:00:07. > :00:14.Of hello, this is BBC World News. Our top stories: a magazine claims
:00:15. > :00:18.the French president is having an affair. Francois Hollande considers
:00:19. > :00:22.legal action. Onwards and upwards - and Indian
:00:23. > :00:25.diplomatic was arrested in the US has bucked a diplomatic row has left
:00:26. > :00:30.for India. The army in South Sudan says it is
:00:31. > :00:33.on the verge of capturing the rebel held town of Bentiu.
:00:34. > :00:38.And the glamorous life of a New York broker who makes a fortune selling
:00:39. > :00:44.worthless dog - Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese spilled the
:00:45. > :00:59.beans on his new movie. -- he makes a fortune selling worthless stock.
:01:00. > :01:04.France's president, Francois Hollande, says he is considering
:01:05. > :01:08.suing a magazine which has claimed he has been having an affair with an
:01:09. > :01:13.actress. Mr Hollande has not denied the allegations, but says the
:01:14. > :01:17.magazine, Closer, has violated his right to privacy. The magazine has
:01:18. > :01:20.published seven pages of photographs. It claims they prove
:01:21. > :01:24.the president is having an affair with the actress Julie Gayet, seen
:01:25. > :01:29.here, who appeared in one of his campaign commercials. Let's speak to
:01:30. > :01:35.the French journalist Agnes Poirier, who is in Paris. What is the
:01:36. > :01:42.reaction there? What details have emerged? Well, you must remember
:01:43. > :01:45.that France is reeling from two stories this morning. Not only
:01:46. > :01:54.Francois Hollande's alleged affair with act is, -- Julie Gayet, but
:01:55. > :01:59.also the ban on a French racist comedian. Yesterday, there was a
:02:00. > :02:04.real legal saga, so the French are talking about this ban, which I
:02:05. > :02:11.think most of the people will see as a more important issue. It does not
:02:12. > :02:15.come at the right moment. I guess it's never comes at the right moment
:02:16. > :02:23.for April and president that a gossip magazine says you are having
:02:24. > :02:30.an affair with an actress. President Hollande is not Nicholas are cosy.
:02:31. > :02:35.-- he is not Nicholas Sarkozy. He is not going to stage it for his own
:02:36. > :02:40.communication, the way Nicholas Sarkozy did with Carla Bruni a few
:02:41. > :02:45.years ago. It is certainly very distract tin at a time when he has
:02:46. > :02:49.two military operations going on in Mali and the Central African
:02:50. > :02:59.Republic. There are a lot of learning issues in France, the first
:03:00. > :03:05.one being unemployment. But with the history of people like President Mr
:03:06. > :03:09.and anti-French oversee law, the attitude to oversee is quite
:03:10. > :03:12.specific and unique. Do you feel people would think this impinge is
:03:13. > :03:19.on his ability to do his job, even if it is true? I don't think so .
:03:20. > :03:26.You can always argue that the Dominique Strauss Khan scandal did
:03:27. > :03:32.actually dent the sacred respect and tolerance for public figures
:03:33. > :03:39.gallivanting and having amorous affairs. But still, on the whole, we
:03:40. > :03:43.are talking about consenting adults, presumably. The French will take it
:03:44. > :03:52.with a pinch of salt, as they always do. They will think it is just
:03:53. > :03:57.gossiping and it is not journalism. However, it is coming at the wrong
:03:58. > :04:05.moment for President Hollande, who is not very popular with the French.
:04:06. > :04:07.Now, we have just heard some breaking news that the president of
:04:08. > :04:16.the Central African Republic has resigned. He has confirmed that he
:04:17. > :04:22.was standing down at a recent gathering in Chad. That meeting had
:04:23. > :04:24.been organised try to end the violence in the Central African
:04:25. > :04:28.Republic. He had been widely criticised for failing to stop the
:04:29. > :04:32.sectarian violence between Christians and the mainly Muslim
:04:33. > :04:39.former rebels who brought him to power in a coup last year. He tried
:04:40. > :04:43.to disband the rebels, but had been seen to be unable to control them
:04:44. > :04:48.and there has been a fear of the risk of genocide in the CIA are. So
:04:49. > :04:54.there was speculation that he was going to have to step down. That
:04:55. > :04:59.news has just come in that he has resigned.
