:00:13. > :00:17.Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: Spain's Prime Minister
:00:17. > :00:21.visits the scene of the country's worst rail crash in 40 years. 78
:00:21. > :00:27.people are now confirmed dead and 144 injured. Rescuers say they
:00:27. > :00:30.don't expect any more survivors. This is the scene live in Santiago
:00:30. > :00:36.de Compostela where investigators are trying to establish what caused
:00:36. > :00:46.the disaster. Once a Chinese communist party
:00:46. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:03.high-flyer - now Bo Xilai, is Spain's Prime Minister has been
:01:03. > :01:07.surveying the scene of the country's worst train crash in more
:01:07. > :01:11.than 40 years. At least 78 people died and 140 were pulled from the
:01:11. > :01:15.wreckage. The emergency services say they believe all those trapped
:01:15. > :01:18.have now been rescued, after all eight carriages derailed. The
:01:18. > :01:22.accident came as the train approached the station at Santiago
:01:23. > :01:32.de Compostela in the north-western region of Galicia. The high-speed
:01:33. > :01:37.intercity service was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol. It is a
:01:37. > :01:41.holiday week of national celebrations in the reason --
:01:41. > :01:44.region. The state railway company Renfe says the train did not have
:01:44. > :01:47.any technical problems and had been inspected just hours earlier. It
:01:47. > :01:55.says it's too early to say what caused the accident. The BBC's Tom
:01:55. > :01:59.Burridge is at the scene. It is a chaotic scene here. There is
:01:59. > :02:05.luggage from passengers strewn around. Some of the carriages have
:02:05. > :02:10.been extremely badly damaged. This is clearly the worst rail disaster
:02:10. > :02:16.in this country for the last 40 years. The death toll has risen
:02:16. > :02:20.throughout the night. The number of dead is now in the late 70s.
:02:20. > :02:25.This morning, emergency teams started moving the smashed
:02:25. > :02:33.carriages away from the railway tracks. Some have rolled over
:02:33. > :02:36.several times in a high-speed crash later on Wednesday evening. Rescue
:02:36. > :02:42.workers are still searching the other carriages, and have been
:02:42. > :02:49.removing more bodies. The death toll, already making this the worst
:02:49. > :02:53.train accidents in Spain for more than 40 years. This man, who lives
:02:53. > :02:58.near by says local people were really frightened. They didn't know
:02:58. > :03:07.if it was some kind of an attack, he says, it is shocking. The Prime
:03:07. > :03:12.Minister, came to visit the site, he was born in this region. He did
:03:12. > :03:17.not make any statement, but ceremonies for a religious festival
:03:17. > :03:24.near by have been cancelled. This was the scene just after the train
:03:24. > :03:29.came off the rails, on a bend near the regional capital of Galicia.
:03:29. > :03:34.Government officials have been quoted as saying it was not a
:03:34. > :03:38.terrorist attack. Instead, the focus is now on how fast the train
:03:38. > :03:44.was travelling at the time on what is a section of high-speed rail
:03:44. > :03:50.track. To rub the night, bodies arrived at the local morgue and it
:03:50. > :03:55.is possible the number of dead will increase. The families of the
:03:55. > :03:59.missing waited anxiously for news. For some, it was what they most
:03:59. > :04:07.feared. This woman said she had lost her knees. We are has broken
:04:07. > :04:13.as you could imagine, she said. -- niece. For those now in mourning,
:04:13. > :04:16.understanding what caused this accident it will be so important.
:04:16. > :04:22.This is holiday season in Spain and a lot of people were starting their
:04:22. > :04:28.summer holidays. A lot of people were travelling from Madrid to
:04:28. > :04:34.areas like Galicia, for the summer holidays. This is the shot now down
:04:34. > :04:41.on the tracks. Complete devastation. Carriages completely removed from
:04:41. > :04:45.the tracks. Local residents spoke of hearing bangs and one residents
:04:45. > :04:50.spoke to me thinking it was an earthquake. Some of the luggage
:04:50. > :04:52.sadly been recovered today. Let's get the reaction from some local
:04:52. > :04:59.residents who heard the bang last night.
:04:59. > :05:04.TRANSLATION: It felt like a thunderstorm, like an earthquake,
:05:04. > :05:09.with rocks falling, a very strong blow. We ran here after we called
:05:09. > :05:14.for help. We open the back of the wagon and started to help people to
:05:14. > :05:22.get out and move the dead bodies. Then police and ambulances came and
:05:22. > :05:26.we helped. We gave people water and held their drips.
