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These are our top stories: Russia expresses its disappointment at the | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
plans by the EU to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian rebels. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Australia's playing down a report that Chinese hackers stole the | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
blueprints for its new intelligence headquarters. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
On alert -- the authorities in Chile and Argentina -- on alert | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
# The authorities in Chile and Argentina living close to a volcano | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
to leave their homes. And plants frozen in the little Ice | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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Age in Canada, have been observed Europe's ban on supplying weapons to | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
the Syrian opposition is over. But nothing will be sent just yet at | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
least, after lengthy and at times acrimonious talks, member states | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
decided to wait until August at the earliest before they actually decide | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
whether to send in weapons and critically, to whom. Sanctions on | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
the regime will be maintained. That decision hasn't pleased Russia at | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
all. Moscow says it will undermine the chances for an international | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Peace Conference which Russia and America are planning to hold next | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
month. Let's bring this all together now and talk to our Middle East | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
correspondent, Jim Muir, who is monitoring events from Beirut. We | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
may well be talking to you in Beirut, because this morning we've | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
had another incident which could suggest that the conflict in Syria | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
is spreading over into Lebanon. That's right. Early this morning or | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
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in fact during the night, a Lebanese army checkpoint to -- in the Bekaa | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Valley was attacked. Three soldiers were killed according to the army. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
The attackers are unknown. They've fled to what's described as an | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
unknown destination, possibly across the border into Syria. A very | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
serious incident because tension was already very high in that area | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
between the town itself, which is a Sunni town, very sympathetic to the | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
rebels and who have been allowing itself to be used really as a | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
launching point for a rebel supply route across the bored to the rebels | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
in Syria. People come and go all the time with arms, ammunition etc. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
There was an earlier incident with the killing of Lebanese army | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
soldiers. At the same time, in the Bekaa Valley in a Shi'ite area, | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
where Hezbollah holds sway, more rockets falling there. Some fell | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
late yesterday. That's Monday. They killed a woman and wounded three. | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
Now aparents aparentsly more rockets fired from inside Syria onto the | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
town or the air -- onto the town. Whilst all this is occurring, we | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
hear that senator John McCain of the United States has had a secret, | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
top-secret, very brief visit to Syria itself, actually venturing | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
into Syrian territory, the visit lasting an hour. That's right. He | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
dipped his toe in the water. He went across to a place just inside Syria. | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
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Obviously, in conditions of great secrecy. He is an advocate strongly | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
of arming the rebels. Presumably he will have had that view reinforced | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
by his brief visit. Presumably he will be pleased by the decision by | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
the EU to lift an arms emboringo, albeit with nothing -- embargo, | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
albeit with nothing happening until August. At the moment the Peace | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Conference seems to be very much in doubt not least because the | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
opposition itself is in total disarray at the moment. The Russians | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
have been very quick in coming out with criticism at the EU Foreign | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Minister's action to lift the arms embargo opening up the possibilities | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
of sending arms to the rebels in Syria. That's right. They've been | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
very critical. They said this will complicate the efforts to get that | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
international Peace Conference off the ground. Presumably by | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
encouraging the rebels to think they're going to get a deluge of | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
weapons and therefore it makes it more of a waste of time to talk to | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
the regime. That is presumably the thinking of the Russians. Meanwhile | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
they've also said, their representative to NATO has said that | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
Russian sales of S300 ground-to-air missiles to the Syrian government | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
will go ahead. That could be seen as a bit of an escalation. They had | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
been apparently, there were reports they were holding those back in | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
exchange for an Israeli commitment thot carry out more air raids into | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
Syria. That seems to have broken down, if it existed. The Russian | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
step could be seen as a bit of an escalation. For now, Jim, a very | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
complicated situation. Thank you very much. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Now to Australia where there are reports today that it has become the | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
latest victim of a wave of Chinese hacking attacks and that what's been | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
stolen is the blueprint for the country's new spy headquarters. This | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
is coming from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that says | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
details of the building have been illegally accessed from China. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Security officials in Australia have refueled to confirm or deny the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
claims. These were revelations that aired on | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
a big current affairs show on the A BC show. They said Chinese hackers | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
had managed to get the blueprints to the floor plans of this multimillion | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
dollar headquarters for the national National Security Agency. They've | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
found out where the servers are, where a lot of the IT things are | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
going to be based. So really sensitive information that would | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
open up that building to all sorts of electronics, eavesdropping and | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
infiltration. The Australian government in the form of the Prime | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Minister has said that report is inaccurate. But she hasn't said | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
which bits are inago rat. She hasn't denied the main thrust of the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
report. Neither has the Attorney-General either. He said the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
policy not to comment on these kind of things. At the moment the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Australian government giving no confirmation that this has actually | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
happened, but at the same time, they're not issue -- issuing firm | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
denials. The Prime Minister was in China quite recently. Relations | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
between the two seemed to be very warm, certainly on the economic | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
front. Yeah, I mean, we've been reporting for a number of years now, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Australia still looks for its security from Washington but looks | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
to China for its prosperity. It's a significant relationship. The Prime | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Minister went there recently. She put talks between China and | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Australia on Animal Kingdomual footing. -- on an Annual footing. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
