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This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
In Ukraine today, deadly violence in the east and south. There's a | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
standoff in Sloviansk, where the Ukrainian military has encircled the | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
rebels but they're still holding the city centre. Two Ukrainian soldiers | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
were also killed and two helicopters brought down. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
And in the southern port city of Odessa, at least three people have | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
been killed during clashes between protestors for links with Russia and | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
those for Ukrainian unity. It is obvious to the world that these | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Russian groups are not just protesters. They are heavily and | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
militants who are receiving significant support from Russia. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Around 500 are feared dead as a landslide buries a village in the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
north east of Afghanistan. Also coming up: dozens arrested in | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
the Philippines for luring Internet users into explicit sex acts and | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
then blackmailing them with the images. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
And imagine a gospel according to Mary - we visit the London stage | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
production that breathes life into a character rarely given a voice. The | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
church downgraded her to almost silence, to acceptance, to | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
passivity. This may be seen as lovely virtues in the female form. | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
Hello and welcome. Rebels in eastern Ukraine have suffered heavy losses | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
according to a statement from Ukraine's acting president - who | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
says Kiev's forces have taken control of a number of checkpoints | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
during today's military operation against pro-Russian activists in the | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
eastern city of Sloviansk. But government forces have also taken | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
losses. Two Ukrainian helicopters have been shot down by what Kiev | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
says appeared to be surface-to-air missiles, with two crew dead. | :01:57. | :02:08. | |
Meanwhile, in Odessa, at least three people are said to have been killed | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
and many others injured through clashes with pro-Russian militants | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
and supporters of the country's unity. More on that in a minute but | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
first, our Special Correspondent Fergal Keane got to the outskirts of | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
Sloviansk and this is his report. This was the rebels answer to the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
government's offensive, missiles that downed helicopters. These were | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
the instruments of state power. Two were brought crashing to the | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
ground, two pilots killed. Here, a wounded crew member is helped by the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
rebels who captured him. It was an image that seemed to define a day in | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
which the government yet again struggled in the face of determined | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
opposition. The militants had been waiting for some move by the state. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
This, the masked face of well-prepared insurgency. Don't | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
stand behind me, this gunman warns. Here, petrol bombs are being | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
prepared, ammunition brought forward. And a promise of fire down | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
the road any soldiers might come. It was here on this bridge that | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Ukraine's army was confronted by its own citizens. Helicopters deployed | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
troops onto the strategic crossing six miles from Sloviansk. But the | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
people refused to allow them across. Firing in the air, they tried to | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
push on but it simply increased the emotion. This elderly man was | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
treated for shock. But as the stalemate on the bridge deep end, we | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
found a mood of defiance. I am prepared to take the gun if I need | :04:06. | :04:17. | |
to for my land. You understand me? The soldiers were nervous, far from | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Kiev and the government that is giving them orders. You don't seem | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
very in control here? What is happening? Pointing to the | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
protesters, he told us, they are the people. The atmosphere on the bridge | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
remains very tense. There is not an appetite for any more confrontation | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
from the troops and there is a great deal of anger for the pro Russian | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
supporters. No -- neither side knows where this is leading. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Let's get the latest on this from the BBC's Sarah Rainsford, who's in | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
Donetsk. Sarah, is it your understanding that the military | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
operation is continuing? Yes, certainly that is what both sides | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
are saying. There is a statement from the pro-Russian forces inside | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
Sloviansk and they are confirming they have suffered some casualties, | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
talking about 3 million share and two civilians being killed and | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
fortified checkpoints being taken over. They say they are building new | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
check point inside the city as they prepare for another assault by the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Ukrainian military. We have also heard from the interior minister, | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
talking about what has been happening. He described military | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
operation as a necessary action. He said, we couldn't not act but we | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
needed to act carefully. We need to act carefully. Underlining the very | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
delicate situation that the government is enough it begins the | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
launch of this military operation, anxious to reassert its control in | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Ukraine but nervous about sparking a reaction from Russian troops on the | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
border, as Russia said they would intervene if they felt their | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
citizens were in any danger. Thank you. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
In the last couple of hours, President Obama and the German | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
Chancellor, Angela Merkel, have been speaking at the White House about | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the Ukraine crisis and urging Russia to take more action to de-escalate | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
the situation. It is obvious to the world that these Russian backed | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
groups are not peaceful protesters. They are heavily armed militants who | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
are receiving significant support from Russia. The Ukrainian | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
government has the right and responsibility to withhold law and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
order within its territory and Russia needs to use its influence to | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
