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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. Pro-Russian | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
demonstrations spread in East Ukraine, as governments in Europe | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
and the US urge restraint. As protestors ransack another police | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
station, Britain blames Moscow for orchestrating the violence. There is | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
very little doubt, there cannot be any real doubt, that this is | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
something which has been planned and brought about by Russia. Oscar | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Pistorius is accused of concocting his evidence after another day of | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
dramatic exchanges at his murder trial. In the Nigerian capital, | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
leaving at least 70 people dead. And has Banksy been at it again? The | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Graffiti Guru is believed to be behind this piece of street art, | :00:53. | :01:11. | |
satirising British spies. Hello and welcome. Militants now occupy | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
government buildings in at least ten cities in eastern Ukraine. The | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
deadline at which the Ukraine government in Kiev said it would | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
launch a "large scale anti terrorist operation" against them, came and | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
went today. Far from backing down, it seems the protests have | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
intensified. Russian media say President Putin has received | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
requests for help and intervention from several parts of eastern | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Ukraine. In the latest development, the rebels have seized another | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
police station, in Horlivka, near Donetsk. Daniel Sandford reports on | :01:42. | :01:58. | |
the day's events. SHOUTING. A moment of extreme attention today as the | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
morning shoppers emerged from their homes. Gunmen suddenly took up | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
defensive positions. There was a rumour that government forces were | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
about to attack this rebellious town in Eastern Ukraine. In the end, the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
attack never came. Despite the threat of what the Kiev government | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
called an anti-terrorist operation, the people here have remained | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
resolutely in place and the barricades are still standing. I | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
asked the men manning the defences if they were worried about a | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
possible attack. TRANSLATION: Of course we are worried. Although here | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
it is peaceful, we stand up for our principles. Then, as we went through | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
the checkpoints, the news that pro-Russian militia were storming | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
another police headquarters. This was the scene at the police station, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
where activists smashed windows, threw rocks and quickly took over | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
the building, placing a Russian flag outside. The chief of police ended | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
up in hospital with a broken skull. Even on the day that the Kiev | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
government had threatened to start attacking those in the East taking | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
over police stations, they have taken another one. Inside, we found | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
some people still at their desks, now apparently loyal to the new | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
power in town. Then these pictures emerged in which a man who claims to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
be a Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Army addresses some of the | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
police in the road. The same man can also be seen on mobile phone footage | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
addressing the crowd outside the building, after the takeover. This | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
is fuelling concerns that Russia is fuelling these protests. We found | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
many people with genuine grievances against the Ukrainian government. | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
TRANSLATION: All the 23 years that Ukraine has been in charge here, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
they have been stealing. It was all further evidence that Kiev is | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
struggling to control the rebellious East although the number of people | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
actively supporting the uprising is still quite small. James Reynolds is | :04:08. | :04:25. | |
in Donetsk. Are you finding that the number of protesters is relatively | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
small, although they are obviously making a big show of it? We are | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
finding, when we look at the occupations of those buildings in | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
ten cities, they are not mass occupations in terms of hundreds of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
thousands of people. They looked to be occupations by certain groups of | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
people. Here in Donetsk, the traffic is normal, people are going about | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
their business, there is a Ukrainian flag on a nearby building. There is | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
also a Russian flag. There are localised pockets of trouble, but | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the government in Kiev, any localised problems, are still big | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
political problems. The occupation of one police station will be too | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
much for Kiev. Other protesters feeling fairly confident tonight, in | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
that the big operation threatened by Kiev did not happen? I am sure they | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
will be. You will have seen that they were not particularly worried | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
when that deadline came along. They either thought it would not happen | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
or thought they would survive it. They have done so. They will not be | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
particularly worried by any more deadlines or ultimatums in the next | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
few days, it should the authorities decide to issue any more. Russia is | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
still playing at the strongman. There have been fairly aggressive | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
tactics from a Russian fighter jet over the weekend. This happened on | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
Saturday in their Black Seed. A Russian jet flew about 900 metres by | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
