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