:00:08. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me Lebo Diseko.
:00:10. > :00:13.The headlines: Back on the campaign trail -
:00:14. > :00:15.Hillary Clinton returns to the presidential race
:00:16. > :00:19.She says she's "doing great" as she jumps on a plane jetting off
:00:20. > :00:21.to the battleground state of North Carolina.
:00:22. > :00:24.Meanwhile, Donald trump outlines his plans for the US economy,
:00:25. > :00:31.Violence breaks out between far-right extremists
:00:32. > :00:39.Britian finally gives the green light for a nuclear deal
:00:40. > :01:05.in the country's ambitious space programme.
:01:06. > :01:07.Hillary Clinton is back on the campaign trail in the race
:01:08. > :01:10.for the White House - four days after her team revealed
:01:11. > :01:16.She will appear at a rally in North Carolina later.
:01:17. > :01:18.Meanwhile, her rival Donald Trump has just released results
:01:19. > :01:20.from a recent medical examination with his doctor
:01:21. > :01:27.and announced his plans for US economy.
:01:28. > :01:29.Gary O'Donoghue is in Greensboro, North Carolina,
:01:30. > :01:47.How did she look? Did she look in good health? How is she doing? She
:01:48. > :01:51.got on her plane about half an hour ago, one hour ago. People who were
:01:52. > :01:55.there said she may have looked a bit tired but otherwise looked pretty
:01:56. > :02:01.fine. When she comes on to this stage in about two hours, she will
:02:02. > :02:04.be heavily scrutinised. Everybody will be looking for signs of that
:02:05. > :02:09.pneumonia and they will see what toll it has taken, if she has
:02:10. > :02:13.properly recovered. They will want to know, especially this crowd, who
:02:14. > :02:17.will largely be supporters of hers, they want to know she is back on the
:02:18. > :02:23.front foot and ready to take on Donald Trump began. This has been a
:02:24. > :02:27.big blow to her campaign. Four days of constant speculation about if she
:02:28. > :02:32.is well enough, up to being president of the United States. A
:02:33. > :02:35.forced four day hiatus in the campaign, which she can ill afford
:02:36. > :02:39.less than eight weeks from the election. There is a lot of ground
:02:40. > :02:44.for her to make up this afternoon. Her performance will be key to that
:02:45. > :02:49.today. How does she do that? Kabashi did she take hold of it and turn it
:02:50. > :02:55.into a positive story for her? -- how does she do that and take hold
:02:56. > :02:59.of it. She will move the debate onto some of the policy issues where she
:03:00. > :03:03.thinks she is strong and she will want to highlight, as she has tried
:03:04. > :03:06.to do, the lack of governmental experience of Donald Trump, some of
:03:07. > :03:12.the things he has said about the US military, for example. Which are
:03:13. > :03:16.really damaging politically, in this country. Some of the things he has
:03:17. > :03:21.said about women as a way of galvanising the female vote in this
:03:22. > :03:25.country. There are things like that where she knows she can land some
:03:26. > :03:29.punches. But she has been on the back foot for some time. I think you
:03:30. > :03:36.are starting to see the effect of that. You have to be cautious about
:03:37. > :03:40.opinion polls. But some of them have had the sampling dates within this
:03:41. > :03:44.area where she was unwell, where there were questions about her
:03:45. > :03:51.transparency again, and you are seeing a narrowing in the poll of
:03:52. > :03:53.polls in terms of the national vote to 1.8% and crucially, crucially, in
:03:54. > :03:59.some other swing states, like Ohio and Florida, neck and neck in
:04:00. > :04:04.Florida, pretty much. Donald Trump in one recent poll ahead in Ohio.
:04:05. > :04:10.What has Donald Trump been saying about the economy and also his
:04:11. > :04:12.health record? Has he grabbed the narrative from Hillary Clinton even
:04:13. > :04:20.on this day she returns on the campaign trail? I think the
:04:21. > :04:24.publication of this summary of his health and physical from last week
:04:25. > :04:26.was an attempt to keep the focus on that issue, as you would expect.
:04:27. > :04:33.That is what political opposition does. Largely speaking, apart from
:04:34. > :04:37.his weight, the doctors seemed to give him a reasonable bill of
:04:38. > :04:42.health. It is not as much detail as we had from Hillary Clinton on her
:04:43. > :04:45.help. Another batch of data was published by her doctor this week.
