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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
tens of thousands are on the road, running from the militants | :00:00. | :00:23. | |
Iraq's president has asked the deputy speaker | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
of parliament to replace Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
Turkey's Prime Minister becomes president. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
He says it's a victory for all Turks, but he wants | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
We visit a hospital in London to see a procedure that uses cartilage | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
to create ears for children that are born without them. | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
Hello and welcome. We start with the crisis in Iraq. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Nouri al-Maliki's | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
He's determined to cling on for a third term in power, | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
even though the country's president has now nominated this man, | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Haider al-Abadi, who's the Deputy Speaker of the House, | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
All this as tens of thousands of Iraqis are tonight fleeing | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
for their lives, desperate to avoid the advance of the Islamic State, | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Many are stranded here on a mountainside, | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
and have been without the basics of life, proper food, water and | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
shelter, for seven days or more. Nick Childs has this report. | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Leave in an desperate trek continues to some kind of safety. Some of the | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
thousands of members of the Iraq's Yazidi minority, fleeing the ad van | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Sunday brutality of the sunny militant fighters now known as the | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
Islamic State. I had to work halfway here alone. I have three children. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
This one is with me, but I have lost the others. I have not seen them or | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
my husband. I walked from the Sinjar mountains to Syria, walking. We have | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
the battle, sometimes, no more. In their anxiety to escape, some have | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
crossed perilously into the Kurdish rebel held areas of neighbouring | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Syria, it's self a war wracked country where the Islamic State has | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
a powerful hold. So, this camp may offer relative | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
sanctuary for some, but certainly not real safety or a long-term | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
future. With the help of US air strikes, and there was another major | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
one late last evening, Kurdish forces in Iraq have retaken some | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
ground from the militants in the North. Washington says it is now | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
providing the Iraqi Kurdistan weapons directly, to try to turn the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
militants tied. But in their own videos, the militants have been | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
parading their successes, and there is word they have also made a new | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
advance further south, close to the capital, Baghdad. It is the | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of Yazidis and other | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
threatened Iraqi minorities that has refocused international concern and | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
alarm on the threat posed by the Sunni militants, in Iraq and beyond. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Western governments are still trying to grapple with and understand the | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
scale of the challenge. As Iraqis continue to pour out of | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
Islamic State territory, a political crisis is emerging in Baghdad, with | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
a stand-off between the country's And, in a separate move, | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
Washington said it had begun to send weapons to the Iraqi Kurdish forces | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
to help them in the fight Our Diplomatic Correspondent | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Bridget Kendall has this report. Much-needed aid, being dropped from | :03:46. | :04:02. | |
the US military planes to help trap Iraqi civilians as well as US air | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
strikes on the militants on Islamic State who threaten them. But this | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
crisis seems to be drawing the Americans in. Now, they have decided | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
to arm the Kurdish forces directly. In Syria, supplying their allies | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
with weapons was something the Americans wouldn't do in case they | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
fell into the hands of extremists. But now, those same extremists, | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
sweeping through Iraq, have got their hands on American heavy | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
weaponry anyway, looted from fleeing Iraqi soldiers. They flaunt their | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
war spoils jubilantly. The Kurds say unless they get more outside | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
military support, they will be helpless to stop them. So far, we | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
have been outgunned by the Islamic State, so this will help us to match | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
that. Frankly, if this had been done in Syria, if there had been an | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
intervention earlier in Syria, we wouldn't be seeing what we're seeing | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
now in Iraq. From their original stronghold in | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
northern Syria, Islamic fighters now control broad swathes of northern | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Iraq, and after capturing muzzle in the north, they moved south to towns | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
like Tikrit, and now they are advancing east towards Kurdish | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
areas. It is not all one-way, though. Yesterday, Peshmerga | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
fighters retook to towns. But today, Islamic fighters reportedly seized | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
the town of Jalawla. Most at risk are the non-Muslims they threaten to | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
destroy, like the Iraqi Christians who fled Qaraquosh, and the ancient | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
communities lately is Edies, stranded on the barren slopes of the | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Sinjar mountains. If they claim that they have seized the dam is | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
confirmed, they could control water or flood whole regions. Furthermore, | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
if they had taken the capital of US security relations, the biggest | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
danger of all, if they could claim control of the capital of the | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
country, Baghdad. And all of this attention there are rising. The city | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
is paralysed by a row over who should lead the country's new | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
government. This morning, the old Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, but | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
