10 am in London 5 am in Washington midday in my rugby This is Ben Damon and the b.b.c. . Problems chief justice turned up for work defying a new law that requires her to retire she says she's there to defend the Constitution the Polish government has a message for her good morning have a nice day you're not the chief justice anymore does this what are you saying this world Polish law is saying now and we have someone else. In the Malaysia one m.t.b. Corruption scandal this time prosecutors looking at a u.s. Connection it certainly was a shocking development in the case this idea that a foreign businessman being investigated for very serious crimes would hire someone like that to try to convince the trumpet ministration not to pursue the case and increasing numbers of people using a new route to try to reach the European Union thousands are now stuck in Bosnia 1st the new. Hello this is Kathy clogged in with the b.b.c. News the head of Poland Supreme Court. Has turned up for work in defiance of a new law obliging judges to retire at her age 65 Adam Easton was outside the Supreme Court as Mrs Garrett doff arrived surrounded by her supporters. Alive and I stood outside the Supreme Court now where the chief just as justified but she's got she's a she's been tried on the issue of office today there are a couple of security guards it's a police at the entrance she was $42.00 retirement from midnight because she is $65.00 although this is just off says that the Polish Constitution guarantees her a 6 year mandate which does not end until April 2020 the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been charged with criminal breach of trust and corruption as a court in Kuala Lumpur Mr knowledge it has been ordered to surrender his passport says Michael Bristow is in Kuala Lumpur the charges faced by Mr Najib all relate to wanting the big investment fund he says have been ran while he was Malaysia's prime minister is accused of taking $10000000.00 is Najib pleaded not guilty to 4 charges and was granted bail his trial is expected to starting in February the spokesman for Mr Nugent said the case is politically motivated for the attorney general who is leading the prosecution himself said there was a strong case to answer. Officials in Thailand said the children's football team trapped deep in a flooded cave system are now in good enough health to be moved plans to get the boys ita are being rehearsed and water continues to be pumped from the caves a new video has been released in which the team are seen joking with the divers who are staying with them until they can be brought out safely Jonathan Head reports the tile ferrety say they're looking for full face diving masks in smaller sizes. Which easier for untrained divers to use one plan they're working on is to give the boys diving lessons and then bring them out one by one through the flooded passages by which their rescuers came a risky move say caving experts they're also continuing to divert streams going into the caves and to pump water out other tire Fishelson says there's no rush to extract the boys but the reality of an advancing rainy season which will raise water levels in the caves may force their hand police in England have declared a major incident in the town of Amesbury after a couple were found unconscious there it's close to soul spray where the former Russian spy said a gay sickly poll and his daughter Yulia were victims of a suspected poisoning in March investigators thought the couple had taken contaminated heroin or crack cocaine but they're not conducting tests to find out what has made them so ill world news from the b.b.c. a Hearing is getting under way at the International Criminal Court in The Hague to determine whether the politician and warlord Pierre Bemba is free to return to the Democratic Republic of Congo Mr Benbow was cleared on appeal last month of war crimes and crimes against humanity he is also serving time for tampering with witnesses is a paleness was rejected. Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on a Roman Catholic archbishop find guilty of covering up child abuse to resign or be sacked by the pope the Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson said he plans to appeal against his conviction Oh Griffith is in Sydney despite being convicted of concealing abuse Anderson even a sentence of 12 months in detention Philip Wilson has so far refused to give up his titles the Catholic archbishop of Adelaide today Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull added his voice to calls for him to resign will be sacked by the pope but Wilson has responded by issuing a statement saying he intends to appeal his conviction and only if he's unsuccessful will offer his resignation to the Holy See the 67 year old is the most senior Catholic official in the world to be convicted of concealing abuse the chief minister of the Indian capital Delhi has hailed a court ruling which up holds the powers of his elected government Arvind Kejriwal called the decision a big victory for democracy his party has been locked in a lengthy battle with the capital's top civil servant the left tenant governor who is appointed by the central government on Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled that the left handed gov could not routinely block initiatives put forward by the state government. Afghan officials say a senior commander with the Pakistani Taliban has been killed in a u.s. Drone strike in the east of the country a spokesman for the ministry of defense told the b.b.c. That Omar man who was originally from Swat in Pakistan died on Tuesday including our province b.b.c. News. Hello this is Dan Damon with world update from the b.b.c. In London coming up allegations that the immigration authorities in the United States are denying bail to women whose children have been taken away from them when they crossed the border more on that coming soon 1st the head of Poland's Supreme Court's mugshot against office turned up work in defiance of a new law obliging judges to retire at her age 65 she says she is there to defend the rule of law in the Constitution protesters gathered accusing the government of purging the judiciary Poland's governing party says the reforms will make the courts more efficient the European Commission says they threatened to Dish will independence and is taking legal action against Poland our Warsaw correspondent Adam Easton is outside the court and he told me what happened when Judge gust off arrived there was quite a large group of supporters holding the red and