:00:00. > :00:12.More than 300 are feared dead after a hillside collapses
:00:13. > :00:19.Residents use their bare hands to pull bodies from the mud.
:00:20. > :00:21.Donald Trump, finally, explicitly condemns
:00:22. > :00:24.white supremacists - in his second statement
:00:25. > :00:30.on the violent protests in Charlottesville Virginia.
:00:31. > :00:34.Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals
:00:35. > :00:40.and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists.
:00:41. > :00:43.70 years after the end of British colonial rule in India, we bring
:00:44. > :01:06.How do you live in Pakistan, ASCII high hopes of independence have been
:01:07. > :01:07.fulfilled. -- asking if the high hopes of independence have been
:01:08. > :01:08.fulfilled. A sound
:01:09. > :01:11.we won't hear for four years - from next week Big Ben will be
:01:12. > :01:19.silent while repairs take place. Hello and welcome
:01:20. > :01:26.to World News Today. More than 300 people
:01:27. > :01:28.are feared dead and others remain trapped after a huge mudslide
:01:29. > :01:30.in the West African After heavy rains, an entire
:01:31. > :01:34.hillside on the outskirts of the capital Freetown collapsed
:01:35. > :01:36.before sunrise, leaving many homes Around 250 bodies have
:01:37. > :01:47.been recovered so far. As our diplomatic correspondent
:01:48. > :01:49.James Robbins reports, this is a country still recovering
:01:50. > :01:52.from the ebola crisis Snatched video on a mobile phone
:01:53. > :02:03.shows a torrent of mud and water carrying away
:02:04. > :02:10.everything in its path. This driver risked his life
:02:11. > :02:13.on a bridge all but overwhelmed Freetown is an overcrowded,
:02:14. > :02:18.coastal city. About 250 bodies have
:02:19. > :02:19.it has few defences They come every year but not usually
:02:20. > :02:27.with quite such ferocity. been recovered so far,
:02:28. > :02:31.the authorities fear there could be many more trapped in
:02:32. > :02:33.the ruins of houses. I went down to the spot myself
:02:34. > :02:38.and you could see people using their bare hands,
:02:39. > :02:40.pulling up corpses The road itself is a disaster area,
:02:41. > :02:50.the road is almost impassable. There are massive rocks and this
:02:51. > :02:56.area, called Mount Sugarloaf, caved in in the early hours of this
:02:57. > :03:00.morning and it has covered literally Hundreds of people are feared
:03:01. > :03:03.dead under the rubble. There are some ambulances parked
:03:04. > :03:06.here, but it is becoming a recovery The victims in Sierra Leone are
:03:07. > :03:15.among the world's poorest people. Survivors risking everything
:03:16. > :03:18.to salvage a few possessions, trying to hang on to whatever
:03:19. > :03:29.they can despite the rising water. Two days after a women
:03:30. > :03:31.was held in the American city of Charlottesville during a rally
:03:32. > :03:33.by white supremacists, Donald Trump has spoken out
:03:34. > :03:35.against racist violence. It follows a huge outcry
:03:36. > :03:37.at his area statement In a statement at the White House,
:03:38. > :03:47.the President finally named the far Our North America editor
:03:48. > :03:54.Jon Sopel reports. The president has returned to
:03:55. > :03:59.Washington from holiday this morning to meet the director of the FBI
:04:00. > :04:02.and the Attorney General following Meanwhile in the University of
:04:03. > :04:08.Virginia town, there were scuffles outside the court
:04:09. > :04:13.where James Alex Fields appeared this morning on murder
:04:14. > :04:16.charges after a car ploughed The President's everyone's
:04:17. > :04:28.to blame response and silence since led to a firestorm
:04:29. > :04:33.of criticism so why has Donald Trump been so unusually
:04:34. > :04:38.tongue tied over this? While the number of fully paid-up
:04:39. > :04:43.white supremacists may be relatively small, the number
:04:44. > :04:45.who have sympathies is probably far They were among the most vociferous
:04:46. > :04:50.supporters of him last November. Certainly, his surrogates have
:04:51. > :04:52.condemned the far right but Today, 48 hours on,
