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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera. Two of the world's | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
most influential men leaders meet in Rome. Contentious issues like | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
abortion were discussed when President Obama met Pope Francis - | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
but their first meeting began with smiles and warm handshakes. | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
Like people around the world I have been incredibly moved by his passion | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
and message of inclusion. As the UN votes to declare Russia's | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
annexation of Crimea illegal, a prominent Ukraine opposition leader | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
says she'll run for president. Also coming up: First Twitter, now | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Youtube. Internet users in Turkey face another site ban. What's behind | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
the Turkish governments latest attempt to restrict new media? | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
It's official - the World Health Organisation declares its South East | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Asia region Polio-free, after no new cases were recorded in India In the | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
past three years. Hello and welcome. Pope Francis has | :00:57. | :01:19. | |
held his first ever meeting with President Obama. Their talks, at the | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Vatican, began with the US president describing himself as a great | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
admirer of the Pope. After the meeting the Vatican confirmed that | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
the issues raised included abortion and birth control. The BBC's Katty | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
Kay in Rome. She is monitoring the historic meeting. Lots bringing | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
these men together, but also a lot to divide them. | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
Yes, welcome to a wet and rainy Vatican Square, but I must say it | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
has not dampened the spirits of White House officials, glad that the | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
meeting went on for one hour, feeling that there was more that | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
united the men. Resident Obama made a point of saying that he and the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Pope had not dwell on the social issues including contraception and | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
abortion that divides them, the president and the White House keen | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
to stress that it had been a successful meeting focusing on | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
poverty, income inequality, and conflict around the world. | :02:31. | :02:44. | |
The coming of the president. The American superpower engaging with | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
the very different world of the Vatican. A place of time honoured | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
tradition, centuries of faith and belief. Moving to the slow rhythm of | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
ritual, the president came looking for an ally. He likes the Pope's | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
style and says he is a man the world should listen to. He has praised the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Pope's amendment to the struggle against global poverty. President | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Obama said that is his fight also and he is waging it back home in | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
America. He hopes he can build an alliance based on a common concern | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
for the plight of the poor. The smiles seemed promising. President | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
Obama talked of his admiration for his host and thanked him for his | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
audience. Then the men were left to discuss the affairs of a troubled | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
world around them. Later, more tradition. An exchange of gifts. | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
Nothing was said to the cameras about how the discussion had gone. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
After the president left, the Vatican made no mention of any | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
emerging partnership between them in a war on poverty, it is said the | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
talks focused more on tension between American Catholics and the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
White House. President Obama may not have got as much as he wanted out of | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
his visit to the Vatican. Are they now divided or United? I am | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
joined by the offer of a new book, the Vatican according to Francis. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Much has been made over whether this was a construct of discussion | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
focusing on the things that united them, or whether it was the social | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
issues that divide them. What do you think? | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
They both have much in common but this discussion was influenced by | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
the American conference of Bishops. There is a scepticism on the part of | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Democrats towards American Catholic ships. -- Bishops. The holy see used | :05:09. | :05:26. | |
the visit to redefine Pope Francis, perceived as a liberal in Western | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
media. They are saying, on these issues, we are still there, Pope | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Francis is a Pope, not a liberal Pope. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
I spoke to a Vatican official who reiterated that, saying that they | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
could not let resident away without raising social issues. But from the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
point of view of the White House, they were thrilled. If only for the | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
photo opportunity. The length of the conversation means that they must | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
have had something to say to each other. But I also think that the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
influence of American bishops is still very strong. This Pope had a | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
need to demonstrate a personal understanding, but the holy see as | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
such, they had to underline the differences. Not a disconnection, | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
just a different role between the holy see officially, and the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
personal relationship between the Pope and the president. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
You have written a book about this Pope. Watching his body language, | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
did you read anything into it? He seemed less enthusiastic, even | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
personally, than the president. We must consider that the president | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
needed this visit more than the Pope. And this Pope is Latin | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
American. He has a different approach to the United States. He | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
views the USA is a country that is the heartland of capitalism. And he | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
