You'll see many of them are hundreds of years old the thieves who were still on the run appear to have in-depth knowledge of the museum they seem to have set the buildings power distributor on fire to take out the museum's electricity supply they then reportedly climbed through a window and stole small items that could easily be transported a human rights group that focuses on Saudi Arabia says that at least 8 people including writers and bloggers have been detained over the past few days the London based group named one of those arrested saying they were taken from their homes in Riyadh and Jedda last week you're listening to the world news from the b.b.c. In London London's transport or thorazine has refused to grant a new license to the online taxi firm Transport for London said it had identified a pattern of failures that put passengers safety at risk thier negative reports this is a humiliating decision for Transport for London said it had concluded the company was not a fit and proper operator it highlighted floors a new systems that allowed unauthorized people to pose as licensed drivers and carry passengers as well as permitting drivers who'd been suspended or dismissed to set up new accounts it said this had enabled thousands of uninsured trips to take place described the decision as extraordinary and wrong it now has 21 days to appeal and will be able to continue operating throughout the appeals process hundreds of families have been displaced in western Kenya after their homes were swept away by floods and landslides there sheltering in schools and churches and desperately need food water and other supplies more than 50 people died in a landslide in West Costa County on Friday at least 30 people are missing. The Supreme Court in India has come down heavily on the federal and state governments for failing to contain air pollution in the capital Delhi saying the world was laughing at India the angry judges asked Government lawyers why the city's people were being forced to live in gas chambers and said it would be better in their words to get 15 bags of explosives and kill them all in one go Britain has agreed to take back 42 containers of plastic waste exported to Malaysia officials said the shipment which arrived at Penang port for a year after March 28th team was illegal because it lacked the necessary permits Malaysia's environment minister said the decision was a recognition that plastic pollution was a global issue Southeast Asia has been flooded with plastic waste since China stopped accepting it in 2017 that's the latest b.b.c. World news. Thank you you're listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with all of a Conway with estimated losses of up to a 1000000000 euros it could be one of the biggest robberies of all time the broke into the green as a giver birth the Green vote museum in the German city of Dresden in the early hours of this morning the thought of somehow cut the power supply and climbed in through a small window the Museum one of the oldest in Europe houses thousands of precious objects dating back from the 16th 17th and 18th centuries including a huge sapphire given by the Russians Arpita the great well and Verner his the interior minister of Saxony doesn't see any clear living art so long as there. Is not just about the material value but also the immaterial value which is inestimable for the state of Saxony as a state premier has said overnight that the whole of Saxony was stolen from and this is an attack on the cultural identity of all Saxons and the state of Saxony police and investigators are working flat out to solve this case and more about the robbery from Damien McGuinness in Berlin it appears they after breaking through this window which was caught by security cameras it appears there were 2 perpetrators who then made their way to one of the rooms containing most of the valuable jewelry they then smashed a couple of glass vitrines containing some unique collections of jewelry formally belonging to royal personages throughout Europe some very famous works of art and Jewel collections they were described as unique and irreplaceable by Museum officials just now and they then apparently within minutes were then out through that same window again because what police have said is that of 4 59 in the morning German time the 2 perpetrators set off the alarm then why 5 past 5 or so within. 56 minutes police had already reached the museum and the perpetrators had already gone so it looks like they knew what they were doing they focused on these particular jewels which were easy to grab and then get out lots of questions are still being asked and police have been talking to journalists and journalist have been firing questions at police officials museum officials about whether the security was good enough and how it's possible that these perpetrators got through the window and how they managed to even smashed the glass vitrines because the glass there apparently was security glass which should be quite difficult to smash so lots of unanswered questions which police are now trying to provide answers to because what they're doing right now is examining that room which had been broken into and do we know exactly what they took and how much it's worth is the big question so what apparently they seem to focus on was quite a few collections of jewels they appear to have left behind larger items such as valuable vases and other valuable objects on focus on these jewels as to the value that's a very difficult question that's exactly what journalists asked museum officials and museum officials because of course there is a number going around here in Germany which was 1st reported by one German newspaper saying it was a 1000000000 euros was potentially stolen or one point $1000000000.00 That figure is a very rough estimate and the museum official said actually it's impossible to place a figure on many of these items because firstly you can't sell them on the market they're just too famous and secondly beyond that actual value even if you could a say ascertain an actual market value there is also a broader value because these pieces so important German culture and particularly the regional culture of Saxony in Dresden where this museum is located there is a broader value. Of the loss to the region's identity Damian McGinnis in band n following a wipeout for pro-government candidates in Sunday's local elections in Hong Kong the territories Leader Kerry Lamb has said she will humbly listen and reflect on the opinions of voters pro-democracy councillors in the semi autonomous region took 17 of the 18 districts from the