:04:53. > :04:57.a marked shift in language from the
:04:58. > :05:00.embattled president. Racism is evil and those who cause
:05:01. > :05:03.violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK,
:05:04. > :05:12.neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant
:05:13. > :05:15.to everything we hold dear We are a nation founded
:05:16. > :05:20.on the truth, that all of us are We are equal in the
:05:21. > :05:26.eyes of our Creator. We are equal under the law
:05:27. > :05:29.and we are equal under But this was too little,
:05:30. > :05:38.too late for Ken Frazier. Today, the boss of one of America's
:05:39. > :05:42.pharmaceutical companies resigned from the President's
:05:43. > :05:50.industry forum saying: Within minutes, Donald Trump fired
:05:51. > :05:52.back at this prominent Donald Trump has bent to criticism,
:05:53. > :06:11.something that has not happened often, but it has left many asking,
:06:12. > :06:14.why didn't he deliver these remarks The BBC's Gary
:06:15. > :06:28.O'Donogue is in Washington. Let's take a look
:06:29. > :06:34.at some of the other The World Health
:06:35. > :06:36.Organisation says the number of suspected cases of cholera
:06:37. > :06:39.in Yemen has reached 500,000. Almost 2,000 people have died
:06:40. > :06:41.since the end of April. A WHO statement said
:06:42. > :06:43.an estimated 5,000 new cases The epidemic comes against
:06:44. > :06:47.the background of Yemen's civil war, and the country's collapsing health
:06:48. > :06:51.service is struggling to cope. Burkina Faso's
:06:52. > :06:52.president has condemned what he called a despicable
:06:53. > :06:54.and cowardly terrorist attack At least 18 people died and ten
:06:55. > :07:00.wounded when two assailants The authorities say the two gunmen
:07:01. > :07:04.were killed, and that the dead include at least seven Burkinabe
:07:05. > :07:13.nationals and eight foreigners. Officials say more than 175
:07:14. > :07:16.people have died and thousands have fled their homes as monsoon floods
:07:17. > :07:19.wreak havoc in Nepal, In Nepal, officials say several
:07:20. > :07:25.settlements are unreachable and the casualty figure could rise
:07:26. > :07:27.as the extent of the In Bangladesh at least 20 people
:07:28. > :07:32.have been killed and thousands displaced Bangladesh
:07:33. > :07:45.after river waters flooded The man who dominated international
:07:46. > :07:51.chess in the 1980s and 90s is coming out of retirement to take part in a
:07:52. > :07:58.turn and in the US. He was famed for his thorough preparation and
:07:59. > :08:03.attacking style and became champion in 1985, beating the Soviet trash
:08:04. > :08:09.champion. He held onto that title for 15 years. He has tweeted, "Ready
:08:10. > :08:23.to see if I remember how to move the pieces". Going back to the story
:08:24. > :08:31.about Donald Trump ayes reaction to the events in Charlottesville at the
:08:32. > :08:36.weekend. He was under pressure to make a statement and he did make a
:08:37. > :08:41.pretty explicit statement. These were strong words. The language was
:08:42. > :08:47.very clear. He named those groups that people had called on him to
:08:48. > :08:52.name, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi sympathisers, white supremacists. He
:08:53. > :08:56.called them criminals and thugs. He went about as far as people had
:08:57. > :09:01.asked him to go. To that extent, this will be welcomed by friends and
:09:02. > :09:05.for the like. It's not the first thing he has said is matter. The
:09:06. > :09:09.initial statement he made on Saturday immediately after the
:09:10. > :09:13.violence in Charlottesville talked about violence on many sides. That
:09:14. > :09:17.is something that upset people, costing a lot of grief, anger and
:09:18. > :09:21.outrage. And a lot of suspicion that Donald Trump was trying to avoid
:09:22. > :09:26.upsetting those far right groups in particular. We have today is a
:09:27. > :09:30.written statement delivered in front of reporters, no questions, turned
:09:31. > :09:34.on his heel, went out and didn't answer anything shouted at him.
