:00:12. > :00:14.This is BBC World News. The top stories: Prosecutors in the Oscar
:00:14. > :00:18.Pistorius murder case say the lead detective should be dropped, after
:00:18. > :00:20.it emerged he himself faces charges of attempted murder. A car bomb
:00:21. > :00:26.rocks central Damascus, near the headquarters of the ruling Ba'ath
:00:26. > :00:29.Party. Reports say at least 30 people have been killed. Fans of
:00:29. > :00:39.Tottenham Hotspur are ambushed in a pub in France, in what appears to
:00:39. > :00:40.
:00:40. > :00:42.be an attack inspired by anti- Semitism. And we find out why these
:00:42. > :00:52.schoolchildren in Gaza are being encouraged by Hamas to learn Hebrew
:00:52. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:07.- even though they call it the Prosecutors in South Africa have
:01:07. > :01:12.called for the lead detective on the Oscar Pistorius murder case to
:01:12. > :01:15.be dropped. Hilton Botha took the stand on Wedesday at Mr Pistorius'
:01:15. > :01:20.bail hearing, to describe the scene at Oscar Pistorius home, on the
:01:20. > :01:23.night Reeva Steenkamp died. But now, police have confirmed that the
:01:23. > :01:33.detective himself faces seven murder charges over a shooting
:01:33. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:39.incident three years ago. The national prosecuting authority says
:01:39. > :01:42.it is up to police to decide whether to take Detective Hilton
:01:42. > :01:46.Botha of the case. The issue of credibility of an investigating
:01:46. > :01:53.officer can easily be dealt w he can be removed from the case. That
:01:53. > :01:58.is a decision the police will have to take. There is a team that works
:01:58. > :02:05.with forensics and things that do not depend on a person. We will be
:02:05. > :02:08.live at the court house later in the programme. A powerful car bomb
:02:08. > :02:11.has exploded near the headquarters of Syria's ruling Ba'ath party in
:02:11. > :02:14.the centre of Damascus. The blast happened in the central Mazraa
:02:14. > :02:16.neighborhood. At least 30 people are reported to have been killed
:02:16. > :02:26.and dozens more wounded. Syrian State TV says schoolchildren are
:02:26. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:29.among the casualties. James Reynolds has been following the
:02:29. > :02:33.story from neighbouring Turkey. He told me that the exact target of
:02:33. > :02:37.the bombers is still unclear. are trying to establish whether or
:02:37. > :02:41.not this was the Ba'ath Party head quarters, or the intelligence
:02:41. > :02:46.building of the Party. We are getting reports the explosion
:02:46. > :02:51.happened near to the Russian Embassy. Russia is a strong ally of
:02:52. > :02:57.Syria and we hear the windows in their Embassy were blown out.
:02:57. > :03:02.the same time there is an important meeting taking place in Cairo at
:03:02. > :03:07.the same time as the a Arab league and Russia have come forward with
:03:07. > :03:11.suggests -- suggestions for a way fore ward. The Syrian opposition
:03:12. > :03:16.meeting in Cairo is suggesting it is willing to negotiate with the
:03:16. > :03:21.Syrian authorities. But it does not want president Assad to be what it
:03:21. > :03:24.calls a party to any kind of agreement. In other words, talks
:03:24. > :03:28.yes, negotiations with president Assad no. That may not work with
:03:28. > :03:32.the Syrian Government. They have stressed that president Assad is
:03:32. > :03:35.the final address for all negotiations. But there is another
:03:35. > :03:41.development between Russia and the Arab league. Particularly the
:03:41. > :03:46.statement there, does it look as if Russia is changing its position?
:03:46. > :03:51.is difficult to tell, I think one thing that we sometimes overlook is
:03:51. > :03:55.that Russia's interest is not necessarily in the preservation of
:03:55. > :04:00.president Assad, but in the preservation of its own interests
:04:00. > :04:05.in Syria. We have heard statements from the Russian Government and the
:04:05. > :04:10.Prime Minister suggesting that even if president Assad goes, that is
:04:10. > :04:16.something they are contemplating. But Russia will at one point want
:04:16. > :04:20.to reaffirm its alliance with president Assad but will want to
:04:20. > :04:30.find a way to explore links with the opposition and make sure that
:04:30. > :04:30.
