:00:00. > :00:15.. Hello, I am Geeta Guru-Murthy with BBC World News. Our top stories.
:00:16. > :00:19.More clashes in Kiev after Ukraine's government drops plans for
:00:20. > :00:22.closer ties with the EU. Iranian diplomats are welcomed home as
:00:23. > :00:28.heroes after securing a nuclear deal with world powers. Nine killed,
:00:29. > :00:34.around 50 injured in heavy fighting between Islamist militants and
:00:35. > :00:37.Libyan soldiers. And as batsman Jonathan Trott leaves the Ashes to
:00:38. > :00:38.Australia because of stress, we will have the latest from the England
:00:39. > :01:00.camp. Hello and welcome. There have been
:01:01. > :01:03.more clashes between riot police and protesters in Ukraine today
:01:04. > :01:08.following a government decision to suspend moves towards closer
:01:09. > :01:12.relations with the European Union. Around 1000 protesters are still
:01:13. > :01:16.outside the primers to's office following the largest demonstrations
:01:17. > :01:21.since the Orange Revolution in 2004. -- the Prime Minister's office. They
:01:22. > :01:23.are angry because the government has attended a major deal for closer
:01:24. > :01:27.links with the European Union which should have been signed this week.
:01:28. > :01:34.Daniel Sandford has just sent this report from Moscow.
:01:35. > :01:39.Once again, the anger in the Ukrainian capital spilled over into
:01:40. > :01:42.scuffles and minor violence. The protesters here feel they are
:01:43. > :01:47.fighting for the future of the country, a European future, not a
:01:48. > :01:51.Russian one. They have been shocked into action by their government's
:01:52. > :01:56.decision to postpone an agreement to build closer ties with the European
:01:57. > :02:01.Union. TRANSLATION: We came here to show them we are not afraid and if
:02:02. > :02:04.they do not sign it, it will be a catastrophe for this government. It
:02:05. > :02:07.will not be a catastrophe for Ukraine, because eventually it will
:02:08. > :02:16.get signed anyway by this president or the next. We will get what we
:02:17. > :02:19.want. The country is divided on whether Ukraine's future should be
:02:20. > :02:23.with the European Union or Russia, with those who favour Europe, like
:02:24. > :02:30.heavyweight boxing champion turned politician Vitali Klitschko,
:02:31. > :02:33.certainly the most vocal. Yesterday's much bigger rally also
:02:34. > :02:42.ended in clashes between protesters and the police. At one point, the
:02:43. > :02:47.crowd swelled to 100,000, and in scenes reminiscent of the Orange
:02:48. > :02:50.Revolution nine years ago, the demonstrators started setting up
:02:51. > :02:53.permanent encampment in the city centre. It was an attempt to secure
:02:54. > :03:00.a foothold for much bigger protests in the days paired. But no-one knows
:03:01. > :03:02.whether the people of the Ukraine have the desire or the energy to
:03:03. > :03:14.rise up again. Our correspondent David Stern is in
:03:15. > :03:21.Kiev, David, what is the picture now on the streets of Kiev? Well, as
:03:22. > :03:25.Daniel pointed out, it is much smaller, a much smaller crowds today
:03:26. > :03:30.than yesterday. A few thousand are gathered on two main squares and
:03:31. > :03:35.outside of the Prime Minister's building in central Kiev. That is a
:03:36. > :03:44.lot fewer than the 100,000 that perhaps we sought yesterday, but
:03:45. > :03:48.there is still high emotions, tensions are consistent between the
:03:49. > :03:53.protesters and police, and as we saw, we had some clashes with tear
:03:54. > :03:59.gas earlier this morning. And can you just explain why ordinary people
:04:00. > :04:04.are appealing compelled to go onto the streets? Obviously we know this
:04:05. > :04:07.is a decision about being caught between the EU and Russia and which
:04:08. > :04:13.direction the country goes towards, why are people feeling so strongly
:04:14. > :04:21.about it? Well, this is a hot button issue for Ukrainians, on both sides
:04:22. > :04:26.of the argument, but for those who wanted to join the EU, they see this
:04:27. > :04:30.as a question of their future. They have told me that they are dead set
:04:31. > :04:37.on Ukraine becoming a part of Europe, they want European values.
