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Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff has urged lawmakers

not to remove her from power at her impeachment trail,

Should migrants in France be allowed to apply for asylum in Britain

New research shows the Mediterranean diet has even more benefits.

Could it now help people with heart disease?

And six scientists spend a year in isolation.

See how their experience could mean success for a future

The suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been

defending her record in office, at her impeachment trial.

She maintained that she's been unjustly accused of breaking rules

Senators are due to vote later this week on whether to remove her

from power - a move she says would represent a death

Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports.

Arriving for what could be her last stand.

At her impeachment trial she made a final attempt to fight off

In what she sees as simply a class war.

TRANSLATION: As with all elites, they don't want to follow

the will of the people, they want to take over at any price.

Well there are supporters of Dilma Rousseff outside

the Senate as she speaks, but millions more around

the country too who feel she is being impeached unfairly.

But the small numbers and relative lack of energy is a sign that

very few have hope left that she will survive this process.

Earlier this year thousands took to the streets both

for and against their president in an illustration of just how

Dilma Rousseff has been judged before.

In her youth she was jailed for fighting against

But she rose to Brazil's highest office in 2010, receiving

the presidential sash from her predecessor and mentor,

But it was a dramatic economic collapse that led Rousseff's

opponents to seize on an opportunity to push against her and

What many celebrated, others saw as an injustice.

The decision to suspend Dilma Rousseff, when no corruption

The trial now is all a big come down after the feel-good

As some of the venues are dismantled it seems a break for the games can't

persuade many Brazilians to move on from trying

They say Brazilians have a short-term memory, they can't

remember what happens, they only remember what just happened.

But Dilma Rousseff says fighting is inher nature,

In reality, before the week is out, she could be told she has to vacate

Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, in Brasilia.

And for the latest, we can cross live to Brasilia and speak

The writing does look pretty much on the wall for Dilma Rousseff. What

happens next? Over the next couple of days were going to have a vote

here in the Senate in the main room where the session is taking place

right now. The senators will have a moment for a speech, each one of

them, 81 senators tomorrow. After that they will justify their votes.

If they lose two thirds in favour of the impeachment, Dilma Rousseff will

definitely be removed from office and were not finished her mandate.

