05/05/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas.

Turkey's Prime Minister is stepping down.

Ahmet Davutoglu has won two elections -

but fallen foul of the boss - making it clear he's uneasy

about President Erdogan's project to tighten his grip on power.

The inferno in Western Canada spreads even further -

strong winds in Alberta force more communities to evacuate.

I can feel the heat here. This is insane. You can feel the heat.

Also coming up - in an exclusive interview with the BBC,

Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff, says she'll fight on -

Music in Palmyra - Russian musicians stage a concert

in the ruins of the ancient Syrian city to celebrate its recapture

After being elected with more than 49% of the vote last November,

Ahmet Davutoglu announced at a news conference today he will not seek

the leadership again, although it is not his choice to go.

His resignation follows several public disagreements with Turkey's

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who wants to boost his

Prime Minister Davutoglu has urged his party not to fall apart,

but there's something of a sense of crisis in Turkey,

and of unease among her European neighbours.

The Prime minister, who dared to cross President Erdogan.

Ahmet Davutoglu gave an emotional farewell calling a party congress

TRANSLATION: We thought we would serve you for four

years but, believe me, it is not my choice

That was the only hint of the rift with President Erdogan that pushed

He was uneasy with policies like jailing journalists

and crucially did not back the key President Erdogan project to change

the constitution so as to boost the president's powers.

TRANSLATION: My loyalty to our president will continue

Nobody has or will hear a single word against our

Everybody should know that and I would never let people

A polarised Turkey has reacted, as always, in a divided way.

While a pro-government paper hailed a new era in the AK party a rare

opposition headline talked of a coup by the presidential palace.

I do not know how many crises we have had.

The prime minister was a good man, I loved him and his

This man says our great mentor President Erdogan deemed it suitable

It means he was not happy with the prime minister.

Whatever our great mentor wants, it will happen.

President Erdogan has a big support base but Turkey is in crisis,

renewed conflict with the PKK Kurdish militants, several suicide

bombs and a clamp-down on human rights and free speech.

Some Western leaders find it hard to deal with him and

they will be dismayed at Mr Davutoglu's departure.

So, as the prime minister leaves, a fiercely ambitious

The message to Mr Davutoglu's successor, defy me and you will

And Mark joins me now from the Turkish capital.

What will happen next question mark a party congress on the 22nd of May

in which the party will choose a new leader. Some of the names in the

frame include the current transport minister and the current energy

minister who is President Erdogan's son-in-law. They will be a more

obedient and pliant Prime minister than Ahmet Davutoglu. When Ahmet

Davutoglu was put in place, we thought he would be largely a puppet

but he turned out to be much more outspoken than we expected and the

brake on power and also a man with whom the West rather favoured doing

business with because some find it difficult doing business with

President Erdogan. Thinking about their relationship with Europe, one

tweet from a speed issue diplomat said the credibility of Turkey's EU

rests with the Prime minister if he leaves and all bets are off. Yeah,

the timing of this has been disastrous for Turkey. Yesterday was

the day when the Prime minister and politicians should have been making

political capital from the fact Turkey have scored its biggest

achievements on its part to European Union accession when they

recommended Turkey should get these free travel to the EU Schengen zone.

That is along for aim of Turkey and that was a project spearheaded by

Ahmet Davutoglu who negotiated with the European Union leaders and

offered to re-home the migrants and Turkey would get these free travel

but it was done without the agreement of President Erdogan and

that was one of the examples of how the men fell out. But when we saw

the pictures of him in Brussels being embraced and negotiating you

get a sense this is a man the Europeans liked, he was exchanging

text messages with Angela Merkel regularly. President Obama in the

last two weeks was outspoken about President Erdogan saying he has won

elections but is clamping down on free speech and there are trends in

Turkey that the United States do not approve of. There was a different

relationship. There will be mixed feelings in Western capitals. Worth

underlining President Erdogan does have popular support. He goes and he

is adorned by a fan base on the whole who feel he has a political

voice. The headscarf wearing Turks felt ostracised for decades and he

has expanded the middle-class building schools and hospitals and

roads and that is why he will still be able to rally the faithful even

though opinion is divided and deeply polarised.

Syrian activists say that an airstrike has hit a refugee

camp in northern Syria, killing or wounding many people.

One report says that at least thirty people have died

in the attack on the camp in Idlib province near the Turkish border.

Pictures purportedly of the aftermath of the attack show

at least a dozen tents burnt to the ground.

It's not clear yet who carried out the attack.

But Syrian government airpower has targeted Idlib in recent weeks

to try to weaken the rebel hold on the province.

A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian

province of Alberta, as a huge wildfire continues

The entire city, that's nearly 90,000 people, has been

evacuated, and now the residents of three nearby towns have also been

The fire, fed by strong winds and hot, dry weather,

has already destroyed thousands of buildings.

