Parliament racism Tom Bateman in Jerusalem world news from the b.b.c. India's supremum court has ordered the eviction within months of more than a 1000000 people from the country's forests the court was responding to a petition filed by environmentalists who say that a law designed to protect forest dwellers many of whom are tribal people is undermining conservation and animal protection. Officials from Haiti's justice ministry in the u.s. State Department say that a number of heavily armed foreigners arrested imported prints on Sunday have been handed over to the u.s. Authorities the group is said to include 5 Americans a servant a Russian their arrest followed days of violent protests in Haiti over poverty and perceived corruption the campaign group Human Rights Watch has accused the security forces in Mozambique of intimidating detaining and prosecuting journalists who are trying to report on the jihadist conflict in the north of the country it says that by silencing the media the government is preventing any scrutiny of the military operations of tribunals has found that a South Korean curling team that won silver at last year's Winter Olympics had prize money stolen by their coaches the 5 young women became an unexpected hit at the South Korean games but afterwards they accused trainers of 1st and intrusive Contro from Seoul this report from Laura pika the Winter Olympic curling stadium in Chiang last year was packed with newcomers to the sport all cheering on the new stars of South Korea the women's curling team they were ranked as outsiders but became a surprise hit as they swept their read to a silver medal at their home games however last November they came forward with accusations that they'd been very badly abused by their coaches and had not received prize money from previous competitions and investigation discovered the coaches had mismanaged around $83000.00 of the team's income and embezzled around $26000.00 the Rebecca reporting b.b.c. News. Hello listen to world update from the b.b.c. This is Dan Damon and scumming up why is a zoo in England pitting visitors against a lion in a tug of war you'll find out if you stay with us 1st a fire in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has killed at least 78 people after flames swept through a residential building. Part of the multistory block in the old part of the city was used to store chemicals the head of the Fire Service told the b.b.c. The emergency response was complicated by narrow streets and exploding gas cylinders. Similar fire 9 years ago in a part of the city very close to the latest fire killed about 120 people question being how big is deputy chief reporter for The Daily Star newspaper he spoke to me just a few minutes ago from the streets of Dakar he's on his way back to where the fire took place we've voice stop his interview the line on which I spoke to Arsene wasn't great well the Patrician. Or the war was a couple of hours ago well the situation is now very horrible that just a few hours ago the official rescue operation was called off the areas densely populated the Opata the city roads are very narrow and buildings a densely built the podium of the father took place is a 4 story building and they were on a 1st floor where they use installed different types of perfume and other chemicals . When the fire broke out actually began with a big blast after 1040 last night there was a traffic jam at that time and that is where most of the casualties actually happened. At the back and why. Does that happen and the streets were so crowded that even if people could leave the building they couldn't escape the flames but But what actually happened what actually happened is that the fire took place so suddenly I mean people saw fires and gophering so quickly and still that many chemicals located around the place the fire spread so quickly so quickly Bangladesh has a very bad reputation for fire safety there was another fire a few years ago which caused tremendous loss of life there was a fire just a few days ago and just a gong and people died then why is nothing done to improve fire safety. The fire. Is go and the fire broke out so no taka a few kilometers from that spot not $523.00 people died the government said they would not allow any chemicals around the Tarea but still there are many chemicals around that the main problem is the Fire Safety is always neglected in Bangladesh. You see there are still many hospitals and institutions where fire safety has not been taken seriously. Well I think I'm not. From the Daily Star newspaper speaking to us from Dhaka in Bangladesh You're listening to World updates our country is confronted with a resurgence of anti Semitism undoubtedly without precedent since the 2nd World War Those are the words of the French President Emanuel McCraw in a speech in Paris to Jewish groups he added it's time for action the number of anti Jewish crimes reported in France is up by more than 70 percent France has the largest Jewish population in Europe you see Williamson is our correspondent in Paris. With your friends you don't know if you believe what I might call President macron arrived at the annual dinner for Jewish leaders amid a spate of anti semitic attacks in France he said Parliament would vote on a new law to tackle hatred on the Internet vowed to dissolve 3 extreme right groups and made a key commitment that many had been waiting for. Between this and design is in was a modern form of anti Semitism he said and France would apply the definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance alliance. In the past few months there's been a spate of anti-Semitic attacks the disgrace in of graves and memorials and shop stalled with graffiti including the German word. Official figures suggest there was a 74 percent increase in such attacks last year from $311.00 reported incidents to $54011.00 sees tags that would have been seen since the thirty's so we are in an anti semitism moment one must not exaggerated it's not death but it's symbolically very shocking no mayor is an expert in anti semitism and one of France's top political science universities since Pope It's interesting. Because you see 2 peaks actually the 1st peak is linked to what's going on in the occupied territories in Palestine and is higher then the 2nd peak was in November 1 started the social movement of the yellow vests because they favor the words of people who are against the state and then against the Jews because they are simulate the Jews to power and money and influence so the movement helps recycle old stereotypes against Jews even if the movement in itself is not anti