:00:11. > :00:17.These are some of the main story is here in the BBC newsroom, the US
:00:18. > :00:20.government says it has no doubt President Assad is responsible for
:00:21. > :00:30.the chemical gas attack in Syria, they also say they should not remain
:00:31. > :00:32.in power. With the acts he has taken it would seem there is no role for
:00:33. > :00:50.him to govern the Syrian people. The nuclear option means there is a
:00:51. > :00:57.long history of consensus. An enquiry into Russian interference in
:00:58. > :01:02.the US election has seen its head step aside. And we be live to
:01:03. > :01:05.Augusta Fardy one of the Masters, the world number one is out of the
:01:06. > :01:24.tournament. As we have discussed many times,
:01:25. > :01:27.Neil Gorsuch chair is Donald Trump Australia Beck for the Supreme Court
:01:28. > :01:34.and he is now as good as confirmed but not before there was plenty of
:01:35. > :01:39.drama and what is being called the nuclear option. Republicans needed
:01:40. > :01:44.60 votes to pass the nomination. They could not get them. So they
:01:45. > :01:49.changed the rules. To needing just 51. A simple majority. 52
:01:50. > :01:53.Republicans in the Senate so once the rules are changed it's a done
:01:54. > :01:59.deal and we expect the vote later in the week. This is the reaction of a
:02:00. > :02:04.senior Democrat. The nuclear option means the end of a long history of
:02:05. > :02:09.consensus on Supreme Court nominations. It weakens the standing
:02:10. > :02:15.of the Senate as a whole. As a check on the President's ability to shape
:02:16. > :02:20.the judiciary. In a postnatal world if the Senate and the presidency are
:02:21. > :02:25.in the hands of the same party there is no incentive to even speak to the
:02:26. > :02:32.Senate minority. That is a recipe for more conflict and bad blood
:02:33. > :02:37.between the parties, not less. A post nuclear world, no shortage of
:02:38. > :02:42.melodramatic language, Jane O'Brien in the newsroom has been talking me
:02:43. > :02:48.through what this means. First of all the war now loud explosions over
:02:49. > :02:53.the capital, the world did not come to an end. However Chuck Schumer is
:02:54. > :02:57.making a very valid point that some Republicans agree with, that this is
:02:58. > :03:02.the end of bipartisan ship, being able to cut a deal between two
:03:03. > :03:06.fighting parties over a very important nominations like who
:03:07. > :03:11.should sit on the Supreme Court because that is a life position. The
:03:12. > :03:20.Supreme Court as we know rules on all sorts of things. So it is a
:03:21. > :03:24.really important thing. By seeing a simple majority based on who
:03:25. > :03:29.controls the Senate will now get these people into place is a very,
:03:30. > :03:33.very big step. It might be news to some who have been watching American
:03:34. > :03:39.politics to hear bipartisanship still existed in Washington. It was
:03:40. > :03:42.supposed to exist in the Senate and that's the problem, it is supposed
:03:43. > :03:49.to be the grown-up chamber of Congress. They are supposed to be
:03:50. > :03:53.able to reach across the aisle. Senators have much longer terms so
:03:54. > :03:57.they are not constantly in real election mode. We have seen
:03:58. > :04:02.bipartisan cooperation over the years, not much recently and pretty
:04:03. > :04:07.much none today. Don't go anywhere, I want to talk about the man I have
:04:08. > :04:12.just brought up, Devin Nunes who has been overseeing the House of
:04:13. > :04:17.Representatives investigation into link between the Trump campaign and
:04:18. > :04:20.Russia but he has stepped aside after allegation information he bit
:04:21. > :04:25.into the public domain came from the White House and was designed to help
:04:26. > :04:39.President Trump. That has been denied, today he has said:
:04:40. > :04:48.lets get the perspective of a house speaker, Paul Ryan. Devin Lillis has
:04:49. > :04:53.earned my trust over many years for his integrity and dedication to the
:04:54. > :04:57.critical work of the intelligent community to keep Americans safe. He
:04:58. > :05:01.continues to have that trust and I know he's eager to demonstrate he
:05:02. > :05:06.has followed all proper guidelines and laws. In the meantime it clear
:05:07. > :05:09.this process would be a distraction to the house intelligence committee
:05:10. > :05:14.'s investigation into Russian interference in our election so he
:05:15. > :05:19.has offered to step aside as the lead Republican on this probe and I
:05:20. > :05:26.support his decision. If he has done nothing wrong why has he gone? It's
:05:27. > :05:30.a matter of appearances. Devin Nunes was in charge of the committee
:05:31. > :05:36.heading the investigation into Russian hacking. Separately to that
:05:37. > :05:41.and this is where it gets complicated, he was tipped off by
:05:42. > :05:46.somebody there was a possibility the Trump campaign team had been caught
:05:47. > :05:50.up in surveillance of foreigners. He rushed to the White House, discussed
:05:51. > :05:53.it and then came back and held a press conference and then told the
:05:54. > :05:56.house intelligence committee and that is where the problem started
:05:57. > :05:59.because it gave the appearance that instead of going to the house
:06:00. > :06:04.intelligence committee like he should have he went first to the
:06:05. > :06:08.White House which gave everyone the perception he is to close with the
:06:09. > :06:13.people he has been charged to investigate. There is a big sigh of
:06:14. > :06:17.relief, Paul Ryan says he supports but I think it was becoming a
:06:18. > :06:25.distraction and Devin Nunes himself was becoming bigger than the story.
