15/04/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera.

A powerful earthquake has struck near the Japanese city of Kumamoto,

just over 24 hours after a tremor in the same area

The quake - with a magnitude of 7.1 -

happened in the early hours of the morning.

Several aftershocks have been reported.

Five people from Birmingham are being questioned,

as officials describe the arrests as "significant".

She's accused of ignoring security lapses,

long before two suicide bombers hit Brussels airport -

but SHE blames the media for her departure.

Definitely not every day after the manufacturer

warns some products contain so much sugar and salt -

you should only have them once a week.

Those men are about to disburse. Engaged now.

Helen Mirren calls on actresses to go for more male roles,

as she plays a tough soldier in her new film Eye In The Sky.

For the second time in 24 hours, a powerful earthquake

The quake - with a magnitude of 7.1 -

happened in the early hours of the morning.

Both quakes have hit near Kumamoto, on the island of Kyushu.

Pictures from Japan's NHK television showed buildings shaking

There are reports of people being trapped

Nine people are known to have died and more than 1,000 injured

from the first tremor on Thursday night.

Officials are warning that the death toll may rise

Rupert Wingfield Hayes is our correspondent in Tokyo.

Another earthquake. Once again during the night, in the same area.

Absolutely devastating. Absolutely terrifying for the people of that

region. What we have seen on television is very large knobs of

people, thousands of people in public spaces, wrapped in blankets,

basically scared from this double shock that they have had. There was

a very big shake last night and now we have had another big shake

tonight. The intensity of the shaking, although the magnitude of

the quaking was bigger than last night's, the intensity was slightly

less. It looks like there has been damaged. We have heard reports of

people calling on mobiles from inside buildings, saying they are

trapped. There are a number of rescues going on at the moment.

There were rest is going on from the initial quake as well. It is

difficult to determine from the pictures we are seeing as to whether

a lot of the pictures we are seeing are fresh damage or whether the

damage from last night's earthquake. It is a confusing picture at the

moment. This second quake appears to have affected the wider area, deeper

into the countryside, into the mountains. That is where some of the

fresh damage has been done. It looks like, initially, we have sketchy

information, but it looks like there may be some freshly collapsed

buildings from this second earthquake. When we spoke after the

first quake, you said you felt it in Tokyo. Did you feel this second one?

No, I didn't. That is not to say that it wasn't felt here, I just did

not feel it. The initial quake and an earthquake were both held in

Tokyo. That was some intense shaking. This one was slightly less

so, but still of the destructive magnitude. As always, thank you very

much. We will continue to monitor events there.

Brian Baptie is a seismologist who joins me on the line from Edinburgh.

Thank you for your time. We heard our correspondent in Tokyo saying

that this was a stronger magnitude quake, this second quake. Yes, that

is right. It was around 30 times larger in terms of the energy

released, and that meant many more people were exposed to the strong

shaking, maybe over 500,000 people were exposed to strong shaking,

increasing the chance of casualties. We also had tsunami warnings which

have now been lifted. As I understand it am the early warning

centre does not expect a destructive tsunami. That would be unlikely for

this type of earthquake anyway, given that it happened onshore, and

the type of fault that cause the earthquake is unlikely to reduce a

tsunami. This region is used to earthquakes. How prepared is it?

Japan is generally very well prepared for earthquakes, so most

structures in the region are resistant to earthquake shaking.

