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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The social media website ask.fm faces criticisms after the death of | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
a British teenager who had used their site. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Her father has said she killed herself after being targeted with | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
anonymous taunts. Now companies have withdrawn advertising from the | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
site. An acid attack on two teenage | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
British girls doing charity work in Zanzibar - they have been flown to | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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Dar es Salaam for medical treatment. Also coming up - we bring you the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
story of the ten-year-old bricklayer Jeeni to see how life | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
has improved for her and the other child workers since we first met | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
her. And 50 years on from Britain's | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Great Train Robbery, we ask why this crime so captured the | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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imagination and even passed into Hello and welcome. A social | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
networking website that is based upon encouraging anonymous comments | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
is now facing a very public backlash. The website has been | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
linked to the suicide of a British teenager who was bullied on the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
website. Now major advertisers are pulling their support from the site | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
based in Latvia. Its terms and conditions say members should never | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
use the feature to ask things that are mean or hurtful, but clearly | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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that has not prevented this particular tragedy. | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
The 14-year-old girl from Leicestershire, Hannah Smith, | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
hanged herself at home on Friday last week after being bullied and | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
encouraged to kill herself by anonymous posters on the website. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Today the Prime Minister David Cameron says his government is | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 121 seconds | :01:59. | :04:00. | |
looking at ways to help parents And what do you know about the | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
website? They promote this future of being able to anonymously target | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
people. When I say it anonymously, it you can place any information | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
about them. You are been delivered a be used without any way of being | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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able to verify where it is coming The other problem is the more abuse | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
and things they promote on their website, the more revenue they earn. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
Do you think Averill industry-wide approach backed by government or | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
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legislation will be the kind of recommendations. We need governments | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
around the world to put pressure on the social networks but also the | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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advertising networks. If you go completely off-line, you are | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
excluded and are a outcast. Thank you very much for talking to is | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
about that. Two young British tourist have had acid thrown on the | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
in Zanzibar. The young women were working as charity volunteers on the | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
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island, which defends Hall on the tourist trade. This was the | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
emergency operation to take two Englishwomen of the island of | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
Zanzibar on to mainland Tanzania. One was splashed with acid. Both | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
were in pain and shock after the sudden and vicious attack. British | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
Consulate staff help them get to hospital. The pair are both 18. They | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
were two weeks into a three-week trip working as volunteers for a | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
charity and booked through a United Kingdom travel company when they | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
were attacked. The city is a major to list attraction, but the foreign | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
office warns that violent and armed time is increasing. The ghettos were | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
walking up this area when two men need mopeds stopped and flung acid | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
in the faces. They then sped away. Paul rushed to help. It also | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
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happened so fast. The police do not And consular staff were arranging | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
emergency flights. Both families are extremely upset and distressed | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
at this unprovoked attack on their lovely daughters. We understand | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
they will be flying home overnight. We appreciate all the interest and | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
support we have received from the media, but we ask that we are left | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
alone and to we are reunited with our daughters. The authorities say | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
nothing like this has happened before and the police are still | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
tracking the two men to find that what was behind this vicious and | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
unexpected attack. News just in. The US State | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Department has announced that direct talks between Israel and | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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Palestine will take place in Jerusalem next week. That is news | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
just in, giving us a progress report on the US-brokered Middle | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
East peace talks. The head of Spain's train operating | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
company has announced new rules for how train drivers use their phones. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
He was answering questions from a special hearing in parliament over | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
the deadly high speed train crash near Santiago de Compostela two | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
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weeks ago. 79 people were killed and more than 200 injured. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Members of Congress gathered to get preliminary information on the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
crash. There was a minute's silence at the start of the session in | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
memory of the victims of Spain's worst rail accident for four | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
decades. Chief executives of the rail company were there to shed | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
light on the accident. We have activated a work security protocols | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
to increase safety in a work rail network. At the moment they is an | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
investigation carried out by the Commission for investigating | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
railway accidents. We are preparing a comprehensive report on the | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
accident. The heads of both the top two railways each defended the | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
quality of Spain's well Network, detailing the Investment it has | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
received and the technology that runs it. They also said there was | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
no apparent technical reason for the crash. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
TRANSLATION: Along the entire group there are no recordings of any | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
communication from the train to be monitoring centres to report any | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
breakdown or abnormality during the journey. By some politicians accuse | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
them of being too quick to blame the accident on the train's driver | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Francisco Jose Garzon Amo. He faces charges of manslaughter, having | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
admitted he was distracted and was going too fast. On Friday it will | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
