26/09/2016 World News Today

Trump versus Clinton - the first televised TV showdown

face to face between the two US presidential candidates gets

The stakes couldn't be higher - the prize couldn't be greater.

Will either Clinton or Trump inflict real damage on the other?

I'm Lyse Doucet live in Cartagena in the north of Colombia,

where a historic peace deal will be signed in a few hours

to bring about an end to more than 50 years of conflict.

The UN says conditions in Aleppo have reached new heights of horror.

We have a rare insider's account of life

Like a born champion he made no mistake.

And President Obama calls him the King.

We remember the legendary golfer Arnold Palmer -

Hard to exaggerate the attention it's getting - or its importance.

When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go head to head

in a few hours from now, in the first of the US

Presidential TV debates, just about anything could happen.

Donald Trump was as rude as he was brutal in the Republican

debates, so the question is - will Hillary Clinton allow him

90 minutes, where he could be exposed on detail.

It's guaranteed to have a massive audience and every question

With a look at what to expect, here's Barbara Plett-Usher.

For the first time since the primaries, the candidates

But now, facing off against each other.

It will be one of their last chance to alter the course of the race,

Presidential debates can brand candidates as winners or losers.

Remember John F Kennedy's breezy, youthful glamour

against Richard Nixon's sweaty five o'clock shadow.

Or Ronald Reagan's simple good-natured style against Jimmy

With the shock value of reality TV star Donald Trump, this time

the presidential debate is on course to be the most watched

Voters have seen Mr Trump belittle his male opponents.

But that bullying style could backfire with

So far though, he hasn't been holding back.

If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think

If affordable child care is playing the woman card, then deal me in.

This is Hillary Clinton's comfort zone.

She's an experienced, competitive debater, super prepared.

She'll be trying to rattle Mr Trump, get under his skin.

He, on the other hand, much prefers 140 characters.

But can he stay focused for 90 minutes of substantive questions?

Up until now, the two candidates have been judged

So could he win simply by doing nothing outrageous,

while Mrs Clinton would have to put in the most polished

Millions of Americans will be tuning in to find out.

Kim Ghattas is in our New York studio.

Hearing predictions about a Super Bowl sized audience, this promises

to be quite an event. Yes, this will be a national gathering around TV

sets around the country, there will be hundreds of what parties by

different campaigns. This will be a highly anticipated event, the most

anticipated in American political history. Three out of four Americans

have said they will watch, around 100 million people and add the

millions of people tuning in and around the world because a US

election has ripple effects around the world. The key question is what

to expect and it will be unpredictable because we don't know

what style or personality doubled from will bring to the stage, will

he be his usual unpredictable self shooting from the hip trying to

rattle his opponent, belittle her the way he did in the republican

debates, or will he try to lay low to prove he can be presidential and

stay focused on the substance. He hasn't given many policy details so

far in this campaign. Then on Hillary Clinton's side, as we just

heard there, the bar is quite high because she needs to show not just

that she is a policy wonk with experience but she has to sweat me

and decided voters who are still out there, especially at this moment

when the polls are tightening and some polls showed Donald Trump in

the lead. She has to do what no one has done before, which is win in a

debate against Donald Trump. He had 12 debates with his Republican

opponents and came out on top at the end. Thank you, Kim.

You can watch full coverage of that first Presidential debate

It's taking place this Monday evening

in the States - that's 0100 GMT on Tuesday.

And do have a look at the BBC website, for analysis

of the election from our correspondents and editors reporting

The conflict between the Colombian government and FARC rebels has

lasted more than 50 years, cost more than a quarter

of a million lives, and led to the displacement of millions.

But in just a few hours' time, that civil war will officially come

to an end when a peace deal is signed in the city of Cartagena.

Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet is there.

What they wrote it has been to get to this point. What a road, a very

violent road. Columbia has long been a byword for the worst of atrocities

and now here in the old city of Cartagena in the north of Colombia,

history will be made, ending a 52 year war. They are saying here it is

the end of the Cold War. The FARC thriller movement established in

1954, the last of the movements inspired by Che Guevara, and the

Colombian government signing a peace deal with a pen made from a bullet

from that work which left many tens of thousands dead, kidnapped and

disappeared, but making peace with FARC has left Columbia polarised as

too many think they are paying too high a price and FARC is getting

away with its crimes. In the moment we will speak with one of the

negotiators but first let's look at our report on the mood in Colombia.

There has been a lifetime of an ugly war in the pristine mountains

Some of the worst atrocities took place here, and the scars remain.

And people can't forget the brutality of the FARC.

This woman's family fled the fighting, like

"They would recruit not just men but women too," she says.

"We were all afraid we would be killed.

They would make you cook for them and then kill you."

FARC murdered his two brothers, but he is ready to make peace now.

"We will eradicate a brand name," he says, "for terrorism,

I went to meet the deal's chief architect, the President,

This is the last conflict in the western hemisphere.

