Vokes fear among minorities particularly governors they accuse him of being linked to serious human rights violations committed against them a new u.n. Report says more than 7000000 children worldwide are being held in detention in institutions immigration centers police custody in prisons is imagine folks children deprived of their liberty are the un says among the world's most vulnerable discriminated and excluded groups children with mental health issues or disabilities are disproportionately affected the report says governments must look for non-custodial solutions for them at the same time the number of children detained in migration centers and in camps in war zones is increasing here the report says children are at risk of abuse and sexual exploitation b.b.c. News North Korea says it's not interested in holding what it describes as another fruitless summit with the United States Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that the North Korean leader should act quickly to negotiate a nuclear deal with the u.s. But other senior official in Pyongyang has issued a statement saying they will not give the u.s. President something to boast about without getting anything in return a mass shooting in California has killed at least 4 people and injured 6 are those a police left town and said a gunman had started shooting after entering a home in south Fresno where a family gathered with friends to watch a football game on Sunday night the suspect is believed to have fled the scene. One of the oldest team competitions in sports the Davis Cup tennis tournament gets underway today with a very different format Russell fuller reports until this year the Davis Cup was contested by 16 teams playing Home and Away ties on a knockout basis throughout the year but with the top players reluctant to commit to too many ties and little interest in the final outside of the 2 countries involved the International Tennis Federation opted for radical reform Andy Murray will play for Great Britain in the inaugural event in Madrid with the world's top 2 players rough on the Darla Novak Djokovic also present some players however have opted out citing fatigue at the end of an 11 month season or opposition to the new format lawyers in the us have called on Queen Elizabeth's 2nd son Prince Andrew to cooperate with legal proceedings in connection with the convicted sex offender Geoffrey abstain the prince who denies any wrongdoing was criticized following an interview with the b.b.c. In which he defended his friendship with the late businessman the lawyers who represent 10 of Mr Epstein's victims branded Prince Andrew unrepentant and demanded that he speak to the f.b.i. And those are the latest stories from b.b.c. News. Hello this is Dan Damon with world update from London thanks for listening and coming up later on our program a reminder of the mass extermination of Roma and travel of people by the Nazis during World War 2 an exhibition filled with memories has opened in London we'll hear from that later 1st pro-democracy protesters fleeing a fight in Hong Kong's Polytechnic have been arrested the protesters mostly wearing black clothing set fire to the poly use main entrance to try to stop police entering the building this hear from Martin Yep our correspondent to is in Hong Kong What's the latest Martin. I'm now standing at one just did the entrance to an ask later the least a foot bridge to Wall Street Polytechnic University compound in. East business district. Around 100 people a bit less than a 100 people are gathering lots by pastors from Christian church holding some sort of a city in protest at the moment is a quiet one and so far the feel rotten guarding the bridge at doing nothing to Don Apparently they are at these. This group of people among Bandara. Mothers and fathers who have children trapped inside that Polytechnic to be 1st to come at this moment and they are seeking for a peaceful and to events but as you might have already heard from our reports in the news bulletins police have South Africa single off down the thing to come. Under the charge of routing so from a stronger will it take for this whole standoff at the Polytechnic University to come to and is a fairy pick question mark here how many are still inside how many of the protesters and I guess they're not all students. Exactly we were hearing 5. 100 this morning Hong Kong times so that is I think a 100 is for sure since a compound that includes both students and apparently are the protesters who came to support the student has. Been come. Protesting inside so that's quite a tricky situation we had. Calls from the university's president Professor tensing while calling students to leave as soon as possible that's back in the small hours this morning and of course time we heard of what happened scenes which includes protesters trying to leave the university compound the band being created back here gas from the. From the raw police and retreating back into the compound as. Paramedics 1st aid and doctors being arrested and stayed leave the compound and the police news conference this afternoon they at the police among the 51 people for 51 people being arrested in the small hours to small to have a lost a lot more people after that least 3 of them could not prove that they are actually who they claim they are they were. Claiming to be 1st aiders and journalist so still quite a tense situation here and police are basically blaming people trying to disguise themselves us to be free to 1st and mount and want to the Hong Kong those who are not students who generally are not in the violent protests what are they think about what's