:00:00. > :00:11.Sierra Leone appeals for urgent help after Monday's
:00:12. > :00:13.mudslides and flooding, as the number of those
:00:14. > :00:27.This is a disaster. According to the head of this mortuary, it is
:00:28. > :00:29.absolutely saturated. India - the world's most
:00:30. > :00:31.populous democracy - I'm Reeta Chakrabarti,
:00:32. > :00:41.live in Amritsar with a series of special reports from here
:00:42. > :00:47.and around the region. Looking at the country's potential
:00:48. > :00:51.and the problems holding it back. The UK Government sets out its plans
:00:52. > :00:55.for trade with the EU and the rest Sailing to the North Pole
:00:56. > :00:59.has never been done. How the British explorer Pen Haddow
:01:00. > :01:13.hopes to change that. Sierra Leone's president has called
:01:14. > :01:20.for urgent support saying the country is overwhelmed
:01:21. > :01:21.by the devastation of At least 400 people are now thought
:01:22. > :01:31.to have lost their lives on the outskirts of
:01:32. > :01:32.the capital Freetown. Experts warn they're now
:01:33. > :01:36.at risk of diseases spread Bodies have also been piling
:01:37. > :01:39.up outside mortuaries. Umaru Fofana sent this
:01:40. > :01:44.report from the city. On the day after, emergency services
:01:45. > :01:49.are still overstretched. Inside the central mortuary
:01:50. > :01:52.of the main Connaught Hospital They are lying on the floor in the
:01:53. > :01:58.open because there is no more space. Nearly 100 bodies were brought
:01:59. > :02:01.in on Tuesday morning, bringing the total number to nearly
:02:02. > :02:04.400, some of them limbless. The head of the mortuary says
:02:05. > :02:09.they are completely overstretched and that is not all -
:02:10. > :02:13.as they were trying to sort corpses out, more corpses are being brought
:02:14. > :02:18.in from different parts of the city. Even the rescue effort
:02:19. > :02:21.here is challenged. People are believed to still be
:02:22. > :02:24.alive underneath this spot. Even if they are, it'll be a miracle
:02:25. > :02:28.to find them breathing. Government and development partners
:02:29. > :02:31.have now set up a response centre, registering those left behind
:02:32. > :02:34.by the disaster. But the testimonies from people
:02:35. > :02:41.who have been badly hit by this TRANSLATION: I first saw the body
:02:42. > :02:49.of my sister and called on people to help me
:02:50. > :02:52.and we laid her on the floor. Then I started hearing other
:02:53. > :02:55.people nearby crying. Monday's mudslide and flash floods
:02:56. > :03:03.have shaken this country. Even for a country that has
:03:04. > :03:06.known a bloody civil war and a destabilising Ebola outbreak,
:03:07. > :03:16.this is unbearable. Let's get the latest now
:03:17. > :03:34.from Unicef's Sierra Leone The chief coroner of Sierra Leone
:03:35. > :03:39.has set in the last hour that he fears there will be more than 500
:03:40. > :03:46.bodies. Yes, we have seen the figures going up in the last few
:03:47. > :03:50.days since Monday morning floods and slides. It is our concern that the
:03:51. > :04:00.figures would rise and that is what we are seeing. ... The viewpoint of
:04:01. > :04:04.the coroner, as you saw there laying the bodies outside the more she read
:04:05. > :04:09.in Freetown. It is a loss of dead and has left the country in deep
:04:10. > :04:14.mourning. You must be hearing a lot of all. Read from those who have
:04:15. > :04:23.survived. It struck me how fast this happen, there was no time to run?
:04:24. > :04:28.I think we are losing that line... There was a lot of rainfall, but
:04:29. > :04:37.that is not unusual for August. Flash floods in many areas and
:04:38. > :04:42.particularly... I think we will have to leave it
:04:43. > :04:44.there, the line is difficult. We appreciate your time.
