14/07/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me Tom Donkin.

Another day of high drama in Downing Street, as Theresa May

decides who's in and who's out of her cabinet.

Several big hitters are out - including one of her rivals

But it's the decision to put Boris Johnson in charge of foreign

policy in the wake of the Brexit referendum, which is still sending

Reports from the US say Donald Trump has chosen his running mate.

We'll be live in Washington, as rumours build about

And - we get a glimpse of David Bowie's private art

collection, as it comes up for auction in London.

Another busy day for Britain's new Prime Minister, Theresa May,

as she puts her new Government together.

She's received a telephone from President Obama,

who told her he looked forward to deepening the special

relationship between the US and the UK for the rest of his term.

Two other leading Brexiteers enjoyed contrasting fates.

Michael Gove who ran against Mrs May for the leadership is sacked

as Justice Secretary, but Andrea Leadsom, who also

ran for the top job, is promoted to

Reaction's been coming in from around the world

to the appointment of Mr Johnson as Britain's top diplomat.

Our political correspondent Vicki Young is at Westminster.

The new Prime Minister Theresa May has completed form and her new

cabinets. This surprises keep on coming. There are some jobs for

those who challenged her for the leadership but some big names have

been booted out. There are jobs for Brexiteer 's and those who voted for

Remain in that EU referendum. Former Justice Secretary Michael Gove who

ran for the leadership has gone and been replaced by former Environment

Secretary Liz truss. Andrea Leadsom new Environment Secretary who also

challenge Theresa May for leadership. Jeremy Hunt, Health

Secretary, currently embroiled in a dispute with junior doctors, stays

where he is. Our Political Editor reports.

Flowers on 80 of congratulation that commiserations also. The busiest

people in Westminster where the florists.

But the Prime Minister was cracking on. Arriving for perhaps her biggest

job, getting her team right. It is not like they even get a job

interview. They turn up to find out what they have got. Articles each

chat in number ten? In her case she walked out as Secretary of State for

Justice. Just didn't beginning, -- Justin Keeling walked in with one

cabinet post and what about with another, -- Justine Greening what

end with one cabinet post and what about with another. Imagine being

Damian Green. He senior MP opening but not knowing if he is heading for

the Cabinet. 30 minutes later in charge of Department for Work and

Pensions. It has been a very busy first day

for me here at the Foreign Office. It began with a speech to about 700

of our staff. I set out what I think we need to be doing and focusing on.

That is reshaping Britain's global profile and identity as a great

global player. Who else is in? Philip Hammond as the Chancellor,

essentially the number two. Amber Rudd is the new secretary.

Eurosceptic Andrea Leadsom moves into the Cabinet in charge of brutal

fears. After confusion over his role Jeremy Hunt stays at health.

Today's losers did not have too faced the Downing Street walk of

shame. Theresa May told some people fear services were not required.

George Osborne, Chancellor for six years, is out. Michael Gove his

controversial friend was also shown the door. Nicky Morgan who backed

him to be the leader met the same feat. Oliver Letwin, one of David

Cameron's thinkers, is out as well. And Stephen Clark, who also ran for

a leader. This is more than the usual comings

and goings. -- Stephen Crabb who also run for

leader. There are some of the same faces and

some of the same controversies and problems also. But the Government

looks different, very different and under Theresa May what some

ministers do will be different. There will not be a budget within

weeks as George Osborne had claimed they would. We do not see any need

for an emergency budget at the moment. I expect to become to

statement in the usual we having spent the summer studying the effect

on the economy so far, looking at our plan for the future, consulting

with the experts, starting with the Governor of the Bank of England this

morning. Remember these changes are all within the same political party.

The same side is still in charge. But the new Prime Minister wants a

clean break, maybe clearing all the resentments and Rogers also. Do not

forget, these jobs really do matter. Politics is personal to.

The new Conservative Government has not been entirely welcomed renewed.

The President of the European Parliament said its composition was

an attempt to keep the Tory party together rather than focus on the

future of the country. There was criticism of the new Foreign

Secretary Boris Johnson who is accused by his French counterpart of

lying are a lot during the referendum campaign.

A deputy editor has more. It was not just as he was surprised.

Boris Johnson has been put in charge of quiet British diplomacy after a

career strewn with colourful outbursts. Reaction has been mixed

around the world. On Twitter the former Swedish leader thought it was

a joke. The former Belgian Prime Minister thought so also. Australia

sent good wishes but others in France and Germany were less

friendly. The President of the European Parliament has described

the Cabinet reshuffle which meet Boris Johnson Foreign Secretary as

part of the dangerously vicious cycle since the votes to quit the

EU. Criticism from the French Foreign Minister, he said in an

interview the new Foreign Secretary had told a lot of lies about EU.

