24/08/2017 World News Today

The submarine owner who took a journalist to sea will be charged

with murder after her body washed up off Denmark.

The UN calls for a pause in the fighting in Syria

to allow civilians to escape Islamic State's last stronghold.

Eight people are missing after a landslide in the Swiss Alps,

with warnings that further landslides could follow.

The narwhal - as sea ice retreats in the Arctic,

scientists are learning more about the creature they call

Hello and welcome to World News Today.

Danish prosecutors investigating the death of a Swedish

journalist say they plan to charge submarine inventor Peter

The dismembered body of Kim Wall was found off the Danish coast

after she was taken out to sea in a submarine by Mr Madsen

for any more remains of Kim Wall, near to where she and Mr Madsen set

Anything they find will be key to piecing together what happened

with a lack of physical evidence or witness testimony.

Kim Wall travelled and worked around the world for

She graduated from Colombia School of Journalism,

and it was here fellow students held candlelit vigils to

When somebody passes, they always say the person was sweet, and she

really was. She was funny. When you talked to her, you could talk to her

for a long time. She was very easy to talk to. So a lot of us are

feeling like it is not fair. Elisabeth Thiis from Danish

broadcaster TV2 has been covering Thank you for talking to us. What is

the latest on the search for Kim Wall's remains? Late this afternoon,

Swedish police found what seems to be a body part off the Swedish coast

just across from Copenhagen and the place where the torso of Kim Wall

was found. It is too early to say whether it is related to the case

but it is definitely something the Danish police are keeping in mind at

the moment. Rossa Kidder 's say they plan to bring murder charges, or ask

for a murder charges against Peter Madsen -- prosecutors say. Do you

know when the charges will be brought? The police are charging him

with murder. The new charges are that they plan to ask for charges of

the felony abuse of a corpse. The new charges will be in the latest

September. Two charges, murder and abuse of court 's -- abuse of a

court 's. What had she been trying to do when she agreed to take the

trip on a submarine? As we know the story, she was planning on writing a

story about this submarine. Not many people have private submarines in

the world and Peter Madsen, the Danish inventor, build this and it

is one of the largest in the world. She was going to write a story, that

is the explanation we now so far and all other explanations are

speculation. This must have shocked the whole of Denmark as well as

journalist colleagues in Copenhagen. Yes, the story has been developing

for the last two weeks. First we had a missing submarine, which is

unique, then we had a missing young journalist and suddenly a very

well-known scientist charged with murder. Today the police revealed

that the torso washed up on the coast of Copenhagen was found naked

and there were no clothes from Kim Wall in the submarine. There has

been a lot of development in the story and it is something which

doesn't happen every day in Denmark. Migration continues to focus

the minds of European leaders with President Macron

on a tour of central Europe. He's visiting Austria,

Bulgaria and Romania to persuade them of the need to tighten up rules

which ensure workers from low wage members of the EU don't undercut

the wages workers in its richest Elsewhere in the bloc

the number of migrants heading to the UK has fallen sharply

as the country prepares 50,000 fewer EU nationals came to

the UK in the past year than before. That still left total net migration

- the difference between those entering and leaving the country

- at 246,000. For many Eastern Europeans,

the time has come to go. The triggers, Brexit

and the falling pound. Among the crowds at London's coach

station this afternoon, He said Leave voters

had driven him out. I think they are a little bit racist

with us, the European people. That is why you are

planning to leave? Yes, and also because sterling

is going down, you know? We want to go there,

because we can find good At this chicken hatchery

in West Oxfordshire, they have become reliant on workers

from countries like Poland that It allowed their business

to expand, year-on-year. But today's figures show that

suddenly almost as many people from those countries

are leaving as arriving. The owner is losing staff

and struggling to find new ones. The referendum was when people

really thought about it. Over the last 12 months or so,

it has got worse and worse. People have thought about it more

and more and it is now This isn't something that might

happen in the future, in 2019. For people like myself, recruiting

staff, it is a problem today. Further up the chain in chicken

production they are even more For the first time in years,