:04:45. > :04:47.At least 12 people are reported to have been killed by a falling
:04:48. > :04:50.tree during a religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
:04:51. > :04:53.More than 50 others were injured when the 200-year-old oak tree came
:04:54. > :04:55.down, without warning, at the gathering near Funchal.
:04:56. > :05:02.This is how one of the worshippers described events at the celebration.
:05:03. > :05:12.We heard a noise, I looked up, I had my son by my side. I saw the tree
:05:13. > :05:19.falling so I called my son and ran away. I heard a Big Bang. In a lot
:05:20. > :05:22.of people in a panic. There were a lot of people down there.
:05:23. > :05:24.India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has led his nation
:05:25. > :05:26.in marking the 70th anniversary of the country's
:05:27. > :05:29.The division of colonial India into two states -
:05:30. > :05:32.India and Pakistan - in 1947 was followed by sectarian
:05:33. > :05:35.violence between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
:05:36. > :05:41.The partition led to the movement of around 12 million people in one
:05:42. > :06:00.Reeta Chakrabarti is at the Golden Temple in Amritsar for us.
:06:01. > :06:08.This is the most famous landmark in Amritsar. The Golden Temple is the
:06:09. > :06:12.holiest site for followers of the Sikh religion. This stands in the
:06:13. > :06:18.state of Punjab, very badly affected by the horrors of partition 70 years
:06:19. > :06:24.ago. On this anniversary, India has a lot to reflect on in its past and
:06:25. > :06:28.present. Modern-day India has a huge, young population and a
:06:29. > :06:34.burgeoning economy. But it has recently seen a rise in religious
:06:35. > :06:35.violence, directed particularly at Muslims. As South Asia correspondent
:06:36. > :06:37.reports. This is a day of
:06:38. > :06:40.celebration for India. The day it was released
:06:41. > :06:42.at last from colonial rule. The Indian Prime Minister,
:06:43. > :06:44.Narendra Modi, talked of the country's successes -
:06:45. > :06:46.its growing economy, its efforts to tackle corruption
:06:47. > :06:49.and his vision for a secure, developed nation with equal
:06:50. > :06:50.opportunities for all. He made a point of speaking out
:06:51. > :07:12.against hate crimes. In the name of religion, some people
:07:13. > :07:20.commit crimes. This is the land of Gandhi and border. Violent in the
:07:21. > :07:24.name of faith will not be tolerated. He was talking about people who
:07:25. > :07:27.commit religious violence. That statement is directed
:07:28. > :07:29.at men like this. Modi is a Hindu Nationalist
:07:30. > :07:32.and tensions have been growing between the country's Hindu majority
:07:33. > :07:34.and its large Muslim minority. At the centre of the controversy
:07:35. > :07:37.is the slaughter of cows for meat. But the cow is a sacred
:07:38. > :07:40.animal in Hinduism, TRANSLATION: If I find someone
:07:41. > :07:45.killing my mother cow, I don't need the police
:07:46. > :07:49.or the authorities. He's so passionate about protecting
:07:50. > :07:59.the cow, he and his supporters They've been told they've got no
:08:00. > :08:09.permission to stop vehicles, Stopping these lorries to see
:08:10. > :08:17.if they're carrying any cows. TRANSLATION: I have information
:08:18. > :08:19.that they are smuggling cows Cow vigilantes have been
:08:20. > :08:25.increasingly active across the country since Modi took
:08:26. > :08:35.power and there have been murders. Avoiding communal conflict
:08:36. > :08:37.is crucial for India. This new bridge is just
:08:38. > :08:39.one of scores of major The country's doing well -
:08:40. > :08:56.the fastest growing large There is a lot for India to
:08:57. > :09:01.celebrate today. But the Prime Minister knows keeping this country
:09:02. > :09:03.growing depends on keeping religious conflict in check.