:04:30. > :04:34.Russia's influence continues. you. Two American cardinals who are
:04:34. > :04:36.due to travel to Rome to elect the new pope, are being questioned
:04:36. > :04:38.about child abuse cases against priests under their supervision.
:04:38. > :04:41.The Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, was
:04:41. > :04:44.questioned for three hours by lawyers. They represent hundreds of
:04:44. > :04:46.people who claim they were sexually abused. The retired archbishop of
:04:46. > :04:50.Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony will be questioned under oath on
:04:50. > :04:54.Saturday. Police in Portugal say they've seized forged Euro notes
:04:54. > :05:03.with a face value of nearly 400,000 euros. One man was detained during
:05:03. > :05:06.the operation in Oporto. It's the second big find of forged euros in
:05:06. > :05:08.the city this month. Police say the euro's growing importance as an
:05:08. > :05:10.international currency makes it increasingly attractive target for
:05:10. > :05:13.organised crime. A former United States Democratic congressman,
:05:13. > :05:21.Jesse Jackson Junior, has pleaded guilty to misusing about $750,000
:05:21. > :05:29.of campaign money to fund a lavish lifestyle. Mr Jackson is the son of
:05:29. > :05:33.the civil rights leader. He said he was sorry he had let the American
:05:33. > :05:36.people down. He faces a maximum of five years in prison. A group of
:05:36. > :05:39.fans of the British team Tottenham Hotspur has been attacked in the
:05:40. > :05:43.city of Lyon on the eve of the team's Europa League tie. The Spurs
:05:43. > :05:51.supporters were drinking in a pub when a group of men, believed to be
:05:51. > :05:54.right wing extremists, forced their way in. Earlier I spoke to Dave
:05:54. > :06:03.Eales, the Landlord of The Smoking Dog pub in Lyon. He described what
:06:03. > :06:10.happened. Around quarter past 10 last night we were attack, the
:06:10. > :06:15.front of the pub, we are on a pedestrianised street and there are
:06:15. > :06:19.doors with reinforced glass were attacked by a group of 40 or 50
:06:19. > :06:25.people. They were throwing projectiles, tables and chairs,
:06:25. > :06:29.which they picked up on their way. In retaliation the Tottenham fans
:06:29. > :06:36.had table and chairs the other way. They didn't come in the bar. Then
:06:36. > :06:45.they came back a second time within ten minutes. And three injured
:06:45. > :06:51.people, flying glass etc. I don't understand, I think they're OK.
:06:51. > :07:00.do you think they were? First I want to say that the Tottenham fans
:07:00. > :07:07.were fantastic. They were brilliant. I know who the people are.
:07:07. > :07:10.Unfortunately. That is the landlord of that pub in France. It's three
:07:10. > :07:13.months since the short war between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza.
:07:13. > :07:16.Since then for the first time in decades, Palestinian children in
:07:16. > :07:21.Gaza are being taught Hebrew, spoken of course in Israel. There
:07:21. > :07:24.are some similarities with Arabic. The Hamas government has begun
:07:24. > :07:34.encouraging pupils to learn what it calls "the language of the enemy."
:07:34. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:47.Here's our Gaza correspondent Jon Donnison. A foreign tongue in Gaza.
:07:47. > :07:52.Hebrew, the language of Israel, now being taught to Palestinian
:07:52. > :07:57.children in Hamas schools. They're keen to learn. But for these
:07:57. > :08:03.youngsters, it is not about building bridges with their long
:08:03. > :08:09.time foes. It is the language of our enemy. To attack them from our
:08:09. > :08:14.language they think that we are not, they think that we are afeared from
:08:14. > :08:22.them. They think you're afraid? afraid of them and we want to tell
:08:22. > :08:27.them we are not afraid from them. TRANSLATION: If we meet an Israel
:08:27. > :08:36.Israeli and they're speaking Hebrew, it means if they are planning
:08:37. > :08:41.something bad, we will now. -- know. Hamas has had to teach more
:08:41. > :08:47.teachers, although there is little practical use for the language.
