:00:08. > :00:14.Belgium has observed one minute's silence for the 22 children and six
:00:14. > :00:17.adults who died in a school bus crash in Switzerland.
:00:17. > :00:23.With rising numbers of Syrian refugees crossing their border, the
:00:23. > :00:26.Turkish government says a security zone may have to be declared.
:00:26. > :00:31.After 10 years in office, the head of the Anglican communion,
:00:31. > :00:41.Archbishop Rowan Williams, is to resign.
:00:41. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:45.Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this programme: The Indian batsman
:00:45. > :00:51.Sachin Tendulkar has become the first player in international
:00:51. > :01:01.cricket to score 100 centuries in Test and one day internationals.
:01:01. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:19.The 4th and, one lucky dog saved And Belgium is holding a national
:01:19. > :01:23.day of mourning. Flowers have been flying at half mast, church bells
:01:23. > :01:31.rang out as the country observed a minute's silence for the victims.
:01:31. > :01:41.Some of the survivors have arrived home. 22 children and six adults
:01:41. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:49.died in the coach crash ended tunnel.
:01:49. > :01:52.They across Belgium, in minute's silence this morning, a chance to
:01:52. > :01:55.reflect on a single terrible accident which left so many dead,
:01:55. > :01:59.so many injured. It's been a declared a national
:01:59. > :02:02.mourning, in a country heartbroken by this crash. At the two schools
:02:02. > :02:05.where tributes to the children have been piling up, this was a
:02:05. > :02:08.particularly personal tragedy for many. A government plane arrive
:02:08. > :02:12.back in Brussels last night, carrying parents who had gone to
:02:12. > :02:18.see the place where their children had died. The dead have now been
:02:18. > :02:28.identified, and their bodies have been brought back to Belgium. Then
:02:28. > :02:29.
:02:29. > :02:33.the 28 funerals will get under way. From the Swiss authorities are
:02:33. > :02:37.still not sure why this happened on a dry road in clear conditions. The
:02:37. > :02:44.focus is on whether the driver who died in a crash may have been
:02:44. > :02:49.distracted, or whether he was suddenly taken ill. These are
:02:49. > :02:59.questions which will take some time to answer. For now, the focus is on
:02:59. > :03:02.remembering the dead and comforting the bereaved.
:03:03. > :03:06.A memorial has been created to the victims of the bus crash at St
:03:06. > :03:08.Lambertus School, in the Belgian town of Heverlee, where some of
:03:08. > :03:18.them were from. Hugh Schofield is near the area in
:03:18. > :03:19.
:03:19. > :03:26.Leuven. It was a very poignant moment. Warren Leuven, in the
:03:26. > :03:33.centre -- we were in. A stillness descended on the main square, in
:03:33. > :03:39.advance of the 11am chimes. For a moment, we stood in silence,
:03:39. > :03:46.everything stopped. The workers, the police, stood there, everything
:03:47. > :03:56.stopped. One minute later, all of the church bells across the nation
:03:57. > :04:02.
:04:02. > :04:06.burst out in a peal of Unison. -- unison. Poignancy, the children
:04:06. > :04:11.letting go of the white balloons into the sky, essentially for their
:04:11. > :04:19.friends. For them, a moment of excitement in the middle of this
:04:19. > :04:25.terribly sad day. Yes. Here, at the school, they had their moment as
:04:25. > :04:30.well. It is one of those moments, in any nation's lifetime, it
:04:30. > :04:38.becomes something people will never forget. The other aspect is the way
:04:38. > :04:42.it has brought the nation together. Belgium is not very good at being a
:04:42. > :04:46.nation, but this was a moment when all of the divisions between
:04:46. > :04:51.Flemish and French speakers, Brussels and the rest of the
:04:51. > :04:55.country, were completely forgotten, and people remembered they belong
:04:55. > :05:01.to a single community and that matters. So many things still to
:05:01. > :05:06.work through, as the bodies of the victims come back to Belgium. Not
:05:06. > :05:15.least how funeral ceremonies will take place. Is it clear whether
:05:15. > :05:20.there will be burials and funerals together? We do not know. Until the
:05:20. > :05:24.parents of the dead are all back and have had time to consult their
:05:24. > :05:33.communities, I do not think there will be a decision. The parish
:05:33. > :05:38.priest here, who has been a great help to us, to the families, he
:05:38. > :05:42.says that he suspects there will be some kind of joint patrol. Nothing
:05:42. > :05:49.will be decided until the parents have had time to speak to their
:05:49. > :05:52.families, to the school, then there will be a collective decision.
