:00:08. > :00:12.A British journalist has been smuggled to safety after being
:00:12. > :00:15.injured in an attack in the Syrian city of Homs.
:00:15. > :00:20.Gunmen ambush a bus in northern Pakistan - 18 people have been
:00:20. > :00:23.killed. An Italian cruise ship and its
:00:23. > :00:27.passengers are taught to safety after drifting without power in the
:00:27. > :00:32.Indian Ocean. Welcome to BBC World News. Also
:00:32. > :00:37.when this programme: We are inside the defunct figure she may nuclear
:00:37. > :00:43.plant for the first time since Japan's earthquake and tsunami.
:00:43. > :00:53.And using punk to take on Vladimir Putin - but feminists sending an
:00:53. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:03.anti- Vladimir Putin message ahead One of the journalists injured in
:01:03. > :01:08.Syrian government shelling has been smuggled out of the besieged city
:01:08. > :01:12.of Homs. The British photographer Paul Conroy is said to have arrived
:01:12. > :01:15.safe and sound in Lebanon after he was brought out of the Labour help
:01:15. > :01:19.-- the rebel-held neighbourhood of Baba Amr yesterday. He is
:01:19. > :01:24.understood to have been wrecked debt -- rescued with the assistance
:01:24. > :01:29.of the Syrian opposition. He was injured in the bombardment that
:01:29. > :01:34.killed Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and French
:01:35. > :01:40.photojournalist Remi Ochlik. His wife Kate said that he had rejected
:01:40. > :01:45.an opportunity to leave Homs with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent for
:01:45. > :01:48.fear that it could not be trusted. The United Nations Security Council
:01:48. > :01:54.is debating developments. Jim Muir is following developments from
:01:54. > :01:59.Lebanon. The Syrian regime will not put its
:01:59. > :02:05.hand up and say, it is a fair cop because of what is being said in
:02:05. > :02:09.Geneva. It adds incrementally to the moral pressures. The crucial
:02:09. > :02:14.thing at this stage is possibly not pressure on the Syrian regime,
:02:14. > :02:20.which is fighting for survival, but one Russia, China and others who
:02:20. > :02:25.have been supporting it in the UN. If it adds to that it may have some
:02:25. > :02:29.incremental effect. But the condemnation in itself, even
:02:29. > :02:34.threats of possible referral to the international criminal court for
:02:34. > :02:41.crimes against humanity, those are things that are not going to have
:02:41. > :02:45.an immediate impact on Damascus but which could have this incremental
:02:45. > :02:49.effect of making people more embarrassed about supporting the
:02:49. > :02:53.Syrians as they have been doing. The numbers of civilians killed his
:02:53. > :02:56.reaching such huge numbers, but also the numbers of journalists
:02:56. > :03:04.wounded and killed. Paul Conroy we have had news of today. Can you
:03:04. > :03:08.bring us up to date? We can happily confirm from our
:03:08. > :03:14.diplomatic and opposition sources that he has been smuggled out of
:03:14. > :03:18.Baba Amr, the besieged district of Homs where he and others were
:03:18. > :03:21.wounded last Wednesday. He apparently left on Monday during
:03:21. > :03:26.the day, was smuggled out during the night across the border into
:03:26. > :03:31.Lebanon, where he is now safe and well, according to diplomats who
:03:31. > :03:36.have been working on his case. We will have to wait and see. It has
:03:36. > :03:45.all been kept very discreet and secretive because of the risk to
:03:45. > :03:48.those who are still there. They run confirmed reports that the French
:03:48. > :03:52.corresponded to was injured last Wednesday has also crossed to
:03:52. > :03:57.Lebanon but we cannot substantiate those reports. At the moment we are
:03:58. > :04:07.inclined to believe that she is still in Baba Amr. The nature of
:04:07. > :04:11.her injuries makes it very difficult to transport her.
