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:00:00. > :00:00.He, just the other day, gave a television interview in

:00:00. > :00:00.which he described this unity National Accord government

:00:00. > :00:18.He realises that if there is a national government he

:00:19. > :00:28.At the time he had no legitimacy whatsoever.

:00:29. > :00:30.He decided to come and attack Benghazi to fight

:00:31. > :00:33.He was a leader of militia at the time.

:00:34. > :00:36.There was only one government that existed when he started,

:00:37. > :00:40.He attacked Benghazi, yes, there is an element there who are

:00:41. > :00:43.really stated by the UN as a terrorist groups, but also others.

:00:44. > :00:46.Haftar says to the Libyan people that "we are the legitimate

:00:47. > :00:52.To quote his recent interview, "we will not compromise one

:00:53. > :00:59.He believes he is the force that can unify Libya.

:01:00. > :01:03.A man with weapons and men and the will.

:01:04. > :01:28.He sees himself as the inheritor of Gaddafi.

:01:29. > :01:47.But 75% of the country does not accept him.

:01:48. > :01:51.He tried before that and was completely rejected.

:01:52. > :01:58.of his old staff who recently left his

:01:59. > :02:01.service, Colonel Muhamed, says he has been using secret paramilitary

:02:02. > :02:13.forces to carry out abductions, killings, and beheadings.

:02:14. > :02:15.Would you like to see him put on trial?

:02:16. > :02:21.This is his lieutenant, his Speaker, and it is clear he did all of this.

:02:22. > :02:36.Some prominent people have been kidnapped by Khalifa Haftar.

:02:37. > :02:39.But Khalifa has the most coherent military force in Libya today.

:02:40. > :02:41.When you say the man is possibly a war criminal

:02:42. > :02:45.and needs to be trialled for alleged war crimes, it just says to me that

:02:46. > :02:49.yet again here is a very deep hole that Libya is about to fall down.

:02:50. > :02:58.Clearly, if you look at the Libyan army there is 140,000 throughout

:02:59. > :03:02.The number who would follow him would not accede a few hundred.

:03:03. > :03:12.I don't think most experts would think that.

:03:13. > :03:15.Most of those people have been trained for like two weeks

:03:16. > :03:19.They would die in the hundreds and thousands in a battle.

:03:20. > :03:21.I would hate to see any one of them being killed.

:03:22. > :03:45.You have talked about Benghazi where the fight is very active.

:03:46. > :03:47.But, perhaps the most important frontline,

:03:48. > :03:49.especially with Western powers looking on, the most important line

:03:50. > :03:51.is Sirte, where so-called Islamic State has a stronghold.

:03:52. > :03:59.Thousands of fighters if they are to be believed.

:04:00. > :04:03.And then on the other side you have Khalifa encircling the city.

:04:04. > :04:05.And then another side, militias, some related to the

:04:06. > :04:07.Muslim Brotherhood, some related to the government in Tripoli.

:04:08. > :04:10.It seems there is a race to liberate Sirte from Islamic State.

:04:11. > :04:12.But that isn't going to necessarily make Libya's

:04:13. > :04:20.You will have a huge fight between the different militias.

:04:21. > :04:23.The real fight going on in Sirte is going between the council Mr Sirraj

:04:24. > :04:26.has formed made out of military officers and others...

:04:27. > :04:43.They look more loyal to themselves than the Prime Minister.

:04:44. > :04:47.All I am saying is the West wants to believe that

:04:48. > :04:50.somehow it can help Libyan forces liberate Sirte from Islamic State.

:04:51. > :04:52.The West, obviously, are worried about Islamic State's

:04:53. > :05:08.Do you think the West should be arming these different forces that

:05:09. > :05:22.I think Islamic State is a danger to Libya and the world,

:05:23. > :05:34.The people who can defeat them are Libyans.

:05:35. > :05:37.Again, though, it has to be unified under the government of

:05:38. > :05:39.National Accord and needs support from the international community.

:05:40. > :05:41.But there is no point in talking fantasy.

:05:42. > :05:43.Those forces around Sirte are not united, those

:05:44. > :05:48.John Kerry said the other day that we must do everything we can to

:05:49. > :05:54.So, would the West be wise to lift its arms embargo and send arms to

:05:55. > :05:56.the various different militias and fighters who are confronting

:05:57. > :06:00.Those they are confronting, at least from the west side of the country,

:06:01. > :06:03.they are under the leadership and have accepted the leadership.

:06:04. > :06:23.They need training and logistics and intelligence.

:06:24. > :06:28.I don't know how you feel as a Libyan knowing there are hundreds,

:06:29. > :06:31.it seems, hundreds of Western special forces on Libyan soil today.

:06:32. > :06:49.There is a group of them in the east and the west.

:06:50. > :06:52.They are intelligent gathering and are helping them to defeat Islamic

:06:53. > :06:56.You want these forces, Italians, Brits, Americas, to go into Sirte

:06:57. > :07:03.I just want them to provide support to fight this battle.

:07:04. > :07:06.I don't expect the Americans or British or Italians

:07:07. > :07:12.Clearly help with planning, intelligence, training

:07:13. > :07:20.It seems to me, and I think the man appointed by Prime Minister Sarraj

:07:21. > :07:26.to be your foreign minister, has said that the problem so often in

:07:27. > :07:32.Libya over the last five years is that the West has looked through a

:07:33. > :07:35.very self-interested prism when it addresses Libya's problems.

:07:36. > :07:38.It worries about Islamic State and migration, which we can talk

:07:39. > :07:41.about in a minute, but it doesn't really consider the needs

:07:42. > :07:50.Do you think that's a fair criticism?

:07:51. > :07:56.I think there's a lot of interest from the international community

:07:57. > :08:02.because a stable Libya can clearly help stabilise the whole region.

:08:03. > :08:06.At the same time because Libya is in the background of Europe

:08:07. > :08:08.and any problems in Libya, especially instability,

:08:09. > :08:13.But even Barack Obama recently in a interview said that one

:08:14. > :08:16.of his greatest regrets was the failure of American and Western

:08:17. > :08:20.He said we got distracted, the Brits got distracted, the French

:08:21. > :08:26.got distracted and we never followed through after toppling Gaddafi.

:08:27. > :08:30.Because they thought it would be easier for the Libyans to deal with

:08:31. > :08:37.it, but of course we still have the legacy of Gaddafi.

:08:38. > :08:42.So there was no plan, what is the day after Gaddafi fell,

:08:43. > :08:44.from the international community, to come and help the Libyans

:08:45. > :08:47.to build the institutions and be able to really face

:08:48. > :08:50.So they thought as long as they brought Gaddafi down

:08:51. > :08:54.What would a coherent Western strategy toward Libya today

:08:55. > :09:06.a lot of effort and help in building these institutions

:09:07. > :09:10.and help us fight against Daesh, this is essential.

:09:11. > :09:13.We have serious problems in the country.

:09:14. > :09:15.When Gaddafi fell the whole country collapsed.

:09:16. > :09:20.So that's why when we don't have institutions we

:09:21. > :09:25.So a lot of training needs to be done, a lot of help

:09:26. > :09:29.by expertise that would be embedded with the Libyan

:09:30. > :09:32.institutions to be able to help us to overcome.

:09:33. > :09:40.I come back to General Khalifa Haftar, who hangs over this

:09:41. > :09:42.conversation because of his military strength, at least

:09:43. > :09:48.He says, forget about all this talk of political rebuilding,

:09:49. > :09:55.of dialogue and institutions until we've won the war.

:09:56. > :09:59.So he says military solution first and only then can we really talk

:10:00. > :10:02.about rebuilding the political stability of the country.

:10:03. > :10:05.There's no military solution for Libya.

:10:06. > :10:11.I know that's what he thinks he will be able to do.

:10:12. > :10:17.Because the east after the revolution was very

:10:18. > :10:19.different from what happened in the west.

:10:20. > :10:22.The revolution in the east lasted a few days

:10:23. > :10:27.The west took about six months to fight against Gaddafi, so that's

:10:28. > :10:30.what happened that a lot of these militias have been

:10:31. > :10:42.So really the only solution is a political solution.

:10:43. > :10:48.He needs to be part of the solution, how we can do that...

:10:49. > :10:51.So despite the fact that earlier you said you would like to see him

:10:52. > :10:55.on trial for war crimes, you think he has to be part of the solution?

:10:56. > :10:59.Clearly we cannot just remove him by decision.

:11:00. > :11:09.But the solution that we need to do, I mean where he gets his support?

:11:10. > :11:18.It is coming through Egypt, other neighbouring countries

:11:19. > :11:24.Yes. especially the United Arab Emirates.

:11:25. > :11:27.Clearly they are supporting him and they have supported him

:11:28. > :11:32.continuously, even there is an embargo in Libya.

:11:33. > :11:37.And unless those countries will stop really intervening

:11:38. > :11:42.Let's talk about one other aspect of the challenge

:11:43. > :11:49.You are the jumping off point for a lot of people from other parts of

:11:50. > :11:53.Africa who want to get into Europe, but also there are many Libyans who

:11:54. > :11:56.want to escape from your country because the situation is so dire.

:11:57. > :12:02.The economy is in meltdown and we have all of this violence as well.

:12:03. > :12:05.The agency Interpol has just said that they believe there may be up to

:12:06. > :12:07.800,000 would-be migrants waiting in Libya to try

:12:08. > :12:19.If they are waiting outside of Libya that is different, but I know there

:12:20. > :12:24.are a lot of them in Libya, the hundreds of thousands...

:12:25. > :12:28.I think the implication is a lot of these people are Libyan.

:12:29. > :12:40.If you look at the Libyans in the east or the west,

:12:41. > :12:43.they are looking to leave, but there are economic problems that are

:12:44. > :12:47.facing the Libyan people, especially with liquidity and so on.

:12:48. > :12:51.Your banks are running out of cash, your food prices are spiralling.

:12:52. > :12:56.Basically, because the oil output is down by two thirds at least,

:12:57. > :13:02.The IMF says you will run out of money by 2019.

:13:03. > :13:08.That's why we need a political solution so we can bring the country

:13:09. > :13:14.back to stability and bring back the production of oil to before 2013

:13:15. > :13:21.There is no military solution and that's why those who try to

:13:22. > :13:24.have military solution, it's not going to happen.

:13:25. > :13:28.That will bring us into civil war, because neither the forces in

:13:29. > :13:37.We talked about the West's role in helping you fight IS, but just to

:13:38. > :13:42.finish up on the migration point, it seems to be odd that the European

:13:43. > :13:46.Union naval operation, which is trying to control migration from

:13:47. > :13:50.Libya and the north African coast, Operation Sophia it's called,

:13:51. > :13:56.Why won't you let the naval vessels into your waters?

:13:57. > :14:09.They are going to bring them back to your country, where they came from.

:14:10. > :14:15.So you aren't prepared to co-operate with the EU,

:14:16. > :14:18.and yet you want the Western support to come and bash IS?

:14:19. > :14:20.No, we are willing to co-operate, but the solution for

:14:21. > :14:22.this immigration problem is really protecting the Libyan

:14:23. > :14:28.We need help from the West to do that.

:14:29. > :14:31.This problem has been for a long time.

:14:32. > :14:34.The numbers are now much bigger, but why those people are coming?

:14:35. > :14:40.So there needs to be an international solution to this

:14:41. > :14:43.problem to bring some development to those nations, so people will stay

:14:44. > :14:51.But right now it is criminals who are using these people.

:14:52. > :14:54.I wonder if there's an element in your country,

:14:55. > :14:57.and maybe senior politicians such as yourself, that sees the migration

:14:58. > :15:03.You can almost threaten, blackmail, Western powers,

:15:04. > :15:07.to say unless you help us more all of these people will leave Libya.

:15:08. > :15:12.At least I don't look at it this way.

:15:13. > :15:17.It is a problem...they are causing this problem first.

:15:18. > :15:20.Those people sit in Libya until they get enough money to pay

:15:21. > :15:23.the fee to jump in those boats, where the chance of survival

:15:24. > :15:27.So those people are causing problems,

:15:28. > :15:33.so really we are facing the first wave of those immigrants and the

:15:34. > :15:42.You spoke about some of the Libyans who want to leave the country.

:15:43. > :15:46.You took the decision after years in the US to come back in 2011.

:15:47. > :15:49.Are you reaching the point where you are beginning to think it isn't

:15:50. > :15:51.working and you have to get out yourself?

:15:52. > :15:56.I came back to Libya because I was for more than 30 years

:15:57. > :15:59.against Gaddafi and I saw a chance for Libya to become

:16:00. > :16:04.a civilised state, a democratic state, a prosperous country.

:16:05. > :16:08.There are many like me who will do whatever it takes to

:16:09. > :16:11.bring hope back to the people and I think there's a chance.

:16:12. > :16:19.Dr Mustafa Abushagur, thank you very much for being on HARDtalk.

:16:20. > :16:48.Hello, once again, Thursday was not the most sparkling

:16:49. > :16:51.of days across the British Isles and I'm sure many of you at some

:16:52. > :16:55.point looked out through your window and saw a scene rather like this.

:16:56. > :16:58.This is from one of our Weather Watchers in North Berwick.

:16:59. > :17:00.This was all tied in with the weather front

:17:01. > :17:04.which started the day over in the western side of the British Isles,

:17:05. > :17:09.gradually dragged its way ever further towards theeast, bringing

:17:10. > :17:12.gradually dragged its way ever further towards the east, bringing

:17:13. > :17:16.Some of you actually saw some rain from that particular system.

:17:17. > :17:18.For Friday, we're rather inbetween weather systems

:17:19. > :17:21.although that situation, as you will see, will not last for long.

:17:22. > :17:24.The rain still lingering across the far north of the Northern Isles.

:17:25. > :17:27.Not a particularly cold start to the day by any means at all but

:17:28. > :17:34.there will be showers from the word go, sprinkled quite liberally across

:17:35. > :17:41.Some eastern spots, there, as you see, will start the day dry.

:17:42. > :17:43.Northern Ireland, it is essentially a dry start.

:17:44. > :17:45.A wee bit of sunshine here, perhap and favoured locations.

:17:46. > :17:48.Across England and Wales may get a away to a bright

:17:49. > :17:51.enough start but generally speaking, a lot of dry weather, yes, not

:17:52. > :17:55.There will be a fair amount of cloud.

:17:56. > :17:59.We will have to break some of this up before we get to see any

:18:00. > :18:00.meaningful sunshine and i think that opportunity rises

:18:01. > :18:02.meaningful sunshine and I think that opportunity rises

:18:03. > :18:05.more likely through central and eastern parts of the British Isles.

:18:06. > :18:09.Out west, although the exact detail and timing don't hold me to it just

:18:10. > :18:12.at the moment, but it looks as though we will push an area of

:18:13. > :18:14.thickening cloud with some rain up across

:18:15. > :18:17.perhaps parts of the south-west of England, too.

:18:18. > :18:19.We keep a bit of brightness in the east.

:18:20. > :18:22.We could well be looking at 18-20 degrees or so.

:18:23. > :18:24.Underneath the cloud and rain, closer to 14-15 degrees.

:18:25. > :18:27.This is how we close out Friday - just bringing a succession

:18:28. > :18:30.of fronts, in fact, close by to the northern and western

:18:31. > :18:33.That cloud all the while thickening up and eventually

:18:34. > :18:36.many parts through, Friday evening into the first part of Saturday,

:18:37. > :18:41.The heaviest always likely to be found towards western areas.

:18:42. > :18:47.We snapshot the middle of the afternoon on Saturday,

:18:48. > :18:50.again the temperatures around about the mid to upper teens or so.

:18:51. > :18:52.The bulk of the rain across northern Scotland.

:18:53. > :18:59.Rain further south and that may have a bearing late

:19:00. > :19:02.on - we may start importing thunderstorms in the south-east.

:19:03. > :19:05.If not for the match may be the journey home could be effected.

:19:06. > :19:11.Further north, the match could essentially be dry.

:19:12. > :21:54.If that clears, many of us will see sunny spells of sunshine.

:21:55. > :21:59.More likely to be a terror attack than an accident.

:22:00. > :22:04.Officials in Cairo give their view on the missing EgyptAir plane.

:22:05. > :22:17.A major sea and air search is under way and authorities say it could be

:22:18. > :22:18.months or even a year before the truth is known.

:22:19. > :22:21.Two years after the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls by

:22:22. > :22:24.Boko Haram, Nigeria's military says a second girl has been rescued.

:22:25. > :22:40.Outrage as Muirfield Golf Club maintains its ban on women members.

:22:41. > :22:52.Live from our studios in Singapore and London. This is BBC World News.

:22:53. > :22:55.It's Newsday. It's 8am in Singapore,

:22:56. > :23:00.1am in London and 3am in the morning in Cairo,

:23:01. > :23:03.the destination for the EgyptAir plane which disappeared over

:23:04. > :23:05.the eastern Mediterranean en route Egyptian officials believe it's more

:23:06. > :23:17.likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than

:23:18. > :23:20.by a technical fault. From Cairo,

:23:21. > :23:28.Quentin Sommerville reports. This morning in Paris,

:23:29. > :23:30.even through their tears, there was still hope that their loved ones

:23:31. > :23:34.could be found alive despite the But now, EgyptAir says

:23:35. > :23:40.the wreckage of its flight MS804 to And the passengers on board,

:23:41. > :23:45.mostly French and Egyptians, were killed, the plane's debris

:23:46. > :23:53.crashing into the sea. Here, radar tracks the aircraft,

:23:54. > :23:55.its red tail speeding across the Mediterranean,

:23:56. > :23:57.and suddenly disappears. Was this a terror attack,

:23:58. > :23:59.or mechanical failure? France's president said

:24:00. > :24:02.nothing could be ruled out. TRANSLATION: We also have

:24:03. > :24:05.the duty to know everything about No hypothesis should be

:24:06. > :24:13.ruled out or preferred. In Cairo,

:24:14. > :24:17.relatives gathered at the airport. Families have been arriving here all

:24:18. > :24:20.morning, desperate to find out any information they can

:24:21. > :24:24.on what happened to flight MS804. The flight was just 20 minutes

:24:25. > :24:31.from landing here at Cairo International Airport,

:24:32. > :24:33.when, according to the authorities, it simply vanished without any

:24:34. > :24:38.warning, without any distress call. By the afternoon, an international

:24:39. > :24:41.sea and air search was under way. And Egypt says it may go on

:24:42. > :24:46.for weeks. At Cairo airport, EgyptAir

:24:47. > :24:50.confirmed the plane's loss and this He said, I hope they find him

:24:51. > :25:02.so that we can pray over him. The authorities here have been

:25:03. > :25:06.struggling to explain how yet another plane

:25:07. > :25:08.from Egypt has been lost. Minister, if I could just ask you,

:25:09. > :25:11.do you have any security concerns about anyone on the plane, whether

:25:12. > :25:14.they were passengers, whether they were crewmembers, whether they were

:25:15. > :25:17.on the flight deck? Nothing has been reported

:25:18. > :25:18.about that. We haven't got any security concerns

:25:19. > :25:21.about a specific person, but don't forget the investigation

:25:22. > :25:23.is still going on and I'm pretty sure there is a profiling process

:25:24. > :25:30.for people on board. Here in Egypt officials think it's

:25:31. > :25:32.more likely this was For the families, it was a day

:25:33. > :25:39.when hope was overwhelmed by grief. As well

:25:40. > :25:47.as gathering more information about those on board, investigators will

:25:48. > :25:50.also be looking at the history of the A320 plane as they try to

:25:51. > :25:54.establish what caused it to crash. Our transport correspondent

:25:55. > :25:56.Richard Westcott considers what is As more victims' families head

:25:57. > :26:05.for Cairo, the question remains. Was this an accident or

:26:06. > :26:09.something more sinister? The aircraft was an Airbus A320, and

:26:10. > :26:15.if you've ever flown, the chances It's one of the most common planes

:26:16. > :26:23.on earth, and it does have And this is footage of the actual

:26:24. > :26:27.aircraft that disappeared. This aircraft was delivered

:26:28. > :26:33.to EgyptAir in November 2003. We also know the captain

:26:34. > :26:36.and the co-pilot were relatively So let's have a look at what

:26:37. > :26:41.the radar tells us Having taken off from Paris

:26:42. > :26:46.in the late evening, everything was Greek controllers say

:26:47. > :26:51.the pilot is in good spirits Half an hour after that,

:26:52. > :26:58.repeated radio calls go unanswered. Controllers raise the alarm,

:26:59. > :27:00.but the plane has simply dropped TRANSLATION: It made

:27:01. > :27:13.a 90-degree turn to the left and a 360-degree turn to the right,

:27:14. > :27:16.descending from 37,000 to 15,000 This is why terrorism

:27:17. > :27:20.can't be ruled out. A Russian airliner full

:27:21. > :27:22.of tourists was brought It's widely believed a group linked

:27:23. > :27:28.to the so-called Islamic State The EgyptAir plane took off

:27:29. > :27:33.from the biggest airport in Paris. One expert says speculation

:27:34. > :27:41.of an attack could ripple through The fact it's been able to go

:27:42. > :27:47.through Charles de Gaulle Airport, which is a major security airport in

:27:48. > :27:51.the middle of Europe, that will be a worry to all of Europe because if

:27:52. > :27:54.it can happen in Charles de Gaulle, This is the room at Cranfield

:27:55. > :28:00.University, where air accident investigators from all over the

:28:01. > :28:04.world have trained to do their job. the wreckage should throw up some

:28:05. > :28:09.answers. If there's been an explosion

:28:10. > :28:12.on the aircraft, then there will be lots of tell-tale signs that the

:28:13. > :28:15.investigators would look for, and that might range from pathology, so

:28:16. > :28:27.in terms of the damage that may have been done to the human occupants,

:28:28. > :28:30.through to damage to the actual So it's an anxious wait for the

:28:31. > :28:35.families and for all flyers, like Let's get more on this story from

:28:36. > :28:40.France, where the flight took off. Our correspondent in Paris is

:28:41. > :28:50.Lucy Williamson. Well, tonight an investigation has

:28:51. > :28:55.already begun into possible security breaches here at Charles de Gaulle

:28:56. > :28:59.airport. Among those expected to be questioned are all the ground staff

:29:00. > :29:03.who might have had access to the plane, bearing in mind of course the

:29:04. > :29:08.plane had already travelled from Eritrea and Tunisia on its way to

:29:09. > :29:12.Paris last night. It's not the first time that staff here at the airport

:29:13. > :29:18.have been the subject of a security review after the Paris attacks last

:29:19. > :29:22.year. Dozens of staff had their access passes revoked amid fears of

:29:23. > :29:28.Islamic radicalisation. And with security so high at the moment in

:29:29. > :29:31.transport hubs like this one in France, any suggestion that a

:29:32. > :29:34.security lapse here might have contributed to this crash will be

:29:35. > :29:39.very hard indeed for France to swallow.

:29:40. > :29:40.Meanwhile, Thursday evening's EgyptAir departure from

:29:41. > :29:48.The flight took off from Charles de Gaulle airport

:29:49. > :29:51.at 23:02pm local time on Thursday, exactly 24 hours after flight MS

:29:52. > :29:54.MS804, which disappeared over the eastern Mediterranean.

:29:55. > :29:58.The plane is scheduled to arrive in the Egyptian capital soon

:29:59. > :30:09.Now to a development in the ongoing disappearance of over 200 Nigerian

:30:10. > :30:14.schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants two years ago.

:30:15. > :30:21.says a second Chibok girl has been rescued.

:30:22. > :30:24.A spokesman for the army said it followed a clash with Boko

:30:25. > :30:27.Haram in which 35 militants are reported to have died.

:30:28. > :30:33.She is now receiving medical attention.

:30:34. > :30:36.first of those missing school girls was found.

:30:37. > :30:38.She met the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

:30:39. > :30:42.Now 19 years-old, she was discovered with her baby in a forest area,

:30:43. > :30:47.She was with a Boko Haram member, who was said to be her husband.

:30:48. > :31:00.The meeting with the president shows how significant the rescue of this

:31:01. > :31:05.teenager is. It is a national issue. Remember it was two years ago

:31:06. > :31:09.when she and her classmates were taken away by Boko Haram. It will be

:31:10. > :31:13.important for the military and other security agencies to get as much

:31:14. > :31:17.information as they can out of her, where she and the other girls were

:31:18. > :31:21.kept, the manner in which her captors operated and much more the

:31:22. > :31:26.Army is holding a suspected Boko Haram member who is said to be her

:31:27. > :31:30.husband. But overall this news will be welcomed not only by her family

:31:31. > :31:33.but by the families of the other girls and other concerned people

:31:34. > :31:38.around the world hoping the remaining girls are still alive and

:31:39. > :31:41.can be brought home. Let's not forget that Boko Haram has abducted

:31:42. > :31:46.and possibly still holds many more people. That's a tool it has used in

:31:47. > :31:51.its violent campaign in attempting to destabilise the nation, so the

:31:52. > :31:53.government still has more work to do at this moment.

