25/04/2013 BBC World News

top stories: Over 6 million Spaniards are looking for work as

the jobless figures hit a record high of 27.2%. Rescuers hear the

pleas from workers trapped under the rubble in the Bangladesh factory

collapse. 183 people are known to have died. Getting closer to the

law: Confirmation that a French publisher and photographer are

investigated over topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge. And

Robert redford talks about his new film. The Sundance Festival and miss

missed opportunities. -- missed opportunities. Hello everybody.

Finding work in Spain is hard, it has gotten harder. The jobless

figures published a couple of hours ago, show that unemployment has hit

a record high. Spain's jobless rate rising to 27.2% for the first

quarter of the year. That means that more than 6 million people have no

job. That is one person in four. On Friday, the Spanish government is

due to announce target reforms but many in Spain and elsewhere in

Europe are starting to think that the austerity policies are

themselves holding back economic growth. Let's go live to the BBC's

Burj Al-Arab who joins me from Madrid -- Tom Burridge. Tom, is this

better or worse than expected with the numbers? Well, I think probably

slightly worse, Nick. The figures were expected to go up. The

government said so. 27%, though, it is probably slightly higher than

many would have thought. I think that they have passed here in Spain,

a depressing milestone for many. 6 million people are now unemployed in

Spain that is difficult for the government politically. How is the

government going to respond to this, given that there is now a debate

that you have been reporting on, about whether austerity is still

justified as the way forward to achieve new growth? Well, I think

that there has been a change of tone from the Spanish government in weeks

over the austerity debate. They seem to be appealing to Brussels and to

the European Commission, to say that they have done a lot of austerity

last year. If they do more all at the same time, it necessarily a good

thing? The idea of almost strangling the economy when it is down. You

pump lots of austerity, you cut public spending, increase taxes so

that people have less money in their pocket to spend in the economy and

you are prolonging the recession that is how the argument is going.

That is gaining traction from Spain and from the comments of Christine

Lagarde, the head of the IMF in recent days, and top officials of

key financial institutions in Europe. That message seems be --

seems to be getting through. More economic reforms tomorrow, yes but

probably not as tough as those we have seen in the last year. Tom, if

they were to change the policy or modify it in that way, there would

be a significant lag time, where what is going on now would continue

even before there is a change, maybe for the better? I think that is

exactly it. There is a balance to be struck. The government has to keep

some form of austerity. There are key areas, for example public

pensions in Spain. Talk to any economist, they will tell you that

pensions must be addressed at some point it looks like the government

may hold off on that for now. We will find out tomorrow, but there

are other areas, maybe governance, the political structural system in

Spain. A lot of people feel that must be reformed. . Certainly, Spain

is going to make more and more economic reforms. The question is

how much, how deep and when and it goes back to the argument we

mentioned, if you do it all at once and take a lot of public money out

of the system, you hurt people's pockets further, when there are such

high levels of unemployment here, are you just prolonging the

recession further? Spain is in its fifth year of an economic crisis.

Thank you very much. Here in the UK, there has been some slightly better

news on the economy. Official figures are just released suggesting

that Britain has narrowly voided slipping into recession for a third

time in five years, a so-called triple dip. The economy grew by

0.3%. That is higher than expected. So, what is the reading? Let's go to

the BBC's Political Correspondent, Rob Watson. How are the politicians

reading this? As you can imagine, this was being watched carefully. As

you said, Britain as narrowly avoided a triple dip recession, that

is hugely important politically. Not surprisingly, the coalition

government here in the UK has been talking about this very much as a

sign of progress. I think that they are hugely relieved. What you have

heard from the op silgs, and from some of the trade unions is that it

is still not good enough. That while there has been growth, overall,

looking at the rate of the economic recovery in Britain it is very slow

and indeed rather flat. Let's pick up on the debate that is grow

growing traction in Spain, about whether or not austerity is the

right way to do things. The IMF has put Britain under pressure, saying

maybe you are going for austerity too strongly? I should say, Nick,

that the debate about austerity has always been here in the UK. Of

course, you had the opposition Labour Party which was in government

previously, calling on the Government from the start to try to

cut the deficit at about half of the speed it was aiming to do. The

coalition on its particular course. That debate has never gone away. I

don't think it is going to go away any time soon. Interestingly, I

bring this up, as you have been talking about Spain, a recent

opinion poll has suggested that the British voters are sympathetic and

able to bare austerity. Indeed their opposition to it and to the speed of

reigning in Government spending has lessoned in recent months. Thank you

very much. Now, let's go to Bangladesh where hundreds of

desperate workers and relatives are digging with whatever they can to

pull survivors from a wreck agenda. More than 180 people have died when

the eight-storey building collapsed, but it is feared that the final

figure will be higher. 1,500 people have escaped. Well we have the

latest from the area. As you can imagine, the frantic rescue

processes continued over the night and throughout the day today. They

are still doing it now. In two days they have pulled out about 1,500

people alive from the wreck agenda, from the debris. The rescue

officials are saying that they will continue to explore for people who

are trapped inside. There are lots of activities going on. They are

trying to open the mrgs -- they are trying to open the buildings. They

are trying to access people in them, trying to provide food and water.