he is planning to shrink Rightly or wrongly, huge sections

of the agricultural, food production, hospitality

and manufacturing industries in the UK have become reliant

on a ready supply of workers Now, all of a sudden,

that supply is drying up. Today's figures show

the total number of people arriving in Britain to live,

study or work, minus those leaving, But the headline figure is dropping

and the single biggest factor is that fewer Europeans are coming,

and more are leaving. It is good to see that we have

the third quarter in a row of net but we can't be complacent,

we won't be complacent. There is still a lot of work to do,

and we will continue to do that to deliver ultimately

on the long-term ambition to see it Of course, millions of EU citizens

are still working in the UK in places like this Scandinavian

cafe, and many will stay. The UK economy is now

performing less well, perhaps, Another one is that the value

of the pound has declined, which means, firstly,

it is more expensive to live Also, if you are earning money

in the UK and you want to spend it in another country or send it home

to your family, it is worth less. The figures are the strongest

sign yet of a Brexit The question is, what will the

knock-on effect be on the economy? Swiss police say 8 people

are missing following a landslide Rescue operations are being

intensified, and geologists are warning that further landslides

in the remote alpine valley, which is popular with hikers

and climbers, cannot be ruled out. On Wednesday morning,

4 million cubic metres of mud and rock poured down the mountain,

destroying farmhouses in its path and ending up right on the edge

of the tiny village of Bondo. Residents were they

activated immediately. Helicopters plucked hikers

from alpine huts and, at first, rescue workers thought

everyone was safe. TRANSLATION: Overnight we received

reports of missing people. We intensified the rescue effort

and an army helicopter was sent out. Police have now confirmed that eight

people known to have been in the region at the time

of the landslide are Over 120 rescue workers

are now searching on foot and with specialised helicopters

which can detect These remote, steep-sided valleys

are popular with climbers and hikers but they are also known for the risk

of avalanche and rock slides. Some communities here have

already invested millions Geologists are warning that

in the coming days further The United Nations has called

for a humanitarian pause in fighting against so called Islamic State

in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa to help civilians escape

the increasingly deadly battles. The UN estimates that some 25,000

civilians remain trapped. The war in Syria is in its seventh

year, with rebels refusing to give up the fight against President

Assad. Our chief international

correspondent Lyse Doucet is in Syria and has just returned

from the town of Suknah, the site of recent battle,

and she joins us now What is the latest about the battle

and the effect on civilians? We heard the United Nations trying to

be seen to be doing something to end what is clearly a dire situation for

civilians trapped in Raqqa. When they tried to escape they are either

stopped by snipers or booby-traps or by Islamic State which wants to use

them as human shields, or if they manage to escape they come under

fire from US led coalition air strikes targeting the positions of

Islamic State, including the boats they are using to transport fighters

and weapons as they dig in for their last stand. This is the last battle

it is believed to take back what was declared the capital of the

caliphate. It is a very important call by the United Nations but the

big question, as always, is whether all of the poses the United Nations

tries to achieve in Syria, this time it might fall on deaf ears. You are

in Homs, we have heard so much about it with so much tragedy in this war.

What is the situation there? In the early years of the Syrian uprising,

Homs so some of the largest protests and the heaviest fighting. Buying to

me there are entire neighbourhoods lying in ruin. By doing surrender

deals with the opposition and forcing them out, all of Homs is

back in government hands and there are parts of the city where you

would think they had never been a war at all. Swimming pools full of

children on summer holiday, families walking in parks, Ferris wheels full

of children laughing and playing as they would anywhere. But this city

has been through a lot of hardship and pain. So many residents were

forced to flee and believe with bitterness and anger and sadness

that they will not be allowed to come back. What sort of strategic

significance does Suknah have? It is a desert town in the midst of a vast

expanse of Desert, left as a mound of ruins, and the 80,000 people

living there fled the town when Islamic State stormed it years ago.

