Impact of the cross-eyed as elections approach in Poland memories of the 2nd World War become a political battleground with the ruling party promoting a patch trail to. The German schoolers like. His repression their resistance. And just how bad is the traffic in Manila We'll tell you why it's now a political issue that's all coming up after the latest world news stay with News Daily. B.b.c. News Hello this is Gerry Smit state media in Iran say there has been an explosion on board an Iranian tanker about 100 kilometers southwest of the Saudi port of Jeddah Iran's national oil company said on its website the one of its vessels with hit by 2 missiles ground ferret reports details of the early morning explosions are still coming in official Iranian media say the missile struck within 20 minutes of each other about 90 kilometers off Jeddah the national oil company said the ship storage tanks had been damaged and all was spilling into the Red Sea There are conflicting reports about whether there's a fire on board or the crew are reported to be unhurt there's been no word from the Iranian government and no independent confirmation of the reported attack Republicans in the u.s. House of Representatives are planning sanctions against Turkey which is carrying out attacks on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria they oppose President trans decision to pull u.s. Troops out of the area Mr Trump has said he wants to help lead a mediation effort between Turkey and the Kurds about our correspondent in Washington Chris Butler says it isn't clear whether that strategy will succeed it feels on realistic at this stage for 2 reasons 1st of all just the scale of the bombardment that we have seen this way from the Turkish side into Syria but beyond that as well it's also worth pointing out that the u.s. Used to fight alongside the Kurdish forces are there is a real feeling among the Kurds that they have been abandoned and betrayed by their American allies who they fought I asked with they feel that essentially by President Trump removing troops from that border area there century gave the green light to Turkey to go ahead with this invasion and that is very strongly denied by the White House. On the ground in northern Syria thousands have been fleeing as Turkish troops capture villages and encircled the border towns of Ras al-Ain and tell of yards Turkey has defended its bid to create what it calls a safe zone free of Kurdish militias is also announced the death of the 1st Turkish soldier during the offensive the defense ministry said 3 others were injured east of the river Euphrates to Soviet born American political donors connected with Donald Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani had been ordered to give evidence to Congress next week as part of its impeachment inquiry into the president upon us and Eagle Freeman faced charges stemming from their alleged efforts to funnel for money to u.s. Political candidates the 2 men were arrested on Wednesday as they tried to leave the u.s. With one way tickets Mr Trump has attempted to distance himself from the path I don't know there's a gentleman I don't know about that I don't know what they do but I don't know maybe they were wired to bring it up there is really I just don't know. Well the news from the b.b.c. India's prime minister Narendra Modi will host the Chinese president Xi Jinping in the city of Chennai shortly at a 2 day informal summit they've been tensions between the 2 countries since India decided in August to revoke the special status of Indian administered Kashmir earlier this week to China called on India and Pakistan to resolve their differences over Kashmir through dialogue India warned Beijing not to interfere dramatic video published online in China has shown the moment that a highway overpass collapsed onto a road in junk supra vants instantly flattening several cars 3 people were killed and to enjoy it after a large section of the bridge briefly swayed before coming down one driver is seen having a lucky escape after he brought his 3 wheeled vehicle to a halt a metre away from the collapse. In motor racing the organizers of the Formula One Grand Prix in Japan her perspire and all practice in qualifying sessions there were shadow for Saturday because typhoon hug obese is due to pass by the circuit the qualifying session which decides the grid order for the race will be held on Sunday morning a few hours before the event is our motor racing correspondent Jenny go it's quite unusual for it to be called ahead of qualifying Normally they just run the clock down on a Saturday nothing much happens and then they'll have to qualifying on another point in time because this type you can predict where it's going to go to a certain extent they've made a sensible decision here straight to the late American musician princes lambasted Donald Trump saying the song Purple Rain was used in the president's election rally on Thursday in Minnesota without permission the estate said the use of the material violated an agreement it was drawn up last year after Prince's work had been used for previous campaign events by Mr Trump and those are the latest stories from b.b.c. News. Thanks for the news Hello welcome to News David James Carville and Carney sharp We'll find out more about that rain in tanker in a moment also today has Turkish forces advance into northern Syria we ask what impact that conflict will have on the civilian population in the area and culture wars in Poland the government pressures a new museum to the patriotic tone of its World War 2 exhibition takes us on anything you hear the number is possible 477-862-0508 extension 5. We start with that breaking story the reports coming in of an explosion that has struck an Iranian oil tanker not far from Saudi Arabia it comes at a time of heightened tensions in the region with Saudi Arabia backed by the u.s. In one corner and Iran in the other you may recall the dramatic recent attack on Saudi oil facilities which the Saudis and the u.s. Have blamed on Iran something denied by the authorities of course we can speak now to Kyung Sharifi from b.b.c. Monitoring what do we know so far. More Nick while you are says that the vessel was struck by 2 missiles they don't say where it came from the mess as apparently hit to the 2 making an. Oil storage facilities and the vessel. We just got a report that the oil spill into the Red Sea had and stopped so we have no idea if there has been any major environmental impact but I guess we'll find out. Some an issue reports were suggesting that there hadn't been casualties. Is that widely reported now Oh yeah they keep saying that there has been absolutely no casualties. That the vessel suffered minimal damage at least its body which I am that entirely certain how that's possible if there's been an explosion. But Iran insists that everyone is safe