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The greatest pure rock'n'roll writer who ever lived Mick Jagger said he lit up our teenage years and blew life into our dreams of being musicians and performers and this was a fan placing a bunch of flowers on Chuck Berry star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame he is a true legend I mean an icon. Before any of the great guitarists and this is the man that influenced so many people the Rolling Stones the Beatles before Jimmy Page before Jimi Hendrix there was Chuck Berry and the whole world is mourning right now and there's Eric Burdon from the sixty's band the animals sharing his memories of Chuck Berry He took me down on. One on One on one about. 5. Yeah he said well I was keeping a couple of songs and you know wall and keep in mind Stosh do you not socks. Don't drink don't let the drink and the drugs get to you linked to many. It was good a lot of good advice but I didn't mean I was of course. Oh I was too young and stupid to think I mean any notice of that but it was really cool he was the coolest of cool Eric Burdon while a short while ago the American musician author and lifelong Chuck Berry fan Sid Griffin came into the News Hour studio to reminisce. I think Chuck Berry might be the single most iconic figure in rock N roll period I mean people say the Beatles and Elvis Presley and so on and so forth but but but think about it Chuck Berry Not only was a iconic figure he wrote cracking songs that both the Beatles and Elvis Presley recorded I mean just name and act that came after Chuck Berry and I include a softer act like Simon and Garfunkel they'll all have played a Chuck Berry song at one time or another besides that he was the rocks defining guitar player no one in rock N roll not your Eric Clapton's or Jeff Beck's or Jimmy Page's nanny or blues men the Albert King and B.B. King etc None of them have touched as many hearts with the guitar as Chuck Berry yes none of them. Got started a little late he didn't have a get signed a Chess Records have hit till he was 29 and one is 1st record Maybelline became number one in the country charts in the pop charts in the R. And B. Charts at once now that's a pretty good start but he was $29.00 so it's a bit late in the day. And then of course he was jailed 3 times he was jailed as young man for burglary he was jailed in the early sixty's for the Mann Act and he was jailed in the seventy's for tax evasion and someone told me there's a 4th jail sentence over Mr Barry but it doesn't it's like Jerry Lee Lewis and of the Rolling Stones a lot of these people are not angels but his artists well unbeatable so what would you say are his most iconic songs. Well this most iconic song is clearly Johnny B. Goode. It's the one that everybody knows but he's got several Let me explain Johnny B. Goode starts out we down in Louisiana next to him he's the dick it was a colored boy living out by the shack but he thought well I don't want to sing that because it'll you know might to put some people off in 1957 gated America so he segued sang live a little country boy by the railroad track not colored boy it brown eyed handsome man discipline social cultural commentary song his a brilliant song was originally brown skinned man. If you think that's a lot of shit. And he wrote the song like in thought of my saying he was a brown skinned handsome man that's what he was he was a brown skinned handsome man that might kill some radio place or change it to brown eyed handsome man the guy has a lot of those songs I'll go with Johnny B. Goode is the one that everybody knows but for me it's either schooldays or no particular place to go brilliant stories that are funny in each song great lyrics and dynamite guitar playing dynamite guitar solos you know what more could you ask . We haven't talked about the dogs well if the duck walk he said the duck walks because he had a very very wrinkled suit and he walked on stage of the Paramount New York City and he was 59 and he looks down his suit is wrinkly they did like $45.00 shows a day so you don't go anywhere you just hang around backstage drink coffee skillet going on he was a series regular So he said he improvised by he had a guitar leads gentlemen it's called the Gibson events $335.00 and that is a big body guitar a very womanly shape to the body so he used the guitar to cover up as much as soon as he could and one point I just don't look that good See what of the lip of the stage and crouched down. To a almost kneeling position and walked across the stage with his neck popping forward to the downbeat of the song and he called this the duck walk and he moved the guitar neck forward on the on the off beat so he looked like a duck waddling along in my opinion looks like a train going down the track a locomotive but the place went nuts the place went nuts and when I saw him in 1972 of the 1st time in Louisville Kentucky and there's a stage invasion with me in it and we were all on stage singing Go Johnny Go go go with Mr Barry to his the like his I would have been scared $200.00 kids on stage scream in my microphone so he was hit after hit but really broke the the dam in the floodwaters start as he did that duck walk there is an irony isn't there that this figure in rock N roll history and who as you say influenced pretty much everyone. His number one hit his only number one hit was a novelty record and its terrible novelty record Chuck Berry had a number one hit in 