Hello I'm Debbie Ross with the b.b.c. Nice China has branded the u.s. Malicious after President Trump signed into law a bill that seeks to support the autonomy of Hong Kong Beijing has promised counter measures the new law requires Washington to monitor Beijing's actions in Hong Kong the u.s. Could revoke the special trading status is granted the territory if China undermines the city's rights and freedoms one of the leaders of Hong Kong's protest movement Joshua won't from the group them a sister said there was a clear message to leaders in Hong Kong and China the escalation of the civil unrest is not the pass on protester at that has all the government which do suffer a humanitarian crisis is still far away for us to investigate 'd proliferate polity in a filter that was just overcrowding is that of home call and get lobbying the world a lot the world just have a phone call the police have now entered the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong to gather evidence and look for any remaining protesters following a siege their offices collected hundreds of homemade bombs and were dusting them for fingerprints the cleanup will take some time following fierce battles between police and demonstrators. Iraqi security forces have killed at least 13 anti-government protesters in the southern city of Nasiriyah the violence comes a day off to demonstrators attacked Iran's consulate in Jeff angry at Tehran's alleged interference in Iraq's affairs his militant patients video footage being streamed online shows some protesters throwing stones and others using slingshots at the security forces hundreds of demonstrators have been killed in 2 months or vanity government demonstrations that have been golf the rank the protesters are calling for a mentor rampant government corruption and want more jobs and public service ace Meanwhile Iran has condemned the demonstrators who set their raining Concha lights on far in the city of no Jaf this is the 2nd time this month that an Iranian consulate in the country has been attacked by demonstrators a planned 3 day general strike in Lebanon to push for the formation of a new government has been called off by its organizes Jeremy Bowen is in Beirut these protests have been going on for 6 weeks now and they're happening because a lot of people protect the young people of very very fed up with the way that this country operates and there's a particular system here where important jobs are split between the different religious groups and the idea behind the system is to try to keep together this you know very diverse country but the complaint is that the leaders are out of touch that corrupt that the whole system is corrupt and breeds corruption and they want root and branch reform well nice from the b.b.c. . South Korea's military says North Korea has fired 2 unidentified projectiles into the sea from its east coast the Japanese coast guard said one device appeared to be a missile Japan's prime minister Shinzo RB said North Korea's repeated missile launches were a threat to the whole international community the incident follows the firing of 2 short range projectiles by Pyongyang last month both landed in waters between North Korea and Japan Pyongyang has tested at least 3 new weapon systems in recent months for the 1st time the New Zealand government and the country's national airline have apologized to the families of 257 people who died in a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago the disaster was originally blamed on the pilots but an inquiry later accused the airline of a cover up because it had changed the plane's navigation system without telling the crew the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say 3 health workers have been killed in attacks on a boat or treatment centers in the east of the country 4 others were critically injured in the 2 attacks carried out by suspected my my rebels the World Health Organization condemned the assault it moved dozens of staff this week because of mounting insecurity Japanese beer exports to South Korea fell to 0 last month as the 2 countries remain locked in a bitter dispute r.-a.z. Pacific editor Michael Bristow reports sales of brands such as Kiran unnecessary have plummeted this year is South Koreans boycott Japanese products with Tokyo has now said that not a drop of amber nectar was exported to South Korean October previously the market was worth more than $70000000.00 a year the argument between the 2 countries began over Japan's use of Koreans as forced labor during the 2nd World War It's now spilled over into diplomacy in trade for the Japanese products including noodles and cars have also been affected b.b.c. News. Hello this is Dan Damon with world update from the b.b.c. In London thanks for listening on our program today we'll hear from Moscow what to Russia's hopes of continuing to compete in international sports following a series of doping scandals and the writer Clive James has died after a long battle with leukemia we'll hear him reciting some of his last published poetry and we'll speak to one of his best friends that's coming or little later Stay with us only a few days ago u.s. President Ronald Trump said he was reluctant to sign into law or sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials said to be behind beatings and abuse of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong Xi Jinping China's president is a friend of mine said the president but the law had been passed by both houses of Congress by veto proof majority is and so the president had little choice but to sign it not surprisingly China's reacted angrily President Trump said he didn't acted the bill in the hope that leaders and representatives of China and Hong Kong will be able to amicably settle their differences leading to long term peace and prosperity for all China says it's unwarranted interference some will chew is managing director of the Hong Kong democracy Council and independent organization based in Washington he told the b.b.c. The signing of the bill is a significant moment this represents a new era and a new phase DUIs honk all policies and relations and also a lot of new day in u.s. China policy relations because what this bill does it shows that the u.s. Is now really seriously stepping up to fulfill its obligations to Hong Kong Let's speak to our correspondent Stephen McDonell who's in Beijing tell us more about China's official reaction Stephen. Well the official reaction has been a furious one even by Chinese government standards the Chinese government has promised some sort of response some sort of. You know serious countermeasures but without saying what they will be if the u.s. Doesn't change its mind very quickly on this now according to Chinese government spokesman this is quote an extremely abominable move which showed that the u.s. Was harboring absolutely sinister intentions you know this is pretty tough language coming from the Chinese government at a time when the u.s. And China are supposed to be solving this