:04:11. > :04:15.18 people have been killed in an attack on a bus in Pakistan. Gunmen
:04:15. > :04:20.opened fire on a vehicle in the northern district of tier. The bus
:04:20. > :04:24.was carrying passengers from Rawalpindi, where the Pakistani
:04:24. > :04:28.army is headquartered, to the northern city of Gilgit. Police
:04:28. > :04:31.said the motive was not clear. Aleem Maqbool is in Islamabad for
:04:31. > :04:35.us and said this is the latest in a series of attacks against the
:04:35. > :04:39.minority Shi'ite communities. Or what apparently happened,
:04:39. > :04:48.according to police, is that this bus was stopped by men in military
:04:48. > :04:54.fatigues, all of the passengers were taken off. Police say that
:04:54. > :04:58.their identity cards were checked and then the militants got an idea
:04:58. > :05:06.from the names which were Shi'ite Muslims and which were Sunni
:05:06. > :05:16.Muslims. All of the Shi'ite passengers, around 16 to 18, were
:05:16. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:23.shot dead. Is it clear which group is behind
:05:23. > :05:27.this? Not as yet. Police are investigating and they are still at
:05:27. > :05:33.the scene. This comes just ten days or so after the last huge attack
:05:33. > :05:39.against a Shi'ite community. There was a suicide bombing outside a
:05:39. > :05:42.Shi'ite mosque and around 30 people were killed there. The Shi'ite
:05:42. > :05:46.community in Pakistan has often accused the state of not doing
:05:47. > :05:49.enough to protect them from such sectarian attacks and even of
:05:50. > :05:54.releasing militants who are suspected of carrying out such
:05:54. > :05:57.attacks. Is there a reason, politically, why
:05:57. > :06:02.we are seeing such a tax now? has happened for years,
:06:02. > :06:06.unfortunately, in Pakistan. There were bigger tax as far back as the
:06:06. > :06:12.80s. There have been several, as I say, in recent months. But even
:06:12. > :06:15.last year, at the beginning of last year, we saw an attack on a Shi'ite
:06:15. > :06:20.religious procession. There is a growing strength among the
:06:20. > :06:27.religious parties here. Will we have seen a lot of those parties
:06:27. > :06:32.forming a united group. Those are coming out openly. A lot of these
:06:32. > :06:37.groups believe that it is OK to attack minorities in Pakistan, not
:06:37. > :06:41.just Shi'ite mood lower -- Shi'ite Muslims but other groups as well.
:06:41. > :06:44.We are seeing that campaign gathering momentum. As I say, these
:06:44. > :06:50.kinds of attacks have gone on for a long time.
:06:50. > :06:53.Now the business. Portugal's finance minister has
:06:53. > :07:00.announced this morning that the country has passed the latest test
:07:00. > :07:04.imposed on it by debt inspectors. It was given a financial bail-out
:07:04. > :07:10.less than a year ago and has made the spending cuts and has
:07:10. > :07:14.introduced tough economic reforms. The troika are now expected to
:07:14. > :07:20.approve the next slice a bail-out funds. That is about 14 billion
:07:20. > :07:25.euros. Portuguese bonds have failed to benefit from the rally. That
:07:25. > :07:34.shows that concerns surrounding the country still remain high. Joining
:07:34. > :07:39.us from Portugal is a professor of economics from Madeira University.
:07:39. > :07:42.Professor, what Portugal has to do is to rebuild its finances so that
:07:42. > :07:47.in perhaps 18 months, when the bail-out money runs out, it can
:07:47. > :07:54.stand on its own two feet. Do you think it will be able to do that?
:07:54. > :08:01.Good morning. I think it is going to be possible. If we think about
:08:01. > :08:07.the economy, we have to rebuild it. What concerns me is that we are
:08:07. > :08:12.going through a programme of cuts. The flexibility in the labour
:08:12. > :08:18.market is not yet in place. I do not think it is easy to implement
:08:18. > :08:23.some of the measures that were agreed. If you cannot rebuild the
:08:24. > :08:27.economy, in order to be able to grow, you end up in the same
:08:27. > :08:31.position as Greece and you have to have an effective default on your
:08:31. > :08:39.debt. Do you think that will happen? No, I do not think that
:08:39. > :08:41.will happen. I think he Greece is a case by its self. It was out of
:08:41. > :08:51.control when the intervention appeared. In Portugal I do not
:08:51. > :08:53.