white Polish flags but also the blue e.u. Flags and banging drums and some of them even holding the Constitution the Polish constitution in the air which as this is guest of said when she arrived at the court after thanking those supporters she said that I'm here at work as normal because the Polish Constitution guarantees my 6 year mandate and that's not to to end until April 2020 and there's a law that the governing law and Justice Party has passed is illegal and does not override the Constitution so there was a very noisy and visible show of support outside the Supreme Court as Mrs guest off arrived and you heard from some of those supporters. That think at the moment is that we've got a sort of situation of legal chaos where he says good stuff is going to work and that the government the Polish president and has appointed her replacement because they believe she is in which. I meant now. Now the government says they needs to do this because the courts are inefficient they need wide ranging reforms because the that never been done since the end of 1998 and one of the demos organizers outside the Supremes court cashback said yes the courts do need reform but just not the way the government is doing it the published edition is system that spirit of the need to reform in many aspects of the situation I mean the length of the. Trial process and also in terms of the response ability of the jazzers for the wrongly taken Iran Neo's decisions many things had to be intrusive but certainly not in this way the reforms imposed on us or the regulations imposed on us have nothing to do with the effectiveness of the judiciary machine and the failure and that's of the process not to mention the responsibility of the sources it's simply gave us the oath or it is a political control over the judges including the Supreme Court which has these dramatic consequences regarding elections and things like that well Adam professor goes to the president now officially retired of the Supreme Court has long been a critic of the Law and Justice Party the P.I.A.'s What have been the bases of her criticism apart from the fact that now they're trying to get rid of her. Well as she said just before she entered her office today she said that she has to uphold the rule of law and in her mind these reforms to the Supreme Court but earlier the reforms the constitutional court reforms to the body that nominates judges in Poland and also reforms to the ordinary caught a part of she believes violates the principle of the independent judiciary erodes the separation of powers and checks and balances in a democratic state and that she has to uphold those values that's what she said this is about upholding those values it's not about her career it's not about whether she remains as the scene pre-court chief justice but this is an issue of protecting liberal democracy and democratic checks and balances and amused in Warsaw and then I spoke to Dominic touchin ski's a member of the Polish parliament from the Law and Justice Party his deputy at the Foreign Affairs Committee I asked him what's his message to Chief Justice Moore goes out a good store who came to work despite being told she doesn't have the job anymore Good Morning Have a nice day you're not the key just any more deuces would our act is saying this word Polish law is saying now and that's it we have someone else this is Ward our president so there her yesterday so I think it's really clear that she has to understand that she is not a chief justice anymore many of the judges say they will recognize her leadership. Well most of them I mean those who are under the new law which is 27 most of them 16 applied to the president for permission to continue their work which means that says that this law is appropriate and they recognize the new law that's why they have line to be allowed to judge in the future the euro and European Commission and others say this is necessary political interference in the justice system after all your government is in effect sacking judges that is interference isn't it we're not talking anyone in Poland the retirement age is 65 for men and 65 for women I do not understand I can see the reason why the judges are better why they should not have the same rules as the rest of the society they shoot before the society not society for them that's number one and to understand the reason for our reforms you have to know a little bit of history of Poland you have to understand some of the judges the Supreme Court are the judges from the martial law all times from the communism they are some of them who are putting people who are fighting against somebody is into the jail and they are still in a Supreme Court but I'm sorry Mr Hutchings give us just a smokescreen the average age of the judges is 38 that if they were members of the Communist Party they would have been 8 years old that's that's why I've said some of them and those who are at fault leave the Supreme Court are over 65 so this is very important symbolic and this is about justice for the society in Poland Poland we had to went through a really dark times the Great Britain France Germany you did not have to come in as we still had to come in is in Poland in a way which is very symbolic where you may but those judges are not communists I'm not saying that they're communists but you are. Sort of that's one of the reasons you're giving for removing them is that they are part of a communist era No they're not they are some of them were putting the people during the martial times into the jail we can prove it but this is not only in the main reason for this reform the main reason is because we promised during the campaign this is why we were elected this is what our government was elected people expect these reforms and this is what we do because we promise that's very simple the European Commission says I repeat myself this is unnecessary interference in the independence of the judiciary How far would you fight this. Well as I said if you want to be a to look Titian would name many if you want to keep your word you have to do what you promised that's very simple to me and I'm really surprised that for example Mr Turner months who is coming from the country where there is no constitutional tribunal is telling us about the unnecessary interference this is what we promise and this is what we said before the elections so we cannot just turn back and just say no we're not going to do what we promise this reform is really needed in Poland and this is what people want that's dominate touchin ski a member