:09:04. > :09:16.Amritsar is right on the border with Pakistan and as India celebrate its
:09:17. > :09:22.70 years, it is starting to address publicly it brutal and bloody
:09:23. > :09:30.beginning when the country was cut into. It was a difficult start for
:09:31. > :09:36.India and for its past -- first by Minister, named.
:09:37. > :09:40.One of a tiny number of transport links between neighbours.
:09:41. > :09:42.This train operates just twice a week, taking Indians over
:09:43. > :09:45.the border and bringing Pakistanis here to the outskirts of Amritsar.
:09:46. > :09:48.But it's a journey very few make, because of decades of mistrust
:09:49. > :09:50.between the two countries, which started with the
:09:51. > :09:53.Amritsar is becoming a centre of remembrance.
:09:54. > :09:55.This week, India is launching the first ever Partition museum
:09:56. > :09:59.here, recording the acts of violence and bravery of that time.
:10:00. > :10:02.People actually haven't spoken much about Partition in the past,
:10:03. > :10:07.The reason being that I think that generation
:10:08. > :10:10.when they came across, A, they were traumatised, and B,
:10:11. > :10:13.because they were so busy setting up their own lives,
:10:14. > :10:21.As the newly independent state of India was born,
:10:22. > :10:24.its first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was full
:10:25. > :10:29.At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India
:10:30. > :10:37.His vision was of a democratic, secular state in which poverty and
:10:38. > :10:47.She lived through the horrors and only narrowly escaped
:10:48. > :10:51.with her life, hidden with a fruit truck and disguised in a burkha.
:10:52. > :10:56.Now 87, she's been recording her memories for her grandson Rishi
:10:57. > :11:04.and reflecting on modern India and Nehru's India.
:11:05. > :11:20.TRANSLATION: All the dreams that he showed us, they've
:11:21. > :11:24.We thought that after independence, all sorts of things would happen.
:11:25. > :11:26.We are still better off but there are many poor people.
:11:27. > :11:28.There is still so much poverty in India.
:11:29. > :11:32.There has been major economic growth in India by Nehru's vision of a more
:11:33. > :11:35.One thing endures, the political mistrust between India and Pakistan,
:11:36. > :11:37.a hostility that some born many years after Partition
:11:38. > :11:41.We are the same people. We probably eat similar food.
:11:42. > :11:44.We might just worship different gods but that doesn't
:11:45. > :11:50.But he's never been to Pakistan, which is less than 20 miles away.
:11:51. > :11:54.The border between the two countries is real and psychological.
:11:55. > :12:02.Partition is both history and ever present.
:12:03. > :12:10.There is that tension you referred to, between looking back at mass
:12:11. > :12:22.tragedy but also celebrating Indian identity? Yes, very much so. Looking
:12:23. > :12:26.back at past tragedy, you can still see as its repercussions today. In
:12:27. > :12:30.the fact that the two macro people from the countries can't go to each
:12:31. > :12:35.other's countries. There are very few crossings between India and
:12:36. > :12:38.Pakistan and very few people ever make those crossings. We will
:12:39. > :12:45.broadcasting in the city of Lahore in Pakistan, only a few miles away
:12:46. > :12:48.from Amritsar. When we made the land crossing there was hardly anybody
:12:49. > :12:55.making that crossing with us. That is a legacy that end and there is no
:12:56. > :12:59.apparent end in sight for that. People, when you talk to them, say
:13:00. > :13:04.they feel nothing but friendly feelings towards the other side but
:13:05. > :13:08.with the governments, there is an undercurrent of hostility all the
:13:09. > :13:14.time. In terms of the positive side, there is a great deal of optimism in
:13:15. > :13:17.this country. The economy is growing fast, globalisation is giving
:13:18. > :13:21.Indians huge opportunities and Indians are looking at all sorts of
:13:22. > :13:27.new markets. People are coming to India for trade. Theresa May was
:13:28. > :13:32.here, the British crime Minister, looking for trade deals post Brexit.