:04:38. > :04:40.For some, that means political, for others economic, but they are very
:04:41. > :04:45.passionate about it, and they are also very passionate about not
:04:46. > :04:49.drawing closer to Russia. They say they fear Russia. One woman told me
:04:50. > :04:54.yesterday that she feared becoming a minor part of the Russian empire
:04:55. > :04:58.again. David Stone in Kiev, many thanks indeed.
:04:59. > :05:07.Some breaking news on the proposed talks on Syria. We have had talks
:05:08. > :05:11.about trying to establish a date, and we have heard that January the
:05:12. > :05:16.22nd next year is the date that the Syrian conference will begin. It
:05:17. > :05:21.will be held on January the 22nd. There has been a lot of difficulty
:05:22. > :05:26.trying to organise a conference, but that Geneva meeting seems to have
:05:27. > :05:30.been successful. Ban Ki-moon has announced it, apparently reported by
:05:31. > :05:34.the AFP news agency, saying it will be a mission of hope. The AFP news
:05:35. > :05:36.agency as saying that the Syrian government and opposition
:05:37. > :05:40.negotiators will meet for the first time. I cannot actually confirm
:05:41. > :05:46.whether both parties will be no, but we will find out just as soon as we
:05:47. > :05:49.can. The French foreign minister says
:05:50. > :05:52.sanctions on Iran will probably beat from next month following the
:05:53. > :05:55.international agreement on its nuclear programme, lots of talks
:05:56. > :05:58.going on at the moment. The deal, which ease sanctions and returns for
:05:59. > :06:05.curbs on their nuclear enrichment activities, has been greeted with
:06:06. > :06:12.Jubal Isaac -- jubilation in Tehran, but Israel has warned that it is an
:06:13. > :06:15.historic mistake. We have had these talks going on in Geneva, what are
:06:16. > :06:21.people saying in Tehran about this? Well, I could compare it with the
:06:22. > :06:28.sense of the day after New Year. Really, that good? Yes, people
:06:29. > :06:31.congratulating each other, thanking the Iranian officials on social
:06:32. > :06:36.media. The mood is really cheerful and jubilant. Why is this? What
:06:37. > :06:40.people expecting to see? This is interesting, because after 24 hours
:06:41. > :06:44.they actually know some of the details of the deal, and they know
:06:45. > :06:47.that the deal outweighs the concessions that Iran gives, they
:06:48. > :06:53.outweigh what it gains in terms of what is in the deal, but the
:06:54. > :07:00.jubilation, this happiness, this revival of hope is more about the
:07:01. > :07:03.prospects of what this deal brings for Iranians rather than the deal
:07:04. > :07:09.itself. Now, the sanctions relief we have talked about since yesterday
:07:10. > :07:13.may have some impact on the Iranian economy, but not that much. But the
:07:14. > :07:18.prospect it brings more Sanchon relief in the future, of improved
:07:19. > :07:24.ties with the West, and basically the danger of a major conflict
:07:25. > :07:31.being, for the moment, temporarily put aside for Iranians is huge. At
:07:32. > :07:36.the same time, people are still questioning, why now? We have lost
:07:37. > :07:41.time, this could have happened one year ago, two years ago, four years
:07:42. > :07:45.ago, and we could have avoided this tension. But Hassan Rouhani has been
:07:46. > :07:49.very successful in bringing this about, but is it anything to do with
:07:50. > :07:54.the fact that we were brought to the brink of American intervention in
:07:55. > :08:02.Syria? That seemed to force a lot of immediate and urgent action with
:08:03. > :08:07.Russia as well. That is very true, when there was the option of a
:08:08. > :08:14.strike, a military attack on Syria, when that was put aside, we started
:08:15. > :08:18.to realise that Obama is more of a person who wants to strike
:08:19. > :08:23.diplomatic deals rather than striking military attacks. Is Israel
:08:24. > :08:27.right to say this is a terrible deal for the West, if the Iranians are so
:08:28. > :08:35.happy? It may not be a good deal for Israel, watching Iran getting closer
:08:36. > :08:39.to the West in this region. It is more a lot of analysts believe it is
:08:40. > :08:50.a lot more about the regional rivalry between Israel and Saudi and
