04/08/2017 World News Today

Thousands of government supporters march in the Venezuelan capital,

Caracas, as the new constitutional assembly takes office.

Despite a Vatican call for its suspension.

America's Attorney General condemns what he calls the staggering level

of unauthorised access to classified

We will investigate and seeks to bring criminals to justice. We will

not now romantic, anonymous sources with clearances to sell out our

country. -- We will not allow rogue

anonymous sources... Health warnings across Europe

as some countries experience expensive footballer,

says he joined Paris St-Germain, Hello, and welcome to

BBC World News Today. Venezuela's new constituent assembly

is being sworn right now. Well, President Nicolas Maduro

called for its election so the existing constitution

could be rewritten. Opposition leaders have denounced it

as an attempt by the government to strengthen its power as it's

formed almost entirely There have been jubilant scenes

in the capital, Caracas. Pro-government rallies have been

taking place. Assembly members have been sworn into the legislative

Palace despite growing international condemnation of the controversial

vote will stop the Vatican being the latest to call on the Venezuelan

governments to stop. BBC's Luis Fajardo

joins us from Miami. That's swearing in has taken place

despite international condemnation. Rat is right, they did it in a very

symbolic and possibly theatrical way. The leaders of the

pro-government faction that control the new assembly walks into the

building carrying the portrait of Chavez, the father of the

revolution. The assembly has been in the house of the national assembly

which has been controlled by the opposition. When they do ever the

national assembly a couple of years ago, they made a big deal of

removing this portrait of Hugo Chavez. They are showing the

pro-government faction taking ever one of the last bastions of

opposition right now. Confusion about what happens next. The need

for a referendum. Could you explain this process to yours. That is one

of the big issues here that no videos what happens next because the

Venezuelan constituent assembly has such a degree of power and autonomy

that they could rule, they would not need any further endorsement by any

referendum. In theory, they could replace the president. One of the

issues of great uncertainty right now is the amount of power that will

be controlled by the assembly. The course leaders of the assembly who

have just been named are closely associated with President Nicolas

Maduro. They are seen as close allies but there is still a strong

degree of uncertainty and that is one of the things the opposition

complained about. There is an enormous amount of power being given

to a new constituent assembly that will rewrite a lot of the

institutional framework in Venezuela and the operation, opposition is

afraid that this will take over the last bastions in Venezuela. The

Vatican appeals for calm from security forces. How real is the

threat of violence breaking out onto the streets of Venezuela?

Unfortunately it is all very real. Of course, for the last three

months, Venezuela has seen almost constant street demonstrations and

confrontation hitting pro and anti-Government sympathisers. Today,

there is an opposition march beginning to form right now and

moving towards the assembly building. Every time in the past

they have tried to reach key Government buildings, they been

strongly confronted by security buildings. Until now, no serious

incidents today but there is unfortunately elderly that potential

because of the extreme degree of all right Asian that the people in

Caracas feel right now. We'll leave it right now but thank you very

much. This is the scene in Caracas right

now as the new assembly has been sworn in. There is. That is to place

a few minutes ago. Up to 500 members were given their new positions and

the new president of the constituent assembly also being named as Dalci

Rodriguez. More news as we get it. Also news on the leaks that have

been brought out. Regarding President Trump.

Donald Trump is never happier than when is out of Washington. This is

where he belongs. An adoring crowd in West Virginia, the problems of

Russia, collusion, special counsel and grand juries are a long way from

the country roads. The Russia story is a total fabrication. It is just

an excuse for the greatest loss in the story of American politics. That

is all it is. He didn't mention the special counsel by name but had him

in his sights when he said this. I just hope the final determination is

a truly honest one. The grand jury is made up of members of the public

meeting behind closed doors to consider evidence gathered. They can

force people to testify or hand over evidence. They will decide whether

the material is strong enough to proceed to a criminal trial.

Crucially, they don't decide if a potential defendant is innocent or

guilty. That is done by a conventional jury. Of course, it may

be that the grand jury meeting at this courthouse will come to the

conclusion that the evidence doesn't add up to much and there's no need

further action. The fact that they grand jury has been called is a sign

that this investigation is intensifying and will last a good

deal of money yet. The other worry for the Trump also Irish is the

scale of the enquiry will spread as well. -- the Trump entourage.

Another is the endless damaging and revealing leaks from within the

administration. Today, the Attorney General revealed a new crackdown.

