:00:00. > :00:11.Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: Ukraine issues an
:00:12. > :00:15.arrest warrant for ousted President Viktor Yanukovych over the killing
:00:16. > :00:17.of protesters. Uganda's President Museveni signs a
:00:18. > :00:24.controversial new law giving homosexuals longer prison sentences.
:00:25. > :00:27.As the UN condemns both sides in South Sudan for widespread human
:00:28. > :00:37.rights abuses - we have a special report from the town of Bor. This
:00:38. > :00:42.trench that they don't is beginner to take 250 bodies, it isn't full
:00:43. > :00:46.yet. Just over here, there are two of the trenches and they both have
:00:47. > :00:50.been filled in. And the oldest remaining holocaust
:00:51. > :01:08.survivor dies in London at 110 years old.
:01:09. > :01:14.Ukraine's parliament has approved an arrest warrant for former president
:01:15. > :01:16.Victor Yanukovych. Earlier the interior ministry issued the warrant
:01:17. > :01:19.for mass murder, saying Mr Yanukovych was responsible for the
:01:20. > :01:25.deaths of scores of protesters over the past weeks. Meanwhile in an
:01:26. > :01:28.effort to establish order in the country, the parliament is in
:01:29. > :01:31.session, discussing the formation of a government of national unity. My
:01:32. > :01:40.colleague, Tim Willcox, who's in Kiev, says calm has returned to the
:01:41. > :01:46.capital. There really is a feeling that things are getting back to
:01:47. > :01:51.normal. Over here, this is the Kiev police station here, people are
:01:52. > :01:54.going in and on the streets, cars are moving and you are seeing
:01:55. > :01:58.demonstrators and protesters working alongside traffic police, keeping
:01:59. > :02:04.the traffic flowing through the centre of Kiev. Here, you can see
:02:05. > :02:09.the barricades are still in place, the demonstrators are in control,
:02:10. > :02:16.people are really wanting to start afresh week in a new Ukraine. This
:02:17. > :02:20.is one of the main routes down to Maidan, Independence Square, if you
:02:21. > :02:24.look at the streets, cars are driving up and down, children have
:02:25. > :02:30.gone back to school, people are going back to work. Do you think the
:02:31. > :02:53.revolution is over now? Do you think things are going to get back to
:02:54. > :02:59.normal? TRANSLATION: Life is getting back to normal already, right now in
:03:00. > :03:05.these moments. But will it get back to normal? It depends mostly on the
:03:06. > :03:13.presidential elections and their outcome, and they are ongoing. Here
:03:14. > :03:16.in Maidan, Independence Square, the numbers have drained away
:03:17. > :03:20.significantly. Flowers are still here, a few people are saying
:03:21. > :03:25.prayers and lighting candles, but the people who have died, but
:03:26. > :03:30.compare the scene here today to what it was yesterday and a few days ago.
:03:31. > :03:33.There really is a sense that this revolution now is completely in
:03:34. > :03:38.control, these are moving forward and now it is down to the
:03:39. > :03:43.politicians to work out how to take Ukraine and this whole process
:03:44. > :03:49.forward. The big question remains, where is the former president? That
:03:50. > :03:54.is still unknown. Our reporter is internets, in the east of Ukraine, a
:03:55. > :04:02.city where Mr Yanukovych has had a lot of support. The now ex-president
:04:03. > :04:06.was born close to this city where we are, in southeastern Ukraine, a
:04:07. > :04:09.couple of hours drive from the Russian border. He was governor of
:04:10. > :04:14.this region a decade ago, and this is one of his many homes in
:04:15. > :04:20.Ukraine. The huge gated complex on this great, but call me naive, I
:04:21. > :04:24.think there are worse places to see where he is. Let's see if there is
:04:25. > :04:37.any response. Surprise, surprise, nobody home.