this trade war that's been going on between the the u.s. Ambassador in Beijing has been calling for the 2nd time in a wake. And stead was told by vice foreign minister low you chunk that China wants the u.s. To change its mind to actually all over turn this bill well I can't see that happening given that it was overwhelmingly passed especially in the Senate I think it was carried on the voices by you know an absolute 100 percent majority So Donald Trump would feel the had little choice but to pass this bill or this came after him sending some very strange mixed messages early on or maybe he'll sign it maybe what Xi Jinping is his friend this type of thing and it's left many in China kind of scratching their heads wondering what he meant by all of that especially when he said that the only reason troops had not come into Hong Kong from mainland China was really that a conversation with the Chinese president and. Told him not to do that with trade relations Well I think a lot of analysts doubt whether that conversation really to place whether he really even said that from the Chinese point of view they did say he wanted to harm those driving isolations Well this whole call Bill is one way to do it Stephen thank you Stephen McDonell in Beijing that's big to know Dalton David alternate member of the British opera house of parliament the House of Lords and vice chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong and your just back from the territory Nordenholz and what you think about us bills on until there were 2 bills which would pass the 1st one requires the u.s. State Department to $35.00 least annually the Hong Kong retained enough or Ptolemy to justify favorable u.s. Trading terms and it also threatened sanctions for human rights violations and the 2nd bill bans the export of tear gas pepper sprays rubber bullets stun guns and the rest all the things that we've seen in use on the streets in Hong Kong over the last 5 months now I don't think this is so much about the Senate and the House of Representatives suddenly becoming anxious about trade wars I think it's because it's seen what has happened over these last 5 months and they saw what happened on Sunday when some 3000000 voters turned out 3 quarters of whom voted for pro-democracy candidates defending the 2 systems in one country and it's because of the erosion of their autonomy the erosion of human rights the erosion of the rule of law that we have seen this extraordinary backlash so I'm not surprised that the the. Congress has passed this legislation and I suspect we'll see comparable legislation passed in the United Kingdom by our own houses of Parliament indeed there are bills currently being drawn up to that effect doesn't it mean though because those elections local elections yes but they were held peacefully and they came out with a result that was in favor of the pro-democracy candidate. Doesn't that mean that measures from outside from the u.k. From the us just going to play into the hands of the authoritarian but the whole point about these bills is that they don't require anything to be done if the existing treaty international treaty signed by both sides Britain and China based on the 184 agreement on the handover 997 if that is all know the none of this happens anyway so it now is down to Beijing and the authorities in Hong Kong to respond not just to Congress that to respond to the people of Hong Kong they should boldly turn these councils the district councils that have now elected pro-democracy Council councillors in 16 of the 17 authorities where they have control give them immediately a consultative role devolve decisions and opportunities to the Pioneer reforms and then maybe the Hong Kong government will come to see the elections of a decisive turning point replacing the need to protest the paralysis that we've seen with some leadership and commitment that demanded by the voters and indelibly printed on that landslide of ballot papers you said so I think this week on Kong as the new front line in the clash of value systems What did you mean I meant that you can choose between autocracy and or democracy and the people of Hong Kong who were told how to vote by Keri Lam the chief executive they were told how to vote by Beijing and they did the opposite because they do not want one party one state system they want 2 systems in one country which is what they were promised in the treaty that was made between Britain and China so yes this is a clash of fundamental importance and we must stand with the people of Hong Kong because when you see some of the things that are happening now in the reversal of the very welcome reforms that have taken place in China you see things like the 1000000 Muslims now incarcerated in June Jennings who freedom of religion or belief has become almost worthless. John you see dissidents and defectors incarcerated you see the suppression of freedom of speech through the Internet and you see the can the complete. Denial of any kind of democratic reform all the chance of ordinary people to have their say and we think back to what happened to gallivant Square when 10000 Pro democracies were killed so Hong Kong has look over the wall they see what could be coming their way and they want the international community to stand with them so I think we should welcome what the American Congress has done that we should also or others should be stepping up to the plate and standing with the people of Hong Kong Lotos and thank you that's no David Alton from the House of Lords in the u.k. Just back from Hong Kong curfew has been declared in several cities in Iraq and security forces of shot dead at least 13 people in the southern city of Nasiriya during protests there this morning overnight the Iranian consulate in the holy city of Najaf was burned down the protesters blame Iran for sure enough the Shia dominated government of democracy which is accused of corruption and failing to help Border Iraqis in their search for jobs and decent conditions I spoke to John Davidson his Reuters bureau chief in Iraq I asked him 1st about that fire at the Iranian consulate overnight at about probably after 10 o'clock maybe 11 o'clock at night protesters in the city of Niger in the south basically stormed the Iranian consulate and set fire to RINGBACK it I believe or parts of the compound were torched So it's basically been burned down. And now curfew has been imposed when. The There's a curfew in Jeff today this morning there's also been a curfew imposed in the city of Nasiriyah which is also in the south and this is an effort by the authorities to really try to clamp down and to calm the situation because you know this is an escalation by protesters by by setting fire to a consulate of Iran in one of Iraq's holy cities the majority of Iraqis are Shiites and Iran is a Shiite nation so why is Iran being targeted Well I think in Iraq you have a bit of a Disappearance of sort of sectarian feeling now so the fact of being Shiite doesn't necessarily make you cry Iran Iran is you