:00:00. > :00:12.Hurricane Irma - the most powerful Atlantic storm ever -
:00:13. > :00:16.heads to Puerto Rico after causing major damage in the
:00:17. > :00:21.She won the Nobel Peace Prize - but now Aung San Suu Kyi is under
:00:22. > :00:25.fire for not speaking out about the plight of
:00:26. > :00:31.We're on the border with Bangladesh as thousands continue to flee.
:00:32. > :00:33.Several of them have told me that their villages
:00:34. > :00:40.There are some people here with gunshot wounds.
:00:41. > :00:43.Hungary reacts furiously as the top European Court says it must accept
:00:44. > :00:59.It looks like a photo of an ordinary girl so why does this snap break the
:01:00. > :01:09.rules for a prestigious portrait prize?
:01:10. > :01:12.Hurricane Irma - the most powerful storm ever
:01:13. > :01:14.recorded in the Atlantic - has now made landfall as it
:01:15. > :01:18.sweeps across a number of Caribbean islands.
:01:19. > :01:20.The Category five storm - with sustained winds of 185 mph -
:01:21. > :01:26.is now heading towards the British Virgin Islands,
:01:27. > :01:37.It has already had to get, St Martin and Anguilla.
:01:38. > :01:46.Our correspondent Laura Bicker is in Puerto Rico.
:01:47. > :01:54.You can see the effects of Hurricaine Irma and that storm is
:01:55. > :01:59.quite a bit away. We believe the eye of Hurricaine Irma is currently over
:02:00. > :02:05.the virgin islands and it was last recorded wind speeds of 185 mph.
:02:06. > :02:10.They have not seen a storm in the region of this strength since 1928.
:02:11. > :02:14.All the preparations have been made on this island now and the only
:02:15. > :02:16.thing they can do is wait and see what the next few hours will bring.
:02:17. > :02:21.This is what it sounds like to be in the heart of one of the strongest
:02:22. > :02:26.The winds, like a jet engine, roar through the eastern Caribbean.
:02:27. > :02:29.The category five hurricane ripped roofs off homes,
:02:30. > :02:33.devastating some of the oldest buildings in Saint Martin.
:02:34. > :02:36.And all communication was lost to 2000 people stuck on the island
:02:37. > :02:40.of Barbuda where there are reports of a 20 foot storm surge.
:02:41. > :02:45.And as she barrelled towards the Virgin Islands,
:02:46. > :02:49.hundreds tried to get to safer ground.
:02:50. > :02:52.This rare view from the air gives you an idea of the sheer
:02:53. > :02:58.Around the eye are catastrophic 185 mile an hour winds.
:02:59. > :03:05.And this is what they fear on the island of Puerto Rico.
:03:06. > :03:09.The aim is to try to save as much as possible.
:03:10. > :03:12.Neighbours in this area are handing out wood boarding and supplies.
:03:13. > :03:16.This shop owner describes them as angels.
:03:17. > :03:21.We are a strong island, you know, we have been through this before.
:03:22. > :03:25.It's a lot of emotions going on, you know?
:03:26. > :03:27.The Governor inspects one of the shelters set up
:03:28. > :03:30.for the thousands who are expected to evacuate low-lying areas.
:03:31. > :03:32.He says the next few hours of preparation could be
:03:33. > :03:37.the difference between life and death on this island.
:03:38. > :03:40.A big impact, should those hurricane winds hit Puerto Rico.
:03:41. > :03:44.We are hopeful that it will skid off somewhere
:03:45. > :03:46.north-east of Puerto Rico, but we are prepared
:03:47. > :03:52.We can't leave anything to chance and our priority right now
:03:53. > :03:55.is to make sure the people of Puerto Rico are safe.
:03:56. > :03:58.These families hope they will be safe in this school.
:03:59. > :04:05.This woman tells us her house is already filled with water.
:04:06. > :04:09.Irma is closing in and all people here can do now is watch and wait.
