During regular business hours you can always become a member of k. Or c c by going to k. Or c c that o r g and making your financial contributions safely on line. 1 o'clock g.m.t. Welcome to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Jeanette jail the trumpet ministration pushes for a military space for saying it's needed to meet emerging threats on a new battlefield today other nations are seeking to disrupt our space based systems and challenge American supremacy in space as never before but will Congress approve the controversial idea for blast off and they have surveilled a wonderful journey and this golden experiment these doors that are in America remain hinged open to beautiful people as they have today Malani a transparent become u.s. Citizens under a policy Her husband wants to get rid of Israel orders its army to continue acting with force against militants in Gaza after the latest exchanges of fire between the 2 sides and. Research is investigating what apes can talk again and insight that's all coming up on the knees when Hello this is Fiona McDonald with the b.b.c. News the Israeli security cabinet has ordered the army to continue acting with force against what it calls terrorist elements following an escalation of violence in and around Gaza the un has said this is deeply alarmed at the current situation the reports even as the security cabinet met sirens sounded in Israeli communities near the border warning of incoming rockets while Israeli forces attacked targets inside Gaza a multi-story building described by Israel as a headquarters of the militant group Hamas was flattened Palestinian officials say 18 people were injured earlier 3 Palestinians including a pregnant woman and her 18 month old child were killed a number of Israelis have been injured in rocket attacks. The u.s. Vice president might Pence's outline plans to create a 6th branch of the us military a species force to counteract threats from Russia China North Korea and Iran he urged Congress to act no to establish the department by 2020 and to these are correct explains the way the Donald Trump seems to envision it and Mike Pence described it today would be consolidating variety of programs within the us military dealing with outer space security of u.s. Satellites intelligence gathering methods and possibly space based weapons and putting them all under a separate branch on an equal level to the Navy the Air Force and the army now obviously there would be some bureaucratic obstacles to this particularly from the Air Force I have the feeling that they are going to be very quick to raise objections to this the u.n. Secretary general and to a new good cherishes called for an independent investigation into an airstrike by the Saudi led coalition in Yemen which killed or wounded dozens of children they were in a school bus which was hit as it drove through a rebel held part of the country the Red Cross is at least 29 children died the coalition said its airstrikes were aimed at militants who target civilians Sylvia gulleys from the charity see the children the fact of the matter is that our children who were killed this morning and they were going on an excursion and they are not returning back home to their families because they were killed whether it's a mistake with collateral damage whether they were at the wrong place at the wrong 5 they were killed this morning and we can't turn a blind eye on that we can't let that happen. A recount of votes from Iraq's parliamentary election in me is confirmed that the alliance led by the Shia Muslim cleric. Solder was the winner the bloc led by the current prime minister hydrilla body remained in 3rd place behind a Pruitt reigning group of former paramilitaries the manual recount was ordered after widespread a regular routines were found in the original electronic count since the vote in many protests against unemployment and a lack of services have spread b.b.c. News military sources in Nigeria say at least 15 soldiers have been killed in an attack by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram an official from Nigeria's disaster agency was also killed in the ambush at a military base in the northeastern state of Borno on Wednesday is the 3rd such attack on a military target in the region in less than a month the Roman Catholic bishops of Venezuela have called on the government to stop what they see as the violent repression of citizens following an alleged assassination attempt on President Nicolas Maduro 2 drones carrying explosive through towards the president as he addressed a military parade on Saturday Candace Pierre has a story the judge's intervention follows reports of the arrest of several alleged suspects by government security forces detention orders were issued against several more including the opposition leader who your border has the crackdown follows the alleged drone attack on a military parade on Saturday watched by President Maduro the government says it believes 19 people in all are implicated the timing of the bishop's carefully worded statement indicates how far they believe Venezuela's democracy has deteriorated. A Brazilian crime watchdog says the number read hit a record of more than 7 in our last year that's nearly 64000 victims the Brazilian forum for public security said in its annual report the nearly all the victims were men or the murder of women had increased a lawyer for the Slovenian born parents of the u.s. 1st lady Melania Trump has confirmed that the couple have become u.s. Citizens he said the 2 part of the naturalization ceremony in New York on Thursday the lawyer also confirmed to The New York Times that Victor and Amalia Canucks had a teen their citizenship through chain migration a progress by which u.s. Citizens can sponsor relatives for permanent residency b.b.c. News. You were listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with me tonight to they'll. Its President Trump boldly going where no American president has gone before oh it's his proposal for a new space false Well a waste of space and precious resources for months Mr Trump has talked about creating a new branch of the American military in space now his vice president Mike Pence has been giving details of the plan urging Congress to invest $8000000000.00 into creating a u.s. Space Force and warning that other nations were already weaponize ing space today other nations are seeking to disrupt our space based systems and challenge American supremacy in space as never before for many years nations from Russia and China to North Korea and Iran have pursued weapons to jam blind and disable our navigation