:05:00. > :05:05.One of India's top diplomats in New York is on her way home after being
:05:06. > :05:09.charged with visa fraud. Devyani Khobragade was accused of
:05:10. > :05:13.underpaying her housekeeper and lying about it on a visa
:05:14. > :05:17.application. The case rapidly escalated into a full-scale
:05:18. > :05:19.diplomatic row, and she was handcuffed and strip-searched by the
:05:20. > :05:26.investigators. Devyani Khobragade, the Indian
:05:27. > :05:30.official at the centre of a diplomatic row. Formally indicted
:05:31. > :05:35.for visa fraud and making false statements, now heading home. Her
:05:36. > :05:40.arrest and strip-searched in December last year caused huge
:05:41. > :05:45.tension between the US and India. There were angry protest in Delhi.
:05:46. > :05:49.Security barricades outside the American embassy were removed, and
:05:50. > :05:54.there has even been a threat to restrict access to the Embassy bar.
:05:55. > :05:58.But if US officials are upset, they are refusing to go public with their
:05:59. > :06:02.anger. Are you disappointed by the fact that they have chosen the route
:06:03. > :06:09.they have chosen? I am not going to address that. Any disappointment we
:06:10. > :06:12.have, we expressed privately. The diplomat worked at the Indian
:06:13. > :06:16.consulate in New York. She was accused of underpaying her
:06:17. > :06:21.housekeeper and lying on a visa application, something she denied.
:06:22. > :06:24.Court documents showed that she had been given diplomatic immunity. It
:06:25. > :06:28.is understood that the US asked India to waive this immunity. Delhi
:06:29. > :06:33.said no, so then she was asked to leave the country. One consequence
:06:34. > :06:39.of this is the postponement of a planned trip to India by the US
:06:40. > :06:43.energy secretary. As for Devyani Khobragade, prosecutors say the
:06:44. > :06:46.charges against her will remain pending and she would stand trial if
:06:47. > :06:52.she were to return to the US without diplomatic immunity.
:06:53. > :06:57.Government forces in South Sudan say they are on the verge of recapturing
:06:58. > :07:02.the town of Bentiu, which was seized last month by rebels loyal to the
:07:03. > :07:06.country's former deputy president, Button. A spokesman says the South
:07:07. > :07:10.Sudanese Army is now on the outskirts of the Bentiu itself, the
:07:11. > :07:14.capital of oil-rich Unity State. Thousands of people are sheltering
:07:15. > :07:21.in UN compounds amid fears of all-out civil war. The BBC's
:07:22. > :07:25.reporter is outside Bentiu. Government troops say they are close
:07:26. > :07:30.to the city. The rebel forces have withdrawn to the city itself. It was
:07:31. > :07:37.very dramatic this time yesterday, when they destroyed and arms dump.
