2nd program from Russia she and other members of Moscow s talented musical community a keen to be heard above the hostile political noise that seems to be the soundtrack of relations between our country and large parts of the world at the moment. I really would like to think that culture and politics more separate and together I would like for people to kind of not look at what Putin is saying because he isn t speaking for the whole nation and the people are different from the leader join me James Kim Our saw me in just a few minutes. Hello Marion Marshall with the b.b.c. News 629 migrants at the center of a rowdy European immigration policy of spending their 1st night on dry land for more than a week 3 vessels took them to the Spanish port of Ellen from where Damon Dramatica reports Spain is giving the 630 people free medical care and permits to stay for 45 days it s promised to consider every asylum claim as it seeks to demonstrate what it says can be a more humane migration policy
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Welcome to S. With the new McGovern We re live from the floor of the B.B.C. News room and each weekday at this time we sit among the journalists as they work on stories from around the world and a lot of focus today has been on the small town of trip in southwestern France the shooting and hostage siege at a supermarket the French president has called it a terrorist attack so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility but the interior ministry say the 26 year old attacker was working alone France is a country familiar with such events in recent years sadly and we were talking in the 1st hour of the show about how French people have changed their behavior in response to the attacks we re going to take you to France this hour to consider today s violence and also the wider picture we re also waiting on a possible press conference by U.S. President Trump he is talking about getting tough on trade in particular with China so we bring you all the latest details and stories from
Been growing international condemnation of Syria s military assault on eastern Guta a rebel held enclave near Damascus hundreds of civilians have been killed there since Syrian forces began their assault 2 weeks ago the UN s top human rights official the hour same said the attacks on civilians were probably war crimes what we are seeing Eastern water and elsewhere in Syria are likely war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity to civilians are being pounded into submission or death the perpetrators of these crimes must know that they are being identified not being built up with a view to the prosecution East African government officials meeting in Uganda have urged the U.N. To reconsider plans to reduce the size of the peacekeeping force in Somalia a 20000 strong African Union mission has been fighting the jihadist group al-Shabaab for the past 10 years Catherine hunger reports the conclusion from this summit is that plans to reduce the African Union force in Somalia will lead
Ition could ease tensions a rich nuclear program the u.s. Vice president Mike Pence accuses the North Koreans of trying to hijack the games as a propaganda exercise Stephen McDonell is in Pyongyang Mark Penn says he s going to challenge the North Koreans at every stage is going to try and remind the world of the human rights abuses in North Korea and its nuclear weapons program and some people in South Korea are on board with that as well they think that the North is being rewarded too quickly without having given up its nuclear weapons but others think that look there are no illusions as to the problems that exist between the 2 Koreas all the human rights abuses over nuclear weapons but I just think that there should be some dialogue after all that frostiness that we ve seen and after all. Was elected on a platform of trying to have a dialogue with the North I mean he he went to the electorate with that and he won and so when. Kim you don t comes here and says the you know all of a m