:31:54. > :31:59.The Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao has been sworn

:32:00. > :32:06.new senators elected to the upper house in a recent national poll.

:32:07. > :32:10.Some believe the election of one of the most recognisable names

:32:11. > :32:14.in world boxing will pave the way for a future attempt to win

:32:15. > :32:17.The execution of a convicted murderer has been

:32:18. > :32:20.stopped by a Singapore court for the second time in a dramatic

:32:21. > :32:27.reprieve just hours before he was scheduled to be hanged.

:32:28. > :32:29.Jabing Kho who is Malaysian was sentenced to death in 2010

:32:30. > :32:32.for killing a Chinese construction worker.

:32:33. > :32:35.But he has been granted a temporary stay of execution following a last

:32:36. > :32:41.These are works of art created for a new exhibition in Greece by the

:32:42. > :32:51.This represents a rubber safety ring and it's to

:32:52. > :32:54.highlight what the artist says is the shameful response to

:32:55. > :32:58.Ai Weiwei filmed camps in Greece and set up a studio

:32:59. > :33:12.There's a big day ahead for Tsai Ing-wen.

:33:13. > :33:14.She's about to be inaugurated as Taiwan's first female

:33:15. > :33:20.president following her victory in January's election.

:33:21. > :33:31.Let's get more from Cindy Sui in Taipei.

:33:32. > :33:36.The new president will be inaugurated any time soon, but I can

:33:37. > :33:39.see behind you they are starting to have some large crowds and some

:33:40. > :33:46.colourful placards and banners. What are they saying? Yes. Many of the

:33:47. > :33:51.people here have been here since 5am and they are mostly supporters of

:33:52. > :33:55.Taiwan's Independence and the banners behind me all said Taiwan

:33:56. > :34:04.Independence. Many of them have gathered out here to send a message

:34:05. > :34:08.to not only president Tsai but to the international community because

:34:09. > :34:11.of the reporters here that Taiwan is an independent country is separate

:34:12. > :34:16.from China and they want it to stay that way. Miss Tsai is expected to

:34:17. > :34:21.be inaugurated hour and there's interest in what she will say her

:34:22. > :34:25.inauguration speech. What Beijing wants her to say is to finally

:34:26. > :34:29.recognise that Taiwan and mainland China are part of the same country

:34:30. > :34:33.but so far she has refused to do that and it's expected she won't do

:34:34. > :34:37.that during her speech because surveys have shown the majority of

:34:38. > :34:41.Taiwanese people don't want her to do that, they see Taiwan as an

:34:42. > :34:46.independent separate country from China and they see the protests and

:34:47. > :34:49.the pressures that Hong Kong people are facing from Beijing and

:34:50. > :34:54.Beijing's lack of willingness to allow them to have any sort of

:34:55. > :34:59.self-rule or democracy... The Taiwanese people here don't want

:35:00. > :35:04.Taiwan to become like their neighbour Hong Kong, so they are

:35:05. > :35:07.standing firm and Tsai is expected to appease her constituents that

:35:08. > :35:17.brought her victory in the January elections. Everyone do, we'll be

:35:18. > :35:20.watching and listening to the inauguration speech of the new

:35:21. > :35:22.Taiwanese President. -- everyone will be.

:35:23. > :35:32.Newly-crowned English Premier League champions Leicester City parade

:35:33. > :35:40.through Bangkok, we hear from some of their Thai fans.

:35:41. > :35:42.This morning, an Indian Air Force plane carrying

:35:43. > :35:46.The President of India walked to the plane to solemnly witness

:35:47. > :35:49.Mr Gandhi's final return from the political battlefield.

:35:50. > :35:52.The polling stations are all prepared for what will be

:35:53. > :35:55.the first truly free elections in Romania's history.

:35:56. > :35:58.It was a remarkable climax to what was surely the most extraordinary

:35:59. > :36:06.It's been a peaceful funeral demonstration so far, but suddenly

:36:07. > :36:10.these police are teargassing the crowd, we don't yet know why.

:36:11. > :36:12.The pre-launch ritual is well established here,

:36:13. > :36:18.Helen was said to be in good spirits but just a little apprehensive.

:36:19. > :36:21.In the last hour, East Timor has become the world's newest nation.

:36:22. > :36:25.It was a bloody birth for a poor country, and

:36:26. > :36:51.But for now, at least, it is time to celebrate.

:36:52. > :36:55.Our top stories: The search is continuing for the Egyptian airliner

:36:56. > :36:58.that's thought to have crashed into the Mediterranean Sea with 66

:36:59. > :37:01.Two years after the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls by

:37:02. > :37:08.Boko Haram, Nigeria's military says a second girl has been rescued.

:37:09. > :37:11.And Adele's been named songwriter of the year at the prestigious

:37:12. > :37:16.The star was honoured for her multi-million selling album, 25,

:37:17. > :37:26.Let's take a look at what's making headlines around the world.

:37:27. > :37:30.The war of words between the US and China over a close encounter in the

:37:31. > :37:33.South China Sea features on a number of front pages, including that

:37:34. > :37:46.It highlights Beijing's rejection of claims that two of its fighter jets

:37:47. > :37:55.came within "unsafe" range of an American reconnaissance aircraft.

:37:56. > :37:58.China is demanding that the US end such missions close to

:37:59. > :38:02.The China Daily covers the spat too and also picks up on surging Chinese

:38:03. > :38:14.The paper says not only has a Chinese businessman bought English

:38:15. > :38:17.club Aston Villa, but Jack Ma's Alibaba is reported to be in talks

:38:18. > :38:20.to become a major sponsor of the sport's world governing body FIFA.

:38:21. > :38:23.And golfer Phil Mickelson's return of almost $1 million dollars

:38:24. > :38:24.profits, as part of a US insider-trading

:38:25. > :38:32.investigation, features on the front of the Financial Times.

:38:33. > :38:34.Two men, a former corporate director and a professional gambler,

:38:35. > :38:37.have been indicted, but the wealthy pro golf star has

:38:38. > :38:42.Now Rico, what's catching people's attention online?

:38:43. > :38:44.The outgoing Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has

:38:45. > :38:59.clocked up more than six million views on Facebook for mocking

:39:00. > :39:03.In it, he reviews the successes and failures of his presidency.

:39:04. > :39:05.He reads out criticism from social media users,

:39:06. > :39:08.accusing him of being a jellyfish and having poisonous hands.

:39:09. > :39:10.It's even proved popular in mainland China, where

:39:11. > :39:12.an edited version has appeared, omitting some bits, including

:39:13. > :39:32.China doesn't recognise Taiwan as independent.

:39:33. > :39:34.To Thailand now, where a military court has granted

:39:35. > :39:36.bail to a prominent activist's mother after the United States

:39:37. > :39:40.The woman, who allegedly insulted the Thai royal family in a one-word

:39:41. > :39:43.Facebook post, is the mother of a key member of an anti-junta group.

:39:44. > :39:46.She was released on condition that she must not instigate riots,

:39:47. > :39:48.become involved in political movements or leave the country.

:39:49. > :40:12.In Thai society this charge is very serious and it shouldn't

:40:13. > :40:17.I taught my kids and my family about it.

:40:18. > :40:20.Therefore, when I heard the news, I was genuinely shocked.

:40:21. > :40:23.I insisted that I would to turn myself in, to show my innocence.

:40:24. > :40:25.Everyone can see that I have never been involved

:40:26. > :40:52.I only showed up if New was detained.

:40:53. > :41:03.It is the first time and it is a direct and serious blow to me.

:41:04. > :41:07.The reason I am facing what I am facing right now is that I am New's

:41:08. > :41:10.mother - this is the first and main reason.

:41:11. > :41:13.But if you ask me if I stopped h im or asked him

:41:14. > :41:18.to tone down - it is within his own thoughts and his own rights.

:41:19. > :41:22.I don't tell him that I have been targeted, you better stop - no,

:41:23. > :41:25.Right now, the law is up to interpretation.

:41:26. > :41:29.Who is right or who is wrong is objective.

:41:30. > :41:32.Whoever stands in opposition already knows what they are up against.

:41:33. > :41:35.Everybody can see that I am simply trying to make ends meet.

:41:36. > :41:38.I am not involved in politics and still I get targeted.

:41:39. > :41:45.So these activists still realise that they are in riskier positions.

:41:46. > :41:48.The first minister of Scotland is one of many who've

:41:49. > :41:50.expressed their outrage at a decision by Muirfield golf club to

:41:51. > :42:10.Nicola Sturgeon said it was 'simply indefensible'.

:42:11. > :42:13.Most of the club's members voted in favour of admitting women

:42:14. > :42:15.but the proposal narrowly failed to get the two-thirds majority needed.

:42:16. > :42:19.Muirfield has now been told it will not stage another Open Championship,

:42:20. > :42:21.Muirfield - prestigious and steeped in tradition.

:42:22. > :42:23.And today courting controversy after its members voted

:42:24. > :42:36.Is in this ridiculous, a club with such a distinguished history is

:42:37. > :42:40.ruling itself out because of a decision to treat women as

:42:41. > :42:45.second-class citizens? Those are your words rather than mine. I

:42:46. > :42:50.disagree with your wording, because I do respect the right of the club

:42:51. > :42:58.to make its decision about its membership policy. The course has

:42:59. > :43:03.hosted the Open on 16 occasions. Some of the most famous names in

:43:04. > :43:09.golf have competed here. There are many urging the club to change its

:43:10. > :43:12.rules. We are in a day and age where it is not right to host the world 's

:43:13. > :43:18.biggest golf tournament at a place that doesn't allow women to be

:43:19. > :43:23.members. Hopefully Muirfield can see some sense. The vote to deny women

:43:24. > :43:30.membership was close, but from the world of golf to politics, the

:43:31. > :43:34.decision has been condemned. It is indefensible. Muirfield is a private

:43:35. > :43:39.club, they have their own rules and regulations, but this is 2016.

:43:40. > :43:45.Scotland has women leaders in every walk of life, politics, the law. I

:43:46. > :43:52.think this is wrong. What do the women on the fairways think? I

:43:53. > :43:56.wonder where there is any ideological reason. I am surprised

:43:57. > :44:06.it can happen in Europe these days. I think that is terrible in 2016.

:44:07. > :44:10.Women can play here as visitors. While some are disappointed at the

:44:11. > :44:18.vote, others are comfortable for this club to continue as a mentor

:44:19. > :44:22.and a club. They can play as guests, but can't become members? That

:44:23. > :44:28.doesn't seem fair? Life isn't fair, to some extent. Women are great in

:44:29. > :44:34.many ways, but this is a man only club and everybody gets on fine. The

:44:35. > :44:39.fact is I am more than welcome and I can bring my young lady here to play

:44:40. > :44:47.two or three times a week. Playing the course, it yes, but not enjoying

:44:48. > :44:54.the company of golfers. Well they are not breaking any laws, the

:44:55. > :44:56.decision to exclude women as members may be costly to the reputation of

:44:57. > :45:00.this world-renowned club. English premier league champions,

:45:01. > :45:01.Leicester City, have taken part in a parade through

:45:02. > :45:04.the streets of Bangkok organised Having narrowly avoided relegation

:45:05. > :45:08.last May, the club stormed to The BBC joined some

:45:09. > :45:12.of the Thai fans who turned out to Celebrations continue for Leicester

:45:13. > :47:10.City. Stay with us, we'll be looking

:47:11. > :47:15.at how the political change in Taiwan will affect relations with

:47:16. > :47:25.China, and the country's economy. And before we go,

:47:26. > :47:28.let's take a look at these pictures. This is how we usually see

:47:29. > :47:30.Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, delivering

:47:31. > :47:32.marathon press conferences She showed a different side

:47:33. > :47:35.on Thursday, performing a disco take on one of Russia's

:47:36. > :47:38.best-known folk songs, 'Kalinka' at Ms Zakharova took 12-centimetre

:47:39. > :47:42.heels in her stride, along with That's all for now,

:47:43. > :47:56.stay with BBC World News. Hello, once again,

:47:57. > :47:58.Thursday was not the most sparkling of days across the British Isles

:47:59. > :48:02.and I'm sure many of you at some point looked out through your window

:48:03. > :48:13.and saw a scene rather like this. This is from one of our

:48:14. > :48:16.Weather Watchers in North Berwick. This was all tied

:48:17. > :48:18.in with the weather front which started the day over in the

:48:19. > :48:21.western side of the British Isles, gradually dragged its way ever

:48:22. > :48:24.further towards theeast, bringing Some of you actually saw some

:48:25. > :48:28.rain from that particular system. For Friday, we're rather inbetween

:48:29. > :48:30.weather systems although that situation, as you will

:48:31. > :48:36.see, will not last for long. The rain still lingering across the

:48:37. > :48:39.far north of the Northern Isles. Not a particularly cold start to

:48:40. > :48:43.the day by any means at all but they will be showers from the word

:48:44. > :48:46.go, sprinkled quite liberally across Some eastern spots, there,

:48:47. > :48:50.as yousee, will start the day dry. Northern Ireland,

:48:51. > :48:52.it is essentially a dry start. A wee bit of sunshine here,

:48:53. > :48:54.perhap and favoured locations. Across England

:48:55. > :48:57.and Wales may get a away to a bright enough start but generally speaking,

:48:58. > :49:00.a lot of dry weather, yes, not There will be a fair amount

:49:01. > :49:05.of cloud. We will have to break some

:49:06. > :49:09.of this up before we get to see any meaningful sunshine

:49:10. > :49:11.and I think that opportunity rises more likely through central and

:49:12. > :49:14.eastern parts of the British Isles. Out west, although the exact detail

:49:15. > :49:17.and timing don't hold me to it just at the moment but it looks as though

:49:18. > :49:21.we will push an area of thickening cloud with some rain up across

:49:22. > :49:24.Northern Ireland, western Wales, perhaps parts of the south-west

:49:25. > :49:26.of England, too. We keep a bit of brightness

:49:27. > :49:28.in the east. We could well be looking

:49:29. > :49:30.at 18-20 degrees or so. Underneath the cloud and rain,

:49:31. > :49:33.closer to 14-15 degrees. This is how we close out Friday -

:49:34. > :49:36.just bringing a succession of fronts, in fact,

:49:37. > :49:38.close by to the northern and western The cloud all the

:49:39. > :49:42.while thickening up and eventually many parts through, Friday evening

:49:43. > :49:45.into the first part of Saturday, The heaviest always likely to

:49:46. > :49:53.be found towards western areas. This is how we snapshot the middle

:49:54. > :49:56.of the afternoon on Saturday, again the temperatures around

:49:57. > :49:59.about the mid to upper teens or so. The bulk of the rain

:50:00. > :50:01.across northern, western Scotland. Just notice this little finger

:50:02. > :50:04.of rain further south - We may just start importing some

:50:05. > :50:07.thunderstorms later, So if not

:50:08. > :50:11.for the match then maybe the journey No such problems

:50:12. > :50:15.a wee bit further north - I think Rangers versus Hibernian could well

:50:16. > :50:17.be essentially a dry match. This is how we see it on Sunday,

:50:18. > :50:20.again, open to some doubt just about how

:50:21. > :50:23.cloudy and wet the south-east starts but if that clears away, I think

:50:24. > :50:27.then many of us will be in for a day of sunny spells and showers with

:50:28. > :51:29.temperatures again in the teens. I'm Kasia Madera with

:51:30. > :51:30.BBC World News. A major investigation is under way

:51:31. > :51:41.after an EgyptAir passenger jet The plane was travelling from Paris

:51:42. > :51:48.to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew Egypt says it was more likely to

:51:49. > :51:54.have been brought down by a terrorist act than

:51:55. > :51:59.a technical fault. The Nigerian military say a second

:52:00. > :52:02.schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram militants more than two years ago

:52:03. > :52:05.from Chibok School has been rescued. More than 200 girls

:52:06. > :52:09.are still missing. And this video is trending

:52:10. > :52:11.on bbc.com. The outgoing

:52:12. > :52:13.Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has clocked up more than six million

:52:14. > :52:16.views on Facebook for mocking In it he reviews the successes

:52:17. > :52:25.and failures of his presidency. That's all from me now,

:52:26. > :52:36.stay with BBC World News. And the top story here in the UK,

:52:37. > :52:39.11 children have been injured by a dog which attacked them

:52:40. > :52:42.in a playground in Blyth, A 37-year-old woman has been

:52:43. > :52:46.arrested on suspicion of having Now on BBC News all the latest

:52:47. > :53:11.business news live from Singapore. It's Taiwan's new president set for

:53:12. > :53:16.an early clash with China? We assessed the potential impact on the

:53:17. > :53:20.economy -- is. And why is Fujitsu getting involved on the UK

:53:21. > :53:27.referendum on whether to stay in the European Union?

:53:28. > :53:34.Good morning, Asia and hello, world. It's Friday and glad you

:53:35. > :53:38.could join us for this edition of Asia Business Report, I'm Rico

:53:39. > :53:42.Hizon. We start with Taiwan and the new president Tsai Ing-wen steps

:53:43. > :53:48.into the country's top job today and investors will be watching very

:53:49. > :53:52.closely as to how she will address China in her inauguration speech.

:53:53. > :53:58.The mainland is the island's biggest trading partner and the outgoing

:53:59. > :54:02.president was known to be friendly towards Beijing but since Tsai

:54:03. > :54:06.Ing-wen won the elections in January, cross trade relations have

:54:07. > :54:11.becoming greasing the tense. Earlier I spoke to an economist in Taipei to

:54:12. > :54:18.ask him what investors are expecting to hear from the new president. It

:54:19. > :54:21.seems the result of the January election has meant we have seen the

:54:22. > :54:27.early signs of soft economic sanctions. Or example the reduction

:54:28. > :54:33.of the Chinese tourists visiting Taiwan -- for example. In some parts

:54:34. > :54:39.of China it has reduced by almost 40%. The visitors from China account

:54:40. > :54:45.for a significant part of Taiwan's foreign visitors each year so the

:54:46. > :54:49.tourism sector in Taiwan is already feeling the pressure. Should

:54:50. > :54:52.investors be concerned about these early warning signs from Beijing and

:54:53. > :54:58.the tough stance of Tsai Ing-wen with the mainland? The economic

:54:59. > :55:08.sanctions will continue to be in place for the foreseeable future. I

:55:09. > :55:13.think regardless of what President Tsai will say today in her speech,

:55:14. > :55:19.Beijing will be a bit disappointed compared with what President Ma has

:55:20. > :55:27.been doing over the last few years. In the short-term investors have a

:55:28. > :55:31.reason to be concerned. It might bring the cross trade China Taiwan

:55:32. > :55:36.relationship to a more healthy and sustainable point, though. The other

:55:37. > :55:43.big challenge for Tsai Ing-wen is the retooling of the Taiwanese

:55:44. > :55:47.economy, with its worst performance in six years in 2015, and a major

:55:48. > :55:54.trading partner of Taiwan is mainland China. Yes, indeed. There

:55:55. > :56:00.are two Mac major structure issues in Taiwan's exports. First is the

:56:01. > :56:05.market concentration as you mention, 30% of time on these trade goes

:56:06. > :56:10.through China and now the problem is the product concentration because

:56:11. > :56:15.China's exports are concentrated on ICT and flat panel display areas.

:56:16. > :56:20.All these areas are unfortunately going to be confronted by China's

:56:21. > :56:25.so-called import substitution policy. In the long run Taiwan's

:56:26. > :56:29.exports to China with or without sanctions are going to reduce. They

:56:30. > :56:36.need policies to mitigate these issues by Doug Lhasa diversifying

:56:37. > :56:39.the market and also by having new areas of product -- by

:56:40. > :56:43.diversifying. Roy Chun Lee, an economist based in Taipei.

:56:44. > :56:49.Age is BC will be closing down branches in India following a

:56:50. > :56:55.strategic review showing customers are increasingly choosing to do

:56:56. > :56:59.their banking online -- HSBC. It's been on a massive cost-cutting drive

:57:00. > :57:06.and the lender has slashed more than 87,000 jobs overseas. That's over

:57:07. > :57:10.the past five years. American clothing retailer Gap will

:57:11. > :57:17.be closing down 75 stores abroad as they turn their focus to the North

:57:18. > :57:23.American market to revive fortunes. The Cure at retail family includes

:57:24. > :57:30.Old Navy and Banana Republic, it will include all 53 Old Navy outlets

:57:31. > :57:35.in Japan. It will help save 255 and is. The chairman of Fujitsu has

:57:36. > :57:42.warned that if the UK leads the European Union it would reconsider

:57:43. > :57:49.its investments. It's the biggest Japanese employer in the UK. We were

:57:50. > :57:53.told by him in an interview to the BBC that he thought Britain leaving

:57:54. > :57:58.the UK would be a threat to investment stashed the EU.

:57:59. > :58:02.TRANSLATION: So far we believe the UK is the centre of the European

:58:03. > :58:07.region and that's why for the last decade we have made ?3 billion in

:58:08. > :58:12.investment. If there is any change, with the UK remaining in the EU or

:58:13. > :58:16.not, we have to be careful about watching the process, the outcome,

:58:17. > :58:24.then decide if we will make any further investment or not. We have

:58:25. > :58:27.been making the most investment in the UK within the European region

:58:28. > :58:32.and yes we believe that the UK is going to remain at the centre of the

:58:33. > :58:37.EU. Where are we going to make investment to? Well, we have data

:58:38. > :58:41.centre and cloud type services, we have to really see what the issues

:58:42. > :58:45.are, what the challenges are in the respective market and the respective

:58:46. > :58:51.region, then make the decision as to how we are going to invest and in

:58:52. > :58:52.which area. We would like to see the entire EU region as one single

:58:53. > :58:58.market. Mr Yamamoto from Fujitsu. Plain

:58:59. > :59:02.packaging for tobacco products will be introduced in the UK from today

:59:03. > :59:06.after a legal challenge against the new law was dismissed by the High

:59:07. > :59:12.Court. The case was brought about by four of the world's biggest tobacco

:59:13. > :59:17.companies including Philip Morris international. Plain packaging means

:59:18. > :59:20.a ban on all marketing of tobacco packages to make smoking less

:59:21. > :59:25.attractive, especially to young people. Australia was the first

:59:26. > :59:27.country to make plain packaging compulsory in 2012.

:59:28. > :59:33.Phil Mickelson will return nearly $1 million in profits linked to an

:59:34. > :59:40.insider trading scheme. He said he had no desire to benefit from

:59:41. > :59:43.training and stock that regulators found questionable. The US market

:59:44. > :59:50.regulator alleged a friend of his had passed on a trading tip to the

:59:51. > :59:54.golfer about Dean food stock that came from the company's Chairman.

:59:55. > :59:59.China's food industry has been in hot water lately with producers in

:00:00. > :00:03.Europe and the US accusing the Chinese of flooding the market with

:00:04. > :00:08.cheap products. Beijing has set aside over 4 billion US dollars to

:00:09. > :00:12.help local governments pay for closures in the steel and coal

:00:13. > :00:18.sectors. The production by steel mills is still picking up. Earlier I

:00:19. > :00:22.spoke with Anna-Lise Jefferies and I asked her for her outlook on the

:00:23. > :00:27.Chinese steel sector. The Chinese steel sector is doing very well

:00:28. > :00:30.right now, this year it is Tronc, we have strong demand partly because of

:00:31. > :00:34.growth in the cities with properties -- strong. That's unexpected because

:00:35. > :00:41.many thought these empty flats we were hearing about would be a

:00:42. > :00:43.problem but we have seen a lot of growth. Also the Chinese government

:00:44. > :00:47.is investing $750 billion in infrastructure over the next two

:00:48. > :00:51.years, so pretty strong. Pretty strong that they even have enough

:00:52. > :00:58.steel supplied to provide the world? Yes. Exports are still good.

:00:59. > :01:02.Yeah, it is all strong. I think exports will go down a bit because

:01:03. > :01:06.the strength inside China is very good right now. Is China really

:01:07. > :01:13.deserving these massive tariffs being imposed by the United States?