and communication satellites via electronic attacks from the ground. But recently I have a series of been working to bring new weapons of war into space itself both China and Russia even conducting highly sophisticated on orbit activities they could enable them to maneuver their satellites into close proximity of ours. Let's speak to our Washington Correspondent Chris Buckley or so Chris according to Mike Pence space is not the final frontier but a battlefield you know just look at the language that has been used by the vice president and the president within recent months about the suggestion of a Space Force they've talked about turning space into a war fighting to man not the case in America they say but to do with some of America's adverse arrays and you take a look at some of those countries and they're making very clear particularly as Russia and China that they are developing technology in space which they believe camp attention to put America under threat and as a result they say it's already a battlefield and America needs to start to get ahead and to actually develop this branch of the military which of course will be the 1st new branch in 7 decades but there is one big obstacle that Mr Trump and his vice president face and that's getting approval from Congress and there are some people within Congress who are a little skeptical about this for a start there is this consideration that the Air Force already looks after a space is a new branch needed not one of those people who was suggesting that might damage will be the case might not be needed was the defense secretary James Madison only a matter of a year ago he was suggesting that you know this was just added bureaucracy it wasn't something that was needed but they have money to convince him annoy the defense secretary James Madison saying very clearly that he believes this is a White Way to go Congress but might prove more difficult to convince particularly when it comes to Democrats Mr Trump is asking people to vote on a new space for Brady even before this idea is approved for Congress is a way of firing up his supporters ahead of midterm elections I don't think there's any doubt about that if you take a look at where they're being asked to vote on this new logo and you can check the barges for the Space Force on his reelection campaign site that's where they're asking you to go to take a look at. And certainly when you've been at rallies recently he has been using that free is the Space Force as a way of firing up his supporters I think this is a campaigning technique as much as anything else Chris thank you very much Chris Buckley there in Washington and staying in the States the parents of America's 1st lady Malani a trump have become u.s. Citizens she helped Victoria and Amalia canals to stay permanently in the country America is bitterly divided on the issue of immigration after President Trump's hardline stance that has resulted in the separation of some immigrant families Daniel men reports some people prefer to be a far away as possible from their in-laws but ever since President Trump took office last year Victoria and Amalia Canal's from Slovenia have been seeing frequently in Washington staying at the White House and regularly spending time with their daughter manya and they're 12 year old grandson Barron she became a u.s. Citizen in 2006 both of our parents are in their seventy's and retired think torso cars while his wife worked in a textile factory after becoming Americans at a naturalization ceremony in New York where they took the oath of citizenship they appeared with their lawyer Michael Wildes who spoke to reporters they have surveilled a wonderful journey like most have millions have in getting citizenship in waiting the requisite period of time the application the process the interview was no different than anybody else's and this golden experiment these doors that are in America remain hinged open to beautiful people as they have today Mr Wilders told The New York Times that the 1st lady set up parents on the past American citizenship by sponsoring them for their green cards which allows foreign nationals to live and work permanently in the United States he added that this is a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification President Trump prefers the word chain migration. And he's fiercely criticized the process by which American citizens get residency for their relatives last November he wrote on Twitter chain migration must end now exclamation mark some people come in and they bring their whole family with them who can be truly evil not acceptable the last 2 words were in block capital letters Mr Trump has called for a merit based system which favors better educated in the speaking professionals over relatives Mr Wilde said that America was having a very important dialogue and immigration and that the Canal says were an example of the process going right down your man Brazil has long suffered a high murder rate about 2017 appears to have been its deadliest year yet New figures show that nearly $64000.00 people were killed in Brazil last year that's about 7 murders every hour according to the nonprofit Brazilian forum for public security our correspondent in Rio de Janeiro Julia canary told me more of the victims are mostly men and will be mostly black mixed race men usually young men there was also a rise in violence against women. 8 percent rise in the number of rapes 6 percent rise of the number of femicide that what that's when women are specifically targeted and killed because of being a woman. Over a 1000 cases of women killed in the circumstances now the reasons for this is it has a lot of a lot to do with the problem of drug gangs acting in Brazil and how they're operating how these criminal factions are operating so baby people abroad will be used to hearing about violence in Rio and Sao Paolo those are the biggest cities in the southeast of Brazil but actually these numbers have now migrated and the worse case is that the worst scenario for homicides is in the north and northeast of Brazil which are. Which are also the poorest regions of the country but how do Brazilians feel about this appalling level of crime around them each year the number of murders is going up is affecting their daily lives I think at least now there's a lot more debate than there was in the past and people are really regarding this as a national problem so now for instance we're having presidential elections coming up this year in October and this will certainly be a big and a very necessary debate so the presidential candidate that's leading the polls they