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This is BBC World News Today with me David Eades. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
International efforts to broker a humanitarian truce | :00:07. | :00:25. | |
More victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
flight return to the Netherlands - but eight days on, bodies still | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Also coming up, how will the United States deal with the | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
How a new treatment for breast cancer could help tens of thousands | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
of women - and save Britain's National Health Service money. | :00:46. | :01:03. | |
The death toll in Gaza rose above 800 today, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
as diplomats continued to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
The United Nations said that 150,000 people in Gaza - | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Israel has continued its air and ground missions to end | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
the launching of rockets from Gaza while Hamas insists that | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
the blockade on the area is lifted as part of any ceasefire. | :01:27. | :01:40. | |
Big and has rejected the cease-fire. They have called for modifications. | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
-- the Israeli cabinet. In a moment the view from Israel - | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
but first our correspondent Ian Pannell has just sent this | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
report from Gaza. The girl was delivered | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
by emergency Caesarean She was killed in | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
an Israeli air strike this morning. The baby was still | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
two weeks premature. Doctors say the little girl has | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
a 50-50 chance of living. The woman's uncle showed us what | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
remains of their home and the place Israel insists it tries to avoid | :02:20. | :02:32. | |
civilian deaths but this morning it was not | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
a fighter who was killed, just This is where the bomb landed | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
about two o'clock in the morning. There has been some damage to | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
the house over there. This part was | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
a UN sanitation compound. But this was a small block housing | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
a few families. This is where the mother was living | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
and she was trapped as She was underneath and unable | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
to escape and eventually died. Two Hamas rockets launched | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
into Israel. Homeless families living in a UN | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
school clap and cheer. There is nothing to celebrate | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
in Gaza. This young girl | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
and her brother were injured when The mother talks of the moment | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
her husband died in her arms. Despite talk of a ceasefire, the | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
suffering and pain go undiminished. Fawaz Gerges is Professor of Middle | :03:40. | :03:53. | |
Eastern Politics at the London School of Economics and Political | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Science. I was going to see, is this the | :03:57. | :04:09. | |
tipping point moment with regard to cease-fire negotiations? The Israeli | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
perspective is not good at the moment. The Israeli government, as | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
you know, rejected the John Kerry proposal. This is a bargaining | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
process. John Kerry's proposal is a 2-stage process. He would like a | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
one-week long cease-fire. In tandem with talks which tackle the security | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
questions. The security questions are the heart of the problem, the | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
eight year Israel siege of Gaza. A siege which has had devastating | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
impact on the lives of Palestinians. This is the central question. How do | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
you stop the rockets? And how do you end the siege? Egypt has also | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
imposed a bloody siege on Gaza. It is starting 2 million people. It | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
seems clear internationally that this must be confronted this time. | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
At the same time, the end to Rocky -- rocket attacks into Israel is as | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
cynical and no one. Hamas leaders have made it clear they would accept | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
any cease-fire which gives them guarantees that the eight-year | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
blockage would be over. Hamas has never said it would not accept a | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
cease-fire. Their goal is to end the blockade. It is causing starvation. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
The central concern of Hamas is that. And now the Palestinian | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
president has joined Hamas in demanding the end of the blockade. | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
In this sense, there is a widespread belief that the cease-fire, the end | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
of rockets and at the same time end the blockade. Let us jump ahead. It | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
is still Hamas, to some extent in the driving seat, and from an | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Israeli viewpoint, that is a trump card for Israel. This is a terrorist | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
organisation? You are correct. The foolish rockets of Hamas. Look at | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
the number of casualties. How many Palestinians have been killed? 830. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Most of them are civilians. 200 children will stop. The rockets are | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
providing ammunition to the far right. The far Right faction is you | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
want to continue the war. The ultraconservative ring -- wing | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
within the government has won the deed for the moment. Thank you very | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
much for joining us. More planes carrying the remains | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
of victims from the Malaysian airlines crash have landed | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
at Eindhoven in The Netherlands. It's been more than a week | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