:01:14. > :01:19.522% on this steel? With that kind of steel it is a smaller market, the

:01:20. > :01:23.big markets are the HRC and the retail market is. In that regard,

:01:24. > :01:31.no, most exports are going to get places like Japan and Korea. They go

:01:32. > :01:39.mainly to Asia rather than the US. All of these tips for tax tariffs by

:01:40. > :01:43.the US and China will not only impact the small sector but it could

:01:44. > :01:48.have a knock on effect on other things -- tit for tat. We have to

:01:49. > :01:52.see what happens in terms of trade tariffs around the world, you find

:01:53. > :01:57.those cropping up not just in the US but across the world when it comes

:01:58. > :02:01.to steal. Interesting to see what happens. With the mechanics and the

:02:02. > :02:06.dynamics, where do you see steel prices going forward? That's a good

:02:07. > :02:10.question. It's been very volatile this year for the iron ore and steel

:02:11. > :02:14.segment in Asia, right now things like iron ore prices are in the 50s

:02:15. > :02:19.and steel is relatively strong, margins are good and production is

:02:20. > :02:24.high. But you have money going into infrastructure but also Beijing

:02:25. > :02:28.putting in $15 billion for layoffs because there will be consolidation

:02:29. > :02:31.in the steel industry. Longer term the idea is they will be less steel

:02:32. > :02:41.production coming out of China. Annalisa Jefferies. Before we go,

:02:42. > :02:46.the markets... It is a Friday in deed and Asian stocks as you can see

:02:47. > :02:51.are looking very lethargic and lacklustre. This is after stocks

:02:52. > :02:54.remain under pressure as investors continued to digester possibility

:02:55. > :03:01.that the US Federal Reserve will raise rates potentially as soon as

:03:02. > :03:07.June. The Nikkei two to five down by 24% and the macro All Ords down by a

:03:08. > :03:14.10th. The Hong Kong stock exchange will be opening in about 15

:03:15. > :03:17.minutes. As for Wall Street, the Dow and the NASDAQ finishing

:03:18. > :03:21.negatively. Thank you so much for investing your time with us. I'm

:03:22. > :03:28.Rico Hizon. Sport Today is coming up next.

:03:29. > :03:33.The search is continuing for the Egyptian airliner that's thought to

:03:34. > :03:38.have crashed into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board.

:03:39. > :03:41.Two years after the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls by

:03:42. > :03:50.Boko Haram, Nigeria's military says a second girl has been rescued.

:03:51. > :03:53.Nearly a 250,000 Vauxhall Zafiras are being recalled for a

:03:54. > :03:58.second time because of a problem that's caused some to catch fire.

:03:59. > :04:01.The cars were first recalled in 2015, but now Vauxhall says it

:04:02. > :04:04.wants to make more changes to sort out the vehicles' heating

:04:05. > :04:13.system, as our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.

:04:14. > :04:20.This Zafira had been recalled and repaired.

:04:21. > :04:24.But just weeks later, it went up in flames with a young family

:04:25. > :04:33.And the same thing happened to Brian Adams in Sussex.

:04:34. > :04:35.He filmed what was left of his Zafira

:04:36. > :04:42.We feel that owning a Vauxhall Zafira is like playing Russian

:04:43. > :04:46.roulette, you don't know whether the car you're driving is safe.

:04:47. > :04:49.You don't know whether the work that has been done on them is adequate.

:04:50. > :05:02.Last year Vauxhall said the problem was in the heating and ventilation

:05:03. > :05:05.system, caused by improper repairs or using non-Vauxhall parts.

:05:06. > :05:08.Most of the recall work has been done, but they are now recalling

:05:09. > :05:16.Vauxhall said in a statement that the first recall had achieved its

:05:17. > :05:19.objective of returning vehicles to their original condition, but after

:05:20. > :05:23.extensive investigations, it said it needed to go further to improve the

:05:24. > :05:37.Well, it's when you have a recall that has to be recalled yet again.

:05:38. > :05:40.Very worrying for people who are putting their kids in the car.

:05:41. > :05:43.OK, Vauxhall have the best of intentions, but maybe they went

:05:44. > :05:48.a bit early first time and should have got it right.

:05:49. > :05:50.With pictures like these, Vauxhall says it is determined to

:05:51. > :05:53.finally put things right and will be contacting owners over the summer.

:05:54. > :06:08.The shadow Europe minister, the Labour MP Pat Glass has apologised

:06:09. > :06:10.after she was heard calling a voter a horrible racist.

:06:11. > :06:13.The MP was in Sawley in Derbyshire as part of the Remain

:06:14. > :06:15.campaign ahead of the EU referendum.

:06:16. > :06:17.She said her remarks had been inappropriate.

:06:18. > :06:20.A man who scaled a perimeter wall at Buckingham Palace has been arrested.

:06:21. > :06:22.He was in the grounds for seven minutes before being

:06:23. > :06:47.of Edinburgh were in the Palace at the time.

:06:48. > :06:50.Hello, this is Sport Today, live from the BBC Sport Centre.

:06:51. > :06:52.Coming up on this programme: Danny Willett says

:06:53. > :06:56.his 'grinding' paid off as he takes a two shot lead in the Irish Open.

:06:57. > :06:59.Bairstow and Hales stage an England fightback after losing three wickets

:07:00. > :07:14.And he's got a bad back, so Roger Federer won't be on the

:07:15. > :07:23.Hello wherever you are around the world, welcome to Sport Today.

:07:24. > :07:25.He's got a green jacket and he's also dominating

:07:26. > :07:36.Danny Willett leads the Irish Open by two shots from Rory McIlroy.

:07:37. > :07:47.After mastering the greens at Augusta, Danny Willett is doing a

:07:48. > :07:51.good job of conquering the screen. After his first tournament since

:07:52. > :07:55.returning to Europe, he had eight birdies to finish at the top of the

:07:56. > :08:04.leaderboard on seven under par. His round of 65 was only one shot off

:08:05. > :08:07.the course record. It leaves him two shots clear of the tournament host,

:08:08. > :08:13.Rory McIlroy, after missing three straight cuts at this event Warren

:08:14. > :08:20.Rory started well as he looks for his first win of the season. WWE

:08:21. > :08:26.enjoyed a prolific career on Irish soil, but hasn't yet won an event

:08:27. > :08:32.since turning professional. Martin climate knows the pain of not

:08:33. > :08:37.winning. He slipped to 64 in the world rankings after two years

:08:38. > :08:43.without success. He is among the group at three under par. Danny

:08:44. > :08:55.Willett looks composed, aiming to prove it is -- that his Master's

:08:56. > :09:04.triumph wasn't just luck. McIlroy has led calls

:09:05. > :09:06.from top golfers urging Muirfield golf course to "see sense" after

:09:07. > :09:09.the club was stopped from hosting future Open Championships for

:09:10. > :09:11.refusing to accept women members. Muirfield,

:09:12. > :09:13.last hosted the Open in 2013. The Royal and Ancient,

:09:14. > :09:16.which jointly governs the sport worldwide, say no course will now be

:09:17. > :09:27.allowed to host the championship What happened was that there was a

:09:28. > :09:32.group of 33 traditionalists who felt that it was wrong for the club to

:09:33. > :09:35.make this decision. They got that theory out to one of members that it

:09:36. > :09:43.was wrong to go down this route, which is why the vote failed by a

:09:44. > :09:47.slim margin. 64.4% were in favour of change, but they needed a two thirds

:09:48. > :09:52.majority. Very close, but that is why the vote ultimately failed. The

:09:53. > :10:00.big problem for the game of golf is the fact that arguably the Pines

:10:01. > :10:07.golf course will not be staging the Open Championship. Other routes will

:10:08. > :10:11.likely be explored by the club to find a voting mechanism that will

:10:12. > :10:18.allow them to admit female members and get the club back on the Open

:10:19. > :10:22.rotor. It is disappointing, Muirfield is its own club has its

:10:23. > :10:28.own members and can do whatever it wants, I guess, but we are in a day

:10:29. > :10:30.and age where it is not right to host the world's biggest golf

:10:31. > :10:38.tournament at a place that doesn't allow women to be members. Hopefully

:10:39. > :10:45.Muirfield can see some sense and maybe we can get it back on the open

:10:46. > :10:50.road one day. As I said, there are plenty more great courses on the

:10:51. > :10:57.open road that we can go back to. It is more of a loss to Muirfield done

:10:58. > :11:01.is to us. I completely understand the RNA's decision. This is an equal

:11:02. > :11:08.opportunity world. We are trying to grow the game. We have juniors, all

:11:09. > :11:14.of the above, it is really important that the RNA are driving forces in

:11:15. > :11:18.the world of golf. I get where they are coming from. They have the right

:11:19. > :11:23.to make that decision. A private club is a private club, but we are

:11:24. > :11:27.disappointed to lose them. From a professional golfers point of view,

:11:28. > :11:34.it is disappointing that we won't be playing at, but we have other

:11:35. > :11:39.courses we can play. Would you like to see Muirfield tainted" I think if

:11:40. > :11:46.you ask any golfer, Muirfield are a course that have been on the circuit

:11:47. > :11:49.since the very start. Hopefully they will do what they have to do to get

:11:50. > :12:00.back on the roster. Half centuries from Alex Hales

:12:01. > :12:02.and Jonathan Bairstow helped England fightback against Sri Lanka

:12:03. > :12:05.in the first test, before rain Dasun Shanaka triggered

:12:06. > :12:08.a top-order collapse with three wickets including

:12:09. > :12:09.England Captain Alastair Cook. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss

:12:10. > :12:14.wraps up day one. Alastair Cook needed just 36 runs to

:12:15. > :12:17.become the first in this player to reach 10,000 runs in Test cricket.

:12:18. > :12:29.It was a slow start, he got to 16 but he was then out off the bowling

:12:30. > :12:35.of Sharnakar. He had three wickets in his first performance, some debut

:12:36. > :12:40.from Sharnakar. There were a number of players following in quick

:12:41. > :12:46.succession, England 83 -5 at one point. The fightback led by Alex

:12:47. > :12:52.Hales, who reached his 50 during the afternoon session, he was joined by

:12:53. > :13:04.Jonny Bairstow who added a little bit of attacking intent. He also

:13:05. > :13:06.reached his half-century. -- Shanaka. England can take heart from

:13:07. > :13:11.their fightback. The Bundesliga playoff is wide open

:13:12. > :13:13.after Eintracht Frankfurt and One day

:13:14. > :13:17.after being diagnosed with a tumor, Mijat Gacinovic scored

:13:18. > :13:21.his first Bundesliga goal in the second half to cancel out

:13:22. > :13:37.the unfortunate strike by Russ. The second leg will be played

:13:38. > :13:39.on Monday in Nuremberg. The overall winner will play

:13:40. > :13:42.in the Bundesliga next season, with down reports of ill health

:13:43. > :14:09.after he was rushed to hospital with The 49-year-old ex-PSG and Newcastle

:14:10. > :14:13.player was taken to Monaco's Princess Grace Hospital,

:14:14. > :14:15.where his condition was initially reported by French media

:14:16. > :14:17.as "unconscious but stable". Ginola later blamed his illness

:14:18. > :14:20.on playing football in the heat. He cheekily said: "Footy match

:14:21. > :14:23.in the midday sun, not very clever. Whoever voted for a World Cup

:14:24. > :14:27.in Qatar in the summer?" Roger Federer tried to get through

:14:28. > :14:30.the back pain but it was too much so he's pulled out

:14:31. > :14:32.of next week's French Open. The Swiss withdrew injured from

:14:33. > :14:35.the Madrid Open earlier this month. The 17-time grand slam champion

:14:36. > :14:38.says playing at Roland Garross It's the first grand slam Federer

:14:39. > :15:15.has missed since 1999. The head of the

:15:16. > :15:17.Russian Tennis Federation backtracked on his comments,

:15:18. > :15:20.saying he didn't mean to suggest Maria Sharapova's failed doping test

:15:21. > :15:23.could spell the end of her career. Shamil Tarpishchev told Russian

:15:24. > :15:25.media that Sharapova's situation was and it was "very doubtful''

:15:26. > :15:28.she will resume her career. The five-time grand slam champion

:15:29. > :15:30.was provisionally suspended in March, after she a failed drugs

:15:31. > :15:34.test at the Australian Open. Britain's Olympic,

:15:35. > :15:36.World and European Long Jump champion Greg Rutherford believes

:15:37. > :15:38.Russian athletes should be banned Russia are currently suspended

:15:39. > :15:42.by Athletics' World Governing Body, the IAAF,

:15:43. > :15:44.after the country was found to be Rutherford says while clean athletes

:15:45. > :15:51.shouldn't be punished, Removing people from the Olympics is

:15:52. > :15:54.going to be the only way to get around this. People who cheat go

:15:55. > :15:57.away and come back. It has been proven that the benefits of taking

:15:58. > :15:59.drugs can last you for your entire career. In my opinion, it is wrong

:16:00. > :16:00.to have drug cheats anywhere near the competition.

:16:01. > :16:03.German rider Andre Greipel has defended his decision to abandon

:16:04. > :16:05.the Giro D'Italia after winning stage 12 of the grand tour.

:16:06. > :16:09.Greipel surged in front on the final straight of the flat 182-kilometres

:16:10. > :16:12.Critics wanted him to at least defend the red points

:16:13. > :16:16.But Geipel said he needed to prepare for upcoming goals.

:16:17. > :16:19.Race leader Bob Jungels retained the Maglia Rosa after finishing

:16:20. > :16:35.You would assume he is wanting to get ready for the Tour de France

:16:36. > :16:39.coming up in July. You can get all

:16:40. > :16:48.the latest sports news at A lot from today's cricket after

:16:49. > :16:53.that top order collapse from England. But they are coming back,

:16:54. > :16:53.hopefully the rain stays away on Friday.

:16:54. > :17:02.But from me and the rest of the Sport Today team, goodbye.

:17:03. > :17:05.Hello, once again, Thursday was not the most sparkling

:17:06. > :17:08.of days across the British Isles and I'm sure many of you at some

:17:09. > :17:12.point looked out through your window and saw a scene rather like this.

:17:13. > :17:15.This is from one of our Weather Watchers in North Berwick.

:17:16. > :17:18.This was all tied in with the weather front

:17:19. > :17:21.which started the day over in the western side of the British Isles,

:17:22. > :17:23.gradually dragged its way ever further towards theeast, bringing

:17:24. > :17:31.Some of you actually saw some rain from that particular system.

:17:32. > :17:32.For Friday, we're rather inbetween weather systems

:17:33. > :17:35.although that situation, as you will see, will not last for long.

:17:36. > :17:38.The rain still lingering across the far north of the Northern Isles.

:17:39. > :17:42.Not a particularly cold start to the day by any means at all but

:17:43. > :17:45.they will be showers from the word go, sprinkled quite liberally across

:17:46. > :17:53.Some eastern spots, there, as yousee, will start the day dry.

:17:54. > :17:55.Northern Ireland, it is essentially a dry start.

:17:56. > :17:57.A wee bit of sunshine here, perhap and favoured locations.

:17:58. > :18:00.Across England and Wales may get a away to a bright

:18:01. > :18:03.enough start but generally speaking, a lot of dry weather, yes, not

:18:04. > :18:07.There will be a fair amount of cloud.

:18:08. > :18:11.We will have to break some of this up before we get to see any

:18:12. > :18:13.meaningful sunshine and I think that opportunity rises

:18:14. > :18:15.more likely through central and eastern parts of the British Isles.

:18:16. > :18:19.Out west, although the exact detail and timing don't hold me to it just

:18:20. > :18:23.at the moment but it looks as though we will push an area of thickening

:18:24. > :18:25.cloud with some rain up across Northern Ireland, western Wales,

:18:26. > :18:27.perhaps parts of the south-west of England, too.

:18:28. > :18:29.We keep a bit of brightness in the east.

:18:30. > :18:32.We could well be looking at 18-20 degrees or so.

:18:33. > :18:34.Underneath the cloud and rain, closer to 14-15 degrees.

:18:35. > :18:37.This is how we close out Friday - just bringing a succession

:18:38. > :18:40.of fronts, in fact, close by to the northern and western

:18:41. > :18:43.The cloud all the while thickening up and eventually

:18:44. > :18:46.many parts through, Friday evening into the first part of Saturday,

:18:47. > :18:50.The heaviest always likely to be found towards western areas.

:18:51. > :18:53.This is how we snapshot the middle of the afternoon on Saturday,

:18:54. > :18:56.again the temperatures around about the mid to upper teens or so.

:18:57. > :18:58.The bulk of the rain across northern, western Scotland.

:18:59. > :19:01.Just notice this little finger of rain further south -

:19:02. > :19:05.We may just start importing some thunderstorms later,

:19:06. > :19:08.So if not for the match then maybe the journey

:19:09. > :19:12.No such problems a wee bit further north - I think

:19:13. > :19:15.Rangers versus Hibernian could well be essentially a dry match.

:19:16. > :19:17.This is how we see it on Sunday, again,

:19:18. > :19:20.open to some doubt just about how cloudy and wet the south-east starts

:19:21. > :19:24.but if that clears away, I think then many of us will be in for a day

:19:25. > :21:50.of sunny spells and showers with temperatures again in the teens.

:21:51. > :21:53.Welcome to BBC News, broadcasting to viewers on public television

:21:54. > :22:02.More likely to be a terror attack than an accident -

:22:03. > :22:06.officials in Cairo give their view on the missing EgyptAir plane.

:22:07. > :22:08.A major sea and air search is underway.

:22:09. > :22:11.Aviation authorities say it could be months - even a year -

:22:12. > :22:16.Two years after the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko

:22:17. > :22:20.Haram, Nigeria's military says a second young woman has been rescued.

:22:21. > :22:23.And, slamming the door shut - outrage as Muirfield Golf Club

:22:24. > :22:49.The EgyptAir plane that disappeared over the Mediterranean is more

:22:50. > :22:52.likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than

:22:53. > :23:01.heading, with 66 people on board.

:23:02. > :23:05.It had flown from Paris but not long before it was due to land the Airbus

:23:06. > :23:08.A320 made several sharp turns, then vanished from radar screens.

:23:09. > :23:10.Most of the passengers were French and Egyptian -

:23:11. > :23:17.The BBC's Quentin Somerville sent this from Cairo.

:23:18. > :23:20.This morning in Paris, even through their tears, there was

:23:21. > :23:23.still hope that their loved ones could be found alive despite the

:23:24. > :23:29.But now EgyptAir says the passengers on board, mostly French and

:23:30. > :23:35.Egyptians, were killed, the plane's debris crashing into the sea.

:23:36. > :23:38.Here, radar tracks the aircraft, its red tail speeding

:23:39. > :23:44.across the Mediterranean, and suddenly disappears.

:23:45. > :23:47.Was this a terror attack, or mechanical failure?

:23:48. > :23:52.France's president said nothing could be ruled out.

:23:53. > :23:55.TRANSLATION: We also have the duty to know everything about

:23:56. > :24:03.No hypothesis should be ruled out or preferred.

:24:04. > :24:07.In Cairo, relatives gathered at the airport.

:24:08. > :24:10.Families have been arriving here all morning, desperate to find out any

:24:11. > :24:14.information they can on what happened to flight MS804.

:24:15. > :24:17.The flight was just 20 minutes from landing here at

:24:18. > :24:21.Cairo International Airport, when, according to the authorities,

:24:22. > :24:27.it simply vanished without any warning, without any distress call.

:24:28. > :24:31.By the afternoon, an international sea and air search was under way.

:24:32. > :24:35.And Egypt says it may go on for weeks.

:24:36. > :24:40.At Cairo airport, EgyptAir confirmed the plane's loss and this

:24:41. > :24:50.He said, I hope they find him so that we can pray over him.

:24:51. > :24:53.The authorities here have been struggling to explain how yet

:24:54. > :24:57.another plane from Egypt has been lost.

:24:58. > :25:04.Minister, if I could just ask you, do you have any security concerns

:25:05. > :25:07.about anyone on the plane, whether they were passengers, whether they

:25:08. > :25:09.were crewmembers, whether they were on the flight deck?

:25:10. > :25:11.Nothing has been reported about that.

:25:12. > :25:13.We haven't got any security concerns about a specific person,

:25:14. > :25:16.but don't forget the investigation is still going on and I'm pretty

:25:17. > :25:20.sure there is a profiling process for people on board.

:25:21. > :25:22.Here in Egypt officials think it's more likely this was

:25:23. > :25:28.For the families, it was a day when hope was overwhelmed by grief.

:25:29. > :25:37.At this early stage of the process solid information is

:25:38. > :25:40.There have been conflicting reports on whether wreckage

:25:41. > :25:43.from the plane has been found in the Mediterranean Sea.

:25:44. > :25:49.Quentin Sommerville has the latest from Cairo.

:25:50. > :25:58.Earlier we saw a photograph of wreckage in the blue waters of the

:25:59. > :26:07.Mediterranean, what looked like yell at life vests. It may in fact even

:26:08. > :26:14.have been debris from Mike in both attempting to cross. -- migrant

:26:15. > :26:21.boats. Egypt is president has said efforts to find the plane had to be

:26:22. > :26:29.intensified and it is now a major international air and sea rescue.

:26:30. > :26:37.People forget how large the Mediterranean is. It is enormous.

:26:38. > :26:43.They are now trying to find the wreckage. Why the Egyptians have

:26:44. > :26:51.been saying is, how did this plan and disappear? What exactly happened

:26:52. > :26:57.on board? These are all very difficult questions to answer and it

:26:58. > :27:01.may take weeks, months, even longer to work out what happened.

:27:02. > :27:03.Aviation Consultant Trevor Jensen joins us from Queensland

:27:04. > :27:19.What do you think about what happened here? Good morning. It is a

:27:20. > :27:25.very early to speculate and we need to be careful. For an aircraft to

:27:26. > :27:31.disappear is clearly a catastrophic problem caused either by a

:27:32. > :27:37.mechanical failure or a device of some sort on board. A third option

:27:38. > :27:42.is the crew have done something to the aircraft. We have seen a couple

:27:43. > :27:49.of incidents of that in the last 18 months stop right now anything is on

:27:50. > :27:56.the table. Catastrophic and sudden, what do you read into the sharp

:27:57. > :28:01.turns? Say there is a device near the tail of the aircraft and it it

:28:02. > :28:09.disabled the elevator is Anna Rather, they would lose control of

:28:10. > :28:15.the aircraft. -- and rudder. If you take a dart and take off the

:28:16. > :28:22.feathers, and you have no control of it. And that is what the back of the

:28:23. > :28:32.aircraft can do. If they lose that feature, it would simply fall off

:28:33. > :28:39.the sky. Could it have been put on earlier than Paris? These devices

:28:40. > :28:45.are fairly sophisticated. It is possible something was put on the

:28:46. > :28:50.aircraft a long time ago and was simply enabled at the time it suited

:28:51. > :28:56.the person responsible. What is fascinating here, nobody is making

:28:57. > :29:04.any claims. It is a 24 hours and that is unusual. Is it surprising to

:29:05. > :29:11.find the wreckage in that area with a lot of activity? Again, we have

:29:12. > :29:17.had a couple of incidents where we have taken a lot of time to find

:29:18. > :29:21.debris. It was identified fairly accurately as to where it lost

:29:22. > :29:29.contact and would tend to think of the aircraft would be within 25

:29:30. > :29:34.nautical miles initially. Wind and everything comes into play but the

:29:35. > :29:39.area should be fairly well located. We need to start to look at the

:29:40. > :29:44.co-ordination of some of the searches. There are lots of people

:29:45. > :29:47.involved and I have no doubt they are very experienced at the

:29:48. > :29:52.co-ordination needs to be seriously looked at. Thank you very much,

:29:53. > :29:54.indeed, for your insights. Thank you.

:29:55. > :29:57.And as well as the continuing coverage here on BBC News of

:29:58. > :30:00.the hijacking of the Egypt Air plane we also have plenty for you online.

:30:01. > :30:04.For all the latest updates you can go to bbc dot com slash news

:30:05. > :30:09.There is a live page with continuous updates of all the latest news

:30:10. > :30:14.The UN says five of its peacekeepers have been killed in an ambush

:30:15. > :30:16.in the village of Aguelhok, near Kidal in northern Mali.

:30:17. > :30:18.Their vehicle reportedly hit an explosive device,

:30:19. > :30:26.Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled his new exhibition

:30:27. > :30:29.in Greece - using his works to highlight what he

:30:30. > :30:32.says is the "shameful" response to the refugee crisis in Europe.

:30:33. > :30:35.Ai has visited camps in Greece to film a documentary

:30:36. > :30:38.and has set up a studio on Lesbos, the island on whose beaches nearly

:30:39. > :30:44.a million migrants entered the European Union last year.

:30:45. > :30:45.Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic

:30:46. > :30:49.nomination for the US presidency, has said there was no way that she

:30:50. > :30:51.will not be her party's candidate for the November elections.

