:00:12. > :00:17.Hello. Welcome to BBC World News. These are the top stories: North
:00:17. > :00:21.Korea sentences an American citizen to 15 years hard labour for crimes
:00:21. > :00:25.against Pyongyang. An Indian man convicted of spying in Pakistan has
:00:25. > :00:29.died after being beaten up in a la history jail.
:00:29. > :00:33.Two girls aged five and six are killed in China after eating
:00:33. > :00:43.poisoned yoghurt. And the fight to stop the bite of
:00:43. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:04.the great white. South Africa He's been accused of trying to
:01:04. > :01:07.scombroefr throw the state of North Career, but Human Rights Act visits
:01:07. > :01:17.beav that Kenneth Bae's real crime could have been merely taking
:01:17. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:25.pictures of starving children. An American tour operator had been
:01:25. > :01:31.specified 15 years of crime -- of sentence because of crimes to the
:01:31. > :01:35.state. Kenneth Bae, a American tourist, now
:01:35. > :01:41.a North Korea prisoner. He has been sentenced to 15 years hard labour
:01:41. > :01:46.for what it calls vaguely, hostile acts against the regime. This is
:01:47. > :01:53.where Kenneth Bae was arrested six months ago. Travelling as part of a
:01:53. > :01:58.small tour group in the zone. Rason on the border of China. Much less is
:01:58. > :02:06.known about the prison camps run by the North Korea state. Human rights
:02:06. > :02:10.organisations say that they are part of an extensive network of s with
:02:10. > :02:15.perhaps 200,000 people in them, risking starvation and torture, but
:02:15. > :02:25.Kenneth Bae is not the first American to enter and exit the
:02:25. > :02:27.
:02:27. > :02:31.prison system here. Four years ago, journalist Laura Link and Miss Lee
:02:31. > :02:37.were imprisoned but patriotic intervened.
:02:37. > :02:44.We were taken to a location. When we walked in the doors we saw standing
:02:44. > :02:50.before us, President Bill Clinton. Having a former President negotiate
:02:50. > :02:54.your release is not that unusual. A year after they were released Jimmy
:02:54. > :02:59.Carter intervened to help another American arrested by Pyongyang.
:02:59. > :03:02.Some say that this is politically motivated, the last two months have
:03:02. > :03:07.seen tensions between North Korea and the US spiral. The US has
:03:07. > :03:12.offered to talk but only if North Korea agrees to give up its nuclear
:03:12. > :03:18.weapons. Pyongyang may see its latest prisoner as a way to start
:03:18. > :03:27.talking with no conditions attached. An Indian man convicted of spying by
:03:27. > :03:35.a court in Pakistan has died after being beaten up in jail. Edwin van
:03:35. > :03:41.dar Sar in a coma after being beaten by prisoners. He was sentenced to
:03:41. > :03:45.death for his role of a series of bombings in 1990s , family say that
:03:45. > :03:48.he had nothing to do with the bombings.
:03:49. > :03:51.Orla girain says that the man's death is the latest incident to
:03:51. > :03:56.strain relations between India and Pakistan.
:03:56. > :04:01.The death of the prisoner has caused a great deal of anger in India. We
:04:01. > :04:07.have had a statement from the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh,
:04:07. > :04:13.saying he was deeply saddened that this man was a brave son of India.
