:00:10. > :00:16.Hello, with BBC world News. Our top stories: Ukraine's interim
:00:17. > :00:19.president, Olexander Turchynov, warns of dangerous signs of
:00:20. > :00:27.separatism in some parts of the country. The Soviet star is removed
:00:28. > :00:32.from the parliament building. Russia's Prime Minister has this
:00:33. > :00:35.warning for the country. It is dangerous and counter-productive to
:00:36. > :00:41.try and impose on Ukraine a choice based on the principle either you
:00:42. > :00:44.are with us or against us. A South African judge has just ruled the
:00:45. > :00:50.Oscar Pistorius murder trial will be televised with conditions.
:00:51. > :00:55.We look at why South Sudan is one of the most dangerous places on earth
:00:56. > :00:58.for women to give birth. And why the Netherlands can boast of
:00:59. > :01:12.having the smoothest Winter Olympic team on ice.
:01:13. > :01:22.We begin in Ukraine where the next steps following the effective change
:01:23. > :01:26.regime look increasingly uncertain. The interim president, Olexander
:01:27. > :01:31.Turchynov, has warned of dangerous signs of separatism in some parts of
:01:32. > :01:36.his country. He had been due to finalise a new Government of
:01:37. > :01:40.national unity today, but that has been put back until Thursday.
:01:41. > :01:47.Meanwhile, Ukraine's neighbour Russia has called for the West to
:01:48. > :01:51.refrain from interfering in the situation. The foreign ministers
:01:52. > :01:58.Sergey Lavrov said it would be dangerous to force Ukraine to choose
:01:59. > :02:02.where to align itself. TRANSLATION: We confirm our principal position,
:02:03. > :02:07.non-interference in Ukrainian domestic affairs and we hope that
:02:08. > :02:11.everyone will adhere to similar logic and used existing contacts
:02:12. > :02:15.with various political forces in Ukraine to calm the situation down,
:02:16. > :02:23.but not to seek opportunistic advantages at a stage when national
:02:24. > :02:27.dialogue is necessary. We agree with our Luxembourg partners that it is
:02:28. > :02:31.dangerous and counter-productive to try and impose on Ukraine a choice
:02:32. > :02:40.based on the principle either you are with us or against us. We want
:02:41. > :02:51.to see Ukraine part of the common European family in every sense of
:02:52. > :02:55.the world. Sergey Lavrov. With the latest from Kiev Duncan Crawford has
:02:56. > :02:59.just sent this from Independence Square.
:03:00. > :03:03.This is a specialist riot police truck and it has been taken by the
:03:04. > :03:13.protesters and brought here to Independence Square. You can see it
:03:14. > :03:17.has graffiti. This says where the protesters are from. You can also
:03:18. > :03:22.see there is this military style vehicle, an armoured vehicle, and
:03:23. > :03:29.this has been taken from the museum in Kiev, also a new addition to
:03:30. > :03:32.Independence Square. One of the challenges for whatever unity
:03:33. > :03:38.Government emerges here is going to be to re-establish control in the
:03:39. > :03:42.centre of Kiev. At the moment it is vigilante groups, self defence
:03:43. > :03:47.units, who are in charge of patrolling the streets. The police
:03:48. > :03:51.and the security services have disappeared. When you speak to the
:03:52. > :03:54.men who have barricades they barricades they say they are not
:03:55. > :03:59.going anywhere until the elections are held and they are not scheduled
:04:00. > :04:03.until May. Protesters have been attempting to
:04:04. > :04:09.remove signs of Russian influence. This is the top of the Ukrainian
:04:10. > :04:16.parliament. A man tries to hack of the Soviet star. Finally when they
:04:17. > :04:21.took it down it was kept as a souvenir. The search is on for the
:04:22. > :04:28.ousted President Victor Yanukovych. He was last seen in Ukraine's
:04:29. > :04:34.Crimean peninsula. Mark Lowen is in Donetsk, a city where Victor
:04:35. > :04:38.Yanukovych has had sizeable support. The view from there is very
:04:39. > :04:45.different. How do you describe the public reaction there today? You
:04:46. > :04:50.were talking about how in Kiev signs of the Soviet Union are being
:04:51. > :04:57.destroyed, whilst here it is very different. This is the scene behind
:04:58. > :05:03.me. There is the statue of Lenin. He has been pulled down in other parts
:05:04. > :05:08.of the country, but here he stands proudly and tall. There is a small
:05:09. > :05:13.crowd of people, some waving flags and they say they are gathered here
:05:14. > :05:20.in order to protect the city from the anti-government demonstrators.
