31/07/2017 World News Today

Remembering the fallen from one of the First World War 's worst

battles. 100 years after the start

of the campaign at Passchendaele, commemorations for the 500,000

soldiers who were killed, Venezuela's opposition says it

will keep fighting on the streets, following Sunday's controversial

vote for a new assembly. And a life in film -

one of the great names of French cinema, Jeanne Moreau,

has died at the age of 89. Hello and welcome

to World News Today. Commemorations have been taking

place at the Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium, to mark 100 years

since the start one of the bloodiest Over three months, British

and Allied troops clashed with German soldiers in what became

known as the Battle Around 500,000 soldiers

on both sides of the War were killed, wounded

or went missing. There are few more peaceful places

than the gentle slope of Tyne Cot. Today, among its white headstones,

families look back across the years The battle we know today

as Passchendaele would We remember it not only

for the rain that fell, the mud that weighed down the living

and swallowed the dead, but also for the courage and bravery

of the men who fought here. Tyne Cot overlooks the rolling

farmland, streams and fields that once formed no man's land -

a score of liquid mud Bert Fearns joined

the Lancashire Fusiliers Bert Fearns began his attack here,

beside the German bunker that now The Lancashire Fusiliers

made their way uphill And a spot which Bert later said

he would never forget. We came across what would be

about 100 yards square of bodies that had been caught

in an artillery shrapnel attack. Private Edward Michael Baton,

13th platoon, D Company, 45th Battalion, Australian

Imperial... Private James Monroe,

South African Infantry Regiment. My great, great grandfather,

Rifleman Stanley Dorrit... My great, great uncle,

Private Walter Stevenson, Voices and stories that inspire

acts of remembrance. Like the story of

Captain Noel Chavasse - surgeon and Olympic athlete,

he was awarded the Victoria Cross His great, great niece

chose to carry a daily Perhaps we won't have such

big Government-funded events as this today,

but what we will have are stories that we can pass down

the generations in a way that For something that

is so significant. Flanders means blood

and scraps of human bodies. The story of Passchendaele has

been told for 100 years. Tyne Cot is likely to remain

a place of pilgrimage Let's go to Venezuela now,

and the international condemnation of the vote to elect

a new constituent assembly. Sunday's poll is being

seen as a further move towards a dictatorship

in the country. But President Nicolas Maduro

has hailed the result, and said the assembly should declare

a state of emergency and take Ten people died in clashes

on polling day, the bloodiest Here is what one resident had to say

about the boat. TRANSLATION: The biggest fraud I have seen in years.

It is inconceivable that the Government had more votes than when

Chavez won. Particularly where I live, or the polling stations were

deserted. There were no dues anywhere.

With me is Javier Farje - he's a Latin America

What have you made of this international condemnation?

Argentina but not recognise the vote, America has been critical.

Argentina are a right-wing Government. It is not uprising that

Argentina will not recognise it. Also not surprise that Colombia will

not recognise that because Colombia and the biggest US ally in South

America. I am not surprised that right-wing governments have

condemned this. This note is perfectly legitimate, because it is

based on Article 348 because the tuition. Even if we except that it

is illegitimate vote, some countries did not change the constitution at

all. Yours is looking to change it for the second time in 20 years.

They are not going to jail because the tuition. That is precisely what

this assembly does. This constitution will introduce nine

reforms to the current cars the dues in. It will remain the same but well

add, they were added... Sony will change it. Why is anything there?

Certain elements of society which were not reflected in the 1999 cars

are choosing, it is a very simple process. They have reformed the

constitution to modern times. There is no reason to think that he is gay

to extend his power, Nicolas Maduro, that is not the mandate. But there

are practical challenges here. If you go about adding to the

Venezuelan constitution, that is a detailed process, there are supposed

to be presidential elections next year. The thing will happen on the

Tigers I don't see why not. Because the dues and is not going to clash

with anything that has been planned. We are talking about one of the

elements, we cannot release all of them, but to diversified the economy

which heavily depends on oil. There is nothing wrong with that.

Organisations created by the Government and grassroots to deal

with health, education, and all different aspects. That didn't exist

in 1999, now they want to give them constitutional status. Some question

as to whether this work can be done and an election in happen next year.

Even if it happens next year, the election, we now have a constituent

assembly which is completely at odds with the National Assembly which is

dominated by the opposition, so isn't Venezuela in danger of having

a parallel political process? No, it is going to reform the constitution,

they are not going to rule the country. The opposition could have

taken part, according to the article, the National Assembly could

have called themselves if... They didn't do that. The opposition since

2013, I have quite different leaders, have been asking for

because it usually assembly, why didn't they in Congress called for a

constituent assembly? They could have taken part. Why didn't they

take part? Goals they say they don't trust the process. We cannot get it

the rights and wrongs of that now. It's finally talk about the

challenges for Venezuelan. Extreme inflation, and economy which is

struggling, food shortages, medical shortages in some cases. This,

whether you agree with the vote or not, continues to divide Venezuelan

and makes resolving this bomb and harder. These are two separate

issues. Because it usually is dealing with legality, at the same

time yes, you are right, the Government and indeed the opposition

will have to agree to work together to solve the economic crisis and

Venezuelan, because buyers prevent investment and a dissolution of

food. We have seen gangs tried to stop this convoy of food, they have

to come into dialogue. We have to find some kind of agreement to

enable Venezuelan to achieve some peace and is the economy crisis. We

must not forget that oil prices are very low and it depends heavily on

oil prices. Even the opposition if they were in power they would not be

all to manage this. Thank you very much.

