:00:00. > :00:27.Our top stories. More bodies recovered at the Turkish coalmine.
:00:28. > :00:30.There's outrage as an aide to the Turkish Prime Minister is
:00:31. > :00:38.Reports from north eastern Nigeria say there's been another attack
:00:39. > :00:41.by suspected members of the Islamic Militant group Boko Haram
:00:42. > :00:43.at Gamboru Ngala the scene of a massacre last week.
:00:44. > :00:47.With a week to go before the European elections, who will come
:00:48. > :01:11.out on top? Hello and welcome to BBC World News.
:01:12. > :01:15.This is the scene a short time ago at the Soma mine in western Turkey
:01:16. > :01:21.where President Gul has arrived at the sight of the country's worst
:01:22. > :01:29.industrial accident. Hope is fading of finding 115 missing miners alive.
:01:30. > :01:32.Trade unions have called a one-day national strike. More than 280
:01:33. > :01:39.miners died after that huge explosion and fire. Three days of
:01:40. > :01:46.national mourning have begun. The government is under pressure after
:01:47. > :01:51.provide -- privatising the mine a decade ago. There have been protests
:01:52. > :01:56.in Ankara with police firing tear gas and water cannon at 800
:01:57. > :02:02.protesters. An electrical fault triggered an explosion at the mine
:02:03. > :02:07.in summer. 787 people were working underground, many more than usual
:02:08. > :02:14.because of a shift change. The coalmine is deep, no one can be sure
:02:15. > :02:18.where people may be trapped. The expansion cut off the power supply
:02:19. > :02:22.putting the lifts and lights out of action.
:02:23. > :02:31.Critically, the ventilation system has stopped. They are pumping in
:02:32. > :02:37.fresh air but oxygen levels have dropped because freshly exposed coal
:02:38. > :02:42.sacks in oxygen. The levels of carbon monoxide have been rising
:02:43. > :02:54.which is extremely toxic. Let us go to soma.
:02:55. > :02:57.President Gul, we saw what happened with Recep Tayyip Erdogan who
:02:58. > :03:05.arrived yesterday, what reception did the president get?
:03:06. > :03:12.When he first came, he did not face any kind of reaction, it was quiet.
:03:13. > :03:18.He went in and visited the coalmine. As he came out, people started to
:03:19. > :03:22.show some reaction because of their apparent frustration. One of them
:03:23. > :03:29.shouted, because you are coming here, because of your visit and the
:03:30. > :03:36.security measures, the rescue operations are being damaged. Get
:03:37. > :03:43.out of here. He was clearly very frustrated. And his friends,
:03:44. > :03:51.presumably relatives, tried to shut him up, this protester.
:03:52. > :03:56.Yesterday, it was much more tense compared to what has happened today.
:03:57. > :04:01.The Prime Minister faced huge reaction. His car was kicked by
:04:02. > :04:08.protesters, because they were clearly frustrated with his visit,
:04:09. > :04:15.and what he said during his visit. As far as we can tell, President Gul
:04:16. > :04:20.faced some reaction but compared to yesterday it wasn't that harsh.
:04:21. > :04:26.Is there any hope at all that any of these missing miners will be found
:04:27. > :04:32.alive? Unfortunately, if we are realistic,
:04:33. > :04:38.there is not much hope. It has been over 40 hours since the accident
:04:39. > :04:43.took place. The only had gas masks to protect them from the possible
:04:44. > :04:48.carbon monoxide poisoning which in fact was the reason hundreds of
:04:49. > :04:54.people died there, according to the Energy Minister's statement.
:04:55. > :04:59.The gas masks would only protect them for 40 minutes. This is 40
:05:00. > :05:03.hours. It is very unrealistic to expect that there will be a survivor
:05:04. > :05:09.emerging from underground today. But the relatives are waiting. I have
:05:10. > :05:16.spoken to one of the relatives, a father who had a son, a 24-year-old
:05:17. > :05:26.miner. What he was waiting for was his son's body, he wanted to see his
:05:27. > :05:32.son's body and buried it. What sort of safety record does this
:05:33. > :05:37.coalmine have? Unions are concerned about safety and inspections across
:05:38. > :05:47.the mining industry. This mine was privatised in 2005.
