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This is BBC World News Today, with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
A historic day for Anglo-Irish relations as the Irish President | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
makes the first state visit to Britain since his country became | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
independent in 1922. Michael D Higgins was welcomed at Windsor | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Castle by the Queen, where he'll attend a royal banquet shortly. He's | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
said Britain and Ireland have a shared responsibility to reinforce | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
the peace process in Northern Ireland. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has accused Russia of using | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
special forces to foment chaos in Ukraine. He says allied forces will | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
react if necessary. The United States and our allies will not | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
hesitate to use 21st century tools to hold Russia accountable for 19th | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
century behaviour. Also coming up, athlete Oscar | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Pistorius breaks down in court while recounting the night he shot his | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. And ground-breaking treatment helps | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
four paraplegic men to move their legs again. | :01:02. | :01:16. | |
Hello and welcome. Anglo-Irish history is being made today. The | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
Irish President, Michael D Higgins, has begun the first ever official | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
visit of an Irish head of state to the UK. He has praised the | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
achievement of peace in Northern Ireland, while saying of course | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
there is still a road to be travelled to a lasting | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
reconciliation. Earlier today, the Queen welcomed the Irish president | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
to Windsor Castle - he has since addressed both Houses of Parliament | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
at Westminster and as we go on air, he's about to be celebrated as the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
guest of honour at a royal banquet. Our special correspondent Fergal | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Keane has been following the day's events. The formality of the state | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
occasion quickly gave way to the genuine warmth of friendship. The | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Irish anthem, played in Windsor, harks back to the days of revolution | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
against the Crown. But here, none of history's darker shadows. For | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
decades, they had made an event like this unthinkable. Today's welcome is | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
all about the spectacle of a grand state occasion. But behind the | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
symbolism is a story of real historical significance, of a | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
changed relationship between two nations. This journey to Windsor | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Castle has taken much patient work to achieve. President Higgins | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
inspected a guard of honour, a reminder of military links between | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
two countries stretching back to the days of empire. Here, he presented | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
The Irish Gurads with a coat for their mascot - an Irish hound called | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
Donal. -- Irish wolf hound. But at Westminster Abbey, the President's | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
visit reached its most poignant moment. At the tomb of the unknown | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
soldier he paid tribute to the war dead. Among them, many thousands of | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Irishmen. And then a gesture of remembrance for a victim of a more | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
recent conflict. The plaque to the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
Mountbatten, killed by the IRA. The President spoke of warm Anglo-Irish | :03:26. | :03:38. | |
friendship. The journey, then, of our shared British Irish | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
relationship has progressed from the doubting eyes of estrangement to the | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
trusting eyes of partnership and in recent years to the welcoming eyes | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
of friendship. Tonight he will attend a state banquet hosted by the | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Queen, at which the former IRA commander Martin McGuinness will be | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
a guest. A moment when history pivots towards the future. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
Mark Hennessy, London Editor of the Irish Times, joins me from | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
Westminster. Welcome to the programme. It has been a long and | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
difficult journey but what do you think have been the key events that | :04:20. | :04:32. | |
are made today possible? That has brought a level of connection | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
between the countries. A little hole trust has built up slowly. Both | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
governments were attempting to deal with the closest that was the | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
Troubles. -- the crisis. There has been ever closer union between | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
diplomats, politicians and others on both sides. This visit could not | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
have taken place a few years ago because of the problems of Northern | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Ireland. But the relationship is just much bigger now than Northern | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Ireland. It was so important when the Queen went to the Irish Republic | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
and then later she shook cows with Martin McGuinness? -- shook hands. | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
It may not be understood outside of Ireland in terms of the open at -- | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
impact it made. When she went to the garden of remembrance, she laid a | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
wreath and that moment change public opinion and wheeze that are | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
difficult to understand for anybody who was an ordeal. -- was not there. | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
There is a debate deal of work to be done and the connections that have | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
taken place are only political level. There is a great deal of work | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
to be done in decades to come between the Irish people who live in | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
Britain and so on. That is not necessarily an opinion double B shot | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
by every Irish person at home but there is a hope that in years two, | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