:30:52. > :30:54.On the likely Republican candidate, she said Donald Trump was

:30:55. > :31:00.Morely Safer, the US journalist who reported for decades on 60 minutes,

:31:01. > :31:03.died at his home in Manhattan after announcing his retirement

:31:04. > :31:07.Safer's early reporting on the Vietnam War,

:31:08. > :31:10.bringing pictures of atrocities into American homes, played a role in

:31:11. > :31:20.The Nigerian military say they've freed nearly one-hundred women

:31:21. > :31:23.and girls held by Boko Haram militants during

:31:24. > :31:26.a clearance operation in Borno State in the north of the country.

:31:27. > :31:29.The military claims that they've also rescued a second girl who was

:31:30. > :31:31.amongst more than two-hundred schoolgirls kidnapped from

:31:32. > :31:37.The first girl to be rescued was flown to the capital Abuja

:31:38. > :31:39.on Thursday for a meeting with the Nigerian

:31:40. > :31:43.She was discovered with her baby in a forest area,

:31:44. > :31:47.A spokesman for the military says thirty-five Boko Haram militants

:31:48. > :32:09.The meeting with the President shows how significant this issue is. It

:32:10. > :32:13.will be important for the military and other security agencies to get

:32:14. > :32:20.as much information as they can out of the girl. How are their captors

:32:21. > :32:26.operated and much more. The army is holding a suspect dead Boko Haram

:32:27. > :32:34.member who said to be her husband. -- suspected. Other concern people

:32:35. > :32:37.around the world hope the remaining girls are still alive and can be

:32:38. > :32:45.brought home. Let's not forget that Boko Haram has abducted and possibly

:32:46. > :32:50.holds many more people. It is a tool it uses in its violent campaign to

:32:51. > :32:55.destabilise the nation. The government has so much work to do

:32:56. > :32:58.this. In Austria,

:32:59. > :32:59.thousands of people have been protesting on the streets of Vienna

:33:00. > :33:02.against the rise of the far-right, The party leader, Norbert Hofer,

:33:03. > :33:06.won more than a third of the vote in the first round

:33:07. > :33:09.of presidential elections last month and goes into this weekend's

:33:10. > :33:11.second round with growing support. Our Europe editor Katya

:33:12. > :33:13.Adler has more details. Keep Nazis out of the presidential

:33:14. > :33:16.palace, reads this placard. Austria's populist Freedom Party,

:33:17. > :33:19.once relegated to the far right fringes could be about to furnish

:33:20. > :33:24.the country's next president, thanks to a vertical makeover aimed

:33:25. > :33:30.at mainstream voters. The crowd here is calling

:33:31. > :33:33.on fellow Austrians to wake up. They say the Freedom Party

:33:34. > :33:35.is sinister as ever. This is the Freedom Party's

:33:36. > :33:40.presidential hopeful, the friendly face of the far right, whose smooth

:33:41. > :33:46.talks his party's hard lines. Austria first is Norbert Hofer's

:33:47. > :33:49.motto. His underlying message

:33:50. > :33:54.is anti-migrant. Austria is struggling to integrate

:33:55. > :33:58.the tens of thousands of asylum High Austrian unemployment has

:33:59. > :34:05.heightened simmering resentments. This is

:34:06. > :34:08.about a lot more than a country with a, let's face it, right-wing

:34:09. > :34:10.reputation, poised to elect The Freedom Party's success story is

:34:11. > :34:16.more complex and reflects a European The favourite to win

:34:17. > :34:21.as an antiestablishment candidate who says he really listens to voters

:34:22. > :34:27.and campaigns. Well, it is across Europe,

:34:28. > :34:33.in Germany, Italy, France, the UK, Right-wing parties are gaining

:34:34. > :34:49.strength and influence. So what is it like

:34:50. > :34:55.when these groups get to govern? This Austrian town is known for

:34:56. > :34:58.drug crime and migrant population. Police say the Freedom Party mayor

:34:59. > :35:01.did well to equip them with CCTV The populist right here is far

:35:02. > :35:08.from isolated. It is clearly

:35:09. > :35:09.a European problem more Neither of Austria's presidential

:35:10. > :35:12.candidates, tonight locked in a TV deal come

:35:13. > :35:15.from traditional ruling parties. Voters are searching

:35:16. > :35:17.for new answers in uncertain times. Across Europe, other governments

:35:18. > :35:21.watch closely and fearfully. Still to come: New plans to reform

:35:22. > :35:25.Britain's prisons: we have an exclusive report on a world

:35:26. > :35:37.of fear, corruption and violence. This morning,

:35:38. > :35:39.an Indian Air Force plane carrying The President of India walked to

:35:40. > :35:43.the plane to solemnly witness Mr Gandhi's final return

:35:44. > :35:47.from the political battlefield. The polling stations are all

:35:48. > :35:50.prepared for what will be the first truly free elections

:35:51. > :35:54.in Romania's history. It was a remarkable climax to what

:35:55. > :35:57.was surely the most extraordinary It's been a peaceful funeral

:35:58. > :36:04.demonstration so far, but suddenly these police are teargassing

:36:05. > :36:09.the crowd, we don't yet know why. The pre-launch ritual is well

:36:10. > :36:11.established here, Helen was said to be in good spirits

:36:12. > :36:16.but just a little apprehensive. In the last hour, East Timor has

:36:17. > :36:19.become the world's newest nation. It was a bloody birth

:36:20. > :36:21.for a poor country, and But for now, at least,

:36:22. > :36:47.it is time to celebrate. The latest headlines: The search is

:36:48. > :36:51.continuing for the Egyptian airliner that's thought to have crashed

:36:52. > :36:54.into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 Two years after the abduction

:36:55. > :36:57.of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, Nigeria's military says

:36:58. > :37:00.a second girl has been rescued. The British government is promising

:37:01. > :37:02.the biggest shake-up since Victorian times of the prison system

:37:03. > :37:05.in England and Wales. To start with, six prisons will be

:37:06. > :37:08.overhauled, and the BBC's Ed Thomas has spent the last week at one of

:37:09. > :37:25.them, Wandsworth Prison in London. This is Wandsworth. The BBC has been

:37:26. > :37:34.given unprecedented access inside a British jail. Over seven days, we

:37:35. > :37:39.saw the fear and violence. There is one person we are trying to secure.

:37:40. > :37:44.You have to defend yourself. If you can't, then you're the kind of

:37:45. > :37:55.victim. Drug speeding addiction inside. Is it easy to get cannabis?

:37:56. > :38:05.Dors, it is, it is. In the prison, the guides are pushed to the edge.

:38:06. > :38:16.It is the second alarm of the day. A prisoner has refused to go back to

:38:17. > :38:23.his cell -- guards. I don't give a BLEEP! . Three years ago, the inmate

:38:24. > :38:28.murdered a man in a fight. We can't identify him, but he told us he was

:38:29. > :38:35.trapped in a cycle of violence. I got sliced down the side of the

:38:36. > :38:41.face, I got attacked by 15 people. I've got murders around me left,

:38:42. > :38:46.right and centre. No alternative to utilise violence for my safety. They

:38:47. > :38:53.also shortstaffed in here, this place can't run. It is unsafe. Even

:38:54. > :38:58.a lot of staff live in fear. Do smell of cannabis is really... Next

:38:59. > :39:08.about the smell of cannabis is everywhere. . It is overwhelming,

:39:09. > :39:17.especially up here. And then we see it, a group smoking below us in full

:39:18. > :39:27.view. Nobody cares. You just do it. How do you feel about the officers?

:39:28. > :39:32.I don't care. They are just here. Where do you get cannabis from?

:39:33. > :39:40.Everyone. It is easy to get cannabis. I can get you some. You

:39:41. > :39:45.can get me cannabis? Yes. Obviously it's not good, is it? It defeats

:39:46. > :39:48.everything we are trying to do. You've got the cannabis they are.

:39:49. > :39:57.You don't have to look far to find drugs in Wandsworth. Ashley has only

:39:58. > :40:02.just arrived and he says that any drugs are available at all times.

:40:03. > :40:13.You can get Karen, crack, anything you like. You can go down to the

:40:14. > :40:21.twos, threes, everything is there. Then, there is the alcohol brewed in

:40:22. > :40:26.cells. A synthetic legal high, these wraps are worth ?8,000. The mobile

:40:27. > :40:37.phones, too, smuggled into Wandsworth. A smart phone, they go

:40:38. > :40:43.for 700 quid. Who brings those in? Officers, visitors. This prisoner

:40:44. > :40:49.asked us not to show his face. He wanted to talk about corruption. Are

:40:50. > :41:01.you just saying that? No, no. I'm not in trouble. They give us is full

:41:02. > :41:09.of drugs, phones, whatever you want. Life in prison. The BBC was

:41:10. > :41:16.invited to hear these stories and see the pressure on a governor who

:41:17. > :41:22.is demanding change. Corruption is one of the absolute things I cannot

:41:23. > :41:27.understand. The first thing my reforms will do is toppled the

:41:28. > :41:30.issues of corruption. That will deal with some of the issues you have

:41:31. > :41:37.highlighted and we have seen over the last week. But how long will the

:41:38. > :41:42.prison reform take? The pressure inside is building and officers are

:41:43. > :41:46.getting hurt. At the moment, he has just been a victim of an assault. My

:41:47. > :41:55.wife worries that I am not going to come home. If she could, she would

:41:56. > :42:02.have me leave this job. For this man, it cannot get any worse. It's

:42:03. > :42:07.because I care, I want to make a difference. I believe the staff can

:42:08. > :42:10.make a difference. We are struggling, we don't have the

:42:11. > :42:15.staff. What is happening to your mental health? I don't think anybody

:42:16. > :42:22.cares about what is happening to my mental health. I think I am probably

:42:23. > :42:28.the most stressed I have been in 24 years in this job. What will happen

:42:29. > :42:36.to you. If I don't quit, I will retire and go home. The reforms are

:42:37. > :42:38.desperately needed now. This prison revolution, a promise to fix broken

:42:39. > :42:50.jails and so many broken lives. In a very different world, Scotland

:42:51. > :42:53.Muirfield golf club has decided to maintain its ban

:42:54. > :42:55.on female members. Most of the club's members voted

:42:56. > :42:58.in favour of admitting women, but the proposal narrowly failed to

:42:59. > :43:00.get the two-thirds majority needed. Muirfield has now been told it will

:43:01. > :43:03.not stage another Open Championship, Muirfield - prestigious

:43:04. > :43:06.and steeped in tradition. And today courting controversy

:43:07. > :43:08.after its members voted Isn't this ridiculous,

:43:09. > :43:34.a club with such a distinguished history is ruling itself out

:43:35. > :43:36.of the Open because of an anachronistic decision to treat

:43:37. > :43:38.women Those are

:43:39. > :43:40.your words rather than mine. I disagree with your wording,

:43:41. > :43:43.because I do respect the right of the club to make its decision

:43:44. > :43:46.about its membership policy. The course has hosted the Open

:43:47. > :43:48.on 16 occasions. Some of the most famous names

:43:49. > :43:52.in golf have competed here. There are many in the sport urging

:43:53. > :43:55.the club to change its rules. We are in a day

:43:56. > :43:58.and age where it is not right to host the world's biggest golf

:43:59. > :44:01.tournament at a place that doesn't Hopefully Muirfield

:44:02. > :44:13.can see some sense. The vote to deny women membership

:44:14. > :44:16.was close, but from the world of golf to politics,

:44:17. > :44:19.the decision has been condemned. Muirfield is a private club,

:44:20. > :44:22.they have their own rules Scotland has women leaders in every

:44:23. > :44:26.walk of life, politics, the law. What do the women on the coastal

:44:27. > :44:30.Scottish fairways think? I wonder where there is

:44:31. > :44:32.any ideological reason. I am surprised it can happen

:44:33. > :44:35.in Europe these days. While some are disappointed

:44:36. > :44:40.at the vote, others are comfortable for this club

:44:41. > :44:43.to continue as a mentor and a club. They can play as guests,

:44:44. > :44:45.but can't become members? Women are great in many ways,

:44:46. > :44:51.but this is a men's-only club The fact is women are more than

:44:52. > :44:58.welcome and I can bring my young lady here

:44:59. > :45:05.to play two or three times a week. Playing the course, yes,

:45:06. > :45:10.but not joining the company While they are not breaking any

:45:11. > :45:14.laws, the decision to exclude women as members may prove costly to

:45:15. > :45:16.the reputation English premier league champions,

:45:17. > :45:25.Leicester City, have taken part in a parade through

:45:26. > :45:29.the streets of Bangkok organised Having narrowly avoided relegation

:45:30. > :45:32.last May, the club stormed to The BBC joined some

:45:33. > :45:37.of the Thai fans who turned out to And you can get in touch with me

:45:38. > :47:27.and most of the team on Twitter, Hello, once again,

:47:28. > :47:54.Thursday was not the most sparkling of days across the British Isles

:47:55. > :47:58.and I'm sure many of you at some point looked out through your window

:47:59. > :48:15.and saw a scene rather like this. This is from one of our

:48:16. > :48:17.Weather Watchers in North Berwick. This was all tied

:48:18. > :48:20.in with the weather front which started the day over in the

:48:21. > :48:23.western side of the British Isles, gradually dragged its way ever

:48:24. > :48:25.further towards theeast, bringing Some of you actually saw some

:48:26. > :48:30.rain from that particular system. For Friday, we're rather inbetween

:48:31. > :48:31.weather systems although that situation, as you will

:48:32. > :48:35.see, will not last for long. The rain still lingering across the

:48:36. > :48:37.far north of the Northern Isles. Not a particularly cold start to

:48:38. > :48:41.the day by any means at all but they will be showers from the word

:48:42. > :48:44.go, sprinkled quite liberally across Some eastern spots, there,

:48:45. > :48:48.as yousee, will start the day dry. Northern Ireland,

:48:49. > :48:50.it is essentially a dry start. A wee bit of sunshine here,

:48:51. > :48:52.perhap and favoured locations. Across England

:48:53. > :48:55.and Wales may get a away to a bright enough start but generally speaking,

:48:56. > :48:58.a lot of dry weather, yes, not There will be a fair amount

:48:59. > :49:02.of cloud. We will have to break some

:49:03. > :49:06.of this up before we get to see any meaningful sunshine

:49:07. > :49:08.and I think that opportunity rises more likely through central and

:49:09. > :49:20.eastern parts of the British Isles. Out west, although the exact detail

:49:21. > :49:24.and timing don't hold me to it just at the moment but it looks as though

:49:25. > :49:28.we will push an area of thickening cloud with some rain up across

:49:29. > :49:30.Northern Ireland, western Wales, perhaps parts of the south-west

:49:31. > :49:32.of England, too. We keep a bit of brightness

:49:33. > :49:34.in the east. We could well be looking

:49:35. > :49:37.at 18-20 degrees or so. Underneath the cloud and rain,

:49:38. > :49:39.closer to 14-15 degrees. This is how we close out Friday -

:49:40. > :49:42.just bringing a succession of fronts, in fact,

:49:43. > :49:45.close by to the northern and western The cloud all the

:49:46. > :49:48.while thickening up and eventually many parts through, Friday evening

:49:49. > :49:51.into the first part of Saturday, The heaviest always likely to

:49:52. > :49:55.be found towards western areas. This is how we snapshot the middle

:49:56. > :49:58.of the afternoon on Saturday, again the temperatures around

:49:59. > :50:01.about the mid to upper teens or so. The bulk of the rain

:50:02. > :50:03.across northern, western Scotland. Just notice this little finger

:50:04. > :50:06.of rain further south - We may just start importing some

:50:07. > :50:10.thunderstorms later, So if not

:50:11. > :50:13.for the match then maybe the journey No such problems

:50:14. > :50:17.a wee bit further north - I think Rangers versus Hibernian could well

:50:18. > :50:20.be essentially a dry match. This is how we see it on Sunday,

:50:21. > :50:22.again, open to some doubt just about how

:50:23. > :50:25.cloudy and wet the south-east starts but if that clears away, I think

:50:26. > :50:29.then many of us will be in for a day of sunny spells and showers with

:50:30. > :51:37.temperatures again in the teens. The EgyptAir plane that disappeared

:51:38. > :51:43.over the Mediterranean is more likely to have been brought down

:51:44. > :51:46.by a terrorist act than by a technical fault,

:51:47. > :51:49.according to officials in Cairo. The Airbus A320,

:51:50. > :51:52.with 66 people on board, is said to have made several sharp turns before

:51:53. > :51:58.vanishing from radar screens. Two years after the abduction

:51:59. > :52:01.of hundreds of schoolgirls - Nigeria's military says

:52:02. > :52:05.a second girl has been rescued. A spokesman said she was amongst

:52:06. > :52:07.almost one hundred women and girls released, following a clash with

:52:08. > :52:11.Boko Haram in which 35 militants Thousands of people have been

:52:12. > :52:17.protesting in the Austrian capital Vienna, against the rise

:52:18. > :52:19.of the far-right Freedom Party. Party leader Norbert Hofer won more

:52:20. > :52:22.than a third of the vote in the first round

:52:23. > :52:24.of presidential elections and goes into this weekend's second

:52:25. > :52:35.round with growing support. Hello and welcome to

:52:36. > :52:49.Thursday In Parliament. On this programme, after reaching

:52:50. > :52:52.a deal in the junior doctors dispute, the Health Secretary holds

:52:53. > :52:58.out an olive branch. The Government has heard

:52:59. > :53:00.and understood the wider frustrations that you feel

:53:01. > :53:03.as about the way you're valued But Labour thinks that strikes

:53:04. > :53:08.could have been avoided. It was a "computer says no" attitude

:53:09. > :53:14.and that's no way to run the NHS. An Education Minister says, despite

:53:15. > :53:18.a recent court ruling, parents shouldn't take their children

:53:19. > :53:22.on holiday during term time. And MPs and peers continue

:53:23. > :53:27.the debate on the Queen's Speech. But first, the doctors' union,

:53:28. > :53:30.the British Medical Association, is to ask its members to vote

:53:31. > :53:34.on a deal over weekend working to end the long-running dispute over

:53:35. > :53:36.a new contract The agreement came after a series

:53:37. > :53:43.of strikes by junior doctors which led to thousands

:53:44. > :53:45.of appointments and operations A ten-day round of talks

:53:46. > :53:51.at the conciliation service ACAS Announcing the deal in the Commons,

:53:52. > :53:58.the Health Secretary praised The agreement will facilitate

:53:59. > :54:02.the biggest changes to the junior It will allow the Government to

:54:03. > :54:09.deliver a seven-day NHS, improve patient safety, support much-needed

:54:10. > :54:13.productivity improvements, as well as strengthening the morale

:54:14. > :54:17.and quality of life of the junior doctors with a modern contract

:54:18. > :54:21.fit for a modern health service. He said

:54:22. > :54:23.the Government recognised safer care was more likely to come from well

:54:24. > :54:27.motivated and rested doctors. So he announced a series

:54:28. > :54:31.of changes to the work/life balance which he hoped would improve morale

:54:32. > :54:35.and retention rates. Whatever the progress made with

:54:36. > :54:39.today's landmark changes, it will always be a matter of great

:54:40. > :54:43.regret that it was necessary to go through such disruptive industrial

:54:44. > :54:47.action to get there. We may welcome the destination

:54:48. > :54:49.but no one could have wanted So today I say to all junior

:54:50. > :54:57.doctors, whatever our disagreements about the contract may have been,

:54:58. > :55:00.the Government has heard and understood the wider frustrations

:55:01. > :55:03.that you feel about the way you're But the Opposition insisted

:55:04. > :55:11.strikes could have been avoided. I am pleased and relieved that

:55:12. > :55:16.an agreement has been reached but I am sad that it took an all-out

:55:17. > :55:21.strike of junior doctors to get What is now clear, if it wasn't

:55:22. > :55:28.already, is that a negotiated So I have to ask the

:55:29. > :55:38.Health Secretary why couldn't this Why did he allow his pride back

:55:39. > :55:44.then to come before sensible When he stands up,

:55:45. > :55:53.he might try to blame the BMA for the negotiations breaking

:55:54. > :55:56.down but he failed to say what options he was prepared to consider

:55:57. > :55:59.in order to ensure that the junior doctors who work THE most unsociable

:56:00. > :56:05.hours are fairly rewarded. It was a "computer says no" attitude

:56:06. > :56:17.and that's no way to run the NHS. She is wrong today, as she has been

:56:18. > :56:23.wrong throughout this dispute. She spent a lot of time

:56:24. > :56:27.in the last ten months criticising the way the Government has sought to

:56:28. > :56:31.change this contract. What she didn't dwell

:56:32. > :56:35.on was why it needed to be changed in the first place, namely

:56:36. > :56:38.the flawed contract for junior And we had many disagreements with

:56:39. > :56:44.the BMA but one thing we agree on - Labour's contract was not fit

:56:45. > :56:47.for purpose. One concern that remains is

:56:48. > :56:51.the issue of rota gaps. We actually don't have enough junior

:56:52. > :56:54.doctors and we don't have enough junior doctors

:56:55. > :56:58.in the most acute specialties. So I would ask how is the Secretary

:56:59. > :57:02.of State planning to re-establish How is he going to recruit

:57:03. > :57:10.people to fill that gap? Because that was actually the core

:57:11. > :57:14.fear of junior doctors - a lack of Does the Secretary of State realise

:57:15. > :57:18.that even if this dispute is now settled, which we hope it will be,

:57:19. > :57:21.there has been a really serious impact on goodwill in the health

:57:22. > :57:24.service which could affect service A lot of this has been caused by

:57:25. > :57:28.political shenanigans that should not have been allowed to get to this

:57:29. > :57:32.stage, and the failure of this is that junior doctors themselves have

:57:33. > :57:34.lost prestige throughout the United Kingdom because they were used

:57:35. > :57:36.as political pawns I welcome the potential resolution

:57:37. > :57:42.of this dispute and I do thank the Government for negotiating

:57:43. > :57:44.but I also think we should thank those junior doctors for having the

:57:45. > :57:48.courage to go on strike, which no one does lightly,

:57:49. > :57:51.to get a better deal for the NHS. I was contacted by a constituent who

:57:52. > :57:55.told me how his four-year-old daughter fell through a pane of

:57:56. > :58:00.glass, severely cutting her face. Unfortunately, this accident

:58:01. > :58:03.happened on a Friday evening and, because there were insufficient

:58:04. > :58:06.doctors working over the weekend, she couldn't have an operation to

:58:07. > :58:09.remove any remaining glass from the wound until Monday,

:58:10. > :58:11.by which time the wound had started That four-year-old girl will now

:58:12. > :58:17.suffer severe facial scarring Does my right honourable friend

:58:18. > :58:23.agree with me this is why we need Jeremy Hunt said he couldn't

:58:24. > :58:27.have put it better himself. The main business

:58:28. > :58:30.of the day was the continued debate on the Queen's Speech,

:58:31. > :58:32.where MPs turned their attention to But before dealing with

:58:33. > :58:36.the measures announced on Wednesday, the Transport Secretary made

:58:37. > :58:43.a brief statement on the missing EgyptAir plane which crashed while

:58:44. > :58:46.flying between Paris and Cairo. The flight, with 66 people on board,

:58:47. > :58:49.one of them British, vanished from radar screens just after entering

:58:50. > :58:52.Egyptian airspace in the early hours I know the House will want to join

:58:53. > :59:00.me in saying our thoughts are with the family

:59:01. > :59:03.and friends of all those on board. The Government is in touch with

:59:04. > :59:05.the Egyptian and French governments, French authorities,

:59:06. > :59:07.and has offered full assistance. The Air Accident Investigation

:59:08. > :59:10.Branch has offered to assist with the investigation

:59:11. > :59:16.in any way that it can. I'm extremely grateful to

:59:17. > :59:21.my right honourable friend. As chairman of the

:59:22. > :59:24.All-party Egypt Group, may I thank him for the measures that he is

:59:25. > :59:27.seeking to take, and associate myself and the group with the

:59:28. > :59:31.condolences that he has expressed? Could I just ask him, though,

:59:32. > :59:34.one question? Will the Government be seeking to

:59:35. > :59:38.discuss with the French authorities in particular whether the French

:59:39. > :59:43.authorities are satisfied that the measures that they are taking

:59:44. > :59:48.to screen passengers and luggage at Paris meet the kind of requirements

:59:49. > :59:53.that we in the United Kingdom feel are necessary, bearing in mind that

:59:54. > :59:56.I believe a number of people in Paris have had their authorisation

:59:57. > :00:00.revoked because of their association Well, Mr Speaker, as I said,

:00:01. > :00:07.it's far too early yet to make any assumptions as to what's happened

:00:08. > :00:11.but of course we will be wanting to look at all these issues and discuss

:00:12. > :00:15.them with the French authorities and others as well and I can assure my

