In the Balkans Miss Margaret Mead told bastardize in Brussels it was about time to finally put an end to the conferees nearly 20 years after the war in Kosovo the International Court of Justice is meeting to consider whether Britain broke international law in the 1960 s. When it split off an island chain neighbor and evicted the population the Chagga silence is home to a strategic u.s. Military base. Is In The Hague but it is accuses the u.k. Of forcibly evict think the entire population and preventing the indigenous people from returning the u.k. Argues that the Chicos islands were only administered by militias as a matter of convenience and says the u.k. Paid $3000000.00 pounds or $4200000.00 for the Territory militias claims the agreement was made under duress told by the British government that their independence from colonial rule depended on them signing the Che Goss islands over to the u.k. The trial of a former Ukrainian government translator accused of spying for Russia resumes today in Kiev Stanislav years off has been charged with high treason for cooperating with Russian intelligence and passing over information about the activities of the Ukrainian government he was detained in this Amber last year b.b.c. News. You're listening to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service with me Alex Ritson a huge fire has engulfed Brazil's National Museum consuming most of its $20000000.00 artifacts scientists across the world are mourning the loss Marcus Miller is an internationally acclaimed biologist who grew up in Rio de Janeiro one of my 1st nightmares or was with that than a source I remember I was 5 years old that place was my playground I was there every day Lee had a largest collection of Mitchell writes off for fossils we have the largest hollow political collection let in America. More than 56000 specimens Morden 15000 reports. Oldest human 4 still found in Brazil totally lost forever firefighters are still at the museum in Rio de Janeiro which began on Sunday evening correspondent canary spoke to us from the scene of the inferno I can still see the flames burning very favorably inside the sparks shining through the wide windows of this old colonial building there was difficulty here from firefighters trying to stop the fire because there was lack of water and lots of trucks were just brought in to reinforce their supply there are lots of hoses now directed towards the 3rd level of the building the Brazilian president Michel Tamar has called the damage incalculable some commentators say water has happened is a metaphor for the city and the country as a whole growing violence a deep economic decline and political corruption have combined to make the city a shadow of what it once was just before we came on air I got the latest from Natalia pass a Reno from the B.B.C.'s Brazilian service Well most of the fire has been controlled by now by the firefighters but some smaller flames are still on in the firefighters are trying to but the mount so far we don't yet know what caused the fire but we do know that the firefighters had some trouble in controlling it because the hydrants that were closest to the museums were not working and they had to get water from a nearby lake and 20000000 items in the museum exactly this was the Diodorus museum in Brazil actually in Latin America 20000000 items were there and are believed to have been completely destroyed some researchers have. Tried to save what they had from the beauty but of course it was impossible to do much people have described as though they've talked about this fire almost being a metaphor for Rio and the country as a whole what we mean by that well Brazil was growing significantly up to 2014 but since then there has been a very serious economic and political crisis as well as many corruption scandals real is one of the cities that were mostly affected by this crisis so yes in some ways what happened this tragic laws of the most of the pieces containing in this museum is a metaphor of what's happening in Brazil as a whole it is too however that the museum has been underfunded for a while even before the crisis began there were reports from 2004 saying that there were risks of fire and very difficulties being faced by the museum so it is a problem that has has arrived before the crisis itself Tahlia pass a rino in Brazil Meanwhile in Argentina the government is today due to announce a series of spending cuts aimed at shoring up its currency which is in crisis the Sierra Leone the Argentine peso has lost about half of its value against the dollar with me in the newsroom studio is our economics correspondent Andrew Walker Andrew walkouts plan there's talk of ministries being axed what indeed according to local media in Argentina there are 13 ministries which may be cut completely or merged with others and the suggestions are that the following science culture energy agriculture and tourism ministries amongst others will cease to exist as independent entities now of course it may be in the functions continue to be delivered in a new merged operation but certainly the. Seem to be there significant scope for functions being reduced and certainly the number of employees being reduced with the attendant savings also suggestions that there's going to be some movement on the tax side in particular the reintroduction of export levies on corn and wheat and perhaps a suspension of the plans to reduce the export levies on soy interest rates at 60 percent now just how serious is this crisis it is certainly a very serious problem the latest inflation figures are in the region of 30 percent having risen significantly over the course of previous months this is a an administration the financial markets I think very much hope would be rather Orthodox and would be successful in bearing down on Argentina's chronic inflation problem but things haven't worked out like that and I suppose you could say that compared with the the the massive crisis we saw back at the beginning of the century things things are simpler in one respect in that there is no longer a fixed exchange rate policy that has to be defended at all costs the exchange rate as you already indicated has moved a great deal and part of what the crisis that happened 1st previously was trying to defend what became an indefensible exchange rate well at least this government and the Central Bank do not have to deal with that burden our economics correspondent Andrew Walker thank you. In remote parts of Nigeria some tribes are using young girls as currency to settle family debts the traditional practice known as money marriage has been illegal