09/10/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK

Here are the headlines: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

prepare for a TV debate which could make or break their chances

The stage is set for an almighty battle, as Donald Trump's camp

promises to come out fighting, despite the outcry from his obscene

An anti-Saudi protest in the Yemeni capital after airstrikes kill 140

Safety fears for Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 after its

And why do hundreds wait for a free mystery tattoo by putting their arm

There are now just five hours to go until round two of the big

Trump versus Clinton televised debate in St Louis,

And it seems the furore surrounding a videotape

showing Donald Trump making crude remarks

As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton prepare to face each other,

debate moderators have altered the format so that the initial

questions will deal directly with the leaked video.

And for Donald Trump, his advisor, Rudy Giuliani,

has said that Mr Trump may raise the sexual history of the former

Let's go to our correspondent, Laura Bicker who is

This has the potential to get very ugly? It does, we have Donald Trump

going through his run through inside and what he will probably say in his

opening remarks but we've already got an idea of the tone he's going

to use from his early-morning Twitter storm. He has denounced

Republicans who have abandoned his candidacy as hypocrites. This is a

Donald on the attack. Donald Trump's supporters

are as defiant as the man himself. As they gathered for this brief

glimpse outside Trump Towers, it was clear he is still their

choice to be president. As ever, Mr Trump used Twitter

to reinforce his message. Later, he tried to turn the tables

on the Clinton campaign. He published a link to an interview

with a woman who made a historic rape allegation

against Bill Clinton. The accusation has never

been tested in court. 16 Republican senators have

withdrawn support for their party's candidate since this

video was published. He brags about kissing

and groping women. Hours before the debate,

his campaign team is trying He is ashamed of himself

and embarrassed. He is the father of two daughters

and he has eight grandchildren, He would not want them

to hear or see that. Donald Trump has proved to be

a polarising figure. And his sexual boasts are not

putting off all his voters. Everybody has flaws and things

they do that are inappropriate. It does not mean he

cannot be president. I compare him to JFK

and Bill Clinton, every politician have loved women and women

are attracted to power. It will not just be Donald Trump

facing tough questions, Hillary Clinton may be

asked about e-mails Never has the pressure been greater

than on a Donald Trump and if he fails this

test it could be a fatal The debate format to night is

different from before. There are 100 members of the audience, undecided

voters who get to ask half the questions and the moderators ask the

other half. We know that the first question is going to be about those

Trump tapes. 80 million people watched the last debate and usually

the second one, the viewers drop off but I think for this one it is

really must watch. Thank you for joining us.

Well as we were hearing from Laura, a number of High profile Republicans

have been deserting Donald Trump, but what about his core base?

Well we can speak to Charlotte Laws, one Trump supporter.

I'm interested in what you make of this video where Donald Trump is

seen making very aggressive and lewd comments about women? I think it is

much ado about nothing, honestly. We have known for a year and a half,

ten years, 20 years that he talks in a crude way, that he says things as

he sees them, and he speaks that way. The thing about club, he does

not support the double standard, like many in society. He is an equal

opportunity critic, attacking men and women. Many people attacking him

seem to think that women are fragile and should be treated differently to

men, that they should be sequestered from bad words. He does not believe

that, he treats women verbally the same way and he promotes women, he

has a history of putting them in executive positions, high-powered

position, even in the 80s, in the construction industry, when this

wasn't done at all. He pays high salaries and he is into equality.

Even so, he has called women fat pigs, dogs and slobs. I'm struggling

to see what he has called men that even compares to these things. He

has said many things to men. He called Rand Paul ugly, he has called

men many things. You will read articles and you will see the

attacks that women make against men. Megan Kelly called Chris Christie a

fatso on Fox News and nobody reported it. I have seen comments

about Trump about how he is orange, how he is tubby but nobody says

anything, because there is a double standard and that somehow you must

treat women differently from men. I don't believe that, Trump doesn't

believe it. We believe in pure equality. But name-calling and other

comments that Donald Trump has made, it's not very presidential, is it? I

totally agree and if that is your argument, that's fine. I think he'll

be an excellent president. I think he will overthrow the status quo,

that he will change the way that things are done in Washington and

I'm very hopeful about that and I think he will go down in history as

one of the best presidents of all time, if he can get elected. But if

you don't like the language, then that's a perfectly fine argument.

I'm not bothered by the language. You can look at people like Winston

Churchill, other people in history who used foul language and work

great leaders. Can you understand why people have been incensed by

this language, including Condoleezza Rice? It is largely because people

are entrenched in our success society, they believe in the double

standard -- sexist society. I think they aren't really looking at it in

a pure way and many people have an agenda. They either want to derail

his campaign, which has gone on from day one, the establishment, even the

media in the United States have been trying everything to derail his

campaign. Or they don't want to lose their own power, they are afraid

he's going to come in and change trade deals, he is a bit of a

protectionist, he isn't going to interfere and rebuild other nations,

he has a different policy to what has been in Washington. The people

in power are very afraid they are going to lose that power and lose

their money. Thank you for joining us.

