08/01/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox.

The headlines: Cologne tries to restore public trust

The city's police chief Wolfgang Albers is suspended

as anger mounts over the New Year's Eve mass sexual assaults.

Belgian police believe this flat's a bomb factory and hideout used

by one of the jihadists after last November's Paris attacks.

Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquim Guzman, has been recaptured.

Also coming up: We investigate the horrific violence in Burundi.

An eyewitnesses tells us about the brutality meted out

They say, open, open, if you don't open we will shoot. They hit my

husband and my little girl cried out, you're going to kill us.

And no drinks good, one drink bad - Britain issues tough

After days of public outcry, the head of Cologne's police force,

Wolfgang Albers, has been forced to step down over his handling

of attacks on women on New Year's Eve.

121 women were the victims of sexual assault and robbery in front

Police have now identified 31 suspects and say almost two-thirds

It's re-ignited the debate in Germany over how it can cope

with one million migrants and refugees.

But the local state minister wants the police investigation

TRANSLATION: My decision is necessary now because public trust

in the police needs to be restored and the police needs to regain its

ability to act efficiently. The Cologne police department now has a

massive task of fully investigating the New Year's Eve events. The

public wants to know what happened, who the attackers were and how to

prevent this in the future. Our Germany correspondent Jenny Hill

reports from Cologne. Germany is confronting a new reality

- on New Year's Eve in Cologne nearly 100 women were

sexually assaulted. Authorities now admit some

of the men who attacked them Today Cologne's police chief

was sacked amid allegations TRANSLATION: There are suggestions

that the wording of a police report was changed for political

reasons So does this man, Adil,

a Yazidi from Iraq fears reprisals. Anti-refugee violence

was already on the increase. New Year's Eve has inflamed

a sensitive national debate TRANSLATION: I believe

these were new refugees because people who have been

here a long time wouldn't do this. These people come to Germany

and then commit these acts, There are calls for more

CCTV in public places. A poll today found one in three

Germans will now TRANSLATION: I don't feel that

safe after what happened at New Year, but I think if you can

defend yourself you should be OK. There is a large influx

of immigrants coming in but I think if you go about with a trusting

heart and make sure you regard these as single incidents,

it should be OK. Today in Cologne city authorities

pledged to rebuild trust But officers have yet to charge

anyone over the attacks and many wonder what it will cost

to keep Germany's doors open. The BBC's Damien McGuinness

joins us from Berlin. Is anything urging about how this

was organised? That is the real question because although it is

thought the men came in organised groups, what is not clear is whether

they came with the intent of the very or sexual assault because what

seems to have happened is that women were singled out within the crowd,

surrounded by large groups of men, maybe ten or 20, who ganged up on

them and post them and robbed them and then in some cases also

conducted sexual assault, but what is not clear is the initial

motivation because this area around Cologne Cathedral is known as an

area rife with pickpockets, so the fact people would lose their mobile

phones or bags is not surprising, what is shocking is the level of

sexual assault because we are now seeing, according to latest

testaments, as many as 200 women have reported some sort of abuse of

incident, whether loss of desertion or asexual incident. Allegations of

a conspiracy of silence, not only the police but stayed roared

casters, national broadcasters, why they were so slow -- state

broadcasters. It is quite clear that what the police did was out of order

and this was why the police chief of Cologne, Wolfgang Albers, has been

pushed today. That is a result of public outrage because people say

the police didn't protect women sufficiently on site on New Year's

Eve, there were not enough police officers and allegations that

reinforcements were not accepted from other neighbouring regions in

the aftermath was also oddly handled by the lease because they sent out a

message saying it all past his filly which it clearly did not. There were

allegations of a cover-up because there are allegations asylum seekers

may be involved. It is unclear what happened with the media, partly the

fact there were a few days holiday after New Year's Eve, the country

effectively closes down so there are a few journalists and it went under

the radar. Journalists did not pick up on that lease reports because

they were slow. We also hear that from far right groups there are

always conspiracy erase that the German state tries to push out far

right dissent and that is part of the debate now here in Germany.

Thank you, Damian. Cologne is not the only city

in Europe to claim to have suffered a spate of sexual attacks

during New Year's Eve. We can go to another now,

and Ilkka Koskimaki who is the deputy Police

Commissioner of Finnish capital You have been talking about

unprecedented crime levels on New Year's Eve. What in particular? We

had news in Helsinki that some incident committed by asylum seekers

on years eve and we had also background last autumn, we had a lot

of this kind of sexual harassment in Helsinki and even had some

aggravated, very brutal rape cases and these were committed by asylum

seekers. The people who have been charged, have you charged anyone

with these crimes and can you categorically say they were carried

out by asylum seekers? Yes, I can categorically say these suspects

were Iraqis. They select did victims, very into cicadas ladies

and young ladies -- in toxic it'd ladies. You had information about

this and put extra police on the streets. Tell us how that

information came about. We got this information from reception centres

and we had also other information. That they were planning to do this?

