:00:09. > :00:16.I'm Nick Gowing. The top stories: The number of people known to have
:00:16. > :00:19.died in the Syrian conflict has increased by 50% to nearly 93,000.
:00:19. > :00:27.Turkey's Prime Minister, issue as last warning for thousands of
:00:27. > :00:32.protesters, he calls them trouble makers, he is telling them to leave
:00:32. > :00:37.Istanbul's Gezi Park. And Edward Snowden, it is known he
:00:37. > :00:41.has hacked governments in the US and Hong Kong for years.
:00:42. > :00:51.And housing garment factories in Bangladesh. New inspectors reveal
:00:52. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:05.that six out of ten factories are Hello. More than two years after the
:01:05. > :01:10.start of the conflict in Syria, the United Nations says that the
:01:10. > :01:13.suffering and killing has increased dramatically. The Human Rights
:01:13. > :01:19.Commissioner says that at least 93,000 people are known to have been
:01:20. > :01:26.killed in Syria since the early 2011. She says that the true figure
:01:26. > :01:31.of 93,000 could be much higher. On average 5,000 deaths are documented
:01:31. > :01:38.every month, but the UN believes that many deaths are not recorded in
:01:38. > :01:43.this butal war. The BBC's reporter is in Geneva. She gave me the new
:01:43. > :01:46.details coming from the UN. The UN is stressing that this is
:01:46. > :01:51.basically, sadly, probably the lowest figure. They have looked
:01:51. > :01:56.very, very carefully. All deaths have had to have been reported with
:01:56. > :02:01.time, name, location and verified. We have seen what is going on in
:02:01. > :02:07.Syria. There are likely to be many more than that. In fact, in this
:02:07. > :02:12.report in front of me, almost 38,000 deaths, the UN statisticians have
:02:12. > :02:16.some record of but not strong enough to include it in that report. So
:02:16. > :02:22.those 38,000 have been excluded. That, of course, would take the
:02:22. > :02:28.figure well over 100,000, up to 120,000. So a clear sign that this
:02:28. > :02:33.conflict is getting worse and worse. Children too, they are documented in
:02:33. > :02:37.this report at over 6,000 and no sign of attending.
:02:37. > :02:41.Imogen is there a further breakdown of the circumstances as to how
:02:41. > :02:47.people are dying, in other words a clarity on the way in which so many
:02:47. > :02:52.people are now dying in this conflict? What this report can say
:02:52. > :03:00.is where the most number of deaths have been recorded.
:03:00. > :03:07.It is rural Damascus, Homs, as we might expect, Aleppo and Idlib and
:03:07. > :03:13.to a certain extent, Deraa it looks as though 80 % of those killed are
:03:13. > :03:17.male. What the UN has not been able to as taken, and this is
:03:17. > :03:22.understandable given the many different groups fighting in the
:03:23. > :03:28.opposition is whether those killed are combatants or noncombatants.
:03:28. > :03:33.They have been able to ascertain some age statistic, over 1700
:03:33. > :03:37.children under the age of ten are documented to have been killed.
:03:37. > :03:42.6,500 classed as minors, that is under the age of 18.
:03:42. > :03:46.Now to Turkey, where the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has
:03:46. > :03:52.just issued what he says is a final warning to demonstrators. They have
:03:52. > :03:56.been occupying a park in Istanbul for two weeks. He says he is
:03:56. > :04:03.describing the pro tersers at looters and trouble makers, that his
:04:03. > :04:09.patience is at an end. We have a reporter, I asked him
:04:09. > :04:14.about the Prime Minister's stance. He is defiant. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
:04:14. > :04:20.is known to be a blunt person any how. He is speaking to his party
:04:20. > :04:25.supporters. He is saying, labelling the people at the park, looters,
:04:25. > :04:30.occupiers, he says now if the European Parliament were to pass a
:04:30. > :04:34.decision or take a decision either warning Turkey or condemning Turkey
:04:34. > :04:38.for the use of force, that he would not recognise it.