The oldest, the cruellest, the Cold War is really ending

on Monday when the agreement is signed, so it has

Not yet, until it is approved, not until the second you get a yes.

I am absolutely sure that it will be approved.

Everyone, including FARC, wants this war to end, but at what price?

The fighters are to give up their guns and criminal activity,

They will become a political party and face a special tribunal

The critics say they are getting away with it.

My instructions to negotiators were, you go and seek the maximum justice

This deal promises Colombians a better future.

And in Bogota's main square, we heard worry

TRANSLATION: These people putting down their guns,

all they have ever done is extort money, commit crimes.

President Santos told us this is the best chance to peace

Do you have a plan B if the people of Colombia vote no

We will go back six years and continue the war

The campaigns to vote "si", yes, or no, intensifies.

If the polls are to be believed, a majority believe this deal

is the best chance to end the war, even if peace will be just as hard.

Years of negotiations took place in Cuba and other capitals in this

region and also years of secret talks. Norway and Cuba were involved

and advice came from individual mediators including Jonathan Powell,

the chief negotiator of the Northern Ireland peace deal, who advised

President Santos and is now trying to work on Syria. Explain to us how

important this achievement is. This is a major achievement, 250,000

dead, tens of millions displaced, the last gorilla war in Latin

America. What is it about this one that has succeeded? We see very few

peace deal signed around the world. You usually get to agreement where

there is a mutually hurting stalemate when both sides cannot win

and the Defence Minister and president hit FARC hard, so both

sides were prepared to come to agreement. President Santos played a

big political price for this and has succeeded. He said he had been

struck an IRA bomb when he was in London decades ago and took advice

from you. What are the lessons from Northern Ireland you brought here

that work? One important thing he did was learn lessons from failed

processes in the past, a process ten or 15 years ago which field, they

had an agenda with 100 points and it was not serious, and they learned

from Northern Ireland. We had experts who had experience in the

Middle East and South Africa and they brought in together to learn

lessons and apply them here and one important one was firm foundations

for the negotiation. They had one year where they drew up an agenda

with only five points to talk to them about, and because of that he

succeeded. Do you think it will stick? It would be difficult, he has

to win a referendum like we did in Northern Ireland and that was touch

and go, and then he has to implement the agreement. Two thirds of

agreements failed during implementation and this one will be

hard, this is a violent country geographically challenged so making

this happen will be difficult but I think it will work. And from here

you will go on to discussions about Syria, it is tragic to see Syria in

five years has more dead than Colombia in 50 years, so with there

be any lessons from this process for those struggling to get people to

the table in Syria? I think there are, people can look here and see

you can succeed. That may be some way off in Syria where we look at

the tragedy in Aleppo but even that conflict will end in the

negotiation, we know that when we looked around the world and we have

to work towards getting to that peaceful outcome and I hope it comes

soon for the good of people in Syria. In that conflict and this

one, one problem is how to achieve the balance between peace and

justice. Critics say President Santos is letting FARC get away with

their crimes. You have to strike a balance. In Northern Ireland we let

IRA terrorists out of jail after just two years, even murderers, and

most agreements and in amnesty for terrorists. This is the first time

it hasn't ended that way because of the International Criminal Court,

you cannot just let people go, there has to be justice and they have

struck a balance between justice for the victims and making sure there

will be no victims, because if you were a pure rest on the justice side

there will be more people dying. If you say to wait terrorist leader you

have to sign this and go to jail, they will not sign that, but I think

they have the balance here. And having got FARC to agree, can they

be trusted? You only trust people as far as the implement what they have

and a piece of paper does not make you trust each other any more, it is

only when you do the things you have said that trust is built. If you

look at that FARC convention last week, it looks like there are

serious, they want to be a civil party and it looks like this is the

end of the last civil war in Latin America. Jonathan Powell, thank you

for joining us here, dressed in white as all the guests from around

the world have been asked to do, including Presidents and prime

ministers including Secretary of State John Kerry, who will be

watching as he has struggled to make process in Syria, but for Colombians

who support this process, it is a day to celebrate. That is all from

us here in Cartagena. And of course we will have live

coverage of that signing in a few hours' time,

and to find out more, There's in-depth coverage there,

including a page all about the FARC - the origins

of the group, what they fought for and what brought them

to the negotiating table. Russia is warning the chances

for peace in Syria could be undermined by British

and American claims Moscow has committed war crimes

in the northern city of Aleppo. The BBC's Panorama has

been following the lives This report from Quentin Somerville

contains - from the start - Aleppo has never been

more overwhelmed. At the hospital the wounded

lie in hospitals. They are fast running out

of medical supplies. Four days of relentless Russian

and Syrian bombing of The bombs are bigger and the air

