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This is BBC World News Today with me Karin Giannone. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The United States and Russia come to an agreement on the war in Syria. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
A temporary cessation to hostilities will come into affect | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
British Prime Minister David Cameron has been explaining to parliament | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
I believe the choice is between being an even greater | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Ten million people are without water in Delhi, | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
after protesters damaged a canal supplying much of the capital. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
And Ukraine makes a surprise choice for its representative | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Russia and the United States have agreed the terms of a temporary | :00:46. | :01:04. | |
cessation of hostilities in Syria, which is now due to come into force | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
President Putin says that the agreement is a real step to stop the | :01:08. | :01:19. | |
bloodshed. The plan - which is deliberately not | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
being described as a ceasefire - was agreed in Munich | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
earlier this month. But Russia and the US have been | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
quibbling over terms of the agreement | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
including the start date. The truce does not include attacks | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
on the so-called Islamic State group The White House spokesman Josh | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
Ernest had this to say a while ago. Everyone can see what has been | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
committed to. It is time for the signatories to step up and for the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
bloodshed to come to an end. I would be quite surprised if this is... If | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
there aren't some bumps along the road as we try to implement this | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
agreement. There will be obstacles. There will likely be setbacks but | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
this is a moment of opportunity and we are hopeful that all of the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
parties will capitalise on that. After all, the stakes are high. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Our Washington correspondent Barbara Plett-Usher gave me more | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
I've got the terms here as they are set out. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
They seem to have dealt with one of the big sticking points, | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
which is who qualifies to take part in the | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Any group aside from Islamic state and the al-Nusra front | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
who signs up to the terms will be accepted. | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
They have to accept a UN facilitated political process, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
cease all attacks with weapons, refrain | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
from trying to acquire territory, allow full humanitarian access | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
to their areas and use proportionate force in self defence. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Those groups have until midnight on Friday to indicate to the UN | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
and Russia and the United States that | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
The Syrian army, the forces are going to be held to the same | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
terms and the Russians are stated as being the ones who will seek | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
So there is something on paper, steps to follow | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
through and there is a target date, the cessation of hostilities | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
is supposed to come into effect at midnight on Saturday. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Do we understand why there is this reluctance to call it a ceasefire? | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
I think the attempts to stop the violence in Syria have been | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
so unsuccessful that they want to make | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
sure that they keep the bar low in terms | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
I think what they want to highlight is | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
they have specifics on how this is going to work. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
One of the big problems in Munich after they agreed | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
on the cessation of hostilities is that the Russians | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
would continue with the Syrian army bombing Aleppo and trying to take | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
territory to the north, to the Turkish border. | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
The cessation of hostilities wasn't going anywhere. | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Now it looks like there are mechanisms to deal with that. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
For example, the Russians and Americans | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
in this statement say that they are going to have a communications | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
hotline set up so that they can distinguish parties who are being | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
There is some sort of tribunal or task force to complain | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
to and also that they're going to set out the territory | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
which is excluded from the cessation of | :04:38. | :04:38. | |
The Islamic state territory so that they know which | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
I'm joined by my colleague from BBC Arabic. How meaningful is this? The | :04:45. | :05:09. | |
superpowers are involved in this and one of them is involved directly in | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
the fighting. The pro-Assad forces on the ground will face any | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
difficulties achieving advances on the ground. The main issue is the | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
al-Nusra front, that is close to the Al-Qaeda ideology, it is still | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
considered as a terrorist group. This truce has excluded the Islamic | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
State and the al-Nusra front from the cessation of hostilities. That | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
means that the Russians can carry on bombing these two groups. So there | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
has always been disagreement about who these groups are? Other groups | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
are considered, such as the free Syrian army. The bombing of al-Nusra | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
front will mean a total collapse of the truce. So there is a risk of | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
business as usual on the ground. There is an opposition meeting going | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
on in Saudi at the moment. Has there been any reaction? We spoke to one | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
of the leaders taking part and we asked him what he thought of this | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
announcement? He said that the United States and the Russians have | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