history is on the streets to back up his claim to stay on. In a counter | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
move this new president, invited the deputies and a parliament to form a | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
government instead, a move welcomed in London and Washington. Mr Nouri | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Al-Maliki and his supporters have declared it illegal, and while the | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
bickering continues, the threat from Islamic State extremists edges | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
closer. Let's pick up on some of those | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
points. Laith Kubba is a former Iraqi | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
government spokesman and is now with the | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
National Endowment for Democracy. He joins us from | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
our Washington studio. Washington has already said that | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
they want to work with this new Iraqi government. What does this new | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
potential leader have that Nouri Al-Maliki didn't? It is going to be, | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
of course, an anxious 2448 hrs, but all indications are that the new | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
nominee, high Dalai baddie, has the major support behind him, and there | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
is a huge expectation and endorsement, so it is a positive | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
moment. I think the only concern, if Nouri al-Maliki really digs in, he | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
will rely on militias. It is extremely unlikely that anybody in | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
the Iraqi army would side with him. And he has been described, the new | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
man, as someone who is also a favourite of the Sunnis as well, so | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
finally someone who will bring together all sides of the Iraqi | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
government and Iraqi people. I think it is not a question of being | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
favourite of the Sunnis. I think the policies of Nouri al-Maliki really | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
alienate it everybody. He failed politically, he fails to | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
Administration, he failed when all the reasons for success were given | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
to him, and I think he is leaving behind Iraq in a dire situation, out | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
of control. I think the new man has the skills, the political seasoning | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
to make a fresh start. I hope that he would get the support from all | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
political sides, all political groups, to get Iraq through this | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
difficult spot. The list of tasks ahead of him are enormous. They are | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
not easy, and they are not going to be handled lightly. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
The lists of tasks and is, as you say, enormous. We have this refugee | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
crisis in the north of the country. What do you make of the help that | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
the West is trying to provide? Will it be enough to stop Islamic State? | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
I think the situation is far more complex than dropping bombs dropping | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
aid. That situation emerged out of a complex regional dynamic that is | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
taking place, and outs of months if not years of failed politics in | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Baghdad. So, to expect a quick fix is totally unrealistic. It will take | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
months. The good news, it is doable. ISIS enjoys no support from | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
any country or any constituency, not even the Sunnis. The only reason it | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
rose to prominence and to existence is due to the failure of everybody | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
else to do the right thing. Its strength comes from everybody | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
else's weaknesses and failures. So I think once there is a new momentum | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
in Baghdad, I am optimistic. It takes months, but it can be | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
contained. They can be gotten rid of. Let's hope so. | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
Thank you very much. We will continue to monitor the situation in | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
Iraq. Let's move on now. Staying in the region, | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
aimed at finding a long-term solution to the conflict in Gaza, | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
have been taking place in Egypt. After the bloodshed of recent weeks, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
there are signs of normal life returning to Gaza, as a three-day | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
ceasefire continues to hold. Our correspondent, Yolande Knell, | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
sent this report from the Rafa border crossing, where much-needed | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
supplies are getting through. Supplies, rolling into Gaza today. | :10:18. | :10:32. | |
Coming across the border from Israel. Most of this is bought by | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Palestinian businesses. And there is a too, but the Israelis imposed | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
tight controls. -- aid. Almost no exploits leave here. Now, with talks | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
about a longer term cease-fire deal back on in Cairo, maintaining | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Israel's security and lived in Gaza's blockade at the key demands. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
These lorries bringing goods into Gaza from Israel's only commercial | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
crossing point, which is just down the road. Palestinians want it to be | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
open more fully, so they can trade effectively. And then behind me, we | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
have the Rafa crossing point with Egypt. It has been mostly closed to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
travellers for the past year, but Palestinians say it should be | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Gaza's gateway to the world. Currently, only those with foreign | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Gaza's gateway to the world. or residency can leave to Egypt. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Gaza's gateway to the world. being pushed to make difficult | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
compromises. TRANSLATION: We hope this crossing will be open full-time | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
in both directions, so people can travel abroad and come to Gaza. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Across Gaza, there are scenes of massive destruction. After five | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
weeks of fighting with Israel. But now, a temporary truce is | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
weeks of fighting with Israel. But families to think about rebuilding | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
their lives. Many are returning to the neighbourhoods they fled. And | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
not far away, some doing the same. Neighbours greet | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
each other as they go back to their properties near the Gaza border. | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
TRANSLATION: I am very happy. This is our home. We haven't been here | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