that will happen. A final thought on Martin McGuinness being there at | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Windsor Castle. It is significant but that should not be overly | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
emphasised. It couldn't have happened to a musical? -- ten years | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
ago? They were not in a position to refuse this invitation. They were | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
told by Irish public opinion that they had made the mistake. Thank | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
you. Warnings are flying both ways over a | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
very tense situation in eastern Ukraine tonight. With Russian forces | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
still massed on their side of the border, Moscow has warned Ukraine to | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
stop any military preparations in the region, saying Kiev's actions | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
could provoke a civil war. But the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
has accused Russian special forces of fomenting what he describes as | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the current "chaos" in the east. He's warned that the US and its | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
allies are willing to impose further tough sanctions on Moscow if | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
necessary. It's clear that Russian special forces and agents have been | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
the catalyst behind the chaos of the past 24 hours. Some have even been | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
arrested and exposed. Equally as clear must be the reality that the | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
United States and our allies will not hesitate to use 21st century | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
tools to hold Russia accountable for 19th century behaviour. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
A lot of the drama in the east of Ukraine right now revolves around | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
the actions of pro-Moscow separatists who have seized | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
buildings in cities like Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, as well as the | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
efforts of the Ukrainian authorities to take the buildings back. From | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Donestk, Steve Rosenberg sent us his assessment of the current situation. | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
The picture here really does remind me of the kind of things I saw in | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Kiev in recent months. In other words, a government building which | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
has been stormed and barricades set up outside - barricades made of | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
tyres and barbed wire. Except in this particular case, it's | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
pro-Russia protestors who have stormed and seized the building and | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
set up these barricades. On the square outside the building, there's | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
a group of 1,000 pro-Russia protestors who have been chanting | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
'Russia, Russia'. They've been listening to speeches about the | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
Donetsk people's republic, and Russian, Soviet music. This is the | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
foyer of the administration building. The last time I was here | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
about three weeks ago it was very different. There were lots of riot | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
police here. The governor was in his office upstairs. Now no police at | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
all. Instead, pro-Russia activists. They've changed the decor a little | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
bit. You can see on the wall there are maps of the Donetsk region. | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
They've been changed. The word Russia is in the middle. People here | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
support Russia and they're counting on Russia to make sure a referendum | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
is held on regional sovereignty. Let's go to Washington now, and the | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher. You have been heating pad John Kerry sizzler | :09:52. | :09:52. | |
will be talks about Michael too. He was quite hard in his testimony. | :09:53. | :10:13. | |
He was saying that these activists had been inspired. He said that if | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
this continued, the United States will willing to continue with toffs | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
sanctions. -- tough sancions. There had been a dream and for a meeting | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
next week and Europe. They were trying to come to some sort of | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
diplomatic solution. He wanted Russia to publicly demobilise trips. | :10:45. | :10:57. | |
-- troops. Will this be the most serious thing between Moscow and? | :10:58. | :11:18. | |
John Kerry said that he had been called and the report of the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
conversation had been constructive. There is contact. But John Kerry | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
said he thought it was not a small matter that Russia had come to the | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
table. With me is Irena Taranyuk of the BBC | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Ukrainian Service. Clearly there are diplomatic moves but what I do | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
healing about the situation in eastern Ukraine? -- are you hearing. | :11:47. | :11:59. | |
Barricades have been going. The footage as you can see, it is tense | :12:00. | :12:14. | |
and tan. -- calm. Part of the second tests -- But the separatists to not | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
recognise the authorities and the recognise themselves to be the legal | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
bills. We see the activists, but how much enthusiasm as they are in | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
eastern Ukraine to hold a referendum, what do you think? There | :12:34. | :12:45. | |
is almost universal support. Russian speakers have been prevalent and | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
they have had the rates respected. Yesterday an influential candidate | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
team to a location to ensure people that the Russian language would be | :13:00. | :13:12. | |
used... Public opinion is with CF. -- Kiev. William Hague has stated | :13:13. | :13:31. | |
this morning that this deal is the hallmark of Russian special forces. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Do you think people are afraid that Russian forces will cross over? Very | :13:38. | :13:49. | |
much so. Russians are warning against using military force and it | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
is an act of direct interference. They are trying to precipitate the | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
situation. We will keep across the story. Thank you. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
Oscar Pistorius has told his murder trial about the final minutes before | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
he shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He told the court that he | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
was overcome with fear after hearing a noise from the bathroom - and that | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