:13:33. > :13:37.India feels like a place for opportunity that there is a tension
:13:38. > :13:40.between some of those strains from history, from partition and it
:13:41. > :13:46.start, and also some developments within the political scene today, as
:13:47. > :13:50.Justin was talking about. Fears that there may be a rise in religious
:13:51. > :13:57.tension which some people feel that you can trace back to the hostility
:13:58. > :14:01.that began with partition. Good to talk to you from Pakistan and from
:14:02. > :14:06.India over the last two macro days. Thank you.
:14:07. > :14:09.And for more information on the partition you can
:14:10. > :14:16.The astonishing story, of four friends who were separated
:14:17. > :14:20.by the traumatic events - and reunited 30 years later.
:14:21. > :14:22.The US President Donald Trump has described the American chief
:14:23. > :14:24.executives who've resigned from his manufacturing
:14:25. > :14:28.His tweet claims that for every person who drops out,
:14:29. > :14:38.Three CEOs confirmed their resignations on Monday,
:14:39. > :14:42.apparently in protest at Mr Trump's initial failure to condemn white
:14:43. > :14:46.supremacist violence in Charlottesville Virginia.
:14:47. > :14:51.A fourth, Scott Paul, from the Alliance of
:14:52. > :14:55.American Manufacturing, resigned on Tuesday.
:14:56. > :15:02.Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.
:15:03. > :15:04.US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, says
:15:05. > :15:08.to talks, after North Korea postponed a threat to fire missiles
:15:09. > :15:13.But he added that it would be up to Kim Jong-Un as to when such
:15:14. > :15:16.The US has always insisted that Pyongyang must first give
:15:17. > :15:21.The BBC World Service has called on the Iranian authorities to scrap
:15:22. > :15:25.a new order that appears to freeze the assets of its staff in Iran.
:15:26. > :15:27.The BBC Persian service is banned in Iran and working
:15:28. > :15:29.for the BBC is illegal, but the World Service
:15:30. > :15:43.has an audience there of about 13 million.
:15:44. > :15:55.Grace Mugabe, the wife of Robert Mugabe, has reportedly returned home
:15:56. > :15:58.from South Africa despite being ordered to answer charges of
:15:59. > :16:01.assault. Authorities said they had no idea where she was.
:16:02. > :16:04.A toxicology report in the US shows that golfer Tiger Woods had five
:16:05. > :16:06.different drugs in his system when he was arrested
:16:07. > :16:08.on suspicion of driving under the influence in May.
:16:09. > :16:10.A urine test revealed a mixture of strong painkillers,
:16:11. > :16:14.sleep and anxiety drugs and THC, a chemical component of marijuana.
:16:15. > :16:17.The former world number one pleaded not guilty to the DUI charge last
:16:18. > :16:23.week and is expected to admit a lesser charge of reckless driving.
:16:24. > :16:25.The British government has set out its plans for trading
:16:26. > :16:28.with the EU and the rest of the world after Brexit.
:16:29. > :16:30.The proposals allow for a temporary deal if it's needed,
:16:31. > :16:35.with the ultimate goal similar to the current free-trade agreement
:16:36. > :16:45.A senior EU figure has dismissed that as fantasy,
:16:46. > :16:48.but the UK's Brexit Secretary, David Davis, says the numbers prove
:16:49. > :16:57.Italy selling us 290 billion, we are selling
:16:58. > :17:02.It is in their interests, I mean, BMW do not want to have
:17:03. > :17:04.to have a customs border that is going to slow
:17:05. > :17:06.down their sales or add administrative costs.
:17:07. > :17:09.Siemens is not going to want to do that, you know, so...
:17:10. > :17:12.And the port of Rotterdam is going to want to have an efficient
:17:13. > :17:14.operation, the biggest port in Europe, it's going to want
:17:15. > :17:17.to have an efficient operation so they have got an interest
:17:18. > :17:20.Adam Fleming has been following the day's developments
:17:21. > :17:25.The questions here in Brussels boil down to two macro issues.