:04:38. > :04:43.This is an area which is predominantly Russian speaking. It
:04:44. > :04:50.will take very badly indeed to comments from the interim president
:04:51. > :04:54.to moving Ukraine closer to the EU. Whoever tries to lead the country
:04:55. > :04:57.forward will have the huge task of uniting a polarised nation, these
:04:58. > :05:02.people here who look more towards the east and those in the West to
:05:03. > :05:07.look more towards the EU. In the meantime, the hunt for Viktor
:05:08. > :05:11.Yanukovych goes on. There are rumours he tried to fly from this
:05:12. > :05:15.city, Donetsk, to Russia over the weekend but the Customs officials
:05:16. > :05:23.here stopped his plane. People trying to find where he is, but the
:05:24. > :05:25.focus has shifted to what happens next and who leads forward this
:05:26. > :05:33.deeply wounded and fractured country. The former president,
:05:34. > :05:44.Timmer Schenkel, is one of the people who has been mentioned. The
:05:45. > :05:48.German Chancellor spoke to her. I asked my colleague if that phone
:05:49. > :05:55.call and to put the school -- amounted to political endorsement.
:05:56. > :05:59.Her words were, welcome to freedom, in other words, we have been
:06:00. > :06:05.concerned about you. She has voiced her concern in the past. But it was
:06:06. > :06:12.not an endorsement of her as the political leader of Ukraine.
:06:13. > :06:19.Chancellor Merkel also spoke to President Putin, that was possibly a
:06:20. > :06:23.more important call. She said, let's get stability, let's make sure that
:06:24. > :06:30.Ukraine stays together, the territorial integrity is the phrase
:06:31. > :06:35.that both leaders agreed on. The spectre that has been raised here in
:06:36. > :06:43.Berlin, which is 900 kilometres from Ukraine, is of a Yugoslavian
:06:44. > :06:51.situation, where an unstable situation in the into Civil War and
:06:52. > :06:54.the splitting up of the country. Chancellor Merkel is keen to get
:06:55. > :07:04.President Putin on board to preserve a situation and stop it sending into
:07:05. > :07:08.true chaos. In the last half an hour, the Ugandan President signed
:07:09. > :07:14.into law tough new penalties against homosexuality. The new legislation
:07:15. > :07:17.now means that homosexuals could be given life long prison terms. Yoweri
:07:18. > :07:19.Museveni signed the bill during a press conference close to the
:07:20. > :07:22.capital Kampala. Dennis Wamala is Programme Director
:07:23. > :07:24.at Icebreaker's Uganda. An organisation that provides education
:07:25. > :07:33.and support for sexual minority groups. He joins us on the phone
:07:34. > :07:42.line. Thanks very much for joining us. What is your reaction to the
:07:43. > :07:46.signing of this Bill? I am very saddened by the actions of my
:07:47. > :07:49.beloved president. We have been trying to meet him so he can listen
:07:50. > :07:55.to the voice of the people he is trying to give away to the prisons
:07:56. > :08:03.and he has refused to meet us over and over again. I'm saddened and
:08:04. > :08:09.disappointed. How is this going to affect life for people that you
:08:10. > :08:18.advise and support? Already, it has been very difficult for us, for us,
:08:19. > :08:25.people being arrested and blackmailed and being kept in jail
:08:26. > :08:32.for a long time. People are being bitten on the streets, detained
:08:33. > :08:38.without trial, and now everyone believes they have the right to beat
:08:39. > :08:46.homosexuals. It is going to mob justice. Also, one of the provisions
:08:47. > :08:52.of the new law as I understand it is you have two report gay people as
:08:53. > :08:58.well, it is a crime if you don't. So people who are not gay being
:08:59. > :09:03.affected by this as well. Mainly councillors and health workers,
:09:04. > :09:11.because it is confidential, so it means that medical practitioners who
:09:12. > :09:18.do not report gay people, then it is going to be... They are not going to
:09:19. > :09:24.want to deal with gay people because they will get themselves in trouble.