Bendy interim president -- and then the interim president will remain in

place until 2018. Does this draw a line under the corruption problems

Brazil has been grappling with? The corruption is very much in the

middle of all that is happening here in Brazil, the political crisis that

Brazil is facing. There is massive corruption investigation that is

going on here known as the Car Wash scandal. That has implicated many

political parties, top political figures in bribery schemes that

started with the petrol giant Petrobras and that has led to a

discrediting of the workers party, the party of Dilma Rousseff. It is

quite compensated because some people who are in favour of

impeachment, although they want to imply it is the full. The workers

party, we see this is deeply ingrained in the political system in

Brazil and other political parties. People here don't really have a

feeling that with a substitution, if Rousseff is confirmed, if the

impeachment goes ahead, there is not really a feeling that will bring any

transformation to that problem we have here, the corruption problem,

and how big a part it is in the political world in Brasilia. Thank

you for joining me. Migrants in Calais seeking asylum

in the UK should be allowed to lodge their claim in France,

the president of the region Xavier Bertrand said people living

in the camp known as the Jungle should be able to apply

at a "hotspot" in France rather His comments come after two leading

contenders for the French presidency in next year's election -

Nicolas Sarkozy and Alain Juppe - also called for changes

to the treaty which allows for UK Where fences and barbed wire stretch

along the roads and the railways that lead to the ferries,

the trains, and on to Britain. Every day more are put up to stop

people living here illegally But there's only so

much a fence can do. Calais' shantytown camp that's known

as The Jungle, is growing. Many here believe that part

of the problem is the bilateral agreement known as Le Touquet,

that sees British border guards The president of this region

says Le Touquet must It's not possible to keep the border

here without a new corporation If the British Government don't

want to open this discussion, we will tell you, the Le Touquet

agreement is over. Migrants hoping to claim asylum

in the UK should be able to do Partly because that's not how

the asylum system works. You're supposed to apply

in the country that Secondly, I just think it would be

a huge magnet to draw thousands more migrants to Calais who would come

to chance their arm that they might Mr Bertrand's intervention

highlights how important the issues of security,

of borders, of migration, He doesn't have the power to change

the Le Touquet accord, but the next French President

will have that power. Elections are due to be held

next year and already, two of the leading contenders

for the post have said One of them, the former president

Nicolas Sarkozy, spoke this He said border controls should be

shifted to Britain. The current French President,

who recently met the Prime Minister, He says the accord is in the

interests of both their countries. But it doesn't feel like it

on the roads leading to Calais. Where smugglers block the route

so migrants can stow Tomorrow the Home Secretary Amber

Rudd will be in Paris to meet her opposite number,

and Calais will be on the agenda. A US Pentagon spokesman says

fighting between Turkey and Kurdish groups in northern Syria

is "unacceptable" and must stop. They're urging both sides to focus

on defeating so called Islamic Turkish troops, backed by the US,

crossed into Syria last week to drive IS out of Jarablus,

a town close to the border. But they're now targeting

Kurdish forces who are also Earlier Turkey's Foreign Minister

Mevlut Causoglu warned that Turkish forces will continue

to target the YPG while its forces TRANSLATION: Kurdish YPG should meet

immediately to the east of the Euphrates river as they promised

the United States and as they So long as they don't,

they will be the target. Arabs in that region

are not targets. Our aim is to cleanse the area

of the With me now to discuss the US

reaction to the latest fighting It is a bit of tricky situation for

the US. Do they have influence over the Turks at this point. Yes, but it

is a huge balancing act. On the one hand they believe that Kurdish

forces, YPG forces, they have been capable fighters in the battle

against Islamic State. The US has armed and trained them. It regards

them as perhaps the most organised of the groups in that area. The US

has failed previously to trade its own forces, so it is backing the

Kurds stop its Nato ally Turkey is very suspicious of Kurdish

operations, particularly along its southern border. It believes Kurds

are trying to join up some territory and have a swathe of Kurdish

territory along that southern border with Turkey. That is why there is

this conflict. It is not something that is a great surprise, but it

will require a lot of arm-twisting by the US to stop them going at them

rather than the Islamic State. How much of a distraction is this

against the fight against ISO it is causing fresh instability in an area

which is already unstable. -- the fight against ISO. Turkey is feeling

emboldened. It stopped the coup last month. There is tension in relations

between Washington and Ankara. It also knows that the endgame is

starting to come into view in northern Syria because now that

places like Jarablus has gone, the way is much more open to Islamic

State capital Raqqa, the big prize against ISO in that northern part of

Syria. There must be concern in the US that they cannot afford to upset

the Kurds, just as much as they have to keep Turkey onside. US needs both

sides of this. In his the Turks, it needs the Kurds in both these things

and that is where the lies. You are seeing at the moment, statements

from the Pentagon, we're waiting for the Defence Secretary to speak, as

well. We are seeing statements trying to balance these competing

demands saying Turkey shouldn't be shelling these areas where there are

no IS fighters. And telling the YPG to move back across the Euphrates

River into that eastern part of northern Syria. It is trying to ride

two horses in a sense and it is enormously uncomfortable. And deeply

conjugated. They give very much. Now a look at some of

the days other news. On a visit to Bangladesh,

the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has said

there is evidence that militants there also have ties

with the Islamic State group. He was speaking after talks

in the Bangladeshi capital with the prime minister,

Sheikh Hasina. The countries agreed

to cooperate to counter A daughter of the Uzbek president,

Islam Karimov, says he's suffered Mr Karimov, who's 78,

has ruled the former Soviet He's in intensive care,

where his condition Doctors in Yemen say more than fifty

people have been killed in an attack A suicide bomber drove a car

into the headquarters The Islamic State group said it

carried out the attack. The BBC's Orla Guerin

reports from Egypt. Some viewers may find the pictures

in her report distressing. The aftermath of the devastating

attack in the early morning. The bomber struck at the headquarters of

a pro-government militia. He drove an explosive laden car in through

the gate turning the cue from breakfast into a scene of carnage.

The so-called Islamic states say they carried out the attack. The

latest in a series by both IS and Al-Qaeda. They have been expanding

their reach in southern Yemen, exploiting the chaos caused by the

country's Civil War. A desperate rush to help the wounded. Dozens of

casualties brought to this hospital run by an aid group. So many

injured, they filled up the floor. One more round of bloodshed in a

conflict which the United Nations says has killed about 3800

civilians. Aid agencies say much of the suffering here goes unseen. When

we visited in March, we saw the impact of war on the Arab world's

poorest country. The conflict pits the internationally recognised

government against Shia purity rebels. Saudi Arabia intervened on

behalf of the government and has been leading a controversial bombing

campaign. For the Saudis, this is part of a regional power struggle.

They claim their great rival, Iran, is arming rebels. They remain in

control of the capital. The latest round of peace talks collapsed

earlier this month. There is now a new international push for more

negotiations. In the meantime, the human cost of this conflict keeps

growing. Severe malnutrition, always a danger here, is tightening its

grip. UN officials say that Yemen has been set back by decades.

Consuming large amounts of vegetables, nuts,

fish and oils is characteristic of the popular Mediterranean diet,

which has been shown to effectively reduce the chances of heart disease.

Well, there may be even more benefits to this style of eating

with new research suggesting it could cut the risk of death even

The key ingredients for a long and healthy life.

We know a diet of vegetables, fish, nuts and olive

But now a claim it can even help beat heart disease.

The balance of fruit and vegetables means there is extra vitamins

and related compounds, which are better for you.

The Mediterranean diet is generally, I think, more healthy in most

of its components than, if you like, the standard British

1200 patients who had had heart attacks, strokes and blocked

arteries, were tracked over seven years.

Once followed a Mediterranean diet were less likely to be amongst those

And healthier hearts are no surprise here at this Italian deli.

We use in our recipes are a lot of vegetables and fruits.

Pasta, pizza, everything is from the ground.

My wife is a bit of a fanatic on this front.

The grilled fish, vegetables and lovely meat dishes.

