:00:20. > :00:25.reveals she has had both her breasts removed to minimise her high risk of
:00:25. > :00:31.breast cancer. Shocking video of cannibalism in the Syrian city of
:00:32. > :00:35.Homs is posted on the Internet. Three astronauts, among them a
:00:35. > :00:45.Canadian who has been tweeting to a huge audience, have safely returned
:00:45. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:05.explaining what led her to have an operation to remove both her
:01:05. > :01:10.breasts. The 37-year-old Oscar winner, married to Brad Pitt, says
:01:10. > :01:13.doctors have told her that her chances of getting breast cancer are
:01:13. > :01:17.nearly 90%. She has inherited a faulty gene which committed the
:01:17. > :01:23.increases her chances of getting both breast ovarian cancer. Alastair
:01:23. > :01:27.Leithead has more. Angelina Jolie revealed she had had a double
:01:27. > :01:32.mastectomy in an article written in the New York Times. The 37-year-old
:01:32. > :01:35.said she had decided to act after doctors told her she had an 87%
:01:35. > :01:40.chance of contracting breast cancer, the disease that killed her mother
:01:40. > :01:46.at 56. She said concern from her children over whether the same thing
:01:47. > :01:49.could happen to her had opted the preventative surgery. Describing the
:01:49. > :01:56.procedure in detail, she paid tribute to her loving and supportive
:01:56. > :01:59.partner Brad Pitt, who was with her for every moment of surgery - the
:01:59. > :02:05.removal of breast tissue and then reconstructive surgery, over three
:02:05. > :02:09.months of treatment. A faulty gene meant the chances were very, but
:02:09. > :02:13.following the operations, there is now only a 5% chance of contracting
:02:14. > :02:18.the disease. She is also at risk of a variant cancer. Angelina Jolie
:02:18. > :02:20.said she hoped other women could benefit from her experience and go
:02:20. > :02:29.for gene testing, so they could reduce their chances of breast
:02:29. > :02:32.cancer. With me now is Dr Julia Wilson, head of research at the
:02:32. > :02:36.charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Thanks for joining us. How much is
:02:36. > :02:42.known at the moment about all of this, and is there a need for more?
:02:42. > :02:48.Well, we know that one in 20 breast cancers are caused by this faulty
:02:48. > :02:52.gene, but we know that about 1% of the population carry this gene, but
:02:52. > :02:58.it does carry an enormous risk of developing breast and a variant
:02:58. > :03:06.cancer. Why is that?It just means the breast tissue is predisposed to
:03:06. > :03:10.developing cancer, and as we have heard, it is about a 90% chance.
:03:10. > :03:16.the ovarian cancer would need a hysterectomy, is that right? You can
:03:16. > :03:21.simply remove the ovaries, which has a different main, but as far as we
:03:21. > :03:27.know, Angelina has not opted for that at the moment. If people are
:03:27. > :03:32.worried, what should they do? should not be only one in 20 breast
:03:32. > :03:34.cancers is caused by this faulty, inherited gene. But if women are
:03:34. > :03:39.worried, and if they believe they have a family history of breast
:03:39. > :03:43.cancer, then they should go and see their GP, and they may be offered a
:03:43. > :03:47.genetic test to see if they carry this gene. What do you make of the
:03:47. > :03:53.fact that she has come out so publicly? She is a campaigner on so
:03:53. > :03:57.many issues... It is great. It really raises breast awareness. I
:03:57. > :04:01.hope it encourages women to be breast aware. Most cancers are not
:04:01. > :04:11.caused by these faulty genes, so there is not that women can do to
:04:11. > :04:12.
:04:12. > :04:13.reduce their risk. -- there is lots. Being a healthy weight, reducing
:04:13. > :04:20.alcohol intake are among those things. What we search is currently
:04:20. > :04:26.going on in this area? At the moment, there is lots of research
:04:26. > :04:31.going on. Just I doing research, we know that these faulty genes cause
:04:31. > :04:36.breast cancer. Then, women can have options to reduce their risk. We are
:04:36. > :04:37.also working to develop new treatments for breast cancer, but
:04:37. > :04:41.the ultimate aim would be to start to prevent all types of breast
:04:41. > :04:46.cancer, which is why the research into breast cancer is so necessary.