:05:21. > :05:27.This is a predominantly Russian speaking area of the country not far
:05:28. > :05:33.from the Russian border. It is where Victor Yanukovych was born. It is
:05:34. > :05:38.bitterly cold this morning and this was his support base it is where the
:05:39. > :05:44.oligarchs of the city helped him to power. Even in the administration
:05:45. > :05:48.his support is waning. This is a very small crowd and many of them
:05:49. > :05:54.say they do not support Victor Yanukovych, they support Russia. We
:05:55. > :05:59.spoke to the governor of this region and he told us he no longer sees
:06:00. > :06:05.Victor Yanukovych as a legitimate authority in this country.
:06:06. > :06:10.TRANSLATION: The decision of the parliament was legal and was passed
:06:11. > :06:16.by a constitutional majority. I confirm I accept the decision of the
:06:17. > :06:20.parliament regarding the removal of the President from power. Do you
:06:21. > :06:29.know where Victor Yanukovych is? I do not know. Still no sign of
:06:30. > :06:38.Ukraine's most wanted man. The focus has shifted to who takes over from
:06:39. > :06:42.him? Who can unite this polarised country? Polarised geographically
:06:43. > :06:50.and linguistically. There is still not one figure around whom this
:06:51. > :06:53.country can rally. It has been reported by Reuters that the
:06:54. > :07:01.parliament has been voted that has voted in favour to try Victor
:07:02. > :07:06.Yanukovych in court for serious crimes. They are voting in favour of
:07:07. > :07:10.him being taken to the International Criminal Court. A number of people
:07:11. > :07:15.have been killed in the last few days before he stood down. We will
:07:16. > :07:20.update you on that as soon as anything changes.
:07:21. > :07:25.Within the last hour, a South African judge has ruled the trial of
:07:26. > :07:31.Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will be televised, but only in part. He
:07:32. > :07:34.is due to stand trial next week for murder after shooting dead his
:07:35. > :07:40.girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp just over a year ago. He has always said he
:07:41. > :07:44.mistook her for an intruder. He will not appear on TV, but other parts of
:07:45. > :07:58.the trial, including witness testimony, might be televised. It
:07:59. > :08:02.does not carry the intrusive potential of coverage. Whilst there
:08:03. > :08:05.may be no visual image of Oscar Pistorius and his witnesses when
:08:06. > :08:15.they testify, they should be heard on radio. That was some of the
:08:16. > :08:19.judge's ruling. I spoke to our correspondent in Pretoria. Cameras
:08:20. > :08:25.will be allowed to record the trial of Oscar Pistorius when it starts on
:08:26. > :08:29.the 3rd of March. This is a historic judgement for the South African
:08:30. > :08:33.legal system, because in the past the only cameras that have been
:08:34. > :08:39.allowed were to fill in a judgement being read, exactly what we just
:08:40. > :08:44.saw. But for the whole trial running day in, day out, with the arguments
:08:45. > :08:50.presented by both sides of the divide is pretty historic. The
:08:51. > :08:57.balance of the Freedom of the press and the constitutional right for
:08:58. > :09:03.individuals to have a free trial. He had a lot of case law to quote from,
:09:04. > :09:06.but in the end the judge said that cameras will be allowed next week
:09:07. > :09:13.when the Oscar Pistorius trial begins. One of the key measures of
:09:14. > :09:18.global welfare is the rate of infant mortality, so a report published