since the MH17 was shot down in the fields of Grabovo, | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
but the site is yet to be secured The BBC's Tim Willcox is in Kharkiv | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
for us. Thank you very much. The number of | :07:37. | :07:59. | |
forensic teams grows by the day. They will be joined by 14 military | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
police from Holland is. They will be unarmed but will be gathering | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
evidence. As you say, more coffins were flown from here today to the | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
Netherlands. 74 coffins in total. It had been thought by the team is | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
processing the bodies on the grounds, they would have completed | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
their task today. But they have not. There is a fourth carriage on the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
train which was brought here which needs to be cleared. So potentially | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
more flights tomorrow or the following day. I report was at the | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
airport today whether Dutch and Australian foreign ministers came to | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
visit the team working on those bodies. In a city on the edge of a | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
war soon, thoughts for those passengers, people on a flight which | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
flew over here. They are now mourned in the east of you clean. This | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
morning at the airport it is another solemn ceremony. -- Eastern Ukraine. | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
More unidentified remains are loaded onto planes. Getting the remains of | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
the victims out of Warsaw and here to government-controlled Ukraine and | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
then onto flights to Holland, more than a week after the flight was | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
shot out of the sky, continues to be a complex international Ian -- | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
effort. Countries like Australia and Holland want assurances that the | :09:45. | :09:45. | |
crash site Holland want assurances that the | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
people can access it securely. The Australian Foreign Minister told me | :09:53. | :09:53. | |
it was the wish Australian Foreign Minister told me | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
community that the crash site be secured. We are doing | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
community that the crash site be security council task asked to do | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
and that is establishing a proper crash site investigation. We assume | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
our support their, security for them | :10:08. | :10:19. | |
just in case. It is hoped that an armed Dutch and Australian police | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
will come year where parts of the plane and probably still bodies are | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
scattered. The Dutch Prime Minister told the BBC that those responsible | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
will face justice. Be assured that I am extra me motivated to find him, | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
her or then Anderson as we know, they will not escape justice. -- and | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
as soon as we know. Meanwhile, the consequences of war, people fleeing | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
their homes to avoid the violence. That is the problem, the town is | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
still in the middle of war zone. Despite the calls for a six | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
cease-fire around the site fighting has continued and rockets have been | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
fired. Done yet is not too far away and that is the last stronghold of | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
the rebels. The Ukrainian army is shelling that town and the militia | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
are fighting back. Berries are fighting brigades -- there is | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
fighting brigades made up of fighting there. In the last odours | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
so, the Pentagon says it had evidence of multi-calibre rocket one | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
she is being shipped across the border from Russia that century as | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
early as today. -- rocket launchers. The fighting continues and it seems | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
like it will be quite a while before those international teams will find | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
it safe enough to go down and collect evidence. Four days nobody | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
parts and bits of wreckage have been left isolated. No one is controlling | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
that. The families of the victims of the flights will find it a long | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
process to get all the body parts which are accessible on the ground | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
back to Holland is for a formal identification. Thank you very much | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
indeed. The French government has confirmed | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
that there are no survivors from an Air Algerie plane | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
which crashed over Mali yesterday. 116 passengers and crew were | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
on board. One of the flight | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
recorders has been found. It's thought the plane, which had | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
taken off from Burkina Faso, came In Afghanistan, | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
Taliban militants have shot dead 15 people, including women and a child, | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
in the central province of Ghor. Gunmen stopped two vehicles | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
and ordered the passengers to stand in line at the side of the road | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
before shooting them one by one. The victims were from the minority | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
Hazara community, which has faced Jailed Al Jazeera journalist, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Australian Peter Greste is to appeal against his conviction | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
and seven year sentence for Mr Greste and his colleagues, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed, were arrested in December as part of | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
a crackdown on Islamist supporters Illegal immigrants is an issue for | :13:25. | :13:44. | |
many countries and the US is no difference. President Obama will be | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