:00:16. > :00:19.honourable friend that is something And we'll return to the debate

:00:20. > :00:26.on the Queen's Speech An education minister has repeated

:00:27. > :00:32.his determination to stop parents taking their children

:00:33. > :00:36.on holiday during term time, A father who refused to pay a ?120

:00:37. > :00:43.fine for taking his daughter on holiday to Florida during term won

:00:44. > :00:48.a High Court ruling in his favour. It was ruled last week that

:00:49. > :00:53.John Platt had no case to answer, as, overall, his daughter had

:00:54. > :00:58.attended school regularly. A Conservative MP asked the Minister

:00:59. > :01:01.to come to the Commons and set out The need to take time off school

:01:02. > :01:06.in exceptional circumstances is important but there are no special

:01:07. > :01:09.circumstances where a ten-day family holiday to

:01:10. > :01:13.Disney World should be allowed to The rules must

:01:14. > :01:18.and should apply to everyone. When parents with income available

:01:19. > :01:23.to take their children out of school go to Florida,

:01:24. > :01:26.it sends a message to everyone that The Government understands, though,

:01:27. > :01:32.the fact that many school holidays being taken at roughly the same time

:01:33. > :01:37.does lead to a hike in prices. But that's precisely

:01:38. > :01:39.the reason we've given schools the power to set their own term

:01:40. > :01:43.dates in a way that works for Already, schools such as

:01:44. > :01:47.Hatcham College in London and the David Young Community Academy

:01:48. > :01:51.in Leeds are doing just this. In areas of the country such as

:01:52. > :01:54.the south-west, where a large number of the local population are employed

:01:55. > :01:58.in the tourist industry, there is nothing stopping schools from

:01:59. > :02:01.clubbing together and collectively changing or extending the dates of

:02:02. > :02:04.their summer holidays are doing so In fact, this government would

:02:05. > :02:11.encourage them to do so. But the MP who asked

:02:12. > :02:14.the question wasn't satisfied. There is another aspect to

:02:15. > :02:17.this policy that sadly to That is the economic impact this

:02:18. > :02:22.policy is having on tourist areas. In 2014, a report published

:02:23. > :02:26.indicated that the tourist industry in Cornwall had lost ?50 million as

:02:27. > :02:30.a result and I would, with respect, say to the minister there is nothing

:02:31. > :02:35.socially mobile for a family if your parents lose their job or have

:02:36. > :02:39.their hours cut because of the downturn in the tourist industry and

:02:40. > :02:44.the way that it affects their job. I would also put to the Minister

:02:45. > :02:48.that is it not the case that only 8% of school absenteeism is

:02:49. > :02:51.as a result of family holidays? When you actually look

:02:52. > :02:54.at the attainment of those children, I don't believe we should be

:02:55. > :03:00.returning to the Dickensian world where the needs of industry

:03:01. > :03:03.and commerce take precedence over I doubt, Mr Speaker,

:03:04. > :03:11.that the Cornish tourist industry will be best pleased by my

:03:12. > :03:15.honourable friend's assertion that tourism in Cornwall is dependent on

:03:16. > :03:20.truant children for its survival. The Shadow Education Minister called

:03:21. > :03:25.on the Government to get a grip. All evidence shows regular

:03:26. > :03:27.attendance in school is crucial to ensure

:03:28. > :03:31.children fulfil their potential. 100% attendance records should be

:03:32. > :03:34.the ambition of all children But this problem is

:03:35. > :03:39.of the Government's own making. Changing

:03:40. > :03:42.the guidance to head teachers back in 2013, they should have done a

:03:43. > :03:45.full impact assessment much earlier The honourable member led

:03:46. > :03:50.a Westminster Hall debate on the 50,000-strong petition back

:03:51. > :03:54.in the autumn. The Government said then they

:03:55. > :03:57.would look at the concerns raised. So they have known this ruling

:03:58. > :04:00.was coming for a long time. They could have clarified

:04:01. > :04:03.the law and they haven't. This ruling is now the worst

:04:04. > :04:05.of both worlds. It puts parents and headteachers in

:04:06. > :04:09.a very difficult position and is not Taking children out of school to

:04:10. > :04:14.come to the mother of all parliaments and to learn about our

:04:15. > :04:17.democracy is one thing but taking Can I welcome the rigour that he has

:04:18. > :04:25.brought to the subject of education, moving away from the sort

:04:26. > :04:30.of play ways Labour approach? Does he agree with me that if this

:04:31. > :04:34.country is going to succeed, it My honourable friend

:04:35. > :04:40.is absolutely right. When parents with income take

:04:41. > :04:45.their children out of school to go to Florida, it does

:04:46. > :04:49.send a message to everyone that school attendance is not important,

:04:50. > :04:51.and there is no circumstance in which a trip to Disney World can

:04:52. > :04:56.be regarded as educational. A Labour MP thought

:04:57. > :05:00.the fundamental problem was that school summer holidays were squeezed

:05:01. > :05:03.into a six-week period I have constituents with great

:05:04. > :05:12.pressure from the Muslim community, especially from Pakistan, to take

:05:13. > :05:15.their children out and they are the very children that have been

:05:16. > :05:19.suffering, so I am on the side of being tough, but let's look at this

:05:20. > :05:26.in a more fundamental way, please. Well, the honourable gentleman,

:05:27. > :05:33.who I have huge respect for as a former Chair of the Education

:05:34. > :05:36.Select Committee, is right. We do need to look at these issues

:05:37. > :05:39.in a more fundamental way and that is why we have given them

:05:40. > :05:43.the freedom to set the term dates. And I would say to the honourable

:05:44. > :05:46.gentleman, and my honourable friend, that they should be helping to

:05:47. > :05:49.coordinate schools so that they do set different term dates that help

:05:50. > :05:52.their own tourist industries. You're watching Thursday in

:05:53. > :06:00.Parliament with me, Alicia McCarthy. It was day two of the debate

:06:01. > :06:04.on the Queen's speech, setting out the government's legislative plans

:06:05. > :06:07.for the coming year. Giving

:06:08. > :06:10.their verdicts were two regular sparring partners, the Leader

:06:11. > :06:13.of the House and his Labour shadow. Labour's Chris Bryant started with

:06:14. > :06:16.a reference to Jeremy Corbyn's refusal to give

:06:17. > :06:18.the floor to other speakers during CHEERING Mr Speaker,

:06:19. > :06:27.if only the rules allowed me to take LAUGHTER And he called the Queen's

:06:28. > :06:39.speech truly awful. just as much

:06:40. > :06:50.as any other defrocked vicar. But I do think yesterday was a case

:06:51. > :06:56.of all fur coat and knickerbockers. Her Majesty announced that

:06:57. > :06:59.the government will legislate for driverless cars and space ports and

:07:00. > :07:02.arrived in a horse-drawn carriage. She announced that

:07:03. > :07:04.the government intends to tackle poverty to a room full of Barons and

:07:05. > :07:07.Countesses dressed in tiaras, and even the door handles on the Royal

:07:08. > :07:10.coach, I understand, were decorated You can say you wanted to tackle

:07:11. > :07:18.some of the deepest social problems in society till you're blue in the

:07:19. > :07:22.face but when you have cut public services to the bone, when you have

:07:23. > :07:25.afflicted the toughest cuts on the poorest communities, and when you

:07:26. > :07:32.systematically undermine the very concept of public service, all

:07:33. > :07:35.your blandishments are nothing but Mr Speaker,

:07:36. > :07:42.he is such an old misery. I thought yesterday was Britain

:07:43. > :07:44.at its finest. Strong institutions,

:07:45. > :07:46.great tradition, things that make this great city one of the finest -

:07:47. > :07:50.if not the finest - in the world, a monarch we should be proud of, and

:07:51. > :07:53.a programme for government that is fulfilling the commitments we made

:07:54. > :07:56.to the electorate last year, an election, I remind them,

:07:57. > :07:59.that they lost and we won. He started talking

:08:00. > :08:02.about interventions and here I have sympathy because actually he did

:08:03. > :08:04.better this morning than his leader did yesterday and I have to say I

:08:05. > :08:08.looked yesterday and I thought, "There is a man," looking at the

:08:09. > :08:11.Shadow leader, "who spent 41 minutes try to look at the shoes "of the

:08:12. > :08:14.people on this side, rather than looking "at his party leader making

:08:15. > :08:19.such an awful speech yesterday." What

:08:20. > :08:22.a few weeks we are going to have. We are going to have to spend most

:08:23. > :08:25.of time discussing this turgid stuff in the Queen's speech when all they

:08:26. > :08:29.want to do is to knock lumps out of And the debate in the Tory party is

:08:30. > :08:40.largely reaching Churchillian standards of discourse, but

:08:41. > :08:43.apparently it is all about insults, personal attacks and tabloid smears,

:08:44. > :08:45.according to the honourable member Now, I know

:08:46. > :08:54.my honourable friends are already considering our amendments for the

:08:55. > :08:57.driverless cars bill, most involving locking this Tory government

:08:58. > :08:59.into that said vehicle and heading Can we perhaps have a debate

:09:00. > :09:17.on World War II? And then it would allow all

:09:18. > :09:20.the senior members in the Labour benches and the Conservative benches

:09:21. > :09:23.to indulge their new passion We could hear

:09:24. > :09:32.about the dodgy histories, all the spurious examples,

:09:33. > :09:35.and perhaps it would take their minds off the civil wars in the

:09:36. > :09:38.Labour Party and Conservative Party Mr Speaker, I am really not sure

:09:39. > :09:42.this is the week for the Scottish National Party to be talking

:09:43. > :09:45.about stories in the tabloids. As I have read the news,

:09:46. > :09:48.there has to be something Mr Speaker, as you remember me

:09:49. > :09:52.telling the House a few months ago, the honourable member

:09:53. > :09:55.for the Western Isles wrote to me about recess dates because he wanted

:09:56. > :09:58.to put the ram in with the ewes. At that time, I thought he

:09:59. > :10:01.was talking about sheep. And he defended the Queen's speech,

:10:02. > :10:04.calling it a powerful package that will deliver change to the whole

:10:05. > :10:06.of the United Kingdom. And when that Queen's speech debate

:10:07. > :10:09.got underway, MPs focused The Transport Secretary pledged that

:10:10. > :10:23.driverless cars will become a real option for motorists

:10:24. > :10:25.in the near future. Patrick McLoughlin pledged to make

:10:26. > :10:27.the UK a world leader in their development and said the

:10:28. > :10:30.Government was aiming to provide the infrastructure that will

:10:31. > :10:32.prepare Britain for the future. He pointed to the

:10:33. > :10:45.Modern Transport Bill. A bill to pave the way

:10:46. > :10:47.for the technologies We are already developing

:10:48. > :10:50.the charging infrastructure Now, driverless cars

:10:51. > :10:53.and commercial space flights may seem like science fiction to some

:10:54. > :10:56.but the economic potential And we are determined that Britain

:10:57. > :11:01.will benefit by helping to lead Driverless cars will come under

:11:02. > :11:04.new legislation so they can be Those new laws will help autonomous

:11:05. > :11:08.and driverless vehicles - cars - become a real option

:11:09. > :11:10.for private buyers and fleets. The UK is already established as one

:11:11. > :11:14.of the best places in the world to To gain support, the rhetoric will

:11:15. > :11:25.need to be followed with an inclusive vision that benefits

:11:26. > :11:27.all the nations of the UK. An area up where this is not yet

:11:28. > :11:31.clear is the investment in further Obviously, safety implications and

:11:32. > :11:34.deployment will be considerations. Madame Deputy Speaker,

:11:35. > :11:36.this investment is most welcome but will be meaningless to most

:11:37. > :11:39.of the UK nations if it is not supported by the required investment

:11:40. > :11:42.in the innovation to deliver a truly universal mobile

:11:43. > :11:47.communications network. Let's not, yet again, take the

:11:48. > :11:51.approach where the benefits are only The Minister

:11:52. > :11:56.of State has said that the UK should adopt a light touch approach to

:11:57. > :11:59.driverless car development. But we do need to make sure that

:12:00. > :12:02.the risks have been fully analysed. It is important that ministers are

:12:03. > :12:05.not moving, to coin a phrase, It should be said, however,

:12:06. > :12:14.that is just about the only area where the Government could be

:12:15. > :12:16.accused of acting too quickly. There is a reference to supporting

:12:17. > :12:19.the growing space industry by constructing the first UK's

:12:20. > :12:20.first spaceport. I am very grateful to the honourable

:12:21. > :12:35.lady for giving way but will she accept that Toyota, Nissan,

:12:36. > :12:37.Mercedes and BMW have all welcomed the Government's initiatives to see

:12:38. > :12:40.driverless cars, or autonomous cars, I thank the honourable member

:12:41. > :12:45.for his intervention. As I have said, I do believe that

:12:46. > :12:48.offers a great opportunity for our excellent automotive industry but we

:12:49. > :12:51.do need to be aware of the potential difficulties of the technology

:12:52. > :13:02.and about the safety applications. Elsewhere in the debate,

:13:03. > :13:04.a Conservative MP turned to a controversial trade deal between

:13:05. > :13:08.the EU and the US, known as TTIP. Conservative MPs in favour

:13:09. > :13:10.of Britain leaving the EU are joining forces with

:13:11. > :13:12.Labour in an attempt to defeat the government with an amendment

:13:13. > :13:15.bemoaning the lack of protection in the Queen's speech with the NHS

:13:16. > :13:18.in connection with TTIP. William Wragg said the simplest

:13:19. > :13:21.and surest way to protect the NHS from forced privatisation was

:13:22. > :13:31.for the UK to leave the EU. The Transatlantic Trade

:13:32. > :13:32.and Investment Partnership, which the EU is determined to pass, may

:13:33. > :13:35.potentially see the UK Government and the NHS facing legal challenge

:13:36. > :13:38.from foreign corporations if we refuse to put some of our public

:13:39. > :13:41.services, including the NHS, This could, in effect, force the

:13:42. > :14:07.partial privatisation of the NHS. And there could be nothing for the

:14:08. > :14:11.UK Government, or worse the British people, to do if we were to stay

:14:12. > :14:14.as a member of the European Union. And we, on these benches, must not

:14:15. > :14:18.be blind to this issue and leave it The simplest and surest way,

:14:19. > :14:21.therefore, to protect the NHS from the strain

:14:22. > :14:24.of costs from forced privatisation and to save enough money to build

:14:25. > :14:28.a new hospital every week would be for Britain to vote to leave

:14:29. > :14:31.and take back control on the 23rd. There is going to be, presumably,

:14:32. > :14:33.at some stage, a trade agreement between the

:14:34. > :14:36.European Union and United States. If we want to protect ourselves from

:14:37. > :14:39.any unintended consequences, it is better to be in there arguing the

:14:40. > :14:42.case as part of those negotiations, rather than having to stay

:14:43. > :14:45.on the outside and then accept the negotiation once it is done,

:14:46. > :14:47.whatever is included And those arguments over TTIP

:14:48. > :14:50.and a proposed amendment to the Queen's speech will resurface

:14:51. > :14:53.when the debate resumes Meanwhile, down the corridor in

:14:54. > :15:06.the House of Lords, one part of the Government's programme was described

:15:07. > :15:09.as a bit like trying to win a The damning comment came from a

:15:10. > :15:13.Lib Dem peer, who was scathing about the Government's approach to

:15:14. > :15:15.improving Internet coverage. Lady Burt accused ministers

:15:16. > :15:18.of a lack of ambition in the targets they have set

:15:19. > :15:24.for improving broadband speeds. The universal service operation

:15:25. > :15:26.for broadband being proposed is for That is not close to what we need to

:15:27. > :15:31.be world leaders The government's idea

:15:32. > :15:44.of superfast broadband is 25 South Korea already has speeds of

:15:45. > :15:48.one gigabyte per second, and rising. We cannot compete on the world

:15:49. > :15:50.market relying on copper cables. It is like trying to win a

:15:51. > :15:54.Grand Prix on a sit-down lawnmower. If the Government were serious

:15:55. > :15:57.about being a world leader in the digital economy they would support

:15:58. > :15:59.fibre to home broadband, spending And it appears one peer was

:16:00. > :16:13.having problems with the broadband I can tell you that we had

:16:14. > :16:22.interrupted service in a relatively I cannot imagine the stresses

:16:23. > :16:25.and challenges that other parts Enough is enough, it has gone on far

:16:26. > :16:51.too long and this bill also will, in my view, address, hopefully, some of

:16:52. > :16:54.the weaknesses in Ofcom's approach to this, which I certainly believe

:16:55. > :16:57.has been utterly inadequate. From Internet connectivity

:16:58. > :16:58.to train connectivity. Newcastle, Sunderland,

:16:59. > :17:00.Hartlepool and Stockton would all lose out because there is such

:17:01. > :17:03.an emphasis on the Leeds, But the far north, both East

:17:04. > :17:06.and West, is not properly included. If we are to have HS2, I suggest we

:17:07. > :17:10.start building from Newcastle at the I have read recent newspaper

:17:11. > :17:14.articles suggesting that the costs of HS2 are escalating rapidly

:17:15. > :17:17.and that this may lead to the truncation of this project, possibly

:17:18. > :17:27.even as far south as Crewe. And onto broadcasting and

:17:28. > :17:30.the Government's plans for the BBC. The proposed health check review

:17:31. > :17:33.of the BBC, after just five years, will inevitably be politicised

:17:34. > :17:44.and should be dropped. The uncertainty and disruption will

:17:45. > :17:46.distract management from the task of creating the broadcaster

:17:47. > :17:48.of distinction promised And anyway, is not Ofcom's new role

:17:49. > :17:55.to do such so-called health checks? And the BBC charter is to be

:17:56. > :17:58.reviewed, as the noble Lord Always, by the way,

:17:59. > :18:02.coinciding with a general election. "An opportunity to check the reforms

:18:03. > :18:05.are working as we intend," John Whittingdale said

:18:06. > :18:06.in his oral statement. Chilling words,

:18:07. > :18:13.whoever is in government. But do join me at 11pm on Friday

:18:14. > :18:30.night for the Week in Parliament. Hello, once again,

:18:31. > :18:45.Thursday was not the most sparkling of days across the British Isles

:18:46. > :18:48.and I'm sure many of you at some point looked out through your window

:18:49. > :18:52.and saw a scene rather like this. This is from one of our

:18:53. > :18:54.Weather Watchers in North Berwick. This was all tied

:18:55. > :18:57.in with the weather front which started the day over in the

:18:58. > :19:00.western side of the British Isles, gradually dragged its way ever

:19:01. > :19:02.further towards theeast, bringing Some of you actually saw some

:19:03. > :19:07.rain from that particular system. For Friday, we're rather inbetween

:19:08. > :19:08.weather systems although that situation, as you will

:19:09. > :19:23.see, will not last for long. The rain still lingering across the

:19:24. > :19:26.far north of the Northern Isles. Not a particularly cold start to

:19:27. > :19:30.the day by any means at all but they will be showers from the word

:19:31. > :19:33.go, sprinkled quite liberally across Some eastern spots, there,

:19:34. > :19:37.as yousee, will start the day dry. Northern Ireland,

:19:38. > :19:39.it is essentially a dry start. A wee bit of sunshine here,

:19:40. > :19:41.perhap and favoured locations. Across England

:19:42. > :19:44.and Wales may get a away to a bright enough start but generally speaking,

:19:45. > :19:47.a lot of dry weather, yes, not There will be a fair amount

:19:48. > :19:51.of cloud. We will have to break some

:19:52. > :19:54.of this up before we get to see any meaningful sunshine

:19:55. > :19:56.and I think that opportunity rises more likely through central and

:19:57. > :20:06.eastern parts of the British Isles. Out west, although the exact detail

:20:07. > :20:10.and timing don't hold me to it just at the moment but it looks as though

:20:11. > :20:13.we will push an area of thickening cloud with some rain up across

:20:14. > :20:16.Northern Ireland, western Wales, perhaps parts of the south-west

:20:17. > :20:18.of England, too. We keep a bit of brightness

:20:19. > :20:20.in the east. We could well be looking

:20:21. > :20:23.at 18-20 degrees or so. Underneath the cloud and rain,

:20:24. > :20:25.closer to 14-15 degrees. This is how we close out Friday -

:20:26. > :20:28.just bringing a succession of fronts, in fact,

:20:29. > :20:31.close by to the northern and western The cloud all the

:20:32. > :20:34.while thickening up and eventually many parts through, Friday evening

:20:35. > :20:37.into the first part of Saturday, The heaviest always likely to

:20:38. > :20:41.be found towards western areas. This is how we snapshot the middle

:20:42. > :20:44.of the afternoon on Saturday, again the temperatures around

:20:45. > :21:08.about the mid to upper teens or so. The bulk of the rain

:21:09. > :21:11.across northern, western Scotland. Just notice this little finger

:21:12. > :21:13.of rain further south - We may just start importing some

:21:14. > :21:17.thunderstorms later, So if not

:21:18. > :21:20.for the match then maybe the journey No such problems

:21:21. > :21:24.a wee bit further north - I think Rangers versus Hibernian could well

:21:25. > :21:27.be essentially a dry match. This is how we see it on Sunday,

:21:28. > :21:29.again, open to some doubt just about how

:21:30. > :21:32.cloudy and wet the south-east starts but if that clears away, I think

:21:33. > :21:37.then many of us will be in for a day of sunny spells and showers with

:21:38. > :21:51.temperatures again in the teens. Welcome to BBC News broadcasting

:21:52. > :21:54.at home and around the globe. More likely to be

:21:55. > :21:59.a terror attack than an accident. Officials in Cairo give their view

:22:00. > :22:04.on the missing EgyptAir plane. A major sea

:22:05. > :22:06.and air search is under way. Aviation authorities say it could be

:22:07. > :22:09.months, even a year, Two years after the abduction

:22:10. > :22:14.of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, Nigeria's military says a

:22:15. > :22:19.second young woman has been rescued. Outrage as Muirfield Golf Club

:22:20. > :22:44.maintains its ban on women members. The EgyptAir plane that disappeared

:22:45. > :22:48.over the Mediterranean is more likely to have been brought down

:22:49. > :22:51.by a terrorist act than That's the view of officials

:22:52. > :22:55.in Cairo where the plane was It had flown from Paris but not long

:22:56. > :23:02.before it was due to land the Airbus A320 made several sharp turns,

:23:03. > :23:06.then vanished from radar screens. Most of the passengers were French

:23:07. > :23:08.and Egyptian. The BBC's Quentin Somerville

:23:09. > :23:26.sent this from Cairo. This morning in Paris, even through

:23:27. > :23:30.their tears, there was still hope their loved ones could be found

:23:31. > :23:35.alive, despite the plane having vanished overnight. But now EgyptAir

:23:36. > :23:40.says the passengers on board, most French and Egyptian, were killed,

:23:41. > :23:45.the plane's debris crashing into the sea. Here radar tracks the aircraft,

:23:46. > :23:50.its red tails speeding across the Mediterranean, and suddenly

:23:51. > :23:54.disappears. Was this a terror attack or mechanical failure? France's

:23:55. > :23:59.president said nothing could be ruled out.

:24:00. > :24:03.TRANSLATION: We also have the duty to know everything about the causes

:24:04. > :24:09.of what has happened. No hypothesis should be ruled out or preferred. In

:24:10. > :24:14.Cairo, relatives gathered at the airport. Families have been arriving

:24:15. > :24:20.here all morning, desperate to find out any information they can on what

:24:21. > :24:24.happened to the flight. It was just 20 minutes from landing here at

:24:25. > :24:29.Cairo International airport when, according to the authorities, it

:24:30. > :24:33.simply vanished, without any warning, without any distress call.

:24:34. > :24:39.By the afternoon, an international sea and air search was under way,

:24:40. > :24:50.but Egypt says it may go on for weeks. At Cairo airport, EgyptAir

:24:51. > :24:55.confirms the plane's loss, and this meant that his brother was gone. He

:24:56. > :24:59.said, I hope they find him so we can pray over him. Authorities here have

:25:00. > :25:04.been struggling to explain how yet another plane from Egypt has been

:25:05. > :25:07.lost. Minister, do you have any security concerns about anybody on

:25:08. > :25:12.the plane, whether they were passengers, crew members or anything

:25:13. > :25:16.on the deck? Nothing has been concerned about that. We haven't any

:25:17. > :25:20.security concerns about a specific person but don't forget the

:25:21. > :25:23.investigation is still going on, and I'm pretty sure there is a

:25:24. > :25:29.prevailing process for people on board. Here in Egypt, officials

:25:30. > :25:33.think it's more likely this was a terror attack in an accident. For

:25:34. > :25:39.the families, it was a day when Hope was overwhelmed by grief.

