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BBC news 2015-10-20

Hello, I’m Jerry Smit with the BBC news.

Slovenia has warned that it cannot accept unlimited numbers of migrants raising concerns of a backlock in neighboring countries. Thousands of migrants have been diverted through Croatia to Slovenia after Hungary closed its border to them. Gideon Long is near Croatia's border with Slovenia. “Slovenia has said it's willing to be a corridor for the people who want to get to Germany and other countries in the EuropeanUnions’ borderless Schengen area. But it's also making it clear that there're limits on what it's able or wants to do. The state secretary of the Interior Ministry Boštjan Šefic said that Slovenia cannot accept unlimited numbers of migrants if we know they cannot continue their journey and suggest that Austria was only allowing people to cross at the rate of 1500 a day. A Croatian government official told the BBC that it would run out of room in its transit camps within days if the current situation continues.”

New financial figures issued by China show that the growth of the country's economy slows slightly to 6.9% between July and September. It's a poorest quarterly rate since 2009. The slowdown comes despite repeated interests rate cuts and other stimulus measures introduced by the Chinese government.

The United Nations chief environment scientist has strongly criticized the British government for making deep cuts in its support for renewable energy.Professor Jacquie McGlade said the recent cuts in subsidies coupled with tax breaks for oil and gas sent a worrying signal to the coming climate summit in Paris. This report from our environment analyst Roger Harrabin. “It's unusual for a senior UN official to criticize a prominent government so directly. But professor McGlade says the UK needs to know that its cuts to clean energy are causing international concern. Ministers say solar and wind power will have to work without subsidy although firms say they cannot achieve that just yet.Professor McGlade said the UK had been a leader in climate policy, so it was disturbing to see Britain turning away from renewables just as other nations were embracing them.”

Party leaders in Canada have been making their final appeal for votes ahead ofMonday's fiercely contested parliamentary elections. Opinion polls suggest many voters are still undecided, as Rajini Vaidyanathan reports from Toronto. “Canada's Premier Stephen Harper is fighting to stay in power after nearly a decade in office. In a year when the country's economy took a downturn, the conservative leader was selling himself as the steady hand who can steer things back on course. But he’s been losing support to Justin Trudeau, the youthful and photogenic leader of the Liberal Party. Trudeau is promising change, investment over austerity and while he supports the fight against the Islamic State, he believes Canada should stop air strikes in Syria and Iraq and focus on training global forces on the ground.”  You're listening to world news from the BBC.

The Israeli military says an attacker armed with a gun and a knife has killed one of its soldiers at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheva. It says 11 people including security personnel and civilians were injured by the attacker thought to be Palestinian. He was shot dead by security forces.

The Egyptian authorities have given civil servants half-a-day off on Monday in an attempt to boost turnout on the second day of parliamentary elections.Official assessments suggest turnout so far may have been as low as 2% with nearly all of the voters elderly people.

Rising flood waters are causing alarm in the northern Philippines where a slow moving typhoon is cutting through the island of Luzon dumping heavy rains as it goes.Thousands of people have already left their homes to seek safety.

Scientists say the number of moles on your arm could be used to assess the risk of developing skin cancer or melanoma. A report by researchers at King's College London says that patients with more than 11 moles on their right arm were likely to have more than 100 across their entire body. The number is a strong predictor of melanoma, a type of skin cancer which develops from abnormal moles. One of the researchers Veronique Bataille says the presence of moles is more important than other indicators. “For GPs red hair for example as said oh you may be increase risk. That multiplies your risk by two.Having sun-burns as a child maybe multiples your risk by 1.52. If you have more than 100 moles on your body, that multiply your risk of melanoma by 5 to 10. So the power of being moly is much important than just being fair skin.”

Two of Australia's most wanted men are still on the run after a dramatic shootout with police during a chase out of Sydney. The father and son, Gino and Mark Stocco, are wanted for a series of violent offenses. They have evaded capture for eight years. BBC news.