:09:19. > :09:22.today by the charity save the children makes for worrying
:09:23. > :09:26.reading. It claims the deaths of half a million newborn babies each
:09:27. > :09:33.year could be prevented with better care. That figure is despite great
:09:34. > :09:39.advances over recent years. In 1990 the number of children under the age
:09:40. > :09:47.of five who died stood under 9 million. It has dropped to almost
:09:48. > :09:51.one half, but in the same year the number of babies who did not survive
:09:52. > :09:58.past their first day stood at 1 million. Half of these lives could
:09:59. > :10:08.have been saved. One of the places where this challenge is at its
:10:09. > :10:15.greatest is South Sudan. It is a blistering 37 Celsius and
:10:16. > :10:22.the African sun. A group of pregnant women are walking to their antenatal
:10:23. > :10:25.class. The midwife at this health centres supported by save the
:10:26. > :10:34.children is one of just 300 for a population of 10 million. In the UK
:10:35. > :10:40.we have 21,000 midwives and that is regarded as too few by some.
:10:41. > :10:45.Angelina had delivered a baby just a few hours earlier and she took me to
:10:46. > :10:50.see the new mother and baby. After some discussion the elder women said
:10:51. > :10:55.it was OK to go in. Thank you for letting us into your home,
:10:56. > :10:59.especially on the day your baby has been born. TRANSLATION: I had my
:11:00. > :11:05.first four children in the village, but for this one we decided to go to
:11:06. > :11:09.the clinic because it is much cleaner. A little baby girl
:11:10. > :11:32.delivered in the clinic, but now back home, but the rest of South
:11:33. > :11:35.Sudan is a different story. Nine out of ten women get nowhere near a
:11:36. > :11:37.clinic. That is all right, but what happens when there are
:11:38. > :11:39.complications? The journey to the village took about an hour in our
:11:40. > :11:42.four-wheel drive vehicle. Imagine doing it on foot. You cannot call an
:11:43. > :11:44.ambulance here. Within minutes it became obvious the experience of
:11:45. > :11:46.childbirth in this village is much more typical of South Sudan. This
:11:47. > :11:50.lady lost her baby last year. Some 5000 babies died before making it
:11:51. > :11:59.through their first 24 hours every year. The midwife took me to meet a
:12:00. > :12:05.woman who lost her child last week. She told me she was away from home
:12:06. > :12:10.collecting grass to reroof her heart when she started bleeding. It took
:12:11. > :12:17.her three days to get to a clinic, too late to save her baby. We were
:12:18. > :12:23.on our way out and the midwife came across this woman and it is an
:12:24. > :12:27.example of the challenges they face. She had been to the antenatal
:12:28. > :12:33.classes and was in many ways a model mother, but she came back to her
:12:34. > :12:39.village here and it was a long labour and, sadly, she lost her
:12:40. > :12:45.child. Can you explain to me, Monica, why she did not go back to
:12:46. > :12:56.the clinic when her labour started? We asked her and she said she was
:12:57. > :13:01.detained by the elders, the mothers. You are in a clinic which is only 45
:13:02. > :13:07.minutes away and yet children are dying. What goes through your mind
:13:08. > :13:14.when that happens? Actually it is really painful. The welfare of
:13:15. > :13:18.children has been a particular focus for aid agencies. There has been
:13:19. > :13:23.remarkable progress around the world, but for too many children the
:13:24. > :13:33.first day of life is still there only one.