:08:51. > :08:54.Iran. I can tell you that what I have read about this deal, it brings
:08:55. > :08:59.the Iranian nuclear programme to a halt. It is reversible, but
:09:00. > :09:03.producing the same amount of 20% enriched uranium will take months,
:09:04. > :09:10.so even if this deal breaks, that is what the danger Israel feels, in
:09:11. > :09:15.that if the deal breaks, Iran can go on the same path, yes, it can, it
:09:16. > :09:23.will take time. It is not that overnight Iran can go back into
:09:24. > :09:26.producing nuclear weapons by enriching uranium. Fascinating,
:09:27. > :09:29.isn't it EU we will be pursuing this throughout the day, but for now
:09:30. > :09:34.thank you. Now, the last of the six Britons
:09:35. > :09:37.arrested by Russian authorities during a Greenpeace protest in the
:09:38. > :09:40.Arctic has been freed from detention. Philip Ball was granted
:09:41. > :09:46.bail last week but remained in detention before being released by a
:09:47. > :09:50.court in St Petersburg today. He was one of 30 people arrested. An
:09:51. > :09:54.Australian, Colin Russell, remains in detention. Arctic Sunrise were
:09:55. > :09:57.seized by the Russians two months ago. 28 activists and two
:09:58. > :10:02.journalists were arrested. Reports from Libya say calm has
:10:03. > :10:05.returned to the streets of Benghazi after hours of heavy fighting
:10:06. > :10:10.between special forces and hardline Islamist fighters. At least nine
:10:11. > :10:13.people have been killed in the clashes, which the military said
:10:14. > :10:20.lasted for several hours. Security forces say it started when civilians
:10:21. > :10:25.attacked a checkpoint manned by a Salafist group. We can speak to Rana
:10:26. > :10:34.Jawad, who is in Tripoli. Why did this fighting corrupt, and why now?
:10:35. > :10:40.-- erupt. As you mentioned earlier, the report we got was that a
:10:41. > :10:44.civilian was allegedly beaten up at a checkpoint manned by the Salafist
:10:45. > :10:50.group in Benghazi when he was stopped overnight at around 2am
:10:51. > :10:54.local time here. We have not been able to confirm that story, or that
:10:55. > :10:58.version of events, with several sources, but that is what we have
:10:59. > :11:06.been hearing. That aside, I think the events overnight seem to have or
:11:07. > :11:10.are being seen as a significant turning point if you will, because
:11:11. > :11:16.this is the first time we have seen the army base this group head on and
:11:17. > :11:22.actually name them. -- face. There have been skirmishes in the past
:11:23. > :11:26.between them, and often it is described as unknown gunmen, clashes
:11:27. > :11:32.with unknown gunmen, but this is the first time that they have been
:11:33. > :11:38.named. How tense has it been in recent weeks in Benghazi? It has
:11:39. > :11:44.been tense in Benghazi for over a year now. I mean, the city that has
:11:45. > :11:48.seen the bulk of the bombings and assassinations targeting military
:11:49. > :11:57.personnel, as well as judges at times, and other cities in the East,
:11:58. > :12:02.a base for many Salafist groups who are controlling things. But we have
:12:03. > :12:06.seen in the last couple of weeks, both in the capital and in the
:12:07. > :12:12.eastern part of the country a growing movement from people calling
:12:13. > :12:16.on all armed militias to disband and leave. We saw killings here in the
:12:17. > :12:25.capital, we have seen protests that are ongoing, not just here but also
:12:26. > :12:31.in the eastern city, where Salafist militias have been encouraged to
:12:32. > :12:37.move out. It would appear that at this stage the army is feeling like
:12:38. > :12:41.it has some kind of public backing and it is perhaps wishful thinking
:12:42. > :12:46.on their part, but they say, at least our sources have told us in
:12:47. > :12:50.the military, that this is perhaps the beginning of the end of these
:12:51. > :12:53.groups. We have heard from the Ministry of the Interior, who says
:12:54. > :13:01.that the army is acting within its legal capacities. OK. We will have
:13:02. > :13:06.to leave at there, Rana Jawad intra- bully, thanks very much indeed. They
:13:07. > :13:12.witness on BBC World News, plenty more to come. -- stay with us.