:08:53. > :09:00.think we were like that. -- I think Greece is a case by itself.
:09:00. > :09:06.Pensions have to rebuilt but we have to have a plan for the long
:09:06. > :09:11.run for Portugal to recover. 18 months is pretty much the
:09:11. > :09:16.deadline, by which time the bail- out money will run out. You say
:09:16. > :09:26.that the economy will not grow by then, so what will happen? I think
:09:26. > :09:26.
:09:26. > :09:30.we can explain that we are going in the right direction and it is a
:09:30. > :09:34.question of more time, and I think we will get it.
:09:34. > :09:37.Compared with Greece, where you have seen huge political resistance
:09:37. > :09:41.on the streets, are you getting that kind of resistance in
:09:41. > :09:51.Portugal? What are the conditions like for people and how they react
:09:51. > :09:53.
:09:53. > :10:02.in? At this point, people are going on. They are saying things. They
:10:02. > :10:11.will support more for two or three years, that is possible. The people
:10:11. > :10:21.a row at -- are agreeing that we have to pay our debts. It is part
:10:21. > :10:23.
:10:23. > :10:33.of our way of thinking. We are clear on the way to negotiate, and
:10:33. > :10:39.the population that is suffering a lot, some people are getting in
:10:39. > :10:44.tonight year's a reduction in wages of 40%, so that is a lot for people
:10:44. > :10:52.do. Somehow there is lots of solid ballot a rate -- solidarity in the
:10:52. > :10:55.country and people are going to get help through private organisations
:10:55. > :11:00.that provide food when they needed. There is a large proportion of
:11:00. > :11:08.people in Portugal who are not poor but they do not have money to pay
:11:08. > :11:12.for their own food. I think the Solidarity is working pretty well.
:11:13. > :11:15.Thank you very much indeed for joining us.
:11:15. > :11:19.The European Central Bank has suspended the use of Greek
:11:19. > :11:26.government bonds by banks as collateral to get loans from the
:11:26. > :11:30.central bank. The temporary step comes as ratings firm Standard and
:11:30. > :11:35.Poor's has cut the rating of Greece to select a default.
:11:35. > :11:39.Aer Lingus has seen its annual profits more than double as it
:11:39. > :11:47.continues to benefit from extensive cost-cutting. The carrier made a
:11:47. > :11:51.pre-tax profit of over $100 million in 2011. His average income
:11:51. > :11:58.increased by more than 5% a stop the markets are looking positive.
:11:58. > :12:02.Mining stocks are doing reasonably well. -- its average income.
:12:02. > :12:07.Dozens of police and bailiffs have moved in to set up a camp set up
:12:07. > :12:11.four months ago at St Paul's Cathedral in London. The Occupy
:12:11. > :12:16.movement is opposed to what it sees as corporate greed. Some of the
:12:16. > :12:23.demonstrators put up barricades to try to delay the operation.
:12:23. > :12:30.Midnight at St Paul's - the occupy camp on full alert. -- the Occupy
:12:30. > :12:36.camp. The police, when they arrived, were in overwhelming numbers, here
:12:36. > :12:40.to clear a camp that has so sharply divided opinion. Scuffles, yes, but
:12:40. > :12:44.little violence. Resistance, but no hope of stopping the clearance
:12:44. > :12:48.sanctioned by the courts. The message went out for all supporters
:12:48. > :12:54.to come and join the cause. Police cordons made sure that did not
:12:54. > :13:00.happen. After so many months, such a long legal fight, this was a
:13:00. > :13:03.defining moment. I think this leads an opportunity for us to move
:13:03. > :13:07.sideways and be creative and innovative. This is very much not
:13:08. > :13:13.the beginning of the end, it is the end of the beginning. The court
:13:13. > :13:17.order was to remove tents and other structures. As that happened, a few
:13:17. > :13:25.of the most committed man the last barricade. Ultimately, the result
:13:25. > :13:32.was never in doubt. The camp here had been a central and potent
:13:32. > :13:36.symbol of their cause. You're watching BBC World News.