:08:47. > :08:54.Thousands of children are learning hue brew, but very few have been to
:08:54. > :08:59.Israel and very few have met an Israeli. At the border there is
:08:59. > :09:04.little traffic in or out of Gaza. In previous generations, thousands
:09:04. > :09:08.of Palestinians used to head into Israel each day for work. But
:09:08. > :09:17.Israel's blockade and the conflict with Hamas means those days are
:09:17. > :09:22.long gone. Now the only time most people may need Hebrew is when
:09:22. > :09:27.shopping to decipher labels on imported goods. But Hamas said the
:09:27. > :09:37.language is still worth learning. The Government wants the children
:09:37. > :09:40.
:09:40. > :09:48.to know the language of the Israelis. Why? To understand them,
:09:48. > :09:51.to prevent them to deceive us. To know how they think. In other words,
:09:51. > :09:56.Palestinian and Israeli children might be speaking the same language,
:09:56. > :10:01.but the mistrust is as strong as ever. And the walls and fences that
:10:01. > :10:11.separate the two communities are a constant reminder of the bar
:10:11. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:18.tkwhraers remain. Now the Italy which votes in a general election
:10:18. > :10:25.this weekend. An ailing economy and political scandals have left them
:10:25. > :10:30.weiry and angry. Our correspondent has been travelling across Italy by
:10:30. > :10:40.train sampling the mood. She has moved from Florence to Milan. What
:10:40. > :10:45.is the assessment there? We are at a Lally -- rally of the Five Star
:10:45. > :10:53.movement that is calling for an overhaul of the political
:10:53. > :10:57.establishment and t it is expected to grab 20% of the vote.
:10:57. > :11:02.problem with the political people in Italy, they want only to use the
:11:02. > :11:07.money, the public money for themselves and we want to change
:11:07. > :11:11.this and we have a big force on this, we are the force of the
:11:11. > :11:16.people. We have the lack of faith about the promise about our future
:11:16. > :11:26.here. So most of us, yeah, there is a great movement of protest. We
:11:26. > :11:26.
:11:26. > :11:31.hope we can change something with this. The Government is very old
:11:31. > :11:39.and they're all about their own business. So we need something new.
:11:39. > :11:46.We need a change. And we need a chance for the young people to make
:11:46. > :11:52.something new and real. We have 20 years with Silvio Berlusconi. We
:11:52. > :11:58.don't have a job or money or freedom, the press in Italy is a
:11:58. > :12:07.disaster. They just tell us what they want to tell us. And there is
:12:07. > :12:10.no chance to for -- for a way out for this. One of the movement's
:12:10. > :12:17.main proposals is to put real people in Parliament, including
:12:17. > :12:23.house wive and the unemployed. One representative is an Italian
:12:23. > :12:29.needian. But his a controversial figure. Some say he is too quick to
:12:29. > :12:37.attack the status quo without providing solutions. You're with
:12:37. > :12:47.BBC world news. Coming up: A trip to what look like a scene under the
:12:47. > :12:52.sea and how these jets support unusual wildlife. Now the China
:12:52. > :13:02.where a vigorous public debate has been sparked by the trial of a
:13:02. > :13:03.
:13:03. > :13:10.pensioner arked of a - accused of the murder of a doctor. We have
:13:10. > :13:18.only got the most basic detail. The defendant is a man coulded Mr Chu.
:13:18. > :13:22.We don't have his given name. We know the trial is taking place in a
:13:22. > :13:28.district in the east and we know it relates to a crime dating back more
:13:28. > :13:33.than 40 years that took place in 1967, the murder of a doctor at the
:13:33. > :13:43.height of the cultural revolution. Just a year after Claire man Mao
:13:43. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:51.Degan the de deck vaid of vie leps. -- chairman Mao began the decade of
:13:51. > :13:56.violence. It was a brutal crime. The cultural revolution is still a
:13:56. > :14:04.taboo subject, but the case prompted a debate and people are
:14:04. > :14:08.asking why when very few officials were held to account for that very
:14:08. > :14:12.traumatic period, this single man from an eastern Chinese province
:14:12. > :14:17.should find himself on trial. it be said that some kind of
:14:17. > :14:22.political point is being made by bring him to trial at the age of
:14:22. > :14:28.more than 80? It is very unclear whether there is something bigger
:14:28. > :14:34.at work. The authorities say that the initial arrest warrant for Mr
:14:34. > :14:39.CHU was issued in the 80s and it is only now he is being found and put
:14:39. > :14:45.on trial. Given that he is more than 80, the trial is going ahead.