After a vote like the referendum result on June 23 at this inevitable

there will be plaster coming off the ceiling in the chancelleries of

Europe. It was not the result they were expecting and clearly they are

making their views known in a frank and 3-way. The gentleman that you

mentioned, the French Foreign Minister said the eight charming

letter just couple of hours ago. -- need there are views known in a

frank and free way. They have just made him Foreign Secretary. In

America they ignore about Boris Johnson's Way with words. He can

appeared at Hillary Clinton to a sadistic nurse.

He wrote about ancestral dislike of the British Empire.

In Washington State Department spokesman's face spoke volumes. It

has been announced as Boris Johnson. That is better. We are always good

to be able to work with the British and matter who is occupying the rule

of Foreign Secretary. Boris Johnson addressed his new staff to deal

looking the part. That is what the policy is about sometimes.

Colleagues say he has the talent and blamed for the job but he will have

to get used to being a little less interesting.

Well, it's fair to say there's been less than positive reaction in some

parts of Europe to that decision to make Boris Johnson

To talk about it let's go to Brussels and our

A lot of dismay and anger about his appointment in Brussels. Do you

think when he gets down to business those feelings might subside?

With all these things there is going to be an element of reality. Once he

comes here on Monday he is sitting in a room with the other 27 EU

Foreign Minister 's and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry,

there will have to beat some kind of cordial and constructive

relationship. But throughout the course of today across the continent

and in Brussels there has been a lot of supplies and scepticism. Boris

Johnson will have his work cut out to try to construct that

relationship. That is key. It is a sentiment echoed by the outgoing UK

EU Commissioner, Lord Hill, he said the British Government cannot cut

off its nose to spite its face in these negotiations.

Ministers might not have long to wait to see Boris Johnson. We need

to see if his belief will clash with the Brexit minister that Theresa May

has installed, David Davis. Negotiators over there will want to

know who they are dealing with in terms of British except stop.

His deadly job title suggests David Davis will be the main player in

negotiations but clearly there are other big issues on the table.

Syria, Libya. It is hard to think Boris Johnson will come to Brussels

and not discuss the Brexit 's negotiation is a winner that will

take place in eight more informal sense, of course that European Union

is insisting that no formal negotiations will happen until the

British Government invoked article 50. Then there will be a two-year

timescale and in our time since that is in favour of the rest of the

European Union because it puts the pressure on the Europe -- pressure

on the British Government to get a good deal by the end of those two

years and that will be in testing. Looking at the reverberations of

Boris Johnson entering their world stage of politics.

Now a look at some of the day's other news.

A station master in southern Italy has admitted he allowed a train

to go on a single track minutes before it collided head

He and another station master have both been suspended as part

of an investigation into multiple manslaughter.

23 people died in the crash earlier this week.

The rail line relies on an old phone alert system dating

The European Union has expanded its investigation

into whether Google is breaking EU competition rules.

It now includes the company's advertising business.

It alleges that adverts provided by Google are given unfair

prominence by the internet giant to the detriment of its competitors.

Google says it will respond to the complaint in the coming weeks.

The United Nations says dozens of summary executions in Eastern

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says some

of the cases could amount to war crimes.

It's looked into the disappearances and deaths of at least 47

people in areas held by Russian-backed separatists.

The report also lists 29 cases in government-controlled territory.

Overall the UN says, there's a culture of pervasive

Joining me from Kiev is Fiona Frazer.

She's in charge of the team that wrote the report.

It is very hard to gather information in an ongoing war zone

like this but in a protracted conflict like you clean the wheels

of international justice will need to move swiftly.

We have been documenting with the European human rights office since

March 2014, documenting cases where we have seen the arbitrary loss of

life through abductions, cases of torture, and so forth. This report

looks at killings and the deaths of individuals as a result of

hostilities but it also looks at cases that stem from 2013 and 2014

as well as the violence in deaths on the 2nd of May. It is looking at the

past two years, the increase in the number of deaths arbitrarily and

through other acts and we feel there needs to be more accountability, for

people to be held responsible, for perpetrators to be held to account,

and for victims to feel they are able to obtain justice.

The line is dodgy but they will persist and see if it gets better.

Give as a sense of who you team gathers information. Difficult to

get there on the ground and see what is actually happening.

In Eastern Ukraine in a conflict area the UN office works on both

sides of the contact line. We are present there working daily, working

with individuals, speaking to them. I will be view there. The line has

deteriorated too much to understand what you are saying but thank you

for joining us. And that is the person that wrote

the report onto serious allegations of what is happening there.

The Hang deviant Government has rejected accusations of using

excessive force to expel migrants. -- the Government of Hungary has

rejected accusations. The toughening up of what were

already strict controls has led to a rise in the numbers stack in camps

on the Serbian side. He entrusts the leader of the

migrantss with a list of which provokes a polite scrum.