:04:46. > :04:50.Angelina Jolie has also gone for a pretty radical procedure, but how
:04:50. > :04:53.difficult is it for women to make that decision and then live with it?
:04:53. > :04:59.It is a very, very difficult and personal decision. Each woman will
:04:59. > :05:04.be very different. There are options available, some women opt for a
:05:04. > :05:07.mastectomy, like Angelina Jolie, other women opt for more regular
:05:07. > :05:16.screening and being breast aware. So, it is a very, very personal
:05:16. > :05:20.choice between a woman and her clinical team. Now, more than 50
:05:20. > :05:26.people are feared drowned as one of a convoy of boats has capsised off
:05:26. > :05:30.Western Burma. All of the dead are thought to be Rohingya Moslem
:05:30. > :05:40.refugees. They were trying to get out of the path of a tropical storm.
:05:40. > :05:41.
:05:41. > :05:45.The United Nations says just over 40 people are known to have survived.
:05:45. > :05:51.From agencies on the ground, we have heard that 42 people have been
:05:51. > :05:55.recovered from this accident, alive. They are still trying to assess how
:05:55. > :05:58.many other people may or may not have made it to shore, and how many
:05:58. > :06:04.others may be missing. But certainly, the number of dead you
:06:04. > :06:08.gave just now gives a sense that this was a pretty bad accident. It
:06:08. > :06:13.took face at nighttime, in the pitch dark. Only one of the boats had
:06:13. > :06:19.power, was pulling the other two out into the very large river estuaries
:06:19. > :06:24.in this part of Burma, moving away from a town which had been the scene
:06:24. > :06:29.of severe sectarian clashes last year. The Rohingya population there
:06:29. > :06:34.has been confined to a muddy camp in a very bleak and exposed almost like
:06:34. > :06:39.a field, a very wet area. So, they know they are very vulnerable, and
:06:39. > :06:42.they seem to have tried to organise their own evacuation ahead of this
:06:42. > :06:46.cyclone. The Burmese authorities also say they are evacuating some
:06:46. > :06:51.people from vulnerable spots, but they have only been able to move
:06:51. > :06:56.about 13,000 so far out of 130,000. There is great concern, with this
:06:56. > :06:59.cyclone due to strike in a couple of days time. Some of the Rohingya
:06:59. > :07:03.communities are therefore organising their own evacuation is, and in this
:07:03. > :07:06.case, it has gone horribly wrong. They have described it as the most
:07:07. > :07:10.disturbing images to come out of two years of bloody conflict in Syria, a
:07:10. > :07:14.video emerging on the Internet which appears to show a well-known rebel
:07:14. > :07:20.commander cutting out the heart of a dead soldier and taking a bite from
:07:20. > :07:23.it. The video cannot be independently verified. It has been
:07:23. > :07:27.widely condemned. For obvious reasons, we are not going to be
:07:27. > :07:32.showing it. Our Middle East correspondent, Jim Muir, says the
:07:32. > :07:36.video makes harrowing viewing. have actually seen it and it does
:07:36. > :07:39.not make pleasant viewing. I have seen thousands of videos since the
:07:39. > :07:48.Syrian crisis began more than two years ago, and this is among the top
:07:48. > :07:52.five, if not one of the very worst I have seen. It is of a particularly
:07:52. > :07:55.gratuitous, bloodthirsty nature. This is a man basically exulting
:07:55. > :08:01.over the body of a dead Syrian soldier, cutting his heart and liver
:08:01. > :08:06.out, holding them up, dangling, and then appearing to take a bite. He
:08:06. > :08:10.takes a bite but the video cuts at that point. You do not know whether
:08:10. > :08:18.he has actually taken a mouthful or just given it a bite. But it is
:08:18. > :08:22.extremely powerful, in the sense of being just gratuitously to
:08:22. > :08:26.gratuitously revolting, but also, it amounts to sectarian incitement. He
:08:26. > :08:36.is saying, we should be killing analytes and cutting out their
:08:36. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:46.hearts and eating them. That is what he says. -- Alawites. And again,
:08:46. > :08:51.this highlights the extent to which this situation has become so brutal,
:08:51. > :08:55.violent and difficult... And so fragmented, on top of all of that.
