clean air rules regional authorities say they will appeal the verdict. now to a german conservative politician who has set his sights on one of the european union's highest offices manfred is the lead candidate for the european parliament's conservative bloc to run for the job of e.u. commission president so who is month. and what chances does this little known variant politician have of taking over from. modest serious and seasoned that is month. for more than ten years of the german conservative has been pulling the strings in the european parliament now he's aiming for europe's top job to replace him current european commission president mr europe. up there that is where the president of the european commission currently mr has his office and it's a position you cannot ignore the commission set the agenda on many crucial things in europe such as the budget the migration debate or the brics in negotiations now is the favorite to move into your because office a member of the european parliament since two thousand and four he is seen in brussels as succe

clean air rules i should say regional authorities say they will appeal the ruling. and there are still no signs of diesel get clouds disappearing just yet on our journeys transport ministry and car makers have come up with their latest ideas for cleaning up the fallen cvs here with the latest i see that's right little german carmakers having agreed to spend up to three thousand euros on measures of their own choosing to get older dirtier diesel cars off the road and that's according to german transport minister under. the three thousand figure is expected to cover hardware retrofits which volkswagen and dunn lawyers say they're willing to perform rival b.m.w. says it won't do retrofits but will offer up to three thousand euros on trade in senses now here to offer us more insight on this news is simon young a political correspondent for u w here in berlin simon what can you tell us so far about this deal what do we know. well stephen as you say of the three big car makers it seems that volkswagen and di miller have said they are willing to cover most of the estimated

authority has taken a radical decision concerning one of its own state from hotels. a few. hours. from now on in montanans us province it's tourism which must adapt to nature and not the other way around. in order for nature tourism to succeed the ecology ministry has some alternative ideas. such as floating hotels. by definition mobile each otello nice days a few years in the same place. then moves a few miles away to another spot and so on. ten floating hotels house the same number of guests is a five story building with one hundred fifty. the impact of tourism is therefore spread out and short lived in any given area. nature can then take all the time it wants to recover once the mobile structure has moved on. alan. claimed the was to egypt staying in these hotels in the heart of the wilderness is a unique experience since it enables tourists to come into direct contact with some of the area's remarkable animals. such as the town's. noel's expertise means he can offer tourists the chance to dive with shallow. but it's a complex operation. shots within a radius of

china's national health commission asked regional authorities to investigate. stories onlow these bloomberg.com and on tictoc on twitter. because of the scientist's announcement, gene editing stocks climbed. let's bring in robert, who covers dna technology. thanks for joining us. break this down. what did the scientist in china announce and do people fully believe it? is, this isreason the first claimed announcement that human gene editing, designer babies with dna theynently edited, and could pass these gene at its on to babies. it is not like ticking sells out and sticking them back in. this could be passed on, so it is controversial. youtube: it was done on , when i thought youtube wasn't accessible in china. what about the ramifications for u.s. stocks that moved on this? editingseveral gene companies were up today. it is unclear why they went up. are notntist's claims what they are trying to do. they are trying to do something , working on diseases like sickle cell and they are talking about modifying adult cells, not permanent gene editing of embryos, whi

., water, power, sewer, we have a regional authority, we have projects and contracts across seven different counties in the bay area, and this graphic shows our system and how we work to align geographically where the scope of work is happening or the services with the local communities for the community benefits to make sure that, again, we're maximizing impact where we can. and i'm going to end with just a couple of examples of how these commitments have taken shape once they've been implemented, and that is specific, again, to our commitments in contracts. so the first is our s.f.i.p., our sewer system improvement program, and we have our city works internship program. and this is an internship program for youth from the southeast neighborhood, mainly district ten, 15 to 19 years old, where students, again, are partnering with our private firms to get inside their offices and really explore careers around engineering, architecture, urban planning, operations, finance, and even communications. those are all jobs at the p.u.c., and those are all things we're excited to have these youth exp

the regional health authority found there were seven cases over six years, all born near each other. in early october, public health france found the number of cases was not significantly higher than the national average. it dismissed claims of a link between them after failing to identify a common cause. but on wednesday, it said 11 new cases had been discovered in ain, dating back to the year 2000. that makes a total of 18 cases over 1a years in the region. there are also concerns about the number of babies born with these abnormalities in loire—atlantique and brittany regions to the west of the country. some activists suspect pesticides used in farming could be a factor, but scientists are sceptical. for now, the health authority doesn't know what the cause is, or even if there's a link. translation: it can have a chromosomal origin, a medical or enviromental cause, or it could even be originated by mixed causes, but at this moment, we don't have any lead that would allow us to advance the investigation. public health france says it's looking into all the cases and hopes have re