:04:13. > :04:18.That it was deeply regrettable that the government of Pakistan had not
:04:18. > :04:22.heeded appeals from the Indian government and the family of the man
:04:22. > :04:27.to take a humanitarian view of the case. It has been maintained that
:04:27. > :04:36.the man was innocent. That he was a farmer, that he strayed across the
:04:36. > :04:39.border by mistake when he was drunk, but he was convicted in of spying
:04:40. > :04:45.and of carrying out four bomb attacks in Pakistan that killed 14
:04:45. > :04:51.people. He was sentenced to death. He appealed that decision, but the
:04:51. > :04:56.judgment was upheld. Last Friday he was the victim of a severe attack in
:04:56. > :05:02.a Pakistani prison. Apparently beaten with bricks. He spent several
:05:02. > :05:07.days in a coma and on life support. India claims that the diplomats were
:05:07. > :05:11.not given access to him. Pakistan is denying that, that they were given
:05:11. > :05:16.ak sthaeshgs the family facilitated and everything done that was
:05:16. > :05:25.possible to try to save his life. That the doctors worked around the
:05:25. > :05:28.clock, but the fact that he died, he was the -- in the custody of the
:05:28. > :05:32.Pakistani, India maintain he should have been safe. It has been said
:05:32. > :05:35.that the relations between the two countries have been hurt about this
:05:35. > :05:39.case that it will introduce more tension into an already troubled
:05:39. > :05:43.relationship between the two nations.
:05:43. > :05:48.Three college friends of the Boston bombing suspect have appeared in
:05:48. > :05:53.court in the US accused of obstructing the police
:05:53. > :05:58.investigation. Police say that two from Kazakhstan, threw away Dzhokhar
:05:58. > :06:04.Tsarnaev's laptop and backpack. No-one is implicated in plotting
:06:04. > :06:08.last month's attacks. The bombs caused chaos in downtown
:06:08. > :06:12.Boston. Three people were killed, more than 200 were wounded. Three
:06:12. > :06:17.days after the blasts, the police released pictures of the pair that
:06:17. > :06:21.they suspected of planting the bombs. It was then, according to the
:06:21. > :06:27.FBI that three friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tried to cover his tracks.
:06:27. > :06:31.Appearing at a Boston court on Wednesday, two of the men, both 19
:06:31. > :06:35.years old, both from Kazakhstan, were charged with conspireing to
:06:35. > :06:39.obstruct justice by destroying evidence but they were not involved
:06:39. > :06:47.in the bomb plot itself. The investigation is continuing.
:06:47. > :06:52.There are three arrests. Two have or will be charged with
:06:52. > :06:57.obstruction of justice. One has or will be charged with lying to a
:06:57. > :07:02.federal official. Here are the two men with Dzhokhar
:07:02. > :07:07.Tsarnaev before the Boston bombings. Police say that when the photograph
:07:07. > :07:12.of the brothers were released on the 18th, the two men recognised their
:07:12. > :07:17.friend and went to his college room at the University of Massachusetts
:07:17. > :07:21.in Dartmouth. There, they saw a backpack with fireworks and powder.
:07:21. > :07:27.The investigators say that was then that they realised that Dzhokhar
:07:27. > :07:31.Tsarnaev was involved in the bombs, that they then threw the backpack
:07:31. > :07:37.away and removed the laptop from the room, in order to help their friend.
:07:37. > :07:40.A charge that the men strongly deny. As we have said from the beginning,
:07:41. > :07:44.he assisted the FBI in the investigation. He is as shocked and
:07:44. > :07:48.horrified by the violence in Boston that took place as the rest of the
:07:48. > :07:51.community is. He did not know that this individual was involved in a
:07:51. > :07:56.bombing. His first inkling came later.
:07:56. > :08:00.A third man, a US citizen, has been accused of lying to investigators
:08:00. > :08:04.about the visit to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's room. A charge that he
:08:04. > :08:08.denies. The surviving bombing suspect,
:08:08. > :08:12.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is in a prison hospital outside of Boston. The
:08:12. > :08:18.police are continuing to build their case against him and anyone else who
:08:18. > :08:23.may have helped. Now within the past few hours or so,
:08:23. > :08:28.a court in Libya has decided to postpone the trial of one of the
:08:28. > :08:33.sons of the former Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Saif
:08:33. > :08:38.al-Islam Gaddafi is being held by local militia in the town of citizen
:08:38. > :08:42.dan since being captured. He appeared in court, accused of
:08:42. > :08:47.violating national security and insulting the flag. Now a disturbing
:08:47. > :08:51.case in the Hebei province of China. Two young girls have died after
:08:52. > :08:56.eating poisoned yoghurt. The girls were just five and six-year-old. The
:08:56. > :09:03.police are working on the theory that the deaths are linked to
:09:03. > :09:09.competition between privatelily run kindergartens for the best pupils.