:08:55. > :08:59.This man, who appears to be the man in the video, he has appeared in
:08:59. > :09:05.earlier videos, showing him firing of rockets into Lebanon, rather
:09:05. > :09:10.randomly, at Shi'ite areas of Lebanon, because has Balan, from
:09:10. > :09:14.Lebanon, is involved in fighting on the side of the government. --
:09:14. > :09:19.Hezbollah. Also he is seen in videos exulting over the bodies of dead
:09:19. > :09:23.Hezbollah fighters. The question is, is he in any way under the structure
:09:23. > :09:27.of the Free Syrian Army, which itself is somewhat disparate? He
:09:27. > :09:32.seems to be in charge of this group, which is an offshoot of the Farouq
:09:32. > :09:39.Brigades, one of the FSA units which was fighting very strongly in Homs a
:09:39. > :09:44.year ago. And he was known to be there. He seems to have split off
:09:44. > :09:47.from them. Whether he has gone completely freelance or not, we do
:09:47. > :09:51.not know. But the opposition Syrian coalition has strongly condemned
:09:51. > :09:55.what happened, saying that whoever did this will be put on trial. But
:09:55. > :09:59.that is a purely academic statement. As human rights watch said,
:09:59. > :10:05.condemnation is not enough, people on the ground need to know that they
:10:05. > :10:09.will be held to account for what are clearly warcrimes. As the violence
:10:09. > :10:14.continues, over the past two years, more than 1 million Syrians have
:10:14. > :10:18.fled abroad. At least 300,000 have ended up in Turkey. What sort of
:10:18. > :10:23.life have they been able to build for themselves? Been to reports from
:10:24. > :10:31.the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep. Haj Abed fled Syria with
:10:31. > :10:35.his family and their recipes. He now runs a falafel restaurant in the
:10:35. > :10:40.Turkish city of Gaziantep. He and his staff serve their fellow
:10:40. > :10:50.refugees food from home. Their country's war is impossible to
:10:50. > :10:59.forget. This photograph so shows Haj Abed's son, who was killed in
:10:59. > :11:07.December in Aleppo. The family now takes care of his four-year-old son.
:11:07. > :11:10.TRANSLATION: Before the revolution, I was just a regular person. The
:11:10. > :11:17.reason we are here is known to everyone in the world. It does not
:11:17. > :11:21.need expanding. For now, this is where the refugees must live, here,
:11:21. > :11:28.in southern Turkey. Their home country is only an hour's drive
:11:28. > :11:33.away. Many Syrian refugees prefer not to live in the official camps
:11:34. > :11:38.set up by the Turkish gunman. Syrians who have money, or who have
:11:38. > :11:43.friends here, live in local apartments. -- Turkish government.
:11:43. > :11:47.They have turned this city, Gaziantep, into their new home.
:11:47. > :11:53.Yasser Al Haji is a Syrian journalist and campaigner. He is
:11:53. > :11:59.still getting used to living in Turkey. You get feeling about it.
:11:59. > :12:04.You are in a Turkish city, and you hear people speaking Arabic, or in a
:12:05. > :12:10.Damascus accent. It is weird. I do not accept that fact, that we are
:12:10. > :12:17.really here as refugees. It does not seem to me that I will stay here for
:12:17. > :12:22.a long time. Khaled Mousa escaped in September last year and he has found
:12:22. > :12:26.work in a hat shop. He shows off Free Syrian Army baseball caps. He
:12:26. > :12:33.tells me that most customers are from Syria. Some come to Turkey with
:12:33. > :12:37.nothing. He tries to help them find somewhere to live. Turkey may not be
:12:37. > :12:43.fighting Syria's war, but the country actively supports the Syrian
:12:43. > :12:53.opposition. This southern city is Turkish, but it has also become
:12:53. > :13:03.