:05:48. > :05:53.The unions say privatisation is the main problem with regards to mining
:05:54. > :06:03.security. This does not have a particularly good record, and there
:06:04. > :06:11.have been fatal incidents. Two weeks ago, a demand, an enquiry for a
:06:12. > :06:17.parliamentary investigation to be set on the soma coalmine was
:06:18. > :06:20.rejected by the government. That is another reason why people here are
:06:21. > :06:26.very frustrated by the government. Not only because more than 280
:06:27. > :06:30.miners have died here, but because they believed the government has not
:06:31. > :06:40.taken enough precautions against such an accident taking place.
:06:41. > :06:49.There has been a lot of controversy not only about the safety record in
:06:50. > :06:56.this mining disaster. A picture has emerged, just talk us
:06:57. > :07:03.through it? This is the picture of the Prime
:07:04. > :07:08.Minister's adviser kicking a protester, in soma, where the
:07:09. > :07:21.horrible accident happened. Two soldiers are holding this protester
:07:22. > :07:25.down. It was shared on social media. With many criticisms against the
:07:26. > :07:31.government and politicians. Has he confirmed, it is obviously
:07:32. > :07:39.him, is it? We called him yesterday, and he said
:07:40. > :07:42.that it was him on the picture. We wanted to ask further questions but
:07:43. > :07:48.he did not want to comment. He said he will be making a statement about
:07:49. > :07:57.it. We have shared that on social media. There were reactions from
:07:58. > :08:01.people, asking if he hasn't already resigned, or if he made a
:08:02. > :08:07.statement, when will he make a statement? But we don't have the
:08:08. > :08:09.answers for that. We are expecting a statement today.
:08:10. > :08:17.This is more trouble for Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The protests, how do
:08:18. > :08:20.they compare with other protests against him in recent months?
:08:21. > :08:26.We cannot say there is no connection. There were harsh
:08:27. > :08:33.responses by police against the protesters in Turkey. We can say
:08:34. > :08:37.people were already feeling angry with the government. Some people
:08:38. > :08:44.were feeling angry, and they were not pleased with the recent election
:08:45. > :08:50.results. We have seen a similar protest on May Day in Turkey. People
:08:51. > :09:00.were not allowed to gather in the places they wanted to, in the centre
:09:01. > :09:08.of Istanbul. So, we have seen similar police reactions.
:09:09. > :09:14.Yesterday, people gathered again to send their condolences to the
:09:15. > :09:18.miners. The police reacted again, and used tear gas and water against
:09:19. > :09:26.these people. We are expecting lots of protests
:09:27. > :09:35.today in the cities. We are expecting also a police reaction.
:09:36. > :09:42.That has become familiar with protests.
:09:43. > :09:50.Reports from north eastern Nigeria say there's been another attack
:09:51. > :10:05.at Gamboru Ngala, the scene of a massacre last week.
:10:06. > :10:14.Today, we've heard reports of explosions in this town, near to the
:10:15. > :10:17.border of Nigeria and Cameroon. Eyewitnesses said earlier in the
:10:18. > :10:22.morning they heard an explosion but they were not sure what it was. They
:10:23. > :10:27.were terrified to go out because of what happened last week. There was
:10:28. > :10:32.another attack in the village nearby, about 12 kilometres away.
:10:33. > :10:41.Last night, the gunman went into the village, raising down the whole
:10:42. > :10:46.village. One resident said all he could see was one or two houses
:10:47. > :10:50.remaining. Most of the people ran away from the village when they
:10:51. > :10:53.heard the gun men were approaching. The gunmen killed two people in the
:10:54. > :11:01.village. What about protection for these
:11:02. > :11:05.people here? When the school was raided four weeks ago now, and those
:11:06. > :11:10.schoolgirls were abducted, there was criticism of the fact the army was
:11:11. > :11:14.nowhere to be seen? Indeed. People are complaining that,
:11:15. > :11:20.despite the state of emergency in these areas, they cannot see
:11:21. > :11:27.military personnel roaming. In these areas, they complain these are the
:11:28. > :11:34.roots being taken by the militants, they want the government to place
:11:35. > :11:39.military personnel. These villages are vulnerable, no protection has
:11:40. > :11:41.been provided by the military. Even in the search for the missing
:11:42. > :11:51.schoolgirls, we are not hearing enough from the government, about
:11:52. > :12:05.what stage they are in the search. The army chief in Thailand has
:12:06. > :12:09.warned that, following the killing of people at an anti-government
:12:10. > :12:21.protest camp, action may be taken. They have already stopped one
:12:22. > :12:29.election. Now the anti-government street movement is determined to
:12:30. > :12:33.stop another. They arrived at an air force base north of Bangkok where a
:12:34. > :12:40.meeting was being held to plan a new polling day in July. Inside, the
:12:41. > :12:43.recently appointed acting Prime Minister was trying to persuade
:12:44. > :12:49.reluctant election officials a new election in July is possible. But,
:12:50. > :12:54.outside, the crowd was showing how weak the government authority is.