:07:38. > :07:42.They said they blew up all the ammunition they could carry. It was
:07:43. > :07:46.quite a display, with fireballs and shells exploding. We thought the
:07:47. > :07:51.battle had started. That gives an indication as to how they think
:07:52. > :07:54.things might go. They are waiting on the other side of a bridge. We don't
:07:55. > :07:58.know how much of a fight they are prepared to put up when government
:07:59. > :08:03.forces arrive. The key thing is to get a cease-fire in place. That is
:08:04. > :08:10.what is needed to stop the fighting. We have seen thousands of
:08:11. > :08:15.people leaving this town and heading into the bush or further south, just
:08:16. > :08:20.carrying whatever they could and leaving their homes. There are
:08:21. > :08:24.thousands of people in this country who have been displaced, and that is
:08:25. > :08:31.a huge challenge in terms of giving them a. They need clean water and
:08:32. > :08:35.food supplies. Here at the UN compound on the outskirts of Bentiu,
:08:36. > :08:40.there are now upwards of 9000 people. More came in when there were
:08:41. > :08:50.reports of government forces arising. So now, the camp has been
:08:51. > :08:57.split into the two tribes which have historical rifts that were being
:08:58. > :08:59.resolved, but now have been torn apart, so much so that at the
:09:00. > :09:04.entrance to the camp when people come in, there is a sign pointing
:09:05. > :09:11.one way for one tribe and another sign for the other. There is such
:09:12. > :09:20.tension between the people that they have to do it this way. It is very
:09:21. > :09:26.side. -- very sad. Human rights in Pakistan say the
:09:27. > :09:30.country's labour laws are nor the abuse of children who from a young
:09:31. > :09:33.age are working on the streets or in the homes of middle-class families.
:09:34. > :09:37.It is estimated that there are 12 million child workers in Pakistan,
:09:38. > :09:40.many working in harsh or unsafe conditions. Last week, the employers
:09:41. > :09:44.of a ten-year-old girl were arrested following her death. Tulisa there
:09:45. > :09:50.were indications that she had been beaten. -- police said there were
:09:51. > :09:58.indications she had been beaten. The haunting whaling, the song for
:09:59. > :10:03.the dead. A funeral ritual in this small Punjabi village. Today, it is
:10:04. > :10:07.for another young girl full of the ten-year-old was sent to the city to
:10:08. > :10:11.cook for another family so that her own could eat. She came back in a
:10:12. > :10:15.white shroud, apparently tortured to death by her employers. They
:10:16. > :10:19.disabled mother had not seen her in three months. She has buried her
:10:20. > :10:30.youngest child, but she does not know where to bury her own guilt.
:10:31. > :10:34.Maybe we should have eight for scraps instead, she tells us. Why
:10:35. > :10:43.did I send my own daughter to these cruel people? The child's employers
:10:44. > :10:49.are in police custody. Mrs May mood has confessed to repeatedly beating
:10:50. > :10:52.the child with an iron pipe, while her 16-year-old son stood by and
:10:53. > :11:02.watched. She says casually that it was an accident. No one expected her
:11:03. > :11:06.to die. TRANSLATION: Three times, she stole money. I got angry, so I
:11:07. > :11:12.beat her. She said she was getting sleepy, so I tied her up and left
:11:13. > :11:16.her to make dinner. The police say the girl died slowly, not
:11:17. > :11:29.accidentally, tied up as she was breathing her last. There were
:11:30. > :11:36.indications of beating. There was swelling. These were indications of
:11:37. > :11:39.the fact that the girl was subject to torture. There are no laws
:11:40. > :11:45.against child the most Labour. Protesting human rights activists
:11:46. > :11:50.said they see 20 cases like this every year, and hear many other
:11:51. > :11:54.stories of abuse. This mound of earth is where the victim lies
:11:55. > :11:58.buried now, but a short while ago, she was just a child like those
:11:59. > :12:01.children playing in the fields beyond the graveyard. Yet her
:12:02. > :12:08.childhood, her future and her life was cut short by poverty and
:12:09. > :12:12.despair, like so many others. According to human rights groups,
:12:13. > :12:15.more than 12 million children are pushed onto the streets and the
:12:16. > :12:22.homes of strangers to seek an income. Without a legal safety net,
:12:23. > :12:25.these children, with lost childhoods, slip through the cracks
:12:26. > :12:34.and fall, with no one to catch them.
