:00:08. > :00:12.Hello, this is BBC World News. The top stories:
:00:13. > :00:18.The case that rocked Russia's Bolshoi ballet.
:00:19. > :00:27.One of its best-known soloist is sentenced 2.6 years in prison for
:00:28. > :00:29.--sentenced 2.6 years in prison for organising an acid attack on its
:00:30. > :00:32.artistic director. Upheaval in the world's most
:00:33. > :00:35.secretive state, as the powerful uncle of North Korea's young leader
:00:36. > :00:37.is removed from his post. The singer and songwriter Bob Dylan
:00:38. > :00:40.is placed under judicial investigation in France for
:00:41. > :00:44.allegedly provoking ethnic hatred. Signing songs for the hard of
:00:45. > :00:45.hearing. We meet the interpreter making sure music is accessible to
:00:46. > :01:09.all. Within the last few minutes, one of
:01:10. > :01:13.the star dancers at the Bolshoi ballet in Moscow has been sentenced
:01:14. > :01:23.to a prison sentence of six years, in a penal colony, for organising an
:01:24. > :01:27.acid attack on his boss. The trial of PowerBuilder Dmitrichenko acid
:01:28. > :01:30.attack laid bare the bitter rivalry backstage at one of the world most
:01:31. > :01:37.famous ballets. It left soapy filling with permanent damage to
:01:38. > :01:46.--it left surrogate Filin with permanent site damage. Famil
:01:47. > :01:52.Ismailov, from the BBC's Russian Service. He has been sentenced 2.6
:01:53. > :01:57.years, it was thought it was going to be nine. I think what has helped
:01:58. > :02:01.him is the character witnesses, a lot of people from the Bolshoi has
:02:02. > :02:06.said he is a good guy and an easy person to work with, but at the end
:02:07. > :02:10.of the day, the acid attack actually happened, it is not like you can see
:02:11. > :02:21.it never did, but I think it was taken into consideration. Yuri got
:02:22. > :02:28.prison Zarutsky sentences and also, Mr Lipatov, for driving the car. It
:02:29. > :02:32.has revealed the bitterness within the Bolshoi ballet and about how
:02:33. > :02:35.people get the lead parts. There are lots of things going on behind the
:02:36. > :02:40.scenes that you do not see. There have been cases where some dancers
:02:41. > :02:45.have found broken glass in their dancing shoes, sometimes as bad as
:02:46. > :02:51.that. We know that people have been passed over for promotion and passed
:02:52. > :03:00.over for parts. Here we see Mr Filin, with bandages over his face.
:03:01. > :03:09.The fact that we should see a lead dancer attacking him with acid...
:03:10. > :03:14.Mister Dmitrichenko said he did not want that, he just wanted Yuri
:03:15. > :03:18.Zarutsky to rough him up. But there was that intent. Yes, to get
:03:19. > :03:26.physical with the person, as they saw it, but Yuri Zarutsky took it to
:03:27. > :03:31.a different level. Be it money, sex or this, it shows a level of
:03:32. > :03:38.vindictiveness about how you get the top part at the Bolshoi. It is hard
:03:39. > :03:43.to believe, but at the Bolshoi, this is not just a theatre, it is iconic.
