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This is FRESH AIR I'm Terry Gross 50 years ago Elvis Presley started performing in concert live on stage for the 1st time in 8 years 8 years of making movies and records the 1989 concert comeback was staged in the biggest showroom in Vegas 2000 seats at the Las Vegas International Hotel where he played 2 sold out shows a night 7 nights a week for 4 weeks he was accompanied by an orchestra as well as a 5 piece band which was assembled by my guest James Burton who also backed Elvis on guitar a new 11 CD set called Elvis live 1969 collects recordings from 11 of those Vegas shows James Burton continued to play with Elvis intil Elvis's death in 1977 James Burton is famous in the music world for his work as a sideman he was the guitarist on the Al Hawkins 1957 hit Susie Q and wrote the songs famous guitar lick then he played with Ricky Nelson on most of his hit records and in the T.V. Series Ozzie and Harriet Burton has played with many performers including Frank Sinatra Johnny Cash Merle Haggard Buck Owens Buffalo Springfield Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris he recorded sessions with Phil Spector and Brian Wilson let's start with a track from the new Elvis live 1969 box set this song suspicious minds became a number one hit Elvis's 1st in 7 years but he performed this version in Vegas before the single was released. Came 1st in welcome to FRESH AIR Thank you Terry I'm honored to be here so these 969 Vegas concerts were recorded a year after his T.V. Comeback special and this is the Vegas concerts where the 1st time he was like back on stage in front of a lot of people live and he was nervous about getting on stage I think he told you that he was afraid that he wasn't going to be able to do it is that right yeah he backstage just before we went out on stage he was very nervous he came up to me and he said James I don't know if I can walk out there and I said Elvish you'll have no problem just when you come out on stage man just sing I'll sing maybe 3 or 4 songs just to that the band you know would just key off each other and forget the audience and after he did that he just kind of relaxed and loosen up and he started talking to the audience but he was very nervous he actually had been to the stage and 9 years of just good movies for 9 years and when he called me and Nash me put the band together and shake tonight and he said that his favorite thing was to be on stage and sing to his love honey inch and that's what he really missed most of all. Singing to the fans Was there ever a moment where you thought he's a. Really not going to make it he's not going to be able to go on stage no not really he was always well and ready to go I'm you know the vision performances were fantastic you know that shoot he wore weighed like 5000 pounds that was that have issued of versioning I don't have a clue how he could jump around the stage in that shoot his well let me just now this is a white jumpsuit but it had like a zillion really large rivets on it like you know going down the side both sides of the jumpsuit and like instead of buttons they were rivets like Rivet buttons in the center and then it's like a heavy white material with a big collar not the huge collar that he later war but a pretty big color never. It was so heavy Tyria I got to tell you I picked it up one day to move it off the carriage and I couldn't pick it up it was so heavy I really don't know I could jump around like move kid on stage where in the shoot I read that he rehearsed with weights on his hands and feet so that he would yeah he would do that because. Here's where no shoot you never think he had to get ready for jumping a random stage and describe your pink Paisley guitar that you got for these concerts Oh wow. This is amazing my friend that was he was actually the vice president of Fender called me said I have a guitar here with your name on it and I say really well send it to me and he said no no you had to come down check it out so I went down had had lunch with him that day and he said there's a guitar in the corner so I went over an open occasion as a no no no that's too too flashy too bright for me but in a way I took to get to our to Vegas with me the 1st 2 weeks I decided to only play my Telecaster that my mother and dad bought me and I'll play no games or records and 2 weeks later we had 2 weeks left in Vegas and Red West came to me the Midrash mafia guy he came to me and he said James you got it you got to play the new Guitar Man so I was a little nervous about play and figured you know it's a little too flashy it was might say something on stage and you know might embarrass me but in a way I played a guitar that night we did 2 shows and. He never said anything and after the 2nd show it was said James I knows you're playing a different guitar tonight man it sounds very loose grey and I said yeah I told my story as yes a little nervous about bringing it out on stage I didn't know what you might