raids more intensive now. 61 children were admitted to city

hospitals overnight. In one, five died at the weekend

because there were no ventilators. The BBC's Panorama has been

following Ismail, a rescue worker. The regime dropped two

barrel bombs here. Aleppo has had no time

to catch its breath and here there is no

time to grieve. Sometimes I get the feeling I am

living the last days of my life. Aleppo is burning without any

mercy, killing everything. Armageddon, apocalypse -

strong words are being used But sometimes it's the quietest

moments that reflect Mohammed calls for his

son Husan. The family moved

here five years ago. They never thought it

would end like this. But then who could have

predicted Aleppo's horrors? The full panorama programme is on

here tonight at 8:30pm. It is also on on Saturday 1st of October at 930

GMT. If you miss that then it'll be

on again on Sunday second October Humanitarian aid has finally reached

four besieged areas in Syria that have received nothing

for six months. The International Committee

of the Red Cross said convoys delivered food and medical supplies

for 60,000 people to towns near Damascus and villages

in the Idlib province. Last week, the UN suspended aid

deliveries across Syria for 48 hours Now a look at some of

the day's other news. The French President has said

he intends to close the sprawling "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais

by the end of this year under a plan to spread asylum

seekers around the country. Anyone not given asylum

in France will be deported. During a visit to the port

in Northern France, Francois Hollande has urged Britain

to play its part in tackling He said Britain's vote to leave

the European Union did not absolve Police in the US state of Texas say

nine people have been injured in a shooting near a shopping centre

in the city of Houston. The police say they shot and killed

the suspect, describing him Police say no-one else was thought

to be involved. Police investigating

the disappearance of the toddler Ben Needham, who vanished 25 years

ago, have begun excavation work at a Ben was 21 months old

when he was last seen, and officers believe he may have

been accidentally run over Behind blue and white

British police tape, a corner of a Greek island

is cordoned off. This is the house where Ben Needham

was last seen alive. Officers now believe he could have

been accidentally run over and buried by a bulldozer

here on the day he vanished in 1991. It's got to be said,

I'm optimistic that we may find something of significance that's

going to assist us in giving The senior officer here is hopeful

that this mystery could finally be Every item that we find

is going to be meticulously looked at, and made sure

that it is either something The earth is going to be lifted,

it's going to be gone through in finite detail,

just to make sure that we Ben Needham was 21 months

old when he vanished in Kos. His family has always believed

he was abducted and is still alive. But his family has now been told

to prepare for the worst. Specialist officers are expected

to dig in this olive grove and an adjoining

field for up to 12 days, looking for any trace of the little

boy last seen playing outside this Another search here four years ago

brought his traumatised mother I will never give up,

and we will do whatever it takes to find Ben,

and let him know And if nothing is found here,

Ben Needham's family will forever be wondering what happened

to their little boy. The tribute from Jack

Nicklaus couldn't have been simpler or warmer -

"He was the King of our sport He was talking about Arnold Palmer,

who's died at the age of 87. In a sparkling career,

he won over 90 tournaments, Adrian Hobart looks back on a career

that included so much more Not many sportsmen truly justify

a nickname as grand as The King. But for Arnold Palmer,

the accolade was entirely apt. His attacking style of golf

and genuinely warm personality made both a sporting and cultural impact

across the United States in the late 1950s, when television began

to draw big audiences. But more than that,

he loved the game of golf. I always say one thing -

that if I can teach a young man coming along, and I've seen a lot

of them, I can go back to Nicklaus and others,

if I can teach them to leave the game better when they leave than

they found it when they arrived, His success on the course started

in the 1958 Masters. And he would go on to win seven

Majors in seven years, often going down the stretch

with his great rival Nicklaus describes Palmer

as an icon, a legend, a pioneer. He showed his entrepreneurial side

as he teamed up with lawyer Mark MacCormack to form

the marketing company IMG, that paved the way for future

generations to reap huge rewards Every player that's here

that plays on Tour... I mean, he did so much for the game

of golf at a time when golf I mean, he leaves a legacy that

nobody else in any other sport, I think he has left the biggest

legacy of any sports star. Palmer's patronage of

the Open Championship in Britain And he encouraged more

of his compatriots to fly the Atlantic to play

the oldest Major Championship. Having a connection

with fans was key. He made sure every autograph

was legible. He actually disliked

being known as The King. His genial nature and love

of the sport saw him play "I'm not interested in being

a hero", he once said, Speedy sausage dogs have been

entertaining crowds at Melbourne's annual Dachshund Race.

The charity event sees the animals compete on a 15-metre track

in their smart black The canine competitors showed

off their creative outfits, with one resembling a cowboy

and another dressed as a tank. One of the sausage dogs could even

be seen sporting the traditional Australian red and yellow

lifeguard uniform. Some good strokes going on well as

well. I know my sausage dog could have given some have run for their

money. If you want to get in touch with us

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