in the country since the 1990 s. But is still very much alive in the hilly community of beige a very B.B.C.'s maney Jones sent this report from Cross River State was so well through. Them that said it was sleep with me I said no because I'm not here each. My way you do or feel is in her twenty's when she was just a child she was married to a man old enough to be her grandfather her mum and her to him. They got people to hold me down so that a man who sleep with me after that I fell pregnant I wasn't even. Dorothy is a money wife a practice common amongst the big the tribe in cross river there are $2.00 types of marriages amongst the love marriages and money marriages in the money marriage young girls to pay for that they become the property of their husbands along with any children they have no money you are not treated like you're not treated you're not allowed to go to school they're not fed well fed so you are like they're in the left over pasta Richard a quantum is a missionary and a child rights activist because someone or might your demands absolute property. Are put into a child label. To all the men. I mean the compound of Monica a baby. Of her granddaughters when they were very little happiness is 15 years old she escaped her money marriage just last year the money. He has to drain children have children his grandchildren have children. Why one day he said to me that even if. Anything because. Happiness is grandmother has been trying to make amends for her decision but it's affected her relationship with her 2 daughters and her granddaughters after him back here I said to her one day I would get so angry that I would get a knife and kill her money marriages have been banned since 2009 but no one has ever been prosecuted although happiness was just a child when she was married off she's clean that girls on the In 1000 were never taken as many wives. You have to worry. Before you. Always got to go to the Ozma Chief Sunday is the clan head of the bishop he says the practice is that. Compound happiness is feelings towards her grandmother have softened. Now I speak to my grandmother when I see her I feel sorry for her. Because she didn't know what she was 3. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service Still to come on the newsroom We're live in South Africa where a group of workers are protesting at alleged race or discrimination but it's not what you might expect 1st Gerry has the headlines a huge fire has engulfed Rizzo's National Museum one of the largest and most important collections in that in America the Argentine government is expected to announce a series of cuts aimed at rescuing the currency the poser and there's been international condemnation of me m.r. Which is sentenced to Reuters journalist to 7 years in prison after they reported on a massacre of written German Islams Yes the journalists were alone and George so nationals of Myanmar were arrested while carrying official documents which had just been given to them by police officers Kevin Kralik he is the Reuters regional Asia editor in young gone it's clear that what happened today is an injustice to the rule of law through press markets it requires the government of Myanmar now has an opportunity a responsibility to do the right thing and then to free while on trial so. Be pursuing every avenue open to us to secure their freedom they were reporting on the violence which was part of what the un has described as a form of ethnic cleansing with military operations forcing more than 700000 re-injure from their homes to camps in Bangladesh our correspondent Nick beak was caught in young gone well it certainly looking on the faces of the reporters earlier today is devastating for them when this verdict was handed down in this way but yes a lot of people are saying that there's a real damage here to freedom of the press in Myanmar and of course why the questions about what sort of country it's becoming and the role of democracy here and remember just 3 years from Aung San Suu Kyi She's party coming to power in free elections many people saying that this is a dark day for. Democracy after this verdict because these journalists were arrested after police officers handed them documents and as soon as they took the documents they were then put under arrest by those very same police officers Absolutely and we've had the police officers come to court and explain what happened here the reports have always said that this was a trap that they were encouraged to come to this tea shop where they were given documents rolled up inside a newspaper in the moments they received them they were pounced on by other police officers we had another police captain a few months ago stunned the court here by basically saying that the journalist's allegation was correct he'd heard a superior order that the report says be framed be fixed be be fitted up but nonetheless we've had this full judicial process here and today the judge decided that the secret information the reporters had gathered would have been useful to enemies of the state and so he he sentenced each of them to 7 years what does the government say we did hear from Aung San Suu Kyi last month while she was saying that there would be an impartial process here she did seem to prejudge their guilt she said quite clearly in an interview with the Japanese broadcaster that they had broken the Official Secrets Act And I think really that is a line that is being repeated by other government ministers what does this mean going forward for people like you other journalists in Myanmar who are trying to report on what is clearly a humanitarian crisis and where there have been according to the un and many other independent sources there are human rights abuses going on I think a lot of journalists in court today in the packed sweltering court house where this decision was handed down lots of journalists there are concerned about the chilling effect and probably will reflect upon their own stories that they've been writing the way in which they've been covering the range of crisis over the last year and there is concern that these 2 journalists will. Working for an international news agency Reuters but they were both me and I think a lot of people think it's because they're citizens of this country that they were targeted in this way of course I guess it's worth stressing Alex that these 2 reporters the story they were working on the Myanmar military later said that there was essentially credit in it because they admitted that some of their soldiers had been involved in the massacre of 10 revenge of men and that's a very rare admission but despite