his first thought had been to arm himself and to protect her. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
Let's hear more from the BBC's Milton Nkosi who's at the court in | :14:31. | :14:50. | |
Pretoria. Today we witnessed an emotional Oscar Pistorius. He tried | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
in court when he talked about attacking the bathroom door with a | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
cricket bat. After he had filed for gunshots entered. -- fired four | :15:06. | :15:17. | |
gunshots into it. There have been tears and drama already in this | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
trial. But nothing like today. Oscar Pistorius arrives, poised to tell | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
the court how and why he shot Reeva Steenkamp. Her family are here in | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
numbers - knowing this is a crucial day. From the witness stand, but not | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
shown on television, Oscar Pistorius describes hearing his bathroom | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
window being opened in the middle of the night. That is the moment that | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
everything changed. I thought there was a burglar. The first thing that | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
ran through my mind was I had to arm myself. I needed to protect Reeva | :15:45. | :15:56. | |
and I, that I needed to get my gun. It was then that I was overcome by | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
fear and I fired some shots. Reeva Steenkamp's mother, in the centre, | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
bows her head as he describes moving desperately without his prosthetic | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
legs from his bedroom shown here to the bathroom down this narrow | :16:07. | :16:18. | |
corridor. I had my pistol raised to my eye, to the corner of the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
entrance of the bathroom. And then I heard a noise from inside the | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
toilet. What I perceived to be someone coming out of the toilet. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
Before I knew it I had fired four shots at the door. It was Reeva | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Steenkamp in the toilet. Oscar Pistorius said he rushed back to the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
bedroom to check on her, realised she was missing. He frantically | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
broke down the toilet door to find her. He then breaks down and | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
wretches, his family in tears. I sat over Reeva and I cried. And I don't | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
know how long... I do not know how long I was there for. She wasn't | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
breathing. At which point the court is abruptly adjourned for the day. | :17:17. | :17:30. | |
Milton, there could hardly have been a more dramatic day, how that South | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Africans reacted to what they have heard in court? Philippa, South | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
Africans across the length and breadth of the country are talking | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
about this case, remember that on the 7th of May in one month's time | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
there will be a historic taking place year. The political parties | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
are full and campaign swing and they are trying to get the votes. The | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
country is still talking about one story, the Oscar Pistorius trial. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
There is a dedicated channel that is broadcasting 24 hours about this | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
trial and all of what they have today was live on radio throughout | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
the country, so people are talking about this case at the dinner table. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Thank you, Milton. Now a look at some of the day's | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
other news: In Pakistan, a bomb blast has killed at least 12 people | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
on a busy train in the Balochistan province in the south-west of the | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
country. The train was travelling from Quetta | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
to Rawalpindi when the bomb went off at the Sibi station while passengers | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
were boarding and disembarking. It's been confirmed that the | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe is in hospital in Sydney. His | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
manager says he's fighting a serious infection and may never swim | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
competitively again. He's being treated with high doses of | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
antibiotics, after contracting an infection during surgery on his | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
shoulder. His manager says his condition is not life-threatening. | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
Although Australia media say he may lose use of his arm. | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Teams searching for the missing Malaysian plane say they have not | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
picked up any more signals which could be from the black box plane | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
locator. Two sets of signals were detected over the weekend. It's now | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
exactly a month since the plane went missing with 239 people on board. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Four men who were paralysed from the chest down have begun to move parts | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
of their legs again - for the first time in years - after | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
ground-breaking treatment in the United States. A report, in the | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
journal Brain, suggests that electrical stimulation makes the | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
spinal cord more receptive to the few messages still arriving from the | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
brain. Experts say electricity could become a treatment for spinal | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
injury. Here's our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh. | :19:42. | :19:54. | |
Stimulators off, West Lake up. Kent Stevenson from Texas was completely | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
paralysed from the chest down five years ago. He can now do this. It is | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
thanks to electrodes fitted to just below his injury, which stimulate | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
this spinal-cord enabling messages from his brain to control movements | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
that were previously in his paralysed limbs. We did not expect | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
these individuals to ever be able to think, let me move my tall and be | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
able to move it, this was an astonishing thing and it made us | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
step back and have to look at how we thought the nervous system function. | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
Rob Summers was the first of the four paralysed patients fitted with | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
electrodes in his spine. Three years ago, scientists published research | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
