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Mr Boehner didn't believe it was possible nor did his wife and a family in the teeth of the generals in the Gambia have been arrested for a long tributes just beginning to come into the legendary South African troops from a few classic case of death has been reported African media by a news agency age of 78 so much talk about a great great South African figure in much about to go. Well I come up in the back of the. Hello I'm Gerri segments with a baby seen use a Japanese soldier has been killed in an avalanche in central Japan that appears to have been triggered by a volcanic eruption amount crew San Fisher on a river Wingfield haze is in Tokyo this morning a vent on the side of the volcano appears to have blown out video from a c.c.t.v. Camera shows a large cloud of black ash and rock being thrown down the mountainside the eruption appears to have then triggered an avalanche that swept down on to a nearby ski slope happening Several skiers one of them is now confirmed to have died several others have been rescued but had serious injuries one gondola with passengers on board is also reported to have been struck by falling rocks its windows were smashed and several passengers heard President from friends welcomed the end of the cellmate on federal funding calling it a big win for Republicans Congress has not been able to agree a longer term budget David Willetts reports for the Senate and then the House voted in favor of bringing a high stakes game of political brinkmanship to an end after several days of deadlock the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell offered the Democrats an olive branch a pledge to debate the plight of the so-called dreamers hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to this country illegally by their parents and exchanged for opposition support for a stopgap spending bill numbers of Congress now have just a few weeks in which to come up with an immigration bill that both parties and the president can agree on. A Kurdish civic leader in the Syrian region of freeing has accused Turkey of seeking to eliminate efforts to establish a democratic alternative in Syria a the most staffers said Turkey's military offensive against a friend had already killed 18 civilians she denied that the Kurdish y p g militia was an offshoot of the p.k. K. Rebel movement in Turkey Mr Furze accused President Adly one of Turkey of seeking to destroy the freedom of a region that has managed to build democratic institutions despite the chaos of the Syrian civil war a 2nd group of 40 refugees has left an Australian offshore detention camp in Papua New Guinea under a controversial resettlement deal how Griffiths reports the grim interest battle refugees held just released to offshore centers Amana file and another route which they mostly described by President Trump as a done deal one year in progress has been slow 2017 only $54.00 people accepted now another 40 flown to the u.s. With a 3rd 148 expected to follow they include Afghan Pakistani under a hinge a refugee that there being no offers for the hundreds of Iranian Somalis all Sudanese nationals remain. News from the b.b.c. a High level United Nations report says un blue helmets and the organization flag No No No longer are financial protection to its peacekeeping troops who should not shy from using force if necessary the report said un peacekeepers should be prepared to take the offensive to eliminate threat it said hostile forces say encounter we understand the language of force. China and South Korea have criticised president comes decision when posted terrorists on imported solar panels and washing machines u.s. Trade official said the increase to 50 percent on March washing machines over 3 years and up to 30 percent on solar panels of 4 years was intended to protect u.s. Producers. The American singer and songwriter Neil Diamond has announced his retirement from touring after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease he said he'd made the decision reluctantly his Peterborough. Spring with his distinctive Barak own voice news I mean one of the best selling artists of all time last year on tour he completed more than 50 dates across the u.s. And Europe but now the musicians website for the own sense of Parkinson's disease makes it difficult to travel and perform time when to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys on Sunday says he will remain active in writing and recording for a long time to come. With an ode to is best known song and a message to respond to this right he says has been so good trying to. Spin reporters of the South African jazz great Hugh Massa carrier and the converse trumpeter He was also not spoken critic of the post 8 many of his songs were dedicated to the struggle for freedom he was given his 1st time paid by the activists Archbishop Trevor Huddleston to the u.s. In 1961 b.b.c. News. Reflecting on. Fight against. That coming up in the next half hour here on News. On why the army Gambia says it's the best. General place for the ousted president. Visiting to be coming out with just your thoughts. Not in the public interest on the way. Right the top story is actually at the u.n. We've been talking about this throughout the program the idea of fighting to preserve the peace. Paradox which is our top story it's the way the United Nations does peace keeping the blue helmet of course vital work in many cases dangerous as well dozens of died recently hundreds a couple 100 it's fought in the past 5 years the work is often difficult and dangerous but there are many questions about how the troops work in high risk peacekeeping operations the un flag no longer offers a complete protection should that's one of the opinions on internal u.n. Report commissioned by. The calls of that a training for the u.n. Blue helmets that are weapons and says a hostile forces often don't understand a language other than Forth that speak to peacekeeping experts up to. The various college at the figure of the director of the global governance Institute Good morning to you Can you give us a sense of how much of a problem there is when it comes to attacks against blue helmets. Yes indeed I think the report now makes a very clear point about a problem that has really arisen during the last 5 to 7 years in stronger force and that is