There have been protests in Yemeni capital Sanaa after Saturday air

strike on a funeral in Yemen, which killed more than

140 people and injured hundreds more.

Saudi Arabia described the attack in the capital Sanaa -

as a "regrettable event" - and said its coalition was ready

to begin an investigation - in coordination with the Americans.

The US said it would review its support for

the Saudi-led coalition, which is allied with

Dense black smoke billows from what was a funeral hall

Some survivors can be glimpsed trying to escape

This amateur video appears to show how the funeral of one man became

Here the aftermath of the carnage and the rush to find the wounded

and dead, who, minutes earlier, had been warning the father

TRANSLATION: We came here after the first hit happened,

while we are helping survivors and get people out,

The Foreign Office said the images from the scene were shocking

and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said if civilians were

deliberately targeted, Britain would review its criteria

The conflict in Yemen escalated in September 2014

when the Houthi rebels, who are allied with Iran,

In March last year, the Saudis and their allies began

a controversial campaign of air strikes against the Houthis.

The UN says more than 4,000 civilians have

Most in air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition.

Saudi Arabia has promised to investigate the latest strike,

It says its troops have clear instructions not to

But the White House has begun an immediate review of its support

for the Saudi coalition, which has already been cut back.

Let's return to our top story, the US presidential debate.

Tonight it will have a slightly different format to the first

one we saw last month - the two candidates will be joined

by a live audience of undecided voters.

They'll be putting questions to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

who will be moderated by hosts from CNN and ABC.

Let's speak to Aaron Kall, director of debate at Michigan University.

Thank you for joining us. Shall we talk about the interview that we

just did, I understand you have some strong views? Certainly a great job

of a sorrow gut, making the best case and I think tonight that Trump

is going to go back to his primary self and really attack the

establishment and try and put him soft as being in the best light as

being an agent of change in the election. How is Donald Trump going

to handle the attacks that Hillary Clinton may make about this leaked

tape? It's going to be front and centre at the beginning of the

debate and I think the first thing he should do is immediately

apologise, express contrition. Similar to Secretary Clinton during

the first debate about her private e-mail server and he should ask the

forgiveness of American voters, who are very forgiving people and if he

shows genuine remorse they may be willing to forgive him. Both camps

have been preparing for this for some time. What do you think the

strategy for Donald club and -- Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

will be? Trump must address questions of his temperament. At the

end of the last debate he did a pretty good job of stopping short of

making really scandalous attacks. He ran out of steam. He started strong.

This time he needs a solid 90 minutes and both candidates must

show empathy towards the voters. Questions about the economy and

trade and they need to connect with them and understand where they are

coming from and provide common-sense solutions to the voters who are

having a tough time making a decision. This contest has become

very ugly indeed. Could it become uglier and what would voters make of

that? There is potential for it to be really nasty and if he throws the

kitchen sink and she comes back. Both of them have vulnerabilities. I

think it will turn off voters. There are voters thinking about not

voting, or in tracing a third-party candidate. If it gets so nasty you

are going to see less turnout and a more uncertain election. If you had

to call it either way, which way would you choose? Tonight? I think

it's going to be a minor part of the debate, there will be a lot of

hoopla. You mentioned Twitter. I think it will be a footnote. Thank

you for joining us. Stay with us, still to come: the sports News

including advantage Nico Rosberg as he wins the Japanese Grand Prix.

Team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton was third.

This was a celebration by people relishing their freedom. They

believe everything is going to be different from now on. They think

that the country will be respected in the world as it used to be before

Slobodan Milosevic took power. The Dalai Lama, XO spiritual leader of

Tibet, winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Two grenades exploded

and a group of soldiers came from the parade and ran towards the

President with Kalashnikov automatic rivals. After 400 years the skeletal

ribs of Henry VIII's tragic warship emerged but even as divers worked on

her the Mary Rose went through another heart stopping drama. I want

to be the people's governor. I want to represent everybody. I believe

that the -- in the people of California.

Donald Trump's campaign team say he may raise sexual abuse

allegations against the former US president, Bill Clinton,

during his televised debate later with Hillary Clinton.

Saudi Arabia says it's ready to begin an investigation

into a coalition airstrike in Yemen, which killed more than 140 people

The weekend's football World Cup 2018 qualifiers are continuing.

