:00:00. > :00:12.President to president - the critical reaction
:00:13. > :00:15.to Donald Trump's latest comments on white supremacists now includes
:00:16. > :00:17.an outright condemnation of bigotry from America's last two
:00:18. > :00:24.Grief and anger in Freetown as authorities are blamed
:00:25. > :00:26.for hampering rescue efforts - at least 600 people are still
:00:27. > :00:28.missing after Monday's devastating mudslide.
:00:29. > :00:30.Heavy rains across South East Asia have also caused severe
:00:31. > :00:32.flooding in Bangladesh, India and Nepal -
:00:33. > :00:44.with more than 250 dead, and millions of people displaced.
:00:45. > :00:51.Hello and welcome to World News Today.
:00:52. > :00:58.Donald Trump's determination to blame both sides for the deadly
:00:59. > :01:00.violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, has brought condemnation
:01:01. > :01:03.today from some very senior figures on the American right.
:01:04. > :01:05.In an angry news conference, the president appeared to defend
:01:06. > :01:07.the organisers of the white supremacist rally, saying that
:01:08. > :01:17.anti-racist protesters were "very violent" too.
:01:18. > :01:22.Republican presidents - George Bush senior and junior -
:01:23. > :01:24.put out an unprecedented joint statement saying: "America must
:01:25. > :01:25.always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism,
:01:26. > :01:28.Here's our North America Editor Jon Sopel.
:01:29. > :01:43.The memorial service for an antiracism
:01:44. > :01:46.white supremacists in Charlottesville on Saturday, but far
:01:47. > :01:48.from this being an occasion when a nation comes together,
:01:49. > :01:50.America seems more between divided than ever.
:01:51. > :01:52.They try to kill my child to shut her up.
:01:53. > :02:11.This was Charlottesville on Friday night, racist groups chanting
:02:12. > :02:17.Jews will not replace us, carrying Ku Klux Klan-style
:02:18. > :02:19.torches and marching to the slogan white lives
:02:20. > :02:22.Yesterday, the President blamed both sides for the violence
:02:23. > :02:27.You had a group on one side and you had a group on the
:02:28. > :02:30.other and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it
:02:31. > :02:33.was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch.
:02:34. > :02:37.There was a group on their side, you can call them the left,
:02:38. > :02:39.you have just called them the left, that came
:02:40. > :02:40.violently attacking the
:02:41. > :02:42.other group, so you can say what you want,
:02:43. > :02:45.It is true there was violence
:02:46. > :02:59.But the race hate protesters had come ready for trouble.
:03:00. > :03:04.the Army, but a right-wing militia that turned up whistling with
:03:05. > :03:07.Most had clubs, helmets and shields with white supremacists
:03:08. > :03:09.The antiracism demonstrators were not organisers,
:03:10. > :03:12.they were mostly local people on whom a small group had come
:03:13. > :03:16.But Donald Trump seeming to draw a moral equivalence between
:03:17. > :03:18.swastika carrying Neo Nazis and antiracism protesters has brought
:03:19. > :03:34.The senior Republican Paul Ryan tweeting...
:03:35. > :03:36.The only significant voice of support last night came from the
:03:37. > :03:50.former leader of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, who said...
:03:51. > :03:52.There is reported to be deep unhappiness among some senior White
:03:53. > :03:58.House staff over the President's comments.
:03:59. > :04:02.He had not been due to say anything and, significantly, a new
:04:03. > :04:04.intervention, this time from two former Republican living presidents
:04:05. > :04:07.George HW Bush and George W Bush, saying there is no room for bigotry
:04:08. > :04:23.and anti-Semitism in today's America.
