:00:13. > :00:15.Hello. Our top stories... Nigeria says all options are open to
:00:16. > :00:18.secure the release and safe return of more than two hundred kidnapped
:00:19. > :00:21.school girls. We have a special report from the
:00:22. > :00:23.region where the girls were kidnapped. There's huge anger at the
:00:24. > :00:25.destruction being wreaked by Boko Haram.
:00:26. > :00:29.A six-year prison sentence for Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud
:00:30. > :00:32.Olmert, guilty of taking bribes over a luxury property development.
:00:33. > :00:36.And .. Erasing the past. A European court says people can request
:00:37. > :00:59.internet search engines like Google to remove links to old information.
:01:00. > :01:01.We start in Nigeria, and efforts to recover the teenagers kidnapped
:01:02. > :01:06.almost a month ago by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. After previously
:01:07. > :01:10.ruling out a prisoner exchange, the Nigerian government now says all
:01:11. > :01:14.options are open when it comes to bringing the girls safely home.
:01:15. > :01:18.Nigeria's military are getting international help as well now. The
:01:19. > :01:22.US is flying manned surveillance and reconnaissance missions to try to
:01:23. > :01:25.trace the girls. They're also sharing some satellite imagery with
:01:26. > :01:32.the Nigerian government. So, what kind of place will they be
:01:33. > :01:35.searching? Well, it's believed the girls may have been taken into the
:01:36. > :01:39.vast Sambisa forest - a stronghold of Boko Haram. It's an area of
:01:40. > :01:52.around 60,000 square kilometres. That's roughly twice the size of
:01:53. > :01:55.Rwanda Our world affairs editor, John Simpson, has been to the
:01:56. > :01:58.extreme north-east of Nigeria, where Boko Haram operates. He reports here
:01:59. > :02:06.from Maiduguri, capital of Borno State.
:02:07. > :02:13.136 girls, most of whom were Christian, obediently charred the
:02:14. > :02:17.first part of the Koran. It's the first sighting of them. More than
:02:18. > :02:26.half the girls who were kidnapped are not here. One of the girls is
:02:27. > :02:30.led to the front of the crowd and told to give a Muslim name, rather
:02:31. > :02:40.than her Christian one. She is clearly frightened.
:02:41. > :02:48.In the video, Boko Haram 's leader, who is said to be flamboyant, clever
:02:49. > :02:59.and mocking, launches into a long harangue. These girls you are so
:03:00. > :03:08.concerned with, he says that we have liberated them. They have become
:03:09. > :03:09.Muslims. They are staying with us. This man is desperate
:03:10. > :03:15.Muslims. They are staying with us. the girls. He has made the dangerous
:03:16. > :03:21.journey from where they were kidnapped. No fewer than six of his
:03:22. > :03:27.relatives were taken, sisters, nieces and cousins. He cannot spot
:03:28. > :03:30.them on the video. This must be pretty shocking for you to
:03:31. > :03:31.them on the video. This must be this. It is one of the most shocking
:03:32. > :03:33.moments I have this. It is one of the most shocking
:03:34. > :03:44.moments ever found myself in. It is inhumane. It is unfair. There is no
:03:45. > :03:54.need for them to impose on to them the Islamic religion. Everyone has a
:03:55. > :03:59.right to choose. This whole part of Nigeria is Boko Haram territory. To
:04:00. > :04:05.get round it, you need firepower, lots of it. We had 40 official
:04:06. > :04:08.vehicles packed with armed men to guard us. Going with the local
:04:09. > :04:15.governor, who is heading off to the scene of one of the worst tax here.
:04:16. > :04:16.It happened last week. It was scarcely reported, even within
:04:17. > :04:21.Nigeria. This scarcely reported, even within
:04:22. > :04:25.normally be very busy. In fact it is normally be very busy. In fact it is
:04:26. > :04:32.almost empty because no one wants to drive along
:04:33. > :04:35.almost empty because no one wants to Haram attacks. We will be passing
:04:36. > :04:37.villages which are deserted because people are scared of Boko Haram.
