We took power 5 years ago in a coup I don't think they're going to give it up Israeli police say a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has injured at least 7 people including children in an area north of Tel Aviv it's the furthest a Palestinian rocket fired from Gaza has reached in Israel since the 2014 conflict with Hamas militants Here's your London well there's also things that are really very significant about the timing right now 1st of all the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just arrived in Washington for a very high profile visit he is of course facing a closely contested election campaign elections due just next month and now Mr Netanyahu has said that he is cutting short his visit he is also a defense minister his security credentials are very much under scrutiny during this election campaign he has said he is returning to oversee things. An American environmental campaign group has accused Chinese logging companies of devastating key forest in the Congo Basin resulting in damage to the climate and the habitats of endangered animals the environmental investigation agency says it's conducted 4 years of research much of it undercover it accuse the Chinese companies of paying huge bribes to win logging rights in the Republic of Congo and bomb Lisa Hardy's from the e.i.a. The damage is really in multiple places it's happening to the forest certainly isn't a very important ecosystems to the habitat for the forest elephant for many endangered species there are also the home to over 30000000 inhabitants as was 75000000 people in total that are living in or relying on these resources. Democratic Party leaders in the United States have called on the Justice Department's to release the full report into allegations of collusion with Russia by Donald Trump's campaign team during the 2016 election on Sunday the Attorney General William Barr published a short summary of the investigation by the special counsel Robert Muller Mr Barr said there was insufficient evidence that the president had obstructed justice world news from the b.b.c. a Rights group has accused China of trying to establish what it calls a new world media order in attempts to deter criticism of Beijing Reporters Without Borders said China not only censors information inside the country but was also trying to export those methods it said Beijing spent heavily on international broadcasting intimidated overseas journalists and put pressure on foreign publishing companies china said the accusations were not worth reporting. The British prime minister to reason may is to to brief her cabinet today on how she plans to break the deadlock over bricks it after meetings with senior party colleagues over the weekend the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the b.b.c. She'd bring her twice rejected Bragg's it deal back to Parliament only if she thought she could win the vote this time saying it was still the best of the limited options the Sackler family who made a large amount of money selling painkillers in the us has suspended any new charitable donations in Britain the Sackler trust said it rejected claims that the family's pharmaceutical firm perjury farmer had helped fuel the opioid crisis in America but said the route had become a distraction from the groups it supports the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate had already refused Sackler donations and Scott Walker one of the most influential pop stars of the 1960 s. Has died at the age of $76.00 as one of the Walker Brothers his distinctive baritone voice featured on hits including the sun is going to shine any more no regrets and make it easy on yourself. As. Scott Walker later released for critically acclaimed albums that blended unconventional lyrics with orchestration b.b.c. News. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service Hello this is Dan Damon with world update no collusion says Robert Miller So is that it well probably not and we'll tell you why a bit later 1st Britain's cabinet ministers have been called in early this morning to discuss a plan for what are called indicative votes on Bracks It's reported the government will offer the House of Commons vote perhaps without M.P.'s being told how to vote on a number of options including the prime ministers deal no deal different kinds of future relationship with the e.u. a 2nd referendum and calling the whole thing off revoking Article 50 the conservative member of parliament and former cabinet minister Sir Oliver Letwin is arguing for a series of Commons indicative votes he says this could give the government greater clarity in the back seat process in the 1st place if we begin this process on Wednesday there is a real chance if not I don't think it is likely to happen in the 1st round but if not in the 1st round then 2nd or maybe even very quickly thereafter 3rd I think we might get to a majority view and once you've got a majority view 1st of all the government knows what could obtain a majority House of Commons pretty important thing to find out because the whole problem with the Prime Minister's deal which I've voted for all the way along has been she hasn't been able to get a majority and we don't know what she could get a majority for so once we find that out there's a way forward in principle and then the next thing would be for the prime minister to take that forward and for the government implemented and parliament of course has the opportunity to legislate to mandate that and for all of that when also said no deal is a huge problems and this is the most sensible way to avoid that I think M.P.'s actually do recognise that we have a terrible problem here let's focus on the problem on the 12 absent a decision about a way forward that the prime minister can present as a new plan to the e.u. This country will leave the e.u. Without a deal that is. I think and I think many many of your listeners will think a very great risk for this country we're trying to avoid that risk there's no way we can avoid that risk other than for M.P.'s to focus on the need to have an alternative and I think impedes very grown up and sensible about this and if given the opportunity eventually not necessarily the 1st round they will probably come up with an alternative so I know that man that speak to Rob Watson who's our political correspondent down at Westminster Rob