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This is BBC World News today. A court in the Hague rules that - -- | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
Dutch peacekeepers failed to protect 300 Muslim men and boys were killed | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
during the Bosnian war. Some families should | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
now get compensation. The funeral takes place | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
for four Palestinian children killed whilst playing on a beach - the | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
latest victims as Israel intensifies Also coming up, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
the hidden scale of child abuse in the UK - a massive police operation | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
arrests 660 suspected paedophiles. Are we winning the fight | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
against AIDS? The number of deaths worldwide from | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
the disease is falling dramatically. It's been called the worst atrocity | :00:49. | :01:10. | |
in Europe since World War Two, and today a court in the Hague has | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
ruled that the Netherlands was partly responsible for the deaths | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
of more than 300 people killed in The court says Dutch peacekeepers | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
failed to protect men and boys who sought protection | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
at a United Nations base in 1995. Although more than 7,000 men | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
and boys were murdered in a few days, this ruling relates | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
to the 300 who had made it to the UN compound at Potocari, rather than | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
the thousands more who'd fled to The Dutch handed | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
the 300 over to General Mladic's Within just three days | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
the first reports emerged of Muslim Our World Affairs correspondent, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Mike Woolridge, has more on today's Relatives of the Bosnian Muslim men | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
and boys slaughtered at Srebrenica have waged a lengthy legal campaign | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
to have the Dutch government held responsible for the killings on | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
grounds that Dutch peacekeepers had failed to protect them from Serb | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
forces. The Mothers of Srebrenica, as they call themselves, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
won a partial victory today with a ruling that the government could | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
be held liable in the deaths of 300 Their leader said said this could | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
leave them having to tell a mother that for one of their sons | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
there was Dutch responsibility but for another there was not | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
and so, she said, the battle for A few months before the end | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
of the Bosnian war, thousands of Muslims from surrounding villages | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
had gathered here at Srebrenica to The Muslim enclave was under | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
the protection of Dutch troops But then it was overrun | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
by paramilitary units under the comand of Ratko Mladic, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
who is now on trial in the Hague Terrified civilians were removed | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
from the camp without the Dutch And the massacre of men | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
and boys that followed is considered Some experts say today's judgement | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
will mean countries thinking more carefully | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
about deploying peacekeeping troops That, of course, is unfortunate | :03:30. | :03:30. | |
because peacekeeping is a long-established tradition and it is | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
important there be a certain amount of protection for individuals | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
involved in that process. But I think countries do need to | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
be held accountable for public In the 19 years since the Srebrenica | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
massacre, further discoveries of the remains of those killed has | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
brought continuing grieving, and today a significant court ruling | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
for the relatives conjure. and today a significant court ruling | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
for the relatives to conjure. Alan Little covered the Bosnia war | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
for the BBC for three years and joins me now. From the outside it | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
was such a shock when these reports of massacres emerged, modern Europe, | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
massacre on this scale. You were there and saw the seeds are being | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
sown. Yes, indeed, and those of us who | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
were there pretty much knew this would happen if Srebrenica was | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
allowed to fall. Srebrenica was only different in scale from what had | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
been happening pretty consistently for three years beforehand. Was | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
started in 1992 and its signature was this grim euphemism, ethnic | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
cleansing. Trying to carve out an ethnically pure territory in Bosnia, | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
through mass murder. We knew that mass murder was a technique, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
therefore it was highly predictable that something of this sort would | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
happen, though the scale of it - between 7000 and 8000 in a few days | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
- even to seasoned observers of that walk on it together one by surprise. | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
-- of that war, it took everyone by surprise. This only applies to 300 | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
of those who were killed, how are they distinguishing between these | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
and the more than 6000 others? These 300 men had managed to get | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
into the Dutch compound at Potocari. They thought they were safe they are | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
with their families and the Dutch peacekeepers handed them over. They | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
made a decision to hand them over to Serb forces. The court found today | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
that at the time in which they were handed over, the killing had already | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
started. The court ruled the peacekeepers new or should have | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
known there was mass murderer already underway. That is what | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
distinguishes these 300 from the other 7500. What about the relatives | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
of those who do not come under the 300? | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
They are not satisfied at all with this and they want to take on their | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
campaign. One woman who has been an indefatigable campaigner for the | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
last two decades has said, how can you did in which between two | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
mothers, one of whose sons was on one side of wire and the other whose | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
son was on the other side? They are both dead in the same mass grave. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
And there was a failure protection both sides? | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Yes, the United Nations two years before it happened declared, the UN | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Security Council in New York, Dix -- declared Srebrenica as a safe area. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
They failed to render it safe. This is a statement not just to the Dutch | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
peacekeepers and the Dutch state, it is a continuing stain to the UN with | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
peacekeepers there with no peace to keep. | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