Yes, our information was that some asylum seekers were planning some

disturbance, even this kind of crime. Thank you. Finland having the

fourth highest number of asylum seekers and refugees are capita in

the EU. A man arrested in the United States

after shooting a police officer had pledged allegiance to

so-called Islamic State, The unnamed 30-year-old fired

at least 11 shots at the police officer in Philadelphia,

leaving him with severe injuries. The man later told the police he had

carried out the attack The Police Commissioner said

the injured officer - who will need multiple surgery -

had been lucky to survive. This is one of the scariest things I

have seen. This guy tried to execute the police officer, who had no idea

he was coming, it's amazing he is alive.

Police in Belgium have found traces of explosives,

three handmade belts, and the finger print of a key

The evidence is a direct link to Salah Abdeslam and it was found

during a raid on a flat in Brussels last month.

Well, our correspondent in Brussels, Gavin Lee's been telling me

This came from the federal prosecutor in Belgium who said this

single anger print was found in the third-floor apartment about three

miles north of Brussels, there was also traces of explosives and

manufactured home made belts that were apparently used to transport

the explosives. The theory the investigators are working on is that

Brussels attackers link to the Harris attacks, of which we know

there were at least four attackers, they were using this lace to prepare

explosives before the attacks. After the attacks, Sala Abdul Salam

briefly stayed at this place. We know he was dropped off at this

place, that was the last sighting of him and security experts believe for

a brief variant he may have stayed in this flat. He hasn't been seen

since, he is still on the wanted list form els and French police.

French authorities said weeks ago they believed a significant amount

of planning for the resin attacks were based in Brussels. Abdul Salaam

was one of two brothers involved, his older brother was killed in the

attacks and the morning after he drove from Paris to Brussels, we

know he was stopped and checked I police, he got through and on the

morning he was taken into cars to this area. It also emerged that

friends of him who were now being questioned by Belgian Daugherty 's

claim he called them on Skype the week after and said she was being

monitored by French and Belgian officials on one side and I guess

militants on the other who were unhappy he had not set off his

suicide belt and he was trying to leave first area, and that is where

the trace goes cold. The Mexican President,

Enrique Pena Nieto, has announced that the country's most notorious

druglord, Joaquim Guzman, known as "El Chapo"

has been recaptured. Guzman escaped six months ago

from a high security prison through a tunnel which led

from his cell to a building around This is quite a coup for the

president, one of Mexico's most wanted men. Yes, he has had the

Mexican Marines in the north-west state, and extensive operation ever

since the escape last July, so he said in his suite -- his tweet,

mission accomplished, we got him. He is a billionaire, originally

sentenced to prison in the 1990s and this is the second time he escaped.

Talk us through how he escaped. Guzman was first arrested in what

Allah in 1993 and spent a decade in a Mexican jail before escaping with

the laundry basket and he was on the run fourth 13 years before he was

held again in 2014. Last time he got through a tunnel out of the prison.