:03:44. > :03:48.It is the biggest reputational loss for the Bolshoi, and also, being the
:03:49. > :03:51.pet project of the Russian government, it will be really hard
:03:52. > :03:56.for them to accept that the Bolshoi has this kind of problem. This is
:03:57. > :04:00.now 11 months on since what happened in January. Is there any sign that
:04:01. > :04:05.things have got a little more levelled at the Bolshoi? We have
:04:06. > :04:10.seen changes at the top. We have seen people coming back and starting
:04:11. > :04:14.to look at the problems, and Sergei Filin has come back, not working
:04:15. > :04:20.full-time, but he is back. And we have seen the lead dancer leave the
:04:21. > :04:25.theatre, the conductor has left the theatre this week, so we will
:04:26. > :04:33.probably see some more resignations as well. Thank you very much. When
:04:34. > :04:37.you meant backstabbing, you mention not literally with a knife, I must
:04:38. > :04:41.say. The singer Bob Dylan is increasingly
:04:42. > :04:46.hot water over remarks he made in an interview with Rolling Stone
:04:47. > :04:51.magazine. He was quoted last year comparing Croatians to Nazis and the
:04:52. > :04:57.Ku Klux Klan. French authorities say the comments are meant to racial
:04:58. > :05:00.hatred and incitement and are pressing charges. The lawsuit was
:05:01. > :05:04.originally taken out by a Croatian group, saying they did not want
:05:05. > :05:13.monetary damages, just an apology. Other news this hour:
:05:14. > :05:17.The US Vice President Joe Biden - at the start of a week in Asia - says
:05:18. > :05:20.the US remains "deeply concerned" by China's new air defence zone in the
:05:21. > :05:23.East China Sea. Mr Biden has been holding talks with
:05:24. > :05:25.Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The Chinese Air Defence
:05:26. > :05:29.Identification zone imposed nine days ago covers a series of small
:05:30. > :05:33.islands which are claimed by China but controlled by Japan. Two people
:05:34. > :05:37.have been killed in a crash involving dozens of cars in Belgium.
:05:38. > :05:43.Police say the accident happened in the morning rush-hour when dense fog
:05:44. > :05:48.was covering the A19 highway. Many more have been injured.
:05:49. > :05:52.Motorists in South Africa w ill from today have to pay to use some of the
:05:53. > :05:54.country's busiest roads. The new electronic toll system covers
:05:55. > :05:57.motorways in Gauteng province. That includes two of the country's
:05:58. > :06:00.biggest cities - Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria. It's been
:06:01. > :06:03.deeply unpopular with commuters. But the Government says it's the only
:06:04. > :06:09.way to help improve the country's infrastructure and meet social
:06:10. > :06:12.needs. Let's go to Thailand, where the
:06:13. > :06:15.leader of the anti-government protest has told his supporters they
:06:16. > :06:19.have won a partial victory. But he said the campaign to drive the Prime
:06:20. > :06:23.Minister from power must continue. Earlier, riot police in the capital
:06:24. > :06:27.Bangkok diffused an increasingly bitter series of confrontations.
:06:28. > :06:32.They dismantled barriers protecting key government buildings, then they
:06:33. > :06:39.let protesters go right up to the gates of the Prime Minister's office
:06:40. > :06:46.inside the compound. Mrs Shinawatra herself was not there. Is this the
:06:47. > :06:50.end of the protest or just a lull? My colleague is outside government
:06:51. > :06:55.has as protesters were dispersing. That is the key question, whether
:06:56. > :07:00.what we are experiencing is simply a lull. There is a key date coming up
:07:01. > :07:05.later this week, it is the King's birthday, his 86th birthday and
:07:06. > :07:10.there is no question of there being any trouble on that day, so it is
:07:11. > :07:14.possible but behind the scenes, something has been negotiated, some
:07:15. > :07:18.sort of lull in the confrontation out of respect for the king. As you
:07:19. > :07:22.mention, I am behind government House, the demonstrators have left
:07:23. > :07:30.and what is left is a few of the Army officers who remain there after
