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No hope the subway there are many of us and we're all stuck inside. Saudi Arabia will no longer require restaurants to have separate entrances segregated by sex in the latest relaxation of rules governing interaction between men and women a Saudi government Ministry has announced a change on Twitter Sebastian Usher reports eating places in Saudi Arabia have long had one entrance for families and women and another for men on their own inside the 2 groups we usually divided and cut off from one another by screens that has been changing in the past year or 2 with many restaurants and cafes no longer in forcing the rule with the religious police off the streets it's helped open up what was once an extremely enclosed society it's yet one more in a stream of reforms in Saudi Arabia which has however been accompanied by a far darker side a crackdown on dissent that has had its most brutal expression in the murder of a journalist Jamal has. A report by Sebastian Usher I'm still in London bringing you the latest world news from the b.b.c. Finland's biggest party the Social Democrats have picked a candidate to take over as prime minister after the previous incumbent resigned they've chosen the transport minister Sanam are in at 34 years of age should become Finland youngest ever prime minister is Marion will head the current coalition government. Rwanda has launched its 1st ever vaccination campaign against the bola virus more than 2200 people have died of the disease in neighboring Congo since August last year our Africa editor Mary Harper reports Rwanda's health minister d n gusher said 200000 people would be vaccinated over the next year in areas bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo priority will be given to health workers immigration officials police and those engaged in cross to trade so far there have been no confirmed cases in Rwanda the authorities are hoping the experimental vaccine will keep things that way it was used for the 1st time last month in the city of Goma in eastern Congo a quarter of a 1000000 Congolese have already been vaccinated with another product both made by u.s. Drug companies French government ministers have again promised to see through a major planned overhaul of the pension system despite ongoing strikes across the country they're meeting today ahead of further strikes planned this week including mass demonstrations for Tuesday the government will reveal its proposed changes on Wednesday the man who played the Sesame Street character of Big Bird Carroll Spinney has died in the United States at the age of $85.00 stepping inside Big Bird's 8 foot tall bold yellow costume he entertained and educated millions of children around the world for nearly 50 years the producers of Sesame Street said Carroll Spinney that helped shape and define the show with his kind and loving view of the world. And that is the b.b.c. News. Thank so much you listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service where all of a Conway the Saudi gunman who killed 3 sailors at a u.s. Navy Base where he was training is thought to have acted alone that's the working assumption of the f.b.i. The agency is also treating the shooting as a terror attack but it's not made a final conclusion on either matter no arrests have been made following the shooting in Pensacola Florida special agent Rachel Rojas told a news conference the authorities are questioning some other Saudi personnel at the base there are a number of Saudi students who were close to the shooter and continue to cooperate in this investigation there Saudi commanding officer has restricted them to base and the Saudi government has pledged to fully cooperate with our investigation some American politicians have called for an immediate halt to the Saudi military training program in the u.s. Why are others are demanding more details about what the Saudi Arabian government is doing to prevent future violence by members of its military our correspondent Chris Buckley is in Washington and Chris the authorities still not 100 percent sure of the motive all of a but it is interesting to listen to that news conference from the f.b.i. And contrast that with some of the statements that are not being made by politicians in Florida a news conference is taking place at the moment involving among others the Florida governor on the son's us in which he has said very clearly as far as he's concerned people should not be coming to the United States if they hit our country and that they need to be on the guard about foreign nationals coming across to train with foreign military and pushing for this review which the u.s. Defense secretary Marc Asper says has begun into vetting procedures for all of those foreign personnel who are allowed to come and train on American military bases and somebody else at that news conference from the authorities was saying there is a feeling that trust and hospitality has been betrayed in this case and that there is real Ungar in the community both. Civilian people and among the military there is quite a big thing the u.s. Training for military and what sort of training do they get Yeah he was an aviation student Mohammed Omran he was there as part of the Saudi Royal Air Force getting training and this happens regularly America obviously has Middle East allies most important bill is Middle East allies is Saudi Arabia and certainly this kind of program has been going on for some time but if you listen to some Republican politicians in particular there are real concerns about just how far this is gone and whether or not potentially they didn't really look at the very procedures hard enough certainly in this case because they are pointing out that there were warning signs according to u.s. Media certainly in the 24 hours before he carried out this attack there's a suggestion for example that Mohammed. Actually showed videos of mass shootings at a dinner party the night before the attack and also there pointing out that according to u.s. Media reports there were some warning signs from from social media as well so I think there is going to be real pressure on the authorities about this and of course particularly sensitive because of those close relations between the u.s. And Saudi Arabia Yeah but there is always been a kind of tension between Congress and that Saudi relationship with the u.s. There's always been slightly more of a kind of standoffish approach as far as Congress is concerned than President Trump and Donald Trump has been at pains to say that King Solomon of Saudi Arabia was in touch extremely quickly condemning this attack but Congress has been more worried