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This is BBC World News Today with me Karin Giannone. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Ten people are killed in a head-on collision between two commuter | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
They were travelling at high speed on the same line. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Investigators are trying to find out if human error or a technical | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
There was blood everywhere and some people flew away, | :00:18. | :00:32. | |
some hit their head on the chairs, or windows or armrests or something. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
The US state of New Hampshire votes for its Republican and Democratic | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
With hundreds of thousands of Syrians facing life under siege | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
in Aleppo, refugees are warned there's no more room in camps | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
So it's very very difficult now to be here, now the regime has cut | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
one of the two roads that supply Aleppo city. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
And, as Japan starts catching Minke whales in defiance | :01:03. | :01:14. | |
Offered international court ruling we ask if eating whale meat is part | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
of Japanese culture. That's the big question after two | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
German trains crashed They were travelling | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
on the same single track, heading towards each | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
other at full speed. At least ten people were killed - | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
with another hundred or so injured. Several carriages were derailed | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
and emergency teams worked for hours On a quiet commuter line, | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
the violence of a head-on collision. This footage was taken | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
moments after the I can't move my arm, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
one woman shouts. Don't worry, a passenger replies, | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
the police will be here soon. The man who took this | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
video escaped unhurt. There was blood everywhere | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
because some people flew And some hit their head | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
on the chairs or Windows or armrest The train line runs between a wooded | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
hillside and river. Easier to carry the dead | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
and injured away by air, TRANSLATION: The collision | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
was head-on and at high At the accident site the speed limit | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
is around 100 kilometres There is a bend in that stretch | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
of track and you have to assume the train drivers had little if any | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
eye contact before the collision. Investigators have recovered two | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
of three black boxes. The crash happened | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
on a single track. Trains use a nearby station | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
where there is a double track There is an automatic braking system | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
designed to halt any train that Joe, a regular commuter, | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
told us his train usually stops and waits for the oncoming | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
train to pass. This morning, he said, | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
was different. Normally the train has to wait five | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
minutes for the oncoming train. And three minutes, waiting three | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
minutes, suddenly it set off. This has horrified | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Germany, a country where rail crashes | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
are relatively rare. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
said she is saddened and shocked And bear this in mind, | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
it is the school People tell us on a normal morning, | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
these trains would have been As the light fades, | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
the work continues. It will be weeks | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
perhaps months before The crash site is illuminated with | :04:04. | :04:29. | |
floodlights. It is a little bit hard to make out exactly what is going | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
floodlights. It is a little bit hard at the moment, there is indication | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
that there may be movement of some of the carriages. Not quite clear. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
We understand the police investigators will continue | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
We understand the police work early tomorrow morning, when | :04:46. | :04:46. | |
the sun comes up. We work early tomorrow morning, when | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
three black boxes, data recorders, have been recovered but a third is | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
missing and that will be crucial for investigators trying to work out | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
what went so horribly investigators trying to work out | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
track behind me. How unusual is it for a country like Germany to suffer | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
a transport tragedy like this. This is unusual, it has been described as | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
one of the worst train crashes in Germany's recent history. Many of | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
the people here are in shock. This is a little commuter line. Something | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
that takes people to work and takes many children to school every | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
morning. The idea that this could happen, this line of track, we are | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
told, has a special system on it, whereby there is a red light to | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
prevent people from proceeding if there is a red light. What went | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
wrong? People find it hard to understand. There is deep mourning | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
for the victims and their families. Thanks. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
The US says North Korea has restarted one of its nuclear | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
reactors, in defiance of international agreements. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
The US director of national intelligence said the plutonium | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
reactor could provide fuel for nuclear weapons. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
On Sunday, North Korea carried out a long-range rocket launch, | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
just weeks after conducting a banned nuclear weapons test. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Lawyers for the South African president have told the country's | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Constitutional Court that Jacob Zuma will repay all improvements | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
to his ranch that were not security-related. | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Mr Zuma's lawyers made the announcement | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
whether he should pay back some of the $23 million | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
of taxpayers' money spent on refurbishing his private home. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
The case has been brought by opposition parties, | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
some of whom held demonstrations outside the courthouse | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
in Johannesburg chanting "pay back the money" and "Zuma must fall". | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir, described | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
as commander Ratko Mladic's right-hand man during the Bosnia | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
war, has died in custody in the Hague. | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
The 67-year-old was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
of genocide and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
His crimes included the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of eight | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys. | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Voting has begun in the US state of New Hampshire, | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
the second of fifty states to choose its candidates | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
for the presidential election in November. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Opinion polls suggest Donald Trump has a strong lead | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
for the Republicans, while in the race for the Democrat | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
nomination, Bernie Sanders is way ahead of Hillary Clinton. | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
That is the scene at one polling station in Manchester, New | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