1902 with a ghastly schoolboy piece of smut called my ding a ling which refers to exactly what you don't want to refer to. Our swimming Cross Creek. Now the O'Reilly. Show was hard for women cross that thing with. Fold them up. And we all had the record high school everybody be Caucasian and are African-American or middle class or working class or Martian everybody hated that song was number one in America just a complete stupid novelty hit but I must say I'm glad he had a number one hit with it because it brought him back to the public consciousness in a way he hadn't enjoyed in the psychedelic years of the late sixty's and it's the reason why when I told you I'd seen him on stage with 3000 people 200 of us run stage singing with him at the end of the night the gendarmes the cops they couldn't stop us the reason he was playing a 3000 seater which sold out thank you very much was because of my ding a ling it took him off of the oldies circuit she then sort of slid back into for years. And. Said Griffin there with his appreciation of Chuck Berry. Now according to North Korean state television history has been made miraculous history. Well odd that you. See a nother miracle has happened the defense scientists and technicians have managed to design and develop a new type high thrust engine with a higher non propulsive power system compared to the previous engines it had a successful test at the 1st attempt this will contribute to the history of our engineering and construction the national defense or the announcement about what being young is calling a breakthrough in its rocket program came as the U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson was in the region meeting the Chinese president Xi Jinping Well let's join our correspondent in the South Korean capital Seoul Stephen Evans now Steve what do we know about this system. We don't know much about we don't know enough about it yet there will be an awful lot of analysis of things like the color of the plume to work out what the fuel was North Korea you think the timing is very odd Mr Tillerson in Beijing. But North Korea has made nothing of that and it says it's a satellite. Rocket engine test. It is not the breakthrough that gets them the ability to send a missile with a nuclear warhead across the Pacific but it is it is probably a step in that direction and what I think it shows is that whatever the strong words from Mr Tillerson and the strong tweets from Mr Trump the process goes on Mr Tillerson said in Beijing and in Seoul on Friday that Pyongyang has to realize that sanctions will be tighter and tighter until it does this and clearly the tests shows that it's not minded to desist in any way at all and what about China what's it saying about this. China's not saying anything about China is currently saying Well China is basking in what seems to be an amicable relationship between Mr Tillerson you have this bizarre situation where the president tweets China does little to help in the North Korean situation and then you have Mr Tillerson there all smiles very measured very low key in his delivery very diplomatic aptly enough so you have this disconnect between the messages coming out of the U.S. China is clearly unhappy about the situation. It's stopped coal imports or said said it's stopping called imports but that was probably because of the assassination in Malaysia of a person who was probably under its protection but the situation has not changed there's a lot being made of. A reset of attitudes towards North Korea in Washington but if you actually read Rex Tillerson ZX statements in Seoul for example on Friday it was a very measured statement and it could have come out of the a Barbara administration the actual policy doesn't seem to have changed even though they state it has interesting so North Koreans talking about a revolution in their rocket program but diplomatically your sense in the region is it seems more evolutionary that what's happening at the moment anything else well if you if you look at what Mr Tillerson said it is China needs to do more. All options are on the table. Sanctions will get tighter. And North Korea and there will be and there will be no negotiations that's the Obama problem program it's pretty well the program of every incoming president over the last 20 years what about the U.N. Is it likely to take any action as a result of this announcement today it's very very hard to say well. It's very very hard to see why this particular test should prompt more action than previous tests for example and nuclear tests the limits on extra sanctions assuming you don't cut off fuel oil which would seriously dent the economy are limited in South Korea there are not ideological experts many of the American academics who say the real choices do you accept North Korea's status as a nuclear power or imminent status as a nuclear power and then say we need to do a deal and that deal will involve limiting the size of the arsenal in other words you say to North Korea All right you've got the weapons you got the technology we can stop you doing it but let's just make sure that doesn't get into the wrong hands and furthermore it doesn't get bigger but that will involve money and the argument then is do you pay the way one academic expert puts it do you pay a blackmailer Stephen Evans And so thanks very much you're listening to NEWS HOUR from the B.B.C. World Service now the award winning film lion hasn't just want to wards pretty