:05:52. > :05:55.Turkey is urging its citizens in Syria to leave, and says some
:05:55. > :05:58.consular services will be halted in Damascus. A statement just released
:05:58. > :06:00.by the Turkish Foreign Ministry says developments in Syria have
:06:00. > :06:05.brought about serious security risks for Turkish citizens, and
:06:05. > :06:14.they are "strongly urged to come home." With more on this, the BBC's
:06:14. > :06:18.Jonathan Head is on the line from the Turkey/Syria border.
:06:18. > :06:25.A suggestion of a need for a security zone, what does this
:06:25. > :06:35.amount to? It allows it to Turkey and is bidding a serious
:06:35. > :06:37.
:06:37. > :06:44.deterioration in the situation. -- anticipating. 1000 more refugees
:06:44. > :06:47.are expected every day. Journalists from Turkey are reported to being
:06:47. > :06:53.the house of the Syrian security forces but reports they may have
:06:53. > :06:57.been tortured. There is talk of a safe zone, something taught about
:06:57. > :07:01.behind the scenes but never publicly acknowledged by the
:07:01. > :07:05.Turkish government because it would involve troops going over the
:07:05. > :07:09.border and securing an area where people fleeing from the forces of
:07:09. > :07:12.President Assad could be secured. Yesterday, the Deputy Prime
:07:12. > :07:17.Minister have brought it into the opening saying they are considering
:07:18. > :07:22.it. The Prime Minister who has a decisive say has said he wants to
:07:22. > :07:26.see a safe area. They still haven't spelt out how they could do that.
:07:26. > :07:33.Realistically, for Turkey to send its troops over the border to
:07:33. > :07:35.Secure and area is a very big step. Until now official government
:07:35. > :07:40.policy has been they won't do that unless they have international
:07:40. > :07:45.support. Briefly, they know if they do that
:07:45. > :07:50.the Syrian government will say that is an act of aggression? They well,
:07:50. > :07:55.there is no doubt they would expect a hostile reaction. While they talk
:07:55. > :07:59.about it is not a step they may not be ready for. Even if there wasn't
:07:59. > :08:09.an international mandate they were on the clear support of the US and
:08:09. > :08:11.
:08:11. > :08:14.Western European countries and the Arab League.
:08:14. > :08:17.The business news now. India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
:08:17. > :08:20.has unveiled the country's annual budget, and says the economy is
:08:20. > :08:25.turning around. During the last three months of 2011, the economy
:08:25. > :08:30.grew at its slowest pace in three years. The main measures in the
:08:30. > :08:33.budget include: Reducing subsidies of goods such as fuel, food and
:08:33. > :08:41.fertiliser, from 2.5% of gross domestic product, or the size of
:08:41. > :08:46.the economy, to 1.7% from 2013. Plans to bring down the budget
:08:46. > :08:49.deficit, from 5.9%, to 5.1% of the GDP, in the next financial year.
:08:49. > :08:54.And a host of initiatives to increase spending on farmers and
:08:54. > :09:02.the rural poor. Nitin Desai is a former chief
:09:02. > :09:08.economic adviser to the Indian government.
