01/09/2017 World News Today

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Kenya's supreme court declare the results of last month's elections

invalid. The president says he will accept the result. I personally

disagree with the ruling that has been made today. But I respect it.

The BBC uncovers the abuse of detainees at an immigration centre

in southern England. The worst flood in decades bring misery to tens of

millions of people across South Asia. I've lost everything. I had a

cow and a goat. They were both killed. My house is totally broken

and I'm left sitting here by the side of the road. Same

scientists are beaming as they turn on the world's most powerful x-ray

laser. Warm welcome to world News today.

The Kenyan opposition leader Odinga has described the country's election

as rotten as the Supreme Court declared the presidential poll null

and void because of irregularities. Fresh elections must be held within

60 days. After the verdict there were celebrations in Mr Kenya's home

as well as other opposition areas. President Kenyatta said he disagreed

with the court ruling but said he would accept it.

Veteran politician Raila Odinga gets one more chance

A last-minute decision to challenge the result

of the presidential election paid off.

The presidential election held on the 8th August 2017 was not

conducted in accordance with the constitution

and the applicable law, rendering the declared result

Outside the court, celebrations erupted among opposition supporters.

It's now back to the drawing board for presidential candidates.

As much as I disagree with it, I respect it.

I disagree with it, because, as I have said,

millions of Kenyans queued, made their choice, and six people

have decided that they will go against the will of the people.

The judges, however, found no evidence of misconduct

The judges did not limit themselves to what happened on election day

Rather they looked at the electoral process in totality from voter

registry on to civic education as well as the campaigning and

In a sense this judgment sets a strong precedent for election

disputes globally and a high threshold for the

The court directed the electoral commission

But the opposition says it has no confidence

Most of them actually belong in jail.

And therefore we are going to ask for prosecution,

of all the electoral commission officers who have caused

this monstrous crime against the people of Kenya.

The constitution states a new election must be

For now though, opposition supporters across the country

are basking in the glory of the court victory.

Alex Vine is with me, head of the Africa programme at Chatham House.

Welcome to the programme. This is a remarkable moment of maturity for

Kenya isn't it, the dispute over the election being settled in the court

rather than on the streets. Yeah, nobody would have imagined the

Supreme Court coming out today declaring the election result is

null and void and they'd have to be held again within 60 days. This is

important for Kenya, really important, also really important for

Africa because this has never happened before on the African

continent. The implications go beyond the borders of Kenya itself?

Absolutely. Increasingly elections are close and contested through the

courts. This is a really important watershed moment for democracy in

Africa. We know the elections have to be rerun within 60 days, I

suppose there may be security concerns around it. Yes, there will

be security concerns. The market have already shown they are nervous.

The Kenyan shilling has weakened and the stock exchange suspended trade

for a short period. There will be quite a lot of worry and uncertainty

over the next 60 days. Quite interesting it came to this because

for a long time the opposition was saying it would not go down the

route of contesting it in court. Almost at the last minute they did.

The court found in their favour, without giving us details of what

these irregularities were. The report is going to publish its

judgment, we'll see it eventually. Odinga wasn't going to do this but

was under a lot of pressure from the international community. Ambassadors

and High Commissioners in Nairobi were telling him, that's what you

have to do, contest through the courts, don't continue to pursue

violence. Others were putting pressure on him to accept the

outcome, accept defeat in the election. You'll feel incredibly

vindicated but it raises serious questions about the credibility of

these international observer missions which you have experience

of. I was a member of the Commonwealth observer group mission

for the Gonnet in elections last year. A lot of these observant

groups are there to monitor the days of the elections and before. Some

have long-term observers but they are not able to pick up that much.