:13:36. > :13:44.Still to come: The latest on the cruise liner being rescued from
:13:44. > :13:54.drifting in the Indian Ocean. It may not seem obvious at first,
:13:54. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :14:01.but London's skyscraper known as the gherkin and the iPad have
:14:01. > :14:04.something in common - they are examples of British engineering and
:14:04. > :14:07.design. There is concern that Britain could lose its place at the
:14:07. > :14:10.cutting edge of innovation so the Queen Elizabeth Price has been
:14:10. > :14:17.launched. The winner will be someone who makes significant
:14:17. > :14:21.advances in engineering. One of the judges is Professor Brian Cox.
:14:21. > :14:23.is a genuine worldwide price for excellence in engineering. I
:14:23. > :14:27.suppose the closest you could compare it to would be the Nobel
:14:27. > :14:32.Prize. There is not a Nobel Prize for engineering but the intention
:14:32. > :14:36.is to have that level of prestige and prize-money. He is a �1 million
:14:36. > :14:40.prize. It is huge. What do you have to do to be nominated and to win?
:14:40. > :14:45.You have to be absolutely excellent. This is supposed to be the gold
:14:45. > :14:49.standard. I was thinking who would have won it in the past. The Wright
:14:49. > :14:54.brothers would have won it and the inventor of the transistor. It is a
:14:54. > :15:02.worldwide contribution to engineering. One of the reasons for
:15:02. > :15:12.the prizes to show that engineering is not just an Nis -- is not just a
:15:12. > :15:13.
:15:13. > :15:17.marginal thing, it is very much Anyone with children knows they
:15:17. > :15:21.start of being fascinated with science and design but they lose it
:15:21. > :15:26.when they get older. Is that true not only in Britain but around the
:15:27. > :15:32.world? It seems to be. The figures for Britain, when asked, only 14 %
:15:32. > :15:36.of boys and 9% of girls know what an engineer is. In Britain,
:15:36. > :15:43.something like 20 % of our economy is based on engineering. In China
:15:43. > :15:47.it is around a half. Globally, developing economies, major
:15:47. > :15:54.contributions in engineering. 25,000 engineering graduates a year
:15:54. > :16:01.in the UK, 500,000 Binya in India and China. His engineering still as
:16:01. > :16:06.popular in those countries? It's more popular. The rapidly growing
:16:06. > :16:11.sectors of the economy in China, India, Brazil, those countries. In
:16:11. > :16:21.Britain it has declined slightly as a percentage of our economy. It is
:16:21. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:31.The headlines. The British photographer Paul Conroy has been
:16:31. > :16:37.smuggled to safety, after being wounded in an attack in the Syrian
:16:37. > :16:44.city of Homs. And gunmen in northern Pakistan, 18 people have
:16:44. > :16:48.been killed. German politicians may have proved a bail-out for the
:16:48. > :16:52.Greek economy yesterday, but that's not pleased many Germans. An opera
:16:52. > :17:02.has opened in Berlin using the tensions between Germans and Greeks
:17:02. > :17:07.
:17:08. > :17:15.The euro as you've never seen it. In this new production, the euro
:17:15. > :17:24.has become a goddess to be worshipped, complete with halo. It
:17:24. > :17:29.is a reworking of an opera, but it is set in the European Central Bank.
:17:29. > :17:37.The heroine is a Greek who works as an intern there. This version is
:17:37. > :17:42.about what some Germans say about Greeks. It is typical for you as a
:17:42. > :17:52.Greek to take what is not yours. That is a phrase that makes the
:17:52. > :17:58.entire audience gasp. Many of the cast of Greek. The opera depicts
:17:58. > :18:03.attitudes and frictions. It is an opera about the very real drama,
:18:03. > :18:08.the eurozone, with all the operatic pain and demotion. But I have to
:18:09. > :18:15.tell you, there's no obvious, clear, happy ending. At this Greek taverna
:18:15. > :18:19.in Berlin, they don't expect happy ending in the real world either.