The foreign affairs minister has come out today saying the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
revelations or allegations won't affect that relationship at all. | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
China is such a key part of the Australian story now. But while | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Australia's wary of China's rise it's dependent on China's rise as | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
well. It has an almost recession proof economy at the moment. One of | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
the reasons why is the rise of China and the demand for Australian | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
resources. In Malaysia it seems 21 people are still missing after an | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
overloaded ferry capsized on a river in Borneo. Officials say the boat | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
was carrying more than 200 passengers, that's three times the | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
number it should have been carrying. More than 180 people managed to swim | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
to shore when the boat went down near Belaga. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Police in southern Spain say they believe two bodies found in a lemon | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
grove are likely to be the Dutch volleyball star Ingrid Visser and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
her boyfriend. The couple were reported missing two weeks ago when | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
they failed to return to Amsterdam. Three people have been arrested, one | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Spaniard and two Russians. Heavy fog has blanketed the city of | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Sydney and its airport on Tuesday causing some international flights | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
to be diverted to other cities. Some flights, which were diverted to | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Brisbane, were then stuck in a holding pattern over the city's | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
airport for over an hour. Now Chile and Argentina have ordered | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
thousands of people, who live close to the volcano to leave the area. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
They've issued a red alert, that's the highest possible, say saying it | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
could erupt again. Last December, it started spew spewing ash and gas | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
with smoke rising more than a kilometre in the sky. Here with me | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
now is Carolina Robino from BBC Mund o. When we are saying that this | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
could be imminent, it could happen very quickly. Or it could never | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
happen already. -- also. The authorities are managing information | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
that it could happen randomly or it could happen in 20 days. The problem | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
is they cannot risk the life of people. They are due to start the | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
evacuation in half an hour. But the local media have said pregnant | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
women, blind people and people with disabilities have already been evam | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
waited. Are talking about two countries, Argentina and Chile. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
of the people are in Chile. There are about more than 2400 people and | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
500 in Argentina. If you think it's a very isolated area, we are talking | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
almost of all the population in those areas. And where are they | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
moved to? How far away? They are moving to shelters in schools, in | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
gyms, in the nearest cities. The cities themself will be guarded for | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
a while bit militaries to make sure there won't be any vandalism. People | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
are very used to this kind of thing. Chile is a country that has seen the | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
force of nature so many times, that it will be a very smooth evacuation. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
We are looking at pictures from last December. When that occurred, we had | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
this enormous amount of ash and gas coming out of the volcano, but | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
actually it didn't erupted, am I right? It didn't. This time they | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
don't know, but you have to take into account that the ashes are | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
toxic and even if they don't erupt sometimes they cause lots of | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
economic problems because the ash is going to the harvest and all the | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
things that are around there. once people are moved away from | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
their livelihoods and their homes, it takes some time before the red | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
alert is removed and they can return back to making a living. They said | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
that they will be there for five days in the shelters but the -- it | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
will be evaluated for every 24 hours. Thank you very much. We'll | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
keep an eye on that. Carolina Robino, thank you. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Now, let's go to Iraq, because at least 66 people are now thought to | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
have died in a wave of car bombings in the capital Baghdad. Doctors say | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
many more people were wounded in the attacks in mainly Shia areas. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Sectarian violence has been on the rise in Iraq. More than 300 people | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
have died in the past two weeks alone. | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
This is the district in eastern Baghdad, one of the mainly Shia | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
areas struck by a series of explosions. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
TRANSLATION: We left the car here and crossed the street where a car | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
picked him up. I told people there was a bomb here. The blast went off | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
as people ran away. Bombs went off in ten districts with civilians | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
hardest hit bit violence. TRANSLATION: What crime have those | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
innocent people committed? Children, four years old were killed. What | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
crime have they done? As well as today's attacks, there have been | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
attacks in Sunni districts. But there are efforts on both sides to | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
prevent this leading to sectarian Civil War. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
More to come here at BBC World News, including this: Opening the door to | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
girl power in India. We hear from one woman who's decided to become, | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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Hundreds of cyclists have started a six-day charity bike ride from Paris | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
to London. Among those taking part are 30 injured servicemen from the | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
UK, the US and can da. The event raises money for Help for Heroes. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
It's being given added pine yansy this year because of Drummer Lee | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Rigby who was wearing one of their T-shirts when he was murdered | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
brutally on a London street last week. Racing to recovery, soldiers | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
injured in Iraq and Afghanistan have been cycling for the charity since | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
it launched its first race in 2008. The annual e event also brings the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
chance for reflection. When those taking part this year signed up | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
several months ago, they had no idea they'd be marking the momentary of a | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
British soldier, killed on home soil. What happened in Woolwich, the | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
other week, it's, it just brings it home actually, our troops are in | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
danger all the time, at home and abroad. His family need support. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Help for Heroes will be there for his family like they were there for | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
me. It's very important. The Royal Family has offered its support with | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Prince Harry and the Duke of Cambridge meeting some of the | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
cyclists at a Help for Heroes recovery centre earlier this month. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Later today it will be the Duchess of Cornwall waving off the riders in | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
Paris as they begin their 350-mile journey to London. These final | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
preparations follow the stabbing of a French soldier high in Paris on -- | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
here in Paris on Saturday and police revealing what appears to be an | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
attack by an Islamist extremist in -- on an officer in the south of the | :14:50. | :14:53. |