happening. While. That stuff in these some people fought in support of these students and they kind of believe. As reflected on some comments on internet forums or even telegram chats with start they believe the police just wanted to. Arrest all of them if not killing all of them of course this is kind of the allegations that the police would not need to. Just back in the lunch hour a few hours ago it's now 6 in the evening but back in 6 hours ago. Hundreds upon thousands of them in. This strike walked out from that offices during lunch hours joining protesters to write barricades so it's kind of it's kind of supported them but also you we also saw people coming out to clear up the street over the weekend which is saying they just had enough they just want these for this is to go mountain thank you both in your reporting for us live from Hong Kong but I spoke a few moments ago to Derek new president of the Hong Kong University Students Union he's been speaking to people inside the building the situation is chaotic this on the supplies has been cut by the parties trick or to force nearby the campus and or entrances so whenever the students or those professors attempt to leave the campus in any means they will leave me at the sleeping courts and the rest by the police force how many of those inside to you know have been injured and once what's happened to those who were trying to treat the injured in fact there are also about 600 people inside our campus and among 600 of them there are a free person shot in the ice and actually they're also off for tea person experiencing or Mia after. Being shocked by what they can and that they have shut cold water on them and we were told that there are volunteer paramedics trying to help but that they've been a wristed according to one newspaper report Yes yes it's true at 10 pm Hong Kong time last night the police announcing that social media that stair Ruby and exits. People in that campus could leave peacefully with arrest at that time the 1st factual people including some 1st aiders and recorders that's having to leave the campus was a rest felt really solid reason how many have been arrested so far from the prototype new union. We know there are already like it or even more as this situation develops the violence continues the violence against the police is escalating the damage the injuries to the people who are protesting is escalating how far can this go actually we couldn't predict how would it be they are now lacking off supplies like the food and also the 1st Seders at the same time they're more and more people getting injured by what the police was using power in order to stop the action it is undeniably it that is the reason why some of the protestors. Gasolene bull in order to keep the distance between them out of police but which is not intent to hearts to police force but just to keep distance and pre-fund them from entering to canvass area was arrested during what is this the chief thing in terms of the future of Hong Kong the universal suffrage that you want so that you can vote for your leader and so on it's dramatic and it's dangerous but what is it achieving the fact is we couldn't actually see how would it all. Like whether the monk's committee meets by the China government but we have been or means to presents to international peace and all people all for the world what we are facing it's a terribly by the Chinese Communist Party and the confidence that we tried our best in order to defend our core fair use of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong that restriction most and we have France and stats the Chinese governments will take it all away from us to you from the peloton a university student union in Hong Kong the new Sri Lankan President Khatami a Raja puncture has been sworn into office in a ceremony in the city of the poor and he's promised to be the leader of all Sri Lankans regardless of race or religion most of his support though comes from the same has majority Mr Rajapaksa has no majority in parliament there is an expectation though that Prime Minister running McCrum a singer may either voluntarily step down or call a snap election 7 months after the Easter Sunday bombings national security was a key issue for many people from Colombo correspondent you're good to live my. Rajapaksa is adored by many among the senior leaders majority they believe he's the leader who can keep the country safe as Jay assumed. A 37 year old to I told him if you don't have it enough the protection for the people you see everybody out there the bombs killing is there by the thirty's creating this this government so would like to help Father Father Mother Country. Was. Was shaken by a series of bombings at churches and hotels on Easter Sunday this year. More than 250 people were killed in the attacks carried out by Islamist extremists security became a big issue in the country and go to Rajapaksa a former defense chief sensed an opportunity. He gained his deadly reputation during the days of the bloody ethnic conflict between thumb an insurgency and the mainly Sinhalese Sri Lankan army torture killings disappearances of Tommy minorities and the bombing of civilian areas he's been accused of them all as he ordered a crackdown to end the war in 2009. Am in Malaysia Cove which is on Sri Lanka's northeastern coast it's a strip of land that separated from the mainland by a baby and it's in this piece of land that the last very intense bitter fighting took place during the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009 it's hard to imagine it's breezy and peaceful and just really quiet here right now but this is where hundreds