Cardiovascular problems account for more than a quarter

So the hope is by eating more like this, we may be able to prevent

some of that disease and extend some of those lives.

There is a claim Mediterranean cooking could be more effective

than drugs like statins, widely prescribed for heart problems.

The author of this study even said the NHS should prescribe

Hillary Clinton's closest aide says she is separating from her husband

after another sexting revelation emerged in the US media.

Huma Abedin issued a statement saying that after long and painful

consideration, she's decided to separate from her husband -

and former congressman - Anthony Weiner.

For more on this, I'm joined now by BBC North America

This has been a long-running scandal in Washington and New York. Tell us

that it about the background. Anthony Wiener back in the news

again. He was a rising star in the Democratic party five years ago. He

was in front of the cameras all the time as a member of Congress. Then

he resigned, rehabilitated himself, positioned himself to run for mayor

of New York, and then another round of texts came out, and he ended up

not doing well in that race. Now he is known mostly as the husband as

Huma Abedin and it provides some sense of embarrassment for the

Clintons. There was a documentary earlier this year that documented

the New York mayoral campaign against. It is embarrassing but not

surprising. He said he wouldn't do it again but he appears to have done

it again. What sort of impact has this had on the campaign itself?

Donald Trump has already come out with a statement, also Notts

uprising, he lost a talk about whatever is on TV, and he said it

was careless of Clinton to associate with someone who had these ties. --

it is also not surprising. Maybe secrets were coming from the Clinton

campaign, implying he could have been blackmailed. The ties that a

presidential candidate has two advisers, that is their games. That

happened with an adviser of Bill Clinton who had to resign after a

prostitution scandal. We are hearing about aids to Donald Trump.

Allegations of wife beating during divorce proceedings. This is one

step more removed. This is the spouse of an adviser to a

presidential candidate. It is big news right now. It is front page of

the tabloids, will see if it has any legs. We certainly will. Thanks for

joining us. A bird taking to the skies might

look like an effortless feat, but the science behind flight

is quite complex. So much so that a team of scientists

at Stanford University have designed a one of a kind wind tunnel to learn

more about how birds fly. It's part of a suite of experiments

aimed at ultimately helping design flying robots that

with the same skills. Our science reporter Victoria Gill

had exclusive access Only in very slow motion can we see

the minuscule adjustments this lovebird constantly makes

to its flapping wings. It's tiny body has evolved perfectly

to fly and human engineers haven't That's something that researchers

in this lab hope to change. They've dedicated an entire room

at Stanford University in California to building this wind

tunnel, the only one OK, so this is where you fly

the birds. And it's starting to help them

discover some of the Wind tunnels have been used

for a long time to study bird flight but the new thing about this one

is that with this device, they can manipulate the airflow

to recreate any environment on Earth, from a gusty city

to the top of a mountain. When you see a bird fly

by in a city, you see all these And that is all it's doing to adjust

to all the turbulence. And so it's really these tiny

motions where they adapt quickly And we have no idea how they make

these in response to In the moving air, the bird remains

in one place. So exactly how it shifts

as the airflow changes can be seen But the team with their specially

clicker trained birds have also measured invisible

characteristics of short, This setup is unique because it

allows us to capture all the forces that a bird generates

from the moment it takes off to when it lands

during one of these flights. We have been able to record that

actually most birds when they fly, they generate twice as much lift

during the downstroke to support And during upstroke,

it actually freefalls. So what can be done with all

of this flight insight? The next generation of small-scale

flying robots, or drones, will need to cope in unstable

environments if they're to be useful in military or search

and rescue applications. Currently, they simply can't manage

as smoothly as birds. So these scientists will aim

to create robotic copies of what nature has perfected

over millions of years. Victoria Gill, BBC News,

California. Spending a year in Hawaii might not

sound like a daunting task, but for six scientists living

in isolation, it was not the island It was all part of a simulation

showing that a mission to Mars The team lived for 12 months

in a dome on a Hawaiian volcano, chosen because its terrain

is similar to that of Red Planet. A long time ago in a galaxy

far, far away, well, 365 days and in the Pacific,

to be exact, this team of intrepid explorers launched

a simulated mission to Mars. The six men and women were taking

part in a highly unusual experiment to boldly go where no

one had gone before, to live long and prosper

in conditions humans The UH research going on here

is super vital when it comes to picking crews,

figuring out how people will work on different missions,

it is kind of the human factors element of space travel,

colonisation, whatever The scientists had to survive

in isolation for one year, in a dome on a volcano

in Hawaii without fresh food, Back down to Earth, a warm

welcome and some warm food. The study funded by Nasa and run

by the University of Hawaii is one The inhospitable terrain was chosen

because it is similar to Mars Showing that it works,

you can actually get water from a ground that is seemingly dry,

it would work on Mars and the implication is that

you would be able to get water on Mars from this

greenhouse construct. The Martians of Hawaii

say their experiment shows that living in an isolated community

millions of kilometres from Earth is humanly possible and no

longer science fiction. I guess it would be difficult to

vote someone off that island! But for now from me, Jane O'Brien,

and the rest of the team goodbye. Hello, most places enjoyed some long

spells of warm sunshine today. We saw