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Hello and welcome, this is BBC World News Today | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
President Obama will make a historic visit to Hiroshima | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
But he will not apologise for the US nuclear attack in 1945. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
The British Prime Minister is overheard describing Nigeria | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt" | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
We've got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
Also coming up: A heartbreaking BBC investigation, finds that more | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
than 1,700 migrants have been buried in unmarked graves after they died | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
And facing extinction, how a fifth of all plants | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
are at risk thanks to a range of threats including | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
President Obama will make a highly symbolic visit | :00:58. | :01:14. | |
It will be the first time a serving American president has visited | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
the Japanese city destroyed by a US atomic bomb in 1945. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Let's remind ourselves of the events surrounding | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
In December 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
On May 7th, 1945, Germany agreed to unconditional surrender, | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
On August 6th, 1945, the first atomic bomb to be used | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
as a weapon is dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
140,000 people died, some instantly, | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
others later from the effects of radiation. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
On 9th August, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
August 15, 1945, Japan surrenders, ending World War II. | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
However, the White House made it clear that during his | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
visit Mr Obama would not apologise for the bombing. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue joins me from Washington. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Gary, another piece of history to add to the Obama Legacy? | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
Yes, it is and it will be quite a moment when they sitting American | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
president visits Hiroshima. We have had one former president go there | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
before, Jimmy Carter, who was president in the 1970s and obviously | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
he has been there but a sitting president carries with it enormous | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
symbolic power and while the White House is stressing that this is not | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
an apology, he will not apologise, he will not revisit, in their words, | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
the decision to drop the atomic bomb in 1945, he will in some | :03:01. | :03:26. | |
sense recognise the toll that it took on civilians in particular, so | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
that will be the message and also one about going forward and shared | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
futures etc. That reflects, of course, the fact that Japan and the | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
US are now very close allies and President Barack Obama has focused a | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
lot of his efforts on the pivot to Asia, as it is often called, and | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
they have significant economic and political interests in common and | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
that will be part of the trip as well so it will be an enormous | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
moment really, it will be an enormous moment for both countries. | :03:47. | :03:47. | |
Dr Sheila Smith is Senior Fellow for Japan Studies at the Council | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
How significant do you think this is? I think it is tremendous and for | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
those of us who have worked on the relationship with the US and Japan | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
for many years, it is long overdue. President Barack Obama began his | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
presidency very focused on nuclear disarmament and the Japanese people | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
have been very strong advocates of the reduction of nuclear weapons and | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
so I think you see a little bit of an American and Japanese gathering | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
of mines here about the future and what our two countries may be able | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
to do together. We know from the White House that he will not make an | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
official apology but will his presence there be viewed as a kind | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
of a conciliatory gesture? Absolutely. President Reagan went to | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
Europe many years ago in an attempt symbolically to put that war behind | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
us in our relationship with the European allies and I think for many | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Japanese, especially off at wartime generation, the presence of a US | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
president at Hiroshima will be tremendous. I think without saying a | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
word, his intent will be very clear. I think for younger Japanese you | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
have quite lively debate about whether or not the president should | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
apologise for the dropping of those bombs and I think that debate will | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
continue long this visit. What do you think is the main reasoning | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
behind this? You mentioned Japan and US relations and if there a wider | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
message about something like this never happening again? That is | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
exactly right. When the President spoke in Prague early in his tenure | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
he spoke very openly about the moral responsibility of the United States, | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
as the only company -- country having used these terrible weapons, | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
to push forward on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. It | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
is also true that in Asia at the moment you are looking towards North | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Korea who tested nuclear weapons in January and you are looking at the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
nuclear arsenal of China and their glowing -- in military might and you | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
can be a little worried about the nuclear balance. Our president has | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
touched on that alliance with Japan in a way that is alarming to many | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Japanese so I think this visit will be very reassuring and will touch | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
many Japanese deeply. Thank you very much. | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, has called Nigeria | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
Mr Cameron was caught making the comments as he chatted | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
with the Queen at an event to mark her 90th birthday. | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
A very satisfactory cabinet meeting this morning when we talked about | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
our successful summit. We have leaders of fantastically corrupt | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
countries coming to Britain. Nigeria and Afghanistan, wasn't it, the two | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