of the Polish parliament for the Law and Justice Party the ruling party a British lesbian woman has won the right to live and work in Hong Kong with her partner Hong Kong's high court upheld a lower court decision after the unnamed woman sued the immigration authorities for refusing her a spousal visa the woman and her partner and to the civil partnership in Britain but Hong Kong only recognizes formal relationships between opposite sex partners the ruling and the landmark case which had secured support from the banks and more firms keen to attract ex-pat triodes to Hong Kong as a financial hub I've been speaking to Michael Vidmar he's the solicitor representing the British woman who in the courts was named as cutie to protect her identity the court said that the government's policy in not recognizing foreign registered same sex marriages was discriminatory. And consequently to prove that the appeal which would be lodged by the government was unsuccessful so now the government has to adjust its policies specifically in relation to immigration but also released a policy is it aligned with the court's judgment and the effects on your clients day to day lives if you like how does that measure. Well I mean for the last 7 years as she has been. Actually a tourist in Hong Kong she came over here 7 years with her partner 7 years ago and her papa was seconded by a u.k. Firm and at the same time they had special couple came out of it they both applied for dependent visas they had sexual partner got a visa straight away Cutie was refused and since that time Cutie has not been able to gain residence without a residence there's no Hong Kong id card and in Hong Kong Hong Kong id card is is pretty much essential for everyday life are there other couples in a similar situation not only from multiple couples. Over the 7 years we've been litigating this I was talking to just stop some people I think we've had at least 30 clients having applied and those are the 30 people who pretty much know that they're going to be refused but in any event thought they would try so one can imagine that the that the number of people who who never tried the Hong Kong government was was just waiting anybody from applying not accepting their applications and it only took the bravery of a few people to push this issue through what we know that Hong Kong is a special administrative area. How much might this influence asked you some 6 Well it's both in Hong Kong and across China. Ironically enough China is towards. The lesbian and gay and transgender community is pretty neutral it's perhaps open that it is in Hong Kong the only concern that China has is with organization but that's not because they're gay it's just because they're a group Hong Kong her because of our clan your background. We inherited the Victorian homophobic laws. That were brought in when I went on concave a colony. And we had a Duncan clear new government delegates at the responsibility of educating the population like a population to to churches aggressively the church is a rather sub still to fight so we've got a lot of schools that are still run by churches which have incredibly conservative backward thinking attitudes towards sexual in Taishan far more conservative than the the home church in the u.k. For instance and so you have this prevailing attitude amongst civil servants of the leaders we've got Harry lab the chief executive who is a devout Catholic who has is made her views very well known. In relation to l.g. B.t.i. Issues I just hope that she will be able to park her personal beliefs and consider the court's judgment that's Michael business less representing the British woman who has won the right not to live in working on Kong with same sex you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. In London. Than. And coming up later in our program are we becoming more fearful as a society the nature of fear and how fear works is a topic that Frank Furedi professor of sociology keeps returning to many things that people are scared about their worried about today many experience the lives that were seen as just ordinary taken for granted boring things are not seen as being scary and I think our language has changed and I don't know whether we fear more but we certainly talk about fear far more than ever in the past more on that coming soon our headlines Poland's chief justice has turned up for work defying a new law that requires her to retire she says she is there to defend the Constitution the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak Sapir in court to deny for charges of corruption weeks after he was voted out of office we'll have more on that coming soon and rescuers in Thailand say there are no immediate plans to evacuate the boys trapped in a flooded cave system this is the b.b.c. . This is Dan Damon in London he's been called the black Dickens and the African Dostoyevsky's the work of author Alex la Guma is little known in his native South Africa his novels offer a wide depiction of the reality of life in Cape Town in the 1960 s. And seventy's under an apartheid government led Goma died in 1905 newly available interviews with him provided to the b.b.c. By the British Library a shedding light on his writing process for reporter Gavin Fisher went to Cape Town to find out why Lagunas work has been almost forgotten when I was born in Cape Town an area known as District 6. That is a predominately poor area in ended by people on the Cape Cod community that is the designation given by the government this is one of the new digitized interviews with Alex from the 1960 s. The early part of my life there inspired me to write 1st a few short stories in Finally a novel called The walk in the night Laguna himself was woven into the fabric of District 6 before becoming an author he was 1st known as an influential political activist and newspaper columnist at that time he thought carefully about the relationship between different ethnic racial cultural groups in the country and what role they might play in in the long term goal of liberation his biographer Dr Roger field says he's immersion in the area and its politics gave his writing a new want unrealism beyond his contemporaries he had a clear sense of development that types of struggle levels of political consciousness could and would change and I think humanity is a combined with quite a dark sense of humor as well as you know quite a next fall for bringing out I suppose almost a thing less of things I'm standing on a pretty nondescript urban street with a few trees and a university