This new... Nation -- this nation must put an end to these weeks. We

have to bring criminal justice. We will not allow rogue, criminal

sources to sell out our country. The president visited the emergency

centre for Larry King, it is our king season. With this grand jury,

one could soon be barrelling towards Donald Trump. -- the centre for

hurricanes. Let's take a look at some of

the other stories making the news. The US economy has seen strong jobs

growth thanks to a wave of hiring President Trump has welcomed

the news, tweeting... Excellent jobs numbers

just released - South Korea's spy agency has

admitted it tried to manipulate the result of the 2012 presidential

election to ensure Park Geun-hye did beat

liberal Moon Jae-in, but she is now facing trial

for corruption and abuse of power. Researchers warn that half

of India's nearly 800 languages Experts says children

from linguistic minorities or indigenous communities aren't

educated in their mother tongue, and there's little incentive

for following generations to keep Parts of southern Europe

are suffering from the hottest sustained heatwave for more

than a decade. Temperatures have reached 45 degrees

Celsius in some parts of Italy and the Balkans and several

countries have issued Let's talk to Phil Avery

from the BBC Weather Centre. Lovely to see you. We have some

wonderful pictures of people really enjoying the weather. However there

is a danger. Most certainly. As you have intimated in your introduction,

a number of authorities issuing a health warnings. The media types, we

always talk about 45 Celsius by day but there is no relief by night. I

was reading lines from Canadian tourists who were expecting a jolly

time in Europe and they said they didn't expect 40 Celsius plus and

the payoff is, once you get at by night, it is hard to drag both

average was down by day. You can get them below 28 - 30 Celsius. People

really stressing through the lack of sleep and the fact it is difficult

to stay healthy in those conditions. What is the current situation? This

is what we are expecting to see on Saturday, on this temperature

profile. Looking across Europe, many of these are above 40 Celsius. We

are going through Sardinia, down to Siberia. Some of these are not

extraordinary in one or two days but we have spoken about wildfires for

quite some time. We go back a few weeks, it was Iberia. We had similar

things in Croatia, talking about the effects. We can drag that engine

power shortages because everyone turns on air conditioning if they

have it in places like Croatia. There are real effect. We see no

reduction going into this weekend. Across the south has been a source

for quite some time. Why has it not move further north?

There is an absolute dividing line comes in the form of the weather

front. Parts of northern Europe, people will look at the south and

think they wished they had part of that sunshine because the north,

which changing you now, at best it is 20-something, nowhere near

30-40dC, mid-40s Celsius. The reason why it has not swept across Europe

as a whole is because the north of Europe picks up cooler, fresher,

Atlantic air whereas the south is but with this big area of high

pressure which keeps circulating this heat and the worrying statistic

that I have to finish with is that the UK Met Office is confirming that

this sort of extreme weather event is ten times more likely to happen

now and into the future than was as recently as the 2000s. Does this

have anything to do with the jet stream? Wheel of talking about that.

I know you are talking about it, we should get you to talk about that

rather than me. It sort of has but I know, thankfully we don't have

enough time to talk about it in detail. New cheat. Thank you, thank

you very much. Leo Varadker crossed the Irish

border for the first time as Ireland's Prime Minister to set

out his concerns about what could -- Ireland's Prime Minister,

Leo Varadkar, says Britain must soon address, the key issue of the status

of the Irish border after Brexit, He says he doesn't want economic

barriers, between Britain and Ireland, and is calling

for 'unique solutions,' to preserve After Brexit, Ireland

will have the EU's only Our Ireland Correspondent

Chris Buckler reports Leo Varadker crossed the Irish

border for the first time as Ireland's Prime Minister to set

out his concerns about what could He arrived in Belfast having upset

unionists with recent But inside Queens University today,

the new Taoiseach was keen to talk At a time when Brexit

threatens to drive a wedge between North and South,

between Britain and Ireland, we need to build more

bridges and fewer borders. He is a Taioseoch

of a new generation. The referendum over

the Good Friday Peace Agreement marked the first time

he was eligible to vote. He said the challenge of this

generation is Brexit and again he challenged those he called

the Brexiteers to come up with proposals to ease the problems

posed by new borders. They have already had 14 months

to do so, which should have been ample time to come up

with detailed proposals. But if they cannot,

and I believe they cannot, then we can start to talk

meaningfully about solutions that For example, if the United Kingdom

doesn't want to stay in the customs union,

perhaps there can be an EU-UK And if it was to end up

being a so-called hard Brexit, no-one is sure how trade

and movement could be monitored, along the border which has

scores of open roads. When people talk about the Irish

border of the past, they tend to refer to the years

of The Troubles, when huge security This is actually the dividing line

between the two countries, There's going to be some form

of border because the UK will want people going into the South

of Ireland and using it I've never seen before,

you know, I was too young. I didn't see the border but I can

imagine that it won't be good. But there are some people in Ireland

you feel that the key shock is interfering.

But there are some people in Ireland you feel that the key shock is

-- On this shared island, Leo Varadkar knows there

A Brexit deal that's good for the UK is likely to be important on both

Chris Buckler, BBC News, Northern Ireland.

Now, Neymar has completed a ?200 million deal to go to PSG. We have

been told it is not all about the money. Neymar finally in Paris with

a ball and the world at his feet. At ?200 million, his transfer from

Barcelona is a wreckage deal. When his wages are included, it will

eventually top ?400 million. The Brazilian star told me today he has

followed his heart and not his wallet. A lot of people say you're

doing this for the money, that is your motivation. What do you say to

that? TRANSLATION: I did not come here for the money. I came here for

the motivation of the challenge and the challenges.