:04:10. > :04:23.Let's show you what things look like in Puerto Rico right now. This is a
:04:24. > :04:27.light shop we can see, -- live shot. This is a beach not far from where
:04:28. > :04:33.Laura was reporting. Porto Rico is expected to be coming very close to
:04:34. > :04:38.Hurricaine Irma. The pad is predicted to particles by. More than
:04:39. > :04:44.3.5 million live in Puerto Rico so a huge source of concern but it looks
:04:45. > :04:53.extremely stormy. Just after two o'clock in the afternoon there.
:04:54. > :04:58.Let's go to Saint Kitts. It was battered by Hurricaine Irma a few
:04:59. > :05:02.hours ago. We can speak to James Ferrers. Thank you for talking to
:05:03. > :05:08.us. Our things right now? Things have started to improve thankfully.
:05:09. > :05:17.We have had the main brunt of the storm at about, between 5am and 7am
:05:18. > :05:25.local time this morning. The winds started up at about midnight and
:05:26. > :05:31.ramped up gradually until 5am this morning and the sun came up, you
:05:32. > :05:36.could see the full force of the storm across the bay where I live
:05:37. > :05:41.here. So now you are getting pretty complete picture of the kind of
:05:42. > :05:48.damage it has called? Yes. Luckily the area I live in, the majority of
:05:49. > :05:55.the houses are correcting proofs. Obviously there are trees down and
:05:56. > :06:02.vegetation and roads. But there doesn't seem to be any structural
:06:03. > :06:07.damage in the area I live in. You are actually part of the
:06:08. > :06:15.preparedness team for the university where you work. At the school that I
:06:16. > :06:18.work out, that is correct. We have been planning for some time,
:06:19. > :06:26.everything seems to be going according to plan and so far to my
:06:27. > :06:29.knowledge everybody is safe. We know you were looking at the window and
:06:30. > :06:32.you could see something you thought was lighting through your curtains
:06:33. > :06:40.but it was the live electricity cables actually snapping and dancing
:06:41. > :06:43.around in the wind. That is right. It is about 430, five o'clock, we
:06:44. > :06:49.thought there were lightning strikes but when we looked out, we could see
:06:50. > :06:57.the snapped electrical cables in the distance sort of dancing around
:06:58. > :07:04.near... We are looking at those pictures now, James. Yes, it you can
:07:05. > :07:09.imagine it is pretty scary but thankfully it is not in an area
:07:10. > :07:15.where a lot of people lived and now we can see it in daylight, things,
:07:16. > :07:20.everybody seems to be safe in that area. When you heard about the
:07:21. > :07:25.magnitude of Hurricaine Irma what was the reaction in Saint Kitts
:07:26. > :07:30.given you were in its path? We knew there was a big storm coming from
:07:31. > :07:35.the middle of last week so there was a lot of preparation coming across
:07:36. > :07:41.the island, people have obviously been storing a lot of water, canned
:07:42. > :07:51.food, biscuits, these sort of things, so we have been well
:07:52. > :07:56.prepared. What are people able to do now? What sort of state had things
:07:57. > :07:59.been left in? At the moment the current advice is to stay indoors.
:08:00. > :08:07.We are still experiencing some high winds and some rain. Things are
:08:08. > :08:11.starting to slowly ease off now, so we are all just sitting it out and
:08:12. > :08:19.waiting for the all clear. Thank you for talking to us from St Kitts,
:08:20. > :08:23.that is James, thank you for talking about how it was for you there in
:08:24. > :08:27.the Caribbean. We will keep you up-to-date with the progress of
:08:28. > :08:32.Hurricaine Irma here on BBC World News.
:08:33. > :08:35.Over the past few days we've been reporting on the plight
:08:36. > :08:36.of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar.
:08:37. > :08:39.Well today the country's civilian leader - the Nobel
:08:40. > :08:41.laureate Aung San Suu Kyi - described reports of
:08:42. > :08:43.the crisis as a "huge iceberg of misinformation".
:08:44. > :08:45.In the past twelve days nearly hundred and fifty thousand Rohingyas
:08:46. > :08:47.have arrived in neighbouring Bangladesh.
:08:48. > :08:49.Many have accused Myanmar's military of murder and rape.