:06:26. > :06:29.Thank you for those updates Jane. Let's start the sport with the
:06:30. > :06:32.report about a young footballer from Afghanistan who lives in the UK and
:06:33. > :06:46.has made it into the Arsenal disability team.
:06:47. > :06:51.A country which is rarely much more than a land of feuding tribes anyway
:06:52. > :06:55.has collapsed into anarchy and blood-letting. I am an amputee
:06:56. > :07:11.football player. I lost my leg at the age of six. I
:07:12. > :07:16.have basically no hope especially Afghanistan, it's very difficult
:07:17. > :07:21.situation there because I was little and unable to play with my friends
:07:22. > :07:23.and go out but because of the passion I had with football I never
:07:24. > :07:32.gave up. The people were struggling to work
:07:33. > :07:39.and eat food basically. I was not able to afford to buy a football so
:07:40. > :07:48.I took some cloth and some plastic and made, just like this size, and
:07:49. > :07:53.everybody was so surprised at what I was doing with the football. I have
:07:54. > :08:01.my Afghan crutches which were so heavy and not very secure. So it
:08:02. > :08:03.took me so many years to learn. But the only thing which I never lost
:08:04. > :08:15.was hope. I didn't know about amputee football
:08:16. > :08:22.in England. Every football club has a disabled team and they are
:08:23. > :08:26.supporting us with kit, transport and the pitch. On Facebook there are
:08:27. > :08:31.a lot of people sending me messages, how did you make it to Arsenal, but
:08:32. > :08:38.if they come here then Arsenal or other football clubs are always
:08:39. > :08:45.welcoming foreign. If you are a hard worker you can get anywhere you
:08:46. > :08:46.want. But if you are like OK, I will do it today, maybe tomorrow, you are
:08:47. > :09:07.not going to get anywhere. Good luck to him with his studies
:09:08. > :09:11.and his football. I hope to speak to Ian Carter at the US Masters but
:09:12. > :09:16.some technical problems, fingers crossed we can do it in a few
:09:17. > :09:21.moments. Jason Dufner and William McGirt in the lead on three under,
:09:22. > :09:33.frustrating time for Rory McIlroy, three mac over after nine.