of thousands of Thomas was stuck amidst artillery fire amidst mortar shelling and they walked across a narrow. Bridge that I can see in front of me into areas that were controlled by the Sri Lankan military now among those who walked across this bridge with Dahlman rebel leaders who had negotiated a surrender with the Sri Lankan government but once they went to the other side many of them were never heard from again. Than at least 3 Latins husband was one of the insurgents who surrendered she says the army promised that the rebels would eventually be released but many believed they were killed on go Tabio Rajapakse says orders Diana he says eggs and milk to make ends meet left to raise her 2 young daughters alone has destroyed many families our children are learning to see their disappear fathers she tells them to give a go thousands of Tamils are still missing many of them civilians their families in limbo at the moment. Tears streaming down her face value tells me her son disappeared when the army was rounding up people at a camp housing come those displaced by the winter at the only press conference he held before the election Mr Rajapaksa defended himself against the allegations so it ended with Army 13108 you call wiping Exactly and there were rehabilitated and reintegrated with the society as long as he remains president he can't be held to account you're. Reporting on the outcome of the presidential election in Sri Lanka. Winning this is World update from London. And coming up later in our program protests in Iran an internet blackout after the government removes fuel subsidies Tehran decided to do it is now I think fully cognizant of the fact that people would be very unhappy and that there would be protests and the immediate government response that control of the Internet that president of the law enforcement on Iranian streets I think is a reflection of their anticipation of the reaction that's around experts on him vacua We'll hear more from her in about 15 minutes time headlines just now Hong Kong's High Court has ruled the territories ban on protesters wearing face masks is unconstitutional and Beijing has called on Washington to stop flexing its muscles in the South China Sea And as you just heard could have your Rajapakse are sworn in as president of Sri Lanka one of the headline a u.n. Study on children in detention says they're among the world's among the world's most vulnerable more on that here on World update soon. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service in London this is the name and more than 7000000 children worldwide are being held in detention that's according to a new report from the United Nations they're being held in different kinds of institutions immigration services police custody prisons and so on we can speak to imagine folks who's in Geneva and you were at the launch of the report tell us a bit more emotional. Well this is an absolutely vast report Dan it's over 700 pages long and it's quite interesting the definitions that the u.n. Has taken for deprived of liberty because they are looking at children in orphanages children young offenders for example children who have drug or alcohol problems all the way to children actually in prison children in camps in Syria where they can't get out you know related to their parents perhaps being suspected of terrorist offenses and children hundreds of thousands the u.n. Said being held in migrant detention centers so a vast vast subject bottom line the u.n. Says detaining children should always be a measure of last resort is nearly always necessary and states must look for other solutions and what are those other solutions that's the point isn't to say there are very few prisons that are suitable for young people well that's right in the u.n. Says that it says that governments need to look for non-custodial solutions they point to well established evidence that detaining children really negatively impacts their future health and development their life chances and that children who need to be looked after for. Reasons perhaps the Capitol after by their own families or they they have committed offenses or they are in what we would call irregular migration patterns they need to be in a family setting that is what children need that is where they thrive and that is where the best chances of a successful future for them and those around them could be achieved and are like me imagine you've been to places where the situation is dreadful refugee camps and so on most often the children smile at you but that hides another issue raised in this report which is that the mental health conditions for children and the the situation that the systems available to them are really poor. Appalling and life threatening in many cases Dan I agree with you I've seen those smiles I think you come to the point sometimes where the smiles of little children in these desperate situations are a survival mechanism they're looking for support they think a smile might achieve that and that's what's so tragic about it but we see around the world we see in Greece at the moment for it for example refugees children and adults in dreadful conditions because nobody wants to take responsibility for these people we have in the United Kingdom migrant detention centers and the un is quite categorically about this children should not be in the centers they say governments including the British government must find alternative solutions which is basically a violation of the state's obligations under the un Convention on the rights of a child to deprive a child against its will simply because its parents have tried to enter a country not