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World service offers of condolence have been made by leaders around the world following the death of King Bhumibol on a Dounia debt of Thailand President Obama described him as a close friend of the United States and tireless champion of Thailand's development the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said he was one of the tallest leaders of our times the outgoing secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki moon said this his majesty King Bhumibol or was revered by the people of Thailand as a unifying there's no leader he was also highly respected internationally at this time of sorrow and loss I hope there Thailand will continue to are knocking doors legacy of commitment for universal values and respect for human rights within Thailand itself the country is grieving for a monarch who ruled the nation for 70 years made me feel it should have been born when the king was younger I would have loved to see progress during the king's reign instead of last coming and we will make him proud when he looks down and he will feel proud we have to be strong tolerant has to be strong and move forward the king's son 64 year old crown prince watch it along Cohen has asked for time to mourn with the rest of the country he's a controversial figure like his father he shielded from public criticism in Thailand by strict laws the princes personal life and suitability as King have been the subject of private speculation abroad beyond the reach of those laws those debates are likely to continue but for the moment the mood in Thailand is one of mourning for the king our correspondent in Bangkok JONATHAN HEAD spoke to us just after the news of his death had been confirmed what I'm standing outside the hospital where Kingdom upon dives about 4 hours ago as you can hear. The crowd is singing. Songs while songs they've been chanting Long live the king white for this long vigil left at the last couple of days the news just came in about 1015 minutes ago and those cries change people just erupted into cries and grief and lots and lots of tears around made me people weeping anything for you but also chanting a real sense of shock and you know this must be hard for people to understand that something that's been so predicted you know his health has been failing for so long and yet you know the moment now it's come has clearly had an enormous impact not just on the people with me now but it will do right across the country and this is a country now where there are very different political views there are even different views of the monarchy but at this moment people are feeling the colossal loss of a figure who's really defined the shape of modern Thailand and came from upon play that politics stream really well and he's a very restrained man he kept himself detached from the ordinary turmoil of politics they call him the father of the nation and as a symbol he's been there right up to this moment as a sort of was a guiding force for them and so they really do genuinely feel this is a massive loss that was Jonathan Head is Syria proton Yam is from the B.B.C.'s Thai service and she told us why the king had created such a sense of devotion among many times you have to understand a king had been the king for 70 years for people like me all you know may people who have the same age as me was born saying he met the king so all of my life I had King as a king. I remember when I was young when the king's birthday comes my family my grandmother she would take out a flag and you know be paring all those stuff related to the king to put in front of our house this is just you know atomic national things that we did for the king or my mom would take me out at night just to see the light sure it was a big event so the key was we need people all the time people saw him you know doing a lot of things for people in rural areas even though we live in Bangkok we might not have seen that us so much what we saw him on the television and he visited you know a lot of people who live in a poor condition he created a lot of project that help the poor so Thai people learned that and and see that and what they expressed today I understand that that was a genuine sadness so they are now in a state of mourning tell us what happens now with regards to the funeral practicalities and the succession and so on so the prime minister just announce that the mourning period would be $100.00 days so from now on tomorrow you will see people wear black instead of pink or yellow that they wore today and so after these views do have to wait from the prime minister that what he would do for the next step but do not long ago the prime minister had been granted an audience with the crown prince and a cropper inst at according to the news told him that he would like to stake some time to grieve we did nation before accepting the invitation to become the new king is a rare pride on Yom of the B.B.C. Thai service for the 1st time in its 11212 year history the Nobel Prize. As for literature has been awarded to a songwriter the American artist Bob Dylan making the announcement the Swedish Academy said Bob Dylan had created new poetic expressions within the Great American Song tradition that and I'm for his lyrics and his music Dylan reluctantly became the voice of a troubled generation from the 1960 S. Onwards it was striving for social justice arts correspondent Colum Patterson reports. In the 1960 S. a Generation of college students made Bob Dylan there are the Fischel poet laureate his lyrics often blending political questions with metaphorical ones but Bob Dylan has admitted that when he 1st picked up a guitar he expected to remain a singer of cover versions what I wanted to say what I was saying was nobody else was writing. That not much is really. His lyrics of and poured over and analyzed interpreted and reinterpreted with whole university courses set up to look at the way he combined religious imagery with political discourse. And 970 five's Blood On The Tracks album there was even a domestic side to Dylan albeit an unhappy one. Some of the most barred lyrics of his career they were interpreted as an attack on a strange wife Sarah. In. New York and the breadth of topics Dylan has tackled is one of the reasons Salman Rushdie Booker Prize winner expressed his delighted today's decision saying that from office to fair as song and poetry have been closely linked and Dylan is the Bruins inheritor of the Partick tradition but with his career and I having passed the 50 year mark and with. 37 studio albums to peruse It's also easy to find examples off the most Nobel worthy