:17:26. > :17:30.On timing, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has treated basically
:17:31. > :17:33.saying he wants to stick to his timetable which is that
:17:34. > :17:35.you make progress on issues like the Irish border,
:17:36. > :17:38.the UK's financial obligations and the rights of EU citizens living
:17:39. > :17:41.in the UK and British citizens living elsewhere in Europe after
:17:42. > :17:44.Brexit, before you start talking about the future relationship.
:17:45. > :17:55.He tweeted saying, the quicker you make progress, the quicker
:17:56. > :17:57.you can start talking about the other things.
:17:58. > :18:00.In terms of what the UK is asking for, which is a very close
:18:01. > :18:02.relationship on customs in the near future
:18:03. > :18:04.and the longer-term, the European Commission issued
:18:05. > :18:06.a statement saying, you can really only have a frictionless border
:18:07. > :18:10.for trade if you are not in a customs union, but in the EU's
:18:11. > :18:13.customs union and you also a member of the single market.
:18:14. > :18:16.In other words, remaining as a member of the EU.
:18:17. > :18:19.The way that was put in a tweet by Guy Verhofstadt,
:18:20. > :18:22.who is the chief Brexit coordinator for the European Parliament is that
:18:23. > :18:26.what the UK Government was asking for is "a fantasy".
:18:27. > :18:29.Having said all that, officials here in Brussels have been
:18:30. > :18:32.asking for a while now for more clarity from the British government
:18:33. > :18:35.on what it wants to achieve with Brexit and the detail
:18:36. > :18:38.of its position on a whole range of issues.
:18:39. > :18:44.So they are very glad that today's paper is the start
:18:45. > :18:48.of a deluge of documents heading their way from London.
:18:49. > :18:51.Here's a special BBC report into a mystery -
:18:52. > :18:54.the disappearance of three Saudi princes living in Europe,
:18:55. > :18:58.They had all been critical of the kingdom's government -
:18:59. > :19:00.and there's evidence suggesting they were abducted and flown
:19:01. > :19:05.It's known that one was jailed without trial -
:19:06. > :19:12.This report from BBC Arabic's Reda El Mawy.
:19:13. > :19:14.These three Saudi princes were outspoken critics
:19:15. > :19:28.Prince Turki bin Abdulaziz was once an officer
:19:29. > :19:30.in the Saudi police, which gave him access to highly
:19:31. > :19:34.In June 2012 he began posting videos on YouTube,
:19:35. > :19:36.in which he called for reform in Saudi Arabia.
:19:37. > :19:39.He also claimed to have highly damaging documents and threatened
:19:40. > :19:49.to expose corruption at the highest level.
:19:50. > :19:52.Prince Turki was later arrested in Morocco and deported
:19:53. > :19:59.to Saudi Arabia at the request of the Saudi authorities.
:20:00. > :20:01.Another Prince, Saud bin Saif al-Nasr, was a relatively
:20:02. > :20:04.minor royal with no known political activities.
:20:05. > :20:21.But in 2015 he began tweeting attacks on the Saudi monarchy.
:20:22. > :20:24.TRANSLATION: To those who say I am criticising people from my family,
:20:25. > :20:26.I say it is obligatory to state the truth.
:20:27. > :20:28.In September 2015, an anonymous Saudi prince wrote two letters
:20:29. > :20:30.calling for a coup to overthrow King Salman.
:20:31. > :20:32.The letters went online and were read by millions.
:20:33. > :20:34.This was an astonishing display of opposition.
:20:35. > :20:39.Prince Saud was the only royal to endorse the letters.
:20:40. > :20:43.This was tantamount to treason and may have sealed his fate.
:20:44. > :20:49.A few days later his Twitter account fell silent.
:20:50. > :20:51.Prince Sultan bin Turki was one of the grandsons
:20:52. > :20:55.of Prince Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia.