Our correspondent James Cook is at a cordon just

We are not allowed into Fort McMurray because the fire is still

burning and it is burning along this road, perhaps two or three miles

along the road we are told it is ablaze on both sides of the road,

there has been activity in the last couple of hours as firefighters and

other services continue to tackle this blaze which has caused such

hardship for the people here. It has spread further out of 40 McMurray, a

city in a terrible state and it is clear now this crisis is far from

over. Oh, my God! In the car, a mother, father and child are fleeing

for their lives. The people of Fort McMurray had minutes to abandon

their homes and run. This is insane! You can feel the heat. This is

crazy. Foremost, this was the only road out. A highway hell. Oh, my

God. This is why. A huge wildfire which was swept into the city by a

sudden change in the wind. I looked up and it is raining ash and your

eyes are burning. It is time to pack up and leave. If the wind changes,

there will be more devastation in Fort McMurray. As the city

smoulders, the full extent of the damage is not yet known. Fort

McMurray is sealed off and police say half of it lies in ruins. In

this darkest of hours, the community is pulling together. Canada is a

country where we look out for our neighbours and we are therefore each

other in difficult times and certainly in Fort McMurray the

difficult times they are going through right now is something we

will unite around across the country. The fire started in a

forest outside the city, how is not clear. It is still burning as

spreading south forcing the evacuation of three more towns. It

is stressful, you do not know what is burned and not. Or when you can

go back and you are sitting here and/or UC is red flames. It is

pretty scary. From space, the damage can be clearly seen. The blaze has

scarred the landscape. For those fighting, there is some hope today

it is cooler and the wind has dropped. Too late for Fort McMurray,

a city of ashes. It's been nearly a week since a six

storey apartment block collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi

but miracle stories of survival Today four people were pulled

from the rubble alive but up The BBC's Anne Soy

filed this report. It has been drizzling

here at the scene of the collapsed building but that has not dampened

the spirits and the hopes of the rescuers who have

been working here. They have pulled several people out

of the debris alive - six days after that

building collapsed. That has renewed their hopes

of finding more survivors. Up to now, we are told up to 70

people have been reported missing and until they comb the entire

scene, they will not stop. They are working around the clock

to make sure they find everyone and we were here when we saw three

people pulled out of the rubble and they were moved right

in front of us. I saw one man who looked emaciated

but he was awake and he had been talking to the rescuers

and there were two women who were moved from the scene

on stretchers so incredible Earlier in the day,

the rescuers heard faint voices, a faint voice calling for their help

and they dug through the debris The paramedics moved in to put

a drip on this woman who was trapped and after a painstaking process

that took three hours, They say they did not see any

visible signs of injury, only that this woman was afraid,

understandable because she has been under that rubble for six days

without water or food so very There were two children who weere

pulled out of the debris, one of them was an infant,

still wrapped in its blanket without any injuries

and that is what has really given hope to the rescuers and they say

they will continue until they are sure that every person

who is still alive has been removed from the scene and several people

are moving from nearby buildings, they have big red signs on them

meaning they have been marked for demolition just

like the building back collapsed The government had marked it

for demolition because they say it was not fit for occupation

but there were people living there so this is a wake-up call

to the Kenyan society and there are discussions

going on about what went wrong Now a look at some of

the days other news. A British registered car -

driven by suspected people smugglers - has crashed on a motorway

in northern France whilst Shots were fired and four people

in the car were seriously injured. The accident happened

after the vehicle fled a car park over the border in Belgium,

that's known to be used More than thirty passengers and crew

on an Etihad Airways flight have been injured by severe unexpected

turbulence flying into Indonesia. The Indonesian authorities said nine

people had been taken to hospital, The plane landed safely at Jakarta

airport about 45 minutes after the incident on Wednesday,

and is now being inspected. In the latest news

coming from Brazil - the country's top court has

suspended the powerful He's facing several

corruption investigations What's interesting is that Cunha has

been leading the impeachment drive against the Brazilian President -

Dilma Rousseff. Ms Rousseff has been defiantly

fighting the attempts to unseat her. She's accused of illegally

trying to conceal the size But unusually - in a country mired

in political corruption - she is not accused of doing anything

to benefit herself financially. Well, the BBC's Wyre Davis has been

speaking to Dilma Rousseff - Yes, a real nest of Vipers in

Brazil. The Brazilian equivalent of the British American TV series house

of cards with lots of political intrigue and lots and lots of

corrupt politicians. The woman paying the highest price is doable

Rusev, she could be walking down the steps behind me having been forced

to step aside as the Brazilian president while she faces an

impeachment trial. -- President Rousseff. I asked her what she would

do if the Senate votes in favour of a full impeachment trial.

TRANSLATION: We will keep fighting to come back

into government, if the impeachment request is accepted.

We will fight to make sure that we will come out victorious.

We in the government believe, and what my supporters believe,

is that the ongoing impeachment process is illegitimate and illegal.

Because it is ultimately based on a lie.

If we have learned anything in the last six months,

it is the rampant corruption in the political system

in the governing party and other parties.

A lot of people agree with your defence that

you did not personally benefit from any corruptions.

But you were chairman of the board at Petra Bass.

Did you not know what was going on in this corruption scandal?