that the vessel is stable and this situation is quote under control I also see that the news agency in Iran is is saying that the vessel was struck in a quote terrorist attack when that word terrorist is used what does it usually meant to imply Well I need to clarify something there that was the initial report in the statement on the official statement by Iraq's national oil company there is no mention of the war terrorism or terrorist attack so I think they may have jumped the gun there but if we're going to continue talking about that that it is possible that Iran is suggesting that Saudi Arabia is involved in it because if you recall Saudi Arabia blames Iran for the on the special it is all still it last month and they did say that there would be payback we also had of course President Trump talking about the u.s. Being locked and loaded and prepared to back Saudi Arabia in its response as well given the tone that is usually taken in at similar moments of tension in the region How's your sense what's your sense of how the statements are what was sort of what sort of tone is being taken in the statements so far. So far as being very neutral with the state Mr has only been one statement and have been very careful not to blame any specific party they've only said that they've been attacked again not clarifying who was behind it I think they're waiting for for x. Percent less to get the attack and maybe come up with a response later and putting your analytical hat on. Saudi Arabia is is one possible source that the Iranians might blame who are other possible contenders . Given their region Israel would be the next possible. Source of blame for Iran but I'm not entirely certain they're going there just yet . Ok gantry from b.b.c. Monitoring thank you very much indeed and I've just seen the Reuters news agency they seem to have got a quote from the u.s. Navy's 5th Fleet which operates in the region so it was aware reports about the tanker but did not have any further information at this time we will of course keep you updated on this story on the b.b.c. World Service going to look at the business angle to this now assumes here what's been the impact on the financial markets Yeah I mean it's been a bumpy ride on the oil markets in recent weeks as James mentioned right at the start though September 14 attacks on the Saudis stay on Aramco facilities halt Saudi Arabia's crude output and led to the biggest jump in global or prices since the 1980 so make sense of these latest movements I'm joined by Michael Hewson c.m.c. Markets Good morning Michael before I want to do this today I looked at the chart the oil price I saw a big spike what's happened to the price this morning you know the oil prices up around about 1.7 percent on the day and it's coming on the back of a fairly big jump yesterday which was an optimism u.s. China trade talks were actually going well but I think this jump also needs to be said in the context of where we were about 3 or 4 days ago when we were actually at one month so while we are higher the market does appear to be taking this particular attack in its stride Nevertheless these incidents come against a pretty gloomy global backdrop I mean the i.m.f. Earlier this week was saying there's a slowdown expected in 90 percent of the countries of the world I mean if there is an escalation what will be the impact but the we saw I think we saw got an indication of that when the Aramco attacks took place in the middle of September we did see a very very big spike higher well above $70.00 a barrel now we've given back pretty much all of that and at the moment the demand picture I think is really taking center stage relative to the geopolitical picture I mean let's let's not forget that. The unrest in the Middle East is now. Not really anything new We've had a number of attacks at all time because I was the course of the past of the course of this year and this appears to be just another one it's really just a question of who gets the blame for it but what strikes me about this one is that it's not that different from some of the others that we've seen so far this year well Michael he said we'll see how the developments continue thank you very much. Now u.s. President Donald Trump says he hopes he can mediate between Turkey and the Kurds following a techie's assault on Kurdish forces in northeast Syria the president who pulled u.s. Troops out of the area earlier this week said on Twitter that he had 3 options but getting the 2 sides talking was his preferred one now and now they sanctions on the Republicans are trying to get a bill through that would put financial pressure on Turkey meanwhile more than 60000 people are reported to have fled the fighting in Syria let's hear from the International Rescue Committee Sanjay's 3 Konar that in a balance thank you very much for joining us Sanjay there's a possibility of displacing up to 300 people this this incursion displacing 300000 people in this area. That's correct and we counted track around $70000.00 have been already displaced and the frightening thing is that many of them the already been displaced many times before by fighting in other parts of the country and most of them are fleeing to places like Iraq a city which is in ruins after the defeat of the Iraqi the ISIS Caliph it and then there's very little in the way of water. Food Sanitation and we would have real concerns around the ability of people to cope with further fighting now well indeed because with these the civilians that are fleeing the camps old radio overstretch where could they possibly go to next or where aware of several schools being converted into collective centers What is harder is that many people naturally flee away from population centers when bombings starts hopeless gave that but it also makes it harder for us to access them and get them humanitarian assistance so that particularly those with vulnerable people children . It's boring that we don't know where they will go next and how we can help them and given the fact that many of these people have already been displaced multiple times already here they are facing another crisis what are your people saying to you on the ground. Well the i.r.c. Has 2000 staff across the north of Syria and Firstly there's just an artist sense of hopelessness people don't know where to go next northeast Syria has probably been relatively the safest part of Syria in this conflict and the fact that the conflict has now come here means that they've run out of options and there's a sense of desperation as well as fear for their for their children also there is the challenge also of more refugees and and the way in which Europe is going to be dealing with that have you actually thought about that in advance in terms of how when where these people can be rehung and. Well Turkey who has hosted 3600000 refugees has proposed to send a