Earlier there was disappointment for European championship

They are ranked 10th in the world but could only draw 1-1

Real Madrid star Gareth Bale gave Wales the lead early in the first

half but an unmarked Okriashvili nodded

Wales remain top of their group but could be overtaken depending

Teams in the same group as Wales, Moldova and the Republic of Ireland,

currently 2-1 to the Republic and Serbia against Austria where it is

currently 2-2. Spain, 2-0 up against Albania who have never qualified for

the World Cup before. Italy losing 2-1 against Macedonia, a bit of a

shock if it stays that way. suffered a second blow in a week,

as he finished third in the Japanese Grand Prix,

won by Mercedes team-mate Nico Red Bull's Max

Verstappen was second. World champion Hamilton

made a poor start and initially dropped to eighth,

which comes after an engine failure the German with only 100 available

in the remaining four races. The result means Mercedes have

won the constructors World number two Andy Murray has won

the China Open and edged closer The Briton beat Grigor

Dimitrov in straight sets in Beijing, and didn't drop a single

set the entire tournament. The victory is Murray's fifth

singles title of the year, as he eyes overtaking world

number Novak Djokovic. three Agnieszka Radwanska eased past

Britain's Johanna Konta Her run to the final has seen Konta

reach the world's top 10 for the first time in her career,

but she was outclassed American media reports say that

a replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device has caught fire,

the second such incident that has On Wednesday one of the phones

caught fire on a plane in the US, The company had claimed

the problem with the Note 7 With me is Rhiannon

Williams, the technology How much of a crisis is this for

Saint-Sa ns? It couldn't come worse, it has come at a difficult time in

the smartphone market and for Samsung to have their premium

handset taken off the market is very bad news for them indeed. This is

the second replacement. What is going wrong for the company? In mid

August when Samsung started selling the Note seven model, reports that

the phone was overheating when being charged. Samsung took note of this

and issued a global recall, which is unheard of, not many technology

companies would go to such lengths. Samsung said that they would issue

people with replacements but now feed the placements are catching

fire with the same issue. Is it going to hurt them long-term?

Initially it was extremely bad news for the handsets to be exploding but

the fact that the recall is experiencing the same problems is

extremely damaging. Very difficult to come back from that and restore

consumer confidence in Samsung even though it is the world's largest

mobile manufacturer. People won't invest if there is a risk of harm.

Is it going to play into the hands of Apple, Samsung's biggest rival?

Yes, coming after the release of the iPhone seven in September. In the

run-up to Christmas people are going to be looking to buy new handsets

and Apple will look to capitalise. What can Samsung do to bring back

confidence to the device? At this point it looks like the only thing

they can do is to kill off the Mode line. People are likely to go back

and purchase older models -- the Note line. They will have to focus

on the Galaxy range. Thank you for joining us.

Would you let someone give you a free mystery tattoo?

Well in London people have been at the centre of a gallery

Behind it is renowned tattoo artist Scott Campbell.

He tattoos for free any arm that comes through.

But there is no communication, and the person only discovers

I am Scott Campbell, doing a project which is essentially a hole in the

wall and I am on the other side of the wall and anyone is welcome to

put their arm through. I'm going to put my arm through the wall and let

the artist do its work. No communication at all. I don't know

how it's going to be, it is kind of a surprise but it's going to be a

good surprise! JAZZY MUSIC I don't know what it is going to be

but it is big, I can say that. Part of what I enjoy about the project, I

don't really worry about what's on the other side of the wall. I just

get to hide in my little room and do the thing that I love to do.

Sometimes you can tell the gender, sometimes it isn't clear. I tried to

predict what people would get. Every time that somebody's arm comes

through and I put my hands on it, "This arm needs something else. " I

don't have a message. I'm doing this out of my own curiosity and learning

as I go. It is an idea of what I can do with tattoos in the same way as

drawing, without asking permission. Letting the artist do his work,

amazing. I am profoundly appreciative of the trust it takes

to participate in something like this. When people pull the arm out,

I want everyone who was afraid to put their arm in to look at it and

wish they had done it. It is done? It is done.

While! Amazing. -- wow! It was amazing. It turned out to be

perfect. I was looking at the flames and skulls and I thought, let him

mixed them up and it is likely read my mind. Button extraordinary thing

to do. A giant pumpkin grown in Britain has become the biggest ever

to be cultivated outdoors in the UK. It weighs over 600 kilograms.

Earlier we caught up with the man who grew it from a seed. As of

yesterday, the final day of the weighing, that was the end of 149

days long project for me. That means that something must be done to the

plant every day for 149 days, even if it is going out to be patched to

make sure they are all right. Generally it makes sure -- it

involves everything from watering first thing in the morning, watering

for one hour every day, especially in the summertime. And in the

evening I go down after work and spray the plants with various

different things in the evenings. That is quite low, five times a week

sometimes as the season goes on. Measuring, we must measure the fruit

as well. I do that on most days to keep track of how much they are

growing and try and get as much information about how to perform as

possible so I can decide what needs to be done the next day the Mac the

day after. Blimey, that is huge. That's it from me and the team for

now.