:09:35. > :09:41.Let's see what he says in the coming days when does those characteristic
:09:42. > :09:45.of peace, ad-libbed moments. If we get the same sort of thing then,
:09:46. > :09:51.people will believe him. The moment we have two Donald Trump, sets of
:09:52. > :09:57.apparent views or approaches to what happened and people want to know
:09:58. > :10:02.which one he really believes. Just listening to his statement, which
:10:03. > :10:06.you say was delivered from script, I heard him use the phrase no resource
:10:07. > :10:15.will be spared, so I is a buzz before the asking what the follow-up
:10:16. > :10:20.is here on racist brutality? The FBI are involved. The Justice Department
:10:21. > :10:24.will be involved. That is why the Attorney General and the incoming
:10:25. > :10:28.director of the FBI were with the president this morning when he came
:10:29. > :10:32.back from New Jersey for these meetings. There will be those
:10:33. > :10:36.investigations. We have had the court appearance this morning of the
:10:37. > :10:41.main suspect. He has been denied bail. He is facing a charge of
:10:42. > :10:48.secondary degree murder as well as other charges, too. I think the
:10:49. > :10:54.tragedy itself of Charlottesville is one thing, the political aspect to
:10:55. > :10:58.it has given it a toxicity. It has touched a nerve in American society
:10:59. > :11:03.and politics. It's incredibly raw. It goes back decades and decades.
:11:04. > :11:10.Right back to the Civil War and the struggles for emancipation. This is
:11:11. > :11:16.something that still a very real issue and problem in modern-day
:11:17. > :11:21.America. Given that, Gary, do you sense some relief in the White House
:11:22. > :11:26.that Donald Trump has done what many politicians would call the decent
:11:27. > :11:31.thing today glove well, I don't think he would have done this today
:11:32. > :11:36.if he hadn't had some pretty strong and united unified advice that this
:11:37. > :11:42.was the right way to go. He's not to changing his mind in that sense or
:11:43. > :11:46.at least acknowledging that he was wrong are being told what to do.
:11:47. > :11:52.This is a pretty substantial flip-flop in terms of the language
:11:53. > :11:58.and the sentiment. I think the view will have been taken that this is
:11:59. > :12:01.doing enormous damage, this is again distracting from the main agenda.
:12:02. > :12:05.You will notice that very odd moment at the beginning of the statement
:12:06. > :12:09.where he talked about the economy for 30 seconds or a minute and then
:12:10. > :12:13.suddenly launched into this business about Charlottesville. That didn't
:12:14. > :12:18.feel quite right. They will be telling him, if you want get back on
:12:19. > :12:25.your agenda, tax cuts, infrastructure, investment, these
:12:26. > :12:32.kinds of things. Going down these political rabbit holes, toxic issues
:12:33. > :12:34.is not the way to did. Thank you for bringing us right up to date.
:12:35. > :12:36.This week - India and Pakistan mark 70 years
:12:37. > :12:38.of independence from Britain that came after almost 200
:12:39. > :12:42.There have been celebrations in Pakistan today to
:12:43. > :12:44.mark the anniversary - tomorrow India will do the same.
:12:45. > :12:52.Seven decades ago, after months of political deadlock,
:12:53. > :12:54.Britain agreed to divide the country in two.
:12:55. > :12:55.The Muslim-majority state of Pakistan was created,
:12:56. > :12:59.to the west and east of India - with Muslims travelling
:13:00. > :13:01.in one direction, Hindus and Sikhs in the other.