:04:24. > :04:26.There has also been significant reaction from the American business
:04:27. > :04:27.community. Let's go to our correspondent
:04:28. > :04:35.Gary O'Donoghue in Washington. What has been happening to the
:04:36. > :04:41.President's business advisers today? We ignore the manufacturing Council
:04:42. > :04:47.started losing members, one resigned after Saturday and Donald Trump's
:04:48. > :04:51.words via, the chief executive of the pharmaceutical company, a string
:04:52. > :04:57.of others then resigned and a separate advisory body called the
:04:58. > :05:03.Strategic Policy Forum started to resign and now Donald Trump has
:05:04. > :05:09.disbanded both. Does it matter, advisers? Donald Trump came to power
:05:10. > :05:13.saying he will bring back manufacturing to the USA and here
:05:14. > :05:20.was the great and the good of the manufacturing sector lining up to
:05:21. > :05:26.help deliver that and now he has had to get rid of them. So it matters
:05:27. > :05:28.not only in how it looks but will also help in how he can deliver on
:05:29. > :05:32.his promises from the campaign. At least 600 hundred people
:05:33. > :05:35.are still believed to be missing in Sierra Leone -
:05:36. > :05:37.after the devastating mudslides that More than 100 children are among
:05:38. > :05:44.the 400 confirmed dead so far. Martin Patience is in Freetown
:05:45. > :05:49.and sent this report. In Freetown the ambulances are
:05:50. > :05:52.rushing not at the hospital but to They are ferrying the dead,
:05:53. > :05:55.victims buried alive by a The relatives wait outside
:05:56. > :06:00.to collect their bodies. Daniel wasn't home
:06:01. > :06:18.when disaster struck. But he tells me six members
:06:19. > :06:21.of his family are dead, The grief and anger
:06:22. > :06:32.is tangible here. This is a nation in mourning
:06:33. > :06:38.the loss of hundreds. And rescue workers say
:06:39. > :06:40.that authorities are This gaping scar was once
:06:41. > :06:48.a neighbourhood, but now the scene Diggers have been drafted in
:06:49. > :06:57.but there are no sniffer dogs, not The fear is disease could
:06:58. > :07:03.spread unless hundreds A trickle of aid is getting
:07:04. > :07:11.through but many like Adama Dr Nathaniel Williams works for one
:07:12. > :07:25.of the main hospitals in Freetown and treated the injured
:07:26. > :07:41.after the mudslide. Nothing prepares you for this. We
:07:42. > :07:48.were not prepared for it. With so many countless lives lost, but some
:07:49. > :07:52.people who were not told they lost their son, there are some people who
:07:53. > :08:00.are only finding out days after the incident. Also there are a few that
:08:01. > :08:05.have lost several members of the family. So the case I mentioned
:08:06. > :08:14.earlier about the man who lost three relatives and also the lady who had
:08:15. > :08:20.to be called later on. We had to do resuscitation for them, some were in
:08:21. > :08:28.shock, some were due to blood loss, some had injuries from minor
:08:29. > :08:35.injuries to very serious ones and fractures, which we attended to,
:08:36. > :08:37.mostly. But now we are not seeing survivors, sadly.
:08:38. > :08:41.Days of relentless monsoon rains across Bangladesh,
:08:42. > :08:43.Nepal and India have killed over 250 people.
:08:44. > :08:45.This satellite image from The United Nations Institute
:08:46. > :08:47.for Training and Research shows flood-affected regions
:08:48. > :08:50.The red areas show that nearly 40% of central
:08:51. > :08:58.17 million people are believed to be affected by the flooding.
:08:59. > :09:01.Meanwhile, in the northern Indian state of Bihar alone,
:09:02. > :09:03.floods have killed 56 people since Sunday and affected
:09:04. > :09:10.Back in neighbouring Bangladesh, at least 39 people have been killed.
:09:11. > :09:12.And in Nepal, at least 115 people have been killed,
:09:13. > :09:14.with severe flooding affecting around 20 percent of
:09:15. > :09:23.A third of Bangladesh is now underwater after
:09:24. > :09:36.Rivers flowing in from neighbouring India are swollen,
:09:37. > :09:38.adding to the woes of this low-lying nation.