Hampshire. A stream of people coming in to cast their vote. We can get a | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
report from our North America editor. | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
I hear we're going to do well, but the snow is out there. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
But in the blizzard of predictions about New Hampshire, | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
the one constant has been the real estate mogul in the lead. | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
In the polls no-one is even close, which makes the battle all the more | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
intense for which mainstream Republican is going to take him on. | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
Senator Marco Rubio, young, emerged from | :08:21. | :08:21. | |
On the streets of New Hampshire he's faced protesters. | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
But at the weekend, in the final televised Republican debate, | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
he was subject to a brutal political mugging. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
You see everybody I want the people at home to think about this. | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
information and then the memorised 25-second speech. | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
That is exactly what they just gave him. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
The kicking came from the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
I spoke to him last night about what impact his | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
There was a march by the media towards Senator Rubio, | :09:02. | :09:13. | |
that march is now over because they know he's not ready. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Has it risen for governor Christie then? | :09:17. | :09:17. | |
But all that is now in the hands of these people - the voters. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Donald Trump has led here in New Hampshire in every | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
His challenge today is to turn a poll lead into actual votes, | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
something he failed to do in Iowa last week. | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders has a similar | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
But this is a state that has a history of springing surprises. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
This is the fervour that you find at a Bernie Sanders rally, | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
young people, and the not so young, believing that a different type | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
of politics is possible from Vermont's veteran socialist | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
All of which has left Hillary Clinton, the runaway | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
favourite from six months ago, on the defensive, lowering | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
expectations and looking to future battles where she might find | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
Jon Sopel, BBC News, Manchester New Hampshire. | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
Let's get more from New Hampshire from Kim Ghattas who's in | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Iowa last week and New Hampshire today, what is the difference | :10:16. | :10:27. | |
between caucuses and primaries? It is an interesting difference and it | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
is part of this process, that Democrats and republicans go through | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
to nominate their candidate for each party for the presidential race. In | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Iowa we saw caucuses, where political supporters, registered | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
voters on the Democratic side and Republican side come together | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
separately in different precincts, over 1600 of them, they come | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
together in a room in high school, public library, to decide which way | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
they will go and which candidate they will support. On the Democratic | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
side you had supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders coming | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
together in one room. You try to pull people in different into one | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
corner or the other until one side wins. At the county level they have | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
a delegate count and it adds up to the delicate number at state level. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
At the end of that we saw Hillary Clinton had a razor-thin majority. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
One, two extra delegates she won Iowa. In New Hampshire it is | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
different, more traditional voting, where you go to the polls, they | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
opens this morning, people go in and cast a ballot for the preferred | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
candidate. What is interesting about New Hampshire, you can vote anyway, | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Democrat or Republican will stop it is the independents who will this | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
way the result. Is it getting nasty, all par for the course? This is a | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
very unusual election year. We have seen upsets on both sides. We have | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Hillary Clinton, who did not expect to be challenged the way she has | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
been challenged by a 74-year-old socialist senator from Vermont. He | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
has run a phenomenal campaign, tapping into a sense of frustration | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
within young people, he is getting the youth vote at levels we have not | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
seen, more than 80% of young people voting for him in Iowa. He is | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
getting support from young women, which Hillary Clinton is struggling | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
with stop on the Republican side, I do not think last year at this point | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
or even in the summer, anyone expected Trump would lead. And so | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
far at a national level as well. New Hampshire, as we heard, it has a | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
history of sprinting surprises. Bernie Sanders is expected to win | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
here and Donald Trump is expected to win on the Republican side. It is | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
still a long race to go. Concern is growing over the fate | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
of Syrians escaping a government The UN says it is concerned that | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
hundreds of thousands of people in and around the city could be cut | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
off from food supplies. Tens of thousands of | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Syrians have left Aleppo. Medecins Sans Frontieres say in one | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
town on the Turkish border, families are sleeping | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
on the streets in the open air, Aleppo in the north of Syria | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
has seen almost 10 days Government forces - | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
backed by Russian air strikes - The red area here shows | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
what they controlled And this is what they control now - | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
the centre of Aleppo virtually surrounded, and key supply routes | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
for opposition fighters, and the civilians at the centre | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
of it all, cut off. The city's a huge prize for both | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
sides in Syria's intractable conflict, and government forces | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
are determined to seize it. Hamza Alkhatab is a doctor in one | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
of the hospitals in a rebel held area of Aleppo, he told us | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
what the situation is like there. Last year we got news | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
about the explosive powers then the Russian aircraft bombing, | :14:10. | :14:28. | |
now it's heavier bombing over Aleppo This morning, we had three aircraft | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
bombing in three neighbourhoods. Seven people were | :14:32. | :14:43. | |
killed, all civilians. One of them was a child, | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
seven years old, so it's very The regime has cut one of two roads | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
that supply Aleppo City. Now we only have one road and it's | :14:53. | :15:05. | |
very threatened now. There are reports that Japan's | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
whaling fleet has begun catching minke whales in the Antarctic | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
in the past few days. That's despite an international | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
court ruling calling on Japan to stop what its government calls | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
a "scientific whaling programme". Japan sent the fleet | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
back to sea in December, saying whaling is an integral part | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