:14:46. > :14:51.But even some of China's state media, the communist party youth
:14:51. > :14:57.daily has been issuing some strong language and one editorial
:14:57. > :15:02.suggested that China needs to revisit and discuss the dull churl
:15:02. > :15:07.-- cultural revolution and compared the crimes of the time to the Nazi
:15:07. > :15:11.atrocities in Europe. Very strong language. It said if a proper
:15:11. > :15:21.discussion isn't held there is a danger of the violence and
:15:21. > :15:26.
:15:26. > :15:29.criminality of those times You're with BBC World News. Let me
:15:29. > :15:34.give you the latest headlines. South African prosecutors have
:15:34. > :15:38.called for the lead detective on the Oscar Pistorius case to be
:15:38. > :15:42.dropped after it emerged he faces charges of attempted murder.
:15:42. > :15:46.Reports say at least 30 people have been killed by a car bomb, a
:15:46. > :15:49.powerful bomb in Damascus, the capital. It happened near the
:15:49. > :15:53.headquarters of the ruling Ba'ath Party.
:15:53. > :15:57.There is confusion over the fate of seven hostages kidnapped by
:15:57. > :16:01.militants in Cameroon. Some media reports suggest that the hostages
:16:01. > :16:05.had been found alive at a house in northern Nigeria. The group, all
:16:05. > :16:09.from the same family, were captured by Islamist militants earlier this
:16:09. > :16:14.week. They were on a trip to the Waza National Park, which is near
:16:14. > :16:17.the Nigerian border with Cameroon. The BBC's Hugh Schofield gave me
:16:17. > :16:21.this update on the confusion from Paris.
:16:21. > :16:26.Nothing is confirmed, and there is a statement now out of the Foreign
:16:26. > :16:30.Ministry saying do not jump to any lacety conclusions. There have been
:16:30. > :16:35.media reports from the region, mainly from the Cameroon side, from
:16:35. > :16:39.unnamed officials there saying that the seven have been found at a
:16:39. > :16:45.house in north-eastern Nigeria, that they're safe. They had been
:16:45. > :16:48.abandoned by their captors who fled, but that's not confirmed. I think
:16:48. > :16:51.the procedure from the French official point of view is we don't
:16:51. > :16:58.say anything until there is a sign of life, and that hasn't been
:16:58. > :17:01.provided yet. Now, some of the world's richest
:17:01. > :17:07.internet entrepreneurs have announced plans to create the
:17:07. > :17:11.largest prize in history. Mark Zuckerberg has joined forces with
:17:11. > :17:21.Google and Apple to create the breakthrough prize. It's urging
:17:21. > :17:25.more young people to take up science. The BBC's David Willist
:17:25. > :17:29.asked Mark Zuckerberg why do you support this prize? I just think
:17:29. > :17:35.that there should be more people in society who go into solving these
:17:35. > :17:39.problems. I think one of the ways to do this is society needs more
:17:39. > :17:42.heroes that are the scientists and researchers and engineers working
:17:42. > :17:45.on these problems. These people are actually doing the amazing work
:17:45. > :17:49.themself, but what we can do is create this institution and prize
:17:49. > :17:52.that can celebrate and reward the work these folks are doing to
:17:52. > :17:57.hopefully encourage more of the next generation of young people to
:17:57. > :18:02.go into what we think is important work. Should we be surprised that
:18:02. > :18:05.you're joining forces with somebody from Google, somebody from Apple in
:18:05. > :18:09.bringing this to reality? I don't think so. All of these companies
:18:09. > :18:13.work together in a lot more ways than people think. Also, I just
:18:13. > :18:18.have a lot of respect for the work they have done. Technology and
:18:18. > :18:22.science are very closely related, and one of the big differences is
:18:22. > :18:27.in information technology, if you make some breakthrough, you can
:18:27. > :18:30.make a lot of money. Whereas in science, the specific researchers
:18:30. > :18:33.and scientists working on this often don't. We think that's a