building the only landmarks but this used to be Hanover Street the old cultural center of the Venn District 6 known for the bright lights of its bars and restaurants described in the group his 1st novel a walk in the night as having the blaze and glitter of a string of cheap gaudy jewelry and. Jazz recordings from the local b.z. Club give us a sense of the atmosphere. But this wasn't the full story of District 6 in this area the book's protagonist also witnesses poverty and decay portrayed in the game as a vocative words as stretches a. Damp battered houses with broken ribs of front railings a lack of thrills may help explain why the good work isn't more popular more likely it's the fact that most simply haven't heard of him. Like oh yeah oh yeah I'm fine I'm going to let you sit in the library I told him to come in. And Alex's old school Trafalgar heart you know I meet a group of 17 and 18 year old English literature students they seem perfect candidates to be learning from Alex's writings I like to know my history like my road so we do our come from I come in the the field for me he likes to be cool and awesome in there but Tommy like all his classmates hadn't heard of until my visit. Me. We never really made up by him like in school I'm interested to know more but the guy there have been moves to gain recognition for Alex's work these are they heroes that they you know in this city this is South African president Cyril ram opposer speaking in Cape Town in February said out of my how God. Sake you so I look. And many are thus it's no surprise that it's been suggested that Cape Town International Airport be named after look but for some even this kind of recognition isn't sufficient his supporters believe his work should feature widely in schools so that he's read and not just remembered Kevin Fisher in Cape Town another development in the way the trumpet ministration has been handling families seeking asylum at the u.s. Border with Mexico there was that announcement by President Trump 2 weeks ago that parents and children will no longer be separated and then the u.s. Court ruled last week parents and children must be reunited within 30 days part there are reports from immigration lawyers on the border that paint a picture of chaos and confusion on the ground and some are accusing the u.s. Government of imposing a policy of denying bail to asylum applicants despite the fact that they've passed the 1st hurdle in their asylum claims the u.s. Government denies that that is the case I've been speaking to one of the lawyers involved she is Kate Lincoln goldfinch She's in Austin Texas she represents 2 asylum applicants who were separated from their children months ago the 1st woman found out that she had passed her credible your review last Thursday and was told the same day that she would not be getting out and that was a departure from previous policy previously of people who passed credible serious for were able to get out on bond now credible fear means that they have a case for asylum that's not approved but they have a case and because the judge has ordered that parents should not be separated from their families at that point they should be bailed and I think the bail has been what customarily so far with the separated parents the for the judge's order bond was being set it 1500 dollars and then the judge's order happened on Tuesday and within 48 hours the policy changed to no bond and that decision renders the reunification within 30 days which was this judge's. Order it renders that impossible because the appeal process for the bond will take several weeks and what happens when you are asked ice Immigration and Customs Enforcement why that is happening well as the deportation officer who told me about the change in policy how this could possibly be in compliance with the judge's order and he said I don't see how it is he suggested that you know it's not it's for me like he was just under marching orders and didn't have to really have a say in the matter is there any way to identify where this order could have come from I have confirmed with my colleagues around the state at who are serving detained parents and other detention centers that this does seem to be that the policy at least statewide and the 2 women you're representing where are their children do you know but yes one of the women her children are still in custody and they're in New York and they spend the day in a shelter and they go to a foster home that night the other woman I represent has a 5 year old who is already released to a family member that even stow it the boy is really suffering without his mother now the impression has been given that after the executive order signed by Donald Trump and after the judge's order that families should be reunited that this problem was over with is not now and we're not seeing any indication on the ground that the administration is trying to comply with the judge's order I spoke with the director of one of the children shelters yesterday and was told that they've received no instructions or information on how the children will be reunited and here we are you know less than 5 days from the deadline to reunite the children under 5 years old and yet the shelter in charge of 500 of these kids has heard nothing from the administration what's your view about America's attitude at the moment to these migrants You know I think what we saw in the public outcry after the family separation policy started is that the majority of. Cans are not in agreement with this policy you were horrified at the way these families are being treated and you see that and the response from the donations organizations that are providing services and the protests that happened all over America last week as a nation that this is very embarrassing for most of us that's Caitlin goldfinch we asked ice for an interview they sent us a statement here's what it says decisions regarding whether aliens will be detained while their immigration proceedings are pending are made by u.s. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers on a case by case basis following a comprehensive review of the circumstances ice is not targeting asylum seekers for detention or denying them bond based on the fact that they are seeking asylum bond decisions are based on an alien's flight risk and each case is reviewed individually taking into account factors like immigration history criminal history and community ties. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service in the Us is possible by American Public Media producer and distributor of award winning public radio content a.p.m. American Public Media with support from a cloud based phone service working to help businesses run efficiently the smart phone for your business find out more it over a dot com. This is what update with Dan Damon a new angle in the Malaysia one m.g.b. Corruption scandal which has seen the former prime minister in the courts prosecutors are now looking at the u.s. Connection increasing numbers of people using a new route to try to reach the European Union thousands stuck in Bosnia and the World Cup a moment for great celebration but in Uganda a reminder of a nightmare to work here why after the news headlines. B.b.c. News with Kathy clogs then the chief justice of Poland Supreme Court has defied government orders and returned to work a new law forces judge judges to retire at age 65 instead of 70 the chief justice has called this a purge the government says the aim is to make the courts more efficient. A quarter Malaysia has charged the former prime minister with corruption the prosecutors accuse not of being involved in the disappearance of billions of dollars from a Government Investment Fund he's denied the charges Mr Najib was voted out of office in May The Thai authorities say the children's football team trapped in a flooded cave are healthy enough to be moved but that there be no immediate attempt to get the mites efforts to pump water out of the cave system are continuing 2 people are in a critical condition after coming into contact with an unknown substance in the town of Amesbury in England it's close to Salzburg where a former Russian spy and his daughter were victims of a suspected poisoning. The Australian prime minister says the Archbishop of Adelaide must resign or be sacked after he was found guilty of covering up the crimes of paedophile priests the Archbishop is planning to appeal against his conviction the International Criminal Court is deciding whether the Congolese politician John Pierre Bemba can return home he's been cleared of war crimes but is still serving time for another case. A senior commander of the Pakistani Taliban is said to have been killed in Afghanistan officials say Omar died in a u.s. Drone strike in Kunar Province where the leader of the Pakistani Taliban was killed earlier the Chief Minister of Delhi says a court decision in favor of his government is a big victory for democracy the regional authorities are locked in a dispute with the state's top civil servant and a 92 year old woman has been arrested in the United States accused of killing her son because he'd been planning to put her into care Police say the woman had also intended to kill herself b.b.c. News. Hello this is Dan Damon with world update coming up the latest on the efforts to rescue 12 boys and their coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand that's in a few minutes 1st a former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been charged with criminal breach of trust and corruption at a court in Kuala Lumpur he pleaded not guilty on 4 counts our correspondent in Kuala Lumpur is Michael Bristow a lot of money under discussion here Michael tell us about the way things have unfolded. Well things move quite quickly on choose Day Afternoon and you was that was the former prime minister voted out of office just a couple of months ago and although over the last few weeks the new government has indicated that it was going to let some point it was still. A shock of course Malaysia really when he was finally arrested because these allegations have been swirling around him for so long that many people didn't think that any prosecution would be brought against him it was repeating call the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today. Chaotic scenes at times has not members of his supporters people who came just to have a look at a former prime minister in court all descended on to the court and as I say quite chaotic it sinus as you point out there you did plead not guilty to 4 charges he was given bail and the case is huge to be heard to go to trial in February he's not the only one under investigation by any means. He's certainly not the only one and these charges which have been brought against him today are perhaps not the only charges which will he'll eventually face today if he's faced there and now a set of charges in many respects concerning just at $10000000.00 essentially the state alleges that he stole that money don't want to be this is a good no from which he settled while he was prime minister and ran just 10000000 dollars when an actual fact prosecutors both here in the lazy and indeed in the United States and elsewhere across the world believe that actually billions of dollars worth siphoned off in that fund they remain unaccounted for Separately there has been raid on Mr Majid home hash worth 29000000 and and Jewel we worth many many more millions we discovered that we know charges a lot lately to that well so this is a lot of it doesn't look as though it was within the charges and given that a number of his family members former party colleagues will probably also face the very least question Michael thank you Michael Bristow in Kuala Lumpur and the Wall Street Journal has been investigating possible connections between the one m. D. B. Scandal and a top Republican fundraiser close to President Trump it's alleged earlier Brody a venture capitalist and a longtime Republican donor was negotiating to have earned tens of millions of dollars in fees if the u.s. Justice Department dropped its investigation into $1.00 m d b Bradley hope as one of the reporters working on that story I asked him what it found so there's this character in the center of this whole scandalous names is a Malaysian financier was very close to the former prime minister of Malaysia not a brother and it emerged last year that he had American people to help convince the u.s. Government to drop their criminal investigation of the case and so the e-mails came out and now it has been a they were hacked. The mails that showed he was he had through a proxy hired Elliott Brady who is a senior member of the Republican Party he was close to downtown to a campaign fundraiser for town Trump and that Brady and his wife had agreed to to help lobby in a sense against these criminal charges when one of the contracts that was not the final contract that was leaked showed that if they succeeded they would be paid 75000000 dollars The final terms were never made clear but if you know it's obviously a very big contract well not