:13:13. > :13:17.Protesters forced their way in to the ministry in Bangkok on a second
:13:18. > :13:28.day of demonstrations. And FUNcube, we find out what is coming from
:13:29. > :13:32.outer space to a school knew you. Now, the date they had pencilled in
:13:33. > :13:36.has passed, but after six months of trying it looks like it has been
:13:37. > :13:40.set. Organising what is known as Geneva two has been the work of top
:13:41. > :13:44.diplomats, and they will go ahead with talks to start on the 22nd of
:13:45. > :13:50.January, but it is not clear who will be taking part. The HP news
:13:51. > :13:55.agency is saying that the Syrian government and opposition will both
:13:56. > :13:58.be represented. A short time ago I spoke to Middle East correspondent
:13:59. > :14:04.Jim Muir and asked them whether progress on Iran will help in Syria.
:14:05. > :14:08.-- asked him. Well, obviously, the success, the provisional success of
:14:09. > :14:12.the Iranian nuclear talks do, in a sense, given a certain momentum to
:14:13. > :14:16.the process to try to get Geneva II, as it has been codenamed, off
:14:17. > :14:20.the ground, but whether that will actually result in it happening, we
:14:21. > :14:23.will have to wait and see. But certainly, the fact that the
:14:24. > :14:27.Russians and Americans are working so closely together, the fact that
:14:28. > :14:32.the Americans are now in direct touch with the Iranians, whose
:14:33. > :14:37.attendance at those talks, the Geneva II talks is controversial,
:14:38. > :14:41.but now probably quite hard for the Americans to kind of exclude. All of
:14:42. > :14:45.this kind of points in that direction, but it is, in a sense,
:14:46. > :14:51.bad news for the Syrian opposition, because they have seen, in the last
:14:52. > :14:54.couple of months, Syria's official regime's position has been quite
:14:55. > :14:57.enhanced by what has been going on, signing up to the temple weapons
:14:58. > :15:02.agreement, getting international, if not a claim for that, at least a
:15:03. > :15:07.measure of respect for having committed to that and carrying it
:15:08. > :15:11.through. That makes Syria look quite respectable. Now we see both of
:15:12. > :15:14.their main strategic allies, Iran and Russia, deeply involved in this
:15:15. > :15:18.diplomatic process, and that in a way is bad news for the Syrian
:15:19. > :15:26.opposition, which is already feeling quite squeezed about being strong
:15:27. > :15:29.and -- strong and into going into talks which may bring about further
:15:30. > :15:39.respect ability for the Syrian regime. The position for many of
:15:40. > :15:44.them is that they wouldn't sit down with anyone unless President Assad
:15:45. > :15:48.was not going to be any part of any future transition process. Has that
:15:49. > :15:54.been a sticking point? Yes, as far as the opposition is concerned. They
:15:55. > :16:01.want assurances that Bashar al-Assad will stand down, but he said he
:16:02. > :16:09.feels in a stronger position. -- he obviously feels.
:16:10. > :16:14.This is BBC World News. The latest headlines. Clashes in Ukraine's
:16:15. > :16:18.capital Kiev on another day of protests, after the government
:16:19. > :16:21.dropped plans for closer ties with the EU.
:16:22. > :16:25.It rainy and diplomats are welcomed home as heroes after securing a
:16:26. > :16:30.nuclear deal with world powers. -- Iranians diplomats.
:16:31. > :16:35.More than 100,000 protesters have taken to the streets of Bangkok to
:16:36. > :16:39.demand the Prime Minister's resignation. Dozens of demonstrators
:16:40. > :16:45.have stormed parts of the Finance Ministry and have surrounded
:16:46. > :16:50.government buildings. Thailand's prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra,
:16:51. > :16:53.is the sister of the ousted by Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. There
:16:54. > :16:58.has been a failed attempt to introduce an amnesty which could
:16:59. > :17:03.pave the way for her brother to return to power. An MP of the
:17:04. > :17:10.Democrat party in Thailand, Dr Buranaj Samutharak, says the protest
:17:11. > :17:15.might go on for a while. White now, Thailand is on the brink of the mass
:17:16. > :17:22.protest which has taken place over the past 25 days. It has been
:17:23. > :17:29.peaceful so far. The only people who have been members of Parliament 's
:17:30. > :17:38.from our party have resigned their posts to attend the rally. The root
:17:39. > :17:47.cause of the events has been clear. The Thai people have come out in
:17:48. > :17:50.unprecedented numbers, because the government is trying to force
:17:51. > :17:58.through legislation which would affect corruption crimes and return
:17:59. > :18:04.assets that have been seized. We are looking at pictures of people out in
:18:05. > :18:09.the streets, and the anti-riot troops that are out on the streets.