the regional health authority found there were seven cases over six years, all born near each other. in early october, public health france found the number of cases was not significantly higher than the national average. it dismissed claims of a link between them after failing to identify a common cause. but on wednesday, it said 11 new cases had been discovered in ain, dating back to the year 2000. that makes a total of 18 cases over 14 years in the region. there are also concerns about the number of babies born with these abnormalities in loire—atlantique and brittany regions to the west of the country. some activists suspect pesticides used in farming could be a factor, but scientists are sceptical. for now, the health authority doesn't know what the cause is, or even if there's a link. translation: it can have a chromosomal origin, a medical or enviromental cause, or it could even be originated by mixed causes, but at this moment, we don't have any lead that would allow us to advance the investigation. public health france says it's looking into all the cases and hopes have re

heather streets—salter, the author of world war one in southeast asia, explained how the region suffered, from the impact of the great war. even though southeast asia did not really significantly shaped the course or the outcome of the war, especially in europe, the war really shaped southeast asia, and also east asia in really multiple and also profound ways, depending on where you look. and what are some of these ways ? you look. and what are some of these ways? so, one of the things that i write a lot about in the book is that representatives of the central powers, like from germany and austria, also from the ottoman empire, often working in concert with anticolonial indian and vietnamese revolutionaries, they worked actively in the region to try to undermine allied authority where ever it was manifested, especially in british player and french indochina, and they were also trying to get to india as well. —— malay. the neutral country surrounding the areas were crucial. the germans were able to work with anticolonial revolutionaries in siam, the dutch east indies, and china as bas

as with the french government is trying to limit the powers of authorities in regions departments and communes this is a process that's been going on for a long time and has made life difficult for local officials present his pursuing the policy of austerity in regard to local authorities he says he's not cuts in funding for local authorities funding has never been this low there's a toughening of standards which means local officials struggle to carry out their plans the main task of rural matters now is to receive new arrivals because rural france is becoming more popular than ever there's never been so many people moving out to the villages so it's important to maintain dialogue with the french government and get officials more room for maneuver so this is vital if you want to improve internet access health care education and expand employment in the broader economy we need to tackle these problems and the country will not develop if the government continues to hinder our efforts and i thanks for sharing it with us here at r.t. international more of your wednesday worldwide news he

greater cooperation amongst various national and regional predatory authority to agree on a design of multiple center clinical trial will greatly facilitate the efficient execution of product development in this particular rare disease to serve the patients with rare diseases and optimize their care and management. we can strive to obtain the perfect data set but the patients cannot wait. it is important, it is possible with the international cooperation to rely upon one well designed clinical study to elucidate a true treatment effect of a transformative method of treatment. mr. chairman, senators, i thank you again for your attention. every happy to take any questions. >> thank you, dr. tsang. our last what is this mallory factor was a professor at oxford and the founder and ceo of intrabio inc., which was handed for the purpose of developing novel therapies for rare diseases. thank you, senator paul and thank you all so senator casey for participating in this as well as the other senators. my colleagues to my right i think i covered a great deal of material already. i'm here today

i think he was of an interest to the authorities in the region probably because they thought he was going to put more bad press and more oversight into a region that a lot of authorities there are really trying to keep secret. there is roughly1 million muslims in shin—jaan and concentration camps. it‘s got a lot of deserve it bad press. i think a lot of local officials and shin—jaan are doing whatever mccann so that less information gets out, so it is more like a black hole holding things in. one thing i wanted to talk to you about. these two people on the screen onto us citizens called victor and cynthia. they and their mother are barred from leaving china. that has been the cases since june. that is because their father is wanted in a billion—dollar fraud case. it is believed in the family is being held in order to wear him back to face fraud charges. we‘ve heard from china‘s foreign ministry addressing this particular story. translation: as we understand it these people you have mentioned all have legal and valid identity documents as chinese citizens. they are suspected of

in kiev this region with a population close to russia geographically and culturally feared that the ultra right leanings of the newly formed government would bring meal nationalism to their lands. and they had their reasons. the status of the russian language in ukraine has been a stumbling block for many years implementing russian nasa second state language was one of the main campaign promises of president bush going to fulfill in two thousand and twelve the government passed a law making it the second official language in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine the areas where the russian speaking population makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing view. or might see some familiar faces there on a five month old. but i'm lost. on february twenty third two thousand and fourteen the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for in a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it still sent a m

