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Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: Police in Istanbul fire | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
tear gas at protesters as people gather for rallies on May Day. | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
More than 40 years after the murder of a widow from Northern Ireland, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Gerry Adams - one of the most prominent figures in Irish politics | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
- is arrested. Snap security drills in Ukraine as a | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Russian military attache to the country is detained for spying. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
And the Great Barrier Reef at risk from millions of tons of sludge, as | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
a huge coal port expansion project is approved. | :00:42. | :00:58. | |
Hello. Thanks for being with us. There have been violent clashes in | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
the city of Istanbul. Police used water cannon and tear gas as | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
hundreds of people defied a ban on demonstrations in the centre of the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
city. The area is very much a traditional rallying point for trade | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
unions. Last year, it was the focus of a long-running occupation there. | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Protesters also threw stones and fireworks at the police. A short | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
while ago, I spoke to the BBC's correspondent, who is in Istanbul. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
I'm in a district of Istanbul, like 15 minutes away from the centre. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
There have been heavy police intervention where I am. There were | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
hundreds of people throwing stones at the police from time to time. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
There was heavy police intervention with the use of tear gas and water | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
cannon. And, like, 20 minutes ago, people dispersed from where we are | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
and they just tried to find shelter in houses, or some businesses, or | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
wherever they could find actually, to avoid getting into custody. All | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
these streets are quiet, but I'm sure we can't say the same thing in | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
different parts of Istanbul. This is the situation at where I stand at | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
the moment. A lot of this, if I'm right in saying, is because they | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
went to Taksim Square? Yes, that's correct. The unions and the | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
protesters wanted to go to Taksim Square to celebrate May Day because | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
it has a historical significance for these people, not only because of | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
the protests that took place last summer, but also 32 years ago, 35 | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
years ago, more than 30 people got shot and killed during May Day | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
protests, so whenever there's a May Day celebration, the unions want to | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
be there to commemorate the dead and to celebrate the May Day at that | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
very spot. But, the government does not allow the protesters from | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
getting in the square. Last year, it was the same situation. This year, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
it is the same situation, although three years ago, they did let people | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
get in the square and celebrate May Day. Nothing violent happened during | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
those celebrations. For the last two years, we are witnessing heavy | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
clashes on May Day in Istanbul. The arrest of one of Northern | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
Ireland's most prominent politicians has been welcomed by a man whose | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
mother was abducted four decades ago by the IRA. Michael McConville's | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
mother Jean disappeared in 1972 - her body was only discovered a | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
decade ago. Police investigating her murder are continuing to question | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams. He's a key figure in | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
modern-day politics in Northern Ireland and has denied any | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
involvement in her death. Andy Martin reports. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
The murder of Jean McConville - a widowed mother of ten and one of a | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
group of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA - has | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
long cast a shadow over Gerry Adams, despite his repeated and strenuous | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
denials of any involvement. Last night, he volunteered himself to the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
police for questioning. I will tell the PSNI that I'm | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
innocent, totally, of any part in the abduction, the killing or the | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
burial of Jean McConville. Wrongly accused of passing | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
information to the security forces, her children were left to fend for | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
themselves when she disappeared. We'll keep our fingers crossed and | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
pray hard that she comes back. Despite repeated searches, Jean | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
McConville's body lay undetected on an Irish beach for more than 30 | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
years. Her remains were eventually found in 2003. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
It's just mental torture. Although we've got our mother's body back, | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
it's still mental torture what they've done here. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
The PSNI recently obtained tapes, secretly recorded by an American | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
university, in which some former IRA members spoke about their role | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
during the Troubles and named names. One man alleged to have given an | :05:21. | :05:21. | |
interview - Ivor Bell One man alleged to have given an | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
six weeks ago in connection with Jean McConville's murder. Another - | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Brendan Hughes - who has since died, Jean McConville's murder. Another - | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
claimed Gerry Adams led the unit behind the disappearances, which the | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Sinn Fein President has dismissed and attributed to later | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
disagreements with his former friend over the direction of the peace | :05:36. | :05:49. | |
process. Reports from Ukraine say Russia's | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
military attache to Kiev is being thrown out of the country. The | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
official, who's not been named, was detained on Wednesday, on suspicion | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
of "intelligence activities". Pro-Russian militants continue to | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
occupy key government buildings in several towns and cities across the | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
east of Ukraine. The latest seizure happened here in Horlivka on | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Wednesday where gunmen took the city council building. They also seized | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
another police station - adding to the one they've held for several | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
weeks. In Luhansk - one of the largest cities in eastern Ukraine - | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
camouflaged gunmen continue to occupy several government offices, | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
which they seized on Tuesday. In Sloviansk - described as the | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