:04:38. > :04:45.After a couple of hours, we reach people are scared of Boko Haram.
:04:46. > :04:50.town where the bridge had been blown up last Wednesday. Two days earlier,
:04:51. > :04:55.it was hit by an army of Boko Haram men. They arrived at 1:30pm. We
:04:56. > :04:59.counted hundreds of burned-out cars. counted hundreds of burned-out cars.
:05:00. > :05:14.Boko Haram did not want anyone following them afterwards. And they
:05:15. > :05:18.Boko Haram did not want anyone unnoticed, in the outside world. The
:05:19. > :05:23.town centre was simply destroyed. The sheer scale of the destruction
:05:24. > :05:26.town centre was simply destroyed. here is quite extraordinary. I
:05:27. > :05:31.town centre was simply destroyed. remember, all the attention around
:05:32. > :05:36.the world has been on the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls. This is
:05:37. > :05:40.going on all the time in this part of Nigeria. The governor came here
:05:41. > :05:46.to offer help and money of Nigeria. The governor came here
:05:47. > :05:50.survivors are working themselves up into a frenzy of anger that the
:05:51. > :06:03.Nigerian government should be doing so little to fight Boko Haram. I
:06:04. > :06:10.have to ask you, the crowd is getting quite angry. We are going to
:06:11. > :06:21.compensate them for all their losses and reassure them it'll be important
:06:22. > :06:29.for the security. IU frightened for the attack? I do not want them here.
:06:30. > :06:33.But there was no calming them. The governor was lucky
:06:34. > :06:34.But there was no calming them. The unhurt. This is pretty
:06:35. > :06:38.extraordinary. The governor and all unhurt. This is pretty
:06:39. > :06:42.of the rest of us are being thrown out of here by the anger
:06:43. > :06:47.of the rest of us are being thrown crowd. So, we are having to get back
:06:48. > :06:52.to our car is pretty quickly. All this anger is not surprising. People
:06:53. > :06:57.here feel utterly abandoned and they cannot understand why a world which
:06:58. > :07:00.cares so much about the missing schoolgirls seems to care so little
:07:01. > :07:08.about the destruction of an entire town.
:07:09. > :07:17.But what exactly is the Nigerian government doing to secure the girls
:07:18. > :07:25.release? Our correspondent has said conflicting messages have been
:07:26. > :07:29.coming from Nigerian officials. The very clear position by the most
:07:30. > :07:34.senior spokesperson for the Government, the interior minister,
:07:35. > :07:39.is that they will not be swapping prisoners between the girls and
:07:40. > :07:43.prisoners which the Government is holding, prisoners of Boko Haram who
:07:44. > :07:45.they have been holding. The fight between Boko Haram and the
:07:46. > :07:49.Government has been going on for well over five years. It has been
:07:50. > :07:52.highlighted by the terrible situation of these teenagers who
:07:53. > :07:56.have been kidnapped. At the same time, another statement has been
:07:57. > :08:00.issued by a less senior official saying that all options are open.