:13:03. > :13:07.Aleppo in X file. -- in X file. -- in exile. Following the collapse of
:13:07. > :13:10.a building involved in the fashion industry in Bangladesh last month,
:13:10. > :13:15.some parts of the industry have pledged to take action. Our
:13:15. > :13:17.correspondent has the latest. Just behind me is the site where the nine
:13:17. > :13:22.story building collapsed nearly three weeks ago. The site has now
:13:22. > :13:27.been cleared and handed over to the civilian administration. The rescue
:13:27. > :13:32.teams say there is nothing else to be found here. But there are still a
:13:32. > :13:35.lot of people out there. Nearly 100 people are still missing, and many
:13:36. > :13:41.people want answers. Already, attention is shifting to the future
:13:41. > :13:45.of the garment industry here in Bangladesh. All Western companies,
:13:45. > :13:50.including H&M and primer of the UK have now agreed to bring in special
:13:50. > :13:55.funding to improve safety standards in garment factories here in
:13:55. > :14:00.Bangladesh. But at least 100 factories in an area very close to
:14:00. > :14:04.here have now shut down indefinitely after several protests by workers
:14:04. > :14:07.over into working conditions and higher pay. It gives you a sense of
:14:07. > :14:10.the tension that has been created in the aftermath of the building that
:14:10. > :14:16.collapsed. Many people are now waiting to see if Bangladesh will
:14:16. > :14:23.continue to produce cheap clothes for consumers in the Western world.
:14:23. > :14:26.Stay with us here on BBC News - still to come, in the age of smart
:14:26. > :14:35.phones and tablets, should schoolchildren still learn how to
:14:35. > :14:39.write by hand? An American abortion doctor has been convicted of
:14:39. > :14:42.murdering three babies at a clinic in Philadelphia. He was accused of
:14:42. > :14:46.deliberately killing three babies which had been born alive following
:14:46. > :14:54.late term abortions. A warning that this report has some disturbing
:14:54. > :15:01.details. No response from the doctor at the centre of a case that has
:15:01. > :15:06.provoked upset and fury. During his trial, the doctor was accused of
:15:06. > :15:09.delivering three babies alive, and then severing their spinal-cord is
:15:09. > :15:19.with a pair of scissors. His defence said there was no evidence the
:15:19. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:46.babies were born alive, but accepted A raid on the clinic found filthy
:15:46. > :15:51.conditions. The doctor was also found guilty of involuntary
:15:51. > :15:57.manslaughter of a woman who died following a botched procedure. The
:15:57. > :16:02.case has fuelled the highly emotive debate over abortion rights in the
:16:02. > :16:06.US. The anti- camps say the case is evidence of cruelty which exist
:16:06. > :16:11.across the entire practice. Supporters say this case is a
:16:11. > :16:14.warning of what could happen if access to abortion is made more
:16:14. > :16:18.difficult. A major survey of attitudes in Europe suggests
:16:18. > :16:21.satisfaction with the European Union is at an all-time low. The
:16:21. > :16:26.Washington-based Pew Research Centre spoke to more than 7,500
:16:26. > :16:29.people in eight European countries in March. Large majorities in
:16:29. > :16:33.France, Greece, Italy and Spain thought the Euro had weakened their
:16:33. > :16:43.economies. However, there was little support for reverting to
:16:43. > :16:51.national currencies. The US Justice Department has obtained two months
:16:51. > :16:56.of phone records at the Associated Press -- Associated Press. There
:16:56. > :17:02.was a story about a foiled terror plot in Yemen. They have called it
:17:02. > :17:07.a massive and unprecedented intrusion. The news agency was told
:17:07. > :17:17.the Justice Department had records of outgoing calls on more than 20
:17:17. > :17:18.
:17:18. > :17:23.This is BBC World News. The headlines: Angelina Joanie has
:17:23. > :17:33.revealed she has had both breasts removed to minimise her higher risk
:17:33. > :17:38.