separatists' stronghold - gunmen seized the police building, the town | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
hall and SBU security services building almost three weeks ago. | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
It's also in Sloviansk that OSCE observers are being detained. The | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
major town of Donetsk has its city hall and regional administrative | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
building under occupation. Separatists here have declared a | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
"People's Republic of Donetsk". Elsewhere in the region, town halls, | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
police buildings and prosecutors' offices are in the hands of | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
pro-Russian separatists. Daniel Sandford joins us from Moscow. | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
First of all, a brief word about the military attache. Do we know if he's | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
been sent out of the country yet? We don't know yet. We haven't had a | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
formal response from the Russian Foreign Ministry about his detention | :07:17. | :07:30. | |
and the fact that he's been declared persona non grata in Ukraine | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
yesterday. We don't know what is happening subsequent to that. What | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
we do know is that President Putin and Angela Merkel have been talking | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
in a phone conversation. What are Mr Putin's demands at the moment? Well, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
President Putin was quite clear. Angela Merkel had said to him that | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
he needs to do everything he could to free the OSCE military observers | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
detained in Sloviansk at the moment. He said that what he wanted to see | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
was a removal of all Ukrainian military forces in the south-east of | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Ukraine and an end to violence. So, rather than responding particularly | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
to what Angela Merkel had said, he made his own demands and the key one | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
of those, which Kiev would find very difficult to respond to, is they | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
require them to remove all their military forces from south-eastern | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Ukraine. Thank you very much. Ukraine's interim government has | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
admitted that it's "helpless" to prevent pro-Russian separatists | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
seizing key buildings in the east of the country. Sarah Rainsford was in | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
the small town of Mar'inka, just outside Donetsk, as the activists | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
arrived. We have come to a small town to see | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
what the mood is in places like this that haven't been taken over by | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
pro-Russian armed gangs. The first thing we found was this checkpoint. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
The police have told us they have been here for almost a week now. We | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
understand that their job is to check that no weapons are getting | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
into this town. As pro-Russian groups have been seizing local | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
administration buildings across eastern Ukraine, here in Mar'inka | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
there is no flag flying at all. Officials have told us that a group | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
of men in camouflage and masks did come here several days ago and they | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
changed the Ukrainian flag to the Russian national flag. That's now | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
been removed. The local elected officials are still in place. They | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
are observing a nervous neutrality for the moment. This is something I | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
have not seen anywhere before. All around the main square in this town | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
there is the Ukrainian national flag, the blue and yellow, painted | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
on all of the lampposts and a lot of the bollards here, so, in theory, it | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
looks like a symbol of loyalty to the government in Kiev, although | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
nobody here seems to know who painted them or when they did it. | :09:51. | :10:04. | |
Just down the square here, there is a gathering of supporters of the | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
People's Republic of Donetsk to try to drum up local support for a | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
referendum to be held here on 11th May. It is supposed to decide the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
future of this region. This is one of the leaflets that the | :10:22. | :10:55. | |
organisers of this gathering have been handing out. It is presenting | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
them with a stark choice - they are saying with Kiev essentially, it is | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
about mass unemployment, price rises, whereas with the People's | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Republic, they are talking about closer economic ties with Russia. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
And saying that wages will rise and so will pensions. Now, the crowd | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
shouting, "Russia, Russia!" So a lot of support for closer ties with | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Russia. This is a peaceful meeting, there is no sign of any of the armed | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
men we have seen in other towns here. It's what the organisers are | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
saying is is a chance for people to express their opinions. The | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
strongest opinions we are hearing being expressed is the government in | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Kiev doesn't represent them. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Eastern | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Ukraine. Crews in South Korea are continuing | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
the grim task of recovering bodies from the ferry which sank off Jindo | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
island two weeks ago - as fears grow that some of the victims may never | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
be found. The country's Prime Minister has been meeting relatives | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
of some of the 89 passengers who are still unaccounted for. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
The BBC's John Sudworth is in Jindo Port where the recovery effort is | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
taking place. This is the US American Navy ship, brought in to | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
assist with the recovery effort. In almost every direction you look, | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
there are large ships out here. They are directly above the place where | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
the ferry sank. There are Korean coastguard vessels, South Korea's | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
biggest Navy ship is out here, there are communication ships and supply | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
ships. This is a huge operation. Some family members suggest that the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
effort to recover the bodies, the actual diving, has been as slow and | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
as unco-ordinated as the initial rescue itself. They would have liked | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
to have seen greater numbers of divers and greater expertise brought | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
in from the start. In response, the government says that the conditions | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
that these divers are facing are extremely difficult, very, very | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
strong currents below these waters. The wreckage site is 30 to 40 metres | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