:13:02. > :13:04.It triggered one of the great calamities of the modern era,
:13:05. > :13:05.perhaps the biggest movement of people -
:13:06. > :13:08.outside war and famine - that the world has ever seen.
:13:09. > :13:11.Around 12 million people are thought to have fled
:13:12. > :13:14.the violence that erupted, with communities
:13:15. > :13:17.A million people are thought to have died.
:13:18. > :13:26.Reeta Chakrabarti is in Lahore in Pakistan for us.
:13:27. > :13:35.Despite that very violent beginning, the centre of Lahore has all day
:13:36. > :13:41.felt like a giant street party with horns and flags and of course
:13:42. > :13:45.fireworks. Pakistanis are celebrating two things, the end of
:13:46. > :13:49.British colonial rule and also be splitting off from India. Pakistan
:13:50. > :13:54.was created by the homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, but a debate
:13:55. > :13:58.has been going on in this country for quite some time now about what
:13:59. > :14:04.sort of country it should be. I've been looking at the hopes of the
:14:05. > :14:08.country putts founding father, Muhammed Jinnah, and looking at how
:14:09. > :14:10.different the his vision is being funded today. -- interpreted today.
:14:11. > :14:12.In Pakistan's former capital, Karachi, Muhammed Jinnah's
:14:13. > :14:16.home is preserved with care and reverence.
:14:17. > :14:18.Muhammed Jinnah led the creation of Pakistan,
:14:19. > :14:20.but today his legacy is hotly contested.
:14:21. > :14:25.Just what sort of nation did he envisage?
:14:26. > :14:28.Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor general.
:14:29. > :14:31.As the British left Colonial India, Muhammed Jinnah was desperate
:14:32. > :14:33.to secure the rights of the Muslim population.
:14:34. > :14:36.The answer was a separate state, Pakistan.
:14:37. > :14:46.Our object should be peace within and peace without.
:14:47. > :14:49.But peace seems often to have eluded this nation, both within
:14:50. > :14:52.Poverty and security remain major issues, and the debate
:14:53. > :15:00.For this leading politician, Muhammed Jinnah's
:15:01. > :15:02.was for a secular Pakistan, one that hasn't
:15:03. > :15:06.I think Mr Jinnah would still be looking at
:15:07. > :15:11.moving us forward if he were here today.
:15:12. > :15:14.He made it very clear, it tolerated all religions, but we
:15:15. > :15:18.haven't seen exactly the epitome of moral inclusion that he sought.
:15:19. > :15:23.That's because others see Islam as central
:15:24. > :15:27.The Constitution, they say, is Islamic
:15:28. > :15:29.in nature, and successive governments have failed to
:15:30. > :15:35.What otherwise was the point, they ask, of creating Pakistan?
:15:36. > :15:37.TRANSLATION: Muhammed Jinnah rebelled and struggled against
:15:38. > :15:44.There was secularism already in India, but the Hindu,
:15:45. > :15:48.British, Muslim identity was at risk.
:15:49. > :15:54.That is why he made Pakistan - an independent Islamic state.
:15:55. > :16:01.But others say Pakistan's real problem is not religion, but
:16:02. > :16:05.Its might is on display every evening at the border with India,
:16:06. > :16:07.with troops strutting and goose-stepping in a full-blooded
:16:08. > :16:11.Over a third of Pakistan's 70 years have been under
:16:12. > :16:15.What would Muhammed Jinnah have made of that?
:16:16. > :16:20.Because the military was supposed be a
:16:21. > :16:25.subordinate organisation to politics.
:16:26. > :16:28.So I think he never, never could have imagined that the
:16:29. > :16:31.military would have played such an important role, and would have
:16:32. > :16:42.He will be turning in his grave if he came to know of that.
:16:43. > :16:43.Muhammed Jinnah's resting place is this
:16:44. > :16:45.magnificent mausoleum in Karachi, a fitting tribute
:16:46. > :16:48.He bequeathed to his people self-government and a democracy, but
:16:49. > :17:01.Pakistan still struggles with what its true identity might be.