The document gives the names of 15 migrants who will be allowed to

cross into Hungary that day. This is one of the most nervous times of day

at the camp. Families want to get a close look at the lists provided by

Hungary. They want to see if they have moved up the line and are

closer to getting out of here. The 15 on the list do not have much

time to pack or say goodbye. This person who is from Afghanistan

is taking her four-year-old son with her.

We are so happy. After one month staying here and now we are going.

You are happy as well. Yes. This turnstile as their front door into

Hungary. They are called in one by one, they step into the European

Union. Trying to breakthrough is much more

dangerous. Aid workers say that Hungary has been brutal in its

treatment of migrants who cut through the border fence.

Testimonies from refugees in the last couple of weeks, and medical

evidence, to show that there has been in some weak use of excessive

force on the refugees. I Hungary? Yes. This person from

Afghanistan does not want to show his face. He got through the fence

twice and says he was pushed back with boards each time. They took me

to the border. At the border? Yes and they opened the door and pushed

me inside. They said to me, go to Serbia. Hungary insists that it

simply escorts migrants back across the border. More people end up

meeting at this camp hoping to get a place on the daily list. The door to

Central Europe only opens a bit at a time.

US media are reporting that the presumptive Republican

presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has decided on his

The New York Times says his advisers are signalling that it will be

the governor of Indiana, Mike Pence.

The BBC has no independent confirmation.

The decision is due to be announced in New York on Friday just before

next week's Republican Party convention.

This is American media saying this. How certain are they?

They seem to be increasingly certain. Several wire services are

saying that Donald Trump has told Republican leaders, Republican

insiders, at Mike Pence is the choice. We will not know for certain

until Donald Trump stands next to the man tomorrow at the unveiling

and Manhattan but I think we can be fairly confident that is the

direction it is heading. Who is Mike Pence and how will he

help Donald Trump get to the White House?

He is the governor of Indiana, a Midwestern state, a key electoral

battle ground. Prior to that he was a senior member of the House of

representatives in the US Congress. He was also one of the Conservative

leaders in the US Congress. He was one of the true believers in what is

considered a movement of conservatives, rigid conservative

orthodoxy. For Donald Trump it shows up his conservative base. He hopes

it can make conservative voters and tea party voters who may have doubts

about Donald Trump more comfortably with him. It is a move to shore up

the base, not try to broaden his appeal to women or minorities. But

it is a solid choice, he has got experience. Donald Trump does not

have elected office experience of this is a way of having somebody on

his team who knows the ropes in Washington.

These annexes are usually made before the convention. Who is

Hillary Clinton likely to announce going into her Democratic

convention? She is about to take the stage with

a senator from Virginia. Prior to that he was governor of Virginia. He

is probably odds-on favourite. He is a safe choice from a key swing

state. There are other options. The secretary of health and human

services is considered a choice that might expand her appeal.

And the Senator from Massachusetts, a liberal firebrand, that would be

like the choice of Mike Pence, to solidify the base, generate

enthusiasm within the party. Thank you. Interesting stuff. Almost

as interesting as what is happening in British politics right now.

David Bowie's private art collection is going on display in London.

Nearly 300 works which hung in the musician's

multiple homes are going on display in London before being sold

The collection includes works by Damien Hirst and Henry Moore.

It's valued at more than $18 million.

It is a collection which reveals the tastes and personal passions

David Bowie loved this spin painting by Damien Hirst.

He really valued Damien Hirst's glamorous freakiness.

David Bowie was a fan of Frank Auerbach, and other modern

and contemporary British artists such as Peter Lanyon,

but as well as large works like this graffiti-style painting

by Jean-Michel Basquiat, he purchased more-modest pictures

like this by Harold Gilman, and they hung on the walls of his homes.

It is mostly emotional and art that somehow depicts the world,

and it does so from a bohemian, romantic point of view.

While the world knows all about his music, much less

is known about David Bowie's life as an art collector.

It was something he kept almost entirely hidden from public view,

The only thing I buy addictively and obsessively is art.

With his sketchbooks spread out in front of him,

the artist John Virtue then uses them to create his large

I got a phone call, "Hi, it's David, I am in St Ives,

Two hours later, he and a man arrived in the car park,

and the whole of that day we were in the studio.

I kept it on 22nd February 1994, the night I met David Bowie.

The novelist William Boyd was introduced to the musician

at an editorial meeting for an art magazine.

Up close his face looked quite lived in, baggy-eyed,

How important was art to David Bowie?

He was very serious about it, he was an artist, he painted

He wanted to learn more and discuss subjects with you.

It was not a hobby or a whim, it was a serious

These pictures are just a few of the hundreds of works

that David Bowie bought during his lifetime.

"Art," he once said, "can change the way I feel in the morning."

And now his intensely-private collection is going on public