big audiences and plaudits it's also focused attention on the dilemma at the heart of its true story about a young boy who goes missing in India an estimated $180.00 children disappear every day in that country and unlike Lyon central character many are never reunited with their parents as Raul Tandon reports. That's where you're from. Which part I'm adopted I'm not really the. Lion tells the story of serial Brierly he gets separated from his parents when he's just 5 years old and ends up at a railway station here in Kolkata he has to avoid traffic because before eventually he's put into a home and adopted in Australia 25 years later he traced his mom using Google Earth he's back in Kolkata to meet the people who helped you through so you lie pseudonyms so severe you of everything that has happened being with the nuclear family and journalists boarding the train that's on a distillation I'm not really any ling up in Calcutta and you know the trials and tribulations and hardship it's it's a very surreal to myself to sort of believe that this can happen and even more so for other people on the lucky one but what about the children that are in the train station and what happened to them is. So we come to the home where he wants to live before he was adopted to meet so Roach sued She's the woman who saved him she says one of the problems is that the adoption process here is very slow That means thousands of children trafficked and then sold to families who can't have kids they cannot turn around them once a month so that she looks picnic and the day they can that. They can pay their money and get to go there if you move to and come up with the new plan and say that it's hers but they've actually bought that child it is that they don't even tell the family members because names are given to women who cannot bear to. Any idea what it's like every day my brother screams money. So we've found his family most down. Many missing children here and up being trafficked. From the Indian society for sponsorship and adoption says the situation is getting worse we have 13750 prospective adoptive parents in India and we have alarmingly very very few children available for adoption therefore the imbalance between people wanting to adopt and children available for adoption is there therefore the waiting list is so long people definitely would look at other options if they have the money different baby selling records have been coming up. The movie is doing well at the box office but what about those attitudes to adoption and women who can have children are they changing here in India or dramatically any person that you were adopted will automatically think that you are unable to conceive and that is something which has always been looked born in our country there definitely is a stigma. I still feel that there is a stigma with adoption there are a lot of people who will not admit it why is it that people still don't want to talk about it to know that the child is adopted. And stuff like that it does because there is a stigma. At. Watching her child play with some school friends she adopted a few years ago so has it been difficult for her I haven't seen that personally I haven't experienced it I mean it's not that people haven't been curious ever as a parent if you are confident about if you are not embarrassed in any way I think it makes it much easier not only is it easier for you to be able to deal with the system deal with people around you it makes your child enough more confident. I've come to a home where children waiting for adoption or staying in South Kolkata their newborn babies here from unmarried women who just couldn't. Keep them there were older children many of them dark who can't find homes because of their complection the children here have that the movie line will change attitudes and help find them homes 5 year old a Loki is one of them. But yeah my parents left me here a new family will come for me but I don't know when they now apply to well in Germany. She was one of the lucky ones almost 200 children go missing every day here in India many a never reunited with their families for them unlike the movie there is no happy ending. Raul Tom been reporting French police have released the father of the man who was shot dead as he tried to seize a soldier's weapon at all yeah port on Saturday Ziad to Ben Bell Yes Sam was killed after he put a gun to the soldier's head saying he wanted to die for Allah we can have an update now from Paris from Ben Bonior He's with the French broadcaster false info Ben The father has been released and he's been talking to French radio on the stand absolutely Jamie and the latest we heard from his father says the Saddam Yes they did attack is good and that just then he turned himself to police and self the father and what he said is that he didn't think that is he was very surprised that my son was not a terrorist that he never prayed at the matter of fact but drank alcohol and smoked weed so he was very surprised he said that he had been fired they had said that he had been. Stealing and the suburbs of Paris want to see Paris prosecutor saying. Well the Paris prosecutor give more details about the bankers he had been. Saying that he had been radicalized in prison which did not come as a surprise because we've seen in recent in the earlier cases in France that many of the terrorists who carried out attacks in terrorism in France had been radicalized in prison so this is