:05:26. > :05:31.TRANSLATION: I was at home when I heard what sounded like a
:05:31. > :05:36.thunderstorm. I saw fire, a lot of smoke. My daughter said, something
:05:36. > :05:41.has happened to the train. We came here and the train was of the
:05:41. > :05:45.tracks and there were people lying on the ground, every word.
:05:45. > :05:50.Dramatic accounts of this accident last night. It is a national
:05:50. > :05:56.tragedy. It was supposed to be a day of regional celebration in
:05:56. > :06:01.Galicia. A local bank holiday for people here, it has been completely
:06:01. > :06:07.called off. You can see this crane that seems to have taken one of the
:06:07. > :06:11.carriages up from the tracks below. I believe that process will
:06:11. > :06:17.continue over the next period, as the carriages are essentially
:06:17. > :06:20.recovered from the tracks. I think we are now into the recovery phase
:06:20. > :06:24.of this operations. All of the bodies, all of the survivors have
:06:24. > :06:31.been recovered from the train. But the body count rose very quickly
:06:31. > :06:37.last night. I remember at about 7pm, 9:00pm, 10:00pm local time, the
:06:37. > :06:43.death toll was around 10 but quickly that Rose. We are now sadly
:06:43. > :06:47.into the high 70s. Taking you back to the live shot down on the track,
:06:47. > :06:53.clearly this is one of the worst disasters for this country in rail
:06:53. > :06:57.terms, in recent decades. The Prime Minister was here recently. He was
:06:57. > :07:05.born in Santiago de Compostela, he knows this region very well. He
:07:05. > :07:09.came to see the damage for himself. It is a day for reflection, for
:07:09. > :07:15.commiseration. The celebration that was planned in as part of Spain is
:07:15. > :07:18.over. This is a very difficult time for the relatives. The regional
:07:18. > :07:23.Government has appealed for people to donate blood. I've been it gives
:07:23. > :07:33.you a scale of the tragedy, a scale of this disaster, which is still
:07:33. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:46.coming to light. Who has been -- leads go live to Galicia where the
:07:46. > :07:56.Prime Minister is speaking to officials.
:07:56. > :08:07.
:08:07. > :08:13.He is expressing his condolences to the families. We know one of those
:08:13. > :08:23.who died had been taken to hospital and died there. The Prime Minister
:08:23. > :08:39.
:08:39. > :08:46.At the moment he is expressing his gratitude and francs to the workers
:08:46. > :08:56.who have been helping since the disaster, just before 9pm and
:08:56. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:09.yesterday evening outside Santiago Giving his gratitude to the firemen,
:09:09. > :09:15.all the medical staff as well, and many who were off duty became in to
:09:15. > :09:18.help. This is a time of national holiday. There was a celebration
:09:18. > :09:23.gathering in Santiago that evening, and that is what everyone was
:09:23. > :09:29.planning last night. You have the opening remarks of the Spanish
:09:29. > :09:38.Prime Minister in Santiago de Compostela. We will give you more
:09:38. > :09:41.details as he gives them later on. At caught trying a teenager in a
:09:41. > :09:46.fatal gang rape case of a female student on a bus in Delhi has
:09:46. > :09:50.deferred its verdict for 10 days. The court was due to pronounce its
:09:50. > :09:55.verdict on the youngest of six people accused of the attack and
:09:55. > :10:00.the subsequent death of a 23-year- old woman last December.
:10:00. > :10:03.This is a case of that attracted massive attention. You can get a
:10:03. > :10:07.sense of it are looking at the number of people and journalists
:10:07. > :10:12.who have gathered here outside the juvenile court, where we were
:10:12. > :10:16.expecting a verdict on the youngest of six people accused over the gang
:10:16. > :10:21.rape and subsequent death of a young woman in Delhi. The court has
:10:21. > :10:25.deferred its verdict until the 5th August. There is a petition being
:10:26. > :10:30.heard, challenging the definition of what constitutes a juvenile. The
:10:30. > :10:34.petition arguing a juvenile shouldn't be determined by his age,
:10:34. > :10:40.but by the nature of the crime that they stand accused of. The parents
:10:40. > :10:44.of the young woman who was attacked and who has died, were in the court,
:10:44. > :10:48.and they have always campaigned for the juvenile to be treated as an
:10:48. > :10:53.adult. He was just six runs short of his 18th birthday at the time of
:10:53. > :10:57.the attack. But as it stands Coronet, if he is found guilty of
:10:58. > :11:01.the charges, including rape and murder, he can be convicted for a
:11:01. > :11:05.maximum of three years at a Correctional Facility, and that
:11:05. > :11:09.includes the time he has already spent in custody.