just propping up a government which is seen as corrupt which is seen as having done nothing 1st for Iraq's population despite relative peace over the last couple of years and despite me much less Kerry and rhetoric in much less sectarian violence and the majority of people who are who are protesting on the Shiite as you say so this is a reaction by a very very poor dispossessed majority against a ruling elite which is which is backed by Iran. And now the authorities have set up these joint military civilian crisis cells putting the army on the streets doesn't sound like a recipe for calming things down yeah we're not sure exactly what this will me in it means that the military are taking over as we understand it more directly the security forces and services in provinces in Iraq in southern provinces so these will still be led by the civilian provincial governors but it's true it is it is does seem to be making the military more directly involved in quashing the rest I think the response to the burning of an Iranian consulate in one of Iraq's major cities in the south is bound to be more violent and as we've seen you know today this morning I think based 14 people were killed in Syria. Not just itself is very tense What's been the response of the Iranian government. Not aware 'd of any response from them directly so presumably at some point they will respond but it will be quite a case of condemning protesters in Iraq because as being violence and attacking public institutions including their consulate this is a message which the Iranians and which the Iraqi government will want to convey is that you know look not all Iraqi protesters are peaceful and there are a lot of bad eggs here and we should put down the violent protesters any any way that we can according to our count now 360 people have been killed in the protests would the government of Iraq be able to respond to these protests in a way that would satisfy the demands of the protesters. Based on current form you know because the government has promised so very very little compared to the demands of protest that people are asking for the government to to leave out completely and they're asking for an overhaul of the system of government in Iraq so all that the government has offered in return has been faith electoral reform some jobs for for graduates some stipends for core people and better housing but these are not kept pace with the growing demands of protesters and now say you know we want the entire government out and the government doesn't look like it's going to do it John Davidson Reuters bureau chief in Iraq speaking to us from Baghdad this is wild update from London. And coming up later on our program will remember the Australian essayist critic writer and poet Clive James whose death was announced yesterday so full of fizzing pills that if you hit me with the stick I would spill like a pin Yeah in a bonbon of colors I ride my wheelchair down the hill to the 1st of all with all of us escort the footpaths are packed with families with tarts total loft on stronger shoulders than anything I've had to offer for far too many years I have James reading part of his last poem We'll hear more of that and from one of his friends later our top story China has won the us little retaliate after President Trump signed into law measures approved by Congress supporting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong this is the b.b.c. . You're listening to World update this is Dan Damon in London we are much more aware of rubbish and pollution that we put into our environment tackling waste and in particular plastics in our seas and oceans now recognized as a priority for many people many governments around the world in some places though the damage has already been done like the Black Sea for decades it was a dumping ground for agricultural industrial waste from southeastern Europe things got so bad scientists considered parts of the Black Sea to be entirely dead our correspondent Jonah Fisher has spent the last few months visiting countries bordering the Black Sea and travelling upon it. Our black sea journey begins hundreds of kilometers inland at the Dinny probe river in Ukraine near. The negro isn't roaring any more here on your own it's moaning This is Alex on that she still cough and Auntie pollution activist we've met him at a part of the Disney pro where the water has turned thick and who really green what it isn't off before then your 1st thought of these green weeds have grown quickly because a phosphate seen the water this is what's known as blooming It happens when excess nutrients often from fertilizes course growth in alky starving the water of oxygen that any pro is one of the biggest rivers flowing into the Black Sea and decades of regular blooming has killed large parts of it creating underwater deserts where only jellyfish thrive. An extent is on the Black Sea as far eastern coast in Georgia and the tourist is there with the waste disposal problem so this is the main rubbish dump here but to me obviously it's pretty disgusting full of. Animals scavenging off. Of the rubbish people too and the big issue fare is that it's only about $3400.00 metres from this rubbish. To the Black Sea itself and there's a waterway which basically leads all the way down there and the rubbish gets washed down into the water but to me is an example of how easily a poorly managed to waste can get into the sea Jaroslav is the head of an e.u. Funded project called m blasts that monitors pollution levels in the blank see the have already kind of disturbing evidence that. The very later just number of floating items per square kilometers almost double compared to Mediterranean Sea It's the worst situation from all European cities. To trample on a research vessel right into the middle of the Black Sea is worrying news about what the scientists are discovering in the world illicit drugs painkiller stuff like ibuprofen and because Peter Oswald is from Slovakia and we chat as he gathers water samples the biggest threat is coming from pharmaceuticals specially from antibiotics and that's because if it antibiotics in the Black Sea That means the bacteria is going to develop here that will resist the antibiotics and mean that ultimately that medicine doesn't work anymore yeah this is not a real problem people are dying for that the news is undoubtedly Bant but it's not completely bleak. I'm now in Hungary it's. Hardly the most obvious place to cover to for a story about a sea but the Danube runs through here it's one of Europe's longest rivers and it's the biggest one that flows into the Black Sea Now the Danube is interesting because it's been the subject of a massive international cleanup operation so this is basically a river of human. This is the water treatment plant in Budapest completed 9 years ago it's helped the city clean up its rather embarrassing toilet issues as Gap or Lingen explains. Saw our own. Going directly to the venue. And this one. Or most 9596 percent of the whole of. The street over