And the ongoing trial of VAT, la ditch and Milosevic. -- Ratko | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Mladic. Yes, both of these men are accused | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
of genocide. Srebrenica features heavily in the indictment of both | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
men. The court has been heavily criticised of taking so long to | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
apprehend the men in the first place and once they were in custody to | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
bring them to justice. Both trials have been going on for years now and | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
there was no sign of them ending. I have sat in that courtroom watching | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
both of them and sat beside some of those mothers of Srebrenica. Their | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
pain is unimaginable, they follow this day by day and it consumes | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
their whole lives. The compensation the court will award 300 of those | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
families today is inconsequential to them in comparison with what they | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
see as a search for justice and recognition at last of what happened | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
to them, particularly how they were let down by the international | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
community. Thank you. | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
Four Palestinian children from the same family have been | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
killed by a rocket attack on a beach in Gaza City. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
The Palestinians say it brings the death total to 213. | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
Israel says hundreds of rockets have been fired from Gaza. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
This afternoon one Israeli civilian to die as a result of the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
attacks and was buried by his family. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Israel has urged tens of thousands of people to leave their homes in | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
Gaza amid signs that it is preparing to step up its military campaign. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
The children were playing on Gaza's beach | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
It struck with such force there was nowhere to hide. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
As the survivors ran for cover, there was further shelling. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
The injured - more children - were taken to a local hospital. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
As family members arrived, the shattering news - | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Their ages vary between ten and 12 years old. | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
Medical teams are still in the area looking to evacuate | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
the dead and wounded from the site that was completely destroyed. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Israel's military says it is investigating the deaths. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Earlier it had dropped leaflets across northern Gaza, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
They carried what they could and headed for shelter in schools. | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
Israel has promised to intensify its military offensive. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Already, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed. | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
And today, for the first time in this conflict, | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
The family of Dror Hanin gathered with mourners to bury him. | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
He was killed last night by a mortar from Gaza, the first Israeli to die. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Dror Hanin died just hours after a cease-fire attempt here failed. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
If it had succeeded, he may have lived. | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
So too may have the ten or so Palestinians who died overnight | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
But, nine days into this conflict, there is still no great appetite | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
And this evening Gaza was overwhelmed with grief. | :09:51. | :10:02. | |
Their pain was raw as the bodies of the dead children were carried | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Yet more civilians killed in a conflict that shows no sign | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Deaths from HIV-AIDS fell to 1.5 million last year. | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
That's 200,000 fewer than in 2012, according to a new report released | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
It's good news - the global effort to beat | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
But 35 million people are still living with HIV. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Dr Gitau Mburu is senior adviser on HIV and health systems at the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Welcome to World News Today. First, the positive side. A significant | :10:39. | :10:54. | |
drop in the number of deaths. Is this due to more people getting the | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
right drugs? It has been a combination of a | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
number of factors. One of them is that there has been significant | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
scientific development that has enabled more people to get diagnosed | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
earlier. There has also been a rapid expansion in HIV programmes in low | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
and middle income countries meaning that people who were initially | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
harder to reach our able to access treatment. Expansion of treatment | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
has played a significant factor in this reduction of numbers of deaths. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
I think it is important also to highlight that when people get onto | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
treatment earlier, it means they are able to live much longer lives and | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
recent evidence also shows that when people get on treatment their life | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
expectancy is as close to those without HIV. We are extremely | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
excited about that at the Alliance. One of the figures that jump out at | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
me from this report is that of the 35 million people living with HIV | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
globally it says 19 million do not know their HIV-positive status. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
The number of people who are living in ignorance is still alarming. | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
Yes, it is a remarkable figure and one that is actually alarming. As | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
you know, getting treatment can only start once you know your status. We | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
have continued to see that only 50% of people with HIV actually have an | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
idea that they have got it. Even though we have made tremendous | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
progress in terms of producing the deaths from HIV, we still know that | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
we have 50% of people living with HIV, which is actually about 19 | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
million, to get to understand their HIV status. That is not only | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
important for their own good, because research has shown over and | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
over again that 61% of new infections in the US come from | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
people who do not know they have got HIV, so it is extremely essential | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
that people have ways of eating able to access HIV testing. -- of being | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
able. That is one of the areas where we have to put more resources, we | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
have to reach people who are marginalised or people who do not | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
have access to conventional health facilities. We have to be able to be | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
smart enough to reach them in their own communities. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Just briefly, if 19 million people do not know their HIV-positive | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