large number back to this strip of land that they want to create called a safe zone along the Syria border and what we would say is firstly that has to be voluntary on the part of those refugees but secondly it's not going to be anywhere near enough or safe enough in the long term unless there is a lasting peace in Syria and so there are no permanent solutions to refugees and where they might be housed without a peace process and that's what we're calling on all sides to adhere to and also to ensure on the international humanitarian law we can access these people who are being displaced but currently we can't reach him thank you very much that's a Sunday street you know than in Berlin he's from the International Rescue Committee speaking about the increasing number of people being displaced following that conflict in northeast Syria says news day from the b.b.c. With Kani and James top headline right now Iran's national oil company says 2 missiles have hit one of its tank has in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia time sport Hi Matthew morning James you talked a lot about Japan's Rugby World Cup group game against Scotland on the show yesterday remember it should hold for Sunday but is under threat from the typhoon currently heading to the country remember 2 matches were called off the were due to be played tomorrow world rugby say they will try to stage the Japan's got the match but if they can't it won't be moved or delayed it's got to be cancelled and that would have the effect of sending Japan through and deny Scotland the chance to have a whole them now the Scots have told the b.b.c. That they are taking legal advice on challenging world rugby I for that remember they did sign up to the playing conditions which said that matches in the pool stage wouldn't be moved in any circumstances but with so much training on the game they are determined to try to get it to go ahead might still happen on Sunday of course they want to make sure it happens whatever world rugby will resist they are expecting the weather to improve by so. A Formula One grown pre-qualifying has been delayed until Sunday morning in Suzuka a few hours ahead of the race and no focus on African sport today later well the build up to Elliott kept the guys attempt to break 2 hours over the marathon distance to try in Vienna on Saturday morning. Matthew thank you now the way is left by World War 2 runs deep in Europe and nowhere more so than in Poland where the fighting 1st broke out in 1939 the memories of the conflict are guarded carefully and those memories are now at the center of a legal and political route Yeah the ruling Law and Justice Party are demanding a mole patriotic tone from a new museum commemorating the conflict in the town of Poland is on the brink of parliamentary elections on the government's opponents say it's seeking to make political capital out of historical memory our Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly reports we're told. Have been falling for a week no less in this trailer for a new film called legions so often I feel I might qualify for the war pension paid to the cavalry soldiers from 915 took part in the battle of rocky path to portray. The other limits. The film feels like part of the new mood imposing a determination to tell historical stories not just about the death camps the Nazis built here of a Soviet occupation that followed the last war legions has romance of course swashbuckling officers with luxury and facial hair and dancing maidens but its real message is about how throughout history we find Poland fighting bravely even when the cards were stacked against it as they so often were maybe it's quite sentimental something romantic in there to make something for what will to happen people mysteriously good rides on historical beings for the opposition newspaper because that would be bullshit and will so she says films like legions like Union Polish may reflect a popular appetite for more heroic few with Polish history. Much more serious he argues is the way potent populist right wing can. Has intervened in the management of the new museum of the 2nd World War can be done to cost Poland throw in a warm a large right wing politicians and call them east and join at least they have a theory dats Leiber out each for last 20 years in Poland made some think what they call. A change which means that they believe that elites wanted only to show this black parts of Polish history and they didn't make people proud of it and so this is like a main off right we history call policy now to stand up from your niece and to make people trowed again of history but don't speak about to make something easy and it's just. This is just. The museum does offer a conventional history of the war of course describing for example have the Germans and Russians secretly conspired to partition Poland in $939.00 The critics say the museum's original goal of telling a story of global civilian suffering has been radically transformed into a meditation on how Poland was betrayed even denied by the British a place in the parade of victorious allies in London in 1946. Bed and a government appointed historian at the museum says critics exaggerate the scale of the changes and adds In any case that the narrative of betrayal is true we point out that it was sore Victoria or poor because we belong to the victorious countries formally what we have lost power so far need to have lost because of our True Tori we were not allowed to take part in very Victoria parade in London because Stalin didn't want you to. You know us you know we were not so important for our form oh oh I was. And fortify. Our army is reborn moving west where our soldiers are already fighting alongside the allies. You finish the tour of the museum there in a kind of tub thumping video game English version are rated by the Game of Thrones actor Sean Bean by the way it offers and unabashedly muscular tool of Poland's historical horizon. The German schoolers. As we crushed the resistance. The political writer crisper been ski no admirer of Poland's current Conservative government says the replacement of a new Won't historical thought with Patrick historical purpose is part of a desire by the governing law and justice party to widen its control of the national life to a degree that's worrying in a country which only emerged as a democracy 30 years ago after decades of Soviet occupation Russians wonder how we build a more honest functioning democracy to democracy and we're seeing that this miracle will go on. And questioning a lot of these games means showing when the potential for total destruction. With a more less one party system. Of hundreds of times. There is of course something more here than just the story of a museum with an eccentric final display Poland is heading for parliamentary elections soon and the conservative Law and