:09:25. > :09:34.The problem is this law is actually popular in Uganda, isn't it? Yes, it
:09:35. > :09:44.is, because the movement in Uganda hasn't had the possibility of
:09:45. > :09:48.education in the country are so everybody... We are not like Western
:09:49. > :09:53.people, so it is popular because people haven't been given the chance
:09:54. > :10:02.to be educated and listen to the LGB T community. Thank you for joining
:10:03. > :10:05.us live on the line from Uganda. In the last half hour Egypt's interim
:10:06. > :10:07.prime minister has announced that his Cabinet has resigned. Hazem
:10:08. > :10:11.el-Beblawi's government, backed by the military, took office in July,
:10:12. > :10:14.less than two weeks after the army overthrew the Islamist President,
:10:15. > :10:21.Mohammed Morsi. Our correspondent has been following events in Cairo.
:10:22. > :10:26.Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi did not state why he resigned, he didn't
:10:27. > :10:30.state a clear reason to what pushed his government to make such a
:10:31. > :10:32.decision at a critical time, when the country is expecting
:10:33. > :10:37.presidential elections in a couple of months. But his government has
:10:38. > :10:44.been severely criticised during the past weeks as being weak and
:10:45. > :10:48.incompetent. We have lots of strikes in Cairo and in the sector of
:10:49. > :10:57.transportation, in the sector of tech tours. -- textiles. So what the
:10:58. > :11:02.Prime Minister said, that they came to power at a very critical time and
:11:03. > :11:06.they managed to get Egypt out of the dark tunnel, that is what he said,
:11:07. > :11:14.he feels like leaving his post now after the completion of the first
:11:15. > :11:19.phase of the road map. He is referring here to the Constitution
:11:20. > :11:25.that has just been written. Stay with us, still to come: China's
:11:26. > :11:27.fight for fresh egg gets creative. Can art make pollution a thing of
:11:28. > :11:38.the past? -- fresh air. Professional sport in the US has
:11:39. > :11:42.broken new ground thanks to this guy, his name is Jason Collins and
:11:43. > :11:54.has become the first openly gay competitive sportsman in a major
:11:55. > :12:00.sports league. This is the man who has become the
:12:01. > :12:05.first openly gay athlete to play in America's professional basketball
:12:06. > :12:10.league. In fact, he is the first gay athlete to play in any of the
:12:11. > :12:19.country's four major professional sports leagues, including baseball,
:12:20. > :12:23.football and hockey. After playing professionally for a dozen years,
:12:24. > :12:29.she has revealed in April that he is gay in this sport illustrated
:12:30. > :12:33.article. This is Jason Collins arriving to a state dinner has a
:12:34. > :12:36.guest of first lady Michelle Obama. When he came out at the end of last
:12:37. > :12:43.season, he also received support from other players, including Kobe
:12:44. > :12:49.Bryant, but he was a free agent and had remained unsigned. Today, the
:12:50. > :12:53.NBA team Brooklyn net tweeted that it has signed into a ten day
:12:54. > :13:06.contract. In a statement, the team's general manager said:
:13:07. > :13:14.there is also a lot of attention on this man, a leading American
:13:15. > :13:20.footballer. He has announced that he is gay as well. He completed a
:13:21. > :13:23.promising career in current -- college football. He is expected to
:13:24. > :13:28.be chosen by an National Football League team in May, that would make
:13:29. > :13:41.in the NFL's first openly gay player next season.
:13:42. > :13:48.This is BBC world News. The headlines: Ukraine's interim
:13:49. > :13:52.authorities are seeking the rest of the ousted president Viktor
:13:53. > :13:54.Yanukovych for what they say is mass murder of peaceful civilians. The
:13:55. > :14:02.Interior Ministry said he was last seen in Ukraine's Crimean insula.