think about it and he said no it looks great and sounds great so play it all you want to continue playing and it was great. So what was it like standing behind Elvis or to the side of Elvis on stage facing the audience watching the audience watching him. Because like you're onstage but like the eyes are mostly going to be like fixed on Elvis and you're taking in the whole spectrum. yeah you know he he lev good talker he always keyed elf guitar and he'd always give me looks on stage you know wish kind of fall or me own your top are and we had to watch him every every segment because he would change an middle for sung sump and we never knew what he was known or do show we we had to watch him ever shack it but it was amazing he was we couldn't get too close you she was moving so fares in tears ian in and know the little bit or karate there are would you want to get or he had chop so you kept playing with elvis from 69 until his death so you weren't in a position to watch has health deteriorate do you think he understood that the pills he was taking were addictive and war really harming his health well you know a never saw him doing his thing her taking his thing and i know that sometimes he would he would gain a little way and then the he would say men i got to go back on my died i got a got a slow down here and lose just way i was sheen him a gain quite a bit a way in then lose it real fast which is not good but i never saw him do any thing or are taking his thing and all the all the time a worked with a man never saw any as that let's talk about you and how you got started and music you got your 1st guitar at age 14 describe that 1st guitar that you have Well my 1st guitar actually was when I was 13 and my mother and dad bought my 1st guitar and I just. I wanted to play so bad I had a friend and it was Janet that we can a group together in school and he was left handed I couldn't play his guitar but he played and when I got my 1st guitar we sat down and I'm a self-taught I taught myself to play and then one teacher was it was God He was the greatest teacher in world he taught me on playing guitar you gave him my direction in music and I grew up on country music rhythm and blues gospel and was just my favorite music and country music my favorite guitar player my hero was Chet Atkins road Travis and there's Paul and I wanted to play like them which I could occupy a little bit like them but I woke up one day and said there's only one chair one road Travis and one Les Paul so I have to do my own thing so that's when I started working on it and actually when I started playing I came up with a little style called chicken picking and a lot of which a lot of guitar players like to play that now but my 1st guitar at the age of 13 I went professional when I was 14 I played in Louisiana Hey Rod when I was 14 in a staff band behind all the great great entertainers and writing George Jones and Johnny and Jack and Billy Walker love country entertainers and that was pretty much how it got my start when I was 14 I wrote a list mental and I was working with the Blues Band and the singer Dale Hawkins actually we recorded this list mental. And it became Suzy Q. Which became a big hit so why don't we hear Susie Q And this features James Burton on guitar and Dale Hawkins singing and he wrote the lyric to this to writers like your likin Henrik OK and other people have recorded this as well after after the Dale Hawkins recording which was so popular and influential So here is my guest James Burton on guitar Susie King. That was Suzy Q Dale Hawkins with my guest James Burton on guitar and James Burton wrote that famous guitar like that you heard there so you mentioned that you developed this chicken pick and style something else that you did to have your own distinct sound is you replace some of your guitar strings with banjo strings What gave you the idea to do that. Well you know when I got my 1st Fender Telecaster my mother and dad bought me the strings were very still and I wanted to be in a strange but I realized that I couldn't actually do to a stranger to share so I decided to. Dear men try the banjo strange because banjo strings were lighter and I wanted to try to see if it would work and I put the 1st 4 strings of 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th mantra strings on and Porterfield in shakes trying usually for the A string I used to nomo D. String for from the guitar and on the east ring I used a string so I just went down one and by doing that to 4 strings on the banjo I realized the 3rd string was actually on wound and like it was different and dismantle the guitar were just incredible it place so much easier you could play any style was I have a light touch in and it was it was for me it was it was great but it easier to bend the notes tube to bend the string to bend the no no you've been a string clear quotient. Well let me reintroduce you here if you're just joining us my guest is guitarist James Burton he played with Elvis during the last 8 years of emphasis life starting with Elvis a stage comeback in 1969 in Vegas 11 shows from that engagement have been released in a new box set called Elvis live 1969 will be right back after a break this is FRESH AIR. I mean a. 100. 