have also not a he is a hard liner guy who comes out saying that we need more weapons out there people need to be armed and we need. Police to have a hard line against criminals so he's actually someone who's saying police is allowed to kill do people blame the authorities for this rising crime people do blame the authorities but they also blame the economic crisis that Brazil is immersed in all the problems that the country is facing there's a sense of resignation of fatalism with the mountain mounting problems that Brazil's facing Giuditta canary You're listening to b.b.c. World Service Now Vienna has the headlines the United States says it plans to create a military speace forces in the next 2 years and these really army as we know ordered to continue acting with force against militants in Gaza following further exchanges of fire between the 2 sides. At least 29 children were killed and dozens wounded when their school bus was hit in an air attack by the Saudi led coalition in Yemen according to the Red Cross the coalition defended the airstrike as a legitimate response to a missile fired by the rebels Yemen has been devastated by 3 years of war in which thousands of civilians have been killed despite the suffering negotiations have got nowhere but now a fresh initiative as you just start next month in Geneva led by Martin Griffith a former British diplomat who's a UN's new envoy to Yemen he spoke to our chief international correspondent these do set about his hopes for peace I've listened to them the last 4 months very carefully both parties on to others and they both have continued to assure me they want a political solution so I take them at their word and I will find out if that's going to happen or not and it's not going to happen overnight you called the situation in Kuwait a porch and the center of gravity of the war it is the lifeline for Yemen my job is to find every opportunity to pursue it with vigor to stop the war to resolve it through politics and through negotiation now in fact all the data as you know the we were able to get was an agreement with the Hutus for a supervisory role of the United Nations in the port that had not been agreed before I think that shows that there is a willingness to engage because Saudi led coalition in particular with one of its main members United Arab Emirates believes that you can put more pressure on the who these they say the port is not enough they have to have the city are you have been very busy in the Goetia ations with her to 3 u.n. Role in the city as well as the port the Hooty leadership has confirmed to me as recently as 10 days ago that they would be willing to have a u.n. Role in the city as well as the plot is so the you know who these have told you they'd be willing to withdraw. Or you know from who the the airport and city know as I said that they would be willing to have a u.n. Role in the city as well as the un supervisory role in the port that's why last week we called on all parties to deescalate in the war not just into data but throughout the world the fronts so that there's a chance for a consultation process which could actually provide some hope for the future they're not deescalating. The attacks are continuing and with a Saudi led coalition is backed by the United States by Britain by France providing weapons providing support that's something we'll be discussing in Geneva but if they keep providing these sophisticated weaponry that carries out the bombardment that the u.n. Says is responsible for the greatest step percentage of civilian casualties you won't have a chance at peace let's see what happens with my chances of peace my job is to provide the opportunity for the people of Yemen to sit down and talk peace that's what we're here for and we're here to do it in a way that's consistent with Security Council resolutions which include the requirement for disarmament and withdrawal of forces and the return of force to the state and in that context there will be no need for a continuing war in Yemen and that's the best answer in my view to the question about armaments of either side u.n. Envoy to Yemen moshing Griffith neuroscientist researching the brains of more than 30 primate species have identified a key step in the evolution of a uniquely human trait the ability to speak the study published in The Journal frontiers in neuroscience suggests that our closest ape relatives the know bows and chimps dedicate more of their brain to the movement of the tongue than other primates Victoria Gill explains the neighbors are the chatterboxes of the ape world with the natural the tabular. But it remains a mystery as to why no ape apart from Rose has developed the ability to talk this study compared the brains of 34 different primates from the process monkey that makes just 4 different noises to the much more talkative sociable but nobody has revealed about you Bill clue research has found that more vocal had much larger parts of their brains dedicated to decision making to controlling their tones This is a. Stay say that while other apes may well be smart enough to develop complex ways of communicating that she ability to move and control what the scientists term their vocal apparatus may have rendered him speechless. Big tour a gale of the many hours of fierce polarized debate which went on late into the night Argentina Senate rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion joining the 1st 14 weeks of pregnancy currently abortion is only allowed in Argentina for rape victims and for those whose health is in danger and she abortion activists took to the streets of Bonner's Ariz to celebrate pro-choice campaign is that they would try again next year our correspondent Katie what's in reports on a debate which has divided the country. Traffic flowing once again and when his site is the city came to a standstill this week but normality has returned the newspapers are full of headlines from the debate that took place in the Senate from Wednesday evening in Thursday morning Karine at the most popular paper talks about the definition of a historic debate and passion of those say has a picture of a woman with a green anorak saying nobody can stop the winds of change that would ban those if it offered that what those on the walls about our own oil it was a long day in Congress on Wednesday nearly 17 hours locked in one room better than a at the back goes it was a project Ok that reads us out a lot that may not be monitored by ridicule. But finally a decision in the early hours of Thursday to those who'd been willing for the bill to be rejected celebration said that I live in o