:04:38. > :04:42.Does he have the support of his party and Cabinet? Oh, yes.
:04:42. > :04:49.The party has always supported him no matter what. That has not
:04:49. > :04:53.changed. When the speeches were made where he is at now, before him
:04:53. > :04:58.several others went to that stage and spoke with the same words, the
:04:58. > :05:01.same phrases so, clearly the party is fully behind him or at least
:05:01. > :05:04.giving a unified message and outlook.
:05:04. > :05:09.Where does this leave the Prime Minister, although we are talking
:05:09. > :05:13.about the pack and Taksim Square, this has been rumbling on over a
:05:13. > :05:17.mosque and other things he was personally determined to do in
:05:17. > :05:21.Istanbul? It leaves the Prime Minister in a stage where it is
:05:21. > :05:25.black or white. He has said with the public opinion poll, he is calling
:05:25. > :05:29.it not a referendum, that either the people can take it or put up with
:05:29. > :05:34.the methods that they are going to be using. So the Prime Minister is
:05:34. > :05:37.clearly, although the public opinion poll may look like a compromise, he
:05:37. > :05:43.is defiant with pressing ahead with his plans.
:05:43. > :05:48.Why is he making such a political stance on this kind of issue? There
:05:48. > :05:53.does seem to be a generational split between him and Ankara with the AK
:05:53. > :05:58.Party and the new generation there on the streets of Istanbul? He does
:05:58. > :06:02.not want to compromise. But he must embrace the younger
:06:02. > :06:07.generation? That is what they have been asking for. They are saying the
:06:07. > :06:14.same thing. He is saying that he is embracing this by taking other
:06:14. > :06:20.steps, bringing down the age to vote in anmph. Or serving them by -- vote
:06:20. > :06:25.in an MP, or serving them elsewhere, so compromising in the sense that he
:06:25. > :06:30.is offering plan Bs, but we are talking about a person who has
:06:30. > :06:35.always been determined and does not want to look weak, I think.
:06:35. > :06:40.Transport workers, hospital staff and other public sector workers are
:06:40. > :06:44.staging a 24 hour strike in Greece. Protesting again the closure of the
:06:44. > :06:50.state broadcaster. The Greek Government pulled the plug on ERT
:06:50. > :06:57.who two days ago, in the middle of a live broadcast. It was said that
:06:57. > :07:01.this is a waste that the country can no longer afford.
:07:01. > :07:06.What often makes Greek folk songs so moving is that at the are full of
:07:06. > :07:16.lament. There was lots among the thousands of Greek journalists and
:07:16. > :07:21.the supporters of the now defunct 75-year-old broadcaster ETV.
:07:21. > :07:26.TRANSLATION: We cannot be here. It is our duty to be here.
:07:26. > :07:32.What is happening here? Something happened we cannot comprehend.
:07:32. > :07:35.Inside the reporters and crew are doing their best to stay on the air
:07:35. > :07:41.via digital channels and the internet, with an obvious lead story
:07:41. > :07:46.to report. TRANSLATION: We are keeping it open
:07:46. > :07:51.to the public who, supported us, who paid our salaries. We will try to
:07:51. > :07:56.keep the signal open. They are watched as Antonis Samaras
:07:56. > :08:01.described their channel as lacking transparency and full of waste. A
:08:01. > :08:07.target for a government desperate to cut in return for more bail out
:08:07. > :08:11.money. More than 2,500 jobs are to go but the shock decision is now
:08:11. > :08:15.threatening his own. Antonis Samaras's coalition partners are
:08:15. > :08:18.refusing to back the closure it could pull the plug on the
:08:18. > :08:22.government itself, forcing fresh elections.
:08:22. > :08:26.TRANSLATION: The Government's future require as common understanding
:08:26. > :08:30.between the three parties that make and support it. I am inviting the
:08:30. > :08:34.Prime Minister to hold a three-party meeting between the coalition
:08:34. > :08:38.party's leaders, in order to find a common policy platform.