status, how do we know? Is this just statistics? How do we come to that | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
number? Very good question. One of the ways | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
in which people come to percentages is by doing scientific surveys. We | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
would come to a time and try and figure out how many people know they | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
have HIV status after weeks test them. -- after we test them. We ask | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
them, have you ever been tested before, do you have a partner that | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
is HIV-positive? A lot of it is based on small surveys that are then | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
extrapolated to group levels, but they are very scientific and we have | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
confidence that they are absolutely the right amount of people that do | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
not know their status. Dr Gitau Mburu in Brighton, Viking | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
for joining us. -- thank you for joining us. We have some breaking | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
news for you, a British man has been jailed for 12 and a half years by an | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
American court for running a website and distributing publications that | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
promoted violence and raised money for Al-Qaeda. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
The 39 yield was extradited from the UK two years ago. Another man is due | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
to be sentenced tomorrow. Nick Bryant is at the court in | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
Connecticut where this sentence was handed down. Tell us more. The | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
sentence has been handed down in the past few minutes following a three | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
and a half hour ruling by the judge, during which he went into | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
great detail about the details of the case and the details of the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
character, which is one of the reasons why she has decided to give | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
him character, which is one of the | :15:11. | :15:10. | |
reasons why she has decided a 12 and a half year sentence, rather than | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
the 25 year sentence the prosecutors were looking at. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Because he has served ten years already, Philip, fighting | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
extradition in Britain and for the past two years held in solitary | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
confinement in a super max prison here in America, it seems according | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
to his legal team that he will be out of prison, based on good | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
behaviour come in about seven or eight months. So, by next spring. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
His good behaviour was a crucial element in the judge's thinking. She | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
said this was a very serious crime. He had pleaded guilty to providing | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
material support to the Caliban and also a charge of conspiracy. -- | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
support to the Caliban. He had entered into this plea agreement and | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
she said the seriousness of the crime had to be weighed against his | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
good character. She spoke movingly of the testimonials she has received | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
from his friends, his supporters in Britain particularly, speaking of | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
his good character and the good deeds he has done in prison, | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
speaking of the care he has shown for people outside prison. He spoke | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
on his behalf during this sentencing procedure, so did his sister, | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
welling up at one point talking about how much she loved her brother | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
and what a great man he was, and the judge really took that into account | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
when she delivered this sentence. As I say, it was half of what the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
prosecutors were looking for. He has been centred to 12 and a half years, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
he has served ten of them already, on good behaviour he should be out | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
by next spring. Thank you. | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been sworn in for another | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Mr Assad was declared the winner of an election held last month | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
but the opposition dismissed the vote as a sham. | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
In a speech he claimed western and Arab countries would pay | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
a heavy price for supporting opposition fighters | :17:16. | :17:16. | |
A court in Egypt has sentenced seven men to | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
life imprisonment and two others to 20 years for sexual assaults | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Some took place during celebrations to mark the inauguration | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
There's been concern in Egypt that the authorities were | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
not doing enough to tackle widespread sexual harassment. | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
A court in Sweden has upheld an arrest warrant issued against | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on charges of sexual assault. | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Mr Assange denies the allegations made against him by two female | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
He has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
for the past two years to avoid extradition to Sweden. | :17:52. | :18:06. | |
Here in Britain a six-month-long police operation has led to the | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles, including doctors, teachers, | :18:12. | :18:12. | |
scout leaders, care workers, and former police officers, most of whom | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
The operation focused on people accessing indecent images | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
There are millions of images of child sexual abuse online. | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Every digital device has a camera meaning paedophiles are | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
now making and trading obscene pictures more than ever before. | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
The National Crime Agency launched last October, | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
But preventing online child exploitation has become | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
I think what's been developing over the last couple of years really is | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
an increasing understanding of the scale of this issue. | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
So the ability for people to access material very easily via | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
the internet has changed the face of this type of criminality. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
He had more than one million obscene images. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Another was a grandfather with access to 17 grandchildren. | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
There was also a foster carer looking after a vulnerable child. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
This operation sends a clear message. | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
There is no hiding place for paedophiles on the web. | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
The National Crime Agency won't talk about its tactics. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
But we do know officers had expert training from the | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
Los Angeles Police Department and I had exclusive access to their online | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
Backed up by high-tech forensic units and sophisticated software | :19:29. | :19:47. | |
which tracks, in real-time, people who are accessing abuse images. | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
So from what I can see here, just above Croydon, | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
there is a red dot that means there is an individual there who we know, | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
at this moment, is swapping images of child sexual abuse. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
