Dr John the night trip a complete with Mardi Gras costumes to create a unique sound and show influence 5 which blended blues jazz rock and funk he was a 6 time Grammy winner and was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. The band. Dr John who died today that's the b.b.c. News Hello you're listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with me and we are some Peter it's nearly a month since 4 tankers came under attack off the United Arab Emirates explosives were attached to the ships 2 Saudi one immorality and one Norwegian causing damage but no casualties after an investigation the 3 countries have now told the u.n. Security Council that the attacks bore the hallmarks of a sophisticated and coordinated operation most likely by a state actor in their statement based on their investigation they didn't mention Iran by name which the United States and the Saudis have both accused of being responsible Well let's speak live now to our correspondent in Washington Chris Butler for more on this Chris what more have we learned about these attacks and how they were carried out. Yeah the details of these attacks are like something out of a screenplay rather than official reports and with fast boats being used to navigate difficult waters in the Gulf and specialist divers been used to touch these limpet mines to the holes of 4 tankers below the water line and just explain these limpet mines are Knievel explosives that are attached by magnets to ships all of that took x. Parties in coordination and this briefing given to the u.n. Says there was also a certain amount of intelligence knowledge on show in the targeting of these vessels themselves all of that together has led the Saudi Norwegian and amorality officials to conclude that it's very likely to be individuals linked to state government that was behind this attack they haven't said which country but given the u.s. National security advisor John Bolton has already blamed Iran I think questions would be been asked of Tehran once again after the meeting the Saudi ambassador to the u.n. Once again pointed the finger at Iran what have they had to say. Here the Saudi ambassador very firmly saying that in their view the responsibility lies on the shoulders of Iran even if the reports didn't come to that conclusion not around did strike back after the John Bolton claims saying his his allegations were laughable and their allies in the u.n. Have already been urging caution Russia's deputy ambassador has been saying that evidence was not presented against Iran in this briefing which is behind closed doors and Russia is bluntly stating that it will oppose any attempt to punish the country for actions that have not been proven and Chris what happens next. Well it's important to say that these are preliminary findings 1000000 will likely get an official response from the u.n. Security Council until we get the final results of this investigation but there is no doubt the details of this attack will continue to cause concern particularly as far as the United States is concerned it's been warning that Tehran poses a threat and it's made a point of visibly increasing its presence in the region I suspect this report will only heighten tensions Chris thank you Chris Buckley in Washington the 5 percent tariff icon or Mexican goods is looming and it seems the country is making moves to try and stop that from happening on Thursday Mexico deployed 6000 members of the National Guard along its border with what to try to contain an influx of migrants from Central America trying to get to the United States The move comes after Mexican and u.s. Officials held a 2nd day of talks on trade and migration speaking to reporters in Pennsylvania the u.s. Vice president Mike Pence had this to say I'm encouraged that they came today with more but it'll be a matter for the president to consider what they're offering enough for us to evaluate those proposals to determine whether or not it will be sufficient to really bring this crisis of illegal immigration and our southern border to a Mike Pence So let's get more on this from our Latin America correspondent will grant will will this move by Mexico be enough for Trump to change his mind. It's very hard to say isn't it I think it's certainly going to be the kind of thing that the White House state we have wanted to hear from Mexico quite a different question within Mexico itself where people seem quite angry actually the fact that the delegation appeared to be giving on this kind of areas as it looks to Mr Lopez Obrador his detractors he's sort of giving in Already he's offering to militarize what is already pretty militarized part of Mexico stop some of the most needy in the region heading north. And so on and so forth it is a very difficult situation to get the balancing act right between sort of regulating migration on the southern border between Mexico and Guatemala Mexico and Central America and of the clamping down as the Trump administration would like and trying to avoid as you say this looming deadline of the terrorists being introduced to this looming deadline which appeared it seemed at that point out of nowhere when President drum tweeted about this plan and it must have caught Mexico by surprise or at least it seemed that it did what can we expect to happen now on Friday. I think that you know I've still got to see Mr Trump return. If you look at the statement from the White House that the suggestion is that you know they're still moving forward with tariffs that the point the only 2 men that can resolve this happens spoken that is Donald Trump and as Manuel Lopez Obrador you know we wait to see if they do actually speak and and whether or not these concessions and these efforts by Mexico to try and find some common ground will be enough but I think we'll also start to see Mexico sort of sticking up for itself a bit more to expecting to see some kind of rally into one or on the Us Mexico border as Mr Lopez Obrador put it for sort of Mexican sovereignty and so I think there will eventually come a point where Mr Trump can push too far and Mexico says well you know if you're going to put these tariffs in place we'll just have to do the same and you know and then we're in a tit for tat situation which will benefit people on either side of the border will grant thank you Mastercard has suspended an advertising campaign with the Brazilian football star Neymar after he was accused of raping a woman at a hotel in Paris last month Neymar who plays for Paris and German strongly denies the allegation the credit card company said it would stop using images of the player until the situation