announced something and are responsible for it but we haven't | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
reached any decision yet and are still debating it. They don't expect | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
to reach a decision before tomorrow. The pro-Saudi opposition is meeting | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
in Riyadh tomorrow and they will meet their decision then. There are | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
some improvements on the ground. Thereafter some humanitarian | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
gestures that were welcomed by the opposition as a strong and solid | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
basis for diplomatic efforts that may take place in the future within | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
this Geneva talks. People have been watching what is happening in Syria | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
with despair and will wonder what will change at midnight on Friday. | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
In the next 48 hours we will hear more positions from the opposition | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
at least. We will put these questions to all parties who are | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
involved in the fighting and know what they consider al-Nusra. If each | :07:41. | :07:51. | |
come with a final answer of how it is going to work on the ground, to | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
exclude al-Nusra from the cessation of hostilities, how it's going to | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
work, then it is going to be clearer. They are discussing this at | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
the moment and we will know more in the next 48 hours. Thank you very | :08:08. | :08:08. | |
much. The British prime minister has made | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
an impassioned case for staying in the EU to a packed House | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
of Commons in Westminister. David Cameron said he believed | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
the choice was between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
or taking a leap into the dark. The Labour leader dismissed | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
as "irrelevant" the deal struck by Mr Cameron in Europe | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
but said Labour is overwhelmingly for remaining within | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
the European Union. He was in the unusual position | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
of needing not to persuade MPs on the opposition benches | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
but many on his own side. So far more than 100 | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Conservative MPs have said Our Political Editor Laura | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
Kuenssberg watched the exchanges. Wherever he goes, | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
chaos often follows. Boris Johnson revealed he wants to | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
leave the European Union yesterday. Although the Prime Minister | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
had tried to persuade him to join his side | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
and campaign to stay. Is his decision | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
about Britain's future? Are you losing the | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
argument over the EU? It was David Cameron's job | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
to set out the case to stay. And a test of how many of his own | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
MPs back what he claims will be We are a great country | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
and whatever choice we make, I believe the choice | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU, | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
or a great leap into the unknown. The Prime Minister seemed just | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
as passionate about needling Boris Johnson, suspecting | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
the London Mayor's decision is about ambition to take | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
the Prime Minister's job. I have no other agenda | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
than what is best for our country. I am standing here | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
telling you what I think. My responsibility as Prime Minister | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
is to speak plainly about what I believe | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
is right for our country and that is what I will do | :10:14. | :10:23. | |
for the next four months. The referendum is not just about two | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
men, allegedly friends, May I ask my right honourable | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
friend, the Prime Minister, to explain to the House | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
and to the country in exactly what way this deal return | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
sovereignty over any field of lawmaking to these | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Houses of Parliament? Seven ministers who sit | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
at the Cabinet table are at odds Only one of them put himself | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
in the front line today. But Tory backbenchers are split | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
and would not shy of speaking out. For so much labour he has achieved | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
so little that the European Union The security of Europe is dependent | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
on Nato and not the EU. Those who advocate a no vote do not | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
seem to know what a no vote means. Those who want to leave Europe | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
are unable to agree on the terms Number 10 is not just trying to keep | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
us in the EU but to keep This is the back entrance | :11:28. | :11:39. | |
to Downing Street. On Saturday when the Cabinet met | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Eurosceptic ministers did not leave through the front door | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
but snuck out instead. Now Tory divisions are | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
in the wide open now. David Cameron hopes | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
it can stay polite. Some of David Cameron's loudest | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
cheers came from the Labour side. They will criticise him, | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
but support staying in the EU. Labour believes the EU is a vital | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
framework for European trade A vote to remain is in the interests | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
of people not only on what the EU delivers today but as a framework | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
through which we can achieve more I want Scotland and the rest | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
of the UK to remain However, if we are forced out, | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
I am certain the public in Scotland will demand a referendum | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
on Scottish independence and we will protect | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
our place in Europe. And the importance of this debate | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
brought out old faces. Does he believe we have more | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
influence in the EU or outside? Surely the answer is more | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