most corrupt countries in the world. This particular president is | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
actually not corrupt. He is working very hard. They are coming at their | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
own expense! The remarks come ahead | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
of an international summit on corruption taking place in London | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
later this week. The anti-corruption campaign group | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
Transparency International ranked Afghanistan 167th, | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
in its 2015 corruption perception index, ahead of only | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Somalia and North Korea. We will discuss this more in a few | :07:13. | :07:28. | |
moments with an expert on global corruption. Let us look at some more | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
News stories for now: now: Maverick anti-crime candidate | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte has won the Philippine presidential | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
elections, following the withdrawal of his | :07:47. | :07:47. | |
opponents. Although the official result has not | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
yet been declared, his main rival, Mar Roxas, admitted defeat | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
after polls gave Mr Duterte Officials in southern Germany say | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
a man who killed a commuter and injured three others in a knife | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
attack at a railway station suffered from psychological | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
problems and drug addiction. They said there was no evidence | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
the 27-year-old attacker Eyewitnesses had earlier reported | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
that the assailant had shouted Allahu Akbar, | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
God is Great, during Nasa's Kepler space telescope has | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
discovered what has been described as a treasure trove of planets. Over | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
1000 XO planets has been found which Nasa says increases the chances of | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
finding a planet similar to Earth. Afghan and US special forces have | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
rescued the kidnapped son of Pakistan's ex-Prime | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. He was abducted three | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
years ago, it's believed Yusuf Raza Gilani was taken | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
while he was in his home town But he was found hundreds | :08:38. | :08:49. | |
of kilometres away in Paktika Four militants were | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
killed in the rescue. Ali Haider's brother, | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
Ali Musa Gillani has spoken to the BBC from his home in Lahore | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
and described the moment He called himself from an | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
Afghanistan number, and he just told me I have US military around me | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
and they have rescued me and what are you doing | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
and who are you getting in And I replied that we are talking | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
to the Afghan ambassador and our military forces and the government | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
officials to bring him back, because he was really, really | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
confused about who was going to bring him back, because here only | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
I am in Bagram Base. Shaaima Khalil is in Islamabad | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
and tells us more about what's We now have confirmation | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
from the international forces in Afghanistan | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
that Ali Haider Gilani operation between US special | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
operations forces and Afghan commandos in the eastern | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
province of Paktika. We also understand that four | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
militants are believed to have been killed during that operation | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
and this mission was launched when evidence of terror activities | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
was confirmed, We also know now that arrangements | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
for Mr Gilani to return to Pakistan are being made | :10:07. | :10:18. | |
after some medical checkups. We understand that he was held | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
by an Al-Qaeda linked or affiliated group, | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
we're not exactly sure which group that is, | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
but we do know last year, from his father, former Prime | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, asked for Al-Qaeda prisoners to be | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
released in return for his son. We also know that there was a video | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
in 2014 where abductors had | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
asked for ransom. during that rescue mission | :10:36. | :10:36. | |
are still going to come in. We are not very clear about how | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
exactly that happened but we do know, of course, that Ali Haider | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Gilani was abducted not very far from his house in his | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
hometown of Multan which was in 2013, almost three years ago now, | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
and at the time he was campaigning for parliamentary elections | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
for the Pakistan People's Party. When the news broke today there was | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
huge celebrations in his hometown, by family and | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
friends and party workers and also at a party rally in | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
Pakistani administered Kashmir Let us go back now to that story | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
about David cannon calling Nigeria and Afghanistan corrupt and we have | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
heard from the Afghanistan Prime Minister who has said he was | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
shocked. He spoke through a spokesman and he argued that David | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
cannon, who was secretly films, must be referring to Nigeria's past | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
notoriety for corruption before his coming to power in May last year. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
The president of Nigeria has been in power for around one year but says | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
that his government is deeply shocked and embarrassed by those | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
comments and says he must have been referring to the past of Nigeria. | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
Well, joining me from our Millbank studio is Transparency | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
International's Managing Director, Cobus de Swardt. | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
What is your reaction? The way David cannon has been saying this is not | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
ideal but how much truth is there in this? Historically Nigeria and | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Afghanistan have had very high levels of corruption that continues | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
by the current leadership has sent very strong symbols that they want | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to change that and this summit is the opportunity for those countries | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
to sign up to a new era. At the same time, countries such as the UK also | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