of lyrics. Bob Dylan is also certainly the 1st person to win the Nobel Prize on the same day as playing a gig in Last Vegas. The Malta given out posthumously So if this award does signify a change in direction the Academy will have to act quickly if they want to reward the work of some of music's other finest ever lyricists like Joni Mitchell of Leonard Cohen it's our. Correspondent Colin Patterson reporting you're listening to the B.B.C. World Service Still to come on THE NEWSROOM will be looking back at the life of the Italian pay playwright and actor Dario furrow whose death was announced today 1st those who has the headlines the king of Thailand who was the world's longest reigning monarch has died at the age of $88.00 there will be a year of official mourning in his homeland where he was widely revealed and Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature the 1st songwriter ever to win the award and Portugal's former prime minister Anton you could terrorist has been officially chosen as the next secretary general of the United Nations and we'll have more on that story a little later in the program 1st though around Journal of years ago more than 270 young women were kidnapped in Nigeria they became known internationally as the Chibok school girls but even though they were paraded in the media by their captors the militant group Boko her arm and despite a hunt by the Nigerian military no one has been able to free them today however came news that 21 of them may have been released following negotiations brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government ever wanted a host from the group campaigning for the girl. Release of Pathfinder justice initiative says she's cautiously optimistic about the reports this essentially confirms what we've always believed about the capability of the Nigerian military and the Nigerian government which is that we certainly are capable of having these girls rescued and so I'm certainly excited and certainly hope for it be great to see these girls to you are confirmed by their parents and members of the Chibok community that they are some of the Chibok girls but as it stands I'm cautiously optimistic but extremely hopeful Well James Copnall is our Africa editor and he's here in the studio Have we confirmed that these 21 girls have definitely been released more entirely independently This is basically all coming from the my Dearing government initially just from our name security officer things like that but then there was a full press conference with the information minister and they're saying that yes 21 of the girls have been released in various Nigerian media sources publishing photos that they think of the girls and releasing names that they think of the girls but so far the official word is all coming from the Nigerian government alone and all we getting any information from those sources about how they say the girls are and whether they are well the government says that they've been brought to the capital Abood here and that they're being looked after given a chance to rest was how one official put it being seen by doctors psychologists trauma experts social workers as you'd imagine people would be in a pretty traumatic traumatized situation having been held in captivity for well over 2 years so that's what the government saying about the preparations being made to sort of bring them back into society there was this huge international campaign has tried Bring Back Our Girls and most of the market it must be said still missing How important is this for the government I think it's extremely important because it is something that's followed so closely all around the world it's seen as a great symbol of whether Nigeria is in control of its own country is winning the fight against Boko Haram and so this is something that we see very very war. Not just by families relatives and well wishers all over Nigeria but also of course by the Nigerian government James thank you that was an Africa editor James Copnall the Portuguese politician Antonio Ted ashes been officially appointed the next secretary general of the United Nations Mr terrorists who served as his country's prime minister and more recently as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said it was a moral obligation of everybody to end the suffering of the Syrian people and those in Yemen and South Sudan correspondent Nic Bryant reports from New York as well as . The boat was unanimously agreed to by force 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly making Antonio good terrorists the next secretary general a job he will take up in January the form of Portuguese prime minister is a popular choice who came top of all the straw polls conducted by the Security Council a more crucially who won the support of that bodies 5 permanent members the countries who ultimately picked the winning candidates commonly the Security Council struggles to reach agreement on many of the biggest issues facing the U.N. Such as the war in Syria and his 1st speech as secretary general designates it was noticeable that he sought to lower expectations as to what he could personally achieve I must say that I am fully aware of the challenges the U.N. Faces and the limitations surrounding the secretary general the domestic problems of today's complex world can only inspired a humble approach Mr terraces for 10 years is the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees he's a highly experienced diplomat but at the beginning of the selection process many hoped for the 1st time in the U.N. 71 year history a woman would get the top job as the U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power acknowledged while being a woman is not among Mr Good terrorists as many qualifications. He has pledged gender parity at all levels of the United Nations with clear benchmarks and timeframes and certainly he's likely to adopt a higher profile than the departing Secretary General Ban Ki moon. That was Nick Bryant's in New York the chemicals that play a key role in refrigeration and air conditioning systems could be rapidly phased out if a deal is reached in Rwanda this week around 150 countries are meeting in Gali to try to agree a speedy ban on hydro fluorocarbon gases these H F C's were introduced to limit damage to the ozone layer that actually cause much greater levels of global warming than C O 2 Environment Correspondent Matt McGraw is that the missing in Kick are you so mad that they were actually introduced try and solve a problem one day yes like anything it was a good idea but the consequences weren't fully appreciated that the time they did a great good job