:09:09. > :09:15.It happened a week ago, in Hebei. So three or four hours' drive from
:09:15. > :09:19.Beijing. That is the province adjacent to us. What the state news
:09:19. > :09:24.agency here is saying, we cannot get through the local police or anyone
:09:24. > :09:31.else in the village is that an elderly woman, found by the
:09:31. > :09:35.roadside, close to a school in the village, found a pot of yoghurt and
:09:35. > :09:43.school notebooks. She took it home. When the two Grand daughters came
:09:43. > :09:47.home, she gave them the yoghurt. The children were young. They fell down,
:09:47. > :09:52.they had convulsions and they were foaming at the mouth. The two young
:09:52. > :09:56.girls died. The police have arrested a rival doneder garden, that woman
:09:56. > :10:01.confessed to lacing the yoghurt with rat poison, and doing so,
:10:01. > :10:06.apparently, as she was in competition with the other school to
:10:06. > :10:11.attract children in the village so. Pretty shocking details.
:10:12. > :10:20.So, a really des tressing case, isn't it? But it comes down to an
:10:20. > :10:26.issue, it would seem, of criminality, rather than of
:10:26. > :10:32.incompetence and of the system, the food safety system in China again at
:10:32. > :10:36.fault? That is right. It seems if the allegationses were right, that
:10:36. > :10:40.this was a deliberate attempt to harm someone by the head of the
:10:40. > :10:45.rival school, but as you say, there have been many cases in China in
:10:45. > :10:51.recent years that have prompted a lot of national soul-searching of
:10:51. > :10:55.anxiety in which we have seen cases of poison, tainted foods and the
:10:55. > :11:00.shocking case was in 2008, around the time of the Olympics here, when
:11:00. > :11:07.tens of thousands of children were sickened as they had drunk baby milk
:11:07. > :11:12.powder laced with the industrial chemical melamine. That was put in
:11:12. > :11:18.there to make the protein content appear higher than it was. In that
:11:18. > :11:24.case it was a profit motive. In this case, there is a situation about
:11:24. > :11:29.money, and rival students but it is a deliberate attempt, it appears to
:11:29. > :11:32.harm children. In the early case of 2008, there were two death sentences
:11:32. > :11:37.handed. A British man, estimated to have
:11:37. > :11:42.made tens of millions of dollars from selling fake bobbing detectors
:11:42. > :11:46.has been sentenced to ten years in jail. James McCormick sold the
:11:46. > :11:54.devices to country including Iraq, Belgium and even the United States,
:11:54. > :11:59.but the gadgets had no scientific basis and were based on a novelty
:11:59. > :12:02.golf ball finder. Now, there are 4,000 troops
:12:02. > :12:10.stationed in Mali there. They are helping the government there to dry
:12:10. > :12:15.out the Islamic extremists in the borders. There is also a smaller
:12:15. > :12:19.British presence, 31 soldiers, there to help to train the local troops.
:12:19. > :12:23.We have this report from Central Mali.
:12:23. > :12:28.When Islamist rebels got within a day's drive of the capital in
:12:28. > :12:33.January, the soldiers in the Mali demoralised army discarded uniforms
:12:33. > :12:39.and ran away. It was left to the French troops to drive the
:12:39. > :12:44.insurgents north into the desert. We had command chain problems. The
:12:44. > :12:50.entire command chain was broken in Mali. Everyone knows that. There
:12:50. > :12:55.were problem -- problems with cohesion and not enough equipment.