make these groups disarm and stop promoting -- stop provoking | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
violence. But Russia's Minister proclaimed that the people of | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Ukraine are standing up for themselves. The most striking and | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
irritating thing is that the requirements of the people in the | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
east of the country are very simple. They are in a situation | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
where there is an illegitimate government in the capital, very much | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
representative of radical elements and people wanted guarantees of | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
their right, they wanted federalisation. Over a very long | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
period of time, perhaps two months after the toppling of the legitimate | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
government, no one took up weapons, at least for a month and a half. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
They were waiting for a construct of response from Kiev regarding their | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
requirements to ensure their legitimate interests. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
With me is John Lough, an associate fellow on the Russia and Eurasia | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Programme at Chatham House. Clearly an military battle now and still | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
that battle of propaganda. A proper -- a problem for the Russian -- | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
Ukrainian military is that they want to see if they can assert control | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
without provoking Russia. That is right. As you just spoke about and | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
that report, the danger is that a peacekeeping force will come over | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
the border. At the same time, the Ukrainian military's capacities are | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
limited so how successful they could be his questionable. What do you | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
think of President Putin's strategy here? From what we can see, Russia | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
wants to prevent the election taking place in Ukraine, thus meaning it | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
would delegitimise a new leader. That would put pressure on Kiev to | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
agree to reformatting of Ukraine as a country, giving the regions are | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
much enhanced autonomy, allowing eastern regions to gravitate away | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
from Kiev, undermining the independence of the country. So the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
strategy is not so much to go in and be seen to go in and an incursion as | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
to make the east ungovernable customer I think that is the intent. | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
It would be very dangerous if they invaded, as it would probably | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
unleash war. They wouldn't want to do that. The danger is that they are | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
escalating the situation in the east of the country and it could get | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
beyond their control. We saw President Obama and Angela Merkel | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
talking there but what can they do? The sanctions have been levied. They | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
could put more sanctions in, stop Russia having access to | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
international finance. That would have a very marked effect on the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Russian economy. It is something of a nuclear option. It would tip them | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
immediately into recession. But I do not see any immediate hunger for | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
that because it would have an effect on the rest of the West as well. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Briefly, is there any other way to de-escalate the situation from | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
outside? At the moment, I don't see any immediate way of doing that. We | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
have to hope that the Russians will accept that there are extreme | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
dangers involved here and they may have to come involved in appeasing | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
-- peacekeeping way. As many as 500 people are missing, | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
feared dead, after heavy rains triggered a major landslide in | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Afghanistan. A UN spokesman in the country says they died after a hill | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
collapsed on the village of Hobo Barik in the remote northeastern | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
province of Badakshan. Local government officials are appealing | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
for help, including special equipment to help them dig through | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
the mud. Let's get more from our correspondent who is following | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
events from Kabul. David, there are various figures for the numbers | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
missing, feared dead. What are you hearing? I appreciate it is hard to | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
know this far-flung region. Hard facts are very few and far between | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
on the ground but we do know that 350 bodies have been confirmed found | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
in the mud when this huge landslide came down and engulfed not one but | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
two villages, wrecking 300 houses, threatening 700 more. It is, as you | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
say, the most remote part of the country. It is the finger of | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Afghanistan that stretches up towards the Chinese border in the | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
north-east. Badakhshan is mountainous, there are deep ravines | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
and high mountains. It is inaccessible and in a country where | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
there are many mountainous and desert regions which are hard to get | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
to, Badakhshan really is the most inaccessible part of the country. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
The government -- the governor of the province has told us that he | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
believed some 2000 people could be missing. There was a wedding going | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
on in one of the villages, it was a Friday morning, so those that work | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
away from the village would have been away so those attending the | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
wedding will have been caught up in this natural disaster. This follows | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
many days of very heavy rain. We had 150 people killed in the north of | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
the country last week in floods and bass heavy rain caused the mountain | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
to collapse downwards. The first pictures which are coming in from | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
the area show rescuers digging with shovels and their bare hands. Local | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
rescue officials are saying they need heavy machinery to come in to | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
see if they can find survivors, miraculously, hidden in the mud. As | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
we saw in the United States recently, it is very hard to find | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
people in thick mud settling down in an area like this. The UN have got | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
teams on the ground and the international forces here say they | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
stand ready to help if the request comes from the Afghan government. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
President Obama has expressed his solidarity with the Afghan people, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