:04:46. > :04:51.Donald Trump, his big speech on the economy this morning, he is hitting
:04:52. > :04:55.some issues which play well for him, talking about jobs, creating more
:04:56. > :05:00.jobs, bringing jobs home, as he said, from other parts of the world,
:05:01. > :05:03.from Mexico, trying to create more growth in the country and higher
:05:04. > :05:08.wages. They play right into the American heartlands and she has to
:05:09. > :05:13.have an answer, as well. Thank you for bringing us up to date.
:05:14. > :05:16.Far right extremists have clashed with asylum seekers in the town
:05:17. > :05:19.About 20 migrants were set upon by around 80
:05:20. > :05:21.people, forcing police to call in reinforcements.
:05:22. > :05:24.Officers say they were hit by bottles as they tried to keep
:05:25. > :05:27.The town attracted negative headlines earlier this year
:05:28. > :05:39.when locals cheered as a fire burnt down migrant housing.
:05:40. > :05:48.We can speak to an asylum seeker in the area. He told us what happened
:05:49. > :05:55.last night. TRANSLATION: Last night, about 140-150 residents of Bauwesen
:05:56. > :06:01.attacked a for refugee minors. Most of them come from Syria. They
:06:02. > :06:07.attacked them and beat them up. They assaulted them with broken beer
:06:08. > :06:12.bottles and smashed glass. In January, exactly on New Year's Day,
:06:13. > :06:20.these neo-Nazis attacked the. They started throwing tone -- stones. --
:06:21. > :06:24.attacked the campsite. They went to the street leading to the campsite
:06:25. > :06:28.and sat and drank alcohol. They used alcohol as an excuse. They told
:06:29. > :06:35.police that they were drunk it happened. I have a seven-year-old
:06:36. > :06:43.daughter. She goes to school everyday. I am very concerned for
:06:44. > :06:50.her safety. She walks alone for less than one mile on her way back. I am
:06:51. > :06:55.always scared she might be assaulted physically, or sexually.
:06:56. > :06:57.Let's cross to Berlin and speak to our correspondent
:06:58. > :07:03.Damien McGuinness who's been following the story for us.
:07:04. > :07:10.How have people been reacting where you are? It is interesting because
:07:11. > :07:16.it seems quite unclear what started these clashes. A lotta people are
:07:17. > :07:20.interpreted according to their own political beliefs, if you like.
:07:21. > :07:24.Left-wing politicians and human rights activists across the board
:07:25. > :07:29.have condemned what they see as right-wing extremism committed
:07:30. > :07:36.against asylum seekers. But the police earlier today and some
:07:37. > :07:40.politicians in the region were it happened has said the asylum seekers
:07:41. > :07:44.started the violence. What appears to have happened is they were about
:07:45. > :07:48.15-20 underaged asylum seekers gathered in the square. This has
:07:49. > :07:53.become a meeting point for young people. Both asylum seekers and
:07:54. > :07:59.local residents. At the same time and on the same square, there were
:08:00. > :08:02.about 80 local residents. Police say young asylum seekers were the ones
:08:03. > :08:07.that started throwing bottles at these residents, who reacted
:08:08. > :08:13.violently and aggressively with xenophobic comments. Police at that
:08:14. > :08:18.stage stepped in to try and separate the two groups and the scuffles got
:08:19. > :08:24.even worse. Police say they have now imposed a curfew on the young asylum
:08:25. > :08:27.seekers and have also imposed a ban on them drinking alcohol. But a
:08:28. > :08:31.lotta people are saying the main problem is right-wing extremism.