:20:56. > :21:00.He was abducted twice, the first time from Geneva in 2003,
:21:01. > :21:04.after which he was placed under house arrest in Saudi Arabia.
:21:05. > :21:07.Years later, he was allowed to leave Saudi Arabia for medical treatment
:21:08. > :21:13.He contacted a lawyer who placed a criminal complaint on his behalf
:21:14. > :21:20.It belies any credibility that this was anything other
:21:21. > :21:23.than the abduction described by Prince Sultan.
:21:24. > :21:26.I interviewed some witnesses, collected some medical evidence,
:21:27. > :21:31.including a medical record from King Faisal Hospital,
:21:32. > :21:45.where he was admitted the next day, in June 2003, which indicated he had
:21:46. > :21:47.aspirated and been intubated in Geneva,
:21:48. > :21:51.which for some reason was already waiting at the airport.
:21:52. > :21:53.Prince Sultan was never able to pursue his case.
:21:54. > :21:59.In January of that year, he boarded a jet offered to him
:22:00. > :22:06.Two of his staff told us what happened on the flight.
:22:07. > :22:11.The pilots diverted the flight to Riyadh, were armed
:22:12. > :22:24.A Saudi prince and his team of European and American nationals
:22:25. > :22:29.were kidnapped and taken to Saudi Arabia.
:22:30. > :22:32.The foreigners were allowed to leave three days later.
:22:33. > :22:37.Sultan has not been heard from since.
:22:38. > :22:41.Khaled bin Farhan al-Saud is another dissident prince
:22:42. > :22:46.He says the fate of the dissident princes is decided at the very top
:22:47. > :23:06.We tried to contact the three princes without success.
:23:07. > :23:11.When we asked the government of Saudi Arabia to respond
:23:12. > :23:40.to the allegations, they declined to comment.
:23:41. > :23:43.The British explorer Pen Hadow and his team have set off
:23:44. > :23:52.for the North Pole - in two 50 foot yachts.
:23:53. > :23:56.He says the melting of sea ice in the region is making the voyage
:23:57. > :23:59.Hadow left Nome in Alaska earlier on Tuesday.
:24:00. > :24:01.He'll sail along the Baring Strait into the Central Arctic Ocean.
:24:02. > :24:04.After that his team will use satellites to plot the best
:24:05. > :24:08.Our Science Correspondent Rebecca Morelle reports.
:24:09. > :24:10.Setting off into uncharted Arctic waters, a pair of yachts
:24:11. > :24:12.attempting a first - sailing all the way
:24:13. > :24:18.A crew of ten and a dog have just departed from Alaska.
:24:19. > :24:22.Led by British explorer Pen Hadow, they have a 5,500
:24:23. > :24:29.For the first time in human history, possibly for the first
:24:30. > :24:32.time in 130,000 years, it is now possible to sail
:24:33. > :24:50.It's rapid warming that has made this expedition possible. This shows
:24:51. > :24:59.how CI 's has melted over time. The smaller the less ice that year. --
:25:00. > :25:04.this shows how sea ice has melted. Half of the volume has melted since
:25:05. > :25:09.the 1970s it is estimated. It means that once inaccessible waters are
:25:10. > :25:12.opening up. Researchers say that this could lead to significant
:25:13. > :25:17.changes, especially for commercial shipping routes. The North Pole is
:25:18. > :25:22.here and what we are seeing in this map... And Reding University,
:25:23. > :25:26.scientists say that instead of having juice sail around the frozen
:25:27. > :25:37.pole, ships will have a new short cut. We are seeing a firm and as the
:25:38. > :25:39.ice continues to melt, the prospect of having commercial ships
:25:40. > :25:43.travelling through the region will only increase. I see ships being
:25:44. > :25:47.able to go right over the poll by the middle of the century.
:25:48. > :25:50.The team do not know how far north they will get.
:25:51. > :25:53.But this expedition into the unknown may be the start