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After hours of confusion, it's confirmed that one of Asia's | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Islam Karimov has ruled Uzbekistan with an iron fist | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
We'll look at what it means for the country and its poor | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
A total recall of Samsung's flagship phone, the Galaxy Note 7, | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
It's become known as "the Jungle" - we hear how the French Government | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
has vowed to dismantle the controversial migrant | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
And Melania Trump is suing Britain's Daily Mail Online, | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
over a claim she worked as an escort in the 1990s. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
President Kariomov of Uzbekistan has died according to national TV. | :00:45. | :01:07. | |
The 78-year-old led the central Asian country for more | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
than a quarter of a century with an iron fist, often repressing | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
The death of Islam Karimov could mean a power vacuum | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
He hadn't been seen in public since mid-August. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has already sent a message | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
President Karimov will be buried in the city | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
The Russian delegation at his funeral will be headed | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Uzbekistan - a landlocked country in central Asia - | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
has spent most of the past 200 years as part of Russia, and then | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
the Soviet Union, before it emerged as an independent nation in 1991. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
With a look back at his life, here's Rayhan Demetrie. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
Islam Abdug'aniyevich Karimov's election as president of independent | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Uzbekistan followed the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Those were the only elections when a genuine opposition figure | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
stood against the former Communist Party leader. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
His critics and opponents were swiftly imprisoned | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Mr Karimov jailed thousands of devout Muslims, suspected | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
of ties to radical Islam, and insisted that Uzbekistan | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
was following its own version of democracy. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
But this was a democracy in which free speech and freedom | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
After surviving an assassination attempt in 1999, President Karimov | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
started a new wave of oppression against his opponents, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Human rights organisations have said that hundreds of peaceful protesters | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
were killed by government troops after an uprising | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
The question now is - who will replace him? | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
President Karimov's eldest daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva was once | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
a favourite to succeed her father but she fell out of grace over | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
business scandals and an extravagant lifestyle and is currently | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
The country's long-serving Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
and his deputy, Rustam Azimov, are among the possible successors. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Loathed by his critics and described as one of the most brutal dictators | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
of our time, President Karimov's death leaves Uzbekistan facing | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Our correspondent Sarah Rainsford is in Moscow for us now. | :03:17. | :03:30. | |
The emergence of this news has not been a straightforward process. No, | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
not at all. We had a statement out there from the government in | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
Uzbekistan earlier today telling us that the president was any critical | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
condition following a stroke last week but the official announcement | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
did not come until this evening. Before that, bizarrely, we have from | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
the Turkish Prime Minister who sent his condolences several hours before | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
the official announcement and also from the Georgian President who sent | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
his condolences, again before the official announcement. So something | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
peculiar was going on clearly as he waited for that official statement. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
We now have that statement. It was read out on state television in | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Uzbekistan by a sombre looking newsreader in a dark at and I | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
answered. He was speaking and talking on behalf of the government | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
and parliament in Uzbekistan talking of their huge breath. They said they | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
were informing the country of the death of their dear President. --. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Tadhg and sued. They described Islam Karimov is a great and historic | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
leader and said that his name was synonymous with peace and stability. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
He is the man who has led Uzbekistan for 25 years. Now that he has gone | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
there is a big question over who will succeed him and the potential | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
for significant uncertainty and instability in Uzbekistan because he | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
never pointed a successor and there are big questions going forward as | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
to who might take its place. How important has Uzbekistan been both | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
in the region and more widely? Well, in terms of its international | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
significance, and I suppose it is the threat when you think of the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
terror attacks in New York and 911, when Uzbekistan then hosted an | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
American military base which America used for its operations inside | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Afghanistan against the Taliban, so it was very statistically | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
significant as far as the US-led fight against the Taliban in | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Afghanistan was concerned, although that bees and the Americans were | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
removed from the country later on when there was criticism of the | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
governed massacre in Uzbekistan in 2005 in Andijan. That is a major | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
moment in terms of the Uzbekistan's human rights record, so it was | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
widely criticised. No one in Uzbekistan has ever been held | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
accountable for that massacre. Central Asia has played an important | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
role strategically in the region and of course, as well, it is a country | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
that borders Afghanistan and critically important is the issue of | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
extract -- Islamic extremism. Islam Karimov had always said that he | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
stood for preventing chaos and maintaining order so they always saw | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
himself as a force against Islamic extremism but his critics have said | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
that it's an excuse to silence us all opponents within Uzbekistan. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Thank you very much for that report, Sarah. | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
Lauren Goodrich is a senior Eurasia analyst with Stratfor - | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
a geo-political and intelligence firm based in Texas. | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