several times by a US destroyer for about 90 minutes US called the | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
action provocative. The jet appeared to be unarmed, but it indicates the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
kind of tensions there are at the moment between the United States and | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
States and Russia and this is a sum -- symbolic act. Thank you. With me | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
is Robin Niblett. He's Director of the think-tank The Royal Institute | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
of International Affairs, also known as Chatham House. What do you make | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
of the way the Russians are playing this? Is there an appetite for war? | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
I think they would like to avoid that, as would all sides. There is a | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
clear determination not to allow the elections to proceed in Ukraine in | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
May as planned. There is a clear determination to want to make sure | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
that the idea of a federal Ukraine, a Russian concept of a federal | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Ukraine, in which Ukrainian provinces would be able to determine | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
their own external relations. A group of small parts of the East | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
cannot be integrated into Ukraine in the way the government would want. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Why is so determined not to have the elections go ahead? Ultimately, if | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
the election takes place, it will become clear how many citizens in | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
the East really want to join Russia in the way that Crimea did. There is | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
far more ambivalent amongst the populations in the east than one | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
might think, certainly by Russian leaders. We are in a situation by | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
having troops on the border and the example of Crimea and having other | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
groups in there, moving the situation forward, we have an | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
impression of an East which wants to detach itself, even though most | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
analysts do not believe that. There is some breaking news that the White | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
House has said that President Obama is to contact President Putin, | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
making clear that the US is not considering legal aid for Ukraine. | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
Is this positive? President Putin will have to determine how he has | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
handled himself. Ultimately, the decisions that will be made, will be | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
determined by how Russia handles this. There is no circumstance under | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
which western troops would get involved in Ukraine. There is not a | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
military option on the western side. The strength is economic, Russia's | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
economy is in a weak position, but the issue of sanctions, very | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
gradually held and held in reserve in key is something more extreme is | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
done, but in the meantime, trade agreements with Ukraine, financial | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
aid, opening up markets in the EU to products from Ukraine, that is | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
detaching that part of the Ukraine which wants to be part of the EU. | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
Thank you. The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, has been accused in | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
court of "concocting his evidence" about the night he shot dead his | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. It's been suggested she wanted to leave | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
after a row. He insists he woke up and thought there was an intruder in | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
the house. Our correspondent Andrew Harding reports from Pretoria. Back | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
in court and some well-wishers waiting for Oscar Pistorius. He | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
strode aside the balloons, the hug was harder to escape. In court, | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
there was no hint of sympathy from Gerrie Nel, a prosecutor dubbed the | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
Pit bull. Your version is so a probable that it cannot be | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
reasonable. The focus again today, the circumstances of Reeva | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Steenkamp's death, the prosecutor looking for holes in the story of | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Oscar Pistorius, insisting the couple had a fight. I am saying that | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
she wanted to leave and that you were not sleeping. You were both | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
awake. That is not correct. It is untrue. There was an argument. Then | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
Oscar Pistorius was asked again about his movement from the bedroom | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
to the bathroom, where he says he feared intruders had broken in. I | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
screamed, I shouted get out of my house! Get out of my house! But | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
Gerrie Nel was sceptical. He got a policeman to sit in the toilet | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
cubicle, reconstructed in court, to show where Reeva Steenkamp might | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
have been. Under relentless pressure, Oscar Pistorius struggled | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
badly, sometimes evasive, sometimes changing his evidence as the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
prosecutor kept asking how it was possible he had fired four times | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
without checking who was on the other side. You fired at Reeva. The | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
other versions are not true. You fired at her. Why are you getting | :11:36. | :11:51. | |
emotional? I did not fire at Reeva! This was a tough day for the athlete | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
who was not shown on the cameras, as usual. His evidence has been shown | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
to be incomplete and at times inconsistent. Here is some of our | :12:01. | :12:12. | |
other new. In other news... The trial has begun in Libya of Saif | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
al-Islam, the son of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
faces charges of corruption and war crimes. A number of former senior | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
officials are also being tried, including Colonel Gaddafi's former | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
spy chief and former Prime Minister. Police investigating a tip-off | :12:25. | 0:05:29 |