not just a one off it seems to be a sadly a trend here in France that's what we learned from the prosecutor So the official line is that this was someone who was radicalized the family is saying no he was essentially at a petty criminal one of people in France at large making of this. You know what's what's a bit sad about it is that it seems like French people who got. Kind of used to it now were it's not that it's nothing of course it's been on the news the Louvre people have been following it on social networks as well but compared with the Betty clan attacked with the child do a Chagny attack in nice and south of France it's it seems in comparison with those massive attacks like a small but incident it's not nothing it reminds us as French people citizens of friends and parents as well as residents that the threat is very real but it doesn't seem as big as an incident as it was presented to act briefly ban elections just over a month so why is it playing into that yet. It said then that it's been an important mission security has been the major issue for several years now so. It might reinforce people's position a candidate's position but it's still it's been a heavy trend here that we need to make sure there are no further attacks and there to be more troops on the ground and more police force the military police forces deployed in the country Ben thanks very much Ben down the A from phone sound for bring us up to date on the latest following that shooting dead all the airport on Saturday of a man who attacked a young soldier listening to NEWS HOUR from the B.B.C. Wilson. You're listening to the B.B.C. World Service We'll bring you up to date with an atheist news in a couple of minutes but 1st the press told us he didn't stand a chance ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States how could someone so divisive become leader of the free world. But did this just missile of a Trump presidency highlight a deeper problem within the American people the press honestly is out of control and their trust in the media you are fakes can trump be treated like any other president and how should organizations report on a man who is trying to undermine him or you from at B.B.C. Here's another joint compound a U.S. Based journalist as he asks is now represents the perfect opportunity to reset the relationship between politics and the press breaking news at B.B.C. World Service dot com slash documentaries. Coming up on News Hour in the next 30 minutes we'll be hearing more about Martin Schultz the man who's been chosen by Germany's Social Democrats to take on chance Langley Merkel in September's election also a link between paraffin based skin creams and fire deaths and can acquire instead Burnett's a healthy Bosnian town to move beyond its dark history all of that coming up after the news. B.B.C. News I'm John tray the final day of a tour of East Asia by the U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has been overshadowed by North Korea's announcement of a breakthrough in its rocket program the North Korean leader Kim Jong un described the successful grounds test of a high thrust engine capable of carrying large payloads such as satellites as a revolutionary development there's been no independent confirmation of the launch a Hindu religious leader who's known for anti muslim rhetoric has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of India's biggest state was a protest dressed in saffron colored robes Yogi a degenerate took the oath of office in front of cheering crowds and like Now critics say he'll increase pariahs ation. The Supreme Court in Bangladesh has rejected a final appeal by a top Islamist militant and 2 others against death sentences handed down for a grenade attack on the British High Commissioner in 2004 Mufti up doll Hannan was convicted 9 years ago. The incoming leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party Martin Shultz has told a party convention in Berlin we're back members are meeting to confirm him as successor to Sigma Gabrial he's standing aside to give the Social Democrats a better chance of defeating Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats in September's general election. Syrian security forces are engaged in fierce clashes with rebels on the eastern edge of the capital Damascus residents say artillery shells and rockets are landing inside the heart of the city following a surprise attack by fighters from the al Qaeda linked faction fighter are sham Syrian state media say secret tunnels were used to launch the assault in these robot district and Roman Catholic churches across the Philippines have read out a plea by bishops against the imminent restoration of the death penalty the homily argued that capital punishment was against the teaching of Christ and did nothing to deter crime B.B.C. News You're listening to NEWS HOUR from the B.B.C. World Service coming to you live from our studios in London with James Kamar Sami. Now after spending 5 years as president of the European Parliament the German Social Democrat Martin Schultz is hardly a new face in politics but the man who will be formally chosen today to be the party's leader is a far less familiar figure on the national scene and so far he appears to be a pretty successful one since Mr Schultz was named as the Social Democrats candidate for September's general election the party's caught up with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats in the opinion polls