course repaint of course were put in bathrooms but the original doors will stay the original wood and stone must stay the experience for guests should be very similar to what it was in the 19th century encourage people tonight wonderful could be free of people. So if you walk along career pose abandoned streets you can pop in to some of the old houses that might eventually be hotel rooms and I have to be honest I ve just come into one here you have to look quite hard to see the charm because some of these places were abandoned 50 or 60 years ago and they re very dusty they re even old clothes old wine bottles but in this one there s also a beautiful fireplace wouldn t be on the ceiling and chestnut wood floors. I think more and more people will appreciate this kind of accommodation. Among the handful of tourists in caricatures only bar there is support for the idea of how it is made of stones and with the beautiful view of nature if you want to switch or I could see it being relaxing for freedom if you have a book to write something if it s a difference between something being able to rely on the commercialization. Help all personally I think it would be best left and tourism director earlier for poorly thinks the key to keeping curricula live is to do both leave it as it is but invite your wrists to experience it in 21st century the new luxury will be a city having a place where you can feel the history of the place youth use you see and you notice that it is real it is not fake We are full of those small villages in the Chino and some of them they are really facing a problem of the population. So rather than drifting into extinction correct though hopes to be a shining example for other women villages the plan will take time the hope is to have some rooms ready by next year but word seems to have got out requests for reservations are already coming in. I was imagine hoax reporting from correct Don t forget by the way that if you want to keep up to date on what s happening on hurricane damage do you look at our website b.b.c. 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Has said that fake news about the violence in Iraq and state is helping terrorists so could she be doing more to calm the tensions that we call the sentiments of the former us Ambassador to me Derek Mitchell she did have a responsibility as a leader to speak out but she failed but I think we also for our sake and for the country sake need to recognize as well the context in which she s operating where she cannot make this go away easily even if she were speaking out and make us feel better about her understanding one of the headline story put to Rico is bracing itself for the arrival of hurricane which is already wreaked havoc on several other Caribbean islands. This is a line from the b.b.c. With me Tim Franks the skeptics and the cynics say that politics is an amoral business godless even in thrall to base motives but when you are the person at the top buffeted by a 1000000 of vents How do you ensure your own conscience is nurtured and kept clean Donald Trump has many u.s. Presidents have in the past had a board of clergy come and talk to him in the Oval Office in his case they re all evangelical church men and they were there just last week one of them pastor Jensen Franklin said that he had found a willing audience when he was imploring the president to consider the human cost of scrapping the program known as DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the impact it could have on the hundreds of thousands of children brought illegally to the United States by their parents so how did the conversation go. Just begin to tell them our experience of. These things are kids have grown up in America they ve been in our children s ministering center church they watched them go into our youth ministries or student ministries and they are many of them young college so are already in the workforce and what I want to. Tell me about. You know one of the things. You missed is you do love your children and I think that hard for your children. And I hope that you have a heart. From his actions yesterday do you get any sense that he in some way changed what he wanted to do as a result of that conversation I mean I really can t answer that but I think. You know what s real well what occurs. I love the fact that not only did he graciously. Call them turning it s 6 more months but I think he was saying I want to do more things temporarily there with this issue which is what President Obama was billing which was what the doctor ordered was doing was just it was never intended to be a permanent solution now the president said. Well it s really something that Congress has to say because unconstitutional and Congress. Put sensible legislation on his desk he s going to sign a great telltale sign that his heart. Have a permanent place in our nation but he was very clear on the campaign trail that he believes that. He s on things to people who in his words abided by immigration laws and so his mind is if Congress doesn t do its job as you put it he will simply scrap the scheme or no I don t I don t agree with that I don t think he s made it clear at all that witchcraft is not a fact I think one of his latest 25th day said we ll revisit it 6 months it s not Congress has not done their job those were the only thing and that s the president s heart. Only after talking with him after talking with many others particularly in the Hispanic community that talking with him they believe that the president is looking for solutions for the scheme that the pathway to citizenship and beyond that the conservatives want to fix this problem by securing our borders so that we do not find ourselves here again. You know if you move broadly about the relationship that you. And you are board of evangelical pastors have with the president because just in terms in your church News Atlanta Georgia it s it s multi-ethnic am I right in saying that yes or I just wonder whether because of that in the light of the vents after Charlottesville when the president attracted a fair deal of criticism for his comments about the violence involving white supremacists and neo nazis members of the Ku Klux Klan whether any of you are convinced and said to you we d rather that you not closely associate yourself with the president and the way that my congregation understands my role and the way that I explain it because you know if for example Charlottesville not agree with the way that it was handled I don t like the president missed a tremendous opportunity to unite the nation on common ground when his Americans feel passionately about as an evangelical pastor I believe. Well as I m missing him it s the personification of the Quien the white supremacy It s an awful. Quality that with a lot of other. Words just tremendously you know missed opportunity once said to him or not then acknowledging that he had cheering clapping everything. But how can. You not at all and that is exactly how are you about it on this board I support much of the president s policy we never sang course personality as much as this policy and yet if you say that white supremacists neo nazis are in a sense the personification of evil I just wonder whether you make the calculation whether that rather than influencing him perhaps you will providing some so. Cover for him because a lot of people say that he was very equivocal about it talking about very good people among those marches and Van and so many sides no I would I would strongly disagree with what my action was and. Found out called my contacts in the White House. What President and Michelle stuff was but it was not good enough. For my now organization. Was it just goes after a multi cultural church you understand because talk. Goes to life for those and sometimes when you re in the bubble. Wash you don t get all of those going that normal. And so that s why they are the core pastor Jensen Franklin reflecting on his meeting with President Trump last week just before we go an update on hurricane which is pounding Caribbean islands of moments and traveling west the French President Emanuel Macross spoke to reporters following a ministerial crisis meeting he warned people to expect the worst that if you re going to be in this situation has been anticipated by all our services for several days and it led to my Blizz ation development departments in order to face the emergency and to prepare the organization I can already tell you the impact to be hard and there will be casualties and material damage and will be considerable It is again I guess what it is you look. Who s talking about the onza Sam by telling me. 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