It's a malicious attack on Chinese government policy are they serious a violation of international law their position all along has been this is a policy designed at combat in the rise of extremism and violence terrorism insurance Jang and it's nobody's business other than childless officials in southern Pakistan are examining the body of a 10 year old girl amid concerns she may be murdered by her family and other villagers is Joe McGiver ring is buried in a simple dirt grave it's outlined marked by rocks she died 2 weeks ago in a remote mountainous region of Sindh Province the parents said she fell in a landslide then disturbing reports surfaced which suggested she'd actually been stoned to death on the orders of a village council the allegation is that she was accused of damaging the family's honor but it's not clear exactly how officials say they now need to examine her body to find out how she died world news from the b.b.c. The head of a Japanese aid agency in Afghanistan has been shot dead in the east of the country officials in the home province said Dr Ted soon Arkham or a initially survived his injuries but died as he was rushed to hospital 5 Afghan members of his team were also killed Dr Nakamura the head of peace Japan medical services was well known in Afghanistan for work on irrigation and agriculture he was recently granted Henri Afghan citizenship. President Hassan Rouhani of Iran has called for the release of any Ananda or innocent people detained during the recent anti-government protests across the country with the details his and Johnston President Rouhani addressed his remarks to Iran's judiciary he said those detained protesters who just chanted slogans or committed a small crime should be released they should be shown clemency and treated differently from people who had carried weapons or been involved in attacks the protests erupted in dozens of cities after the announcement of a sharp rise in fuel prices banks police stations and other buildings were set on fire the authorities blamed the unrest dance a verse of elements linked to foreign enemies like the u.s. And Saudi Arabia. Kongs government has just banned half a $1000000000.00 on relief measures following 6 months of street protests that have damaged the economy businesses will get subsidies subsidies for utility bills this money's on top of nearly 3000000000 dollars The government's already promised to pump into the economy the European Union's top court has thrown out and I turned to buy Italian vinegar makers to stop competitors elsewhere using the term barrel Samik the Italian producers argued that each word in the description some advantage from modern it was theirs to use exclusively on the e.u. Rules the European Court of Justice 7 ago was a common word b.b.c. News. Hello I'm Jackie learned and you are listening to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service and will begin with the NATO leaders meeting outside London bitter divisions overshadowed the gathering yesterday with President Trump reaction to comments from the French president. That the organization was brain dead today they'll get the meeting proper talking about such subjects as almost control and terrorism and there is hope there will be more unity on display is the British prime minister Boris Johnson the reason for. That unites us than divides us I think one thing every leader here is absolutely resolved on and that is the Viking importance of NATO for a collective security the participants will be discussing new challenges too not least the rise of China he is with the Secretary General Young Stoltenberg had to say the 1st time in NATO Sr It will also sit down with the NATO leaders and address the rice over China this provides a bowl for opportunities but also challenges. That we have seen the Russell trying on including their investments in the defense capabilities China's. Law a 2nd largest defense spending in the world the next 2 did I did States. Recently displayed new mold on capabilities including and nuclear weapons a lot of fence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus joins us now so Jonathan just how important is the spotlighting of China. Well as you heard the sec regenerate they're saying this is something new for China it's not new for the alliance rather it's not considered China in an organized formal way ever before I think it's interesting because China is clearly a rising military power it's a superpower in its own region but speaking to. A few weeks ago he said to me you know it's not so much taking NATO as military power into Asia into the South China Sea and so on it's the problem is the other way is that China is coming ever closer to Europe it's buying up vital bits of infrastructure of businesses it has control over key resources and it's obviously very active in the telecommunications area where there are huge security concerns about the future of 5 g. And so on in many NATO countries and so the need is to have some concerted common view towards all these issues within the alliance and I think if you read between the lines it's very much a plea to have a consensus NATO view on this not simply to be led by the particular view an attitude towards Beijing that comes out of Washington now this is not a very long meeting of these leaders and they've got quite a lot to talk about quite a lot of big themes what is likely to come out of it all. Well look NATO has been sort of under playing this or downplaying this from the outset it's not a full scale summit there isn't going to be the very detailed communique with very clear lines going into the future there will be a Agreed declaration that is going to stress all of these new areas like cyber. Space and so on it's going to mention what you mentioned a moment ago China I think also crucially And this goes to one of the fundamental Briles that among your marker on the French president has been having with the Americans and indeed with the Turks it's going to talk about trying to have a study to find new ways of consultation within the alliance one of Mr main criticisms of Ankara and Washington is that they've taken unilateral steps in Syria which impinge upon the security of all of the NATO countries together but those countries will never consulted in those national decisions he wants to see much more discussion of these key strategic and issues and I think NATO will kind a make or a stab in that direction by by investigating and studying how consultation can be improved in the future Jonathan thank you that was Jonathan Marcus who is our defense and diplomatic correspondent that has been as expected a furious