:11:10. > :11:14.Now to South America, to Brazil where Pope Francis has attacked
:11:14. > :11:19.plans to legalise drugs in some Latin American countries. He said
:11:19. > :11:24.that such a move wouldn't solve the problems of drug addicts. It
:11:24. > :11:27.follows the first mass of his trip to Brazil and he warned the crowd
:11:27. > :11:37.against the perceived of false idols, including money, power and
:11:37. > :11:38.
:11:38. > :11:45.success. This man had been here before, as a
:11:45. > :11:54.cardinal in 2007. But as Pope Francis, the crowd greeted him with
:11:54. > :11:59.an uproar. Thousands braved rain outside to catch a glimpse of the
:11:59. > :12:05.first pope from the Americas are returning to the shrine. Thousands
:12:05. > :12:10.packed into the basilica. The Pope appealed for people not to be
:12:10. > :12:15.seduced by femoral idols, such as power and money but nurture
:12:15. > :12:19.Christian values of faith, paternity and generosity. It was a
:12:19. > :12:25.special message for the new generations gathered in Brazil for
:12:25. > :12:29.the World Youth Day. TRANSLATION: Young people are
:12:29. > :12:34.powerful engine for the Church and society. They don't need material
:12:34. > :12:39.things alone, they need to have held up to them, those non-material
:12:39. > :12:43.values which are the heart of other people, the memory of other people.
:12:43. > :12:53.The Pontiff also expressed his devotion to the Virgin Mary and
:12:53. > :12:57.
:12:57. > :13:01.took a moment for a silent prayer before this small image. The
:13:01. > :13:07.basilica is Brazil's most traditional pilgrimage site and
:13:07. > :13:12.people have come from across the country. It is a very rainy day, it
:13:12. > :13:16.is cold outside but people are here with their umbrellas and raincoats
:13:16. > :13:20.as Pope Francis celebrates his first public Mass in the country.
:13:20. > :13:25.But for many standing in the rain, the climax seemed to come after the
:13:25. > :13:29.Mass, when the Pope Mobile approached. The leader of the Roman
:13:29. > :13:35.Catholic Church, drove along the corridor of outstretched hands and
:13:35. > :13:41.blessed be child that was raised towards him. Many manage to take
:13:41. > :13:47.their own picture of the Pope. it was awesome. My hands started
:13:47. > :13:52.shaking, I was a nervous. I could not stop taking pictures. Brazil
:13:52. > :13:57.still has the world's largest Catholic population, but it has
:13:57. > :14:03.seen a sharp decline in the past few decades. The Pope's we Kear is
:14:03. > :14:10.seen as crucial to reconnect with the faithful and reinvigorate the
:14:10. > :14:16.Church in Latin America. This is BBC World news.
:14:16. > :14:26.Still to come: strutting and shaking, now it has been discovered
:14:26. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:31.white peacocks attract a new mate, with this extraordinary display.
:14:31. > :14:36.It is one of Africa's poorest countries. Half the population live
:14:37. > :14:46.on just over a dollar a day and now some of the porous make their
:14:47. > :14:57.
:14:57. > :15:03.growing -- living by growing potent strain of marijuana that is
:15:03. > :15:13.in demand in South Africa. Deep in the forest, grandmothers growing it
:15:13. > :15:14.
:15:14. > :15:19.are hardly drug king pins. This is this woman's only way of supporting
:15:19. > :15:29.her seven grandchildren. The money goes a long way. I can buy clothes
:15:29. > :15:36.and food and pay school fees. There is more money in this trade. I can
:15:36. > :15:45.get $560 for a sack of this. A sack of corn gets me $20. Higher rates of
:15:45. > :15:51.HIV and aids means many children are growing up with -- without their
:15:51. > :15:55.parents. The country continues to be run as an absolute monarchy, the
:15:55. > :16:02.last of its kind in Africa. The king has been widely criticised for
:16:02. > :16:08.living a lavish life amid the rampant poverty in the country.
:16:08. > :16:18.Children do not have mothers and fathers. You find they live with
:16:18. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:26.their grannies or as children who are ahead of the households.
