02/10/2016 World News Today

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Waving goodbye to the European Union.

Britain's Prime Minister says she won't hang around in starting

We will invoke Article 50 no later than the end of March next year.

A blow for Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister as exit polls

suggest his referendum on EU migrant quotas has failed,

The New York Times says it has documents suggesting Donald Trump

could have legally avoided paying federal income tax

And there's voting too in Colombia, the President casting his ballot

on a peace deal between HIS government and the FARC rebels.

The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has confirmed

the government will begin the country's formal exit

from the European Union by triggering Article 50 before

She told the annual conference of her Conservative Party that

a Great Repeal Act would undo the legislation which took Britain

Carole Walker reports from the conference in Birmingham.

Huge applause for Theresa May at her first party conference as Prime

Minister. 100 days after the referendum, she said it was right

for the government to have waited before triggering Article 50 to

begin the formal negotiations, but she said she would not let things

drag on too long. Let me be absolutely clear, there will be no

unnecessary delays in invoking Article 50. We will invoke it when

we are ready and will be ready soon. We will invoke Article 50 no later

than the end of March next year. Alongside the negotiations, the

legal process. The Prime Minister promised a great repeal bill to

remove the act that brought us into the community -- European Community,

which will transfer EU laws into UK law is. Our laws will be made not in

Brussels but in Westminster. The judges interpreting those laws will

set not in Luxembourg but in courts in this country. The authority of EU

law in Britain will end. She had a direct message to those suggesting

the Brexit vote would trigger a second referendum on Scottish

independence. We will negotiate as one United Kingdom and we will leave

the European Union as one United Kingdom. There is no opt out from

Brexit and I will never allow divisive nationalists to undermine

the precious union between the four nations of our United Kingdom. Many

here are delighted that she is demonstrating the government getting

on with the process of reading the EU. But there are some big

questions. The Prime Minister has set out some of the practical steps

under underway to take us out of the EU. She rejected the idea of a

trade-off between access to your's single market and controlling

immigration, but she still hasn't told us what terms she would demand

for a future Brexit deal. Outside the conference, campaigners who want

Britain to stay in the EU staged a protest. The Prime Minister made it

clear there would be no going back, no second referendum after the

biggest vote for change this country has ever known. But two years of

tough negotiations will determine what that will mean for voters on

both sides of the continuing argument.

Has Theresa May's speech gone down well elsewhere in Europe? I asked

our European editor in Budapest. The European Commission which will be

key in those negotiations says it will not comment formally. It has

been met politely with a slight shrug of the shoulders. She will

launch those Brexit Torts by the end of March. That is six months away

and in the meantime, EU leaders are waiting impatiently. They don't know

what type of Brexit she wants and they have another dose of crises

such as migration and Eurozone woes. We learnt a bit about what happened

teas are, including securing of Britain's borders. How has that gone

down there? As far as the EU is concerned, this is the time when the

ball is in Theresa May's court. She decides the date when talks start

and she tells the EU what type of Brexit she wants. But once the talks

start, the clock starts ticking and then Brussels feels it has the upper

hand because as it has foreseen, there are only two macro years given

to Britain not just to get the future trade till it wants, or any

regulation on borders, but also it needs to use that time to untangle

itself from 43 years of UK EU relations.

More than 98% of voters in Hungary have rejected EU migrant

It is a result the president says is outstanding and cannot be ignored

but legally give vote changes nothing because the turnout was less

than 50%. This is a referendum which Viktor

Orban wants to win and win well. He planned it as the cherry on the cake

of his campaign against illegal migration and to launch a new role

for himself on the European stage. If the lesson win, win to resign?

Yes. Referendum in Hungary lead a 50% turnout to be legally binding.

There were signs this one will not reach that but the overwhelming

majority of those who did take part voted no to compulsory migrant

critters. That could allow President Orban to claim at least a partial

victory. I voted no because I am afraid that it will damage our

culture or our religion. Opponents of the government had three choices.

To vote yes to migrant critters, to boycott the referendum altogether or

to spoil their vote. Over 1000 refugees is not a big deal. I think

we have to help with these people. The Hungarian government has

insisted throughout the refugee crisis that Europe fortify its outer

borders. This referendum was an attempt to refocus the debate on the

asylum seekers who have already arrived. Should they be

redistributed to many countries as the European Commission wants or be

treated as illegal immigrants as a Viktor Orban suggests?

US Presidential candidate Donald Trump declared a loss

of hundreds of millions of dollars in 1995 - that's according

to the New York Times, which says it has seen his tax

The newspaper alleges that the documents show Mr Trump

declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns,

a tax deduction so substantial, it could have allowed him to legally

avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years.

Mr Trump's campaign has refused to publish his tax returns and said

in a statement that Mr Trump is a highly-skilled businessman

who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family

and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required.

