The north korean leader. The bbcs Sharanjit Leyl is outside the north Korean Embassy in kuala lumpur. What is the latest around that area . I see behind you a couple of police cars. Thats right. It has been relatively quiet all morning. We have been standing out here watching the embassy for signs of movements. Security wise it has been quite. We have had to make police cars out at the front gates, two police bikes went past earlier but where it has been busy has been the number of media who have gathered here, also watching the embassy for signs of movement. They are all camped out here, like we are. And essentially what we did see a short time ago was signs of movement. We saw a black Mercedes Benz drive into the front gates. A man got out carrying what appeared to be breakfast, and that is it so far. We also seeing potentially more cars going past but we are watching for signs. And essentially what has happened is this latest row was triggered on tuesday, where we sought the north korean state media saying that malaysians in north korea would not be allowed to leave the country until this incident, they called it, in malaysia was solved we saw. This prompted a furious reaction from the Prime Minister in malaysia, he called it an abhorrent act, that it was tantamount to holding north malaysians in north korea hostage. They have all been vouched for, the Deputy Foreign minister has said that they are all safe. It is estimated by malaysian authorities that there are about 1000 north koreans who live in malaysia. Nearly 200 of them in the eastern malaysian state, where they work for a hyd ropower state, where they work for a Hydropower Project as well as coalmines there. And there are up to three suspect is, according to the Malaysian Police chief, who are hold up Malaysian Police chief, who are hold up in that embassy behind me. So what could be next with this diplomatic dispute between pyongyang and kuala lumpur . How will this eventually play out . What our political analysts telling you . Well, thats right. We have already heard from United Nations essentially calling for calm. We know that this violates all sorts of diplomatic relations, it is against article 13 of the un declaration of human rights, which malaysia has signed, north korea hasnt. It is also violating the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. But what we have also seen as quite a furious reaction from malaysians here. If i ta ke reaction from malaysians here. If i take a look at some of the newspapers, the pages and the front headlines, you can see trapped in pyongyang from the malaysian style. You also see the new Straits Times with a picture of the Prime Minister basically convening an Emergency National Security Council meeting when he got back from jakarta just yesterday malaysian star. Saying safety of malaysians is a priority. But we have also heard from reports in some of these papers from the councillors in malaysia, one of the councillors in malaysia, one of the council is in the embassy in malaysia, in pyongyang, saying dont worry, we are safe. Thank you so much for the update. Lets take a look at some of the days other news. The United States has sought to reassure china that its deployment of a Missile Defence system in south korea is not a threat to beijing. China strongly opposes the deployment of the thaad system, and says it will take measures to defend its security. But a Us State Department spokesman said the deployment was designed to prevent an attack from north korea. Weve been very clear in our conversations with china that this is not meant to be a threat, and is not a threat to them or any other power in the region. It is a defensive system, and it is in place, or will be in place, because of north koreas provocative behaviour. Also making news today the uk government has suffered a second defeat over its legislation to trigger the process of britain leaving the european union. The upper chamber, the House Of Lords, voted by a majority of more than 100 to get a legal commitment that parliament will have a meaningful vote on the Deal Britain Negotiates when it leaves. But, as our Political Editor Laura Kuennsberg explains, the Amendment Cannot Block the bill to invoke article 50 of the lisbon treaty, the mechanism for leaving the eu. Big picture, this is not going to delay brexit, it is not going to stop it, certainly. Remember, theresa may still has three weeks to get this parliamentary wrangling out of the way before she reaches her own self imposed deadline of getting brexit started by the end of march. French president ial candidate Francois Fillon is facing fresh allegations over his financial conduct. A newspaper has accused him of failing to declare to the independent Public Standards Office an interest free loan from a businessman friend. Mr fillons lawyer told the paper the loan was repaid in full. At least four people have been killed after a Freight Train slammed into a bus at a Railroad Crossing in southern mississippi. 35 passengers on the bus were taken to hospital, with just a few people escaping unharmed. Witnesses say the bus appeared to get stuck on the tracks. Lets show you some pictures of an extraordinary fashion show in bangladesh, that featured survivors of acid attacks. Those appearing had been attacked by relatives, spurned by partners and by neighbours. Many are now shunned socially. The show was devised by the bangladeshi designer bibi russell, and timed to take place on the eve of International Womens day. 0ne survivor said it was the attackers who should hide their faces, not those who had been disfigured. In football, there was humiliation for arsenal in the champions league, thrashed 5 1 at home by bayern munich. It means arsenal lost the tie 10 2 on aggregate, piling pressure on already beleaguered manager arsene wenger. In the nights other game, real madrid beat napoli 3 1 away from home, to progress to the last eight. Wikileaks has published thousands of unverified documents of what it says are wide ranging Hacking Tools used by the cia. The documents allege Cyber Weapons have been used to break into users computers, mobile phones, and even smart