political establishment which is supported by communist mainland China it is a vote of confidence in the pro-democracy movement and a slap in the face for Beijing and Mrs Lamb he's failed attempt to provide to pass a controversial extradition Bill sparked months of protests she gave her reaction in a written statement but China's foreign minister when you spoke to reporters on a visit to Tokyo were on Channel 5 you should know she's actually don't go into the Gulf no matter what happens in Hong Kong it is a part of the Chinese territory and a special administrative region of China any attempt to destabilize Hong Kong or even to damages prosperity and stability will never succeed however these people in Hong Kong say Mrs Lamb and her government will have no choice but to introduce new democratic reforms if the government and the pro accept which one candidate still don't want to listen to as I think they will put Hong Kong in a fairy dangerous place the changes just started there's still a long way to go but at the meeting in the game again they are they are about to evolve obviously we have shown our dissatisfaction to the government through the system get when we look at the state media they don't seem willing to accept the result therefore I think the protests on the street should continue as we haven't seen a systematic change in the government our correspondent in Hong Kong Stephen McDonell says Beijing and Mrs Lamb won't be able to ignore the result apart from not what they wanted I mean I wonder how much they expected it I think they probably thought they weren't going to do that well when I say they the Celts Alyssa's supports Beijing and support Carolyn's in ministration I think they might have thought they were. Go was well this time but they couldn't give a magine the extent of this wipe out I mean they've just been electrically of almost obliterated and so it really is hard for the government of Carolan and also for Beijing to be continuing with this law and as which had been that there is this solid majority of people in home call this support them and that she doesn't approve the protest as well that just doesn't stand up anymore I mean this is just such an overwhelming result if it had been called a border law and they might have been out of pursue that law and more but now I mean how do they spin this and for the pro-democracy camp against them go wash themselves what do we do with this how can we use it because after all these are district councils way in theory you're talking about what color the bins are and do we have enough plates in the local pock Well this was turned into something of a referendum on Kerry Lamb's administration in the way this Cross says and all that and so they're trying to sort of mobilize support again for these demands for example to have direct elections or hold calls later and for the lead to sort of council to have an inquiry into the police force here and they will only be emboldened by this of a woman result I mean they have to pay in pro-democracy Council is for everyone pro establishment a council has been voted in so an awful lot of pressure now on Carol lands government also indirectly on by. And they're also going to have to think at what point that is Beijing either going to cut Carol limbless and maybe Sean the place with somebody else Stephen McDonell in Hong Kong children living near busy roads could have their lung growth stunted by up to 14 percent according to a new study researchers in Britain also say that living within 50 metres of a major road could increase the risk. Of lung cancer the museum's Richard Hamilton reports. I've come outside the b.b.c. Studios and I'm quite near Oxford Street one of London's busiest roads the research is from King's College London looked at 13 cities in Britain including London as well as Poland and they compared people in high pollution areas with the general population and they found that air pollution leads to a higher chance of heart disease heart failure strokes and bronchitis Professor Martin Williams is from King's College London one of the main findings is that there are large numbers of children like around about 8000 in London who potentially suffering impaired lung growth from exposure to traffic pollution and once the growth of lungs is impaired in children then it never really recovered throughout their lifetime and that leaves them potentially susceptible to a whole range of respiratory diseases now similar research has been done before but this is the 1st time that health impact assessments for such a wide range of health conditions and such a variety of cities have been included all in one report a coalition of 15 health and environmental organizations who are behind this research they're calling for legal levels of particulate pollution to be reduced to the World Health Organization limits by the year 2030 to put that in perspective currently the legal limit here in the u.k. Is more than double that of the w.h.o. . Which it Hamilton reporting was saying with the environment un scientists are warning that levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have reached another record peak as talk to our environment correspondent McGrath What are they saying what does it mean what they're talking about here all over our concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere not just every year emissions the emissions like go up from people driving cars and burning Electress burning coal to make electricity so what they've seen is a rise again this you. We're about half a percent of slightly higher than the average over the last decade and they see that also for me thing in nitric oxide which are other warming gases and they say when you take all those together essentially it means there's been a big push in terms of warming over the last 30 or 40 years so about 43 percent of what they call radiator warming action of this particular gas making helping to drive up temperatures so when they talk about concentrations does that the Comdex and other gases eventually disperse otherwise isn't it just going to keep building up yeah that's that's the thing what happens with emissions of carbon dioxide is that there are some of them are soaked up by trees some of them disappear into the sea some of them disappear into the land what the scientists are looking at here a constant measure over the years is those concentrations and as I said there are men monitoring them for 30 years they go up every year and the expectation is they go continue going up the hope is then the belief is that they will reach a peak at some point to start to come down