:09:39. > :09:40.The floods have affected hundreds of thousands of people.
:09:41. > :09:44.Those affected are doing their best to salvage whatever is left
:09:45. > :09:47.Bangladesh army troops have been deployed across the flooded areas
:09:48. > :09:51.Many people have moved into one of more than 1000 temporary relief
:09:52. > :09:53.shelters that have hastily been built for those
:09:54. > :10:00.In some parts of the country train services have been suspended
:10:01. > :10:01.after the floods washed away railway tracks.
:10:02. > :10:04.In Nepal, much of the heavily populated southern lowlands have
:10:05. > :10:17.This is the situation in one district in the south-east
:10:18. > :10:24.Residents say they have lost everything.
:10:25. > :10:30.The Government have been slow to react.
:10:31. > :10:33.Translation: Cattle were mostly affected.
:10:34. > :10:39.But our Government is not paying attention.
:10:40. > :10:44.If Government doesn't do anything who else will?
:10:45. > :10:47.The focus is now on getting relief to those in need.
:10:48. > :10:49.The Nepalese Army soldiers are doing their best to come
:10:50. > :10:54.to the aid of victims, but already aid agencies warn that
:10:55. > :10:56.Nepal could face a humanitarian crisis if food and water does not
:10:57. > :11:09.Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.
:11:10. > :11:12.A leading Iranian opposition figure has begun a hunger strike in protest
:11:13. > :11:18.at being under house arrest for six years.
:11:19. > :11:20.80-old-Mehdi Karroubi ran for the presidential election
:11:21. > :11:27.He was detained for his part in mass protests over the disputed result.
:11:28. > :11:29.The defeated candidate in last week's presidential election
:11:30. > :11:33.in Kenya, Raila Odinga, has announced he intends
:11:34. > :11:35.to challenge the result in the Supreme Court.
:11:36. > :11:37.Mr Odinga said his opposition coalition had collected concrete
:11:38. > :11:39.evidence of what he described as 'massive irregularities'
:11:40. > :11:42.The re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta was described as free and fair
:11:43. > :11:52.The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, has said he can
:11:53. > :11:54.solve the country's drug trafficking problem by killing
:11:55. > :12:00.His announcement follows raids by police in Manila on Tuesday
:12:01. > :12:02.which saw 32 people die - something he described
:12:03. > :12:08.Thousands of people have so far been killed since President Duterte
:12:09. > :12:18.One of the most challenging issues in Britain's
:12:19. > :12:21.departure from the EU - Brexit - is how to manage the border
:12:22. > :12:22.between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland,
:12:23. > :12:29.The British government has now published proposals on what should
:12:30. > :12:32.It says, it doesn't want any physical infrastructure,
:12:33. > :12:35.like customs posts, or the "hard borders of the past".
:12:36. > :12:38.It's an issue which has profound implications for the economy
:12:39. > :12:42.and politics in Northern Ireland - given the violent
:12:43. > :12:50.Chris Buckler reports from Narrow Water on the Irish border.
:12:51. > :12:55.For more than 300 miles, crossing fields and bridges,
:12:56. > :12:58.roads and rivers, there is a political dividing line
:12:59. > :13:04.But it is a border that cannot be seen, and many want
:13:05. > :13:11.Soft toys and cushions are the latest protest
:13:12. > :13:20.Where some kind of barriers could divide towns like Belcoo and
:13:21. > :13:23.Blacklion in the Republic, they are either side of this bridge
:13:24. > :13:25.and people in areas like this have jobs,
:13:26. > :13:34.businesses and friends that require them to cross this border regularly.
