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BBCNEWS Outside Source July 14, 2024

Voluntarily so we can be free. Well learn more about whats being done to help the girls. And the singer sheryl crow reveals that the original tapes of some of her most famous albums went up in flames in a fire at Universal Studios 11 years ago. The work of dozens of other artists is also feared lost. For months now weve seen many reports of the hardships faced by families attempting to cross illegally into the United States as migrants on its southern border. In recent days weve had reports about children inside one us Detention Centre being held in squalid conditions. Today another story has emerged which tragically highlights the stark human cost of this migrant crisis. A young salvadoran father and his toddler daughter drowned on sunday while trying to cross the rio grande, the river which seperates mexico and texas. An image of their dead bodies was taken. And before i show it to you, i have to warn you it is extremely distressing. This is the body of Oscar Ramirez and his not yet two year old daughter valeria. Oskar had apparently tried to cross with valay ria. His wife was swimming across with a friend but could see the current was too strong and so swam back to the mexican side. The mother of Oscar Ramirez has been speaking about the death of her sun and granddaughter. She says he just wanted a better life for them. It was his dream to have a good future for his family and daughter. But not knowing he would end up dying. This is very shocking, the picture and how he is protecting her. I feel such a picture and how he is protecting her. Ifeel such a mixture picture and how he is protecting her. I feel such a mixture of things. The tenderness, how he never let her go, you can see the way he protected her. Thats absolutely heartbreaking. The family set out on their fateful journey from matamoros in northern mexico. Theyd been in mexico on a humanitarian visa for two months, and having failed in their efforts to gain asylum in the us they decided to swim across towards the texas side. President trump has responded to the tragedy in the past couple of hours. Its like i had been saying, if they fix the lies he would not have back, people are coming up and running through the rio grande, its a very rough river of sorts, there are times when going across the rio grande is very, very dangerous depending on the time of year and it conditions and the rapidity of the water. And we know that. And we had many, water. And we know that. And we had any water. And we know that. And we had many, many guards there, but people still go through them, if we had the right lies that the democrats are not letting aside, those people would not be coming up and trying. Hes effectively compromise security. Barbara apologies, your life. Barbara, so we are hearing from donald trump we saw this image that was heartbreaking, its been shown around the word well, reaction coming from it and the president talking about security and strengthening the lies. Yes, thats right, that shocking image has prompted the denunciations between President Trump and the democratic party. As you heard him saying, this isa party. As you heard him saying, this is a problem we have not bet i were democrats bashed immigration laws could fix the democrats are not working with beyond that so it is theirfight working with beyond that so it is their fight because they want open borders, and you have gotten strong reactions from the democratic president ial candidates were using it as an example of inhumane policies of the Trump Administration when it comes to immigration, the candidate from texas said in essence, he is responsible for the bath, so you had that kind of blame game going on, but a wider reaction also of horror and anger that they should have been an criticism of the Trump Administrations immigration policies as well as a lot more focus on the lack of resources and the way border agencies have been overwhelmed by the influx of migrants, especially women and children. Weve also been finding out more about the family itself, we heard from oskars mother, what more do we know about the family that had originated from el salvador . We understand that they left el salvador because they were struggling economically, oscar was making 10 a day or so and it was a real grind and wanted a new life for his wife and child, so they left in early april and made their way up to the United States through mexico, and they had just reached the last party we understand over the weekend, and the bridge was close, but also a Mexican Border official and immigration officials was told they had to register for a waiting list in order to apply for asylum. Thats a really long waiting list because the americans have recently limited the process they do not want to wait long and they looked at the river and thought it was manageable, they sent across with him on tearing they sent across with him on tearing the child on the back and his wife tidy on the back of someone else, and she says that she saw her husband was getting tired as they we re husband was getting tired as they were swimming and she was worried about the current and she turned and swa m about the current and she turned and swam back and when she looked back, she saw her husband and child sink beneath the water and carried away, so beneath the water and carried away, so in an absolutely horrific tale. Absolutely horrific, in the meantime, the Republican Senate has approved a ballot to send aid to the border, tell us more about that. Why there is discussion in the house and senate about what to do, they are looking at a 4. 