How would indicative voting actually work do we know. No we don't know at all and we don't even know whether that might be to go is that at one run by the government and another one run by ordinary M.P.'s just because they they simply don't trust the government I mean that's what's happening now between Parliament and the government so the short answer your question is no we don't know and we certainly don't know at this point whether you know what might be the option that would attract the most votes or if indeed any such option would emerge I think it's worth asking you to outline where we're up to because still the law stands that Britain leaves the European Union on the 29th of March this coming Friday at 11 o'clock in the evening u.k. Time has that changed actually not yet no but because the European Union has given the u.k. An extension of a couple of weeks probably what will happen this week as I'm pleased well will pass a new statute saying look the date by which we need to let the European Union that we're going to definitely be leaving whether or without a deal or with some sort of extension taking part in European elections will be the 12th of April so so I feel like that the sort of at the can it's been kicked down the road for another couple of weeks and then there is who will be prime minister on Friday. That's an it's an excellent question and I do think that a threesome a is a prime minister living on borrowed time whether that's days weeks hours I think it's hard to say I think really the reason why she's still there is that there's probably an understanding among the M.P.'s in the governing Conservative Party the changing the leader wouldn't fix the problem and the problem is is that the governing Conservative Party is hopelessly divided over this issue. Parliament is hopelessly divided and you know the way out the way of sort of put it sometimes done is that if you think about it it's like if you think of the $650.00 M.P.'s like a pack of cards it may just be that there's no way of shuffling that pack that produces a winning hand what I mean by winning hand is a way of getting over bricks so indeed the Indicative votes might not indicate much at all but we'll see Thank you very much indeed that's right Watson political correspondent down there Westminster and as he said there's a lot of speculation about the future of trees a May as prime minister the newspapers were rife with that speculation over the weekend the front page of The Sunday Times newspaper suggested that some sort of caretaker prime minister will be put in place and that by today Prime Minister to resign a would have been removed from 10 Downing Street that didn't happen but one of those suggested as the caretaker leader was the Cabinet Office minister David leading to and he's rejected those suggestions he said he was 100 percent behind the reason may I don't think that I have any wish to take it from the pm I think it's doing a fantastic job I tell you there's one thing that it working close to the prime minister does it cure you completely of any lingering shred of ambition to want to do that that toss I have absolute admiration for the way he's going about it and another name floated over the weekend for the next prime minister environment secretary Michael Gove he too came out saying no he wouldn't take to reason is place the prime minister absolutely still had his support and it's time for cool heads we need to me. Colleagues in the cabinet and across the country recognize that in the course of this we have every citizens to make and have so many people as possible recognize that the best way of honoring the referendum and making sure that we leave in an orderly fashion is to support the prime minister in her efforts Well I spoke earlier to Katy Perry or to reason May's former director of communications and I put it to her despite all those warm words of support it is a fact that the reason Mayer has had to come back on some of the things that she's promised abroad but Brett said and that does mean that the idea she's lost control of the process is very strong Indies and it's easy to see why over the last few weeks she's kind of flip flopped from one position to another and kind of the name in the coffin really was that speech and this time kind of last week when she talked about the fact that she was on the public side and not on the side of her parliament tree colleagues and that was the final straw really because they felt that up until that point they were trying to work together to try and find some kind of consensus try and find some kind of deal have sheep she kind of chose the wrong way and she thought she was talking to the public really she needed to hammer M.P.'s and she was very very close to getting a few more of the 9 and she kind of Bolivia at that point and ever since then it's kind of been spiraling downwards what difference does a couple of things that have happened over the past 48 hours make one is what's estimated to be a 1000000 people well let's not get stuck on the number but a lot of a lot of people in London demanding a delay or revocation the anomaly or stop Brix it and also the charge of the Exchequer the finance minister Philip Hammond saying a 2nd referendum was a reasonable idea. I think they do matter what. The prime minister is that with the kind of numbers it turned out is that the country is deeply divided over this issue and she's known that for the last couple of years there's nothing new about that her party is divided the country is divided and she has tried to find a way through but she doesn't quite have the skill set that is needed and it's starting to show for example you need to be out to compromise you need to be flexible you need to be able to be collegiate you need to bring your colleagues with the together and reach out to them and say I need you I need your help I need you on my side this is why we so important tip to back my do and the failure to sell her deal and the failure to win over colleagues it's really quite going to go down in history I think as the moment it could have it could have gone well but it failed to do say and I can I've spent my time over the last few years kind of blaming advisors bad advice or blaming the election campaign went wrong but at some point you need to take responsibility yourself and I think the reason why now at least to