:25:40. > :25:41.At this early stage of the process, solid information is hard

:25:42. > :25:44.There have been conflicting reports on whether wreckage

:25:45. > :25:46.from the plane has been found in the Mediterranean sea.

:25:47. > :25:53.Quentin Sommerville has the latest from Cairo.

:25:54. > :25:59.Earlier we saw photographs of wreckage in the blue waters of the

:26:00. > :26:03.Mediterranean, what looked like yellow life vests, and even an

:26:04. > :26:07.airline seat. Authorities are saying that wasn't from the plane, may even

:26:08. > :26:12.have been from my that wasn't from the plane, may even

:26:13. > :26:18.have been from migrant boats attempting to cross to Europe. But

:26:19. > :26:23.Egypt's president has said that efforts to find it have to be

:26:24. > :26:27.intensified, and now it is a major international Aaron sea search

:26:28. > :26:32.operation. People forget how big the Mediterranean is. It's enormous. Now

:26:33. > :26:37.the French, the Egyptians, the Royal Navy and air force from Britain have

:26:38. > :26:41.joined with the Greeks to try and find the wreckage of this plane.

:26:42. > :26:45.What the Egyptians have been saying from the beginning is, we ask a

:26:46. > :26:50.simple question, how did this plane disappear? What exactly happened to

:26:51. > :26:55.the wreckage? What exactly happened on board that plane? These are all

:26:56. > :26:59.very difficult questions to answer, and it may take weeks, months or

:27:00. > :27:05.longer, the Egyptians say, to work out what happened to the plane.

:27:06. > :27:07.Aviation Industry Analyst Ellis Taylor joins us from Perth

:27:08. > :27:17.Thank you for your time. What's your thinking about what happened here?

:27:18. > :27:21.Look, at this stage, the only thing that's clear is that something

:27:22. > :27:25.catastrophic has happened on this jet. Whether that's by the act of a

:27:26. > :27:28.terrorist or something mechanical on-board is very hard to say.

:27:29. > :27:33.Obviously the authorities are starting to focus on the terror

:27:34. > :27:36.aspect, but frankly we won't know much until wreckage can be found,

:27:37. > :27:40.and really deeper answers will come when we find things like the flight

:27:41. > :27:43.data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, which will give some

:27:44. > :27:47.insight as to which direction the plane was going, what was happening

:27:48. > :27:51.to its systems, as well as what might have been happening in the

:27:52. > :27:55.cockpit at the time, but obviously that could take days, it could take

:27:56. > :27:59.weeks or even months to try and locate those. At least in this case

:28:00. > :28:03.we know where the aircraft was, so that should narrow down the search

:28:04. > :28:07.field, but even so these things can take a lot of time. What is this

:28:08. > :28:11.series of apparently sharp turns saying to you? It probably might

:28:12. > :28:15.signal that something had happened on board and perhaps the crew were

:28:16. > :28:18.trying to manoeuvre the aircraft around and regain control of it.

:28:19. > :28:23.That might indicate that something went wrong with the control

:28:24. > :28:27.surfaces, where they try and steer the aircraft, but it may all so be

:28:28. > :28:31.signals of something else as well. It's very hard to say at this time,

:28:32. > :28:34.and we don't have any cockpit communications to really give any

:28:35. > :28:39.indication of what the crew may have been battling, or if indeed this

:28:40. > :28:43.radar tracker is picking up something that may have happened

:28:44. > :28:48.post a blast or something like that. It's really too hard to tell. If it

:28:49. > :28:51.was a bomb that originated in Charles de Gaulle or pass through

:28:52. > :28:56.one of the plane's earlier destinations, that will spark a

:28:57. > :28:59.million questions, won't it? Absolutely, particularly at this

:29:00. > :29:04.time when Europe has been grappling with terrorism issues. We have had,

:29:05. > :29:10.of course, last year, the crash of the Russian Metro Jet flight, which

:29:11. > :29:13.was linked to terror, and in that sense it's going to ask a lot of

:29:14. > :29:17.questions about security at both ends, from Egypt and also from

:29:18. > :29:20.Paris. You'd say on the balance of probability it's unlikely that

:29:21. > :29:26.something were to have been introduced in Paris, but we've

:29:27. > :29:29.always had very safe systems, but unfortunately incidents have

:29:30. > :29:33.occurred and probably will do in the future. Briefly, there's a lot of

:29:34. > :29:38.sensitivity in the way previous disappeared aircraft have been

:29:39. > :29:42.handled. Bereaved families not being given enough information. Do you

:29:43. > :29:45.have any sense of the way communications have been handled

:29:46. > :29:50.this time? There's more coming out but it's quite confusing. It's been

:29:51. > :29:54.very hard for us to sift through and report accurately, as it has for the

:29:55. > :29:59.BBC and many other outlets. There's been conflicting reports about

:30:00. > :30:04.beacons and communications, there's been conflicting reports about the

:30:05. > :30:06.wreckage, and it seems to be no clearer there. Obviously

:30:07. > :30:11.communications generally after accidents get better, and we had a

:30:12. > :30:15.number of miscommunications with things like the disappearance of MH

:30:16. > :30:19.370. In this case, there are some things that could be handled a bit

:30:20. > :30:22.better, that everybody is trying to get as much information out into the

:30:23. > :30:27.public domain as possible. That's just causing some confusion here or

:30:28. > :30:30.there. I expect in the next day or two that will be cleared up a lot

:30:31. > :30:32.more. Thank you. And as well

:30:33. > :30:39.as the continuing coverage here on BBC News of the Egyptian

:30:40. > :30:44.aeroplane, we also have plenty for you online. For all the latest

:30:45. > :30:47.updates you can go to: live page with continuous updates of

:30:48. > :30:51.all the latest news as we get it. The Nigerian military say they've

:30:52. > :30:54.freed nearly 100 women and girls held by Boko Haram militants during

:30:55. > :30:57.a clearance operation in Borno State The military claims that they've

:30:58. > :31:01.also rescued a second girl who was amongst more than 200

:31:02. > :31:03.schoolgirls kidnapped from The first girl to be rescued was

:31:04. > :31:07.flown to the capital Abuja on Thursday for a meeting with

:31:08. > :31:09.the Nigerian president. She was discovered with her baby

:31:10. > :31:12.in a forest area close to A spokesman for the military says 35

:31:13. > :31:19.Boko Haram militants were killed The meeting with

:31:20. > :31:24.the President shows how significant the rescue of this teenager is -

:31:25. > :31:27.it is a national issue. Let's remember it was two years

:31:28. > :31:30.go when she and her classmates It will be important

:31:31. > :31:35.for the military and other security agencies to get as much information

:31:36. > :31:39.as they can out of her - where she and the other girls were

:31:40. > :31:42.kept, the manner in which their The army is also holding

:31:43. > :31:47.a suspected Boko Haram member who is Overall, this news will be welcomed,

:31:48. > :31:53.not just by her family but by the families of the other girls and

:31:54. > :31:56.other concerned people around the world hope the remaining girls are

:31:57. > :32:01.still alive and can be brought home. Let's also not forget that Boko

:32:02. > :32:05.Haram has abducted and possibly That is a tool it has used in

:32:06. > :32:11.its violent campaign in attempting The government still has so much

:32:12. > :32:20.more work to do at this moment. The UN says five of its peacekeepers

:32:21. > :32:27.have been killed in an ambush in the village of Aguelhok

:32:28. > :32:30.near Kidal in northern Mali. Their vehicle reportedly hit

:32:31. > :32:32.an explosive device Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei

:32:33. > :32:37.has unveiled his new exhibition in Greece,

:32:38. > :32:39.using his works to highlight what he says is the "shameful" response to

:32:40. > :32:46.the refugee crisis in Europe. He has visited camps

:32:47. > :32:48.in Greece to film a documentary and has set up a studio on Lesbos,

:32:49. > :32:52.the island on whose beaches nearly 1 million migrants entered

:32:53. > :32:56.the European Union last year. Hillary Clinton,

:32:57. > :32:58.the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency,

:32:59. > :33:01.has said there was no way that she will not be her party's candidate

:33:02. > :33:05.for the November elections. On the likely Republican candidate,

:33:06. > :33:08.she said Donald Trump was In Austria,

:33:09. > :33:14.thousands of people have been protesting on the streets of Vienna

:33:15. > :33:17.against the rise of the far-right, The party leader, Norbert Hofer,

:33:18. > :33:23.won more than a third of the vote in the first round

:33:24. > :33:25.of presidential elections last month, and goes into this weekend's

:33:26. > :33:28.second round with growing support. Our Europe editor Katya

:33:29. > :33:35.Adler has more details. 'Keep Nazis out of the presidential

:33:36. > :33:38.palace', reads this placard. Austria's populist Freedom Party,

:33:39. > :33:42.once relegated to the far right fringes, could be about to furnish

:33:43. > :33:50.the country's next president, thanks to a political makeover aimed

:33:51. > :33:52.at mainstream voters. The crowd here is calling

:33:53. > :33:56.on fellow Austrians to wake up. They say the Freedom Party

:33:57. > :34:01.is as sinister as ever. This is the Freedom Party's

:34:02. > :34:06.presidential hopeful, the friendly face of the far right, whose smooth

:34:07. > :34:12.talks his party's hard lines. 'Austria first' is Norbert Hofer's

:34:13. > :34:13.motto. His underlying message

:34:14. > :34:15.is anti-migrant. Austria is struggling to integrate

:34:16. > :34:18.the tens of thousands of asylum High Austrian unemployment has

:34:19. > :34:26.heightened simmering resentments. This is

:34:27. > :34:28.about a lot more than a country with a, let's face it, right-wing

:34:29. > :34:33.reputation, poised to elect The Freedom Party's success story is

:34:34. > :34:38.more complex and reflects a European The favourite to win

:34:39. > :34:45.is an antiestablishment candidate who says he really listens to voters

:34:46. > :34:59.and campaigns. He does this on a migrant curbing,

:35:00. > :35:01.nationalist, Eurosceptic ticket. Sounds familiar?

:35:02. > :35:04.Well, it is across Europe, in Germany, Italy, France, the UK,

:35:05. > :35:18.Right-wing populist parties are gaining strength and influence.

:35:19. > :35:24.Fellow EU countries even imposed sanctions. Now their response is

:35:25. > :35:28.muted. The populist right here is far from isolated. Neither of

:35:29. > :35:35.Austria's presidential candidates, tonight locked in a TV duel, come

:35:36. > :35:39.from traditional ruling parties. Voters are looking for new answers

:35:40. > :35:41.in uncertain times. Across Europe, other governments watch closely and

:35:42. > :35:44.fearfully. Stay with us on BBC News,

:35:45. > :35:49.still to come: Making a stand against machismo - Mexican

:35:50. > :35:56.women call time on sexual violence. This morning,

:35:57. > :35:58.an Indian Air Force plane carrying The President of India walked to

:35:59. > :36:04.the plane to solemnly witness Mr Gandhi's final return

:36:05. > :36:08.from the political battlefield. The polling stations are all

:36:09. > :36:10.prepared for what will be the first truly free elections

:36:11. > :36:15.in Romania's history. It was a remarkable climax to what

:36:16. > :36:18.was surely the most extraordinary It's been a peaceful funeral

:36:19. > :36:26.demonstration so far, but suddenly these police are teargassing

:36:27. > :36:29.the crowd, we don't yet know why. The pre-launch ritual is well

:36:30. > :36:32.established here, Helen was said to be in good spirits

:36:33. > :36:37.but just a little apprehensive. In the last hour, East Timor has

:36:38. > :36:42.become the world's newest nation. It was a bloody birth

:36:43. > :36:45.for a poor country, and But for now, at least,

:36:46. > :36:58.it is time to celebrate. The search is continuing for the

:36:59. > :37:06.Egyptian airliner that's thought to have crashed into the Mediterranean

:37:07. > :37:10.Sea with 66 people on board. Two years after the abduction

:37:11. > :37:12.of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, Nigeria's military says

:37:13. > :37:20.a second girl has been rescued. Investigators will need to gather

:37:21. > :37:23.a lot more information than is available right now before deciding

:37:24. > :37:25.what caused the crash. Here's our transport

:37:26. > :37:31.correspondent Richard Westcott. As more victims' families head

:37:32. > :37:34.for Cairo, the question remains. Was this an accident or

:37:35. > :37:37.something more sinister? The aircraft was an Airbus A320, and

:37:38. > :37:44.if you've ever flown, the chances It's one of the most common planes

:37:45. > :37:50.on earth, and it does have And this is footage of the actual

:37:51. > :37:56.aircraft that disappeared. This aircraft was delivered

:37:57. > :38:02.to EgyptAir in November 2003. We also know the captain

:38:03. > :38:04.and the co-pilot were relatively So let's have a look at what

:38:05. > :38:10.the radar tells us Having taken off from Paris

:38:11. > :38:15.in the late evening, everything was Greek controllers say

:38:16. > :38:20.the pilot is in good spirits Half an hour after that,

:38:21. > :38:27.repeated radio calls go unanswered. Controllers raise the alarm,

:38:28. > :38:29.but the plane has simply dropped TRANSLATION: It made

:38:30. > :38:38.a 90 degrees turn to the left and a 360 degrees turn to the right,

:38:39. > :38:46.descending from 37,000 to 15,000 feet - then the picture we had was

:38:47. > :38:48.lost. This is why terrorism

:38:49. > :38:50.can't be ruled out. A Russian airliner full

:38:51. > :38:52.of tourists was brought It's widely believed a group linked

:38:53. > :38:56.to the so-called Islamic State The EgyptAir plane took off

:38:57. > :39:04.from the biggest airport in Paris. One expert says speculation

:39:05. > :39:06.of an attack could ripple through The fact it's been able to go

:39:07. > :39:13.through Charles de Gaulle Airport, which is a major security airport in

:39:14. > :39:17.the middle of Europe, that will be a worry to all of Europe because if

:39:18. > :39:21.it can happen in Charles de Gaulle, This is the room at Cranfield

:39:22. > :39:27.University, where air accident investigators from all over the

:39:28. > :39:33.world have trained to do their job. Specialists here say finding

:39:34. > :39:34.the wreckage If there's been an explosion

:39:35. > :39:42.on the aircraft, then there will be lots of tell-tale signs that the

:39:43. > :39:46.investigators would look for, and that might range from pathology, so

:39:47. > :39:49.in terms of the damage that may have been done to the human occupants,

:39:50. > :39:52.through to damage to the actual So it's an anxious wait for the

:39:53. > :39:57.families and for all flyers, like It's a very undesirable distinction

:39:58. > :40:07.but Mexico ranks among the worst 20 countries in the

:40:08. > :40:11.world for violence against women. On average, six women die

:40:12. > :40:15.a violent death there every day. The BBC's Katy Watson reports

:40:16. > :40:29.from Mexico on the effort to bring CHEERING

:40:30. > :40:33.Machismo has to die, says this protester. In a country where male

:40:34. > :40:36.pride is everything and the lives of women often secondary, these people

:40:37. > :40:41.are saying enough is enough. I'm tired of living it. And hearing it

:40:42. > :40:46.happened to my friends. In the street, on public transport, in

:40:47. > :40:51.university, at work. 90% of women have suffered some kind of sexual

:40:52. > :40:57.violence in Mexico. We want to stay alive, they shut. The extreme end of

:40:58. > :41:02.gender violence is some side, being murdered because of their gender.

:41:03. > :41:05.This woman says her daughter was killed by her husband after a

:41:06. > :41:10.history of violence, but the death was recorded as a suicide as part of

:41:11. > :41:13.a cover-up by authorities. After five years of campaigning, the

:41:14. > :41:18.Supreme Court finally ordered the death to be reinvestigated from a

:41:19. > :41:22.gender perspective. The first thing they say is what did your daughter

:41:23. > :41:26.do to him to treat her like that? What did she do to make until her?

:41:27. > :41:29.But men don't buy women just because there is a problem in the

:41:30. > :41:34.relationship, it doesn't mean death is a solution and murder is the

:41:35. > :41:38.answer. Getting to the heart of the problem is a challenge. Official

:41:39. > :41:42.statistics often can't be relied upon and families don't often want

:41:43. > :41:46.to report a crime because they are scared of authorities, and even when

:41:47. > :41:52.they do, it is estimated that 99% of crimes in Mexico go unsolved.

:41:53. > :41:56.Impunity is terrifying. Not far from the capital, they try to tackle the

:41:57. > :42:02.root of the problem, focusing on improving the behaviour of

:42:03. > :42:06.perpetrators so they don't reoffend. TRANSLATION: If we only focus on the

:42:07. > :42:10.victim, the perpetrator will continue to be valid in new

:42:11. > :42:14.relationships. Sadly perpetrators of domestic violence are born seduces,

:42:15. > :42:19.so they finish one relationship and move onto the next. We saw the need

:42:20. > :42:23.to focus on them as well. Alberto is on the course, sentenced to 28 years

:42:24. > :42:28.in prison for killing and raping two women. He is now free and says he

:42:29. > :42:34.has a different attitude. TRANSLATION: It was all about me.

:42:35. > :42:38.Machismo. It was me, me, me. I belittled women. I had that bad

:42:39. > :42:43.attitude that women would be under my control. I know that not to be

:42:44. > :42:48.true now. While a handful receive help, it is woefully an adequate.

:42:49. > :42:51.They have failed to get to grips with the problem through lack of

:42:52. > :43:00.resources or willing, and women keep dying -- inadequate. Venezuela's

:43:01. > :43:05.Supreme Court has declared that a state of emergency declared by the

:43:06. > :43:09.President is in constitutional. It gives an extra powers to deal with

:43:10. > :43:12.the country's serious economic crisis including the right to

:43:13. > :43:16.control the distribution of food. It was rejected by the assembly held by

:43:17. > :43:18.the opposition. Venezuela has the highest inflation at 180% and

:43:19. > :43:22.chronic food shortages. Taiwan's first female president

:43:23. > :43:24.has been sworn into office. Tsai Ing-Wen took the oath at

:43:25. > :43:27.the Presidential Palace in Taipei. She won a landslide victory

:43:28. > :43:29.in January's poll after voicing her concerns that

:43:30. > :43:31.relations with mainland China were There have been specially

:43:32. > :43:35.choreographed celebrations This military display featured two

:43:36. > :43:40.troupes, dressed in black and white, brandishing their rifles

:43:41. > :43:41.while creating intricate patterns And there were of course

:43:42. > :43:52.some colourful dragons on display. The events have also featured

:43:53. > :43:54.re-enactments of famous battles, In Scotland, Muirfield Golf Club has

:43:55. > :44:03.decided to maintain its ban Most of the club's members voted

:44:04. > :44:07.in favour of admitting women, but the proposal narrowly failed to

:44:08. > :44:12.get the two-thirds majority needed. Muirfield has now been told it will

:44:13. > :44:14.not stage another Open Championship. Muirfield - prestigious

:44:15. > :44:23.and steeped in tradition. And today courting controversy

:44:24. > :44:26.after its members voted It means the car can no longer be

:44:27. > :44:37.considered for the open. -- club. Isn't this ridiculous,

:44:38. > :44:39.a club with such a distinguished history is ruling itself out

:44:40. > :44:43.because of a decision to treat women Those are

:44:44. > :44:45.your words rather than mine. I disagree with your wording,

:44:46. > :44:48.because I do respect the right of the club to make its decision

:44:49. > :44:58.about its membership policy. The course has hosted the Open

:44:59. > :45:00.on 16 occasions. Some of the most famous names

:45:01. > :45:05.in golf have competed here. There are many urging

:45:06. > :45:08.the club to change its rules. We are in a day

:45:09. > :45:12.and age where it is not right to host the world's biggest golf

:45:13. > :45:14.tournament at a place that doesn't Hopefully Muirfield

:45:15. > :45:23.can see some sense. The vote to deny women membership

:45:24. > :45:26.was close, but from the world of golf to politics,

:45:27. > :45:31.the decision has been condemned. Muirfield is a private club,

:45:32. > :45:35.they have their own rules Scotland has women leaders in every

:45:36. > :45:42.walk of life, politics, the law. What do the women on the coastal

:45:43. > :45:53.Scottish fairways think? I wonder where there is

:45:54. > :45:55.any ideological reason. I am surprised it can happen

:45:56. > :45:58.in Europe these days. While some are disappointed

:45:59. > :46:11.at the vote, others are comfortable for this club

:46:12. > :46:18.to continue as a mentor and a club. They can play as guests,

:46:19. > :46:20.but can't become members? Women are great in many ways,

:46:21. > :46:27.but this is a men's-only club The fact is women are more than

:46:28. > :46:39.welcome and I can bring my young lady here

:46:40. > :46:42.to play two or three times a week. Playing the course, yes,

:46:43. > :46:45.but not enjoying the company While they are not breaking any

:46:46. > :46:51.laws, the decision to exclude women as members may prove costly to

:46:52. > :46:53.the reputation A weatherman

:46:54. > :47:06.in West Virginia made his feelings clear after an arachnid made quite

:47:07. > :47:09.an impact on the big screen. A mixed reaction

:47:10. > :47:21.for the eight-legged creature's The presenter squealed, while his

:47:22. > :47:27.colleagues in the studio laughed. The weathermen admitted he

:47:28. > :47:38.almost lost his lunch. He is working against a live shot

:47:39. > :47:41.from a lot of camera outside. Similar things have happened here

:47:42. > :47:46.with a giant pigeon on a window ledge, and a joint rubbish bag held

:47:47. > :47:52.by a cleanup. But that is another story. Thank you. -- giant.

:47:53. > :47:55.Hello, once again, Thursday was not the most sparkling

:47:56. > :48:00.of days across the British Isles and I'm sure many of you at some

:48:01. > :48:05.point looked out through your window and saw a scene rather like this.

:48:06. > :48:13.This is from one of our Weather Watchers in North Berwick.

:48:14. > :48:15.These were the front took time to work its

:48:16. > :48:18.These were the front took time to work its way over the British Isles,

:48:19. > :48:22.but following on behind, skies were corrupt. Some western areas finished

:48:23. > :48:27.the days with sunny spells, but sharp showers as well. For Friday,

:48:28. > :48:35.in between systems for the most part across the British Isles. We start

:48:36. > :48:39.the day or not a very cold night. Up to 30 degrees shouldest Iraq

:48:40. > :48:45.coverage. Across northern part of Scotland, the legacy of Thursday's

:48:46. > :48:49.cloud -- 13 degrees should cover it. The odd sunny spell for shorter part

:48:50. > :48:52.of Scotland, but showers from the word go for northern and western

:48:53. > :48:56.parts, some getting into the Borders. A dry start for Northern

:48:57. > :49:00.Ireland and for the greater part of England and Wales. It is not a very

:49:01. > :49:05.bright start as you see. Sunshine in short supply. As the morning gets

:49:06. > :49:08.going, we will find some cloud beginning to break up through

:49:09. > :49:12.central and eastern areas. We keep the sunshine for any length of time

:49:13. > :49:19.bopping to get temperatures into the upper teens. There are developments

:49:20. > :49:23.out towards the West. The absolute range on certain at the moment, but

:49:24. > :49:26.western parts will cloud over and there will be rain from Northern

:49:27. > :49:28.Ireland and the fringes of Wales coming into the south-west of

:49:29. > :49:32.England. We are seeing the first signs of these weather fronts by

:49:33. > :49:37.Julie working up the western side of the British Isles. Notice the

:49:38. > :49:40.isobars getting really quite tight. We suspect we will push that rain

:49:41. > :49:46.ever further towards the North and East. During the course of the night

:49:47. > :49:50.and on into the first part of Saturday, and you will notice again

:49:51. > :49:53.into the mid part of the afternoon, more likely northern and western

:49:54. > :49:59.parts seeing the bulk of rain on offer. Temperatures around the need

:50:00. > :50:03.to upper teens. Some uncertainty about whether we drag out some by

:50:04. > :50:07.the storms and push them into the south-eastern quarter. They may take

:50:08. > :50:11.time to move away. Today Sunday as a day, we suspect, of sunny spells,

:50:12. > :50:54.but sharp showers. Again, temperatures around the midteens.

:50:55. > :51:00.The EgyptAir plane that disappeared over the Mediterranean is more

:51:01. > :51:02.likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than

:51:03. > :51:06.by a technical fault according to officials in Cairo.

:51:07. > :51:09.The Airbus A320, with 66 people on board, is said to

:51:10. > :51:15.have made several sharp turns before vanishing from radar screens.

:51:16. > :51:17.Two years after the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls,

:51:18. > :51:21.Nigeria's military says a second girl has been rescued.

:51:22. > :51:24.A spokesman said she was amongst almost 100 women and girls released

:51:25. > :51:27.following a clash with Boko Haram in which 35 militants are reported

:51:28. > :51:32.Thousands of people have been protesting in the Austrian capital

:51:33. > :51:36.Vienna against the rise of the far-right Freedom Party.

