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This is BBC World News Today, reporting from Washington. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Brazil's Senate decides overwhelmingly | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
But she wins a second vote, meaning she won't be completely | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
An alarming trend in Africa's elephant population. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
A new study shows a dramatic decline and warns the numbers | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
If this current rate continues, within nine years, Africa could be | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
left with half of the current estimate of African elephants. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Donald Trump is headed to Mexico ahead of a long-anticipated | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
What we might expect from his surprise trip? | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
And, talking Trump on the Trans-Siberian Railway. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Our BBC Pop-up team is in Russia, asking passengers their thoughts | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
The Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, has been removed | :00:55. | :01:18. | |
from office at the end of a heated impeachment trial. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
61 senators out of 81 found Ms Rousseff guilty of breaking | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
the law by tampering with the budget to hide a growing deficit. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
There were celebratory scenes in the Senate as the result of | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
It was then announced by Supreme Court judge | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
But in a second vote, senators chose not to bar her | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
The Vice-President Michel Temer is to be sworn in as the new interim | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Let's take a look at some of the key dates which led to today's vote. | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
In 2010, Dilma Rousseff became the first woman to be elected | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
In March 2013, just over halfway into her first term in office, | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
she was on a career high, enjoying approval ratings | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
She then narrowly won her second election in October 2014. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
But following this, her approval ratings plummeted. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
According to a poll released in April this year, 63% | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
of respondents across the country said her government | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Experts said this reflected voters' disillusionment with a deep | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
recession and the corruption scandal involving the state-controlled | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
She was then suspended in May this year after the Senate voted to go | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
And for the latest, let's cross live to the BBC's Julia Carneiro | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
Julia, this is not surprising, of course, but it is still pretty | :02:58. | :03:11. | |
shocking. Just how significant is this vote? It is a very dramatic | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
moment here in Brazil. We have been discussing this proceeding is nine | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
months, since it was established by Congress, and now we have had the | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
decisive moment with President Dilma Rousseff stripped of her mandate. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
This is the second time this has happened since democracy was | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
re-established here in Brazil in 1985 after the military | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
dictatorship. Brazil is still a young democracy after that period, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
and this is, of course, a moment of gravity. We have seen senators | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
celebrate inside Congress, singing the national anthem, but some | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
senators were also standing still, silent, with lots of gravity in | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
there. This reflects what is felt in the Brazilian population. We have | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
seen many people celebrating today, millions have taken to the streets | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
over past month calling for her impeachment, but there are also many | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
other people who did not agree with the way this was going forward. Is | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
this the end of her career because she did win that second vote that | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
could have barred her from politics for at least eight years? Yes, and | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
this was a surprise. This was a decision made today to separate that | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
decision and vote on whether she should lose her political rights or | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
not, and it turned out that she did manage to retain her political | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
rights. But I think the blow is still the same, having been stripped | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
of her mandate, it is almost a consolation is that she maintains | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
her political rights. She is not someone who had a political career | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
before being chosen as the president's successor. It was not | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
clear what she would do now, if she would still want to pursue the path | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
of the political life, especially after going through this painful | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
impeachment process. But now we are going to see the inauguration of the | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
interim president made official, he used to be the vice president of | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
Dilma Rousseff, and is from the Conservative Party here in Brazil | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
and he is promising to put the economy back on track. That will | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
probably include a series of austerity measures. He has signalled | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
that he will privatise lots of sectors of the economy, that he | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
wants to raise the retirement age. There will be a policy shift now for | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Brazilians, and it is not clear yet if there will be political stability | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
in this country any time soon. Juliet, with the very latest there | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
in Brazil, thank you. It's one of his most | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
controversial ideas - building a wall along America's | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
southern border to keep Mexicans from illegally crossing | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
into the United States. Now, Donald Trump is expected | :06:15. | :06:15. | |
to arrive shortly in Mexico for a meeting with the country's | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
president, Enrique Pena Nieto. It comes just hours before he's due | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
to make a long-anticipated Some say Trump is softening | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
his stance on the wall. This was his latest statement | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
on the issue. We are also going to | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
secure our border and stop the drugs from pouring in and | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
destroying our country. We are going to build | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
a wall folks, don't worry. In the past, his determination | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
to build a walL, paid for by Mexico, He said it was needed | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
to keep out undesirables. They are bringing drugs in, | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
they are rapists, Not surprisingly, the reaction | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
from Mexico has been The president said Trump's | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
rhetoric is dangerous. There is already a barrier along | :07:09. | :07:24. | |
part of the Mexican border. One former Mexican president said | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
it was ridiculous to force Mexico to pay for an extension | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
right along the frontier. How can any human | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
being think like that? After his meeting in Mexico, | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
Mr Trump will be giving another big With me now to discuss | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
is the BBC's Katty Kay. Of all the things Donald Trump could | :07:51. | :08:08. | |
