Defended his meeting with a Russian lawyer last year saying he did not collude and here's a safe prediction Donald Jr's appearance on The Hill won't be the last we hear about this there were problems just a little currents away running in the background or whatever Republicans like Capitol would rather be talking about hurricane Irma continues to cut a path of destruction through the Caribbean people on the sister islands of Antigua and Barbuda are already assessing the damage if you're thinking about a David if you're on the Caribbean island but it's for the History Books Plus how a Jewish folk song made its way into a Japanese videogame called Sexy Parodi trust me on this one to stick around it's all here today here on the world. Helo's is here in a MacDonald with a b.b.c. News the eye of hurricane is heading past the northern coast of Dominican Republic towards He after devastating a string of Caribbean islands the hurricane lashed by buter St Martin and the British Virgin Islands causing widespread damage frantic preparations are being made in Haiti and the low lying British territory of Turks and Key course which are due to be hit later on Thursday with storm surges flooding and high winds Dr John Freeman is the governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands we have decided to evacuate certain islands of a particular line of threat we have started to fill our shelters because a number of people living in very low lying areas are very vulnerable We've also engaged in terms of getting people off the island who are here with American tourists and others up until yesterday evening when the airport closed we had extra flights moving people out and so we're trying to diminish the numbers here but now we're going to make. Hurrican Irma comes close on the heels of Hurrican Harvey which devastated areas of Texas in the southern United States last month the u.s. Senate has now approved over $15000000000.00 in disaster aid as part of an agreement struck by President Trump and the Democratic Party the agreement will also reduce the federal borrowing limit to December. The United Nations says that nearly a quarter of a 1000000 Muslim or hinges have fled their homes in Myanmar. Since October last year Jonathan Head is Bindra kind steet we passed a village after village which had been abandoned or burnt no Muslims remained so far as we can see with much of the range of population displaced and the militants under constant pressure from the army and police who is doing the burning we found out in an unscripted part of our government controlled tour when we were able to stop by an abandoned Muslim village which had only just been satellite as we walked in men armed with swords and machetes and who identified themselves as Rakhine bodies walked out there has been plenty of violence from the Muslim side but it stretches credulity to blame the systematic destruction of Muslim villages on them President Trump has offered to mediate in the dispute between Qatar and some of its neighboring Arab states a Saudi led coalition of nations severed ties with Qatar in June so to what they said was that support for extremist groups Mr Trump said he was ready to intervene if needed I can help mediate between cutter and in particular the u.a.e. And Saudi Arabia I would be willing to do so and I think you'd have a deal worked out very quickly I think it's subject that's going to get solved fairly easily. Kuwait has been really the leader of getting itself and we appreciate that very much but I do believe that will solve it if we don't solve it I will be a mediator right here in the White House. You're listening to the latest world news from the b.b.c. The Spanish prime minister has denounced Catalan plans for an independent referendum illegal and warned they were threatening for 2 years of democracy Mariano Rajoy said the government would ask the courts for the clear the planned vote unconstitutional regions Pru independence politicians say they will press ahead with the planned vote. Pope Francis has urged Colombians to set aside vengeance as they come to terms with a peace deal signed last year with Fark rebels he was speaking to huge crowds in Bogota on the 1st hoody of his visit to the country the pope told government leaders to commit to a peace and weakened by partisan politics. The b.b.c. Has gained access to Libya's largest official detention center for migrants and found desperate conditions many detainees have suffered deeply traumatic experiences at the hands of people smugglers as they tried in field to reach Europe or the gear and describes the scene from inside the center in Libya the men have told us it's so crowded that at night some have to try to sleep standing up there's no room to lie down and the door here is locked at night they have no access to the bathroom and many here say that conditions are worse than jail at least in jail they say you have your own cell with me as an er Salazar be he's the supervisor of the detention center we have a lot of problems facing costs we have nothing to give them sort of feel sorry for them really that sort of This Is Us but I have nothing to remove that it was support from the international community to. And as I was Darby the supervisor of Libya's largest official detention center and in that report there by all the gear and the Internet retail giant Amazon has announced plans to build a 2nd headquarters in North America kicking off a competition among cities to attract the investment the $5000000000.00 project could create up to $50000.00 jobs b.b.c. News. I'm Marco Werman It's the world on a Thursday back to school day here in Boston and back to the Hill this week for lawmakers in Washington that's where we start today with the latest from our nation's capital on the various Russia investigations Donald Trump Jr was in d.c. Today for a closed door meeting with Senate investigators looking into yet you know possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia last year so the late summer headlines may be about racial tensions hurricanes and a possible war with North Korea but look for Russia to come back into focus as Congress kicks back into high gear but the Woodruff is a political reporter at The Daily Beast just remind us briefly that the what happened with the investigations of summer Well we have water and it is that there are multiple investigations going on there are multiple investigations on Capitol Hill and there have been recent reports which I can confirm that Bob Muller who's the special counsel running the Justice Department's investigation of the alleged pollution has teamed up and