semitism of course then. Last Saturday a well known social commentator Alan Finkel kraut faced a barrage of anti semitic abuse from several members of visually protest in Paris. They shouted obscenity along with dirty Zionist and go back to Tel Aviv Jason abear a spokesman for the movement gave us his response by telephone. It's the inherent weakness of a movement the lets the people speak everyone can come and give his opinion and some opinions are despicable and illegal file on who is join the movement and that's a good thing but we can stop people when it happens some delay Jone reportedly tried to intervene to stop the abuse and few here see the movement as anti semitic at heart but it's not the 1st time there have been questions over its tolerance of anti Jewish views and some researches like Johnny can move believe the movement is acting as a new forum where different types of anti Semitism can unite there's a common interest from some people on the far left and some people regs frame right to devote more space to v.a. Trudeau's use to the Atran of any things that invalidates big money big government one world government relays and so on Emanuel McKown decided to stand for president he immediately became. The victim of abuse the fact that he was an investment banker Paracho seen as proving is that he has the tool of the Jewish bankers everything said those big story may have to take frame wrong I dislike. The national protest against anti semitism was held across France this week there are a few usually shown at the rally in Paris many others were too afraid to wear their yellow vests one said today it's not in the end of the politics it's the end of the people if the population that's going to stop it and say if they see something or if they are something and face it it's right now it will not change the tally of attacks here last year is by no means the worst France has seen in the past 2 decades but anti semitic violence is spreading from the old prejudice of the extreme right to new reforms found among radical Islamists in far left groups the triggers may vary the target states the same. Person Williamson reporting from Paris a general strikes being held today across Catalonia in Spain in support of the 12 Catalan leaders who are facing trial in Madrid in connection with the failed 2017 independence referendum on the charges they face include rebellion and sedition on the sentences might be up to 25 years in prison the latest is the most widespread strike since the fallout from that referendum in October 27th team has been declared illegal of course by the banished government we can speak on the line from Barcelona to the political scientist and editor of the political blog better Bobbitt thanks very much indeed for joining us roads are blocked railways are blocked What are you hearing. Well I'm not hearing much because I leave you know in a neighborhood quite far away from the center and they usually blog our streets and under center of the city but I have seen and read at that yeah there's plenty of rows that have been blocked by demonstrators in and something that has have been you know there are you know there are protests similar in the past months but probably today's is being heard and then other times who's organized the strike the like because it is it is a strike it has to be backed by some trade unions although the main drivers of the mobilizations aren't the Independent is our leaders of our movements like the district has to be called back by a trade union but that doesn't mean that the mobilization strength comes from them and actually debate trade unions have not called the strike so it's likely that those that fall or where because of the of the political situation how do you measure support currently for those who are on trial and for independence there are 2 measures aren't they the regional government is in the hands of people who are in favor of independence but on the other hand when the national election was held Sudan us opposed to independence won most seats or most votes in the Catalonia region yet he can't reason it is quite divided scenes scenes some years ago the discipline for independence is around 50 percent probably somehow below 50 percent but but very close to it and then the other have of the population opposes it with more or less a strength and that explains why the bending would work what it is that it's being voted to population moves to kind of like at. Show that they really oppose independence are they they border not on other issues I'd say that the support for d. Politically there is a slightly above 50 percent because there are some non independent is who who are against the decision of the conflict in who think that the accusations are too high for where they really have been and that should be solid. Legally but are as the company poor are we so more and more how all opinions kind of align along the lines of dieback It's a daughter to poor independents and those that do not and what difference does the fact that there's an election coming on national election in 2 months time what's what's that doing to the mood in Catalonia Well ever since the the last regional election December last year and the and the failure of the referendum to bring about any political change deem your ticket has been mainly of computers Ian and frustration among the Di independents and about confusion and fear among the arrests and add say that the election is kind of like basically just continued with the situation because the Spanish election brings about our government led by rogues and but the problem party and who enters the the conflict is probably going to escalate and always leave situation is very tense for escalation to have to be something that we look for. So so I'd say that there is a lot of confusion and of tension and some fears over what is going to happen on one side and a lot of frustration on the intervention decide because obviously. They see that they there is nothing on the table that they can feel comfortable with and they're seeing the trial that's clearly tough better thank you better of it saying that this coming election the national. Election is going to add to the tension in and around the issue of Catalonian independence You're listening to World on tape from London. And coming up later in our program program Pope Francis has told a conference of bishops more around the world that they must tackle the evil of child abuse by priests we'll hear from one abuse survivor who's in Rome at the summit. And let me give you the headlines as they are at the moment a fire swept through against an historic district