be the turn of the public works minister to appear before the | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
congressional committee. International flights have resumed | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
from Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
East Africa's largest airport was forced to close yesterday after it | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
was engulfed in a huge fire. It's a vital gateway to the region and | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
handles around 16,000 passengers a day. Emmanuel Igunza sent this | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
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report from Nairobi. The morning after the day before. | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
The arrival lounge and Africa's biggest transport harp was gutted | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
by fire. It is not known how long it will take to fix. The damage is | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
pretty expensive. It has gone through the electrical system, the | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
mechanical systems are down. It is huge. The work that will be needed | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
to refurbish it to something that is operational will be huge. This | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
tent now serves as a departures terminal. Questions are being asked | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
about the speed of the emergency response and the number of fire | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
engines which attended the scene. The design of the airport made it | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
extremely difficult and you can just look at that structure. It is | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
difficult to even hose water. There was a real challenge. Although some | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
flights began yesterday, commercial fruits are flown on passenger | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
planes, so governments are losing money and government are losing out | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
on air taxes. It says normal services will resume soon. It has | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
been a frustrating wait for many passengers. I believe they have | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
been overwhelmed to try to accommodate everyone, but it is | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
taking too long. My flight is meant to be 10:25pm tonight to get back | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
to the United States. I might be here for a while. Even if for | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
services to resume, passengers could find themselves here for | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
quite some time yet. Now to a story of hope for a ten- | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
year-old girl whose childhood has simply been stolen. A few weeks ago | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
we brought you the story of Jeeni, who worked and lived in a Pakistani | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
brick factory, and she is not alone. It's believes 25 million children | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
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and teenagers are not in school. However, since our first report, | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
things have changed for Jenni. Orla Guerin has returned to southern | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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Deep in the cotton fields, Jeeni is at work. A child up shouldering the | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
burdens of an adult. But if this looks like hard labour, it remember | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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what she left behind. This brick kiln was her home and effectively | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
her prison. She and her entire family toiled here. They were | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
bonded labourers, enslaved by debt. But after we featured her story, | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
that debt was suddenly forgiven. We were taken to see the small Rhian | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
Jeeni shared with 14 family members. This campaigner from the child | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
rights group SPARC said she would have been liable for her parents' | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
debt. She would have had to work her entire life to work off the | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
loan. She would not be able to pay it, not even in her whole life. | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
owner of the killer claims he treaties workers well, they are | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
bonded labour it is illegal. He says Jeeni's father owed him nearly | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
$8,000, which you wrote off out of compassion. | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
TRANSLATION: After the BBC report, campaigners came to me and I said I | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
have be given the debt. I have children too. I took pity on theirs. | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
For Jeeni and her family, this new- found freedom means a chance of a | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
better life. Still poor, but no longer trapped. Her father says | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
with what they earn picking cotton, he hopes to send Jeeni and her | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
brothers to school. She is hoping for that as well and tells me she | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
likes it here, working the land. TRANSLATION: We spend all day in | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
the mud making bricks. Now we only work four hours a day. We are | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
better off here. This is another advantage of their new location. | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
For Jeeni life looks different. Here, at least for a time, she can | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
set work aside and simply be a child, but the biggest change is | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
that she can look forward to taking her place in the classroom, to | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
having a chance to learn. That is something that seemed impossible | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
before. Millions of children in Pakistan never get to school, but | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
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for Jeeni and her siblings and the bad boy has acknowledged for the | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
first time that errors were made in the election last week. About | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
300,000 people were turned away from polling booth and 200,000 were | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
swayed in the choice of candidate. But they said these anomalies did | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
not affect the election of President Mugabe. This is the first time that | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
grave mistakes have been admitted. They say that nearly 305,000 voters | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
were turned away from polling stations and that 206,000 received | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
assistance from election officials, the implication being that many of | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
these people would be influenced in the choice of candidate. Most of | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
those were turned away from the capital had Ali, clearly defeated | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
opposition candidate is particularly strong support. The numbers are | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
maybe not strong enough, but was which was a landslide victory for | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
President Mugabe. But local election monitors say the figures are far | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
higher. They say up to 1 million people where disenfranchised by | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
being left of the voters roll or being turned away from polling | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
stations. The defeated candidate is launching an appeal against the | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
election result, calling it a sham and a fraud. He is likely to use | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
these figures to back his case to the courts. The problem is the | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
courts are stuffed with supporters of President Mugabe. Few expect him | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
to have success in turning over these results. The chances of him | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
having another term in office are growing by the day. Africa's oldest | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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leader will hit 94 years of age by the end of his term of office. | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
Israel has opened the airspace after a temporary closure this afternoon. | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
They said that all incoming flights had been diverted due to security | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
grounds but had given no more other details. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Syria has denied reports of an attack on the convoy of President | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