meeting Central American presidents to stem the flow of illegal child | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
migrants. In the last eight months, nearly 60,000 children have crossed | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
the board are illegally into the US. Navigating the climbing frame, this | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
six-year-old has just completed a far tougher journey. He arrived in | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
America this month from El Salvador. Finally reunited with his mother who | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
made the same journey two years ago. She has asked not to be identified. | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
It is risky to travel as a family because people take more interest in | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
you. It is less dangerous for the children to come on their own. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
Daniel made the 5000 kilometres trip with his two young cousins. He is | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
escaping gang violence and poverty back home. What did he tell you | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
about the journey? The only thing he said was that he was scared when he | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
got to the border. When you cross the river with water up to his neck | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
and when he was caught by the immigration officials. When you | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
arrived at the detention centre with his clothes still soaking wet. The | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
detention centres on the border are child migrants are brought to when | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
they are right. It is their first taste of the American dream, | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
conditions are cramped. Nearly 60,000 children cross the border | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
illegally in the last six months. Many make the journey across the | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
river of the Rio Grande Bay. It separates America from Mexico. If a | :15:33. | :15:50. | |
parent that their children through half of what these illegal aliens do | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
in Texas then the parent would have been charged for child endangerment. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
They are putting their children at risk when they do this. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Here in Washington solving the problems at the border remains a | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
huge challenge. President Obama has described the flow of child migrants | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
as a humanitarian crisis. His critics wonder how he will speed up | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
deportations when there is such a huge backlog in the courts. As for | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
Daniel, it could take years for a judge to decide his fate. His mother | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
is scared that he will be sent back to El Salvador. She wants her son to | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
stay in America, a country that she believes will give him a better | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
chance in life. Joining us from Washington is Doris | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Meissner, senior fellow and director She's also the former Commissioner | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service under | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
the Clinton administration Thank you for joining us. One would | :16:48. | :16:59. | |
presume that the questions surrounding this issue is, how do | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
you stop all these children coming over? Is that the predominant | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
concern, do you think? It certainly is the concern of many people in the | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
NATO states, the net six Congress. -- in the United States, the United | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
States Congress. There are young people in this globe who have claim | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
for asylum in the United States, several other provisions under US | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
law because of the safety problems that they have experienced in their | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
own home countries. There cannot be simply an effort to stop them and | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
send them back without them having an opportunity to have their story | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
be heard and a judge decide whether they have the right to remain in the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
United States, or whether they need to be repatriated to their | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
countries. They are coming over in tens of thousands, and almost | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
unmanageable number. Are there, among those tens of thousands, many | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
who want across-the-board and disappear. That keeping track of | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
them is the challenge? There are lots of challenges. One of the most | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
important characteristics of this is what you pointed out in the package, | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
which is that so many people have parents in the United States or at | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
least a close relative. Main 2% of them have either a parent or a | :18:35. | :18:49. | |
family member. -- 90% of them. The dangerous situations they face in | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
their countries and lack of economic opportunity, those who have come | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
here and have a stake your want them to come and want them to be here and | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
are by and large paying smugglers to bring them. Is there something which | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
has been getting worse since the Clinton administration. And is that | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
partly because of the inability to deal with it over the last couple of | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
decades? We have always had child migrants, but they have been | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
predominantly from Mexico rather than from Central America, although | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Central Americans have been in the child migrant population. But they | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
have been at a fairly steady rate. It has been several thousand a year, | :19:39. | :19:48. | |
5000 two 7000 a year. This just in the last two years that the chilled | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
migration phenomenon has really taken off and is dominated by | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