:09:08. > :09:13.Has the budget lived up to expectations? I would say it
:09:13. > :09:17.received a lukewarm response. It has made some effort but correction
:09:17. > :09:23.but not enough to bring interest rates down. A brave attempt to
:09:23. > :09:30.restore confidence and the idea of high growth which is an incentive
:09:30. > :09:37.for savers, Investment and in front -- of foreign investors. And a
:09:37. > :09:41.brave attempt at governance, the promise of measures against tax
:09:41. > :09:50.evasion, and the proposals on direct delivery of subsidies to
:09:50. > :09:55.people who are entitled to them. All in all, a middling budget.
:09:55. > :09:59.mentioned subsidies. They played a significant role in India's economy.
:09:59. > :10:04.This Budget will cut those subsidies. What reaction will there
:10:04. > :10:09.be politically and from people on the streets? I would say he has
:10:09. > :10:14.promised to cut subsidies rather than actually cut them. What he has
:10:14. > :10:19.done is projected what subsidies would be as a proportion of GDP. I
:10:19. > :10:25.didn't hear any substantial change in the basis of the subsidies. What
:10:25. > :10:29.he has promised his we would reduce leakages by making sure it gets to
:10:29. > :10:34.the people who are supposed to get the subsidies. Down the line, we
:10:34. > :10:40.will have to look at how we address this, but I wouldn't say he has
:10:40. > :10:47.actually changed the rules, which would define how much a subsidy has
:10:47. > :10:51.been paid, as yet. He has just promised to do that. One of the
:10:51. > :10:56.main focus is of the budget is reducing the budget deficit. With
:10:56. > :11:02.slowing economic growth, how realistic is that? I would say that
:11:03. > :11:07.it is reasonably realistic, the aim of 5.1% is still more than the
:11:07. > :11:11.projected deficit last year was. He needs to get down even further, if
:11:11. > :11:18.he is to get back to the sort of medium-term targets that the
:11:18. > :11:26.government had given itself in its fiscal bill. He has still a lot of
:11:26. > :11:30.work to do in the year ahead. Fiat's car assembly lines are set
:11:30. > :11:33.to grind to a halt on Friday, as lorry drivers blockade its
:11:33. > :11:37.factories in Italy. It's part of an ongoing protest by trade unions
:11:37. > :11:43.against changes to pay and conditions by the motor giant. At
:11:43. > :11:46.the same time, Fiat bosses will meet Prime Minister Mario Monti.
:11:46. > :11:51.They'll argue that the changes are essential if Fiat is to keep making
:11:51. > :11:58.cars at its five plants across Italy. We're joined by Jorn
:11:58. > :12:03.Madslien, who covers the motor industry for the BBC.
:12:03. > :12:09.The chief executive of fee and has long said he is happy to make cars
:12:09. > :12:14.within Italy, as long as Italian plants can be competitive on a
:12:14. > :12:18.global basis. But he has measured this with what has been perceived
:12:18. > :12:28.as a threat to move production to the US or Canada where its alliance
:12:28. > :12:30.partner has plenty of spare capacity Other news on Friday.
:12:30. > :12:34.European Union leaders have agreed to ban financial money transfers
:12:34. > :12:36.for hundreds of blacklisted Iranian people and firms. The ban will
:12:36. > :12:39.start from Saturday, and mainly affect payments via the SWIFT
:12:40. > :12:42.international settlement system. It's the latest in a new round of
:12:42. > :12:46.sanctions, intended to persuade Iran to end its development of
:12:46. > :12:48.nuclear technology. The EU has also banned oil imports from the Middle
:12:48. > :12:51.East nation. Russian aluminium giant Rusal will
:12:51. > :12:54.pick a new chairman today. The candidate will be chosen from its
:12:54. > :12:55.slate of independent directors during a board meetingy. Russian
:12:56. > :12:57.billionaire Viktor Vekselberg stepped down, following an
:12:57. > :13:01.acrimonious row with RUSAL's controlling shareholder Oleg
:13:01. > :13:04.Deripaska. China has detained Wu Yidian Eden,
:13:04. > :13:09.an employee of Standard Chartered Bank, as part of an investigation
:13:09. > :13:13.into one of her clients. Ms Wu was detained by police on 6 March, but
:13:13. > :13:16.has not been charged with any crime. A client of Ms Wu has been accused
:13:16. > :13:19.of fleeing China, after stealing almost $50 million from a state-
:13:19. > :13:29.owned bank. Standard Chartered Bank confirmed that Ms Wu has been
:13:29. > :13:33.