peacekeepers are increasingly of course now the ploys to high risk involvement it is no coincidence that one of the authors of 'd the report was a former commander of the mission in Congo but also Haiti and they look at missions in Central African Republic and also Mali and bad the u.n. Faces increasingly high risk environments frequent attacks frequent use of small weapons but also 'd improvised explosive devices and nerve longer is the u.n. In these areas seen as a kind of new phenomenon. Shouldn't be attacked but it's increasingly a target itself. To spend on that what do you think is essentially being said here and that one implies that the u.n. Isn't t. The job of policing the wild and shouldn't be involved in peace and fulfillment miles in peacekeeping What do you make of. It's an ongoing debate really for the last 20 years and that is the one eccentric the u.n. Really use lethal force be much better equipped. Than it is now to respond to these new threats from militias and rebel leaders that's the big debate right right now and there are. Those controversial debate also amongst the member states. Some member states specially continent have been saying for for at least a decade that the u.n. Should be much more involved in strong robust peacekeeping and faster routed through this with more technology and there are some who say well if the u.s. Gets more involved in war fighting so to say it might even with my kind of compromise your original ideas of peacekeeping that debate is not new in fact goes back to last sixty's but of course the urgency is now much more visible because fatalities beginning has risen dramatically in the last 3 to 4 years. So you know some member states are saying maybe the u.s. As well as protests let's say NATO in terms of equipment and and ways of doing. Peacekeeping and others say well that would compromise the very idea and just just just quickly Joe I guess the other problem here as well is that is the reputation of peacekeepers we know there have been many scoundrels that peacekeepers abusing that vision. Comes into play here that's a huge problems well. I think so the un is of course now really under scrutiny indeed. Issues of sexual exploitation on the one hand and then effectiveness in the field is always being flagged up by critics and of course the un is facing twice which is the financing crisis now that the u.s. Administration and the membership have voted to reduce its projects of course the report comes in that context where. There is concern within the u.n. To make sure that the u.n. Is equipped to tackle those challenges properly. But many of those issues have been debated for quite a long time. To also have the technology medical evacuation and all these issues but also administration issues the question is whether these and how these recommendations are actually being implemented by my members is good to get your analysis on this one key that peacekeeping expert Dr j. Keeps from the scene of the director of the global governance Institute bring your family statement was profound sorrow to the family of Iran Apollo's you masticator announced his passing after a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer he passed peacefully in Johannesburg South Africa surrounded by his family there is a picture a smiling picture of the man himself a smile so many know and love my 39 to 28 he was 78 the great South African jazz musician he became as well as a trumpet great one of the outspoken critics of apartheid is well many of his songs were dedicated to the struggle for freedom you may well have your own favorites looking back on his life Africa. As a dream that's gone. With his deep voice and colorful trumpet sound you must McCain I became one of Africa's most famous musicians. And the so on in the side if they partake state from old a little southern and central Africa born in a small northeastern township he began singing and playing the piano as a child just 14 he took up the trumpet after seeing a Hollywood film about an American jazz musician his 1st trumpet was given to him by Trevor Huddleston later an archbishop who campaigned against apartheid Matha Kaylor and some schoolmates formed a Huddleston jazz band South Africa's 1st youth orchestra in the late 1950 s. He went to America where he was the friended by Harry Belafonte and he attended music school when they'd sit in this funky film is really written that likes them hot so this is the exploitation in South Africa inspired his music which portrayed the struggles and sorrows of his countrymen in 161 following the massacre shot fell masticator went into exile in the us there he married the thing I marry and McCabe although they divorced 2 years later. In the 1980 s. Masticator went on to perform with Paul Simon on the Graceland so defending him when Simon was accused of breaking a cultural boycott. Is $187.00 hits bring him back home became the anthem for Nelson Mandela's visits around the world after his release from prison and his autobiography Matha Kayleigh describes his struggle against apartheid and his own personal fight against alcoholism he was once quoted as saying he'd squandered $50000000.00 but he will be remembered as one of the great voices of the protest era and the new South Africa followed. That's the thing about the great life in music and politics of that you must gather that was the bin to Richard Hamilton the South African culture minister has tweeted about the tree has fallen the nation has lost a one of a kind musician let's talk more about the great Hugh with Grant Clark South African journalist who joins us now the music 1st what made him so special just in jazz in trumpet terms do you think Grant. While alone but being mostly in what these iconic but he was a really really talented musician and his trucking show was part you played all the big great names in jazz time jelling Mark Davis has spoken about that very different biography that a man was starting to play at that level as was his skill but he had a very. Very distinctive sound that was African There was very. There was jazz but we're told some very African African Jews were product in rivers and I think that's what made him a great est musically so we had fantastic variety just in that a victory by our own Richard Hamilton actually amazingly different styles of course the politics was unavoidable