:18:10. > :18:20.Are you clear that things are going to stay calm today? You must bear in
:18:21. > :18:24.mind that the protest is quite different to other protests that
:18:25. > :18:32.have ended in riots and several people being killed. Those riots
:18:33. > :18:41.were supported by the then local party. This protest has been
:18:42. > :18:45.involving various groups, students, workers, civil servants, people from
:18:46. > :18:49.different sectors, and it has been peaceful over the past few days. We
:18:50. > :18:56.very much hope it will stay on this course. We talked about a new date
:18:57. > :19:00.for talks on Syria, and after nearly three years of civil war, life for
:19:01. > :19:05.ordinary people there has become very tough indeed. For women in the
:19:06. > :19:09.final stages of pregnancy, the idea of giving birth with little or no
:19:10. > :19:14.medical help can be daunting, but now, a number of Syrians are
:19:15. > :19:18.undertaking a difficult and dangerous journey for treatment to a
:19:19. > :19:22.very surprising destination. Many are sent over the border for
:19:23. > :19:31.treatment in a northern Israeli city.
:19:32. > :19:37.It looks like business as usual in the maternity ward of this
:19:38. > :19:42.hospital, but it isn't quite. One of the overnight rivals is a little
:19:43. > :19:46.Syrian boy. His mother, already in Labour, made the desperate and
:19:47. > :19:52.dangerous journey across the board into Israel in search of life-saving
:19:53. > :19:59.hospital care. TRANSLATION: We cannot show their
:20:00. > :20:04.faces. They have to go home to Syria soon. The mother tells as she is
:20:05. > :20:10.grateful for the kindness she has found here. This one Israeli
:20:11. > :20:15.hospital alone has now treated 177 Syrian patients in the last nine
:20:16. > :20:21.months. Beautiful relationships start between staff of the hospital
:20:22. > :20:26.and the people that we treat. Of course I don't expect them to become
:20:27. > :20:32.lovers of Israel and ambassadors of what we do. I expect that they will
:20:33. > :20:36.reflect on what was their experience here, and they will think
:20:37. > :20:42.differently to what the regime is telling them. Cross-border journey
:20:43. > :20:46.that ends in this emergency room is difficult and dangerous. It involves
:20:47. > :20:52.intermediaries on the Syrian side, the UN, and the Israeli army. It is
:20:53. > :20:56.so well trodden now that some Syrian patients have even turned up with
:20:57. > :21:02.letters of referral for Israeli surgeons. The Israeli army
:21:03. > :21:07.paramedics patrolling the boundary fence play a crucial role in this
:21:08. > :21:12.you manage Terry in chain, spotting patients left for them by guides on
:21:13. > :21:19.the Syrian side. -- in this humanitarian chain. As soon as they
:21:20. > :21:23.come to the border, we just do what we are going to do. Medics and
:21:24. > :21:29.paramedics and doctors, we do what we need to do to save lives. The
:21:30. > :21:33.Syrian patients who go home across this dangerous frontier can't tell
:21:34. > :21:37.to openly the stories of the medical treatment they got in Israel. Simply
:21:38. > :21:43.admitting to having been here could put them in danger. But somehow,
:21:44. > :21:47.word is spreading, and as long as the civil war continues, the tide of
:21:48. > :21:57.people taking risks to seek help for carry on rising.