has criticised the excesses of capitalism. For this reason, and the | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
fact that President Obama reflects a Democratic administration, perhaps | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
this Pope was more cautious. Thank you for joining us in a | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
beautiful Saint Peters Square. A day of historic visit. | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
A stunning location indeed. Moving on, Russia's annexation of Ukraine's | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Crimea region has been described as illegal in a resolution passed in | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
the last few hours by the United Nations General Assembly in New | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
York. Ukraine's Foreign Minister described Russia's action as the | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
most flagrant violation of international law since the UN was | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
founded. But the Russian ambassador called for respect for the voluntary | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
choice of the overwhelming majority in Crimea. 100 nations voted for the | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
resolution, with 11 against and 58 abstentions. In Ukraine, an | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
opposition leader and former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
announced she will run for president in the election in May. She was | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
released from jail after President Viktor Yanukovich fled Kiev. She had | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
been imprisoned in 2011 for alleged corruption, linked to a gas deal she | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
brokered with Russia. David Stern is in Kiev. I want to talk about the | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
United Nations vote, and also Yulia Tymoshenko in a moment. But first of | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
all, you have some breaking news for us? | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Yes, I am just above the central square in Kiev, a large crowd had | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
just marched from the square on the parliament. They are very aggressive | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
and angry and are demanding the resignation of the Interior | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Minister. They are angry over the killing of a far right activists | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
earlier this week. They are now outside the parliament, I was just | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
over there, they are shouting, shame, alt with the gang. -- out. | :09:46. | :09:55. | |
That was a slogan of the revolution, now it is being directed | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
at parliamentarians. Very emotional and aggressive crowd. | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
What did they make of this is UN vote, this non-binding vote? | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
They see it more as a symbolic thing. It is non-binding. Although | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
it was a strong vote with 100 members out of 193 voting for this, | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Ukrainian officials say this is another vote of confidence, of | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
support, but the question is, what will anything do to de-escalate the | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
tension? The government is looking toward the West, looking to | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
sanctions, but there is a great deal of worry that Russia could exercise | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
what it considers a right to intervene militarily in the eastern | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
part of the country. Thank you very much. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Now a look at some of the days other news. 90 people are still missing | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
after a massive mudslide in Washington state on Saturday. The | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
official death toll is 16 - a further eight bodies have been | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
located but not recovered. Search crews are using dogs, bulldozers and | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
their bare hands to clear the mud at the scene, 90 kilometres northeast | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
of Seattle. After five days, rescuers say there's little hope of | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
finding anyone else alive. The world's longest serving prisoner | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
on death row has walked free from prison after having his conviction | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
for murder overturned by a court in Japan. Iwao Hakamada - a former | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
boxer - was sentenced to death in 1968. He'd been found guilty of | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
murdering his boss, his wife and family. He'll now face a re-trial. | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
Ed Miliband has led the tributes at the funeral of veteran Labour | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
politician, Tony Benn. He died earlier this month at the age of 88. | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
Turkey has blocked access to the video-sharing website YouTube - and | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
that's just a day after a Turkish court suspended a ban on Twitter | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
that had been supported by the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
action against Youtube was taken after an audio recording was posted | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
which was said to be of ministers discussing military operations in | :12:25. | :12:34. | |
Syria. I am joined by the Opinion Editor with the English language | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Hurriyet Daily News, via webcam from Istanbul. What now? What is wrong | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
with you Tube, put it into context for us? | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
The Prime Minister had already talked about taking action against | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
the website a couple of days ago, because after all, the audio | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
recordings are targeting the Prime Minister and his environment, | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
accusing them of bribery and corruption, they were on Youtube. So | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
already, it was on the so-called hit list of the Prime Minister. But what | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
triggered the bank today was a leakage of an audio recording. -- | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
ban. It was a recording of a very sensitive meeting between the | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
foreign minister, his advisers, military representatives, and the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
chief of intelligence, talking about possible action against Syria. This | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
is a very serious national security breach. That is why the government | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
has taken the action of attempting to curb the website to prevent it | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
spreading out. When we saw Twitter being banned, | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
the Turkish people went around the back door, so to speak. What | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
reaction to this? A similar reaction. But I must say, | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
the fact that very sensitive information was leaked as sent a | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