this is Merkel hopes to secure a 4th term in office in September's vote Well Michael Me Back is a political scientist and a senior editor of the Berlin Republic it's a leading German political journal He's also a deputy chair of the progressive think tank progressive Centrum So what is he can he tell us about Martin Schultz Martin Short head been a mare of a small town an author and Westphalia in the eighty's and ninety's nobody knew also him so he was a local politician and I think you only been coming known when he served as the president of the European Parliament to a wider audience so he was the European politicians after being a local politician and. To be honest I think to most Germans he actually became really known just now so on the one hand an experienced politician but on the national level a newcomer exactly on the national level a new comer yet never been on federal state before and this is also part of his appeal thing where is he positioned ideologically. Well it's a little bit hard to tell traditionally He was considered as a right leaning social democrat. Because he says they'd rather vague on policy issues lately I think for many social democrats and for the wider audience as well he offers an image where everybody can feel represented by him and design explain why the party seems to be doing pretty well in the polls at the moment I think so yes I think that's part of it and also he's a very good public speaker that is really fair to say but also I think part of his popularity and credibility comes from his rather interesting biography too so Martin Scholz is a person who did not finish high school in one part of the office life he got into a real life crisis and had problems with alcohol but he learned from there and he got up from there then made it to the top and I think many people identify with him because of his difficult life history and he'll be taking on a scientist someone with a very different background in September I mean how much of the success in the polls is is a simply a weariness with Chancellor Merkel the fact she's been in power for so long well I think the S. P. D. Was under rated in the past in the polls if you ask people they expressed their knowledge from and of the really good work that the Social Democrats did in government but it did not show in the polls before only one Schultz came and claim to be front runner he was something like catalyst for what was already there but it's a little bit maybe like in football your own performance is only as good as your opponent lets you to be and it is fair to say that the conservatives at the moment they suffer from the severe in the party conflict about the refugee crisis and how to deal with it then after 12 years in office. There is a general fatigue with Angela Americal which is somehow natural with leaders to stay in power for such long time the German political scientist a michael me back there on the Martin Schultz the new head of the Social Democrats the S P D Now we're going to stay with Germany because they book that has been published there this week has called into question the most consequential decision of Chancellor Merkel's current term in office in September 25th again as tens of thousands of migrants and refugees were massing on Europe's borders and being turned away by some countries she decided to welcome them to Germany more than a 1000000 arrived in the country over the next 12 months well as my colleague Paul Henley speaking to a Syrian refugee in Germany at that time the German government I can say they make their best and I think they expect for example 400 every day and there is 800 come everything that's there why they say it's chaotic but Germany is trying Germany is trying her best and as a Syrian American we're isn't rather European and this year as a Syrian we can give the biggest thank you for Germany and special Germany Well it wasn't just the refugees who were celebrating. Thank. There is one members of the German public applauding arriving refugees at Munich train station on September the 6th 2015 but the German journalist Robin Alexander in his new book driven by events Merkel's refugee policy argues that Chancellor Merkel's decisions at that time were driven less by the need to make a bold statement of European values and more to avoid negative images on the country's borders when I found out the real crucial day was September 13th when the German government imposed border controls and before that they debated to shut the border for some refugees and this wasn't known in the German public because afterwards I'm going to America the night that is is possible she said you cannot close bought us so there was an internal debate in the government and there was even the order for the Border Police written out to close the border for refugees and in the last moment the government we framed from giving this order so who had given that order was that angle or Merkel herself nor that would be the Minister of Home Affairs because he's in charge of the border police but he had a meeting in his ministry in the hours before the decision and then some officials came up with the question can we stand the pictures if refugees will be pushed back by jump Elise and then the minister who's called to Muslim is here left the meeting and it costs and one of his calls was to go Americal and when he came back he refrained from the decision so neither the minister nor Miss Merkel took the decision so your