reaction by the Chinese government to legislation passed by the u.s. House of Representatives over the detention of about a 1000000 Muslims in the western region of Sion Jiang The bill calls for sanctions against Chinese officials including members of the Politburo in Washington the speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi explained what it's designed to achieve we are sending a message to Beijing America's watching and we will not stand silent this legislation helps uncover the truth require reports by that in I. Director of National Intelligence the State Department the f.b.i. The depths of the crisis and about China's campaign about journalists. Exposing the fact that China's foreign ministry described the bill as defamatory under serious violation of international law a spokeswoman watching Yang told a news conference in Beijing there would be a price to pay for undermining China's interests me away. Do you think that even the u.s. Takes action that harms interests who will remain indifferent for all of their own actions and words there must be a cost that you price must be based on the data our correspondent John side worth is in Beijing and joins us now so John obviously China is absolutely furious but what can they do. Well as you heard there from the foreign ministry spokesperson there's this suggestion that there may be some kind of a response a price to pay but without giving any specific details Chinese state media. In in sort of preparing for the passage of this bill has made some suggestions one is that there may be some kind of retaliatory set of sanctions against certain u.s. Companies and also that they may put some kind of visa restrictions in place or at least prevent certain u.s. Officials from trying to visit shin Jang like a number of embassies here based in Beijing the u.s. Embassy sends observers to shin Jang to try to get a picture of what's happening on the ground and I think these measures would be designed to match of course some of the language we hear in this so-called We get our act in Washington targeting some of the individual official officials responsible and putting in place economic sanctions stopping some of the trade between u.s. Tech companies for example and some of the public security. System inside changing now don't you have Target this story extensively the story of the week can this kind of condemnation and legislation actually change anything on the ground. Well face value it doesn't look that way I mean you know we've heard you mentioned yourself you know no surprise in this pushback from China today it very much fits the sort of language that we've heard from China over the past 12 months or so all the while international concern and criticism has been mounting and I think that said. You know China finds itself in a position that it doesn't like there's that phrase in American politics isn't there if you're explaining your losing and you know when you find yourself as a government having to tell people that these aren't constant. Gratian camps there's something different well you've already kind of lost the public relations battle there has been some reports over the last year that people are I mean China says itself that people are graduating some language users from these camps or schools as it says and there has been some confirmation from some other sources independent sources that some people are coming out whether that's a result of the pressure a result of the pressure or not we don't know John thank you that was John's outward speaking to us from Beijing since the 1960 s. Deaths were measles have been for ling but over the last 2 years the World Health Organization has been warning that the virus is making a comeback more than $100000.00 people die from measles each year in the past couple of months on the Pacific island of Samoa more than 60 people many children have died from the highly infectious disease thousands of others have become ill Chris pointer is a doctor from New Zealand who's working and some are some of those children are dying and in front of us in front of them and in front of other families in the intensive care unit all the earth or it is have asked unvaccinated families to display a red flag outside their homes to help a bass immunization drive misinformation and fear of vaccines have been driving the measles outbreak in summer Asia Pacific editor Michael Bristow is here in the newsroom studio so the government actually declared a state of emergency Mickey So we're going to do well on Thursday and Friday essentially closing down all most of life on the on the islands of Samoa so private businesses and public institutions will close down to allow medical teams to basically go across this tiny Pacific island nation daughter door vaccinating any families that haven't yet been vaccinated knows quite a lot of them perhaps half have been vaccinated you mention the red flags there how do people communicate what they're going to put red flags out. Their daughter to allow medical teams. To see exactly who has been vaccinated sounds quite mediæval it sounds like the plague crosses are usually put on dogs to warn people that the plague is inside but actual fact people have become so scared of this. Virus in summer that they've been refusing to leave their houses and so officials are having to use checks in some cases loud hailer as in order to persuade people to come out so it seems like an old fashioned way of communicating what it will hopefully achieve tame So tell us a little bit more about the cause of the outbreak Well a couple of reasons some global and some local the global one is that in many places across the world including here in Britain there have been people who've refused to have their children vaccinated because of fears unfounded fears that the vaccinations could cause them some kind of medical harm in fact last year in similar to children died have to receiving vaccinations measles vaccinations subsequently was found out that they died for other reasons that led to a lot of people not having vaccinations and and so that they essentially a whole raft of the population were not inoculated against this terrible and deadly disease make it thank you that was Michael Bristow Asia Pacific editor this is the b.b.c. World Service and Jerry has the headlines the British prime minister Boris Johnson has told fellow NATO leaders that peace cannot be taken for granted and the alliance must be ready to confront emerging threats China has reacted fiercely after the u.s. House of Representatives passed a bill demanding sanctions over the mass incarceration of wigger Muslims