below the surface. Inside the ferry itself, the visibility is down to | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
something like 20 centimetres and the access for those divers is | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
blocked by floating debris and furniture making the job difficult | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
and dangerous. Yesterday, a body was recovered more than a kilometre from | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
the site of the wreckage here and that, of course, confirms the worst | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
fears of the family members still waiting for news of their own loved | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
ones that the strong currents have taken some of the bodies away, | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
leading to fears that some of those who have died may never be found. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
The family members say that they want this diving operation to | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
continue for as long as possible before any effort is made to salvage | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
the ship itself. In other news: | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
A gas explosion at a jail in Florida has injured 100 to 150 inmates and | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
prison officers. The explosion at Pensacola prison caused the building | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
to partially collapse. Officials say that about 600 inmates were in the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
building at the time. Those injured were brought to hospitals, other | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
inmates were brought to jails in neighbouring counties. | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
The vice-president of the International Olympic Committee John | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
Coates has backtracked on his strong criticism of the preparations for | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
the Games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. After describing Brazil's | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
preparations as the worst he'd ever seen, he now says he's confident Rio | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
can deliver an excellent Olympic Games. The Brazilian authorities say | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
that all the facilities will be ready on time and within budget. | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
A storm system that caused deadly tornadoes in the United States has | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
now caused heavy rain, mostly in the south and Midwest of the country. | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Cars were abandoned and people left stranded as streets flooded in | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Florida and Alabama. In Pensacola, Florida, a third of the city's | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
annual rainfall came down in just 24 hours. | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
Still to come: It is beautiful, isn't it? Australia's Great Barrier | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
Reef is at risk again - the UN warning Australia against dumping | :15:21. | :15:21. | |
sludge here. One person has died after heavy | :15:22. | :15:37. | |
flooding in Florida and southern Alabama. Two drivers escaped despite | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
their vehicles falling when parts of a road collapsed. Wednesday was the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
heaviest day recorded. 34 people had been killed in the past week. | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
This used to be the Pensacola scenic highway in Florida. Here is what was | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
left after heavy rains caused two sections to collapse. The drivers | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
were lucky, nobody was injured when these cars were sent plummeting into | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
a ravine. The worst rains in decades caused waters to rise with such | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
speed that hundreds left trapped. Roads were cut off and residents | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
began to panic. Here in Pensacola, emergency workers used boats | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
borrowed from a wildlife service to evacuate people. The governor | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
declared a state of emergency in 26 counties as hundreds had to be | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
rescued. In southern Alabama, homes were deserted as people scrambled to | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
safety. Emergency shelters had been opened but many were stranded as | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
roads for underwater. An insane amount of rain, crazy, way | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
more than I have seen in my entire life. Torrential downpour, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
flooding, roads collapsing. It was insane. While some attempt to | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
assess the damage to their properties, forecasters have warned | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
of more severe weather in the coming days. | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
A freight train carrying crude oil has derailed and burst into flames | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
in American town of Lynchburg in Virginia. The train left the tracks | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
close to the city centre, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Three of the train's cars caught fire, and more than a dozen tankers | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
were involved in the collision. This is BBC World News. The latest | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
headlines: Police in Istanbul fire tear gas at protesters, as people | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
gather for huge rallies on International Workers' Day. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
More than 40 years after the murder of a widow from Northern Ireland, | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
Gerry Adams, one of the most prominent figures in Irish | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
politics, is arrested. More on the May Day celebrations. | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
Thousands are taking part in a march in Red Square. The first time they | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
have held an event here since 1991. While dissent reigns in Eastern | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
Ukraine, thousands marched through the capital Kiev. This time it was | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
for the May Day rally organised by the socialist party of Ukraine | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
demanding salary and pension increases. There are also going to | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
be celebrations in Europe. In recent years, the rallies have been a focal | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
point for the public sector cuts and complaints about those. Our Europe | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
correspondence report from Warsaw and Lisbon. | :19:01. | :19:21. | |
This is a tale of two Europe's. -- Europes. The first - elegant, | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
beautiful and old, where even those with jobs, like tram driver Joao, | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
are barely coping. We suffer directly from the cutbacks | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
of the economy, of the service for people. | :19:32. | :19:32. | |
It's tough for everybody? For everybody. | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
The Eurozone crisis almost destroyed Portugal. A bailout from the EU | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
saved it and there are now signs of economic recovery and yet the huge | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
public sector cuts here mean the economy took a massive drop. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Whereas Poland still feels like a place on the up. The EU has helped | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
modernise this country, providing tens of billions of euros in | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
development aid. Not just in cities like Warsaw but out in Poland's huge | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
rural economy, too. The apple trees are in blossom. Poland is the | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
biggest exporter of apples in the world. This farm has benefited from | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
being part of the world's biggest single market. Just before Poland | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