be doing, and all the places he could be, Mexico would not be top of | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the agenda, you would think. What is he up to? Well, he likes to surprise | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
people, and this has certainly surprised everybody in the political | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
hierarchy. It has got him a lot of attention, we are talking about it, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
which is exactly what he likes. It potentially gives him a chance to | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
look statesman-like, look presidential. This is his first | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
meeting with a foreign leader since he announced his bid for the | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
presidency. He could apologise. There is some expectation that he | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
might apologise to the Mexicans for some of the more incendiary things | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
he has said, though not necessarily for his policies, and I guess the | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
campaign is thinking that maybe with Hispanic voters it does not go down | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
too badly, although I suspect it doesn't make too much difference to | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
voters in America. What could possibly be in it for the Mexican | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
president? That is fascinating, why did he invite Donald Trump to visit | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
him? His approval rates are in the 20s, is one of the most unpopular | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
people in Mexico. There will be protests in Mexico City around this | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
visit. What does he get out of being seen with the person that Mexicans | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
love to hate? I'm not sure what is in it for him. He invited both | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I suspect he is sitting there wishing | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
he wasn't coming, this is just a headache for him and it does not | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
look great. There is no love lost between the two men they have traded | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
insults on social media. We don't know what they will talk about, do | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
we? Donald Trump has banned the press. The big issues for the | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Mexicans are the way Donald Trump has spoken about the Mexicans, | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
calling them rapists and criminals who are crossing the border, and of | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
course the wall, which he says Mexicans should pay for. Donald | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Trump is revising issues around deporting Mexicans who are here | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
illegally, he is fudging that one and we don't know what his policy | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
is, but he is not backing down on that wall, and I can't believe he | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
will go to Mexico City and say that is a mistake after all. We could | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
hear more about that later. Absolutely. | :10:13. | :10:13. | |
Now a look at some of the days other news. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
A pregnant woman is among a new cluster of people diagnosed | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
with Zika in Singapore, where there are now more | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
The government announced the first locally transmitted infection | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
on Saturday and the number of people diagnosed with the virus | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Pregnant women are most at risk because of Zika's potential | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
South Korea says North Korea has executed its vice premier | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
for education, who was spotted slouched in his chair | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
Officials in Seoul claim Kim Yong-jin was killed by firing | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
squad although his death is yet to be independently verified. | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
A flight from Houston to London was full is to make an emergency landing | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
in Ireland after 16 people were injured during what was described as | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
severe and unexpected turbulence. Three of those injured on board the | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
United Airlines flight children. There is troubling news facing | :11:12. | :11:12. | |
elephants in Africa. The BBC has exclusively uncovered | :11:13. | :11:13. | |
that the number of elephants living in the wild in Africa has fallen | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
dramatically over the last decade. That's the finding of a wide-scale | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
census of the creatures, carried out over 600,000 | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
square miles of territory, stretching from Mali in West Africa, | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
across to Ethiopia and The survey claims there are around | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
380,000 elephants living on the The numbers of elephants fell | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
by around 30% between 2007 and 2014. In the last two years, | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
that's sped up, with herd sizes Poaching for the ivory | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
trade is the main cause. Looking at individual countries, | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
60% of Tanzania's large herds have And, over the same time frame, | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the number of elephants in Mozambique has also | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
more than halved. What other way to count | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
a whole continent of For two years, they have been | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
flying just 300 feet Sadly, their findings paint a | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
depressing picture. In country after country, they have | :12:28. | :12:44. | |
countered the carcasses. This is the cost of the poachers | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
and traffickers serving Asia's We have been flying along this | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
flood plain that divides Namibia and Botswana, | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
and all the way along here, we have been seeing | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
carcasses of elephants, some four months old, | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
some less than a week old. Clearly, poaching. The face has been | :13:01. | :13:17. | |
hacked away to get to the tasks. Mike Chase led the research. He | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
found the worst hotspot of poaching are in Tanzania, Mozambique and | :13:23. | :13:23. | |
Angola. Each year we are losing | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
30,000 elephants. If this current rate continues, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
within nine years Africa could be left with half of the current | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
estimate of African elephants. Botswana has 40% of Africa's | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
elephants, but amid the worst drought in decades, | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
they are under increasing pressure. The only way to protect them | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
is to know how many there are, That means tranquillising some | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
to fit satellite tracking collars. It takes just a few minutes | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
for the drugs to take effect. They have got to be careful | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
the trunk is not blocked. This elephant is about 50 years old, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
given his size, and the collar has to be really big to get that GPS | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
tracker around his neck. They are trying to work as quickly | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
as they can so they can get him The click of the whole process is | :14:14. | :14:31. | |
done, the better. Then, inject the antidote and retreat to a safe | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
distance. Let's get out of here. This map illustrates | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
the movement of five The tracking data shows how | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
the elephants, the dots, used to travel across | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
five countries, but now Elephants clearly have a cognitive | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
ability to understand where they are threatened | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
and where they are safe. In this case, they are seeking | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
refuge and sanctuary in Botswana. Is there room for them? No. Even | :15:04. | :15:22. | |
without a drought, Botswana can't cope with so many elephants. Hunting | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