:17:38. > :17:40.of breast cancer. A graphic video is posted on the internet. Let's go
:17:40. > :17:43.back to our main story - the news that the actress Angelina Jolie has
:17:43. > :17:46.had both breasts removed, to reduce her risk of developing cancer. It
:17:46. > :17:50.is an immensely difficult decision to go under the knife when you are
:17:50. > :17:54.fit and well. Up Wendy Watson was the first person in the UK to have
:17:54. > :17:58.the operation done 21 years ago. I asked her what effect the actress's
:17:58. > :18:05.decision is likely to have on other women facing similar situations.
:18:05. > :18:12.is actually marvellous she has come forward. It just shows the world's
:18:12. > :18:19.most eligible - or not eligible - but most attractive man is their
:18:19. > :18:25.supporting her. That is wonderful. To put a high profile like that is
:18:25. > :18:31.great. Tell us what happened to you. I had to nine relatives with the
:18:31. > :18:37.disease. I could not get anyone to agree it could be hereditary. To me,
:18:37. > :18:42.it was obvious that nine relatives was a huge risk. And so I invented
:18:42. > :18:50.having the surgery. There was no test at that point. It is that
:18:50. > :18:56.right? There was no gene test. Our family was one that was used to
:18:56. > :19:02.find the gene. I tried to find a way to prevent myself from
:19:02. > :19:07.developing breast cancer and that seemed the most perfect way. It
:19:07. > :19:13.would have killed me, as it did my mother. Was that completely your
:19:13. > :19:17.idea? Had you heard of other women going through the process? Not at
:19:17. > :19:21.all. The entire world thought I had gone bonkers. Everyone was
:19:21. > :19:28.absolutely appalled and said, by which you have healthy tissue
:19:28. > :19:32.removed when you might never get it? -- why would you have? I said,
:19:32. > :19:38.nine added 10 relatives or my family have had breast cancer. Why
:19:38. > :19:42.would I not want to do this before I get it to prevent it spreading?
:19:42. > :19:46.You went to a lot of battles to get to that process. When it came to
:19:46. > :19:52.the day when you had to go into an operating theatre, how difficult
:19:52. > :19:57.was that? I was nervous. Nobody goes under anaesthetic without
:19:57. > :20:02.being nervous. Of course they do not. What was difficult was not to
:20:02. > :20:06.show any nervousness to the medical profession. They would have been
:20:06. > :20:11.too scared and backed out. Everyone was timid about doing the operation
:20:11. > :20:16.in case I changed my mind and suit them, or something like that. I
:20:16. > :20:22.want them to know I was in sound mind and this is what I wanted to
:20:22. > :20:27.do. I was fully supported by my family. That was the tricky bit.
:20:27. > :20:33.When I woke up, the following day, having had this operation, I felt
:20:33. > :20:39.the most privileged person in the world. 29th other women or had had
:20:39. > :20:44.surgery for suspected cancers. All I had got word two scars. How could
:20:45. > :20:47.I feel anything but really lucky? Violent scenes have marred Paris
:20:47. > :20:52.Saint Germain's celebrations after the club secured the French
:20:52. > :20:55.football league title. PSG fans had to wait 19 years for the title but
:20:55. > :21:01.after waiting over an hour for the club's players to appear at a
:21:01. > :21:04.victory ceremony, supporters became restless. Disgruntled fans threw
:21:04. > :21:07.stones at the police, who fired tear gas canisters in response.
:21:07. > :21:17.Sporadic fighting between fans and police around the Trocadero near
:21:17. > :21:19.
:21:19. > :21:25.the Eiffel Tower continued for two hours. Lonmin says an illegal
:21:25. > :21:31.strike has halted production at all its platinum mines in South Africa.
:21:31. > :21:41.Thousands of workers have gone on strike. Last August, 34 workers
:21:41. > :21:45.
:21:45. > :21:48.were killed by police. The former president of the Philippines,
:21:48. > :21:51.Joseph Estrada, has been elected mayor of the capital, Manila. Mr
:21:51. > :21:54.Estrada was overthrown 12 years ago by a popular uprising against
:21:54. > :21:56.corruption. He was jailed for life in 2007 but was freed just six
:21:56. > :22:06.weeks later after receiving a presidential pardon. His critics
:22:06. > :22:06.