:51:37. > :51:39.Party leader Norbert Hofer won more than a third of the vote

:51:40. > :51:41.in the first round of presidential elections

:51:42. > :51:51.and goes into this weekend's second round with growing support.

:51:52. > :52:01.Tonight, a journey through the ruthless world of the dog trade.

:52:02. > :52:03.That is a show bitch being passed over.

:52:04. > :52:07.We film those at the heart of the supply chain.

:52:08. > :52:11.You've got a bitch inside, with young pups.

:52:12. > :52:15.And expose the trade right on our doorstep.

:52:16. > :52:22.We investigate the inner workings of a multimillion-pound industry.

:52:23. > :52:26.How does a partially sighted dog get past the vet checks?

:52:27. > :52:32.And we ask what we're doing to Britain's favourite pet.

:52:33. > :52:36.This is an industry built on lack of transparency, deceit,

:52:37. > :52:59.It is early morning at an abandoned fish factory near

:53:00. > :53:12.A van from Northern Ireland arrives and parks up.

:53:13. > :53:15.Moments later, a car from Coatbridge, near Glasgow,

:53:16. > :53:48.The man on the left, who arrived in the van, is her supplier.

:53:49. > :53:51.The supplier has travelled from a puppy farm in Northern

:53:52. > :53:57.Within an hour, the puppies will be advertised online by these dealers

:53:58. > :54:05.What you're witnessing is part of a new multimillion-pound industry.

:54:06. > :54:17.A growing and ruthless trade with animal cruelty at the heart of it.

:54:18. > :54:22.Puppies are being bred on a scale never seen before.

:54:23. > :54:24.New breeds are commanding ever-higher prices, with some

:54:25. > :54:32.I've spent the last six months investigating

:54:33. > :54:49.A complex of barns in County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.

:54:50. > :54:57.Eric Hale is the biggest licensed dog breeder

:54:58. > :55:02.His beagles are Kennel Club registered.

:55:03. > :55:10.And as I watch him over the next few months, I learn he is one of

:55:11. > :55:16.Every week, he loads his van with crate,

:55:17. > :55:30.Hale starts with the night boat to Liverpool.

:55:31. > :55:33.The following day, he drives round the country,

:55:34. > :55:38.dropping the dogs off to the next link in the supply chain.

:55:39. > :55:43.From large-scale sellers, to country lay-by dealers,

:55:44. > :55:55.We discovered he was licensed for 120 breeding bitches.

:55:56. > :55:59.Now, with a puppy farm of that size, it's harder to control disease,

:56:00. > :56:03.but it's also harder to give each dog the human attention it needs

:56:04. > :56:10.I hear some animal welfare agencies have concerns about Hale

:56:11. > :56:22.We'd never be allowed to film openly in Hale's puppy farm, so I

:56:23. > :56:28.have to film at night, when there'd be least chance of being spotted.

:56:29. > :56:31.It's 2:00am in the morning and minus-six degrees.

:56:32. > :56:34.To try and get access to the barns means a long walk over

:56:35. > :56:41.An hour later, and I'm at the puppy farm.

:56:42. > :56:53.We're filming this using night-vision cameras.

:56:54. > :56:56.The only way in is through a narrow gap and

:56:57. > :57:21.In some runs, there's little or none at all.

:57:22. > :57:24.Breeders must allow their dogs to behave normally,

:57:25. > :57:38.But some of the behaviour I witness is disturbing to watch.

:57:39. > :57:53.On the other side, what seems like the maternity wing.

:57:54. > :58:06.These dogs are either about to give birth or have just done so.

:58:07. > :58:18.Along another corridor of kennels, I find more pups.

:58:19. > :58:23.I have to keep reminding myself that this place is licensed,

:58:24. > :58:26.which means it has been inspected by the authorities, and what they

:58:27. > :58:40.Watching my footage are three of the country's most eminent experts

:58:41. > :58:45.in veterinary medicine, animal welfare law, and canine behaviour.

:58:46. > :58:54.You're not meant to use sawdust because it gets into water and food.

:58:55. > :59:01.This accommodation is barely adequate for overnight.

:59:02. > :59:06.There's not really adequate barriers to prevent disease.

:59:07. > :59:09.That dog is trying to anaesthetise itself, essentially, to get out

:59:10. > :59:15.of the environment it finds itself in and cannot escape from.

:59:16. > :59:21.No local authority should be licensing these sort of conditions.

:59:22. > :59:25.If they are in there 24/7, then those dogs are seriously deprived.

:59:26. > :59:33.We had watched the farm over several days

:59:34. > :59:39.and saw no sign of the dogs being routinely taken out of the barns.

:59:40. > :59:43.In a statement, Eric Hale told us his kennels met all the requirements

:59:44. > :59:49.His dogs were well socialised, he said, and there was plenty

:59:50. > :59:55.When they travelled, he would "regularly check,

:59:56. > :00:04.It's estimated that more than a third of all puppies bought today

:00:05. > :00:08.will have come from puppy farms, both licensed and unlicensed.

:00:09. > :00:12.Now, breeders like Hale supply dealers, some

:00:13. > :00:18.of whom also flout the regulations in the pursuit of profit.

:00:19. > :00:22.I discover one address Eric Hale often travels to is

:00:23. > :00:44.Here, he delivers in the dead of night.

:00:45. > :00:49.It's the home of this woman, Lauren Cullivan, a licensed dog seller.

:00:50. > :00:57.She has a number of other suppliers, as well as Eric Hale.

:00:58. > :01:01.I discover that Lauren Cullivan is on the radar of animal welfare

:01:02. > :01:08.Some dogs she has sold have been sick or died.

:01:09. > :01:11.And she's been caught trying to smuggle dogs into Scotland from one

:01:12. > :01:19.of the biggest puppy farms in the Irish Republic, owned by her father.

:01:20. > :01:22.I thought Eric Hale's operation was big.

:01:23. > :01:24.But I am told that Raymond Cullivan's puppy farm

:01:25. > :01:46.Again, I choose the timing of my visit very carefully.

:01:47. > :01:49.It's the early hours of the morning, and I'm just over the border

:01:50. > :01:55.It's minus-three degrees and pitch black.

:01:56. > :02:05.After a couple of miles' walk across the hills, I arrive.

:02:06. > :02:23.Inside the first barn, scores of dogs.

:02:24. > :02:39.So loud, the camera's microphone can barely cope.

:02:40. > :02:42.Puppies from some of these breeds can fetch up to

:02:43. > :02:52.These pipes are part of a drinking system normally seen

:02:53. > :03:00.The dogs have to press the spout at the end to get water.

:03:01. > :03:15.In other barns, a ramshackle collection of cages.

:03:16. > :03:30.It's one of the new fashionable crossbreeds.

:03:31. > :03:48.The pups can sell for more than ?800.

:03:49. > :03:59.Across the yard is another large barn.

:04:00. > :04:07.I'm totally unprepared for what I find inside.

:04:08. > :04:15.Some of them are about to give birth.

:04:16. > :04:24.There's one here - I cannot tell you how fresh these dogs are.

:04:25. > :04:34.These boxes are illegal, dogs giving birth in confined spaces,

:04:35. > :04:47.Little or no ventilation or daylight.

:04:48. > :04:50.All breaches of animal-welfare legislation

:04:51. > :04:58.in Ireland, yet filled with pups, many bound for the UK market.

:04:59. > :05:03.Water bottles have been drilled through the sides of the boxes.

:05:04. > :05:05.That heat lamp is only on because this bitch

:05:06. > :05:12.This one next door to it has got no heat lamp, the roof of it is

:05:13. > :05:22.Its only contact with the outside world, literally,

:05:23. > :05:36.is that water bottle here, going right into the side of this.

:05:37. > :05:48.That means it will have been inspected and declared fit

:05:49. > :06:04.I show our panel the footage of the larger barns.

:06:05. > :06:07.This is a production facility run on an industrial scale to produce

:06:08. > :06:15.It is treating dogs as though they were agricultural animals.

:06:16. > :06:20.I then show them the barn with the illegal growing boxes.

:06:21. > :06:25.Yes, I am appalled, as any responsible dog owner

:06:26. > :06:30.The number of boxes there show the scale of the operation.

:06:31. > :06:32.Have you ever seen anything like that?

:06:33. > :06:37.I haven't seen anything like that before, no.

:06:38. > :06:43.This looks like a major supply network that you are filming here.

:06:44. > :06:47.It raises fundamental questions about the local authority's role.

:06:48. > :06:54.Cavan County Council told us that six inspections

:06:55. > :06:59.of the business had been carried out in the last 12-month period.

:07:00. > :07:01.They had "..not encountered any direct evidence

:07:02. > :07:08.And it was "generally compatible" with the current legislation.

:07:09. > :07:11.Neither Raymond Cullivan nor his daughter Lauren responded to

:07:12. > :07:19.One breeding bitch on a puppy farm can produce ?5,000

:07:20. > :07:24.If you have several hundred, as Cullivan does,

:07:25. > :07:39.Marc Abraham is a vet and animal welfare campaigner.

:07:40. > :07:43.The problem with producing lots and lots of dogs is as soon as you

:07:44. > :07:45.increase the production levels, you're most likely going to get

:07:46. > :07:52.We see puppies coming in underage, underweight.

:07:53. > :07:54.We see them suffering from infectious diseases, and of course

:07:55. > :08:01.So this tiny ball of cute fluff is actually a ticking time-bomb

:08:02. > :08:04.of disease, pain, suffering, and let's not forget the breeding bitch

:08:05. > :08:10.But what happens to the puppies next?

:08:11. > :08:13.Most end up being sold online, by dealers who'll often do

:08:14. > :08:19.their best to hide where the dogs have come from.

:08:20. > :08:22.These adverts are all for pups being sold across central

:08:23. > :08:36.And every advert implying the dogs have been born

:08:37. > :08:44.We make a few appointments to see the pups.

:08:45. > :08:49.Oh, hi, there. Can I speak to Kim, please?

:08:50. > :08:55.Interestingly, nearly each and every time we get

:08:56. > :09:03.That house there in this rather nice housing estate

:09:04. > :09:17.We send five undercover reporters to pose as separate potential buyers.

:09:18. > :09:22.Hiya, have I got the right place for the puggles?

:09:23. > :09:31.You may remember them from the handover of pups at the abandoned

:09:32. > :09:39.Their selling techniques are well-rehearsed, playing perfectly

:09:40. > :09:58.In each case, we're told the pups have come from a family home.

:09:59. > :10:13.I spend months following Dawn and Noel Smyth.

:10:14. > :10:16.Each week, they get a delivery of pups from their source, a driver for

:10:17. > :10:41.This exchange takes place in a backstreet lay-by at Belfast docks.

:10:42. > :10:43.Other times, I watch them travel on the ferry as foot passengers,

:10:44. > :10:59.Asking to see the mother should be one way of proving

:11:00. > :11:04.But back at their house, and Dawn Smyth is ready with

:11:05. > :11:28.However, I start to notice some of their adverts state

:11:29. > :11:36.Could this be part of a new tactic being used to

:11:37. > :11:44.This investigator works undercover for animal welfare charities

:11:45. > :11:45.around the country, including the Ulster Society

:11:46. > :11:53.for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Northern Ireland.

:11:54. > :11:58.What the dog breeders and the dog sellers have is they get a show

:11:59. > :12:01.bitch so you have a bitch, a mother dog which looks very like the

:12:02. > :12:07.similar type of pup which is up for sale in the same room and it creates

:12:08. > :12:10.the impression that this pup has come from the mother that's

:12:11. > :12:16.Often, it's just a show bitch, which is purely there to fool

:12:17. > :12:19.the public, the public who are paying cash for pups,

:12:20. > :12:32.It looks like Noel and Dawn Smyth have bought into this new tactic.

:12:33. > :12:36.I watch Noel Smyth, a taxi driver, carry this adult Basset hound

:12:37. > :12:41.from the back of his cab and put it into the supplier's van.

:12:42. > :12:44.Dawn Smyth had advertised these Bassett pups the previous week,

:12:45. > :12:49.So this show bitch was now no longer needed.

:12:50. > :12:52.Dawn then transfers these white Bichon pups into the boot

:12:53. > :12:58.The supplier passes an adult Bichon from the van to Noel, who takes it

:12:59. > :13:14.Sure enough, within an hour of that handover, Dawn Smyth posts

:13:15. > :13:21.It states that mum is their family pet.

:13:22. > :13:27.We asked Dawn and Noel Smyth for a comment.

:13:28. > :13:34.Online sellers make up the larger part of the supply chain.

:13:35. > :13:40.But almost a fifth of all pups are sold through pet shops.

:13:41. > :13:45.It's the UK's biggest puppy superstore chain.

:13:46. > :13:47.Branches in Manchester and Leeds, both with

:13:48. > :13:55.Michelle and Claudia Williams bought a Norwegian Elkhound puppy, George,

:13:56. > :14:09.Not long after, a vet diagnosed him with a terminal kidney disease.

:14:10. > :14:12.You asked, why, didn't you, and she said "It's more than likely genetic,

:14:13. > :14:19.I didn't think it would happen so fast.

:14:20. > :14:22.I was working, and she rang me up, and she said, "Mam, he's dying."

:14:23. > :14:25.And I said "Come on, we need to take him now."

:14:26. > :14:43.George had just turned one when he was put to sleep.

:14:44. > :14:46.Do you remember the name of the breeder?

:14:47. > :14:58.He owned this puppy farm we had filmed in Northern Ireland.

:14:59. > :15:02.The one the experts said shouldn't be licensed.

:15:03. > :15:06.These are Norwegian Elkhounds, the same breed as George was.

:15:07. > :15:17.I receive a phone call from someone who wants to talk to me about

:15:18. > :15:28.This woman worked for Dogs 4 Us for four years,

:15:29. > :15:31.working her way up to deputy store manager, leaving in 2012.

:15:32. > :15:34.She told me the store would take in pups from dealers at younger

:15:35. > :15:38.than eight weeks, too young to be transported under UK law.

:15:39. > :15:40.How young could some of them then be?

:15:41. > :15:45.Way too young. No teeth.

:15:46. > :15:50.I've seen some Shih Tzus that looked about five weeks,

:15:51. > :15:54.then you're having to, sort of, give them some Lactol as well, to try

:15:55. > :15:57.She said some pups arrived with parvo virus.

:15:58. > :16:03.Potentially fatal, and often found in puppy farms.

:16:04. > :16:05.Many a times, I've sat in the back cradling

:16:06. > :16:11.Nicola Robinson had an acrimonious departure

:16:12. > :16:17.She admits assaulting a colleague as she walked out.

:16:18. > :16:22.She was angered, she says, by the way the business was operating.

:16:23. > :16:25.She showed me files of customer complaints, which she had kept

:16:26. > :16:30.They showed dogs were sold, which became sick or died.

:16:31. > :16:38.This one sold as an American cocker spaniel.

:16:39. > :16:49.Oh, they sold a Bichon Frise that wasn't a Bichon Frise.

:16:50. > :16:54.Lameness, hip dysplasia, oh, there's loads.

:16:55. > :17:00.Look there's loads, heart murmur, hip dysplasia, hip dysplasia.

:17:01. > :17:08.How does a partially sighted dog get past the vet checks?

:17:09. > :17:13.On this web page, Dogs 4 Us claims all its pedigree

:17:14. > :17:17.puppies "come from licensed breeders and are completely traceable".

:17:18. > :17:24.Last year, actress Chelsee Healey bought Reggie

:17:25. > :17:36.This is really bad, but I didn't even give it a second thought.

:17:37. > :17:39.I should have looked into it a little bit more but,

:17:40. > :17:45.It never even crossed my mind to ask where his mum was.

:17:46. > :17:50.Chelsee asks me to try and find out where Reggie came from.

:17:51. > :17:57.His paperwork lists the breeder at an address in North Wales.

:17:58. > :18:07.There's also no breeding licence for that address.

:18:08. > :18:10.Remember, on the web page, Dogs 4 Us says all its breeders are

:18:11. > :18:18.We put the allegations to Dogs 4 Us about the sale of sick dogs,

:18:19. > :18:25.It says the allegations are based on testimony from "a disgruntled

:18:26. > :18:27.ex-employee", who was dishonest, had a criminal record and "harboured

:18:28. > :18:35.About Reggie's missing breeder, it says that whilst the

:18:36. > :18:38."majority of breeders are licensed", it is allowed to deal with some who

:18:39. > :18:45.But, say Dogs 4 Us, all are still "traceable".

:18:46. > :18:48.I've spent months investigating the puppy trade, and have been

:18:49. > :18:50.shocked by the conditions I've witnessed in licensed puppy farms,

:18:51. > :18:58.and by the extent of deception used by some dealers.

:18:59. > :19:05.It's clear the authorities are struggling to keep up.

:19:06. > :19:08.As my investigation closes, I go on a call-out with

:19:09. > :19:13.an officer from the animal welfare charity, the Scottish SPCA.

:19:14. > :19:16.He's been told that something has been spotted at the side

:19:17. > :19:21.I am not prepared for what I am about to see.

:19:22. > :19:26.You may find some of this footage distressing.

:19:27. > :19:34.Dumped by a dog dealer when he realised they were either

:19:35. > :19:47.And realise that, actually, buying these dogs is feeding the trade.

:19:48. > :19:50.So you may be rescuing one dog, but what you are doing is you are

:19:51. > :19:57.If you are looking for any evidence of

:19:58. > :20:01.the consequences of the puppy trade, look no further, this is it four

:20:02. > :20:10.In 2016, we should be better than this.

:20:11. > :20:15.We shouldn't be farming dogs on a mass scale.

:20:16. > :20:18.They feel pain, they feel suffering, they feel fear.

:20:19. > :20:20.The only people benefiting are the irresponsible breeders

:20:21. > :21:51.Welcome to BBC News, broadcasting to viewers on public television

:21:52. > :21:59.More likely to be a terror attack than an accident.

:22:00. > :22:03.Officials in Cairo give their view on the missing EgyptAir plane.

:22:04. > :22:06.A major sea and air search is under way.

:22:07. > :22:08.Aviation authorities say it could be months, even a year,

:22:09. > :22:15.of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram.

:22:16. > :22:20.Nigeria's military says a second young woman has been rescued.

:22:21. > :22:46.Outrage as Muirfield Golf Club maintains its ban on women members.

:22:47. > :22:49.The EgyptAir plane that disappeared over the Mediterranean is more

:22:50. > :22:51.likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than

:22:52. > :22:58.That's the view of officials in Cairo where the plane was heading

:22:59. > :23:06.It had flown from Paris but not long before it was due to land the Airbus

:23:07. > :23:09.A320 made several sharp turns, then vanished from radar screens.

:23:10. > :23:12.Most of the passengers were French and Egyptian, there was one

:23:13. > :23:20.The BBC's Quentin Somerville sent this from Cairo

:23:21. > :23:23.This morning in Paris, even through their tears, there was

:23:24. > :23:25.still hope their loved ones could be found alive, despite the plane

:23:26. > :23:32.But now EgyptAir says the passengers on board, mostly French and

:23:33. > :23:38.Egyptian, were killed, the plane's debris crashing into the sea.

:23:39. > :23:41.Here radar tracks the aircraft, its red tail speeding

:23:42. > :23:46.across the Mediterranean, and suddenly disappears.

:23:47. > :23:49.Was this a terror attack or mechanical failure?

:23:50. > :23:54.France's president said nothing could be ruled out.

:23:55. > :23:58.TRANSLATION: We also have the duty to know everything about

:23:59. > :24:05.No hypothesis should be ruled out or preferred.

:24:06. > :24:08.In Cairo, relatives gathered at the airport.

:24:09. > :24:11.Families have been arriving here all morning, desperate to find out any

:24:12. > :24:17.information they can on what happened to the flight.

:24:18. > :24:24.It was just 20 minutes from landing here at Cairo International Airport

:24:25. > :24:27.when, according to the authorities, it simply vanished, without any

:24:28. > :24:31.By the afternoon, an international sea

:24:32. > :24:38.and air search was under way, but Egypt says it may go on for weeks.

:24:39. > :24:42.At Cairo Airport, EgyptAir confirmed the plane's loss, and this meant

:24:43. > :24:52.He said, "I hope they find him so we can pray over him."

:24:53. > :24:55.Authorities here have been struggling to explain how yet

:24:56. > :24:59.another plane from Egypt has been lost.

:25:00. > :25:02.Minister, do you have any security concerns about anybody on the plane,

:25:03. > :25:08.whether they were passengers, crew members or anything on the deck?

:25:09. > :25:09.Nothing has been confirmed about that.

:25:10. > :25:12.We haven't any security concerns about a specific person

:25:13. > :25:15.but don't forget the investigation is still going on, and I'm pretty

:25:16. > :25:21.sure there is a prevailing process for people on board.

:25:22. > :25:24.Here in Egypt, officials think it's more likely this was

:25:25. > :25:33.For the families, it was a day when hope was overwhelmed by grief.

:25:34. > :25:39.At this early stage of the process solid information is

:25:40. > :25:45.There have been conflicting reports on whether wreckage

:25:46. > :25:48.from the plane has been found in the Mediterranean sea.

:25:49. > :25:49.Quentin Sommerville has the latest from Cairo.

:25:50. > :25:56.of wreckage in the blue waters of the Mediterranean,

:25:57. > :25:59.what looked like yellow life vests, perhaps even an airline seat.

:26:00. > :26:02.The Greeks are now saying that wasn't debris from the flight,

:26:03. > :26:05.that it may in fact even have been debris from migrant boats attempting

:26:06. > :26:14.What the Egyptians are certain of, though, is the plane has been lost

:26:15. > :26:19.and President el-Sisi, Egypt's president, has said efforts to find

:26:20. > :26:22.it have to be intensified and that it is now a major international

:26:23. > :26:30.People forget how big the Mediterranean is.

:26:31. > :26:33.Now the French, the Egyptians, the Royal Navy and Airforce from

:26:34. > :26:37.Britain, have joined with the Greeks to try and find the wreckage.

:26:38. > :26:45.What the Egyptians have been saying from the beiginneng is,

:26:46. > :26:48.we ask a very simple question, how did this plane disappear?

:26:49. > :26:49.What exactly happened to the wreckage?

:26:50. > :26:53.These are all very difficult questions to answer, in fact,

:26:54. > :26:56.and it may take weeks, it may take months, even longer -

:26:57. > :27:13.the Egyptian officials say - to work out what happened to MS804.

:27:14. > :27:19.At this stage the only thing that is clear is something catastrophic has

:27:20. > :27:23.happened on this jet. Whether that is by the act of a terrorist or

:27:24. > :27:28.something mechanical on-board it is hard to say. Obviously authorities

:27:29. > :27:31.are starting to focus on the terror aspect but frankly we won't know

:27:32. > :27:36.much until wreckage can be found and really deeper answers will come when

:27:37. > :27:38.we find things like the flight data recorder and cockpit data recorder

:27:39. > :27:46.which will give some insight as to the direction the plane was going,

:27:47. > :27:49.what was happening to its systems, as well as what might have been

:27:50. > :27:51.happening in the cockpit at the time. But obviously that could take

:27:52. > :27:55.days, it could take days or even weeks or months to find those. At

:27:56. > :27:59.this stage we know where the aircraft was, that should narrow

:28:00. > :28:05.down the search field, but even so these things can take time. What was

:28:06. > :28:09.the series of apparently sharp turns saying to you? It might signal that

:28:10. > :28:13.something happened on board and perhaps the crew were trying to

:28:14. > :28:17.manoeuvre the aircraft around and regain control of it. That might

:28:18. > :28:24.indicate something went wrong with the control surfaces where they try

:28:25. > :28:27.to steer the aircraft. But it could also be signals of something else as

:28:28. > :28:30.well. It's very hard to say at this time and we don't have any cockpit

:28:31. > :28:35.communications to really give any indication of what the crew may have

:28:36. > :28:40.been battling, or if indeed this radar track is picking up something

:28:41. > :28:45.that may have happened, a blast or something like that, it's very hard

:28:46. > :28:48.to tell. If it was a bomb and it originated at Charles de Gaulle or

:28:49. > :28:54.pass through there from one of the plane's earlier destinations then it

:28:55. > :28:57.will spark a million questions? Absolutely, especially at this time

:28:58. > :29:02.when Europe has been grappling with terrorism issues. We have had of

:29:03. > :29:06.course last year the crash of the Russian Metro Jet flight which was

:29:07. > :29:10.linked to terror, so in that sense it is going to ask a lot of

:29:11. > :29:16.questions about security at both ends from Egypt and also Paris. You

:29:17. > :29:18.would say on the balance of probabilities it's unlikely that

:29:19. > :29:24.something would have been introduced in Paris, but we've always had very

:29:25. > :29:28.safe systems, but unfortunately incidents have occurred and probably

:29:29. > :29:32.will do in the future. Briefly, there's a lot of sensitivity about

:29:33. > :29:35.the way previous disappeared aircraft have been handled, Barisic

:29:36. > :29:39.family is not being given enough information. Do you have any

:29:40. > :29:43.concerns information has been handled this time? It's more coming

:29:44. > :29:48.out but it's been quite confusing? It has been and it's been hard for

:29:49. > :29:54.us to sit through an report accurately, as it has been for the

:29:55. > :29:59.BBC and many other outlets. There are conflicting reports about

:30:00. > :30:04.beacons and giving occasions and conflicting reports about the

:30:05. > :30:07.wreckage, it's no clearer there. Obviously communications generally

:30:08. > :30:11.after accidents get better and we had a number of miscommunications

:30:12. > :30:14.with the disappearance of MH370. In this case there are things that

:30:15. > :30:19.could be handled better but of course everyone is trying to get as

:30:20. > :30:22.much information out into the public domain as possible, and that is

:30:23. > :30:25.causing some confusion here and there, and I suspect in the next day

:30:26. > :30:27.or two that will be cleared up some more.

