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This is BBC World News Today, with me, Geeta Guru-Murthy. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
French authorities say it's mission accomplished. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
They have closed down the so-called migrant camp. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Departing migrants are blamed for setting makeshift shelters | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
ablaze, so what does it mean for Europe's migrant crisis? | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
TRANSLATION: It's truly today, the end of the Jungle, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
The battle to rid Iraq of so-called Islamic State. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
We report from a village near Mosul where the extremists | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
As Hillary Clinton campaigns in Florida, Donald Trump is hoping | :00:35. | :00:46. | |
to cut it with the voters, by opening his new hotel in Washington. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
He's the the first American to win the Man Booker Prize. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
I'll be talking to Paul Beatty about his daring novel The Sellout. | :00:55. | :01:16. | |
For years, its been a destination for migrants and refugees hoping | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
to cross the short stretch of water from Continental Europe to England. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Now, according to the French authorities at least, | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
the camp known as the Jungle is no more. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
They appear to have acted on their pledge to remove the shanty | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
town at Calais, just 25 miles from the English coast. | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
These were the scenes earlier today as residents set fire | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
to the tents and shelters before being taken away. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Officially, the migrants are being dispersed to reception | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
But it's unclear how many have been left behind | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Today, the eerie calm that has hung over the Jungle broke. | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
The ending of the camp telegraphed across the Calais sky. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Shelters set ablaze in protest, perhaps, or resignation | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
So far there has been very little resistance to this clearance. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
But the operation seems to be reaching a tipping point. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Those who are still here have a different point to make. | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
At the camp's borders, those who still had homes | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
inside watched and waited, held back by riot police. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Officials say the fires have speeded up the eviction | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
and that the clearance will be over by tonight. | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
TRANSLATION: We are seeing that after three days | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
5,000 have come to this centre so far. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
The last fires in the camp have convinced them. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
We have seen some Syrians who didn't want to come initially. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
They are here now and community leaders, who said they also wanted | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
to go now that their communities have gone and there was no-one left. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
But, in the past few hours, migrants have been filing back | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
into the Jungle to sleep among the ashes. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
His friends, who joined the buses out on Monday, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
had told him it was not worth leaving, he said, and they were | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
I know the Jungle has been finished - nothing - | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
but it's better to be there until tomorrow. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
If the police come, we are ready to go to the detention centre. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Aid workers say the speed of today's operation has left some | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
of the camp's most vulnerable with nowhere to sleep tonight. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
In terms of the children, they are in not all | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
We have counted so, so many who don't have the response, | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
cannot get into the containers, cannot go into the Jules | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Ferry Centre and have no accommodation whatsoever. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Officials say this is the last chance for migrants to leave before | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
The story of Calais' migrants is over, they say. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
But for those still determined to reach Britain, it | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Leonard Doyle is from the International | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
Do you think that this is the end of people attempting to come to the UK? | :04:23. | :04:40. | |
Looking at the numbers of opportunities here in the UK, why | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
are people still wanting to come here rather than claiming asylum in | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
France? It is far from the end of people wanting to come to the UK. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Why would they not want to? It is our vibrant economy and welcoming | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
place. In terms of the problems in Calais, it is probably the end of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
the Jungle because of the determination of the French and | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
British governments that this should end. It has deeply affected the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
politics of both countries. The question is surely that those | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
migrants are entitled to claim asylum in France, in a safe country, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
not at threat, they should presumably not want to come to the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
UK. I have numbers on work and benefits, compared between the UK | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
and France, and that is not huge difference. Great Britain is great | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
for many reasons, the culture is extraordinary and people are | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
attracted to it, and they also have family and language links. They can | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
hardly be blamed for trying to improve their life. It makes them | :05:50. | :06:00. | |
economic migrants though, once they have got to safety, trying to | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
improve their life. If their asylum claims are meant to be assessed in | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
the country were the first land in Europe, but that system has been in | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
disarray for a long time. Is the French dispersal system going to | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
work? Will they be able to quickly and easily claim asylum in France | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
and will that alleviate the build-up? You also have to remind | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
people that unaccompanied minors have a different status and they | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
have to be given special conditions and treatment to avoid things like | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
trafficking. With dispersal, France has put a lot of effort into this | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
and it wants the problem to go away. It is treating political problems | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
between both countries, creating a huge star in the British media, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
which is hyped up, if you think of the numbers in Germany last year, | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
nearly a million, only 7000 in Calais. Thank you. | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
Italy has been hit by a strong earthquake, | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
There are no immediate reports of damage. | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
The earthquake struck the centre of the country, not far | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
from the southwest village of Visso, but the tremors were felt over 170km | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
away in the capital Rome and as far as Florence and Naples. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