:16:26. > :16:36.now, the growing of this lucrative crop remains illegal. Swaziland's it
:16:36. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:51.fear of police raids and punishment but with this -- for this
:16:51. > :17:01.50-year-old and many like her, providing for her family is the
:17:01. > :17:02.
:17:03. > :17:07.priority and cultivating marijuana is a risk worth taking.
:17:07. > :17:11.You are with BBC World News. The headlines: Spain's Prime Minister
:17:11. > :17:15.Mariano Rajoy has been visiting the scene of the country's worst rail
:17:15. > :17:19.crash in 40 years. 78 people have been confirmed dead
:17:19. > :17:28.and 144 injured. Rescuers say all survivors have now been pulled from
:17:28. > :17:35.the wreckage. More now on that story. We have just
:17:35. > :17:39.been seeing in the last few minutes Mariano Rajoy, the Prime Minister.
:17:39. > :17:45.He has been giving a press briefing, most of which was paying tribute to
:17:45. > :17:51.all of those who have been helping. It only lasted a few minutes and
:17:51. > :17:56.several of his staff were in tears. Let's go to the region and to a
:17:56. > :18:03.journalist at the newspaper in the region. Andrea, what is your
:18:03. > :18:08.perspective of why this happened? The latest news says the driver of
:18:08. > :18:14.the train declared she was driving at 190 kilometres an hour in a 70
:18:14. > :18:21.kilometres zone, where there is a sharp and dangerous bend. That is
:18:21. > :18:28.where the driver lost control of the train. I can see that information is
:18:28. > :18:35.being reported by other news agencies. How do we know that?
:18:35. > :18:41.driver declared this to the agencies. That is all we know.
:18:41. > :18:50.about this track. Do you know it? Is this a place where there might be a
:18:50. > :18:56.temptation to go much faster? I know the train was arriving late
:18:56. > :19:03.to Santiago and right at the entrance where the sharp bend is
:19:03. > :19:11.there is a small turn, the neighbours of the town tell us they
:19:11. > :19:16.saw the train driving really fast. Can I ask you about the mood in
:19:16. > :19:20.Galicia? Obviously very sombre. This is usually a time of national
:19:20. > :19:26.celebration and many on the train will have been travelling to see
:19:26. > :19:35.their families for the celebration. Yes. Galicia is now in a day of
:19:35. > :19:40.mourning. It has been the worst human tragedy in our history. The
:19:40. > :19:49.good thing is that everybody is helping. The solidarity is
:19:49. > :19:54.everywhere. People actually are waiting in line at the hospitals to
:19:54. > :20:04.donate blood and hotel owners offered rooms to the victims and the
:20:04. > :20:09.relatives. Social networks are full, a lot of emotion. It has
:20:09. > :20:17.shocked the whole community. Especially on a day when everybody
:20:17. > :20:23.was going to celebrate our biggest and most important day of the year.
:20:23. > :20:26.Andrea Martinez, thank you for joining us on BBC World News.
:20:26. > :20:31.Relations between the US and Vietnam are much improved since US troops
:20:31. > :20:35.left Vietnam forty years ago. But major issues remain. Vietnam is
:20:35. > :20:38.still struggling to deal with the human impact of the war, especially
:20:38. > :20:43.weaponry and chemical agents left behind. One project that both sides
:20:43. > :20:46.are working on is aimed at bridging that gap. The BBC's Karishma Vaswani
:20:46. > :20:54.reports from Danang, then airbase where US troops first landed to take
:20:54. > :20:58.on the Vietcong. This woman always hoped she would be
:20:58. > :21:02.looked after in her old age by her children but those dreams were
:21:03. > :21:09.shattered after her first child was born 30 years ago. She was born with
:21:09. > :21:16.cerebral palsy. She was born with this condition and I thought I would
:21:16. > :21:22.just raise her like that. We thought it would get, . We took her to one
:21:22. > :21:26.hospital after another but her condition was incurable. Like many
:21:26. > :21:32.others here, she appeared to have been affected by a chemical
:21:32. > :21:38.contaminant in the area's water supply. A deadly comp -- consequence
:21:38. > :21:43.of the war which ended eight years before she was born. During the
:21:43. > :21:47.Vietnam war, American forces sprayed the forests of Vietnam's with a
:21:47. > :21:52.herbicide to deny the Army cover and to disrupt Google communities within
:21:52. > :21:57.which the Communist forces enjoyed much support. This is the old part
:21:57. > :22:06.of the airport. During the Vietnam war, it was a queue Vietnam's base
:22:06. > :22:10.from where the aircraft took off. So much agent Orange was stored that it
:22:10. > :22:15.leaked out, turning the area surrounding it into the most
:22:15. > :22:19.contaminated hot spot in the country. Now a ground-breaking
:22:19. > :22:25.project is trying to offer a solution. The contaminated soil is
:22:25. > :22:30.being pushed into giant tanks, where it will be heated to 300 Celsius and
:22:30. > :22:35.the toxins removed and destroyed. Whilst denying legal
:22:35. > :22:39.responsibility, the US has provided scientific support for Vietnam to
:22:39. > :22:47.tackle the problem of agent Orange. Now it is prepared to pay for a
:22:47. > :22:51.fully fledged clean-up. Diplomatic relations started in 1995 and after
:22:51. > :22:58.that, conversations have been looking to deepen the relationship
:22:58. > :23:04.and go towards a Brighton future. It will cost $84 million to implement
:23:04. > :23:08.-- brighter future. I am happy to say we are on schedule, 2016.