9. 100000000. This is FRESH AIR And if you're just joining us my guest is James Burton a guitarist has influenced many rock and country musicians and has played with many iconic performers including Elvis Presley Sinatra Johnny Cash Merle Haggard he was in Ricky Nelson's band in the T.V. Series Ozzie and Harriet he played on many Phil Spector records he played with Elvis Presley from 69 until his death in 77 starting with Elvis's stage come back in 1989 in Vegas 11 shows from that Vegas engagement have now been released in a box set called Elvis live 1969. So you played on Ozzie and Harriet with Ricky Nelson and i C. And Harriet was a sitcom in the fifty's and sixty's that featured Ozzie and Harriet Nelson who had been big band singers I think she was a big band singer too wasn't she. Yeah she was a singer actually hired her to sing in his Ok so they were married and they played husband and wife and their 2 sons David and Ricky played their 2 sons and Ricky was an excellent singer and so when he became a teenager the show often ended with him and his band playing like for a school dance or the prom or some party or something and so it would be very exciting because there weren't a lot of shows particularly like sitcoms that had rock N roller on performing on the show and you were in the band you were in Ricky Nelson's band on the show and in real life how did that change your life to be on this really incredibly popular T.V. Show back in the days when there are basically 3 T.V. Stations so if you were a teenager you were watching that show that you're a poor went to work with Ricky made him working with a guy named Bob Luman and Bob room and it was a great shame your. And we were in L.A. Doing some rehearsals on some songs to record so we were rehearsing a national call my girl is red hot and Ricky came in one day own business while we were rehearsing want to know who the band was in the next room playing and the next day we got a telegram from Ricky to go to the General Service studios where they do the T.V. Show and Harry it was amazing we took crash much we met I was in her DAVID All the people on a T.V. Show and so Ozzy said when are you guys do a song for me so we did and Ricky got his Utah or I had my guitar in the bass player and we did mistreat train some of the other songs man they said wow this is great you guys want to do want on a T.V. Show and so that was the 1st introduction to do and they all generic T.V. Show and so that's a really high seas idea it was the father's idea for you to do that well he was he wanted to put the song on the show he said this is great you guys want to do this but later on we went back to Louisiana my hometown and. Call me maybe 2 weeks later and asked me to come and join Ricky be as Lee guitar player. My age 16 as an Sure I'd love to I went out to California and join Ricky and they invited me to come stay in their home. Show that became the 3rd son so I'm going to play the 1st song that you did with Ricky Nelson in which you played lead guitar and this is believe what you say. What are your memories of playing this for the 1st time. Oh I enjoyed the solo I got to stretch out a little bit beyond lower notes Yeah I enjoyed the solo too so. So let's hear believe what you say this is Ricky Nelson with my guest James Burton on guitar you. You know you've had such a big influence on guitar players and I think part of that comes from being on and Harriet which like you said like all teenagers watched that at the time. Elvis watched Elvis told you he used to watch it were you aware of that at the time that a lot of like up and coming guitar players including Keith Richards were watching us and Harriet and being influenced by what you were doing when up found out later but when Elvish common asked me to put the band together for 1000 she did you know come back and he said you know I watch the Harry T.V. Show I watch Ricki Shang and you play guitar it is my favorite show of what you do every week and that she had big kid making a rock'n'roll watching me on T.V. Or me playing guitar. But he said he loved it he watched it every week my guest is guitarist James Burton he's featured on the new 11 CD boxset Elvis live 1969 after a break we'll hear more of the interview Ken Tucker will review the 1st solo album by Chuck Cleaver one of the leaders of the band was he and just in China will review a new film comedy about a medical transport worker and his passengers I'm Terry Gross and this is FRESH AIR . Support for N.P.R. Comes from this station and from Western hotels and resorts offering a range of wellness options for guests including their Eat well menu on demand fitness gear lending program and signature Heavenly Bed learn more at Weston dot com a member of Marriott bon voyage. And from the Main Office of Tourism with wild landscapes and rugged coasts to inspire original lifestyles and authentic adventures Maine offers travelers an opportunity to discover their very own main thing at visit Maine dot com. 