the last 20 years have seen a water treatment revolution all along the Danube with the European Union the driving force of change providing billions of euros for treatment plants and forcing new members of the e.u. To meet tough pollution rules. The evidence from where they're now cleaner Danube flows into the Black Sea now suggests that the nearly dead piece of water is coming back to life and scientists like Yaroslav slip Bogdaniec are allowing themselves a cautious note of optimism in very very general terms then they will be putting it in one else is the. Recovery. No one's getting carried away but there is now at least hope that after decades of destruction and abuse this environmental horror story just might be turned around. Him. Official reporting on the Black Sea Some good news for lovers of indigenous languages Scottish Gallic is undergoing a revival admittedly from a low base there are just $60000.00 fluent speakers in Scotland little more than one percent of the population but a new app which allows people to learn the language has been downloaded 20000 times and I should at this point declare an interest I live in Wales I've learned Welsh Of course I approve of all this kind of thing but when I spoke to Jim one ally who's a Gallic teacher not born into a galaxy King family and who learned at school he's one of the people behind the app I asked him why should people Gallic when they can probably get by in English in a sense getting by in English is not the issue the issue is culture throughout the world and in this case the indigenous culture of Scotland celebrated and promoted and how diversity within cultures across the world is promoted and enriched so there's an understanding that a variety of cultures in the world enriches the world and some sort of more new cool black and white world where only English getting by in English is acceptable just is not a vision for the century what happened to Gallic there was 100 years ago in Wales a very strong effort to eliminate the Welsh language what happens in California Absolutely exactly the same process took place where. It was replaced. People even from. 1000 thirties and forties and maybe even into the fifty's where we were discouraged but actually beaten in school for talking Gallic so Scottish girl it was this place was new official position and was getting really discouraged and that of course over the centuries has led to a decline in there in the language and that's New being that they are there's a national plan for Scottish Gallic which on the. Or own 60 public. Organizations which of their own individual plans to promote and extend the use of the line which So it's a very exciting thing for Scottish Gerlach Now you're a learner aren't you so what yes I school What's your favorite phrase Jim Well there's all right if phrases but possibly something that would be relevant for for people listening is to look sane yes and asked You're never too old basically to be learning so that's a good more too for Jew lingo it's all integrity and maybe something which I always thought was square and they skein of approach from a Scottish cultural context to do with it he can ye goo yet it's equal So 3 things come unwanted necessarily or unbidden love jealousy and fear that's Jim one alone who has been involved in developing an app to help people Gallic this point and give you a wonderful well swerd and Spartak atheist it means better than excellent and sporadic atheist let it take you through the day this is wild update from London. Now on the b.b.c. World Service a new 3 part series meeting teenagers trying to change their world it's just Stella Bowles m s m m s n stands for Meritorious Service Medal and that's the word I received from the Governor General of Canada last summer Stella Bowles is a citizen scientist whose grade 6 science project created waves of change in her hometown in Nova Scotia she achieved what we couldn't she shaved the politicians it was cool to see even as such a young age how much she has been able to do at 15 she's not old enough to vote but she's already convinced the Canadian government to start an environmental project which will cost over $15000000.00 Canadian dollars I'm Sandra cantle I'm meeting inspiring teenagers around the world who are determined to do with they can to make a difference the kids are old writes at b.b.c. World Service dot com. This is what I take with them Damon coming up Russia's future in international sport the World Anti-Doping Agency says a 4 year ban is the only way to dissuade officially sanctioned cheating out of the Russians respond the latest on the deadly flooding in Kenya and will remember the Australian writer Clive James here his last poem and speak to a friend those stories after the latest news headlines. B.b.c. News with Debbie rests Iraqi security forces have killed at least 13 anti-government protesters in the southern city of Nasiriya your thirty's had been trying to clear a bridge that demonstrators had occupied for days similar protests have continued across Iraq for nearly 2 months. China has called the u.s. Malicious after President Trump signed into law a bill that seeks to support the autonomy of Hong Kong Beijing has promised counter measures though it's not said what they might be the new law could see the u.s. Revoke the special trading status is granted Hong Kong if China undermines the territories rights and freedoms the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say 3 health workers have been killed in attacks on Ebola treatment centers in the east of the country 4 others were critically injured in the Tory province the attacks were carried out by suspected my my rebels the New Zealand government and the country's national airline have for the 1st time apologized to the families of 257 people who died in a plane crash in Antarctica the disaster 40 years ago was originally blamed on the pilots but an inquiry later accuse the airline of a cover up South Korea's military says North Korea has fired 2 unidentified projectiles into the sea from its east coast the Japanese coast guard said one device appeared to be a missile police in Italy have arrested 51 people suspected of being part of the biggest drugs gang in Rome some 400 police officers were involved in raids around the capital and in southern Italy a senior Afghan politician has called for the return of the country's historic artifacts from other countries saying Afghanistan is now able to protect them he was speaking at an event to mark the return of more than $500.00 stolen or smuggled items included a headless stone sculpture of the Buddha. You're listening to World update from the b.b.c. In London hello this is Dan Damon Let's go to Moscow Russia's a limpid Committee has wrapped up a meeting today they're after an announcement on Monday by the World Anti-Doping Agency that Russia should be banned from all global sporting events for 4 years this after water found that a number of positive drug tests have been deleted from a database that it got from