have to sign up to changing their fight against corruption, as the UK | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
and its own overseas territories remain a safe haven for corrupt | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
money and a big problem for corruption worldwide. We had the | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
relatively new Nigerian President they're saying that his government | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
was shocked and embarrassed by these comments from David cannon. How much | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
progress has there been in the fight against corruption in these | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
countries and we know that this president came to power in that he | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
would really fight this scourge. Progress first day starts with very | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
clear commitments from the top and we have seen strong signals from the | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Nigerian government and that needs to go further and in addition to | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
that there needs to be a common working together. Nigeria cannot do | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
this alone. When you do not work together, for example, in stopping | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
corrupt money leaving Nigeria and entering the UK, it makes it harder. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
We have seen some progress but clearly not enough. This summit | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
would need to bring these countries together in a common commitment to | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
prevent corruption and actually create a safe space for those who | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
fight corruption and also to tackle and punish those that facilitate | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
corruption, such as bankers, lawyers, estate agents, as the | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Panama papers clearly show, as another major part of the global | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
fight against corruption. There will be some wondering what a conference | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
here in London, with lots of good words perhaps, can realistically | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
achieve. What are your hopes? How positive do you think it would be? | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
We have no hope for new work. What we are seeking our concrete and | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
specific commitments, for example on preventing corruption it is time | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
that those countries that participate make very concrete | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
commitments to ensure that companies that operate from their countries | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
have all the beneficial owners, those that own and control those | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
companies in public registers and that people and companies that did | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
for public contracts, that we know who they are owned by. We want to | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
see very strong commitments on those countries that participate that they | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
will protect the space of whistle-blowers and that they will | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
protect the space of civil society activists to fight corruption and we | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
want to see concrete actions by these countries on tackling those | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
that facilitate corruption. This is not that difficult. We can see major | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
progress this week but it needs to be concrete actions and the need to | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
be actions were those leaders that make them can be held accountable by | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
the citizens of their countries. We must and that there. It certainly | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
got us talking about it. Thank you very much. | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
1,700 men, women and children have been buried in unmarked graves | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
after they died crossing the Mediterranean, | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
That's what a BBC investigation has discovered. | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
There are more than 70 such sites in Turkey, Greece and Italy. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Over the past two years it is estimated that more than 8,000 | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
people have died, many lost at sea, with many bodies washed ashore. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
A boat full of Syrians fleeing war land on the Greek island of Lesbos. | :15:52. | :16:04. | |
No one on this boat drowned, but one man was crushed to death on board, | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
and another died of a heart attack when he set foot on land. | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
Both victims were travelling with other people who were able | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
There are hundreds more that have either been lost at sea or found | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
Their relatives, scattered across the globe, are left | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
with a lingering pain that could haunt them | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
In the last two years more than 8000 people have died | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
On average at least one person each day has been buried | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
in an unmarked grave, which you can see by these red dots, | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
scattered across Italy, Greece and Turkey. | :16:52. | :16:52. | |
More than 70 of these burial sites have been found as part | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
This ceremony in Lesbos is one of them, with dozens of bodies. | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
Some are recovered when the boats they were on capsized. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
Others washed up on shore days or even weeks later. | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Many relatives of the missing are desperately trying to find them. | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
Farouk Bakar has been on such a quest for the last five months. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
His brother and wife died when their boat capsized off Lesbos, | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
but the bodies of their four children were never found. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
He has travelled hundreds of miles in Turkey and in Greece, hoping | :17:35. | :18:04. | |
to find either proof of life or at least a DNA match | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
with unidentified bodies of children buried in Lesbos. | :18:10. | :18:26. | |
Local authorities in all three countries have been stretched | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
as they try to deal with unidentified dead bodies. | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Because of the large number of bodies found by the Greek | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
authorities, they've had to bring in containers like these. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Sometimes the bodies of migrants stay here for days or | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
These containers are on the island of Samos, which doesn't | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Many of those who brave death to reach Europe leave relatives | :18:48. | :19:17. | |
behind with the hope of some day seeing them again. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
But those lost along the trail leave a darker kind of longing, | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
no longer for reunion - only for closure. | :19:26. | :19:39. | |
To Saudi Arabia now where authorities are trying | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
to curb the powers of the notorious religious police. | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
The new regulation bans members of the Promotion Of Virtue | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