The local observer groups are the ones that are most effective. We

scene that particularly in West Africa but increasingly in East

Africa where it is local civil society and their observation groups

that are most powerful and effective. The British security

company G4S has suspended nine workers at an immigration removal

Centre for allegedly abusing detainees. It follows a BBC

investigation claiming officers mocked and assaulted people. It is

alleged there is widespread self harm and attempted suicide at the

centre which houses migrant is about to be expelled. Alison Holt has

more. Brook House Immigration Removal

Centre sits a couple of hundred metres from the runway at Gatwick

Airport. It's run by the global

security firm G4S. Here foreign national prisoners

facing deportation at the end of their sentence are detained

alongside asylum seekers, illegal migrants and those who have

overstayed their visas. Covert filming by the BBC's Panorama

programme shows a chaotic With self harm commonplace

among the men held there. There are officers doing their best,

but the undercover investigation alleges some staff mock, abuse,

or even assault detainees. The incidents picked up

by the hidden camera Callum Tulley has worked

at Brook House for two years. There is a culture of

violence at Brook House, when I started working there,

I was, I quite quickly became disturbed by what I was

seeing and hearing about. Last year another Panorama

investigation at Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent led

to allegations of the mistreatment The company says it is waiting

to see the Brook House footage but has suspended nine staff and put

five others on restricted duties. My initial reaction is that I am

absolutely disgusted It is totally unacceptable to me,

to the organisation, to anyone else who would work

in this kind of vocation. What does that tell

you about the culture of Brook House and also of G4S because culture

comes from on high. My expectations are very clear,

that we care for people, we look after people,

on occasions we challenge people, and we do so in a way that is

accepted, that is clearly laid down. It's the Home Office that

decides who is detained It says it condemns any actions that

put the safety or dignity of detainees at risk,

adding that G4S needs to ensure there is a thorough investigation

into the allegations at the centre. The company says it has

alerted the police. Let's look at some other stories

making headlines from around the world. Was because of the US House

of Representatives has urged President Trump not to scrap a

programme that protects young undocumented migrants known as

dreamers from being deported. Republican Paul Ryan said Mr Trump

should let Congress find a solution. Tens of thousands of people have

fled their homes in Nigeria after heavy rains and flooding devastated

a large part of the region. 730 tonne trucks of aid have been sent

to the area. Police in north-west England say the former national

football captain Wayne Rooney has been charged with drink-driving.

They say the Everton striker was stopped in his Volkswagen beagle in

the small hours of Friday. Last month he announced his retirement

from the England team after 14 years. The former Archbishop of

Westminster Cardinal, Murphy O'Connor has died aged 85. The

leader of the Roman Catholic Church for nearly a decade, made a cardinal

by Pope John Paul II in 2001. There is risk of a humanitarian

catastrophe according to Antonio Guterres. He says he's concerned by

reports of excesses during operations for security. According

to the UN nearly 40,000 refugees from Myanmar's minority have crossed

into neighbouring Bangladesh. 400 have died. They are fleeing fighting

between insurgents and Burmese security forces. Here is Jonathan

Head. Two days ago, people are swarming

across, wading, swimming, carrying what they can. This dramatic exodus

continuing even now speaks of a terrible conflict on the other side.

Inside the state, they are watching and recording from a safe distance

the destruction of village after village. Myanmar security forces

wipe out the communities they believe Harbert Rohingya militants

who last week launched armed attacks on the police. Bangladesh doesn't

want them but the Rohingyas haven't stopped coming. A stream of

humanity, all telling the same terrible stories. Of homes burnt,

husbands shot dead, and of flight on foot to the border. But where the

river is widest to some of the boat foundered. Men, women and children

drowned. The death toll in six days of violence right across the

northern state can only be guessed at. Years of repression and

discrimination have led to this. Public sentiment inside Myanmar

towards the Rohingya is almost universally hostile. Now a new

generation of militants have armed themselves and attacked the Myanmar

security forces in multiple locations and the civilian

population is feeling the backlash. Over the river, smoke from wrecked

communities send an ominous warning that this conflict isn't over. That

it might get a lot worse. Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok. Stay with

us on BBC News. Still to come... The investigate Paris Saint-Germain over

Neymar's record-breaking transfer from Barcelona.