:12:55. > :12:58.outside, the crowd was showing how Despite the lines of police, they
:12:59. > :13:01.simply broke through. Lead, as always, by the man who has
:13:02. > :13:14.become the face of this reshape politics in Thailand.
:13:15. > :13:18.I want to meet him, I want to talk, he said. He went on to insist he
:13:19. > :13:23.does have the country's best interests at heart.
:13:24. > :13:27.But what his movement is demanding is the overthrow of a government
:13:28. > :13:31.that has won every election for the past 14 years and is still popular
:13:32. > :13:39.in much of the country. There had been dire warnings of a
:13:40. > :13:43.violent backlash if he succeeds. And this, perhaps, is a foretaste.
:13:44. > :13:46.violent backlash if he succeeds. No one has admitted carrying out the
:13:47. > :13:52.early morning attack on sleeping protesters. But they believe it was
:13:53. > :13:56.the secretive armed militants who operate on the fringes of the
:13:57. > :14:01.pro-government redshirt movement. Two grenades were fired. And then
:14:02. > :14:08.sustained gunfire. In an area with plenty of soldiers. Another sign of
:14:09. > :14:11.the fragility in Thailand. With a weakened police force distrusted by
:14:12. > :14:15.the protesters, it may never be known who was behind this attack or
:14:16. > :14:27.the other is that preceded it. But there will surely be more.
:14:28. > :14:31.There will be a run off to elect a new president in Afghanistan, as no
:14:32. > :14:35.The former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah won 45%
:14:36. > :14:41.He'll face the former finance minister Ashraf
:14:42. > :14:48.The new poll will be held on June 14 and the final result is
:14:49. > :14:50.likely to be announced at the beginning of August.
:14:51. > :14:54.The captain and three senior crew members of a ferry which sank
:14:55. > :14:56.off South Korea last month have been charged with manslaughter.
:14:57. > :14:59.They are accused of abandoning the Sewol, while telling
:15:00. > :15:03.11 other crew members face charges of negligence.
:15:04. > :15:06.More than 280 people, many of them pupils from a high school near
:15:07. > :15:14.A jailed Al Jazeera journalist who has been on hunger strike
:15:15. > :15:17.for over 100 days has said he will hold the Egyptian authority
:15:18. > :15:21.In a video message, obtained by Al Jazeera, he said that
:15:22. > :15:23.he had requested medical treatment from independent sources
:15:24. > :15:28.Mr Elshamy's current whereabouts are unknown, after he was moved
:15:29. > :15:50.from his prison cell to an undisclosed location on Monday.