Justice Party has a chance to win a rare outright majority in the struggle for power here it sometimes feels as though the past is as important a battleground as the future because we do not bank for freedom we fight for and. That's how Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly with that report. Cap's of the Philippines is notorious for its traffic jams and poor public transport but the presidential spokesman Salvatore Penhallow maintains people can still get to work on time if they leave home early enough and now he's put his money where his mouth is and made the journey and so on public transport to prove it can be done B.B.C.'s Howard Johnson in Manila is up for the challenge as well and joins us from the streets of the capital having lived in Dhaka in Bangladesh which has terrible traffic it's appalling here in Manila I've experienced it many times just look at the highway which is underneath this train station that I'm at you can hear the horns in the background of the buses waiting to pick people up as far as I can see there are windshields glistening in the light you can just see just cars bumper to bumper all the way into the horizon the problem here is really all 'd 4 and I have spoken to people who are waiting for jeepneys today they complain of having to queue up for the jeepney then sits in the jeepney that which is a bus that was adapted from jeeps from the American colonial period here in the Philippines is still used to this day some of them are quite old as you can imagine they belch out smoke so not only are you sitting in the back of one of these hot not air conditioned buses but you're consuming all the fumes from the road so traffic is terrible here in the Philippines and there needs to be something done because it's been going on now for years so when the presidential spokesman says Well are you going to leave a little bit earlier I mean how did that go down and how was his trip got along well people didn't really like it online those critics who say well we do that already and we're still late for work here today it's set off around 5 15 in the morning more details came through since our last interview it took him 3 and a half hours to get to work he used for jeepney buses the buses I was telling you about a minute ago and he used a motorbike ride at the end some kind so. Martin offered him a lift to the palace gates at the end so the opposition are saying this is proof that given the Took him 3 and a half hours to get into work that the transport situation here is in crisis he says that's not the case he said yes where the train system has broken down over the last couple of weeks that there was a crisis there but I spoke to commuters here at the train station earlier and also what they thought of Penaloza effort to get into work today. You suppose he doesn't understand. Our feelings very hard right would you think every day what would he feel like if he did it for a week he gets tired No it's not strange it's not you see you can see it from here not from the from the ends a long long way so that's is the main highway here and it's completely chock a block with traffic bumper to bumper to bumper to bumper Now if he just did he try to commute then pay gains Friday or even gaining see saying can you see any pain is there any you are asking to go home or you went home and they're proud because they send a bag taking a bus instead of Metro takes a very long time it took me 4 hours to get home now they're all on the way here to try to solve the problems here present we're going to tell he's put a lot of capital political capital into his bill bill build project which is to invest more money in infrastructure he had to building a Metro subway in this city it broke ground in February this year but it won't be complete until 2025 some 15 stations will be built commuters here say they would much prefer that project to be finished earlier there's also action to take away. Any sort of street furniture road so anyone who's selling food on the street they've been told by present to 30 back in July to clear up within 60 days some mayors have not. Followed along with the present eternity's directive and there are questions today about how many people have actually removed their shops from the streets but also these buses that plow the road here to the provinces where people go back at weekends to the countryside the bus operators have been told to drop off the passengers around the back of the terminals and not to do it on the street so to keep the ads the traffic flowing. And sound like it's like really does it hurt Howard Johnson in Manila I like the idea of the presidential spokesman saying look it's so easy to get to work 3 and a half hours and he made his point exactly this is big news day with Carney and James you want to stay with b.b.c. 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World Service with me Manuela. And in business daily shortly we're talking about they pings hazy future in the us multiple deaths and move them 1000 cases of mysterious long illness have been linked with a thing by America's health authorities what does it mean for tobacco companies who are betting that the cigarettes are the future that often use. B.b.c. News where Gerry Smit Iran's national oil company says 2 missiles have head one of its tankers in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia state media said there were explosions on board the vessel about 90 kilometers southwest of the Saudi port of Jeddah and the missiles struck within 20 minutes of each other reports said the crew were on hurt Republicans and the u.s. House of Representatives are planning sanctions against Turkey which is continuing its assault against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria the Republicans oppose President trance sudden decision to pull u.s. Troops out of the area saying it gave Turkey the green light for its offensive $29.00 Republicans will work with Democrats on measures that will include tougher penalties against Turkish leaders on the ground in northern Syria thousands have been flaying as Turkish troops capture villages and encircled 2 border towns India's prime minister Narendra Modi will host the Chinese president Xi Jinping in the city of Chennai shortly at a 2 day informal summit they've been tensions between the 2 countries since India decided in August to revoke the special status of Indian administered Kashmir China earlier called on endear and its strategic ally Pakistan to resolve their differences over Kashmir through dialogue indigenous protesters in Ecuador have paraded 8 police hostages in the capital Quito the officers were forced onto a stage in front of a cultural sit in front of a cultural center where thousands of demonstrators have gathered to Servia born American political donors connected with Donald Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been