tvs, to gather intelligence. The cia hasnt commented on the credibility of the documents, but some experts say at this point the material does appear legitimate. Caroline davies reports. Fresh embarrassment for the Us Security Services today. Wikileaks has published details of what it says shows the tools the cia uses to hack their targets. They say using them would allow the agency to break into smart phones, Communication Apps and electronic devices, including smart tvs, which can be used to record conversations. Wikileaks said its sources had shared the details to prompt a debate on whether the cias hacking capabilities have exceeded its mandated powers. The leak hasnt been confirmed by the agency. They say they dont Comment On Intelligence Documents authenticity. This is the latest leak by the whistleblowing website to hit a Us Government department. For the past seven plus years, theyve published Hundreds Of Thousands of classified files from the state department and the pentagon. But this is, in some ways, wikileaks most daring release yet, because these documents come from the heart of americas top intelligence agency. The source of the leak isnt clear, but more than 800,000 people have top security clearance. The man who previously ran both the nsa and the cia said that, if this was a leak, the issue could be that the next generation recruits have a different mindset. I dont mean to judge them at all, but this group of millennials and related groups simply have different understandings of the words loyalty, and secrecy, and transparency, than certainly my generation did. That is people like edward snowden, who previously embarrassed the nsa when he leaked their secrets. Snowden tweeted that he thought the leak was real. If it is, it raises questions about exactly how secure the Central Intelligence agency really is. As fighters from the Islamic State group are gradually being driven out of their stronghold in iraq, the scale of their atrocities is being revealed against one ethnic group in particular. The yazidi people are ethnic kurds, and they are the victims of a genocidal campaign, according to the un. So far, it is thought 5,000 people have been killed. Over 3,000, mostly women and children, are being held captive. Some yazidis have managed to escape and seek sanctuary in germany. The bbcs Naomi Grimley went to meet them. A Secret Location in South West Germany. It is a place of exile. 80 yazidi women and children now live here. They were violently persecuted by so called Islamic State, and chased out of northern iraq. These two boys were captured by the extremists and sent to a military training camp, aged just 1a and 16. This is their story. Translation the training was about weapons. We learnt how to load and fire a weapon. We were training to be soldiers. We would do exercises, crawling under barbed wire, things like that. Translation to learn how to fire a gun on human beings, they took us to big graves where they had the dead bodies of muslim traitors, spies of the regime, or those who took drugs. They said we had to fire on the bodies, to get used to it. Translation if we didnt do what we were told, or broke the rules, they would beat us with a stick. Everything had to be like they wanted. I had to pretend to be a muslim to survive. Translation their books were just like magic. They quickly changed your mind, and made you into one of them. I bet, notjust me, even a mans mind would have changed. After a year, a smuggler helped them escape the camp. Translation by god i knew it was dangerous, but there was nothing left to be afraid of. We had seen death with our own eyes. We saw how they killed. When you lose everything, you have nothing left. We had nothing to lose. This is mainly a community of women and children, most of the men are missing, presumed dead. The women were originally brought to germany for Trauma Counselling after the mass rapes under Islamic State. Baden wurttemberg in South West Germany has welcomed more than 1,000 yazidis in two years and the man who runs the project says several towns volunteered to give them shelter. Of course, its hard. Of course, they have bad dreams. Of course, they are struggling. But they can start, like, you know, just start a new future. Get into school, get an education, dream about falling in love, and all the things that are so normal. All that may take time. But, at least for now, this refuge is far away from those religious zealots who are trying to wipe them out. Naomi grimley, bbc news, South West Germany. You are watching newsday on the bbc. Still to come on the programme to mark International Womens day, we hearfrom one of the most powerful women in the philippines about her countrys very macho president. First, the plates slid gently off the restaurant tables. Then suddenly the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards and it was a matter of seconds as the ferry lurched onto her side. The Hydrogen Bomb on a remote pacific atoll. The americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshima. I had heard the news earlier and so my heart went bang and bang. The Constitutional Rights of these marchers have their rights as citizens of the United States and they should be protected even in the right to test them out so they dont get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. This religious controversy, i know you dont want to say too much about it, but does it worry you its going to boil up when you get to the stage . Well, it worries me, yeah. I hope everything will be all right at the end of the day. This is newsday on the bbc. Im rico hizon in singapore. Im Karin Giannone in london. Our top stories malaysia and north korea are locked in a diplomatic stand off, having banned each others citizens from leaving their countries in a row over the assassination of kimjong nam. The website wikileaks has released what it says are thousands of secret cia documents containing details of a wide range of hacking methods used by the us agency. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. The Philippine Daily Inquirer leads with president Rodrigo Dutertes brutal war on drugs and how its impacted the lives of children around the country. The article explores the story of a 13 year old boy selling crystal meth on the streets of manila. He was caught by police officers, beaten and shot. But survived to tell his story. The Straits Times details a Ground Breaking Education Shift in singapore that will focus on individual student strengths. Schools will discontinue academic Ability Tests and will instead consider the talents of individual students. It means students will be given the chance to study their stronger subjects at higher academic levels. And on the front page of the china daily is president xijingping, urging north east china to regain industrial strength. The North East Region of the country largely relies on heavy and chemical industries, but Economic Growth has slowed in recent years. President xi urged leaders to return to the real economy of the production of goods and services. A rhino has been shot dead by poachers at a zoo in france in what is believed to be the first such incident in europe. Keepers found vince, a four year old white rhino, in his enclosure on tuesday morning. One of his horns had been hacked off with a chainsaw. 0ur paris correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. This is where poachers came looking for their latest kill, a Safari Park West of paris. Their victim, this four year old rhino called vince. They shot him three times before cutting off his horn with a chainsaw. Park staff say the attackers broke through two fences and a wall to reach the rhinos. Its thought to be the first time poachers have targeted live animals in a european zoo. Its horrific that vince, our rhino, was shot. Weve got this notion that here they are protected from poaching and that poaching happens far away in their natural habitat and here theyre safe and poaching has come here now so thats extremely destabilising and shocking. Tonight theres extra security in place at the Rhino Enclosure behind me where the two surviving animals are still being housed. This was a well planned operation with apparently detailed knowledge of the park and it has put zoos across europe on alert. Paris was the weakest link today, but it might be another population in namibia or other parts of the world. As long as the incentives and profits are high in and the risks are low enough, criminals will seek out the weakest link to get their hands on the rhino horn. These criminals are looking for the wea kest these criminals are looking for the weakest link to get their hands on a rhino horn. Today it might be paris, tomorrow it might be a population in sumatra, indonesia or kenya. Its about finding the weakest link, getting their hands on the product. As long as the incentives and the profits are high enough to take the risks they will go for the risks. Like vince, the other young male at thoiry might one day be used for breeding. Europes zoos, designed to protect the species, are now themselves being targeted for the animals in their care. Lucy williamson, bbc news, thoiry. Its International Womens day today. Despite the macho image of president duterte, the philippines remains one of the more Gender Balanced countries in east asia. Loren legarda is one of six women elected to the countrys senate. Earlier, i spoke to senator legarda, and i asked herfor her assessment of womens participation in politics. Its not a matter of number. The six have a louder voice than the remaining 2a senators. The fact ive been a senator since 1998, was the youngest senator then and continue to bea youngest senator then and continue to be a senator now for the three yea rs. To be a senator now for the three years. And in the lower house there are more than 50, there are many congresswomen representing districts in the philippines. We also have more governors and mayers and Board Members and even in the private sector there are more Women Executives and ceos who are very, very powerful and intelligent and very powerful and intelligent and very determined in their respective careers. And so while were only six, we interpret a lot, we sponsor our measures, we are a loud and listened to voice in the Philippines Senate. You generally sound pretty optimistic, pretty positive about the way things are. Some looking at the way things are. Some looking at the philippines from the outside say you have this president known for his nacho image, but is he on the same page as you, does he support the furthering of womens rights . Match of. The president when he was the mayor of davao was the model city for many of the legislation which were implemented by the mayor which were implemented by the mayor which are in favour of women. There we re which are in favour of women. There were women centres and programmes for women and in fact davao city, where he was mayorfor for women and in fact davao city, where he was mayor for several decades, is a model for Gender Balance and for pro women legislation as well as pro within activities. The Philippines Senate has just approved the proposed anti. Youre working on an amendment to Sexual Harassment and the first thousand days act to protect working mothers. What was it like, is it difficult to push for better of conditions for women in the philippines . Not at all. In fact theres Great Corporation between theres Great Corporation between the women and the men of the senate. We passed it on third reading, im one of the authors but not the major sponsor because i do not chair the committee, id chair the Finance Committee, id chair the Finance Committee but even as we defend that, its not difficult at all. There are questions like there are in any legislative measure. As the chairman of the Finance Committee, which allocates the budget, i make sure much of the budget is also allocated for women, women in the workplace, winning four enterprise, rural women and agriculture so its not just a matter of rural women and agriculture so its notjust a matter of education, its about allocating funds for women, funding laws already in acted for women and equalising the allocation of resources for women. Because i think at the end of the day all this Legislation Is Just Inc On think at the end of the day all this Legislation Isjust Inc On Paper U Nless We legislation isjust inc on paper unless we actually walk and talk and provide the resources, meaning the allocation of funds in the general appropriations act unless and until the women have access to these resources , the women have access to these resources, to these Financial Resources , resources, to these Financial Resources, then women cannot be com pletely resources, then women cannot be completely empowered. How do you encourage more people to catch public transport . A singapore bus operator believes its got the answer, scented buses. About 100 public buses will be rolled out this month. So what do commuters think of it . Lets take a look. Do you notice anything different about this bus . No . 