for a month and two weeks. The challenge now is to build on this | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
truce, so that the calm can last. Let's cross to Jerusalem, where our | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
correspondent has more. So, the second three-day cease-fire. How | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
confident are we that this one will hold? These are two parties who are | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
mortal, bitter enemies, and the fact they are still talking in Cairo, | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
Albion through Egyptian mediators, is a good sign. It also underlines | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
the importance of getting something tangible and long-term health of | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
these talks, because of course, nobody wants to be here in a few | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
months and talking about yet another Gaza war. We have had four in the | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
last ten years, so there is a lot of pressure on both sides to get | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
something, however minimal, out of this, but there is also some | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
pressure on the Israeli delegation, because there are many extreme | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
members to the right of the government here who think that the | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Israeli delegation should not be in Cairo at all. They believe the only | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
way to avoid a future conflict was to have militarily crushed Hamas, | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
and they wanted their government and their army to continue the fight | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
against Hamas in Gaza, even though that would have led to more civilian | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
deaths, both in Gaza and of course, in Israel. So pressure from both | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
sides, particularly on the Israeli delegation, and perhaps something | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
hopes that some thing might come out of those Cairo talks before this | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
latest cease-fire expires on Wednesday. | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
For the time being, thank you very much. | :13:53. | :13:53. | |
Now, Now a look at some of | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
the day's other news. The World Health Organisation is | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
holding a meeting of its medical ethics specialists, to | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
explore the use of new, experimental They're considering | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
two key questions: should a medicine that has never | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
been tested be used, and if so, Close to 1,000 people have died | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
of the virus in west Africa. As the violence | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
in Ukraine continues, Russia is to send a humanitarian | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
convoy to the east of the country, NATO had warned Russia might try to | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
send its military into Ukraine under But Ukraine says they, and the US, | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
approve of this plan. Protestors | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
in South Africa have disrupted the testimony of the deputy president, | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
Cyril Ramaphosa, at an inquiry into the fatal shooting of 34 striking | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
miners by police two years ago. The protestors banged on tables | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
at the hearing in Pretoria shouting Mr Ramaphosa was a director | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
of the Lonmin company, which owns a court in Germany has begun hearing | :14:50. | :15:06. | |
evidence in the case of the autobahn shooter, a man accused of firing | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
more than 700 shots at vehicles on German motorways over five years. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
One woman was seriously injured, and numerous cars and lorries were | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
damaged by bullet holes. The man told police that he was angry over | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
bad or inconsiderate driving. He's been prime minister of Turkey | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
since 2003 and now Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the country's | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
first directly elected president. He's hailed his victory | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
as a new era for the country. And one | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
of his first actions was to call for more powers for a role that, until | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
now, has been largely ceremonial. He arrived for the crowning moment | :15:36. | :15:55. | |
of his career. He won a decisive victory, delighting his fans. He is | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
loved by his supporters for transforming the economy but hated | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
by his critics for being an autocratic man. He struck a | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
considerably toned. TRANSLATION: Today is the day we initiate a | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
social reconciliation process. Please leave aside the old | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
discussions, the old disputes and tensions. His rivals trailed far | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
behind. A little-known diplomats. The fact he ran at all was momentous | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
after 30 years of civil war between Turks and Kurds. As news broke of | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
the victory, the celebrations began. He is remembered by critics for his | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
attempts to ban YouTube and Twitter, and suppressing | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
anti-government protest. He is fair to everyone and the country has | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
developed many much. I am travelling to many towns because of my job and | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
the country has developed unbelievably. In Ankara, the party | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
went on well into the night. He has delighted his fans. Recep Tayyip | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
Erdogan is revered here for giving up political voice. The challenge | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
for him now is to reach out to the other half, the more westernised and | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
more secular half, and unite this polarised nation. He will now try | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
and increase the powers of the president. The result of this | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
election was never really in doubt but whether he can succeed as | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
president still is. With me is a Turkish political | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
analyst who lectures at Can Recep Tayyip Erdogan reach out | :17:56. | :18:08. | |
to a politically divided nation? During the election period, in his | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
candidacy, E polarised the nation further by putting forward the idea | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
that a group of people were not part of the Turkish make up. This led to | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
uproar and further problems so it will be interesting to see what he | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
does. However, he did put forward during his speech, as the incoming | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