:07:31. > :07:34.the protest is left. Their presence made sure that the protesters did
:07:35. > :07:37.not go inside the building itself, just a small rally on the grass
:07:38. > :07:42.outside. What is your assessment of the Prime
:07:43. > :07:46.Minister, lin like Shinawatra, and the Government and the position they
:07:47. > :07:52.are taking, including the instructions they have issued to the
:07:53. > :07:56.police and the army. Putting to one side what the
:07:57. > :07:59.protesters are saying, they are saying they achieved a victory by
:08:00. > :08:04.getting into the buildings, many are actually seeing the tactics deployed
:08:05. > :08:09.by the Prime Minister as successful. Throughout this, they said there
:08:10. > :08:12.will be no confrontation in terms is using force against the
:08:13. > :08:15.demonstrators and for the most part, bad happened. There has been
:08:16. > :08:20.quite a lot of praise for the way the riot police have handled
:08:21. > :08:23.demonstrations, so when people reflect on what has happened over
:08:24. > :08:26.the past few weeks, they may in fact quite admire the way the Government
:08:27. > :08:31.has handled this. They have stopped this turning into a bloodbath. In
:08:32. > :08:34.2010, lots of people died when it was attempted to violently and
:08:35. > :08:46.street demonstrations in Bangkok. Jonah Fisher outside six government
:08:47. > :08:49.Cal -- government has. Let's go to one of the protesters. What did you
:08:50. > :08:55.feel when you went into the Government complex but the police
:08:56. > :09:02.let you in? Yes, the police let us in. We did not see them, but there
:09:03. > :09:05.have been some rumours that people saw police vans outside the
:09:06. > :09:12.Government complex. What I am trying to Askew is what do you feel now --
:09:13. > :09:18.ask you which mark the authorities are saying, come on in. It was
:09:19. > :09:23.really odd, yesterday I was in the front line and they were shooting
:09:24. > :09:28.tear gas, it was chaos. But today, it seems really peaceful, which is
:09:29. > :09:32.odd. Maybe the Government is trying to pull some trick, we don't know
:09:33. > :09:38.yet. Do you have confidence in the Government now or do you think this
:09:39. > :09:42.is just a way of keeping calm during the King's celebrations in the next
:09:43. > :09:51.couple of days? I think so too, because it is really odd. It is
:09:52. > :09:59.really odd, because... Hello? Hello, I am listening. Why'd you say it is
:10:00. > :10:05.odd? Because it was chaos a few days ago and today it is peaceful. It is
:10:06. > :10:09.likely trying to pull some trick. What about this being a very smart
:10:10. > :10:14.moment when the Prime Minister is saying, I want dialogue, I don't
:10:15. > :10:17.want confrontation, I am not sending in the police, and eventually
:10:18. > :10:23.persuading your leaders that they have got to talk, rather than
:10:24. > :10:27.expecting confrontation? I am sorry, what was that again? Could this be a
:10:28. > :10:31.smart move by the Prime Minister, who says she wants dialogue and does
:10:32. > :10:38.not want to use the police and the Army, she is saying let's talk? From
:10:39. > :10:42.my point of view, there is nothing to talk about. We are trying to end
:10:43. > :10:48.the regime, but they keep saying we should talk, because they will not
:10:49. > :10:57.resign. Even though, on the 24th, 2 million of us came out, they are
:10:58. > :11:02.still there. Thank you very much, live from a phone on Government
:11:03. > :11:06.House and you could hear a large number of people still around him.
:11:07. > :11:09.Let's go to the Korean peninsula, where reports from the South say the
:11:10. > :11:13.uncle of the North Korean leader Kim Yong and has been removed from
:11:14. > :11:18.office. Chang Song-taek has been dismissed from his position as
:11:19. > :11:21.vice-chairman of North Korea's National defence commission,
:11:22. > :11:24.according to intelligence agencies in the south. Mr Chang was one of
:11:25. > :11:29.the key advisers in hand over to power and is married to the of Kim
:11:30. > :11:35.Jong-un. I asked Lucy Williamson what this indicated.