of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka at least 78 people have been killed and as we heard when we spoke to a journalist just not far from the seat of the fire. Still plenty of chemicals stored in an area which the Government said would be cleared of those kind of dangerous substances a couple of other headlines the time when his government introduced a bill to legalize same sex marriage and India's Supreme Court has ordered the a vixen within months of more than a 1000000 people from the country's forests those are the headlines this is the b.b.c. . This is Dan Damon in London. It's one of the oldest questions about the animal kingdom if you're a parent you've probably been asked it at least once why does the brothers brothers have stripes Well I've been speaking to Dr Maarten how he's a research at the University of Bristol and he thinks he may have come up with an answer we were very interested in one of the old hypotheses for why is Everest might be striking which is that it might be aimed at deterring biting flies from landing and taking a blood meal so one of the approaches that we used to test that was to dress horses up with rugs that a stripey to try and replicate the visual cues that a fly might experience as it's coming to land and see if this had a strong effect and it did it had a very very strong effect much stronger than we anticipated it's a very few flies landed on horses wearing stripey coats when we compared that to horses that were wearing horses without crates on at all those really strong effect we also took the opportunity to look at themselves horse farm that we work at they also have a couple captive zebra and we watched horseflies flying around separate and also noticed very few flies landed on the brook that the horses put in a rug on a horse to keep the flies off that's absolutely standard practice this was different well this is different because the rugs that you place on horses don't stop the horse flies from landing say that plenty of landings that go on it's just that the rugs are generally thick enough to stop the flies from biting through what we found is that very few flies landed in the 1st place on the stripey rug and so what that lets you do is cut down the thickness of the rugs in summer when it's quite hot so it makes it more comfortable for a horse potentially still has the same benefit from the biting flies so this is an evolutionary failure then apparently Well it depends what you mean really domestic courses don't have the same evolutionary pressure to avoid being bitten by flies because the flies certainly here in Europe don't carry the same sort of nasty disease. They do in Africa and so the area where the desert Bryza abundant and very strikingly tend to correlate with areas where there's high levels of disease carried by slice if there's ever gets bitten by a horse like can be a matter of life and death right so I was wrong is its evolution in practice but it's pretty obvious that horses do get bitten a lot in horse riders get bitten a law I'm here to tell you that tale if you won so perhaps we should be painting horses Well exactly and if not wearing a rug you could paint them and also I think there's quite a good case to wear stripey clothing while you're riding horses like you say it's not just the horse that gets attacked it's the rider also. Develop now having made this discovery well commercial products are already available like I say this is not a very new hypothesis has always been out there we were just the 1st to really test it in a very naturalistic condition and say that the products are already out there what we'd like to do is to hone and refine those products to be as effective as possible in collaboration hopefully with industry but I'm also in she intrigued in the possible applications there might be for future technology say one of the things that we think about a lot now is computer technology that's driven by cameras and visual systems based on cameras now it could be that things like Amazon delivery drones or something similar might also face similar problems do with stripes and controlling men in their flight and have you been able to identify what it is about the stripes that stop the Flies landing that current direction that we're really trying to focus on is trying to understand exactly what's happening in the brains of the flies as they coming into these droids we've got a couple of theories One is that the stripes might suddenly reveal themselves at close range once they're visible through the low resolution eyes of the Flies Another is that they might generate some sort of dazzling optical illusion in the eyes of the Flies so stripes well known for generating optical illusions like the paintings of Bridget Riley from the sixty's that when you stand in front. I mean that all sorts of strange sensations of movement it could well be that Sly's are experiencing something similar is that coming in to talk to Martin how from the universe to explaining why sleepers have stripes and how to paint your horse possibly this is. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin salamanders arrives in China for a 2 day visit he's expected to sign key energy and economic agreements with that country. He'll be meeting China's leader on Friday we'll have more on that soon before that the mandatory death sentence the automatic application of the death penalty for certain crimes is one of the most controversial legal practices in the world and the sentence is being challenged in the courts increasingly it's being removed from law books shot Madonna went to Malawi way to meet some former death row prisoners who are now free. Oh noes giving isn't is my mother was everybody started crying. I knew what is going to happen because it during my trial I was working for my case I could hear people crying we were going to live through a shame bison colorless thought his life was over in 1980 when he was arrested and found guilty of murder he says he had been helping a disabled employee to get to the toilet when they slipped on what steps outside injured by the fall the man died later in hospital and by some was blamed at that time the conviction of Medicare and an automatic death penalty when I was told that the you can go now to the condemned section or are filled as if you are worried the day after the arrival of multiparty democracy in 1904 Malawi stopped carrying out executions or the sentences are still handed out it was 2 decades later that by some was in court again I was stunned to hear a judge say that he could go free I was just a hearing or my body was so weak that I could not to