With stephen sackur. Holding up placards outside the funerals of dead american soldiers, celebrating schoolroom massacres, Westboro Baptist church has been described as the most obnoxious, hate filled group in america. Megan phelps roper was part of that group. She was born into the church. She carried those hate filled placards from the age of five years old. But as an adult, firing off tweets against online critics, megan began to doubt. Eventually, she left the church altogether, but she paid a high price. The church was founded by her grandfather. She was shunned by those she loved the most. Can she still really regard the people who taught her to hate, to desire more death, that the world was going to hell, as her beloved, wonderful mum and dad . Megan phelps roper, welcome to hardtalk. From the age of five, in 1991, you were involved in your familys demonstrations, later taking part in pickets of the funerals of dead soldiers in the united states. Can you just give us a sense of
Also in the programme translation we were china claims all the people sent to what it calls re education camps on the volcano for about an hour. Ten minutes after we left, in the western xinjiang province and got on the boat, have now been released. The volcano started erupting. And archaeologists discover the boat turned around and went back a mysterious shipwreck off the coast 00 01 12,713 2147483051 37 21,071 of rhode island that could be 2147483051 37 21,071 4294966103 13 29,430 captain cooks ship endeavour. To the island to try to help the people who were still there. Im not sure if everyone got out alive. White island is one of new zealands most active volcanoes, but its also a popular tourist destination. Thousands come here for walks and scenic aeroplane rides. Nothing escaped the devastation here, the scale of the damage clearly shown here with this sightseeing helicopter, barely recognisable under the thick smouldering ash. Down the beach, a large group could be seen waiting
Bbc. Co. Uk news, and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Nintendo flips the switch in china, and it is teaming up with tencent. The World Trade Organisation in crisis as the world shuts down its appeals court. Good morning, asia. Hello, well. Thanks forjoining us for this edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Lets start off with the gaming sector, because japans nintendo is officially launching its popular switch gaming console in china today. Interestingly it is teaming up with tencent, perhaps the biggest Gaming Company in the world. The japanese giant is best known for games and characters like mario and pokemon which are popular in the mainland, but it doesnt mean that it wont be a challenging environment for the company. To curb gaming addiction, children under 18 are banned from playing online between 10pm in the evening until 8am in the morning on weekdays, in addition to regulation, consul gaming is not as popular in china. Most
We re our leaders are not caving as if we were in an emergency. In an emergency you change your behaviour to live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, and here in london its just turned thursday the day the british electorate vote in their general election. The Party Leaders spent the final day of campaigning travelling from one key constituency to another, hoping to win last minute support. The bbcs Political Editor laura kuenssberg, has all the latest. Mrs monaghan at number eight was the yorkshire tory voter with an unusual milkman this morning. Morning so nice to meet you, Prime Minister. What are you doing up this morning . I am bringing your chocolate milk, orange juice. 0h, chocolate milk the last day of any election peak political pantomime. I will be with you in a second. I have an earpiece ready to go. Borisjohnson even retreated into a giant fridge when a reporter tried to persuade him on live television. Dont b
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