5 billion emergency humanitarian aid bill to send resources to the border because they had been told in the last week or two, i stretched the board or agency is in terms of trying to deal with all these migrants at something the president asked for as well, there was a bill passed yesterday, by the democrats and they played lots of restrictions on the money because they did not want to be seen to be supporting the hard sign of his pride is the best policy and also they wanted conditions set our standards except for health and care of the migrants, that was defeated, that bill is defeated by the senate but it had its own belt, a bipartisan support, same amount of money, not as many restrictions though, time has passed. Now its not clear what will happen to have to decide whether they will reconcile both of the bills, they have to come up with a brush in any way they can present to the president and hopes that this can pass to seek in a crisis that led and if it doesnt pass by the end of the week, they are off to a recess and it will be extended for the is ticking down, live from washington, thank you bye bye. Two sisters have fled saudi arabia and are now in hiding in turkey, where they are trying to claim asylum in another country. Dua and dalal mounted a campaign on twitter, describing their ordeals in saudi arabia and hiding from their father in turkey. Here they say we suffered a lot while we were in saudi arabia, we were deprived of completing our university studies, we were beaten, insulted and deprived of all our legitimate rights. They wanted to force us to marry extremist clerics we just want to live in peace. They say previous accounts they set up were suspended by twitter. Weve been told by a person familiar with the matter that the accounts were suspended in error and that twitter has overturned its decision and apologised. Heres one of the sisters, dalal, making an appeal via twitter. We escaped for our lives, we did voluntarily, so that we could be right free. This is the first time in our lives we are doing what we wa nt time in our lives we are doing what we want to do. But we urgently need help to save us from being sent back to saudi arabia. We are appealing to any free countries to grant as asylu m any free countries to grant as asylum as soon as possible. If the Turkish Police hand is over, to our father, we will disappear forever. Please help us. The group detained in dubai has been helping dua and dalal get asylumn abroad. I spoke to the head of the group, radha stirling, about their case. They put out a statement that is describing what they fly from in saudi arabia. But ultimately, it comes down to abusive this and general oppression, in violation of human rights. When they were on holiday in turkey, what their father, they managed to leave him and saw it as i limped to the united nations, which they are now being granted. So how is at the request going, what if the next stage. Now they had the official use and status, the next stage is to find a country thats willing to take them and their particular circumstances, the un and also the lawyer is working on the case do not feel they would be safe long term in turkey, for they are looking for another country to step in and take them on board. The girls did not have their passports any more so they cannot simply get on a plane and arrive somewhere and seek asylum on the spot, they need a third country to come in, like canada did with mohammed, and offer them a and arrange travel to the country. Mohammed, and offer them a and arrange travel to the countrylj wa nt arrange travel to the country. wa nt to arrange travel to the country. want to talk to about that story, because there had been numerous cases 110w because there had been numerous cases now about women leaving and going and finding asylum at the countries, does not give these two and sisters in the next and an inspiration to do this. and sisters in the next and an inspiration to do this. I think ever since the highly published case of sheet vanity for, we have seen more women coming forward of asylum requests, and it could be they are inspired by latifah and mohammed and that was recently another woman from emirates who also fled abusive and she is now safe with asylum in germany. So i think that because of social media and because of the press interest in this topic worldwide at the moment, i think that it does inspire more and more women to actually make that leap and help for the best, because obviously its a huge risk to take a women are not going to put themselves in such a life or death situation unless they are fleeing something serious like that. Will continue to monitor the case here. Stay with us on bbc world news, still to come. Mike pompeo is in india hoping for a breakthrough in trade talk. In the womens world cup, england could be without both the centre halves who helped keep a clean sheet against cameroon when they play norway tomorrow. Captain Steph Houghton and fellow defender millie bright are both a concern for boss phil neville ahead of their world cup quarter final. In a press conference earlier, the england manager said his team always perform well in the big games. We are not going to back off or say we we re we are not going to back off or say we were nerve racking for the belly is twitching, i know we are going to embrace it and thats what the players had done and theres been lots of interaction in media, not what you see is what you get. You had an unbelievable set of human beings, that are now exactly what they want to be, and where they dreamed of and they will not back off, andi dreamed of and they will not back off, and i think you see that tomorrow the pitch, the bigger the occasion in the last 18 months the more pressure we put on them the more pressure we put on them the more relaxed and the more they play, bosnia and kazakhstan are the ones that were any more because its the bigger games my players like. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story is. As a photo emerges of a father and his toddler who drowned trying to cross into the United States, President Trump says more security at the border is required. A court has blocked a construction bid for east africas first coal plant. The two billion dollar project in kenya has already come under heavy criticism for fears it could ruin lamu old town, which is a unesco World Heritage site. That story is on many of the african services. The french Authorities Say they have no grounds to believe the fire that wrecked paris Notre Dame Cathedral in april was the result of criminal action. But they say a cigarette end or an electricalfault could have sparked the fire. Thats on the World Service english. And many of you are looking at this story on our website. Us police in georgia found a newborn baby girl alive inside a plastic bag dumped in some woods. You can see the officer cutting her free of the bag and gently wrapping her up. Shes been named india and is said to be doing well. A former beauty queen in the gambia says she was raped in 2015 by ex president yahya jammeh when he was in office. Her testimony is part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report that details other similar allegations against mrjammeh. The former president now lives in exile, but a spokesman for his party has rejected the accusations which he described as unfounded. You may find some details in this report by Louise Dewast disturbing ff vt dewast disturbing. Which is a team she was a project, and she said that he offered a guess and she said that he offered a guess and then asked to marry him that she refused she was then invited to attend an event and the presidency but when she arrived, she says that she was taking to his private residence. It was clear, you know, what this was going to be, so anything that he could have done in that moment to degrade me, to put me to the lowest at my moment, he did that. Rubbed his genitals and my face and pushed me down on my knees. Pull up my dress up. Sodomize me. I was screaming for her life and he injected me on my arm right here and i was fighting back, and i think drop the whole time, my shame came from the fact that it came to a point that i stopped fighting. Days later, fearing more abuse, she decided to flee to senegal and there she sought the assistance of international organisations, she was approved protection status and move to canada where shes been living sense. We at the bbc had tried to get in touch with him about the story and have not been able to get in touch with them, hes in exile in ecuador give me, but we managed to speak with a deputy leader of his party, and this is what he told us. Hes a very respectable god fearing and pious leader who has nothing but respect for our gambian women. Whats your reaction to it i . So i would respectfully say i do not think that deputy of their party or most of those people that follow behind hand really know what hes like behind closed doors or private time. The current government have gone bs that they can vent commission to investigate human right violations committed during his rule, they told the bbc news they are aware of Sexual Violence allegations against him and the investigations are ongoing. It could ta ke yea rs investigations are ongoing. It could take years before she may see him in a courtroom. Louise let that story that was devastating. Lets bring you up to date with business news. The tariff king is how President Trump has described india. The trading relationship between the two countries has deteriorated sharply in recent months, with delhi retaliating after the us removed indias preferential trading status. Now, the us secretary of state, mike pompeo is on a mission in delhi, to try to ease tensions. Speaking at a joint news conference, mr pompeo and the Indian Foreign secretary expressed optimism that theyd find a way to resolve their differences. There are tariffs and counter ones and we said we would do our best to get all the right people and all the right places and work to the problems that we can get out of this and get on with the business. Im pretty confident and my confidence has been reaffirmed of our ability to address some of the outstanding issues. Nisha biswal is president of the us India Business council. She told us she didnt think the delhi talks heralded a breakthrough at a meeting between President Trump and the indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the g20. Im not necessarily expecting it to come at the g20, i dont think there sufficient time, it would be if the leaders when they meet hot some ways of restoring that confidence, but i think its more likely is post g20, you will see by the ministers to sit down and talk and dig into these issues, and hopefully concretely resolve some of that. Now what about the potential for progress in the bitter us china trade war at the g20 . President s trump and xi jinping are also expected to meet on the sidelines of the summit in osaka. And the mood among investors was lifted today by a comment from this man, us treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin in a tv interview. Samira hussain is in new york. So what did mr mnuchin say . He suggested that perhaps a trade deal between the United States and china as possible sometime by the end of this year, that in fact both sides are 90 of there. So this kind of optimistic words, the optimistic tone coming from a prominent member of the Trump Administration, someone who is part of the negotiating team we china, well that said the us Financial Markets assign, they were up Financial Markets assign, they were up by Financial Markets assign, they were up by about. 2 , clearly investors really wa nt up by about. 2 , clearly investors really want to see a trade deal between the United States and china. So we can expect them to me when it comes to the g20 summit . So we can expect them to me when it comes to the 620 summit . It will be meeting and thats going to be a lot of eyes on the meeting between the president of both countries, the president s. That said most black not expecting it to be a trade deal thats agreed upon this meeting. Let many people are saying is that look, the fact that we are seeing this high level meeting between the two president s on t

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