Bashar al-Assad as he was on his way to a mosque in Damascus to take part | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
in prayers for the end of Ramadan. State television has shown pictures | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
of Mr Assad arriving at the mosque, despite reports from activists and | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
local residents that a number of mortars landed in the area. Some | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
reports say his convoy was hit. Pope Francis has signed a decree | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
aimed at tackling concerns about money laundering and terrorist | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
financing through the Vatican Bank. It is the latest in a series of | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
moves by the Pope to stamp out abuses at the bank, which handles | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
funds for the Catholic church. Last month, the Vatican froze the account | :20:31. | :20:40. | |
of a senior cleric suspected of involvement in money-laundering. For | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
nearly two decades, the Italian police have been surging for a Mafia | :20:43. | :20:53. | |
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boss, Domenico Rancadore. But now he has been caught. But the surprise | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
as he has been living in London for 20 years and is married to in | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
Englishwomen. Leaving court after hearing the husband and father been | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
described as the head of a Mafia family. He has been caught after | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
nearly 20 years on the run from Italian police. This is 64-year-old | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
Domenico Rancadore, who is alleged to have run the Mafia in Sicily. He | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
has lived in Axbridge for 20 years and was convicted in his absence in | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Italy of being a Mafia boss. He was arrested last night and now faces | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
extradition proceedings. I am surprised that he chose Oxbridge. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
is not a very glamorous place. Now we know, you sort of get the | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
picture. He has got all the ACC TV cameras and when he first arrived, | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
he pretend all the big hedge. I remember the neighbours at the time | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
did not like it. But I guess that you would want privacy if you are on | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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the run. When he appeared in court, the court heard that when police | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
arrived last night, Domenico Rancadore tried to escape out of the | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
back door, but a police officer was awaiting the four. The Tories said | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
to him, we know who you are. Last night 's arrest was big news in | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
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Italy and brought this news from the Deputy Prime Minister. C I am | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
delighted to see that police in London have arrested Domenico | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
Rancadore. This case is far from over. The court was told he was | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
deficiencies in the extradition warrant. There are no talks going on | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
between prosecutors in London and Italy. It means the family will be | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
back in court tomorrow. The lawyers are now going over the extradition | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
report. The wife and daughter blew kisses to him as he was taken down. | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
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Now, here is hot news for chocolate the "crime of the century". | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
50 years ago, a gang of robbers held up a Royal Mail train carrying bank | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
notes from Scotland to London. They got away with �2.6 million, the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
equivalent today of $71 million. The Great Train Robbery has passed into | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
British folklore, yet what is often overlooked is the fact that the gang | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
used brutal force on both the driver Jack Mills and workers in the mail | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
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carriage. The robbery was a mixture of audacity and violins. The gang by | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
fixing their signals. They then hit the driver Jack Mills to force them | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
to move his train to this bridge where the rest of the gang were | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
waiting. They formed a human chain to bring more than 100 meals thanks | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
down here. They took about two and a half million pounds, the equivalent | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
today of �40 million. The country were stunned at the police were | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
baffled. When I asked them what sort of deal we were talking about, he | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
said it could be up to �5 million. Gordon was part of the gang. Now 84 | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
and living in Spain, he knew it was an epic raid. I was not unaware of | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
the consequences. You are going up against the Queen and stealing the | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
Royal Mail. It is like as being modern-day Dick Turpin 's. But for | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
the train driver Jack Mills, the robbers were anything but Lammers | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
highwaymen. The gang drove 30 miles away and Ted at the farm. He police | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
officer was a local bobby who was sent to check out the farm. This is | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
one of the outlying buildings. As soon is he alive, he became | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
suspicious. I spotted in an alcove of the kitchen area a trapdoor. I | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
could see partial wrappings, banknote wrappers and consignment | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
notes, albeit in the names of our famous high Street banks. I think I | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
knew then that I was in the hideout of the great train robbers. This | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
monopoly set, no one easy, was also found here. The gang had played | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
using real money from the raid. It all adds to the mythology of the | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
claim. The start of an eager and the end of an era. It was the last of | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
the Greek cops and robbers claims. Even the American press were saying | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
it was the claim of the century. There have been much bigger robbery | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
since. But 50 years on, it is Great Train Robbery the which has slipped | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
into folklore and notoriety. 50 years ago today, the great train | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
robbery. Our main news, the website link to a death of a British | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
teenager says it does not condone bullying of any claim. Hannah Smith | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
was found dead in her bedroom last week. It is believed to be the | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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result of cyber bullying. That is tonight. A lot more cloud around. As | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
a result, it will not be quite so chilly as a last couple of nights. | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
The code is because of this weather front approaching Julian the day. | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
This is brought in rain across Northern Ireland and expanded into | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
Scotland and northern England. So, a gay and damp start to Friday. But | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
most places will brighten up quite nicely. There will be some afternoon | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
showers, particularly in the likes of Lincolnshire and East Anglia. But | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
in the sunny spells, temperatures into the all 20s. Perhaps slightly | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
cooler than today. After a restart, a few parts of south west and Wales | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
will have some nice spills of sunshine in the afternoon. Generally | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
drive for all others. Sunny spells also in Northern Ireland in the | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
afternoon, with the small chance of the odd shower. There will still be | :28:07. | :28:12. |