She says the president's death is very significant. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
I mean, he has been in charge for so long, he's been the symbol | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
However, any successor is going to have to continue | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
on with his policies, understanding the precarious | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
It is a highly divided country among the clans that consider each | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
It also is surrounded along its border lands | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Particularly on the Kyrgyz and Tajik borders and the Afghan borders, | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
so whoever succeeds him is going to have to continue | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
on the policy of keeping the country fairly locked down | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
So the leader may change but such a tightly | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
Uzbekistan is one of the most powerful countries in Central Asia | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
but it is also one of the most fragile in the region | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
and so the next leader is going to have to understand | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
that he has to be a very strong leader, like Karimov, | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
and fill the role in a very strong and heavy-handed and | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
In order to keep stability, he has to rein in the clans, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
he has to think about Islamic extremism coming across the border, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
he also has to think about the instability of the land | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
disputes along the Kyrgyz and Tajik borders that continually | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
So there is so much instability and fragility among Uzbekistan | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
so whatever leader takes the place will continue on Karimov's rule. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
What does this mean for Uzbekistan's relations with the wider world? | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Say ten years or so ago, a lot of eyebrows were raised | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
at such a brutal regime being a strategic ally of the West, | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
Uzbekistan, because it is so fragile, has really turned | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
It isn't going to be aligned with the West and it is not | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
going to be aligned with Russia because it doesn't want to be a pawn | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
within that struggle of the West and Russia, as we have seen other | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
countries like, say, Kyrgyzstan next door, | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
in which Kyrgyzstan was aligned with one and the other and, | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
because of that, a lot of instability was bred | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
because of Russian and Western actions inside the country. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
So Uzbekistan instead has pulled out of pretty much all of its alliance | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
network in order to remain neutral and just focus on itself. | :08:57. | :09:12. | |
The electronics giant Samsung is recalling millions of its latest | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
top-of-the-range smartphone, after reports that a small number | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
2.5 million Galaxy Note 7s have been sold worldwide just a fortnight | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
The flagship product was due to be rolled out in the UK today. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Our correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is at a technology show in Berlin, | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
At Europe's biggest technology show, it's Korea's Samsung | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
And its star product this year is the Galaxy Note 7. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
This super size smartphone has won rave reviews in the US | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
and Asia and was due to go on sale in the UK today. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
This American man posted a video on YouTube claiming his Galaxy Note | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
Similar reports arrived from around the world. | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
Be careful out there, everyone rocking the new Note 7. | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Samsung held a press conference to announce a radical move. | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
The company was halting sales and recalling the Note 7. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
A battery issue was behind the Note fires, although just 35 out | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
of 2.5 million customers had reported problems. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
35 is a big number and I think Samsung is doing the right thing | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
in siding on caution and taking the device off the market, | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
figuring out why there is an issue with the cells in the battery, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
This news could hardly come at a worse time for Samsung. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Not only does it overshadow the launch of the Note | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
7 and the many other products on display here, | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
but it comes just a week before its deadly rival | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
At an event in California next week, Apple is expected | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Its sales have disappointed lately, allowing Samsung to pull ahead | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
But will such bad publicity affect the way the Samsung brand is seen? | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
We asked some phone owners in Leicester. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
You don't know if it could happen again, or any other phone. | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
I am not opposed to Samsung products. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
I think they make good TVs and even good cellphones, until I read | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
But I think that would put me off purchasing it, for sure. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
It probably wouldn't put me off, and the reason being that large | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
In Berlin today, Samsung continued to show off the capabilities | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
of the Note 7, which even works underwater. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
But customers will now need reassurance that they won't need | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
to take drastic action with a phone that catches fire. | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
A large explosion in the southern Philippines has killed at least | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
12 people and injured several dozen more. | :11:53. | :11:53. | |
The blast took place in a busy night market in Davao, the hometown | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
of the Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte. | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
Pictures from the scene appear to show a street | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
littered with broken glass and overturned restaurant chairs. | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
The cause of the explosion has not yet been identified. | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
A suicide bomber has attacked a court in northern Pakistan, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Police said the attacker threw a hand grenade before running | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
into the court area in the city of Mardan and detonating a bomb. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, said it carried | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
The UN Security Council has called for calm in Gabon, | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
where violence has erupted following Saturday's disputed | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
Two more people have died in clashes overnight, | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
bringing the total number killed to five since President Ali Bongo | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
Supporters of his main rival, Jean Ping, have accused Mr Bongo | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Millions of workers across India have gone on strike against | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