ordered to give evidence to Congress next week as part of its impeachment inquiry into the president the 2 men were arrested on Wednesday and a motor racing the organizers of the Formula One Grand Prix in Japan have postponed all practicing qualifying sessions showed you a percent today because of our time food and. Hello and welcome to business daily from the b.b.c. I'm Manuela coming up the future of they ping could all go up in smoke across the United States there are 121-4000 independent bait shops that act as many smoking cessation clinics they are being threatened with extinction in the next 4 weeks how a health scare about babying is threatening a sector that was supposed to say take tobacco companies we're highly committed to the future of aping we have over 300 scientists working on our scientific research programs we will prove the benefit that our partners can bring to the American consumer that's all in business daily from the b.b.c. . At least 18 deaths and more than 1000 cases of a mysterious long illness have been linked with a ping by health authorities in America it's led to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the c.d.c. To advise people to stop using vaporing products or east cigarettes some u.s. States have moved to ban vaporing and President Trump has said he wants a nationwide ban on flavored vaporing has become a very big business as I understand it like a giant version of Perl but we can allow people to get sick and we can't have our you be so affected people are dying with raping the babying industry is fighting back as is big tobacco we'll hear from them in just a moment but 1st many of those affected by this mysterious lung disease in the u.s. Are teenagers and in the main these teenagers were vapors of products made by one particular company an American company called Jewel it has about 75 percent of the market there jewels products are very popular amongst younger Americans with some alleging the company deliberately targeted this age group and its marketing Jerry Sullivan's 17 year old son Eddie was a Jew user when he was hospitalized and he woke up with a fever and. Saturday morning at the end of July and spent the whole weekend in bed just a routine fever had no appetite and that Sunday when we went to sleep he woke me up to tell me that he had vomited a few times and he was in some extreme stomach pain so we set off for the local hospital at 3 o'clock in the morning and they did all kinds of tests and they came back and told us that he had pneumonia so we went home took the different corruption medication they gave him the end of Iyonix and the following day he said it was really hard to breathe he had some pain in his chest and that his breathing was getting very labored and as the day went on It got more and more difficult and they put him into the pediatric intensive care unit and it wasn't until he disclosed to the doctors about some teenage issues that he had been bathing the doctors said that they're seeing more and more cases of this and the one doctor did not sugarcoat anything he basically said you cannot inhale any of these substances ever again or you will die your lungs will become sicker and sicker and eventually they'll just stop working kids need to understand how dangerous this is parents need to educate themselves I have to admit at the very beginning of all this I was very naive to what beeping was I didn't understand he tried to explain to me that it was it was Ok he justified it because it was mango flavored you know it's Ok mom it's just mango vapor and I think that if parents aren't educated they might believe that too and a lot of these devices are very discreet so sometimes kids are reaping right under their parents' noses and parents don't even understand that that's happening so what does the Us vaporing industry have to say about a tool Jewel has already stopped selling some of its flavored fakes amid concerns they encourage younger uses we all still for a comment but they didn't get back to us in time for this program but Gregory called me president of the American vaporing Association did this o.c.a. Ssion doesn't represent jewel but rather small and medium sized baking businesses in America and Gregory argues the u.s. Vaporing health care is. Is not being coolest by nicotine based baking products as we've seen states like California Washington and Oregon legalized marijuana in the past 56 years you have had these new oil based products come to market but the actual chemical makeup because it's an oil is incredibly different than the nicotine raping products that have been on the market in the u.s. In the u.k. For over 10 years the big problem is not the marijuana itself it is the chemicals the drug dealers are adding to the cartridges in order to thicken up the liquids or the pesticides that are sprayed onto the weed and so the exact cause of these illnesses are not known at the moment but virtually all of the national news reporters who are tracking the story daily none of them really truly believe that more than even a handful if any of these illnesses are being caused by traditional storebought nicotine dating products but how can you be sure that although they ping will ated illnesses that we're seeing in the u.s. At the moment ah coolest by these other elements of it we don't really know is not the point what we know from the c.d.c. Data is that the vast majority of people that are being admitted to hospitals are admitting to using illicit t.h.c. Cartridges and then among those that are saying that they weren't We have the quotes from doctors who have treated patients as well as health department officials talking about how many youth in particular youth and young adults when their mother when their father is next to them in a hospital bed asking them what they did end up in a hospital they don't freely admit that they were actually using marijuana products there remains no evidence after 8 weeks of the c.d.c. And multiple state health departments testing perhaps hundreds of different nicotine they've been products they've yet to find anything unusual in even a single nicotine dating product the other issue. Being brought to the pool with what's happening with the bathing industry in the us is that so many teenagers of aping and essentially becoming addicted to the nicotine isn't that a real concern as well another issue that's come out of this crisis it is a concern and it highlights the distinction between the u.s. Regulatory system and the system in place throughout the European Union the European Union through the tobacco products directive set a nicotine limit of 2 percent in nicotine dating products in America it is these products like Jewel jewels available in the u.k. But only in a 2 percent nicotine version in a 5 percent nicotine version as they are available in the us they are great