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Finest and a significant win for the American people since the reporting that says that these countless hours were nothing but the amounted to a waste of time I can tell you that the team here at the State Department believes fall through throat of late or that this is an important set of agreements important set of understandings one that will continue to work on because in the end will be voted by the outcomes that we deliver with respect to stemming the flow of illegal immigration into our country well let's speak to our North America Correspondent David Willetts now so David the Mexicans are saying that this agreement is temporary Mike Pompei is saying it's a significant when do we have a deal or not while Jack I have to say President term Trump believes that we do at least for the time being and he says that the u.s. State Department will have more to say about the nature of this agreement once the whole thing has been ratified by the Mexican government now he maintains that this is a strong effort to quell the flow of illegal immigrant immigrants into the United States he says that Mexico has agreed to expand its policy of providing holding areas for migrants applying for asylum in the United States and to reinforce its southern border with Somalia with the help of about 6000 members of its National Guard now if those measures don't bear fruit within the next $4.00 to $6.00 weeks and the Mexicans are felt to be dragging their feet if you like on alternative measures then tariffs on Mexican goods could still come into effect so is there actually in this deal anything that is definitely new the President Trump has won because of this threat of terrorists. Well it's interesting is it because he's not revealing the precise details of the agreement although he has threatened as we know to keep raising duties on American in Mexican imports to as much as 25 percent so I would have to say granting Mexico this temporary reprieve from those tariffs has at least come as a relief to some people here to economists and indeed to the markets should these measures fail Jackie it is possible that migrants applying for asylum here in the United States will be made to wait out that process in Mexico thereby establishing Mexico as a sort of safe country for migrants if you like but Mexico has been saying that ultimately all this could take the involvement of other countries countries such as Panama and Guatemala and Brazil the Latin American countries that are used as transit points for migrants so it might be when they come to sit down again the next 4 to 6 weeks the term Mexico is of the view that it simply can't do this on its own David thank you that was David Willis our correspondent in North America. Longstanding tensions between farmers and herders in the West African country of Mali frequently erupt into violence in the latest incident Fulani herdsman are accused of massacring around 100 villagers from the doggone ethnic group West Africa correspondent Louise do asked looks why the attacks are increasing Expos that spend a lot of time researching the situation in Mali often tell me that extremist groups capitalize on local conflicts and essentially use these local tensions to boost their recruitment one of their extremist groups is led by a felony and so for day gone's they believe that. Assimilating are linked to that specific group a claim that day to night but clearly these extremist groups also profit from chaos and fear that is being spread among these communities but this latest development sadly is not so much of a surprise just a week ago the United Nations secretary general warned any statement of the high risk of atrocities and actually called on the government to strengthen its response to extremist groups and ongoing violence Louise do asked and you study in Bangladesh has used mobile phone data to predict where malaria outbreaks are likely the disease kills 400000 people annually and this study by the government could take preventative measures before outbreaks happened Richard Galpin reports. Both heading up river to the remote villages of the Chittagong Hill tracks in Southeastern Bangladesh the region one of the last in the country where Malaria persists on board is meant for Moreau is returning home. Back home there is laughter but also sadness meant poor his wife lost their 6 year old daughter to malaria of. Him or I thought it was just a fever soon. From He says venture he decided to carry her to the nearest hospital but it was too late she died on the way it was today the hospital has the highest number of cases in the country. And Dr Carole Carson says he's worried that could now be a further spiking cases as a result of people from India and Myanmar crossing the border into Bangladesh the concern heightens by growing evidence that many of the drugs used to treat malaria are no longer effective. Now a new way of tackling the disease is being developed using data from millions of people's mobile phones to track anonymously their movements around Bangladesh. Here at Chittagong railway station crowds of people are boarding trains heading out to other towns and cities their mobiles will provide an extremely accurate picture of where they go to and this key for predicting where malaria outbreaks a likely to occur is travelers already carrying malaria parasites can spread the disease into new areas Dr Mohammed was a man a senior member of Bangladesh's National Malaria elimination program believes this could be transformative this big debt out forms according. To help for them of a nation within the country and that's a view shared by Dr Caroline Bucky of Harvard School of Public Health also a key member of the project this is approach provides a framework for understanding where the parasites tend when. That's going to help to understand where to look for possible outbreaks of malaria in the future the idea is quite simple if you can predict where malaria outbreaks a likely to occur then local health authorities can stockpile insecticides bed nets and medicines protecting the population from the disease this is where the mobile phone data comes in thousands of miles away in the Norwegian capital. Oslo I met Kent anger Munson senior research scientist of the telecoms company time and or which is behind the project applications of these kinds of data set ranges from fighting epidemic to see since 2 of kinds of societal problems this role really really change the way we utilize while they are in the future it offers the tantalizing prospect of finally being able to rid the country of malaria that was Richard Galpin