say yes I'm probably not suited for this long term announcement about she dates doesn't have to be immediate but tells the party that she won't take me to the next stage. And hopefully that might be enough to get the deal out of the line Katy Perry and to resume a former director of communications 10 days after a deadly cycle left death and destruction throughout southern Africa there are warnings from Mozambique about the growing threat of diseases such as malaria and cholera over 100000 people are now in camps 446 have died or that number is expected to rise and many villages in Mozambique are been completely cut off Africa editor Fergal Keane reports from moment under one of the worst affected districts. In the queue waiting for help some 30 people mostly women and children I saw a mother hold her son aged 10 to the arms lifting his limp body to a patch of open grass she placed him. On the ground where he knelt from. The small room you couldn't really call it a wart it's too small. But it's full of children who are seriously ill with diarrhea and the striking thing here is that there are 3 children to each bed this some of them are asleep all of them on i.v. Drips those who are awake are staring vacantly. There are adults in here with them as well. Mother here in the corner. With a sick child she's just arrived and the nurse is going to offer some assistance now they're preparing space on a bed with another child. The fear of course is that you get contamination because all of the children have severe diarrhea and if you've got 3 children all of that in that kind of condition it's very very easy for the for disease to spread Of course what they're most worried about is cholera I'm watching doctor material polish and he looks overwhelmed due to the lack of basic equipment medicine and food because of different question you can cry stop crying. Get said and then being gets appointed because you cannot help you can just can help your person. Their families are suffering maybe these young born can die by hunger. The storm has punched holes on the roofs of some buildings and when it rains the patients lying below must be moved Rosa Antonio is sick with severe diarrhea or 3 year old daughter as area has died. Her husband works at night and so she worries for the 6 month old baby left at home. But when we went to the family home and found the baby and the couple's 5 year old daughter being cared for. You have a go to answer the call for help from Rose's husband this is the story of disaster but also of the enduring bonds of friendship and community as Rose's husband does he feel discovered in his family's hour of need. The neighbors are the ones who are helping he says and my former partner she felt she had to come and help me. Large amounts of humanitarian aid are now arriving and are being dispatched to stricken areas like the easy to elect shelters from Britain vital for families whose homes have been ruined and the road to Nehemiah Tandon has been repaired by a combined team of Chinese and Mozambicans. Yama town the hospital there is so much need for medicine to transport to repairs to the roof through which the rain falls on Rosa Antonio who lost her daughter and 2 with her husband Ezekiel must now try to rebuild for the living. Fergal Keane reporting from now its hand in Mozambique You're listening to World update from London. 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This is Dan Damon in London if elections in Thailand were fairly conducted it seems voters of favored stability over reform a pro military political party has taken an unexpected lead over a party linked to the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra He's now in exile and his supporters generally have won every election since 2001 I spoke to the B.B.C.'s Nick Baek just a short while ago Dan I'm afraid it's a pretty confused picture at the moment last night when the votes came in there was a huge amount of surprise that a new party set up just a year ago and in support of the unity which took power 5 years ago and apparently marched the top of the popular vote they were expected to come in 3rd place but the figures suggested all show from the 90 percent of seats that had been announced that they had won the popular vote and people extremely hard to believe however what we've seen in the 24 hours since the polls have closed the sometimes asking serious questions about the legitimacy of this voting process the turnout we're told was 65 percent now that's significantly lower than the last 4 election back in 2011 and significantly lower than the advance voting just a week or so ago which was up around 80 percent so there are question marks here I'm actually speaking to you from the Election Commission headquarters lots of questions for them they didn't really answer them earlier on we are expected to get some of the results confirmed in the next probably 20 minutes or so but more results won't come in until Friday and this is really the beginning of a process I think you will see behind the scenes maneuvering But put simply the military took power 5 years ago and in a coup I don't think they're going to give it up Nick big when I spoke to a machine paying She's a political scientist at the University of Sydney I asked her for her reaction. It's not that much lower I think the last reported figure is close to 70 percent it is a bit lower but it's still pretty high considering you know if you look at turnout around the world I'm not exactly sure the exact reason for why it's less than previous years but you got to remember that they expect to have 7000000 new voters this time many many of whom at the time when we had the last election were 2 where we're obviously too young or even the previous 12000 and that when the real election because students some 14 must now there were little kids so we we couldn't always tell whether the new voters who would be the 1st time border this time would actually turn up there was a lot of campaigns to get them to turn out there was a lot of means a lot of hash tag going around social media trying to get young voters to go but also to the more unpredictable numbers Well let me take a skeptical view you have a military government which imposed itself on the country they say they will reintroduce democracy they hold elections and guess what a general wins that sounds suspicious b