:08:32. > :08:37.Even in that region, the president of that region recently said Saxony,
:08:38. > :08:40.the land, the state where this village is located, said it does
:08:41. > :08:46.have a problem with right-wing extremism. The country is now
:08:47. > :08:51.debating it and it is not only seen on the one hand as an issue of a lot
:08:52. > :08:56.of asylum seekers, and possibly substandard accommodation, but also
:08:57. > :08:57.an idea of right wing extremist behaviour and how you can deal with
:08:58. > :09:06.that. Thank you. The British Prime Minister has given
:09:07. > :09:09.the green light for Britain's first At a cost of ?18 billion pounds -
:09:10. > :09:13.that's $24 billion. The reactor, Hinkley Point,
:09:14. > :09:16.will be built by the French company EDF, with significant
:09:17. > :09:17.investment from China. Supporters say the plant is vital
:09:18. > :09:20.to reducing Britain's reliance on fossil fuels,
:09:21. > :09:22.but critics argue the deal Here's our Political Editor Laura
:09:23. > :09:31.Kuenssberg. Were they really going
:09:32. > :09:33.to stop the engines, drive the diggers away
:09:34. > :09:36.and give up on years of preparation,
:09:37. > :09:43.chuck away millions already spent? Statement, the Secretary of State
:09:44. > :09:45.for business energy and industrial Ministers did pause
:09:46. > :09:52.and they are now pressing go. Hinckley unleashes a long overdue
:09:53. > :09:54.new wave of investment in nuclear
:09:55. > :09:56.engineering in the UK, creating 26,000 jobs
:09:57. > :09:57.and apprenticeships, providing a huge
:09:58. > :10:05.boost to the economy. Under the ?18 billion
:10:06. > :10:08.deal the new Hinckley The Chinese plan to build another
:10:09. > :10:18.nuclear plant at Bradwell in Essex. The government will take a special
:10:19. > :10:25.share in that and any future projects, giving them some more
:10:26. > :10:27.control over infrastructure The deal was first
:10:28. > :10:35.signed last year amid a welcome for the Chinese leader that
:10:36. > :10:38.could hardly have been more lavish. There were nerves around Westminster
:10:39. > :10:40.about the huge cost, The Chinese involvement
:10:41. > :10:43.in new nuclear But with a change of boss,
:10:44. > :10:55.a change of heart. one of Theresa May's first acts
:10:56. > :11:00.was to delay the decision to pour The government created a crisis,
:11:01. > :11:12.they sent shock waves through the industry and unions
:11:13. > :11:15.alike, risking a diplomatic dispute with one of our key future trading
:11:16. > :11:20.partners and in the end, all they have done is pretend to give
:11:21. > :11:22.themselves powers which they already Ministers say there will be
:11:23. > :11:28.an important new framework to check up on all new big
:11:29. > :11:30.projects, and they hope Hinckley will keep
:11:31. > :11:31.the lights on at Big Ben
:11:32. > :11:33.and everywhere else. The risk is controversial
:11:34. > :11:37.and expensive. When Theresa May moved into number
:11:38. > :11:51.ten, the National Security Council already been agreed
:11:52. > :11:53.and those close at that
:11:54. > :11:55.stage said there is no fundamental difference
:11:56. > :11:56.between But imagine she had gone
:11:57. > :11:59.ahead straightaway. The brand-new Prime
:12:00. > :12:05.Minister would have been waiving through one of the most
:12:06. > :12:07.controversial deals in history, There is no difference
:12:08. > :12:11.and one has to wonder high diplomatic price,
:12:12. > :12:15.potentially a high price in terms of cost and investment,
:12:16. > :12:22.was it worth it? Now there is an official go-ahead
:12:23. > :12:25.next stage on the ground can start, but no project like this has been
:12:26. > :12:28.All the fuss and political hopes for Hinckley could
:12:29. > :12:40.Now a look at some of the days other news...
:12:41. > :12:43.An explosion on a tourist boat off the Indonesian island of Bali has
:12:44. > :12:47.killed two people and injured at least 14 others.
:12:48. > :12:49.Police say an Austrian woman was one of the dead.
:12:50. > :12:52.The identity of the second victim is still unclear.
:12:53. > :12:58.Officials have ruled out a bomb, saying a short circuit near the fuel
:12:59. > :13:02.French riot police have fired teargas and stun grenades
:13:03. > :13:07.Some of the protestors, who are angry about labour reforms,
:13:08. > :13:10.At least one demonstrator and five police were injured.
:13:11. > :13:13.It's the latest outbreak of violence over the controversial
:13:14. > :13:15.new laws, which were pushed through by the socialist
:13:16. > :13:25.Serious negotiations on Britain's exit from the European Union cannot
:13:26. > :13:28.begin until the end of next year - that's the warning from a former
:13:29. > :13:35.Herman Van Rompuy, the former president of the European Council,
:13:36. > :13:37.said discussions on the main issues would have to wait
:13:38. > :13:48.until after elections in France and Germany in May and September.
:13:49. > :13:51.A former hitman from the Philippines has told a congressional hearing
:13:52. > :13:59.that the current president, Rodrigo Duterte, personally shot
:14:00. > :14:03.dead a government agent when he was a city mayor.
:14:04. > :14:07.Edgar Matobato also claimed that Mr Duterte ordered him and other
:14:08. > :14:10.members of a death squad to kill about one thousand suspected
:14:11. > :14:16.These are explosive allegations related
:14:17. > :14:20.He rid the city of crime but there have
:14:21. > :14:21.been startling claims as
:14:22. > :14:26.The Senate has been holding an investigation and a
:14:27. > :14:31.former hit man has been giving evidence.
:14:32. > :14:34.Edgar claims he was part of a
:14:35. > :14:37.death squad that killed 1,000 criminals and political opponents.