:13:34. > :13:37.British police have detained the former Guantanamo detainee Myers and
:13:38. > :13:41.beg on suspicion of terrorism offences related to Syria. He was
:13:42. > :13:47.arrested in Birmingham in the UK this morning. He has been held on
:13:48. > :13:52.suspicion of attending a terrorist training camp and facilitating
:13:53. > :13:57.terrorism overseas. Two other men and a woman have also been
:13:58. > :14:02.arrested. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay in 2003 and was
:14:03. > :14:09.released without charge two years later. Stay with us, much more to
:14:10. > :14:13.come: Top Gear, top show, we will find out how the best TV programmes
:14:14. > :14:22.make it onto our screens around the world. The World Health Organisation
:14:23. > :14:27.described the high level of pollution which has affected Beijing
:14:28. > :14:31.for almost a week as a crisis. Officials have warned vulnerable
:14:32. > :14:37.people to stay inside. It had been hoped it would have cleared by now.
:14:38. > :14:46.A spokesman says he is increasingly concerned. Of course, there are days
:14:47. > :14:50.when pollution levels exceed the scale, we are very concern and have
:14:51. > :14:54.to see it as a crisis. The crisis means we need to take immediate
:14:55. > :14:57.action to protect ourselves. So these days, of course, we have to
:14:58. > :15:02.recommend that people don't go outside to have physical activities,
:15:03. > :15:05.stay inside, keep children inside as much as possible to protect them
:15:06. > :15:09.from the possible negative health effects. There are emotional scenes
:15:10. > :15:13.in North Korea as the temporary reunions of families separate bid
:15:14. > :15:17.the Korean War came to an end. Many were allowed to attend the gathering
:15:18. > :15:21.at a mountain resort in North Korea and had never seen their relatives
:15:22. > :15:24.from the other side of the ceasefire line which divides the two
:15:25. > :15:32.countries. The families spent three days together before being sent back
:15:33. > :15:36.to their own homes. The Japanese Government has
:15:37. > :15:40.published its first draft energy programme since Fukushima existed
:15:41. > :15:45.nuclear power remains an important source of energy. The document calls
:15:46. > :15:51.for Japan to reduce its dependency on nuclear energy as much as
:15:52. > :15:55.possible but adds that the reactors should be restarted.
:15:56. > :15:59.To Australia now where a mystery with a difference has just been
:16:00. > :16:04.solved. It resolved around this statue of a giant mango which was
:16:05. > :16:10.reported missing from the fruit growing town of Bowen in Queensland
:16:11. > :16:15.on Monday. No-one seemed to have a clue where it was, then it turned up
:16:16. > :16:20.a hundred metres away and a restaurant chain has admitted to
:16:21. > :16:29.being behind what was a publicity stunt and they have promised to
:16:30. > :16:33.return it. It's ten metres high. The headlines: Ukraine's Parliament
:16:34. > :16:36.has decided to refer its former President, Viktor Yanukovych, to the
:16:37. > :16:40.International Criminal Court in The Hague. It says he was responsible
:16:41. > :16:44.for the deaths of more than 100 protesters. The South African judge
:16:45. > :16:47.has ruled that the trial of the Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius,
:16:48. > :16:54.will be partially televised but it starts next week.
:16:55. > :16:57.The United States has asked Iraq to explain media reports that it's
:16:58. > :17:01.buying weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Iran. The
:17:02. > :17:09.US says any deal would be a direct violation of the UN's arms embargo
:17:10. > :17:15.on Iran. According to reports, the contract was signed in November last
:17:16. > :17:18.year just after the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, returned
:17:19. > :17:24.from lobbying the Obama administration in Washington.
:17:25. > :17:29.Iran which has a Shia majority is a close allie of Mr Al-Maliki's Shia
:17:30. > :17:33.dominated Government in Iraq, a State Department spokeswoman says
:17:34. > :17:37.the United States has already provided $15 billion in equipment
:17:38. > :17:42.and training to Iraqi armed services and security.