has been banned here, culling is even being discussed. Currently we | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
are housing a lot of refugee elephants in Botswana. The numbers | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
of elephants in Botswana is so high that it puts a lot of pressure on | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
the environment. The last true century for Africa's elephants is, | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
for the first time, now firmly in the poacher's site. There were days | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
on the great elephant centres when the clay-macro I thought the only | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
good I was doing was reporting the disappearance of one of the most | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
marvellous animals that ever walked this planet. But we have to be | :16:00. | :16:11. | |
hopeful. The campaign to stop the poachers and traffickers across the | :16:12. | :16:12. | |
continent continues. The Italian Coastguard says it has | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
coordinated the rescue of more than 10,000 people in the last few | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
days off the coast of Libya. Today, thousands of these migrants | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
have been landing in European ports The BBC's special correspondent | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Ed Thomas is at the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, where he has been | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
speaking to some of those Off the Libyan coast there have | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
been 70 rescue missions Thousands, like this baby, | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
have been pulled A warning that this | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
crisis is not easing. These calm waters have given | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
the desperate These men, women and children | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
were picked up by the Italian Navy. There is relief, | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
but also exhaustion, All they have are the | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
clothes on their backs. If you take a look at this group, | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
they don't have any shoes. These are the lucky ones | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
because they have made it here. Nearly 3000 have died | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
in the crossing from Libya to Italy It is hard to understand why | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
anyone would do this. But then listen to this | :17:39. | :17:56. | |
man from Nigeria. I saw people die, people | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
cut off peoples' heads. Both say they are running | :18:01. | :18:14. | |
from Islamist What would have happened | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
to you if you had stayed? To me, if I was in Nigeria, I | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
believe I would no longer be alive. Why should Europe, Italy, give you | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
a job? 10,000 have crossed this | :18:28. | :18:43. | |
route since Sunday. People from Somalia, Eritrea, | :18:44. | :18:57. | |
the Middle East and Bangladesh. With the European fleet waiting | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
off the Libyan coast, some fear it has made life too easy | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
for the smugglers, exploiting those who will gamble | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
their lives to begin again. The British Prime Minister Theresa | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
May has repeated her insistence that there will be no second | :19:13. | :19:27. | |
referendum on Brexit. In a meeting to discuss developments | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
since June's vote to leave the European Union, | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
she told her colleagues they had a chance to forge a new role | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
for Britain in the world. As the BBC has reported, | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
the actor and comedian Gene Wilder died earlier this week due | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
to complications from Alzheimer's - a devastating disease that affects | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
millions of people around the world. Now, researchers are testing | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
a new drug they hope could one The normal electrical pathways | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
which transmit information become blocked with plaque, | :19:52. | :20:03. | |
cutting off thoughts It is an incurable disease, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
but now a new drug being trialled is giving some | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
early signs of hope. Scientists at this centre in London, | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
who are about to take part in the next stage of the trial, | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
say it is exciting. If this is successful, | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
if we can show improvement or delay in progression | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
with Alzheimer's disease, That changes everything | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
about the way that we think about medical trials, | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
managing treatments for people with So, what do we know about how | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
effective this drug These are the scans of patients | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
at the start of the The red areas are a build-up | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
of damaging sticky proteins, characteristic | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
of Alzheimer's patients. Look at the same for patients | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
scanned after a No change in the placebo patient, | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
who did not get the drug, but the higher the dose, | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
the less red you can see, which are the proteins | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
being reduced. Problems are caused because | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
the proteins build up in clumps around the neurons in the brain, | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
blocking the connections and causing The drug is thought to work | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
by marking the plaques. This alerts the body's immune system | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
so it can target and destroy them. The drug is unlikely | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
to repair actual damage to the brain, | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
but the hope is it might stop That is something Susan | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Jonas would welcome. She underwent the painful experience | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
of watching her mother's slow mental decline | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
as Alzheimer's took hold. My friend who came every day, | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
she found her one morning sitting on the sofa in front | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
of the television, which was not something she watched very much, | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
but she was still dressed and it was Alzheimer's research is littered | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
with failed drugs that looked If successful, this | :21:57. | :22:11. | |
drug would be the BBC Pop-up is back, this | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
time in Russia to report on stories suggested | :22:16. | :22:27. | |
by you, the viewers. This time the team set | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
off on a 31-hour train journey on the famous | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
Trans-Siberian Railway, giving them plenty of time to speak | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
with fellow passengers. There's no escaping it - | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
the US presidential election, and in particular, the Republican | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
nominee, Donald Trump. We are at Kaczynski train station | :22:43. | :22:52. | |
in Moscow and we are about to hop We are about to get on a 31 hour | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
train journey taking us across Russia to go | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
on the Trans-Siberian Railway. So, having recently flown | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
in from the US where there is a heated presidential election | :23:05. | :23:28. | |
going on, I'm curious what the Russian passengers | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
on board this train think about the United States right now, | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
and maybe, more specifically, We have some breaking news that | :23:35. | :25:49. | |
Donald Trump has now landed in Mexico for that extraordinary | :25:50. | :25:50. | |
meeting with the Mexican president. Hello, Thursday marks the first day | :25:51. | :26:11. | |
of mutual logical autumn. It is actually looking pretty good across | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
much of the UK, things to this ridge of high pressure building in from | :26:15. | :26:17. |