:18:33. > :18:37.market failure, and the people that are making these contributions to
:18:37. > :18:41.society should be rewarded in large way just like the best computer
:18:41. > :18:46.scientists and engineers are. That's a big part of how we all
:18:46. > :18:51.came together to do this. In actual fact, the breakthrough prize is a
:18:51. > :18:56.good synergy, if you like, between those two areas, science and social
:18:56. > :19:00.networking and so on? The way I think about it is - I'm really
:19:00. > :19:03.excited and proud of the mission of Facebook to make the world more
:19:03. > :19:06.connected and to help people connect with all the folks they
:19:06. > :19:10.want to. That's one thing that I'm spending my life doing that I'm
:19:10. > :19:13.really proud of, that I hope is this good contribution for the
:19:13. > :19:19.world. There are all of these other things I think are going to be
:19:19. > :19:23.awesome too we're just not going to do through Facebook. That's where
:19:23. > :19:27.the philanthropy comes in and the projects around education and the
:19:27. > :19:31.prize and other things that we can do as well. You're working together
:19:31. > :19:36.with, I imagine, somebody from Google, somebody from Apple? Lots
:19:36. > :19:42.of different folks. Could you see some sort of synergy in the social
:19:42. > :19:46.media world perhaps? Perhaps. LAUGHTER
:19:46. > :19:51.This could - this might not be a catalyst for something that will,
:19:51. > :19:55.you know, bring those companies together, these giants of the
:19:55. > :19:58.internet together? I think people make a big deal out of the
:19:58. > :20:02.competition between companies. Often it's real, but I think the
:20:02. > :20:07.companies work together more than people think as well. Mark
:20:07. > :20:12.Zuckerberg talking there with the BBC's David Willis. He was with the
:20:12. > :20:16.Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milliner who also helped launch the
:20:16. > :20:26.breakthrough prize. Let's get the lastest from central Damascus, the
:20:26. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:31.Syrian capital - that powerful bomb which exploded in the Bajaur --
:20:31. > :20:37.Masra district. Lena is there for us. Describe what happened. Yes.
:20:38. > :20:43.It's near the Ba'ath Party building. Inside, the attack was on a main
:20:43. > :20:45.road with cars driving. I can see buildings on the right and left-
:20:45. > :20:51.hand side of the location that were completely damaged. One building
:20:51. > :20:54.with like eight stores or more - or three of them - all the windows
:20:54. > :20:59.have been blown down. There is complete damage there. The
:20:59. > :21:04.Government is saying 16 people died and more than 200 were injured.
:21:04. > :21:09.it clear which building was targeted? It's not clear because it
:21:09. > :21:13.seems that it was targeted at the checkpoint that is located there,
:21:13. > :21:18.and many buildings around it has been affected. Probably the target
:21:18. > :21:23.was the building of the Ba'ath Party, but the damage affected many
:21:23. > :21:27.civilian buildings. What kind of activity is there at the moment
:21:27. > :21:35.from those from the security and emergency services? Well, the roads
:21:35. > :21:41.are completely blocked there, and there is a big relief operation?
:21:41. > :21:45.They had time to clear the area, and there were many ambulances
:21:45. > :21:50.going to help people. More than 200 have been injured. There have been
:21:50. > :21:56.other bombings in recent days. Is there a pattern emerging certainly
:21:56. > :22:01.of those who might have done it? Well, it seems that at the same
:22:02. > :22:06.time shortly after this blast two others took place in an area where
:22:06. > :22:09.security checkpoints were targeted. We're not sure yet who was behind
:22:09. > :22:13.the attacks. The Government definitely accused terrorist groups,
:22:13. > :22:23.but there hasn't been any claim yet by any of the rebel or opposition
:22:23. > :22:33.