:12:35. > :12:38.Back to our breaking news. The president of the Central African
:12:39. > :12:40.Republic has resigned. Michel Djotodia confirmed that he was
:12:41. > :12:48.standing down at a regional meeting in Chad. That meeting had been fixed
:12:49. > :12:51.to try and end the violence that has been unfolding in the Central
:12:52. > :12:54.African Republic. He has been criticised for failing to stop
:12:55. > :12:58.sectarian violence between the Christians and mainly Muslim former
:12:59. > :13:05.rebels who brought him to power in a coup last year. With me is our
:13:06. > :13:11.correspondent from the busy African service. What has happened here? The
:13:12. > :13:19.president and prime minister are going. This is an outcome of the
:13:20. > :13:24.process whose purpose was to secure their resident nation. As you said,
:13:25. > :13:29.they failed to quell the violence and, despite the troops from the
:13:30. > :13:33.African union and France being in the country, we have seen that
:13:34. > :13:42.partisan supporters of different military and rebel factions and
:13:43. > :13:48.civil society leaders, they have maintained the feud. France decided
:13:49. > :13:58.that the African countries should take responsible tea. --
:13:59. > :14:06.responsibility. Chad convened this meeting, and any other outcome than
:14:07. > :14:10.their resignation would have been a surprise. But given that the
:14:11. > :14:15.president has been unable to control his own rebels, he is the first
:14:16. > :14:18.Muslim leader, whoever now comes into run the country, will they be
:14:19. > :14:37.able to stop the violence between wrist gins and Muslims? The whole
:14:38. > :14:44.issue is the rebellion itself. Putting Michel Djotodia side will
:14:45. > :14:51.work psychologically. Central Africans will understand that the
:14:52. > :14:57.one who caused the divisions has been put aside. Let's now think
:14:58. > :14:59.about what we can do. But the details of what will actually come
:15:00. > :15:06.after their resignation, who will take over, is still being worked
:15:07. > :15:21.out. If it has been worked out, we will have to wait and see. This is
:15:22. > :15:27.BBC World News. An American story about the pursuit
:15:28. > :15:41.of happiness and hard cash, Martin Scorsese tells us what inspired him
:15:42. > :15:45.to make his latest movie. The big chill which has gripped the
:15:46. > :15:49.US is finally coming to an end. But, before Americans can breathe a sigh
:15:50. > :15:52.of relief, the big thaw may be about to bring problems of its own. Along
:15:53. > :15:56.with the warmer temperatures comes the threat of floods. And, to cap it
:15:57. > :16:00.all, the financial cost of the big freeze is estimated to be a
:16:01. > :16:01.staggering $5 billion. Russell Trott reports.
:16:02. > :16:03.First came the freezing temperatures. Then, the frozen
:16:04. > :16:07.rivers. Now it is the floods. The city of Trenton in New Jersey is
:16:08. > :16:13.facing a potential flood threat as ice jams up near a key bridge and
:16:14. > :16:21.the water continues rising. I have never seen anything like it
:16:22. > :16:28.before. We have seen it when it is flooded. But never ice. It is quite
:16:29. > :16:38.unusual. During the summer, there are spots when you can walk across.
:16:39. > :16:42.You can see it is underwater. As the thaw sets in, pipes and water
:16:43. > :16:49.towers which were frozen solid and cracked because of the ice, are now
:16:50. > :16:55.leaking water, as the ice melts. Here in New York, snowmelt flooded
:16:56. > :16:59.rivers and homes. The authorities are monitoring the area for
:17:00. > :17:07.additional flooding. No evacuations have been ordered. And no one has
:17:08. > :17:12.been hurt. But these are unusual times with virtually unprecedented
:17:13. > :17:17.low temperatures. After that polar air mass swept across America
:17:18. > :17:21.earlier. Shattering decades of whatever Chev records as it
:17:22. > :17:25.enveloped the eastern seaboard. For those along the banks of this river
:17:26. > :17:31.experiencing their river freezing over like never before, it remains a
:17:32. > :17:33.worrying time, with ice joined by another potential hazard, flood
:17:34. > :17:45.water, and lots of it. Everyone wants to be lucky. For
:17:46. > :17:48.some, it involves crossing their fingers. And, for others, it might
:17:49. > :17:53.involve focusing on auspicious numbers or symbols. But, in Japan,
:17:54. > :17:56.luck goes to the man who runs the fastest. Around 5,000 men made the
:17:57. > :18:00.dash through a shrine in Hyogo prefecture, hoping to win good luck
:18:01. > :18:03.for the year ahead. The winner was 19-year-old runner Seiki Kyoda. As
:18:04. > :18:11.well as good luck, he's also won a barrel of sake.