understanding is that as a result of that conversation with angular Merkel the decision to close the borders and to send the police to the borders was changed. Exactly because the story you're telling is is in many ways diametrically opposed to the story that the rest of the world perceived was happening which was that this was a chancellor embracing an open borders policy was going out getting a photograph taken with with refugees was that it wasn't planned these are I mean I'm going to America list chancellor for 10 years now and she was photographed at every possible location you can think about but she was never photographed in a refugee home or refugees Sardar for this yes she avoided being photographed with the refugees because she sought it would go down badly with her conservative voter base and then in that crucial week after the opening of the border before the decision we just talked about and that crucial week that photo happened but it was an accident it wasn't planned so there's an irony there and a chancellor who was so careful then found herself in an inadvertent photo opportunity which helped to shape the narrative. Exactly and she would never say so but I'm completely sure that if she would have the possibility to make this photo disappear she would do it and could say it had a wider impact if you look at some of the evidence that raised over the horse for example of the BRACKS It campaign here in Britain sure I mean the Bracks of campaign was not the 1st the 1st campaign that was lost afterwards was a Polish campaign we had for 10 years we had a Polish government which from a German perspective who also very rational government and we had very good relations and then this concept of Liberal government lost to government which is at odds with the you perhaps even was democracy and in the Polish campaign German decision to open the ball is played a huge well and you mention it your servant Bracks it too and if you don't think about Donald Trump in his campaign he mentioned I'm going to America's refugee policy 4 or 5 times a sink the German journalist Robin Alexander. When B.B.C. Colleagues apply for jobs outside the organization they usually keep it to themselves but are run correspondent James Reynolds has decided to apply for a job in plain sight on the airwaves and is pretty high profile job as director of the Coliseum the Italian government has just placed adverts for that position so James with a little encouragement from his editors has been finding out whether he's qualified to manage one of the world's best known monuments. The hinge on our young manhood is that. Tourists following their guides look around the Colosseum and imagine what it would have been like 2000 years ago one person the new director will now get to decide what it's like today that person may as well be me the job advert asks for at least 5 years' experience managing archaeological sites Well I have 5 years' experience visiting sites if outsiders with little experience can be elected to lead countries why can't they also be chosen to run ancient monuments the 1st thing to do is come up with a pitch. One potential idea for a new director is to rebuild the entire Coliseum the pyramids in Egypt having fallen down so really why should Rome have to live with half a coliseum. My 1st campaign stop is with just one and to my out there on a school trip from North Carolina. I'm just a reporter about thinking about applying for the job I mean Governor if you think you can do all this I'm sure there's a lot more behind the scenes what about rebuilding it don't touch you no no no you want to see what it would have looked like. Somewhere else yeah not here and there's like this you know Miles I know online that show what it would look like so just keep this here next hour Glenys and stand for Manchester What about rebuilding the other war the other half of the stadium not the major iconic to leave it as it is probably yes because that is when we went to Egypt and there was Raider in the space and in some ways it spirals the effect of what you're going to leave the ruins is there Astoria I'm surprised to see how quickly I back down but being flexible is surely a sign of strength so I change my job pitch from rebuilding to listening and I go to see tour guide Agnes Crowfoot she's been running tours of Rome for 13 years what needs fixing at the Colosseum the process of entering through security can be slow and occasionally discourteous the turnstiles very often don't walk properly the people who are manning the turnstiles have the patience of Job because it's a thankless task with a lot of slightly cross people. On the. Street. The opera singer Andrea Bocelli cheered everyone up when he sang at the Coliseum the turnstiles were probably working on a day another idea has cost. A bit of controversy when the coliseum to private firms there was a loss of paps lightly precious up for a lot about the defacing of the image of such a historically significant structure in one when one considers that the Coliseum saw 450 years of people being killed I think the occasional corporate dinner seems fairly small beer in comparison. At a museum in Rome almost drowned out by bells Italy's culture minister Dario French skinny tells an audience he wants the best people to run the city's monuments he will have the final say over the coliseums new director. Nerve wracking that my final appointment is with him based on a cabinet most variants of