:12:55. > :13:00.Now the British soldiers have arrived in a west African country,
:13:00. > :13:06.to help Mali's humiliated army get into shape.
:13:06. > :13:12.The training is going on, far from the desert where the French troops
:13:12. > :13:17.are fighting insurgents it is tailors its force with limited
:13:17. > :13:22.technical means. In weeks, the men are to put into practise,
:13:22. > :13:26.battlefield tactics with the help of instructors from the Royal Irish
:13:26. > :13:30.Regiment. With this training mission, seen for
:13:30. > :13:36.the first seem since the First World War, our soldiers are working under
:13:36. > :13:42.British command. The European Commission feels this
:13:42. > :13:49.is ambitious. But not a shot has been fired.
:13:49. > :13:56.No-one knows the size of Mali's army. It is laden with soldiers past
:13:56. > :14:03.fighting age. Abilities, ages and experiences are mixed among the
:14:03. > :14:07.members. What we are here to do is to help
:14:07. > :14:11.the battalions to get ready to go into operations. The wealth of
:14:11. > :14:18.experience we can bring from our operational tours in both
:14:18. > :14:22.Afghanistan and Iraq will be of a huge benefit to the soldiers.
:14:22. > :14:28.The new camaraderie among the soldiers matters yound the country's
:14:28. > :14:38.borders. In the face of violence, they can never again be an army that
:14:38. > :14:38.
:14:38. > :14:48.runs away. Still to come: Fire season is
:14:48. > :14:57.
:14:57. > :15:01.starting early in California. 1700 Millions of people in Pakistan will
:15:01. > :15:08.vote in the country's general election. If it all goes to plan it
:15:08. > :15:12.will be the transition from one elected Government to another.
:15:12. > :15:18.Our correspondent has found out which issues most people will be
:15:18. > :15:26.voting for. I am at a busy marketplace. Later this month
:15:26. > :15:30.Pakistanis will vote in a landmark election. Karachi is also my home
:15:30. > :15:40.town. I want to find out what issues affect the people of this
:15:40. > :15:50.
:15:50. > :16:00.Are you going to vote? You're not going to vote in the election. He
:16:00. > :16:00.
:16:00. > :16:05.is saying he's scared for his life. He is saying in 65 years nothing
:16:05. > :16:10.has changed, so there's no point in going to the polling station to
:16:10. > :16:20.vote for somebody. I have never cast my vote before. It is time to
:16:20. > :16:20.
:16:20. > :16:25.go out and vote. The main issue is lawlessness. Our
:16:25. > :16:29.movements are restricted. We don't even let our boys go out at night,
:16:29. > :16:36.let alone the girls, so we would like the next Government, whoever
:16:36. > :16:46.is going to come, to take this matter very seriously.
:16:46. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:55.I am not sure that I will get a job. Lots of my friends don't have jobs
:16:55. > :17:00.and they need jobs. They are educated and they have degrees, but
:17:00. > :17:04.there are no jobs in Pakistan. Loif is really hard for the people
:17:04. > :17:09.of this -- Life is really hard for the people of this city. Often the
:17:09. > :17:13.beach is the only place people can get away from it all. Time and time
:17:13. > :17:19.again Pakistanis have felt let down by their leaders N the past few
:17:19. > :17:29.weeks I get a sense there is a determination to vote because
:17:29. > :17:36.
:17:36. > :17:40.Our main story here today: North Korea has sentenced an American
:17:40. > :17:46.citizen to 15 years hard labour at a time of heightened tension
:17:46. > :17:51.between the two countries. President Obama is on the road. He
:17:51. > :17:54.is off to Mexico later today for the start of a two-day visit to
:17:54. > :17:59.Central America. Officially trade and immigration will be the main
:17:59. > :18:04.focus of talks, with his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto.