:13:35. > :13:41.I trust this board are up to 20 times every day, sometimes moving
:13:42. > :13:47.goods or sometimes managing staff on whatever is required and my daily
:13:48. > :13:49.work. If there were any checks that slowed that that would create lots
:13:50. > :13:55.of logistical difficulties. The Government wants no return
:13:56. > :13:58.to the days when border huts and customs posts marked
:13:59. > :13:59.where the Norwich Island This paper seems to dismiss the idea
:14:00. > :14:03.of a return to infrastructure or And ministers say they are
:14:04. > :14:11.determined to protect Allowing the free
:14:12. > :14:13.movement of people across Ideas and aspirations
:14:14. > :14:16.that will be welcomed beyond these islands
:14:17. > :14:18.and Brussels, but ones which raise political
:14:19. > :14:20.and practical difficulties,
:14:21. > :14:22.with claims that it could allow a back door
:14:23. > :14:23.for We do want to ensure
:14:24. > :14:30.that we don't see a return to the borders of the past,
:14:31. > :14:33.we don't see a return to a hard border and that are able to ensure
:14:34. > :14:37.that the crucial flow of goods and people between Northern Ireland and
:14:38. > :14:40.the Republic of Ireland is able to Some have raised doubts
:14:41. > :14:43.about the UK's ability to forge trade deals
:14:44. > :14:44.with other countries if it agrees to meet
:14:45. > :14:46.the EU's standards for
:14:47. > :14:55.food and agriculture. And if a customs deal cannot
:14:56. > :14:57.be agreed with the EU, there are questions
:14:58. > :14:59.about what will happen to the billions of pounds
:15:00. > :15:00.of trade carried along
:15:01. > :15:02.these busy border roads. The British Government believes
:15:03. > :15:05.technology and online declarations could be used
:15:06. > :15:07.to monitor goods carried But there are concerns about
:15:08. > :15:12.smuggling and the Irish Government I don't believe the island
:15:13. > :15:19.of Ireland issue's will be resolved through technology
:15:20. > :15:22.and I believe this paper but we also accept that, which is a step
:15:23. > :15:26.forward and I welcome that. It does leave you wondering
:15:27. > :15:28.what the board it is going to look like and if you are
:15:29. > :15:32.outside of the customs union how you We are no clearer as to knowing
:15:33. > :15:38.what that is going to be, That is because a negotiation now
:15:39. > :15:41.needs to take place. And there is a will to find
:15:42. > :15:44.solutions in this negotiation because tied up with the politics
:15:45. > :15:49.and practicalities are concerns about the attention impact of peace
:15:50. > :15:52.and prosperity at this, what is We can cross to Westminster now
:15:53. > :16:10.and talk to our political I want to talk about the bigger
:16:11. > :16:14.picture because the triple triggered the formal announcement about
:16:15. > :16:19.leaving the EU in March. What progress has been made? More
:16:20. > :16:23.than one year since the letter ends and there has been some criticism
:16:24. > :16:29.the UK Government has been slow to get on with it. Now the talks are
:16:30. > :16:32.underway, formal negotiations are happening, and other violent at the
:16:33. > :16:38.end of August and what we're seeing from the UK Government is what it
:16:39. > :16:45.thinks might happen on some of the key issues after Brexit. So we had a
:16:46. > :16:50.paper on customs policy and now this one on the Irish border. All of this
:16:51. > :16:55.is still subject to negotiation with the EU who set out their own
:16:56. > :16:59.position on various elements and we are led to believe there is some
:17:00. > :17:05.agreement on some issues but still a long way to go on the big picture
:17:06. > :17:13.stuff. The UK is meant to lead the EU by March 2019, so the clock is
:17:14. > :17:16.ticking. Now we are hearing that is likely to be a period of transition
:17:17. > :17:23.after the official date that could last up to three years while all the
:17:24. > :17:29.new arrangements have time to bed end and that is to give the issue
:17:30. > :17:33.since two businesses in the UK and on the continent.