a Moscow lab in January this year will it speak to a local dealer for our correspondent because the Russian Olympic Committee has been responding what are they saying all that well Russian sports officials they stand on the ship which is clearly in trouble but they pay very close attention to that cautions and their postures they had off the Russian Olympic Committee call Stanislaw wasn't off spoke briefly after that meeting he chose to stress that normally aims his organization and he says it's business as usual that the committee is working on shaping up the Olympic squad for the talker games and in his opinion the fact that no one blames Russian Olympic Committee means that no I'm quoting him there are no objective obstacles for Russia's full fledged participation in the games which is clearly not what the why are they saying because they're holding a meeting next month in Paris at which the executive committee might easily approve this request that Russia has banned from not only the Tokyo Olympics but from international sport for 4 years they just said it doesn't mean anything. Well I think though the biding their time the Basically basically Russia Russia can do very little in this situation but just to wait and see what the final verdict will be reminds me of the events of 20152016 where pretty much the same scenario was playing out and there was a recommendation there was a report and then there was a final pronouncements on this and the Russians would keep saying you know let us just wait for the final verdict on this or that line goes from various sporting federations in Russia which one by one is saying look we're clean no window but here. Kind of this regarding the fact that the fire and the fact is that the accommodation clearly says you know last year's ban Russians from going to major sporting events and last ban Russia from holding major international sporting events. So so I think next week Russia will just be saying that again it's it's a victim off international conspiracy and the bygones need to be go bygones and let's just start from a clean sheet and all that of course we know from the Winter Olympics 2018 that Russian athletes can go assuming that they can prove that they're clean of drugs but they can't March under Russian flag sensually essentially have to become they become. Less of a neutral. Country Origin basically Russia was after that happened Russian commentators and t.v. Was obviously playing up the fact that as a steel Russians but they were carrying no insignia no flags no nothing and. We spoke to the head of Russian Anti-Doping Agency which is which is now that is falling victim of all this because it's seems to be on the track to being disqualified once again missed the uni gun as a very outspoken official and he says this is a tragedy that this substitution is dampening has occurred and he you know he he suggested maybe a lot of Russian athletes will start changing flags and basically will start to emigrate. And as appropriate briefly So as you say the knowledge that something's gone wrong in the labs but they don't allow anybody to be accused the situation is very direct for the past years the the database with the results was sitting with the Russian investigators of the investigative committee that's the Russian analogue of f.b.i. This is a very mighty people this was when Russia announced its own investigation and the tampering has been going on up until the that it was transferred to Wada so it must have been done with somebody whose authority surpasses that of the investigative committee which he which you know these these are the top tier officials all that thank you all are reporting be more on that later on the b.b.c. . Widespread flooding across East Africa and deaths reported from Djibouti Somalia South Sudan and the d r c as well as from Kenya and Kenya alone more than 100 people are reported to have been killed by floods and landslides many people have fled their homes Sarra is a local physician and Westpac a county on the border with Uganda trying to help people sheltering in separate high school to do we've done a lot of dressings and we've also had a fracture. Try to sort out today there must come on. To seem to be our upper respiratory tract infections and that is basically because of the call. This place their children who slept on their cause and they don't have blankets and there is so most of them are developing upper respiratory tract infections and a bit of trauma and a lot of psychological counseling has been done here Richard Cody is from the West pocket provincial government and some places somebody needed to get some hands someone legs and forensic testing so that we can know who they are. Our correspondent mostly German is in. West bank account in Kenya and mostly told me what she had witnessed I managed to visit one of the villages that was racially diverse stated by the last legs and the floods and there is that have been falling for the last few days and it is a sad state when you walk through these villages we have sunk and houses you know houses filled with mud personal effects scattered all over we managed to go to houses that there were students or pupils who stayed there and there were books scattered all over by then now it is almost like a ghost village there is no in there and people have now moved out of these villages and what is left is just to know that eerie silence and few people just going through what is left after the damage very difficult to get clear information but we know what the toll is on human life so various sources are quoting different numbers but if we go by the OHIP c n n by the way we're talking about 120 people killed just in Kenya alone but if you look at the wider region we have deaths reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo we have dates in Djibouti we have dates in are so Mali in South Sudan and for Kenya more rains are expected even in other regions so these numbers will definitely go up according to the officials because 1st of all not everyone has been accounted for and also sadly the I are getting other people other bodies being retrieved from the debris and the houses that have been affected and behind that measure of the tragedy of course there are so many people whose homes have been lost do we know how many have been displaced. Indeed so many people have been displaced in Kenya and in the eastern part of the country where we are talking about tens of thousands of people who are being moved not only from the places that were affected by the recent rains of the floods but also people who are likely to be affected. Is there going to be more rains so I would say tens of thousands of people and in the wider region hundreds of thousands of people have been affected in no forms of shelter as we speak and some of those places are very poor so are how much help can they get. These are very remote places 1st of all so the infrastructure that is there when you talk of roads electricity and you know just means to get by it's already