You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service since do it has that lines Mexico has said there may need to be a regional response to the large numbers of migrants heading to the United States the u.s. Justice Department has agreed to provide additional information from the mother report to the House Judiciary Committee the un peacekeeping mission in Mali is bolstering its presence in the central Mopti region after a surge in violence between ethnic groups and the news daily suggests that data from mobile phones can help to predict where diseases such as malaria are likely to spread after much speculation 10 Conservative M.P.'s have declared their intention to become their party leader and so the next British prime minister their key challenge to deliver Bracks it's before the Oct 31st deadline to leave the e.u. After a series of polls by Conservative M.P.'s the 10 will be reduced to just 2 candidates and Tory Party members across the country will choose between them our political correspondents in Watson told us about the election and the current front runner the former foreign secretary Boris Johnson is obviously Arkaroola bombastic figure but he's some do it make the conservative membership feel good about itself a consummate campaigner as he was during the the leave campaign and as Mayor of London some people worry about his grasp of policy detail for example certainly if he does not get a deal by the 31st of October he and the people who are supporting him seem to be very keen for Britain to leave the European Union. No one if they ever Jeremy Hunt the current foreign secretary Boris Johnson successor where to be elected then he's trying to draw in a way the range of people within the party for his approach to the some people who are staunch remain those backing him some people who are brags of tears and again his emphasis is on trying to get a deal before the 31st of October so it really does depend on who gets through if the vote were held tomorrow amongst M.P.'s I think probably Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson would be in the final 2 but there's another 2 weeks to go where there's a whole range of hustings those words fellow members of parliament will listen to and question all different kinds of it Michael Gove to some extent is on the back foot over newspaper revelations and his subsequent admission to kick a new smaller than 2 decades ago so if there's another similar grenade thrown in the top 2 at the moment might not be the top to win the race actually finishes just give us an idea how this process works how do they whittled it down from 10 to 2 well that's fairly complicated. But I'll let you run you through it effectively you have to get in the 1st instance 5 percent of their rest of the parliamentary party backing them when the 1st round of voting takes place on Thursday perhaps 3 or 4 might be whittled out this week there next week after cross a much higher threshold 10 percent of their fellow members of parliament then the lowest performing candidate amongst a fellow M.P.'s will drop out and saw will go on until you reach the final to the date when you think the process will be finished will be June the 20 years then you'd open this up to the way the Conservative Party membership then they would get a vote and we get a new conservative leader by the end of July but of course because they're in government you also get a new British prime minister similar to any of the new prime minister who has not been elected in a general election and some listeners around the world might be surprised how often that happens that's right the parliamentary system it can very easily happen actually initially that's what happened with the reason here of course she succeeded David Cameron after the. Referendum didn't go his way when the 52 percent voted for breaks it and she'd remain prime minister she was under no obligation to call an election she did so to try and strengthen her position and of course in the end she weakened it that was in Watson more than $570.00 species of plants have become extinct over the last 250 years and the 1st global study only as you says farming and the destruction of native vegetation are largely to blame Danny Abel hard looks at how this happens and why it matters the figures a sobering 4 times as many plant species are known to have gone extinct than previously thought it's more than twice the comparable number for birds mammals and amphibians combined the scientists estimate the plants are disappearing at a rate up to $500.00 times faster than what was happening on Earth before humans appeared even that they fear might be an underestimate they point out the most of us can name an animal or bird that's gone extinct in recent centuries the dodo perhaps but few can do the same for a plant try the chili sandal wood the St Helene olive or the banded Trinity an extraordinary plants with no leaves and whose flowers alone poked above ground it was found in Chicago in the United States in 1912 but the site was destroyed a few years later and it's never been seen since. Extinctions are highest on islands in the tropics and places with the Mediterranean climate with habitat destruction and fragmentation the key cause it's not all doom and gloom the scientists say more than $400.00 species once thought to be extinct have since been rediscovered citing the example of a striking vivid blue flowering crocus but most such rediscovers remain on a highly precarious footing the researchers hope the study will help target conservation efforts especially in less well studied regions such as Africa and South America one of the report's co-authors talk to him an igloo or was blunt plants underpin all life on Earth providing food an oxygen she said so their extinction is bad news for all species that was done in the heart the u.s. State Department is sending its top African diplomat to sue Don has the turmoil there continues 3 opposition leaders have been deported by the government a week after more than 100 demonstrators were killed by security forces they were calling for the military governments to give way to civilian rule the government has taken journalists including our Africa editor Fergal keen on a tour of medical facilities but it didn't go as expected. At the National Institute for the Prevention of blindness we were met by angry militia men they wounded automatic rifles and long sticks and want us not to film these men of the rapid support forces have been terrorizing civilians for the past week the government to taken us to the institute claiming that offices and laboratories have been ransacked by pro-democracy protesters this is supposed to be a