shock wave throughout the country. People are also reflecting on how | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
such an important meeting, because at the end of the day the Foreign | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Ministry has confirmed it is authentic, so people are shocked | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
that it could happen, that such an important meeting was able to be | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
listened to and then diffused via the Internet. Obviously people try | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
back or strategies -- back door, the same thing will happen here. But | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
there is a serious threat to national security. The government is | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
targeting the wrong address. It should be thinking about measures in | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
order to prevent such listening taking place. I'm so sorry to | :15:30. | :15:43. | |
interrupt you, but we have to leave it there. That was Barcin Yinanc. | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Moving on. Still no debris has been found from | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
flight MH370 in the southern Indian ocean. Satellite pictures from | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Thailand apparently show 300 objects in the search area. If debris is | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
found, sonar equipment will be used to search the sea bed. Our transport | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
correspondent Richard Westcott reports. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
You couldn't pick a harder place to find a missing aircraft. Remote, two | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
miles deep and with some of the worst weather in the world. But for | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
all the ships, satellite and spotter planes, there is only one way to | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
find things under the water. Sonar. Researchers at the University of | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
Southampton showed me how it started. They call this piece of | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
equipment the fish. It is the same sort of piece of equipment they will | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
be using to find the aircraft. It sends sound waves down to the sea | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
bed, listens to the Echo and a map. Scanning the bottom, line by line, | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
the picture builds. But it is slow work, and we had good weather. In | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
the open ocean, weather is as much as 20 metres, waves of as much as 20 | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
metres. You have to lower the fish down to just above the sea bed, and | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
that can take a couple of hours of feeding cable out. It is dangerous | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
and slow. They used the same technique a few years ago to locate | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
a French airliner that had crashed into the Atlantic. It took some two | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
years to find most of that aircraft, and they were lucky, because it came | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
to rest on a rare, flat part of an underwater mountain range. The | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
search for flight MH370 will be even harder. Is it easy to get confused, | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
for a rock to look like a piece of aircraft? | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Very easy, and we don't know what the sea bed is like in a particular | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
area. They could get lucky and pick up something on day one. They could | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
be out there for ten years. If they are fortunate, they will stumble | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
across a large piece of wreckage. It could look like this. Those two long | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
ridges are the power cable to the Isle of Wight. The green blob over | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
here is a 100 foot long shipwreck. They still don't know for sure | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
whether Malaysia airline ended up. In an hour, we mapped barely one | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
square mile of the sea bed. The search area for the missing plane | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
spans tens of thousands of square miles. | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
Here in Britain, a number of MPs from the Conservtive party are | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
urging the Government to consider following Germany in considering | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
proposals to send home out-of-work migrants from other European Union | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
countries. The German government has welcomed a report proposing new | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
welfare limits for EU migrants. Among the recommendations, EU | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
migrants would be removed from the country if they failed to find work | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
within three to six months. Immigrants currently account for 15% | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
of those who claim welfare benefits in Germany. That's 1.2 million | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
people, of whom 290,000 are citizens of other EU countries. With me is | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
Imke Henkel. She's the London correspondent for the German weekly | :19:03. | :19:14. | |
news magazine Focus. These are just proposals, not law. Exactly. They | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
will not appear before the summer, possibly. But the coalition is | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
interested in Nice? Definitely. It is quite a number, and it is a topic | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
in Germany as well as it is in Britain, and there has been a spell | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
at the beginning of the year between the two coalition partners, we have | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
two Conservative Party is, and there is always a wrangle between them, | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
and there has been from the Bavarian party, quite pronounced, a Pellinen | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
it, populist move against immigrants. Do you think it is | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
interesting that the coalition in our country, the Conservative part, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
is also interested? I had a laugh when I read it. MPs saying how | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
important is David Cameron's influence is. But it is certainly a | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
coalition that, if Britain moves and Germany moves, becomes more | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
decisive, it is politically skilful. There have been a few British | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
proposals around the beginning of the year, and there was an outcry | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
about how xenophobic and anti-European David Cameron was. But | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
he wasn't saying much different from watch Angela Merkel was saying. And | :20:48. | :21:00. | |
she now very much more adeptly does a very technical report, looks into | :21:01. | :21:12. | |
the conditions, basically says, EU law already says that you are | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
allowed to stay for three months, and the freedom of movement only | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
applies for people in work. As a job-seeker, you can stay another six | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