:14:03. > :14:06.The President of Uganda has signed a new anti-gay law despite
:14:07. > :14:11.international protests. The bill could see homosexuals serve longer
:14:12. > :14:14.prison sentences. In South Sudan, civilians are
:14:15. > :14:17.continuing to flee the town of Bor, in fear of their lives. Hundreds of
:14:18. > :14:21.people were killed there during recent ethnic violence. A UN report
:14:22. > :14:24.accuses both government forces and rebels of committing human rights
:14:25. > :14:28.abuses including mass killings and rape. The violence began in December
:14:29. > :14:31.last year when a faction led by the country's Vice President tried to
:14:32. > :14:35.take control of several key towns. George Alagiah has been to Bor, to
:14:36. > :14:38.see the impact of the conflict on a population belonging largely to the
:14:39. > :14:47.Dinka tribe. His report contains scenes you may find disturbing. The
:14:48. > :14:52.details of what happened here may be disputed, but the consequences are
:14:53. > :14:55.self evident. It is if a hurricane had ripped through the town, except
:14:56. > :15:02.this devastation is entirely man-made. We were escorted by
:15:03. > :15:06.government troops who now control Bor. It has changed hands four times
:15:07. > :15:15.in the recent fighting with rebel forces. Each time, there have been
:15:16. > :15:20.hundreds of civilian casualties. It is only now that the bodies are
:15:21. > :15:26.being collected. This trench that they have dug is big enough to take
:15:27. > :15:33.250 bodies. It isn't fully aired, but just over here there two other
:15:34. > :15:40.trenches, and they have both been building. -- it is not full yet. The
:15:41. > :15:47.mayor of Bor joined us. He said he has evidence of what the rebels left
:15:48. > :15:49.in their wake. These are crimes against your Mathy which were
:15:50. > :15:58.committed by the rebel forces. Women were raped, elderly executed. --
:15:59. > :16:05.crimes against humanity. Tell me, who are the people in this grave?
:16:06. > :16:08.These are members of the Dinka ethnicity that were targeted by the
:16:09. > :16:17.rebel forces when NATO over the town. I obviously cannot verify
:16:18. > :16:20.everything he has said. I have to take it on trust that the vast
:16:21. > :16:26.majority of people are members of the Dinka tribe, but what is beyond
:16:27. > :16:30.doubt is that there was indiscriminate killing here in Bor.
:16:31. > :16:37.The fear that it might happen again, that is still running strong. Even
:16:38. > :16:42.now, they are leaving, trying to take boats over the river. People in
:16:43. > :16:48.the newest nation on earth reduced to refugees in their own land.
:16:49. > :16:52.TRANSLATION: All I want to do is get my child out of danger and take her
:16:53. > :16:57.somewhere safer, like a camp. I can wait out the danger and come back.
:16:58. > :17:03.At this church, they remember the two pastors who were among those
:17:04. > :17:08.killed. Nothing, it seems, is sacred in this conflict. George Alagiah,
:17:09. > :17:12.BBC News. OK, I want to bring you some other
:17:13. > :17:19.stories that are making news around the world. A top Pakistani Taliban
:17:20. > :17:22.commander has been shot dead in the militant stronghold of North
:17:23. > :17:26.Waziristan according to security sources. Reports say he was ambushed
:17:27. > :17:32.as he was driving through a village. Two other people also died. It is
:17:33. > :17:35.unclear who killed them. The head of the army in Thailand
:17:36. > :17:39.says the military will not intervene with falls in the country's
:17:40. > :17:49.political crisis despite worsening violence which has left four people
:17:50. > :17:58.dead, including two children. -- force. He said it was hard to know
:17:59. > :18:01.who was on which side. Activists in Syria say a senior
:18:02. > :18:04.rebel commander linked to al-Qaeda has been killed in a suicide attack
:18:05. > :18:07.in Aleppo. The Islamist commander known as Abu Khaled al-Suri was
:18:08. > :18:10.among several people believed to have been killed when militants
:18:11. > :18:12.attacked his group's compound. Italy's new Prime Minister is
:18:13. > :18:16.setting out priorities. Matteo Renzi will address the country's senate
:18:17. > :18:20.later, top of his agenda likely to be reforming the economy. It's the
:18:21. > :18:29.third largest in the eurozone and has 13% unemployment rate.
:18:30. > :18:32.The new government, which was sworn in on Saturday, will have to win two
:18:33. > :18:34.confidence votes before it can officially start working.