the hole in the ozone layer has healed up so for scientists believe it is on the way to healing at least the problem though is that the rapid use of these Haitians sees particularly in refrigeration and in air conditioning they really expanded rapidly growing by 15 percent a year and people believe that by 2050 it could account for 20 to 30 percent of all warming so everybody agrees that there's a problem everybody agrees that it needs to be tackled the question is how and over what time period and that's what they're trying to sort out here tonight and into the early hours tomorrow and what sort of unanimity is there on how. Many U.S. And other countries are agreed the African nations the island states the U.S. The European Union or all pushing for an early days India Pakistan in the Gulf states are holding out for a longer term approach and it's hoped and believed by most people here that the breach can be between the 2 can be solved and liberal helpings of cash are being applies to to bridge that gap between them and if that is the case they're hoping that they will get a deal done here and it will have a significant impact on global warming over the next 50 or 60 years so how likely are we to get a complete ban and in what sort of timeframe might that happen. It will happen in the in Europe very quickly in next 2 years we're going to reduce 40 percent of the age of seas and the rest of the world really having more slowly so over the next 5 to 10 years these gases will pretty much disappear they'll be about the be a residual amount used for a long time but the reality is that there's an awful lot of new materials being developed and they will come to the fore by the next 1015 years Matt thank you that was Matt McGrath our environment correspondent speaking to us from Kigali this is the news room from the B.B.C. World Service in London and so has some of our the other stories we're following today there are reports of civilians in northern Iraq dying of thirst or being killed by roadside bombs as they try to flee an area held by slamming state militants the aid agencies Save the Children says they face a grueling trek through mountainous terrain when they managed to escape the town of how we judge the South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been served with a summons to appear in court the charges relate to 2 speeches in which it's alleged he urged his supporters to grab they can land according to the summons this was an incitement to commit the crime of trespass the legal writ was served in Mr Malema just after he strongly criticized President Jacob Zuma. Within the past hour visitors were not in that London soon because a gorilla had escaped from its enclosure and was on the loose Brad Evans was visiting with his family may look so innocent there was an incident I told a gorilla Let's go out of its enclosure and then we went all out of the park. And as we were waiting we saw the place turn up in numbers with loads of guns the police have just said the incident is over latest reports say the animal was shot with a tranquilizer dart and recapture and the death has been announced of the Italian playwright and actor Dario furrow he was 90 his arts correspondent Vincent Dart with a look back at his career here. You were interrogating him like I did on stage Dario made serious political points by being comic he thought the long Italian tradition of comedia Dillard has a broad even slapstick humor could be used to comment on modern society born near Milan he studied architecture then became a writer and performer for radio and theater in 1954 he married the actress Franca Rama they ran a number of theatre groups together the early material was gentle enough but furrow became a sharp eyed satirist of the Italian state and corruption for years he was banned from Italian T.V. For his irreverence Rockwell and out of. The path buck up the nothing. In 1970 came the play accidental death of an anarchist 4 years later can't pay won't pay became his 2nd big international hit his radical politics meant he was twice prevented from entering the USA writers including Arthur Miller protested in 1997 thorough was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature the citation read Dario Furrow who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging or 30 and up holding the dignity of the downtrodden Dario furrow drew on the history of Italian theatre but he became one of the most performed modern playwrights anywhere his work was comic filled with energy and political protest it was an arts correspondent Vincent Donald on the life of Derry of. Hurricane Nicole is now moving away from the island of Bermuda after the storm hit the country in the last couple of hours the storm was downgraded to a Category 3 just before it hit land they can see whether presented or. BET has been following its progress it's a very big hurricane this one the Ari where you have very light winds and the rain the center of the hurricane is about 50 kilometers across or that's larger than Bermuda itself and there were rainfall rates around 50 millimeters now it looks like the center is now leaving but Muto So it's hit already as a significant storm surge looks like it's now moving away to the north and probably it will tend to weaken as it does so and what sort of damage would you expect it to do in a place like it or often the biggest damage comes from the storm surge to the exact position of the eye is crucial because you get the worst of the storm surge in the northeastern quadrant if you like and so it will have had a battering the storm surge could be something like $2.00 to $3.00 metres in height and that's going to be significant particularly to somewhere like commuter but the rain over so you will cause problems and given the strength of the will no doubt there will be some damage how unusual is it for a hurricane like this to make landfall in Bermuda Well on average you would find a storm hitting the meter or round 6 every 6 or 7 years but they're usually much weaker storms now this one is a category 3 and the last time a Category 3 hit directly by meter was way back in 1926 so 90 years ago and the hurricane season obviously is still upon us and we will all remember the damage that was done to Haiti as specially by Matthew is it was this you. It was a late bloomer of the hurricane season it was a slow start to the season there's been a few impact in Florida as well where over the last 11 years there was no major impact from any storm of any kind so it was a late developer and we've still got another month and a half to go before we reach the end of the hurricane season Daryn Betts o