:08:50. > :08:58.Terrified Rohingyas are fleeing from Myanmar however they can.
:08:59. > :09:00.Several children are said to have drowned today trying
:09:01. > :09:11.We were hiding near a hill for two days.
:09:12. > :09:13.We were there in the rain without food and with my children.
:09:14. > :09:17.When we heard the sound of shooting, we took a boat across the sea
:09:18. > :09:23.The refugees bring with them new reports of atrocities that have
:09:24. > :09:27.The world had hoped the country's de facto leader would use her moral
:09:28. > :09:33.Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
:09:34. > :09:36.for her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights.
:09:37. > :09:42.She had spent 15 years under house arrest during
:09:43. > :09:47.But today, at a press conference with the Indian Prime Minister,
:09:48. > :09:49.Aung San Suu Kyi was conspicuously silent on the victims
:09:50. > :09:54.She said misinformation was distorting reality,
:09:55. > :09:59.and she blamed terrorists for the crisis.
:10:00. > :10:03.We believe that together we can work to make sure that terrorism is not
:10:04. > :10:06.allowed to take root on our soil or on the soil of any
:10:07. > :10:13.They are Muslims who've faced discrimination and persecution
:10:14. > :10:16.for decades in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, which
:10:17. > :10:19.considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
:10:20. > :10:23.But Bangladesh denies they are its citizens.
:10:24. > :10:25.Many were forced from their villages by communal violence
:10:26. > :10:31.The latest refugee crisis has been caused by what the military
:10:32. > :10:34.is calling "clearance operations", following attacks by Rohingya
:10:35. > :10:44.150,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar in the last two weeks alone.
:10:45. > :10:50.More than 230,000 have escaped to Bangladesh since last October.
:10:51. > :10:52.Malala Yousafzai, a fellow recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize,
:10:53. > :10:57.this week called on Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn what she called
:10:58. > :11:02.the tragic and shameful treatment of the Rohingyas.
:11:03. > :11:04.Aid agencies haven't been allowed into the areas
:11:05. > :11:06.they are fleeing from, and the UN Secretary-General has
:11:07. > :11:08.warned this crisis could spiral into a humanitarian catastrophe.
:11:09. > :11:18.One of the few foreign journalists allowed into Rakhine state,
:11:19. > :11:20.from where Rohinja people are fleeing, is the
:11:21. > :11:24.A Burmese minister told him that all the villages burned down
:11:25. > :11:28.there were destroyed by Rohingya militants, aimed at forcing
:11:29. > :11:30.the Muslim population to flee to Bangladesh.
:11:31. > :11:43.We have, a rather long and arduous journey to get here on a government
:11:44. > :11:47.tour and the Government has brought us here. It doesn't normally allow
:11:48. > :11:50.journalists or any foreigners into this region without special
:11:51. > :11:53.permission, because it wants to challenge the narrative that the
:11:54. > :11:57.rest of the world is hearing from the many refugees, tens of thousands
:11:58. > :12:01.that are fleeing into Bangladesh. So they have been taking us to various
:12:02. > :12:05.sites, showing as examples of destruction and letting us talk to
:12:06. > :12:11.people. And all of them are sticking to the tame story, -- same story,
:12:12. > :12:15.which is Muslim militants have infiltrated Rohingya of course they
:12:16. > :12:19.don't use that word, it is pretty much banned in this part of the
:12:20. > :12:22.world, they saved the Muslim cleared his work infiltrated by the sultans
:12:23. > :12:26.and it was them themselves who burned down these villages, which we
:12:27. > :12:30.can see, the remains of about four or five houses, apparently lived in
:12:31. > :12:36.by Moslem inhabitants who are now being looked after next door by the
:12:37. > :12:43.temple behind me. It is very hard for us to challenge this narrative.