that the legal process here in whatever form people see it has come to a conclusion with this verdict today and the 2 young reporters only 28 and 32 back in their prison cells just about a mile away from here Nic peak in Yangon. The u.k. Government has released new figures detailing the shocking scale of the number of paedophiles operating on the Internet 80000 people in the u.k. Alone said to pose a sexual threat to children online let's get more details on this I reporter Gary Barlow has been looking at the issue as the world has embraced the Web So to have children but also people who look to prey on them throughout the internet and within the faceless world of the dark web dedicated websites and forums host millions of indecent images and document endless cases of abuse according to new figures complaints about child abuse images in the u.k. Have soared in the last 5 years rising 700 percent Rob Jones from the National Crime Agency gives a sense of the day to day challenge the authorities face in one week's worth of activity during the summer we executed $225.00 search warrants nationally and as a result of that arrested 131 individuals and safeguarded 164 children now among those individuals we arrested were 13 registered sex offenders and 19 individuals in a position of trust but that was just part of a month's worth of activity where on average now we arrest $400.00 individuals a month for these offenses the U.K.'s Home Office warns that live streaming of abuse is also on the rise and that the images involved are becoming increasingly graphic with the abuse of babies and children under 10 becoming more frequently documented the scale of the offending in the u.k. And around the world has led to demands for Internet giants to take more aggressive action to stop it today Google has announced they will offer all Saudis artificial intelligence software to enable more accurate and rapid identification of child abuse images but while tech giants and governments work to remove abusive content they face ever more intelligent and a vase of paedophiles sophisticated encryption and smart phone technology means abusers continue to find new ways to share content. Tent and continue their criminal activity so while the police in the u.k. Arrest hundreds of people each month their work to protect children is far from over and on a daily basis it's becoming ever harder. Barlow Gerry has some other stories from our news desk the un refugee agency has won the migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe facing ever more deadly journeys the u.n. A.t.r. Says the fatality rate has risen from one in 42 people making the crossing a few years ago to one in 18 now jolly YAXLEY from the u.n.h.c.r. Says aid to help the Libyan north or it is has inadvertently made the problem worse it's pushed the human traffickers and smugglers who continue to prey on the desperation of refugees and migrants there now taking ever more risky actions in order to facilitate these crossings they're taking more dangerous routes the demand is still there. Able to use increasingly flimsy vessels hoping that either the authorities or someone along the way will come to their rescue inflation in Turkey climbed again in August is the currency we can dramatically officials to just exist show consumer prices rose by almost 18 percent compared to the same month a year ago the Turkish president ready to tie their due and has repeatedly said his opposed to raising interest rates the generally accepted method of curbing inflation to Malays in women have been caned 6 times for having sex with each other in violation of Islamic laws the women were arrested when they were found together in a car in the conservative northern state of terror in Garner rights groups say the sentence was cruel and unjust. And Chris Evans one of the B.B.C.'s highest paid stars him presenter on Europe's biggest radio station b.b.c. Radio 2 has announced his stepping down Evans who earned 2000000 dollars last year has hosted the flanks for breakfast show for the last 8 years he will remain on air until Christmas during the apartheid era in South Africa millions of black people suffered often brutal discrimination at the hands of the white minority government but today in an unprecedented case white employees at a petrochemical company a beginning action in protest of what they say is discrimination against them our correspondent. Joins us from Johannesburg norm so what's all this about well workers from South Africa's mainly wide to Solidarity Union are basically on a go slow and they're protesting because it's over a share scheme offered exclusively to black staff and will launch a full strike on on Thursday in the union says the timing of the strike is very strategic because this is happening at a time when the company undergoes a 3 week maintenance program where the plant is switched off for repairs and then on again for work to proceed but at the same time these workers that are embarking on this go slow are artisan staff and also technical staff who know exactly how these plans work and if those machines are not switched on in time then the company stands to lose millions of dollars in revenue and that is exactly what's going on at this stage it is still a go slow. Do they have a case well it would appear so because the company a few years ago introduced a share scheme in which both black and white workers were able to buy shares but this time around only black staff members have been given the opportunity to do so and solidarity has now accused the sessile of creating racial tensions and discrimination on the work floor by excluding white workers because they say that all these people both black and white are equal but they're discriminated against solely on the color of their skin but in the same time injustices off the past do need to be corrected so this is part of the government's affirmative action program to right the wrongs of apartheid indeed and Seso is a private company but it does need to adhere to the government's policies of empowering black people who were robbed of these opportunities during the dark days of apartheid so that is what the company sessile says that it is trying to do at this stage we spoke to solidarity this morning they have started picketing they say that so far the strike does seem successful sessile at the same time says because it's only been a few hours since the strike strutted the strike started it's still early days to tell how effective it has been so far thank you soccer in Johannesburg a British golfer who had one of his legs amputated is suing a local authority for dis