very fragile it's already very minimal and the rains of the floods and now devastated that and also some of the places affected are places where the I refuse camps are already a compromised population is being is going through at another year devastating moment yes it's pretty bad you went to one of those refugee centers didn't use a bit high school what was the condition what kind of help was going there. Yes So I went to say big center and basically this is a high school that has been converted into a rescue comfortable rally and there are hundreds of people that are just streaming in and you know gathering in these places they're looking for shelter they're looking for work clothes they're looking for something to eat and by the time we were getting there the there's a team of medical personnel just tried to give basic 1st aid to people with soft tissue injuries some with broken limbs and many babies and a number of babies it's just could be cations and that's the help they were receiving and also there are people trying to get food aid and supplies and blankets to them but it is pretty difficult and we encountered so many trucks stuck because the roads are pretty much impossible so it's even harder to reach these people Kenyans have difficulty trusting politicians any way don't they think that they often further their own nests how much confidence is there in the government's ability to respond to this crisis. Is indeed there's very little faith in the politicians and you know the biggest critic that is coming out is that what we are seeing is knee jerk reactions there are no proper you know systems put in place to help people in such things happen so it's kneejerk reaction that keeping in mind that we are nearing the 2022 general election people are saying most of the help they're receiving is because somebody is going to look at these people for votes but not. Because the at humanity just need to be taken care of even before such disasters happen message I'm reporting from us for us from West pocket in Kenya 2 weeks from today u.k. Voters will be going to the polls or perhaps not if the December weather and their disillusionment with politicians puts them off there is excitement though in some constituencies the battle is close Naima grimly is our political correspondent she's in Chatham in the West of England which is a battleground I mean. It certainly is yes I'm in the very elegant refined spa town of Cheltenham and this is an area which although it does have some pockets of deprivation it's pretty wealthy it's got the Cotswold countryside surrounding it and it's a remain area during the referendum vote to stay in the e.u. Now the local Conservative m.p. Was a remainer but he's since gone back and basically espouse the government's plans to get on with brick sets and that puts him at odds with many of the voters here I'm a make him a target for tactical voters well to understand that bit more about how Bracks it is feeding into the election debate here I headed to the home of a man who did work as an e.u. Translator and after the referendum he set up a cross party group to rally against bricks it his name is Philip Cole and he works for Cheltenham for Europe is going to have a huge impact locally and it's going to affect businesses it's going to affect them as a tourist center because the hospitality industry is heavily reliant on people from Eastern Europe it's going to have a big impact on the person recruitment of nurses is not a record low doctors are simply not coming here already know of a couple of German doctors who have been working here but given up because of the appalling and it's not just the health service it's also the care sector the cursor in the country as a whole and also is much more heavily reliant on staff from other European countries a lot of voters are very confused by this election there's the anti semitism allegations swirling around labor there's worries about BRICs it what do you say to floating fate has who are wondering where to put across in the box. Well I think the Clinton question is I would like you to think about your children's future and your grandchildren's future and they won't have any future at all with bricks it interestingly opinion polls show that Brits it is the most prevalent argument in this election the n.h.s. Comes close behind immigration is virtually nonstarter I think people realized that you know if you haven't got immigration you haven't got an e.t.s. I mean certainly there was some confusion to start with but I think it's no polarizing into bricks versus remain so do you get any sense when you've been out and about knocking on doors that bricks It means people need to vacate in a different way to previous elections you know that's right tactical voting is going to be key to this election but won't sort exaggerate the numbers but certainly I've come across people who would normally vote Labor who say you know I'm not stupid I'm voting tactless for the Lib Dems this time and also conservatives who say exactly the same thing you know lifelong conservatives but because of bricks that they know the risks they're going to vote Lib then this time around there's a last Thursday and came across one young man Labor said very clear that he was 100 percent labor but he was going to vote tactically for the Lib Dems time and then to my surprise and joy came across a young woman who's so she's always been conservative but because of bricks it she too will be voting Lib we've had the manifesto launches where they were all being launching their different pays alls for things like the environment and the n.h.s. But for you bricks it really transcends everything you know that's absolutely right I mean children for Europe we have only one policy and that is to remain in the e.u. Individual members of our campaign have strong views about the environment for example but we don't campaigning on that we're campaigning against BRICs it's and for remain the sensory patterns I think but we really must win this election to defeat Brix it otherwise it's going to be an absolute catastrophe for the country for the coal speaking to Naomi grimly he's from Cheltenham for Europe Lemmy Well he might be disappointed if the recent Opinion polling overnight is to be believed tell us a bit more about this. Yes well a Superpole was essentially conducted over the last few days and it looks at some of these regional races which will be key to the final results now it is only a poll so the usual caveats apply but it did suggest that the Conservatives might come out on top with an 11 point lead which when you put it into the system and try to calculate what it means in terms of seats in the House of Commons could leave them with a majority of about 60 so a comfortable majority for Boris Johnson now I think the big question is Dan is is is that poll correct or perhaps it might be correct but maybe then in the final couple of weeks it might scare people back into voting tactically against the conservatives and one of the things