to resurrect the former prime minister of Malaysia under investigation he did meet Donald Trump do we know anything about that visit and what was discussed. According to u.s. Government officials there was no discussion of this program during that meeting it seems like in a sense that downtrend received him because knowledge of had some positive things to say looking back on it now it would appear that magic was trying to intensify or close in the relationship rather than the other way around you know he may he made a lot of announcement they were actually receive very poorly in Malaysia how Malaysia was going to be investing in the United States infrastructure and all these kinds of things in Malaysia and they're asking in the local press why are you investing money in u.s. Infrastructure we have our own infrastructure problems so it was very much perceived at the time to be knowledge of trying to cozy up with us and trying to you know convince them that this relationship was more important than this very important and big corruption investigation tell us a bit more about low tech Joe Joe low as he's known I think the Justice Department seized his yacht Yes So Jill is this fascinating character he's never had a real job in a sense he was always a kind of self-made wheeler dealer type and he is sort of the architect of this fund one Malaysia development that was the fund where all the money is missing from now and he he over time Masters giant empire of companies and stakes as well and became very famous for his luxury spending in nightclubs spending that sort of thing so the when the u.s. Government brought its cases it started off with civil asset forfeiture cases and so the cases are against these assets so the biggest assets are belong to him there's a lawsuit against his $260000000.00 yacht now actually seized it burst in Bali where there's kind of a debate going on about what to do with it but the u.s. Is trying to see that formally Bradley hope or as Michael Bristow said not too broad access denied embezzling funds one the one m.t.b. Fund denies any money is missing and Joe Lo. Who is the Malaysian fundraiser excuse me of the Malaysian businessman at the center of the one I am dizzy m.t.b. Scandal has denied wrongdoing in the matter there's a statement from Mr Brody's lawyers to they say that at no time did Mr Brody or his wife or anyone acting on their behalf discuss Mr Lowe's case with President Trump any member of his staff or anyone at the u.s. Department of Justice and they say they're concerned the Wall Street Journal is in possession of internal draft documents that were never used and that were never intended to be shared with 3rd parties those statements from brought his lawyers and from no you're listening to what update from London. Increasing numbers of people are using a new route to try to reach the European Union they traveled through Albania a Montenegro to Bosnia they're trying to get into Croatia which is part of the e.u. Of course border police have been pushing them back thousands of people are now stuck in Bosnia and the government there is provided very little help people have been left to fend for themselves Balkans correspondent garden only went to be harsh where families have been sleeping in a dilapidated dormitory which was shelled in the War of the 1990 s. . This is apparently the best the b. Hatch can offer to hundreds of recent arrivals an old student dormitory left in a Shattered State after Bosnia's conflicts more than 20 years ago the windows have all gone rain comes through the roof on the holes in the floor marking the places where shells exploded this graffiti on the walls on the whole place stinks of your own but hundreds of people from places like Syria Iraq and Afghanistan sleeping in the back on Creech here every night I'm saying with. The protection of so hearing we had units here are it's a record increase in numbers here the capacities are overwhelmed. Since. I'm Paula I mean I see it's very difficult everybody involved in helping these people here on the ground is doing the best. The government's support so far has been missing. Why didn't they do you walk. Your dog Khalid says he was a teacher in Syria he's expressing his frustration to the u.n. H.c.r. Officials here the situation very very bad as it is vitiated don't talk to me this country very poor this country very very very rich but the governments very very bad. Young children play with plastic guns in the gloomy filthy colored balls of the building some may have seen armed conflict in real life they don't want to stay in Bosnia this Afghan family a clear about their desired destination with them in this war because you want to go there with. Him for you don't want to stay in Bosnia and look on the number one living there just. Don't give a flyin like that. In the meantime this the lack of dated relic of Bosnia's conflict of the 1990 s. Is that temporary home the desperation to reach the European Union means the people are prepared to put up with the stink danger and discomfort this 32 year old man says he left to run because of its repressive government this situation is terrible and you can see it here is like the polls have you already been to the border yeah I tried to. Crush the Balts 3 times our problem is our Croatian. Stop people in your comic do this. It's lunchtime and hundreds of people are giving up for one fault meal of the day as provided by the Red Cross the city of the harsh I would define this number of migrants in the heights as crisis America had your man made of a church is working with the International Organization for Migration politically it is difficult to be had a war we haven't covered. If I may say to be stable country to respond to any problem we eventually have. Cost me a soul barely any refugees when the Balkan race was in full flow 3 years ago and the numbers now on big by those standards but this poor ethnically divided country can barely look after its own people let alone thousands of arrivals from refugee producing countries theoretically the central government should be taking charge but the president of be hatched Council. Says the city has been left to cope on its own. We're asking the government to help with at least the basics at a minimum we have to provide the migrants with food and sanitation most of them they're not bad people but their circumstances force them to break the law. To be how much will need help because of previous summers are anything to go by a rival's a likely to increase and of Bosnia can't cope with the numbers now the