:15:51. > :15:57.meet, but what can they realistically achieve as Denmark and
:15:58. > :16:01.an Afghan teenagers celebrating after gaining the highest mark in
:16:02. > :16:09.her country's University entrance exams. Police in Venezuelan have
:16:10. > :16:14.detained at least 80 demonstrators and are demanding the release of
:16:15. > :16:17.people arrested during recent anti-government protests. Richard
:16:18. > :16:24.Forrest reports. anti-government protests. Richard
:16:25. > :16:32.The latest clashes in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. What started as a
:16:33. > :16:36.peaceful march again turned violent on Wednesday when protesters threw
:16:37. > :16:43.stones at security forces. Police responded with tear gas. At least 80
:16:44. > :16:47.people were detained. Anti-government demonstrations
:16:48. > :16:51.started in February when students demanded increasing security
:16:52. > :16:56.following an alleged rape. They also complained about record inflation as
:16:57. > :16:59.well as food shortages. They were joined by doctors, lawyers and
:17:00. > :17:05.shopkeepers demanding the resignation of the president. This
:17:06. > :17:14.is Nicolas Maduro when he was sworn in last April. These by far the
:17:15. > :17:17.biggest since he took office. The Government remains popular amongst
:17:18. > :17:22.its working-class voters, but it accuses the opposition of trying to
:17:23. > :17:28.stage a coup with backing from the United States. There have been talks
:17:29. > :17:36.to try and diffused the tension, but the opposition said earlier this
:17:37. > :17:41.week these talks are in crisis. The street protests have so far claimed
:17:42. > :17:44.the lives of more than 40 people. Thousands of people have been
:17:45. > :17:52.fleeing their homes in California after wildfires in Diego County on
:17:53. > :17:58.Wednesday. Several buildings were scorch and burned. A little further
:17:59. > :18:03.north blazes also caused evacuations at a nuclear plant and a military
:18:04. > :18:06.base. Months of drought have made
:18:07. > :18:17.California particularly prone to fires this year. You are watching
:18:18. > :18:20.BBC world News, the headlines: Turkey's president is visiting the
:18:21. > :18:27.scene of the country's worst ever mining accident. The bodies of 280
:18:28. > :18:33.men have been recovered. 250 are still missing. Reports are
:18:34. > :18:37.emerging of a fresh attack by Islamist militants on a Nigerian
:18:38. > :18:46.town where 300 people were massacred earlier this week.
:18:47. > :18:51.At least 150,000 dead, millions of child refugees and at least half of
:18:52. > :18:56.its population have been forced from their homes. Three years on, there
:18:57. > :19:03.is no end in sight to the conflict in Syria. There has been another
:19:04. > :19:07.meeting of the friends of Syria, attended by John Kerry, the US
:19:08. > :19:13.Secretary of State. Bridget Kendall is with me now. They want to offer
:19:14. > :19:18.support to opposition groups, but which opposition groups? They have
:19:19. > :19:22.always been supporting the moderate, secular opposition, the
:19:23. > :19:29.ones who turned up at the peace talks in Geneva which got nowhere in
:19:30. > :19:34.January this year. It is a grouping which the Foreign Minister is, the
:19:35. > :19:42.big European countries, the US, Turkey, and Arab countries of the
:19:43. > :19:48.Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and they support them. It has always been a
:19:49. > :19:52.forum to provide a demonstration of support for the moderate opposition,
:19:53. > :19:58.but the situation has got worse. They last met in January and it is
:19:59. > :20:03.hard to see how things can get much worse. The peace talks got nowhere.
:20:04. > :20:08.This week the UN special envoy resigned in apparent frustration
:20:09. > :20:14.saying they had achieved little in the last two years. Infighting
:20:15. > :20:18.amongst all the different opposition groups on the ground and the
:20:19. > :20:22.moderates have been squeezed and the Islamist are fighting each other and
:20:23. > :20:26.the moderates. While they are distracted doing that they are
:20:27. > :20:32.losing ground to President Assad who has taken background, he has taken
:20:33. > :20:35.that Homs. He is feeling confident enough to have presidential
:20:36. > :20:40.elections to try and reassert his authority. The friends of Syria
:20:41. > :20:46.group and the British Government may say it is a parody of democracy, but
:20:47. > :20:50.the fact remains the humanitarian situation just gets worse and
:20:51. > :20:55.continues to deteriorate. It is very hard to see what they can do for the
:20:56. > :20:59.moderate opposition when all along they have said they will not arm
:21:00. > :21:07.them because they are scared the arms might get to the wrong people.
:21:08. > :21:16.What kind of aid is it? Training, medicine coal supplies, medical
:21:17. > :21:21.supplies, protection against attacks. Although the deal to get
:21:22. > :21:28.rid of President Assad's chemical weapons is going quite well. He has
:21:29. > :21:31.handed over 90%. They may not beat the deadline, but it is not bad. Now
:21:32. > :21:41.there are new the deadline, but it is not bad. Now
:21:42. > :21:45.other chemicals, for example chlorine, in
:21:46. > :21:47.other chemicals, for example people. It is difficult to see how
:21:48. > :21:53.this group in London can do anything to make it better.
:21:54. > :21:57.The countdown is on until until voting starts in the European
:21:58. > :22:00.elections - there's just a week to go.