:11:36. > :11:40.Well, the first question, of course, is is it true? You are right about
:11:41. > :11:44.intrigue. Seeing into the internal politics of North Korea is virtually
:11:45. > :11:48.impossible from outside the country and certainly, South Korean
:11:49. > :11:52.intelligence agencies have not always got it right in the past, so
:11:53. > :11:55.we should bear that in mind. Very difficult to assess the evidence
:11:56. > :12:00.they are using. These are reports that have come out of a briefing
:12:01. > :12:03.that the agency gave to parliamentarians, so it is very
:12:04. > :12:07.difficult to work out whether these reports are true or even how likely
:12:08. > :12:12.they are to be true. Having said that, if they are true, this is
:12:13. > :12:17.quite important news. Chang Song-taek is definitely a key figure
:12:18. > :12:21.within that North Korean hierarchy. He was one of the people who walked
:12:22. > :12:25.beside Kim Jong-un as he accompanied his father's coughing as it made its
:12:26. > :12:36.way through the streets up Yong Yang two years ago -- coffin. He was then
:12:37. > :12:40.seen to grow and become a key adviser to the young leader and has
:12:41. > :12:43.held some senior posts in the party and the military, so definitely an
:12:44. > :12:49.all-round influence, at least until now, we are told. Has he been
:12:50. > :12:53.replaced, as far as we know? We have not heard anything from
:12:54. > :12:57.inside North Korea. And in fact, as far as we can make it from the dribs
:12:58. > :13:01.and drabs of information that has come out from the Parliamentary
:13:02. > :13:05.briefing in the south, it is the fact that two of his close aides
:13:06. > :13:09.have been executed that have led the intelligence agency to think he has
:13:10. > :13:13.been removed. They were publicly executed and that news was
:13:14. > :13:16.disseminated and Mr Chang has not been seen in public since, they say,
:13:17. > :13:20.which has led them to conclude that he has been removed from one of his
:13:21. > :13:24.posts. Now, let me give you a snapshot of
:13:25. > :13:28.how the world is educating its children. It has just been
:13:29. > :13:32.published. Once again, East Asia is leading the way. Every three years,
:13:33. > :13:37.the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development looks
:13:38. > :13:41.at maths, science and reading skills of 15-year-olds. Here are the top
:13:42. > :13:46.five ranked countries. China and Hong Kong, although they are one
:13:47. > :13:50.country, Singapore, Japan and South Korea. The competition between them
:13:51. > :13:55.is inspiring each of them to get even better and they are opening a
:13:56. > :13:59.gap on the achievements of other nations. Meanwhile, the tiny Baltic
:14:00. > :14:03.nations of the study is one of the highest ranked Western states at
:14:04. > :14:07.number nine, well ahead of the UK at 22, the USA at 29, Russia at 38 and
:14:08. > :14:11.Brazil at 57. The economic 22, the USA at 29, Russia at 38 and
:14:12. > :14:16.Brazil at 57. The powerhouse of Latin America is ranked 57 out of a
:14:17. > :14:21.total 65 countries. So what is it like in third ranked Singapore? We
:14:22. > :14:28.asked our correspondent to find out the secret of its success.
:14:29. > :14:31.I'm here at the global international Indian school, the school is in
:14:32. > :14:36.session, the cricket team are resting from a strenuous practice,
:14:37. > :14:41.and the focus here in Singapore is on the school system. Singapore
:14:42. > :14:47.consistently ranks very well in these OECD rankings of international
:14:48. > :14:51.schools. In 2009, in the last poll, Singaporean students were second in
:14:52. > :14:55.mathematics, fourth in science and fifth in reading. So what is it
:14:56. > :15:00.about Singapore and other Asian countries, the likes of South Korea,
:15:01. > :15:04.China? Shanghai had top marks last time around and Hong Kong, how do
:15:05. > :15:11.they create these exemplary students quit me now is a member of the
:15:12. > :15:13.Singapore National Institute of education. Where do you think
:15:14. > :15:27.Singapore takes the right boxes? Singapore as a society values
:15:28. > :15:31.education. Parents and the government value education, we have
:15:32. > :15:36.not cut back on the education budget. We look for very good
:15:37. > :15:41.teachers and look at professional development of teachers and leaders.
:15:42. > :15:48.So that the school is a safe environment.
:15:49. > :15:53.Working very hard, do you think there is undue pressure being put on
:15:54. > :15:58.these kids at a very young age? We are trying to address a mind set
:15:59. > :16:05.that examination results are the only way to success in life. We are
:16:06. > :16:11.signalling a broader definition of success.
:16:12. > :16:17.The other criticism often levelled here is that they can't think out of
:16:18. > :16:24.the box, they aren't creative, is that a valid criticism?
:16:25. > :16:30.They are creative people, more importantly is that we should assume
:16:31. > :16:33.they have the creativity, and allow their creativity to flourish through
:16:34. > :16:39.our education processes, instead of killing that creativity through our
:16:40. > :16:53.education efforts. The secret to academic success in
:16:54. > :16:57.Singapore. Still to come. Does the Battle of
:16:58. > :17:10.the sexes begin in the brain? A new study confirms men and women's wines
:17:11. > :17:26.are wired in very different ways. -- minds.