president yesterday evening, that he does want to bring together all | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Turkish citizens to be one nation. That will be an interesting sites to | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
see because he is famous for polarising. This idea that the | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
presidential role was mainly ceremonial, he once more powers, | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
presidential role was mainly that worrying? It is worrying. He | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
will lead Parliament and the government and he has the | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
constitutional hacking to do this. government and he has the | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
They will need more seats in the next general election to do this. -- | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
hacking. They may need another party perhaps. It would be an interesting | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
situation. The incoming perhaps. It would be an interesting | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
really is making sure that he would like to have this | :19:32. | :19:52. | |
really is making sure that he would Putin situation. That is not going | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
to happen but having said that, of course, at the end of the month, the | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
AKP party will come together in Congress to decide who will be the | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
next Prime Minister, and we cannot really think that the incoming | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, well not have an effect on this. It | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
is thought that the incoming Prime Minister will more than likely be | :20:21. | :20:32. | |
his right-hand man. He is someone who has Islamic ideals and is | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
someone who will not challenge what Recep Tayyip Erdogan would like to | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
proceed with. Thank you for joining us. | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
Each year around 100 children are born in Britain with a condition | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
in which one or both of their ears are missing. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
The BBC has been given exclusive access to treatment at | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
London's Great Ormond Street hospital, where doctors create new | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
Kieran Sorkin is one young patient who's benefited from the technique | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
and our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh went to meet him. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Kieran was born deaf with just small lobes where his ears should be. | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
The nine year old has already had successful surgery to implant | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
a hearing aid, the small red box on his head. | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
Now he wants to look like other children. | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
I am going to keep this part but they are going to make | :21:28. | :21:44. | |
I don't want children bullying him because he looks different. | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
I just want him to be accepted like everyone else. | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
Kieran's new ears are to look like his mum?s. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
This sketch will be taken into theatre. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
cartilage from six of Kieran's ribs, shape and sow them. | :22:02. | :22:13. | |
Once inserted into pockets under the skin, a key moment. | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
Using suction, the skin wraps around the ears and they take shape. | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
This type of surgery is for cosmetic reasons and not to | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
improve hearing, so what difference does it make to the dozens | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
There's huge psychological benefits for them and I think that if you can | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
change the confidence of a patient at this young age, it will change | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
their whole trajectory in life so I think it is a very beneficial | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
procedure and you see that when they come back to follow up. | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Within a decade, this kind of surgery could be done | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Advances in tissue engineering mean that cartilage, indeed | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
the whole framework of the ear , could be grown in the laboratory. | :22:57. | :23:08. | |
Fat cells under the microscope , which will be turned | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
Far less invasive than taking material from ribs. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Three days after surgery and Kieran is getting used to having ears. | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
He will need another operation to complete the procedure but he is | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
Hundreds of people have gathered in an expensive store in Moscow to buy | :23:30. | :23:49. | |
a T-shirt with the face of Vladimir Putin on it. | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
They could choose from a range of images including the Russian | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
president riding a horse or picture of him in sunglasses. | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
The manufacturer says over seven thousand shirts were sold | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
This is one of the most expensive shops in Moscow so usually it is | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
All these people are queuing here in order to buy T-shirts, | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
They are T-shirts with Mr Putin?s image on them. | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
There is one more saying ?I can read your thoughts?. | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
I spoke to people in the queue and they told me they are ready to stand | :24:34. | :24:43. | |
They do admit that some politics is involved. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
I will travel with it as if I am travelling with part | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
This is my motherland and it is my beloved president. | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
If I did not like it, I would not buy the T-shirt. | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
I met him a couple of times and he was a real gentleman, a regular guy, | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Recently, Mr Putin has been strongly criticised by Europe and the USA | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
because of his position in the Ukrainian crisis. | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
Polls in Russia showed that 80% of the population support his position. | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
These queues today may be one more illustration of his support. | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Organisers claim that Mr Putin is just a fashionable image | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
and they promise to give any money earned to charity. | :25:21. | :25:51. | |
It's rare that an event happens that only half the | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
But that's just what happened in the northern hemisphere, | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
It was the most dramatic of lunar events - the moon appears 14 per | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
cent bigger and 30 percent brighter than normal as it reaches the point | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
We'll leave you with some of the best images from around the world. | :26:07. | :26:58. | |
Hello. Comparing the weather today and tomorrow, the changes that we | :26:59. | :27:10. | |
are talking about are very subtle. We see the remnants of the hurricane | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
ain't sitting towards the north east | :27:13. | :27:14. |