:09:34. > :09:39.A future Labour government would introduce free school meals in all
:09:40. > :09:43.primary schools in England to try to improve the health and performance
:09:44. > :09:46.of young children. Jeremy Corbyn is proposing to cover the cost by
:09:47. > :09:54.introducing VAT on private school fees. Ellie Price reports. Soggy
:09:55. > :09:58.Brussels sprouts and lumpy mashed potato are as a general rule of
:09:59. > :10:02.thing of the past in school dinners these days. In fact they are
:10:03. > :10:07.healthier and more appealing. Labour want free school meals to be
:10:08. > :10:11.available to every primary school pupil in England and they will pay
:10:12. > :10:15.for it by imposing VAT on private school fees. We want all children to
:10:16. > :10:20.get it and all the evidence from those councils who do provide free
:10:21. > :10:23.school meals is there are higher levels of attainment, better levels
:10:24. > :10:32.of concentration and better health for all the children. Launching the
:10:33. > :10:34.policy Labour estimated it would cost up to ?900 million a year
:10:35. > :10:39.whilst introducing VAT on private school fees would raise about 1.5
:10:40. > :10:44.billion annually. Critics say it doesn't add up. This would put up an
:10:45. > :10:48.independent school fees could, so hard-working parents would no longer
:10:49. > :10:52.be able to afford those so smaller schools would have to close and that
:10:53. > :10:57.would move pupils out of our system into the state system. At the moment
:10:58. > :11:01.all children up to the age of about eight are eligible for free school
:11:02. > :11:06.meals. After that eligibility depends on if a family receives
:11:07. > :11:15.certain benefits. Latest figures showed just under 14.5% of pupils in
:11:16. > :11:18.year 3-6 are known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals.
:11:19. > :11:23.I would much rather see extra money being derived from extra taxation
:11:24. > :11:27.whether it is on private schools or other sources, given to the poorest
:11:28. > :11:33.children and not necessarily subsidising parents who can afford
:11:34. > :11:37.free school meals. The policy might sound familiar because it was in the
:11:38. > :11:43.Lib Dems election manifesto in 2015 but they did not suggest putting VAT
:11:44. > :11:48.on private school fees. Before that Gordon Brown promised to pilot the
:11:49. > :11:52.idea at the 2010 election. What is new about the policy today is the
:11:53. > :11:56.idea of raising the Monday to fund it to private school fees. The pitch
:11:57. > :12:01.from Jeremy Corbyn is taxing the rich to feed the poor. He said it's
:12:02. > :12:04.about Furnas message she hope this will appeal beyond Labour core base.
:12:05. > :12:21.-- it's about Furnas. The lead story, Rex Tillerson is
:12:22. > :12:25.saying he believes the Syrian government is responsible for the
:12:26. > :12:32.chemical attack on Tuesday and he also says President Assad should not
:12:33. > :12:37.remain in power. Let's look ahead to what is coming up after us, if
:12:38. > :12:41.you're watching outside the UK, Russia has seen the arrest of
:12:42. > :12:44.several men from central Asia after finding home-made explosives in
:12:45. > :12:48.their buildings. They are thought to be linked to the prime suspect in
:12:49. > :12:56.Monday's bomb attack on the St Petersburg Metro. BBC World Service
:12:57. > :13:07.is reporting the entire town of edge come in New Zealand's North Ireland
:13:08. > :13:12.has been evacuated. And a Dutch retailer has apologised after
:13:13. > :13:16.unwittingly selling a colour by numbers book with a picture of Adolf
:13:17. > :13:19.Hitler. The book was produced in India and it remains unclear why
:13:20. > :13:31.Hitler was included. Next if you are watching on BBC
:13:32. > :13:37.world news is world News America, on the BBC News Channel it is the news
:13:38. > :13:40.at ten. Earlier this week we reported Russia's Supreme Court is
:13:41. > :13:44.considering whether to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses religious
:13:45. > :13:47.movement. Let's talk to our correspondent in Moscow who has been
:13:48. > :13:50.looking into the motivation behind the move and how it might affect
:13:51. > :13:55.people who are not Jehovah's Witnesses.
:13:56. > :14:03.Every evening in Moscow Jehovah's Witnesses gather to pray. But soon
:14:04. > :14:07.services like this could be banned. It's because these believers claim
:14:08. > :14:14.they are faith is the only truth. Russian prosecutors say that makes
:14:15. > :14:18.them extremists. Filled by undercover police this footage was
:14:19. > :14:20.an attempt to gather evidence. The man leading the service was charged
:14:21. > :14:32.with extremism. He shows me where the policeman sat.
:14:33. > :14:37.He said nobody suspected a thing. He was acquitted at first but added to
:14:38. > :14:43.a list of extremists and now the case against him has been returned
:14:44. > :14:48.to court for a retrial. TRANSLATION: Jehovah's Witnesses have never done
:14:49. > :14:52.anything to cause harm. We try to help people. So to be accused of all
:14:53. > :14:58.these absurd violations of the law is really upsetting. If the Supreme
:14:59. > :15:03.Court does ban the job as witnesses then hauls like this one across the
:15:04. > :15:06.country will have to close and people think that's an extreme
:15:07. > :15:16.application of Russian Andrey extremism laws -- anti-extreme as
:15:17. > :15:20.laws. This man is an atheist with the popular video blogs. He's been
:15:21. > :15:27.charged with inciting hatred for playing Pokemon Go in a church.
