07/10/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Geeta Guru-Murthy.

Our top story - the scale of devastation left

by Hurricane Matthew becomes clearer as it continues on its

These are live pictures from Florida where the massive storm is battering

the coast with huge waves and winds gusting at nearly 200

Earlier, the hurricane devastated Haiti, where more than 800

people have been killed and thousands displaced.

They're calling it the Flash Crash - The Bank of england investigates why

the pound plunged 6% on Asian markets before

A period of volatility now. Lots of commentary and turbulent markets.

Nobel Peace prize for his efforts to end more than fifty years of war

We start with a fundraising appeal from aid agencies, as the full

impact of Hurricane Matthew on Haiti begins to emerge.

More than 800 people are now known to have died.

And it's feared the death toll may rise further as rescue teams

reach remote areas cut off since the storm.

These are the before and after pictures. They give you a sense of

the scale of the devastation. Thousands have been displaced.

Southern Florida appears to have been spared the

... Expected to sweep north next with Georgia next in the line of

fire. Millions in coastal states have been told to evacuate.

It has been three days since hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, and

violent torrents of brown water continued to devastate the poorest

In this city, 80% of homes have been lost

and the UN has warned of the

challenge ahead to restore clean water and sanitation.

Right now, most people lost everything,

Haiti is already in the grip of a cholera epidemic.

In this environment, with sewage

ditches for the floodwater, the disease could spread.

350,000 people are thought to need immediate help.

My son and I are sick and we still haven't

I need to go back home because my kids have a fever, so I

After leaving a trail of utter destruction across the Caribbean,

the storm is stalking the Florida coastline.

It has been described by

1.5 million people were told to leave

coastal areas and find shelter and stay there.

Most heeded the

A curfew was also in place until Saturday morning in some

Wind of over 100 mph crashed with power lines, cutting

supplies to tens of thousands of homes.

So far, the East Coast seems to have been spared the worst, but

officials fear that complacency will set

in and people will leave their

I want to emphasise to everybody that this is

The potential for storm surge, flooding, loss of life and

severe property damage continues to exist.

storms, but Matthew is proving to be unpredictable.

It is also taking its time, as it travels up the coast.

Florida is not out of danger just yet.

Let's get the latest from the BBC's Liliet Heredero, who's in Miami.

Give us a picture of what it is like. It is fine today in Miami. The

city is returning to normal. We were all in doors and the city was a

ghost town. Yesterday, but we have been spared of the worst. The city

is returning to normal. It remains a category three hurricane, really

strong. It is pounding the North East of Florida. Winds are still 120

miles an hour. The latest advertisers from the National

hurricane Centre said the storm is around 30 miles of Daytona Beach. It

could impact Jacksonville and the north-east cities shortly. If

there's something positive, it is that is not made landfall. The eye

of the storm has remained overwater. That is what is the most powerful

winds so it hasn't impacted Florida yet. That does not mean it isn't a

dangerous storm however. The word on everyone pass mouths is the storm

surge. That is the main worry, all the coastal flooding that could

impact cities on the north-east. Authorities reminding people it is

not safe to go back to their homes, millions of people evacuated in

Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. 800,000 people are without power in

