30/07/2017 BBC Weekend News


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President Trump says China isn't doing enough

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to halt the weapons programme of its ally, North Korea.

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He made the comments on Twitter after Pyongyang

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test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic

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From Seoul, our correspondent, Karen Allen, sent this report.

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US bombers dominated the sky as tensions mount over the Korean

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peninsula, escorted by fighter jets, as part

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of a drill, it was seen as a

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direct response to North Korean aggression.

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And the US president is blaming China

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But China also condemned Friday's second

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Experts believe North Korea's nuclear and

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missile capability is growing stronger by the day.

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And so it seems is Kim Jong-un's hunger to be

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The North Korean side is sending a message to the United States.

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The missiles are aiming at the United

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States and so we are going to talk to you, not to Korea.

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More joint military exercises, a sign that

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force is not being ruled out, but pressure is mounting for a

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A pre-emptive strike could destabilise the entire

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region, but how long is Washington prepared to wait?

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Here in Seoul, South Korea depends on the Americans

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But the presence of tens of thousands of US forces here

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feeds into North Korea's propaganda it is under threat, justifying its

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With the military on high alert, the Korean peninsula

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feels more dangerous than just a week ago.

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And Karen Allen is live in Seoul for us now.

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Well, it does have influence. It has trading influence. That is what

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Donald Trump was alluding to. Its influence may be limited. There has

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already been sanctions against China, its imports of coal from

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North Korea, which was said to be funding the nuclear programme. They

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stopped after a UN Security Council resolution. There are other areas it

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is able to cut down on. We could expect to see a push for UN

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sanctions, UN resolutions, later this week. It is not just about

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China. Russia still has to recognise that this was an intercontinental

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ballistic missile. That would be a trigger point for Russia to be

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pushed on sanctions. It is not quite as simple as President Trump has

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indicated, after all, there has been decades of mistrust in this part of

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the world. Our correspondent, Karen Allen. Thank you.

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Police in Australia say they've foiled a plot to bring down an

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Four men have been arrested and security has been

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increased at airports across the country.

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Police say they've seized material that could be used

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A suspect is taken into custody in the Surry Hills neighbourhood

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of Sydney, one of four people arrested in raids across the city

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by heavily armed police and members of Australia's domestic spy agency.

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Investigators say they have information that the plot to blow up

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an aircraft involved the use of an improvised device.

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As roads were sealed off and properties searched,

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it has been reported the operation was not planned but a rapid

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The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, says

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the authorities have foiled what appears to be

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I can report last night that there has been a major joint

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counterterrorism operation to disrupt a terrorist plot

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A woman who said her son and husband were among those arrested in Sydney

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has denied they had any ties to extremism, but senior police

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commanders say the raids were part of an alleged Islamic-inspired plot.

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Additional security measures have been put in place at domestic

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and international airports around the country.

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Australia's national terror threat level remains at probable,

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which means the intelligence agencies believe that groups

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or individuals have the intent and capability to carry

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Since 2014, 70 people have been charged as a result of more than 30

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counterterrorism raids across the country.

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The International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, says unregulated

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free movement of people between the UK and the European Union

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after Brexit would "not keep faith" with the result of the EU

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With me is our political correspondent, Emma Vardy.

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Does this chime with what other ministers have been seeing? It shows

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how immigration rules are going to change and that what pays and that

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that is still being worked out. The government has made it clear that

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when Brexit happens in 2019 the freedom of movement rules will no

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longer apply but that does not mean that suddenly overnight EU citizens

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will be prevented from coming to the UK. Instead there will be a gradual

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change of immigration laws. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said

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it may take some time before migration controls are fully

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implemented with Europe, saying there will need to be a transitional

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period. Liam Fox has told the Sunday Times that if there was to be a

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continuation of freedom of movement after Brexit that this would not

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keep faith with the result of the EU referendum. Perhaps we are seeing

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that for some Brexiteers a change in immigration rules may not be for

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them. They want to get control of our borders back quick enough. There

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is broad agreement within the Cabinet that there needs to be a

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pragmatic, transitional approach, but what that might look like is

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where the divisions life. Thank you. Later today, the Belgian city

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of Ypres will pause to remember one of the most costly battles

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of the First World War. By the end of the three

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month campaign, half a million men were dead,

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injured, or missing. Live now to Ypres

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and our correspondent Yes, the two days of commemorations

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that will take place, but he let the men engaged, and that the massive

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war cemetery nearby will remember those who fell during the fighting

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that raged for three months over farmland north of the city, but also

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of the sacrifices made by the city itself. It was virtually destroyed

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during the battle. People here have regular reminders of what took

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place. There is often a deadly remainder at the roadside. You see

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at virtually every day driving around and it is a lasting legacy of

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what took place a century ago. This is a corner of Europe

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where First World War shells The Belgian bomb disposal teams

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based in the village of Poelkapelle deal with at least 200 tonnes

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of unexploded munitions each year. You might think that

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after a hundred years this iron During the First World War,

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along the Western Front, 1.5 billion shells were fired,

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and of those, one in That left 500 million

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still in the ground. One-third of the munitions

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that the team recover contain The first job is to clean them up,

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and not always that gently, to get a rough idea of how dangerous

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they might be. Even after a hundred years,

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lives are at risk here. The chemical shells are eventually

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destroyed in a sealed chamber. Conventional explosives

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follow a separate path. Shells, bombs, grenades and bullets,

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forced to the surface of local farmland by frost

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action and ploughing. How much explosive is in these

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shells, just in one So, it is always around 50

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kilos of high explosives. More than 50 kilos, even

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deeply buried, would risk damage to buildings,

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and so this meticulous operation rolls on, a legacy of a distant war

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that will provide these lethal The next news on BBC

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One is at 6:35pm.

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