calling this a tragedy, and saying the international forces will be | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
what they can but at the moment, it is just individuals with picks and | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
shovels trying to find whether there are any survivors under this huge | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
mudslide. Thank you. The Nigerian capital Abuja has again | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
been hit by a bomb blast, which has killed at least 19 people, injuring | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
60 more. The car bomb targeted a busy bus station in the suburbs | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
which was hit by another deadly explosion last month. The Islamist | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
militant group, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility. Our correspondent, | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
Will Ross, reports from the scene. Scenes of chaos on the outskirts of | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
the Nigerian capital. A man was seen parking a car here and walking away. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Seconds later, the bomb exploded. Is molested extremists -- Islamist | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
extremists said they carried out the attack. This is the spot where the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
car was detonated, overhear the wreckage of other cars which were | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
loaned out. The great shop here is that this is the second blast in | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
less than two weeks and people here are wondering why they are being | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
targeted. In hospitals across the capital, the injured are getting | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
help. Reza tells me she was waiting for a lift home with a friend when | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
the bomb exploded. There was fire everywhere and she said she was | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
thrown to the ground by a nearby car. She has no idea if her friend | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
survived. Security is getting worst -- worse in Nigeria. These are the | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
parents of the 200 girls missing after being abducted last month. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
They are angry the government has not done enough to rescue the girls. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
At the bomb site, foreign forensic teams have come to help with | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
investigations but feeling vulnerable, many people want to know | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
what is being done to prevent another attack. This city is due to | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
hold a huge event, the world economic Forum, next week with heads | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
of state coming here from all over the world. With results as -- | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
relentless violence in the north-east and now bomb blast, | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
perhaps it is now time for everyone to admit the strength of the crisis | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
in Nigeria. Now a look at some of the days other | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
news. Northern Ireland's Republican party Sinn Fein says police in the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
province are asking a judge for more time to question its leader, Gerry | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
Adams, in connection with one of the most notorious murders of Northern | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
Ireland's Troubles. Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was shot by the IRA | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
in 1972. Mr Adams, who denies any involvement, volunteered for | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
questioning almost 48 hours ago. A truce has been agreed between | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Syrian government forces and rebels in the besieged city of Homs. It | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
allows opposition fighters to withdraw from their positions. | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
Around 1,000 fighters are expected to leave the city over the next 48 | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
hours. The US Secretary of State, John | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Kerry, says the South Sudanese president has agreed to hold peace | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
talks with his bitter rival Riek Machar. The talks between Salva Kiir | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
and his former deputy could take place as early as next week. | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
Here in Britain the celebrity publicist Max Clifford is beginning | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
an eight year jail sentence tonight for a string of indecent assaults | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
against young girls and women in the 1970s and 80s. It's a longer | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
sentence than many expected, but the judge told Clifford that he was | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
wrong to assume his position in the entertainment world meant he was | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
untouchable. Police in the Philippines say they | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
have arrested dozens of suspects linked to an online sexual blackmail | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
syndicate. In a case relating to what some describe as sextortion 58 | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
people have been arrested, alleged to have persuaded people to expose | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
themselves in front of webcams, or to send explicit material. Demands | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
for between ?500 and ?15,000 dollars were made with threats to send the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
compromising images to the victims' relatives or friends. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
It took place from call-centre style offices on what Interpol | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
investigators described as an industrial scale. There were | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
hundreds of victims in Hong Kong and Singapore. | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
People in the Philippines, the United States and United Kingdom | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
were also targeted. Among the victims, investigators say, was the | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
Scottish teenager Daniel Perry who committed suicide last July. | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
Jim Gamble is the former head of a specialist British police unit the | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and now runs his | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
own internet security company tackling a range of issues including | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
so-called sexploitation cases. He joins us from Belfast. | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
Welcome to the programme. Tell us what your take is on the industrial | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
nature of this very systematic exploitation. It is a blend of | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
grooming techniques that you will see from those people who seek out | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
children to offend against them online and actually traditional | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
criminal techniques where conmen for years and years have laboured | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
vulnerable and susceptible individuals. I am not surprised that | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
it is industrial. It is almost a call Centre of days gone by when you | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
would have phoned the sex lines they are able to go online to social | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
media sites and dating sites and identify men who are either | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
vulnerable would because of their age, either very young or very old | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
or because they are out and seeking some kind of sexual engagement so it | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
must be like shooting fish in a barrel for these criminals. When | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
they get these men and engage them in a conversation where the men | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