for him and it's unavoidable for us talking about it as well it sort of forced him in his view to leave the country as well what did he become as a cultural political figure as a kind of a figurehead of a kind of anti apartheid. Well you became an icon really and I think that was at the core of how forthright he was and how committed he was to the struggle and evil don't you. You know his activities campaigning abroad during apartheid was restricted many of us didn't get much of that because it was the band. We didn't find out and over time just to what extent he supported other activists you raise money for the a.n.c. It just really stole watts of the struggle for freedom and he getting the music he did it in he's touring in every way that he was you know at that concert and what an extraordinary togetherness as well the these have a brief marriage with Mary McCabe as well one thinks of this is you can't think of 2 sort of bigger picture coming together like that absolutely I remember him saying in an interview one reason why the merits of the work is because he thought she was more. Than a white sort of lasted only 2 years but apart from her no great more respected South African musicians for that because and I can tell you we can expect a week of tributes rolling radio shows tributes to him outpouring there's likely to be some event as well. Yeah I think the 2 of them. Really represented the best that South Africa has to offer the world yeah I was going to ask you about the sort of the choreography of what happened next because this is obviously such a huge sort of state level issue one thing I want to put you on the spot here I was just reading from some interviews as background after the news broke and the interview you gave to a British newspaper when the journalist says Is it true that you were invited back to South Africa by the apartheid government as an honorary white man and he kind of like Lawson tells a story and says yeah it's beyond comedy is that is that for real is that a true story to the apartheid regime want to get him back on the home side. Well you know from what we know now know about how to be a part of the propaganda machine wrote and the lengths to which intelligence agencies when she was betray the country particular lies and counter a lot of the resistance I am going to be surprised if that indeed happens a lot of people like me rather well that's. Certainly. Political because the importance for him of course just to end is that he was outside he was such a loud voice outside South Africa for justice in South Africa that's one of the things he'll be remembered for I guess. Absolutely had to utilize that but just one thing to say that also made him remarkable that he was one of the very few issues to try to basically transport to move over from being an iconic traditional jazz musician of a certain era to being relevant today to play with some of the up and coming little of the ninety's quite a musician dance music musician sort of like a t.v. One. Where he just always stay relevant always changing always keeping up with music great tribute many thanks to South African journalist joining us and you heard a little bit earlier some of the music of the great man as well. Looking back a tribute to a remarkable career in music and in politics. At the age of 78 he will be playing some of his music later on in the program. Headlines now this morning Britain's. Ousted. Dimitroff to reach his 1st Grand Slam semifinal at the Australian Open he did it in 4 sets Dimitroff out of sorts having being one of the favorites for the tournament at the start of the fortnight also shock in the women's draw a least match. As ousted the 4th seed Elena and she is through to the semifinals on court now at the Rod Laver Arena it's the very early stages of Rafa Nadal the top seed against Marion challenged a 681 game apiece in the opening set thank you watch out for later on today apart from the cherished. Football English League Cup semifinal 2nd leg Manchester City 21 up against 2nd to Bristol City tell you how that one pans out tomorrow morning as well as the latest from the tennis of course. Now let's get the business news. Regulators said Fox's proposed takeover of sky is not in the public interest so why have they come to the conclusion Yeah. Well this is about the proposed takeover of scanned by 21st Century Fox which is owned by Rupert Murdoch Now Fox already owns 39 percent of sky but it wants to acquire the well rest and it's been attempting to do that since 2016 and the Equip acquisition is being played by delays and today the U.K.'s competition the markets authority has been investigating this deal have said that it is not in the public interest they said that if the deal went ahead it would not be in the public interest and it would lead the Murdoch family trust which controls Fox News Corp increasing its control of the sky and this is crucial so that he would have too much control over news providers in the u.k. Across all media platforms t.v. Radio online newspapers and therefore too much influence of the public opinion and the political agenda So what's likely to happen next well in a statement Fox said it was disappointed by the findings it hasn't said yet what its long to do next but as far as the u.k. Regulator is concerned the next step will be a free public consultation where the competition market approaches rip sponsors to its for vision a ruling and after that it will incorporate the responses into a final report which will be sent to the culture secretary by around mid May Now just to make matters slightly more complex remember that Fox itself is being taken over by Disney so executives there fairly can to ensure that there aren't any you know barriers that could be in danger this acquisition and Fox has said before today's ruling that they were hoping that the deal with Sky would be completed by June therefore paving the way for the Disney take over to be completed by the end of the year the sky deal could well be delayed young June because of today's announcement now whether that would survive the this knee takeover remains to be seen but it's only for an a spanner in the works Thank you Joshua. The president Robert Hill the approval of a temporary spending bill to end the u.s. Government shutdown is a big win for the republic. Funding Robin agrees the government