:17:02. > :17:08.Along with independence came partition, with shocking violence on
:17:09. > :17:12.both sides. Our Pakistan corresponded has been speaking to
:17:13. > :17:14.people who fought, people who fled and people who helped shelter
:17:15. > :17:18.potential victims from slaughter. In 1947 as British colonial rule
:17:19. > :17:21.ended, India was divided Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims who had
:17:22. > :17:25.lived in relative peace Amongst those involved
:17:26. > :17:31.in the violence was Mohammad Akram, He helped attack a Hindu politician
:17:32. > :17:40.who had been calling for calm TRANSLATION: Someone struck him
:17:41. > :17:46.on the head with a brick. "Whoever doesn't hit him,
:17:47. > :17:58.isn't a real man!" Me and the rest of the crowd
:17:59. > :18:01.beat him to death. Do you ever regret your
:18:02. > :18:03.role in the killing? TRANSLATION: Our people
:18:04. > :18:04.were being murdered. Up to one million people
:18:05. > :18:14.were killed in 1947. Many of the most brutal attacks
:18:15. > :18:20.were on the trains carrying refugees into and out of Pakistan,
:18:21. > :18:25.across the divided Naseem is the eldest of five
:18:26. > :18:30.generations of her family living The train she and her five-day-old
:18:31. > :18:38.baby were travelling on to Pakistan TRANSLATION: We hid
:18:39. > :18:40.under the luggage. They came on board, slashing
:18:41. > :18:44.everyone, cutting their faces, There were piles
:18:45. > :18:51.and piles of bodies. Naseem lost nearly all her immediate
:18:52. > :18:58.family in the unrest. The horrors she witnessed
:18:59. > :19:06.continue to haunt her. TRANSLATION: The fear
:19:07. > :19:08.never leaves you. I still clearly remember
:19:09. > :19:12.how they used to strip Even now, I feel scared,
:19:13. > :19:15.that any time someone Atrocities were committed by both
:19:16. > :19:24.sides across the country. Even here in these peaceful
:19:25. > :19:28.valleys north of Islamabad, But amidst the horror,
:19:29. > :19:36.there were heroes, too. Mehboob and his father secretly
:19:37. > :19:38.hid their Sikh neighbours TRANSLATION: One night,
:19:39. > :19:46.there was a knock on our door. She said, "For the love
:19:47. > :19:53.of God, save us. Mehboob is proud of what
:19:54. > :20:00.he and his family did. He remembers fondly the time
:20:01. > :20:03.when Sikhs and Muslims In Pakistan though, many prefer
:20:04. > :20:10.to look to the future, But each anniversary of partition,
:20:11. > :20:17.there are fewer left Sikander Kermani,
:20:18. > :20:31.BBC News, Islamabad. There is optimism in present-day
:20:32. > :20:35.Pakistan, particularly among younger people who see opportunities opening
:20:36. > :20:40.up for them. But there are challenges, too. Only last month,
:20:41. > :20:45.the Prime Minister was forced to resign over corruption charges and
:20:46. > :20:50.security remains a major issue, with two bomb attacks in the last few
:20:51. > :20:56.weeks. One here in Lahore, another in the night of the country. That is
:20:57. > :21:01.set from Pakistan. Tomorrow, I'll be reporting from India. As that
:21:02. > :21:05.country celebrates its 70th birthday. For now, from a very
:21:06. > :21:14.festive lot poorer, it's back to you. -- Lahore.
:21:15. > :21:16.Thanks, Reeta, and you can also visit our website
:21:17. > :21:17.for more information on the partition.