think they are talking to attractive young women, they are all too quick | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
to expose themselves in what they think is some form of sexual | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
gratification and then they are caught, trapped. Is this kind of | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
Sting, it has been uncovered in the Philippines, are the Philippines a | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
centre for this kind of abuse) I do not think the Philippines | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
necessarily. South East Asia has a range of factors apparent within it | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
around the vulnerability of some groups where we have seen travelling | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
sex offenders go there in the past. There has been a perception I think | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
wrongly held by some where police corruption lends itself to people | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
getting away with this but the police in the Philippines have shown | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
that there is a real collaborative effort here to identify and locate | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
and hold these people to account. Let us go to basics. A young boy, | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
Daniel Perry, was exploited and blackmailed and he took his own | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
life. What to Police Scotland have done should be applauded, they have | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
set an example for other police services to follow and they have | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
relentlessly and ruthlessly pursued the individuals the whole way to the | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Philippines to hold them to account to what they did to this young | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Scottish man. I must say this is that it is the kind of deterrent | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
that we need to see, it is a real deterrent that sees 58 people | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
arrested. If you are listening to this programme tonight and you have | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
been seduced by one of these exploited groups, please talk to the | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
police. Once you hand over any financial details and you pay | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
someone, it never goes away. These people will bleed you and drain you | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
dry and you might think you can keep it a secret but one day the police | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
and the Philippines or elsewhere around the world will discover some | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
of these organisations and they will get into the computer that they have | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
and your photographs and names will come out anyway. Think about it, the | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
right time to come forward is when somebody tries to exploit you. Go to | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
talk to the police, where ever you are, and put the fear where it | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
belongs, in the predator, so they do not come online looking for people | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
to exploit for their own financial gain. That is a very important | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
discussion to have. Jim Gamble in the Belfast, thank you. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
She is worshipped, she is an icon of womanhood, but we rarely hear her | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
words. Now a stage production of Colm Toibin's novel The Testament Of | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Mary gives the world's most famous mother a voice. The Virgin Mary is | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
played in a 90 minute one-woman performance by the actor Fiona Shaw | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
at London's Barbican Centre. Kasia Madera has been speaking to Shaw and | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
her producer Deborah Warner. We sat there for a while in silence | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
because they were afraid of the word. Crucified. I said, yes. Yes. | :22:08. | :22:28. | |
And that Mary spoke, but it will be a new beginning. I would say the | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
intention is to open up the imagination of someone without a | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
religious act dash-mac whip dash-mac without a religious imagination or | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
with. You open it up to a different keyhole and you see a different | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
landscape, different and yet familiar. It lets you see something | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
that you know in a new way. The crucifixion is a scene that is so | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
well-known. How do you dramatise it. The items that she lives with now. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
She lives in a room with the necessary items to prompt her | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
memory. She has a crown of thorns which is made out of barbed wire. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
She has the large nails of the cross. Sponges. It is amazing how | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
domestic the death of that man was. I grasped. I saw the cross. Given | :23:24. | :24:07. | |
that she is so iconic and she is such a mythical creature now, this | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
story is so well-known, it is so important to so many different | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
people. By playing it in such a way, by making the figure of Mary so | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
ordinary, are you downplaying it? She does not speak often. If she was | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
ever downgraded, the Church downgraded her to almost silence, to | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
acceptance, to passivity. All of this may be seen as lovely virtues | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
in the female form but if God came to earth as a man, then there is | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
always a limitation of identity if he is only a man. There has to be | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
also the female side of that theology. I dream to my son came | :24:49. | :25:01. | |
back to life it was dawn. We dream to that we were sleeping. There were | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
left trees in the distance but nothing close by and there was no | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
sound. We were woken by the sound of water gargling up from the earth and | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
I put my hand down to see if it was real. Then I heard Mary Garst | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
because the water seems to be gushing out over the well and then I | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
saw him. He was rising with the water. He seems -- his hands, his | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
feet, his forehead where their form and been, there were blue marks, | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
open and gaping -- where the thorns had been. Mary held him as the water | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
delivered in. She laid him across my lap. Fiona Shaw giving us The | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Testament Of Mary. A final story. Twin sisters who have spent almost | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
80 years apart have been reunited. They were separated as babies when | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
one was put up for adoption. Their unmarried mother was in domestic | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
service and could not afford to keep both girls. The women met in | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
California after the longest period of separation ever recorded for | :26:25. | :26:25. | |
twins. A reminder of our main news: Ukraine | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
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city of Sloviansk. Ukrainian forces are reported to | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
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today and the cloud will continue to melt away tonight and it will turn | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
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