about really the relationship with Saudi particularly because of the conflict exists in Yemen and not least because of the killing of The Washington Post journalist. Chris Butler and Washington thank you. The British general election just 4 days away the party leaders have been making a final push this weekends to try to win over undecided voters the early poll was called by the prime minister Boris Johnson saying he wanted to break the parliamentary deadlock over Breck's it his conservative party is leading in all the opinion polls but he says he doesn't want to be complacent we're now in the final furlong of this of this race and that's when the course the horses can still change places we are still not quite there yet and do not forget what happened in 2017 this we remember we remember how to use the clothes for the election is that everybody the main opposition Labor Party is focusing on its core message of protecting the National Health Service party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the n.h.s. Had been damaged by the policies of the previous conservative government the price of us territory is not paid by the very rich it's not paid by the billionaires $150.00 billionaires in Britain it's paid for by those going through mental health stress it's paid for by those that are homeless it's paid for by our children going hungry it's paid for by the underfunding of public services all over Britain asked our political reporter Jonathan Blake whether the conservatives and Boris Johnson had anything to worry about given that they are leading in the opinion polls Oh it does it's by far from a sure thing that the conservatives will win this election you're right to point out that the polls do show a lead for Boris Johnson and his party but they wouldn't have to be too far wrong for that to translate to another hung parliament where no one party has an overall majority and the conservatives would be denied staying in power you could then be looking at Labor the opposition party before this election and perhaps the Scottish nationalists and liberal Democrats forming some sort of coalition So while there is a lead in the polls complacency is the enemy certainly for any party in a general election campaign and over the next 23 days you'll see the main party leaders going to all parts of the. K. With their key messages and that is on the conservative side that vote for them is to use their slogan want to get bricks it done and on the Labor Party's side it is to bring forward investment in public services in the u.k. To a level not seen for many decades and how important will tactical voting be particularly perhaps from those who don't want to get breaks it on for example tactical voting is a key part of this election what hasn't materialized is a sort of grand remain alliance that many people were talking about before the vote was called and that was an attempt by some of the opposition parties to use their firepower against the conservatives to stop Boris Johnson getting a majority with the reversing the vote to leave the European Union and keeping the u.k. In Somehow most people would want to do that by having another referendum to put the choice again to the British people but there will be pockets of tactical voting in certain areas certain marginal seats that will be something that people are doing to perhaps lend their vote to another party to stop the conservatives getting in but we'll have to wait till the results are in see how effective that's been on a national level Jonathan Blake at least 43 people are now known to have died in a massive fire tore through a back factory in the Old Quarter of India's capital Delhi Firefighters say the building had no fire safety equipment the owner has been arrested pretty good reports from the city. The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning on the ground floor of the multistory factory before spreading quickly to other level. Officials see around $100.00 workers were sleeping inside the building at the time the fact she is in a congested and densely populated area of tele and the narrow alleyways made it difficult for fire engines and ambulances to reach the scene firefighters had to carry the victims out one by one. But is this woman yes men says her younger brother died in the fire. Is that a child was born today he didn't know about it we can't find his dead body we don't have any information right now with Mohammad Rifan lost 2 of his brothers in the blaze was here but it was all a was an enemy and there are God My older brother called me and said Samy the fire is really big so there is no hope to survive there are many of us and we are all stuck inside many of the victims are poor libras from Daly's neighboring states fires are common in India there are many buildings lack proper fire exits and illegal construction is rampant pretty. In Delhi and now a look at some of these other stories with a pair of polar explorers in danger of running out of food on frozen sea ice in the Arctic you've been rescued the South African Mike Horn and the Solent of Norway trekked about 1800 kilometers over 2 months from Alaska to the north polar non-words towards the Norwegian archipelago as far about nearly a 1000 tourists are stuck in a remote part of New Zealand South Island after trench will rains caused a massive landslide which blocked the main highway it'll take days to clear. And the wildlife or Thor it is in Indonesia of arrested 5 people accused of killing at least one pregnant Sumatran tiger which is critically endangered the 5 were found with 4 Tiger fetuses that were kept in a plastic jar and part of the tiger skin that they were allegedly trying to sell the tigers which are native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra have been hunted relentlessly next but believe just over $400.00 such Tigers still exist in the latest in a series of reforms to Saudi Arabia's strict social rules restaurants in the kingdom will no longer be required to have separate entrances for men and women more about the change which comes despite a crackdown on dissent from our Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher It used to be I mean going back a bit quite odd I mean very different from most other places that you would go to essentially a single man groups of men would both go in separately and often to a separate area within a restaurant and restaurants not nested being that huge Had be like screens between the 2 areas and it would be quite strictly enforced by the waiters by the people running a restaurant because they were scared essential that they get into trouble if it was seen that wasn't being properly observed and