:17:34. > :17:38.Broadly speaking, still a long way to go. Is it fair to say it is not
:17:39. > :17:42.clear what Brexit should mean both for the Government and also the main
:17:43. > :17:45.opposition, Labour Party? And there are different factions
:17:46. > :17:50.within the party about what they would like to see from Brexit. The
:17:51. > :17:55.Conservative Party have always been deeply split on the issue of the EU,
:17:56. > :18:00.it has played the party for a long time and many in that party put the
:18:01. > :18:05.referendum would settle the issue but still some think the UK should
:18:06. > :18:10.take a hard approach and leave the customs union and single market as
:18:11. > :18:13.quickly as possible. Now we are hearing from Government ministers
:18:14. > :18:17.are there could be this slightly longer phased approach before we
:18:18. > :18:22.reached that point. And the Labour Party also has different views about
:18:23. > :18:26.whether or not the UK should stay in or out some of the key EU
:18:27. > :18:31.institutions such as the single market. There is no consensus. That
:18:32. > :18:37.is to some degree making negotiations harder because the EU
:18:38. > :18:40.seeks clarity from the UK Government and it is through this position
:18:41. > :18:43.papers we are seeing today, with the Government setting out its
:18:44. > :18:47.negotiation position, it hopes to provide that clarity sought
:18:48. > :18:50.negotiations can progress, but there is still lots questions about how
:18:51. > :18:57.these ideas can work in practice. Thank you. There is a lot more on
:18:58. > :18:59.this issue on the BBC website as well.
:19:00. > :19:02.We may have a solution to the mystery of the Frankenstein
:19:03. > :19:04.dinosaur - the skeleton found in South America -
:19:05. > :19:07.and mysterious because the bones appeared to come from many different
:19:08. > :19:11.Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports:
:19:12. > :19:13.In the mountains of Chile, researchers discover a dinosaur,
:19:14. > :19:19.the like of which has never been seen before.
:19:20. > :19:22.Back in their lab in Buenos Aires, they carefully cut through
:19:23. > :19:26.the sandstone to find a bizarre skeleton.
:19:27. > :19:30.They named their dinosaur Chilesaurus.
:19:31. > :19:33.This animal had a real mix of features from different dinosaurs.
:19:34. > :19:35.It hip bones were like those of plant eaters such
:19:36. > :19:47.And its arms and body were like meat eaters such
:19:48. > :19:51.And so Chilesaurus became known as the Frankenstein dinosaur.
:19:52. > :19:55.But now a British researcher thinks he has solved the mystery.
:19:56. > :19:57.Chilesaurus has been revealed to be the missing link
:19:58. > :20:02.between one group of dinosaur, like the Stegosaurus
:20:03. > :20:07.and Triceratops, and another group which contains dinosaurs
:20:08. > :20:14.It really is the missing piece of the puzzle.
:20:15. > :20:16.Tyrannosaurus Rex and stegosaurus were thought to be in different
:20:17. > :20:18.branches of the dinosaur family tree.
:20:19. > :20:22.But researchers have shown that they are both
:20:23. > :20:28.The Frankenstein dinosaur now fits in perfectly as an earlier animal
:20:29. > :20:31.that came before them, which is why its skeleton
:20:32. > :20:38.This reassessment is important, because it will radically change
:20:39. > :20:42.the theory of how dinosaurs evolved and split into different groups.
:20:43. > :20:44.Chilesaurus is there at the beginning of one
:20:45. > :20:47.And hopefully, by understanding more about its biology,
:20:48. > :20:50.we will understand what the driving features of those big
:20:51. > :20:56.The skeleton was once a puzzle, but now it might be the key
:20:57. > :21:09.After months of speculation, Daniel Craig has confirmed
:21:10. > :21:12.that he will play James Bond again - but just one more time.
:21:13. > :21:20.So why the change of heart - here's the BBC's Chi Chi Izundu.
:21:21. > :21:21.Months of speculation, will Daniel Craig comeback
:21:22. > :21:37.Daniel is the seventh actor to take on Bond and is commercially the most
:21:38. > :21:39.successful of the franchise with Skyfall being the first
:21:40. > :21:41.to break the $1 billion mark at the box office,
:21:42. > :21:45.it was only a matter of time before he was back home at MI6,
:21:46. > :21:50.regardless of how many times it's been destroyed in the films.