I'm a bit of coordination with Eric Schneiderman who's the attorney general of the state of New York I also reported last week or the week before hard to remember they all read together well has been working with agents from the i.r.s. As criminal investigations division that means it's highly likely he's investigating evidence that someone associated with the president may have committed a tax crime potentially of money laundering or tax evasion and what is the significance of Miller teaming up with the New York state attorney general so Eric Schneiderman cannot be fired by Donald Trump he works for the state of New York not for the federal government Additionally if Schneiderman finds that Trump or one of his associates violated New York state law the president won't have the power to pardon one of his associates or that the president's pardon powers only apply to federal law here in the United States so Schneiderman is insulated from some of the pressure that Muller faces and Theoretically that means that if the president chose . An extraordinary step which you know he's comfortable taking extraordinary steps and fired Muller that it's possible Muller could sort of pass the baton to Schneiderman and that gets well are something of an extra insurance policy so with lawmakers returning from summer recess how would you describe the narrative of Russia trunk connections at this point and where lawmakers pick up the baton in the investigation it's increasingly tricky for Republicans to talk about just this morning Don Jr the president's son testify behind closed doors to some Senate staffers confirming in a situation where lying would be unlawful that he did have communications knowingly with someone who he understood to be an intermediary for the Russian government in hopes of getting information that would damage Hillary Clinton now that Congress is back we're probably going to see more activity on the Hill as more of Trump's associates go in for these behind closed door question and answer sessions and the Russian probe is just going to be constantly running in the background so aside from Donald Trump Jr which members of Trump's White House team are currently under investigation Karen Kushner is the one who seems to have the most legal liability of course he is the husband of a banca trump the president's daughter and he is a White House staffer we know that he did not reveal that meeting last summer that John Jr had shared with in that meeting as well the fact that he didn't reveal that meeting when he applied for a security clearance is something that has the lawyers close to the president conserved outside the White House of course a number of former of trouble associates had to lawyer up General Mike Flynn who was not a national security adviser to the president for a short time we also know that Paul man afore it has faced a ton of scrutiny from federal investigators now court of course was the c.e.o. Of Trump's campaign for a short time there are several committees in both the House and Senate that are holding private hearings in the next few months can you just break down what they're focusing on and they all focus on different aspects of the Trump Russia collusion one thing that's important to remember is that one's. I love the investigation is looking into the possibility that crimes were committed a criminal investigation and then another side of the investigation is actually a counter intelligence investigation so Intelligence Committees both in the House and in the Senate it's like when their focus is actually figuring out what specific acts we can attribute potentially to Russian government actors Meanwhile the judiciary committees are also looking into this are going to be focusing more on the already legal questions so Betsy what are you going to be keeping your eye on in the coming weeks with these investigations it's really hard to narrow down there's a lot going on one thing that you know or is if more members of the White House start a lawyer up we know that the miller progress sort of widening at scope and that it's likely they'll be questioning a number of senior White House officials those folks are all going to need attorneys and when that happens that will be a good indicator of just how wide the program is and of course what can we understand about the nature of the investigation based on the folks that Miller's working with that's Betsy Woodruff political reporter at The Daily Beast the congressional committees investigating Russia's meddling in the u.s. Election got another day this week this one from Facebook the company found that hundreds of fake accounts likely operated by a Russian company that has links to the Kremlin spent $100000.00 supposed political ads on the platform that was before and after the 2016 presidential election here in the u.s. For more on this we've got Yacoob yond He heads the Kremlin watch program which is all about tracking Russian descent from Asian campaigns and at Western governments so Mr younger there's a lot of information we don't know yet about these Facebook ads but from a tactical standpoint does this look like an approach that Russian state actors would take to spread false information like definitely looks like that way actually we have seen a Russian government and its proxies spreading massive information against the best in the Morrissey's in order to industry any election. Like in the u.s. Or in France or in general in to try to sway public opinion what specifically are the hallmarks of the strategy that suggests to you Russia is behind this while there is clear evidence that Russian authorities actually employ people in so-called trophy farms so basically state drug companies which are creating this information on Facebook or they are trying to make the comments section toxic so creating basically propaganda so clearly trying to soothe a comment section or discussions or Facebook on Twitter so there's clearly that basically Russia is doing it today the question is how much of it is in the end and that's what we don't know at least in the public domain what's kind of interesting and this is a current of Facebook they say that most of these ads were not directed at a specific candidate and the vast majority of them didn't even reference the election Instead they focused on divisive hot button issues here in the u.s. Like gay rights or gun ownership for immigration what was the thinking behind that what this is again something where we can see Russia doing interrupt They have 2 levels of the game they're playing at a single time one is shorter I'm looking at the other options trying