:17:43. > :17:47.Earlier, I spoke to Kasra Naji who told me he's not surprised Iran is
:17:48. > :17:54.doing business with Iraq. The figures are surprising, $195 worth
:17:55. > :18:02.of arms. It's quite a bit. In terms of Iran's arms industry and exports,
:18:03. > :18:09.I think it constitutes a big chunk. The fact is that Iran's arms
:18:10. > :18:16.industry is under embargo, Iran technically cannot export arms to
:18:17. > :18:22.any country. If this is true, then it's illegal. That is A. B, Iran has
:18:23. > :18:28.been producing a lot of arms in the last two or three decades in fact
:18:29. > :18:37.because it's been under imbar go of importing arms so the arms industry
:18:38. > :18:43.is quite sophisticate and expansive. The volume of exports of Iran's arms
:18:44. > :18:49.have obviously diminished because of the international arms embargo
:18:50. > :18:55.there, but if this is true, $195 million is quite a lot.
:18:56. > :18:58.Kasra Naji. Antigovernment protesters in Venezuela have erected
:18:59. > :19:02.barricades in Caracas, calling for the resignation of the President,
:19:03. > :19:12.Nicholas Maduro, who was elected less than a year ago. Highways have
:19:13. > :19:17.been blocked in the cities in protests in which 13 people have
:19:18. > :19:22.died. Barricades in Caracas. This is how protesters have showing their
:19:23. > :19:27.discontent. They set garbage on fire and block main roads with old
:19:28. > :19:31.furniture. This protest follows an anonymous call for a great national
:19:32. > :19:36.barricade that was circulated on social networks. Opposition lead
:19:37. > :19:43.leaders have asked protesters to stay away from the roadblocks and
:19:44. > :19:55.refrain from violence. Despite those words, on Monday there was a
:19:56. > :19:59.meeting. Many Maduro has been showing his strength and popular
:20:00. > :20:04.support. Every day, a different sector has marched in support of the
:20:05. > :20:13.President. On Monday, it was the turn of motorcyclists. He main
:20:14. > :20:19.taunts the same strong language. TRANSLATION: Cost not a conspiracy
:20:20. > :20:22.or protest. Venezuela is facing a coup d'etat, there is continued
:20:23. > :20:30.aggression that wants to put an tend to the revolution and democracy.
:20:31. > :20:35.So far, with no dialogue and new protests springing up every day, it
:20:36. > :20:38.seems Venezuela is losing its middle ground. One side wants the President
:20:39. > :20:43.to leave while the rest of the country, which for now remains a
:20:44. > :20:50.majority, believes the protesters are the enemy.
:20:51. > :20:53.Now, TV producers are always on the lookout for new material. They are
:20:54. > :20:56.increasingly buying and selling formats around the world. But how
:20:57. > :20:58.well do our favourite TV shows travel? The BBC's David Sillito's
:20:59. > :21:05.been finding out. The man speaking fluent dialogue is
:21:06. > :21:17.of course Jeremy Clarkson. The joke about Loughborough might
:21:18. > :21:26.lose something in translation, but Iran's partial to Top Gear and, in
:21:27. > :21:35.French, they are making... A cake. What is number one on British TV in
:21:36. > :21:41.Finland? Downton Abbey. In Finland, Doctor Who hasn't taken off, but an
:21:42. > :21:47.old British police programme has. Heartbeat from ITV. There are reruns
:21:48. > :21:51.and the audience this year is absolutely amazing. TV is becoming
:21:52. > :21:55.increasingly globalised and if you want to come shopping, you come to
:21:56. > :21:59.events like this. This event began 37 years ago. Then it was in a small
:22:00. > :22:08.hotel in Brighton and there were two dozen people. Now, as you can see,
:22:09. > :22:13.we have row Afro-Afro-600 booths, 720 buyers all watching television,
:22:14. > :22:22.ten hours a day, determining what the world is going to be watching on
:22:23. > :22:26.TV -- row after row, after row. Creating Brands and then adapting
:22:27. > :22:29.them. Strictly Come Dancing, unlike Britain, in India, there are no
:22:30. > :22:35.nasty judges. The best ever seen. If I'm honest,
:22:36. > :22:41.probably the judges there tend to be on the more today side so there's
:22:42. > :22:48.less criticism. I was watching a version of it in Panama and found
:22:49. > :22:52.even in week one, the judging were -- judges were handing out tens. No
:22:53. > :22:56.matter how good a series you have and put it on the schedule, the
:22:57. > :22:59.figures are quite low. Why? I don't know. That's something I have
:23:00. > :23:03.discussed with my colleagues all over Europe and everybody's feeling
:23:04. > :23:06.somehow the same. The new drama super power in the Middle East is
:23:07. > :23:09.Turkey. And the market everyone wants to
:23:10. > :23:14.break is China. This is their MasterChef. But the
:23:15. > :23:25.biggest stir has been created by this man, Sherlock, played by
:23:26. > :23:31.Benedict Cumberbatch. Benedict? I don't know. He's got a nickname in
:23:32. > :23:37.Chinese fans. These are the world's most powerful TV viewers. A tear or
:23:38. > :23:43.a smile on these faces and it could be very big news.