The industrial action disrupted transport services, banks, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Trade unions backed by opposition parties say a government decision | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
to raise the minimum wage for unskilled workers does not go | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
far enough and there is no social security for millions | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
For the first time in more than a decade, Florida is in a state | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
The storm system, called Hermine, hit the coast just before 6am GMT, | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
that's two in the morning local time, east of Tallahassee. | :13:13. | :13:25. | |
There's been widespread flooding and tens of thousands of homes | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
As the hurricane moved inland, it's been downgraded to a tropical | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
storm but its heavy rains and high-speed winds | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
have already left tens of thousands without power. | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
Our correspondent, Amy Cole, has this report. | :13:36. | :13:36. | |
Hurricane Hermine slams Florida overnight, the first to hit | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
They have not had a battering like this for 11 years. | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Although Hurricane Hermine has been downgraded to a tropical storm | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
by the US National Weather Centre, the impact it has had in northern | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
As this satellite image shows, you can see the storm barrelling | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
towards Florida, rapid and unforgiving. | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
There is widespread flooding after 30 millimetres of rain fell | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
and winds were gusting at 80 miles an hour. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Hours before it hit, the governor Rick Scott had warned | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
Just remember this, we cannot rescue you in the middle of a storm. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
You are responsible as we go through this storm. | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
We will do everything we can to help you prepare. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
We are going to see a big storm surge, a lot of rain, | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
There is going to be a lot of risk if we don't do our job. | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
I have shutters on the front, south and the east sides. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Down here, checking the lines and making sure | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
In what is called the Big Bend Region, there are 150,000 | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
homes without power, schools are closed and people have | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
been urged to move to higher ground because of flooding. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
As it moves over Georgia, to South Carolina and North Carolina, | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the torrential rain is the real story, the risk of flooding, | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
there could be at much as 300 millimetres of rain, | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
There could be tornadoes, they could be a cause | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
It may well be hurricane season in Florida, and people may | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
have been expecting it, but the reality is the time | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
and the money it will cost to put things right again. | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
The World Health Organisation says there's no evidence that anyone | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
attending the Olympics caught the Zika virus. | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
But a new study into the spread of the virus says that more | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
than 2.5 billion people around the world live in areas that may be | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
The study arrives at that dramatic figure by looking at the numbers | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
of people who travel from Zika-affected areas over | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
The presence of mosquitoes that can pass on the virus... | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
And the health resources available in the countries that travellers | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
The study published in the Lancet medical journal says people | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
in countries like India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Nigeria could be | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
particularly vulnerable to an outbreak. | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
Joining us now from Toronto is Isaac Bogoch, who was lead | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
He's also a tropical infectious diseases consultant. | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
Thank you for talking to us. Tell us how you went about measuring really | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
think the potential Zika virus could spread. We looked at many factors. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
One of them was travel patterns from Zika virus affected areas in Latin | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
America, equivalent to parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
We looked at monthly climate data and temperature data and the | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
presence of the appropriate mosquitoes and what we found was | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
that areas at risk of the Zika virus that had the appropriate mosquitoes | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
and climate and high degrees of travel that coincided at the same | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
time, we could make up maps that showed areas suitable for the Zika | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
virus, not just the introduction of it, but subsequent transmission of | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
the virus. The figure of 2.5 billion people | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
potentially being in vulnerable areas for the Zika virus is | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
terrifying, a dramatic figure. How worrying did you find it? Do you | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
think that you might have overestimated it? That is more of a | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
conservative number. The key thing here is that that is just the number | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
of people living in areas that certainly at risk for the Zika virus | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
transmission. That means is that we know that there are areas of high | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
risk compared other areas and that can about countries, people living | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
in those regions to really mount a public health response. So, | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
basically, what can happen is that every country knows that they will | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
be vulnerable at a certain time, they might have limited resources, | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
but you can usher in some of those limited resources towards | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
surveillance or Mr control efforts when you know that you are at an | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
increased risk of having this virus introduced and vocally transmitted. | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
Sorry to interrupt, you mention that many countries you have looked at | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
have limited resources, how confident are you that they would be | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
capable to protect themselves to this threat? Absolutely, that is one | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
of the key messages of our paper is that a lot of the countries that are | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
at risk are low income countries and will have limited resources to mount | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
such a response. What we need is a global effort. We are all in this | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
together and we need a coordinated and global response to this. For | :18:46. | :19:02. | |
example, parts of India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nigeria, very populous | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
countries, they will often have limited resources in many regions of | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
those countries and they could be at risk of introduction and | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
transmission of the Zika virus. A coordinated global public health | :19:11. | :19:11. | |