TRANSLATION: I do not agree that Brazil is in a different position

to other countries with regard to corruption.

It is inherent in corruption processes to conceal themselves

under similarly corrupt structures and practices.

These practices have to of course be looked into and investigated.

There are people in Brazil now, a minority of people,

talking in favour of a return to a military

Is it time for you to perhaps remind them and tell them why in your view

TRANSLATION: I was personally imprisoned.

I was incarcerated for three years myself.

Then there was a kind of ritual where you would first be arrested

and then, in detention, you would be kept out of touch

And for as long as they thought they still needed you for information,

You do not have to go through all of the horror we went

through, all the tragedy we experienced, to learn that

democracy is the right side of history.

You can see clearly from the interview that she feels very deeply

that this is fundamentally unjust but how many of the Brazilian people

feel that with her, how much backing does she have? It is a good point

because while she is convinced in the political environment she is on

the side of right and the charges against her are minor and illegal,

in the wider public many Brazilians want her to go, not because she has

done anything illegal or benefited from corruption but because the

country is in such a mess. The economy is in recession, inflation

at 10% and unemployment going up. There is a huge corruption scandal

which has happened underneath her government and the previous workers

party government so many Brazilians agree with the impeachment process

and want a change of government but she does not quite get that, she

says she was elected by 53 million people add whatever trough Brazil

goes through, she should have the right to remain in power until the

next elections. Thank you. And for our international viewers,

you can see Wyre Davies' full exclusive interview

with the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, on BBC

World News this weekend, on Friday at 1930, Saturday at 0730

and 1630 and Sunday at 0430 - For more on this developing story -

go to our website or if you're on the move download

our smart-phone app. We've set out who could

potentially replace Dilma Rousseff should

the impeachment go ahead, Dilma Rousseff should

the impeachment go ahead. We just want to bring you this

update on a story we did earlier in the week -

on the Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright who told

the BBC he was the inventor There's been lots of discussion

about his revelation since then. He had also promised

to present new 'proof' Well, Mr Wright now says

he won't be able to do that. He says that he 'believed

he could put years of anonymity and hiding' behind him but that

'as the events of the week unfolded'...and he 'prepared

to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys' he says

he 'broke' and says The self-styled Islamic State group

is continuing to lose territory in Syria and Iraq,

but according to the US Defence Secretary Ash Carter

the fight is "far from over". The US military has recently been

stepping up its attacks against I.S. targets, and increasingly it's

electronic and cyber weapons, It's a hi-tech war being fought

from aircraft carriers like the USS Harry S.

Truman in the Arabian Gulf, and our But Drew and Chris are different -

fighting an unconventional war, The fighters drop the bombs,

they make the explosions. We do the stuff in the background

that most people don't talk about. This is where they're flying from,

the USS Harry S Truman. And this is what is

happening around the clock. looking for targets

over Iraq and Syria. In less than five months,

the jets on the carrier have set a record, dropping more than 1,200

bombs on Islamic State targets. But these bombs are not the only

weapon they're using. Drew, the pilot, and Chris

an electronic warfare officer, fly a jet, but it's loaded

with jammers that can block anything Our cameras followed them

at the start of a mission. Much of what they do

is still classified but this is how it works: Before

and after an attack like this, or what they say was an IS

headquarters in Mosul, they are able to jam

all enemy communications. Think of it this way,

you are sitting in your house and all of a sudden bombs start

going off all around you. You are scared, you're frantic,

it is chaotic, now all of a sudden you lose your ability to communicate

and things start happening in the electronic spectrum

you don't fully understand. It adds a whole other aspect

of fear, it degrades their ability to talk about what is going on,

and to co-ordinate Hopefully by instilling that

fear, that confusion, It's all part of a new emphasis

on electronic warfare. As well as from the air,

US cyber teams on the ground are disrupting IS's ability

to communicate by computer, We do get the feedback

from the folks we are supporting. They say, "Hey, you know,

we knew you were there, there, because we stopped

getting shot at." or, "We weren't attacked",

or things like that so it's tough to measure

but it is absolutely essential. And the proof that this fight is far

from over is the tempo Even with all this technology

and military might, two years on, Jonathan Beale, BBC News,

on board the USS Harry S Truman. Syrian activists say an hour strike

has hit a refugee camp in northern Syria killing or wounding many. We

have pictures just in. You can see a lot of destruction, one reporter

tells us at least 30 people have died in the attack on a camp in

Idlib province on the Turkish border. They are trying to pull

people and get the fire is doused. These pictures are showing at least

a dozen tents or more have been burned to the ground. We are showing

you pictures that have just reached us, it is not clear who carried out

the attack but we will keep you up to date. Russian musicians have

staged a musical concert. A Russian orchestra has

performed a concert there, broadcast live on Russian

television, a matter of weeks after Russian troops helped

to liberate the region. We leave you with these pictures and

the concert was shown live on Russian television. It is meant to

mark the recapture of a highly significant city in Syria. Thank you

for being with us. Today was the warmest day

of the year so far but temperatures