:18:04. > :18:10.They will talk about the new President's strategy for dealing
:18:10. > :18:16.one of Mexico's biggest problems, drugs, of course. Mexico and the
:18:16. > :18:21.United States always have plenty to discuss. With a 3,000km-long shared
:18:21. > :18:30.border, across which there is a constant flow of people, commerce
:18:31. > :18:36.and drugs. A lot of focus will be on economics.
:18:36. > :18:42.We have spent so much time on issues between the United States
:18:42. > :18:48.and Mexico that sometime I think we forget this is a massive trading
:18:48. > :18:53.partner, responsible for huge amounts of commerce and huge
:18:53. > :18:57.numbers of jobs on both sides of the border. We want to see how we
:18:57. > :19:01.can deepen that, how we can improve that and maintain that dialogue
:19:01. > :19:06.over a long period of time. That doesn't mean we will not talk about
:19:06. > :19:11.security, he added. With some 70,000 killed in drug-related
:19:11. > :19:15.violence since 206, the fight against Mexican drug cartels has
:19:15. > :19:19.been the background to the bilateral relationship. Cocaine
:19:19. > :19:25.produced in the Andes heads through Central America and Mexico en route
:19:25. > :19:30.to the main market - the US. Mexican drug cartels produce much
:19:30. > :19:36.of the methamphetamine, marijuana and heroin consumed north of the
:19:36. > :19:44.border. Mr Obama may hope for a new commitment from Mr Enrique Pena
:19:44. > :19:49.Nieto. Mr Calderon encouraged US
:19:49. > :19:54.involvement in the drug agency and the CIA as well as American drones
:19:54. > :19:58.to seek out drug barons. He may be disappointed. Mr Nieto has talked
:19:58. > :20:03.of taking it in a different direction, to focus on reducing
:20:03. > :20:08.violent crime rather than making high-profile arrests of drug Lord's.
:20:08. > :20:12.His critics say it may involve a pact with the cartels. Something
:20:12. > :20:16.his administration denies. Certainly, that would not sit well
:20:16. > :20:22.until Washington. In past President Obama and Enrique Pena Nieto will
:20:22. > :20:26.weigh each other well on a personal level to see if they and their Co-
:20:26. > :20:31.op administrations can co-operate more closely. So far the signs have
:20:31. > :20:37.been warm and reasonably positive. There are thorny issues of cross-
:20:37. > :20:42.border trade and immigration up ahead.
:20:42. > :20:46.Now, gunmen in southern Thailand have killed six in an attack
:20:46. > :20:51.outside a village shop. Most of the victims were Buddhists. This comes
:20:51. > :20:55.just two days after peace talks between Muslim separatists and the
:20:55. > :21:00.Thai Government ended in deadlock. More than 5,000 people have been
:21:00. > :21:05.killed in violence in the southern provinces since an insurgency
:21:05. > :21:12.started there in 2004. Hundreds of firefighters are battling to
:21:12. > :21:17.control a fast-moving wildfire, 140kms east of Los Angeles. Strong
:21:18. > :21:24.winds are fanning the flames in the foot hills of the San Bernardino
:21:24. > :21:27.mountains. A red flag has been issued for much of southern
:21:27. > :21:33.California because of heat and humidity levels. The fire is fierce,
:21:33. > :21:41.it is moving fast and it is getting bigger all the time. 1700 acres of
:21:41. > :21:45.land have been enengulfed by the flames. In Riverside County, 140kms
:21:45. > :21:52.east of loss anggless. Strong winds are pushing it west, towards
:21:52. > :21:58.unpopulated areas in the mountains. Homes further south are not out of
:21:58. > :22:03.danger. It has been reported that one building has been destroyed.
:22:03. > :22:08.Helicopters and planes are being used to drop water and fire
:22:08. > :22:13.retardant water on to the land. 400 firefighters are trying to get this
:22:13. > :22:18.blaze under control. The condition are making their task extremely
:22:18. > :22:22.difficult. High winds, low humidity and heat are allowing this fire to
:22:22. > :22:27.spread quickly. Firefighters say it is drier than normal and they would
:22:27. > :22:30.not expect conditions like this until June. The emergency services
:22:30. > :22:35.say they are fighting 60% more wildfires now than at the same time
:22:35. > :22:42.last year. The worry is that if these weather conditions continue,
:22:42. > :22:45.California could be in for a very busy fire season.