:22:33. > :22:36.forces. Now something rather different -
:22:36. > :22:38.Deep sea scientists say they've discovered new species of marine
:22:38. > :22:41.life, in what's effectively a vast, natural jacuzzi. They've been
:22:41. > :22:44.exploring the Caribbean where a series of volcanoes deep under
:22:44. > :22:46.ocean pumps out very hot water. They're technically known as hydro-
:22:46. > :22:49.thermal vents. The scientists are onboard a British research ship,
:22:49. > :22:55.the RSS James Cook, from where our science editor, David Shukman, sent
:22:55. > :22:59.this report. This is the Caribbean, and I am on a research ship called
:22:59. > :23:04.the James Cook, which is investigating the ocean floor three
:23:04. > :23:09.miles down below us. They have been deploying a robotic submarine to
:23:09. > :23:15.took a look down there. The images it's produced are extraordinary of
:23:15. > :23:19.what are called hydrothermal vents, chimneys belching out what looks
:23:19. > :23:26.like black smoke. In fact it's hot water. The chief scientist is John
:23:27. > :23:32.Coply from the National Oceanography Centre. We have been
:23:32. > :23:36.exploring the world's deepest volcanic vents rift in the sea
:23:36. > :23:41.floor of the Caribbean. Our submarine is about to come back.
:23:41. > :23:48.It's got samples of the incredibly hot fluid gushing out of the sea
:23:48. > :23:54.floor - 400 C when we collected it. We're hoping for new deep sea
:23:54. > :23:57.creatures. It's an extraordinary landscape down there, rather eerie.
:23:57. > :24:01.What is significant scientifically about it? This is a world that's
:24:01. > :24:05.been hidden for us for all of human history. Now we have the potential
:24:05. > :24:09.to explore the half of our world covered by water. For the first
:24:09. > :24:12.time we're seeing what the face of our planet is really like, what
:24:12. > :24:17.that means for the geological forces that shape our world, the
:24:17. > :24:21.patterns of life in the ocean we're all connected to. When you sent the
:24:21. > :24:25.little robotic submarine down you were expecting to find vents you
:24:25. > :24:29.have seen before, but instead you stumbled on an entirely new set.
:24:29. > :24:33.Completely by surprise we stumbled on a new set of underwater vents.
:24:33. > :24:37.We thought we were seeing the ones we'd seen before. Turns out we were
:24:37. > :24:42.in a different location, completely unexpected to us. This is
:24:42. > :24:45.commonplace as we explore the deep ocean. Every visit we make new
:24:45. > :24:49.discoveries. It's often said we know more about the surface of the
:24:49. > :24:54.moon or Mars than we do the surface of the deep ocean. Is that the
:24:54. > :24:58.case? It is the case because our own world has got this watery veil.
:24:58. > :25:02.It actually blocks the kind of things we use to look at the
:25:02. > :25:06.surface of planets from satellites. We can't do that in the deep ocean.
:25:06. > :25:10.The only way to understand it is to get down there with a vehicle and
:25:10. > :25:13.actually see it close up. So this is a genuine discovery. Thank you
:25:13. > :25:23.very much indeed. The dives of the little submarine will continue. The
:25:23. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:30.basic message here is that the more they look, the more they find. Now
:25:30. > :25:33.we have two stories for you about animals in different parts of the
:25:33. > :25:37.world. Here's a kangaroo which had to be rescued after spending two
:25:37. > :25:41.hours sitting on the ledge of a shopping centre. How did it get
:25:41. > :25:45.there? It's a parking lot in the city of Melbourne. The frightened
:25:45. > :25:49.animal was perched about 50 metres above the ground. He eventually
:25:49. > :25:53.hopped back to the safety of the parking lot. He was then shot with
:25:53. > :25:56.a tranquiliser dart, and the kangaroo was taken to a local
:25:56. > :26:01.wildlife shelter to recover from his traumatic experience.
:26:01. > :26:06.Then these extraordinary pictures for you from Portland in Oregon.
:26:06. > :26:08.Let me introduce you to Eddie, the otter. He's winning hearts and
:26:08. > :26:11.scoring points by dunking basketballs at the local zoo. He
:26:11. > :26:14.was taught to slam-dunk by his keeper to help him exercise and
:26:14. > :26:20.stay healthy. At 15 years old he's quite elderly, which makes his
:26:20. > :26:30.skills even more impressive. Normally the public don't get to
:26:30. > :26:33.
:26:33. > :26:36.see him practise, so we're lucky to Now back to earth - dry land - the
:26:36. > :26:42.main news from South Africa that prosecutors have called for the
:26:42. > :26:47.lead detective on the Oscar Pistorius murder case to be dropped.
:26:47. > :26:50.That's because he's involved allegedly in murder charges