:14:38. > :14:39.TRANSLATION: They have been ordering us to kill,
:14:40. > :14:41.we do not even know the
:14:42. > :14:44.names of their victims, they just call and ask us to kill someone.
:14:45. > :14:54.He said one victim was fed to the crocodiles and the president
:14:55. > :14:56.personally killed a government agent with his submachine gun.
:14:57. > :15:01.credibility of the President, I'm just telling the truth about what he
:15:02. > :15:08.The President's spokesman said there had already
:15:09. > :15:10.been an investigation into the allegations,
:15:11. > :15:15.The government office said they were lies and
:15:16. > :15:20.But there are uncomfortable parallels with his
:15:21. > :15:35.Either you will kill me or I will kill you...
:15:36. > :15:39.3,000 drug suspects killed in shoot outs with police
:15:40. > :15:42.The president faced a storm of criticism but remains
:15:43. > :15:50.unrepentant as the death toll rises.
:15:51. > :16:03.If I am the one facing the grief, what 100 lives...
:16:04. > :16:07.Shocking though these accusations are, they will not,
:16:08. > :16:11.come as a surprise to most people in the Philippines.
:16:12. > :16:13.They knew his reputation when he was still mayor
:16:14. > :16:19.of Davao and elected him president anyway.
:16:20. > :16:25.The last time Russians voted for a new parliament, in 2011,
:16:26. > :16:29.claims of ballot-rigging caused mass street protests.
:16:30. > :16:31.Since then, the jailing of activists and tougher laws
:16:32. > :16:33.against demonstrations has taken the wind out of
:16:34. > :16:38.On the eve of Sunday's parliamentary election, there's widespread apathy
:16:39. > :16:41.So, a quarter of a century after the collapse of
:16:42. > :16:44.the Soviet Union, are Russians losing interest in democracy?
:16:45. > :17:00.We are on a journey to a remote part of Russia.
:17:01. > :17:05.Speeding along the northern Dvinar river.
:17:06. > :17:07.On board are election officials and a ballot box.
:17:08. > :17:10.It doesn't have a polling station, but then
:17:11. > :17:14.there are only three registered voters living here.
:17:15. > :17:18.It is off to find a place where the islanders can
:17:19. > :17:30.vote early in Russia's Parliamentary election.
:17:31. > :17:32.With a few tweaks a village kitchen becomes a voting
:17:33. > :17:36.After casting her vote, this 84-year-old settles down for a nice
:17:37. > :17:44.She has two loves in her life, her flowers and her president.
:17:45. > :17:53.When Vladimir Putin raised my pension I cried with
:17:54. > :18:00.I do not know what that is, she says.
:18:01. > :18:10.I asked the same question here and receive so many different answers.
:18:11. > :18:12.Democracy is when there is order and security and no
:18:13. > :18:17.It is some kind of struggle for something, she says.
:18:18. > :18:23.To these Russians, democracy was all about free and
:18:24. > :18:33.Here and across Russia there were unprecedented
:18:34. > :18:35.anti-government street protests sparked by vote-rigging in the
:18:36. > :18:41.Among the protesters here was Alexander.
:18:42. > :18:45.The opposition movement, he said, has faded and with it hopes for
:18:46. > :18:54.A lot of the people, they do not think about
:18:55. > :19:05.They go for fishing and for the gardens, they
:19:06. > :19:08.are thinking about their children, their families and they do not want
:19:09. > :19:15.Crucially, most Russians still trust Putin far more than the Parliament.
:19:16. > :19:17.The Kremlin rules Russia through a power vertical, with
:19:18. > :19:19.Vladimir Putin at the top and all other
:19:20. > :19:20.institutions, including the
:19:21. > :19:23.Parliament, below him and subservient to him.
:19:24. > :19:25.But with economic problems rising, the danger
:19:26. > :19:30.for the Kremlin is that if people start to doubt the legitimacy of
:19:31. > :19:33.those other institutions they will pin all their hopes on the one man
:19:34. > :19:49.At this farm there are as many cows as there are Russian
:19:50. > :19:53.MPs, but it is in Putin they trust here.
:19:54. > :19:55.TRANSLATION: Our people can ask him directly for
:19:56. > :20:03.ballot box is heading off to another island.
:20:04. > :20:05.But Russians are not expecting a new parliament to make
:20:06. > :20:17.They think they've got a president for that.
:20:18. > :20:26.After battering Taiwan, Typhoon Meranti has hit
:20:27. > :20:28.south-eastern China, bringing strong winds and flooding.