in Shin junk. And a respected Japanese doctor has been killed by gunmen in eastern Afghanistan yes Tatsu NATCA more all was well known and appreciated in Afghanistan for his aid work and he had been granted on re citizenship 5 Afghan members of his team also died in the attack our correspondent in Kabul to conduct joins us now tell us more about what happened to counter. What we understand is that. His team were traveling this morning from the eastern city of Jalalabad to visit a project an irrigation project that they'd been working on when their vehicle was attacked by gunman. As a result of the attack the 5 Afghan colleagues of. Died. Was critically injured he was being taken to hospital but unfortunately he succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital now as you say he was a well known and very well loved figure in Afghanistan there's been tributes being paid to him all day by journalists human rights activists and by politicians President Ashraf Ghani condemned his murder and talked of his most grief and sorrow this was. Someone who had spent. Years and years in the region he had 1st come to Afghanistan in 1901. Helping people in rural areas 1st with medical treatment and then trying to improve irrigation services so that they would have a better quality of life tell us about how strong the militants how strong the Taliban are just now in Afghanistan. While at the moment we don't have any claim of responsibility for this attack that's something that's important to note and the eastern province of nanga where this took place has as well as having a Taliban presence has traditionally also seen a traditionally has been the party years at least seen a strong press. The so-called Islamic State group so there's a number of possibilities of who might be responsible for this but certainly at the moment. The conflict in Afghanistan is very much ongoing despite efforts that had been happening over the last year to try and negotiate a settlement we've just been hearing in the past events that see that the u.s. Special envoy on reconciliation has a right in Kabul to try and talk to President Ashraf Ghani about how they might resume those peace talks with the Afghan Taliban but still many many issues. Left to resolve before before any kind of progress I think thank you for that kind of that was a condom only speaking to us from Kabul a study suggests that global carbon dioxide emissions have risen slightly this year despite a drop in the use of coal in the us time and India the Global Carbon Project predicts that levels of c o 2 will have increased by north point 6 percent in 2019 reports co-author Professor current Cabaye says more needs to be done to tackle the growth in oil and gas consumption policies that deploy renewable energy are very successful but we don't put nearly as much attention on removing fossil fuel putting a ban on petrol and diesel cars for example or removing gas boilers these are the policies that really make a difference in terms of the emissions our environment correspondent Mark McGraw is in Madrid where the co-op $25.00 environment summit is taking place the problem of coal is I suppose in some respects there's a lot of people looking at history to say that there's good news in this in the United States despite President from the I think the strong efforts to boost the use of coal coal has gone down by 10 percent it's also gone down in Europe by 10 percent and in China as I said it kind of declined a little bit because the economy didn't go as well so the long term output from coal doesn't look particularly good people worry though there's been replaced by gas natural gas which is driving around the world in. And found in a lot more places rather than just in a number of specific countries so it's widely distributed and but it has a similar impact in terms the environment is not as polluting as coal in terms of carbon emissions it's less so but as one of the author of the report put it it's like cooking the world less slowly you're still cooking the world. That was Matt McGraw in Madrid some $7000.00 people were arrested during recent protests in Iran against a sharp rise in fuel prices now the president Hassan Rouhani is urging the judiciary to show clemency to peaceful protesters he says those who just chanted slogans should be treated differently from those who carried weapons more than $200.00 people died in the arm rest which Iran said was orchestrated by foreign enemies well Giago from the b.b.c. Persian Service has just joined us in the news room studio so he's calling for clemency Why is he doing this obviously so many people have been arrested even the number of 7000 might be much higher some of the activists underground we have talked to and some well informed sources they say the number is much higher more than 10000 they say schools even some sports venues and even military barracks have been converted to a detention center so many people have been arrested I assume keeping those people would be difficult for them in the other hand obviously do you new regime wants to show they are aware of disquiet among the public opinion toward them they want to show some Mysie he's obviously asking the judiciary to behave in a certain way how much power do politicians have the jewels are in the normal situation there are rival pretty my Digitas she is loyal and answerable to supreme leader not the President Rouhani and the government and and even before this protest there was a there were a spat actually war of words between both the head of the judiciary and President Rouhani but during the protest when when they felt Ashley the entire existence of the regime is in danger I could say all of them had one voice and they were pretty much even the supreme leader President and they're the judiciary they were in tune and where is Iran now what's happening now with the protests I could say they have crushed the protest are used to crush because. The images and videos we are receiving since the removal of the Internet blockade it shows they have been brutally. Crushed the protestors and also has been bloodier than we anticipated in the beginning because the number so far Amnesty International has confirmed 208 people but people inside Iran telling us the number is much higher because many bodies haven't been returned to the families some of the families who have got the corpses of their loved one have been told You should not have a burial ceremony and even do not announce it and also many families are searching for their loved one they don't know whether they are arrested they are injured in the hospital or simply they have been ki