:22:45. > :22:50.Clothing factories in Bangladesh have re-opened for the first time
:22:50. > :22:59.since the collapse of a factory complex last week. It is clear at
:22:59. > :23:04.least 427 people died in the wreckage of the ran that pla is a -
:23:04. > :23:09.- Rana Plaza building. It has some of the most beautiful
:23:09. > :23:14.beaches in the world, but it is home to a thriving colony of Great
:23:14. > :23:19.White sharks. After a series of attacks on swimmers, South ka's
:23:19. > :23:28.Western Cape is investing thousands of dollars in a scheme to keep
:23:28. > :23:35.humans and sharks apart. Spectacular - isn't it? Teeming
:23:35. > :23:39.with marine life, it is this that makes the Western Cape so popular.
:23:39. > :23:45.Beneath the surface lurks the most feared predator of the deep - the
:23:45. > :23:51.Great White shark. Attracted by plentiful stocks of water and deep
:23:51. > :23:55.inshore waters. Despite shark-spotters up high on
:23:55. > :24:00.the hill, five people have been killed here in a little over a
:24:00. > :24:07.decade. These are some of the most dangerous waters in the world.
:24:07. > :24:12.Now, after years of resistance by conservationists, they are finally
:24:12. > :24:18.deploying nets, especially designed to protect swimmers, but not to
:24:18. > :24:22.harm sharks. The sharks come in very close and rarely inhabit the
:24:23. > :24:27.area people use for recreation. Our concern is that the spotters would
:24:27. > :24:32.not get the people out of the waters quickly enough. It is a
:24:32. > :24:38.world first A thin mesh barrier hangs to the sea bed. Deployed in
:24:39. > :24:43.the morning and moved at night, it is a �50,000 compromise, after one
:24:43. > :24:51.too many horror stories. These pictures capture moments after a
:24:51. > :24:56.British bather was attacked here. There is the suggestion that
:24:56. > :25:04.barrier nets may have offered protection. The Mansur vieveed and
:25:04. > :25:09.so did this sur-- the man survived and so did this surfer. The ski was
:25:09. > :25:12.pulled back under the water. When I floated up between the ski and the
:25:12. > :25:18.shark, I felt the shark next to me, but the first thing I thought of
:25:18. > :25:27.was to get back on to the boat and out of the water. Such terrifying
:25:27. > :25:31.tales have taken their toll on Cape Town's tourist trade. Sharks play a
:25:31. > :25:35.vital role in the maritime ecology here. Humans are more of a threat
:25:35. > :25:39.to sharks than the other way around. More sharks die than people
:25:39. > :25:44.attacked. It is a thought worth bearing in mind when one is staring
:25:44. > :25:48.you in the eye. With a cage, the only protection,
:25:48. > :25:54.you quickly get to respect these massive creatures. 600 sharks are
:25:54. > :25:58.killed in other parts of South Africa every year. Entangled in
:25:58. > :26:04.nets designed to trap. That is why there has been such fierce
:26:04. > :26:11.resistance to using them here. These are barrier nets, removed at
:26:11. > :26:18.night, expensive to deploy, but a price they are prepared to pay to
:26:18. > :26:22.allow sharks and humans to co-exist. Well, sticking with the theme of
:26:22. > :26:29.aquatic creatures, have a look at this! This is perhaps the world's
:26:29. > :26:32.biggest bath toy. Well, he, I suppose we can call him Giant Duck,
:26:32. > :26:38.he has arrived in Hong Kong. This is the work of a Dutch artist, who
:26:38. > :26:43.have taken Giant Duck around the world. I don't know how long he'll