:21:58. > :22:02.Now for cricket. The England batsmen, Jonathan Trott, has left
:22:03. > :22:06.the Ashes tour of Australia because of what has been described as a
:22:07. > :22:10.long-standing stress condition. Trott has been struggling for form
:22:11. > :22:16.in recent matches, and was described as week by Australia's opening
:22:17. > :22:20.batsmen, David Warner. How much of a shock is it to hear that Jonathan
:22:21. > :22:25.Trott is going because of stress? It is a shock. No one knew that he was
:22:26. > :22:29.suffering from it. And the flowers, the England coach, said that this
:22:30. > :22:38.was known within the team. -- Andrew flowers. He has left the Tour. There
:22:39. > :22:43.has been instances of this before. Marcus Truscott Vic is a notable
:22:44. > :22:49.example of this. What hasn't been performing well. That was put down
:22:50. > :22:54.to technique rather than mental problems. The weight Trott batted
:22:55. > :22:58.came under intense scrutiny, and there was a lot of talk that he had
:22:59. > :23:03.to get it right in his head. We didn't know that he was suffering
:23:04. > :23:08.from stress himself. David Warner described him as being weak. That
:23:09. > :23:14.seems uncivil, or is that standard practice, that one team will
:23:15. > :23:18.criticise another team publicly? The Australians are past masters of what
:23:19. > :23:23.they call sledging. What they try to do is unknown of the batsmen. In
:23:24. > :23:29.cricket, the batsmen faced just one ball. And that is all that is
:23:30. > :23:37.required to get the batsmen out. If they can just unknown of him for a
:23:38. > :23:44.minute, that is a very old tactic. Is anyone except from being fledged?
:23:45. > :23:49.Only very few. Everyone gets fledged, and the Australians will
:23:50. > :23:56.see this as a great victory. Also, of course, the difficult pressure
:23:57. > :24:03.for the England team now - and they won the Ashes in the summer - but is
:24:04. > :24:12.this rivalry becoming a unpleasant? There is a bit of that. Stuart Broad
:24:13. > :24:17.has been barracked by the Australian cloud. -- Australian crowd. That is
:24:18. > :24:22.pretty standard. But this has been taken to a certain other length. The
:24:23. > :24:27.Australian coach made some comment about Stuart Broad that he should be
:24:28. > :24:33.sent home crying or something. Does it matter, at the end of the day? It
:24:34. > :24:38.does, to a certain extent. Australia have been losing. They have had a
:24:39. > :24:41.really poor run. So one way of getting back into winning methods is
:24:42. > :24:46.to make yourself believe you are better than the opposition. If you
:24:47. > :24:51.can somehow make the opposition uneasy, it matters. If you get
:24:52. > :24:54.somebody out and you defeat them not through sporting technique on the
:24:55. > :24:58.field of play but through mind games, that reduces the appeal of
:24:59. > :25:04.sport, and particularly cricket, which is considered the game of
:25:05. > :25:08.gentlemen. What is the future now for Jonathan Trott? He will get a
:25:09. > :25:15.lot of sympathy, went he? He will. He will have to come back and make
:25:16. > :25:19.his mark in the summer. Probably Joe Root is going to come in to replace
:25:20. > :25:25.him. But he will face the same pressure. It is a very stressful
:25:26. > :25:28.life, being a front-line sportsman. Thank you. A leading Chinese
:25:29. > :25:33.dissident who has been in exile for more than two decades has failed in
:25:34. > :25:37.his latest attempt to come home. He was deported from Hong Kong after
:25:38. > :25:41.flying in with his lawyer from Taiwan. A former leader of the Tien
:25:42. > :25:47.and Square protest, he said he wanted to return to China to see his
:25:48. > :26:03.elderly parents. He fled China 24 years ago, and his parents have been
:26:04. > :26:05.denied permission to see him. How do you inspire our
:26:06. > :26:07.schoolchildren to become the scientists and engineers of the
:26:08. > :26:09.future? A team of amateur radio enthusiasts think they might have
:26:10. > :26:12.found the answer. They have launched a satellite to send and receive
:26:13. > :26:17.messages from all around the world. Soon, the FUNcube will beam data to
:26:18. > :26:22.classrooms all around the world. All schools will need to take part in an
:26:23. > :26:28.aerial and special receiver to participate.
:26:29. > :26:33.Indonesia has raised the alert status for one of the country's most
:26:34. > :26:41.active volcanoes to the highest level. Mount Sinabung in North Samaj
:26:42. > :26:47.has been sending plumes of hot cloud and gas into the skies. About 15,000
:26:48. > :26:51.people have already been evacuated from 17 villages near that crater.
:26:52. > :26:55.It has been erupting every now and then says the autumn, even though it
:26:56. > :26:58.has been dormant for three years. Those are all the top stories from
:26:59. > :27:09.around the world. Thanks for watching.
:27:10. > :27:13.But you're saying the scale of theft is huge.