It added that Mr Trump had paid hundreds of millions of dollars

in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real

estate taxes city taxes, state taxes, employee

Joining me on the line from New York is Pulitzer Prize-winning

journalist David Barstow, who co-wrote today's story

This story has caused a storm since you published it last night. How did

you come by these documents? The documents were actually mail to us.

One of my colleagues on the story is unlike most of us very zealous about

checking her mailbox every single day and they arrived in and

envelope, three pages of documents, and immediately our question is, are

these documents will? Can we authenticate them? When did they

arrive? Did they come off the back of Hillary Clinton bringing up Trump

is macro taxes? They arrived before the debate. Donald Trump's taxes

have been one of the central issues of the campaign a bunch of us had

been out there beating the bushes, seeing if we can find a way to get

to his taxes. The reporter who did receive the envelope has written

some extensive stories about Mr Trump's finances, so yes, she was

the lucky recipient of three pages of documents. What exactly do the

documents reveal? What they reveal is that in 1995, Donald Trump

declared on his taxes a $916 million loss and it makes some sense

immediately, because in the early 1990s was a very bad time for him

and his businesses. He was losing tonnes of money in his casinos in

Atlantic City and many of his other business ventures were losing money.

What is I think a revelation from these documents is the extent to

which Donald Trump was able to use our tax codes to benefit from the

financial wreckage he left behind in the early 90s and what's more, that

that enormous loss of over $900 million could be used to avoid

paying any income taxes on an equivalent amount of money he might

have earned over the following stretch of years. In all we are

looking at an 18 year period that he could have avoided paying taxes on.

The Trump campaign says it has paid hundreds of millions of dollars of

taxes over the years and this story is does not paint a full picture.

What is your response? In that long list of taxes you just described,

one tax in particular you didn't mention and that is federal income

taxes. That is really what is at issue, federal income taxes is what

just about everybody in America pays and the notion that a billionaire

could have gone 18 years without paying any income taxes is obviously

the reason why the story has created such a ruckus over here today. Thank

you very much for your time. Now for a look at some

of the day's other stories. Dozens of people have been killed

in Ethiopia in a stampede when a religious celebration turned

into an anti-government protest. The event took place

in one of the country's most sensitive regions,

Oromia, which has seen several There have been explosions and

gunfire in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The Indian Army says a town

has come under attack. Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir. Tensions

have increased since a deadly attack on another Indian army base two

macro weeks ago. Russia says its Foreign Minister

Sergei Lavrov has had a phone conversation with the US Secretary

of State John Kerry about "the possibility

of normalising the situation around It follows the heavy

bombardment of the Syrian city. Doctors in the rebel-held part

of Aleppo say the city's main hospital has now been put entirely

out of action by air strikes. Stay with us on BBC World News,

still to come: The golfers of the United States and Europe

battle it out for the Ryder Cup. We'll have the latest

from Hazeltine. Here in the UK, one person has died

and another remains in a critical condition in hospital

after a light aircraft crashed The plane came down

near Hardwick airfield, approximately 16 miles south

of Norwich, this afternoon. A man in his 80s, was

pronounced dead at the scene. The pilot is in a serious

condition in hospital. Three people are still in hospital

after yesterday's fatal crash involving a bus carrying

Rangers' supporters. Ryan Baird, who was 39

and from Dumfries, died in the incident

on the A76 near Kilmarnock. The renowned British conductor

and violinist Sir Neville Marriner Sir Neville worked with orchestras

across the country and around the world in a career

spanning seven decades. He started as a violinist

with the London Symphony Orchestra and went on to found the Academy

of St Martin in the Fields - one Prime Minister Theresa May says the

process for Britain to leave the European Union will begin by the end

of March at the latest. All existing EU law will be in into British law

until it can be removed, changed or reviewed. I'm tangling more than 40

years of legislation from British law will be complicated. Thereafter

lashing images in this report. This is what the laws of the land look

like at Westminster. British and EU thoroughly intertwined on everything

from consumer rights, workers' rights, banking and more.

Disentangling them is by any measure a mammoth undertaking. Here in its

Kaikai is where every act of Parliament is stored going back to

the 15th century, but things changed in 1972 with this, the European

communities act which took us into what is now the EU and meant that

its law became part of hours. That raises the question, once we are

out, how do they get rid of those bits we do not want? Workers' rights

are one area that could feel the heat when the process of repealing

those laws gets fully underway in 2019. One example, a ruling from the

EU's highest court that commission and overtime must be included in

holiday pay. Employers say it drives up costs and some really don't like

it. This is damaging for our industry and going forward it will

have a negative impact on investment plans and our ability to grow and

increase our export markets. It is a piece of ruling that needs to be

done away with altogether. But many other workers' rights, from the EU.