On the Champs-Elysees this morning, fans were happy to part with their

cash, queueing to buy the new Neymar shirt. The club is backed by a

family of Qatar well. The anything he has bagged a bargain. Today until

now, the sort merchandised of half 1 million euros and that is just in a

couple of others. Neymar has been a star of club and country for many

years. People point to the vast sum involved and people as grey as

merely a pawn in Qatar's efforts to spread its influence across the

globe. The man himself said he is simply here to win. What with the

success to you, the Champions League, the Balon D'Or? How would

you say you've made it, delivered? TRANSLATION: I want everything, the

titles... I came over here to make history. PSG want Neymar to spot a

sporting revolution for them. Leaving the stadium tonight, he was

greeted by fans as their new king. The French authorities have been

accused of failing to provide for asylum seekers as a deliberate

policy of trying to dissuade migrants from coming to the country.

Hundreds are living in squalor on the outskirts of Metz. Splashing in

the summer heat, try topping these children from enjoying themselves.

This for them is home, a ramshackle collection of tents perched on how

outskirts of the city. Some have been your Fridays, some for many

months. All are squeezed into tiny tent will stop they complain of

rats, not enough toilets, not enough help. This man is from northern

Iraq. He has been here for four months. He wants out. It is

difficult for life. I need to go to England. I can't because of borders

being closed, it is difficult. We don't have enough money to go. These

kinds of places are becoming more common in wealthy Europe as people

stream west in search of a better life. Some say that France is

denying the stable assistance on purpose. When you are in this kind

of place, no incentives. At the end of the day, I think you create such

conditions for people who know that when they arrive in France, they

have no better conditions than in their own country. It is a charge

vigorously rejected by gift already is. TRANSLATION: We currently have

nearly 5000 people housed in the region. If the states didn't want to

do anything, why would be provide this accommodation? If this camp

existed just to frustrate people, it is clearly not working. Most of

these people will felt to be accepted for a file, wanting a

better life is not a good enough reason for the authorities. -- will

fail to be accepted for asylum. The misery that flourishes here will

continue. More help from the stage is coming. The ball of the rich west

-- The pull ll of the rich west continues.

France remains hard and dangerous for the people who come here.

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University say a simple device

to reduce the weight of washing machines could save fuel,

cut carbon emissions, and reduce back injuries.

A typical budget washing machine is weighted by a 25 kilogramme

concrete block to hold it steady as it spins, but scientists

have experimented with something different.

Amin Al-Habaibeh, professor in intelligent engineering

systems is part of the team at Nottingham Trent

The normal washing machines, they have concrete counterweights and the

idea is to prevent vibration. The problem with this technology is that

the manufacturers need to assemble the concrete counterweights in the

factory and ship them to the stores and then they are being transferred

or shipped to people at home and that will simply produce carbon

emissions that will consume more fuel and, at the same time, could

cause health issues in terms of the people who carry such washing

machines and store them. Health issues, is that really an issue? Is

it a big problem? Normally people need to be trained but certainly

reducing the weight of around 30% of a machine device, that makes moving

it easier. Especially for the people themselves, the users. If they want

to use... Movie washing machine, it becomes easier for them if they are

not strange to do that. I understand a company came to you with the idea

of exploring the possibility of removing the concrete. Why has no

one thought of this before? There were some attempts in the past but

what we have done about this project, the unique thing, is that

we have tried to replace the counterweight with hollow, plastic

containers in the same place, using the same fixture system. That will

hopefully make it easier for washing machine manufacturers to replace the

concrete counterweightss during the manufacturing process without having

to change the design of the washing machine. Plastic can be brutal. How

long will this last converter concrete?

Well, much of washing machines are already plastic. Adding one more

component is within the normal aspect of the current practice. How

much is this likely to cost? And very difficult to tell at the

moment. Our main focus was on reducing the weight and reducing the

carbon emission and the fuel transporting the washing machine to

the end user. Certainly, it will be that there are other issues to

consider when the product goes to the market. Very briefly, is a

interest from manufacturers? Our industrial collaborator is talking

now to plastic manufacturers and washing machine manufacturers and we

hope it will be soon in the market in the future. Amin Al-Habaibeh,

thank you very much. Thank you. The 70th Edinburgh International

Festival is underway. Created in the aftermath

of the Second World War to give a platform

for the flowering of the human spirit, it's now

the largest arts festival One couple has been there

since the beginning. This is Ingrid and

Henry Wuga's story. May 1939, I came on a dramatic

journey by train to Germany and eventually we landed in Great

Britain. I am 90 double zero 92. 93. I am not 93, am I? Yes. When you

heard it was music going on, we thought, can we afford to go?

Edinburgh holds the first international music and drama

Festival. Scotland's capital's streets will come 120,000 visitors.

Gourmand, Young, Lee has no money. We did not mind standing at the

back. Many orchestras from all over Europe, America, came to Edinburgh.

All of a sudden, there was like a rekindling of life, art, music.

People were determined. Iraq determined to lead a better life. It

did work. They were determined it should

change and be better. This iconic singer became an international star

in a very short time. It was fantastic. Having tasted that, of

course, there was no slopping ours. We lived for that moment. Fantastic.

Do stay with us, plenty more coming up on BBC.

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