:18:35. > :18:37.In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has been celebrating his 90th
:18:38. > :18:40.birthday over the weekend, making him the world's second oldest
:18:41. > :18:47.statesman after Shimon Peres. His birthday partys have never been
:18:48. > :18:51.low-key affairs, and the latest one lived up to expectations. Africa's
:18:52. > :18:57.Allders leader has been widely criticised for lavish spending in a
:18:58. > :19:02.country battling a shrinking economy and huge job losses. -- oldest
:19:03. > :19:06.leader. Thousands turned out to wish Robert
:19:07. > :19:11.Mugabe a happy birthday. Looking refreshed after an eye operation in
:19:12. > :19:16.Singapore, Africa's oldest statesman waved at the crowd, which was mostly
:19:17. > :19:22.made up of schoolchildren. They greeted him enthusiastic in,
:19:23. > :19:30.chanting his clan name. -- enthusiastic league. The president
:19:31. > :19:34.and his wife Grace released balloons to mark his birthday. When he
:19:35. > :19:39.spoke, he did not have any warm words for his former colonial
:19:40. > :19:51.masters. The British, we don't hate you. We only love our country. We
:19:52. > :19:58.love our country better. We love ourselves better than we love you.
:19:59. > :20:03.Robert Mugabe has outfoxed and outlived most of his enemies, and
:20:04. > :20:06.many rumours about his death. He is in remarkably good shape for a
:20:07. > :20:11.90-year-old, and his hour-long speech demonstrated his astounding
:20:12. > :20:14.presence of mind, but not many people can argue about his
:20:15. > :20:18.contribution to Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, but his
:20:19. > :20:26.controversial legacy will no doubt follow him to the grave and beyond.
:20:27. > :20:32.I, Robert Mugabe... He became a hero for leading the struggle to
:20:33. > :20:41.independence. In the beginning, he preached reconciliation and promised
:20:42. > :20:44.Zimbabweans prosperity, but Zimbabwe suffered severe poverty and
:20:45. > :20:49.hyperinflation. The economy collapsed when he ordered the
:20:50. > :20:54.takeover of white owned farms. There is now a thriving black middle-class
:20:55. > :20:59.here. That is largely thanks to the scrapping of the local currency in
:21:00. > :21:04.favour of the US dollar. But the country will need a lot of
:21:05. > :21:10.investment to get it back on track. The former finance minister never
:21:11. > :21:16.imagined that things would turn out this way. Certainly, I never
:21:17. > :21:21.envisaged I would have to dodge potholes in the streets of the city
:21:22. > :21:26.of Harare, that we would have to spend long hours without power in
:21:27. > :21:31.our homes and factories and offices. Back at the party, far away from the
:21:32. > :21:36.country's problems, Mugabe supporters eat cake. But for many
:21:37. > :21:47.other Zimbabweans, it is not a time to celebrate. They can only
:21:48. > :21:50.contemplate a post-Mugabe future. In the US, the television network
:21:51. > :21:56.CNN says it is ending the prime-time talk show posted by Piers Morgan.
:21:57. > :21:59.The British presenter had infuriated conservatives during his three-year
:22:00. > :22:05.run on CNN with his support for gun control. Is shown never really
:22:06. > :22:10.attracted big ratings. He was also recently questioned by local police
:22:11. > :22:16.in connection with accusations of phone hacking at the Daily Mirror
:22:17. > :22:20.newspaper. -- his show. Severe smog is smothering many parts
:22:21. > :22:23.of China once again. To help combat it, the government has sent out
:22:24. > :22:25.teams of investigators to inspect large factories, including those
:22:26. > :22:29.producing steel, coal and cement, to ensure they're not breaching rules.
:22:30. > :22:34.The government wants to be seen improving air quality, amid a
:22:35. > :22:37.backlash from citizens. One prominent campaign was led by an
:22:38. > :22:45.artist, as the BBC's Celia Hatton explains.