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This is FRESH AIR I'm Terry Gross let's get back to my interview with guitarist James Burton he played with Elvis Presley from Elvis's 1969 comeback performances in Vegas until Elvis's death in 1907 Burton is featured on guitar on a new box set collecting performances from 11 of those 1969 shows in Vegas it's called Elvis live in 1969 Burton has played with many iconic performers including Frank Sinatra role Haggard Buck Owens Gram Parsons and I mean Lou Harris earlier we were talking about how he played on most of Ricky Nelson's hits and was featured in Ricky Nelson is band on the T.V. Series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. So I'm assuming that you left high school to become a professional musician because you you moved to L.A. To be honest and Harriet when you were 16 but you were playing a teenager on this teenage show that revolved in part around Ricky being in high school was the kind of teenage life that was being depicted on Ozzie and Harriet really different from anything that you had experienced personally. It was different when I had to call to join Ricky. My plan was to maybe come back and finish to chip when I went out to work with Ricky. It got so busy for me I didn't have a clue that much work in the world was so busy and doing everything with Ricky till he I don't know he just it was like 8 and a half years but I was doing what I wanted to do in life and play guitar and be able to make a living and it was fantastic but you know if you can do something you really love and for live enough that she even better I want to get to what you were doing in 1966 among other things you were featured playing guitar on a very famous very wonderful record by Meryl Haggard called the bottle let me down and your moral hazard as one of the people who is considered to have originated the Bakersfield sound a California country music sound that was influenced by rock as well as as country what do you think of as being your contribution to what's known as the Bakersfield sound or to put it another way also power would you describe the Bakersfield sound . Well played on probably almost all of the artists in Bakersfield a but going on the Merle Haggard of Bonnie orange Red Sampson is just a huge lineup of singers from that era and. Merle called me I guess she was and 66 or 7 when we recorded the 1st song played on was Bob let me down but the Merle Haggard sang to Bob let me down Merle was such a great saying here and I just love playing known as records and playing on always songs I got a chance to play a little bit of chicken picking we're going to do the battle let me down and Ralph money is featured on pedal steel and there's some really nice interplay between younger tire and him on pedal steel anything you want to say about that. I just love Rafa just love love the way pleasure he just got it down he's got that sound and when he be injured no show is perfect what can I say if I place your guitar will play just like him OK So here's Merle Haggard's the bottle let me down recorded in 1966 with my guest James Burton on guitar and Ralph Mooney on pedal steel guitar. It was me guess James Burton on guitar with rock muni on pedal steel guitar and Merle Haggard singing Haggard song the bottle let me down. So you played in so many different worlds. And one of the worlds you played in was the world of Phil Spector and everyone who has worked with Spector seems to have a story about how brilliant and how crazy he was. Do you have a story you can tell us well you know he was brilliant when he came to putting things together but it was kind of crazy too because sometimes we go and do a session where he would have 3 organ players maybe 4 piano players to shut your drum maybe 3 bass players and in 15 guitar players moves a little crazy you know it's funny as you're wanted to sing and background and Sonny want to play the tambourine. But he had some great ideas and I couldn't imagine mixing a record with all that on you know so what Phil Spector records you remember playing on oh boy. I don't have a clue right now. I don't have clues so much you know I was doing like 4 sessions a day 7 days a week and it got pretty crazy because sometimes you know who the artist was you know but I know I go from one session like the monkeys and who are sure Beach Boys are going camel and I played on a lot of beach Bush in and I used to go up to Brian Wilson's house in Bel Air and we would play all weekend and we could have a record whole album and one weekend a would have all the studio guys come up here and stay he said nobody goes home a Pleasure Pier and we just played day and night and it was crazy Did you feel like a captive A Did you enjoy that you know Bill