:23:44. > :23:48.The North lands athletes have returned home to a heroes' welcome
:23:49. > :23:54.after their most successful Winter Olympics ever in Sochi. They arrived
:23:55. > :23:59.to show off their haul of 24 medals, including eight golds. Thousands
:24:00. > :24:03.came to congratulate them and all their success came on the skating
:24:04. > :24:06.rink so how did they manage to dominate the sport so
:24:07. > :24:14.comprehensively. We went to the ice rink where they trained to find out.
:24:15. > :24:22.Could this 400 metres rink hold the secret to the team's success?
:24:23. > :24:30.People from Sochi came over here last summer to talk with our
:24:31. > :24:36.technical people how to prepare ice and getting it to be fast. Like
:24:37. > :24:41.Sochi, this is one of the fastest rinks in the world. The Dutch are
:24:42. > :24:45.among the tallest people on the planet. Has this helped to increase
:24:46. > :24:52.their Snood We are sit sitting -- their speed?
:24:53. > :24:57.We are sitting lower than we were in the last ten years, in the gold for
:24:58. > :25:02.example. If I make myself compact, you see what happens with my stroke.
:25:03. > :25:07.You are extending? A lot because I'm flexible and using my long legs, but
:25:08. > :25:14.I'm still aerodynamic and have control. It's specially designed to
:25:15. > :25:19.enhance performance. The prototypes were designed inside an aeronautical
:25:20. > :25:29.studies department. It's one of the two bigger innovations. This is a
:25:30. > :25:38.forerunner of the roll which was taken over by rough fabric.
:25:39. > :25:43.Many nations, modern skin suits, now incorporate the technology. Is it
:25:44. > :25:47.simply that skating is in the Dutch DNA? That wouldn't explain the
:25:48. > :25:53.relatively recent dominance. What might is a David Blunkett rat effort
:25:54. > :25:58.to invest in the ideas and infrastructure to maximise their
:25:59. > :26:05.potential. -- deliberate effort. They can be
:26:06. > :26:10.dedicated with their sports in reaching the highest they can be on
:26:11. > :26:15.an Olympic level. You just have to look at their faces to see how alien
:26:16. > :26:20.it is to see someone standing on ice skates in this country but finding
:26:21. > :26:24.it very difficult to actually move. They say that Dutch children learn
:26:25. > :26:30.to skate before they can even walk and it shows. These children are
:26:31. > :26:34.literally running rings round me. It's incorporated into the
:26:35. > :26:39.curriculum here. This is a competition ten-year-olds are
:26:40. > :26:43.competing in. This early education is evident in Sochi so. We are going
:26:44. > :26:50.to find out what we can learn from these girls who could be the Olympic
:26:51. > :26:56.champions of the future. Be confident, stand up and don't be
:26:57. > :27:00.shaky? Yes. Good advice!
:27:01. > :27:01.See you soon, thanks for