:13:33. > :13:36.detained, but said the bank was not under any investigation.
:13:37. > :13:41.Let us take a look at the markets. It has been a pretty good at
:13:41. > :13:45.reading in it Europe. The London market could end the week on a high,
:13:45. > :13:54.tried to breach that 6,000 mark. Benefiting from a strong
:13:54. > :14:04.performance in the US. The Dow Jones ending on a high. Pushed up
:14:04. > :14:06.
:14:06. > :14:10.by those jobless claims figures, now down by 14,000. Plenty more
:14:10. > :14:20.still to come, including, as the Archbishop of Canterbury announces
:14:20. > :14:24.
:14:24. > :14:28.he is to resign, we consider his Four months until the Olympics
:14:28. > :14:32.arrive in London. When the greatest sporting show on earth does get
:14:32. > :14:36.here, the organisers are keen to make sure the British capital has
:14:36. > :14:41.that Olympic city feel, which means that some of its most famous
:14:41. > :14:46.landmarks are in for a makeover. What can we expect London to look
:14:46. > :14:49.like during the Games? We have an idea of how the Olympic
:14:49. > :14:55.venues are going to look and feel during the Games and what sort of
:14:55. > :14:58.atmosphere they will have with massive crowds, but how will the
:14:58. > :15:02.organisers get this excitement and colour into the rest of the
:15:02. > :15:06.capital? We have seen how the Olympic rings will travel to
:15:06. > :15:11.different places along be tense, and this is how they will be
:15:11. > :15:16.mounted on to Tower Bridge, and how other landmarks will be decorated.
:15:16. > :15:21.Now we have been given a first look at the flags and banners that will
:15:21. > :15:26.go up around the capital. It is really important that London shows
:15:26. > :15:31.the world that we are ready to celebrate the Games. We have
:15:32. > :15:35.ordered 200 miles worth of bunting. We will have the Olympic rings on
:15:35. > :15:41.the River Thames. This will be streets dressing that will make
:15:41. > :15:45.people feel that they are in an Olympic city. All of the boroughs
:15:45. > :15:51.are getting �50,000 from the mayor to dress up the streets in Olympic
:15:51. > :15:57.colours, like Kia in Greenwich. But do we really need all of these
:15:57. > :16:02.decorations? It is a good idea to have banners, but I would imagine
:16:02. > :16:08.it could be done more cheaply. is a nice touch, but it is not
:16:08. > :16:14.important. London has lots of interesting things to look at
:16:14. > :16:18.already. It will make everyone feel like they're part of the Olympics.
:16:19. > :16:24.It is the more dramatic plans for London's famous buildings that will
:16:24. > :16:28.be remembered around the world. They will project images of
:16:28. > :16:32.athletes on to the palaces of Westminster, and they are speaking
:16:32. > :16:38.about changing those images during the Games to celebrate medal-
:16:38. > :16:42.winners. This is costing �32 million, and it is coming out of
:16:42. > :16:52.the money which London council taxpayers have put towards the
:16:52. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :16:59.Games. Organisers want London to look its best for the Olympic Games.
:16:59. > :17:04.You're watching BBC World News. The headlines: The people of Belgium
:17:04. > :17:11.have marked one minute's silence for the 22 children and six adults
:17:11. > :17:14.killed in a school coach crash in Switzerland. India's cricketing
:17:14. > :17:20.sensation Sachin Tendulkar has found his way at last into the
:17:20. > :17:25.record books. He becomes the first to score 100 international
:17:25. > :17:30.centuries. He reached the milestone against Bangladesh.