It comes just two months after an earthquake destroyed | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
the hilltop village of Amatrice and a number of other towns, | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
What more details than we have at the moment? We know that local | :07:40. | :07:54. | |
authorities are trying to assess if the latest earthquake has caused any | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
damage. It is 5.4 on the Richter scale, not as strong as the one in | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
late August which left 300 people dead. They are trying to assess | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
whether some buildings which are already damaged in August have now | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
collapsed. I just heard an interview in local media with the deputy mayor | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
of one of the towns affected, and their attention is on those | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
buildings which had been badly damaged by the previous earthquake | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
and could have collapsed with the previous one. So far, no indication | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
of major collapses, but it was also very strongly felt in the capital. | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
Iraqi special forces say they've moved over 1,000 civilians | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
from areas around the city of Mosul, the last bastion of IS | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
As Iraqi troops and Kurdish fighters continue their push | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
towards the city, the militants are fighting back with scores | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
Our correspondent Orla Guerin reports from the front | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
line village of Fazliya, not far from Mosul itself. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
In the skies near Mosul, Apache helicopters armed | :09:01. | :09:01. | |
The call to prayer echoes deep in the valley below | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
The black flag of IS still flying here. | :09:12. | :09:23. | |
Look at the other flags on the rooftops. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Kurdish forces believe innocent civilians are indicating | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
their locations but they are also a human shield for IS. | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
They have gathered families in a few houses, says Captain Ali Hassan. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
That's why we can't open fire or bomb with jets. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Otherwise we would have taken this village quickly. | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
When it comes to taking Mosul, there are lessons to be learned | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Time has already run out for IS here but they have left | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Drums of oil, which they used to create a smoke screen. | :10:05. | :10:16. | |
The whole world is fighting for this, says this Kurdish colonel, | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
We didn't lift the rocks to find out. | :10:20. | :10:31. | |
Inside the mosque, bags of earth, hidden from view. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
We descended to the depths of an underground lair. | :10:38. | :10:47. | |
In this elaborate warren, IS fighters could live and move | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
around, safe from air strikes and surveillance drones. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
This was the sleeping area for one of the fighters. | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
There are strong beams here and there was an electricity supply. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
There were also some creature comforts. | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
There is a fan here with Koranic verses written on it. | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
It's a list of rules and regulations. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
There are rules for how you should pray on a Friday, | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
how to pray when you travel, and how to pray before | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
And the jihadis are emerging from tunnels like this | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
This is just one tunnel in one village. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
Imagine what lies waiting under the streets of Mosul. | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
The US Presidential election is just 13 days away and we're | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
used to Donald Trump doing the unconventional. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
On Friday he took a break from campaigning to officially | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
open his new hotel, close to the White House, no less. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
Mr Trump cut the ribbon with family members on Pennsylvania | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
He didn't miss the opportunity to urge voters to dream big and bold. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
I'm tired of the excuses from our politicians. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
I'm tired of being told what cannot be done. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
I'm tired of people asking Americans to defer their dreams to another | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
day, but really what they mean is to another decade. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
We can achieve our goals for this country and we can do | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
so more quickly than anyone ever thought possible. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
There is nothing we cannot accomplish. | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
Donald Trump will later resume campaigning in North Carolina. | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is spending her | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
69th birthday rallying support in the important election | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
Polls suggest the results could be very tight. She attacked the | :12:54. | :13:06. | |
negativity of her opponent. It's about a common vision we share, | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
of a hopeful, dynamic, unified America where everyone | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
counts and everyone has a place. So I really believe, | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
it may be my name on the ballot, Every issue you care about, | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
every concern you have about our country or the world, just | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
imagine that being on this ballot. It really does come down | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
to who we are as a country. The BBC's Kim Ghattas is in Tampa, | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
Florida, where Hillary Clinton is about to take to the stage | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
for the second rally of the day. Quite a way to spend your birthday. | :13:41. | :13:54. | |
Florida is a key state and everybody is watching. Why is Donald Trump not | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
their? He has been criticised for this decision to open his luxury | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
hotel in Washington, DC today, with the media and pundits here | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
commenting on the fact it is more important for him to talk about his | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
brand rather than America. Perhaps for Donald Trump, both blend | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
together, when he talks about making America great again, he talks about | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
his record as a businessman, which has also come under scrutiny, and he | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
had a billboard outside one of the rooms of his hotel, which said under | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
budget and ahead of schedule. Talking about how he managed to open | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
and build the hotel under budget and ahead of schedule. That is his | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
message. That he can do the same for America. But it is all about | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
campaigning at the end of the day. Hillary Clinton is taking this very | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
seriously, not leaving anything to chance. The polling is tight, she is | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
ahead in some in Florida. She will be here today, here since yesterday, | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
and back on Saturday. It is a key state for Clinton, but crucial for | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
Donald Trump. He will not be able to win without Florida. Hillary Clinton | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
has many more pass to the White House than Donald Trump at this | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
stage. What the Clinton campaign is doing is trying to get as many early | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
votes as possible. That is something you can do in the US. Voting early. | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