was resolved the accuser who's also from Brazil says the footballer flew her from her home country to Paris after the pair met on Instagram for more of this I'm now joined by Julia cognito who's our correspondent in Rio de Janeiro Julia talk us through what Mastercard said about why it was doing this. Well Mastercard is one of many big players that are interested in the image that Neymar has as one of Brazil's one of the most important football player in Brazil and one of the most important football players in the world so they withdrew this big campaign that they were making with Neymar have a name or as its ambassador because of these accusations and Nike as well which is one of the big sponsors of Neymar said that they're very concerned so it seems that other other companies are. Back Neymar will also they're probably studying what to do because this is very damning to his image which is the biggest one of the biggest assets that he has as well as his football . Master Card said in a press release that they have a series of marketing campaigns planned for the cop of America the tournament that's about to happen but decided to suspend all of them including Neymar as the brand ambassador until this issue was resolved until the issue of the accusations Neymar is facing now this story has made the news all over the world but how has it been received in Brazil. Well immediately it's all everyone talks about here it's like a bomb fell on everyone there's like a public trial going on with everyone seems to know what they're very addictive is who's to blame who who was who who was at fault. There is a big blaming game on social media going on often lots of Commons directed at the accuser of Neymar who now has come forth and shown her face and revealed her identity as national a ring that I did a lot of people showing disbelief at her version of the story and but sometimes also a feminist activist saying that this is again a repetition of Shaaban a society that doesn't believe in what women say even the president of Brazil was able so now to he visited a man in the hospital just to remind you that name a in a friendly match in Brazil he was hurt and both are not himself Is it at him in hospital and told reporters that this boy as he put it was going through a difficult time but he believed in him so. The judicial proceedings have to go on but in the meantime the population. Is deciding for themselves if they accuse ations are true or false. Julia Thank you Julia Coronado in Rio de Janeiro the African Union has suspended sorry you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service Now Nic has the headlines and investigation has found that a state actor is very likely to blame for sabotage attacks on oil tankers off the United Arab Emirates last month Mexico is sending $6000.00 National Guards to its border with Gaza Malo to try to tackle the flow of Central American migrants to the United States and New York police have apologized for an infamous raid on a gay bar 50 years ago that sparked the l.g.b. Tea rights movement Thanks Nic the African Union has suspended Sudan during an emergency meeting in the European capital Addis Ababa it's called on the military to hand over power to a civilian led transitional authority violence has increased sharply in Sudan in recent days with security forces killing dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators Here's what the U.K.'s minuter Minister of State for Africa Harriet Baldwin had to say about the situation there are credible reports that in these attacks which are absolutely sickening that some 100 peaceful protesters have been killed bodies have been found in the not all the reports of rape on some of the protesters I have summoned the Sudanese ambassador to insist that he take the message back to Khartoum that on behalf of the u.k. Government we call for this violence to stop and we join the rest of the world in our outrage against these reports or Africa security correspondent Tom Depot considers what the a use decision to suspend Sudan will mean in practice the African Union says that handing over to a civilian government is the only way out of this conflict and so it's a spending sedan until that is achieved now what will the suspension look like 1st apart from Sudan being excluded from a new proceedings certain individuals and entities who are seen to be obstructing the establishment of a civilian government will also be punished but its worth. Noting that Sudan has the backing of the current chair of the a then thought that who is also the president of Egypt and in 2013 Egypt was suspended by the a you so there are questions about the effectiveness of this current suspension but some would say it's good to take action regardless Now on Friday the prime minister of Ethiopia Abby Ahmed and a regional delegation are expected in Khartoum Sudan's capital with the difficult task of bringing together the military and the opposition alliance to the negotiating table. The U.K.'s duplexer party led by Nigel for Raj has just failed in a bid to send its 1st m.p. To Westminster This comes less than 2 weeks after its triumph in the European elections on a pro Bracks ticket voters in the English city of Peterborough have elected a new m.p. From the opposition Labor Party after sacking their former one for lying over a speeding fine to explain more on what many had thought would be a historic night in Britain I'm joined in the studio by our political reporter Mark liberal mark a byelection doesn't normally have a small glued to our T.V.'s or radios why does this one I mean it was always looking incredibly close and there was the prospect of an unprecedented speedy victory from a party the BRICs a party the didn't even exist 8 weeks ago and what it has done what this race has done is taken a seat a constituency with the was the epitome of the 2 party system labor be conservative you could tell which party was going to govern really on who who won this seat and it's broken that up it smashed it because it was between Labor and the BRICs it Party and this is a constituency that voted 60 percent to leave and the Bracks a party came along with no policies other than the single issue of an of a no deal Bracks it of leaving the e.u. As soon as possible and and challenge the Labor Party and got within whiskers of winning this seat and the Bracks supporting law. Last but they came close how close it was 683 votes in it which is means it was very close and because of that they've come away with 29 percent of the share of the vote and what they're doing is they're saying that their message their very clear message of no deal is