:17:30. > :17:36.Dr Rowan Williams has announced he is stepping down in December this
:17:36. > :17:42.year as Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr Williams has led to the 18
:17:42. > :17:46.million strong worldwide Anglican Communion at since 2002. He will be
:17:46. > :17:51.taking up an academic post as Master of Magdalene College in
:17:51. > :17:56.Cambridge. Why is he going? He has released a
:17:56. > :18:01.statement. He said it had been an immense privilege doing this job
:18:01. > :18:06.for the last decade and it was difficult to choose when to go, but
:18:06. > :18:12.he does not expressly say why he has decided to leave. It may be
:18:12. > :18:16.that come December he will have completed one decade in the role.
:18:16. > :18:21.It seems a bit irreverent that the bookmakers of all people are
:18:21. > :18:26.already trying to decide who will take his place. Is there any clear
:18:26. > :18:32.message on that? Dr Rowan Williams says that he
:18:32. > :18:37.wants the successor that God wants. So there is no guidance from Dr
:18:37. > :18:42.Rowan Williams on that. We have already had tributes to him at from
:18:42. > :18:49.one of his possible successors, Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of
:18:49. > :18:54.York. He said that Dr Williams had done a fantastic job but that he
:18:54. > :19:01.had it been a much maligned during his time here. John Sentamu is
:19:01. > :19:05.known as the cleric of the people. He was born in Uganda. Dr Williams
:19:05. > :19:10.said that whoever went on to do the job would need to have the
:19:10. > :19:14.constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros, because whoever
:19:14. > :19:17.comes into the job will get a lot of criticism.
:19:17. > :19:23.The authorities in Thailand say that in the course of the last six
:19:23. > :19:28.months they have rescued around 2000 dogs destined for the dare
:19:28. > :19:35.tables of south-east Asia. From Thailand, here is Jonah Fisher. --
:19:35. > :19:44.In a tables. The home at last, Tao Tao's
:19:44. > :19:49.incredible journey has more than a touch of Hollywood about it. A
:19:49. > :19:55.fireworks display scared Tao Tao and he disappeared. After weeks of
:19:55. > :20:00.searching, his owner had almost given up. He is like a member of
:20:00. > :20:04.the family. The first week he went missing, we could not sleep at all.
:20:04. > :20:11.We would get up in the middle of the night whenever we heard dogs
:20:11. > :20:16.barking. Weeks later, the owner's hopes rose again when he saw a
:20:16. > :20:21.television report on a successful operation by the police in Thailand.
:20:21. > :20:26.A lorry carrying more than 800 batterer dogs in cages was stopped
:20:27. > :20:32.as it was trying to leave the country. Their destination was
:20:32. > :20:37.Vietnam, where Dr Mead is considered a delicacy. The last six
:20:37. > :20:47.months has seen a sharp rise in the number of dog stolen to order. --
:20:47. > :20:52.dog meat. The animals were brought to this shelter in the countryside.
:20:52. > :20:56.There are already 2000 rescued dogs year. Some of them were originally
:20:56. > :21:02.strays picked up off the streets, but looking at the condition and
:21:02. > :21:07.the callers on some of them, it is clear that at least one quarter are
:21:07. > :21:14.still in domestic pets. In hope rather than expectation, the owner
:21:14. > :21:17.of the missing dog travel to the shelter. The manager remembers the
:21:17. > :21:23.emotion of the visit. He found his dog down there and came back
:21:24. > :21:30.carrying him in his arms. His wife said, is that Tao Tao, and he could
:21:30. > :21:36.not answer because he was crying so much. Tao Tao is the only stolen
:21:36. > :21:39.dog who was found by his owner. Thailand is a Buddhist country and
:21:39. > :21:45.many people believe in reincarnation between animals and
:21:45. > :21:52.humans. So these dogs will that be put down, even if no one comes to
:21:52. > :21:57.claim them. Tao Tao's epic trek is over, but his owner says that fear
:21:57. > :22:02.of kidnap means that many owners are thinking twice before letting
:22:02. > :22:07.their pet off the leash. The format UN Secretary General
:22:07. > :22:13.Kofi Annan will brief the Security Council on his attempts to end the
:22:13. > :22:17.escalating violence in Syria. We also understand there will be a UN
:22:17. > :22:25.humanitarian mission to visit some cities in the country, including
:22:25. > :22:32.Hamas. We can speak to a resident of that city. He cannot get out of
:22:32. > :22:42.his house. If this nation gets to the city, what will they find
:22:42. > :22:45.