:08:01. > :08:04.So, perhaps, that means there will not be a prisoner swap, girls for
:08:05. > :08:09.the prisoners that the governor is holding, but there will be other act
:08:10. > :08:10.channel negotiations. That is the best interpretation I can give
:08:11. > :08:15.channel negotiations. That is the best interpretation I can you at the
:08:16. > :08:19.moment. It is confusing but that is not at all unusual. This is a very
:08:20. > :08:24.serious situation. It is tantamount to a war between Boko Haram and the
:08:25. > :08:29.Government of Nigeria. Any information with regard to the girls
:08:30. > :08:34.themselves, their whereabouts, is further ammunition for the
:08:35. > :08:40.Government. Presumably, the idea of American missions over that part of
:08:41. > :08:45.Nigeria would be extremely welcome. Yes, I think ordinary Nigerians
:08:46. > :08:49.would be very pleased to hear. This is the first concrete information we
:08:50. > :08:53.have had of action from the international community, albeit just
:08:54. > :08:57.monitoring action, spy planes, and so on. We have heard about teams
:08:58. > :09:02.from Britain and America are riding here. We have had promises of what
:09:03. > :09:06.the Nigerian government calls counterterrorism experts from Israel
:09:07. > :09:12.to come. Also help from China and France and other countries. The news
:09:13. > :09:16.of spy planes, American spy planes, actually overflying Nigeria now is
:09:17. > :09:20.the first concrete information we have had something clearly
:09:21. > :09:24.happening. There has been a lot of frustration amongst Nigerians about
:09:25. > :09:27.the way their government has appeared to be lethargic, certainly
:09:28. > :09:30.for the first couple of weeks they were always saying nothing about
:09:31. > :09:36.what was happening in the north-east. It was only when this
:09:37. > :09:40.hash tag on twitter bring back our girls, which Nigerians themselves
:09:41. > :09:44.started, a sort of spread around the world but that is dotted get a
:09:45. > :09:49.reaction from the international community and the Nigerian
:09:50. > :09:55.government started to talk. How the mighty fall! The former Prime
:09:56. > :09:59.Minister of Israel has been sentenced to six years in prison for
:10:00. > :10:03.corruption. He was convicted of accepting bribes linked to a
:10:04. > :10:10.property deal while he was mayor of Jerusalem. He has already said he
:10:11. > :10:16.will appeal it. I asked if people actually expect him to serve the six
:10:17. > :10:20.years in prison. The sentence is uniquely harsh. It is a
:10:21. > :10:25.precedent-setting sentence. We can assume that when he appeals to the
:10:26. > :10:29.Supreme Court we might see the sentence reduced. It is hard to see
:10:30. > :10:34.a way for him not to actually sit in prison for some period. That would
:10:35. > :10:39.also break a president. He would be the first Prime Minister in Israeli
:10:40. > :10:43.history to sit in prison. That says something. Just remind us, briefly,
:10:44. > :10:48.if you can, about the corruption scandal in which he was enveloped.
:10:49. > :10:58.He has frankly a list of scandals behind him, doesn't he? He does. He
:10:59. > :11:00.has had several cases, one very minor conviction. Another couple of
:11:01. > :11:04.cases have been thrown out. This particular corruption case is,
:11:05. > :11:10.located. Nine people were indicted with him. Many of them today were
:11:11. > :11:14.also sentenced two years in prison. They were given very significant
:11:15. > :11:23.fines. The former primers to himself was given a fine of a million
:11:24. > :11:27.shackles. He has been sentenced for accepting, not himself accepting,
:11:28. > :11:32.hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for his brother accepting and
:11:33. > :11:40.for money changing hands in sum, located ways. It is remarkable that
:11:41. > :11:44.the case was cracked. -- in some complicated ways. It says a great
:11:45. > :11:49.deal about the frustration that many Israeli citizens feel and Israeli
:11:50. > :11:53.law enforcement and the judiciary over a string of corruption trials
:11:54. > :11:57.in recent years that have seen a finance minister in prison and other
:11:58. > :12:03.officials. What are the political ramifications, if anything? I
:12:04. > :12:07.imagine this is curtains on the political career of the former
:12:08. > :12:14.Israeli Prime Minister. Does it have any political impact? It is hard to
:12:15. > :12:19.see a political impact. A lot of people were hoping he would return
:12:20. > :12:26.as the great politician who housed from the right. Also, he went very
:12:27. > :12:32.far in negotiations with the Palestinians. He is not coming back.