like I was you know kidnapped. No it was great we had fun doing it you know if we got tired he said You go and take a nap and when I need you. Do you read music. Not well enough to hurt my play and really I'm very slow reader I did an album with him remained Seanie and the 1st thing I asked him on the phone as a Henry if you're looking for somebody to read note for note what you write out you need to call one of my friends and he said you know no no no it is not that I don't I want you thing but they wanted my sound they wanted me for what i do we create is what we like to do we come up with new ideas and different ideas. And that's the best part about training your year to be you know Chef taught train new year do you hear everything you know so I few years ago I'm not sure what it was exactly you can you can let me know you were in an accident and you broke both your ankles and they were really bad breaks what happened well actually I've only broke one ankle on my left foot that was no problem the only thing is. When I was in the hospital I don't do any drugs I don't do any anything to harm a body but it would get me I got a little bit too much of a morphine when they put me to sleep and I had a bad reaction to it and it put me in a coma for 12 days but good Lord had me in a holding pattern and saved my life. What was the like to come out of the coma Do you remember your 1st memory I don't I don't remember anything my wife just told me a. Few days after we got home of what happened but when I actually came out of the coma there were doctors in my room as for me all kinds of questions because they didn't know where I would be some of the doctors that I'd probably be a vegetable or something if you know that the good Lord had me in a holding pattern and brought me back thank goodness so one of the things you've been doing in the past few years you started a foundation to get guitars to schools and maybe churches. Yeah you know I've always wanted to do my own show. Which in 2005 we actually came up with the idea to do the show invited all my friends that I work with my guitar player friends and singers as well and. By doing that I told my wife I said there's something God came to me and something I needed to do I wanted to do something for the kids in music and I got to thinking and I would like to go naked tours to to kids in school who you know back in schools but the government took it out years ago and I still get letters from teachers and young kids are thanking me for this program that we do you know that's made just probably a lot of the kids couldn't afford guitars and like you said a lot of school music programs have been cut out your parents brought you your 1st guitar was that a financial hardship for them or are they able to easily afford it well it was it was probably a little hardship because at that time the guitar like $350.00 and you know that there was a little time for my my folks to do that but when I saw my 1st guitar the Fender Telecaster I wanted Mother took me down and she told my dad the night that when he came home from work that I wanted the guitar and he said we'll take him down to get the want to have it was a good investment. Are you still playing. Every day every chance I get every chance I won't buy my guitar Well James Burton thank you so much for talking with us. Thank you too your James Burton is featured on guitar on the new box set Elvis live 1969 featuring 11 concerts from his 1969 Vegas comeback Here's Burton featured on guitar on a song about Vegas with Gram Parsons and. After we take a short break Ken Tucker will review an album he likes a lot the 1st solo album by Cleaver one of the leaders of the band was This is FRESH AIR. Support for N.P.R. Comes from this station and from Life Lock Life Lock with Norton offers resources and advice to consumers on the steps they can take if their personal information is exposed in a data breach learn more at Life Lock dot com and from Weston hotels and resorts offering a range of wellness options for guests including their Eat well menu on demand fitness program and signature Heavenly Bed learn more at Weston dot com a member of Marriott bond boy. This is FRESH AIR rock critic Ken Tucker has a review of send aid the 1st solo album by Chuck Cleaver one of the leaders of whisky the critically acclaimed cult rock band from Cincinnati Cleaver has described send aid as 10 songs about joy pain sorrow regret fascination wonder etc Ken says it can stand with the best of anything else Cleaver as done. As often as not Chuck Cleaver treats his singing as though it were something that needs to be buried in feedback double tracked into a dissonant echo or obscured by backing vocals from keyboardist John Hoffman and longtime bandmates Lisa Walker nevertheless cleavers singing on his new solo album sand aid is a wonderfully expressive listen to the way it emerges from the gleeful intentional mess of melody that is the song terrible friend. Cleaver starts off sand A with terrible