:22:45. > :22:50.there? After one year of the revelation in Syria, they can see
:22:50. > :22:56.snipers all around the city. They can see snipers on the roofs of the
:22:56. > :23:03.hospitals. All across the city there are security forces and
:23:03. > :23:13.checkpoints. There are tanks in the city. Sometimes the tangs are
:23:13. > :23:19.
:23:19. > :23:26.shelling the houses of people. Even the schools. -- tanks. Could you
:23:26. > :23:36.get out of the city, even if you wanted to? Yes. Many people in the
:23:36. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:46.City are wanted, so we cannot move. We hide all the time. Yesterday
:23:46. > :23:52.there were many shootings. Can you still hear me? I am afraid we have
:23:52. > :23:59.lost the line. We were getting a sense of what it is like in the
:23:59. > :24:04.city. There is still fighting going on in the city.
:24:04. > :24:09.A man who really fought for this, India's cricketing legend Sachin
:24:09. > :24:14.Tendulkar has finally got his wish and his 100th international century.
:24:15. > :24:19.He reached the elusive record during the first of four one-day
:24:19. > :24:23.matches between India and Bangladesh. He has been playing
:24:23. > :24:29.international cricket for more than 20 years and is a massive hero not
:24:29. > :24:35.only in his home country but around the world. England captain Andrew
:24:35. > :24:40.Strauss explained what an achievement it is. He is the
:24:40. > :24:47.yardstick by which other players have been measured over the last 10
:24:47. > :24:51.years. It is an amazing achievement without precedent. It shows a rare
:24:51. > :24:57.combination of amazing skill, massive application and great drive
:24:57. > :25:02.and desire. But also being able to keep a calm head when there is
:25:02. > :25:10.massive expectations on his shoulders. It is an amazing feat by
:25:10. > :25:18.an amazing cricketer. That was Andrew Strauss. Joining me from
:25:18. > :25:26.Delhi is a commentator on cricket. What does this mean for Indians?
:25:26. > :25:31.Most of all, a massive sigh of relief. He got his nine her -- he
:25:31. > :25:41.got century 99 at last year. At every moment, when it appeared he
:25:41. > :25:41.
:25:41. > :25:46.would cross the hurdle, as he failed. The expectations of
:25:46. > :25:50.billions of people were perhaps weighing on him. Lots of people
:25:50. > :25:56.will be relieved and happy for him. Messages of congratulations have
:25:56. > :26:00.been pouring in from the Prime Minister, the president, and lots
:26:00. > :26:06.of ordinary Indians. He will probably get lots of runs
:26:06. > :26:11.now that the pressure is off once again. He is 39, how much longer
:26:11. > :26:14.can he go on for? Exactly, he has spent more than two
:26:14. > :26:19.decades playing international cricket which is an amazing
:26:19. > :26:26.achievement. It is something that that lots of people have been
:26:26. > :26:31.asking, how much longer can he carry on? The Indian team has not
:26:31. > :26:35.done very well of late. They did it rather badly in Australia over the
:26:35. > :26:41.last few weeks. Lots of people recognise that he is coming close
:26:41. > :26:43.to the end of a fabulous career. That is one reason why lots of
:26:43. > :26:49.people have been hoping and praying that he would reach this
:26:49. > :26:53.achievement. Thank you very much. Look at for