:12:33. > :12:36.There are other people in that political space. The justice
:12:37. > :12:44.minister has been the chief ago she Acer for Israel. -- chief negotiator
:12:45. > :12:49.for Israel. He has tussled a bit with the right wing end of the
:12:50. > :12:54.coalition. He will probably step into those shoes. It has enhanced
:12:55. > :13:00.prestige of the person who will take over the political space. Other
:13:01. > :13:04.politicians will move in. His career is finished and it probably will not
:13:05. > :13:10.be a shock to the Israeli system. Few people were expecting a recovery
:13:11. > :13:15.as it is. I wonder how many of you have done this in your time, quickly
:13:16. > :13:18.pump your name into Google and see what they have got to say about you
:13:19. > :13:24.on the internet. Perhaps you have seen the odd thing you would sooner
:13:25. > :13:27.was not there at all. The European Court of Justice says individuals
:13:28. > :13:31.have the right to ask Google or any other provider to delete personal
:13:32. > :13:34.data that people should be able to be forgotten when information on
:13:35. > :13:43.them is excessive or no longer relevant. It has said forcing it
:13:44. > :13:43.remove date amounts to censorship. This
:13:44. > :13:49.remove date amounts to censorship. ruling has come as quite a shock to
:13:50. > :13:54.Google. This is a big surprise. It has gone all the way up the courts.
:13:55. > :13:58.Google has won a previous stages. They are shocked and surprised about
:13:59. > :14:02.this ruling. It comes from a Spanish man having gone to his data
:14:03. > :14:09.protection authority and said, there is an old story about me that keeps
:14:10. > :14:13.popping up about Social Security debts in the past. I want that taken
:14:14. > :14:21.down. The court has decided that that is right, it is right to be
:14:22. > :14:26.forgotten. That is part of EU law. It means that individuals who do not
:14:27. > :14:33.like information that is held on them on the internet can act to get
:14:34. > :14:37.it removed. It does not... It appears it does not even have to be
:14:38. > :14:43.unlawful information. You can imagine, every lawyer and every
:14:44. > :14:47.content provider, every publisher, will be poring over this ruling and
:14:48. > :14:50.thinking, what does it mean for us? I thought you were going to say that
:14:51. > :14:54.every lawyer will be rubbing his hands in glee because this could go
:14:55. > :14:59.on forever. It is about deciding what is not relevant and what is old
:15:00. > :15:04.information, compared with what is therefore public interest reasons.
:15:05. > :15:09.The EU Commissioner has backed very strongly this to be forgotten. She
:15:10. > :15:14.is saying this is a great triumphal liberty and peoples control over
:15:15. > :15:19.data. Is not saying much in public yet. You can be sure its lawyers
:15:20. > :15:26.will be trying to find a way out of this. It could be hugely expensive
:15:27. > :15:32.for the likes of Google. How many of us do this thing and do not like
:15:33. > :15:37.what we see? There is an avenue for people to seek redress. That is the
:15:38. > :15:46.point. The internet is so vast. That is why it will be difficult to
:15:47. > :15:52.process all of this. In a way, that is not the problem. It is Google
:15:53. > :15:56.which is most people's route to information so even if that
:15:57. > :16:01.information is there on that obscure website, people know if they can get
:16:02. > :16:05.it removed from Google, that is their recourse. There will be some
:16:06. > :16:11.enthusiasm from people to do this. And Google will say they are just a
:16:12. > :16:16.facilitator. Google's line all along is we are not the publisher, we just
:16:17. > :16:18.provide links. That has been an accepted all the way up to this top
:16:19. > :16:22.court where it has been thrown out. Police in Beijing have detained
:16:23. > :16:25.a 62-year-old blogger, who's accused of posting fabricated
:16:26. > :16:28.information on foreign news site. Xiang Nanfu is almost completely
:16:29. > :16:32.unknown in China, but had posted stories on Boxun,
:16:33. > :16:36.a Chinese citizen's journalist He's accused of spreading rumours,
:16:37. > :16:43.including one about Chinese authorities harvesting organs
:16:44. > :16:46.from living people. The BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai
:16:47. > :16:59.gave me this update. Here he is detained by the Beijing
:17:00. > :17:04.police, accused of causing violent harm to the Chinese national state,
:17:05. > :17:10.and paraded on television confessing to his crimes. I have sneered the
:17:11. > :17:15.nation and the party, he said. It is extraordinary in some regards but it
:17:16. > :17:18.is also part of a pattern. He is one of hundreds of journalists, bloggers
:17:19. > :17:23.and writers who have been detained in recent months as the government
:17:24. > :17:36.tries to curb the power of social media and the threat it poses to
:17:37. > :17:39.Communist party control. We can assume that he will almost certainly
:17:40. > :17:41.be charged at some point but at the moment, as is often the case in
:17:42. > :17:42.China, his appearance in prison garb and his appearance on TV has come
:17:43. > :17:46.long before any trial. Stay with us on BBC World News,
:17:47. > :17:49.still to come: Photographer Stephen Dupont captures
:17:50. > :17:53.the tribal traditions of How much is the world's
:17:54. > :18:01.largest blue diamond worth? Well it has a price tag of $22
:18:02. > :18:05.million dollars hanging off it at Just one of a number of exceptional
:18:06. > :18:25.stones on display and up for sale, What is your favourite colour? Blue?