And Prevention Of Vice Committee to chase suspects or arrest them. | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Religious police officers are frequently accused | :19:49. | :19:49. | |
However, the new decision hasn't been welcomed | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
by everyone in the country, as Hanan Razek reports from Riyadh. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
This widely shared video has sparked a debate in Saudi Arabia. | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
The woman tells a member of the morality police | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
It's one of many incidents where Saudis accused members of the | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
committee of abusing their authority. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
It is quite rare to find someone who is willing to speak out | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
about their experience with the morality police publicly, | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
but we've succeeded to track down a Saudi woman who says she was | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
A bite on the hand is what this woman, who doesn't want | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
to reveal her identity, says it was the result | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
The BBC couldn't verify the incident details independently. | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
TRANSLATION: They wrapped my headscarf around me | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
and insulted me because I didn't delete the video. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
I started screaming and I tried to get out of | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
the car but they locked me and my friend inside. | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
I was trying to film again so he bit me. | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
Recently the Saudi government, in what some describe as | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
a bold move, decided to curb their powers. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
work of the religious police means that members of the | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Committee To Promote Virtue And Prevent Vice can no longer stop | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
people on the streets, arrest them, or ask for their identifications. | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
Many Saudis have praised the decision, saying it will put an end | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
to the violenations practiced by the members of this committee. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
However, not everybody here is happy about it. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Some have taken to Twitter, which is very big | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
in the most conservative of kingdoms, to voice their concern | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
about losing the powers of the Committee. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
And some clerics weighed into the public debate | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
The new regulation came in a rush and it didn't comply | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
with the core of the governing system, and it violates the | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
committee law that was issued by a Royal decree. | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
For 76 years the Saudi religious police have enjoyed lots | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
of powers over people's day-to-day matters. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
The new regulation has triggered a big debate. | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
Many here think it is only a beginning of a | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Scientists have published their first global assessment | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
The new study reveals that there are just under 400,000 | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
plant species known to science, and researchers say there | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
However the report also found that a fifth of all plants | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
are at risk of extinction, and face a broad range of threats. | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
Coming into bloom - the beauty of plants on display | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Now, for the first time, scientists here have carried out | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
And it has highlighted some big gaps in our knowledge. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
One of the things we did in this report was to count how many | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
plant species there are, and that was interesting - | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
391,000 we have come up with, and that's addressing four different | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
databases to come up with that figure. | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
But this is just scratching the surface. | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
There are thousands out there that we don't know about. | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
We have come behind the scenes here at Kew where the latest new | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Botanists have been heading to far-flung corners of the world, | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
searching through existing collections, and even trawling | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
through pictures of plants on the internet. | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
And they are making new discoveries all the time. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
This orchid was one of 2000 plants found in 2015. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
New, too, was this 50-metre high tree in Gabon, and an insect-eating | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
But there are also threats, and invasive species | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
like Japanese Knotweed are a major problem. | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
Damaging the environment, they are difficult | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
The report now estimates that there are 5000 different | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Now that we have got this list and this number, | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
it's certainly a bit like know your enemy. | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
We know what we're dealing with, we can then look at them - | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
what is similar, what makes a good invasive - and how can we use that | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
information to have better management practices in place | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
or recommendations, how you deal with them. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
But while the public enjoy their close encounter | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
with nature, conservationists warn that one in five species | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
This new report, though, will allow scientists to measure | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
these changes to keep track of the future of our plants. | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
We are just getting reports in the last few minutes that the leader of | :25:02. | :25:18. | |
Bangladesh's largest Islamist party has been executed for war crimes. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
That announcement is coming from the War Ministry in Dakar. The offences | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
committed by him all dates back to 1971 and the Bangladesh liberation | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
war against Pakistan, one of the bloodiest in history. He led an | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Islami party for 15 years. The tribunal was set up in 2010 and this | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
is one of the verdicts we have been waiting all day to hear whether or | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
not this was going to happen, but it seems that Bangladesh has executed | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
the top Islamist party leader for war crimes committed in 1971. More | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
on the BBC website and all of our channels. | :25:58. | :26:01. |