Masood, what about the politics of this, on the regulatory issues, the

issues about so many factories and buildings like this, where there

must be real doubts about how safe they are now? It really proves that

the volume untear efforts by, on behalf of the garment factory owners

to ensure safety to their workers is not really working. Because of Go

factory workers are powerful in the country, like a holy cow. They can

have pressure on the government. It looks like the government is

incapable of doing anything to safety to the people. This has been,

these sort of questions are being asked by the people on the street as

well as in the traditional media and the social networks, how come this

tragedy could happen to these people, to these workers? They are

poor people. Most of them are women. Why are the garment factory owners

are allowing them inside despite discovering major cracks in the

building structure. To China now. State media has accused terrorists

of being behind vining in an area where more than 20 people have died.

There is a history of tension in the region. Nearly 200 people died in

riots in the regional capital four years ago. I asked if detail has

emerged from the area, where it is often not easy to get information.

We have had no news of the information since the news of the

attack came out leader. -- yesterday. It is a frustrating story

to report on it is difficult to uncover the truth of what went. Two

very, very different accounts of what sparked the violence in

Kashgar. The government arguing it was a planned terrorist attack while

others arguing that the Chinese police sparked the attack when they

shot a local youth. It is difficult to know what is going on in the

ground. There has been little information coming out of the area

today. What about the politics of this? The Chinese central government

is warning of what it calls terrorism, and pointing to the

Uighur problem? Exactly. Chinese officials argued that there is a

double standard applied by Western countries when using the term

terrorism. The Chinese government argued that the. Ighur does employ

terrorist tactics. Many argue that this is not the case Uighur. Many

are saying that the Chinese heavy-handed policing creates much

of the problems there. So the use of the term terrorism in relation to

these people is unreasonable. issing a the United Nations to

create a new multinational force to take over its operations. The idea

to deploy 12,000 mostly West African soldiers to the region from July the

1st. The UN Security Council is to vote on the plan from Mali on

Tuesday. We report from council north of the capital, Bamako. France

came to the rescue of its former colony earlier in the year. Now it

is leading the march to train 2,000 soldiers in Mali's divided army.

TRANSLATION: The Malian army has fall tonne an all-time low. We did

not have the training or the equipment. Now that the training is

available to us, and the equipment, people are motivated. I think that

the standards will improve. Credibility is a problem when

Islamists got close to Bamako in January, soldiers abandoned their

positions. In scrub land north of the Malian capital, the first 700

Malian troops are undergoing training. Marines are teaching the

basics of handling firearms. Abilities are mixed. These soldiers

still is have not fired a shot after training two weeks. No-one knows the

size of the Mali military, last year a captain staged a coup. The

#5er78's been accused of human rights abuses. We explain to them

that we give them a box of tools. We show them the way. We show them the

things that they have to keep in mind. New tools and perhaps a more

thoughtful approach to the use of force. These men have the

expectations of a nation on their shoulders. In the face of continued

violence under the banner of Islamism, both Mali and Europe need

this army to deliver results. This is BBC World News with me, Nick

Gowing. Australians and New Zealanders attend dawn services

around the world to mark Anzac Day from the First World War. A ballroom

dancer who lost her left foot in the Boston marathon bombings vowed to

dance again. She had been running in the marathon when a bomb exploded

beside her. Despite her injuries, she wants to run in next year's

Boston marathon. We heard a loud blast. The first bomb had gone off.

We newbie the sheer sound of it, the smoke that it was not something that

was just a fun thing, an explosion of confetti. I was terrified. I knew

that there would be another explosion. By the videos that we saw

we were about four feet from where the bomb was. We were not, we were

knocked off our feet. I remember the air, the... Impact of the explosion

hitting our, my chest. I remember being knocked off and knocked off

our feet. We landed in this way and I said that I thought there was

something wrong with my foot. We looked down. I looked down. There

was blood everywhere. My friend's leg was clovred in blood. My left

foot, my ankle from this, I won't take off my shoe I have dancer's

feet! But my foot was missing from here to here, but this was connected

and my toes were connected. The fireman said she has to go. I asked

them to save my foot. I kept screaming it over again. When I

dance I don't care about anything else at all. I could be having a

horrible day and a horrible morning and if I could just dance for five

minutes it would make it that much better. That is why this is hard. I

can't get up and dance right now. I absolutely want to dance again and

will dance again. I also want to run the marathon next year. I have a lot

of people that have backed me up and support me even though they know I'm

not a runner at all. There is so me, Nick Gowing. The latest

headline: Over 6 million Spaniards are now looking for work as jobless

figures hit a record high at 27.2%. Britain's economy grows by 0.3%, the

country dodges a feared triple-dip recession.

The publisher of a French celebrity magazine and a photographer who took

pictures of a topless Duchess of Cambridge have been placed under

formal investigation for breach of brevity. The pictures were taken

while the royal couple was holidaying in southern France.