that comes out in that poll is that the BRICs a party which did so well in the European elections doesn't seem to be on target for much that's right I mean one of the things that person has been very successful in doing during this election campaign is hold on a single leave behind him and he's all Ghibli done it better than the remaining camp have we've heard in that interview about how there are attempts to rally the troops behind certain candidates so here and tell them it's the Liberal Democrats the Greens in this constituency standing at all in order to try and shore up the remains vote but in other parts of the country the remain vote will be split between Labor and the Liberal Democrats and that may mean that Boris Johnson ends up with the one with the smile on his face on Friday the 13th of December thanks so much Dave That's Naomi grimly reporting from one of those constituencies Well really. A battle taking place you're listening to World update from London. Here are the headlines from our newsroom at the moment security forces in the Iraqi city of Nasiriya have opened fire on protesters killing at least 13 people China has warned the u.s. That it will retaliate after President Trump signed into law a bill supporting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and 3 health workers have been killed after rebels attacked a bowler treatment centers in the east of the Democratic Republic Republic of Congo we spoke yesterday here on World update to the man leading that u.n. Effort about the risks to those very brave health workers trying to counter it bowler in that region those are the top stories and tributes are coming in for the Australian writer Clive James whose death from cancer was announced yesterday he'd been ill with leukemia for nearly a decade he came to Britain as a student in the 1960 s. And he stayed becoming a newspaper columnist and a broadcaster he defied the so-called cultural cringe felt by many Australians that the country wasn't good enough compared to England and he played with words very much more cleverly than many writers who'd grown up in the u.k. Here he is in 1990 after a visit to Los Angeles back inside the limo I told my chauffeur to head up into the Hollywood hills so I could get a last look at the city. He asked me how I learned to do such a good Paul Hogan accent but I was too tired to tell him. Los Angeles is an exciting city but it wanted too much from me it didn't just want to change my future it wanted to change my past as if nothing that ever happened to me really mattered as if my clapped out avid Abba duties were just an accident instead of the marks of maturity is if my hair had worn thin simply by mistake instead of by experience. I realize now why I kept my hat on. It was because I was ashamed of what was under me. Sticking the hair unit on with a proxy resin turned out to have been a mistake but then so had the hair unit my head hurt like hell but it was clear again. Plus Antilles the city was still there but for me Los Angeles the movie was over it was time for the fade out goodbye Madonna I hadn't made it as a star or even as a big player but I was a member of the audience and that was enough I was heading for the exit as the credits roll. Like James one of his broadcast from the 1998 well Kathy Lette is an Australian novelist who like Clive James and many other Australian cultural illuminates has spent much of a career in London she and Clive shared a decades long friendship I asked her when they 1st met I 1st met Clive James when I was 19 Actually I don't I don't really written enough not long ago that well said Well said Clive would have through that he was at Mr a year and I'd just written a novel and he came to interview me and of course he's would play was so irresistible The guy could triple and entendre I mean I call it the black belt in tongue food and that's what he had so we stayed friends over the years when I moved to London of course we have something he called the gum leaf Mafia all the all these get together you know and blow the odd Paul and when you have dinner with Barry Humphries and Clive James It was like the Wimbledon of wit you know with banter just being lobbed back and forth the kind of got quick blast from trying to keep up with them so I think of think back to the sixty's when he arrived that incredible total way of talent that came. Barry Humphries Brett Watley Bruce Berrisford Robert Hughes and Clive James and of course the. Say they stand the pinstripe and panted ruling class with this mixture of erudition and irreverence which was so irresistible and you know knowing him so well I think his strong points were his sense of humor I mean he had a sense of humor dry than a clinic and he he he was an optimist he didn't think optimism was in our disease but he was also skeptical he had what I call chronic skip to see me and he was skeptical about everything but he wasn't cynical and it was that delicious mix of attitude to life that made him so original and so inspiring Why did the Brits accept him because as you say he was quite confrontational I remember him with his film criticism you know any offended Connel people well he was so funny and he could be charming I mean he could disarm with charm he was more disarming the new u.n. Peacekeeping force when he wanted to be and of course humor has that great effect of getting people to you know relax and you can you can you can slip your medicine in you know more effectively and he had a great quote about him he said a sense of humor is just common sense dancing which is really beautiful and also he I mean he was such a polymath he was good at everything he wrote $49.00 books so obviously a bit of an underachiever and then he also invented a whole new genre which was a television show that looked at television and treated it as an art form and had serious criticism about about it as a genre and what his other great strength to was that he could dive in the deep and he was very intellectual but he also liked paddling around in the shallows and was very good on popular culture I mean he loved it all and that's what made him so so appealing to the masses I have a guess one of the reasons some Brits got rather offended was because it confronted this stereotype that they have of the Australians you know sort of less culture than. Is absolutely not true but what is it about Australian the. English that works in English English and British English I think it's playfulness with language we're not afraid to break the rules and people do misunderstand strains we read more books we had a population in the country in the world we actually tend more cultural events put head of population in the country in the world so even though we pretend to be you know rare when you win a medal in the Olympics. Above the number you should think how many but I think what a straight ins have which is pretty resistible is just this great sense of irony and self deprecation and Clive was self-deprecating right to the end because he announced to us