now but the government simply has to do more for this region probably a career. on. the authorities have a quipped the police with faster boats and are now trying to gain control of the situation. but this police officer says that's just not enough the problem is already far too large the authorities no longer rule linea the drug gangs to police officers have even been assaulted. by yet all. the fellow officers are seriously can sit. in applying for a transfer so my. we don't have the proper means to protect ourselves how are we going to ensure safety for a whole community. where. the drug trade in the name yet brings in those involved over three hundred million euros every year and the police are finding it difficult to change that. the united kingdom might be on the verge of breaking away from the rest of europe but consolation is that hand for british citizens wanting to drown their sorrows because english wine is booming that's right english wine enthusiastic wine makers like ben and christina taking advantage of climate change to step up production vintages into

warning many regions are still in danger at least thirty one people have died following california's deadliest wildfires on record. well. the supreme court has been hearing a challenge to the president's decision to call a snap election by saying it triggered a major political crisis last month when he fired and replaced the prime minister mel fernandez reports from colombo over a dozen petitions were herded sri lanka's supreme court on monday the petition is say president might to polish seriously in a violent to the constitution when he dissolved parliament in this instance for years have not lapsed and parliament has not acted as lucia. and therefore the condition president laid down in the constitution has not been followed and presidents act of dissolving parliament therefore is dull and white while the courtroom was packed to capacity people milled outside waiting for news some heckled politicians prompting police to be called in. at the heart of sri lanka's constitutional crisis is a tug of war between the president who says he's acting to protect the people and public represe

poroshenko said he would only use the authorities in regions that border russia. in brussels, nato secretary taneral jens stoltenberg said the alliance would firmly behind non-member ukraine. >> there is no justification for the use of military force against ukrainian ships and naval personnel. >> reporter: president trump weighed in as he left the white house. >> we do not like what's happening either way. we don't like what'sappening. pefully get straightened out. europe is working on it too. they're all working on it together. >> reporter: and at an eme tency meeting united nations security council u.s. ambassador nikki haley condemned, "reckless russian aggression." russia's ambassador said the u.s. and nato were giving cover. poll numbers before next year's presidential election. >> ( translated ): how can he maintain power in these circumstances? it's clear: organize provocation and once again accuse russia of everything. infle his own ratings, and p himself forward as the savior of the nation >> reporter: matthew rojansky is director of the kennan institute

in the region of veneto, which has borne the brunt of the damage, authorities believe it will cost 1 billion euros to repair and 100 years for the forests to regrow. the destruction has been widespread. all of these regions have been hit by bad weather, from veneto and the piedmont regions in the north to sardinia and sicily, which has been the area most affected in the last 2a hours. the danger now appears to have passed in the north—east but authorities in the south and north west are bracing themselves for more wild weather to come. italy's civil protection agency describes it as one of the most complex weather situations of the past half—century. katie silver, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. the businessman arron banks insists his donations to a pro brexit campaign complied with electoral law and came from his uk businesses. an investigation's begun into how eight children fell from an inflatable slide at a fireworks display in woking last night. none suffered serious injuries. tributes are paid to the former head of the civil service, sirjeremy heywood who has died aged

the regional director of the u.n. children's agency says that yemeni authorities are making it difficult to deliver a much needed humanitarian aid gets coupler a warning that impending reefed relief efforts could plunge the war torn country into famine nearly one point eight million children already suffer from malnutrition in yemen. iran's supreme leader ali hominine has slammed president donald trump after the u.s. announced it would reinstate all sanctions against iran come on i said the u.s. would be the ultimate lose over its decision washington's far reaching sanctions on iran's vital oil sales and banking sectors are an attempt to forcing the islamic republic into negotiations to scrap its nuclear energy and ballistic missile programs the renewed restrictions will hit next week after being lifted three years ago the iranian government remains on phased by the reimposition of sanctions on monday the headline of the conservative newspaper reads the u.s. can get lost but many iranians don't share this view. you ca

more joined by author sullivan who's a d w reporter d.w. business reporter who's just come back from there are you also grew up there know the area quite well and you've just reported on how business businesses are dealing with the prospect of bragg's it what's the mood in the border region i would say the mood is one primarily of worry and concern and also a lot of uncertainty. the main thing that it's thrown up is at the moment on the present owners is that they don't know what's going to happen obviously we don't even know at the moment if there's going to be an e.u. summit in november or not we don't know when the next one's going to be because the such uncertainty over the negotiations are going on as one business owner said to me when i was there politicians can make decisions at the last minute and be hailed as a hero but if a businessman leaves it to last to make a decision it can be catastrophic for the business so it's worry and concern primarily prompted by the ongoing uncertainty over what would be the final or. went on the isla