friend probably because with its vehement stomping fuzzy vocals and full throated lyrics it's the song that most quickly takes you into the sound and mood of this entire collection which is not called send aid by accident in song after song Cleaver is asking for help admitting defeat begging to be forgiven or to be left alone in the song called mess he's a guy who wants to communicate with someone he loves but also knows that as soon as he does he's going to regret. Saying. The egg. Laying. The IATA evolution his main job as a leader of the band was a truck Cleaver writes or co-writes much of the band's material alongside Lisa Walker who also helps out a great deal in the better voice department was the songs can certainly have a rough sound but in general they're more elegantly played and produced than the music on Cleaver solo project but that doesn't mean I'm enjoying Cleaver stuff any less I love the song bed with its lonely guy musing about getting old Cleaver recently turned 60 and it's line about that lonely guy sitting in a room listening to Patsy Cline saying I fall to pieces. While the lyrics of all these songs are pessimistic whenever they're not despairing Cleaver sounds like he's having such a good time being downbeat you end up feeling comforted warmed up beat it may be that the whole collection can be summarized in one paradox tucked into the song flowers and the devil the couplet goes like this I'm so happy that I found you I can't stand to be around you like so much else Chuck Cleaver has to say who among us has not felt that way about someone we love Ken Tucker reviewed send aid by check leave or after we take a short break just in Chang will review a new film comedy about the driver of a medical transport van and its passengers This is FRESH AIR. Shortly after he moved from Moscow to Milwaukee in 1903 Curel make an off ski got a job driving a medical transport van shuttling people with disabilities to their appointments around the city he must of had some wild adventures and encounters along the way a few of which clearly inspired his exhilarating 2nd feature as a director Give me liberty said over the course of one very eventful day the picture follows in unruly group of passengers riding around wintry Milwaukee in a van much like the one beacon off the used to drive shot with a whirling hand-held camera and a terrific cast of mostly nonprofessional actors the movie plays like a social realist screwball comedy a full blown farce on wheels it also feels wholly authentic in its portrait of poor marginalized individuals who are thrown together and forced to coexist for a few hours in one of the country's most segregated cities the driver of the van is a desperately overcommitted young Russian American named Vic beautifully played by Chris calloused his day is going disastrously even before he gets behind the wheel as he tries to keep his grandfather from destroying their shared apartment and help him get ready for the funeral of a dear old friend as Vic begins his pick ups and drop offs he finds that several streets are blocked due to local protests following a police shooting in a black neighborhood he transports a blind man who grumbles about the protestors and picks up a woman who is headed to a vocational center for the disabled where she plans to perform Rock Around The Clock in a talent show but nothing goes according to plan and give me liberty becomes a master class in controlled chaos Vic learns that his grandfather and his fellow mourners never made it to the funeral so good helpful kid but he is he goes back and picks them up they pile into his van curse and complain play the accordion and sing Russian folk songs a dispatcher barks orders over the radio as Vic speeds over a pothole riddled roads and even sideswipes another car. Things shift into high gear when Vic picks up Tracy a young woman with a LS Who uses a motorized wheelchair played with tough talking charisma by Lauren Lobo Spencer Tracy works as an advocate for people with disabilities and she gives Vic hell for his endless detours and delays but they soon realize that they have a lot in common including the fact that many people depend on them their back and forth dynamic becomes both the driving force and the emotional center of the movie here Tracy gently ribs Vic for keeping an enormous box of vinyl records in the van der what you were saying that something about like the wreck you. We're in the. Early days very. Well well maybe but this is. Just something about the final seconds I don't want. People nowadays they don't hear songs like that I know that I can't make. Enough I want you. I mean clearly this is going to be interesting my sister was going on forever she was right now. Now now really. I'm going out with the family. Game I mean you. Know this is like going around my. Back. On my way to the report as Tracy Morgan lolo Spencer all but pops off the screen like many of the actors in the cast she's a person with a disability playing a person