in the legal way imagine thanks so much and folks in Geneva for us Maori has gone mainstream That's according to a respected linguist John McCaffrey New Zealand is hoping that by 2040 1000000 Kiwis will be able to speak to Ray or Maori the language they ambitious goal is part of an official language strategy saying the revival of New Zealand's indigenous language as a key part in national identity and reconciliation from gives more New Zealand film OSA reports. More Malian weaponry is a merry heavy metal band it's album 2 went straight to number one in New Zealand its success is an unmistakable sign of the resilience of the Maori language. But census data has shown that the number of indigenous speakers in New Zealand has fallen. Barbara the former head of the Maori language commission is to mistake about the future there on this many people speaking like I may have around 2 in 5 can have a conversation until Monday which is still quite low but look we've made huge gains since the days when we were at 2 percent that was the 1970s so we steadily growing and of course without a proper command of the language you don't actually have that and deep understanding of your own culture. If a cup o. Kahan Nakia food. Is publicly funded it's presenters and journalists speak only in Maori it's a far cry from when children were beaten or whipped for speaking then native tongue I think for a lot of people in this country they lost the language through no fault of their so in New Zealand we had generations of people who were punished for speaking their language at school. And making active choices not to teach their children the language so that their children wouldn't be her as a consequence so set up the snippet of reinforcement around the language so many people like me were born without speaking when you think about the policy of stripping children for speaking the United language but certainly by an example of active practice and crisis. They. Just. Keep. The language is everything we have a saying if we lose our language then we lose ourselves. Which is that when texting . Just isn't indigenous rights campaign she believes colonise ation has had terrible consequences for language we talk about this idea of cultural genocide and that one of the. Forms that colonized nation takes is that the policies the legislation funding the structures really lean that south towards a living you survive if you survive as a colonial of yourself and it's much more difficult to survive as a model like many other New Zealanders the prime minister just since. He's eager to learn in New Zealand there is a Mahdi proverb he had to me and. What is the most important thing in the world he can attach his tongue a to the tongue and it is the people the people the people. But the funny thing is going to learn from my grandchildren who is a North Island community leader who didn't have the chance to learn Mary as a child but believes the future of the language is safely secured in the hands of younger generations because these little language nice and big court because. The visual preschool. And we see they totally to be able to use when before that's when we start teaching them to speak to the. Kids you know if they were really fluent so the language is coming back but also Mr Marsh. So my aspiration for the future. Which means we all speak. So that everyone is well and healthy and living the best version of their lives. What they hope will be which means that people within the community living in peace words such as key or a hello and call a food have long been part of New Zealand English it's hoped the by 2041 1000000 Kiwis will be able to speak basic Maori. That's Phil mercy reporting from New Zealand listening to World update from the. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service and the u.s. 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Who draws the line between child and adult the next reveal. At. B.b.c. News where Gerry Smit Hong Kong's Court says it's unconstitutional to ban protesters from wearing face masks during demonstrations the judges said the law exceeded what was necessary to police the protests around $400.00 people have been arrested on suspicion of violating the ban the police are continuing to lay siege to a university in Hong Kong where several 100 protesters are thought to be trapped officers have ordered those inside the Polytechnic University to drop their weapons and surrender. China has warned the United States to stop flexing its muscles in the South China Sea An official from China's Ministry for defense accuse the us military of escalating tensions in the region North Korea has said is not interested in holding what it describes as another fruitless summit with the United States as senior official in Pyongyang has issued a statement saying they will not give the Us president something to boast about without getting anything in return. Go to buy a Roger progs has been sworn in as for Lanka's new president in a sermon e in the city of New rather poorer his promise to be the leader of also Lankans regardless of race or religion most of his supporters drawn from the Sinhalese majority. A new report from the United Nations says more than 7000000 children worldwide are being held in detention in institutions immigration centers police custody and prisons it says children with mental health issues or disabilities are disproportionately affected. Lawyers in the us have called on Queen Elizabeth 2nd son Prince Andrew to cooperate with legal proceedings in connection with the convicted sex offender Geoffrey abstain the lawyers who represent turn of Mr Epstein's victims branded