:18:12. > :18:19.The latest headlines: The French president says he's considering
:18:20. > :18:25.legal action, after a magazine claims he's having an affair with an
:18:26. > :18:29.actress. The president of the Central African
:18:30. > :18:30.Republic has resigned. Michel Djotodia came to power following a
:18:31. > :18:43.coup last year. The deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
:18:44. > :18:47.has told the BBC that the city of Fallujah cannot be retaken from the
:18:48. > :18:49.rebels by military force alone. The Iraqi government has been sending
:18:50. > :18:52.military reinforcements to the province of Anbar, after rebel
:18:53. > :18:55.groups linked to al-Qaida overran parts of the area last week. The
:18:56. > :18:58.Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Saleh al-Mutlaq, who is himself from
:18:59. > :19:03.Fallujah has been speaking to the BBC's Rafid Jaboori.
:19:04. > :19:17.All of us had to fight terrorism. But do not expect that by missiles
:19:18. > :19:25.and aeroplanes... You can defeat Al-Qaeda and I rock through
:19:26. > :19:40.reconciliation, and by introducing justice, social justice -- Iraq.
:19:41. > :19:46.Will the people of Fallujah drive them out?
:19:47. > :19:49.They will drive them out of their city definitely, providing that the
:19:50. > :20:12.government will not interfere through the Army. Maybe there will
:20:13. > :20:16.be some sort of working together. The target for Al-Qaeda and the
:20:17. > :20:23.civilians will be the Army who is coming to defeat the people.
:20:24. > :20:26.How come you do not trust your own army?
:20:27. > :20:35.Because, frankly speaking, the people in Fallujah, they do not feel
:20:36. > :20:47.that it isn't their own army -- it is their own army. This army is not
:20:48. > :20:51.the way it should be. We are asking for a balanced army, but it was
:20:52. > :21:07.never done. The United States says a Yemeni man
:21:08. > :21:09.held uncharged for more than a decade at the Guantanamo Bay
:21:10. > :21:14.detention centre can be released. So, who is he? We don't have a
:21:15. > :21:17.picture of him, but his name is Mahmud Mujahid, and he is 33 years
:21:18. > :21:20.old. He is accused of being an al-Qaeda fighter. And bodyguard to
:21:21. > :21:24.Osama Bin Laden. The review panel says he no longer poses a
:21:25. > :21:27.significant threat to the US. But a Pentagon spokesman says no decision
:21:28. > :21:29.has been made on when he will be released.
:21:30. > :21:34.The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner told me this was a
:21:35. > :21:40.significant milestone. He is the first person to come
:21:41. > :21:44.before this review board which has been ordered by President Barack
:21:45. > :21:48.Obama for orders for his release. No date has been given because certain
:21:49. > :21:53.conditions have got to be fulfilled first. The most worrying thing is
:21:54. > :21:59.the ongoing instability in Yemen, his country of origin. His name is
:22:00. > :22:07.Mujahid, he has been there since January 2002, since the time of
:22:08. > :22:15.those first images of people shackled and in orange jumpsuits. He
:22:16. > :22:20.is now considered no longer of continued significant threat to the
:22:21. > :22:24.US. The problem is, what do you do with him and how? Over the past few
:22:25. > :22:31.years, some people have been released. 16% have gone on to rejoin
:22:32. > :22:38.Al-Qaeda. Their main base in the Middle East is Yemen. So, that is a
:22:39. > :22:43.concern for them. He may be released to a third country, to a
:22:44. > :22:48.rehabilitation programme. I do not think the situation in Yemen will
:22:49. > :22:53.become more stable. They need a safe channel to make sure he is not
:22:54. > :22:57.grabbed by militants and sucked back into fighting.