:08:38. > :08:42.Adding to the renewed sense of crisis, Greece is on strike once
:08:42. > :08:47.again. The country's two biggest unions
:08:47. > :08:53.called a snap 24-hour stop agenda in solidarity. They plan more protests
:08:54. > :08:59.later on Thursday. Of a fwan officials say that a rogue
:08:59. > :09:02.policeman has shot dead six colleagues. The men's bodies
:09:02. > :09:06.discovered at checkpoint in Sangin in Helmand province. It is the
:09:06. > :09:10.second such attack in a week. Two months after the collapse of a
:09:10. > :09:15.clothing factory in Bangladesh, building inspections revealed that
:09:15. > :09:21.six out of every ten factories there are unsafe. 1200 workers were killed
:09:21. > :09:26.when pillars supporting the Rana Plaza factories building gave way.
:09:26. > :09:34.We have this report from Dhaka. It shows that many factories declared
:09:34. > :09:39.unsafe have carried regardless. This woman grips my hand tightly as
:09:39. > :09:49.she recalls the horrors of her story. The 18-year-old survived 17
:09:49. > :09:56.
:09:56. > :10:01.days under the collapsed Rania laza 72 hours into the rescue effort, the
:10:01. > :10:05.military wanted to call off the search, but thousands of angry
:10:05. > :10:10.Bangladeshi garment workers forced the army to continue the operation.
:10:10. > :10:17.This little girl has the people to thank for her survival.
:10:17. > :10:23.The labourers, the market people, the vegetable shopkeeper, those who
:10:23. > :10:26.were on the streets, they all came running. Thousands to rescue those
:10:26. > :10:34.who were trying to escape the debris.
:10:34. > :10:39.One of those volunteers was 28-year-old Dida Hussein, he worked
:10:39. > :10:44.across the road and at the site from the moment it fell. He rescued 34
:10:44. > :10:54.people it was a harrowing task. To get some out alive he had to
:10:54. > :11:11.
:11:11. > :11:17.amputate their limbs. 1,000 people were kill, has led to
:11:17. > :11:22.some calls to action in Bangladesh. The building's owners and 12 others
:11:22. > :11:29.have been arrest #ed and there has been a sudden spate of inspectors,
:11:29. > :11:34.that found that 06 garment factories are unsafe.
:11:34. > :11:37.A I am about to go into a factory that the unions are concerned about.
:11:37. > :11:41.Concerned about the working conditions and the safety. On top of
:11:41. > :11:45.that, this yellow sign says that everyone should be evacuated as the
:11:45. > :11:53.building has cracks in it and pose as risk to workers and anyone else
:11:53. > :11:57.entering. Inside, I find hundreds of garment
:11:58. > :12:03.workers. I am confronted by the factory boss who rents the space
:12:03. > :12:06.here. I asked him why the building's owner allows him to operate if it is
:12:07. > :12:15.sun safe. The building is not a problem, but
:12:15. > :12:22.due to their safety, the owner of the building, is worried about the
:12:22. > :12:26.site. That is why they give the warning just to release the risk off
:12:26. > :12:32.their shoulder. But he says that he plans on moving
:12:32. > :12:37.the work ers in six months. International pressure on the
:12:37. > :12:42.Bangladesh garment industry is mounting. Last month some Western
:12:42. > :12:46.buyers signed a safety agreement to ensure that their factories are not
:12:46. > :12:52.linked to the disaster at Rana Plaza.
:12:52. > :12:56.But there is no certainty that the fate of millions of garment workers
:12:56. > :13:02.in Bangladesh will change. Still to come: A British mother has
:13:02. > :13:05.been killed in Siberia, whether hit by another car while competing in
:13:05. > :13:09.the Peking to Paris Rally. With Iran about to vote on Friday for a new
:13:09. > :13:19.President, how is the election viewed by Iranians living abroad in
:13:19. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:29.go, this is probably the biggest in the world. The Indian government is
:13:29. > :13:33.considering a plan to spend $23 billion a year. That would provide
:13:33. > :13:40.low-cost food to two out of three people living in India. Critics say
:13:40. > :13:45.it is a waste of public money. We have more from India.