:12:44. > :12:46.We are in the company of heavily armed police and government
:12:47. > :12:49.officials. We have heard some dissenting views and have been able
:12:50. > :12:53.to talk quietly to people but this is the message the Government wants
:12:54. > :12:57.to get across, that it wasn't their fault and security forces have
:12:58. > :13:02.denied any abuses of a tall, all the allegations of rape and the shooting
:13:03. > :13:05.and they say all the hundreds of villagers burned down, every part of
:13:06. > :13:06.it is the responsibility of the militants themselves and nothing to
:13:07. > :13:07.do with the Government. The UN is warning that the situation
:13:08. > :13:09.in Myanmar could spiral Our correspondent Sanjoy Majumder
:13:10. > :13:14.is on the border with Bangladesh - as more refugees arrive by land
:13:15. > :13:19.and by sea. All these boats are carrying
:13:20. > :13:21.Royingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar and they have
:13:22. > :13:28.been coming through I am told there are several other
:13:29. > :13:32.boatloads of refugees just waiting This is one fresh lot of refugees
:13:33. > :13:38.who have just arrived. They have come off this boat
:13:39. > :13:40.here, and you can see how they are carrying with them
:13:41. > :13:43.their household belongings, things that they have just managed
:13:44. > :13:48.to grab as they ran. Several of them have
:13:49. > :13:51.told me that their villages There are some people
:13:52. > :13:57.here with gunshot wounds, some people with other injuries,
:13:58. > :13:59.but most of all, they This is a really dangerous voyage,
:14:00. > :14:05.and it has taken them From here, they will move on to one
:14:06. > :14:11.of the many refugee camps that have and there are more
:14:12. > :14:18.coming in every hour. A test carried out on DNA taken
:14:19. > :14:21.from the foggy of the dead Spanish artist Salvador Dali has shown that
:14:22. > :14:24.a woman was wrong to His foggy was exhumed - in July -
:14:25. > :14:33.from a crypt in Figueres so that samples could be taken to settle
:14:34. > :14:38.the paternity claim. Maria Pilar Abel Martinez,
:14:39. > :14:42.a tarot cloud reader, had maintained that her mother had
:14:43. > :14:44.had an affair with The Hungarian government has reacted
:14:45. > :14:53.furiously to the EU's decision to dismiss its legal challenge
:14:54. > :14:55.against taking compulsory The fixed quotas were drawn up two
:14:56. > :14:59.years ago at the height Hungary and Slovakia had
:15:00. > :15:02.brought their legal challenge They say they will continue
:15:03. > :15:05.to fight the quotas. The BBC's Nick Thorpe
:15:06. > :15:08.is in Budapest and describes how The Hungarian Government's reaction
:15:09. > :15:16.to the court verdict The Foreign Minister,
:15:17. > :15:20.Peter Szijjarto, described the verdict as appalling,
:15:21. > :15:22.irresponsible, and European law and values had
:15:23. > :15:29.been raped, he said. The European Commissioner
:15:30. > :15:32.for migration, replied that the only political element lay not
:15:33. > :15:36.in the verdict, but in the stance of What the Hungarian Government now
:15:37. > :15:48.clearly expects to happen is that the European Commission
:15:49. > :15:50.will sue Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic for refusing
:15:51. > :15:53.to accept a single asylum seeker Such a court case could take
:15:54. > :15:57.between six months and two years. Having lost the legal argument,
:15:58. > :15:59.Hungary now hopes it can still influence the political
:16:00. > :16:02.argument over the future Meanwhile here in Britain,
:16:03. > :16:12.there's been a mixed reaction to a suggestions that the Government
:16:13. > :16:15.is planning tight restrictions on immigration from
:16:16. > :16:18.the European Union after Brexit. A leaked document recommends
:16:19. > :16:21.a two-year limit for unskilled workers to stay in the UK,
:16:22. > :16:23.with employers being urged But business leaders have expressed
:16:24. > :16:33.concern about the proposals. Here is our Political Editor Laura
:16:34. > :16:36.Coombs burg. There in black and white,
:16:37. > :16:38.a plan for immigration Leaked ideas to answer the demand
:16:39. > :16:42.the Prime Minister believes millions The document from August says
:16:43. > :16:47.freedom of movement, where unlimited EU citizens can come
:16:48. > :16:50.here, will end when we leave. New arrivals after 2019 would have