:21:51. > :21:57.Despite the cars, the Martinis on tap and of course the women,
:21:58. > :21:59.let's not forget that after the release of Spectre, Daniel
:22:00. > :22:02.said he would rather slit his wrists than play the fictional
:22:03. > :22:05.And if you believe what you read in the press,
:22:06. > :22:09.And while Daniel was mulling over that offer other names
:22:10. > :22:17.But for the fans, Daniel is The Man with the Golden Gun.
:22:18. > :22:25.After all of this talk we finally have an answer
:22:26. > :22:29.Daniel Craig has reinvented bond and his films are among the most
:22:30. > :22:34.successful and critically acclaimed, so I think we are really glad we got
:22:35. > :22:36.the answer we are looking forward to Bond 25.
:22:37. > :22:40.He will be 51 by the time Bond 25 hits the cinemas in 2019
:22:41. > :22:42.and the stunts from Spectre left him needing knee surgery.
:22:43. > :22:45.So it's understandable that he says this time is the last time.
:22:46. > :22:54.Tens of thousands of Elvis fans - have been at a candelit
:22:55. > :22:58.vigil at his home - Graceland in Tennessee, to mark
:22:59. > :23:04.His daughter Lisa Marie, and his former wife Priscilla
:23:05. > :23:07.thanked the crowd for their decades of dedication to his memory.
:23:08. > :23:20.They have come to honour his swagger, stale and voice that made
:23:21. > :23:27.them of the most injury artists of the 20th century. This is the moment
:23:28. > :23:32.fans have been waiting for. Lisa Marie Presley 's stand at the gates
:23:33. > :23:39.of the great plan to welcome them in, some light candles as they make
:23:40. > :23:44.the pilgrimage up the hill to pay tribute at Elvis Presley's grave.
:23:45. > :23:49.She was one of the coolest man in the world, he lost all the people,
:23:50. > :23:54.no matter where they come from, no matter what your skin colour that
:23:55. > :24:00.catalogues all the people. Can you remember the first record
:24:01. > :24:04.you heard? My mother had his music playing in
:24:05. > :24:10.his womb so I all it took my mother I am an Elvis fan.
:24:11. > :24:15.What is so impressive about Elvis? I like his snarl. Can you do it?
:24:16. > :24:18.That's pretty good. At just.
:24:19. > :24:21.At just 21, Elvis changed the face and sound of rock and roll forever.
:24:22. > :24:23.Record labels said they were looking for a "white man
:24:24. > :24:35.Some saw his music as dangerous, as crossing racial boundaries.
:24:36. > :24:43.Before we discovered rhythm and blues and turn it into rock and roll
:24:44. > :24:49.your music was your parents' music. Here we have our own music and it
:24:50. > :24:53.was dangerous music. Maybe religion or politics didn't bridge these gaps
:24:54. > :24:55.but the music did. An Elvis was right on that edge.
:24:56. > :25:05.His death broke the heart of thousands.
:25:06. > :25:13.40 years on, a visit to Greece plan is a pilgrimage for many people and
:25:14. > :25:19.saw Elvis does live on. His influence in modern music and in his
:25:20. > :25:25.fans, who believe his influence will never die.
:25:26. > :25:31.Our top story, more criticism of Donald Trump's comments on white
:25:32. > :25:37.supremacists. America's last two Republican presidents have issued a
:25:38. > :25:43.joint condemnation of bigotry, anti-Semitism and hated whatever it
:25:44. > :25:47.is found in the USA. There is lots more on the BBC website, including a
:25:48. > :25:56.piece that has just gone up call Charlottesville, What Made Donald
:25:57. > :26:01.Trump's Remark So Offensive? And that includes eyewitness reports
:26:02. > :26:02.from the BBC journalist who was there at the weekend. Thanks for
:26:03. > :26:08.joining us.