:13:45. > :13:49.It is an ambitious plan to feed India's poor.
:13:49. > :13:53.Nearly 800 million people to be provide provided rice and grain at a
:13:53. > :13:58.fraction of the market value in what is possibly the world's biggest
:13:58. > :14:04.social welfare programme. India grows lots of food. In fact it
:14:04. > :14:09.often has a food surplus. , but by the time it gets to the market it is
:14:09. > :14:14.often too expensive for most people. So the idea is to redies bute the
:14:14. > :14:19.food, making it available to those who need it the most.
:14:19. > :14:25.India's home to a third of the world's poor. More than 40% of its
:14:25. > :14:29.children are malnourished. Poverty levels are worse than
:14:29. > :14:35.sub-Saharan Africa in some areas, but providing cheap food is going to
:14:35. > :14:40.cost India more than 23 a year. Money that some believe will be
:14:40. > :14:46.wasted. Especially as existing food distribution systems have failed.
:14:46. > :14:51.There are a lot of incentives for massive amounts of corruption
:14:51. > :14:56.because they are people who profit massively were this, it includes the
:14:56. > :15:00.politician, the political political parties, the middle men. They are
:15:00. > :15:05.all profiting very handsomely. That is why the existing system is.
:15:05. > :15:07.That is what the new system will do. It is not just corruption that is
:15:07. > :15:13.the problem. Driving into the countryside and
:15:13. > :15:19.this is what you see... Stacks of grain lying out in the open, often
:15:19. > :15:23.rotting in the heat. Had years of bumper harvests but lacks the
:15:23. > :15:33.capacity to store it. So even if the plan to feed the country's hungry is
:15:33. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:44.well-meant. Implementing it may not be easy. The 275 workers at a tomato
:15:44. > :15:48.packing plant were forced to work long hours in overcrowded
:15:48. > :15:58.facilities. They said they were beaten if they tried to escape. They
:15:58. > :16:02.were rescued when one managed to You are with BBC World News. Latest
:16:02. > :16:08.figures from the UN estimate nearly 93,000 people have now been killed
:16:09. > :16:13.in Syria. A 50% increase since January, probably though, they say,
:16:13. > :16:17.an underestimate. Turkey's Prime Minister vows to clear Taksim Square
:16:17. > :16:22.of what he calls troublemakers. That is after two weeks of protests
:16:22. > :16:27.against his Government's policies. Three people, including a British
:16:28. > :16:37.woman have died in a crash during a vintage car race in Siberia. The
:16:38. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:46.crash was during the Peking to rally. This is an epic carolly. They
:16:46. > :16:51.have to make their way from Peking to Paris. Following the route of the
:16:51. > :16:57.1907 rally. They entered Russia on Sunday and were making their way
:16:58. > :17:03.through Siberia, when tragically one of the cars, a truck, being driven
:17:04. > :17:08.by Emma Wilkinson, an English woman and her partner, was in a head-on
:17:08. > :17:14.collision with a Volkswagen Polo, being driven by a Russian family.
:17:14. > :17:18.The father and the child were killed. Emma Wilkinson was killed in
:17:18. > :17:23.the collision and her brothers, who were also taking part in a 1926
:17:23. > :17:29.bently in the race, have stayed on to help her partner with what is
:17:29. > :17:34.obviously an incredibly tragic event, on what was supposed to be a
:17:34. > :17:40.great adventure from Peking all the way to Paris.