influence inside the EU. This referendum is about the future | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
of our country, not the future The six of us who stand here today | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
are committed to campaigning They seem to shy to speak | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
in the Commons today but you will hear plenty from these | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
ministers who want to defy Their voices will influence | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
the campaign for and against the EU, but it is yours that | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
will really count. Britain would be more vulnerable | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
to terror attacks and counter terrorism would be harder if the UK | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
leaves the European Union. That's the warning today | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
from director of Europe's But many campaigning for an exit say | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
it's "laughable" to suggest Europe Our security correspondent | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Frank Gardner takes a closer look. Britain is a top | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
target for terrorists. But in recent years it has stopped | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
a large number of attacks on plots A key question now is whether that | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
would change of Britain left the EU. Britain's border already differs | :14:02. | :14:11. | |
from its neighbours. That is partly because we are | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
an island and partly because we do not belong to | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Europe's Schengen borderless zone. That it means it's harder if not | :14:18. | :14:28. | |
impossible to smuggle guns We do not have an open border | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
with the EU, we are out You have to have a passport or visa | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
to get into Britain and you have to be checked | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
when you come into Britain. We do not have a right to stop | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
people entering from other countries within the EU and if we to control | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
numbers coming in it is difficult to do that unless we take | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
back control of borders. The Paris attacks were a shocking | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
reminder of what could happen here. So-called Islamic State already has | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
sympathisers in this country. European intelligence | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
failed last year. Britain's intelligence | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
agencies like MI6 behind me, have their closest relationships not | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
with Europe that the United States. They do share information | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
and tip-offs with their European partners but tend to do it | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
bilaterally, on a country by country basis and not through | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
an EU wide mechanism. In many European countries, | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
especially Belgium, the intelligence agencies are often reluctant | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
to share what they know The head of Europol insists European | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
intelligence helps Britain. UK gets considerable | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
benefit every day. Thousands of cases I see | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
at Europol every year, British police are given operational | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
benefits and to target criminals and terrorists seeking | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
to penetrate the UK. With diplomacy, the EU plays a big | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
role in collective security. It has imposed sanctions | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
on the resurgent Russia. But some say leave deterrence | :16:13. | :16:24. | |
to Nato and not the EU. Remember Nato brings in the US | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
and Canada and crucially in Europe, Norway and Turkey, not members | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
of the European Union. The Nato population is 900 | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
hundred million, compared There are arguments on both sides | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
but the truth is Britain's existing security arrangements are likely | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
to remain unchanged if we stay Ten million people in the Indian | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
capital Delhi are now without water, Protesters demanding job guarantees | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
have sabotaged a key supply canal. The army has taken control | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
of the waterway. But it will still take several days | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
before the supply is fully restored because the canal | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
needs to be repaired. For 10 million people in Delhi, | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
this is how they now More than half of the population | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
of Delhi now has no They depend on bottled water | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
and the supply of water It is an extraordinary situation | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
for any capital city to be in, and certainly a city | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
on the scale of Delhi. And it has been caused by a battle | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
over caste privilege. These people are part | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
of an upper caste group. They have taken to the streets | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
to demand it be reclassified as lower caste - that way | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
they will get automatic rights The protestors badly damaged this | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
canal, which supplies more than half The military has now taken control, | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
but repairs are needed before That means millions in Delhi | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
will have to continue to get There is no water. | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
We are having no water. Myself, my two sons, | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
my daughter-in-law, my grandson. The head of Delhi's water board told | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
the BBC today it will take three or maybe four days before | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
a supply is fully restored. Like millions in the city, | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Mr Kumar's taps are likely to be A man who worked as an Uber taxi | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
driver has been charged with six counts of murder | :18:52. | :19:22. | |
after six people were shot dead in the town of Kalamazoo in the US | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
state of Michigan on Saturday. Jason Dalton, who's 45, | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
also faces ten other charges, among them eight felony | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
firearms violations. In Bolivia, President Evo Morales | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
says he'll respect the result of a referendum on whether he can | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