:17:27. > :17:30.When slavery was abolished in Brazil, many former slaves came
:17:31. > :17:32.together to start their own communities. But their descendants
:17:33. > :17:34.are now being threatened with eviction because the sites have no
:17:35. > :17:39.legal basis. Over 60 families live here. They say
:17:40. > :17:46.their African ancestors were brought to work in sugar cane fields up to
:17:47. > :17:49.200 years ago. This tree is one of the oldest here. Residents say it
:17:50. > :17:57.grew around a pole where slaves were tied and beaten. The chain still
:17:58. > :18:03.remains. TRANSLATION: According to our elders, this is where our
:18:04. > :18:07.ancestors were whipped, where our old men suffered. And it elected a
:18:08. > :18:11.refund of fruit trees and fertile soil, but people living here say
:18:12. > :18:18.they can't plant on the land until they get the property titles they
:18:19. > :18:21.are fighting for. The constitution says these people are entitled to
:18:22. > :18:25.this land they have historically occupied, but they have been
:18:26. > :18:32.threatened with eviction by the military who have built a base here
:18:33. > :18:39.in the 1950s. TRANSLATION: Because the area is
:18:40. > :18:45.strategic for national-security, part of Brazil's largest, second
:18:46. > :18:51.largest navy base. It has great importance for Brazil and the Navy.
:18:52. > :18:58.The state has offered the community 28 sectors of land in the area. --
:18:59. > :19:04.hectors. But the family claim they are entitled to ten times as much.
:19:05. > :19:08.This president says she used to harvest this area to feed her
:19:09. > :19:17.family. She has ten children and five grandchildren. TRANSLATION: Now
:19:18. > :19:20.whatever we plant the Navy takes. I tell my children God will give us
:19:21. > :19:27.this land title. You will have as much land as you want.
:19:28. > :19:31.Many families have left in the past decade. These are the ones still
:19:32. > :19:44.resisting, never losing hope of holding their ground.
:19:45. > :19:50.The latest headlines. A lead dancer in Russia's Bolshoi Ballet is
:19:51. > :19:54.sentenced to six years in prison for organising an acid attack on its
:19:55. > :19:57.artistic director. Thai protesters are allowed into the
:19:58. > :19:58.government's headquarters. But their leader says it's only a partial
:19:59. > :20:06.victory. The civil war in Syria has produced
:20:07. > :20:09.atrocities on both sides. For the first time, the United Nations Human
:20:10. > :20:13.Rights Commissioner has implicated President Bashar Al-Assad personally
:20:14. > :20:16.in war crimes inside his country. Navi Pillay says investigations by
:20:17. > :20:21.her staff have uncovered evidence that leads right to the top of the
:20:22. > :20:30.Syrian government. From New York, Nada Tawfik reports.
:20:31. > :20:37.This is the brutal reality of war in Syria. Regime forces were reportedly
:20:38. > :20:45.targeting a rebel base but instead, hit market, killing 20. Then, there
:20:46. > :20:50.is the unseen violence. The United Nations human rights commission Navi
:20:51. > :20:55.Pillay said the scale and viciousness of abuse in Syria almost
:20:56. > :20:58.defied belief. Her commission of enquiry found both sides had
:20:59. > :21:03.committed human rights violations, but those by the Syrian government
:21:04. > :21:11.were on a much greater scale. In the report, it outlined their view that
:21:12. > :21:14.the facts point to the commission of very serious crimes, war crimes,
:21:15. > :21:20.crimes against humanity. They point to the fact that the
:21:21. > :21:27.evidence indicates this possibility at the highest level of government,
:21:28. > :21:31.including the head of state. This is the first time she has directly
:21:32. > :21:48.implicated President Assad is a warm cried subs -- war crimes suspect.