situation could quickly go from unpleasant to unsustainable. From big hats in Bosnia officials in Thailand say the children's football team trapped deep in a flooded cave system are in good enough health to be moved but there'll be no rescue attempt today instead plans to get the boys out of being rehearsed water is being pumped out from the caves and the govern. Of the region Chiang Rai he is not an psycho on a come he told news reporters or thirties are cautious about the rescue operation without. Dying or only to be in 100 percent confidence in order to get the boys outside and it does not have to happen all at one time it all depends on the situation they don't have to come out at the same time because all of them are in a different situation we're assessing it now and if there's a risk we will not move the mouse made but about Duncan and the u.s. Air Force Captain Jessica Tate is with the u.s. Contingent helping with those rescue efforts she told me this wasn't how she was expecting to celebrate the United States Independence Day holiday today you know it wasn't but I don't really need fireworks and I don't really need barbecues when I can think about being here in Thailand supporting you know the United States and Thailand this longstanding partnership and friendship it's amazing it's really amazing to be here it's amazing that we had such a beautiful outcome in terms of the children being alive as well as the coach and I would want to be anywhere else in the world truthfully what is the contribution of the u.s. Military overall we're here at the request of the Royal Thai government and we've been here since the 28th of June since then we've been providing you know it's nice and systems because we have a specialized keep ability our group is comprised of pair rescue men a survival specialist as well as for personnel to include medical communications logistics So what is it guys insists look like well truthfully this is a tie but multinational rescue operation so when they're looking at various courses of action there's things to consider such as environmental concerns the conditions the children emerging settlements and I think wherever we're value added To be able to support we're here and we really do want to support our friend what does the experience of you and your team tell you about the kinds of conditions that these young people and their coach are in what might be. Done to keep them healthy and what might be done to rescue them so one of our guys is actually a survival specialist and so you know being able to kind of train people to live in an ideal conditions but you know someone is what they call an isolated person also someone who's like the children they were missing for 9 days in complete darkness with no fear and so what does that look for the extractions of those are the considerations such as the physiological as well as the psychological considerations and I goes into the development of the courses of action for the extraction so being able to for advice but then also to set our parece command you know have a dive keep billet as well as a medical background and they are working side by side with the divers I'd like to also know the international presence here we have Australians Chinese divers as well as the British team I'm certain you've probably seen the video and it gives me chills when I think about it in the early stages now really of the rescue effort after the discovery what are people saying about what might be possible right now they're looking at all the options I think when you look at a problem and you look at it being rainy season in Thailand and how things can change so suddenly they really are looking at all the options this is Tiglath So we're here to support them on whatever is executed and I think in the forefront of everyone's mind when it comes to planning is the safety of the children so whatever plan is executed the bottom line is that this is done safely and she was enforced Kempton Jessica Tate and spending her independence day in Thailand we spoke yesterday about helicopter parenting versus free range parenting role and clothes got in touch at 9 years of age I would travel 32 miles on a Greyhound bus from my home to my grandparents I knew if I acted up I'd get a spanking from my grandparents and again from my parents when I got home I did this for many years and behaved each time today those as Roland it's too dangerous what you think at b.b.c. Then Damon on Twitter. Top stories just now Poland's chief justice has turned up work defying a new law that requires her to retire she says she's there to defend the Constitution and the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has appeared in court to deny 4 charges of corruption weeks after he was voted out of office those are the top stories the World Cup is a time for celebration in many places particularly in England it must be said today after the big Colombia yesterday in Uganda though this World Cup time is a reminder of a nightmare in 2010 over 70 people were killed as they watched that year's final match the Somali Islam is group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for that attack and as you can imagine many have been left traumatized the authorities working to make sure it doesn't happen again one of the survivors told our reporter Catherine got a hunger about that night. So I see blood in the chair next to me on the left so I think if someone's. Not knowing it was mine then we have people that you know all over. You know trying to clean off Brandon Mannion is a survivor of the worst bombing in Uganda's history dozens were killed when members of the Somali Islamist group. Attacked this rugby club and then. The attack was in retaliation for both Uganda and Ethiopia's operations against militants in Somalia it was a big night house with hundreds of the 2010 World Cup finals. I think you would have it right where the 1st blast went off so let's move that she was Ok. To do and 3 as a luxury hotel Brenda is coaching models during a photo shoot surviving the bombing that made her more determined and she began organizing the deal official mystique and beauty pageant but she is also open about the fact that she's still fearful. Of the crowd. And that will continue or do you think maybe at some point you might be able to overcome those fears I don't know because it's been . 