Now there is almost nothing left but the Syrian military describes it as

the most important victory this year. The taking of Suknah opens the

road to the only province in Syria entirely under the control of

Islamic State. Except for a besieged part of the capital city which is so

held in government hands, also a Syrian Air Force Base, that is the

next target. We saw people making their way ten kilometres a day

across the desert. Thank you very much. Sorry about the problems with

the sound just at the end. Let's take a look at some of

the other stories making the news... 23 people have died

in Brazil after a ferry boat sank en route from the Island

of Itaparica to the coastal A survivor said he spent two hours

in the water before being rescued. At least 19 others were killed

in a seperate incident on Tuesday Brazil's government has abolished

a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up

the area to mining. The area covers 40,000 square

kilometres and is thought to be rich The government insists that

protected forest areas and indigenous reserves

will not be affected. Dutch police have arrested a second

suspect after a rock concert was cancelled last night

because of fears of an attack. Police are still questioning

the driver of a Spanish-registered van that was stopped

near the concert venue in Rotterdam, India's law minister says

he welcomes a landmark ruling by the country's Supreme Court that

says citizens do have a fundamental right to privacy The decision

could have big implications for a huge government biometric card

programme introducing personal More than one billion Indians have

already signed up but rights groups are concerned personal data

could be misused. It has been described

as a historic judgment, one that could fundamentally alter

the lives of Indians. Nine judges of the country's

Supreme Court spent two years poring over arguments before delivering

a powerful verdict. In its order, the Supreme Court said

not only does the constitution guarantee the right to privacy,

it is also an intrinsic part of an individual's right

to life and liberty. Then it went on to say

that there was a need for the courts to be sensitive to the dangers posed

to liberty in a digital age, and the direct impacts

for an ambitious and flagship government identity programme,

the Aadhaar system. For the past eight years,

the government has collect biometric data from more than 1 billion

Indians, covering almost In return, every citizen has been

provided a unique identity number that has now been mandatory

when opening a bank account, filing taxes and accessing a host

of other essential services. Many Indians believe it has

given the government too much access and control

over their personal information. Nobody should tell me that this

is how you should live. The way I want to live,

I should be accepted that way Privacy means live and let live

and it is important for everybody because if somebody is always

looking into your life it becomes stressful and you feel

you are being judged. And there are some who believe

the extensive judgment has For example, the surveillance

architecture of the state here in India is growing

exponentially and fast and it has been growing without trammels

and so the fact that the right to privacy has been explicitly

and by such a large bench laid down, and it includes

information on privacy. -- and it includes

informational privacy. The Aadhaar identity system

was meant to cut red tape and curb corruption while delivering basic

services and welfare But it has left many concerned

that the data could be After today's court decision,

the entire future of this ambitious A study here in the UK has

revealed shocking levels of inactivity among middle-aged

people in England. Researchers found that about 41%

of those studied didn't even manage a brisk ten minute walk

once a month. In the Derbyshire Peak District,

the Stockport walkers I believe the weather

is going to be fine. The beauty of walking

is it is free, you do not Regular walkers will

tell you, there are People like Liam Quigley,

who joined this club after If you feel down, you

come to an area like this, you get a few

miles under your belt, and you go home and you feel

100% better. Nothing seems as bad

as it did before. Now Public Health England says

too many adults are not getting enough physical activity,

leading to hundreds of avoidable But walking briskly at around three

miles per hour for just ten minutes each day can

significantly reduce the risk of ill That is the advice

GP Dr Zoe Williams has a smartphone app

to measure heart own progress. But according to a survey

of our exercise habits, Four in ten adults,

between the ages of 40 and 60, are not managing

to achieve ten minutes of brisk walking

per month, which sounds unbelievable, and a lot of those

people will be walking, but they are It is important to

walk briskly, because that is when you start to get

the health benefits. But for many, time is the biggest

obstacle to exercise. Generally I would rather

drive than walk, because I need to get

there in We do go for a walk,

but not briskly. This advice from health

experts to do ten minutes of brisk walking every

single day sounds simple enough, but many of us struggle to work that

kind of activity into our everyday many of us struggle to work that

kind of activity into our everyday If you use public

transport to get to work, you could hop off a stop

early and continue As you get to work, do not take

the lift, use the stairs. If you do get a break

during the day, for example a lunch hour,

you can use that time Walking can help with weight loss,

back pain, long-term conditions like diabetes, even reducing

the risk of cancer. Now we're all being urged

to get up and get moving. It's a figure too

big to comprehend - Well, it's made one

Massachussetts woman very happy - CHEERING

That is the sound of someone who has won the lottery.

She is the winner of the biggest jackpot in North American history

and has come forward to collect her prize. I just want to sit back and

relax. I had a pipe dream to retire in 12 and it came early. I work in a

medical centre in patient care. I have called them and told them I

will not be coming back. LAUGHTER

The rate of melting ice in the Arctic has been worrying

Now they're studying narwhals, one of the most mysterious

ocean species, to help determine the impact.

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum

of Natural History in Washington DC reveals some of their findings.

Often called sea unicorns, narwhals are among the most

Their frozen habitat has made them hard to study but, as the ice melts,

these aquatic mammals are becoming more accessible to scientists,

who hope to solve perhaps the biggest mystery of them all -

the purpose of the narwhal's tusk.

A lot of people think this tusk is a horn but it is not,

And you are a dentist, which I suppose makes sense.

And in this case probably a dentist for one of the most extraordinary

The research we have been conducting for the last 16 years has shown

tiny nerve connections between the outside of this

tusk and its inner nerve, which is innervated

That is one of many theories, although most scientists believe

the tusk is used by males to attract females.

This exhibition presents an overview of the latest research.

It also shows how narwhals are changing their behaviour due

to habitat loss caused by climate change, and how that

affects the Inuit, who have depended on the narwhals

The native folks have told us that they are changing migrations,

that there are more instances of what we call entrapments,

that is when the narwhals get caught when the ice is freezing up

in the fall and in the winter it will freeze right

So there are some pretty dramatic events which can occur.

Scientists work with the Inuit to track and study narwhals.

By fitting them with sensors, they are learning more

about the diving patterns and feeding habits, migration,

These sounds were recorded underwater but when predators are

But even their breathing can be an unforgettable experience.

I was on the ice and it was 2am roughly and I heard the breathing

The water was still, it was tranquil.

There was a light mist and fog and then hundreds of whales started

surfacing and I heard this cacophony of breathing sounds all around me.

There are approximately 180,000 narwhals living in the Arctic

but climate change is opening the region not just to scientists

but to commercial enterprises, raising the risk of pollution.

And that could pose the biggest threat of all.

Don't forget you can get in touch with me and some

of the team on Twitter - I'm @KarinBBC.

From me, Karin Giannone, and the rest of the BBC World News

The best of the dry and bright weather the further south and east

you are over the next few days. Low pressure is in the north-west,

moving slowly towards us and bringing outbreaks