children from Central America. And so this is a shift but it is also | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
something that we're been dealing with for quite a long time. Thank | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
you very much for joining us. A new breast-cancer treatment | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
which replaces weeks of radiotherapy could be offered on | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
the National Health Service here. It uses a single dose | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
of targeted treatment once a tumour As Sophie Hutchinson reports, | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
for many patients it could replace The 71-year-old writer says that she | :20:16. | :20:35. | |
has never been busier, but almost two years ago she had surgery for | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
breast cancer and at the same time was given a new therapy for breast | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
cancer. She said it was brilliant because it was over so quickly. I | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
had no idea it had been done. I felt tired for a few weeks, classic | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
post-op symptoms, but I did not know it had happened. If they had not | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
pulled me they had done it I would never have known. There were no side | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
effects, nothing to show. The treatment, which | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
in the UK, offers a one-off dose of radiotherapy carried out after an | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
in the UK, offers a one-off dose of operation in the minutes after any | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
tumours have been removed. It lasts around 20 minutes. The benefit of | :21:20. | :21:31. | |
using this new device is that it targets the correct area with in the | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
breast. It also saves patients time and the NHS money. One estimate has | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
put the savings at ?15 million per year. It is a fraction of the time | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
that would otherwise have been used. It is one hour in the operating | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
theatre rather than 15 minutes everyday for three to six weeks. The | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
treatment has so far proved to be as effective as conventional | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
radiotherapy. It could transform care for many breast cancer | :22:11. | :22:28. | |
patients. Nigeria's Health Minister has | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
confirmed that there has been a patient confirmed with Ebola today. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
It is the world's deadliest outbreak to date. We know that the man came | :22:44. | :23:06. | |
into Rhigos on Sunday. He was taken for medical treatment and isolated. | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
-- Lagos. It took time to get confirmation as to whether this was | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Ebola virus. We then got confirmation that this was indeed | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
Ebola, although they health officials here have not yet | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
confirmed it. They were the ones that first reported this news about | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
this suspected case. He was a man that was put into | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
quarantine pretty quickly. Nevertheless he was on a flight no | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
doubt full of other passengers that would have gone about their | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
business, many into other bilious part of Lagos. -- other various | :23:45. | :23:56. | |
parts of Lagos. They have said that this was contained from the airport | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
and that the man only came into contact with health workers. It will | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
take off well before we can know if there has been any spread of the | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
virus so far. No confirmation of that. Considering Lagos and Nigeria | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
has major challenges within its health care system it will be | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
crucial at this stage for the government to watch and act, as many | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
Nigerians would expect, in order to prevent the spread of the virus. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Scientists believe that this rather scary-looking animal was | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
the first creature to bridge the dinosaur and bird species. | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
But now, the discovery of 150-million-year-old fossils | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
in Siberia shows that feathers may have been much more widespread than | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Our Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh has been finding out more. | :24:41. | :24:53. | |
Sunday in the size were big and scary. And it is thought that they | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
had scaly skin -- some dinosaurs. This creature is thought to have | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
been the transition from day now saw -- from dinosaur to bird. It arose | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
right around the age of the dinosaurs. But new research suggests | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
that the arose much earlier, right at the beginning of when the first | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
emerged. The discovery of this dinosaur in | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
Siberia suggests that they began to develop feathers tens of millions of | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
years earlier than previously thought. But some experts have | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
doubts. This expert says that the feathers could be something else. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
There are number of features which are completely unlike feathers that | :25:56. | :26:11. | |
we have seen on other animals. Some believe that it shows that dinosaurs | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
had feathers from the very beginning and were widespread. | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
The Israeli government is reported to have said that it is rejecting | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Gaza cease-fire proposal from the Americans as it stands but would | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
continue to discuss it. The death toll in Gaza rose above 800 today. | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
It is reported that many people in Gaza are now living within UN | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Good evening. The temperatures are about to start heading in the other | :26:49. | :27:06. | |
direction. But we're only getting back down to near ready would | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
normally be at this time of the year. | :27:11. | :27:12. |