:15:28. > :15:34.Activists who monitor extremism here say the laws to prevent it are
:15:35. > :15:40.increasingly miscued touched -- misused. There are foreign groups,
:15:41. > :15:45.extremist groups, there is a danger. But the instrument is bad and on the
:15:46. > :15:53.other hand if political leadership needs to put pressure on political
:15:54. > :15:58.opposition, this tool may also be used for this. For this man it is
:15:59. > :16:03.disturbingly familiar. He tells me his own parents were among thousands
:16:04. > :16:09.of Jehovah's Witnesses sent to Siberia by Stalin. They were exiled
:16:10. > :16:12.just for practising their religion, for reading the Bible, for sharing
:16:13. > :16:18.Bible truths with their neighbours. That's all. And now we can see for
:16:19. > :16:25.the same reason in modern Russia we are facing the same situation. The
:16:26. > :16:29.court decision will affect more than 170,000 Russians who say it cannot
:16:30. > :16:35.change their faith but could force it underground.
:16:36. > :16:47.An exclusive BBC interview has been generating a lot of interest. The
:16:48. > :16:51.reason it is generating a lot of interest is because it is the first
:16:52. > :16:56.she has given this year and she hasn't spoken extensively about what
:16:57. > :17:06.is happening, the alleged ethnic cleansing in my and Mark's Rakhine
:17:07. > :17:11.State. As you will see Aung San Suu Kyi denies this is happening and you
:17:12. > :17:13.will also see the article about setting up the interview and what he
:17:14. > :17:20.made about her and if you haven't seen it yet is how the conversation
:17:21. > :17:28.went. It is a relic of the absurdity and paranoia of military rule. It is
:17:29. > :17:31.designed to keep the general safe, but where the new democratic
:17:32. > :17:38.government is trying to consolidate its hold on power. Its leader Aung
:17:39. > :17:42.San Suu Kyi has undergone a rapid transition from pro-democracy icon.
:17:43. > :17:45.A period of intense scrutiny and criticism. For the first time this
:17:46. > :17:51.year she has agreed to a face-to-face interview. In terms of
:17:52. > :17:56.changing the lives of ordinary people, one of the things that has
:17:57. > :17:57.happened in South Africa is a massive disappointment when a
:17:58. > :18:04.liberation movement comes into power. What have you done to make
:18:05. > :18:09.lives better? You go through the list of things we have done, miles
:18:10. > :18:14.of roads and bridges and so much electrification. We started out last
:18:15. > :18:22.year by saying that at the top of priorities was job creation. We
:18:23. > :18:25.discovered over this one year that if you start constructing
:18:26. > :18:30.all-weather roads and if you provide electrification then people start
:18:31. > :18:33.creating jobs for themselves. There have been advances in health care
:18:34. > :18:39.and more free elections. But all of this has been overshadowed by the
:18:40. > :18:43.terror in Rakhine State, where tens of thousands of Muslims have fled
:18:44. > :18:47.what human rights groups call ethnic cleansing. And about which Aung San
:18:48. > :18:56.Suu Kyi has been condemned for failing to speak out. What exactly
:18:57. > :19:01.is that they are condemning? They want you to allow in a UN
:19:02. > :19:04.fact-finding mission into the Rakhine State. That is what they
:19:05. > :19:10.asked for last month but what have they condemned over the last year?