but according to the w.m.o. There's no sign of that yet no sign of a peak and no sign of a decline or a slowdown and is that because governments haven't taken enough action you know governments are promised under the parts agreement that they will deal with this but some are doing better than others some are not going so quickly the overall impact of course is that the rises continuing to go up and what does this mean for people on earth what it means people know it is according to w.m.o. That the last time we had concentrations of this level in the atmosphere was about 3 to 5000000 years ago temperatures were 2 to 3 degrees warmer than they are now and sea levels were about 20 meters taller than they are now so they're not saying we'll get those conditions as a result of the just saying when we have these high concentrations those are the conditions that can result and that could of course main huge problems for low lying city absolutely over the next 20 or 30 years because the massive problems for countries and cities all over the world which are close to the seas close to Waters affected by the rise in sea level ever expected to see under warming Thank you Matt McGrath our environment correspondent look at what else is happening in the world today here's Tom thieves have stolen 3 priceless sets of jewelry from a German museum the World Meteorological Organization says greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere have reached another record high fuelling ever more severe impact of climate change. Hoover has been refused a new license to operate in London in a move that could eventually see the campaigning banned from the city London's transport authority Transport for London said they had identified several failures that put passenger safety at risk but it will continue to operate pending an appeal I have the details from our business correspondent Theo Leggett Well tearful said that I have made a number of positive changes and improvements to its culture leadership and systems over the past year or so but they clearly didn't go far enough one of the issues it's identified was a change to a bit systems which allowed unauthorized drivers to upload their photos to other drivers account so effectively to pose as somebody else and then to pick up passengers as though they were the book driver and says this happened on at least 14000 trips and on those trips because the driver who was driving the car was not the authorized driver they were uninsured and passengers were potentially put at risk another issue was a failure which allowed dismissed or suspended drivers to create new accounts and carry on operating carry on picking up passengers even though they've been banned again compromising safety and security and c.f.l. Says it recognizes the Dubai has done things to prevent this kind of thing from happening but it's concerned the systems is too easily manipulated still so therefore it's decided for that for the moment is not a fit and proper operator and therefore will not be granted a new license but it can continue to operate pending an appeal so we'll passengers notice any difference for the moment no one has $21.00 days in which to lodge an appeal it said it will do it said incidentally that the decision by t f l is extraordinary and wrong and then it can continue operating as well throughout the appeals process which would be heard by a magistrate so it would be a fairly lengthy process and this has happened before tearful denied uber a license back in September 2017 the company appealed and ultimately it was awarded a. Short term 15 month license which came to an end it was extended for another couple of months and that brings us to today so it's not likely to lose its ability to offer services in London in the short term but if that were to happen in the end you have to remember that Hoover accounts for about 80 percent of right hailing lifts in London so in the immediate aftermath of any decision like that its absence would be felt and felt quite keenly but let's not forget either that there are other operators waiting in the wings waiting to take over if they were does find it can't operate like it last month Singapore passed a new law against fake news might seem a responsible precaution given the rise in dissin from Asian and social media but human rights groups said the legislation could be used to muzzle dissent and free speech in Singapore now for the 1st time it's been used against an opposition party member Brad Boyer as I heard from Christmas one here in Singapore he wrote a Facebook post on November the 13th and in the rather extensive post he asked questions about the performance of some of Singapore's state investment funds and pointed out that they haven't done all that well in and questioned their independence from the Singapore government these were among some of the things that he had said in and Brad Boyer is not a politician he is a member of the opposition party and in fact is a naturalized citizen he was born in the u.k. Having come to Singapore when he was 17 years old and when I spoke to him earlier today he said that he sent acknowledge that he made statements that could be construed as political but he made them in a personal capacity and in an effort to raise concerns as a member of the public here but that's not how the Singapore government site so they could be construed as political but not necessarily fake news according to him well he didn't go so far as to say that I think you know since he's had to issue the correction on his Facebook post which he did subsequently at. Being asked he is toeing a fine line here I think there is an acknowledgment on his part that the government has the right to issue this correction and he said to me that when he was asked to do so that's exactly what he's done and if you look at his Facebook post you can see very boldly the correction that's put at the very top of his original post there is a link that redirects you to a Singapore Government fact checking website where the government site says that some of the statements Mr Boyers claims have made are misleading and false and then goes on to detail why they're false and puts forward the government's position on some of the things he said now the case hasn't really gotten to that much attention here in Singapore but it is the 1st time that it has been used and some right group rights groups had pointed out when the law was 1st passed that it could be used to stifle freedom of expression and alternative opinions and positions of thought in Singapore where these things are often self-centered because of very strict laws h