Florida. Still a difficult situation in the north-east of Florida. How

quickly is the storm moving? How quickly before people know the worst

as? It is not work the Lee moving fast. 30 mph. -- not moving very

fast. Friday into Saturday we will do the impact of wind and a storm

surge. Then it'll moved to Georgia and South Carolina so it will still

have an impact over the weekend. The US Secretary of State,

John Kerry, says Russia's actions in support of the Syrian Government

demand a war crimes investigation. Mr Kerry accused Moscow

and the Government in Damascus of having a targeted strategy

to terrorise civilians Russia and the regime owe the world

more than an explanation about why they keep hitting hospitals

and medical facilities, These are acts that

beg for an appropriate And those who commit these

would and should be held This is a targeted strategy

to terrorise civilians. The UN Security Council is expected

to vote on Saturday on a draft Drafted by the French and Spanish,

the plan would include an end to all military flights

over the city. But Russia has indicated that

it'll block the proposal. Will any other countries

follow Britain out of Well if Marine le Pen has her way,

France will be making a Frexit The leader of the Front National has

been speaking to the BBC's Stephen Sakur on Hardtalk

and started by explaining just how significant

June's Brexit vote in the UK was. But your problem is that

all of the polling evidence since the Brexit vote

is that the French people do not actually want to leave

the European Union. In fact more French people today say

that they want to remain inside than before the British vote,

so you are actually not expressing And you can see the full interview

with Marine le Pen on Hardtalk The Bank of England is looking

into what caused a short, but sharp fall in the value

of the pound on Asian markets. At one point, sterling

briefly hit a low of $1.18. Meanwhile, UK Chancellor Phillip

Hammond, who is on a visit to the US, has reiterated

there will be "ups and downs" for the economy in the wake

of the Brexit vote. He's been speaking to our

Economics Editor Kamal Markets respond to noises off and,

as I said earlier this week, we're going to go through a period

of volatility now. There will be lots of

commentary going on. We can expect to see markets

being more turbulent The Government should take

the necessary measures to be able to respond to it to keep the economy

going during this period. Aren't markets saying

they are hugely concerned about the uncertainty,

the lack of transparency over how Britain will actually

negotiate its exit There's bound to be uncertainty,

but the important thing is, to look through the movements

of currency markets, the short-term movements

of sentiment at the fundamentals The fastest growing economy

in the G7 this year, record high employment rates

and very high levels of growth We go into this period of turbulence

fundamentally strong and that should There's been a lot of talk

about your approach to spending, some people have said that you're

looking to spend a huge amount more on infrastructure and

borrow more to do that. Can we expect a spending splurge

ahead? What we have said we're

going to do is create, within a new fiscal framework,

enough space for the Government to be able to respond

to the turbulence in the economy As we go through this period,

we want to be able to provide fiscal At the moment, I can't predict

whether that will be necessary at the time

of the Autumn Statement in November. Now a look at some of

the days other news. The brother of a man accused

of attacking two Brussels police officers with a knife on Wednesday

has been charged with One officer was stabbed

in the neck and another The Belgian authorities have said

they believe the attacker has links India says it will completely

seal its border with It says the border would be secured

using new technology although a specific plan

was still being formulated. Relations between India and Pakistan

have been deteriorating since the start of a security

operation in Indian-administered The South African Nobel laureate,

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has said that when the time comes

he wants the option Writing in the Washington Post,

he said he did not want to be Archbishop Tutu, who's 85,

has been in and out The peace award that bears the name

of founder Alfred Nobel has gone this year to the Colombian

president, Juan Manuel Santos, for his efforts to end

Colombia's long civil war. The chair of the Norwegian committee

which chose the winner from a record 376 nominations,

said Mr Santos had initiated negotiations that resulted

in a peace accord with FARC guerillas aimed at bringing more

than 50 years of conflict to an end. Our Chief International

Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, reports. It had been one of the world's

longest, most brutal wars. A byword for kidnappings,

disappearances, murder. The peace deal signed last

week by President Santos and his oldest enemy the FARQ

was a historic, emotional moment. World leaders came to

Colombia to salute it. Then, days later, Colombians

rejected its narrowly A shocking setback after years

of negotiations and secret talks. But today, for President Santos,

a vote of confidence. The world's most prestigious

prize for a peacemaker. Not in my name, but in the name

of all Colombians, and especially the millions affected by this

conflict over 52 years. Colombians, this prize

is for all of you, for the victims When I met the president in Colombia

last week, he admitted winning real peace would be

as hard as waging war. The signature of the deal is simply

the end of conflict. Reconstructing our country,

a country at war for 50 years. It is a country that has destroyed

many of its values and principles. Even the peace prize divides

a people who have lived Paolo, an engineer, says

it is excellent that Santos It will help the peace

process, he says. The critics demand tougher

punishments for the Farq. Supporters say President Santos

offered the best deal he could. 50 years of war means

decades of distrust. The peace prize has gone to a nation

that isn't at peace. A British member of the European

parliament, who was involved in an incident that left a fellow

MEP in hospital In his first account of the events

in Strasbourg on Thursday, Mike Hookem, said that he acted

in self-defence when a fellow member of the UK Independence party,

Steven Woolfe, came at him. There was no punches thrown,

there was no face slapping, As people in Hull would say,

it was handbags at dawn. new Russian journalist was done is

done ten years ago. It took two trials seven years to bring her

killers to justice. But the investigation into her death is not

complete. Around 4pm in 2006, October, the journalist was shot at

home in her left. She wasn't the first and wooden spoon the last to

be shot. But she was writing about the war and a strong critic. The

killers were from Chechnya. Who ordered the killing? Will paid for

it? We still do not know. By coincidence, this week saw the start

of another murder trial. Those accused of giving him from Chechnya.