in the region of veneto, which has borne the brunt of the damage, authorities believe it will cost 1 billion euros to repair and 100 years for the forests to regrow. the destruction has been widespread. all of these regions have been hit by bad weather, from veneto and the piedmont regions in the north to sardinia and sicily, which has been the area most affected in the last 2a hours. the danger now appears to have passed in the north—east but authorities in the south and north west are bracing themselves for more wild weather to come. italy's civil protection agency describes it as one of the most complex weather situations of the past half—century. katie silver, bbc news. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come. back on land and into the record books, the first person to swim all the way round britain. the israeli prime minister, yitzhak ramdin, the architect of the middle east peace process has been a saturday it. a 27—year—old jewish man has been arrested and an extremistjewish man has been arrested and an extremist jewish organisation man has been arrested and an e

in the region of veneto, which has borne the brunt of the damage, authorities believe it will cost one billion euros to repair and 100 years for the forests to regrow. the destruction has been widespread. all of these regions have been hit by bad weather, from veneto and the piedmont regions in the north to sardinia and sicily, which has been the area most affected in the last 2a hours. the danger now appears to have passed in the north—east but authorities in the south and north—west are bracing themselves for more wild weather to come. italy's civil protection agency describes it as one of the most complex weather situations of the past half—century. katie silver, bbc news. the moat around the tower of london was illuminated this evening with 10,000 torches, commemorating the final days of the first world war a century ago. it took around 45 minutes to light the flames in a ceremony that'll be repeated every night until remembrance sunday. the as the nation prepares to mark 100 years since the guns finally fell silent, our religion editor martin bashir has been reflecting on on

in the region of veneto, which has borne the brunt of the damage, authorities believe it will cost 1 billion euros to repair and 100 years for the forests to regrow. the destruction has been widespread. all of these regions have been hit by bad weather, from veneto and the piedmont regions in the north to sardinia and sicily, which has been the area most affected in the last 2a hours. the danger now appears to have passed in the north—east but authorities in the south and north west are bracing themselves for more wild weather to come. italy‘s civil protection agency describes it as one of the most complex weather situations of the past half—century. katie silver, bbc news. voters in the french pacific islands of new caledonia have decided to remain part of france. an independence vote was promised three decades ago, after a violent campaign by separatists from the indigenous kanak people. well, if you believe the opinion polls, then it is likely that new caledonia will say no to independence. it would seem that economic insecurities have swayed many voters to stick with france

in the region of veneto, which has borne the brunt of the damage, authorities believe it will cost one billion euros to repair and 100 years for the forests to regrow. the destruction has been widespread. all of these regions have been hit by bad weather, from veneto and the piedmont regions in the north to sardinia and sicily, which has been the area most affected in the last 2a hours. the danger now appears to have passed in the north—east but authorities in the south and north west are bracing themselves for more wild weather to come. italy's civil protection agency describes it as one of the most complex weather situations of the past half—century. katie silver, bbc news. the husband of a pakistani christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after eight years on death row has pleaded for asylum from the uk. asia bibi's husband, ashiq masih, said they were in great danger in pakistan. the supreme court overturned her conviction on wednesday, saying the case against her was based on flimsy evidence, but she has yet to be freed. her acquittal sparked violent protests, and the governmen

sheriff says as many as one thousand and eleven people are now missing authorities have recovered the remains of eight more victims raising the death toll to seventy one more than fifty two thousand people have been displaced around two thousand central american migrants marching across mexico towards the u.s. have reached you want to right on the border american troops have been securing the border wall on the u.s. side with barbed wire as the migrants approach. i want to have opened up a sports complex to take up to three thousand people thousands are fleeing violence and poverty in their countries hoping to seek asylum in the united states britain has an exit secretary as prime minister theresa may fight to save a draft withdrawal agreement struck with the european union to barkley steps into the position vacated by dominic rad one of a number of conservatives who quit after the tory cabinet backed the deal made to her plan to the public on friday speaking at a london radio station to try and tell sell rather the agreement but a number of her party's senior lawmakers say the agreem