:23:08. > :23:14.cleaning up the poison is only part of what needs to be done according
:23:14. > :23:16.to those who support many of the 3 million Vietnamese thought to suffer
:23:16. > :23:21.from the effects. TRANSLATION: It makes me angry
:23:21. > :23:25.because not enough is being done to help. The US should not only
:23:25. > :23:32.clean-up this place but also help families to live properly and give
:23:32. > :23:38.them access to health care. This centre is trying to offer children a
:23:38. > :23:43.normal life despite the serious health conditions linked to the
:23:43. > :23:53.effect of agent Orange. 40 years after US troops left this country,
:23:53. > :23:58.America is still under pressure to heal the wounds of the war.
:23:58. > :24:02.The US house of representatives have voted to continue and electronic
:24:02. > :24:06.surveillance programme that was exposed by Edward Snowden. They
:24:06. > :24:09.rejected an amendment to a bill that would have limited the government's
:24:09. > :24:16.ability to collect the phone records of hundreds of millions of
:24:16. > :24:21.Americans. President Obama has delayed the delivery of IT planes to
:24:21. > :24:27.Egypt. The Pentagon says it is not appropriate to proceed with the
:24:27. > :24:31.delivery given the current situation -- fighter planes. Egypt's army
:24:31. > :24:36.chief called for protests on Friday to give the military mandate to
:24:36. > :24:43.confront what he called potential terrorism.
:24:43. > :24:47.To one of the animal kingdom's most dramatic mating dances by peacocks.
:24:47. > :24:52.Scientists in the US say they have solved the evolutionary mystery as
:24:52. > :24:58.to why the peacock tail is so large and elaborate.
:24:58. > :25:03.It is one of the animal kingdom's most domestic mating dances. During
:25:03. > :25:10.the season, peacocks gather in clearings to obstruct and shake
:25:10. > :25:15.their feathers at prospective mates. The scientists set out to understand
:25:15. > :25:21.why the birds evolved like this. When they are not showing them off,
:25:21. > :25:26.the heavy feathers slow them down. The researchers trained 12 birds to
:25:26. > :25:34.wear these cameras that tracked their eye movements. The footage
:25:35. > :25:40.showed the peacock's display from the viewpoint of a peahen. At one
:25:40. > :25:44.point, this peahen is completely distracted by a passing squirrel.
:25:44. > :25:49.The scientists say their research reveals just how challenging it is
:25:49. > :25:55.for a peacock to keep the attention of a mate because when you share a
:25:55. > :25:58.habitat with pythons and tigers, your life can depend on keeping a
:25:59. > :26:05.constant lookout. The main news from north-west Spain.
:26:05. > :26:11.Let's go live to Santiago de Compostela. Some of the eight
:26:11. > :26:17.carriages have already been lifted. You can see what is left from one of
:26:17. > :26:23.them. We saw earlier that Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy. There he is
:26:23. > :26:29.walking at the front. He has been talking to the police, the fire
:26:29. > :26:36.brigade, the large number of people including the medical staff. 78
:26:36. > :26:41.people are now confirmed dead. 144 people injured. 250 people were on
:26:41. > :26:45.the train heading to Galicia for a national holiday, the holiday of
:26:45. > :26:49.Saint James. There is the Prime Minister looking at the scene.
:26:49. > :26:54.Within the last few minutes, he did announce there will now be three