Sam Shepard, the celebrated avant-garde playwright and actor,

Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize

for Drama in 1979, for his play Buried Child.

He was nominated for an Academy Award

for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff.

Other film performances include Steel Magnolias, Black Hawk Down

He died of complications from ALS, or motor neurone disease.

Vice President Mike Pence has told Nato allies that an attack by Russia

on any members "is an attack on us all."

Mr Pence's remarks, whilst on a trip to Estonia, come

Russia has ordered a cut in US diplomatic staff numbers.

The move was in retaliation for new US sanctions against Russia.

Our correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan joins

Let's be clear, these new sanctions voted on last week, but Mr companies

to approve them. That's right. They have not yet passed his test,

although we are hearing that year is likely to approve them, so in many

ways people here see that as a formality, which might be why we got

this response in Russia over the weekend. There is a White House

briefing due shortly, we might get more of an idea of what the White

House is thinking in terms of a response. The State Department has

already called the something of an uncalled for a nominal. What are the

practical implications of over 700 US diplomatic staff been giving

their marching orders? I think what is interesting is that many of these

people, could be as many of the Hunter, are actually Russian locals.

What some commentators are saying is that the blow somewhat soft and to

some extent because it is not just 755 US nationals and their families

that will have to go back. We are hearing that one US diplomatic

compound on the outskirts of Moscow, diplomatic cuts will try to go there

to retrieve documents and other equipment, and ever already locked

out. It is already in a very practical level proving difficult

for people to actually move out. If what we are hearing is correct. It

has turned to another big story in Washington, the present has a new

chief of staff. Yes, a gentleman called John Kerry. You may remember

the former chief of staff left office last week at the end of last

week, a somewhat unceremonious exit, he says he was offering his

resignation the day before and you may remember that President Trump

just tweeted that John Kelly was to take his place. John Kelly Boult

pass is a mammoth one, he has to bring order to what has become a

disorderly White House. President Trump may think he has picked the

right person, John Kelly is a former military man, he used to run the US

Southern command, he also ran the commanding forces in a rock

President Obama. He has military credentials. The challenge for him

which many people say, is that President Trump will always be

Trump. He operates in his own sphere. Many have his actions come

to twitter as well. Ringing order to a White House even with a military

man could prove complicated. Cross keep us posted.

Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

Just a week ahead of the presidential elections,

the man in charge of Kenya's computerised voting system

Chris Msando had only been on the job for two months, having

taken over after his predecessor refused to cooperate

The electoral commission said there was "no doubt

The creators of several VPNs or Virtual Private Networks,

Floods please end Malawi have offered an arrest warrant... Police

say they weren't related to the cash gate scandal which helped and a

downfall in 2014. Bandar has yet to comment on those allegations.

The creators of several VPNs or Virtual Private Networks,

which allow users to hide their online locations,

have criticised Apple for removing their products

Apple says it had to, because they didnt comply

Many people in China use VPNs to get around the government's

There was a very uncomfortable wait for 75 people who had

to be rescued from a damaged cable car, suspended about 40 metres

over the River Rhine in the German city of Cologne.

Rescue teams used a crane to bring the passengers to safety

after they were stranded for several hours.

The Islamic State group has said it carried out a suicide attack

on the Iraqi embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

The Afghan interior ministry says two Afghan employees of the embassy

were killed and 3 people, including a policeman, were injured.

BBC's Harun Najafizadah reports from Kabul.

It has been confirmed to us by the officials

in the Afghan Interior Ministry that, after several hours

of gun battle, their operation to repel

the militants' attack on the

Iraqi embassy has ended with all three assailants killed.

We now know that at least two local employees of

the Iraqi embassy were killed and three others, including

However now life has returned to normal in the Afghan

capital of Kabul, with the route to traffic, people moving back

It is very rare to have militants attack Islamic

This is a single incident, but the Iraqi embassy

recently hosted an event where they celebrated the

success against Islamic State in Mosul.

The ambassador promised to root out IS militants in total from

This incident is a very worrying signal for the Afghan

authorities, because it shows that a IS militants can carry out

large-scale attacks in main cities, such as Kabul.