:21:49. > :21:52.She said the list of suspects -- names would undergo further
:21:53. > :21:55.investigation. But the deputy Foreign Minister in Syria dismissed
:21:56. > :22:00.the comments. She has been talking nonsense for a
:22:01. > :22:06.long time and we don't listen to it. Those accused of war crimes are
:22:07. > :22:10.unlikely to face charges at The Hague. Syria is not a party to the
:22:11. > :22:15.International Criminal Court, so a referral from the Security Council
:22:16. > :22:19.is needed. There is no statute of limitations on war crimes which
:22:20. > :22:20.gives UN officials hope that one day there will be justice for the
:22:21. > :22:30.victims. To Ukraine, where the Prime Minister
:22:31. > :22:35.has claimed he sees "all the signs of a coup" following violent pro-EU,
:22:36. > :22:38.anti-government demonstrations. At the heart of the protests is whether
:22:39. > :22:44.Ukraine should look east or west to bail it out of near national
:22:45. > :22:47.bankruptcy. To one side, the European Union: Eight years of
:22:48. > :22:50.negotiation have brought the promise of political and economic
:22:51. > :22:55.integration. That was due to be formalised at last Friday's EU
:22:56. > :23:27.summit in Vilnius. President Yanukovych was there. Its
:23:28. > :23:32.enticement? Economic measures and, cheaper, more reliable supplies of
:23:33. > :23:36.oil and gas. President Putin even warned, during a trip to Armenia,
:23:37. > :23:40.which also refused to sign an EU agreement, that events in Kiev are
:23:41. > :23:44.not a revolution. He described them as a "pogrom", a highly emotive word
:23:45. > :23:51.used to describe organised violence directed against minorities. The EU
:23:52. > :23:53.issue is therefore re-opening Ukraine's longstanding pro and
:23:54. > :24:02.anti-Russia divide, as each side tries to point the country in their
:24:03. > :24:06.preferred direction. The Prime Minister has now
:24:07. > :24:07.apologised for the heavy The BBC's Daniel Sanford reports from Kiev.
:24:08. > :24:18.Handedness of the security forces. We are at the Ukrainian parliament,
:24:19. > :24:24.very much the focus of the situation today, as the deputies meet here in
:24:25. > :24:27.crisis session. The parliament building is surrounded by riot
:24:28. > :24:33.police, with extra police on stand-by with their riot shields.
:24:34. > :24:37.The reason for that is, over here, thousands of demonstrators are on
:24:38. > :24:41.the streets, making their voice known. They have come up the square
:24:42. > :24:47.where they spent the night, and right outside the parliament,
:24:48. > :24:51.calling on the deputies to push this government to resign. That is the
:24:52. > :24:57.simple demand of protesters, for the prime minister to resign and the
:24:58. > :25:01.president, and fresh elections. They feel they have lost confidence this
:25:02. > :25:04.government, by the fact it has stepped away from signing the
:25:05. > :25:08.agreement with the European Union. The people in this crowd want to see
:25:09. > :25:17.Ukraine is going towards the European Union, but, the government
:25:18. > :25:23.representing a substantial proportion of Ukrainian society
:25:24. > :25:29.means that there are many people in eastern Ukraine who feel closer to
:25:30. > :25:31.Russia than to Europe. And that is the split in Ukrainian society.
:25:32. > :25:37.For many concert-goers in Germany, Laura Schwengber is a star of the
:25:38. > :25:40.stage. But you won't find her singing or playing an instrument.
:25:41. > :25:44.Laura is a sign language interpreter who reads the mood, lyrics and tone
:25:45. > :25:47.of songs. She brings them to life for people with hearing impairments.
:25:48. > :25:59.We went to a concert in Potsdam, near Berlin to see her at work.
:26:00. > :26:07.I start with the text and I translated into German sign
:26:08. > :26:11.language. Then I take the rhythm, the music. Music, for me, is a
:26:12. > :26:17.passion. You feel something when you hear music. I want to translate that
:26:18. > :26:29.the deaf people. Translating everything.
:26:30. > :26:36.Deaf people came to me and said, I was never interested in concert at
:26:37. > :26:41.all because I obviously can't hear them. I go there with my friends,
:26:42. > :26:47.they are hearing and they tell me a bit. But we never go together to
:26:48. > :26:52.talk about it. But now, they say, we went there, and we have gone home
:26:53. > :26:57.and really talked with each other about it.