:18:26. > :18:32.Green perhaps? How about pink, or if it is yellow you love, Geneva's
:18:33. > :18:39.spring collection has it all. Traditionally this is called
:18:40. > :18:45.daffodil. It weighs over 100 carats. It makes it one of the largest vivid
:18:46. > :18:50.yellow diamonds in the world. You can also choose your favourite cut,
:18:51. > :18:58.square and angular or soft, rounded, even pair shaped. This is a fabulous
:18:59. > :19:03.pair shaped diamond. It is fabulous because it is very vivid blue. It is
:19:04. > :19:13.the largest, flawless vivid blue diamond in the world. Then there are
:19:14. > :19:18.necklaces to suit every taste. This one made by Cartier in 1912 has a
:19:19. > :19:26.central diamond of 34 carats. And there are some unusual pieces. This
:19:27. > :19:32.was especially designed for one of the world's first female test
:19:33. > :19:36.pilots. But whatever your preference for colour or cut, it is not your
:19:37. > :19:40.figure but your wallet which needs to be the right size. As long as you
:19:41. > :19:44.have got a few million to spare, when it comes to actually wearing
:19:45. > :19:49.these little access arrays, one size fits all. -- these little
:19:50. > :19:53.accessories. I think she enjoyed that! You can
:19:54. > :20:03.get me on Twitter. Nigeria says "all options are open"
:20:04. > :20:07.to secure the release and safe return of more than two hundred
:20:08. > :20:11.school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Israel's former Prime
:20:12. > :20:15.Minister Ehud Olmert is sentenced to six in jail for taking bribes over a
:20:16. > :20:25.luxury property development. Germany's foreign minister has held
:20:26. > :20:29.talks with Ukraine's interim prime minister in Kiev, in an attempt to
:20:30. > :20:33.kickstart a dialogue between He said it was crucial
:20:34. > :20:40.for the two sides to talk - while reassuring Kiev of continuing
:20:41. > :20:44.international backing. His next stop is Odessa
:20:45. > :20:47.in south east Ukraine, where more than 40 people were
:20:48. > :20:50.killed earlier this month. Richard Galpin reports from the city
:20:51. > :21:05.of Donetsk, in the heartland In their apartments in the city of
:21:06. > :21:12.Donetsk, Olga and her daughter read a book by a famous Ukrainian poet.
:21:13. > :21:20.Olga is a strong supporter of Ukrainian unity and now fears for
:21:21. > :21:25.the safety of her family. TRANSLATION: If there is a separate
:21:26. > :21:30.Donetsk peoples of the founded here, I will have to leave. I will not be
:21:31. > :21:35.able to speak Ukrainian, my native language. A lot of people are
:21:36. > :21:38.currently selling their houses and moving to west Ukraine. People are
:21:39. > :21:42.afraid for their lives and their families. The thought of leaving is
:21:43. > :21:47.scary but freedom is the most important thing for me. When the
:21:48. > :21:51.official results of the referendum in Donetsk was announced on Monday
:21:52. > :21:59.by pro-Russian separatist leaders, their plans became very clear. This
:22:00. > :22:04.man declared that the region was now an independent sovereign state. And
:22:05. > :22:10.then went further, calling on Moscow to make it part of Russia. For him,
:22:11. > :22:16.the fears of Ukrainian speaking population seem of little concern.
:22:17. > :22:23.But what about the impact on the economy of declaring independence?