Prince Andrew unrepentant after he granted an interview to the b.b.c. Where he denied any wrongdoing b.b.c. News. This is World update from the b.b.c. In London town oh this is Dan Damon that is a decision by the Iranian government to close down the Internet seems to reduce the number of protests over fuel price rises and rationing the price rises were part of a package of support from the International Monetary Fund the i.m.f. But were introduced without notice a state run t.v. Accused hostile media of using fake news and doctored videos to exaggerate the size of demonstrations there is reporting from the central city of yard saying that 40 people have been arrested after clashing with police there I spoke to someone vakeel who's an Iran expert deputy head of the Middle East North Africa Program at Chatham House to ask her what she thinks is happening in Iran the government has doubled the amount of heavily subsidized pecial that they have been providing to the population oftentimes. Especially in parents of austerity it is always a. Easier time ironically to try and him in reform some of the economic. Conditions inside the country and Teheran decided to do this now I think fully cognizant of the fact that people would be very unhappy and that there would be protests and the immediate government response that control of the Internet that. Presence of the law enforcement on Iranian streets I think is a reflection of their anticipation of the reaction did they make any attempt to tell the public why they were raising the fuel prices and what it was supposed to produce I think this is where they did make a. Big error the announcement was made at midnight while people were sleeping so people awoke to this news and I think a player popular reaction and it is partly due to the lack of communication. The lack of involvement of a number of institutions and simply explaining the rationale for this policy I think could have helped in certain ways but frankly Iranians are indeed frustrated frustrated by. Their lack of involvement in policy they're frustrated by governance mismanagement corruption they're frustrated by the impact of u.s. Sanctions and all of this oftentimes comes together in sort of a groundswell of popular frustration there are parliamentary elections coming in in just a few months time. Can that be an opportunity for the people to hold the Government to account they real and functional elections Well that's always a tricky question because people are able to vote but the government treats that candidate before the election through an institution known as the Guardian Council these elections are going to be important because conservatives in Iran are looking at these elections as an opportunity to refortify their control over the elected institutions of the Islamic Republic and I think reform as to have been in power in the parliament and in the presidency and local and municipal councils could suffer a dramatic loss says because of the poor economic performance performance seen over the past 2 years and also because people are feeling quite dissatisfied and it's highly likely that voter participation could decline significantly and including then having an effect on the popularity of President Rouhani who is seen in the West as being of a more reform frame of mind although that itself is a debatable point isn't it yes indeed I think President Rouhani has reformist inclinations but those inclinations are equal to preserving the Islamic Republic he just has a vision and that preservation of b.s. Amik Republic can best be seen through the prism of reform not to the conservative mindset which is to hold fast to the social revolutionary economic and political ideas of $979.00 were Ronni's a bit more forward looking and thanks that economic integration providing employment will perhaps be the best avenue to protect the summit Republic and Saddam does this play in any way into the situation between the Iranian. And the United States because while this is something that the i.m.f. Recommended the sanctions are part of people's frustrations is there any possibility of some kind of deal on the nuclear program. Well at least these protests and the government policy is indeed part of the standoff between Washington and Tehran the impact of sanctions the Iran's inability to export its oil have definitely come together and helped the government decide to implement subsidy reform. But at the same time Karen and Washington are pursuing very different tactics in order to get back to the negotiating table Washington strongly believe that their sanctions based strategy is going to weaken terror on further and thereby force Iran into making more concessions while Tara prawn has said the actual office said that they will not come to the negotiating table until Washington gives them some 6 face saving solution of sanctions relief so where in a stalemate or a standoff between these 2 capitals I'm waiting for one side to blank and it's a particularly dangerous situation because there is a lot of space for miscalculation and extra escalation in the coming months sometime back ill deputy head of the Middle East North Africa Program at Chatham House the International think tank the number of refugees and migrants taking the most to cross from Turkey to Greece has in recent weeks arrivals now at the highest level since the peak of Europe's refugee crisis more than 57000 people rescreen already this year driven in part by instability in places like Afghanistan that's still below well below the 150000 arrivals of 4 years ago but Greece is struggling to cope as a. Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticus reports from just off the island of Lesbos. In the waters of the east in the g. And a speedboat with a rescue crew on board draws close to an inflatable Dinkie loaded with refugees. Head to the shores of the Greek island of Les boss it's where the refugees are heading a few miles behind them is Turkey where they set out from. Once again the rescue teams a busy day and night in these waters plucking people from flimsy boats and from rocks where they get stranded because the Brabant skippers the speedboat run by the British charity refugee rescue 100 percent of the boats and save their Nazi were there overload with people the driver not an experience a fighter and that is even more dangerous in this place in particular because especially. The good brakes if her team transfer a pregnant woman who's on able to walk off to the frozen sea crossing to land. Or refugees who've made it to Greek soil themselves in the dark helped up a rocky hillside run I was wondering what it is but what I got out of we're nowhere near the levels of 2015 Bata rivals are now back at the highest point since Europe's refugee crisis. Began to. Greet coastguards are also out every night but they can only monitor the seas says make. Stopping the boats coming is down to Turkey's government and so far this year more than 55000 people have got past Turkish patrols. Christmass one thing is it needs rising. Potentials because we see that. There are many days and we have maybe 200 or 300 persons. E.u. Countries have sent vessels to help secure this border. With more boats they can control these waters better but that doesn't mean they can stop the arrivals and the rise in numbers means the pressure is growing again on Greece and on its islands. Was. So the reception center at Mario onless boss built for 2000 now has 6 times that number this corner of Europe has become a sprawl of tents and sharks amid the olive groves it's a melting pot of peoples. Which every day expands new shacks put up drainage ditches dark. The reason people are still coming they're still fleeing the same problems wars and insecurity hoping for better lives so the place has become a slum. Children play by the water taps next to sacks of rubbish piled high. Afghans have dug Auburn's into the hillsides where they bake their own bread Syrians have set up shops there was the fact that. Iraqis squat over fires grilling pieces of chicken and this is where her name will name he. She actually on the outside a tiny tent where 5 people sleep the Barrie family show me one of the few things they've carried all the way from Afghanistan their daughter nada schools certificates This is also from out here and the other ones neither is 13 and just wants a place where she can study math you love him enough math yes enough do you want to study. In a school anyone. Can you study here in the camp we don't have. No school. But in Moria hopes have to be put on hold e.u. Countries still can't agree how many refugees should take the asylum process is grindingly slow and if you pick one and that is this Can 3. Arrive from Afghanistan a month ago he shows me the slip of paper he's been given with an exact date for his asylum hearing July next year the interview it's 2027 in 60. 7 o'clock as long time for some highway all of this yeah yeah reading this. Is night draws in children sick scrubbing clothes at the taps on my back and forth my bustling food market appears in the nearby in the dark men sit around a fire warming themselves singing. For years on from Europe's refugee crisis the e.u. Is still failing to deal with the arrivals leaving tens of thousands the hopeful and the desperate came to its shores looking for protection hungry cold and waiting . For matters reporting this is World updates. Whale hunting is controversial but for the people of. Vick in Alaska it's vital as well as culturally important and this year the migrating bowhead whales in that traditional hunting grounds have disappeared the 1st only showed up over the weekend I spoke to Meghan Ferguson research biologist for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration she told me what this year's aerial survey showed the distribution was much farther offshore than typical in September and October we usually find the whales within 15 or 30 miles from the coast and this year we didn't encounter them. 40 or 45 miles off shore that's really unusual it's nothing that we have seen sense 1992 the last time we saw it was when the area was covered with heavy sea ice and this year was definitely not a heavy sea ice year and in fact the seas a warmer so to what do you attributing this lack of whales in that region the general consensus is that it likely has to do with lack of prey especially in the air because it's possible that the whales failand very good feeding resources in the Canadian Beaufort Sea which is where they spend most of their summer and they just might not have been in a rush to head on their westward and and southern migration it's also likely that they just took a far northern route much farther offshore than our typical study area and farther off shore than where the the hunter is based out of it Keogh typically search for them and you said they might not be in a rush these animals need for 200 years they've got they've got time haven't they they do they do and they have a very thick blubber layer which provides a little bit of buffer against environmental variability. It's thought that they can go a year without successful foraging and still do just trying but it's not available to the people there is it I mean this is not just cultural This this is an important source of food