of its culture that's been carried Our Tokyo correspondent | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. There is nowhere else like Tokyo's | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
famously chaotic fish market, which is by far the | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
biggest in the world. That's because Japan | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
is still the world's biggest But I have come to find whale meat, | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
and this woman is my guide. Today, there is very | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
little for sale. This is minke whale meat, and this | :16:00. | :16:12. | |
is from endangered fin whale. The owner tells me he sells | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
about 20kg a day - It has been falling for years. | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
Japanese people don't eat whale meat Japan gets at most 4000 tons | :16:20. | :16:35. | |
of whalemeat per year but even as the number | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
of whales caught goes down The Japanese Government says whale | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
hunting has been part of Japanese The truth is, Japan only | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
began large scale hunting whales in the Antarctic | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
after the Second World War, when this country | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
was hungry and they But as soon as Japan became rich | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
in the 1970s and '80s, people here lost their | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
appetite for whalemeat, and today only a tiny percentage | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
of people continue to eat it. OK, so, this is | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
sashimi, this is raw? People like my old friend, Kato, | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
who grew up in western Japan and as a child loved | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
eating this, but It is with some trepidation that | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
I take my first mouthful Initially, it feels like you're | :17:26. | :17:42. | |
eating steak, but... Much stronger flavour, | :17:43. | :17:54. | |
very gamey, quite chewy. It is certainly not | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
what I would call delicious, The last time he ate whalemeat | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
was three years ago. I don't need to catch whales any | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
more because there is no custom Obviously, beef steak | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
is much better than that And yet Japan is back in | :18:18. | :18:37. | |
the Antarctic hunting whales again. This annual hunt cost Japanese | :18:38. | :18:49. | |
taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, but it has nothing to do | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
with Japanese culture. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
BBC News, in Tokyo. It is one of the major | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
inconveniences of long-haul travel - That awful, energy-sapping feeling | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
when you get to the other end, you can't get enough sleep, | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
or maybe you can't sleep at all. Scientists in the US say | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
they've found one. You just have to be exposed to short | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
flashes of light while you are asleep ahead of the flight | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
to prepare your body Doctor Jamie Zeiter, | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
the scientists who led the researchers of Stanford | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
University's School of Medicine. I began by asking him how he got | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
the idea that flashes of light might This came from some animal | :19:33. | :19:45. | |
experiments colleagues had done. One of the benefits of having flashes of | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
light versus continuous light is you can have this occurred during sleep | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
and be exposed to flashes of light while he was sleeping and it does | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
not interfere with your sleep. This is when your system is most | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
sensitive to light. If you are travelling east, you will have liked | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
in the morning, before you wake up. This is light exposure that would | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
happen before you wake up, you would have flashes of light and be adapted | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
to your new time zone. Eusebio flashes of light do not interfere | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
with sleep, some of us would imagine they would -- you say. We tested | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
this on a bunch of people and we cannot find an effect on sleep. | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
There will be some people who are sensitive to light, to sound. Any | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
sound or light they wake up to, but most adapt well to having an | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
uninteresting stimulus this flashing stimulus is. They sleep right | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
through it. It can work when jet lag is the case, how might it apply to | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
things like shiftwork, even teenagers, who have different sleep | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
patterns from the rest of the world? With shift workers, it is something | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
we are working on. We are not quite there with shift workers. With | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
teenagers we are testing it right now. We are exposing teenagers to | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
light, so that their brains are living on New York time while their | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
bodies are living in California. That way, when their brain tells | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
them to go to sleep at 2am, it is only 11 o'clock at night local time, | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
to enable them to get more sleep. I am sure many parents would welcome | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
that! Something like this being incorporated into airlines, how they | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
cater to you in a flight might be a possibility in future? We think | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
building this into airlines, hotels, in a sleep mask, bedside lamp, these | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
are the kinds of ways you can get exposed to it and can help people | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
adapt, especially on long haul flights, if you are flying from the | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
UK to China, it is difficult to adapt to. You can use this exposure | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
to pre-adapt as well as when you get there, to finish that in more rapid | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
form. We can bring new pictures from a colourful parade in Portugal. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
Carnival. A festive mixture of drums and whistles and light-hearted jabs | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
at Portuguese and international leaders. The carnival has a | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
reputation for social and political satire. Some of the floats showing | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
economic hardship. And party leaders. Thousands visit the | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
carnival 50 kilometres north of Lisbon to watch every year. The | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
tradition has gone on for centuries. Never too late to start | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
a new activity - and here's one man 93-year-old Svend Steensgaard had | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
a career as an immigration After retirement, at the age of 77, | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
he took up powerlifting, and is now the world's oldest | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
licensed powerlifter, entering top competitions | :23:12. | :23:12. | |
across the world and lifting up He's been telling us how he handles | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
such a demanding sport. I am the oldest powerlifter in the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
world. 93 and putting us to shame with his | :23:22. | :25:24. | |
fitness regime. The German authorities have given | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
further details of a train crash in Bavaria, in which ten | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
people were killed Two trains collided head-on | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
during the morning rush hour. Investigators are seeking | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
to establish whether it was the result of a technical problem | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
or human error. The track was fitted | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
with an automatic braking system But for now from me and the rest | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
of the team, goodbye. Storm Imogen has passed but it has | :25:50. | :26:11. | |
left a legacy of cold air across the UK and it will be pretty cold | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
tomorrow. Just a few showers here and | :26:19. | :26:19. |