to attack single candidate and the long term game will be really trying to sway public opinion or make even worse the current situation in the core in this specific country so for example if you are having domestic ribbons and domestic political fights over a specific social or political issue this is something where the criminal would like to make even worse by those means such as creating this information on this such as for example migration base and and political Islam in Europe for example those are the topics of which tries trying to make worse and by this they can basically create the the impression that everything is all falling apart and those candidates which. Russia considers to be more preferable such as the drum during the campaign or let's say let's say my luck and its friends those will deter maybe benefit from such a situation are you able to track cause and effect from others like because Facebook sold as to Russian companies x. Number of us went to Donald Trump. Well we are not actually not only ourselves but we are basically the expert community in the West isn't able and honestly it's technically and metallurgical impossible but actually if you look at a case study on the Us presidential election next honestly the impact of Russianness information could have had the other impact on the on the overall the elections are so close that it's really considerable how much of the Russian impact it could have. Yacob beyond is head of the Kremlin watch program and deputy director of the European values think tank in Prague thank you very much thank you for having me. Next week will mark 3 months since the Grenfell tower fire in London British police say at least 80 people died in the horrific blaze that engulfed the high rise apartment tower one of the victims was 24 year old Khadija say she was a British Gambian artist and photographer just a month before the fire safe career had a huge break some of her photographs were included in a show at the Venice Biennale it was a compelling series of self portraits where she used old photo techniques to explore traditional Gambian spiritual practices after the blaze one of those portraits was hung at the Tate Britain Gallery in London as a memorial to or fires other victims my colleague John Wilson with b.b.c. Radio 4 had a wonderful remembrance could you just say on a show I want to share some of that with you now Wilson spoke with Ses artistic mentor nickel a green and curator David Bailey Here's Bailey explaining why he chose could he just work for the Venice Biennale. She was young age but spirit was very mature and very old in the sense like a kind of wise old kind of spiritual sage So I think what drew most of us was how generous in spirit I am computer was in terms of wanting to be open about the risk taken in the work which is very difficult at this level and at the same time really using mining all of that to think about producing a body of work based on a very old antiquated form of photography process and all of these photographs are self portrait she's posing isn't she in that's. Theory's the one at the Tate she has her back to the camera it's a beautiful black and white faded image and she's holding a bunch of of sticks what are they what are the represent Well I think for me I think the question has to be how is it possible to make work that is so historically and culturally rooted when we've so bombarded by social media about all these things about globalization and I think she's taken that and when I actually I'm going to really focus on my call tradition it's really kind of interpret 21st century modern techniques and go back and refer because you have to remember photography was the precursor to you know the movement of where we are in the 21st century image making little you have mentors who you worked so closely with her for for 3 years when did you 1st see her work and what was it about it that the attracted your attention when I met her 3 years ago when I been asked to be a judge on the discerning eye exhibition and I was able to choose artists and curator wall and I had not met her at the time that I saw her work and she submitted for this competition a series of 6 photographic images from her series called crowned which are celebrating and exploring their power of black women through images of their hair and also from above they're all shot from a bar and I was very I was very taken a moved by these pieces that I put in the center of the wall and she came to the opening of the exhibition and with her mother Mary and she was so proud it was her 1st exhibition after having graduated from college and she talked to me about how she was going to pursue a career and what that was going to take and how she she was working as a care assistant at the time and in a care home at the time and she talked about you know the difficulties of moving into the art world and making work in affording to make work and how that would happen and she did. I have a studio as such did she worked at home grown full time yes she worked in her home in Grenfell town that's where she was photo that's where she was developing the photographs she was developing her photographs and actually this work that she exhibited in the diaspora pavilion was taken she used relics from her mother's Gambian tradition and this work is really an exploration of of her faith and from you know a very personal context in the relationship she had with her mother could you just say and her mother Mary Mandy both died in the Grenfell tower blaze in June and London we were listening there to artists and Nicola green and before that curator David Bailey remembering what make could be just say and a photograph that special they were speaking with my colleague John Wilson on the b.b.c. Radio 4. Coming up whatever happened with that refugee agreement with Australia that Trump called a done deal Yasser Just ahead here on the world. I'm Marco Werman and this is the world remember that famous phone call between President Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull It happened in January just a few days after Trump was inaugurated it was supposed to be one of those pro-forma Hi How you doing courtesy calls to a close ally but it ended up being a tense 24 minute exchange their nerves frayed in that call over an Obama era deal with Australia that obliges us to resettle up to 2000 asylum seeking refugees being held in deeply controversial offshore Australian run detention camps there are many layers of the story and now there are some important updates to it the world Carol Hills is here so you've been following the story of thes