06/09/2016 World News Today

Paris will open its first refugee camp next month.

It's a response to this - asylum seekers living

400 men will get health checks and advice.

TRANSLATION: We are taking action with a clear mind and without any

naivete but we are acting with humanity and that is our job.

Abstain from sex for half a year - official Zika advice to men

and women returning from affected areas is toughened.

Why does women's pay often lag behind men?

A new study says it's not for lack of asking.

Easy to construct but as strong as an Ox -

the flat-pack truck that could transform lives

It's a measure of how serious Europe's migration

Paris is to open a reception centre for refugees and migrants,

to cope with the dozens now arriving there every day.

It will be based here in Northern Paris near the railway

station and provide 400 men with health checks

The mayor of Paris says she hopes to prevent migrants from camping

in squalid places around the city and ease tensions in

A camp for women and children will follow by the end of the year.

It is at this disused railway yard in the north of the city

that the main migrant centre will be set up.

By the middle of next month, there will be

Four beds per room, with electricity, Wi-Fi,

Another smaller centre will take in families with children.

For the city authorities, the centres are a moral imperative.

It is impossible, they say, for things to go

TRANSLATION: This centre for refugees is a first in Europe

because we are in the heart of a dense city, the heart of Paris.

The centre for refugees corresponds to our values.

We are taking action with a clear mind and without any naivete

but we are acting with humanity and that is our job.

Humanity means putting an end to the makeshift encampments that

keep springing up on the streets across Paris, upsetting for local

people, unhealthy and squalid for the migrants.

Many of them are shocked and disappointed at what awaits them

I am feeling like animals, like that.

When I came from Italy, in my mind, I think there is some camp and some

A good place for sleeping and clean water, clean life like that,

clean toilets, something like that, but there is nothing.

In theory, migrants will spend only a few days at the new centres.