That can mitigate the number of casualties. Although there are

structures like heavy wall constructions, those can be

vulnerable to earthquakes. Otherwise, Japan is very prepared

for earthquakes. We are being told that this most recent quake was at a

depth of around ten kilometres. What does that mean for the people on the

ground? Obviously, the shallower the earthquake, the stronger the shaking

at the epicentre because the earthquake is closer to the surface,

whether people. In this part of Japan, shallow earthquakes are

relatively unusual. Usually they are much greater depths, tens or

hundreds of calamitous. The shaking is often less. Because of the

shallow depth, the quakes can be more destructive. We remembered the

tragic incidents of 2011, which was a tsunami. How do these two

earthquakes compare with those in 2011? In terms of the site of the

earthquake, these are much smaller. They are about 1000 times smaller in

terms of the energy released. That earthquake occurred relatively far

offshore, a couple of hundred kilometres. The ball not merely at

the centre. In this case, there were cities close to the epicentre, so

the shaking being experienced with the very strong indeed. I would

expect people to have experienced very severe shaking. A terrifying

experience for those involved. Thank you very much for talking us through

that. We will continue to monitor events from Japan as we get news of

that second earthquake. Five people in the UK

are being questioned on suspicion of terrorism,

as part of an investigation linked to the attacks

in Paris and Brussels. Three men and a woman

were detained in Birmingham. Another man was arrested

at Gatwick airport. Government officials say

the arrests are "significant". The operation began late last night

when West Midlands counterterrorism detectives arrested four people

in Birmingham - three men aged 26, Then, a few hours later,

in the early hours of this morning at Gatwick Airport, a fifth arrest,

of another 26-year-old man as he stepped off a flight

from North Africa. Police say the arrests,

described by security sources as significant,

follow a joint investigation with French and Belgian

security services after It's three and a half weeks

since the bombs in Brussels - at the airport and on the Metro -

in which 32 people died, and five months since the attacks

in Paris which killed 130. Both attacks have been

linked to a Belgian man called Mohamed Abrini,

who was known to have Mohamed Abrini is thought

to be the man in the hat, seen here at Brussels airport just

before the attack. He was arrested after

four weeks on the run. He is also thought to have been

caught by a CCTV camera at a French petrol station with the leader

of the Paris attacks just two days before they were carried out,

potentially connecting him The BBC has been told that Abrini

visited Birmingham last summer, Pictures of a football stadium

were later found on his phone. All five people arrested last night

are still being questioned They are being held on suspicion

of terrorism, The Belgian Transport Minister

has resigned after accusations that she received details of

security lapses at Belgian airports long before the bombings

in Brussels last month. Jacqueline Galant's

resignation was accepted From Brussels our

correspondent Anna Holligan. What happened here put airport

security under intense scrutiny. 32 people were killed in the attacks.

The emergence of this document has raised the question, but more have

been done to prevent their deaths? The critical report showed lapses in

security were identified by the US inspectors in March last year, 12

months before the bombings. The Transport Minister, Jacqueline

Galant, surgery was not aware of the report. That was not enough to end

speculation that she had seen a summarised version.

TRANSLATION: The orchestrated chaos permits before doing my job

peacefully. The investigations continue into whether she received

the information and whether the right action was taken. The two

suicide bombers blew themselves up in the departures area, and would

not normally have faced any checks. Here in Brussels or at any other

European airport. The Belgian government is struggling to defend

its reputation. There is a wide enquiry into whether any judicial,

security or police measures could have prevented the attacks. The

Prime Minister is insisting that Belgium is not a failed state.

Despite making some progress in the investigations, the presence of this

report is keeping pressure on the Belgian government.

There are warnings that a huge surge in the number

of migrants arriving in Italy by sea is set to continue.

The International Organisation for Migration warns

that nearly 6,000 have arrived since Tuesday alone.

It says that in the week to April the 13th arrivals

in the country were 173% higher than the previous week.

Whilst in Greece arrivals were 76% lower.

Officials in Libya say they fear the closure of the migrant route

through Greece is leading to the surge.

the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini,

acknowledged that migrant routes could be shifting

back towards the central Mediterranean again.

It is true, though, that the corridor,

It has shifted significantly, also probably thanks

to the operation we have here, to the east of the Mediterranean.

We can cross to Geneva and speak to Joel Millman

from the International Organisation for Migration.

He joins us live. Is this surge of arrivals in Italy down to the

arguable success of that deal that Turkey had with EU you, to deter

people from crossing between Turkey and Greece? No, there is no link

between the two. We know that the numbers are down to radically

increase. We also know the nationalities of the ethnic group

who use that route from Turkey into Greece, over 1 million people in the

last 15 months, and those ethnic groups and nationalities are not

showing up in the numbers that are crossing from Libya. They are the

same Horn of Africa and West African people that we have seen for the

last year. We know that they know the route. There is not a direct

correlation in one getting busier and one getting slower. The two

distinct trends and we're them closely. Why do we see such a huge

fries, 6000 people since Tuesday? That was for the whole of the

Mediterranean, and some of that is coming through Greece. We have been

clarifying that today. Many have been rescued since Tuesday. Probably

many more today. This is not an extraordinary number for that route.

We saw this last year, April was very busy, with lots of deaths on

that route. Close to 1000 people were killed just in the month of

April last year. We know that this is a time when a lot of pent-up

demand gets released into the sea. That accounts for the large lover of

deaths we have been seeing in the last few days. It is still very

alarming. It is not a lot compared to a year ago. I know you will

continue to monitor all of that. Thank you. Apologies for the sound

quality. One of Britain's biggest food

manufacturers has told shoppers that some of their products have

so much sugar and salt in them, they shouldn't be eaten

more than once a week. Mars, which makes Dolmio sauces

and Uncle Ben's rice, to distinguish between what it calls

everyday foods and occasional ones. Here's our health correspondent,

Dominic Hughes. For busy mum of two

Sussana Maldryk, time is precious. When it comes to getting the kids'