Then the case goes cold, who ordered the killing? We don't know. Anna

Politkovskaya was the Russian journalist remembered at the moment.

When US forces arrived in the Philippines this month

The president says he wants to be less dependent on America.

When US forces arrived in the Philippines this month

for the start of what had become annual joint exercises,

they appeared to be cementing a military relationship that goes

back decades and is one of the closest the US

But with the election of this man, Rodrigo Duterte, as president, this

Shockingly outspoken, and aligning himself

with the anti-American left in the Philippines, he has already

said he wants the exercises to end and that he wants closer ties

And he has bristled with indignation at US criticism of his

Instead of helping us, the first to hit was the State Department,

The US has responded by insisting that the alliance is still strong

and ignoring Mr Duterte's explosive comments.

After all, the two countries only recently signed a ten year agreement

allowing the US to operate military bases here once again,

and stipulating joint patrols in the South China Sea.

That is where the Philippines is currently struggling to bat off

But comments by Mr Duterte's Defence Secretary today

suggest he is already downgrading military relations.

Delfin Lorenzana told journalists that the US had already been

informed there would be no joint patrols.

He also reiterated that his country was seeking

Speaking about equipment in China and Russia.

Let's check out what they are offering to us.

Just how far president Rodrigo Duterte intends to break

After seeing his ruthless anti-drugs campaign,

though, people are learning to take his dramatic

But the Philippines Armed Forces are fully equipped

Without strong US backing, they offer little in the way

of bargaining strength to the president when he starts

but will surely be very tough negotiations with China

Now is it just a prank or simply plain creepy?

Police are warning pranksters who are posing as "killer clowns"

and terrifying children and young adults that they could face arrest.

The sightings, which started in the United States,

now appear to have come to Britain with several reports

of people having frightening encounters involving clowns.

The sinister craze has been encouraged on social media

where people have shared photos and videos of the scary sightings.

Could London learn a thing or two from Amsterdam

when it comes to boosting its night-time economy?

The Dutch capital says business is booming -

and crime is down - thanks, in part, to the appointment

of a special mayor to champion its 24-hour culture.

It's an idea the British capital is now adopting.

Is this the new city that doesn't sleep?

Amsterdam, a 24-7, or for its residents

I am the night time mayor of Amsterdam.

His role for the last two years has been to boost

the night-time economy, a job London is now copying.

We joined him on an evening out to listen to what

It proved tricky at times in this party capital.

We introduced a lot of things and this is what you get.

In nightlife, this is people having fun.

Amsterdam's so-called nightmare bridges the gap between pub and club

owners and City Hall officials worried about anti-social behaviour.

When there is a problem, the first reaction of city officials

is often that we have to stop this now.

We explain to the Mayor and politicians that nightlife

is something which has value for the city for social,

Well, while some London clubs have been shut down, Amsterdam has been

They get extra opening hours if they keep the square more safe

Their benefit is they can stay open longer, which of course

And despite more people out and about for a longer,

And they say these so-called hosts have helped.

Basically what we do, we help people in Amsterdam.

We help drug people getting home in the taxi and a lot of the time,

people want to fight, we try to get between them and sold

the problem and get them in another club.

20 are on patrol tonight in what is the city's

Jointly paid for by the council and bars.

A big part of the Dutch idea is to create more 24-7

And they think London should do the same.

Some people would love the idea of a 24 hour party paradise.

For others, it will fill them with dread, thinking it will bring

more violence, more noise and just generally more problems.

But Amsterdam's night mayor says London's borrowers must stop killing

the night-time economy and open their eyes

Introducing the role of the night mayor in London would be a really

good first step to help with the dialogue about nightlife.

But you can't wave your magic wand around and change it all,

so it will be small steps, building it up, which is really

important - and make Londoners proud of their nightlife again.

So, because everybody knows nobody is moving to London for the better.

Extort the satellite images of the hurricane. 800 killed in Haiti. Live

pictures from Florida, and update coming up for you.