You might remember those pictures, and air-conditioned tunnel with a

motor bike to take down the tunnel, a kilometre and a half long haul

from the shower area inside his self to a building outside the prison. Is

he still in charge of the cartel, is it still a cartel rolling the drug

wars of Messaggero? -- Mexico? We do not know where he is captured but it

is likely it was in that area where he has his henchmen and his

organisation is based. Thank you. Now to Burundi, where hundreds have

died in violence since the president announced he would be running

for a third term last year. The most deadly attack happened

in December when armed insurgents The government says 87

of them were killed. But evidence is emerging that

many of those who died were unarmed, and that they were shot several

hours after the rebel attack. The BBC spoke to witnesses,

and found freshly-dug graves TRANSLATION: I saw a lot of soldiers

and policemen and men without uniforms

but with big sticks. This mother of three says

that on December 11th, several hours after

a rebel attack, security forces showed up at her family home

in an opposition neighbourhood. TRANSLATION: Then they started

forcing the door, saying, "Open, open, if you don't

open we'll shoot!" They whacked my husband with sticks

and my little girl cried, They went from door to door,

threatening to kill us, saying we were going to organise

another protest, another coup. This is what they woke

up to the next day. Human rights groups say at least 150

civilians were killed in reprisals This man's ID card

says he was a teacher. The dogs had eaten

some of the bodies. The police came hours later

to take the bodies away. We don't know where

they were buried. Some of the bodies were first

collected by residents and then Hours later, reports

started emerging that We went to look for

one of them on the outskirts This is where some witnesses

told us some of those who were killed in the December 11th

attacks were buried. This is an old cemetery

that isn't used anymore. You can see the mass graves,

there are flies flying around. A resident told us he saw policemen

here the day of the attack He said they shooed locals

away when they tried The government says 87 people

were killed and 45 captured. It says they were all rebels

involved in an attack The army and the police

in Burundi are professional, Justice in Burundi is interested

in getting to know what happened. Some people may be killed

by the attackers but let's wait the results of the

investigation so we Burundians will struggle

to erase from their minds the image of these bodies exposed

for hours in the capital's streets. Emerging rebel movements are a real

threat to the country's stability but the extreme brutality

of the security forces' reaction is unlikely to put a stop

to the cycle of violence. The so-called Islamic State group

says it carried out a truck bombing which left at least 47 people dead

in the western Libyan town of Zlitan The blast targeted

a police training centre. It's the biggest such bombing staged

by IS since it started to expand its presence

in Libya in the past year. The militants claimed the attack

was in revenge for the death The EU Foreign Policy Chief,

Federica Mogherini, who's in Tunisia discussing

a proposed unity government for Libya, said Thursday's attack

was a reminder that Libyans need The best response to terrorism and

especially to Daesh would be, we agreed that, in Libyan response

determined I Libyan unity there can be supported in ways Libyan 's will

determine by the international community and EU, but it has to be

Libyan lead. And based on Libyan unity.

Medics working at refugee camps in the Balkans say they're seeing

a marked increase in the number of refugees falling ill because of

Temperatures have fallen to as low as minus 11 degrees Celsius

Our Global Health Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has followed migrants

making the journey from the Macedonian border,

through Serbia to the Croatian border.

She sent this report from the town of Shid.

This man, Ibrahim, has travelled from Syria.

He's cold, exhausted and suffering from a painful chest infection.

One-year-old Arizu is also suffering because of the cold.

She's given medicine through a machine

The next morning more people arrive at the border in Macedonia,

ready to walk across the frozen no-man's-land into Serbia.

Despite these cold conditions, or maybe because of them,

Around two kilometres up that way is Serbia,

to make the journey now, the ground is very icy,

and the journey is even more treacherous in these conditions.

This family has already travelled around 2000 kilometres from Syria.

"We are on a journey of death," he tells me.

"We can endure, but I'm worried about the children.

determined to get to Germany, where

and the family have made it safely to the next refugee point.

Medics wrap him in extra warm clothes

The kindness of strangers is overwhelming.

After an overnight bus journey north, the family can finally board

the train to Croatia, but more people follow

in their footsteps, the desperate and weak.

In other news, a cosmetics company in Thailand has apologised for

promoting skin whitening pills using the slogan, you need to be white to

win. It features an actress attribute in her fame to her skin.

The company says it had not meant to convey a discriminatory message.

Bolivia and Peru have committed money to clean up late to the Qatar,

-- lake did attack are, which is home to fish and other species

threatened with extinction, threatened by waste produced by a

Bolivian city. There is no safe level

of drinking - that's according to new guidelines on alcohol issued

by the British government, The latest recommended limits apply

to both men and women equally People should drink no

more than the equivalent of seven pints of average strength

beer or seven standard glasses And people should also have several

drink-free days a week. Pregnant

women shouldn't drink at all. Critics say the advice smacks

of "the nanny state" as our Health Editor Hugh Pym

reports. It's certainly stirred up a big

debate over how much it is sensible to drink and whether people need to

be told to cut act on the alcohol they order at the bar or in shops.

The official line now is that there is no such thing

The risk is significant of over drinking to people's

We are advising a low risk amount which is up to 14 units

A key question for most drinkers, how much is it reasonable

There will no longer be any difference between

the recommended maximum amounts men and women might drink in a week.

New guidelines for everyone will mean no

more than 14 units in that time, so what does that look like?

It is equivalent to seven pints of beer or seven medium sized

glasses of wine but if you drink higher strength

brands in both cases, that will mean fewer drinks

On this basis for beer towards the lower end

of the strength range, it is three fewer pints for men

Lucy often drank a bottle of wine a day but after

drinking three in one night she ended up in hospital

She believes drinking has been glamorised and tougher

I grew up in the '90s so I was subjected to the whole

ladette culture and I think women of my generation have been sold

wine is a treat, it is good for you, it is a convivial and with friends

and harms have been played down, even to the extent of promoting red

The guidelines will apply across the UK.

We asked drinkers in Swansea whether they thought the government

People wouldn't take any notice, they will drink what they want.

It is up to the individual whatever they want to drink.

People tend to think they are fine, two or three pints is nothing,

It could be some time before there is any firm evidence

as to whether these tighter guidelines make any difference

to people's behaviour or their health.

A quick reminder of our main story, that the chief of police in the

German city of Cologne has been suspended and made criticism of the

way his force handled allegations of violent crime during New Year's Eve

celebrations, including sexual assault and theft. That's it from

me. Good night. The weekend is upon us and

weather-wise if you have plans for out door is take an umbrella because

there is rain forecast in the form of showers and a noticeable breeze.

We have low pressure