:20:29. > :20:29.Parts of Fujian province are without power -
:20:30. > :20:32.but so far there are no reports of casualties.
:20:33. > :20:38.Here in Xiamen, in southern China, people are trying to get back
:20:39. > :20:42.into the daily routine following last night's storm.
:20:43. > :20:45.The warning went out that the most powerful typhoon to hit this
:20:46. > :20:49.part of the coast since 1949 was on the way.
:20:50. > :20:54.strongest winds to reach anywhere in the world so far this
:20:55. > :20:59.year, so you can imagine people were worried.
:21:00. > :21:05.370 kilometres an hour, faster than one of this
:21:06. > :21:17.You walk around to survey the damage and it seems not that bad
:21:18. > :21:19.considering, but the city got flooded with drains overflowing,
:21:20. > :21:22.blocking entrances to buildings and housing complexes.
:21:23. > :21:29.Military police have been mobilised to bolster the
:21:30. > :21:38.They are racing against time to clear debris before
:21:39. > :21:40.a second smaller typhoon hits in the coming hours.
:21:41. > :21:46.This is the road leading to the main train station,
:21:47. > :21:56.perhaps the biggest damage has been to transport infrastructure.
:21:57. > :21:59.As you can see the military police are trying
:22:00. > :22:04.to clear the road so that people can get better access.
:22:05. > :22:08.All this comes during a national holiday, plenty of
:22:09. > :22:11.people from this province would have planned a trip away for the mid
:22:12. > :22:14.Lots of other travellers would have come here also
:22:15. > :22:18.from all over China but instead they will have to be content with a
:22:19. > :22:27.long weekend at home, spending it with their friends and families.
:22:28. > :22:29.China has launched its second experimental space laboratory.
:22:30. > :22:32.It's planning to get a permanent space station in orbit
:22:33. > :22:41.The Tiangong 2, or 'Heavenly Palace' - blasted off just after 10 pm local
:22:42. > :22:48.Next month, two astronauts will go to the station to do research.
:22:49. > :22:52.Space exploration is a national priority for China,
:22:53. > :22:54.which is the third country, after what was then
:22:55. > :23:01.the Soviet Union, and the US, to launch people into space.
:23:02. > :23:03.Well, we're joined by someone who has been watching China's space
:23:04. > :23:06.programme evolve over the last three decades - Phillip Clark
:23:07. > :23:25.People often refer to this as a new space race but in fact the Chinese
:23:26. > :23:31.are not racing anybody. To have a race you have got to have a police
:23:32. > :23:40.two people. The Indians do have dreams of racing the Chinese with
:23:41. > :23:45.unmanned lunar and Mars missions but China is out there on its own as far
:23:46. > :23:48.as manned missions are concerned. So China is not really watching anyone
:23:49. > :23:55.and is doing its own thing. What does China wants to achieve? It has
:23:56. > :24:00.made it a national priority, why? China regards itself as the new
:24:01. > :24:06.superpower. And it looks around the world and it sees that superpowers
:24:07. > :24:11.have got piloted space programmes. Therefore, they decided to develop
:24:12. > :24:21.their own. It also has the advantage that space technology has got a spin
:24:22. > :24:25.off for earthbound uses, because it uses the same technology which has
:24:26. > :24:31.been developed for space on the ground. That technology would not
:24:32. > :24:36.have been developed otherwise. The Chinese look at it from that point
:24:37. > :24:39.of view. You say it is about power and technology but the US is not
:24:40. > :24:47.happy about it. Do they have anything to be worried about? Well,
:24:48. > :24:50.at the moment there are only two countries that can launch people
:24:51. > :24:56.into space, the Russians and the Chinese. The Americans threw away
:24:57. > :25:01.the ability to fly people into space five years ago. So if anything the
:25:02. > :25:06.Americans can start learning from the Chinese. The Americans will not
:25:07. > :25:13.be able to start flying people into space four police two years. That
:25:14. > :25:17.will depend -- for at least two years. That will depend on how
:25:18. > :25:21.unmanned test missions are going to be. Two astronauts will be going up
:25:22. > :25:28.shortly but what will they be doing there? Tiangong 2 will primarily be
:25:29. > :25:33.a science laboratory. The crew will spend nearly 30 days in orbit with
:25:34. > :25:41.technical experiments being down, remote sensing... Unfortunately that
:25:42. > :25:45.is all we have time for on the programme but I know that he will
:25:46. > :25:52.certainly be watching this for us as this unfolds. Thank you for watching
:25:53. > :25:54.us on World News Today. Next, the weather but from me and the rest of
:25:55. > :25:56.the team, goodbye.