in those very difficult regions that's correct and it's important to know that along the northern coast of Alaska there are a few villages that hum bowhead whales some of the villages were successful with their harvest this year if they had to go farther off shore than they typically do but they were successful in getting the whales that they need to feed their villages Vick was an exception in that the whales were much farther off shore to pick only if they get around 20 or 25 whales a year so to just have one and it is a concern for them from the perspective of food security one of the questions which arises I guess Meghan is can we say anything about the changing climate as a result of this what happened 27 years ago during the heavy ice year the ice affected the circulation of the dynamics in the ocean which made the prey unavailable to the bowhead whales I should clarify that in the area. These bowhead whales typically feed on krill and the krill come to that part of the ocean from the Bering Sea So if there's poor recruitment of krill in the Bering Sea or if the currents don't bring krill then there's not going to be a prey resource for the bullhead whales it's possible that there was something that happened this year either with the krill recruitment in the Bering Sea or with the water pathways that take him up to that just made it so the krill weren't available and interesting thing to note is that the whale that was landed yesterday had a stomach full of crow you know that just makes the mystery a little bit more interesting is that the krill finally arrived at the. They arrived late we really don't know the answer there the mystery just keeps getting deeper and deeper back in Ferguson from the double a on whale hunting in fact which is I think the northernmost part of the United States I don't think you get much further north. This is wild update. Top stories just now from our news from Hong Kong's High Court has ruled the territories ban on protesters wearing face mask is unconstitutional and North Korea has said another nuclear summit with United States would be pointless unless Washington offers new concessions. The top stories. The International Criminal Court said it could open its 1st investigation into the British military this following revelations in a b.b.c. Programme about alleged war crimes the program panorama working with the Sunday Times newspaper found evidence that illegal killings by u.k. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been covered up by the British state the Ministry of Defense in the u.k. Says it has cooperated fully with the i.c.c. And there's no justification for further interventions by the court but Vulcan comic from the European Center for Constitutional and human rights has rejected suggestions that the u.k. Government has already investigated these allegations nobody except some low ranking officers had been put on trial but there is a lot of evidence in a lot of indicators that they had been systematic eps use and torture of detainees and even Das Moreover the i.c.c. Won't target no ranking officers there the task of the i.c.c. Is to determine the liability of those bearing the greatest responsibility for the war crimes and that means they have to look into the accountability of the high superiors if not politicians I think. Especially after the the latest revelations that the Office of the prosecutor will ask the Prieto chamber to open a formal investigation and then we'll see what comes up because the problem is also that we're talking a lot about incidents which happens to 1516 years ago and it will be quite difficult to connect. Every dance all which stands for all. Try it still I think it needs to be done and needs that we have to undertake everything to seek justice for those who have been tortured or to end the family members of. Wealth and collect from the European Center for Constitutional and human rights more about that on the b.b.c. Website the history of the Nazi genocide of the Roma and Sinti traveller communities is the focus of a new exhibition in London Rian our holocaust library has gathered over a 1000 died when this document to tell the story of the extermination of half a 1000000 Roma and Sinti people during World War 2 was known as the parotid most or deferring I met the library's senior curator Barbara Warnock and she showed me some of these testimonies like that of yours of Sadowsky he is the only known Roma survivor of the Nazi persecution living in the u.k. Today he survived when his parents managed to smuggle him out of the ghetto where he lived with his mother father and 3 siblings he never saw them alive again. Maybe my parents paid the Koreas to take me to some Roma families and told them how and where to find them so I could be delivered after the war I learnt they'd sent my father to the concentration camp naked dance called Still tough he was killed my mother was murdered burned with the rest of the children they sprayed. The few doing the fact I survived it's a kind of miracle a gift from God with I'm still alive and giving a testimony of what happened with. Baba Warnock I'm the senior curator at the been a holocaust library and the sex station is called Forgotten Victims the Nazi genocide of the Roman city. Are they more forgotten than other groups they seem to have been so I think there's a number of aspects to that in the immediate post-war period in the forty's and fifty's there was almost a situation of denial really where when and since the victims struggled to get recognition and restitution for their experiences at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials crimes against