:18:19. > :18:26.Christos has a Greek father and German mother. He notices a rising
:18:26. > :18:33.tension between the two groups. does break my heart because I see
:18:33. > :18:37.the misunderstandings, but distrust and that beneath the friendly
:18:37. > :18:43.relationships there are all the stereotypes and cliches there.
:18:43. > :18:47.this meeting of Greeks in Berlin, some say they are patronised by
:18:47. > :18:54.Germans. Asked if they can pay their bills at the supermarket, for
:18:54. > :18:59.example. Some plan to go home. am aware that the situation in
:18:59. > :19:06.Greece this tragic, it's a disgrace for Una -- for a European country
:19:06. > :19:11.to be enforced to apply such austerity measures. But I believe
:19:11. > :19:18.that we all have to contribute so that Greece gets over this crisis.
:19:18. > :19:23.I am planning to go back. The euro was meant to bring countries closer
:19:23. > :19:33.together as economies merged. The drama which is the euro crisis is
:19:33. > :19:36.
:19:36. > :19:39.An Italian cruise ship which was adrift for more than 12 hours in
:19:39. > :19:44.the Indian Ocean with more than 1000 people on board is now being
:19:44. > :19:49.told to the Seychelles by a French trawler. The Costa Allegra was left
:19:49. > :19:57.without power when -- was left without prior went -- was left
:19:57. > :20:01.without power when a fire knocked out its generator. The ship was
:20:01. > :20:05.sailing from Madagascar. The fire in the ship's generator room
:20:05. > :20:10.coasted to lose all power. The fire was extinguished but the vessel now
:20:10. > :20:14.has no air conditioning or cooking facilities. And today, the 636
:20:14. > :20:17.passengers were served a cold breakfast. Apparently all the
:20:17. > :20:22.passengers and crew are safe. They all spent the night on the outside
:20:22. > :20:27.decks because the heat in the ship was too great and there was no
:20:27. > :20:32.lighting, so it was dangerous to be in the corridors. I believe they
:20:32. > :20:39.spend the night under the stars. The Costa Allegra is now heading
:20:39. > :20:44.for the Seychelles island of Des Roach. An industrial fishing vessel
:20:44. > :20:48.reached the Costa Allegra and they are to win the ship to the island.
:20:48. > :20:55.When they get there we are making arrangements for the evacuation of
:20:55. > :20:58.all the passengers and crew. From there, they will have some food,
:20:58. > :21:03.relax and speak to their families. Then we will organise for their
:21:03. > :21:08.transfer back to our international airport. It's been a bad year for
:21:08. > :21:13.the company. The ill-fated Costa Concordia ran aground and capsized
:21:13. > :21:18.off the coast of Italy in January. The Costa Allegra is from the same
:21:18. > :21:23.plate. What is crucial about this is it follows in the wake of the
:21:23. > :21:29.Costa Concordia, which I think is going to define this company for as
:21:29. > :21:33.long as it continues, which may not be that long. Somali pirates
:21:33. > :21:38.operate are round wide in the Indian Ocean, but they never cease
:21:38. > :21:41.to cruise ship before and members of the Italian navy's anti-piracy
:21:42. > :21:45.unit are on board the Costa Allegra as a precaution. The ship doesn't
:21:45. > :21:53.appear to be in any danger and the weather is good. But the priority
:21:53. > :21:57.is to get the passengers ashore. The company has given a statement
:21:57. > :22:00.saying the ship is not going to be taken to the island because of
:22:00. > :22:04.security conditions for mooring the ship. The logistics on that island
:22:04. > :22:08.are not enough. They will be told instead to the main island of the
:22:08. > :22:13.Seychelles with the help of two tugboats approaching the ship,
:22:13. > :22:17.which will allow it to increase its speed. It's due to arrive there on
:22:17. > :22:21.Thursday. A new report into the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan
:22:21. > :22:24.last year suggest the government did considered evacuating Tokyo.