:16:51. > :16:55.to register to stay long term. There will be tighter rules
:16:56. > :16:58.for lower skilled workers, to prioritise British employees,
:16:59. > :17:03.perhaps even with a cap on numbers. And for EU citizens who do come
:17:04. > :17:07.to the UK, it'll be harder This Birmingham food factory
:17:08. > :17:15.is already losing one Italian chef And boss Rosie is concerned
:17:16. > :17:20.it will make it harder to attract new arrivals,
:17:21. > :17:26.the staff she needs. It will definitely hinder our job
:17:27. > :17:29.as an employer but actually We do have chefs from
:17:30. > :17:33.all over the world. It will impact our ability
:17:34. > :17:43.to recruit people. The Government won't budge
:17:44. > :17:46.on its view that the referendum was an instruction from the public
:17:47. > :17:48.to control immigration. Well one minister admitted it
:17:49. > :17:52.won't be an easy job. Since this draft was put
:17:53. > :17:54.together only last month, there have been six more versions
:17:55. > :17:57.of the plan. With not just the Home
:17:58. > :17:59.Office but the Treasury, the Brexit Department and Number Ten
:18:00. > :18:03.all determined to chip in. And don't forget, whatever
:18:04. > :18:07.they decide here, they have Leaving the EU is not just
:18:08. > :18:12.about obscure negotiations in the back rooms of Brussels,
:18:13. > :18:15.but Government departments right now engaged in rewriting
:18:16. > :18:17.the country's rules. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
:18:18. > :18:26.News, Westminster. A court in Moscow has ruled that
:18:27. > :18:29.a policy used by the Russian airline Aeroflot to link flight attendants'
:18:30. > :18:33.pay to their dress size is illegal. Two stewardesses had
:18:34. > :18:35.brought the case, after their wages fell
:18:36. > :18:39.and they were removed from international flights
:18:40. > :18:41.because they were deemed too big. Aeroflot denies its policy
:18:42. > :18:43.is discriminatory, but in court, a lawyer argued that the appearance
:18:44. > :18:46.of its crews was a key factor He also argued that limited space
:18:47. > :18:50.on planes meant larger It might look like a photograph
:18:51. > :18:58.of an ordinary Japanese girl, but this snap's forced
:18:59. > :19:00.London's National Portrait Gallery to bend the rules
:19:01. > :19:02.for its prestigious The work of Finnish
:19:03. > :19:09.artist Maija Tammi - it's actually a robot staring
:19:10. > :19:12.into the lense - and the only time a photo of an artificial
:19:13. > :19:14.person's been accepted for the Taylor Wessing
:19:15. > :19:17.Prize shortlist. The gallery say they'll look
:19:18. > :19:20.at the rules for future years, but for now they like the questions
:19:21. > :19:22.it poses over what it We can speak to Maija Tammi now -
:19:23. > :19:35.on the road as we speak, Maija, welcome, thank you for
:19:36. > :19:42.speaking to us while you are on the move. What gave you the idea to do
:19:43. > :19:48.this? I was in Japan in an artist residency and most of my works but
:19:49. > :19:52.that where borders go, borderline things that questioned the actual
:19:53. > :19:59.definition that kind of creates them, for example, life and death.
:20:00. > :20:05.What kind of things are considered alive and what dead? We have
:20:06. > :20:10.multiple definitions. We can look at Erica. That is the name of the
:20:11. > :20:17.android you chose to photograph. Tell us what it was like to meet an
:20:18. > :20:23.android? I only had half an hour with her and she wasn't on, so to
:20:24. > :20:29.speak, so I could not talk to her because she has her own desires and
:20:30. > :20:32.things she wants to do, so I had half an hour with an assistant and
:20:33. > :20:39.we had a little laptop in the table where we could control facial
:20:40. > :20:46.movements and little details in her face, the kind of control her eye
:20:47. > :20:48.movement and control her. If you look at the picture nobody would
:20:49. > :20:57.know that it wasn't a real-life human being I met this then is the
:20:58. > :20:59.roads -- this bends the rules, the National Portrait Gallery says it
:21:00. > :21:06.itself, will you surprised they let you do this and get this far? Kind
:21:07. > :21:09.of a bed. That was also my reason to enter Iraq into the competition
:21:10. > :21:13.because I want to see if the time is ready for us to kind of think what
:21:14. > :21:18.do we consider to be alive and what do we consider to be human as well.