They will be able to clean up, take stock and, if they want,

A dignified welcome is all well and good but what if that acts

as encouragement for more migrants who, in their turn,

Leonard Doyle is from the International

What do you think when you look at this new scheme in Paris? It is not

perfect but it is an improvement because you have this issue of

homeless migrants and refugees, would asylum seekers, living on the

streets of Paris, many quite vulnerable, women, children, not a

good situation. We are seeing an honest attempt by the authorities in

Paris to get their hands around the situation and try to improve the

situation of the migrants. Will this be the first of many? Will it be the

first of many perhaps for many major European cities? You cannot have

people living rough through winter. The French have taken this seriously

and they want these people to be able to apply for asylum. Many of

them are English speakers and want to go to the UK. For whatever

reason, they think their future is in the UK. It is uncertain, the

extent to which this will work out as is hoped. There was the question

of encouragement, perhaps giving people motivation to travel to Paris

and other cities by setting up camps where they have some sort of dignity

rather than squalid camps. Not the most desperate people who are coming

but those who perhaps have some kind of choice in the matter. You have

9000 people living in Calais, hoping to get to the UK, and it is an

extraordinarily well organised set up in terms of a huge amount of NGO

aid and effort, but it is not solving the problem, which is people

are disrupting French life. They want to process them for asylum, and

many will be rejected in the long-term, deemed to be not from a

refugee producing situation. It is a tricky issue, the French have been

as welcoming as they can be, and there is a tricky political

situation there as well, all the while respecting the rights of the

migrants. From condoning the mass killing

of suspected drug pushers to hurling an insult at the world's most

powerful man, the new president of the Philippines is

certainly having an impact. But now Rodrigo Duterte

is having to make an apology, after his language led

to the cancellation of his scheduled meeting with President Obama

at the Asean summit in Laos. The Philippines President

Rodrigo Duterte was due to make his international

debut at Asean. It is his first foreign

trip as a new leader. But the focus shifted to dampening

down the controversy he created. President Duterte explained

that the press reports that the President Obama

would lecture him on extrajudicial killings led to his strong comments

which in turn elicited concern. He regrets that his

remarks to the press have The Philippines leader has

made offensive comments He has insulted the US ambassador

to his country, the Pope, He made the offensive remarks

after being asked what he would do if Mr Obama raised the issue

of extrajudicial killings with him. Do not just throwaway

questions and statements. More than 2,000 people have died

in raids in the Philippines He's been criticised

for the "shoot first, But Mr Obama didn't appear to be

bothered by the spat, not even publicly acknowledging it

in his first formal Instead, he spoke of the US's

long-term commitment to the region. The United States is more deeply

engaged across the Asian Pacific Our position is stronger and we have

sent a clear message that as a Pacific nation

we are here to stay. In good times and bad,

you can count on the Asean summits tend to be humdrum

events, perfectly stage-managed But this year has been different,

thanks to the debut of Mr Duterte. It has also possibly been a missed

opportunity for the Philippines. The two countries had

lots to talk about - Instead, Mr Duterte has spent

the first day of the summit repairing the damage

his comments created. Well, Rodrigo Duterte certainly

isn't the first politician to cause a diplomatic row

after hurling an insult. Here's a few more you

may have forgotten. Back in 1999, the Syrian government

triggered a huge row with Palestine, after describing its former leader

Yasser Arafat as the "son It led to major protests in Gaza

with thousands of Palestinians Former London Mayor and now UK

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson raised eyebrows in 2007

when he described Hillary Clinton's appearance as that

of a "sadistic nurse". And who could forget this from UK

politician Nigel Farage? You have the charisma of a damp rag

and the appearance of a That was him describing European

Council President Herman Van Rompuy It was one of many run-ins he had

with the European Council. The World Health Organization has

updated its advice to people who are returning from parts

of the world affected Under the new guidance aimed

at stopping the virus from spreading, individuals

are advised to practise safe sex or even abstain from sex

for six months if needed. This latest advice applies to both

men and women. Previous advice was

mainly directed at men. The guidance applies to individuals

even if they are not displaying Zika-like symptoms,

and even to people who -- even to couples who are not

planning to start a family. The new advice comes amid mounting

evidence that sexual transmission of the Zika virus is more common

than previously thought. Let's speak to Isaac Bogoch,

an infectious disease specialist He's recently been involved

in new Zika research published Welcome back. What do you make of

this new advice? What the World Health Organisation is doing is

updating guidelines based on this evolving pattern of research which

is emerging. We are learning more about the Zika virus every day and

how it is transmitted and what the complications and there have been a

few cases which have been transmitted or detected in the semen

up to six months after infection so the WHO is taking a conservative

stance and changing their guidelines to avoid sexual transmission of the

virus between men and women. It seems that the sexual transmission

risk is becoming a bigger factor in the warnings we are hearing. By far

the primary means of transmission is from mosquitoes and the real war is

come to be an avoiding mosquito bites and controlling mosquito

populations. But as we know people have sex and lots of it and this can

be a section which ends in to infection as well and the real

concern is to ensure women who are pregnant or are considering becoming

pregnant in the future do not become infected because this can have

negative effects on the developing baby. These guidelines as a pretty

wide net to protect women who may be pregnant or becoming pregnant soon

from getting the infection and thus preventing abnormal side-effects in

the developing child. So the reason people who are not considering

starting a family are being told to abstain is just this wider net. Yes.

They also say if people are not considering becoming pregnant, they

might be in the next six months or so and we know that the virus can be

transmitted six months after infection, as the case where it was

transformed by one person who was well, did not feel unwell. People

change their minds about becoming pregnant so really this is a

protective mechanism to help avoid any complications in pregnancy. How

close are we to some kind of effective treatment? Right now most

of their efforts are focused on controlling the immediate threat,

the mosquito population. Further ahead on the horizon are vaccines

and there is a lot of effort, research and dollars going into

developing a vaccine. There are these one human trials. Cautiously

optimistic, maybe in 2018 something will be available, but there is a

tonne of research on that front because it is a sustainable and

scalable measure. Now a look at some of

the day's other news. Police in Italy have arrested 21

people across Europe on suspicion of smuggling refugees into Germany,

Austria and France in They said the suspects charged more

than $500 per passenger to ferry migrants north using a network

of vehicles registered Following the strong showing

for pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong's regional elections,