:22:06. > :22:09.accused him of running the Philippines like a gangland boss.
:22:09. > :22:12.He posted an unforgettable video of himself singing a David Bowie hit,
:22:12. > :22:15.high above the earth, in the International Space Station. But
:22:15. > :22:17.unlike Bowie's Major Tom, Colonel Chris Hadfield is now safely back
:22:17. > :22:20.on earth, following nearly five months in orbit. His three-man crew
:22:20. > :22:26.landed safely in Kazakhstan. Daniel Sandford says the astronaut is fast
:22:26. > :22:33.becoming a celebrity. It was a fairly routine mission in space. He
:22:33. > :22:38.used Twitter, videos on YouTube and a live broadcast to Canadian school
:22:38. > :22:45.children. He has become a phenomenon. He ended his mission on
:22:45. > :22:50.Sunday night by being a singing spaceman but this amazing recording
:22:50. > :22:56.of Space Odyssey by David Parry. This morning, he has landed in a
:22:56. > :23:01.very traditional London space way - floating down in the soil is
:23:01. > :23:07.capsule, floating down with a parachute slowing it down. A cloud
:23:07. > :23:12.of dust. The capsule was opened and he was carried out. They had been
:23:12. > :23:21.in space for 146 days. The astronauts lose their strength and
:23:21. > :23:31.ability to walk. Do we know any more about his future plans? We do
:23:31. > :23:35.not. He is a very experienced at -- astronaut. He was involved in
:23:35. > :23:41.building a very important robotic arm on the International Space
:23:41. > :23:47.Station. Nobody paid much attention to him until his third mission into
:23:47. > :23:51.space. He is a huge phenomenon. What you'll be doing over the next
:23:51. > :23:56.year or so is using his experience in space and his renown from his
:23:56. > :24:06.trip to space to educate people further about the benefits of the
:24:06. > :24:06.
:24:06. > :24:10.International Space Station and the work that is being done. Lots of
:24:10. > :24:20.technology experts are suggesting we should stop teaching handwriting
:24:20. > :24:21.
:24:21. > :24:29.at schools. The schools are fighting back. Go ahead and try it
:24:29. > :24:33.on your iPad Apple. Welcome to the classroom of the future. At this
:24:33. > :24:39.elementary school, every pupil is equipped with a smartphone or
:24:39. > :24:44.tablet. Interactive learning goes beyond raising a hand to answer a
:24:44. > :24:50.question. You are learning about the human brain. Alongside the
:24:50. > :24:55.technology, there is still room for traditional teaching. These eight-
:24:55. > :25:01.year-olds are learning to write by hand. It looks like a whole bunch
:25:01. > :25:04.of squiggles. It is a fun way to write letters. It turns out all
:25:04. > :25:09.perfect and pretty. Of the principles so she wants the right
:25:09. > :25:17.balance between computers and cursed. I think children are typing
:25:17. > :25:21.a lot more. It is about understanding how to write cursive.
:25:21. > :25:31.Lots of people look at this writing as an art. We do not want to see it
:25:31. > :25:38.
:25:38. > :25:42.become a dying art. These are thank She is pushing a Bill in the state
:25:42. > :25:46.legislature to formally bring penmanship back into the classroom.
:25:46. > :25:49.Somewhere somebody decided we did not needed any more because we were
:25:49. > :25:54.going more to the electronic and digital age. They did not realise
:25:54. > :26:01.that lots of times when you cannot write it, you cannot read it. It
:26:01. > :26:11.helps their self-esteem. Critics say such thinking is out of touch
:26:11. > :26:12.
:26:12. > :26:17.and belongs in the past. It is being held on to out of nostalgia.
:26:17. > :26:23.Instead of the things that really affect cognition. Students are
:26:23. > :26:27.pursuing reading on their own. want to use your iPads to research
:26:28. > :26:33.pictures of the brain. Pat is not convinced that computers have to be
:26:33. > :26:40.the future. I could not care less about computers. I would not want
:26:40. > :26:45.to learn it. Cursive writing I have used every day. I guess I would use
:26:45. > :26:50.it until I die. The next generation seems equally at ease writing with