in 2011 that he had leukaemia and his death was imminent but there were because he lived on for another 8 years which was fantastic but he also got a little bit embarrassed about it because we were always teasing him about his say law you know what a boost for book sales is just a p.r. Stunt you know we still laugh with him and he started writing a column called reports of my death you know the Mark Twain quote have been greatly exaggerated blah blah because it was kind of you know get it thinking well I'm still here and we Barry Humphries is very very good friend and lives around the corner from me he was in my kitchen one day we started making up a poem about Clive the wind good old Clive he's still alive Well no he's dead but he stopped about all the bloody books that he's read you know and we told him we were writing this power about it well he does love the set up he said Well things kept that now I know you're going to die laughing fantastic so he was still cracking jokes right to the end and we're all getting together soon all the Ozzies to have a kind of bit of a memorial for him and we're going to read our favorite poems affidavit quips in this so much to choose from obviously but I'm going to stick to some of his funnier comments which were just so clever I mean remember how he described Arnold Schwarzenegger he described him as a brown condom full of walnuts they just picture it it's just the perfect little visual argue for someone who's over muscle so yeah he's had a very cheeky charm what Australians think about Clive James what how will they mark his passing or the strain. He's in deep mourning actually because he was you know one of our most scintillating sounds and he helped define our culture because for a long time you know after the war in the 1950 s. In the stray we were very Beijing will very British and I am Clive James Jermaine green Barry Humphries Bob Hughes you know they helped us define our culture and find our own voice so we do feel we've lost one of you know one of our great national treasures Cathy left the Australian novelist and plenty of tributes of course in the Australian papers for the life of Clive James including remembering one of his famous poets poems The Book of My Enemy has been remains as well let's finish this world updated edition with Clive James himself reciting a verse from his last published poem it as Kathy Lette said he did think about his death this is river in the sky so full of fizzing pills that if you hit me with a stick I would spill like opinion Arthur in a bonbon of colors I ride my wheelchair down the hill to the 1st of all with all of us escort the footpaths are packed with families with thoughts total loft on stronger shoulders than anything I've had to offer for far too many years it is bonfire night and if it were to prove my last I don't see how I could complain the star shells climb to gloriously burst spreading their splendor in a visual fanfare the throws me but can't give me strength time to go. My legs are cold I thought that I was vanishing but instead I was only coming true. Turning toward and seeming to end here must continue as the rain does the moment the fall you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service and the harmonies rhythms and instruments of Malawi's yesteryear as this song is one of thousands of songs stored in the archives and I will national broadcast I am facing the Malawian seeing our songwriter and guitarist listening to some of the what's in the archives and then getting together with other musicians to bring that old music back to life the mellow we tapes at b.b.c. World Service dot com slash documentaries. And in an hour with Sharon she'd Lael Outlook's in Singapore where I'll be heading to the theatre to me when I see who's most loved comedians who. Will be telling me why he hasn't lost his lust for life despite facing a life threatening illness just last year that's coming on the knees with his next on the b.b.c. World Service the world's media station. At 11 hours g.m.t. Welcome to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Gary a Donahue China has accused the United States of sinister intentions after President Trump signed a law in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The u.s. Severely interfered with Hong Kong's affairs seriously interfere with China's internal affairs security forces in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah have opened fire on antigovernment protesters killing at least 13 people and later the American teenager who posted a video highlighting the plight of Muslims in China has won an apology from the social media giant chick talk to think that these group of people this ethnic group is going through much more than I could ever. I thought that this is a rain I need to spread awareness about this and what happens when 2 black holes collide in space will be asking why it's important to find out you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service. Hello I'm Debbie rests with the b.b.c. Nice Iraqi security forces have killed at least 13 anti-government protesters in the southern city of Nasiriyah the authorities had been trying to clear a bridge that demonstrators had occupied for days it's also in the city said the clashes were continuing and that protesters had set fire to the headquarters of a security force unit Martin patience has this report. Video footage being streamed online showed some protesters throwing stones and others using sling shots at the security forces hundreds of demonstrators have been killed in 2 months or vanity government demonstrations that have been Gulf the rank the protesters are calling for an end to rampant government corruption and want more jobs and public services Meanwhile Iran has condemned the demonstrators who set their running consulates on far in the city of New Jaf China has branded the u.s. Malicious after President Trump signed into law a bill that seeks to support the autonomy of Hong Kong Beijing has said it will retaliate the new law requires Washington to monitor Beijing's actions in Hong Kong Stephen McDonell is in the Chinese capital the Chinese government has revved up its warnings now are promising these firm countermeasures but the language you know we get a lot of foreign language in those diplomatic staff says but saying that you know this is extremely abominable and harbors absolutely sinister intentions so obviously the Chinese government is not happy and has called in the u.s. Ambassador for the 2nd time in a week and the message was passed on to him that the u.s. Should change its mind and back down so as to avoid further deteriorating the relationship. In Hong Kong Police have now into the Polytechnic University together evidence and look for any remaining protesters following a siege their offices collected hundreds of homemade bombs and were dusting them for fingerprints the cleanup will take some time the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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