dinner on the table, and that is where a cooking

sauce comes into its own. They are ideal, nowadays everybody

has got pasta in the cupboards. It is easy - heat it up,

pour it over, you've got a meal When you have got babies crying,

you need to have something quick But there has been growing concern

around the amount of salt, sugar and fat hidden in prepared sauces,

and the impact they are having Of course, it is not just the Mars

group that produces these products, most of the major food manufacturers

have come up with similar products. The problem for consumers, shoppers,

is trying to calculate how much salt, fat or sugar

these sauces contain. So concentrating just on sugar

content, in this jar of tomato sauce, there are the equivalent

of four teaspoons of sugar. has the equivalent of seven

teaspoons of sugar. Now the food giant Mars has decided

to publicly warned its customers that some of its products have

so much fat, sugar and salt they should only be consumed

once a week. The ingredients of other products

will be changed in the coming years We really hope that

others will follow us. We've taken the most exacting

standards, the WHO guidelines. We believe that will set us up very

well when it comes to not just and we would be delighted if other

industry members joined us too. Food retailers say it is

an interesting proposal but for it to be effective it should apply

across the industry, and in the wake of the sugar

tax on fizzy drinks, some experts believe

Mars is being clever, making sure it is well positioned

ahead of any possible They are definitely leading the way,

but it is not enough to tackle the obesity crisis,

so it is not taking responsibility for the unhealthy

ingredients in their food. They are still relying on consumers

to make those choices, when there is not a great healthy

food supply for them to do so. Concerns about our diet

and a growing problem with obesity, especially among children,

has ramped up the pressure They want to show they're responding

and can regulate themselves, so where Mars is leading,

others are likely to follow. Germany says it will allow

the prosecution of a comedian who mocked the Turkish president -

under an obscure law that forbids Mr Boehmermann had recited

a satirical poem on German television which made sexual

references to the Turkish president. Damien McGuinness in Berlin

and Mark in Istanbul. Jan Bohmermann

is Germany's most innovative No holds barred,

and everyone is fair game. He's also very popular

here in Germany, which means that

if he were to be charged, there would no doubt

be widespread outrage. You make fun of us Germans

liking David Hasselhoff, We mainly like two things,

war and David Hasselhoff. For Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

satire is no laughing matter. Since he became president in 2014,

almost 2,000 cases have opened Jan Bohmermann, this German

satirist, is just the latest target. They have included

beauty queens, artists, who has been sued for insulting

the president in newspaper columns that he insists are quite simply

the critical of the Government line. He has very strong

autocratic tendencies, He wants to monopolise the power

in his hands and, for that, he does not want any sort

of tarnished image. he needs not

to be criticised at all. The President's supporters say

criticism and insult are different and that,

under the Turkish constitution, insulting the head of state

is a crime. That was rarely invoked

by Mr Erdogan's predecessors. it is a sign that freedom

of expression has been muzzled. Many opposition newspapers

have been taken over. There has even been the case

recently of a husband who reported his wife

for insulting the president, a climate produced here

in which dissent is not tolerated. In today's Turkey,

Mr Erdogan has the last laugh. Dame Helen Mirren has

called for actresses to go She has been talking about gender

boundaries because she is playing an army colonel in her new film

Eye In The Sky, Film producers adapted the part

specifically so that Mirren The role sees her remotely

commanding a top secret drone operation from London and attempting

to capture a group of terrorists from their safe-house

in Nairobi, Kenya. We have intelligence of a meeting

with key members of al-Shabab. We believe that they are

connected to the recent We have been tracking

them for six years. We have information they will

be in Nairobi today. This is an operation

to capture. With me is Karen Krizanovich, who

is an expert in the film industry. Do you find it frustrating that Dame

Helen Mirren has to make these kind of calls for women to take on more

male dominated roles? There has always been a fight, getting any

role is difficult for a woman. There has been a fight to get women

treated as a real person rather than stereotypes. I think it is

important. We have to consider the idea of, she is just playing a man

in a dress. This statement is really important, to make people aware of

the lack of reality that is a reflected in a lot of films was the

izzard not patronising question what if she is a good actress, she should

get the role regardless of the gender of the character? There are

personality clashes, and what is important, and Sandra Bullock did

the same thing, this should be written as a man, it was rewritten

for her. A good roll doesn't necessarily mean it is a male role.

There are good roles for both genders. Sandra Bullock looks out

for fascinating roles, and regardless of the gender, she chases

them. How realistic is that for most female actors? It probably isn't

realistic. She has a lot of clout, she has produced things. To make

people aware of this, to make people aware that roles are more flexible

than we might think, granted, theatre started this first. We have

a lot of female hamlets. This kind of change is interesting. If you

think about Olivia Colman in The Night Manager that was a male role.

They wanted her specifically, and she was pregnant, and it was

something completely different. It is believable and powerful. The

thinkers Dame Judi Dench as M, she is the first female performer in

that role. It is believable because we are letting women be powerful.

Just like in real life, they are. You do a lot within the film

industry. Do you have to write in a different way for women question out

there is an old adage, how do I write a good roll for women? You

just write a good roll and change the name to a woman. Thank you.

A lot more the website. We have breaking news of the powerful

earthquake in Japan which has hit near the Japanese city of Kumamoto.

It is a date after the quake in the same area killed at least nine

people. We are hearing reports of several after-shocks, and officials

had issued a tsunami warning, with waves of up to one metre possible.

However, that warning has now been lifted. Japan is regulated by

earthquakes but stringent building codes mean they've rarely cause

significant damage. It is devastating for that same area. We

will monitor that for you. From me and the team, thanks for watching.

Good evening. There have been -- there has been rain across England

and Wales, further north at been