with a disability it's one of the ways in which give me liberty sheds light on communities we too rarely see in American movies but the film never feels as though it's broadcasting its own integrity its too busy getting its characters from point A to Point B. And staging all manner of confusion and comedy along the way to waste time on self-congratulation. Even after the van mostly empties out Vick's day never seems to end and the movie 2nd half sustains the same level of comic tension but it also deepens emotionally we see puta full moments of human connection like when Tracy's family invites Vick and his grandfather to dinner the movie's most big hearted character is a Russian boxer named Deena played by Max in the story and of with a boisterous charm that lights up his every scene Vick is a quieter presence someone who listens more than he talks which makes him an ideal guide to this particular story in this remarkable human parade Vick is just one more guy doing his best to survive and chasing the American dream the only way he knows how behind the wheel of a van and taking as many as he can along for the ride just in Chang is a film critic for The L.A. 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A peace deal on the horizon but bombings continue in Afghanistan the head of Hong Kong's government gets caught telling us how she really feels Also today we're taking a trip down the Mississippi River on boats planes and canoes paddling through muddy backyards then they get torn up by the horns and 1100 mile journey to find out how this iconic waterway connects America to the rest of the world one in 12 people on earth in jest food made from Mississippi River basin produce products and that is depend on a working ecologically health of Mississippi river but the rivers ecological health is a big question mark I'm Marco Werman today's top stories and the global stakes along the Mississippi coming up on the world. I'm Stuart Macintosh with the B.B.C. News Hello opposition and rebel Conservative M.P.'s in Britain averting on what better to seize control of the House of Commons agenda in their attempt to stop or no deal breaks it if they're successful a plan from Wednesday to rush through legislation to prevent the prime minister borrows Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without an agreement to the end of October the legislation would also force him to seek an extension to the BRICS it process so that negotiations with Brussels can continue he has dismissed an extension as a pointless delay Here's our political correspondent Norman Smith parliament is only being back one day but already AM P.T. Seem poised to inflict a double defeat on Mr Johnson blocking no deal and the prospect of an early general election and outcome that threatens to leave Mr Johnson's BRACKS It strategy in near tatters earlier Mr Johnson lost his overall majority when a Conservative M.P. Philip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats hurrican Dorrian is now off the East Coast of the United States after having remained almost stationary over the Bahamas for several days causing devastation the National Hurricane Center has warned of life threatening storm surges hitting Florida Georgia and the Carolinas in the coming hours more details from Gary O'Donoghue in Daytona Beach the hurricane itself has been downgraded to a Category 3 and the winds are around 110 miles an hour and it's starting to move a bit quicker than it was we know it was stationary don't we have a Grand Bahama it's moving faster north now combing up the coast to the east coast of the United States curving outwards a bit then possibly actually making landfall in North Carolina toward the end of the way we have no idea what strength it will be at that time or if it will still be on that path. Police in South Africa say 5 people have been killed in 3 days of xenophobic violence in Johannesburg and other towns in cosy is in Johannesburg dozens of people were arrested after rioters looted shops and torched buildings and vehicles in Johannesburg police fired tear gas rubber bullets and stand grenades in an attempt to despair small observe looters president Cyril Ramaphosa condemned to the senseless violence he said there can be no justification for any South African to attack people from other countries African governments have issued warnings to their nationals here over the violence at least 14 people have been killed in Central Mali when the bus they were in struck a mine police said several others were injured some critically in the blast which heard in the central region of Mopti the bus was carrying about 60 passengers Mopti is regularly affected by ethnic and Islamist violence jihadist groups in the area regularly use mines this is the world news from the B.B.C. a Syrian national in Hungary has been charged with terrorism and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the beheadings of tens of billions.

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