response would certainly be helpful for to detect and secondly manage... | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
If they can manage these cases is the virus is introduced and | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
transmitted. Isaac Bogoch, thank you very much for joining us from | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
Toronto. One of the big researchers in that study. Thank you. | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
A student at a top US university - whose six-month jail sentence | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last | :19:34. | :19:34. | |
year caused an outcry - has been released from prison. | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Brock Turner, 21, who was a swimming champion, | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
assaulted the woman outside a Stanford University | :19:40. | :19:40. | |
He was freed from the Santa Clara County Main Jail | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
in San Jose, California, after serving three months. | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
Under the terms of his release, Turner will be registered as a sex | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Melania Trump - the wife of the Republican presidential | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
candidate Donald Trump - is suing the Daily Mail Online | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
for libel, saying the newspaper alleged that she was an escort | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
Her lawyer says the claims are 100% false. | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
The Mail Online has published a statement in which it | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
retracted any suggestion that the allegations were true. | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
Melania Trump, the wife of Donald Trump has, | :20:08. | :20:19. | |
like most other prospective First Ladies, faced a good | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
There was that speech to the Republican convention | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
which bore more than a few similarities to one | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
You work hard for what you want hard in life. | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
In the Daily Mail today, there was a retraction of another | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
story which had asked questions about her immigration status | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
Given Mr Trump's position on immigration, it was a highly | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
They also looked at allegations that she had worked as an escort. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Today, in a statement, the Daily Mail said this... | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
His lawyer is the man who recently represented the wrestler Hulk Hogan | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Charles Harder, here on the right, said the accusations were 100% false | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
It is not just the Daily Mail, another blogger has been cited | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
in court papers with a warning to other media outlets. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Of course, it is not the first time Donald Trump has taken | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
issue with the press, banning some papers from his rallies | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
His stance on immigration is a central pillar of his campaign. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
He also needs to enthuse conservative America. | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
Melania Trump's reputation is an important electoral asset. | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
The French Interior Minister says the camp known | :21:43. | :21:54. | |
as the Jungle in Calais - home to thousands of migrants - | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Bernard Cazeneuve said accommodation would be created elsewhere | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
in France to - as he put it - "unblock Calais". | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Local residents have told the BBC that migrants have become more | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
violent and desperate, with large gangs of | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
young men increasingly congregating in the town. | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
The French police union says reports of robberies, | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
vandalism and assaults have spiked over the summer period. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
People at the Jungle camp are trying to make their way to the UK. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Our Europe reporter Gavin Lee has more from Calais. | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Rodin's homage to the French citizens forced to surrender | :22:24. | :22:33. | |
and hand over the keys to the city during the 100 Years War. | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Seven centuries on and many of the residents say | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
One fifth of the population is now migrants. | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
They are more visible in a city they are not welcome | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
This local family told the BBC it is now much worse. | :22:45. | :23:06. | |
TRANSLATION: I am scared for my kids. | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
She's 14 and migrants are always in front of the school. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
When I go to work at six in the morning I have | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
TRANSLATION: At night sometimes it is really risky | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
and dangerous when you come across a group of them. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
You have a 50% chance you will be harassed. | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
It is sad, but I have to say not all, but a majority of migrants | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
They have now more than ever nothing to lose. | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
In a nearby park, within minutes of filming, a group of young migrant | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
men spot the camera and start throwing stones and abuse | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
Calais is roughly three miles from the so-called Jungle camp. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Police have spent the last year dismantling and removing people | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
from encampments and squats all around the city to put | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
the migrants in one place away from here. | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
But because of the record number, the police union says | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
The perimeter of the camp is now half the size it was six months ago, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
keeping tents away from the road, but at the same time, | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
aid workers say the population has doubled to 9,100 in six months, | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
and they say that is why tensions are so high. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
That is why we think there is more and more violence. | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
There is no other option for those people. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Port officials say one in ten of the migrants who stowed | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
away in vehicles heading across the Channel managed | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
And as the nights get longer, there will be even more | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
As you know, five years of civil war have torn Syria apart - | :24:26. | :24:42. | |
we see many images of destruction and desperation. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
So this new promotional video from the Syrian Tourism Ministry may | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
come as something of a surprise - take a look at | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
Extraordinary, that is the official national video for the Syria tourism | :24:50. | :25:23. | |
board. After hours of speculation, | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
Uzbekistan state television has confirmed that President | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
Islam Karimov has died. The authoritarian leader has ruled | :25:33. | :25:33. | |
the country for more President Putin has | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
offered his condolences. And Smartphone giant Samsung has | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
recalled its flagship Galaxy Note 7 model following reports | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
of exploding batteries. It's also suspended | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
sales of the phone. If you want to get in touch with us | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
here at BBC World News, | :25:54. | :25:58. |