:22:58. > :23:02.Do people think that is actually possible? Effectively, would he have
:23:03. > :23:07.to be monitored afterwards? In an ideal world, Americans would
:23:08. > :23:12.like him to be monitored. Once he goes back to Yemen, I do not think
:23:13. > :23:18.he will be monitored carefully. The numbers here are that, overall,
:23:19. > :23:25.around 707 jet five people have been inmates in Guant?namo Bay. Over 600
:23:26. > :23:31.have been released. 155 remaining. Most of those, just over half are
:23:32. > :23:36.from Yemen. This is an unstable country, and ongoing fight with
:23:37. > :23:40.Al-Qaeda, a healthy rebellion in the South and North. A lot of
:23:41. > :23:45.instability. There is a concern if they were to release all those
:23:46. > :23:51.people, and President Barack Obama really was to shut down Guant?namo
:23:52. > :23:55.Bay, it was a campaign pledge. They have got to find a safe home for
:23:56. > :23:59.these people and make sure they are not channelled back into joining
:24:00. > :24:07.Al-Qaeda, which is a powerful force in parts of Yemen.
:24:08. > :24:12.The Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese's latest movie about
:24:13. > :24:15.bankers and brokers The Wolf Of Wall Street is out in cinemas. And it has
:24:16. > :24:18.already been criticised for revelling in the corruption and
:24:19. > :24:21.debauchery of its main characters. Martin Scorsese told the BBC's
:24:22. > :24:23.Stephen Smith why he appears to have let the bankers off lightly.
:24:24. > :24:29.This is the greatest company in the world. Martin Scorsese's new film is
:24:30. > :24:33.the true story of a New York broker who made a fortune selling worthless
:24:34. > :24:37.stock. I was making so much money I did not know what to do. And he
:24:38. > :24:44.lived high on the proceeds. Some have called this a black farce, the
:24:45. > :24:48.director's best film. For others, it is a little too rollicking. We did
:24:49. > :24:54.not try to judge their world and the people. We think, I have seen that
:24:55. > :25:00.so often. Very often a story about that, a plate, novel, film, where
:25:01. > :25:07.you know the author is commented on the action and condemning it or
:25:08. > :25:10.criticising it, sometimes, especially in certain films, it
:25:11. > :25:18.makes the audience feel they have done their job. It is over to us to
:25:19. > :25:24.do the moral heavy lifting? And to make it more complicated. It is a
:25:25. > :25:28.very American story, about the pursuit of happiness, or at least
:25:29. > :25:32.greenbacks, preferably laundered through Switzerland. What about her
:25:33. > :25:40.family? They will have Swiss passports. She has parents, a
:25:41. > :25:45.brother, a wife, children. They are all Swiss. America is represented as
:25:46. > :25:49.a place of opportunity. I was able to take advantage of that. I don't
:25:50. > :25:56.recall it being a case where the main thing was only to get rich.
:25:57. > :26:04.Only. I have a couple of milk coming in a week. Come pick it up if I give
:26:05. > :26:10.you a call. Give me a call? When it gets here, I will give you a call to
:26:11. > :26:16.pick it up. We don't work for you. You have my money taped onto you,
:26:17. > :26:25.technically you do. Bankers, some of them, brokers, are they the new bank
:26:26. > :26:30.-- gangsters? It seems easy to say politicians and bankers are all
:26:31. > :26:43.gangsters. How shall I put it? Power, it's about power. For power,
:26:44. > :26:48.it can corrupt. Just to update you on our breaking
:26:49. > :26:53.news, the Central African Republic interim president has resigned after
:26:54. > :26:59.weeks of religious clashes. Michel Djotodia has stepped down amid huge
:27:00. > :27:00.criticism of increasing violence. Thank you for being with