:21:18. > :21:21.You'll find personal stories of horror and humanity,
:21:22. > :21:24.told for the first time to BBC from people who went
:21:25. > :21:49.More now on our top story. Welcome to BBC News. Have you seen Mount
:21:50. > :21:53.Sugarloaf are what is left of it for yourself? We went past the area
:21:54. > :21:57.where Mount Sugarloaf is this morning. We happened to be going on
:21:58. > :22:03.a mission when you're driving through the region, the community
:22:04. > :22:08.were meant Sugarloaf is. Basically, there was a lot of rain. It was
:22:09. > :22:14.raining very heavily. We noticed a woman running towards the main road,
:22:15. > :22:20.gesticulating and crying bitterly. She ran towards a woman on a bike in
:22:21. > :22:24.front of her. After a brief conversation, we noticed something
:22:25. > :22:28.had happened and something was seriously wrong. Not long after
:22:29. > :22:33.that, we had a man also running towards the road and a pushover
:22:34. > :22:36.vehicle, crying desperately, telling us something had happened. He was
:22:37. > :22:41.afraid that many lives had been lost from a landslide that happened that
:22:42. > :22:46.morning. Basically, this is when he contacted our offices to inform us
:22:47. > :22:49.there was something wrong in the area. Do you think it's probably
:22:50. > :22:55.right to say that hundreds of people have died here? It is difficult to
:22:56. > :23:03.say right now, but at the moment, based on the information coming from
:23:04. > :23:08.the morgue, over 300 lives had been lost and there are still report of
:23:09. > :23:13.bodies scattered around certain areas in the city. We are really
:23:14. > :23:16.concerned. Our biggest concern is for the children, who really have no
:23:17. > :23:24.clue what is scoring on. We don't all her many have been lost during
:23:25. > :23:28.this tragedy. One of the factors that the vice president has raised
:23:29. > :23:32.is that some of this is possibly due to illegal building, a huge amount
:23:33. > :23:38.of pressure on this and other cities. Would that time in with what
:23:39. > :23:43.you know? In many ways, yes. There are a lot of settlement in those
:23:44. > :23:49.fields. We know that with regards to Charlottesville, there have been a
:23:50. > :23:55.lot of migration over time. -- Freetown. Of course, in terms of
:23:56. > :24:02.those hills with the kind of rain we tend to get over this period of
:24:03. > :24:07.time, in the year, it is more at risk because the homes are not very
:24:08. > :24:14.safe. There are a number of forests on the hills and the land is
:24:15. > :24:17.becoming more and more insecure. We are seriously concerned that a lot
:24:18. > :24:24.of lives may have been lost in this tragedy. Much like what are you able
:24:25. > :24:30.to do with putter Save the Children, I suppose you're trying to look
:24:31. > :24:33.after those who have survived? At the moment, we're in discussions
:24:34. > :24:39.with the office of national and of course we have partnership with the
:24:40. > :24:47.Government to plan the way forward. Already we have an emergency plan in
:24:48. > :24:51.place, where we are going to be looking at how we can support the
:24:52. > :24:54.communities in that area. But also with regards to protection and
:24:55. > :24:58.medication. The immediate concern right now is how to reach out to
:24:59. > :25:03.this community and trying to see how we can support with regards to
:25:04. > :25:09.finding children, identifying children who may have been lost, and
:25:10. > :25:13.to try and see whether we can start working on getting these children
:25:14. > :25:19.back with their parents or with their families. That is our concern
:25:20. > :25:22.right now. I can tell you're really busy and we appreciate your time in
:25:23. > :25:31.telling us something about what is happening there in Freetown.
:25:32. > :25:34.Here in Britain, the bongs of London's Big Ben will fall silent
:25:35. > :25:37.next week for four years so that major conservation work can be
:25:38. > :25:41.The chimes will still be used however, for important national
:25:42. > :25:43.events such as New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday,
:25:44. > :25:54.The silence is designed to protect the workers who will be working
:25:55. > :25:55.around the famous bell. Don't forget you can get
:25:56. > :25:59.in touch with me and some