:22:24. > :22:27.This region is Ukraine's industrial heartland, covered with mines and
:22:28. > :22:34.factories, but dating back to Soviet times and in need of much
:22:35. > :22:38.investment. TRANSLATION: If we became completely independent, it
:22:39. > :22:44.would be very difficult. Where would the salary payments come from? A
:22:45. > :22:49.budget has not been worked out. It would be difficult to survive
:22:50. > :22:51.without Kiev or Moscow. While these ethnic Russians have been
:22:52. > :22:57.celebrating the declaration of Independence here, they must also be
:22:58. > :23:08.aware of their absolute dependence now on Moscow. So now two absolutely
:23:09. > :23:12.critical questions, how will the in Kiev react to this declaration of
:23:13. > :23:16.independence? And secondly, what will Moscow do? Will it annex this
:23:17. > :23:22.part of eastern Ukraine? Some astounding pictures coming
:23:23. > :23:26.from New Hampshire in the US, after a police officer was shot dead
:23:27. > :23:30.when he was called to The house burst into flames
:23:31. > :23:38.after the shooting, and then The officer had been responding
:23:39. > :23:44.to calls from neighbours who One other person was
:23:45. > :23:49.taken to hospital. Firefighters were initially
:23:50. > :23:54.held back for safety reasons. His "true and fearsome friend" -
:23:55. > :23:59.that's how internationally acclaimed photographer
:24:00. > :24:02.Stephen Dupont describes the Pacific For more than a decade he has been
:24:03. > :24:09.taking portraits of the country's tribal traditions, capturing
:24:10. > :24:12.images that outsiders seldom see. Recently Dupont's diaries
:24:13. > :24:26.and pictures were published Papua New Guinea is known as the
:24:27. > :24:31.land of the unexpected. You really do feel like you are stepping back
:24:32. > :24:36.in time sometimes. You feel like you are in the high lines -- the
:24:37. > :24:42.Highlands and making the first contact. The clash of modernisation
:24:43. > :24:47.of the West against the Stone Age is set and that is what I have been
:24:48. > :24:53.drawn to as a photographer. I'm drawn to cover in society and
:24:54. > :25:02.looking at that clash of cultures. August, this is the heart of Papua
:25:03. > :25:05.New Guinea. It would be like going to Brazzaville are not going up the
:25:06. > :25:13.Congo River. Ever since I have picked up a camera I have made
:25:14. > :25:18.diaries. They have gone from plain old handwritten diaries to more art
:25:19. > :25:22.books so I am now sketching and putting in clippings and making col
:25:23. > :25:31.archers. They become very much part of my entire body of work. September
:25:32. > :25:37.15, a bird of paradise. Every town here feels like a border town. They
:25:38. > :25:41.all seem to have this frontier feeling, transit places, people
:25:42. > :25:48.coming and going, and edgy vibe to it. The whole gang thing is quite
:25:49. > :25:54.new. It is not something which has been around for a long time. It is
:25:55. > :25:57.something which grew out of urbanisation. 80% unemployment.
:25:58. > :25:58.something which grew out of not know where anywhere in the world
:25:59. > :26:02.which has that not know where anywhere in the world
:26:03. > :26:09.unemployment. The conditions, the poverty, the unemployment has forced
:26:10. > :26:13.these people into crime, I think. We took the Blackwater River. The water
:26:14. > :26:18.is so dark and chocolate in colour, it is almost black, reflecting the
:26:19. > :26:23.sky and the clouds and the approaching foothills of the
:26:24. > :26:27.Highland mountains. The tribal gatherings in the Highlands, they
:26:28. > :26:33.are called sing sings. They are cultural festivals, different tribes
:26:34. > :26:42.coming from all over to compete for fame and glory. It is Stone Age
:26:43. > :26:46.Woodstock. It is wild. I feel grateful, more than anything, that I
:26:47. > :26:51.am allowed to go in and capture these moments. You don't take
:26:52. > :27:01.pictures, you are given pictures. It is a gift.
:27:02. > :27:02.Powerful pictures, and they? That is BBC World News. Goodbye.