also warning that many regions are still in danger or jay gray joins us now from westlake village in california so from what we're hearing the authorities seem to think that perhaps the danger is starting to recede how would you describe the conditions there. well first i want to show you what the flames are leaving behind this is a firsthand look at some of the devastation here in places that looks like the surface of the moon or something i mean you've got does solution here thick gray covering everything little left but twisted metal in many of these areas and this is what a lot of those returning evacuees will be coming back to it's important to point out while there is. some mayor. some neighborhoods where people are allowed to go back into their neighborhoods back into their homes and see exactly what happened that's not the case over much of the area still a lot of vacuum way sions in place hundreds of thousands and officials fear more could be on the way why because the santa ana winds that are pushing the flames expected to pick up again today and run through the next couple

the regional director of the un's children's agency unicef says that yemeni authorities are making it difficult to deliver much needed humanitarian aid get. one that impeding relief efforts could plunge the war torn country into famine nearly one point eight million children already suffer from malnutrition in yemen. in egypt thousands turned out for the burial of six members of the same christian family killed in a terror attack on friday they were returning from a baptism at a coptic mana stream in your province when the bus they were traveling in was ambushed by islamic militants. a group of migrants traveling from central america to the united states has crossed from guatemala into mexico more than a thousand people are estimated to be traveling together and earlier and large a group of migrants has now reached central mexico about half of the members have dropped out u.s. president donald trump has vowed to block these groups of the u.s. border. during argentina's military dictatorship in the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's thousands of opposition members disappear

the regional director of the us children's agency unicef says that yemeni authorities are making it difficult to deliver much needed humanitarian aid kit. that relief efforts could plunge the water and country into famine nearly one point eight million children already suffer from malnutrition in yemen. the first shock revelations are emerging from a database called football leaks they include a plan by europe's top clubs to radically change the face of football by forming a new league of their own here's a look at the role of germany's top club buy in munich in the allegations. behind the scenes byron munich has been plotting an attack on europe's soccer structure according to documents seen by germany's spiegel magazine byron's corporate attorney began planning to leave the champions league back in two thousand and sixteen byard together with a handful of other elite clubs are aiming to set up their own super league breaking away from european soccer's governing body you a thug. we sent a message to you if we don't need you i'm being frank about it and we need to do this otherwise we can't

allow independent observers unhindered access to all regions. i thank you, mr president. the authorities here do not like the criticisms of course, but they are unlikely to be overly concerned. despite the global outcry, there is very little talk of consequences. china intends to keep fighting its war against extremism its own way. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. there were mixed results for english sides in the champions‘ league tonight. a late goal helped spurs to a win over psv eindhoven. but liverpool were beaten by red star belgrade as natalie pirks reports. tottenham‘s new stadium was supposed to be the only place to watch champions league football in london this season but stuck at wembley in this must win match their defending looked as shabby as the nfl—ravaged pitch afterjust 62 seconds. it is the perfect start... the clock ticked on and spurs couldn‘t see a way through until... there is the champions league lifeline for tottenham. who else but captain kane? and there was still time for a winner. spurs have at least given themselves a fighting chance.

will see relief from the blizzard that has roared through the region. are you a christian author with a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! >>> a winter storm has forced airlines to cancel nearly 2000 flights on one of the year's biggest holiday weekends in the united states. >> 14 million people are under a blizzard watch across the midwest, and nearly 20 million are under a high wind advisory. >> and our meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us now with more on all these delays. what a mess. >> what a mess, yeah. one of the busiest days, as you said. certainly not president same set up we saw a couple days ago when we had the travel period began with very quiet weather, then all of a sudden, of course, you have the messy weather currently in place. and the blizzard conditions expected to continue through at least mid-morning across portions of ohio on into portions of illinois, i should say, on into areas around chicago as well. where up to 8 inches of snowfall into the forecast as w

but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. he presented the bunsen committee with his vision of a new near east region as rich as a joke and this will be our use to come up himself with a different plan which is something completely different a much more old fashioned. was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the bunch i wish i were older wiser you know that why work out your article in july one thousand nine hundred fifteen the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to h

state of california are being allowed to return a major highway has also been reopened but authorities are also warning many regions are still in danger she won people have died following california's deadliest wildfires on record as well n.b.c.'s jennifer joins us now from westlake village in california jennifer just describe the scene that for us what conditions lie. mary i mean it is still very windy and very dry and unfortunately so many people are coming home to this absolutely nothing left of their homes here in westlake village we're about an hour west of los angeles and this is what it looks like this fire going all the way up and over the hill and into malibu that we heard about the last day or two only twenty percent containment on this fire so far and a very very difficult time as people start to come back into their homes and find that they have nothing left to come back to and then there are those who aren't coming home at all we know that the death toll is thirty one at this point but there are still two hundred people or so still unaccounted for across the state so that