China has given a warning that anyone who promotes independence

for the city could be punished. The fledgling pro-democracy movement

won enough seats to be able to veto constitutional changes

on Hong Kong's legislative council. One of Britain's most prominent

Islamist preachers has been sentenced to five and a half years

in prison for encouraging support Supporters of Anjem Choudary shouted

Allahu Akbar, or God is great, The judge described him

as "dangerous and calculating". A Frenchwoman who became the first

person in the world to receive a face transplant that included

the nose and mouth has died. A hospital in the northern French

city of Amiens said Isabelle Dinoire Isabelle Dinoire underwent

the pioneering 15-hour surgery in 2005, after she was

attacked by her pet dog. Despite a growing HIV epidemic

in Russia, groups working to prevent the spread of the virus

are running into difficulties. So far, the government has

classed four organisations as "foreign agents",

a blacklisting for those who receive funding from abroad and are engaged

in activity that's deemed Maxim Malyshev is an activist

with the Rylkov Foundation and explains how the group's

new status is affecting their work. The HIV workers blacklisted as

'foreign agents' in Russia. The United States National Hurricane

Center says Hurricane Newton has reached Mexico's west coast,

near a popular tourist destination. The powerful storm made landfall

before dawn at the southern tip The Center registered winds of 145

kilometres an hour. Despite its intensity there were no

immediate reports of major damage, although power cuts have been

reported in some areas. Homeowners and businesses took

precautions in advance with many people either

leaving their properties Major highways are

still operational. The hurricane is expected to lose

strength over the next 24 hours. The theory that women get paid less

than men because they are not sufficiently pushy in the workplace

is not true. That's according to a report

by Cass Business School and the universities

of Warwick and Wisconsin. The study compared the details

of 4,600 workers across more than 800 employers in Australia,

which is thought to be the only country to systematically record

whether employees had asked But they found men were 25% more

likely to get a pay rise, when they compared like-for-like

male and female workers. We managed to use data

which we controlled So we controlled for age,

whether they have children, whether they are married,

the kind of work that they did, and so we had a like-for-like

comparison, as you said, and that meant that, in a way,

it's a first time we've been able to do this proper test

so it was surprising. Another myth we have blown as well,

that is that women don't ask because they are worried

about upsetting their boss or But it was true that women

were asking but not getting Joining me now from Washington

is Ariane Hegewisch, a specialist in the gender wage gap

from the Institute for So unless it is just Australian

women being particularly confident in the workplace, what is going on?

They are still asking for pay rises but men are getting more? This is

such an interesting story and I which we -- I wish we had the same

data in the US. We are focused on women being less likely to negotiate

for wages. It is very welcome because a lot of women do not work

in workplaces where you can negotiate in the first place, and

negotiation is a very individualised approach. I am not sure what is

going on in Australia or whether we would have the same results in the

USA. I think it will be seen with a lot of interest here. One of the

authors in the report says they have to accept they think it is some

element of pure discrimination against women. I fully agree with

that. We know that the wage cap is partly due to women and men doing

different jobs but discrimination accounts for a big factor of what

seems to be not moving and the wage cap in the United States has stayed

more or less the same last 15 years even though women are more likely to

move into more professional jobs and get higher educational attainment.

We know from individual stories and from the statistics that there is

some discrimination but we know surprisingly little of what happens

in this wig box of companies when they negotiate and set pay. One

thing that became clear in the report was a very interesting

phenomenon with women under 40. There does not seem to be a

discernible pay gap. This goes back for a long time, and also in

Australia there is much more part-time work and there is here in

the USA so you get more of a differentiation between people

working full-time in the study and those who do not. We have always had

the case that women start out with a lower wage cap and then it grows

over time. Given that women are now more educated than men, younger

women specifically, there should be earning more than men and they are

not. He's the man who designed one

of the world's most coveted super cars and now he's turned his hand

to a vehicle designed to transform Gordon Murray, who built

the McLaren F1, was asked to come up with a small truck that can be built

from a flat-pack, is cheap, and easy to build, yet tough enough

to cope with conditions across many It doesn't look like it could tackle

some of the worst roads on Earth. On the surface, the Ox

could be any other truck, This vehicle sort of doesn't make

sense when you look at it. It's just an ordinary looking van,

it's got these tiny, little wheels, it's two-wheel drive,

and yet I'm driving it over what could easily be

a dry riverbed in Africa, Frankly, it's doing it

as well as a 4x4 would do it. In some ways, it is actually more

comfortable. Believe it or not, the man

who designed it also made this. The McLaren F1 is a supercar

for the super-rich. Ox drivers have very

different needs. When we studied the requirements,

for where this vehicle was going to end up,

there is a requirement ..loading livestock

and barrels of fuel and water. You have designed what some people

think is the best You had all those years

in Formula 1. How does this rank, in terms of how

hard it was to design, I know it's probably difficult

to believe, but, for me, this ranks above everything else

I've ever done. Designing expensive sports cars,

that reaches a few people. This thing will help,

if this goes into mass production, this will help thousands

of people with mobility. Was it harder than

designing the McLaren F1? I think in a way this is a much more

difficult challenge than the F1 was. Crucially, it flat packs

like furniture, so it's Three semiskilled people can

build it in under 12 Every part is designed to be easy

to fix, all essential requirements for the man who first dreamt

up the plan. For the next step, he now

hopes to make 1,000 Israeli archaeologists believe

they've managed to reconstitute the patterns used in tiles that

decorated the ancient Some 600 bits of stone flooring

were unearthed from the site that Jews know as the Temple Mount,

and Arabs call the Haram al-Shariff. The archaeologists say they have

identified seven potential designs They believe the 2,000-year-old tile

patterns, with their stars and squares and other shapes,

would have adorned the Temple's courtyards

in the days of King Herod. And the mayor of Paris says

the first refugee camp in the French capital will be

opened in mid-October. Anne Hidalgo said the centre,

which will have an initial capacity It will followed by a second camp

for women and children. The aim is for them to replace

makeshift camps that have sprung up around the city,

and will be housed in an old railway If you want to get in touch with us

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