this is BBC World News, I'm Ben Bland. The latest headlines. Kenny's

Supreme Court has declared the result of last month 's presidential

election invalid and ordered it to be rerun within two months. The BBC

has uncovered the alleged abuse of detainees at a detention centre in

southern England. Nine workers have been suspended. Full impact of the

devastating floods across South Asia is now becoming clear. Heavy rain at

this time of year are not unusual but the monsoon in India, Pakistan,

Nepal and Bangladesh is the heaviest in decades. Millions of people have

been forced from their homes. A third of Bangladesh is still under

water. Those least able to cope

are the hardest hit by the floods. Budhia Devi says her

life has been ruined. My house is totally broken

and I'm just left sitting The people here are subsistence

farmers, some of the poorest The floodwaters have

begun to drain back. Only to reveal the wreckage

of homes and of lives. More than 500 people have died just

in this one Indian state, 17 million affected,

and now there are new concerns - houses, schools, roads -

they all need to be rebuilt and then of course there is

the danger of disease. Filthy water, hot weather,

and the lack of basic sanitation can Filthy water, hot weather,

and the lack of basic sanitation can People remained in water

three days, four days. Their homes were

submerged in the water. They remained in the water but due

to waterborne dieases, they were drinking contaminated

water, so it's a huge risk. And this is a snapshot from just one

tiny part of a catastrophe that is unfolding across much

of South Asia. The region floods every year,

but this is different. Exceptional rains have

brought devastation right across the foothills

of the Himalayas, from Bangladesh in the east, across India and Nepal,

all the way to the West coast The death toll from the collapse

of a single building in the Indian financial capital,

Mumbai, rose to 33 today. Police suspect it was weakened

by the torrential rains. And 16 people have died

in flash floods in Karachi, Eid, one of the holiest dates

in the Muslim calendar, is tomorrow. It is typically one of the busiest

periods for the city as families But the monsoon's fury

is not spent yet. More rain is forecast

across the region. Donald Trump has declared this

coming Sunday to be a national day of prayer. The mayor of Houston has

warned parts of the city may remain underwater for two weeks. Storm

Harvey has displaced more than 1 million people with more than 40

feared dead. The flooding has knocked out the water supply to more

than 100,000 people in the town of Beaumont. Some estimates put the

economic cost at more than $50 billion. Time for a round-up of all

the day's sport. Katherine Downes is at BBC sport centre. Its

international weekend for football as teams and the latest round of

World Cup qualifiers. These are the latest scores. Germany one goal up

against the Czech Republic. Scotland beating Lithuania 3-0 in a must win

match for the Scots. England 1-0 up against Malta thanks to a goal from

Harry Kane. Paris Saint-Germain page ?200 million for Brazil's Neymar,

doubling the world record for a transfer. David Ornstein has more

details. Normally when Uefa look into financial fair play its

retrospective analysis, but here they've gone on the front foot and

said they are going to look into Paris Saint-Germain's financial fair

play compliance. Due to the recent transfer activities. By that they

mean the world record signing of Neymar from Barcelona for around

?198 million. The loan deal from Monaco, a loan deal with an option

to buy at the end. Many people think it's an obligation to buy for ?166

million. It's a way to navigate around financial fair play

regulations. Uefa have said the investigation will focus on the

compliance of the club with a break even requirement, particularly in

light of its recent transfer activities. That break even

requirement, all clubs have to live within their means, not allowed to

spend more than they earn. Uefa say they aren't going to give any more

comment on this. An interesting paragraph of this statement, they

said financial fair play is a crucial governance mechanism for the

stability of club football, they are trying to keep every club on a level

playing field. At the time of the Neymar transfer, the PSG president

told the Associated Press in relation to whether they would

comply with financial fair play, go and have a coffee and don't worry

about us. We're in hands, thank you. Another big name out of the US open.

Marin Cilic beaten by Diego Schwartzman. Petra Kvitova made it

through to the fourth round. She makes a comeback from the knife

attack that kept out of action for the first six months of the year.

Kyle Edmund had to retire with injury. The 18-year-old is the

youngest player to reach the men's fourth round at Flushing Meadows

since Michael Chang in 1989. Mercedes dominated practice for the

Italian Grand Prix. Tom Clarkson is in Monza. Italian Grand Prix marks

the end of the European season of the 2017 World Championship and on

the evidence of everything we've seen so far it's all about Mercedes.

Lewis Hamilton fastest in the first practice session, his team-mate

Valtteri Bottas fastest in the second. Sebastian Vettel third

fastest all day today. Leading Lewis Hamilton by seven points in the

World Championship. All to play for this weekend. What is the gap going

to be after the race on Saturday? Matteo

the Italian quickstep rider finished ahead of his compatriot. Chris

Froome finished safely in the chasing pack. He bids to become the

third rider to do the Tour de France double.

One of the most powerful x-ray machines ever built has officially

opened in the German city of Hamburg. The facility which has cost

more than 1 billion euros to build will be used to study the detailed

structure of matter. Atom by atom. It'd nearly 40 meters below German

cornfields in residential areas of Hamburg is one of Europe's most

ambitious cutting-edge research projects, allowing researchers for

the first time to look deep inside matter.

This has been ten years in development and is housed in a

tunnel three and a half kilometres long. The machine is a particle

accelerator that 27,000 times a second can produce a brilliant and

extremely short flush of x-rays. TRANSLATION: The light flashes we

generate are about 100 femtoseconds long, more or less the light needed

to cross a human hair. Reaching the Moon takes a second so we generate

extremely short light pulses allowing us to freeze quick

reactions in biological material. What scientists say really except

this part is that superfast time structure in the flashes will catch

proteins or catalysts in the very moment they are made or broken, and

even make a film of that change. But the head of the project is not

driven by questions of immediate use. TRANSLATION: I'm curious on

what I may answer in 5-10 years. Today I will say not with all the

will in the world can I imagine the specific use. But from the history

of science we learn often somebody said there was no utilisation. What

is the need of electromagnetic waves? Researchers hope this will

lead to new routes to understanding the causes of disease and improve

the efficiency of industrial processes. The project will begin

operations with 11 nations as members of its consortium.

Before we go, an astronomer has captured images of the biggest

asteroid to pass close to Earth in more than a century.

The asteroid known as Florence came within 7 million kilometres of our

planet. The space rock measures five kilometres across and is the largest

to pass by our planet disclosed since the record of asteroids began.

You can reach me and some of the team on twitter. Thank you for

watching. Thanks for joining me. Time for a

round-up of some of the noteworthy weather happening around the globe.

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