joined the EU in 2004, the owner told the BBC he was sceptical. Not | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
any more. Many good things have happened since | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
we modernised our farms. Our products are better now. And we sell | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
all over Europe. I think the last ten years was good. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
But a huge number of Poles still have to look for work abroad. Free | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
movement in the EU has been a lifeline. But a few, like Joanna, | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
are now returning home. Change has been slow but, over time, | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
opportunities will increase here. It is completely different. And it | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
completely changed for the better. So there are more opportunities. | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
There is more freedom. It is complicated because average | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
salaries here in Poland are still well below most of Western Europe | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
and yet they have doubled in the last ten years and the difference is | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
that people here at least have the hope that they will be better off | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
than their parents. Whereas here in Portugal, many of | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
the unemployed are being supported by the pensions of either their | :21:10. | :21:10. | |
grandparents or by the pensions of either their | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Or, like this lot, they are looking for work outside the country. | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
Here, they are hoping to find jobs in the British health system, which | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
is actively recruiting now in Portugal. Overall, record numbers of | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
workers are going. I think it is very sad that young | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
people and not so young people, the nurses with experience, have to | :21:33. | :21:42. | |
emigrate to other countries. More on Ukraine, Dmitri Furse trash | :21:43. | :22:03. | |
-- Firtash. He denies allegations of bribery and corruption. He gave us | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
an exclusive interview. Vienna - renowned as a city of | :22:06. | :22:19. | |
espionage during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
West in the last century. And now, as Moscow and the West confront each | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
other once again over Ukraine, there are some signs that this city is | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
becoming a battle ground in the new Cold War. Dmitry Firtash, one of | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
Ukraine's most powerful and wealthy oligarchs, showed me the spot where | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
he was arrested during a business trip to Vienna in March. The | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Austrian police were acting on behalf of the FBI in the United | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
States. He posted a record breaking bail of more than $170 million to | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
get out of the police cell where he was held for more than a week. But | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
he must stay here in Austria until a court decides if he should be | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
extradited to the United States to face charges of alleged bribery and | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
corruption. TRANSLATION: I am absolutely | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
innocent. I did not pay any bribes and did not set up any organised | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
criminal groups. I don't understand why all this has happened to me. But | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
what is important, is there is a geopolitical struggle between the | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
United States and Russia under way. The United States needs an enemy | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
abroad to solve problems at home. And Ukraine happened to become a | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
battlefield. A well-placed source in the United | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
States told the BBC that Mr Firtash may indeed be a pawn in a bigger | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
game. The Americans want to get hold of | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
him, partly because of his strong business links with the elite in | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
Russia, about whom he may have much sensitive information. | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
How concerned are you that you may eventually be extradited to the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
United States? TRANSLATION: No one knows. Only God | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
know what will happen. I never thought I would end up in prison. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
But we have a strong team of lawyers and the United States prosecutors | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
will have to work very hard to prove their case because the whole case is | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
fictional. So now, Mr Firtash waits to hear | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
what his fate will be. His colleagues fear the Americans will | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
lean on the Austrian authorities to ensure he is extradited to the | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
United States, where she could come under pressure, Cold War-style, to | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
reveal all. It's one of the most magnificent | :24:42. | :25:01. | |
natural wonders of in the world. The Great Barrier Reef, where millions | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
flock every year to see its vast beauty. But UNESCO is threatening to | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
list it as a World Heritage Site in Danger because Australia has allowed | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
the dredging and dumping of millions of tonnes of sludge into the reef's | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
water. It's part of a project to create one of the world's biggest | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
coal ports. Scientists have warned that the sediment could smother or | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
poison coral. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest living | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
structure. It stretches more than 2,600 km along Australia's eastern | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
coast. The reef supports a diversity of life, including many endangered | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
species. It's home to 1,700 types of fish, 600 types of coral, 133 | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
varieties of sharks, and six of the world's seven species of marine | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
turtle. How does the Australian government | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
justify dumping sludge in a place like that? | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
The dumping hasn't actually started, it is a proposal, down to the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
expansion of a Coalport near to the coast. This is and shall will need a | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
bigger port which will need to be excavated to make it bigger. That | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
soil and sand, 33 million cubic metres, needs to go somewhere, the | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
proposal is to dump it within a marine park. If UNESCO decides next | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
year to put the Great Barrier Reef on its list of endangered sites, it | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
could join a list including Aleppo. So this could be an embarrassment | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
for the Australian government. Greg Barker says it does need all the | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
environmental regulations. What they are planning to do won't actually | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
contravene any environmental laws, it will be fine. It will be down to | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
UNESCO next year to decide. Thanks you for | :27:00. | :27:20. | |
The hatred of women. Some people are offended. | :27:21. | :27:22. |