:22:24. > :22:28.For the first time since last year's tsunami, international
:22:28. > :22:37.journalists are being allowed inside the Fukushima Daiichi
:22:37. > :22:42.reactor. Every day, around 3000 people are working inside the
:22:42. > :22:48.Fukushima plant. Before they go in they have to come here. This is the
:22:48. > :22:53.sitting upper room. What you have to wear to face the radiation...
:22:54. > :23:01.There is a plastic boiler suit, I've got double layer of plastic
:23:01. > :23:07.boots on as well. There are clubs, a surgical mask. And a full-face
:23:07. > :23:11.mask. It is to protect us from anything that is in the air. This
:23:12. > :23:16.is the main control centre. There are perhaps 100 or more men here,
:23:16. > :23:20.they are all men, sitting at laptops, monitoring what is going
:23:20. > :23:23.on in the reactors. The reactors themselves are next door. Because
:23:23. > :23:29.the air is filled it in here, they don't have to wear protective
:23:29. > :23:35.clothing. You can see on that wall, there are messages, good luck
:23:35. > :23:40.messages, including that Japanese flag. The Japanese character in the
:23:40. > :23:47.middle of that flat, that's a symbol for hope. It's only when you
:23:47. > :23:52.come here that you can appreciate the strength of the explosions that
:23:52. > :24:02.tour those reactor buildings apart. You can see a few men up their
:24:02. > :24:02.
:24:02. > :24:10.working in the skeleton of the buildings. It remains highly
:24:10. > :24:15.radioactive here and the challenge of decontaminating this area,
:24:15. > :24:18.dismantling this power station, it could take up to 40 years. It is
:24:18. > :24:22.almost a week until Russia's presidential election. The Prime
:24:22. > :24:29.Minister, Vladimir Putin, is expected to win, but his critics
:24:29. > :24:34.have been finding some unusual ways to express their descent. They've
:24:34. > :24:44.asked us not to reveal where they are. Or who they are. It is all
:24:44. > :24:49.very hush hush. But not for long. Feminist punk band are rehearsing
:24:49. > :24:54.their latest song about Vladimir Putin. And you don't need to
:24:54. > :25:00.understand Russian to realise they don't like him very much. Here,
:25:00. > :25:08.they pray Mr Putin will soon be traced from power. But why?
:25:08. > :25:14.TRANSLATION: She believes Mr Putin cheated in last year's
:25:14. > :25:19.parliamentary election. That's why she wants him out. When the band
:25:19. > :25:22.performing public that they select high-profile venues. Like this roof
:25:22. > :25:29.opposite a jail, where anti- government protesters had been
:25:29. > :25:34.locked up. Earlier this month they conquered Red Square and sang,
:25:34. > :25:38.Putin has wet himself. The concert only lasted a couple of minutes
:25:38. > :25:42.before the police turned up. Punk protest songs right on the
:25:42. > :25:46.Kremlin's doorstep. It shows just how much the political scene and
:25:46. > :25:54.the music scene have changed in Russia. After all, it wasn't so
:25:54. > :25:58.long ago that Vladimir Putin was Top Of the Pops. There was a time
:25:58. > :26:06.when girl bands sang his praises. We want a strong man like Vladimir
:26:06. > :26:12.Putin, they once crooned. And these artists sang, my love is called
:26:12. > :26:18.Vladimir Putin. Music critics welcome the change of tone.
:26:18. > :26:23.more people criticise the PoW were, but better it is for the society in
:26:23. > :26:30.general. That makes power realise they are vulnerable and they have
:26:30. > :26:35.to be vulnerable. They are not invincible. There is still one girl
:26:35. > :26:42.band which is packing -- which is backing Vladimir Putin for
:26:42. > :26:46.President. He's rapping Russian pensioners have become famous with
:26:46. > :26:49.a song about how clever and athletic Vladimir Putin is. They