:21:19. > :21:23.The other two short listed orchards are an image of a migrant and Venter
:21:24. > :21:30.is a portrait of a girl fleeing Islamic State in Mosul. Do you think
:21:31. > :21:37.that nonhuman takes some seriousness away from the other portraits? Not
:21:38. > :21:40.necessarily. We also have to remember when we look at Brit Awards
:21:41. > :21:45.that I am sure a lot of people still strongly believe that a portrait
:21:46. > :21:49.tells something deep psychological inside of the person who is in front
:21:50. > :21:56.of the camera, whereas we do know in reality that people project our own
:21:57. > :22:01.thoughts on the portraits. We see a face and we imagine what lives and
:22:02. > :22:06.what sort of person it could be. It is so do our best possible gas.
:22:07. > :22:15.Sorry, Maija, thank you very much. We are out of time. The results will
:22:16. > :22:17.be announced on the 14th of November, we wish you all the best.
:22:18. > :22:19.Jennifer Lawrence was the highest paid actress
:22:20. > :22:22.in the world last year - she's made her name and her fortune
:22:23. > :22:24.playing gritty roles and her new part in the dark,
:22:25. > :22:26.psychological thriller Mother! is no exception.
:22:27. > :22:28.Our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz, has been to meet the 27-year-old
:22:29. > :22:33.Oscar winner ahead of the film's UK premiere.
:22:34. > :22:47.and devoted to her husband, a much older literary man
:22:48. > :23:11.The critics are slamming and lauding this in equal measure. It is not
:23:12. > :23:16.enjoyable while you are watching it. It is hard to watch. It is an
:23:17. > :23:21.assault. If I was writing a review while I was watching it I would be
:23:22. > :23:26.like, don't go! If you sit with it a little bit and give yourself 45
:23:27. > :23:32.minutes when you get home, you realise how important it is. He has
:23:33. > :23:40.a stranger, we just going to let him sleep in our house? Hello. Hello.
:23:41. > :23:43.What was in it that was important? What is great about it is everyone
:23:44. > :23:49.will walk away with something that resonates with them. For me it is
:23:50. > :23:57.what would happen if we treated our planet with care, with humanity,
:23:58. > :24:01.pulling out of the Paris climate deal was not a good start. That is
:24:02. > :24:13.what keep the marriage going. This is all just... Setting. Oh, you do
:24:14. > :24:19.want them. What about gender and the Hollywood thing? Do you think it is
:24:20. > :24:25.still deeply unfair, the game is rigged in Hollywood? I do. I think
:24:26. > :24:29.there is still a lot of unfairness. We are making changes, the gap is
:24:30. > :24:37.very slowly closing, but there is still work to be done. Could you
:24:38. > :24:42.make sure for instant that you got paid the same or even more than your
:24:43. > :24:45.co-star in this movie? I didn't look at what he was getting, I just knew
:24:46. > :24:47.what they deserved and what with that. If you found out he was paid
:24:48. > :24:55.more? There would be a phone call. Before we go, take a look at these
:24:56. > :25:14.pictures which are proving quite Why drag this crime was completed in
:25:15. > :25:18.25 minutes but he had been trying for two years. He is the first
:25:19. > :25:22.person to finish a single rope climb. For the non-rock climbers
:25:23. > :25:24.among us, that is considered the hardest kind feature can actually
:25:25. > :25:27.attempt. Before we go, take a look at these
:25:28. > :25:30.pictures which are proving quite They show a rather unusual attempt
:25:31. > :25:40.by an Irish man to catch a bat It was filmed in Derry Fleming's
:25:41. > :25:44.home in County Kerry You can see Derry chasing the bat
:25:45. > :25:48.around with a bath towel, It all turned out well in the end.
:25:49. > :26:09.No injuries. Thank you for watching. Hello. Today we have had some bright
:26:10. > :26:10.spells. One