for getting heavy adult smokers off of cigarettes but the reverse of that is that youth have discovered that if you take a big puff off of a jewel they get a head rush from it and so we want to see regulations in place that actually distinguish between high nicotine and low nicotine products but the way they used the America America's going is they're ignoring the high levels of nicotine and simply trying to pretend that flavors are the sole driver of youth taping and that's just not the case but that's just blaming the regulations I mean what's stopping companies like drool just reducing the amount of nicotine in their products that's a choice result a make I'm not here to defend your what we're worried about most is that across the United States there are 121-4000 independent shops that act as many smoking cessation clinics helping smokers find the product that's going to get them off of cigarettes those stores aren't really selling jewels they're only selling the very high nicotine products but nonetheless they are being threatened with extinction in the next 4 weeks just because the majority of youth who are vaporing are using one particular product from one company that's own one 3rd by are low. Are just tobacco companies something is wrong here when you're going to have all these small businesses that are dedicated to helping smokers quit that have a great track record of not selling to minors and they're going to be put out of business because some Silicon Valley tech company put their product out on the market without proper controls Gregory calmly of the American vaporing Association safe to say he's no fan of jewel but what to make of his claim that America's vaporing health scare is down to t.h.c. Oils and other things being added to nicotine cartridges used in vaporing products a question for Anna Gilmore She's professor of Public Health at the University of Bath in the u.k. And spokesperson for stop a global industry watchdog aimed at stopping tobacco organizations and products and that does appear to have some truth in it and I think at the moment they're still struggling to understand exactly what is causing this so they have now looked at that lungs you know taken samples from these lungs and shown the information but I think they can't yet narrow down exactly what's causing it or what mixture of chemicals is causing it but certainly appears that in a large number of the people affected t.h.c. Has been involved presumably will take years before they no I don't think it will take years now they can look at the histology it would take years to have a long term epidemiological study to understand all the different ways in which the cigarettes might impact on health but I think in this kind of outbreak if you like we will be able to learn quite a lot from studying that outbreak and what's been happening in the outbreak and using the historic from the samples there amid the point that the very association was making in the States again not an association of which Jew is part there was saying The point is that in the u.k. In other countries the contents of they ping materials is much more regulated than in the States and that these things matter yes that I mean the regulator context does absolutely matter so we do have a different record. Vironment here you know there have been I think a couple of cases elsewhere not necessarily the same but there have been some case reports here in the u.k. Written up that the situation is complicated because East cigarettes are potentially an opportunity in some ways but they're also a threat and the challenge for public health is to harness that opportunity so that smokers you know smoking cigarettes is incredibly deadly 2 out of 3 will die ultimately for from long term use so trying to help smokers quit is vitally important there is some evidence that the cigarettes can help smokers quit and if we can harness that potential you could lead to public health benefit the difficulty is that there are risks as I was saying alongside that and we have an industry that will try and promote these products to to anyone Professor Gilmore more from her again a little later the thing about America's they ping scare is that it's not just affecting Silicon Valley start ups like Jew This is a business heavily backed by big tobacco in many cases those selling vaporing products to teenagers or ex smokers or exactly the same people who used to sell them cigarettes do for example is 35 percent owned by the cigarette giant Altria or the big tobacco companies putting money into the development of so-called noncombustible it's supposed to be a growth strategy for the future and a tighter regulation and pooling smoking rates have a listen to on Drake the c.e.o. Of Philip Morris the world's largest tobacco company and maker of mobile cigarettes speaking to the b.b.c. Here recently their objective of the company that I set years ago is that we replace cigarettes as soon as possible with small 3 of them and we have invested $6000000000.00 in developing and commercializing this products. 92 percent of all are in the expense is in these new products that are smoke free and even more important 60 percent of any commercial activity we're on worldwide although worried a few countries yet with a small feel tentative is on these new products so cigarettes will be phased out over time and we do our best to convince people to sweet so how will they ping scare in the u.s. Affect big tobacco's commitment to they ping Imperial brands makes cigarettes like gold was it also makes of a ping product in the cigarette called Blue a rival to Jewel and the company's group commercial director of vapor products is Richard Hill I think in the short term the potential for the Kalak is very damaging because if there's a ban on flavors then the big risk is that all smokers who have switched of aping go back to combustible cigarettes does it does that mean the end of you there is as a unit of an old about of imperial brands now we're highly committed to the future of aping we've been on the market for 10 years and we have over $300.00 scientists working on our scientific research programs and working with the regulator particular in the USA We will prove the benefit that our products can bring to the American consumer but if there is a band will that keep going with those 300 scientists keep working is there a point to it anymore we're going to continue to invest in the science and product development to give those 1000000000 smokers worldwide the choice they want to sink less harmful alternatives because there's been such a positive benefit of aping on national health in the us over the last 10 years since they even became popular we can't afford to let out the Klein as a company is Imperial brands really putting all its money and investment in they paying or how much of of the investment that the