0k, a very subtle kind of sand. Yes, maybe. Yes, it does a little different. It doesnt air freshener. If we are getting people to move from the private cars to more of a public bus usage, we really need to incentivise them to do that. We are living in the garden city and a very much tropical climate as well. We wanted a fragrance that had a green note to it, as well as refreshing and cooling. And so the key components of the fragrance are eucalyptus, and rose. If a bus smelled like this, i would probably catch it. I do not like the smell. Lemon. Do you like it . I dont think. I think ithinka i think a lot of Public Transport In Singapore definitely will benefit from that and i will ride one of them very soon. You have been watching newsday. Hgppy happy International Womens day. Very kind of you, thank you very much. Happy International Womens day to everyone watching. And before we go, lets take a look at these pictures. A lot of excitement for School Children visiting the white house when its most famous resident made a surprise appearance. President trump greeted the first wave of tourists to come through the building since he assumed office. And a big moment for 10 year old jack cornish from alabama as he was selected for a hug. Thats all for now, stay with bbc world news. Hello there. Good morning. Tuesday was a decent day for the eastern side of the uk. Weve seen more cloud, though, coming in from the west, and all our weather is coming in from Off The Atlantic at the moment, all this Cloud Spilling across the uk. Its driven by an area of low pressure that is running between iceland and scotland, with these Weather Fronts too. The rain across the northern half of the uk is running across fairly quickly, but to the south, things grind to a halt towards the end of the night. So after the rain across the northern half of the uk we get some showers rattling into the north West Of Scotland early on in the morning, and again, there could be a bit of snow across the mountains. Therell be a strong wind, gales probably for northern scotland. By the morning, sunshine is out across Northern Ireland, and the cloud continuing to break up across northern england, Brightening Up quite nicely as that rain is out into the north sea. But across east anglia, southern england, perhaps the south midlands, mid and south wales, we have got more cloud. Quite low cloud, quite mild. But there will be some rain in the air, as well. Its never really going to clear away for much of the day. Rain on and off across mid and south wales, perhaps the midlands, east anglia, and southern england. Much more sunshine, though, arriving across north wales, northern england, Northern Ireland, and it is quite windy here in scotland, again, across the north and there will still be a few of those sharp showers. Temperatures will be that bit lower. Highest temperatures probably in the south east, where we have all that cloud and the threat of rain. Still some rain around across southern parts of england and wales on wednesday evening. That rain eventually transfers southwards into the english channel. But to the north, well see the showers pepping up again across Northern Ireland and then into scotland, again, there could be some snow over the high hills. A drop in temperature later in the night, perhaps, in Northern Ireland, scotland, north east england, but nothing too cold out there. As we head into thursday, though, showers across scotland becom fewer and lighter, largely confined to the north east as the wind eases down. Many places, thursday will be a dry day, some sunshine around. More cloud, though, towards the south and south west, with that rain sitting through the channel, and it threatens to come back northwards again overnight and into friday on a fairly weak Weather Front taking rain across the northern half of the uk primarily. And then behind that weather system, were drawing in our air from a long way south. So this is really quite mild air, but its going to be accompanied by a good deal of cloud. So little if any sunshine around on friday. But the uk at least, not much rain at all and temperatures as high as 13 or 1a degrees. Now, as we head into the weekend it looks pretty unsettled, at least to start with. Outbreaks of rain on saturday. Quite a mild day as well. Getting more showery on sunday, but then temperatures beginning to slip away later on. Im karin gianonne, with bbc world news. Our top story a United Nations spokesman has called for calm in the worsening diplomatic row between north korea and malaysia. The two countries have barred each other citizens from leaving. The extraordinary retaliation follows north korean fury at malaysias investigation into the killing of kimjong nam. The website wikileaks has published thousands of confidential documents revealing what it says are top secret Hacking Tools used by the american Central Intelligence agency. And this video is trending on bbc. Com much excitement for these children visiting the white house, when its most famous resident made a surprise appearance. President trump greeted the first wave of tourists to come through the building since he took office. Thats all from me now. Stay with bbc world news. And the top story here in the uk the House Of Lords has inflicted a second defeat on the government, with a majority of peers calling
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