the Badger mold thought we're looking for people with a strong background in archaeologists art historians architects that also have experience managing a cultural side or a museum Naturally if you want to manage to come to see him in the Imperial forum. $6000000.00 this is just the year you need the same tiff acknowledge but also the management experience Europeans are going to demand of the law to contain a pothole and I think that in the Arab world it nationalities don't really count that they rector of the National Gallery is an Italian who arrived there for me but other than a grid the director of the British Museum is German so it's normal that what counts are the C.D.'s not the nationality of a lot of the level you work in this not to outsiders a lot of people putting up the cations coming in with new ideas I will put in the application as well with new ideas are you open to hearing from outsiders some of the liquidity that they have would fit in well we have job requirements to be admitted for the selection and we recently told the directors of the 20 top museums in Italy we received 400 applications it will be similar this time so you can definitely apply to when you need to fulfill the requirements because it would mean that the emperor turns his thumb down the minister's expression is clear don't give up the day job so long as I haven't blown that as well James Reynolds in Rome taking a bit of a gamble now here in the U.K. Some skin creams used to treat common ailments such as eczema have been linked to dozens of deaths the B.B.C.'s 5 Live investigates program has found evidence that the paraffin used in medical moisturizing treatments is leaving some people at risk of setting themselves on fire in the most extreme cases with fatal consequences later in Goldberg is the presenter of B.B.C. 5 Live investigates So which of the creams in question Jamie these are the creams that are used to treat conditions like eczema and psoriasis very common. Skin conditions in many cases by consuming paraffin which of course is extremely flammable just have a listen to this this is the story of Carol hose husband Phillip he was being treated for psoriasis at a hospital in Doncaster in South Yorkshire in the U.K. When he accidentally set himself on fire his wife received a call from the hospital telling him to get there as soon as possible. Cole finally sneaked off on to a London for a sneaky cigarette. When most of caught the wind to set fire to him what was the role of the skin creams that he was using in his death it was soft white power of thing mixed with liquid power thin. The skin inside to grease and when you wear that there was a fire risk associated with those creams now they say that they are one thing but nobody told me that it was highly flammable No that's the testimony of Carol her Adrian that happened some time ago were warnings issued after that yes that was way back in 2006 there was a warning then at the inquest which was carried out after Mr Holmes death in 2007 and an organization called the National Patient Safety Agency issued a warning so too after that did the an organization called the medicines and health care products regulator really all thorough but according to our research deaths related to paraffin based skin products have continued to occur across the U.K. There are $53.00 fire brigades and we asked all of them how many deaths that occurred relating to the skin creams since 2010 only 6 of the fire brigades provided us with that information but those 6 reported that there had been 37 fatalities connected with these paraffin based skin products but obviously as the vast majority of fiber guys didn't provide us with the information I think it's reasonable to assume that rum many many more deaths associated with these products than we currently know what now what are the makers of these creams saying well the makers of one of the creams that was mentioned by a coroner at an inquest in 2015 a protocol cetra Ben said that they intend to carry out a review of the site. The information now included on their product packaging the $45.00 again another common skin cream which was associated with one of the deaths in 2015 have now agreed to include a flammability warning on some of their products and in the U.K. Anyway those warnings will find their way on to shop shelves from next month and the trade organization that represents the manufacturers of these kinds of products as now said that of course while in normal cases in most cases these are safe products to use they are now going to discuss with their members to investigate where the safety warnings should be added to the pack so that people can be fully aware of the dangers of the skin creams when perhaps people might also be smoking or in bed close to a hater for a long period of time you know that's one thing I just wanted to ask for people listening to this presumably if they're using these might be rather alarmed if they just use them full stop Are they find is it a combination of factors that they need to be particularly careful about yes the incidents that wave investigated all have some other factor usually other related to people smoking in bed or being close to a very intense hate for example from a from a hater or perhaps from an open fire one of the difficulties there Jamie is that people who may wash their clothing might wash their bedding regularly and therefore might think that there is no risk associated as we've been