company makes is still going into developing markets where people are smoking traditional tobacco products our whole focus in terms of our business development is on reduced risk products just this year we've launched pulsated tobacco in Japan we've launched the next on the container. New k. And we've expanded from $4.00 to $20.00 countries globally and Peru goes live next week so sales of our our new products were up by more than 50 percent this year but it's about the investment isn't it that's really where you get a sense of where the priority is for a company I mean are you an investment priority for imperial brands or is a lot of money still being invested in the company in in developing traditional markets we are absolutely an investment priority and the other side before we have a balanced portfolio of the back of only Katyn and they ping products and we continue to invest in the science and product development to give them smokers opportunity to do something less harmful Richard Hill So the big tobacco companies like Philip Morris and imperial brands insist that their future is invading but not everyone is convinced back to Professor Anna Gilmore of the stop campaign who we heard from earlier they were actually using this to rehabilitate their emission try and claim we've changed you know we want people to quit smoking but you know if you read what they're saying about that really it is hot air that they're claiming they want everyone to go smoke free but actually if they so they hate them this is Phillip Morris if they so they heated tobacco products just to current smokers as they claim you know their business model would die out so it's a fast court claim and actually there's overwhelming evidence that not only are they trying to sell their hated tobacco products they're trying to sell their cigarettes and really for them it's about maximizing sales of both products in the markets where cigarettes sales are declining they're particularly promoting heated tobacco products and then more in low middle income countries where there is still scope for cigarette sales to increase they're still promoting cigarette sales and obviously that you know the current situation does present a threat at least to some of them particularly those that are exposed to the cigarette market in the in the us and that's for example why we've seen the chief executive of imperial step down so where are tobacco companies making most of the money at the moment for cigarettes the most profitable markets are in the West so your history. America's interesting even though the leader of the markets where people are stopping smoking and moving on to vapor in products were partly that you know cigarettes are incredibly profitable because they're highly addictive so you can keep ramping up the price and up until now despite declining sales by ramping up the price they have been able to maintain their profits and for the 1st time that model is looking threatened so the lower middle income country markets absolutely are becoming more and more important to them if they ping is outlawed in America if it becomes illegal overnight and there is a concern amongst the investment community that this might happen would that necessarily spell the end of these tobacco companies of these cigarette makers you know he cigarettes are just one product we've also got heated tobacco products and we've still got cigarettes they will continue to sell the other products you know and these are companies that are resilient you know they have faced a lot of threats and overcome them within the tobacco companies there are some that are more dependent on the cigarettes and the Us market for the cigarettes and those will be most threatened here but I don't think it would spell the end professor and a Gilmore ending this edition of Business Daily do get in touch with your thoughts the Twitter handles or at b.b.c. Business or at b.b.c. And if you've missed any previous editions of the program you'll find them all wherever you usually download your podcast don't forget to leave us a review a good one preferably Business Daily is back again on Monday. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service and now witness history and to end our week of special programming to Mark Black History Month in the u.k. Today we're going back to World War 2 when the 1st American troops started arriving in Britain in 1982 among them with thousands of African American G.I.'s behind a Haida has been speaking to Babs Gibson Ward one of the children born as a result of their mother's relationships with African American soldiers when black American G.I.'s arrived in Britain in 1980 the u.s. Department of Defense produced a film to educate the young men about what sort of welcome they might receive the former that I have been very nice meeting you rather met here you're funny you should come from the room to rebuild it if you come to my dad when you come to my home in Africa it's estimated that at least $2000000.00 American servicemen passed through the u.k. During World War 2 and tens of thousands of them were black and let's be frank about it there are college soldiers as well as fight here and there are less social restrictions in this country that's what you heard an English woman asking a colored boy to pay she was polite about it and he was polite about it now but that might not happen at home but the point is we're not at home the point is if we bring a lot of prejudices here what are we going to go back to when the African American G.I.'s was stationed in Britain u.s. Army forced them to abide by the racial segregation laws that applied in the u.s. Lucy Bland is a historian and the author of Britain's brown babies it's a circle. On 48 vast majority came from the Deep South and white Jr's attack. With impunity that's what her shocking the thing is the American soldiers were all under the jurisdiction of the American military so they had very particular join. The backyard's Bay came and built the air bases they were not allowed to fly they built the air bases the men tain the planes they weren't allowed in Britain to bear arms the black soldiers often formed positive relationships with local people their man as an attitude made them stand out from their white American counterparts they were pretty much all over the country particularly sort of Home Counties eastern area and these areas were very white areas very white areas many people had never seen a black person before except probably on the film and how were the black g.i. Said treated by the locals. Well about your eyes were awful really liked and they were seeing as much more attractive than the white Jr's because they were seen as much polite so I think for many they were very attractive but no matter how attractive black she is' in the segregated us army with a bed for marrying their white girlfriends