:22:01. > :22:03.It's a massive undertaking, to elect just more than 750 MEPs
:22:04. > :22:18.who'll shuttle between their home countries, Brussels and Strasbourg.
:22:19. > :22:27.Greece is still suffering, it is fertile ground for the European
:22:28. > :22:32.poster boy of the left. It is getting worse by the minute. We have
:22:33. > :22:38.hospitals without beds for the sick. We have schools without books
:22:39. > :22:41.and teachers. While the Government says a corner has been turned, there
:22:42. > :22:47.will be a huge antiestablishment vote from the hard left to the
:22:48. > :22:50.extreme right. It is hardly surprising given the level of
:22:51. > :22:54.economic pain they have lived through, but right across Europe
:22:55. > :23:01.there is a political malaise. I guess to some extent it is a case of
:23:02. > :23:05.being forearmed and forewarned. In Denmark people are pretty fed up
:23:06. > :23:10.with their Government and that has led to a swell in
:23:11. > :23:13.with their Government and that has lot and you don't need to speak
:23:14. > :23:19.Danish to understand their message. Meet the Danish people's party. They
:23:20. > :23:23.believe EU rules are eroding traditional Danish values. They
:23:24. > :23:26.could win the most votes. Their message seems to resonate. It is
:23:27. > :23:30.good we are a member of this message seems to resonate. It is
:23:31. > :23:36.but I think it is too much. message seems to resonate. It is
:23:37. > :23:38.it, I am a fan. There are problems. Does there have to be so much
:23:39. > :23:44.integration? Does there have to be so much
:23:45. > :23:46.oldest flag in the world. It is a proud, small country.
:23:47. > :23:50.oldest flag in the world. It is a national public broadcaster their
:23:51. > :23:56.correspondent believes attitudes to the EU is changing. Nobody wants to
:23:57. > :23:57.correspondent believes attitudes to leave the European Union, but from
:23:58. > :24:00.time to time people would like leave the European Union, but from
:24:01. > :24:05.time to time people would the EU to leave us alone. Many Danes seem
:24:06. > :24:07.well-informed about the European Union, they believe it brings
:24:08. > :24:12.economic benefits, yet Union, they believe it brings
:24:13. > :24:17.increasing concern about the costs of membership and a growing number
:24:18. > :24:24.want this reformed. Matthew Price in Copenhagen.
:24:25. > :24:26.When you've beaten a quarter of a million people,
:24:27. > :24:31.But when you're a young girl, in a conservative society
:24:32. > :24:33.like Afghanistan's, it's a remarkable achievement.
:24:34. > :24:35.Shohreh Ghaderi is celebrating after gaining the highest mark
:24:36. > :24:41.in the country's national university entrance exam.
:24:42. > :24:49.TRANSLATION: There won her as there were 160 multiple-choice questions
:24:50. > :24:56.in the exam. I was doubtful about one question. I was asked what the
:24:57. > :25:03.chemical formula was for a phosphoric acid. I don't know if I
:25:04. > :25:09.chose the right answer. I love maths and physics and my dad used to help
:25:10. > :25:16.me with my questions. I don't believe this has anything to do with
:25:17. > :25:22.luck. I was brought up in an academic family where everyone cares
:25:23. > :25:28.about education. When you see what life is like in other provinces, you
:25:29. > :25:32.can see why the exam was very difficult for others. Many students
:25:33. > :25:36.have no security where they live, they do not have proper books or
:25:37. > :25:45.teachers or access to computers. They have nothing. I have chosen to
:25:46. > :25:52.study medicine in Kabul. If I go far away from home, I will focus more. I
:25:53. > :25:58.grew up here, but I would like to go to Kabul university because it is
:25:59. > :26:03.different there. Some people will not let their daughters study
:26:04. > :26:08.because of a lack of security. If everywhere was safe, nobody would
:26:09. > :26:12.have any excuse for stopping their daughters from studying and it would
:26:13. > :26:19.be an outdated tradition. I do not have any special technique for
:26:20. > :26:37.studying. 98% of your success depends on how hard you work and
:26:38. > :26:42.just 2% depends on your talent. I always say to others, don't think
:26:43. > :26:48.you are not talented. Everything is possible if you have a strong will.
:26:49. > :26:54.You have to have a goal in life and believe that nothing can stop you
:26:55. > :27:01.from achieving it. Shohreh Ghaderi. Well done.