stand for a fourth term in office. He told journalists | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
he was optimistic, but would wait But, with more than 70% | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
of the votes counted, those opposed to the move | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
are leading by a ten-percent margin. First elected in 2006, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
Mr Morales is Bolivia's first It's been home to around five | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
thousand migrants for the best part of a year, but the French | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
authorities have confirmed that the southern section | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
of the migrant camp in Calais known as "the Jungle" will start | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
being cleared this week. Most of those who live there have | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
come from the Middle East and Africa, and they'll have | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
until Tuesday evening to go This flattened area is land | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
the state has already reclaimed from the so-called | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Jungle migrant camp. The people here are | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
being told to move out. And so the French Interior Ministry | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
has sent officials to You have to leave this | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
part of the Jungle. This Kurdish young man, Abdullah, | :20:20. | :20:35. | |
is presented with two options - move into a converted shipping | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
container, or relocate to a migrant On the outskirts of the Jungle, | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
a small village of containers. Mohammed moved his family of six | :20:44. | :21:02. | |
here after five months The Jungle, this | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
is better, thank God. They have travelled | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
from Afghanistan, and despite many failed attempts, Mohammed | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
and his family still aim to join The whole camp will | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
eventually be shut down. The southern half, where | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
we are now, is to go first. This is the cultural and commercial | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
heart of the Jungle. People come to stay warm | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
and socialise in the restaurants Clear this area, it is not just | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
dwellings, but it is a sense of community that is | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
going to be lost. The French are hoping to fill buses | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
like this one with migrants relocating to temporary | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
shelters across the country. Local authorities say more | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
than 2500 have already signed This man didn't want | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
to show his face. He has given up on the idea | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
of getting to Britain. He has applied for asylum | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
here in France instead. I tried to go to England | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
but they closed the border. Now I want to stay here, | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
because every facility in England... France also give us | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
facilities for the living. For this woman from Iran this | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
is a necessary goodbye. The Jungle is as close | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
as she managed to get Her resolve is unchanged, | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
though she admits this bus After five months in the uncertainty | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
of the Jungle, she is on the road again, wanting to be | :22:48. | :23:05. | |
reunited with her partner, but instead taking another | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
ride to the unknown. Ukraine has chosen an ethnic Tatar | :23:10. | :23:21. | |
singer from the annexed region of Crimea to represent it | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
at the Eurovision Song Contest this Jamala's song, entitled | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
1944 refers to the year Josef Stalin enforced deportation | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
of the Tatar people. The singer's great-grandmother | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
was one of around 240,000 people who were sent to Central Asia | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
by the dictator who accused them Earlier I spoke to our correspondent | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
in Kiev, Tom Burridge, about the politics surrounding | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
the song. This isn't your average Eurovision | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
entry, it's gone down pretty well. Well enough to win here | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
as the entry for Ukraine. It won, according | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
to a popular vote and a panel of judges last night, | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
so it will, if the Eurovision panel or judges don't disqualify it | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
for being too political. The rules of Eurovision are that | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
you can't have a political song. But Jamala has told Eurovision | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
she doesn't believe it is political, it is a personal story of family | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
and the tragedy that befell Nevertheless, | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
it's talking about 1944. One suspects that there is a lot | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
of allusion to today's situation You can't avoid the fact | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
that song has added poignancy within the context | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
of the political crisis Nearly two years ago, | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
an unrecognised Ukraine maintains that Crimea | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
is part of its sovereign territory. Of course, Jamala does admit | :24:57. | :25:10. | |
at least that her father and grandfather, interestingly, | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
are still in Crimea and she says that they are being | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
patient and still hope that one day Crimea will be | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
returned to Ukraine. Returning to our top story. The US | :25:18. | :25:33. | |
and Russia have announced that a cessation of hostilities should go | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
into effect at midnight on Friday in Syria. They said that the truce | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
didn't include so-called Islamic State and the al-Nusra front. They | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
agreed on the 12th of February that a truce would come into effect and | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
that has been quibbled over. Finally, the announcement of this | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
cessation of his stunts tease this coming Saturday. That said. Next, | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
the weather. From the team, goodbye. Skies are clear and the temperature | :26:02. | :26:18. | |
is dropping away. There is a | :26:19. | :26:19. |