told by leading firefighters that there is a risk that the paraffin can accumulate over time and can in some cases be resistant to washing sorry it can still present a danger even if you think you're being very clean but in all of the cases that we've identified there is an associated factor either a smoking or of intense heat being close to the bedding or to the to the clothing of the people who. Died The B.B.C.'s Adrian Goldberg You're listening to news around. Remind of today's main news residents in part of the Syrian capital Damascus have been ordered to stay indoors as fierce fighting takes place on the outskirts of the city a hardline Hindu religious leader has been sworn in as chief minister of India's most populous state Pradesh and the North Korean leader Kim Jong un has announced a revolution in the country's rocket program overshadowing a meeting between the U.S. Secretary of state and the Chinese president Xi Jinping one of the darkest episodes of modern European history was back in the knees this week the 1905 massacre at Srebrenica when more than 8000 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serb forces was dragged into the headlines by the Turkish president reptile purdah one to widespread consternation he blamed the Dutch UN troops who failed to prevent the killings of actually carrying them out but while the name Strabane its civil always be linked to an act of mass killing in the Bosnian town itself a new generation is trying to move beyond the events of more than 20 years ago now hoping that an ethnically mixed choir will help as Guy De Launay reports. Sure. Thing at. The end. The end. Of her end. Of. The end rally can acquire under song have been so well matched in Srebrenica the message of John Lennon's Imagine carries considerable weight. To the end and. The end. Nothing to kill Dolly for a new religion to the singers might have been in years after the notorious massacre in this town but they've grown up with the consequences of the conflict but dysfunctional to volley the country and on going this trust among the 3 main ethnic groups all SIAC Serbs and Croats the Super all quiet is one place where they can settle back to song and this is a safe place where they can expose their talents freely and also the Killers song and the life skills like discipline respect for others hard war and of course a sense of community is small Paul riches the choir it's rubber meets a super all music school we should never forget what's happened in 95 never but the future is coming we cannot live in the past it is proven by scientists that music changes the brain and in just a musical if you tell it suit you adapt. To improve your multiple skills we hopefully read change the perspective on The View all 400 children so far in the into or into a better way I'm sure of that hundreds of children come to quiet practice every week here in the center of minutes and then saw like this nondescript building something remarkable happens while Bosnia's politicians often seem to be doing that a place to reinforce ethnic divisions here they melt away. Sitting in the rehearsal room teenagers Harrison théodore and the worried about ethnic labels I guess I just was one would say during sleep I'm very happy because there's war knowing that someone or someone can see you that is forever and saves are just certainly faces there is such a mess. That I think the future of this project is so. Good because there were no people. Here looking weak friends. And ships and they came running to seem to play and. It's great. Fun wasn't he was. The Super all quiet perform this song for the pope when he came to Bosnia 2 years ago and they've also taken the Khomeini S. Message to other countries requires patron has the Austrian Doria she founded a charity to help people with time to strengthen itself after the war and hopes the exam. By super will continue to resonate. What do we want here we want to bring people together that we want that they can live the same way that we live that they have the same rights we are in the middle of Europe here this is 50 minutes by plane from Vienna so this is my wish for the next years odds are here in Bosnia that we give children a chance to live a better life than their parents had and they try so hard but parents do not have the possibility. As problems are far from over but of music really does help the brain and there's at least some hope for the future of Srebrenica. That report from Cybernet said was by a guy the law and I And that brings us to an end of this edition of News are from a James Kim Our saw me and the rest of the team thanks very much for listening until the next time. You're listening to the B.B.C. World Service which is also available to download whether it's global news in-depth analysis of the news from questions about the very fabric of the universe from crowd signs well to the best bits of the B.B.C. World Service are available as podcasts you can listen whenever wherever it suits you podcasts from the B.B.C. World Service to find out more go to B.B.C. World Service dot com slash called const. And in 60 minutes on the art star legendary Hollywood director Martin Scorsese Asian filmmaker clearing the chap don't want to have politician film. On the British crime office storms he tells us about damning all available on the B.B.C. I Player radio out of the B.B.C. World Service the world's radio station. And. 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