Democrats traditionally have a problem with turnout on election | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
day. So the Clinton campaign is trying to make sure as many people | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
vote early as possible, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, where turnout | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
will be crucial. They expect that 60% of registered voters in a state | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
like Florida will have already cast their ballots before election day. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
It will be a tight race in Florida but overall Hillary Clinton is ahead | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
in the polls in key battle ground states. A sense of how nervous | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Donald Trump's campaign might be is the fact that his running mate is | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
today in a Utah, a traditional red state. | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
And you can find everything about the US elections, | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
including the latest polls, on our website. | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
Over the past few months the BBC has been investigating | :16:33. | :16:49. | |
a disturbing new phenomenon - the use of private or sexually | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
explicit images to threaten, blackmail, or shame young people. | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
So-called revenge porn happens everywhere. | :16:55. | :16:55. | |
But across parts of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
photos shared on smartphones have collided head on with traditional | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
As part of this series, we spoke to a young Egyptian woman | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
who sent a private dancing video to her boyfriend. | :17:05. | :20:01. | |
That was Ghadeer Ahmed from Egypt, talking about standing up | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
for the rights of women and girls in her country. | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
Russia has denied it formally requested a fleet of its warships be | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
refuelled in the Spanish port of Ceuta. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
The ships are travelling near Spanish waters | :20:20. | :20:20. | |
There had been concern from Nato countries that the ships would be | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Activists say air strikes on the rebel-held village of Haas | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
in north-western Syria have killed more than 20 people. | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
A school complex was reportedly among several locations targeted. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
It is not yet known if the raids were carried out by Syrian | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Thousands of white-clad protesters have taken to the streets of Caracas | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
in a major opposition rally against Venezuela's | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
It is the latest in the escalating political crisis that | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
sees opposition leaders accuse President Maduro | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
The novelist Paul Beatty has become the first American to win | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
It's one of the most prestigious awards in the literary world. | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
He picked up the $60,000 prize at a ceremony at London's Guildhall | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
His novel, The Sellout, takes a satirical look at race | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
and racism in the United States, telling the story of a young black | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
man who tries to reinstate slavery and racial segregation in a suburb | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
I am delighted to say he joins us now. Congratulations. How did it | :21:23. | :21:39. | |
feel when your name was read out? It was a shock. It felt good, of | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
course. It is such an honour. It is a difficult book and it is so nice | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
that people appreciate it. Surprised? Definitely. Could you | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
read the first few sentences? This may be hard to believe coming from a | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
black man but I've never stolen anything, never cheated on my taxes | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
or at cards, never snuck into the movies or failed to give back the | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
extra change to a drug store cashier indifferent to the ways of | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
mercantilism and minimum wage expectations. I've never burgled | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
house or held up a liquor store. We will stop there because it becomes | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
slightly rude! Give us a flavour of the book. A little bit like what you | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
said, and you have heard the phrase fight fire with fire, he is trying | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
to fight racism with racism. Using these really classical historical | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
methods of American racism to kind of empower and reinvigorate his | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
community and put it back on the map, the town has been raised and he | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
is trying to find out how to put it back on the map. It is very | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
satirical and I wonder if people will read it in a different way, | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
whether you have to be non-whites to get it in a different way. Did you | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
write it with the election in mind? I wish I was that depression and -- | :23:18. | :23:34. | |
that pressure and... -- prescient. It is a book about absurdity and | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
this election is absurd, the American sense of decorum and least | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
things increasingly falling apart. I read a chapter which said how | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
everyone blames Mexicans for everything and how ridiculous it is, | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
and given Donald John noes-mac language about building a wall, was | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
that going on when you were writing it? It has been going on ever since | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
Latinos and white Americans have been in the same space. There have | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
been many attempts... Donald Trump is the latest in a long line of | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
people tried to push people over the border. As a novelist, how much of a | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
difference does this prize make to you? I don't know yet. I can't | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
really answer that. It feels good. Tomorrow is another day and one year | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
from now there will be another winner. Does it give you a sense of | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
security? No. The security comes from that I worked really hard and | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
that people have acknowledged that I worked really hard, that is great. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
It makes the next few contracts of it easier to sign, and that more | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
people will read it. That is what I am hoping. In terms of having a | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
voice, we have had a black president, all going now, do you | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
think he has brought about the change that able hoped for, that he | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
probably opt for himself, on the race front was mac we have seen | :25:12. | :25:23. | |
police -- front? That stuff has been going on forever. The is hopefully a | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
spotlight on that stuff now. For a lot of people this is nothing new. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
There is attention on that, something merited attention long | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
ago. In 20 seconds, how are you going to celebrate? I haven't yet. I | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
had three quarters of a bear yesterday. -- drink of beer. | :25:50. | :26:01. | |
Well, it certainly was quite mild day across most parts | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
of the United Kingdom, and it's is a fairly mild | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
over the next few days, with high pressure in charge | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
Remember, wind's going round clockwise, so we are dragging | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
our air in from the Atlantic, and that mild air is spread | :26:14. | :26:18. |