propaganda trip the government showing us the iniquities of the other side of what is actually turning into is a farce because as we're going on the tour the rapid support forces are interfering gives you an indication of the real story here. In the main testing laboratory we found files strewn on the floor test tubes and equipment scattered and smashed all this the work of the revolutionaries claimed our government minder has sound good. But that is not what many in Khartoum are saying they blame the militia do you honestly believe that the violence and destruction was caused by the protesters and not by the men with guns that we've seen outside here. Heavily as you know I can't be certain the attack happened I don't know for sure who did it but everything here is destroyed nearby I met several witnesses who described what they'd seen the militia had invaded the institute at 5 in the morning on the day they also attacked the main protest site killing dozens of people they ransacked the buildings and stole money this is one story out of many here of the brutality which preserves military control the militia led by the increasingly powerful General Mohammed Hamdan Duggal known as hematite is in effect an army of occupation governing through fear not consent now Stewart has some of the other stories from our news desk the New York Times has confirmed that it's to stop publishing political cartoons in its international edition following widespread criticism for being anti Semitic in April the paper published a cartoon depicting a blind President Trump wearing a skull cap being led by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Mr Netanyahu was drawn as a dog on a lead with a Star of David color the paper responded to critics by saying it accepted the image was offensive and that it had been an error of judgment to publish it Canada has announced a ban on single use plastics that are harmful to the country's environment and the world's oceans the prime minister Justin Trudeau said the ban on straws cutlery bags and cotton buds would come into effect in 2 years. The pop star Justin Bieber has challenged the Hollywood star Tom Cruise to a fight on Twitter in a tweet Bieber says Tom if you don't take this fight you're scared and you'll never live it down no one seems to know why Bieber who's 25 wants to take on the 56 year old actor the challenger sparked astonishment on social media there's been no comment as yet from Tom Cruise's agent. New Yorkers wants to in horror as a helicopter crashed into a Manhattan skyscraper on Friday an investigation is now on the way into the cause of the crash which killed the pilots the any person on board and they want to as The New York correspondent is Nick behind the helicopter came down in Midtown Manhattan an area crowded with skyscrapers and crowded with tourists as well as an area that is very close to Times Square on 7th Avenue the emergency landing took place on a 51 story skyscraper that. Andrew Cuomo who is the governor of New York was on the scene pretty quickly afterwards saying it all the indications are the moment that it was a crash landing an emergency landing rather than anything related to any terrorist activity has been now confirmed by the New York Fire Department one person has been killed just one person was on board the the pilot and that's the data we have at the moment people inside that office building was saying that the building shook some describing it as it felt like an earthquake that building was evacuated very quickly there was a far for a short time on top of that building Firefighters raced up the stairs to get it under control which they did to pretty quickly but but no signs of debris falling on the streets that's the good news and and from ground level apparently not much indication of any damage to the building Nick Bryant a long awaited report to be delivered today into the British charity Orks for its handling of serious sexual abuse allegations the Charity Commission report relates to the behavior of stuff after the Haiti earthquake namely Grimmy has the details after the 2010 Haiti earthquake some of Oxfam's aid work has severely compromised its long cherished value they used young prostitutes Jaring the humanitarian crisis there when they were supposed to be helping the local population bounce back the charity dismissed 4 members of staff and let 3 including the country director quietly resign without properly flag. Up what has happened to either the Haitian authorities or to regulators in the u.k. Some of those he left Oxfam ended up working with other charities Oxfam has repeatedly said sorry for the f.s.a. And tripled its safeguarding budget but the reputational damage has been huge shortly after the allegations emerged last year thousands of people stop donating to Oxfam the actor many Dr who is one of more than a dozen celebrity patrons of the organization withdrew his support after working with Oxfam for more than 2 decades in June of last year Haiti and out stick was with during Oxfam and g b s right to work in the country because of what it called serious violations of the principle of the dignity of human rights Oxfam is still not able to bid for u.k. Government contracts. A long lost film by one of the most influential figures in early 20th century modern art has been rediscovered in London more than 80 years after it was made the footage called a.b.c. And sound was created by the Hungary an abstract artist. Who experimented by drawing shapes on to strips of film it was discovered in the archives of the British Film Institute which will air the footage later this month of correspondent Rebecca Jones was given a preview. When the jazz singer came out in 1927. It was the 1st time they'd been sound on film although the sound was recorded separately and then seeing tin real time with the projector but as with any new technology other filmmakers were already pushing the boundaries experimenting with printing the sound recording directly onto a real a film the home Gary an artist holy knowledge wanted to go even further. He wondered how it would sound if he actually drew shapes on to a strip of film so he's the sound of spots. This is how the letter w. Sound the even told a friend I can play your profile and sketch the outline of a face on the side of the film. Daniel who the artist grandson said he didn't know what to expect neither of us my mother or myself had seen this film so we were of course very excited and what was your reaction when you saw it for the 1st time I was very surprised at how radical the film is visualising south. Curators at the b.f. I

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