Closer magazine has argued the photos were taken from a public road

and therefore are not offensive. The BBC's Christian Fraser is following

the story, and when he joined me from Paris, I asked whether the real

issue is France's tight privacy laws. Yes, very tight, and a public

criminal complaint was started in October. You might remember that

back then the judge ordered the original photographs had to be

handed over to the couple and for every day that they delayed, there

would be an 8000 euros fine. The criminal complaint was interesting,

because there were no name suspects on it, the public prosecutor has

rigorously pursued it, as well he might, given the complainants, and

he has come up with two names. The first is the executive director of

the publisher of Closer magazine, the group owned by the former

Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The second person is a

freelance photographer from a local newspaper. She has admitted already,

Nick, that she has taken pictures of the couple in their swimwear, which

were printed in the local newspaper one week before the topless

photographs appeared, but she denied taking the topless photographs. That

will be the use you for the trial. What does the law say in France

about privacy when there is this proliferation of digital photos?

Does it have to be a journalist? Where is the line between private

use and breach of brevity? Well, it is a grey area. I have to say that

in France they have very strict privacy laws, and there are cases

where celebrities have won cases for grudge breaches of privacy. These

celebrity gossip magazines, what they tend to do is take a gamble,

and educated risk. Know that they will probably be caught out by the

courts. The finds only go up to 30,000 euros. Our viewers will know

that these magazines will fly off the shelves, so they are probably

worked out that the Prophet versus the risk is worth the gamble, and

that is the problem for top there have been calls for Brucie laws to

be looked at again, when the vines need to be stiff and is the big

question. -- privacy laws. This is one across the bow was for media

rampage in Mexico, damaging several buildings in the capital, and what

is a pricing is that they are teachers, angry at sweeping

the governing party, as well as those of the two main opposition

parties. A senator's office was also badly damaged. Frightened workers

were trapped inside as they attacked the building with pickaxes and

sticks, breaking windows, spray-painting slogans and setting

fires. The security forces have, for now, held back from breaking up the

protests for fear of further igniting an already tense situation,

but such an approach can only last for so long. The teachers union

appears to have the support of local civilian defence groups which have

started to take justice into their own hands, angry at what they see as

in action and corruption by the state. If the separate groups have

joined forces, it presents a potentially major stumbling block

Tens of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders have attended

services around the world to commemorate Anzac Day for the first

time the role of indigenous soldiers is also being acknowledged. Anzac

Day mark the 90th anniversary of one of the most badly botched operations

of World War I, the Gallipoli landings of 1915. Thousands died in

a doomed attack off the Turkish coast. From Sydney, Phil Mercer

reports. Anzac Day is a time for two

countries to reflect on a military disaster that took place almost a

century ago. It commemorates the campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 by the

Australian and New Zealand army call. For many, their courage and

enemy fire helped to forge the national identity of the former

British colonies. Historians say that it is growing in significance

as the young embrace the sacrifice that the vein Australian military

traditions. -- define. Many make the pilgrimage to the Gallipoli

Peninsula in Turkey, where Australian and New Zealand also is

landed 98 years ago and suffered enormous casualties. -- forces. More

Australian, died more than a decade ago, but the legend and yours. Anzac

Day is the most revered date on the Australian calendar. Veterans from

more recent conflicts in East Timor, the Solomon Islands, Iraq and

Afghanistan are encouraged to take The night... He made his name in big

box office hits, but Robert Redford's real passion is for small

independent movies, and that is why he set up a film Festival in Utah.

This weekend the festival and its ambitions moved to London. Charlie

Stayt asked him what makes a big star want to promote low-budget

movies. When I was a kid, I grew up in a lower working class

neighbourhood. In those days, talking about the end of the Second

World War, you would go to a theatre for 40 cents, you would maybe see

two features, a newsreel about the war still going on. You saw a

cartoon, maybe two, you saw a serial, Flash Gordon, wonder woman,

Tarzana. So years later, I noticed that the concessions were kicked out

sky-high, that is where they made their money. And then you had one

film, and you had maybe six trailers blasting your ears off, advertising

new films. What has happened to the experience of seeing films? That led

to the idea of the Sundance Festival, showing films, and then

the Sundance Cinemas, of which we now have seven, we wanted to

recreate that experience work film was more respected. Yourself and

Paul Newman and that year of stars, they see them as being different

somehow. When you hear that, what do make of that argument? You know, to

be honest with you, the way the business is now, to the point where

it is almost boring, I am not sure I would be attracted to the business

in today's climate. I do not know that I would be wanting to go into a

profession where everything is known, when you do not have some

privacy to live a life that is normal, more real in your mind.

I ask you about the Bill Bryson book which you are making into a film?

Originally, the idea was that you and Paul Newman would do that.

was the idea, that was the hope, and when I took it to Paul, I think the

age difference between us was beginning to show up, and he felt

that, and he was concerned about it. I still wanted to do it with him, I

thought it was perfect after the other two that we had done. It

became clear over time that it was not going to be possible, and then

Paul passed away. But I believe in the project, I love the project.

Gatsby, he had a grand vision for his life since he was a boy...

Gatsby is being remade, what did you think when you heard that? First of

all, I think it is one of those timeless books. The one I was

involved in was not even the second, I think. So this is a good film,