8 coming tonight. In a bar in downtown Campana a group made up mostly of men are watching the latest World Cup fixture so don't feel the authorities are doing enough to stop another big attack 73 year old woman can your is a big football fan before too so don't train. I know we are or do something about being for taking the p. Word too. And even now because we're doing good that's. Made for the. Public to going back home seniors to pretending to police a 1000000 k. In mind is the spokesperson for the 4th he says the police have improved their tactics since the 2010 bombing. Began to get involved in order to make the country safer I wanted the community to be as vigilant as the forty's in that even when the issues that I'm done with 6 that are not done just for to reach your we get to know it and then we have been the ones to intervene. The new kind of. The problem. Preventing another attack by al-Shabaab is a priority not only for Uganda but also its Western allies like the United States and Britain. To stop the growth of extremism on the continent. She said Oh Brenda still lives and breathes football She also takes her 3 year old daughter Zahara for training sessions. When you come here I was very loud and loud for that game from him and I pinned that they just they really enjoying being the really want to play that competitive. If you are helping me to heal. Can't endure a hunger reporting on plenty of reasonable fear left behind after that attack in 2010 so let's talk a bit more about fear how afraid are you are we more afraid as societies in 2018 than our parents or grandparents you have to listen to the news as evidence that modern society seems to be palmed bonded with threats and uncertainties that can either be managed or contained and the nature of fear is a topic that Frank Furedi professor of sociology at the University University of Kent has returned to time and time again he has a new book it's called How feel works of follow up on his 997 book Culture of Fear most of what he predicted in that 1st book came true so I asked Frank Furedi 1st what's he afraid of I sometimes think I fear everything but in my case it's often the fact that I'm going to fail at something I think it's a fear of failure which continually drives me on and that occasionally makes me a little bit disoriented and fear translates into anger doesn't it sometimes even worse it's a kind of emotion where I take it out on myself and half way through. Feeling that kind of free realize why are you doing it you know life's too short get over it fear has become something different and that's what your book is about we are afraid of things or we tell our children to be afraid of things in a way that's not helpful this risk aversion How serious do you find that I think it's fairly serious I think it's to do with the fact that we haven't got the moral and intellectual resources to deal with uncertainty we find uncertainty threatening instead of seeing that as a potential opportunity because of that we end up almost inflating the harms that are out there not realising that actually we're pretty secure compared to most other heroes and humans who live nation Well indeed that's the surprise isn't it because think about the insecurity of people what even a century or so ago with war raging and then before them their grandparents who didn't quite know when the next meal was coming I mean we are incredibly secure these days yes I mean I was talking to a number of undergraduates and they were complaining about their insecurities and I said Look my grandfather worked about 12 hours a day he had no old age pension there was no held benefits you know if you were ill that was it you had no money coming in and you probably can even afford a doctor and when you think of their lives which compared to ours you realise how privileged your in comparison to our ancestors is fear of being manipulated then is it that pubs Ian fear of all Thora he or fear of death or the authority manipulates you talk about that in the book I think there's a lot of attempt at manipulation but what I find very interesting today is that because we are continually raising the alarm and scaring people it has less and less of an effect and people talk about the politics of fear but actually after a while people just turn off and look somewhere else because all they ever hear is this constant message of expect the worst Let's talk about Donald Trump's wall is not a project fear I think it is and I think it's very very interesting that Donald Trump who is a very a comp. Wish to manipulator of fear and he's continually telling Americans that he's going to keep them safe we can very clearly see though he goes about the same thing but when students on campus also demand build a wall by which they mean let's have a quarantine around our safe space people see it as being very very different and I think that in many respects what happens in universities in other domains of everyday experience is pretty much the same phenomena as what Trump is trying to do which is to appeal to people's insecurities and anxieties and almost insist that we have a wall around those is this a pendulum that swings are we in a particularly fearful period but we can see long into the future everybody will be calm and comfortable possibly but my 1st book on free it was written in 1997 and since that time things have been getting I would say worse and worse many things that people were scared about they're worried about today many experience of the lives that were seen as just ordinary taken for granted boring things are not seen as being scary and I think our language has changed and I don't know what do we fear and what we certainly talk about fear far more than ever in the past and I think that's going to continue for a while until we develop a language or an awful look that can manage on certain in a more sophisticated intelligent way than we as individuals contribute to that calming effect I think that we can I think it is very important for us to begin to adopt a much more a future oriented risk taking of which towards the world I think in particular we need to socialize our children to be much more independent minded at the moment unfortunately we are encouraging children to be very passive in their infantilizing them we almost telling them to be scared rather than to manage their fears and risk that's Frank Furedi on fear and his new book is something that Contin. That he did in 1907 how FIA works just about to tweet a question How much do you agree that as Frank says we live in a much more fearful global society than the one sched parents and grandparents have a look at that even on Twitter join us for more world updates tomorrow. This is us from public radio broadcasting.