Roma were not specifically tried they were kind of overlooked there as well and then it is something that people aren't as aware of people are quite aware of that Jews were victims of Nazis but less people are aware of Romer's as victims but the story here because you've got documents about one particular individual so his name was Hunt's Brown and we have a testimony that he gave in the 1980 s. In which he describes briefly his kind of pre-war life my immediate family consisted of my father mother and 11 children we had a small carnival with strings or America around shooting gallery cetera we traveled around the countryside all summer long we were all born in Germany we were all German gypsies Sinti our forefathers came many generations ago from India we arrived in Auschwitz as usual for prisoners in a cattle car I asked where my parents my brothers and sisters then I saw my parents I did not recognize my mother her hair was cut off I asked her where the 2 smallest children were she told me they were dead for a certain time we were permitted to live together in this barracks This was the gypsy camp next to it was the Jewish camp and next to that check camp people were sorted out like goods my brothers and sisters one after another died of starvation my father was beaten severely he starved to death. I was revived We also have some quite interesting documents revealing that he was held in both Auschwitz camps and combined with his testimony we gave an interesting picture of his experiences at different times of not supposed to queue ssion The documents also show us that after the war he twice applied for restitution and his 1st attempt to claim restitution for his experiences seems not to have been successful and we have a letter by a police investigator in 950 who following the restitution claim seems to have been asked to investigate whether Brown had been prosecuted for racial reasons or whether he was a criminal and this was one problem that Roma people faced after the war in trying to claim restitution that the German authorities in the initial post-war period were often quite resistant to the idea that Roma had been persecuted for racial reasons and often tried to claim that in fact people were held in camps including Auschwitz because they were criminals which is what people say a rumor about Gypsies anywhere is going to be accused of being a criminal is nothing new no no sadly not and in researching this exhibition I kind of realized how there were a lot of continuity between the Nazi treatment of Rome and what came before even if the Nazi treatment of Roma was much more extreme and ended up genocidal in terms of how the kind of genocide against Roma in Europe unfolded it it was more haphazard than that against Jews however certainly by saying $944.00 it's clear that there was a kind of genocidal policy to try and Nial 8 Roma wherever the Nazis and their collaborators encountered them it would be nice to say Wouldn't this is a terrible history but it's in the past but we know it's not. And I've lived in Eastern Europe I know how Roma treated in some countries I mean they kind of isolate them in much the same way that you could describe as a camp and we know that anti-Semitism is alive and 1st. What do you hope this exhibition who told people in the exhibition we told a number of individual stories of individual victims and survivors and we also hope through doing that to kind of bring some of the individual experiences to people's attention and in that way pay tribute to all of those who were victims of not suppose we want people to also be aware that persecution and discrimination against Roma in Europe continue that we can't just leave this history in the past and we do have a part of the exhibition that looks at the situation today one group that we've worked with recently at the vien library is the Roma support group and they've supported this exhibition and provided us with a film for it as well which is linked to a project of theirs to collect oral histories from Roma living in Britain. They want to say that for i OS. I would like to. Ask. The be my for me to adore one defend it accept that is it took to see that young girl Mark boys than girls. 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World Service I'm Nick was hundreds of pro-democracy activists a still trapped by police inside a Hong Kong University on the supplies has been cut by the police at all and princes so whenever the students or those professors at Sam's leave the campus there will immediately be in courts the neutral Lankan president is sworn in welcome by some to see if they get the bombs is. That he's creating this this garment to be like the help are there for them other countries but we hear from critics of his human rights record also today they're in immigration centers police custody in prisons why are 7000000 children detained around the world and later in the program Bella Riggs fails to elect any opposition M.P.'s when Will what's known as Europe's last dictatorship open up now we hear how tennis is all this team competition is getting a revamp this is the b.b.c. World Service b.b.c. News Hello I'm Gerri Smit Hong Kong's High Court has ruled that a ban on protesters wearing face masks during demonstrations is unconstitutional the judges said the measure included under a colonial era law exceeded what was necessary to police the protests the ban was brought in by Hong Kong Leader Kerry lamb at the beginning of last month to help identify activists who cover their faces the regulation was widely ignored around 400 people have been arrested on suspicion of violating the ban. The police can.