Will there be a wholesale overhaul? Thereon many employment law

obligations that are deeply unpopular in business but I do not

think there are going to be major changes. The rights are embedded and

are expected by workers. There are lots of other laws that

unambiguously have had a positive impact, for example, our beaches

used to be awash with raw sewage into the EU directives clean them

up. There is a huge amount to consider and some fear there will

not be time for Parliament to scrutinise it all and it will be

left just two ministers. The task is so great that I think the risk is we

will end up seeing it being done by executive order, lots of these

things that come from Europe that we want to keep will be dealt with in

ways that are an democratic, they will be shopped through Parliament

by regulation. We have to be very mindful of the risks. Keen to quell

concerns, the government says any change will be by revolution not

revolution about Britain's separation from EU law comes after a

40 year marriage between the two legal systems. It is likely to be

long and it could be painful. Let's go to Colombia

where referendum over a peace deal between the government and the FARC

rebel group has been taking place. The Colombian President said this

was an opportunity to end 52 years of conflict and lead Colombia

towards a better future. Opposition leaders say

the government are appeasing rebels. The ex-president Alvaro Uribe says

the agreement amounts to impunity for people

wanting to avoid jail time. For more, I'm joined by Leonardo Goi

from Fundacion Ideas para La Paz. Leonardo, what's your assessment

of today's vote, there was some The entire peace process was

premised on the idea of transitional justice, on the principle of truth,

responsibility and reparation. According to what has been agreed

upon, if a demobilised FARC member who will be found guilty of

committing some of the atrocities will not take responsibility for the

crimes committed, will not commit to repay the victims he or she has

caused or will not commit to reveal the truth, he might face up to 20

years in prison. It is not exactly the case that the government and the

FARC have agreed to a wide impunity for everyone who choose to

demobilised as a result of the agreement. Is the country going to

vote for this deal or against? There is reason to be optimistic. The last

exit polls showed that over 66% of Colombians are likely to vote in

favour of the referendum. In order for the referendum to go through,

only 13% of the electorate is needed to vote, only 4.3 million votes for

the yes camps. There is also reason to be hopeful this will be the case

as the FARC and government have made it clear that this will not mean a

renegotiation of the terms already agreed upon that war will resume as

a result of this. Thank you very much for your time.

The United States closing in on victory at the Ryder Cup in

Minnesota. Let's bring you up to date with the latest. Patrick Reed

delivering a blow to Europe's chances. He beat War Rory McIlroy.

Two good wins for Europe. Rafael Cabrera for Spain playing very well.

Really when we get to the second pages where it looks very ominous

for Europe. Although Lee Westwood is ahead, it is those final five

matches in the left-hand column, United States leading in all of

them. They need just four more points to win their first Ryder Cup

since 2008. Further down the course they are ahead in five of the

singles matches and so looking very ominous for Europe's chances of

retaining the cup. Manchester City suffered their first league defeat

of the season on Sunday losing 2-0 to Tottenham Hotspur. Aleksandar

Kolarov turn the ball into his own net before Delhi Alley made it 2-0.

Tottenham missed a penalty in the second half. The result sees spurts

move up to second in the table. -- Spurs. We share a lot of values and

we try to play under similar philosophies. I think it was an

exciting game and I think city is a great team and to beat them was

fantastic for us. Manchester United could only manage a draw against

Stoke City at Old Trafford. Anthony put the home side on course for

victory when he opened the scoring with just 20 minutes remaining but

Stoke grabbed a late goal. Joe Allen capitalising a mistake from the

keeper. Arsenal left it late but they beat Burnley thanks to a very

late goal bundled in. The match March 20 years in charge for their

boss Arsene Wenger. The goal coming with the last kick of the game and

extended their winning run in the lead to five matches. We have been

fortunate today to win the game because we are a bit jaded

physically and our technique, some technical mistakes. But Burnley

defended very well, every corner looked like they could score. In the

end, it it is the kind of game you can win one, lose one. Leicester

City continue to struggle. They were held to a goalless draw by

Southampton and Charlie Austen should have scored. He went close

with a two headers and hit the post. Jamie Vardy had Leicester's best

chance. They have won only two of their seven league games. One lady

in Australia has been found fighting off a crocodile. The woman and her

small dog scene at the edge of the water on a salt water swims towards

them. She then removes her flip-flop, she will do that in a

second, and she will go on to slap it against to shoot the crocodile

away. Rangers reckon there are more than 100 crocodiles in this stretch

of river. The last fatal attack was reported in 1996. If you want to get

in touch about that story, I am on Twitter. That is it from me and the

team. Do stay with us here on BBC News. Goodbye.

Most parts of the UK had a decent second part of the