those days until maybe 3 possibly 4 years ago the religious police were still out on the streets particularly in Riyadh and that's what people are really scared of the fact that they've now gone has meant that the relaxation has already said started to many of these sorts of areas so this is part of a series of reforms men and women can go through the same entrance into a restaurant I know it doesn't sound such a big thing when you hear that way but inside you have to say the feeling I was talking to a lot of people when I was there week or 2 ago and I mean one woman for example is half Saudi lives in New York but she comes back often sees a fashion experts with her own line and she was saying that she actually feels when she goes back now often that she's thinking a more conservative way than her Saudi girlfriends are because things have moved quicker than she. I expected it to and one of things she mentioned was about restaurants and the sense that she was walking to restaurant holding back and thinking I shouldn't go this way or that way and they were like you know there's no restriction here anymore so they say these things have already been happening to a greater or lesser extent each month well so you have another rule another announcement relaxing these restrictions side really is trying to sell itself in a very different way a very different image because it has lots of problems in that regard Sebastien are shy Arbor fairs at a turn if you want more information about the kingdom as we're reading his article on the website about his latest visit to Saudi Arabia. And work of art featuring an overripe but none other was about to be sold for $120000.00 has been eaten by another artist piece by the Italian artist wanted to cut the land was on show at an art fair in Miami when it was devoured Angus Crawford reports of an honor stuck to a white wall with silver duct tape actually a work of art entitled comedian one minute the object of fascination for hundreds of onlookers the next hour before. Hungry or if I had been ripped off the wall by the performance artist David death tuna and eaten between mouthfuls he asked how much anyone would pay for this new work he named hungry artist 150001 of those who witnessed the creation of the new masterpiece was Daniel Pantech he was repeated all the time when the police arrived saying that I was part of the his performance in the same way that us and the artist put their own out on the wall to say I'm coming here to either one that's my performance I hear laughter and the police are removed from the fair a replacement banana was soon taped back on. The wall according to the gallery the value of the work lay in the idea behind it not the individual piece of fruit now reports by our correspondent Angus Crawford is staying with us on the World Service we have our sports round up next 1st remind of our main world news the f.b.i. Says it believes an officer from the Saudi air force acted alone when he killed 3 people at a u.s. Navy base in Pensacola in Florida on Friday and f.b.i. Agent called Rachel Rocca said there were a number of Saudi students who were close to the gunman who were cooperating in the investigation they have been restricted to the base by the Saudi commanding officer and the Saudi government has pledged to fully cooperate with the investigation more world news in 10 minutes that's it for now from the newsroom. Well support from the b.b.c. With me Alice to Ross coming up in the next 10 minutes less to keep up the pressure on leaders Liverpool with a club record 8th straight Premier League win Ok committee at the World Anti-Doping Agency is to call for a blanket ban on Russian athletes a global sporting events and Anthony Joshua tells the b.b.c. He was seriously ill before his 1st fight with and the release in June in which he lost his world heavyweight belts and later needed an operation or about to come we start with football though where Leicester City stayed 2nd in the English Premier League after an impressive 41 win away at Aston Villa keeps them 8 points behind leaders Liverpool Jamie Vardy scored twice as Les that made it 8 Premier League wins in a row that is a less that club record manager Brendan Rodgers satisfied of course with the overall performance of his team approach in the game was very good players and turns in concentration as it was great. We scored you know very very good goals. And in the 2nd half we kept gone right to the very end to score but I think collectively as a team we we defend a very very well disappointed that we conceded just before half time. Become a 2nd half which is the message which is to keep doing what we've been doing. And then 2nd half we really controlled a lot of the game so we're. So please for the players because the relapse of him isn't and is a real historical day for us to break the club record of consecutive wins was that it was a performance to matter. Sheffield United came from behind to beat knowledge 21 at Carrow Road that is Sheffield United 1st win in 5 league games put them 2 points behind 5th placed Manchester United now the United manager Chris while there has been unhappy with the use of video assistant referees in the past this time though it helped overturn a red card against his side however he's not changed his mind I said you know that I was a little bit drained because all the top pre-match post match was about v.a.r. . And it showed some signs that the percentages that we're looking for in terms of improvement is offset by the amount of controversy and talk each old there are no I'm not sure we've got that balance right there just to score twice as wolves stretched their own beaten run in the Premier League to 11 games with a 2 all draw on Brighton all 4 of those goals scored in an entertaining 1st half Newcastle defender Frederico Fernandez scored a late winner as his side came from behind to beat Southampton 21 at St James's Park His was an 87th minute winner and came after Jonjo Shelvey had cancelled out Danny Ings opener with a 2nd half header Newcastle haven't lost at home in the Premier League since the opening weekend is not a bad turn around for manager Steve Bruce whose arrival over the summer was not met with universal support from the cops fans. There's been a bit of hard work on into it but it's only just started you know we just want to keep quietly going to about what ya'll can not get too carried away into and be delighted with the response not just to the players the staff everybody concerned with the club esmé job to try and put it in the right direction and get it not broken which are which unfortunately for too l

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