:19:11. > :19:13.Many people including those who would be sympathetic to you look at
:19:14. > :19:20.the situation and save why has she not spoken out, here is an icon of
:19:21. > :19:25.human rights. This question has been asked since 2013 when the last round
:19:26. > :19:28.of troubles broke out in Rakhine State. They would ask questions and
:19:29. > :19:35.I would answer them and people would say I said nothing simpler because I
:19:36. > :19:41.didn't make a kind of statement, to condemn one community or another, so
:19:42. > :19:47.what we're trying to go for is reconciliation, not condemnation. Do
:19:48. > :19:51.you ever worry that you will be remembered as the champion of human
:19:52. > :19:55.rights, the Nobel laureate, who failed to stand up to ethnic
:19:56. > :19:59.cleansing? I don't think that is ethnic cleansing going on. I think
:20:00. > :20:07.it is too strong an expression to use for what is happening. I think
:20:08. > :20:15.there's a lot of hostility and as I pointed out just now, if Muslims
:20:16. > :20:19.killing Muslims just now, so it is not just a matter of ethnic
:20:20. > :20:25.cleansing as you put it. It is a matter of people on different sides
:20:26. > :20:29.of the divide. She remains the most popular politician here by a very
:20:30. > :20:34.long way and her goal remains to negotiate the military out of
:20:35. > :20:42.politics with people power wrap her back and a steely interior payments
:20:43. > :20:46.-- determination. Do you think people misjudged you, expecting you
:20:47. > :20:53.to be this amalgam of Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa, for example, and
:20:54. > :20:58.actually maybe you are closer than your determination and steeliness to
:20:59. > :21:01.someone like Margaret Thatcher? I am just a politician. I am not quite
:21:02. > :21:12.like Margaret Thatcher but on the other I am no Mother Teresa either.
:21:13. > :21:15.From Myanmar to Taki where we have been looking at the referendum
:21:16. > :21:22.coming up that effort delivers a jest vote will give President
:21:23. > :21:30.AhmetErdogan far greater powers. Through the haze above the Black Sea
:21:31. > :21:36.coast is Ahmet Erdogan land. The President's family hails from this
:21:37. > :21:42.region. And it is fertile territory for votes before the referendum to
:21:43. > :21:49.boost his powers. He will always back the local boy. Recep Tayyip
:21:50. > :21:58.Erdogan is one of us. All the past leaders were rich virtuality, but he
:21:59. > :22:05.speaks our language. He tells the world what we want to save. With
:22:06. > :22:13.that common touch hears the voice of pious Turks who felt looked over in
:22:14. > :22:20.a one secular Arab dominated country. Every vote counts as he
:22:21. > :22:24.pushes to scrap the Prime Minister, choose the Cabinet and issue
:22:25. > :22:32.decrees, his fans desperate to be blessed. They will return the
:22:33. > :22:35.favour. He launches a typical Thai lead against supported enemies,
:22:36. > :22:41.denouncing Western leaders for pressing the Turkish nation. The
:22:42. > :22:48.Black Sea boy has risen to the top but to become more powerful he needs
:22:49. > :22:53.to consolidate his support base. For that, he sets his voters against his
:22:54. > :22:59.opponents, internal and external. It is classic divide and conquer. The
:23:00. > :23:05.president is moulding generations in his image, like those at Recep
:23:06. > :23:09.Tayyip Erdogan University, a personality cult one might say. His
:23:10. > :23:16.lifting of the headscarf ban is still a vote winner. I am proud of
:23:17. > :23:24.my president and I am proud of my university's name. The judge to you
:23:25. > :23:30.according to your belief, according to your appearance. From the centre,
:23:31. > :23:39.the villagers lead upstream towards that rare thing, opposition to
:23:40. > :23:45.Erdogan. He faces three years in prison for Facebook posts. The
:23:46. > :23:49.opposition fears that if the measure passes the clamp-down will
:23:50. > :23:56.intensify. I sheared personal freedom of speech. We can't go
:23:57. > :24:05.further than this. This is just nonsense. Champion of Muslims,
:24:06. > :24:10.builder of infrastructure, President Erdogan is revered and reviled and
:24:11. > :24:16.now comes a test of which side of polarised Turkey will get its way.
:24:17. > :24:23.From one strong man to another, one minute left in the programme to tell
:24:24. > :24:26.you this image has been banned by the Russian justice ministry. This
:24:27. > :24:31.is a list of extremist material and the ministry lists it as being an
:24:32. > :24:39.inappropriate image and tells the seat post...
:24:40. > :24:58.It is not the only image, plenty online that you can find, not quite
:24:59. > :25:01.clear how this new band will be policed, but it is bands none the
:25:02. > :25:06.less, thank you so much watching, goodbye.