showing that he could stand and even take a few steps on a treadmill | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
while being supported. Mr Summers has continued with physiotherapy and | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
reading more muscle control. But US researchers writing in the journal | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Brain, say although all of the patients have regained some | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
voluntary movements, none can walk unaided. The experimental technique | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
does not involve repair of the spinal-cord but researchers believe | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
it may help many other paralysed patients to regain some of their | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
movement. A British businessman accused of | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
arranging his wife's moderate reading their honeymoon in South | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Africa has been extradited from Britain after a long legal battle on | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
the grounds of his mental illness. He denies hiving mentor and tell his | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
wife as they travel by taxi outside Cape Town in 2010. | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
After such a long wait for his extradition and such a long way to | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
see him appear in court, this evening was over almost as soon as | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
it had begun. There were epic scenes outside Cape Town. Camera crews from | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
across South Africa and a lot from the UK came to try to get a shot of | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
this man as he arrived. He came any black people carrier with blacked | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
out windows. We understand he was taken to holding cells beneath the | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
these courtrooms where he was interviewed and formally charged | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
with the murder of his wife. They were on honeymoon here in November | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
2010. He was taken upstairs and put in front of the judge and that was | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
the first time we saw and in public for a very long time. He was very | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
smartly dressed but the black suit and white dress. He was concentrated | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
and understood what was going on during proceedings. He quickly was | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
taken back down below. He was remanded in custody and will appear | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
again on the 12th of May but now he will go to a secure time traffic -- | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
psychiatric unit where he will have his own room. He will be observed | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
for 30 days and ultimately it will be up to doctors and they hoodie | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
said when and if he has ever said to stand trial again. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Indians have started going to the polls in the first phase of a | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
general election in which more than 814 million people are eligible to | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
vote. And to mark this giant exercise in democracy, we thought | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
we'd bring you the story of a man who makes his political statements | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
anonymously. Daku is India's answer to Banksy - a graffiti artist who | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
says his work is a political statement. This is his first | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
television interview. My name is Daku and I am a street | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
artist. Daku is a Hindi word and it means bandit. I just draw on walls | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
and I kind of leave my mark on the walls. Most of my work includes | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
social-political topics. Mostly they are illegal. Everyone has an image | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
of Daku in their head. In Delhi, or generally in India, people pee | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
everywhere. That's legal, but painting is illegal, how is that? | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
Unlike Europe or in America where people look at graffiti with a very | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
negative eye, generally in India people don't look at graffiti as | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
vandalism, it's simply colour on the wall. Most of my work has multiple | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
stories, people make up their own stories with that and that is what I | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
like about it, whether it is pro-voting or someone says it is | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
anti-voting, it creates some kind of conversation around it. I made a few | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
stickers like, "Stop Bribing. Stop Shopping. Stop Raping." There are, | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
like, so many of them. Because Banksy is popular, you compare me | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
with him. As Daku is spreading it's becoming more and more like, "Oh, | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
there's Banksy." More people see it, more people like it, more people | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
share it, more people do it and it multiplies. I also feel the wall is | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
a very powerful medium. It is so sensitive as well that you can | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
almost start a riot with just one wall. Whether it is in the form of | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
graffiti or in the form of street art, or whatever that is, I want | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
more youngsters to come out and experience it for themselves. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Especially on the streets because that is where you can get your | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
message out. A reminder of our main news: In an | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
historic address to the British parliament, the Irish President, | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
Michael D Higgins, said Britain and Ireland had a shared responsibility | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
to help reinforce the peace process in Northern Ireland. The President's | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
state visit is the first since Ireland gained independence from | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
London. And the US Secretary of State, John | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
Kerry, has accused Russia of being behind the latest unrest in eastern | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
Ukraine. Moscow has said any use of force to end pro-Russian protests in | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
eastern Ukraine may lead to a civil war. | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Well, that's all from the programme. Next, the weather. Goodnight. | :26:38. | :26:59. | |
Good evening. It felt more like early April today with that fresh | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
breeze from the North West. Tomorrow | :27:07. | :27:08. |