:17:40. > :17:43.Let's go to ir-Iran now, where voters about to pick a successor to
:17:43. > :17:49.the long-serving President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How is the contest
:17:49. > :17:54.being seen beyond Iran's borders by Iranians? Well the Persian business
:17:54. > :18:00.reporter has visited one of the biggest ir-Iranian communities
:18:01. > :18:04.outside Iran. It is here in London. Little Iran in London's West
:18:04. > :18:10.Kensington. Some of these stores have been around for almost 30
:18:10. > :18:16.years. A well-established community that keeps its ties with the
:18:16. > :18:22.homeland. Businessman Ali travels to Iran frequently and has witnessed a
:18:22. > :18:25.decline of its economy in recent years.
:18:25. > :18:29.Iran's economy is in at thors because of the fall of the currency
:18:29. > :18:34.and the political isolation from the rest of the world. When I returned
:18:34. > :18:41.there last month, I found the cost of my taxi ride had doubled since
:18:41. > :18:45.last year. It is not just taxi fares or - all
:18:45. > :18:51.the basic staples have been hit with huge price hikes. The official
:18:51. > :18:56.inflation rate is more than 30%. It is estimated the Iranian economy
:18:56. > :19:01.will carry on shrinking this year. The Government is removing subsidies
:19:01. > :19:06.for food and energy, giving people cash handouts instead. This adds
:19:06. > :19:12.fuel to inflation. Furthermore, the country's oil exports have dropped
:19:12. > :19:17.to its lowest level in 25 years - a result of international sanctions.
:19:17. > :19:22.The next President has little room to manoeuvre. The outlook for the
:19:22. > :19:30.economy remains grim. We expect the economy to contract again and remain
:19:30. > :19:35.smaller in real terms for the next five years than it had been in 2011.
:19:35. > :19:41.The Iranian economy will be pinched because of these sanctions. The US
:19:41. > :19:47.and the UN have blacklisted Iranian banks. Now there are fresh
:19:47. > :19:55.sanctions. The value of the Iranian currency is going down dramatically.
:19:55. > :20:01.One year ago, 15,000 would buy $1. Now, you need twice as many to buy
:20:01. > :20:08.that same dollar and the value of the Iranian currency is going only
:20:08. > :20:15.one direction - down. Life for Iranian students in London is
:20:15. > :20:18.becoming difficult: Marry yap had to drop -- Marion had to drop plans for
:20:18. > :20:23.further studies because her family cannot afford it. They would forget
:20:23. > :20:28.about some of the things they would buy in the past and they stick to
:20:28. > :20:32.their basic needs. I think, at the moment, people are surviving. They
:20:32. > :20:36.are not living their lives. people like Ali, business is good
:20:36. > :20:44.here, but they fear it will only get tougher for their friends and
:20:44. > :20:54.families back in Iran. The Iranian Presidential election is
:20:54. > :20:57.
:20:57. > :21:01.on Friday. The David Warne rerks has been suspended. He attacked
:21:01. > :21:11.England's Joe Root. Let's get the latest from our correspondent in
:21:11. > :21:14.Salford. Hello. A very costly punch indeed - $11,000 he has been fined.
:21:14. > :21:18.David Warner was hooked one a telephone conference to Australia.
:21:18. > :21:26.About an hour ago we found out the verdict of that. That puts him out
:21:26. > :21:29.until four weeks' time, the start of the Ashes series. Apart from the
:21:29. > :21:32.reputation, it will take him away from match practise. He will be out
:21:33. > :21:38.for the rest of the champion's trophy campaign for Australia which
:21:38. > :21:43.is going on in England right now. It comes on top of the $6,000 fine he
:21:43. > :21:47.received, not long ago, for a bad twitter outburst to two Australian
:21:47. > :21:55.journalists who used his image to illustrate a story about spot fixing
:21:55. > :22:01.in the Indian Premier League. Thank you very much indeedor that update.