an important one and they took those votes from the governing Conservative Party now there's a leadership contest at the Conservative party at the moment for who should be the next prime minister and this will fuel a people like the favorite at the moment bookies favorite Boris Johnson who are claiming that. The u.k. Should leave the e.u. Come hell or highwater on Halloween with this no deal which many people many politicians are afraid of and even some within Boris Johnson's own party are afraid of but this will be sucker to him is this more proof than that some parties say like the Brits the party has done extremely well in the European elections they do well in the European elections that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to get into Parliament or do very well in u.k. Elections that is how many people will read this because there is a real difficulty in translating that vote the breaks it parties response has been that this was the 203rd target seats for Westminster out of the 650 they came this close with a 203rd target seat they sent thousands of people are applying to be M.P.'s for the Westminster elections when there's a general election and this was a very impressive I mean undoubtedly very impressive result from a standing start but they haven't done it they haven't cracked Miss West Miss deceit So Nigel frosh as they say always left the building Nigel Farage left the building early people thought that they had lost it and he's not going to be gloating tonight Machiavel Thank you New York's police commissioner James O'Neil has apologized for the raid on the stone wall in gay bar 50 years ago that gave rise to the modern l g b t rights movement I think would be irresponsible of me as we go through World Pride Month not to speak of the events at the Stonewall Inn in June of 1969 and I'm certainly not going to stand up here and pretend to be an expert on what happened at Stonewall I do know what happened should not have happened the actions taken by the n.y.p.d. Were wrong plain and simple. Yeah actions in the laws were discriminatory and oppressive and for that I apologize patrons of the bar fought back against the raid on the 28th of June 1969 leading to unprecedented demonstrations for the rights of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people in the streets of Greenwich Village outside the Stonewall well in New York correspondent Nick Bryant told me more we're approaching the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and they of course followed this police raid by the n.y.p.d. In the early as of June 28th 1989 when they descended upon the stone will bond in the Greenwich Village part of the city to enforce laws that in those days made it illegal to serve alcohol to known homosexuals now it's commonplace for the police at that time to target gay bars in this way but on this occasion the officers were met with with angry resistance and this anger resistance actually turned into days of rushing in the Stonewall Uprising And it up becoming the crucible moment of the modern day l g b t rights movement now that moment of history is being commemorated this month and ahead of it that happening cools for the n.y.p.d. To make this apology and that's what's happened will what he said be enough for the community the police commissioner James p. O'Neill didn't do this in a kind of ceremonial way it was slipped into a fairly routine police briefing perhaps members of the l g b t community would have liked to have seen something a little bit more more formal but I haven't yet seen the reaction to what Jane's p.r. Neal said what happened should not have happened he said the actions taken by the n.y.p.d. Were wrong plain and simple the actions in the laws were discriminatory and oppressive for that I apologize but he has delivered that official apology after 50 years it has finally come and I think for some people in the l.g.b. Cheeky me. Knitty This will give them a sense of closure for what they've always thought was very heavy handed policing in forcing what were obviously discriminatory laws Nick Bryant New York a no mc some other stories from our news desk so Nicole's President Macky seller said he will reassess Tabish the truth following a b.b.c. Investigation that revealed his brother had allegedly benefited from lucrative dealings within the gas sector the investigation published by b.b.c. Panorama and Africa I found that cell allegedly received a secret payment from a company which sold gas blocks to b.p. It alleged that to miss all Corporation made a secret payment of 250-0028 company run by the president's brother your son has denied any wrongdoing the World Health Organization has warned that humanity is entering a new phase where large outbreaks of deadly diseases like a bowl are becoming normal the w h O's executive director of health emergencies Dr Michael Ryan told b.b.c. That outbreaks are more likely to occur and grow in size because of climate change exploitation of the rain forest highly mobile populations weak governments and conflict the Democratic Republic of Congo is dealing with the 2nd largest outbreak of Ebola in history and the ultimate limit of human insurance is being worked up by scientists of analyzed a series of marathons researches that Duke University in North Carolina took data from the Tour de France and other elite running events they say the ultimate cap is $2.00 times the body's resting metabolic rate which is $4000.00 calories a day for an average person I say anything higher than that is not sustainable in the long term growth of calories that's it thank you Mick the Woman's World Cup Stuart's later on Friday in Paris the build up has featured complaints about the way women are treated in football and the disparity in prize money compared to the men or sports news correspondent Alex. Capstick has been to meet the organizer of the tournament Fatima summer up from Senegal is the 1st female secretary general Afifa she's a black Muslim woman who's been pushing boundaries in what was largely a white male European dominated governing body. Good morning ladies and gentlemen guests of honor women's football protagonists and I'm at the Paris Expo in a huge building a lot like. A thief his 1st ever convention on women's football all sorts of important people in sports business and politics have gathered together the lady who put this together Secretary-General for some or. Your described by Forbes is the most powerful woman in international sports How would you describe yourself 1st I don't I go out there were powerful I preferred the word influence than when joined 3 years ago the organization was a by