months. In general, it is within the already given boundaries, and this | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
report just looks at, maybe we can tweak it a bit more. It is a good | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
point that you make, it is not that easy to get benefits within the U. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Imke, we have to leave it there. Thank you very much. | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Now, what happened at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war will now be | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
investigated by the United Nations. The UN Human Rights Council voted | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
for an inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during that time. | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
The resolution calls for an investigation into alleged abuses | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
committed by both the Sri Lankan state and Tamil rebels, during their | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
25-year conflict. Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports. | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
Five years ago, the long civil war in Sri Lanka was brought to a bloody | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
end. Both sides are accused of war crimes, but it is the conduct of | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
government forces in the final assault which has been the subject | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
of global controversy ever since. Pressure for a full investigation, | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
allegations they deliberately shelled civilians, used rape and | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
torture as weapons of war, has now resulted in a UN vote to open an | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
international investigation. TRANSLATION: The result of the vote | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
is as follows. 23 member states voted for the | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
resolution, 12 against, and 12 abstained, including India, which | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
many had expected to support an investigation. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
The draft resolution is thereby adopted. | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
In northern Sri Lanka, many will be delighted by newsmen -- news that | :23:00. | :23:11. | |
the UN will now look into this. We are only interested in the welfare | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
of the country, the people of the country. So this investigation | :23:14. | :23:27. | |
should be allowed. If you have nothing to hide, why don't you allow | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
this investigation? They can do that. | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
Sri Lanka's government stands accused of abusing the law, ignoring | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
unexplained disappearances of dissenters and move into greater | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
authoritarianism. But a senior minister told the BBC that the Tamil | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Tigers remain a threat, and Sri Lanka's sovereignty could be | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
violated. We are not in agreement with any investigation into our | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
internal matters. We have our legal system. We have able people, very | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
eminent people with the knowledge of international law and human rights. | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
So the test now is this. We'll Sri Lanka's president | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
cooperate in anyway with the UN enquiry? Last year chairing a | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Commonwealth summit in Colombo, he rejected all of the pressure for | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
full investigation of the past. He shows no sign of any change of | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
heart. 80% of the world is now free of | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
polio after no new cases were recorded in India in the past three | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
years. The World Health Organisation has declared that the deadly virus | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
has been stamped out of its entire South East Asia region, which | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
includes India but not other neighbouring countries. The | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
announcement is being seen as a major milestone in the fight against | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
polio. The BBC's global health correpondent Tulip Mazumdar reports. | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
Many thought it couldn't be done. Immunising all of India's 170 | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
million children. But the country hasn't had a new polio case in three | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
years, which means the WHO can now declare the whole of its Southeast | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
Asian region free of this deadly virus. Countries like Britain have | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
been polio free for decades, but the WHO says this announcement brings | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
the goal of a polio free world much closer. However, major challenges | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
remain. Polio remains endemic in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
In a scanner stand and Nigeria, cases of strop substantially, -- in | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Afghanistan and Nigeria, cases have dropped substantively. But in | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
Pakistan, polio is on the rise, with new infections increasing from 58 in | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
2012 to 93 last year. And here's why. Militants in the country have | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
killed dozens of polio workers in the last couple of years, believing | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
programmes are cover-up for Western espionage or a plot to harm Muslim | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
children. There have been outbreaks in countries such as Syria and the | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
Horn of Africa where immunisation campaigns have been disrupted by | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
conflict. Globally, cases actually rose by more than one third between | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
2012 and 2013. But with most of the world is now officially polio free, | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
there is greater optimism that the goal of wiping this virus off the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
face of the planet by 2018 is achievable. Tulip Mazumdar, BBC | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
News. A reminder of our main news: Pope | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
Francis has held his first ever meeting with President Obama. Their | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
talks began with the US president describing himself as a great | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
admirer of the Pope. Well, that's all from the programme. | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
Next, the weather. But for now from me and the rest of the team, | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
goodbye. Hello. Whether changes are on the | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
way for most of the UK. It is going to warm up. Some hail, sleet and | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
snow is still around at the moment. Going through Friday, we have this | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
week whether France still producing outbreaks | :27:17. | :27:18. |