:30:28. > :30:29.And as well as the continuing coverage here

:30:30. > :30:40.For all the latest updates you can go to bbc.com/news

:30:41. > :30:45.There is a live page with continuous updates of all the latest news

:30:46. > :30:48.A second schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram militants

:30:49. > :30:51.from the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014 has been found.

:30:52. > :30:53.The Nigerian military say they have also freed nearly 100 women

:30:54. > :30:56.It follows a clearance operation in Borno State

:30:57. > :30:59.The rescue, which focused on the Damboa area,

:31:00. > :31:04.and is reported to have left more then 35 militants dead.

:31:05. > :31:07.A Nigerian military spokesman said the rescued schoolgirl was

:31:08. > :31:13.receiving medical care but would be reunited with her family.

:31:14. > :31:21.One of them was believed to be one of the abducted Chibok girls, the

:31:22. > :31:32.ones abducted on the 14th of April 2014. She is now at a medical

:31:33. > :31:33.military facility. She will get more attention and she will be of course

:31:34. > :31:36.reunited with her family. The latest operation comes two days

:31:37. > :31:39.after the rescue of the first Chibok girl who spent Thursday meeting

:31:40. > :31:41.the county's President. Amina Ali Nkeki flew to the

:31:42. > :31:43.capital, Abuja, for The Nigerian leader said he

:31:44. > :31:47.was delighted that she could Amina, and her four-month-old baby,

:31:48. > :31:49.were found by an army-backed vigilante group

:31:50. > :31:52.in the huge Sambisa Forest, The UN says five of

:31:53. > :32:00.its peacekeepers have been killed in an ambush in the village of Aguelhok

:32:01. > :32:03.near Kidal in northern Mali. Their vehicle reportedly hit

:32:04. > :32:05.an explosive device Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei

:32:06. > :32:15.has unveiled his new exhibition in Greece,

:32:16. > :32:17.using his works to highlight what he says is the "shameful" response to

:32:18. > :32:20.the refugee crisis in Europe. He has visited camps

:32:21. > :32:23.in Greece to film a documentary and has set up a studio on Lesbos,

:32:24. > :32:26.the island on whose beaches nearly 1 million migrants entered

:32:27. > :32:33.the European Union last year. Hillary Clinton,

:32:34. > :32:37.the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for the US Presidency,

:32:38. > :32:40.has said there was no way that she will not be her party's candidate

:32:41. > :32:42.for the November elections. On the likely Republican candidate,

:32:43. > :32:45.she said Donald Trump was Stay with us on BBC News,

:32:46. > :32:55.still to come: New plans to reform

:32:56. > :32:57.Britain's prisons. We have

:32:58. > :32:59.an exclusive report on a world This morning,

:33:00. > :33:05.an Indian Air Force plane carrying The President of India walked to

:33:06. > :33:11.the plane to solemnly witness Mr Gandhi's final return

:33:12. > :33:15.from the political battlefield. The polling stations are all

:33:16. > :33:18.prepared for what will be the first truly free elections

:33:19. > :33:21.in Romania's history. It was a remarkable climax to what

:33:22. > :33:24.was surely the most extraordinary It's been a peaceful funeral

:33:25. > :33:31.demonstration so far, but suddenly these police are teargassing

:33:32. > :33:37.the crowd, we don't yet know why. The pre-launch ritual is well

:33:38. > :33:38.established here, Helen was said to be in good spirits

:33:39. > :33:43.but just a little apprehensive. In the last hour, East Timor has

:33:44. > :33:46.become the world's newest nation. It was a bloody birth

:33:47. > :33:50.for a poor country, and But for now, at least,

:33:51. > :34:06.it is time to celebrate. The search is continuing for the

:34:07. > :34:09.Egyptian airliner that's thought to have crashed into the Mediterranean

:34:10. > :34:14.Sea with 66 people on board. Two years after the abduction

:34:15. > :34:17.of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, Nigeria's military says

:34:18. > :34:24.a second girl has been rescued. In Austria, thousands

:34:25. > :34:26.of people have been protesting on the streets of Vienna

:34:27. > :34:29.against the rise of the far-right, The party leader, Norbert Hofer,

:34:30. > :34:35.won more than a third of the vote in the first round

:34:36. > :34:38.of presidential elections last month and goes into this weekend's

:34:39. > :34:46.second round with growing support. Our Europe editor Katya

:34:47. > :34:49.Adler has more details. Keep Nazis out of the presidential

:34:50. > :34:52.palace, reads this placard. Austria's populist Freedom Party,

:34:53. > :35:02.once relegated to the far right fringes could be about to furnish

:35:03. > :35:04.the country's next president, thanks to a vertical makeover aimed

:35:05. > :35:06.at mainstream voters. The crowd here is calling

:35:07. > :35:09.on fellow Austrians to wake up. They say the Freedom Party

:35:10. > :35:13.is sinister as ever. This is the Freedom Party's

:35:14. > :35:15.presidential hopeful, the friendly face of the far right, whose smooth

:35:16. > :35:18.talks his party's hard lines. Austria first is Norbert Hofer's

:35:19. > :35:26.motto. His underlying message

:35:27. > :35:28.is anti-migrant. Austria is struggling to integrate

:35:29. > :35:31.the tens of thousands of asylum High Austrian unemployment has

:35:32. > :35:40.heightened simmering resentments. This is

:35:41. > :35:42.about a lot more than a country with a, let's face it, right-wing

:35:43. > :35:45.reputation, poised to elect more complex and reflects a European

:35:46. > :35:54.trend. The favourite to win

:35:55. > :35:57.as an antiestablishment candidate who says he really listens to voters

:35:58. > :36:01.and campaigns. Well, it is across Europe,

:36:02. > :36:09.in Germany, Italy, France, the UK, Right-wing parties are gaining

:36:10. > :36:29.strength and influence. The freedom party first joined an

:36:30. > :36:35.Austrian government 17 years ago to a huge outcry. Fellow EU countries

:36:36. > :36:41.even imposed sanctions. Now their response is muted. The populist

:36:42. > :36:44.right here is far from isolated. Neither of Austria's presidential

:36:45. > :36:45.candidates, tonight locked in a TV jewel, come from traditional

:36:46. > :36:49.parties. Voters are searching

:36:50. > :36:51.for new answers in uncertain times. Across Europe, other governments

:36:52. > :36:57.watch closely and fearfully. The British government is promising

:36:58. > :37:00.the biggest shake-up since Victorian times of the prison system

:37:01. > :37:02.in England and Wales. To start with, six prisons will be

:37:03. > :37:05.overhauled, and the BBC's Ed Thomas has spent the last week at one of

:37:06. > :37:09.them, Wandsworth Prison in London. The BBC has been given unprecedented

:37:10. > :37:26.access inside a British jail. Over seven days,

:37:27. > :37:30.we saw the fear and violence. There is one person we

:37:31. > :37:34.are trying to secure. If you can't,

:37:35. > :37:39.then you're the kind of victim. In the prison,

:37:40. > :37:55.the guards are pushed to the edge. I'm probably the most stressed I

:37:56. > :38:00.have been in 20 years in this job. A prisoner has refused

:38:01. > :38:09.to go back to his cell. 20 years ago, this inmate

:38:10. > :38:22.murdered a man in a fight. We can't identify him,

:38:23. > :38:28.but he told us he was trapped I got sliced down the side of the

:38:29. > :38:34.face, I got attacked by 15 people. I've got murders around me left,

:38:35. > :38:38.right and centre. No alternative but to utilise

:38:39. > :38:45.violence for my safety. They are so shortstaffed in here,

:38:46. > :38:47.this place can't run. In the next block, the smell

:38:48. > :38:58.of cannabis is everywhere. It is overwhelming,

:38:59. > :39:03.especially up here. And then we see it, a group

:39:04. > :39:12.smoking below us in full view. It defeats everything

:39:13. > :39:42.we are trying to do. You don't have to look far to

:39:43. > :39:50.find drugs in Wandsworth. Ashley has only just arrived

:39:51. > :39:52.and he says that any drugs are You can get heroin, crack,

:39:53. > :40:02.anything you like. You can go down to the twos, threes,

:40:03. > :40:09.everything is there. Then, there is the alcohol brewed

:40:10. > :40:17.in cells. Spice, a synthetic legal high -

:40:18. > :40:20.these wraps are worth ?8,000. The mobile phones, too,

:40:21. > :40:24.smuggled into Wandsworth. This prisoner asked us

:40:25. > :40:39.not to show his face. They will say things are free tennis

:40:40. > :41:02.balls, but they have drugs, phones. The BBC was invited to hear these

:41:03. > :41:08.stories and see the pressure on Corruption is one of the absolute

:41:09. > :41:17.things I cannot tolerate. The first thing my reforms will do

:41:18. > :41:22.is topple the issues of corruption. That will deal with some of

:41:23. > :41:25.the issues you have highlighted and But how long will

:41:26. > :41:31.the prison reform take? The pressure inside is building

:41:32. > :41:37.and officers are getting hurt. At the moment, he has just been

:41:38. > :41:41.a victim of an assault. My wife worries that I am

:41:42. > :41:44.not going to come home. If she could,

:41:45. > :41:52.she would have me leave this job. For him,

:41:53. > :41:59.it cannot get any worse. It's because I care,

:42:00. > :42:02.I want to make a difference. I believe the staff can make

:42:03. > :42:03.a difference. We are struggling,

:42:04. > :42:05.we don't have the staff. What is happening to

:42:06. > :42:07.your mental health? I don't think anybody cares

:42:08. > :42:10.about what is happening to I think I am probably

:42:11. > :42:17.the most stressed I have been If I don't quit,

:42:18. > :42:28.I will retire and go home. The reforms are

:42:29. > :42:31.desperately needed now. This prison revolution,

:42:32. > :42:33.a promise to fix broken jails and Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled

:42:34. > :42:41.that a state of emergency declared by President Nicolas Maduro last

:42:42. > :42:46.week is constitutional. The decree gives Mr Maduro

:42:47. > :42:48.extra powers to deal with the country's serious economic

:42:49. > :42:50.crisis, including the right to The measure was rejected by the

:42:51. > :42:57.opposition-held National Assembly. Venezuela has the world's highest

:42:58. > :43:00.inflation rate at 180%, Taiwan's first female president

:43:01. > :43:09.has been sworn into office. Tsai Ing-Wen took the oath at

:43:10. > :43:12.the Presidential Palace in Taipei. She won a landslide victory

:43:13. > :43:14.in January's poll after voicing her concerns that

:43:15. > :43:16.relations with mainland China were There have been specially

:43:17. > :43:22.choreographed celebrations This military display featured two

:43:23. > :43:27.troupes, dressed in black and white, brandishing their rifles

:43:28. > :43:29.while creating intricate patterns And there were of course

:43:30. > :43:36.some colourful dragons on display. The events have also featured

:43:37. > :43:38.re-enactments of famous battles, In Scotland, Muirfield Golf Club has

:43:39. > :43:49.decided to maintain its ban Most of the club's members voted

:43:50. > :43:55.in favour of admitting women, but the proposal narrowly failed to

:43:56. > :43:58.get the two-thirds majority needed. Muirfield has now been told it will

:43:59. > :44:01.not stage another Open Championship. Muirfield - prestigious

:44:02. > :44:13.and steeped in tradition. And courting controversy

:44:14. > :44:15.after its members voted It means the club can no longer be

:44:16. > :44:19.considered for the Open. Isn't this ridiculous,

:44:20. > :44:21.a club with such a distinguished history is ruling itself out

:44:22. > :44:24.because of a decision to treat women Those are

:44:25. > :44:31.your words rather than mine. I disagree with your wording,

:44:32. > :44:34.because I do respect the right of the club to make its decision

:44:35. > :44:44.about its membership policy. The course has hosted the Open

:44:45. > :44:47.on 16 occasions. Some of the most famous names

:44:48. > :44:52.in golf have competed here. There are many urging

:44:53. > :44:56.the club to change its rules. We are in a day

:44:57. > :44:59.and age where it is not right to host the world's biggest golf

:45:00. > :45:02.tournament at a place that doesn't Hopefully Muirfield

:45:03. > :45:10.can see some sense. The vote to deny women membership

:45:11. > :45:13.was close, but from the world of golf to politics,

:45:14. > :45:18.the decision has been condemned. Muirfield is a private club,

:45:19. > :45:22.they have their own rules Scotland has women leaders in every

:45:23. > :45:28.walk of life, politics, the law. What do the women on the coastal

:45:29. > :45:39.Scottish fairways think? I wonder where there is

:45:40. > :45:42.any ideological reason. I am surprised it can happen

:45:43. > :45:45.in Europe these days. Women can play here as

:45:46. > :45:54.invited visitors. While some are disappointed

:45:55. > :46:06.at the vote, others are comfortable for this club

:46:07. > :46:09.to continue as a male-only club. They can play as guests,

:46:10. > :46:11.but can't become members? Women are great in many ways,

:46:12. > :46:17.but this is a men's-only club The fact is women are more than

:46:18. > :46:20.welcome and I can bring my young lady here

:46:21. > :46:29.to play two or three times a week. Playing the course, yes,

:46:30. > :46:31.but not enjoying the company While they are not breaking any

:46:32. > :46:37.laws, the decision to exclude women as members may prove costly to

:46:38. > :46:59.the reputation The American journalist reported for

:47:00. > :47:04.decades 60 minutes has died. He retired from CBS earlier this week.

:47:05. > :47:08.His reporting on the Vietnam War, bringing trustees into American

:47:09. > :47:10.homes, played a pivotal role in changing public opinion on the war.

:47:11. > :47:12.He was 84. An EgyptAir plane has disappeared

:47:13. > :47:16.over the Mediterranean with 66 Officials in Cairo say it is more

:47:17. > :47:20.likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than

:47:21. > :47:22.by a technical fault, but investigators still need to analyse

:47:23. > :47:26.what happened to draw a conclusion. EgyptAir said that wreckage of

:47:27. > :47:29.the plane had been found, but there are some conflicting reports - with

:47:30. > :47:32.Greek officials saying the debris The plane took off in the early

:47:33. > :47:39.hours of Thursday headed from Paris to Cairo, and most of those on board

:47:40. > :47:42.French and Egyptian citizens. That is it for now. Thank you for

:47:43. > :47:51.watching. Hello, once again,

:47:52. > :47:54.Thursday was not the most sparkling of days across the British Isles

:47:55. > :47:57.and I'm sure many of you at some point looked out through your window

:47:58. > :48:01.and saw a scene rather like this. This is from one of our

:48:02. > :48:04.Weather Watchers in North Berwick. This was all tied

:48:05. > :48:06.in with the weather front which started the day over in the

:48:07. > :48:09.western side of the British Isles, gradually dragged its way ever

:48:10. > :48:12.further towards the east, bringing Some of you actually saw some

:48:13. > :48:18.rain from that particular system. For Friday, we're rather in-between

:48:19. > :48:22.weather systems although that situation, as you will

:48:23. > :48:25.see, will not last for long. The rain still lingering across the

:48:26. > :48:29.far north of the Northern Isles. Not a particularly cold start to

:48:30. > :48:34.the day by any means at all but there will be showers from the word

:48:35. > :48:36.go, sprinkled quite liberally across Some eastern spots, there,

:48:37. > :48:41.as you see, will start the day dry. Northern Ireland,

:48:42. > :48:43.it is essentially a dry start. A wee bit of sunshine here,

:48:44. > :48:46.perhaps in favoured locations. Across England

:48:47. > :48:49.and Wales may get a away to a bright enough start but generally speaking,

:48:50. > :48:51.a lot of dry weather, yes, not There will be a fair amount

:48:52. > :48:56.of cloud. We will have to break some

:48:57. > :48:59.of this up before we get to see any meaningful sunshine,

:49:00. > :49:01.and I think that opportunity rises more likely through central and

:49:02. > :49:07.eastern parts of the British Isles. Out west, although the exact detail

:49:08. > :49:12.and timing don't hold me to it just at the moment,

:49:13. > :49:15.but it looks as though we will push an area of thickening cloud with

:49:16. > :49:17.some rain up across perhaps parts of the south-west

:49:18. > :49:20.of England, too. We keep a bit of brightness

:49:21. > :49:23.in the east. We could well be looking

:49:24. > :49:25.at 18-20 degrees or so. Underneath the cloud and rain,

:49:26. > :49:27.closer to 14-15 degrees. This is how we close out Friday -

:49:28. > :49:30.just bringing a succession of fronts, in fact,

:49:31. > :49:33.close by to the northern and western The cloud all the

:49:34. > :49:38.while thickening up and eventually many parts through Friday evening

:49:39. > :49:40.into the first part of Saturday, The heaviest always likely to

:49:41. > :49:44.be found towards western areas. This is how we snapshot the middle

:49:45. > :49:48.of the afternoon on Saturday, again the temperatures around

:49:49. > :49:51.about the mid to upper teens or so. The bulk of the rain

:49:52. > :49:53.across northern, western Scotland. Just notice this little finger

:49:54. > :49:55.of rain further south - We may just start importing some

:49:56. > :49:59.thunderstorms later, So if not

:50:00. > :50:04.for the match then maybe the journey No such problems

:50:05. > :50:08.a wee bit further north - I think Rangers versus Hibernian could well

:50:09. > :50:12.be essentially a dry match. This is how we see it on Sunday,

:50:13. > :50:15.again, open to some doubt just about how

:50:16. > :50:18.cloudy and wet the south-east starts but if that clears away, I think

:50:19. > :50:22.then many of us will be in for a day of sunny spells and showers with

:50:23. > :51:47.temperatures again in the teens. The EgyptAir plane that disappeared

:51:48. > :51:50.over the Mediterranean is more likely to have been brought down

:51:51. > :51:53.by a terrorist act than by a technical fault,

:51:54. > :51:55.according to officials in Cairo. The Airbus A320,

:51:56. > :51:58.with 66 people on board, is said to have made several sharp turns before

:51:59. > :52:01.vanishing from radar screens. Two years after the abduction

:52:02. > :52:03.of hundreds of schoolgirls, Nigeria's military says

:52:04. > :52:05.a second girl has been rescued. A spokesman said she was amongst

:52:06. > :52:08.almost one hundred women and girls released, following a clash with

:52:09. > :52:11.Boko Haram in which 35 militants Thousands of people have been

:52:12. > :52:18.protesting in the Austrian capital Vienna, against the rise

:52:19. > :52:21.of the far-right Freedom Party. Party leader Norbert Hofer won more

:52:22. > :52:24.than a third of the vote in the first round

:52:25. > :52:26.of presidential elections, and goes into this weekend's second

:52:27. > :52:29.round with growing support. Welcome to a special edition

:52:30. > :52:46.of Hardtalk which is part of a day of BBC programming devoted

:52:47. > :52:55.to The World on the Move. I am joined in this BBC theatre

:52:56. > :52:58.by an audience and a special guest, Lord Dubs, Alf Dubs, veteran Labour

:52:59. > :53:01.politician, former Head of the British Refugee Council, and a man

:53:02. > :53:04.whose life story illustrates what it As a six-year old Jewish boy

:53:05. > :53:11.in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, he was saved from near certain death

:53:12. > :53:14.by a rescue mission which became 77 years on,

:53:15. > :53:20.are humanitarian principles any Lord Dubs, Alf Dubs,

:53:21. > :53:42.welcome to Hardtalk. Let me ask you

:53:43. > :53:47.a broad opening question. Throughout your life,

:53:48. > :53:49.from being a boy in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to today in your 80s,

:53:50. > :53:52.still working hard on refugee and migration issues, do you see

:53:53. > :54:02.a change amongst us humans? Do you think we are more

:54:03. > :54:05.compassionate or less compassionate today than we were in 1939

:54:06. > :54:11.when you left Prague? I would like to think we are more

:54:12. > :54:14.compassionate because we see some of the awful things happening

:54:15. > :54:17.in the world on our television And so I think we are more aware

:54:18. > :54:40.of what has happened. Equally we seem to have more

:54:41. > :54:42.concerned about migration. A balance, and a delicate one,

:54:43. > :54:48.but do you see shifts in it Do you fear that our compassion

:54:49. > :54:51.index is perhaps falling? I think, in Britain,

:54:52. > :54:53.there is a lot of compassion. One has to tap into it

:54:54. > :54:57.and get it to express itself, but I think that the British people

:54:58. > :54:59.are essentially very compassionate. They care about the world, they want

:55:00. > :55:03.to do something for the refugees that we see on our television

:55:04. > :55:06.screens and it is difficult to know When there is a way of doing it,

:55:07. > :55:10.British people respond, Well, in recent weeks,

:55:11. > :55:14.you have been very involved in a push to get children, minors

:55:15. > :55:17.into this country from camps, Many of them Syrian,

:55:18. > :55:21.but Afghans and others as well. And I want to talk in detail

:55:22. > :55:23.about that. But to give people some context,

:55:24. > :55:25.I want to talk Tell me what you remember of being

:55:26. > :55:29.that little boy in Czechoslovakia in 1939 and discovering that you

:55:30. > :55:33.were to be sent far, far away? I remember the day that the Germans

:55:34. > :55:35.occupied Prague, several months before

:55:36. > :55:37.the war started, in March 19 39. We had to tear a picture

:55:38. > :55:40.of President Benes out of our schoolbooks and stick

:55:41. > :55:42.in a picture of Hitler. And then came the day when my mother

:55:43. > :55:46.put me on a train, Prague Station. I could see German soldiers with

:55:47. > :55:51.swastikas standing in the background and

:55:52. > :55:54.the train went off and took two days A long journey,

:55:55. > :55:58.I didn't mind the hard wood seats. When we got to the Dutch border,

:55:59. > :56:04.the older ones cheered because they knew we were out

:56:05. > :56:07.of reach of Nazi Germany. I knew it was significant,

:56:08. > :56:13.but I did not fully understand why. Do you remember

:56:14. > :56:16.your mother trying to explain to you, while you were still in Prague,

:56:17. > :56:19.why she was actually putting you on a train and you were being

:56:20. > :56:23.deprived of her presence? My father,

:56:24. > :56:25.who is the Jewish side of my family, my father left Prague within

:56:26. > :56:28.a day of the Germans occupying. And he came to Britain

:56:29. > :56:31.and my mother said, there's That was the incentive

:56:32. > :56:40.for me to be happy on the train. Equally,

:56:41. > :56:42.I said goodbye to my mother for what So I was aware that this

:56:43. > :56:47.was all very momentous. Do you remember anything of the

:56:48. > :56:50.troops on the streets, of any abuses I remember seeing massive German

:56:51. > :56:54.soldiers, marching about. Schools were supposed to greet

:56:55. > :56:58.Hitler when he came to Prague My mother said we were much too

:56:59. > :57:03.small and my class shouldn't go, I didn't see particularly any abuses

:57:04. > :57:08.of Jews but I was pretty young. And it was only a few months

:57:09. > :57:10.before the war began. And the real oppression was just

:57:11. > :57:13.beginning in Czechoslovakia. But there is one twist to

:57:14. > :57:15.the story that is truly extraordinary and that is

:57:16. > :57:19.the role of one British man whom I had the great privilege to meet and

:57:20. > :57:22.have had on the Hardtalk programme myself, Sir Nicholas Winton, who

:57:23. > :57:25.died at the age of 106, recently. I talked to him when he was 105

:57:26. > :57:28.and he was the inspiration for that Kindertransport movement to