:22:46. > :22:51.Inside her freezing, cavernous house just outside Beijing, this artist
:22:52. > :22:56.stores hundreds of her paintings. They document every chapter in her
:22:57. > :23:05.personal life. A visual diary, she explains. TRANSLATION: I used to be
:23:06. > :23:08.a lawyer, then I became an artist. Our society needs genuine
:23:09. > :23:14.expressions of people's fear and confusion about life. 11 of her
:23:15. > :23:21.canvases stand apart from the rest. The so-called smog series show her
:23:22. > :23:25.frustrations with China's poisonous air pollution. And she has taken
:23:26. > :23:29.them to the streets, setting up impromptu shows and handing out
:23:30. > :23:34.facemasks last year. Months later, she posed with one of the paintings
:23:35. > :23:38.in Tiananmen Square. The photos soon appeared on the Chinese version of
:23:39. > :23:43.Twitter, although many posts were deleted by government censors.
:23:44. > :23:45.Facemasks like this one are relatively common among Chinese
:23:46. > :23:50.industrialised areas, particularly when the air is so thick with smoke
:23:51. > :23:53.that your eyes and the back of your throat burn after spending time
:23:54. > :23:57.outside. It is pollution like this that infuriated many in China, and
:23:58. > :24:03.even though political protests are banned in China, some, like the
:24:04. > :24:09.artist herself, finding creative ways to vent their anger. In
:24:10. > :24:11.December, students in central China staged an elaborate street
:24:12. > :24:17.performance. They wanted to illustrate what it feels like to be
:24:18. > :24:21.choking on smog, they explain. Online, amateur illustrators posed
:24:22. > :24:26.cartoons, like this one, showing smog essentials. -- post. Those who
:24:27. > :24:32.comment on China's pollution risk attracting unwanted attention from
:24:33. > :24:34.the state. The artist is careful to explain the differences between
:24:35. > :24:41.anti-government protesters and artists like her. TRANSLATION: My
:24:42. > :24:45.paintings are memories I want to leave for the next generation. In
:24:46. > :24:52.100 years, I hope people will be inspired by my artwork. She wants to
:24:53. > :24:56.believe that some day China's pollution problems will be a thing
:24:57. > :24:59.of the past. Many like her are doing what they can to ensure the
:25:00. > :25:04.government's ambitious plans to clean up the air are put into
:25:05. > :25:09.action. Now, a woman who was believed to
:25:10. > :25:12.have been the oldest remaining Holocaust survivor has died in
:25:13. > :25:16.London. She was an accomplished pianist, her name was Alice
:25:17. > :25:21.Herz-Sommer, and she was 110 years old. Death comes just one week
:25:22. > :25:27.before a documentary about her extraordinary story could win an
:25:28. > :25:32.Oscar. -- her death. Grainne Harrington looks back at the story
:25:33. > :25:38.of her life. Until her final days Alice
:25:39. > :25:42.Herz-Sommer's passion for music never waned. A documentary tracing
:25:43. > :25:49.her incredible life story has been nominated for an award at next
:25:50. > :25:58.month's Oscars. My world is music. I am not interested in anything else.
:25:59. > :26:02.Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1903, she spent two years in a
:26:03. > :26:05.Nazi concentration camp in Theresienstadt, where she was
:26:06. > :26:09.allowed to continue playing her beloved piano. Although she
:26:10. > :26:13.survived, she suffered terrible losses. Her elderly mother was
:26:14. > :26:18.killed in Treblinka, and her husband died in Dachau. She said music kept
:26:19. > :26:22.her alive and the optimism which sustained her through the Holocaust
:26:23. > :26:32.never left her. Every day, my life is beautiful. Every day. It is
:26:33. > :26:37.beautiful! Alice Herz-Sommer, who has died aged
:26:38. > :26:41.110. A reminder of the main news: The Ukrainian interim government has
:26:42. > :26:45.issued an arrest warrant for Viktor Yanukovych. According to the new
:26:46. > :26:49.interior minister, he was last seen in the Crimean region of the
:26:50. > :26:53.country. Meanwhile, the European Union foreign policy chief is
:26:54. > :26:56.arriving in Kiev to discuss economic support for the country. That is it
:26:57. > :26:59.for now, I am Rajesh Mirchandani.