although the u.s. Military denied that there was an actual law every had to get permission from the commanding officer and invariably the commanding officers who were white would refuse it and if pushed their rational was that back in the States there were then 48 states 30 had and decision as you laws laws that forbade marriage between whites and blacks and. Local people in it which were very surprised at how badly the black G.I.'s were treated compared to the white Babs Gibson was is one of about 2000 babies born to white British women and black American G.I.'s during World War 2. The people in East Anglia were very supportive of the black G.I.'s and so they would invite him to their homes invite him for family meals the family that I was born into they got to know my natural father their well Bab's his mother was already married to an English naval officer and she met a black us Air Force engineer as adults. I guess one thing led to another when they started socializing with the local g.i. And they had you know parties and dances and things like that going on. In their relationship started to form and both my mother and her sister paired up with. Her mother fell pregnant in 1944 but she never told her black g.i. Boyfriend about the baby he returned to the us without knowing when her mother's Navy officer husband returns after the war he didn't call. Russian whether he was Baptists father until later my skin was very fat and so she thought I think that she was going to get away with it and pass me off as as his that by the time the following late spring happened my skin started to darken significantly and it was obvious that I wasn't his child my step father when he realized I was put out in the garden at the bottom of the garden and not allowed to come into the house which meant that she knew that I would have to be put into care when she was just 5 months old Babs was sent away from her family in Ipswich she lived in a children's home for the next 4 years then a foster family came forward and it seemed like a new start but Babs faced racial abuse at school people in the neighborhood wouldn't allow their children to play with me most of the hostility was actually encouraged by my classroom teacher he would take me out into the playground with the children and tell them that I could climb a pole like a monkey climbs a tree and then the other thing he did was he sat me at the back of the classroom and he would tell the other children that I didn't have the same brain as white children when our foster mother died Babs was removed from her foster family and placed in another children saying she was 10 years old 3 years later have birth mother came to collect it was not the reunion that Babs had expected the matron introduced me to this woman who she said was my mother and she was a total stranger so I looked at her and I was puzzled because not only was she a total stranger but she was white and I couldn't make sense of any of this because I always thought my natural mother would be like me at this stage Bob did you know anything about your mother no. Absolutely nothing until that day when you were 14 yeah yeah yeah and how were you feeling I didn't have to say I had to go home with her. And I didn't want to Babs Gibson would had a difficult relationship with her birth mother he would split up with her husband and was abusive to her mixed race child eventually Babs left home and trained as a nurse it was at this point that she started to try to find out more about her birth father but even getting basic information from the Children's Charity been orders which held her records wasn't easy they didn't want to give any information to me they just said they had a duty to protect other people's relationships not lives and it wasn't until there was the Freedom of Information Act that was passed that I decided to have another go and I went down to the nodders to ask to see my records and once I got those records then I started to trace my my roots really in America my father was alive up to he's 89. But then died of cancer and so I never met him and what did it mean to you to find this American family and to find out more about your birth father I think for me it means that at least I have some understanding of where I come from and it would be lovely just to know that they're interested in me as I am interested in. Many of the so-called brown babies now in that early seventy's have spent a lifetime searching for their parents and Babs legs that being able to trace her father she is one of the lucky ones not to know anything about yourself this is really tough to go through life in a family and have a whole neighborhood not want to play with you not want to let their children play with you and not to understand why other than that you're the wrong shade and I never wanted to be anything different to what I was I just wanted to be accepted for who I was. 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News Hello this is Gerry Smit Iran's national oil companies says one of its tankers has been hit by 2 missiles off Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast it said this ability which can carry about a 1000000 barrels of oil was struck nearly 100 kilometers from the Saudi port of Jeddah early on Friday the B.B.C.'s Qian Sharifi is following the story Iran says that a mess also apparently hit too many an oil storage facilities on the vessel we just got a report that the oil spill into the Red Sea had and stopped so we have no idea if there's been any major environmental impact they keep saying that the vessel suffered a minimal damage at least its body and that entirely certain how that's possible at this plant explosion but Iran incest that the vessel is stable and this situation is quote under control Republicans in the u.s. House of Representatives are planning sanctions against Turkey which is continuing its assault against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria the politicians oppose President Trump sudden decision to pull u.s. Troops known to the area saying it gave Turkey the green light for its offensive $29.00 Republicans will work with Democrats on measures that will include tough penalties against Turkish leaders are Washington correspondent Chris mark in reality it's Congress that has been leading not charge in Washington rather than the white eyes and in fact President Trump is kind of being forced on the roots by the fact that so many Republicans in Congress members of his own party are saying it's time to take action we cannot lie this to take place on the ground in northern Syria thousands have been fleeing as Turkish troops capture villages and encircled the border towns of Ras al-Ain and tell of yard Turkey has defended its bid to create what he calls a safe zone free of Kurdish militias indigenous protesters in Ecuador have paraded 8 police hostages.