:22:01. > :22:05.Now, the traditional pub, it is known around the world. Increasingly
:22:05. > :22:09.the future is in doubt. Each week sees the closure of 26 pubs on
:22:09. > :22:15.average around the UK. One reason pubs are finding it hard to make a
:22:15. > :22:22.profit is the system of tide houses - those are contracts which mean
:22:22. > :22:32.pubs must buy their beer from a particular brewery.
:22:32. > :22:33.
:22:33. > :22:39.It is a tie that binds. Pub tenants to pub companies. Is the concept of
:22:39. > :22:48.the tied pub saving or damaging the industry? Half of the 50,000 pubs
:22:48. > :22:51.are run using this model. Here is how it work t. The. The landlord
:22:52. > :22:55.gets a degree of security and pays a lower rent than if they were
:22:55. > :23:00.independent. They also have to buy their beer from the pub company
:23:01. > :23:07.rather than the open market, which tip tally means paying a higher
:23:07. > :23:12.price. Often the model works well, but for Simon Clark it doesn't.
:23:12. > :23:16.have to buy our beer from the people we rent the pub from. That in itself
:23:16. > :23:22.would not sound so bad, but the price of the beer and compared,
:23:22. > :23:26.along with the price of the rent itself is just pricing us out of the
:23:26. > :23:35.market. We are getting no profit, despite the level of our turnover.
:23:35. > :23:40.Simon runs the Eagle ale house in South-West London. It is owned by
:23:40. > :23:43.Enterprise Inns. You knew what you were entering into, didn't you?
:23:43. > :23:53.did in that sense. The idea of ordering from them is not an issue,
:23:53. > :24:01.it's the price. According to Simon, a nine gallon barrel of this costs
:24:01. > :24:06.�106. A similar side non-tied pub, nearby, told the BBC they pay around
:24:06. > :24:13.�79. Simon insists the rent is not low enough to off set his higher
:24:13. > :24:23.beer prices. Every year that goes by, our earning
:24:23. > :24:35.
:24:35. > :24:41.diminishings. Enterprise Inns said Disputes like this are relatively
:24:41. > :24:47.rare. The Government has intervened. According to the British Beer & Pub
:24:47. > :24:50.Association fewer than 078.1% of the tied -- 0.1% of the tied pubs in the
:24:50. > :24:54.UK complained about thart relationships. Do you need to get
:24:54. > :24:59.involved? The feeling which is very, very strong amongst publicans who
:24:59. > :25:04.have a tied relationship is they are dealing with very powerful
:25:04. > :25:09.organisations. When they get into a dispute, they get hammered. This is
:25:09. > :25:14.the concern. It has been expressed over many years through Parliament
:25:14. > :25:21.and elsewhere and the Government has been asked to do something about it.
:25:21. > :25:27.The ale house in Taunton is a tied house. But the manager and company
:25:27. > :25:32.see a benefit. If there is a leaky roof. I am on the phone. Within 24
:25:32. > :25:39.hours they will come out and sort it out. That background of safety is
:25:39. > :25:43.important. I don't mind paying more for that. We want them to sell beer.
:25:43. > :25:48.We invest behind them to grow their sales. If they grow their sales, we
:25:48. > :25:56.grow our profitability as well. is a heated debate. A tension is now
:25:56. > :26:01.on the Government to see how they decide to intervene.
:26:01. > :26:08.Finally, two maintenance workers were left dangling near the top of a
:26:08. > :26:13.New York City skyscraper, that is after the scaffolding collapse. The
:26:13. > :26:18.men were trapped outside the 44th floor of the Hearst building in
:26:18. > :26:21.Manhattan. The men on either side of the scaffold communicated with
:26:21. > :26:26.firefighters for about an hour-and-a-half before they were
:26:26. > :26:34.rescued. Workers cut windows open on the 44th floor and pulled them to
:26:34. > :26:40.safety. The Duchess of cham beige is -- came bridge is due to appear at
:26:40. > :26:45.an event. She is naming a new cruise liner at a gala ceremony in
:26:45. > :26:51.Southampton, the south coast of England. It includes the traditional