Diana, Princess of Wales, grabbed the headlines

throughout her life, and she's doing it again now, 20

One documentary, called 'Diana:In Her Own Words',

is creating considerable controversy, as it is built

around video conversations in which she speaks candidly

and informally about her upbringing, her marriage to the Prince of Wales

The tapes have never before been broadcast on British television,

and have opened up the debate about the right to privacy

I've been speaking to the BBC's Matt Cole about this,

They have now been sold by that speaking coach. They had previous

been put out pass by NBC television in the United States, but never in

the UK, and Channel 4 in the UK says there is going to be material never

before seen in them. They say that these tapes represent a very

important historical source, a historical document. They say they

had been travelling which clips to choose, it is a 90 minute

documentary which contains other interviews and material than just

from these or five hours' worth of tapes. They say it is in the public

interest that these are seen. The question of privacy. These were

tapes that were not interviews by the likes of you and me, they were

not given by Princess Diana to be broadcast later, not like the big

interview she did in 1995 with Martin Bashir, the journalist who

famously did one big interview. The only major broadcaster interview she

ever did. This is Diana in her own words.

The award-winning French actress Jeanne Moreau has died

Her career spanned six decades and she starred

in dozens of films, including Jules et Jim, La Notte,

Dangerous Liaisons and Viva Maria, for which she won a Bafta.

The French journalist who is Latin for others from Paris. Thank you for

your time. People who have never seen her on can you convey what made

her so special? She worked more than 60 years in French and international

cinema. She was a good friend for us, she did not like to be called a

grandmother, she was the Old Lady of French cinema. She was a free

actress and a free woman. She was very... She told a lot about film

makers, she had love affairs with them, her work was very important,

because it was part of her life. Especially of course what she did at

the beginning of the 1960s, she became an icon for ours in those

days. I guess that film just did not just launched as an actress but that

is a singer, because one the most famous scenes is where she serenades

us. She always told of how the movie was written, the director were

staying at her place and a lot of people were coming, and among them

there was this guy, a poet and novelist from Iran, and he was

writing songs and one of the songs was is not in the film, she started

a new career as a singer. That's right used in the film. She was also

singing, and this song is really iconic of a way of, the way French

cinema talked about ours with Frank feelings about it. She was great in

that. The new a lot of film-makers from Orson Welles to Ingmar Bergman

and the Swedish director, she was friends with them. She had worked

with them sometimes. Sometimes she didn't work. She was very close to a

lot of great intellectual figures of the 60s. Before I let you go, many

people watching will have seen her films, but what film of hers should

they watch? That is a tough question. She did another movie with

Truffaut called The Bride Wore Black. It is interesting because you

will see she has a very different kind of beauty than other activities

of the time. You can see also a movie by... Called Lovers. It do a

lot of scandal in Paris in the 50s. And of course you can see her in

movies by the inventors. You have a lot of choice. We appreciate you

joining us, I give much indeed. Children in China suffering

from terminal illnesses often receive little

or no palliative care. One woman though is trying to help

some of those children, The main difficulties were trying to

get people to understand that we were not killing children, that we

were not just fighting for them. My name is Lenny Gould. I am the

co-founder and CEO of Butterfly Children's Hospices. We Pioneer

Palliative Care For Children. When we first moved to China, our care

for adults was blossoming. Care for children was nonexistent. So we had

to start from a very basic level. There was completely no

understanding of what we were trying to do. Culturally, it is considered

very bad if you do not fight for your child's live right up until the

moment they die. Families will feel criticised. If you talk about

palliative care, people immediately think about you giving up. Whereas

actually, you're not giving up, you are just adding quality and life to

the days that the child might have left.

We kept seeing parents who had abandoned their children at the gate

of an orphanage, and you realise that families have tried everything

within their means to get a cure for that child to get help for the

child. It is only after a lot of heartache that they decide they

cannot do any more. It is just at the point where a child is the most

needy, to see the child and the family separated was heartbreaking.

What is relatively easy to deal with is their physical symptoms. What is

more difficult is the effect of their abandonment. And there is that

huge sense of loss, that confusion that hurts, that mummy and daddy are

not there all. What have I done deserve that?

As though we have to work very hard to teach the staff and the

importance of touch, the importance of speaking gently, the importance

of cuddles. So that we can start to give the child the wheel to live,

eat and even if they cannot live a long time, they will know that they

are laughed and that they had been touched and that they were worthy of

somebody loving them. And the first time a child smiles, it is like, you

know, we have achieved something really to Medicare.

When the child has gone, the nannies will watch the body, with them in

beautiful new clothes, maybe give them one of their favourite toys and

perhaps wrap them in some material covered in butterflies, and then we

carry on. Commemorations have been taking

place at the Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium to mark 100 years

since the start one of the bloodiest Over three months, British

and Allied troops clashed with German soldiers in what became

known as the Battle Around 500,000 on both

sides of the War were killed, wounded

or went missing. Things remain unsettled over the

next few days, showers to the day-to-day and more and forecast for

tomorrow. There