For experts based in the UK, the scale of Operation Notarise must | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
It is a crime that cuts across every strata of society so you | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
can't actually depict who is going to be looking at these images. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Police can't arrest their way out of this problem. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
It's also for the internet industry and wider society to stem | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
the tide of obscene images and protect children from abuse. | :20:30. | :20:59. | |
When I say Guantanamo Bay, you probably think of the US | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
But there's also a US naval base there. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
Neither are particularly welcome by Cuban citizens. | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
Many of whom believe there's no strategic | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
reason for a continued American military presence on their island. | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
From Guantanamo, Sarah Rainsford reports. | :21:11. | :21:11. | |
This is Guantanamo Bay from the Cuban side. | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
A sunbaked spot where life moves very slowly | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
The watchtowers mark the edge of the US naval base at Guantanamo. | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
The American military here inside Communist Cuba. | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
But there is resentment under the surface. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
The Americans control the entrance to Guantanamo Bay, restricting Cuban | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Alexander tells with the best catch are in the deeper | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
He says the men here are hoping, praying even, | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
But their base was part of the landscape here long | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
Both sides must agree if it's to be closed. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
The US base is so close to this town that every morning locals here | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
on this side of the bay hear the American national anthem coming | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Cuba calls the Americans' presence here an | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
illegal occupation and ever since the revolution, Fidel Castro has | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
refused to cash the rent cheque that the Americans pay for being here. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
The base proved pretty lucrative for some, though. | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
This man is one of thousands of Cubans who worked for | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
The US stopped hiring after Cuba turned Communist but he | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
and many others carried on working at the base and today collects | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
When he started work in the 40s, Guantanamo's streets were full | :22:25. | :22:38. | |
The city's historian points out a former brothel, | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
and talks of the moral threat from the US base in the old days. | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Later he argues it became a threat to national security. | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
After the revolution there were killings of fishermen, most of the | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
acts of aggression in this region at the US base in Guantanamo. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
That's partly why the revolutionary spirit remains high here. | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
That and the extra food rations to keep locals loyal. | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
We are the first line of defence against imperialism, | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
The hope here is that such fighting talk can be consigned | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
But whilst President Obama talks of shutting | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
down the US detention centre in Guantanamo, he's never talked | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
of closing the naval base here or of returning this land to Cuba. | :23:33. | :23:48. | |
European leaders have gathered in Brussels for a special summit to | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
decide who should fill two top EU jobs - foreign policy chief | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
The talks follow Jean-Claude Juncker's confirmation as | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
the new president of the European Commission, a post he got in spite | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
EU leaders are also likely to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
and the possibility of more sanctions against Moscow. | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
Let's find out more from the BBC's Europe correspondent | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
I know this is not a quick process, deciding these names but tell me why | :24:11. | :24:26. | |
it matters who gets these top jobs. Because it sets the tone for the way | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
Europe is run. If Barack Obama comes into town for example, the council | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
will meet him and as for the foreign policy job, it started more low-key. | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
National government guard this as their issue but the current | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
incumbent has made progress on things like the Iran nuclear talks | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
and the relation between Serbia and Kosovo. Tension is now turning to | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
who gets it next for the leading candidate is probably the Italian | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Foreign Minister. He is relatively new in his job, less than six | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
months. Several countries in Eastern Europe believe he and the Italian | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
political establishment in general are to consider towards Russia when | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
it comes to the current crisis in the Ukraine. Angela Merkel has | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
warned there could be further sanctions, the feeling that Russia | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
is not doing enough over Ukraine. Yeah, there's been pressure building | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
on the EU over the last few days for the US, and the Ukraine itself to | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
say, you have been threatening further sanctions for awhile and | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
things are not getting better and it's time to take action. A draft | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
statement circulating suggests the EU might cut of Russian access to | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
several billion dollars worth of public loans for infrastructure and | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
develop and projects to Russia. There may well be other individuals | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
will be subject to things like these are bands and asset freezes, but | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
it's not a move to phase three of sanctions, those pressing for the | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
toughest line against Russia would like to see, against large sections | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
of the Russian economy. At the moment, in the EU, there are some | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
countries not prepared to go that far. Chris Morris, in Brussels, | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
thank you. The government in the Netherlands | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
has been found liable for the deaths of more than 300 | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
of the thousands of Bosnian Muslims A court in the Hague decided that | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Dutch peacekeepers should have known the men might be killed by | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Bosnian Serbs when they sent them It's a story of soaring temperatures | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
and eventually thunderstorms as we We have high pressure across | :26:39. | :26:57. | |
the country with this complication of a weak weather front across | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
south-eastern areas so rather cloudy start to the day here with the odd | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
spot of rain, perhaps mist near the coast but that cloud will thin | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
and break and most | :27:09. | :27:12. |